Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 10, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 June 1880 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

KDITOB AND PROPRIETOR.

PUBLFCAT ION OFTICK,

No. 16 south 5tht., Printlng.House Square,

TBRRB HAUTE, JUNE 19,1880

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening, hM a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where It Is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes

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HAVE sun spots and cyclones any connection. OF (be 369 electoral votes the solid South has 138.

GARFIELD'S letter of acceptance is •waited with interest.

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KNOX county thrashed wheat of this year's crop last Monday.

GABFIELD is worth between 915,000 4nd |20,000. This is authentic.

MUD slinging at Garfield has been •commenced with astonishing vigor.

NEXT week we will have it at Cincinnati, and then—the boys can begin to *011 up tbeir sleeves.

CONGRESS adjourned on Wednesday. It will reassemble in au informal way at Cincinnati next week.

NEARLY five months until eleotion -tlon day, and most of them hot months keep cool as possible.

INDIANA will be a ambky battle field this svutmer. Il will be a hand to habd fight and the forces are pretty evenly matched.

SOME observing person remarks that rthere is nothing more Important than a •graduate two or three days after commencement.

So many prominent Democrats have "been named for the Presldenoy that there is little chance of a ''dark horse" •at Cincinnati next week.

7 HE latest fashionable novelty aire "wit albums." They arc designed for jotting the bon mots so coiiatfntly •spoken and lost in society,

EIGHT out of the eleven candidates rominated on Thursday are soldiers. The boys in blue seem to be able to take oare of themselves pretty well yet

THE Bun spots are getting in their work vigorously now* Tempests, fan--tastlc caprices of the weather and excessive mortality attest tbeir energy.

ASBUBY University has three representatives on the Republican State ticket,—Porter, Hanna and Dice. It ought to be a popular ticket at Green•OMtle. -.

THE Supreme Court has declared that the constitutional amendments were not ratified by a majority of the voters. Judges Soott and Nlblaok dissented from the opinion of the three other Judges.

TENNYSON is worth nearly a million dollars, the result of writiug poetry at 930 a line and sagacious investments of his earnings. The poeticaL business is somewhat better than it was in John Milton's day.

THE evidence of numerous passengers on the steamer Narragansett, lost In a collision on Long Island Sound last week, seems to clearly establish that there was gross carelessness in the management of the vessel. 1

Cei* DICK THOMPSON'S name was received by the Republican State Convention with more enthusiasm than any that was prevented, and be would almost certainly have been nominated had his name not been withdrawn.

AND now we are to have railway cars run on skates instead of wheels. The wit*tft is grooved and the rail made to fit it. Imagine a train of can sliding noiselessly along at high rate of speed, like a huge serpent! A railroad will be as dangerous a place to wajk^on a magazine of dynamite.

CRWXNNAT* had a remarkable death rate last month 499 deaths during the healthy month ot May is a large mortality for a city of ita sizs. In the list were two cases of genuine Asiatic cholera and a number of aggravated cases of ehoiera morbus. This statement is not encouraging for attendance on the great convention next week*

OCR government Is the cheapest in the world. The annual revenue of Great Britain is $13 per each ci listen, and that Of France $16, while that of the United Spates is but |5 30. And yet, with this economioe) revenue, we have paid in 'fifteen years 1800,000,000 of the public debt and reduced the annual interest on it from 151,000.000 to $80.000,000. 11

OSB more bank defalcation is added to the long list of similar swindle*. The First National Bank of Brattleboro, Vermont, is the victim and the loss is upwards of a quarter of a million dollar*. The loss was caused by systematic forgeries ot the president of the bank, s. M.

Walte, running through a

Dumber ofyear*. The defaulter haa fled with such assets of the bank as were

IT is noted that the prediction that the present would be an exceedingly stormy and tempest nous season, has so to been fulfilled. Already there have beet many severe storms, tornadoes and cyclones in various parts of the country, and a vast amount of property hss been destroyed, accompanied by much loss of life. The storm of last Monday night was the severest which the season haa yet produoed.

IT is comforting to see that Don Cameron's supremacy as a dictator in the politics of Pennsylvania is visibly de clining. His opposition to the confirmation of ex-Governor Hartranft as collector of the port of Philsdelphia has added new strength to the ranks of bis enemies and it appears to be only a question of time when the Cameron dynasty will be overthrown. The sooner the better, for the one-man power in politics is not consistent with the American idea. __________

IF certain newspapers may bebelieved the Sopreme court will decide the constitutional amendments to be unconstitutional. It is to be hoped the court will not strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, as they sometimes do, to reach such a decision. It was a matter for rejoicing on all bands when it was announced that the amendments had carried, and it will be a matter of equal regrot if the Supreme court now nullifies tbe action of the people upon some hairspun technicality.

1 HE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. The Republican State Convention met at Indianapolis, on Thursday, and was a large, enthusiastic and eminently goodnatured convention. Tbe obief interest centered in the governorship, Gen. A. D. Straight being the leading candidate, with all the rest combining to defeat him. On tbe third ballot, Hon. Albert G. Porter, present Comptroller of tbe Treasury, was nominated, with Captain Thomas Hanna, of Greencastle, for Lieutenant Governor, Judges Byron K. Elliott, of Indianapolis, and William A. Woods, of Goshen, for judges of tbe Supreme Court, Daniel P. Baldwin, of Logansport, for Attorney General, Dr. E. R. Hawn, of Leavenworth, for Secretary of State, E. H. Wolfe, of Rushville, for Auditor of State, Roswell S. Hill, of Brazil, for Treasurer ef State, F. M. Dice, of Covington, for Reporter ef the Supreme Court, Daniel M. Royse, of Lafayette, for Clerk of the Supreme Court, and John M. Bloss, of Evansville, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The tloket is a good one and well distributed over the State. Tbe soldier element is well represented. The oholce of Mr. Porter for the bead of the ticket was as fortunate a selection as that of Garfield at Chicago. He is an able and pure man, and will make a governor of whom any State might well be proud.

The platform is short, avoiding the usual iteration of stale and oommonplace sentiments and containing several new points, among them being the right of citizens to emigrate from place to place without vexatious investigation of their motives, favoring legislation that will protect the people from imposition by the dishonest procurement of notes payable in bank, and congratulating tbe people on tbe adoption of the constitutional amendments. The convention was entirely harmonious, and the party appear to feel pretty confident Of, carrying the State.

MI I I?-V'S/. LEISURE.

Never were truer worda spoken than those which General Garfield uttered at thereoent commencement exercises of Hiram College, Ohio,—his old alma mater. He spoko of the unfinished, unformed charaoter of young men and women as the most interesting object the Supreme Being could find in the whole universe, and said: "I congratulate you on your leisure. I commend you to keep it as your gold, as your wealth, as your means, out of which you can demand all the possible treasures that Gcd laid down when He formed your nature and unveiled and developed tbe possibility of your future."

These words came from tbe mind and heart of a busy man, of an intense worker. They are oharged with the heartfelt earnestness of one who speaks from the depths of his own experience. It is a man who has reached the meridian of life,—a life replete with high achievement—looking back to the young men and women who are just entering upon tbe active work of tbeir lives, and consideilng tho best advice he can give them, The experiences of his own busy years furnish the answer. He commends them to keep their leisure as the best sift of God. And so It is. It is this that enables men to meet together in a common brotherhood. The first great duty is to live and supply tbe necessities of those who are dependent on us. But Providence has so ordained the world that not all our time is required for tbe accomplishment of this. No matter bow bard we work, or bow HtU© we receive for our labor, there is yet some leisure left to us all. It may be greater or it may be less, but to every one there is some portion of time that he. may call bis own. It is the raw material out of which the fabric of his life is to be woven. Tbe work alone of life would separate men, would bold them apart Especially would this be true of the complex, highly artificial life of modern times, when one man doea nothing lor a lifetime but make shoes, another, nails, and so on. Such a system of labor pate golf between men. For what has the n«nmw»r in common with tbe ahoomaker or the merchant with the minister? Then is nothing in tbeir work to draw them together. And yet in our modem life, in spite of thls,th9 bonds

of brotherhood are stronger tl they were before. What is theKcret of this union? What is the impulse which draws them together? It is the influence of Leisure. It is tbe wise use of unoocupied hoars, leading men and women into the paths of literature, art, science. Two persons who have read the same book have something in common. If they have read many, they have much in common. There is a bond of sympathy, of fellowship. So it is with those who possess some knowledge of the same art or science. A town full of people who read the common news of the world morning after morning, cannot be strangers. All can converse upon the topic which for the time being is uppermost. This is one important achievement of our leisure momenta.

Its higher offloe is tbe discipline and development of our bettor faculties. To work for a lifetime in some single, narrow field is to be a mere machine. A good machine Is exceedingly useful, but a man or a woman is far bettor. It is the purpose of oar leisure hours to lift us out of such a life into one that is higher and broader.

But the value of this leisure is too often sadly underestimated. As Mr. Garfield said: "It is perhaps the thing that you care for least." It is oftentimes so fragmentary, comes in such broken bits, that it seems almost worthless. Busy men, who have made much out of their time, know the fallaoy of this notion. Experience has taught them the value of minutes wisely improved tbst tbey count up as pennies do, put out at compound interest. "Keep your book (with a mark in it, so that you ean open it instantly to the place) where you can catch it when you are waiting for John to come to dinner, or holding the baby, or watching tbe baking of your cake," writes a wise, busy woman who learned the secret of getting twenty-six hours out of a day.

Tbe words which were intended for the little band of scholars at Hiram College apply to men and women everywhere: "Keep your leisure at your gold."

DIVORCE AND ITS CA USES. In an article In the North American Review, on divorces in New England, Dr. Nathan Allen presents statistics which show that during the last ten years the ratio of divorces to marriages has been steadily on tbe inorease. Imperfect as those statistics may be, there is an alarming frequency of divorce in tbe whole country. The St. Louis Globe Democrat says, in a recent editorial "With a liberal allowance for the effects of grounds of divorce which have been incorporated in the laws, the unwelcome truth remains that our society is gradually producing a greater proportion of men unfit to be husbands, and a greater proportion of women unfit to be wives."

Tbe social position of divorced persons IB not always stated, but they arg gen-, Orally found to belong to tbe better class of society. They who labor for their bread are seldom troubled with domestic unhapplnesa, at least the world never discovers it. Poverty makes more sympathy among the lowly than riches can ever feel. The same paper says with great power and truth: "But higher up in the social scale tbe incompatibles beoome more frequent, and here must be sought the causes whloh lie at the bottom of our domestio

tlons, and tbe result is that the education of our youth is made to subserve the single aim of getting ahead in life. Boys are not taugnt those larger duties and responsibilities, the honorable discbarge of which is the orown and glory of manhood. Tbeir intellect Is crowded to its utmost limit, and with the stock of knowledge which they acquire from the schools, tbey are expected to be aharp enough to take care of their interests. There is no time to attend to the domestio side of their education. That is expected to come somehow time they are pushed into an ability to cope with tbe world, without ever being taught tbe all-important truth that apon them deyolves the serious duty of fashioning the world. As men, they are averse to self sacrifice, and their ael&th natures yield only to extreme necessity. To them, marriage proves a restraint Instead or a happiness, and where both parties are equally selfish: the restraint 'becomes Intolerable. A life of pleasurable self sacrifice is something which they require to be taught, and which tbey often refuse to learn. They have never bestowed a thought on bow to make themselves good busbanda and fathers, and often decline to learn after marriage.

But the education of girls is still more defective. Although woman has by far the larger share In ordering and shaping domestic life, girls are educated as if their destiny were to take no lot or part iu it. The average girl expects to marry. To that end she is taught the accomplishments which make her most attractive, to tbe susceptible sterner sex, and her intellectual faculties aro culti vated to as great an extent as tbe neces sity of more superficial acquirements will permit. The future wife and mother never dreams of qualifying herself for tbe duties of wifehood and motherhood. There is no companionship between herself and her mother. Tbe young people have an existence apart from that elder circle which tbey eventually expect to enter and the example of home is systematically disregarded, and often despised, by the future proprietress of a home. The average girl's motto is to catch a husband first, and turn her attention to learning how to make his home happy afterward. But she has grown up more selfish than *be imagined, ana tike often finds that she has undertaken adifficalt task, and sometimes makes no prolonged effort to master it, Finding herself ignorant of almost everything which she ought to know, she shirks her wifely duties and contents herself with being a burden instead of a help to her husband. Tbe girl whose brilliant social qualities charm tbe circle in which ahe moves, is as a wife Often the most helpless creature in the world. Her moral nature has been hopelessly dwarfed, axd she Is really a nuisance in tbe home whioh ahe oogbt to adorn. Tbeu comes tbe familiar story of Incompatibility of temper, and barah and cruel treatment—tbe inevitable sequel of mutual disappointment

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Beyond a doubt audi of tbe uobappineas which attend* tbe lives of many married persons is do* to tbe negleet of home education by tbe parents. If the decline of home educatkmls a necessary result of our rapid pace fm material progress, it is not pleasant to contemplate what the society of the futore will be if this pace Is kept up."

DEATH OF JUDGE QOOKIN8. Death is more familiar to us than it was a quarter of a century ago. Almost daily the funeral proceasion slowly passes along the streets. We stop for a moment and look—perhaps Inquire who is going to his last home—then the street crowd closes up and the busy world moves on. Tbe noisy hum, silent for a moment, commences sgain. Who misses his form from the moving throng, his voice from tbe ceaseless mnrmur Here and there, far down tbe stream of years, will one friend and another, who knew and prised his real worth, stop and look and listen vainly for the never returning footstep.

But now and then there Is a death summons that startles tbe whole community, that leaves avoid never to be filled tbe passing away of one who, though full of years, has all the buoyancy of yotftb, active in the duties of life, "Ennobled by himself, by all approved Praised, wept

and

honored by the land he

loved."

Such wasithe startling announcement on Tuesday morning by the death of Judge Samuel Barnes GookinS. We had just read in the paper of that morning, in connection with hia name for Judge of the Supreme Court, that his health was fully restored and that he was in the full maturity of his intellectual powers. How little did we think that the form so familiar on our streets, in tbe church, tbe public meetings and the social gatherings was then stilled in 'deatt

Laat Saturday he attendedsome court business at Sullivan and returned home in usual good health. On Monday he ate his breakfast heartily, but while preparing to go to his office was attacked with a difficulty in breathing. A physician applied remedies to his immediate relief and no uneasiness was felt by the family. At about eight o'clock while sitting in a chair conversing with his daughter Mrs. Geo. C. Duy, he stopped talking, and on going to him it was found that be was dead! Heart dlsesse was tbe cause.

Few men engage In the active duties of law and politics and maintain auch parity of character. Would that we bad more such men as Judge Gookins. His mind knew no guile, his manners were simple and unassuming, his nature warm and true. By the natural alchemy of an affectionate disposition he attracted tbe affection ot aU who knew blm. His brother members of tbe bar testify that: "as a printer, Journalist, lawyer, legislator, judge of the Circuit Court, judge of tbe Supreme Court, as a neighbor, a friend and a Christian in all tbe walks and all the relations of life, Judge Gookins stood without fear and without reproach among! the foremost and most honored of the citizens of Indiana.

Mr. Gookins has reoently been engaged in writing a "History of the Wabash Valley," now in course of publication. It is gratifying to know that his work was about completed. At tbe request of tbe publishers he wrote a sketch of his own life—worded with bis characteristic modesty—and we are thus enabled to give tbe following:

AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

The New England Genealogical Register traces the genealogy of the family from the days of King John, and the American branch of it from the original emigrant who was cotemporary with Captain Smith. Daniel Gookin (as the name was then written) wme to Newport News, Va., the year 1620. He brought with him fifty men and established a colonial settlement at that point. Captain Smith seems to have

During the Indian troubles, which resulted in the Captain's capture, and his release through the intervention of Pocahontas' an order was issued requiring tbe settlers to abandon tbeir set tlements ana retire to Jamestown. Captain Binlth says that Gookin, at Newport News, having fifty men of his own, refused that order and made good his standing against the sanlvages."

Newport News had been almost forgotten until its nuns as a military point was revived luring the lato wnr.

In the days of the Commonwealth under Cromwell tbe Puritans of New England sent their missionaries to the chivalry of Virginia, and a son of the original emigrant, bearing his name, became a convert to toe Puritan faith. On the restoration of Charles IL the General Assembly of Virginia pasted a law expelling all non-conformists from the province. The Puritan convert left and went to Boston, of which he became a permanent resident and there remained during bis life, in the course of which he rendered important public services, as Speaker of the General Court or Assembly, commander of the army, and as assistant of Elliott in his labors for the civilization and christianizing of the Indiana. He was the father of the New England branch of the family. Among his descendants was William Gookins, father of the subject of this sketch.

Satnnel Barnes Gookins wss born at Rupert, Bennington connty, Vermont. May 80.1809. He was the youngest of ten children of William and Rhola Gookins. In 1812, the family, excepting the two oldest children, daughters, who had married and settled in Vermont, emigrated! to New York and took up their abode in the town of Rodman, JeflEeraou county. The father died two yean after, leaving toe mother and her eight children dependent solely upon a good and merciful Providence and their own exertions to make their way in the world.

May 5,1823, the mother, an older brother of twenty-three and Samuel B. set ont for tbe West Prior to that time the route of westward emigration had bees by wagon across New York and Pennsylvania to the tributaries of the Ohio, thence by boat down that river, and sometimes up the Wabash. By the treaty of 1821 between the United States and ths Miamis,Kickapoosand Potowatomies occupying tbe northern portion of Indiana the Indian title to most of thai territory

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ceded to the General Government Immediately after this sesrion attention was directed to what las bees oiled the northern route. This course ww taken by tfaepwty in question. Tbey took passage at Sackett's Harbor on tbe Ontario, the second aieamboat that navigated the waters of Lake Ontario, and landed at Lew

Bar by another schooner, to Fort Wayne by canoe, across the Portage drawing their canoes by ffTfn to Little River, down that to the Wabash, and down the Wabash to Port Harrison and

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Haate, making the trip to the remarkably short space, for those times, of six weeks and twodays,at»rttejmveneat ujponthe old mote to way of tbe Ohio, over which, if the SS^taadeltttway within throe months, be was fortunate.

Northern Indiana was then stm opeuNed by the Indiana, but they were more friendly ana save tbe emigrants no troohte, vfaittag their

bad to scare. The emigrants located on Fort Harrison

8. B. lived lor a In the family of Captain Daniel Stiingham, tatter of the late OommodoieHorton Stringham of ths U. 8.

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afterwards,

in the families of a married staler and older brother. In July, 1826, to apprenticed himself to the late John W. Ouboro, editor and publisher of the Western Register, the first newspaper feat was published at Terre Haute. At tbe end of four years.having finished hieappfentioeship, her went to Vincennes, and, assisted by the late John B. Dillon, brought out the Vlaeennes Gaaette, under the proprietorship of 8amael Hill. Ona year later he returned to Tene Hawte, took ther position of editor of the Western Register and con tinned in that position untHJone. 1832, when the Register offloe wss puxchasedby Thomas Bowling, who established the Wabash

Regretting the lack of a classical education, whicn he had bad neither the means nor the opportunity of acquiring, be consoled himself with the fact, which he learned from his instructor, that a Cady had from the shoemaker's bench attained,emiimnce in the legal profession, with other similar examples, to which, had they sooner occurred^ might have been added those of Lincoln from the farm and Johnson from the tailor's benoh. He remembered, too, the opinion of the model of his life in bis former occupation, Ita. Franklin, upon tbe inexpediency of wastingso large a portion of one's life in the acquisition of a multiplicity of lsngusges, when one. he thought, would serve for all practical purposes ana, upon these considerations, in which the engagement already mentioned cut no figure, he decided to make the venture upon the capital invested in an Kngllsh education. considerably above the average, acquired in the country schools, which haa been very materially improved and developed by his work at the printers case and the editor's table, than which, if rightly improved, there is no better school. But young msn, do not take this as an example. Ir you have the opportunity for a collegiate course, avail yourself of it by all means.

Admitted to the bar of the Vigo Circuit Court in 1831, and to' that of the Supreme Court in 1836. when he gained his first esse in that Court (4 Blackford, 209)* he pursued his chosen avo ition unttl |18M. Residing at Terra Haute, his practice Included a large chcult of courts in Indiana and Illinois. In I860 the Hon. John Law, then Judge of the Circuit inoluding Vincennes and Terra Haute retired from the bench, and

session, did. not approve of the course of Governor Wright, and chose one of their own political sentiments: instead.

In 1861, a new constitution having been adopted, making very radical changes in our judicial system, and requiring the eBscting of a civil code, Mr. Gookins was Induced to represent Vigo county in the Legislature, the chief objectoT

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was enacted which haa formed the basis of our indicia! system from that time to the present. Mr. Gookins served on several committees, the most important of which was that for the organization of courts.

The new constitution made the judiciary elective by the people. Mr. Gooklus, co-oper-ating with prominent members of the legal profession belonging to the two leading political parties of that time, made a vigorous effort to keep the choice of Judges, especially those of tbe Supreme Court, out of the field of politics." In this they were unsuccessful. The politicians took the matter In hand, and the Democrats first, then the Whigs, in State convention nominated each a full ticket for judges ot the Supreme Court, instead of two from each party, as had been proposed. On the Whig ticket the nominees were Charles Dewey, David McDonald, John B. Howe and Samuel B. Gookins Tbey were beaten by a majority of over 15,000. Two years later, a vacancy having occurred by the resignation of Uon.A.L.Roache, and a political revolution havli and a political revolution having also occurred, consequent upon tbe repeal of the Missouri compromise, Mi- Gookins was again nominated, and was elected by a majority as large as that of his opponent, two yean before. In the securing of neither of these nominations did he take any part, believing that the judiciary should be kept free from party power and influence, a principle excellent in theory, but unavailing in practice under the workings of the present system.

Mr. Gookins held the position of Judge of the Supreme Court for three years and then resigned. Two causes led to this: First, the insufficiency of the salary to support a family and pay current expenses, the Legislature having fixed it at 11,200 per annum. Second, the imperative necessity of a change of climate, consequent upon a serious impairment of his physical constitution, resulting from a violent attack of pneumonia while in the Legislature, from which he had never been able to rally. lie went to Chlcsge, where he practiced his profession from 1858 to 1875. By this change his health wasfully restored, and he has a constitution strong and vigorous. He now resides in Tcrre Haute, and is actively engaged in the practice of his profession.

Mr. Gookios retains his interest in literary affairs acquired in earlier days. Ho has been a

both popular in their day. In the latter will be found a political satire, entitled "Tom Johnson's Bear," written and sent to that magazine in June, 1862. It was addressed to Mr. Lincoln, and its object was to show the absurdity of holding the negroes in slavery while their mas ten were seekini had been read After it was sent its publication, the emancipation proclamation was issued. It then seemea to its author lnap propriate, and he endeavored to recall It, but the editor would not consent, and it came out in October of that year. ...

This wss supplemented by another, following the proclamation of emancipation, entitled "How Mr. Lincoln Became an Abolitionist." published in the same magazine, in June, 1863, to which any persons interested can rerer.

Two other productions of his pen have been given to tbe public, one entitled "Tlppletonia,*' and the other "Tbe White House, a Natural Drama," in which the President's wife and tbe Secretary of State are the

dramaiU pertomt.

They arc designed to exhibit some of tbe feature of social life in their true colon. Some have said that literature, especially the poetic, is incompatible with law. This is a mistake. Moses, David and Solomon were legis'a and poets. John Quincy Aaami

ton, Judges and poets. John Quincy Adams Daniel Webster wrote Igher in the legal

ana stood hi latter.

Webster wrote poetry, and none in the legal fraternity than the

But if the assumption were true, there

was not probably in the case under consideration enough of the literary or poetic iaspiration to seriously interfere with the labors of a lifetime at tbe bar and on the bench.

The subject of this sketch if also the limner. —nest of the publishers.

native judgment of thecaxeful reader.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY PICTURES. One of tbe great contrasts between the school books used by tbe fathers and mothers of the land, when young, and those now used by the children, is tbe use of pictures. As a curious instance of illustrating tbe meaning of words by pictorial illustration, tbe pictures in tbe new edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary in connection with the following twelve words:—Beef. Boiler, Csstle, Column, Eye, Horse, Moldings, Phrenology, Ravelin, Ships, Steam Engine, Timbers,—illustrate and define the moaning of more than 340 words and terms, as may be aeen by examining tbe dictionary.

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prefer another setttlement however, and have determined to continue uy policy, for 93,000—for nine years longer —until its maturity. The accumulated dividends to tbe credit of my policy,^, whioh I may now draw in oasb, amount^ to 9594,57. Tbeee If converted into aiv annuity and added to the annual dlvl* dend, will amount to |121,32, and will reduce my premium for 1884 to 926,34,^ and will similarly reduce it for subset quent years. Insteady of taking

annuity. I have determined to

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NEWTON, Sussex, Co., N. J.) March 26th, im

Hoir. N. PERRY, Equitable Agency Newark. Dear Sir: You are at liberty to use my name as endorsing the Equitable Society's Tontine plan of lnaurance. Tbe beat recommendation loan give ls£ a statement of my own policy No. 49,-. 955, issued Deo. 29th, 1869. It is a 20 year Endowment for 93,000, the Tbntlne period ends this year, tbe annual premium la 9147,68. I have paid altogether, during the eleven years, 91,624^26% I am now offered as a cash value for this olicy 91,895,37, or a paid up policy for

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without a parallel In tbe history of any other company. Yours truly, WM. W. WOODWARD. Five Tlsonsand Dollars Insurance for only Ten Dollars per ana nm.

Reoelved, Philadelphia April WttT,ble Life Assurance—

1880, from tbe Equita Society, Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-six dollara and eighty cents, being tbe caah value of ordinary life policy, No. 42,296, on tbe Tontine plan, issued by the Equitable eleven years? ago on my life, for 95,000 upon which I paid in total premiums, at tbe lowest rates, twenty-nine hundred and eightyseven dollars and five cents, making the net cost exactly one hundred and ten dollars and twenty-five cental or an average annual premium of only Ten Dollars and Two Cento for Five Thousand Dollars insurance, payable at my death anytime during all that period thereby proving an Insurance in tbe Equitable to cost less than fire or co-operative lnsurance. 92,876,80 WM. P. MISKEY, Formerly of Miskey, Merrll &Tbaokara,g|b

Gaa Fixture Manufacturers. f|' D. B. SHIDELER, Manager, J. W. DEAN\ General Agent, J. ED. SHIDELER, Caahler, 43 Vance Block, Indianapolis, Ind. RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO., Agents, Terre Haute, Ind.

L. E. ACKER, Special Agent.

To the Citizens

and patrons of tbe Half Cent Store, 405 Main street. J? TAKE NOTICE: We have no agChti otitf soliciting and misrepresenting business, houses, and paying a commission, bu tfe have but one prioe to all, old and young Call and be convinced. Remember Hal£ Cent Store, 406 Main street, near Fourth^ street.

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Old Dominion Coffee.

Best In the Market!

Writ. PAIGE 6c CO. are having quite a large trade in Cbickering Pianos. Tbey have Just received some new styles of Upright, in French walnut and ebonized cases, which are beautiful. Also, new style of Mason Jt Hamlin Organs. Tbey offer these reliable ln-p struments on very liberal terms, in pay-fe menta or for eaab. It will pay to giver* them a call before purchasing elsewhere.. 607 Main street.

Goto WriglitA Kaufman for choice teas and coifee, canned goods ot all kinds,fresh butter, hams, re a as a on a shoulders, spring chickens, raspberries* blackberries, currants* choice ripe peaches* tomatoes, encumbers, or any thing else in the

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DRS. BARTHOLOMEW A HALL, DENTAL PARLORS, 532X Main street, Terre Haute, Indiana.