Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 January 1883 — Page 1

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ETHE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Town Talk.

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next spring. At that time there reelected a mayor, treasurer, clerk, hal, aseemor, and six councilman, successful candidates will hare at iir disposal several iustances the intment of deputies, while the qjincll will proceed without unnecesdelay to jorganize the police and departments, appoint a city attorney and market master, and regulate the fees and salaries of the various officials. Of course where there is so much at Stake there will be a (sharp struggle for the ery, and ii has already commenced.

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present administration is to be ason all sides. There are mild but nr* .*sive hints that a bombshell will 'soon explode and deal destruction in fatal doses. The majority is to be put on record on all questions. What is for

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should be optional with that party. Of course it is optional now, but then It sould be no harm to have the authority the statute books. It is too bad that let of men, of good baseless sense and Sagacity, should lose sight of the city's best interests In order that they may make political capital out of that which is done for tbe best interests of the community at large, and that, too, the very thing which they would have done had the been in the same position. The men who are looking after the aflhirs of th' ity are known to be good business and, except about election time, no would think for a moment of ques ng their integrity. They manage municipal affairs just as they would their own, and they are successful business men, but they are attacked without mercy. It is au old saying that "figures wont lie," but this doesn't apply about election time, for the genius of the average newspaper man can twist them to suit his case exactly, and they become such a confused mass that the average Jf voter cannot understand them and soon ceases trying. And this is about the manner in which a campaign is conducted. There is nothing fair in it, and after a man has been once through the 1 municipal mill he seldom expresses a desire to repeat his experience.

THE WRONG OX GORED.

It is presumed that by this time, near ly every person is aware of the fact that the Democrats carried Indiana last No- vember They did. Their representatives are now over in Indlanapolis wrsugling over the a polls. In the gentrwl distribution the Governor has a number of appointments at hia disposal. Now it so happens that the Govenor is a Republican, and, like all other good Republicans, believes in putting on watch none but his politioal friends. At the present time the Democrats do not Appreciate this. They reason that because they carried the State none but »eir political kin should be recognized, gn

threaten to deprive the Governor of the appointing power by legislation. Of course if they could succeed it would be glorious thing for them—until the next Republican Legislature meets. It would be an example, too, which the

10crata could follow in other departments with advantage to themselves. .They carried Terre Haute also. They

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CA8TCWO SHADOWS.

Hi local politicians are laying the [rite.' for the coming contest in the city t»

on all questions. What is for

the i'oocl of the city must subserve political ends. The entering wedge has already been put in play. A |short time ago an appropriation was asked for keeping the streets in repair. The minority sought to defeat it—wanted the ork done on borrowed money, run in ebtf make a large appropriation in April, and go before the people charging their opponents with reckless exra» igance. Or if they could defeat such »ppropriation and have the streets nd alleys in bad condition, about eleoloa time, they could bring the charge of carelessness and make votes by it, in »tme quarters. Another dodge to secure 'Votes, was the petition to the council to ^c'ose the saloons and all places of business on Sunday. It was referred first to die committee and then to another. An attempt was made to throw the responsibility on the Mayor, and now a com-

Ittee of four—two republicans and two democrats—is wrestling with it. Of couije two reports will be submitted and of course nothing will be done. One party is afraid to do anything and the -.her dare not. If the majority would

at on$ demand of the council

tin. lie Police and Flrr .Department be reconstructed and the Republlcsn'memreplaced by Democrats—if any can ound who would accept positions. And when the Democratic Cong:ess converse, none of President Arthur's apttmeuts should be confirmed unless tfc* are Democrats—because the Demo-

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crats carried the country. It is a good scheme, even if it does disgust people with the spoils system in politics and demonstrate that civil service reform is merely j# delusion and a snare—good enough-to use for campaign purposes, but when then is a prospect of suecess after'a f(Ut of twenty-two years a thing which Should he left severely alone.

T*BM HAUTK TALB XT.

If any' person thinks the man of Terre Haute has no influence abroad, jest let him go to over to Indianapolis when the legislature meets and disabuse his mind. When a citizen of this piaoe wants anything over than he generally gets it. It is a question of city pride in which all take a hand regardless of party. Every legislature finds the same old crowd in attendance, and all work with a will for home talent. It is a case in which politics are laid aside and brotherly love continues until the battle is won. If it is a Democratic legislature the Republicans go over and help divide the spoils, and if is Republican, which rarely happens, the Democrats stand ready to render all the assistance in their power. It disgusts the Indianapolis politician to see the Terre Haute crowd heave in sight—dn fact, he would as soon have a visit from the locusts of Egypt at that time, as .his prospects are generally ruined if t|»ey conflict with those of the Prairie City. This city carried off the principal prige this week in the election of A. J. Kelly to the principal secretaryship of the Senate, and it is to be Hoped she will add to her laurels by the election of Miss Fischer as state librarian. Certainly a more suitable appointment could not be made. She is in every respect thoroughly qualified fer the position, and is one of the most enthusiastic Democrats the state can produce. She has T. T's best wishes for her success.

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AFTERTHOUGHTS.

Everybody gives a big sigh of relief when the Holidays are over, and feels that the most dieadful thing which could happen would be to have them come twice in one year. The children are happy their little hearts are full of gladness. They have all the pleasure of the Holidays without thecare and worry

and anxiety that perplex and annoy

order the police to close all places of bus-1 older people. The Christmas season it ass on Sunday it would be doomed to defeat. The legislature should enaet that tbe enforcement of any law.^iett ohl^l in BethlehlW, Attdf every man on would lose votes to the dominant ptrty

sacred td childhood it is their very own. consecrated to them by the Christ

an eternal Holiday. To grown-up people there is always more or less of disappointment and an noyance at this season of the year. There is such, a oonstant demand upon our time and patience and ingenuity that we are almost worn out. To decide how many presents we shall give, and then to make a suitsble selection, to avoid giving each one what he already has, te distribute them so aa to please everybody and to make a dollar.do the work of two —all this requires the skill and the diplomacy of a general and we feel, sometimes, like dividing our money into equal piles and saying to each intended recipient, "There, for mercy's sake, take that and get whatever yon want."

And then everything Is in snch confusion all our daily routine Is disturbed. We get up early to read our morning paper and it Isn't there the postman doesn't bring our evening mail we cannot make a much-needed purchase because the stores are closed our nerves are racked with fire crackers the table is covered with popcorn and toys the leaves of our favorite book are stuck together with candy we step on torpedoes, tumble over doll-buggies and hobby-horses and sit down in a plate of taffy we pot all the children to bed with the s£omach-acbe and at midnight, as we take up our candle and contemplate the ruins, we say, "Merry Christmas

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the Holidays we cannot find anything in the newspapers except Christmas and New Years' literature stories*, poems, locals, advertisements, all sing the same refrain. Next year instead of offering $5,000 for Christmas cards let somebody make a liberal offer I or just one original idea about the Holicays. Everything is worn threadbare. The stories are a thousand years old, and the poems are as interesting as verses on Spring." Even the list of crimes and casualties hss not the interest of originality, but is the same recital of bad whisky and worse men. By all means let us offer a chromo for some new design in Holiday literature.

One of the blessings and the evils of this season is the universal giving. "Ye have the poor with you always," but about this time of the year they are with us to an alarming extent. Never before has there been so much expended in charity as during the past few weeks. Everybody has seemed to open heart and hand, although times are depressed and money is not plenty. This is right "it is twice blessed it blesseth him that gives, and him that takes," but the question arises, is there ever to be any limit to this giving? We are actually exhausted, physicslly and flnanclallj, by this continual draft upon our benevolence. We must give—first to the church, then to the hospital, then to the temperance cause, then to an entertainment for poor children, then to one for

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woman who contributes to the happin of these little ones has placed a good deed on his record. There is no act of self denial too great for us to make if we can gladden their fresh young lives. The countenance of an angel cannot be more beautiful than their pure innocent faces, and their love and gratitude is the sweetest incense that can be laid upon our altar. Happy are those who have little children to cherish and ears for, their hearts can never grow old and selfish. Especially should we try to make childhood pleasant because it is so short. Though we guard it very carefully and brighten every- hour, yet it flies swiftly away, and some day we awake to find that our boy is a man, our girl, a woman, and their happiness, which we have cherished so tenderly, has passed. into the keeping of another, who may care for it as we have done and who may leave it to perish from indifference and neglect. "Let us live for the children" and, whatever trouble and sorrow the future may bring to them, nothing can ever take away these precious memories, green and bright as the holly wreaths recollections never fading but growing more radiant, until at length, we"kll lay down our burdens, become again aa llttlfe children and enter uponigence, yet if we refuse to give we receive

For a week,before and a week after

women, and then to all kinds of balls and fairs for all sorts of charitable organisations. Berides.this there is an endless appeal for private alms-giving It costs from ten cents to a half a dollar every time the door-bell rings. We must give .to all the newspaper and telegraph carriers, and to every man or woman who has done a day's work for us during the year although we paid them full wages at the time. We go to the front door and find a helpless cripple with some vile stuff for cleaning win-

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who draws upon our sympathy to the extent of a quarter. We go to the back door and meet an emaciated tramp who departs with our pity and a mince pie. We turn our

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steps again to

tbe front door to hold an interview with with a blind man whom we pay a dime for some verses which tell us that when the white man first came to this country the Indian "Gave ef his venison, corn, and his hand

that long as we live we may strive to

We shnt the door ind swear that even if one should come armless, legless and headless, we will not give him a cent, but we are not prepared for the case that awaits us in the kitchen, a man with nine children and not a bite in the honse to est. What business has a man with nine children Why didn't he die young? But, nevertheless, we bestow upon him the small remnant of food and clothing we had fondly «hoped to save for our own family.

Now, who are the people that are con stantly called upon for charity? It is those who have been industrious all the year and managed and economised, and denied themselves many a luxury that they might save something for a rainy day and tbe more a man labors to accumulate property and provide a comfortable income for his family and for his own old age, the greater are the demands made upon him to give away what he has worked so hard to get.

Brother Gardner of tbe Lime-Kiln Club expresses a very healthy sentiment on this subject, which will be found in another column of the Mail. Charity is one of the noblest attributes of our nature, but if unwisely bestowed it pays a premium on idleness and iroprovi-

the censure of the public and, very often, are tormented by self reproach. And yet, there is genuine pleasure in relieving distress, and if we are sometimes imposed upon there is a eomfort in knowing that tbe cause was worthy if the individual was not, nor should we ever censure ourselves for any act if it is prompted by oar heart and approved by our conscience IDA A. HARPBR.

MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have been issued since our last report

Ell Raaon and Alice Coulson. Win. R. Wildy and Anna L. Sibley. Robert C. Myers and Sarah Rhodes. Addison Feabody and Lydia

Llsey.

Geo. A. Weod and Catharine

Haney.

James E. Herring and Florence I*rr. Peter Ingram ana Jennie Davis. Wm. K-Burnett and Jennie Derrickson.

Calling in New York, on New Year's Day, was much less general than has been customary, that sort of recognition of the day having become rather unfashionable. Fifth avenue was filled with drags, T-carts and carriages, in which ladies and gentlemen went about together calling informally on their friends. Many people spent the day out of town, it having become tbe thing to make up parties for country houses during the holidays, as the English do. Consequently, all the world took its one from the few leaders of fashion, and for the first time New Year's calling was unfashionable.'

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Our Breakfast Table.

who keep the holidays, the

succeeding week seems dull, and our boarderytalk somewhat listlessly of the New Yean as they compare notes to find that the day is falling off with fewer to receive or to call, here and elsewhere. "Here is a poor note to begin the year," said Derby, looking up from a long, closely-written letter. "You remember tbe friend, Mrs. Comfort, who dined here some time ago—from the South, be was. He came here to take a good-paying place after a while he brought his wife and children. 'He was well contented to leave the quiet, peky, inland ^Southern town, but his wife never was. She detestedthe Nort h, was homesick—" "She missed the sociable friends, the friendliness of the Southern neighbers— and I do not wonder," said Mrs Com-fort.-Jh "Yes, she missed them so much that she fretted that poor man into throwing up his place and going back to North Carolina. Now she writes to me from Beaufort county a tale of woe." ^. "I know that Beaufort, and its piuey woods," said the Major. "For my sins, I guess—I had some, once—I was there with an invalid friend. Dreary beyond compare. Great woods with their tall, bare trunks—the ground strewed with pine sti-aw. You couldn't hear your footfall still as death, and here and there the fresh white biases made by the turpentine gatherers, showed up like tombstones. Where the country roads and their inhabitants were steeped in poppy juice. The rambling old houses each were flanked by a shed covering three sweet potatoe hills a well sweep, fromi which dangled a bucket made of a cypress knee, and out in front was a tall pold hung with empty gourds, where the martins chattered. And there my friend, half dead of consumption—but excuse me, Derby, what about your frieiia?" "Why, she writes in desperation, entreating me to help her husband. To go to some of bis old friends who are doing wel| |ere and ask them to get him a place| She says they are in absolute wa£t*-tbat everything seems dead aro&nd them. She acknowledges her in not being satisfied in Terre Hafete, and takes the blame of all to herself, poor woman!" *$he is not the first thst has quarrelei Willi a plaee to find the quarrel returned With int^V'remirifed Mrt.^WslUy.^ "What do you mean by that oiacnlsr remark?"1^. "I mean when strangers eome here afid are full of New York and Boston and the South and so on, that they always get the worst of it. It is a case where dislike makes dislike—and if people don't like Terre Haute, Terre Haute won't like them, and vice versa." "Perhaps you begin at the wrong end. If this poor lady had received notice she wouldn't have missed the old home so much." E 1" "No, don't tell me. I know there is an effusive kindness in the South to auy oAe that is known, that surpasses our 'sociability, and that their old homes will always be regretted, but you can't expect that we want them thrown at us continually. I am sorry for stranger?, always—poor souls—expecting sttachments formed in a lifetime to be replaced in a twelvemonth, and bitter because they are not." "Whst became of your consumptivs friend, Msjor?" -, "Why, sir, that remarkable being, thin as a lath and weak ass cat, lived in the pine woods, drank water that reeked pi tar, pitoh and turpentine, and got firt—cured. Quite changed my idea of remedies, for I hsd another friend who went down to Georgia in the same fix. His doctor told him to swallow—not turpentine—bat all tbe whisky he could) 'and he would die of old age. He a a a "Wasdared?" "No, he died." "One thing is certain, Mr. Derby' if your friend was (North, her daughters would be provided for." "Why?" "Why, because a hundred Northern girls can provide for themselves where one could formerly. I like to see all this seal for fine art among the young women. When I go into stores and see pretty patterns, designs, pictures and paintings, I smile to myself as I think: Ahha! there's women's work, snd some day there will,be thousands working at It where hundreds are now.'" »*Very true," said the Professor. "I saw a pair of hand-painted suspenders at Hunter's tbe other day—added a good many dollars to them, did that painting, and some girl had made seven or tight dollars a dozen painting them. Smart young women are leaving the East to take places as teachers of designing, painting and so on through tbe West. The way the rage for decorating houses is growing it is plainly to be seen that there is work for thousands—new work that needs stew workers, that will spread every year for what depends on taste and love of beauty can not decline. It

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grows with its exercise." And the Professor, bring mounted on a hobby, descanted at length upon the advantage of teaching every girl something she oould do with her hands, directed by the natural feminine delicacy of touch, and eye for color, form and details."

FANTASIES OF FASHION.

Those decolette dresses don't come high, but we must have them at tony balls. 'Si* iJ

Miss Grundy says "bridal tours are no longer fashionable." They may be no longer fashionable for Miss Grundy, but the head waiters at the big city hotels will testify that they were never so popular among other people

It is said the fashion of wearing a straight band, a la Grecq'ue, about the hair arose from1 the accident of a lady of fashion, who, while out riding, clasp-, ed her garter-about her head to keep her hair in place. Of course it was a French woman, and of course a week later every woman wore a band.

A New York correspondent writing of the rage for flowers in New York, says: "On pleasant days Fifth avenue is a mob of carriages, and every carriage is a garden. In the theaters huge bouquets of superb roses ornament the ladies' dresses or are held carelessly in the hand, or are laid conspicuously on the cushion in front of the box."

CLARA BELLE LETS OUT

CERTAIN MYSTERIES OF THE FASHIONABLE FEMALE TOILET.

Clara Belle, thfe New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, says: Scratch a fashionable woman and you will find something curious. Right underneath the thin outer layer of silk, satin, or what not, lie mysterious things intended for both comfort and discomfort—lu other words, for the improvement of both fellings and shape. For instance, the set son of dbivers is upon us, and unless a woman is already so thick that Bhe prefers coldness to additional bulk she puts on more underclothing. There are several novelties in winter petticoats, one being of scarlet cloth with elder-down woven in the lining, making a light and warm fabric. Silk underwear, heavily quilted,, will be worn, but English merino suits are now made in saoh fine quality that they satisfy the most luxurigjjs Pastes. But a good many women will have to get through the winter the beat way they can with flannel scratching their cuticle. While underskirts are likely to be entirely superseded by oolored mai such fes funnel balmovals and of colored Juid black quilted, sating jk that, take it altogether we shall danee fewer jigs on cola.days to keep from freezing our limbs off. inventive genius however, does not exhaust itself in the direction of utility. Attention is also paid to fancy. One result is a perfumed

etticoat, made by secreting scent powin the wadding This is considered

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referable to putting perfume on the as the pleasant odor is more diffused and sweetly mysterious. The idea came, doubtless, from the fashion of inclosing a very delicate scent powder between the silk lining of muffs. Perfumed sachets are also placed in the folds of dresses and mantles When lying in the wardrobe, but care is taken in the excess in this, for pronounced smells are considered vulgar.

The highest success is in the failure of the nose to tell whether it really smells a mechanically-produced perfume, or is merely charmed with the balmy breath of the dear creature alongside.

There are no underskirts on Patti, whens he appears dressed as the heroine, in "La Traviats," in the Academy of Music. Her costumes fit like a glove, from the shoulders to the hips, and are almost as close thenoe down to the feet. She hss quite enough filling all by herself, and is a good deal more expensive than if bundled in numerous skirts.

At Daly's Theatre, May Fielding, a mp woman, is wearing a Jersey ice that has not a wrinkle. Her un-der-waist, if she has one, fits as well ar the Jersey iteelf. On the same stag* Ada Rehan makes a contrast by wearlnf a most pronounced Kate Greenaway oostume, as loose as an ultra-fashionable tea gown. The latter is nothing mon than an elegant form of dressing-gown. The theory is that it enables the wearei to dispense with corsets, and so, certain easily-deluded medical men accord a hygienic value to it. As a matter of fact, moat women wear corsets beneath the tea-gown. Miss Rehan may or may not do this, but in dancing an old-fashioned quadriilion.which is a feature of the current play, she sways and bends ber body as though it was not much trammeled.

In tbe matter ef corsets what nonsense men emit! A complete answer to it all is that women wear corsets and yet manage to live, on the average, as long as men. One of our preachers went so far last Sunday as to say our lives are shortened, untold misery entailed, and women made to pass lives of weariness and suffering but he was compelled to add thst-he was unable to convince any fashionable woman of the folly whlcn he conceived the wearing of corsets to be.' True enough. Corsets will remain in favor until tbe end of time, believe me. Only women of medium proportions ana excellent shape can afford to discard them. A few, thus qualiged, are having tbe linings of their dresses made of extra heavy material, almost covering the dress bodice inside with strong webbing, finished with silk casings. On examafraid, said, however, that while* she squeezes ber waist frightfully, her corsets are set over the nips with wide gussets of elastic- webbing, which give a peculiar ease to the wearer. The best styles have a transverse section of whalebone over tbe hips. This arrangement prevents their breakingjind the hips retain their shape against the pressure of tbe vest and bod

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ice. The corset-makers are reviving the old-fashioned corset that bad a broad busk running down the front, but no fastenings there, the fastening being done at the back. It is claimed that a more graceful outline to the form can thus be attained than by the usual manner of hooking in front. Satin corsets, in various colors, continue to be fashionable with those who can afford to buy them, as this fabric moulds itself more closely to the form than cheaper and firmer stuff.

The wiggle-waggling of the bustles on the actresses of the Wyndham Comedy Company, as fashionable elothed for "Brighton," at| the Union-square Theater. was a matter of wonder and some ridicule on the part of the spectators. The skins were fastened at the back so tightly as to present a clinging appearahoe in the front, since the fulness was all drawn backward. Comedy, as acted by Wyndham's actresses, consists largely in rushing up and down the stage, and to and fro on it, the tournure swaying violently from ride to side. This was highly expressive of turbulent feeling also, somewhat revelatory as to the number and style of the strides taken. These torn ures were larger than are now worn off the stage, ana doubtless took the place of underskirts, being fastened in place by tapes, and having on the bottom all the triumphing with which underskirts are usually finished. Of course thin and unsymmetrical women must build themselves up here and there.

New things as shapers are cushions stuffed with horse-hair, cotton batting or down, and used to puff out different parts of the dress, paniers, postillions, etc. They are especially convenient for dresses of light fabrics, and are made square, oval or long, and varying In size, according to the they are designed. The top ,is gathered and fastened to the belt of the tournure. The bottom, which is also gathered, is fastened about twelve inches below the belt, being slightly bouffant. On each side the cushion is joined to the tournure. If a woman lacks in hips, all the gathers are pulled from the back and front and laid over the laternal sections, with reinforcements to stiff ruffles or puffed cushions. Large hips are reduced in appearanoe by wearing yoked skirts, tne yoke being fitted to the figure and laced on the back. The depth depends upon the size of the hips, if very large an extra depth is selected, and the gathers are tnus laid between the hips and the knees. Attention to these matters is compelled by the revival of Jersey bodices. as I have already said. They are made in some stores by measurement and to order, but this is not generally considered necessary, as, where a large assortment is kept, almost any future can be fitted. In buying, it must -webbing is apt

be remembered that the to stretch with the wearing, at first is, therefore, desirable., mi-

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THE LIME-KILN CLV&r**fy\

W ABOUT HELPIKO THE POOR'

Detroit Free Press. he*b in my han'J*'

Brother Gardner, as the triangle sound* ed and Samuel Shin laid aside his harmonican. "I hold beah a letter from one of de charitable societies of Detroit axin' If dls club kin be depended on to std in de good work dls winter. In Bartin cases dis club kin be depended en fur a ton of coal, a cord of wood, a bar'l of flour or a $10 bill. In sartin odder cases dis club won't cum down widss muoh as a shlngle-nall. Public charity in dis keptry am a curus thing. "It insists dat ebery man shall aims his own libin', an' den it turns in an' supports de class who will starve sooner dan work. "It am de enemy of whisky, an' yet as soon as whisky makes a pauper It supports him. "It flatters de man who gits a few dollars ahead, an' yet demands a sheer of dat money to aid ae idle an' dissipated. "Public charity comes as near bein' a bold-faced fraud as aay sentiment you kin name. It encourages laziness by

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rovidin' fur de lazy. It encourages proviain'for de famines of drunkards, It encourages immorality by providln' homesj ana hospitals fur de immoral. It encourages the spendthrift by feedln' au' clothln' blin all winter arter he has squandered hi» money all summer. Public chsrity am a wall agin which de reckless, de lazy,de shiftless an' de desolute lean when all odder props give way. "islmmer It down, and public charity means takin' de money which a man has saved by hard work an' economy an' usin' it to support de man who has squandered time an' money widont a car' as to what became him. It am black-mall on industry—it am a slap at eoonomy—it am a kick at industry. How does it 00me dat wid dls kentry constantly furnishing increased chanoes fur poo' men to get along, dat pauperism am also increasin'? Eight-tenths of de saloons in America am supported by men whose families need ebeiy cent dcy aim tar clotbin' and bread, an' who rely on publlo charity in case of a hard winter. De keutry has five times as many paupers as It had fifteen y'arsago! Why? Kase we raise five times as much money to support 'em. Double de amount of de poo' fund an' you will double de number of paupers. "An' now let me ask you a plain question. If I work hard week in an' week out—if my wife works bard an' economizes—if we patch, darn, dye an' cut ober—if we buy cheap tea an1coffee, an' pare de 'taters close, an' manage to pay for a little home, an'put money in de bank for sickness or death, has any human brin'a right to ask me to give one penny to a man who has thrown away scores of dollahs for beer an' tobacco— who plays keerds an' shakes dice fur money—who works only when he feels like it—who neber dreams of economy— who neber practices self-denial I reckon not! Let us now turn our faces toward de rowteen of bizness."

THERE is a woman near the city' who believes in doing everything in a hurry. The other day her husband hired a matt of all work whowss too slow so stilt ber. The other morning be wa*t employed cutting wood while the family were at prayers. Upon arising from her knee* the first thing she saitTwas: "That boy didn't strike but three Ugk^wJjile we wera at prayers. r-

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