Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 April 1880 — Page 1

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. TH*

Republicans In this neck o'wooda

are bulging.

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tials tp newspaper soooess area plentiful use of taffy and abuse. Nino-tenths of the people like to hear

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Vol. —No. 41.

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beater is now putting In

bis beet Ifcks.

the proper Mason to plant

eggs, if yon want early spring chickens.

^roman who doesn't own a seal

•kin s&oque begins to feel as happy as her wore fortunate neighbor.

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press editor coining down to the funeral! of toe Nationals on Monday. •PHK older a tree grows the more riogs It has. The same is true of this lair prairie city in regard to social circles.

Hundbeds of persons visited the cemetery last Sunday. One of tb©-sad duties of the springtime is to visit -and care for the home of the dead.

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Mall seems to be a popular same,

^Within a year about fifty new papers •have been started with this name. Des Moines, Iowa, has a Saturday Evening

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abused, and jast an even ten-tenths never get mad-at a good article of taffy when judiciously spread on their own door plates. If a news foundryruns out of the oily gums necessary te tbe pro duction of good taffy ink, it«might as well close till tbe stock is renewed.

SUNNY,

hopeful disposition is about

as valuable a gift as Provldenoe ever vouchsafes a man. There are those who make life

continuous howl or growl,

and there are those who begin and end their oareer onder the impression that life is a kind of practical .tfoke which deatiny is plnylng on mankind. Between these two extremes ieasmall olass of men and women who-know both how to be grave and how to be gay, who bear a trouble when it comes, and enjoy a bit of good fortune whenever it makes its appearance.

AT the Union depot almost every day the man who trlee to catch Ibe outgoing train affords amusement to toe bystanders. Whon a square away he bears the bell ringing, and starts on aann. Dodging around the corner of thedepot building he sees tbe train in rapid motion. Down be goes along tbe platform, unmindful of tbe grinning faaes on the other side. When he reaobes the north 9nd of th4 platform he stops just ten seoonds to consider the advisability of continuing tbe chase further, then down be goes on the4raokand rusbesfell-mell after tbe fast reoeeding train. If be is so fortunate as -to escape running into a switch or falling over some obstacle, ho manages to reach tbe maohine shops to see the train disappear around the curve to the east. Then be stands still a minute, and sweare.untll the air around him is blue and a atrong odor of sulphur pervades tbe aarrounding atmosphere. But his toughest trial is wheu he walks back along the .platform and listens to tbe oonsoling semarka of the baggage men and other attendants about the depot. Its more interesting than a .circus.

TREATMENT OF WILD BE ASMS. Speaking of the approaoh of the cirous •And menagerie season, tbe Minneapolis •Saturday Spectator says tbe attention of kindly disposed people will be drawn again to tbo brutality with which the poor, Imprisoned animals in these shows are treated. It is not at all uncommon to read of their being excited with prods, pitchforks, and aimilar instruments of torture, and this, too, aa the gentlest mode of govern mr^ But with the fiemer beasts, rueasurvNare carried so far bey«nd this in their at. Ntous brutality that every merciful ma.Nuid woman ifill be shocked to read of th3b* Along icon poker, fitted with across head, Is heated red hot, and then ferosd against the oowering, tortured creature until AXgll of anguish even stifles the desire to eUapo. Admitted that many wild beasts are hard to rule, and that this rod of iron is *11 they fear, the oSbnse of the soulless manager is not lessened or condoned thereby. He deliberately puts animals that were made by nature te live in unrestrained, active freedom into confinement that would drive a man eraxy, narrow, cloee, hot and dusty, and then invents a savage torture to teach them self restraint. It becomes the duty of all true men and women, in view of these appalling facts, to raise a public sentiment that shall protest against these brutalities so vigorously that a manager will not dare present his patrons with cages full of scarred and suffering animals whose only fault has been to be more human than their keepere. The societies for the prevention of something or other are especially fitted for this work of humanity, and we hope to see them move tn.il without delay.

GROWLBB&

Angle worms wonld not ordinarily be regarded as furnishing a very fascindnating subject for study. But the other day we took up a very large and thick volume devoted entirely to theee net over agreeable specimens of animal life. And stranger yet, several pages of this volume wen filled with a list of authors and their works upon this save •object. The owner of the book informed us that (here wss no satyedt of met ami history that had been «sore thoroughly stadied. All of which illustrates the test that disagreeable ssrtj ects often have a "sort of fascination about them to atUrnot observation and *ndy. They seem to attract by their very disagreeablewess. And this is tbe logical relation between angle worms and growlers. The latter are «ertakily as disagreeable as tbe former, and of less use, for they are not good -even for a bait to catch anything that 4s useful. Yet we have found the rtady «f growlers very fascinating and been able to distinguish several distinct «nd clearly marked varieties.

Twc working growler is the highest type which we have been

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disorder. "He is A feat rate worker, but tie is everlastingly growling." "She takes hold and helps with all her might, but always throws ooM water." This is the literal description -given within a week to the writer, of »a veritable person, whose name oould be mentioned, and the appropriateness of tbe description at once recognised by tbe entire eirole of acquaintances. Such are ready to do their part, to do more than their part, but they do it with an eye on the •most disheartening feature of the work, or on somebody, or something that it were pleasanter to bnget. They dance to the musio, and dance with A will, too, hut meanwhile fill the ears of their partners with doleful gossip, insinuations and expressions of fear that take all pleasure out of the merry hour. In stead of the bright side they see the dark one, and seem to delight in talking about what they see. These are named tbe highest type, because by their work tbey partially compensate for the loss they cause by taking the heart out of others, and also to those who become thoroughly acquainted with them they give back by their work some of the courage and confidence whioh their words tend to destroy. If there must be growlers, this is the best sort to have.

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tute the next class. One of Emerson's rules for selecting books to read, is "Never'read a book less than a year old." With these growlers about the present, the invariable rule is "Never commend anything till It has been gone at least a year." The good old times will never retnrn, they sigh, and yet when these old times were present they never thought or qpoke of them as good. The former teacher, the former doctor, the former parson, the hired man or the olerk, or the employer of last year, eaoh is a combination of all virtues now, but when present did not begin to compare with his predeoessor. '"Tla distance lends enohantment to the view."

With such, not only do "Blessings brighten as they take their flight," but nothing becomes a blesslr\g till it has taken its flight. All present disagreeables stand out In bold relief, and as the present retires into the past, the disagreeables gradually sink out of sight, and the rosy tints and golden lines become prominent. We have no quarrel with those tbst claim that cheese is not fit to eat till it is mouldy and well filled with maggots, but we prefer to take it without the skippers, or else to leave it entirely to the skippers and those who eqjoy a feast with tbem and upon them. We like the good things of the present and propose to enjoy them now rather than wait for them to get old, mouldy And maggoty.

STINGY

growlers oonS next in the de

scending order. If anjthiag needs to be helped, either by money or labor, thoee who do not want to give either, or some of them, begin to growl About something that does not rait them. Possibly that with which they find fault really exists, and ought not to exist. Very probably it doee not exist. But whether it exists or not, its falne to these parties lies in the fact thAt it furnishes them An excuse for holding back tbe cash or their labor. They never help anything or anybody that needs helping, but take it out in growling. An earnest man who givee heart or band to anything with which he is connected, took one of theee fellows, in tbe presence of his associates in business the other day, and said, "I never knew you to put your hand in your pocket And give A single mill for anything in this organisation, bnt you have done more grumbling then sny other ten men," ThAt ls the stingy grumbler.

THOSB who growl to keep their courAge np oome next. When A mAn becomes conscious that he occupies A mean position, thAt he has done what he ought not, or neglected what he ought to bate dene, aadia unwilling te

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forsake his position, or change his course, he usually, or, At least, often, Attempts to keep np his self respect by saying spiteful and unreasonable things. He will dig np some old feud, or recall something that somebody has said or done in the past, or be will manufacture a neglect, or imagine some evil thing, and will growl about these real or imAginAry wrongs, AS loudly And persistently as the boy whistles when pasting a dismal spot ia the dark. He is soared at his own meanness, and growls so as not to be compelled to think of it. There may be lower orders of growlers, but we have not yet been able to class them. it

THE PASSING SHOW.

SHOWS AND SHOW PEOPLE.

COUP'S CARAVAN. PJSA

For two seasons past our people have been disappointed in the appearance of this big tent show, after it had been announced, ciroumstanoes making it necessary to change the route. This season there will be no failure. Harry Cordova, the manager of publications, traveling like A royal prince in his gorgeensly decorated palaoe car, was here on Wedneeday with a paste brigade of twelve men who made

disp&ay of illustrated posters on Dishon's bill boards. A big advertisement in this issue tells of the varied attractions which is unnecessary to repeat here. For several years Mr. W. U. Coup was was mansger of Barnum's Hippodrome. He itravela with and superintends this institution, a novel exhibition, whioh he olaims is excelled by no other show on earth. Bear In mind the date. It will be here on Wednesday, the 21 lost.

Three very attractive entertainments are booked for the Opera House next week. The first night—WednesdayMilton Nobles will appear with bis own drama, entitled: "The Pbcenix tbe play with which he has msde his great reputation. The Boston Post says: "The Phoenix" is A typical American drama, by Milton Nobles, and a better cypecimen it would be bard to find, and a more accomplished interpreter of the leading role than Mr. Nobles it would be equally difficult to discover. The play is one of those in whioh villainy seems to flourish at the expense of virtue until hope for a little judioious murdering is so long deferred that the heart is well nigh slok. It is a credit to thiB excellent play tbat even the chief sinner in it is fascinating from his meanness. Mr. Nobles

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4ha r9le of the hero*

carrying him AS Carroll Graves through the fire and scheming of a startling pro logae with wonderful fidelity, *nd" touches of real humor and genuine pathos, uniquely blended ana afterwards, in a resurrected form, as Jim Bludso. "The Phoenix," gives us some intensely realistio anting. The supporting oompany Is exoellent,And the seenory unusuAlly good. The gambling scene in the second not was wonder/ullv natural, and the fire scene whioh terminates the prologue ia intensely realistio."

Claude DeHaven, the editor, wit and poet, is now in advanoe of tbe "Nip and Tuck" organisation, and called on us yesterday to hernld Its return on Friday evening. Of the many flattering aotioee of thia oomedy the following from the St. Louis Glebe-Democrat, speaks in detail:

Nip and Tuck was produced here for the flrat time last night. The theatre was crowded, and the play, which is an English adAptAtlon of the French oomedy Treoochet et Cacolet, by D'Ennerry, the author of the two Orpnants, kept the audienoe laughing through the entire performance. The comedy drama is well constructed, tbe dialoge is bright and sparkling, the characters to a great extent novel and the opportunities given for displaying special abilities numerous. Nip and Tuck ls a firm of detectives, whose difference of character Is pronounced, And who are constantly working against each other in a way tbat places each in a most ludicrous light before the public. They assume disguises, which, while perceptible to tbe audienoe, are absolutely opaque to each other, and in their different garbs and games they oome into frequent collision, while both working to ferret out to justice tbe criminal in the

Webber plays the part of .Nip, tbe moat versatile part

ner, And D. H. Fitspatrick that of Tracer Tuck. Webber appears characterizations with so

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brigbt particular tion. He is a olever impersonator, and in all that he did last night pleased hia audienoe greatly, He figured prominently in all the soenoes, and with tbe aid of his able co-detective, kept matters lively and pretty well mixed until tbe curtain waa about to drop. MY .Webber's sengs were generously applauded, and his whole performance stamped as a success. Mr. JFitspatrick's Tuck adds to the interss of tbe entertainment. The support is quite exoelent, Eva Webber and Melissa Breslau acquitting themselves very favorable as Frances Daableigd and Sarah Truegold, and George A. Fair's Maj. Tremaine being a strong piece of acting. Nip and Tuck has the same mission tbat Is intended for ever play—to amuse—and it does this most successfully.

Rioe's Evangeline party will cloee the week on Saturday evening at the Opera House,

Ella Duffy, of Philadelphia,

heard a burglar in the kitchen, and went down to aee about it. As she entered tbe door tbe burglar knocked her down with a jimmy. She sprang np, however, seised A pan of boiling water from the stove, and threw it In the burglar's free, who ran screaming from the bottw. „, ifis

SEE THOSE BEAUTIFUL PARLOR SETS AT HARVEY'S. THE FINEST EVER BROUGHT TO TIJIg CITY.

TEKRB HAUTE,IND. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10,188ft TenthYwr

Susan Perkins' Letter.

FWDAY MoBxnra, April 9th.

DKAB JOSVHUB

:—During this week

I hnve beerd of nothing very exciting except the eleotton news. Not tbst I oared very much one way or the other, being A woman and denied that sacred privilege of voting. However, Uncle Earn was very jubilant over the resnlt of tbe election, and as joy Is contagions I concluded that I might as well go with tbe crowd. Just at present Uncle Ezra is a Republican, but he has not always been

Oh no! He believes that

"variety is the spioe of life" even in politicS.' I am told that he began hia checkered polittsal cAreer AS a good old fashioned .Whig from that he drifted into the BepublioAn party. Later, hAving A deep Admiration for Greeley, he determined to vote for him, and in order to do so became AD Independent. Finding thAt the Democracy Also Admired the venerable Horace enough to endorse him, be gently slid over into their ranks. I believe his next move was to return to the Republican fold, where he remained until the National party put forth its weak and wailing voloe. With fresh impetnoelty he heralded its birth, and became one of its champions. I am told tbat be was quite enthusisstio at this time that he made stump speeches, worked untiringly at the elections, and predioted that the National party would sweep the Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. However, the ohild died, and Uncle Ezra is once more in the armrfof his old love, and calls himself a Stalwart with the big S. His friends are waiting anxiously to Me ^at mote he will next make. 'Z'h ~,:S

It is said tbat the Democrats were dreadfully surprised at tbe way the election went. Some of them swore, others wept it must have been truly hesrtrendlng. We never can be certain about things in this world! Here the Democratic party had just got comfortably settled. Mayor, Councllmen, Policemen, Trustee And Fire Department right under its thumb. Indications tbat everything would be eovZmr de rose in the future, when up starts its foe, whom many believed dead, and unsettles everything. No wonder they wept and wailed and gnashed their teetb.

Unc^e Ijjizra says tbe reason wo can't vote isnbecause we are so giddy pay so much Attention to foolishness, don't reed opangb, and that we never will be pera&tedLto hevea voloe in the government nntllwe reform! Did you ever faofp Anything so atrocious Just as thongh it did not require as much lnge.nuity and mAnenvering to make anew dress out of two old ones as to command an array! The trouble is that our talents have not A lArge enough field to show advantageously. Of course we are not oompetent to vote! Oh no. Possibly we know more than our big brothers we may some of us be mothers of famlllee and have to train up our sons and instill useful and patriotic knowledge into their minds, thus preparing tbem for future activity in the world's councils, bnt we are not competent to vote! No matter how muoh we know of tbe history of our country, or how conversAnt we amy be with its constitution and by-laws no matter whatonr ideas may be in regard to taxation without representation, it wonld never do in the world to give us tbe right of suffrage. The negro can vote, so can the low white man who often cannot write bis own nsme, but we, tbe sisters, mothers, And wives, ere classed with poor John Chinaman. It is alleged by the men that if we should have this boon granted us, it would be an inducement for us to neglect onr homes that the weary father and husband would find an unswept hearthstone on his return at night thAt cold coffee would Abound And general desolstion wonld pervade everything, while we were of! hunting up voters or making stump speeches! Why should politics make us negleot onr business if it doee not interfere with that of the men

Do not think, deer Josephine, thAt 1 am becoming strong minded. Far from it. Then are some reasons why we are not fitted for politicians, some requisites mential to the successful carrying on of electiona, the absence of which might render us unfit for such work. Tbey are rather physical than mental shortcomings, however. For instance, we oould not loaf around saloobs all the time, and settle tbe discussions under consideration with Innumerable "beers" and "straights." Then tbe buying of votes would be another drawback. Tbey say it Is impossible to buy a vote for less than a quarter, and some are as high ss five dollars! Why, it would take all of our pocket money, and more too! What wonld beoome of tbe gloves, ribbons. and the thousand et cetera* which make a woman's life endurable, at that rate? Then there ia the challenging of votes, another obstacle. Suppose some one should challenge my vote, wonld I have the courage and dexterity necessary to call him a liar and knock him down by a blow in the back ef the bead? Alas, no! Bnt such is tbe correct thing, I am told. Suppose, too, that the party to which I belong have a

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scarcity of voters. They want some more. Anxious to serve my country, I resolve to help import some.. Among others I sand for you and pay your Aire you ooma. Yon keep out of sight until the day then we aneak to the polls. Some one suspects. We lie about it, but leave. Go to another ward and get a policeman to swear to your Identity, etc. Oould yon do it, Josephine

The talk this week, outside of political matters, has been the controversy between Csptain Potter and the newspapers. Some are indignant, others amused. Many thought the attack on tbe Captain in Sunday's Express was unjust. Then the irrepressible "P." cards the public to the tune of a column and a half and convlnoes every one that he is amply able to take care of himself. Later, the Gasette, with a stroke of its pen, combines reverence with advioe, and we are lost in admiration of the taotios of snob a skilful adversary. Next In

SATURDAY MORNING.

Yesterday afternoon the parade of the three military oompanies of tbe city came eff, the occasion being the anniversary of the Light Guard. In the evening the Frog Opera was performed at the Opera House, under the auspices of tbe letter. Of oourse I went. We arrived late with tbe rest of the elite, or, as Unole Ezra expresses it, "the light-minded." The house was full, although, from the number of amateur entertainment* which we have witnessed this winter, it was a little surprising. It showed tbat all had implicit confidence in tbe ability of the L. G. to interest, and they were not mistaken. The Frog Opera, although not as uproariously funny as one would suppose from tbe description of the pollywogs, Is a very pretty little extravaganza. It was played remarkably well, each person helping to make it the complete suroess it wss. There was no dragging as in most amateur entertainments.and, with one or two exceptions, every word waB distinctly heard. Never before did the young ladies look so lovely, especially the three who took the prominent parts, —Misses Keller, McEwan and Hyde. Tbe gypsy scene was pretty and bright, and tbe wedding scene splendid. Wallie Austin fairly covered himself with glory as Baron Rat. Ed Barton did well as Gypsy Chief. Tbe Prince carried his part to perfection, and wore two elegant ooatamee during the evening. Will Morgan, as

Simon, was killing, and

fully sustained his reputation. Tbe two oats, Although not beautiful, were model oats, and the frog sentinels were simply, immense. What I want to know ls,

^._tEver Yours,Susis. HSBBSBSmS^SSBOW 80^

THE BETTER WORLD.

CHURCHES, PASTORS AND PEOPLE.

There are bnt 20,000 Protestant church members In 8t. Louis. Gilbert Bndd. of Clarendon, Michigan, dild at the close of family prayers before he had risen from his, knees. He was 60'years old.

Bishop Bedell says that, if ministers wonld only speak tbe truth in funeral sermons, the demand for such dlr oourses would be rapidly diminished.

The Congregationalist puts a question, one which implies its own answer: "Is not a ohnrob divided against itself, and sure to fall, if, while God fills the pulpit, the devil leads the choir?"

A Wisconsin olergyman preached eloquently and earnestly against tbe sin of transacting business on Sunday, and when tbe deacons passed tbe contribution plates, not so much as a penny was collected.

Father McNamara, who is endeavor* ing to establish an Independent Oathollo Church In Brooklyn, has peculiar ideas regarding religious tunes. He has hymns rang to the "Weary of the green" and "The Exile of Brin." One of tbe Psalms of David la set to "Yankee Doodle." and another the 26th Psalms Is sung to the tana of "Paddles Forever."

Ralph Waldo Emerson said lately: "My anosetry is made up of ministers in my family tbe Bible is seen oftener than any book In the hands of my wife and daughter. I think these facts teil my whole story. If you wish to call me a chistlau theist you have my authority to do so, and you must not leave out the word christian, for to leave out tbat is to leave out everything."

A clergyman, who bad been traveling in a iemote part of the west, was asked by a pious old lady if he saw any encouraging signs of the spread of religion. "I heard something," said be, rather hesitatingly, "which you might poesibly call encouraging. As I passed a cabin a woman cried out to her daughter: 'Jerosby Ann! you mean, snarly beaded ffti, oome right into prayers!'"

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another {place," he added, "I asked a good woman if she bad opportunities of hearing a good sermon. 'No,' she replied, 'our only religions privileges oonalst of occasional funerals.'"

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ABOUT WOMEN.

Women resemble flowers, They shot np when they sleep. Poker has become a very popular game among New York ladies.

Young ladles don't eat ouions so much this year as usual, because they interfere with leap year privilegee.

Immorality with women is almost always a hard necessity. With men It ia almost always a vicious longing.

The woman who has not time to mend her children's stockings is working night and day on a patchwork quilt for the next fair.

Athletic sports for ladles: Jumping at conclusions walking around asubjeot running through a novel skipping fall descriptions.

Mme. (Seoffrln: "There are three things which the average woman throws out of the window her time, her money, and her health."

Dumas, Sr.: God, in bis divine foresight, gave no beard to women, for ho knew tbey weuld not be able to keep their moutha shut while they were getting shaved.

Tbe Parisian says that as the tendenoy now is, the ladies will soon wear dresses so tight fitting tbat they will have to soak them in warm water in order to take them ofT.

Some book worm has estimated that tbe part of Juliet has been taken by no less than 346 different "stars," though only twenty-three hsve ever attained distinction in tbe part.

The women immigrants from Northern Europe, who have settled in the Weet, oontinne their old oountry habits of working in the fields, and they do aa mnoh work as tbe men.

I prefer my life to tbat of the mass of married people that I see it is a dreary material life tbat tbey seem to me to live, ne inspiration of tbe deepest lova in it. And yet I believe that true marriage holds the highest and purest possibilities of human happiness.—Phoebe Cary.

Mrs. Livermore informs tbe Chicago Tribune tbat all the "cr&lm of the East has moved West," and all that remains in Massachusetts is "tbe two extremes, tbe best and-the stupidest." This mixture of metaphors may befog some of those that are left until they can not tell to whioh ciasa they belong. "Twelve handkerchiefs make a dress pattern" is tbe freshest addition to the arithmetic of tbe period. The handker* obiefli in question are of Kbyber cloth, which is thegszellne of last summer, a fine, soft bnnting in blue, garnet, wood oolor and olive. The borders are olnster* ed oords and tbe suits are made some* times with tbe oaaqa«y «w*raklrt and again with gathered flounoes on a skin fastened to a surplice waist.

A female journalist on the Chicago Inter-Ocean (old a reporter tbat she waa out all hours of the night, went straight along, and was never meddled with. She carried a pistol for a time, and learned how to use it, but finally threw it aside, thinking the men of Chicago were eo tame and gentle tbat they did not need to have it drawn on tbem. Presence of mind, she says, is more protection than a pistol, anyway. "Mother," said a spirltuelle creature, lounging in the kitchen. "I don't think I'm long for this world. I know I ain't very old, but I've got a presentiment that I must soon die!" "Nonsense!" said tbe mother, as sbe wrestled with tbe pots "nonsense, girl—don't be foolish Just then the bell rang the supposed to be dying creature leaped like a fawn to the front of tbe house, peered through tbe blinds, and di«oo»«red a young man with a buggy In the street. "Sal," yelled tbe girl's brother, "yer'd better hurry np and bang your hair. Bill Wilson wants yer to go out ridin'. You girls got a regular circus on us boys, bavin' fellers take yon out!" In jast seven mlnutee the girl appeared, bar hair banged, her cheeks rouged, ami dreesed, in the language of her brother, like a "daisy." 8he didn't feel much like dying just then either.

A TRYING TIME.

To the ordinary lad, entrance into society is a fiery ordeal. It is a great trial either for a tender or a riper age, for an overgrown boy to go to a door, knowing tbat there area dozen girls inside, and knock or ring with an absolute certainty tbat in a few moments all eyes will be upon bim It is a severe test of courage to go before these girls and make the tour of the room without stepping on tbeir toes, and to sit down and dispose of bis bands without putting tbem in bis pocket is an achievement which teff boys can boast. But 6V6n If be acquits himself tolerably well during tbe evening bis trials are not yet over. The girls don tbeir hoods and put on tbeir shawls, and look so saucy and mischievous, so unimproesible and independent, as if they did not wish anybody to go home with them. Then comes the pinch, and tbe boy who baa tbe most pluck goes up to the prettiest airl in the room, with nis tongue cling* foe to tbe roof, of his mouth, and, crook-

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out bis elbow, stammers out tho words, ••Shall I tee you home?" Sbe touches her fingers on his arm, and they walk home, feeling as awkward as two goslings. Well, life has its trials.

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