Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 37, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 March 1881 — Page 1

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N\ PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SECOND EDITION.

Town Talk/

[F SCANDAL. [this has been a good week for scandalbngers. The social atmosphere has ma rather impure, and the gossip's pgne has been wagging with a will blch shows that it has a keen relish for l/thing of the kind. T. T. is sorry to Liit that the reputation of many of •re Haute's citizens for virtue is not best, and a number of them are rakening to a realization of the fact. OP old saying that "the fox may run a rag timo but is sure to be caught at pL" has recently been verified in sevinstances. That shooting scrape on [tin street, in broad light of day, has bn sufficiently ventilated through the |ily press to give people a thorough illeretanding of it in all its bearings, it can be used to "point amoral and orn a tale." There are a number of cases which will also stir up t?lk .'d cnuso unoasinews, unless they aro ilcably settled in a few days. The fele who came over here from a neighing town, a few days ago, and enavored to make something out of her gitirnate offspring, went away disap111 tod, and it is conceded that her ims woro worthless. A young iniss tho oust «ml threatens to send for a ung inun who is well connected, to ow reason why lie should not take her bottor or for worse, and still another inale in her teens threatens an absent i/er in the same manner. "It never us but it pours," seems to be the orof tho day at tho present time. How uiy more such cases will turn up in near future, T. T. is unable to say, for tho fame of our fair city it is to hoped none more will be heard of, Id that those already reported may

ove to bo without foundation. Torre into cannot afford to sustain a reputaof this sort. It is bad enough to vo saloons running day and night in fiance of law, but much worse to turn ue into a joke, and laugh at it upon *cy convenient occasion.

CONCLUSIONS.

There is certain class of people in is world, and a goodly number of Sm in this city, who can never hear of commission of an act or the ex preset of an honest opinion without at jumping at some conclusion as to intentions of the person who is the or, and nine times out of ten the conon is wrong. To very few persons a discriminating Providence prelod that gift which makes them inilblo judges of human nature, and in [minibor is not to bo found the man vouian who is continually displaying nowlodgo which ho or she possesses jjHorlior neighbor. Mon and worn«onomlly carry their characters in fir faces fools carry theirs on the end

Iholr tongues, and are always exposI tho unruly member. Wise men ^'»r jump at conclusions fools always and when T. T. hears a man quen\i his neighbor's motives by jumping a inclusion, he always classes him the latter category. It is much easier

LIjure a man by arriving at a wrong f-lusion than to right tho wrong after evil has been done. (Jive a man a I name and you might as well kill

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1 at onco, although he may boa thoutimes better than those who abuse 1. The man who Is always arriving conclusions and saying "I told you is very much likoa baas drum—he Is 1 wind and it requires only a light to draw from him a very loud and Ipleasant sound and, like tho drum, only way to spoil his useful-

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V*H is by punching hint. The who continually jumping at is a liore and unmitigated

He never hoars anything good of

one without concluding that it has •u done to cover some questionable and when he hears anything derogaof any one he at once concludes the half has not been told, and at CO proceeds to enlighten fill whom I10 pit* with an enlargement upon the Is. He is an Imiifatigable worker can seldom be successfully suppress-

Hc has a very high opinion of hlmi* and shows it by hia superior ability wrong almost ewy one with whom comes in contact. He has a peculiar jorv of his own that he is the only creature the Almighty erer perted to live, and seeks to carry out his pory by arriving at unjust conclusions I relation to the remainder of the world, said that of the dead no ill should be ken, and T. T. believe* that the same to sh-nild be applied to the living, •re is something good in all of God's lures and it would be much better to lid

It and enlarge upon It than to look •r faults to magnify and question solus which may spring from the pui*est r'tives.

MANXKKS.

This is a subject upon which much can said, and embrace# manner* bad as

well as good. It is with the former T. T. will chiefly deal, as the world is more apt to notice the bad than the good in human nature. Some people are illmannered through ignorance and want of training others are ill-mannered because they have not the inclination to improve themselves, and still another class are ill-mannered because they think it gives them an appearance of originality which is commendable, and they glory in the reputation of being considered blunt, although boorishness would be a much more appropriate word. There a few people who can exhibit bad manners in a mild form, without giving serious offense. They are generally a free and easy going sot who are considered privileged characters who mean no offense to any one, consequently when a slight slip is made it is overlooked in a pleasant manner in much the same manner as an eccentricity of genius.

The man who prides himself in his bluntness Is the worst of the ill-man-nered class. His ignorance is only excelled by his egotism, and that is only surpassed by his power to make himself disagreeable on all occasions, ^le can never say anything pleasant to* anybody, but can chuckle to himself when he succeeds in making anyone uncomfortable. He is no respector of persons, and every one present is on the lookout for his or her turn next. He is always In high glee when hurting some one, but when his own ox is gored the aspect of tho case suddenly changes, and he can show in addition to his 111 manners a very bad temper.

The people who €re ill-mannered through ignorance or disinclination to learn better, display it in a variety of ways. T. T. has known a college graduate who could not go into an office where a person was writing, without standing in the neighborhood of his elbow and looking over the subject matter. While doing this one time, Hhe writer closed his epistle with the sentence "I must postpone what I want to say further, bocause an ill-mannered fool is looking over my shoulder and reading each word as I jot it down," which caused the young man to protest vociferously that he bad not read a word of it. It is needless to say that that dose cured him, In that office, at least. There area number of fond mothers In this city, and more foolish fathers who allow It, who insist on taking their babies to the Opera House frequently. Of course they mean no harm, but they suoceed In annoying the whole audience just as much as though they did they interrupt the perlormance and keop their offspring out at hours when it should be asleep. Another numerous class of Ill-mannered people, who attend all public entertainments, are those who anticipate theclose of the performance and commence leaving, or preparing to leave, the house, to the annoyance of everyono present. For these boors T. T. suggests a good round of hissing, next time it is done, which will 1)0 next Monday night. It was cured In that manner in a neighboring city, a*short time ago, aud it can just as well bo eliminated from a performance here as not.

Staring poople out of their countonanco is also a favorite pastime indulged iu by many. From tho time they come in sight the stare becomes fixed and when tho object has been passed thoy will turn and continue the performance. Loud talking is another exhibition of bad manners which is often indulged iu, and can always be set down as an exhibition of vulgarity. It Is indulged in most when people are close enough to hear it. At a public performance it is Abominable, but very little has been heard of It since a distinguished citizen left the aity to toot his own horn in his own favor in other localities. Some people show their porcine qualities at the table by gobbling everything within reach and, like Oliver Twist, wanting more. Lest they should fail to obtain enough knife as well as fork is used in the shoveling process, and it would occupy too much time" to lay down the knife and use the one provided for the outer dish when that article is wanted. T. T. once aaw a minister who at the table picked his teeth with his fork and washed his fingers in his glass In this connection, however, T. T. feels constrained to MV that the parson had no fixed place of abode, but wandered around as Providence guided him and as a church required hia services for a few weeka at a time. There are men who never smoke outdoors when they oan do so In the house, and prefer to smokf when in the company of a lady these same gents would also chew tobacco in a strange house and would not hesitate to squirt the juice over the finest braseels carpet in the land. Women often show very bad taste, if not bad manners in talking about tbemselvea and others, and if they could only impress upon themselves that women can not keep secrets, otter women's husbands would not come Into possession of talks which make those who indulge them the laughing stock of select circles composed of the sterner sex.

These area few of the bad manners which are to be seen every day. The list

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could be enlarged, but it is of sufficient length at present. While everyone cannot get politeness down to the fine point reached by the Boston girl who, when she wanted a fiddle-string, asked for an intestine of a deceased feline, still by a little study and a close observation of the proprieties of life, one can soon learn enough to get along in a manner creditable to himself and the company in which he or she may be thrown.

HOW TO GET ALONO.

A FEW PRACTICAL HINTS.

Pay as you go. Live within your income Don't be afraid of hard work. Be economical in small things. __f Swear off from "treating" crowds. Do without what you really do not need.

Don't keep two horses if you can only afibrd one. Don't leave household affairs altogether to servants.

Stitch a garment in time before it is riddled to pieces. Deal with honorable merchants that advertise in The Mail.

Live in a small house till you are sure you can afford a big one. Wear your old spring overcoat if you cMinot pay for anew one.

Don't give the best bound book in the house to the baby to play with. Be independent enough to wear only what you can afford to pay for.

Build up your business on a solid basis and don't splurge too much. Don't leave your washerwoman uppaid to buy caramels for your sweetheart.

Stick to your employment aud work up. Put faith in your work and in yourself, and you'll make ends meet.

Lay by a little as you go along, or some sudden emergency will lay you out as flat as a llounder in debt, with no means, perhaps, of getting out of it.

Keep clear of dealers who tell you an article cost one dollar but they'll let you have it for fifty cents. Such men would steal your pocket if they got the chance.

Draw a line between close-fistedness and open-handed11688. To squeeze a dollar out of a man by stealth is cheating,* and so is ft glyetj&w reallydoee not befong feyw"*

Don't put on the airs of a millionaire when buying presents fer your girl. A twenty-five or fifty dollar trifle from a fellow earning a small salary, looks as though he were shaky In the uppor part of his cranium.

Don't bring up your children with extravagant ideas. Young folks can't imagine what money was earned for if not to spend, and if you instill foolish notions into their heads they will spend your last dollar for you.

Don't wriggle a $25 spring bonnet out of your husband by crying and threatening to go home to your mother, if the man tolls you he can't afford It. Decorate last year's ediition with what additions you can scrape up, and be women enough to wear It.

THE AMENDMENTS.

Don't neglect to vote for the amendments to the constitution, on Monday. The object of the amendments, briefly stated, is:

To protect tho ballot-box—prescribing the qualifications and residence of voters. To conform the constitution of the State to that of the United States in relation to colored persons.

To hold all general elections in November Instead of October, and to provide for holding separate elections for judges of courts.

To grade or equalise the fees and salaries of public officers. To confer power upon the Legislature to establish additional courts of justice.

To restrict the indebtedness of political and municipal corporations. All these amendments are in the interest of economy, retrenchment and good government. They are not in the interest of any party in particular, but of the people at large, and it is extremely important that they be adopted.

WB print on the second page of this issue of The Mail, from the United Service Magasine, a highly interesting story of the conviction and execution, as a Confederate spy caught within the Federal lines, of a great-grandson of Martha Washington. It is a companion piece from our late war to the story of Major Andre, in the revolution. It possesses a local interest from the feet that so many of our dtiaens—members of the 85th Indiana regiment—were actors in and witnesses of the sad affldr. Col. John P. Baird was commander of the post, and to him the execution of Williams and his companion was a sore trial. George E. Fanington, then acting adjutant, rode out with CoL Walkins to assist in their capture, and was the recorder of the court-martial which sat until nearly daybreak.

THB St. Louis Globe rises to remark that the moral of Mr. Robert Lincoln's appointment to the Cabinet is that no young man should Mart |n life without a father. ,.

THE ETTER WORLD.

CHUB' PASTOR AND PEOPLE.

Rev. J. fW. Greene will talk about "Gambling/' at Asbury M. E. church, to-morrow night.

The Rev. Dr. Revees will officiate at St. Stephen^ to-morrow. Services at the usual hours, viz: 10:15 a. m., 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. At the evening services Dr. Reveee will lecture on "Forms of Prayer." Mm,

At the jfpisbyterian church, to-mor-row, there in be preaching at 11 a. m., by Rev. ifes. Parry. Subject: "The True Souroitf of Inspiration to Worship." In theev$!!«g a lecture will be delivered on the "Prophet Isaiah," the first of a series of tenures on this subject.

Rev. Geo. W. Sweeney will have for his morning subject, at the Christian church, to-morrow: "Is Christianity Adequate to Meet the Demands of Our Age?" Evicting subject: "Is There a God, Such as Christianity Claims,—and Some of the Proofs." This will be the first of a sertes of eight lectures, to skeptics. 4 §f

While mg^y churches are at their wits' end becaus^Of troubles with the choirs, the Gethsei&ane Baptist church of Philadelphia, lirps its choir a source both of pleasure aiidof profit. In this choir are about 250 mined singers, who render such excellent musical service that they are greatly 111 demand for concerts. Instead of beiafr aeharge on the church, as most choirtpre, they pay their own way and earn tn*ney besides. They recently made an o£$ring of |500 toward the payment of th^Erhurch' debt.

Miss Clemence Amy, a leader in Catholic society

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of a well kpown business man in that city, recent^ took the white veil at the Sacred Heart, at Manin the presence of a large friends. She is twentyking, and highly accomjust returned from a trip he approached the altar arde for her husband. Her friends repaired to Delbig lunch after the cere-

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was reporteclds preaching from the text, "Ye believe in God." The omission from the text of the important clause reminds one of the celebrated sermon of old Lorenzo Dow. Some of his lady hearers had grievously offended the preacher by wearing their hair in a huge not on top of the head. He had tried to select a text suitable to the occasion, and found it difficult until he struck the words of Christ, "Let him which is on the housetop not come down," etc. The eccentric preacher seized a portion of the text, "top not comedown," and delivered a telling discourse, to the dismay of the offending females.

Mr. Roose, the treasurer of the church of which General Garfield is a member, in Washington, says: "We have not yet heard from all our agencies, but wo shall have enough money, I am sure, to put up a stone church of a respectable character. General Garfield has been a constant attendant of our church with his wife and mother, and.a liberal giver. I lifive known him to give money to the clfurch when he did not have it, and had to borrow it to give. When he was nominated for President he said to me: 'In no event must my connection with this denomination go into the Presidency. I would rather be defeated thau elected as any denominational candidate, or have the religious question made an issue.' His instructions were kept," said Roose, "but we made an awful still-hunt for him in Indiana, where we had 70,000 members."

Rev. Allen Tibbits, who now lives at Coldwater, Michigan, aged seventy-sev-en years, makes this remarkable statement: "I never swore an oath, or took a chew of tobacco, or smoked a whole cigar. I never bought or sold a drink of brandy or whisky for myself. In a travel of over 100,000 miles by public conveys ances I never met with an accident, or was a moment too late when it depended upon my own exertion. I never sang a song or played a game of checkers, billiards or croquet, or any game ef cards. I never skated a rod, or struck a man a blow with my fist. I can repeat more of the Bible than any man living of whom I have any knowledge. I have given away more real estate in this city (Coldwater) than all its other inhabitants. I preached for over fifteen years, and traveled more than 500 miles attending funerals, and all the salary I ever received was a pound of tea, worth seventy-five cents."

There Is great deal of indefinite playing, both by preachers and people. Chicago has a deacon who is practical enough for a model. In one of the churches in that city is a deacon, Bjother Haines, who has managed to keep his church and himself in continual hot water. Preacher after preacher came and went again on account of Deacon Haines. No* long ago, at a prayer meeting one night, where this deacon was [present, the pastor asked another dea

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con to lead in prayer. He began: "O Lord, we pray that Brother Haines may die at which every eye was opened in wonder. He continued his prayer, "O Lord, we pray that Brother Haines may die and go to hell." This was too practical altogether, and the pastor rose to check bis deacon, but the deacon prayed on: "For we know that if he dies and goes to hell he will oertainly break up that institution within a year." And now they report Brother Haines as the most harmonious member in that church

LITTLE SERMONS

FOR SUNDAY CONTEMPLATION.

A great mark is soonest hit. A hungry man is an angry man. A great reputation is a great charge. A happy heart makes a happy visage. A jest driven too far brings home hate. A great man's foolish sayings pass for wise ones.

Fortune does hot change m^h, it only unmasks them. A joyful evening may follow a* sorrowful morning.

A joke never gains an enemy, but often loses a friend. A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

Our vices are like our nails. Eveu as we cut them they grow again. Those who trample on the helpless are disposed to cringe to the powerful.

Every one, it is said, has a mission, but it seems to be the mission of very ftfr people to mind their own business alone.

The trouble with life is' not that there are so many tlyngs to learn, but that there are so many things to unlearn before we begin to learn.

There aro a great many moralists in the world who can write a good prescription for honest living but who seldom take any of their own medicine.

It would be better for us all if we had the simple faith of the poor negro who said, "If I see in de Bible that 1 must jump through a stone wall I'm gwine to jump at it. Goin' through it belongs to God jumpln' at It belongs to me."

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LITTLE ITEMS THAT GO TO MAKE THE LADIES ATTRACTIVE.

Slate gray is revived. Strings of bonnets are short and wide. New styles of dress uncover the throat. Very closeTcrimped hair is now in style.

Parisian ladies dance in low heeled slippers. Tiny combs of gold or steel ornament new hats.

Cinnamon brown is revived for matronly toilets. Red and yellow hold their place in spring millinery.

What they call the Bernhardt bustle is heavily padded at the hips. The fashions of the moment favor slender rather than stout women.

Small figures on dark grounds are the rule of the new spring cotton prints. Gloves are worn to reach above the elbow when the sleeves are very short.

Imported dresses this season have bouffant hip draperies, but are narrow anS clinging at the bottom.

The London Queen observes on the subject of dresses in London this year: "One thing is certain—It is scarcely possible to err on the side of too costly or too elaborate dress."

Utra-fashlonable ladles now display a heterogenous collection of costly ornaments—bandeaux, necklaces, brooches, rings, chatelaines, gold bands and innumerable bangles, in the shape of bugs, bees, birds and beasts, all glinting and glittering with every kind of jewel known to the lapidary.

THOSE PUNS AND SMALL JOKES. Chicago Sat Eve. Herald. Have you observed that the columns of srtialTdrivel, usually called "Wit and Humor," have nearly disappeared from the best newspapers? For a time the alleged humorous writer waa in the ascendant. Every country weekly had ita humorist, just as it bad its regular devil, or "dun," or any other regular thing, and many of the more important papers engaged the services of a higher order of talent in the same line. Pima and small jokes appeared in one dress, and re-ap-peared In another, until one of the aforesaid "columns" would give out an ancient and fish-like smell. This disease of "machine humor" waa too violent to last longer. _____

OH-HIQH-OH! Inter Ocean.

What would the world do without Ohio men? Last Friday, when an Ohio man waa being inaugurated to suoceed an Ohio man as President, an Ohio man administered the oath, another Ohio man held his hat, another the Bible which he kissed, while a sixth Ohio man was Grand Marshal of the procession Who was it gave riew York the name Empire State?

WHAT NEXTt Peorta Sat. Kve. CalL

A "aheet and pillow-case party" was held at the resfdence of Mr. Henry Mansfield, on Tuesday evening. One of the attractive features of this unique diversion was an auction sale of privileges to escort the young ladies tosu per. The most expensive girl twelve dollars and a half.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

In Kankakee a wife but 1& yeais of age is singing "Rock-a-bye-baby" to her second off-spring. Her husband is but 20.

An Englishwoman says:.

never make war on freckles. They make a plain face look piquant and roguish."

The favorite girls in Washington society have big, brown eyes, smooth dark hair, and large mouths that know how to smile.

In a Cleveland court a feminine witness testified that a woman living in the room next her was a witch, and that the witch went round like a cat and made noises like a cat.

A Chicago lady who is six yeats lehind the age, recently addressed a letter to Hon. Henry Wilson, ex-President of the United States, Natick, Mass., asking him for his autograph. Mr. Wilson has been dead six years, and she didn't know it.

A fashionable young woman of Galesburg, 111., has undertaken alone to reform the men of that town. She enters the saloons/gambling houses, and other low resorts at late hours, often surprising her male acquaintances, with whom she then pleads and prays.

A fashion journal says, "Nothing will be worn by the fair ones, this year, except longitudinally striped hose which causes a facetious and too exact a wretch to exclaim—"Is it possible that we are drifting back to the styles which were so fashionable in tho

If ever a woman was entitled to a pension It Is Mrs. Elizabeth Upright, of Rockland Iowa, and every toother in the world will be glad to know that Congress has passed an act giving her 930 a month the remainder of her life. Mrs. Upright furnished eleven sons to the Union army, and ten of them were in the service at the same time. When one of them fell by a rebel bullet, theeleventta —the baby—stepped to the front to take his place.

According to an English newspaper, in Philadelphia, "It is not a sin to steal a pin," for the women there are all doing it. When they call on each other they take them from the pin cushion while looking In the glass, and when the visitor departs the lady of the house, while pretending to kiss her friend, quietly removes them from her cloak, not dreaming where they came from, and sticks them somewhere in her own dress. Perhaps this will answer the question which Eve is believed to have asked of Adarn. "Where do all the pins go to

General Garfield's mother Is a typo of the Northern Ohio pioneer mother, and has not yet forgotten the lessons of thrift and economy taught her In early life by necessity. In the hurry and bustle of the morning on the way to Washington, the porter forgot to extinguish the lamps in the car, and they burned at full head long after daylight. At last the lighted lamps attracted the old lady's attention, when, she said to the President-elect: "James, put out those lamps. It's no uso wasting the oil when it is deing no good." General Garfield called the porter's attention to the matter, and the waste of illuminating fluid was stopped immediately.

Edith O'Gorman, the "Escaped Nun," who visited this city sometime ago, delivered a lecture in Cleveland, a few nights since, on "The Secrets and Mysteries of the Confessional." It was announced in advance that the lecture waa for "ladies only," and that no males would be admitted. The audience, consisting entirely of ladies, numbered about 1,200. The Cleveland Herald says: "The ladies were from all sections of the city, and mostly well-to-do people. Many ladies were accompanied to tho door by their husbands, and many had their daughters with them." All of which goes to show that there is considerable sly curiosity among the ladies of Cleveland.

At the Arfon masquerade ball in New York last week a girl made her appearance in under clothes only. She was arrayed just as a belle might be up to the time of putting on her outer dress. Her plump arms were bare to the shoulders, her bosom was uncovered down to the upper edge of a daintily frilled chemise, an elegantly embroidered corset incased her body from armpits to hips, a frilled underskirt hung to her calves, and drab silk stockings were the rest of the visible covering down to a pair of small slippers. This was unquestionably an immodest costume to wear in an susemblage of 4,000 persons. The wearer made less exposure than did hundreds of women present In ordinary decollette toilets.

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A wedding assembly at Columbus, Ohio, after waiting half an hour beyond the appointed time for the ceremony, was astounded by the entrance of the bridegroom with the bride's sister on his arm, and their announcement that they had just been married by a clergyman around the corner. This trick threw the outraged girl into brain fever, from which she Is likely to die but the wedded couple have gone on a bridal tour.