Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 January 1882 — Page 4

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE..

JP. S. WESTFALL, EDITOR AND

PROPRIETOR

MXBLicATiow office,

Ho 16 Hcratli 5th st., Printing House Square.

TERRE HAUTE, JAN. 21, 1882.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. Che FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Eveulng, has a large circulation in the surrounding .towns, where it 1m sold by newsboys and agent*. Hie SECOXD EDITIOIC, on Saturday Even ing, goes into the hands of^neariy every leading person in the city, and the farmers •of this Immediate vicinity. •very Week's Issue is, in fact,

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

in whioh all Advertisements appear for SHE PRICE OF ONB ISSUE.

Thkrb were ninety legal hangings in this country daring last year and as -many more by lynch process.

It is conjectured that Bright, one of tlie Guiteau jury men, will hang the jnry. It^is much to be hoped that he with agree with the rest to hang the assassin. _____________

It Is mid that the Southern cotton mills all paid dividends the pant year of from eight to ten per oout. Such a showing will soon attract additional capital Into various lines of manufacturing in the South. ____________

Tjtk young evangelist, Thomas Harrison, is turning Cincinnati upside down as he did Indianapolis and other places. St. Paul M. K. churcli, where bin revival is being held, is tmi lar^e enough to hold the people who throng to see and hear him.

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The Guiteau trial is nearing the end. Scoville completed his argument yesterday, and the prisoner was granted permission to address the jury to-day. Judge Porter wil speak on Mondaj\ This is the tenth week of the trial, but ore the close of another week it is confidently hoped the hangman will bo ordered to ring down the curtain on the la*t act of this national tragedy.

Noovii.l.e's argument to the jury in 'the Guiteau case was considered quito an iugenious one and it is thought to have produced a considerable impresaiou on tho minds of the jurors. It was a plain, simple, straightforward talk and was totally without any ettort at oratory. It is suspected, however, that this very effect was the premeditated trick of a

Mark Antony to simulate a plainness and einiplieitj'greater than tho reality. The Indiana colony in Washington are Kiting anxious over the deferment of the appointments yet to lx» made and are urging the President to tako action in tho matter. Tboy want to know whether Juhn ('. New is to have the Russinn mission or uot and whether certain bureau places are to bo filled by IIoosiers. lingering in Washington in hope of obtaining an appointment is expensive and uncomfortable business when the hope long deferred ix»ntinues to be postponed indefinitely.

Cot.. Itrm.BY, commissioner of pensions. has made a ruling that where a soldier was known to be sound when captured, and upon t«ingreleased was found to be suffering from diseases incident to prison life, he is presumed to have contracted them in tho line of duty, and when a soldier wan captured in the lino of duty aud was never exchanged or again heard from, he is presuihed to be dead, and his widow is entitled to a pension. This is a new ruling in the department but seems to be founded in good sense and mason.

Hon. Tom Brow.ik, of this State, has Introduced a bill authorising the issue Of fractional currency in sums of five, 'ten, -twenty-live and fifty cents. This eurrenw was a great convenience when iu circulation a few year* ago, and thousands would welcome its reissue, it

Is very convenient for sending money in small sums by mail. As it is now. persons wishing to send less than a dollar, or any fraction of a dollar, are obliged to resort to the shift ot buying postage st am pa and postage stamps never were popular for purpose* of currency.

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THBsmall-j»ox scourge is steadily and by nomeans slowly, increasing throughontthiCQitnlry. In Illinois it has continually, advanoed southward from Chicago, where it gained ita first foot-bold, until a score of new centers of Infection are added to the list with every week. Place^ where it has already taken root report a growing list of victims almost daily, while the pest constantly makes 4t* a&oaranoe at new point*. The histoi$Ot the plague in Illinois hi its historf elsewhere. All hope that it will die out as long as it has food to food upoa inay as well be abandoned. The utmost that sanitary regulations can do will not prevent its spread and where •-the end will be no one tnay conjecture.

Then? Is but one effective preventive and that vur«tfnation and rcvaeHnation. Thi*. In the far* of the diiiy !epora, ought to be neglected by no o^e. e»*y ow

NO DOG FIQHT.

Those people who were anxious to see Ingersoll "handled without gloves," and get as good as he gave, will be greatly disappointed in Prof. Fisher's article in the North American Review. Those who desired to see the questions lying at the foundation of this controversy discussed in a calm, dignified and commonsense way, will be greatly delighted with the article in the February number of the Review. It is, in every way, worthy the subject discussed', and puts the points in favor of the Bible and Christianity in a strong and convincing array. It has nothing of the flippancy of Col. Ingersoll, or of the fierce personality of Judge Black. There is no attempt in it to provoke a laugh, and Ingersoll 2? not onoe direetly alluded to. As before indicated, those who are interested simply in the fight as a fight, and are anxious for good hits, will be disappointed, while those desirous to get at the real merits of the question at issue will be greatly pleased, whichever side they are on. It is very satisfactory to nee this important matter lifted above the level of a dog-fight, or a pugilistic contest, and taken out of the ring where it has been made the subject of clownish jokes. Prof. Fisher has rendered a service which will be appreciated by all who are sincerely asking, "What is truth?"

After all, is it not a good thing that Ingersoll has had both these kinds of answers? Judge Black met him on his own ground, and with his own weapons, and drew from the doughty and witty knight a most unknightly whine, as The Mail indicated at the time. Perhaps it was well to allow the Judge to aot, as he he claimed to do, as a "police officer." As indicated above, it certainly is well that a different kind of an answer should le given.

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new and grand union depot to rej -ice the present structure. The ral!r\ida centering there manifest a disposition to erect anew depot, and if no nnfoisceri obstacle intervenes the work mar Ihj commenced In the spring. Should anew structure be decided upon it will be a fine affair.

Okth, of this State, is making a sensation in this country, at all events. He has succeeded in stirring up a rumpus—he calls it promoting a reform, and he may be right. If his motive is looked at, it doesn't seen that a genuine love of reform has muoh to do with the matter. The fact is that he did not get the position -to which he thought himself entitled when the Speaker of the House of Representatives appointed the committees, and he had no such false modesty, or true modesty, as to forbid his saying so. He made an ass of himself before the country, and personally deserves the ridicule which he is getting. At the same time it is not quite certain but that, stimulated by a personal grievance, he has stumbled upon a needed reform. When it is remembered what a great power the varioqs committers have over the legislation which must first pass through their hands, it is a question whether it is wise.to leave the appointment of these committees entirely in the hands of a single man who claims to be elected Speaker of the House. If there is a certain kind of legislation, as for example, the regulation of eorjHjrationa, which ho desires to smother, he can arrange a committee which will be sure to prove a tomb for all bills introduced, a tomb which no ordinary sort of a resurrection ean shake. If the speaker is such a partisan as to care more to cripple the opposite party than to make it useful to the country, be can put its lending members into unimportant positions, at the tail of insignificant committees, audits weakest members into important places. Mr. Orth proposes to take this power out of the hands of the Speaker and put it into the hands of a commission of eleven members, six of whom shall be members of tho majority party and five merahers of the minority party. Upon its face this looks likeau improvement, and yet there are serious objections. It would greatly delay the oppointment of committees, and so the work of Congress. As these commissioners would be nominated by a caucus just as the Speaker now is, there is reasonable doubt whether the result would be greatly different from what it has been. And besides, it is a questiou whether, after all, there has been any serious abuse of the appointing power by the Speakers of either party heretofore. No doubt other men than Mr. Orth, whoSe claims have not been given the consideration which they think they deserved, are of the opinion that the country is going to rack and ruin because of the neglect of their pre'eminont abilities. -It may be so. If it is so let us know it by all moans. It is a good time to ventilate this whole matter, and because Mr. Orth has made himself ridiculous by the motives which are evidently moving him. we have no desire to join in laughing his case out of court.

His cause may be a good one and the wounding of his personal vanity may have been the providential means of bringing it before tho country, and semiring a reform. On with the dlscussion. I*et everybody hold np his rush light or turn on his electric currents. Lei's have a blaite of light on the sub-

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Thf North American has had a world of trouble since it picked up Ingersoll, and has burned its fingers not a little. It made no snch mistakes in its staid and dignified d'tya. It is some offset to this, however, that in these same staid and dignified days few peeplo reed if, and less cared what it did publish. It is bet ter to bo wide awake and trip now and then* than to sleep all *tbe time quietly.

Hoy. Wm. II. Exaustr is experiencing one of the unpleasant alterclaps of a political campaign^ Wm. 6. Murphy has brought suit against him in New York for 1,130 claimed to he due him lor making speeches in Indian* dnring the lat nam and as attachment against Mr. pro|©-ty in that

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THE INCLBEASE OF DIVORCES. In the Century Magazine for January, Mr. George Washington Gladden has a thoughtful and suggestive article on the above-named topic, the purpose of which is to search for the causes of the rapid increase of divorces in late years, and to suggest partial remedies for the evil. This increase, it is noted, had its beginning about the middle of the present century, and is well illustrated by the State of Connecticut. In 1849 there were ninety-four divorces granted in that State in 1850, there were 129 in 1854, 216 in 1859, 239 and in 1801, 426. During the past sixteen years the annual average has run. quite steadily at about 446, being one divorce for about every ten marriages. Similar results are obtained from the statistics of other New England States. In Massachusetts, for twenty years past, the ratio of marriages toa population has considerably diminished, while the ratio of dlvorees has largely increased showing that the family relationship is suffering in two opposite directions. While a similar condition of things prevails generally throughout the country, the writer takes occasion incidentally to correct the erroneous idea that Indiana and Illinois are sinners above their sister States in the matter of granting divorces, the fact being that ia boastful New England the ratio of divorces is greater than in tho West. \x£

After reviewing the statistics of crime, Mr. Gladden reaches the conclusion that the increase of divorces has little, if any, relation to an increase in immorality, and in sins against chastity. Indeed, no essential increase in the latter class of crimes is indicated, and it is not these which are assailing the sanctity of the family relationship so much as certain disorganizing ideas and theories now filling the air. Among these are to be classed all those theories which emphasize the individuality of men and women. The doctrine of woman's rights in its various forms, the legal separation and independence of the wife in property matters, are believed to have had much influence in producing dissatisfaction with the marriage relationship. Whenever the "self-hood" of our women is developed to such an extent that they are unwilling to take upon themselves the duties of wife-hood, the writer questions the benefit which society shall reap from the harvest.

Another cause of the increase in divorces, the writer thinks, is to be found in the growing leniency of divorce laws. It is noted that step by step with the easy granting of divorces the number of petitioners for divorces has increased.

As to remedies, Mr. Gladden suggests (l)a restoration of the old divorce a men*a et thoro (from bed and board) for drunkenness, cruel treatjgjept, neglect, etc. Such a divorce gives no right to the parties to marry again, and leaves the way open to return to each other at any time they may wish to do so. (2) Where adultery is by law made a crime when a divorce is granted upon that ground let the legal punishment for the crime follow. If absolute divorce for other causes than adultery be allowed that tho offending party be prohibited from marrying again for at least three years. (4) Eliminating from the divorce laws the "omnibus" feature which permits divorces to be granted for almost any cause (tending to make the bonds of matrimony irksome. He also suggests the enactment of laws tending to bring about the exercise of greater prudence iu assuming the marriage relation for example, requiring parties to give public notice of their intention to marry, etc. And lastly, that the Christian church bring to bear all its influence to support and sustain the sanctity of the family relation.

While it is not, of course, to be expected that all of tho views advanced by Mr. Gladden will meet with universal acceptance, his contribution to the subject of divorce literature is exceedingly interesting and will well repay perusal.

Ijr, as is claimed, the wood of the futare is to be made from straw, the wholesale destruction of our forests will carry with it less dismay than heretofore. It is said that experiment have shown that straw timber can be used wherever wood is, that it is water proof, does not shrink and admits of a high polish. Thus doe® the ingenuity of man discover some new substance to take the place of old ones exhausted by continuous use. When the whales get scarce we find that the earth is a storehouse of coal oil aud before that is half gone, electricity stands revealed as an illuminator which can never be exhausted. Already we have discovered that iron ships are better khan wooden ones and have retired wood, to a great extent, from house-building, and now comes the further revelation that all the wood anybody wants can be made out of straw. There seems absolutely to be no use of worrying about the old earth getting exhausted. As a town burned down is builded better than before, so whenever any of the earth's products are exhausted, something better is found to take their place.

THB women have gained another victory and that, too, in a very conservative quarter. The overseers of Harvard College, alter a long discussion, have agreed to accept a fund, the income of which is to be used for the. medical education of women. Concessions from snch quarters indicate that the woman's cause is advancing with

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uncertjrin steps.

Thk first day's sales of teats for tho February opera festival in Cincinnati, in which Patti to take part, realized 931,010. A* a musical ceaiie Cincinnati

T^EKKE HAUTE 1SAlju Ai/AY MAIK'^'.^r^

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sad has ocmirred for a

long time aa the death of Park Valentine and his young wife, in the terrible Hudson River railroad accident. The young conple, nineteen and twentyj-one, respectively, had just been married on the day previous, and had been followed to the depot and accompanied a abort way on their wedding-journey by a score of gay young friends, full of all manner of mirth and sparkling yet from the effects of the wedding champagne. A merrier, brighter, lighter-hearted group never seated themselves in a railway-car, and a fonder bride and groom one would have to journey far to find. As the bridal party filed into the oar, the whole depot was agog with happy excitement, and all eyes were fastened on the fair young pair. The work-a-day world paused, as it always does, for one brief moment to see the new Adam and Eve enter into their happy garden. And so, with blushes and dimples and roguish glances the young bride nestled beside her lord and, deluged with happy wishes, the wedding train sped away. That was on the evening of Thursday. Next day came the horrors of wreck and fire. The train is halted on a curve, between embankments, and, quick as lightning, another train comes thundering into it, splintering it into fragments, Setting the whole mass on fire and roasting alive the mangled bodies of man and women who could not escape from the fearful wreck. Out of it the charred and blackened bodies of the bridal pair are taken, conveyed home, and their funeral preached by the clergyman who had performed the marriage oeremony. And that was the end of Park Valentine aud Mary Gaylord's wedded life on earth! pq

SA TINGS AND DOINGS.

The use of electric light is said in Boston to be conducive to morality. "It knocks me silly," is an Arkansas phrase expressive of admiration.

Some people pride themselves upon their'force of character,' when it is only the force of habit.

Don't get married till the bpring time comes, gentle Annie -ii. costs*a good deal to keep a bouse oomfortably heated in Winter* -i||

Celery is recommended as a cure for nervousness, and the daily use of it is said to be a remedy for palpitation of the heart.

Prof. Swing does not agree with Oscar Wilde that the secret of life is art. Professor Swing says he would much prefer to say that the secret of life is utility.

In the Green county, Tenn., poor house the daily expense of each pauper averages four and a half cents. Tho bill of fare ought to be printed, for the sake of curiosity.

Judge Henderson, of Marshall county, Iowa, says: "Tbree-fon rths of the crimes coming before me are diroctly attributable to liquor." And that is what every Judgo will say. "It is not right to spoil a golden wedding,' was the ground on which a Missouri judge recently refused a divorce in a case where the parties had lived together forty-nine years. iO —.

Fifty leather straps, each afoot long, two inches wide, and very thin, have been purchased by the Port Huron (Mich.) Board of Education for use in punishing pupils in tho schools.

"If one wife is a blessing," asked a Mormon missionary, "How can two or more bo a curse?" There are several gentleman in our penitentiary for bigamy who can answer this oonundrum.

A liqutfr dealcr in a Massachusetts town received last week a postal card signed "Justice," and reading: "Mr.

Ru nisei lor, Westfield: Please to attend the funoral of a man whom you have tried to kill for the last ten years."

A Louisville milliner, who was trimming several nice bonnets at different angles and in opposite ways, on being questioned said: "The Louisville ladies trim their bonnets on the congregation side. They vary according to their

pews. The teachera of Albany, N. Y., have begun regularly to give lists of book for home reading to their pupils. The Examiner and Chronicle responds: "Good, provided tho teachers are all competent to do this, which our experience of tho average school teacher leads us to doubt." 4 .,lf,

An aristocratic party at Ashland, Oregon was broken up lately because the sheriff appeared at the door with his gun leveled at the only violinist. He was wanted on a charge of horse stealing. The danoers begged to have him let off for an hour or two, but the officer waa cruel, and took the fiddler away.

Oh, happy children, to be Onoe more in fashion. According to an exchange the Princess of Wales has succeeded in making a revolution in English society by openly petting her own children in public until pug dogs are en tirely in the back ground and long neglected children to the front. They are dressed, adored, cat1owed to a marvellous extent, all on account of fashion.

The Boston Home Journal remarks that tho love of light rooms has given way to the charm bt medissnral gloom. In all the handsomest new houses this win be noted: floors Of dark wood are Ttncarpeted paper hangings are hi deep browns, black of Olive, with either a dash of gold or Pompeiian red. filmy curtains of lace are used all their airiness 'is shrouded in the heavy dark draperies doorways are likewise hung. It is restful, doubtless possibly it encourages imagination possibly it will develop pee:*, la: it suinot be called citssrt/ui,

THE BETTER WORLD.

CHURCHES, PASTOR AND 1'KOPT.K

Rev. E. F. Howe's church, at Newtonville, has recently sent Rev. James Oakey, who went from this city, the money ifith whioh to buy a horse tosse in traveling between his two Home Missionary fields, and a box of over two hundred booka for his Sunday school.

An exchange, remarking that a thousand men ean go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning without the ringing of a bell, wants to know why it is that 300 people cannot assemble in a church without a previous ding-donginglasting half

an hour To raise money for her churoh, Rev. Miss Anna Oliver, "the black-eyed girlpastor," of Brooklyn, is to issue 13,000 shares of stook, at fl each, the certificate of stook being a portrait of herself. One of her male parishioners will take 500 shares. ',

At the funeral of Chief Justice Pierpoint of Vermont, at Vergennes, the preacher caused some resentment among the mourners by expressing sorrow that the deceased had "never given expression to those views which are considered necessary to the Christian."

The late Dr. Leonard Bacon was the author of two of our best known hymns, one commencing with the line, "Oh, God, beneath Thy guiding hand," and "Hail, trauquil hour of closing day," being the first line of the other.

The Methodist Church, at Eagle Bridge, N. Y., is divided on the question of aooepting as a gift the money raised by a ball. The pastor has declined the dona tion, but some of the members argue that, as the ohuroh did not promote or countenance the ball, there would be no impropriety iu taking the proceeds.

The Indianapolis Times says An alleged Baptist preacher has been lecturing in Shelbyvllle on the subject, "Can a Democratget to Heaven?" Of course thoy can if they repent and use proper means. The trouble is not that a Democrat can't get to heaven, but that so few of them try.

The pastor of the Congregational church at Stratford, Conn., used the revised New Testament. The officer* sent bim a written order to return to the King James version. "This ignoram« thus shown by a people to whose enlightment I liave devoted myself," says the minister, "so disgust me that I will no longer read any scripture for their benefit. I have resigned,"

Rev. W. H. Ryder, I). IX, probably the ablest Universalis^ preacher in the United Stales, has resigned hwi parish in Chicago, and will withdraw from tho ministry to study law. He is said to be wealthy and able to Jive a restful life if he desires. It is also said that his doctrinal views have undergone a change. Rev. Mr. Miln says he ui no longer "an orthodox Unitarian."

When the Rev. DeWitt Talmage was a boy he must have been a bad one, by his own testimony. He says he has not a pleasant memory of his school days, excepting those connected with recess andj vacation, because he was "gadded and boxed and pulled by the ears and stood on one foot and kept in after school and given extra lessons to learn." There are those who will believe that he didn't get a lick amiss.

The Rev. George O. Barnes is conduct ing, in Louisville, a religious revival which in most respects is not an common but he introduces a novelty by carrying a bottle of oil as ho goes among the penitents and anointing them on their foreheads. He claims Scriptural authority for this ceremony. Although harshly criticised for his oddities, he is said to be sincere in his work—so sincere that he will take no pay except food and lodging—and his sonverts are numerous. He is a secedcr from the Presbyterians.

New information is all the time ooming to light on the subject of boll. The latest is from the Rev. Chauncoy Giles, of Philadelphia, who chose "Heir' for the topic of a lecture. Mr. (Hies gives it as his incontrovertible opinion, based on long study that hell is a society of wicked men and women divided into twodistinet bodies, known as thesatans and the devils. It is the deliberate conviction of the reverend gentleman that tho satans worry the devils and that the devils in return worry the satans, each set to the utmost extent of its ability.

A Methodist minister traveling in Michigan was entertained by a family whoso hospitality was greater than their means, and who were short of meat. In order to spread a good dinner for tho parson, it was decided to slay the pet hen which belonged to the little boy of the family. This was a sacrifice, but the interests of religion and hospitality seem to demand it, and so the bird's Btck was wrung. After dinner the minister was asked to lead in family devotions, which with true clerical courtesy he consented to do. The family being called together, all knelt down on the floor, which was of boards, liberally adorned with knot boles. While the prayer waa going on, a lonely little chicken, one of the children of the deoeattd heft, came running under the lamenting the loss of ita mother. The afflicted Utile lad pot bis mouth to a knot hole, aud sympathetically said to the chicken: "Peepy, peepy I-didn't kill your mother. They killed her for that big eld preacher's dinner.*1 That

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old preacher" was startled out of all sense of pravfulness, and suddenly brought bis d&ptional exereisca to a close.

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WASTE OF VITALfTY.

A THOUGHT OR TWO FOU AGRI LADIES.

v' HarperS Btnr. [The first part of this article will I found on the second page, where it w?» placed by mistake in making up tb forms.]

If warm clothing protects us out of tb house.it will do the same in the house and it is no more "coddling," and mm) more sensible and satisfactory, th& cowering over a grate. Under the hem dress a silk skull-cup is a most effoctiv protection against draughts, and woal, prevent many anattaek of neuralgia, silk or wash-leather vest will keep tli body at a more equable temperature thu the best fire, A shawl, to most middf aged ladies is a graceful toilette adjunc even in the house, and it is capable retaining, as well as of imparting, iuuc{ warmth.

When very ehilly after the remoy# of outside wraps, or from any otfce eause, try a wadded dressing-gown on "the usual clothing. In five minutes less the added comfort will be reooft nixed.

The secret is, then, to keep the bod at its proper temperature in the house by the adoption of sufficient wars, clothing, instead of trusting to artifici ly heated atmosphere. No one will 1 more liable to take eold out of the hou because she has been warm in the hou* There is no more sense in shivering i. doors to prepare the body to euduro tb out-door climate, than there would in sleeping with too few blaukets fo fear of increasing the sense of coM wbei out of bed.

A stuffy room, with air eonstantl heated to seventy-five degrees, i» thi» most efficacious invention over dsviw* for ruining health. But it is cqutUl, true that habitual warmth is the verj best preserver of constitutional siren gt in the middle and old age and uudnuhi edly this is best maintained by a temper ature of sixty-eight degrees and plenty of clothin

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A very Important aid to warmth is proper diet. Many women who su-ffo continually from a sense of chill, lielnw the tide of healthy life, have yet cwg£ stantly at hand an abundance of noli ishing food. But they eat one day at one hour, the next at another they don't care what they eat, and take anything a llip-pant-minded cook chooses to send them, they wait for some one, when themselves hungry, out of mere domestic courtesy and when their husbands are from home they take tea and biscuits because it is not worth while giving ser vants the trouble of cooking for then/ alone. In all these and many simile ways vitality is continually lost, ai With every loss of vitality there is a eoi responding access of slow, chilly, shivering inertia.

It is a great mistake that women are taught from childhood that it is meritorious in their sex to conceal their owu wants, and to postpone their own corf venience to that of fathers, brothers, husbauds, aud even servants. For in th end they break down, and are left iu state of ill health in which all the whea^ of life run slow. The trouble iu a s6l* tence, is that women have no wives—no one to remind theui when they aro in ft draught, or como in with wet feet, no one to get them a warm drink whoi chilly, and ward off the little ills, (which in time Income great ones) by loviugT thoughtful, constant care and attj tion.

All women know how lmrd it is livo the usual life of work aud amusement in a physical condition of far below the requisite strength. Nothing itiduoes this condition like chronl* chill.

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and very much may bo continually lop Therefore every plan should be triewhich promises to raise the temptffatui to a healthy standard. Try the effect of a room heated to slxty-oight degree*, and plenty of warm, constantly warnru clothing. ___________ .i JOURNALWTIC AXIOM.

Louisville PONV.

The presumption is always agin'n^ the man who writes a card.

WOUI.DN'T SPO/ f. THF. MA YK Augusta (Me.)

Journal.

One evening last week, as a Camdo) mother was putting to bed her little gir who had been taught to add to her eve ing prayer, "and God bless pupa

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mamma and everybody elso," tho littl one surprised her mother by add in? "except

Guiteau, whoshot a good man

The next evening her mother asked little daughter if she could not pray Guiteau, when she replied "Oh, r» that would spoil a whole prayer."

WIUTTAKEIVS EARS. New York Tribune. A Western Congressman recently nu in 8t. Louis a young tnan who was classmate of Cadet Wbittaker at Wch. Point, but who is now in the army. "Now," said the Congressman, "yo are no longer in the service and haven* interest in concealing the facts, I want you to answer a question. Did Wbitt# ker cut his own ears? "No, he did not," was the reply, "I he had to be got rid of in some way would prevent the sending of any miniggers to West Point.

A TEMPERANCE fiERMON.. Louisville Commercial. Krb, Who was hanged In Hi. Louis killing his wife made a cofifcs-ion whi' contained the following: *I called there several times and d. not .have coinage enough to commit tin deed. It took me tlifee days to gf?t up courage to do the deed, aiifi when I d»'* I was full of whisky. I bought a of whisky at the nearest saloon, and tl I bought a knife at a hardware sto Then I drank some more whisky, a. that braced me up."

It is wortbv of note that something r* deeming in the man restrained him fro tho awful crime until he filled hirnw with whisky. Then his good angel left he bought the latal knife ana wen straightwav on his mission of murder.

Wrho oou'ld add to this temperance mon

JNO. ZIMMERMAN,

Is holding Things Level

Grocery Line on South '. Fourth Street.

His fiadlitlto for securing the bes country produce are unsurpassed b, any dealer in Terre Haute. Fresh,

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his store. He keeps a full line of genen groceries, Michigan apples, etc. Leave orders at tbe sfcore pr »onb telephone.

—MONE TO LOAN to Farmer the be=*t of terms.

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