Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1881 — Page 1

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION. Town Talk.

THE NOMA!, SCHOOL.

For some time past T. T. has noticed that the press of the city is agitating the question of a literal appropriation by the legislature to put the Normal building in thorough repair. It is an institution of which the good people of this city know very little. The building is a very imposing one and attracts attention, but what transpires within its walls is as a sealed book to the population outside. The yard (it would not be fair to call it a campus in its present condition) attracts more attention than the building. It is a bleak, barren ideality, a neglected spot, which has tho appearance of a desert run to waste not a blade of grass adorns its surface, and the fence which surrounds it would not ornament a cattle pen: then there is the handsomo old wooden pump which stands in front of the building and is the solo ornament of the yard. It is time tho people should take some stops to procure the improvement of this much neglected piece of public property. Some people are of the opinion that the city ought to take enough pride in the institution and put tho yard in a shape which would not make it an eye sore to ull who behold it. Tho city has the uso of one floor for school purposes and is very well entitlod to do something in return, besides, pride ought to prompt tho powers that be to expend a little money in a work which would transform a barren desert into a garden spot. Past experience teaches that the average Indiana legislator is by no means partial to tho State Normal School, and it will bo no easy matter to procure an appropriation, commensurato with the demands of the institution. This neglect on the part of the state may, in some manner, be tho fault of the school itself. As T. T. has before remarked, but little is known of what transpires within its walls. The teachers are just a little too exclusive in their manner of conducting business. T. T. heard a prominent state official say the other day that ho could not find a citizen of Torre Hauio who would give him any information concerning the Normal school. There is no reason why such a state of affairs should oxist. Thore area number of enterprising papers in the city that would take great pleasure in keeping the public informed in relation to an institution of which all tho state should feel proud if those who control it would only assume the inclination to furnish it. Exclusivoness is nover successful unless it has formed an alliance with wealth, and that is not tho caso in thin instance. Let tho school tell more of what it is doing and it will be for the lienolltof

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parties concerned. VISITING STATKMAN.

TheSolons at present sojourning in Indianapolis, at six dollarsj per day from tho state, arc going to take a jnunt to Ijafayctte next week to visit Purdue University, and that has put our own city in the notion of extending an invitation to them to come over and look around for a day. Of course they could pass a few hours much moro pleasantly here than they can in Lafayette. Torre Haute ladies could not exhibit as lnrge pedal extremities as the Lafayette belle, but we have other attractions which would prove interesting. They could visit tho largest distillery in tho world, inspect the gas and water works call at the furnaces, nail works, rolling mill, car shops, machine works and many other places of interest, and should the the weather bo favorable make & short excursion on one of our palatial steamboats down tho majestic Wabash. By all means let them oome. They will be favorably impressed and cannot fail afterwards to do the fair thing for the state's property here.

FOPS.

If thero is one creation more useless than another in this world it is a fop. To the saying "God made the country and man nuule the city," might be added fops make themselves. The fop is a handsome sort of animal which hurts no one and serves to amuse those with whom he conies in contact. He Is a sort of human poodle which answers the same purpose in ladies' society as does liis canine prototype. He attends all parties and is always dressed in the latest style. His hair is cut dose and sandpapered. His clothes tit him as though he had been moulded into them. He never sits down when he can stand up and be seen better. His shape is immense and ho never tires of exhibiting it, although his audience often tires looking at him. At public entertainments he is always to the front. Like latent he cannot be kept down, but, unlike talent he runs to dress rather than brain*. In his business relations he is the superior of his master, and when he obtains a brief authority lie rides iv *2h shod over all Ixmeath hiiu. Fortui«. ^.y

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his lack of brains prevents him from rising to any commanding position and people are deprived the mortification of seeing him make a fool himself to any very great extent. Of course he has a very elevated opinion of himself and aire it upon every occasion. He is very deliberate in all his sayings and doings, and can easily be distinguished from less favored mortals by his Hamlet air. When he enters a room he expects all present to be awe stricken by his presence. If he could only keep his mouth closed he might impose upon people, but, unfortunately, he cannot do that, and as soon as his tongue commences to wag he exposes his ignorance and gives himself away to all who fall within the reach of his voice. His highest ambition is to be considered the pet of the ladies. He is a gay butterfly, generally handsome to look at but of no use whatever in the ordinary aflairs of life.

LEGAL BULLDOZING.

AN ATTORNEY AGREES.

NOW IS THE TIME TO REFORM.

Editor Saturday Eveuing Mail: In The Mail some months ago you had a good article under the head of "Legal Bulldozing." I am sure it commended itself to every right-thinking and right-feeling attorney, and would bear reproduction. Now that a new Judge comes on the bench would be an appropriate time.

The too common practice denounced by you is distasteful to the majority of tho bar, and as much deprecated by them as by any class of the community. But the bar alone is not responsible for the existence or continuance of this reprehensible practice. Tho greater blame and responsibility rests upon the Judge who presides at the trial, and who is clothed with full power and authority to suppress it. Tho result can be accomplished, in most cases, without resorting to harsh measures.

The court can easily chock the "blustering attorney" by a reprimand when he transgresses the rules of propriety in attempting to "bulldoze" or browbeat a witness, party or attorney. Every witness should have respectful treatment while giving his evidence he is entitled to, and ought to receive the protection of the court while upon the stand. You will observe that due courtesy and consideration is always shown the witness upon the examination in chief, because he is supposed to be not unfriendly to the party introducing him. It is upon the cross-examination* that the "bulldozer" shows his talent and Imming. It matters not how honest and impartial the testimony of the witness may be, if the facts he knows are adverse to the interests of the cross-ex-aminer or his clicnt, the witness is to be treated as an enemy—spoken to harshly, snapped at, browbeat, and frequently contradicted flatly by the cross-exam-iner, whose privileges rightfully extend no further than to ask questions and sift the witness in civil and respectful language. I challenge any text-writer, reporter or commontator which permits an attorney or party to contradict a witness upon the stand. He may attack his statements by other testimony, he may show them to be false, mistaken or unreliable, he may show the jury in the argument, if he can, that the witness' statement is untrue, false, or that he is mistaken, but he has no right to contradict him while giving in his testimony or deny the honesty of his statements. Every attorney knows this to be true, and none will deny it. Yot how often do we hear witnesses flatly contradicted on the stand, and frequently in language which is grossly insulting.

This the court could stop of its own motion, and should do it promptly. Without the assistance of the court the opposing counsel is nearly, if not entirely, helpless in the matter. If he should remonstraed it would be adding fuel to the fire, and only furnish the "bully" attorney an opportunity of exhibiting his ill manners by retorting something rough or insulting upon his adversary, to tho "great delight and amusement of spectators," who, perhaps, were present merely to gratify a morbid taste for such scenes, and to listen to the "badgering."

Not so with the Judge presiding: his reprimand is authoritative and must be respected. The same holds good at any other stage of the proceedings, and at all stages. The "bully" attorney in court and during the trial has no respect for the counsel on the other side, but little for the court and none for himself. What ought the Judge to do on such occasions? If the attorney should prove too incorigible to be reformed by "tofts of grass" then the court should try what "virtue there is in stones," and taring the "young sauce box down" with a fine. All the better class of attorneys, and they are in the majority, would uphold and sustain the Judge in thus reforming his bar, whenever it is needed.

This objectionable manner in attorneys is, in a great measure, doe to habit— their hearts are not as bad as their tonj ss. All know it is wrong, and tiod* une can see that it is very unbecom­

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ing in his brother. The "bully" attorney feels called upon to abuse indiscriminately, with or without cause, the parties and witnesses on the other side, the defendant's attorney snarl at the Judge and "all mankind in general," except his own client and his Witnesses. The next day he will do the same for the other side in a new case, or "for any other man." He glides into this mode of practice by permitting himself to imbibe the feeling and passions of his client. The client, especially the ignorant one, cannot understand how it is that his attorney can have other than unkind feelings towards the adversary and his attorney and if he treats them civilly his fidelity is unsuspected. So the attorney panders to this vicious feeling, in some cases, to gratify his client or to keep or restore his faith. This happens in cases where there is "bad blood" and ill feeling, and as there are many such, it is repeated until it grows into a fixed habit, and then he carries it with him, unconsciously sometimes, into the conduct of his cases generally. It is exceedingly unpleasant and disagreeable to all concerned or present, with the exception of the spectators above mentioned and the client for whose supposed benefit it is done. It brings the court into disrespect and contempt, and completely destroys its dignity. It brings the bar into disrepute, and lessens the influence its members ought to wield in any community by reason of their learning and ability. It deters modest and self-re-specting litigants from the court. They prefer to submit to a wrong rather than passsuch an ordeal for a remedy.

Go into a court room during the trial of some contested case where one or more of such attorneys are engaged, and listen to the undignified wrangling, the opprobious epithets exchanged, and the snapping and snarling indulged in, aud you will be thoroughly disgusted. What an unfavorable impression such conduct must make upon one who witnesses it, and who knows something of the proprieties of life and the civilities due among gentlemen.

I have been creditably informed that a litigant recently refused to employ an attorney in a cex*tain case, because the attorney would not agree to "lick" the counsel on the other side as apart of the services to be rendeied,—saying that he could find plenty of attorneys in Terre Haute who would defend his case and also whip -the plaintiff's attorney, ten dollars. For the credit of the bar it, is to be hoped he was mistaken in his estimate of them.

It is quite as easy to get along smoothly and pleasantly as otherwise. The class of attorneys referred to in your article, by their eonduct, render themselves unhappy, and poison the existence, for the time, of all who come in contact with them, except their clients and, as you justly say, they are not benefitted by it.

This condition of things, wherever it exists, can be improved by the determined action of the bar. But the Judge must take the initiative. All efforts will be futile without his assistance. So long as ho tolerates such conduct thero will always be a supply of bullies aud blusterers to fill the demand, which, I am glad to believe, is diminishing.

In what is above said I have no reference to the bar in Terre Haute particularly. I am speaking of the matter generally, and wherever such practice obtains, and not of any particular persons or tribunals. It is to be hoped the "Bar Association of Indiana" will inaugurate some means to remedy the evil complained of. If so, it will deserve and doubtless receive the support and encouragement of every gentleman at the lar. 7"" 8.

DID YOU EVER NOTICE That things taste better when they are dear.

That no woman is handsome without knowing it. That people with good teeth laugh a good deal.

That famous jokers can't take a joke* That girls with embroidered stockings manage to show them.

That you can ooimt your friends on your fingers when yon want to borrow aV.

That people who brag of their charity, rarely do a good turn far anybody. That married people who address each other as (tear in public, are apt to use another adjective beginning with the same letter in private.

That in spite of the fact that the present supply of school marms largely exceeds the demand, it seems to be the employment looked forward to by school girls.

That the most learned people use the simplest language in ordinary conversation, and that numbskulls make use of highfalutin phrases.

That church members who try to boss the congregation and run the machine their own way, rarely head the list when it comes to a collection.

That merchants who advertise liberally thrive and prosper, while those whe do not advertise almost invariably complain of dull trade.

TUB people of Mobile, Alabama,' wnre astonished with five indies of snow, *ast Monday.

See our Embroideries, Edging and Luces., We warrant Satisfaction iu Prices and Quality. {5ENT STORE, 4th. 8

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A women in New York has fallen veiy low. She was convicted of gambling and sent to jail. It is purifying atmosphere in New York. They must have two kinds of statutes, one for men and one for women.

The Woman's Suffrage Association, of St. Louis, has appointed a committee to present to the Missouri Legislature a petition asking that body to submit to the people a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

An Arab woman, when left a widow, mourrii her husband devoutly, but is qWfce willing to marry again. The night before the ceremony she pays a visit to her husband's grave. She kneels and prays him not to be offended, not to be jealous. Ah, however, she feels he will be offended or jealous, the widow brings with her a donkey, laden with two goats' skins filled with water. The prayer ended, she proceeds to pour water on the grave, to keep the first husband cool under the irritating circumttances about to taka place and, having well saturated him, she then departs.

The notices of thej London press upon the (i&th of George Eliot add little to what has been said here. The Examiner tells of the insanity of her husband, of which no previous public mention lias been made. It says: "It seems but little more than a year since we lost George Henry Lewes, her first and most trusted counselor and companion, and hardly a twelve-month since the world learned with, perhaps, some degree of surprise, that she had married a gentleman of the stock exchange named Cross. While they were on their wedding trip— it is no use now to conceal the sad facts —he lost control over himself at Venice, and threw himself from the balcony of their residonco. Happily, the sea, not the ground, received him, and he survived, but only to be placed in a masion de sante. Bravely Mrs. Cross set herself to face her now doubly lonely life, but the struggle, not surpassed in intensity by that of any of her heroiness, did not last long, and she has now gone, at the age of 60, to the rest that must have come to lier as a relief."

Gov. Porter, of Indiana, in his inaugural recommends the appointment of women on the state board of charities. "Thifcbeard," says the govenor, "ought to be composed of five persons, and of these I have no hesitation in saying that provisions ought to be made that two, at least, shall be women. They, better than others, could learn what ought to be known in relation to the treatment of their own sex, and their sympathetic feeling, quick intuition, and experience in conduct of households, would, in many cases, enable them to discern the abuses and the needs of inmates of the other sex better than their male associates. In relation to the domestic economy of these establishments, in which there is a tendency often to extravagance and waste their observations and suggestions would bo likely to be most valuable." The Chicago Times, commenting on this, says: "It is reinarkablo that having been in a humor which would have favored tho process, the governor's logic carried him no further. If woman will make a good schooi director, a good commissioner, why may she not make a worthy clerk, an excellent mayor a desirable legislator? The governor oughtn't to have been content to stick in the bark. He should have gone to the very pith of the tree."

HO WOLD WOMEN SHOULD DRESS Clara Belle. It is to be regretted, and nowhere is the matter mote thqroughly presented than in church, that in the multiplidty of fashions none are designed especially for old women., There are two distinct classes of old women. The first are stay-at-homes, who rarely go out except to church, but devote the sunset of their lives to their families and good works. The second are the worldly dames, who make reverence for age impossible in their cases. The first wear black fabrics made plainly to suit their figures, cashmere or velvet, but always of severely plain cut* dose-fitting cottage bonnets, which become them In shape, because made by modistes who have pleased them many a year, and who have studied their physiognomy mantles or wraps of something plain and rich, without excess of trimming. The only thing in which coquetiy peeps out in this sort of old women is in the wearing of pearl and onyx laoe pins. They eschew all other jewelry except the plain old wed din, ring, and possibly one other, set wit! some fine jewel. The worldly elderly woman closely copies all the modes, and is more fidgetty than a girl over her toilet. I can imagine the disgust of a man who, sedng the back of a slight figure lightly and girlishly dressed, "with Frenchify shrugging shoulders and a saucily tossing bead, finds out en going around in front, that the face is withered and wrinkled with age. Women should not neglect to charm with dress while they are young, if they have any ambition in that direction, for when they are old they can't. Old women should bear in mind, too, that all their attempts to conceal their years Ml to bo deceptive. Wrinkles cannot be successfully, filled up, crow tracks around the eyes cannot be obliterated with powder, and old mouths cannot pout seductively. Fem inino age can be charming, it is true, bat not by wearing the clothes and manners of youth. I shall never forget the ghaxtlv sight of a woman of seventy in a decoilette ball dress.

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LITTLE SERMONS

FOR SUNDAY CONTEMPLATION.

Trust not too much to an enchanting face, Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

There is a mode of presenting that gives value to everything. Beauty may win love, but only neatness can keep it.

We put up with folly more patiently than we do with injustice. That which we know is little, but that which we know not is vast.

A man may suffer without sinning, he cannot sin without suffering. When a friend corrects a fault in you, he does you the greatest act of friendship.

The error of a moment becomes the sorrow of a whole life. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them feel giddy, but the contempt with which they look down on those below them.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but he ad as of he ok

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

It is wonderful how silent a man can be when he knows his cause is just, and how boisterous he becomes when he knows he is in the wrong.

A certain amount of concession to the opinions and rights of others is absolutely necessary to a true neighborly relation with those who live near you. If, as the Irishman said, everybody should insist on standing still in the street, how could anyone get by

KISSING AND TELLING OF IT. rnuadelphia Times. When the wrong man kisses the right woman, or tho right man kisses the wrong woman—and both sometimes happen—it does not always follow that there is a disturbance about it. The world can never know how much unauthorized kissing has been done, and forgotten and forgiven. In the naturally wild and audacious career of the human kind there is a great deal of this sort of business, and it is just as well that it is not cruelly dragged before the public on every occasion. If that were always done it would be very discouraging to a reasonably delightful pastime, which more or less concerns everybody. Many of the trials and cares of this world find relief in a kiss it is a very little thing, uncommonly sweet for its size, and one of the few luxuries of this world which well organized people never

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et too of. Nobody who uneven the rudiments of kissing disdains its practice, and those who have been so fortunate as to reach something of the sdence of the thing are not easily restrained in their pursuit of supreme happiness. A kiss doesn't cost anything, ana it's a pretty small matter to make a disturbance about, and most people will endure a great deal of kissing without getting angry about it and regarding it as a misfortune to make public complaint. Now and then, however, human nature is put to an awful test in this way, and human nature breaks down. A man may not be so particular about putting his kisses where they will do the most good the chief aim of man is to get the kiss, and he is frequently too hasty and reckless about it. But a womau is apt to be a little more considerate in her preferences.

AN UNFORTUNATE ANSWER. Richmond Register. Lucien Young's noble action a few years ago, in saving several lives from a wrecked vessel, will be remembered

Frankfort, and while there visited the penitentiary, where he met Sam Holmes, confined for the murder of Col. Naples. Young and Holmes were boys together at school, and fast friends. Young was greatly moved by Holmes' unfortunate condition, and determined to make an effort for his release. To this end he called on the Governor, and made an earnest appeal for a pardon. Gov. Bladt burn relented, and the pardon was mad £h out and signed. With the document in his pocket Young hastened back to the prison to tell the good news to his friend. Before telling him, however, that be had oome to make him a free man, Young quietly commenced a conversation, ana, after talking awhile upon other subjects, finally said: "Sam, if you were turned loose and fully pardoned, what would be the first thing you would do?" The convict very quickly responded: "I would go to Lancaster, ana kill Judge Owsley and another scoundrel who was a witnes

against me." Young uttered notawerd, but turned mournfully away, went outside the prison walls, took the pardon from his pocket, and tore it into fragments. ^_______

BARNUJT8 REFORM.

P. If. Barnum, in talking the otter day of his feelings daring his recent severe illness, said: "I looked back and could hardly recall a benefit I had rendered to my fel-low-men all my life. The folly, the stupidity of fooling away the few years given us here in childish trifles, bickerings and differences occurred to me so strongly that I resolved that the sun would never go down on me cherishing malice in my heart against a single fel-low-being. This feeling led me to write to men in Bridgeport and elsewhere with whom I had differences—trivial, perhaps, but still sufficient to keep us apart—and they all returned replies in the most kindly and considerate spirit. This was very gratifying to me then, and is no less so now when I feel that I will remain on the earth a little longer, instead of departing th:« Hfc as I expected tO dO.'.' fiffijjHi ...

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KILLERS.

ELDERLY MALE FLIRT.

This fasdnating creature is not married. He has been too clever to fall into the toils of matrimony. He was born to keep perpetual holiday, not to become the slave of any woman. So he has roamed from flower to flower, sipping the sweets of each. Probably he has made love some hundreds—wo might perhaps be justified in waiting thousands—ef times but nothing has resulted from his devotion to the fair sex ex-

cept legions of kisses, myriads of surnc florying fact that he is a regular "killer" of the fair sex, he has stormed many a virgin heart, not with any serious object, but simply in order to gratify his inordinate vanity and minster to his perverted taste. He is like a true conqueror. His conquests do not satisfy him long. Having carried the dtadel of some fair maiden's affections, and thoroughly laid it waste, he rejoices to leave it in its desolation, while ne "seeks fresh fields and pastures new" to ravage and destroy. It does not occur to him to look behind and contemplate tho wrecks that he has made. Blase and not too moral—sometimes he varies what may be termed his respectable flirtations by amours of a not very respectable character—ho considers that the same of love is one which may beplayea many times and with nmny partners, and that no well-constituted mind will grieve over the forfeits incidental to the fascinating diversion. Ho knows that when he has to perform on the second fiddle in the presence of a more successful rival he feels deeply mortified, and that the charms of tho fair enslaver in question increase a hundredfold in his eyes. But he would, possibly, feel equally mortified if he got thoroughly beaten in a billiard match or was bowled for a "duck" while playing at cricket. The element of genuino affection does not enter into the matter at all, and he is ready to console himself on the first opportunity and will, in his next triumph, forget about his present humiliation. Thus, it will readily be seen that the terms on which he plays with innocent girls, whose principlo characteristics are their thoughtlessness, their giddiness, their impulsiveness, and their readiness to believe anything which a well favorod man may say to them, are unequal, and that it would, in many cases, be a good thing if he could now and then be placed under a pump and have the graceful contour of his curled locks destroyed by a liberal application of cold water.

reptitious squeezes, and hosts of bona never to be realized. Glorying in taS

Up to a certain point the career of tho elderly male flirt is composed of a series of successes. An ordinary every-day sort of lover, who blushes, and stumbles, and blunders in the conventional stereotyped way, and whoso great characteristic is that he is very much in earnest, frequently has very little chance against him. He is full of neat compliments and fine phrases, he is quick to seize opportunities, he is gallant in his bearings, and there is about him a certain audadty which is not without its charm to the feminine mind. So it is not surprising that he becomes the burning and shining light of many a ball room. But, even when such a happy lot befalls him, he will be careful that the general company shall not see his randest performances. His principal eats will be performed in shady corqers, and in cool retreats away from the glare and tho glitter of the gaslights.

But a day of reckoning somes for the elderly malo flirt as it does for all other offenders against good taste and propriety. He loses, in a large measure, his power to charm. He becomos stiff about the joints, and slow and inelegant in action. Lines develop themsolves on his face in such away that when ho attempts to oglo a girl his countenanco assumes a grotesque, if not positively malevolent, play themsol trimmed locks

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atch exhibits itself on the top of his and »ne of his front teeth wickedly takes its departure. The extremo juvenility of the raiment which ho affects seems to render still clearer tho fact than ho has passed into tho period of tho sere and yellow leaf. But though when he is "got up" his appearance is calculated to excite ridicule rather than admiration, he still affects the gayeties and the love makings of his youth. When he goes a merry making with parties of bachelors and spinsters, there is something extremely incongruous in

doing again what he has done hundreds of times before, and that if he were well advised he would devote himself to more sensible occupations. Many of those whom he assays to charm laugh at him

not disguise that they regard his polite advances as so many impertinences which they would feel thankful to be spared. One moment fair hands, instigated by masculine tempters, will pelt him with missiles the next they will hide bis hat: and in a variety of other ways he will be made the object of small persecutions. The wonderful p*rt of the matter is that he is not taught wisdom. But he is unworthy of pity, and it would not be worth while to give him advice.

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TIME-L 8 UGGESTIOX. Chicago Inter Ocean. Why shouldn't we call an international congress and revise the time o' day. We are revising the Bible by a committee of nations, and, next to the Bible, time is the most precious thing we all have in common. There is no more reason why should have 12 o'clock twice a day than there is to repeat the yean in a century. "A. m." and "p. m." are awkward and unnecessary, and "23 o'dock" is as easy to say as "11 p. m."

NO WONDER EGGS ARE HIGH,, A University pamphlet. The egg undergoes total regular segmentation. There is no food yolk, and cleavage goes quite through the egg. There is a true segmentation cavity Segmentation is rhythmic. There is an invaginate gastrula. 'Xhe larva leaves the eggasa Nauplius,and passes through

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