Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 March 1881 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 5, 1881

TWO EDITIONS

O&hia Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thumday Evening, AB a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it is sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of^nearly every reading person in the city, and the fanners of this immediate vicinity. Every Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

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

WANFITNG TON PERSONALS.

ODD CHARACTERS AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Some very queer folks are met with at Washington, both men and women, many of whom seem to have no aim or calling in life except to be as near the noted |«rsonages of sible.

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One old man is a daily visitor in the

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of the House of Representatives pays strict attention to the minister's supplications, and then departs as quick ly as he mine. He is about eighty years of age, and is one of the numerous old ones who hang about the Capitol. There are dozens of them. This particular one was in his younger days a chaplain in the navy, and if there was one thing he prided himself on it was his ability to offer up a forty-horse-power prayer. He is tall, evidently not overfed, has a wild eye, and but one ambition in life, and but one ambition in life, and that is to be present to hear the prayer each dayat the opening of Congress. There are nons in tho House more devout-appearing than he during the offertory, ana in this lie makes up for some of the wicked members who slip into ths oloak rooms to wait until the prayer is over. The "Prayer ttend," as he is called, makes it a point to always be punctual. If he reaches the Capitol atone minute before twelve o'clock his long legs bear his willowy form at a rapid gait through the corridors, up the stairs three steps at a time, a rush and a scramble through the crowd without time for a "Good morning" to the Doorkeeper, and in he bounces. With bared head and clasped hands ho stands and drinks in every word that falls from the lips of tho Chap* lain. With tho "Amen conies the exultation of the "fiend," and he departs slowly to somewhere until noon of the next day.

WATCHING THE DEIJATK.

Tho re is another old fellow, who can always be found iu the ladies' gallery, and who attends Congress with greater regularity than the members. Who he is nono can tell. He is tall, slim, wears a hat of a hvgone style, and a short coat with flapping cape. His rase on earth is nearly run, but he is on knowledge bent. Day after day this old man seats himself in the front row next to the reporters'gallery. From the moment the Speaker's gavel falls until adjournment Is called ho remains in his place. The debato is watched with keen interest. Now ho favors tho remarks of a speaker, and nods his bond approvingly next he disapproves the words of another, and frowns and shakes his head and mutters to himself. Up goes his hand and down comes his clonched list on tho gallery rail as ho debates tho question teforetho House in his own mind. "The old man's

ot'm," tho boys romark. But he is of tho throng about, and goes along the same as if ho were unobserved. When the proceedings closo for the day he gathers up his umbrella and walks out as solemn as an owl. One might think he was responsible for all the political sins of Congress, and that the pens of tho entire press, as well as the voice of ttio people, were against him. Homo day he will be missed, but then some equally strange fellow will take his place. Can you tell why it is that all queer folks persist in carrying with them distressed appearing umbrollas? It is strange, but it is so.

MYSTKHIOUS TATRON.

There was an oddity on stilts here who? has gono just as the "prayor fiend" and his sido partner will disappear. A fow years ago, before J. L. Cane disposed of Willard's Hotel, there was a strange patron of that establishment. Ho always dressed in good style, was about 50 years of age, of line appearance, but a mystery. Every ovening, with unswerving punctuality, he appeared at tho main entrance at a quarter uefore 8 o'clock never lator and never before tho minute. Ho walked in leisurely, passed to tho bar room, laid down a quarter, and said "brandy." He would drink in silence, proceed to the cigar stand, purehaso tlireo cigars for a quarter, light one and then lounge in tno corridor until Uie clock struck 8. After that ho was lost to viow. Many

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arsons, out of idle curiosity, followed but ho walked them out without appearing to noticetheui. Ho rofusod to enter into conversation, but now and then a ''ves" or "no" could be had from him, and that ended it. When the hotel closed ho appeared in front of it for a few nights at his usual time, looked wistfully at his old haunt, and went off trisklv,*to be soon no more. He is emlilamoii in the memory of those who knew of his queer actions.

DSPARTMRNT CLBRK.

Charley Forrest is a blooming youth •vouth of 81. He is a national celeority, and with inauguration of General Garfield will have ooen witness to nineteen ceremonies of that sort. Forrest is adistinguished appearing man, and hobbles •bout the Capitol on a cane. His long •white hair touches his shoulders, and he appears a veritable patriarch. The man's appearance is marked and so distinguish-' ea that those who have seen him can never efface his form from their minds. For forty-six years he has been in office. He has arrived at that stags of thinking now when he firmly believes the Government is obliged to support him for the rest of his days. Forrest is a living example of how* a man uiav be trausluogrified into a machine. To-day he is a clerk in the Second Auditor's office, at the same desk he held twenty-seven rears ago. "Pop," said 1, "you will soon take in your sign, and put up one of stone." "Go along," the old man Answered as he laughed "I'll put a good manv of the young fellows under yet. I'm not much good, though. Forty-six rears I have been a department clerk, and if vou were to break open my head von wouldn't find any brains. No there would he nothing but figures: Indian contracts, bacon, com and Mackinaw blankets would roll out. That's 11 I know. I dont do much work now except sign mv name twelve times a year. Aud it** getting to be pretty hard work to do that. Sherman keeps roe on the roll for the good I have done, and 1 gues* the new man won't turn the old fellow adrift. IV seen a good bit of fun in my day, and I'm nothing but a machine, to 4o addition, subtraction and multiplica­

tion. Any man who has been a department clerk as long as I have can't help becoming an automaton."

BBIDK VISITORS^ 9

ere is no more trying time to bnden and grooms than to appear at breakfast. One morning this week there were nineteen newly wedded husbands and spouses distributed among the prominent hotels. Just imagine the amount of sweetness concentrated in those thirty-and-odd souls, and all in onetown! The hotel clerks can tell the newlymated pairs at a glance, and a peculiar mark is affixed beside their names on the register, which indicates that a bouquet of white roses will ere long find its way to the bridal chamber. Then there is another method for ascertaining if it is not afresh couple. The husband writes "Mr. Smith" inth a bold hand, and then hesitates. The clerk could dash it off in a second, but theyoungman leans down aad adds "and wife." Then he gazes ad miringly to see how "Smith and wife" looks on a book for public scrutiny. He is an inch taller, and feels that he has become a man of family, and is entitled to some recognition. But the trying ordeal comes with the entry into the hotel dining room. The bride blushes and imagines that everyone in the room has his eyes upon her. Such oooing and billing as goes on at the table! "L^t's be like old married folks."she whispers, but that will not |p, and the more she tries to disguise herself the more does she convince folks that she is really just what she is. Under one roof alone there were nine of these couples this week, and the brides at breakfast looked to each other like Bisters for consolation There is always a couple on hand, but when nearly a score meet it shows that business has picked up, and that the ministerial pocketbook is swelling. Some people attribute this marked increase in doubling-up to the severity of the weather.

FEMALE "MODELS" NOT ALWAYS MODEL WOMEN. N. Y. Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. A great deal of nonsense has been written about women who serve as nude models for artists. The effort has been to make them romantic by describing them as virtuous exhibitors of their persons. I have taken somh pains to ascertain the truth, and I am ready to assert without fear of oontradiction, that no decent female gets her living as an artists' model in New York. There is no chance for doubt on the subject. I have also di made iiscovery that the the singular same' women who uncover themselves in men's studios without ablush will only do so before the female class of the art league when olosely masked. They have •o shame in regard to the opposite sex, but will not serve their own unless protected from recognition. It was not of these creatures' doings, however, that I set out to write, but of a slightly similar employment for girls with good forms ana faces—that of wearing fashionable things in tho millinery, dressmaking, cloaking and hair establishments. Hundreds of girls thus turn their good looks to account in this city, not only in retail places, but in the wholesale departments of the largest houses. A cloak will sell far quicker when displayed on the form of an enchanting live figure than when a dumb thing of wire and cotton, and a pasteboard face, is inside of it. This may be a mild prostitution of female beauty, but It has the countenance of the best firms in several lines of business. The inmates of a Pasha's harem aro not more carefully chosen than are thefe mercantile models. They must not only possess fine forms and faces, but a graceful carriago and polite manners are also required for a ladylike aspect is as valuable as beauty for this purpose. The wages are never less than the same persons could earn with the needle, and usually more. One particular blonde, with the sweot face of a Marguerite, and the tall, willowy, longlogged form of the gentle maiden in water color pictures, is said t* reoeive |40 a week in a Murray Hill robe and cloak concern. Anything and everything looks well on her no style of garment is unbecoming, and she has the deportment of an ideal princess. She is the daughter of a beer-salooner in Avenue B. At sixteen she applied for work in this concern. Her suitableness for a model was seen at a glance, and she was engaged at $5 a week. Her pay has bden frequently raised, in consequence of enticements from rival shops, until it has reached a higher figure than is paid to any other employe. She is now twenty. She is considered worth more than her cost, because foolish patrons, seeing her attractiveness in a garment, fondly imagine its possession would somehow make them look the same. She is a good girl, and saves her money. The same cannot be said of all who aro similarly exposed to flattery and temptation. Some of them get vain and giday with the consciousness of their beauty, and desire to own such finery as they wear Then comes disgrace and a plunge downward. In the millinery and hair stores, the requirements in a model particularly concern the head, and several stores contain wonderful exhibitions of facial loveliness of various types. In one millinery concern this feature of the business liaslieen thoroughly elaborated and systematized. If a brunette customer appears a brunette girl waits on her, so that she may see the colors in con-

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unction with acomplexion like her own. girls, in tur», attend to blonde shoppers. For showing dresses, shapeliness of bust and waist is the chief requisite. At the time of closing a certain millinery store in Fourteenth street the scene at'the door is like that at the rear of a theater during the run of a ballet spectacle, by reason of the fellows waiting to escort the girls home.

GHOST IN A PICTURE QALLER Y. Cincinnati Commercial. Waynesville is in a fervent excitement over a haunted photograph gallery. For more than a week the artist, Mr. W. F. Slater, has been unable to take a picture, owing to the appearance of the figure of an old gentleman behind the sitters. Until to-day he failed to hold the shadow on the negative, but he is now able to print the ghost, who looks like a fine old man of 50 dressed in olden style. The artists bottles and negatives have been shaken, his lamp blown out, «fcc.. and he is so scared that nothing woula Induce him to spend the .night there. Old residents revive the story of a peddler being murdered fifty years ago in the building in which the gallery Is in fact, they sav his body was thrown into a well whicii is immediately under the gallerv. But those who have seen the ghost's picture say that he was never a peddler when in the flesh.

SUICIDE'IN1&Q. N.Y.Stan.

(Mae hundred and fiftv-two persons killed themselves in this'city last year. One hundred and twenty-one were men and 31 women. Seventv-four were married, 34 single, and l£ widowed. Forty took poison. 38 shot themselves, 2S hanged themselves, 20 cut their throats drowned themselves, 9 jumped from w'nlowa, and two suffocated themselves :h gas. .Sixty-four of the suicides were German, and 33 were native Americans.

A STATE DINNER.

Mr. H. J. Ramsdell, the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times escorts fcn imaginary bridal couple through the White House, introduces them to Mrs. Hayes, and obtains an invitation for them to a state dinner. But we must hurry on, for this is Thursday (I am still with the young couple, remember), and I promised to go with the opl® to a state dinner at the hite House, which are always given on that day. Let us suppose it is in Grant's time, for there are no state dinners at the White House now—merely some cold water lunches, which the foreign ministers have to attend if they stay. in bed a week afterward. Well, they are asked to dinner at 7 o'clock on a big sheet of paper with a gold eagle and "E Pluribus Unum" embossed in gold at the top. They get ready an hour too soon, he in full evening dress and white necktie and white kids she in her best dress, with low neck and short sleeves, but this is not insisted on. They are at the White House five minutes before the time. They enter the portal and in the hall they give their "thin to an attendent. if she wants to fix her pretty hair, she will find a maid in a room above. He leaves a hat and overcoat (if he wears one) in a room at the right on the first floor. They go into the green room or the blue room together, and are greeted by the "first lady in the land" (this is the title of the President's wife) and by the President. But I forgot to sav that before they enter the "presence" the lady and gentleman are each furnished with a card, one telling the lady who is to take her in to dinner and the other telling the gentleman who he is to take in. If the party is unacquainted it is the gentleman's business to hunt up his laay and get acquainted with her. The dinner is always about a quarter of an hour late. We all know how awkward it is to stand round with our hands behind us, bashful and unable to think of anything smart or even sensible to say while waiting for the time. Many people say that the mornings are the worst part of the day, others that the afternoons are the worst. But I think the worst part of the day is when you are stauding round with a big company, waiting for your dinner. Well, the time nas come. Every lady hooks on to the gentleman who is to take her in, and the procession startc. They have precedence here, mind you, as well as in England and other countries. If there are foreign ministers present the oldest one in rank and term of service (Sir Edward Thornton at thtf present time) takes out the wife of tho President, and the President takes out Lady Thornton. Then the grades and positions at

THREE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING A TL.g

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table follow in sequences. A Qhief Justice must precede an Associate Justice, and a Senator must precede a member of the House. Our poor bride and groom must bring up the tail of the procession to the dining room. Arriving at this shabby apartment, known as^the state dining room, the President's wife is at the center of one side of the broad table with Sir Edward Thornton at her right, while the President is opposite with Lady Thornton at his right. I haven't time to follow the dinner through, but the young couple notice everything, you may be sure, but they are not very pleasant dinner-table companions. Botn the President and his wife are say something during the re guest, or to raise his or her one. I have hoard that Hayes nor his wife have simple piece of courtesy. was very considerate in this respeoi dinner over, a sign from the President brought his wife to her feet and all the company rose and the ladies returned to the blue or green parlors to drink their coffee, while the gentlemeu returned to the table for their cigars and brandy. This was thepractice in the good old days before Hayes. If the gentlemen return to the dining room now, it is for Apollinaris water and no cigars. However, the dinner is over at last, and the young couple return to the hotel, tired and nervous with the day's adventures. Before the little wife goes to bed, though, she will take her own and her husband's little boquets, and press them carefully between the leaves of the hotel Bible, and she will show them to you, if you happen to visit her ten years afterward, as souvenirs of her state dinner at the White House.

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BRASS-MO UNTED OIRLS. A lady correspondent, who ought to know, writes from New York ts say that red-headed girls are all the rage. Those who have fiery heads by nature now account themselves and blackheads join them in envyiug the rede. Red hair is attainable, but with considerable trouble, for bleaching must be followed by dyeing, and the process requires frequent repetition. Moreover, the peculiar complexion that usually accompanies red hair cannot be simulated. It has a clear, pallid hue for a groundwork (and this might by itself be conterfeited), but on it appear pale, reddish freckles, and to paint themln would be too delicate an opperation to undertake. Red hair is becoming.common on the street and in public assemblages, but the real is so easily distinguished from the false that the fashion is not likely to last long. In the matter of hairdressing, while it is no longer correct to wear the hair high on the head, and in voluminous puffs, braids, and frizzes, as was fashionable only a vear ago, it is nevertheless evident that the close, flat style of coiffure is going out of date. Curls and loops are added from week to week, and gradually we are returning to the elaborate style of hairdressing, which is really the only one suitable for the complicated details of the general toilet of to-day. When done in red hair, the fussinees is effective. Women with red hair are called "rossas." When attiredwith taste, they are bewitching—if they have fine complexions, good features, animated and intelligent countenances, and eyes blue, gray, dark brown, or bronzetinted. They should dress in either very dark or very light colors. Grays, drabs, yellows, bright blue, bright green, mauve, lilac, and rose do not become them. They mav, wisely wear black, dark blue, dark violet, pearl, and cream white, water blue, and the palest tint® of Nile green.

«GRATITUDE AND DUTY Hon. Wtn. D. Kelley says in a letter to Dr. Starkey: "Gratitude to you and duty to those who may be suffering as I was from Chronic Catarrh and almost daily effusions of blood in greater or less quantities, impel me to say to you, and to authorise you to give any degree of publicity to my assertion,, that the use of your Compound Oxygen at intervals has so far restored my health that I am not conscious of having discharged any blood for more than a year and my cough, the severity of which made me a frequent object of sympathy, has disappeared. Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen sent free. Address Irs. ££TARK*T A PALE*. 1100 and 1111 Ginand street, Philadelphia, Pa.

FIRST AND LAST.

They sat together, hand in hand, Thesonset flickered low The fickle sea crept np the strand.

And caught the after glow.

He sane a song, a little song other poet knew. No And she looked np ai

Looked down and

him strong,

ed him true.

The fiekle sea crept np the strand, And laughed a wanton laugh— Took up the song the poet planned,?

And sang the other half. m~ &,«£

Timee change the two went diverse ways The evenibg shades increase On him, grown old in fame and praise,

And her in household peace.

The echo of the false sweet words, He spoke so long ago, Has passed, as paaB the summer birds,

Before the winter snow.

But as to-night the angel's hand Loosens the silver ,oord, And calls her to that other land I And lore's supreme reward,

She hears but one sound, silent long, A whisper soft and low— The echo of the false sweet song

He sang so long ago.

BOB'S CREED.

I dont believe in a XJod, And I don't believe in a devil, Tliis life is all that we have

So I take my rouse and my revel I steer the middle course, Not thinking of good or evil, I can't be better than God 'And not much worse than the devil.

HER ROOM.

Four-and-twenty hairpins scattered every' wboro Funny bangs and frizzes and switches of hair Gayly colored ribbons, dainty bits of lace. Lots of other little things on her dressing case.

Most a bale ot cotton—wonder what it's for— Close beside a corset lying on the floor. Queerest looking garments, colors mostly white, on a rocking chair. Gracious, what a sight!

are small!

How can even fairy feet get in them at all

Under fleecy tflankets, curled up In a heap, Dreams tho pretty maiden, smiling in ner sleep, Slumber sweetly, angel, dream for evermore, And—oh! for a clothes pin, just to stop thy snore 2

DRUMMED TO THEIR DEA TH.

SINGULAR SLAUGHTER OF RATS.

Newcastle (Pa.) News.

A most remarkable phenomenon was witnessed iu the Second ward, this city, on Friday afternoon of last week, being no less than large numbers of rats being enticed to their death by the roll of drums. A number of the small boys of this city, hearing it said that rats could be brought out of their holes by the beating of drums, determined to try the experiment. So procuring a number of these instruments of martial music and half a dozen dogs with a weakness for rat flesh they proceeded to a barn near Pearson's flouring mill, in which structure were known to dwell many well-fed rodents, who subsisted on the contents of the grain bins near by. Stationing part of their number with drums in the nay mow of the stable, and the others at the doors with the dogs, everybody was eager for the fray. The drummers brought their sticks down on the taut calfskin, and soon the building shook to its very foundation with the deafening roll. Several boys had been stationea at various knotfroles in the floor of the hay mow, and these youths into the semi-darkness below, soon saw little twinkling eyes appear at certain apertures all around th apartment beneath. The drumming was continued, and sharp-pointed noses and then sleek bodies of rats came from the holes. Soon the rapid rolling of the drums seemed to excite the rodents to a point beyond self control. They began to caper and whisk around the stabli floor as if intoxicated. They ran around the feed bins in a wild chase after each other. So rapidly did they turn corners that their tails snapped with a report like that of a bullwhacker's whip, and making the flour fly from their caudal appendages so as to fill the apartment with dust. Now was the time for aetion. The boys with the dogs were signaled, the doors were opened and the hungry canines let in on them. The unfortunate rats seemed to be under a spell and made no attempt to seek their holes. For five minutes slaughter reigned su preme, and when it had subsided the floor was covered with the bodies of forty-three rats. Again were the drums called into requisition, and the same scene ensued again. This time thirtyeight rats bit the dust. The boys continued their operations with their drums and dogs all the afternoon, and when evening came there were piled up in front of the stable, mangled, cut and torn, the bodies of 479 rats, in fact all the rodents which had lived and thrived for years on the grain in the mill had been totally exterminated.

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.TO CURE CORNS.

First bathe the corn with strong borax water then shave it closely, but be careful and do not make it bleed. Place over the corn a white felt corn plaster, and wear it oonstantly until the corn has disappeared. Every night and morning, wet the small cavity over the corn (and in the plaster) with a little borax water, or, if preferable, the pulp of a lemon. The corn plaster can be obtained at any druggist's. Second, keep the feet clean by frequent ablutions with warm water, and wear easy, soft boots or shoes. Without the latter precaution, corns will generally return even after they appear to have been perfectly removed. Third, after soaking the feet in warm water for a few minates pare the corns as close as possible with a sharp knife, taking care not to make them bleed. Place upon the part effected a small, circular piece of leather or buckskin, spread with some emollient plaster, and had a hole in the center corresponding to the size of the corns. They may not be touched with nitric acidj by means of a small glass rod or wood toothpick, due care being taken not to allow the liquid to come in contact with the neighboring carta. Repeat this process daily until toe offender be sufficiently softened to admit of removaL ..

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HOW MEN SMOKE.

THIS CONVERSATION THAT TOOK PLACE 12* THE SLEEPING CAR.

R. J. Burdette In the Burlington Hawkeye. "Do you remember," the Jester said, "the time we met J. W. Riley, of the Indianapolis Journal, the poet and the humorist of Indiana? Down at the Spencer, when we went to Indianapolis with him, sitting in the quiet and airy seclusion of the smoking car?" "Do you ever notice," Riley said, "how men smoke? There is one type in the middle seat, the man who always smells his cigar suspiciously before he buys it, as though he was afraid it was spoiled by beeing kept too long." "Andtheman," said the sad passenger, "who mellows his cigar between his fingers, softening the hard places by violent compression, as though he was going to eat it, rather than smoke it?" "And the man," Riley said, "who always thrusts his* cigar clear into his mouth, and carefully licks it with his tongue from end to "end, over a^d over again, before he lights it?" "What does he do that for?" asked the Jester. "Has he any reason for it, or is it some hereditary trait, or old family custom that has been handed down to him?" "Nobody knows," said the tall, thin ir, "and then there is the man who always has a broken cigar, never was known to smoke a whole one. Either carries his cigars in his overcoat pockets and so sits upon them, or ho breaks them into pieces in his vest po«ket by leaning up against the bar." "And he bandages the broken place," said the man on the wood box, carefully holding his own cigar out of sight behind the stove, "he bandages the broken place with a piece of white paper." "And the man," said Riley, "whose cigar always has flap of the wrapper peeling off near the puffing end, and he frequently takes the cigar from his mouth to fondle and plaster down the obtrusive flap, stroking it tenderly with his fingers, like a boy nursing a wounded thumb." "And the man," says the cross passenger, "who doesn't smoke a great deal but spits more than any ten men in the car." "And the man," said the Jester, "who always talks his cigar out, and uses up all the matches in the crowd smoking up one cigar." "And the man," said Riloy, "whose cigar always burns up sideways a perfect salamander en one side, and a conflagration on the other. Gives tho smoker on angular, one-sided sort of au expression.'" "And the man," said the sad passenger, "who always holds the ashes on his cigar until they break off and fall down inside his vest."" "And the man," said the cross passenger, "whoalways holds his cigar at such an acute angle of elevation, that lie smokes into lus eyes all the time." "And the man," saiu Riley, "who holds his cigar in the middle of his mouth and works

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cheeks like a bellows."

"And the man," said' the fat passenger, "who smokes as though he were paid for it, and consequently hated it and wanted to get through as soon as possible." "And the man," said the woman who talks bass, "who thinks that he's the only man in the car who knows how to smoke."

There was a brief silence, which was broken by Riley remarking that the ideal smoker was to bo found in the 'squire of a small village. "I have seen him," tho poet went on, "in the quiet summer evening, when all the male population of tne village gathored around tho tavern to sit on the long bench by the front door and smoke their pipes. And the 'squire always, and he alone, smokes a cigar. He brings it out ot the case carofully, and it is always the only one in the case. After examining it with great care and deliberation, he repares it for smoking. Ho is never j*nown to bite the end off he cuts it off with one particular blade of his knife. Then he holds the end in his fingers for a second, deliberating whore to throw it. Finally, he selects a spot on the ground off to his right and tosses it there, not at random, but carefully, and with the intent of making it drop just where It does. Then he finds a match.and lights it. He holds it in his hand until every possible trace of sulphur is burned away—and his match was never known to blow out, not even if the wind was blowing a gale—then he puts the cigar to his mouth, turns it over once or twioe until it settles into exactly the right position, and then he lights it. Then be holds the match in his hand until it burns clear up to his finger nails, when he tosses it away, in the direction opposite tho discarded cigar end, and then he smokes. Slowly, with chair tip-tiltod back against the tavern, one leg thrown over the other, and bis calm, judicial eyes fixed on the universe at an indefinite point in his immediate front. If there is a dog-fight down the street, or a hurricane np the street, that drags all the other villagers away as eager and excited spectators, it never moves the 'squire. Calm as a sphinx, he hold his place and smokes. And he gets twenty cents' worth out of every five-cent cigar he lights.

1 A WOMAN'S DRESS Bob, Burdette, in the course of an article in the Burlington Hawkeye on the rights and wrongs of woman, says: Our wife wants a dress. After two or three or half a dozen stores have been ransacked for goods, the dressmaker is sought out. The matter of measurment is tedious, and then the matter of fitting is one of numerous and repeated trials. Finally the dress is finished and sent home. Then it is sent back to be taken in here and let out there, and at last, after the customer had been fitted more times for that one dress then her husband has been measured for three or four years, the dress comes home for the last time and is pronounced by the wearer, her friends, and the dressmaker as a

beautiful and perfect fit, and is finished. tiful than anything her husband ever wears. Color, and material, style blending shades and con trssting bits of color, are all in perfection of taste. No man can improve that. But it Isn't finished. When it is completed as far as dressmaker can finish it and it is|put on, it has to be pinned somewhere ^sometimes in two or three, often in half a dozen places. It always requires a pin. Leave eut the pin and the dress is all away somewhere. On all this broad Continent there is not an American woman who can dress so as to make any kind of an appearance in good society without pins.

Now, suppose our tailor should send oar suit home, and when we bad put on the coat we bad to pin it at the back? Or suppose there was no suspender buttons an, and we had to use pins, there? Suppose he made our shirts so we would have to pin on the collar,—how long would such a shirt or such a suit

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of an independent man. But women— alas, she patiently pins, on the dress that ahe paid some one $30 to §40 to niake. ana don't think anything about it. We will not pursue this painful subject. Let the women of America take it up, and think about it, and learn in the nobel independence of womanhood. to make their clothes before they put tnem on.

THE Madison (Wis.) Democrat, in endeavoring to treat the wounds received by the candidates for the presidency,1 wisely prescribes St. Jacobs Oil. 6f course we could not expect our worthy contemporary to do otherwise than recommend that famous old German remedy—which "heals all wounds but tho^n of love," and soothes all pains save tho# of political disappointment.

TIME, 48 HOURS.

My son had a badly swelled neck, and a sore throat. Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil cured him in 48 hours. My wife's foot was much inflamed Eclectric Oi1 cured her in one day.

I. B. BLOOMER, Virgil, N. Y.

EATING AND DYSPEPSIA. It is an old German adage that "more people dig their graves with their teeth than with spades," and very it would seem so, if we could look at tlie immense number of dyspeptics, rhoumatic and gouty individuals, creeping through life in pain and wretchedness. Yot it is impossible to induce even thinking people to oontrol their appetites, aud to eat such things and at such times, as naturi shows them is necessary and right. Dr. Hall declares unhesitatingly that it is wrong to eat without an appetite for it shows there is no gastric juice in the stomach, and that nature does not need food, and not needing it, there being no fluid to receive and act upon it, it remains there only to putrify, the very thought of which should be sufficient to deter any man from eating without au appetite for the remainder of his life. If a tonic is taken to when the appetito, it is a mistaken course, for its only result is to cause one to eat when already an amount has been eaten beyond what the gastric juice is able to prepare. The object to be obtained is a largo supply of gastric juice whatover fails to accomplish that essential object, fails to have any tendency towards the cure of dyspeptio diseases. The formation of gastric juice is directly proportioned to the wear and tear of the system, which is t» bo the means of supplying, and this wear and tear oan only talce place as tho result of exorciso. Tho efficient remedy for dyspeptics is work—outdoor work—beneficial and successful in direct proportion as it is agreeable, interesting and profitable.

MAINE NEWS. Portland Argus.

Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for ague, biliousness and kidney complaints. Those who use them say thev cannot be too highly recommended, 'jfhose afflicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in the praiso of thoir curative qualitias.

Wine Products of lftw Jersey. This Stato Is becoming celebrated for its wines. Some of tho richest in the world are produced in Now Jersey, by Mr. A. Speor, whoso -name has become celebrated iw producer of strictly pure, unadulterated Port Gru Orape Wine. Tho wino of Mr. Hpeer Is not botued or put into market until It Is four years old, aud has become thoroughly fine asd mellow. It has proved Itself a wonderful assistant to physicians, wh6 prescribe it. This wine is reoommonded for debilitated persons, and as given to consumptives. The difficulty of getting an imported, or even a pure California wine, is well understood to be so great as to proclude doctors from allowing their patients to run the risk of its use. r. Hpeer, being aware of this fact, lias taken tiic utmost onre In tho making of niN wine, so to supplant the imported wines by prodncinji a genuine article. His wines aro known by chemists to bo pure and tho most reliable for-' medicinal purposes. The druggists throughout the country sell it, as bottled by Mr. Spoer.—N. Y. Trlbuno.

For sale by J. J. Baur.

EMOVAL. Dr. J. P. Worrell, OCULIST and AURIST,

650 Main Street (McKccn Block), TERBE HAUTE, IND.

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