Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 November 1879 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, NOV. 2, 1876

TWO EDITIONS j*

O! this Paper are published. ytxe FIRST EDITION*, on Friday Evening, bat a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where It is sold by newsboys and agents. fbeSEOOND EDITION,on Saturday Even-

Jag, goes mt the bands of nearly every reading person ¥i tUt cuy, and the farmers of this Immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue Is, In lac

TWO XEWaPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for THE PRICE OF ONE ISSUE.

HEE HER LEO I

ANOTHER MEDIUM SHOWN UP!

"Leaf by leaf the rosea fall," and one by one the spiritual mediums are com ing to grief. Mrs. Huntoon, a sister of tbe noted Eddy brothers, is the latest to tarn up her toes. A similar proceeding down at Pence's Hall would, without doubt, produce a similar revelatioD Bat, say "the committee," it wouldn' do—it would endanger the life of tbe medium. So said Mrs. Huntoon, and when she was caugnt, said she would die before morning. But she didn't. Neither would Mra. Stewart. However, our medium is too closely guarded *o permit sucb a see ie as is thus told by tbe Springfield, Mass., Republican:

Mrs. Mary Eddy Huntoon, sister of tbe Eddy Brother?, tbe larnous materializing mediums, came to grief, at North Adam*, on Monday night, and local editor J. U. Mabbett, of the Transcript played tbe principal part in tbe atfair Mr» Huntoou, and her brother, Webster Eddy, came Irom Critt ndeu, Vermont, by Arrangement with local parties, on Friday night, and took rooms over Quackenbusb's restaurant, on State street. On Saturday evening tbey gave their first seance, which about fifteen attended, and there were the usual manifestations. Among tbe audience was Rev. Dr. Osborne, of tbe Baptish church, and be anil Mr. Mabbett laid their heads together for the exposure which worked so successfully on Monday night. Tbe rocm was an ordinary sittiug room, with abed room adjoining, and from the bed room a door led to a wardrobe. The bed rooui was utilized as a cabinet, a dark curtain being bung up over tbe doorway, the door ot which was pushed back. Colonel Potter and William Hodgkins examined tbe cabinet before tbe seanae, out no one was in it when

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manifestations began. An audience of nearly thirty were present, including eight women. Mrs. Huntoon was bound by Colonel Potter, and sat alone in the oabinet when the manifestations took place. Tbe seance lasted about an hour, and a number of figures appeared, one of them purporting to be tbe grandmother of Rev. Dr. Osborne, who was present. Mrs. Huntoon's closing materializition is always that of an Indian chief, who bounds out with a yell into the diaily lighted room, in which nothing can be distinguished save the "splr forms," Mr. Mabbett had attended several of her seances, at Lake Pleasant, and knew just when the Indian would appear, so that, when he beard the whoop, he sprang from the front seat, aod caught the figure when about three feet from the cabinet curtain. At the same instant Webster Eddy Jumped for Mabbett, and all three, Eddy, Mabbett aod the spirit, tell to the floor, Eddy endeavoring to get bold of Mabbett's tbroAt, while the spirit scratched bis fao* vigorously. Rev. Dr. Osborne and Col. A. O. Porter, who had agreed to as-tst Mabbett, at once hauled away Eddy, but tbe editor did not relax his bold on the uplrit, and finally brought out before the audience the Indian figure. At this juncture, by a preconcerted arrangement, Officer Joel W. Hunter and Deputy Sheriff Walden, who bad oeeti waiting in the hallway for three quarters ol an hour, broke In the door, and when tbe lights were turned up,tbe Indian figure proved to be Mrs. Huntoon, her skirts and dress being cunningly tucked up about her body, and her white drawers showing plainly, while she kicked, screamed and cried to her associates for a pistol. The scene was one of the highest excitement and oonfusion. One woman rushed up and denounced Mabbett as a "shameless thing," and entreated him to put down the medium's drees while he, excited by the confusion, oalled lnstily: "See her leg*!" "See her drawers!" "There's the Indian materialization for yoa!" After recovery from her hysterics, In which she prophesied her death before morning, the, out of sheer bravado, explained that there was 90denying tbo tact that Msbbett had oaugbt the Indian figure, but that, inasmuch as the «naterl«Hr.»tlon emanated from her, it likewise returned to her, and so, instead of keeping the materialisation, he found her in his arm*. A few spiritualists present swallowed this as truth. Mrs. Huntoon was advertised for an ottar seance last evening, and is also announced to go to Lee, Tyrlnghatn and other places in southern Berkshire soon. She was in Sandisfield and New Boston last winter, and had a good many be lievers there.

"now lono have ro LIVE?" Harper's Bazar. It Is not every one who asks himself this question, because, strangely enough it is the belief ol most persons tnat their lives will be excionally lengthy.

However, life assurances companies are aware of the credulous weaknesses of those whose lives thev assure, aod have therefore compiled numerous tables ol expectancy of life for their own guidance, which are cwsfttUy referred to before a policv 4* granted. The following is one of th«M* well authenticated table)nu«« am^ng Loudon assurance companies, showing tbe average length of life at various Age*, lo the first column we have the present ages of persons of average healtn, and iu tb second umn We are enabled to peep, aa it were, behind the scenes ol an assurance office, «ad gather from their table the nuiuoer of years they will give us to lire. This table baa been tbe result or cAresui calculation, and seldom proven

Of course sudden and pr«

mature deaths, as well at lives una* uaity extended, occur, but this ia a taole of tbe average expectancy of life of an ordinary man or woman:

SORB mis

MOKS YmM TO UTI.

AOS. TO UTB. 50 .1 ..... HI|I I ~.U

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Oar readers will eaaily gather from tbe above tabulated statement the number of years to which their lives, according to tbe law of average*, may reasonably bo expected to extend.

SOCIETY PICTURES.

BELLES WITH AN EYE TO BUSINESS.

DRAWING ROOM BEATTTIES WHO HUCKSTER THEIR PICTURED CHARMSTOALL

SWELL WOMEN AND STREET WALKER8 COMPETING FOR NOTORIETY.

"All actresses?" repeated a prominent photographer to a Dispatch reporter who was tumbling over an immense heap of female likenesses in bis reception room. "Well, guess not. Hardly the half of them are. It's plain that you're not much of a society man, anyhow." "Why?" "Because if you were, there is hardly a face there you wouldn't recognize. Two-thirds of those have been reflected by the mirrors of our swell drawing rooms much oftener that tbey have by a camera." "Tbe originals are society ladies, then?" "Tbey are, indeed." "And they permit their photographs to be exhibited here side by side with those of actresses and models whom you hire for sittings?" "They not only permit, but like it, and more than that "Well?" "THEY LIKE TO BE PAID FOR IT, TOO." "Do you mean to say—" "I mean to say that I do as regular, though of course a less extensive business, posing society women for commercial purposes as I do in photographing popular actresses." "And you pay them for it?" "Not only that, but tbey are in many cases more keen pnd exacting at a barain than women who serve me regu-

Rrly as models. Your Bohemian is always generous, you kBOw, even wheu hard up. That Udy whose picture you have in your band, for instance, figurts her percentages down to a cent, and fights for tbe exact sum. Yet she lives on Fifth avenue and is married to one of tbe wealthiest importers in tbe city. That little girl, on the contrary, is only a ballet girl at Niblo's. She never quarrels as long as she gets enough to buy dinner or pay board with, although she is as poor as the poorest sort of a church mouseover dared to be and not strave." "How long has this new departure in tbe business existed?" "About three years now. It originated with me, and every photographer of note here, now does more or less of it. Tbe way it be^an was curious. I took half a dozen uegatives of a well known society woman bv anew process. Tbe result wqa a style ot picture which made a tremendous bit. I put tbe picture in my showcase, and the first morning bad at least twenty applicants from people who wanted to purchase copies. Of course I could uot sell them. That afternoon my sitter called, and I said, laughingly: 'You ought to be an actress, Mrs. X.' 'Why?' she asked. 'Because, if you were, I could make money otl your pictures.'

And I explained. She was flattered at fiist, then interested, and fiually she said: "*Hr much can you get apiece for those pictures?"

TWENTY FIVE OR THIRTY CENTS.' "'Well, give me five cents for every one you sell, and you can print them by the thousand, if you choose. The more tbe merrier.' "I took her at her word, and of those and some more sitting which she gave me, sold over two thousand prints in a month. In the meantime another lady, famouB for ber beauty, heard from the first one of our arrangement, and came to me, too. For about a year these two were my only customers iu this way. Then o'tbers got wind of it, and the business began to grow till it has now become more of a nuisance than otherwise." "In what way?" "In this. There are hundreds of women who would willingly nose for me on the same basis, but out ot the lot there are only a comparative f*w whose pictures really will sell. Yet no matter bow ugly a woman is, you can't tell, much less persuade her of this fact, aud you can imagine tbe annoyance I have to get rid of tbe undesirable ones. My best excuse is a stagnant market. I explain that business is dull, and that people are not buying pictures now as tbey used to. Tben they lasso me on another tack. They insist on being hotograptted for nothing, and on my eeplng tbe negatives until business brisks up, when they'll arrange about prioe." "How dojyour prices run?" "I pay from two to Ave cents a pioture, according to the subject. Sometimes I buy tbe right of sale for a lump sutb—say from 15 to $50. But that ex poses me to tbe liability of loss. Women, even of the best society are as tricky as trained monkeys. I've bad a lady take money from me for the exclusive right to a set of negatives, and then so right off to another artist and sit for him on the same terms and not only that, but she will tell him bow she posed for me, and be will actually produce almost tbe same set of pictures, as I have already paid for, and take the wind completely out of my sails." "Is there any special class of purchasers for these society piatures, or do they go into tbe same market as the dramatic ones?" "They do, and they don't. The fact of the matter ia this: Society women who pose with me are of that class whose FUSTATIONS MAKE THEM AS POPULAR With men about town as tbe public character of actresses does. Every one wbom thoy honor with a passing flirtation therefore wants a picture of them. You know how it is. You see a lady's

\Vhy, I've seen men coolly write an autograph on tbe .back of a picture they've just bought, and carry it off to exhibit as a gift from a new 'mash.' Tben there ia a class oi would-be fashionables, who bay tbese picture® to make people wbo look ver their albums believe that they are acquainted with the originals. To tbese kinds of purchasers society piotures sell on account of the identity of tbe sitters. Tbe gen* •rat public buys tbem for tbeir pictorial value. Tben again the rivalry among the originals Is very great. It's like making collections of New Year's cards. Bach tries to sell more pictures than tbe other, and so send a great many customers to as. One of my sitters has a cosning way of pushing business which beats the deck.'f "What is it?" "She is a widow, A leader of tbe and resides In an elegant flat up town. When she gets anew lot of pictures she carries a bundle borne and hands them over to bear maid. Tbe maid always happen* Mentally to be looking at a couple wi*«u |»aUd*n caller

passes out. He notices it and then it is: 'What is U, Jane?' 'Some pictures mistress gave (me, sir. Ain't they just perfect?" 'Tbey ate indeed. I've half a notion to steal em.'

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there is a little playful tus­

sle tbe gentleman chucks Jane under tbe chin. She pouts, be drops a dollar into ber band and goes awsy bogging himself and the coveted picture, ana she tarns tbe money over to her mistress. That's just the beauty of it. If tbe lady left ber pictures witb me to sell she would only get five cents apiece en tbem. By baying tbem from me and getting rid of tbem in tbis way she raises as much as an admirer is fool enough to give her deputy.

ANOTHER FAVORITE DO DOE

has been put into practice lately. It is to bave a pile of pictures on tne panor table. Beside it is a little fancy dish. A caller naturally notices tbe pictures and makes some remark about tbem. 'Ob, yes,' says the lady. 'They're some pictures I bad taken the other day. We're getting up a fund for the Bunglemug Orphan Asylum*, and as tbe photographer complimented me by saying that I make an attractive enough picture t« sell, I thought I would try to help the orphan asylum.' After that what can man do but plank down somethink and take a pioture. And you can buy pools on it that nine out of ten pay in a good deal more than tbe ordinary price of a photograph. No man wants to look anything but liberal to a woman you know."

Tbe originals of tbese society photographs are taken not only in tbe ordinary costumes of the drawing room or street, but in every manner of eccentric decoration female* ingenuity can devise to supplement natural charms. There are ball and fancy dresses of all sorts, classic robes and c.rapery, and in more than one case very Httle of anything. One lady, the wife of a prominent bro ker, is as fond of being pictured in tights and trunks as any ballet girl. She created a sensation by going to a oall in a page's suit once and has been ifl love with ber figure ever since. Some ol these displays are liberal to a degree that woulfi almost shock tbe modesty of a "Black Crook" amazon. Another notoriety (and percentage) seeker has a weakness for Oriental costumes, India shawls and tbs like. Perhaps tbe most curious feature of the entire business id

Sresented

by tbe case of tbe wife cf a

rooklyn minister, who has been having her pictures in all sorts of fancy costumes scattered broadcast. "She tells me that she applies the proceeds to the benefit of tbe missionary fund of her husband's church," ooserved tbe photographer. "But I notice, all the same, that she is extremely anxious not to bave bim know anytbing about it."

DEMI-MONDE BEAUTIES

are now commencing to compete with the flowers of upper tendom for pictorial favor, and tne photographers say, with much success. There is more dash and style about tbem, even if it is a trifle loud, and they make much better pictures. Far from haggling over percentages, they willingly pay for their pictures, giving the artist full permission to sell all be can, and rejoicing in tbe notoriety thus gained. Nude pictures of tbese models are common, though, of course, their sale is conducted on the most oarefol plan. One of tbe foremost of the baleful lights of the local halfworld—a woman notorious through all tbe country, has, hswever, developed a singular, not to say paradoxical fancy. It is to be photographed as a nun.

And what is more, she and the artist, between them, make a most artistic picture of it, and one of which hundreds of copies have been sold. "I was plaoed In a pleasant predicament tbe other day by one of my society sitters," remarked a Broadway photographer to the reporter "I had half a dozen of ber pictures in.tbe case at the door, when in walks a gentleman. He was tbe maddest man ever I saw, perfectly purple with rage. "'What the blauketty, blank, blank, blank do you mean,' he yelled, 'by exposing my wife's picture at your door. How dare you do it, eb? Blank your blanked soul! I've balf a notion to pound tbe blanked bead off of you, you double blanked blackguard.' "He didn't, though, and I explained to bim that the pictures were in the ease witb bis wife's permission. I didn't tell bim I was selling tbem and paying ber a percentage, mind I supposed she would be decent enough to explain matters, however. He fired more blank cartridges at me, called me a liar and went off to ask his wife about it. Would

Jonrbelieve

on it, sir? He came back an afterward witb ber. She pretended to know nothing about tbe matter, swore she bad strictly forbidden me to put ber pictures even in my table album, and blatucguarded me worse than he did. Of course I understood that she was afraid of him, and took It all as good naturedly as I could. But

AT LAST SHE SCREAMED-,

"'George! you must sue the villain for damages. I'll testify against bim!' "'Blank my heart if I don't,'says George. "Tbis made me mad so I dove into my desk drawer and fished out some letters of a correspondence which had passed between me and the lady. 'I'll leave yon copies of these to use in evidence,' I said. "But before I began to read tbe first one she fainted and I got rid of tbem. I bavn't heard of the lawsuit since, but I got a letter from ber." "What did she say?" "Ob! simply that in consequence of what bad occurred she woula

In

iKL JUST SO. Jest not on tacts. Jump not at conclusions.

TERRS HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

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deal witb a photographer who knew bis position, and wouldn't I settle up at once for sneh pictures as had been sold in tbe last week. How do you rate that for nerve, eh"

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Joy cometh to the faithful.. Jeer not at tbe unfortunate. Justify no one in bis misdeeds. Judge not that ye be not judged. Jesters do not often prove prophets. Jewels ot the home are brigbt, happy children.

Join bands witb your neighbor in any good work. Justice in conne of time givsth to every one bis due.

Just and true in all actions, let thy life be an example to others. Jupicioua training of tbe yoang will make noble men and women.

Jndgment of character should be wisely formed before expressed. Jealousy Is sn evil spirit, and should be driven from tbe heart and home.

Jeopardise not thy character by familiarly associating It witb bad people. Joyful notes come from the happy Mid, and songs of praise from a grateful heart.

DxrroR* are to bring relief to

tard human Ills and sick. So does Dr.

Bail's B*by Syrup it contains nothing injurious and Is always reliable. To be had at all drug stores In our dty. Pries 2$ cents.

SHOTJLD ACTBB88ES MARR Yf Dramatic News. Two weeks ago mention was made in tbese columns of a woman named Presoott having denied before her associstes in the oompany of Booth's theater the fact that she was the mother of two children. This circumstanoe I made the occasion for a few remarks upon the tendency of some actress to pass themselves off upon tbe public as unmarried, when in reality tbey were tbe mothers of large familiee, tbe instance cited being that of Miss Nellie Martimer, who in reality is Mrs. Devere, and the mother of a more than ordinary number of children.

There can be no doubt that generally in tbe theatrical profession a belief exists that an a stress who is married is at a disadvantage as compared with one wbo is unmarried. Playbills invariabiy publish tbe prefix "Miss" to the ladies of the cast whether they be it or not. The prevalence of tbis custom is accounted for to some extent by the fact that if an actress obtains a certain reputation by her maiden name she is loth to part with it when she marries, bacauee that name, through becoming a trade mark, as it were, has a certain pecuniary value. But this argument holds really good only in the case of stars. I can understand that sucb ladies as Fanny Davenport, Maggie Mitchell and Kate Claxton should apply such, as because their identity, which means tbeir value, at attractions would be lost, should tbey suddenly adopt their proper cognomens. Who, indeed, would know or go to see Fanny Price, Maggie Paddock or Kate Stevensen, unless it were generally known and thoroughly understood who tbey were. The change would undoubtedly be ruinous.

In tbe case of small people, however, there is little or no force in sucb an argument. The people of tbe stock or support seldom draw money, whatever may be their names, and for small actresses therefore to abandon tbeir names when they marry, would entail no loss whatever. On the other hand, it would add to their self-respect, and to the respect of the public lor them. They would certainly be from many of the insults which actresses especially unmarried ones, are constantly subjected to. Take the case of Joe Baily as an instance. Had she I'een known by her proper name of Mrs, Josephine Eytinge, aad had the Wilksberre reporter, who coupled her name with that of Bangs, knowu that she was a married woman, be would certainly not have used ber name as lightly as he did, and a great deal of defense and explanation would have become unnecessary.

Tbe idea is fallacious that an actress loses ber attraction to the public through marriage. In fact the idea is an implied insult in itself. Will anyone seriously insist that Fanny Davenport has lost ber "draw" by beooming Mr., Price? Is Kate Claxton doing any worse since she became Mrs. Stevenson than she did before? Everybody knows that both of tbese actresses are married women.

No tbe public cere not a jot or title whether a woman be married or unmar ried so long as she pleases by heractiDg.

TREATING.

The New York Star thinks: "If man were less of asocial animal, he would be less of a drunkard. Few men drink simply because they like it they drink to 'treat,' or to 'stand' for a friend or two, and have a'good time' as tbe treating passes around. Nine-tenths of the men who are brought t-efore tbe Recorder owe their trouble to having asked a friend to 'take a glass,' or to bsvlng aocepted a friend's invitatisn to 'What will you have?' Treating is tbe beginning of the evil and it would be as useless to speculate on bow tbe world would have jogged along if Cleopatra's nose bad been a pug, as to speculate on thb state society would be in had not treating existed from time immemorial. We may talk temperance and heroically parade our ribbons to tbe public gaze our olergymen may preaob atiout drunkenness, and in harrowing language depict tbe moral and physical decay which pursue the slaves and sots of the'social glass' yet, there is the fact that intemperance is on the increase, staring us in tbe face, and all our plots ana plans appear powerless to prevent It. Our churches increase in number, but drunkenness does not seem to diminish laws are made to 'regulate' tbe liquor traffic, but sobriety appears to count less votaries day by day. There must be something wrong. Either wo are not serious in our efforts to stop the current, or else the current is too powerful to be stopped by us. Our lecturers may be well intentioned, bat tbe effect of their efforts is transient our clergymen msy be in earnest, but if tbey are tbey lack tbe energy ef earnestness, and halt just where they should go on our lawmakers ercourage tbe sale of intoxicants because the State must bsve a revenue, forgetting that frugalityand drink never go band in band. There must be something wrong, and that something is that tbe world Is not serious enough in its crusade against intemperance. What, tben, 1* tbe remedy? If it it be true tbat the practice of 'treating' is commencement of evil, cannot something be done to aim a blow at tbe evil as it is? Why should it not be regarded as the correct thing foreman to drink alone? It Is when he drinks alone tbat a man wants a drink, if, indeed, he wants it at all. Bat one treat begets another, and so on until the end comes, and then—chaos An anti-treating society bas been formed in New York witb admirable results, and we are satisfied tbat sucb a society would be a success here if sme young men would only be bold enough to try." •".is*'

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HINTS ON CALLING.

Stare around tbe room. If you haven't got a child, take a dog with you.

Stick to tbe very last at the dinner table. Tackle tbe piano the first thing after you enter a strange parlor. Always turn your back to tbe one seated near vou.

Make it yoar special business to bandie all tbe ornaments and furniture in tbe room.

If there is sn invalid in the room, make what noise yoa can. When the conversation lsgs, take out your knife and fork and back tbe chair you are sluing on.

Examine all the pictures in tbe room even if you bave to stand on tbe chairs to do so.

Be sure to get In your argument on religion and politics.

A ORE AT SPIRITUAL DROUGHT. New York Observer. Thousands of pastors may perhaps take tbe word of warning ana entreaty, when we cry aloud and say tbat a great spiritual drought is prevailing, sucb ss has not been known In tbe present oentuary. We do not remember the time whoa revivals of religion were so few and far between when so few accessions to tbe churches were reported, and when the church positively seemed In so mach danger of receding before tbe world.

lad. Herald.

AN EVERY-DAY STORY.

An open grave. A man bowed down with grief Beside a coffin. Little children dressed In black, and weeping bitterly, but still Tbeir thoughts divided 'twlxt tbeir tears and pride In their new dresses all too young to know Tbe reason tbat they weep ana for tbis

Tbe mourners* tears most sad* A sound of clods, And soft between, tbe sweeter song of birds And whispering airs, that stir the high tree tops. And over all a cheerful, smiling sun, (O SUE bow can you shine when mothers die?) And mockery In each sweet sight and sound. And so with prayer and tears tbey laid ber down. For death to give the rest life had sot given Fold gently earth above the weary hands! Fold close and warm about the wearier heart! Tbat death bring rest and peace to this poor life. Nay, nad she ever lived! Twas long a«o she had her spring, and winter followed fast, No summer's bloom, or autnmn's fruits between. The pale buds of ber young May-day were met By cbiUing snows that killed them e'er they bloomed, Though there was one, who swore that through his care. They should burst into flower and glad fruition. Bat there was erander work for him to do! Barns to be built to add unto field A mme to be won, so men might doff tbeir hats, And to do him reverence as a prosperous man Shall one. tben, halt to tend a pale May rose? So, let it live or die, and if it dies, Wno keeps a withered rose? Is he not wise Though he hath worn it bis breast, and drawn It* life into his own, who flings aside The ugly, shriveled thing when, scentless, dead? —At least 'tis wisdom taught of earth, soon learned— And so, the while the man was building barns, The woman walked alone her weary way, And stilled her heart's strong hunger cries with work, Lest curious kindly eyes should find her wound, And stab her with their pity and the davs Diaggedon, and on, until, thank (iod, the end. And now that she was dead, not having lived Because of those great barns that burst with grain Because of ihose broad fields, wherein no flower Had brought its joy or beauty to her life And for that name whose lustre she but dimmed, —Poor withered leaf, loose twisted in the bays!— The preacher argued that her life was blest— "A faithful wife!" Oh, but toofaith'ul, she Who lets her soul be crushed into the dust, Though it were for a god to walk upon, "A desolated home!" Ah, yes! not bricks, Nor bursting barns, nor field joined uuto field, Can make a home, unless you call the clay That lies insensate to your call, or touch, The man himself, the spirit being fled. Above this clay the preacher should have said, '•This woman starved to death and answering to The look o! wonder in the stupid eyes Of him who mourned her, where amazement asked "Did I not give her bread have thundered on: '•Yea, but thou art the man! Is It not writ That not by bread alone a man shall live!" (Mayhap »r woman.) But we vain expect A soul grasp a truth above its height. The preacher's soul was ol that sort ihat sees A burning hell before his dinner hour, And in his pott meridian mood his talk Is all of "Minis" and "harps" and "angel "sOngs." •If one has bread enough, what would you more And so, in this, hir after-dinner mood, He drew Bweet Resignation's face, as fair As any ball room belle's. With eyes whose hue Had robbed tbe blueness of the inner skies, With golden hair of wondrous length, unbound And floating on a robe of shimmering

(You clasped just such, sir, in the dance last night,) rt A trifling hint of heavenly origin, In budding wings from snowy shoulders sprung, And yet the hint belied: for on the face A smlli that might mean heavenly dalliance. Or, jast as well, bs earthly coquetry. ~r Belore this radiant creature, black robed Did cfieck her sobs, and steal away abashed. And so the mourner's heart was comforted, And the neighbore went their ways.

HETTY A MORRISON.

iBdlanapolis.Nov. 8,1879.

WHY THE BOOKKEEPER STOLE. New York Graphic, He bad a wife.

His salary was $2,500 p«r annum. But she complained. Sbe wanted abetter bouse. Better clothes. Nothing fit to go oat in. No country oottage. Nor carriage. Nor front pews. Nor society. Sbe coveted a plaoe on tbe ragged edge of the select 506.

Sbe kept it up. j, ,r Nigbtandday. And moaned andif fGroaned and

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Growled and Wept. He lacked style, slso, As well as new cloths every six weeks, and various other things.

He knew bow bis employer made several hundreds daily on tbo street. A thousand or so would not be missed for a few boars.

So he took it, went upon tbe street, and won. She got her sealskin.

He took more aod lost. More get tbat back and lost. More yet. Defalcation discovered. He wesrs tbe Penitentlsry check. Others are going to. ff*

But if you win regularly, society won't be hard on yoa. But if yoa lose, society will sit down on yoa.

Better is a modest room up two pair of back stairs than a cell in the Tombs. And a plain woolen jacket rather than a pair of prison nnliorm pants on poor Cbsrlie's legs.

A DECIDED OPINION. Vlnoeanss News (Detn.). Somebody wants to snow what we think of tbe negroes. Well, that's easy. We think tbat one intelligent, thrifty, 'tend-to-hi»-own-business negro is worth a ten-acre field of Ignorant, lazy, vicious, drunken loots, each of wbom bas a white skin, a red nose, snd a wife and ten children starving at home while he drinks forty-rod whisky, plays poker aod sells bis vote six times a day to tbe highest bidder.

Aa Car* tor Piles,

Kidney Wort acta first by overcoming In tbe mildest manner ail tendency to constipation tben, by its great tonic and invigorating properties. It restores to health tbe debilitated and weakened parts. We bsve hundreds of certified cures, where all else had failed. Use It and suffer no longer.

THE HO USEHOLD. ',

Apply a little soap to the hinges toprevent the doors creaking. Common lye of wood ashes will soften hard patty in a few minutes.

The fames from a brimstone match will remove berry stains from a boob, paper or engraving.

Dry paint is removed by dipping a swab with a handle in a strong solution of oxolic acid. It softens it at once.

To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put in a pinch of salt. The oooler tbe eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt cools and also fresbeos them.

There is a greenness in onions and potatoes tbat makes tbem hard to digest. For health's sake put them in warm water for an hour before oooking.

To clean wall paper, take about two quarts of wheat bran, tie it in a bundle of coarse flannel, and rub it over the papaper. It will clean the paper nicely. Some people use bread, but dry bran.is better.

Oil cloths can be kept like new if washed once a month in skim milk and. water, equal quantities of each rub them onoe iu three months witb linseed oil put on very little, rub it in well and polish with an old silk cloth and tbey will keep for years.

Let yonr home be provided witb such necessaries as piety, pickles potatoes, pots, and kettles, brushes, brooms,, benevolence, bread, charity, cheese, crackers, faith, flour, affection, milk, sincerity, onions, oil, integrity, vinegar and wisdom. Have all these always on hand, and happiness will be with you.

But very few persons handle a broom properly although tbey are accustomed to sweep more or less every day of their lives. There is science in handling a broom, as well as in many other kinds of labor. Always draw your broom, by leaning the handle forward, because the position of the broom will take dirt along more gently: it will sweep cleaner it will not wear out tbe carpet so fast. Your broom will be kept in proper shape and not balf so much dust will be raised to be afterwards wiped from your furniture. Most carel9ss sweepers thrust tbeir broom forward of them in a sort digging way, witb the handle inclined toward tbem. Tbis way, you will find, breaks your broom, flirts up more dust and makes tbe process of sweeping more laborious.

Don't Spoil Yonr Batter, Farmers, do not run the risk of spoiling your butter by using carrotB, annatto or other cheap colors, wheu Wells, Richardson & Cos Perfected Butter Color is so niuoh better. It is as harmless as salt, and never gives a dull, reddish oolor, or any ta9te or smell. It is made in a strictly scientific manner by skillful chemist, and can always be relied upon.

Stop that Cough.

If you are suffering with* a cough, cold, asthma, bronchitis hay fever, consumption, loss of voice, tickling in the throat,or any affection of the throat, or lungs, use DR. KINO'S NEW DISCOVERY for consump-* tion. ThiB is the great remedy that is causing so much exoitement by its wonderful cum, curing thousands of hopeless sases. Over one million bottles of DR. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY have been used within tho last year, and have given perfect satisfaction in every iustance. We can unhesitatingly say that this is really the only sure cure lor throat and lung affections, and can cheerfully jecommeud it to all. Call and get a trial bottle for 10 cents, or a regular size for fl 00. Gulick & Berry, Terre Haute, Ind. (3)

TAFAXINE

THE GREAT

Vegetable Liver Corrector, Is an infallible remedy for all diseases arising

from

an in Inactive liver. It contains

no calomel er mineral of any kind. Its main Ingredient is the concentrated medical principle of theTARAICUM or DANDELION. TARAXINE never falls to cure the following diseases (every bottle warranted):

CHRONIC AGUE,

It Beats the Doctor*—Agoe Permanently cared. CARMEL, lnd., October 1, 1878.

MR. A. KIRTBR—During the fall of lost year I took the ague so prevalent In this country. I at onoe put my»clf under Jhe

lng the ague, but it returned again and again, and I became so discouraged as almost to lose all hope of a permanent cure. Having paid not le»s than 175 for dootor a bill and medicines, it looked hopeless, but at the suggestion of Mr. N. G. Hanolu I tried yoorTaraxineand two bottles did tb® work so ©ompletcly that I have had no chills since, and I am in perfect w.JsrmiBhealth.

C0N8TIPATI0N.

Bead the following from the B«v, E, Kent, a prominent Pre*byterlan Hlnlater of Hhelby

Connty, Indiana.

Aboutfour months ago 1 need two bottles of Taraxlnefor habitual constipation, with which I had been troubled greatly for many years. It gave me complete relief out I did not need to use as full doses as recommended. It also removed a continued feeling of soreness and oppression over the regions of the liver and stomach, uvei UIVIC|IVIIS VI K»»v and also greatly improved my digestion, which had be«n verv poor for many years. I have taken none for the last two months, 1 llttVO MtltCII uvuw«v» bat my Improved condition *tlll contluuea. I might say I have thoroughly tested several popular stomach bitters, and can confidently say I regard the Taraxlne far superior to anything I have used.

HKV. ELH'HAIYET KBWT,

Ju je 10th, 20,1874. Whelbyvtlle, lad.

DYSPEPSIA & INBIGESTION.

Bead What the Bev. W. W. Walden Bsjrit BxnroRO, Livingston co.. Mo..

June28, 1875.

A. KIKFKK Dear Sir—1 look upon patent medicines as nostrums sent abroad merely for the purpose ot making tnoaey as a general thing. I bave been a subject to dyspepslaor lndlgestlon, and liver complaint

nave been a subject to dys-

u™»u»u ...—gestlon, and liver complaint ror years, and for Ave months the past winter waa notable to get out or attend to any business whatever. I tried several reme* dies, but with little benefit Finally I concluded to lest the virtue of your 1'araxlne. and feel proud to say have received great benefit, and believe it to betba bant remedy of tbe kind In use aod can, without hmltat Ion, recommend it to ad like

Respectfully, W.W. WAtow.

Liver Complaint. Sick Headache

Haw It Miecls Dersairemeat ef Whole •yatena Hoxza, III.,

June 1,1*74.

MR. A. Kievaa—oear ilr I bave beea afflicted for tbe last four years with de.

nmnoi uw wu.f» system. great many preparations, bat found no reffef until I tried one bottle of yoar Ta«ucv lne. wbieh has permanently cured me. I also found It to be good tor iMjoe. I com-* mend it to all wbo suffer with derangement ,, of the liver Very truly yoar*.

REV. THOU AS WJHTXOCK.

FOB 8AMBYALL^UOOI8T8.

A. KIEFER

PROPRIETOR,

INDIANAPOLIS.

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