Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 May 1884 — Page 2

Page PDF (9.79 MB)

Back to issue view

fVS fAsn

THE MAILl

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, MAY 10, 1884

LIVE PROPER 11ES.

*VS **Jl»^BABIES, DOGS, HORSES, ELEPHANTS *"4"^, MI

AND CHICKENS ON THE DRAMATIC STAGE.

•v "Among the riskiest of risks!Q a theav. ter," said an old property-man to aNew :t\*

'/'fv York Sun reporter, "live properties go

4to

the front. In the old days before

,»• trained animals were so plenty, and when stage appointments were not so ^.plentiful or so costly as they are now, live properties were uncommon. Even in later days most actors do not care to .risk the confusion that is sure to result when the live properties do not behave exactly as they should. It doesn't take much to set an audience tittering, and there is very much danger that live •properties will mar the success of a piece at the critical moment by doing the wrong thing. Consequently, from .time immemorial all sorts of imitations of live properties have been in vogue. "Babies, for instance, cannot always be depended upon to be good-uatured and pretty at precisely the right tno*ment. Paregoric and soothing-sirup

Vlhave

the disadvantage of making a real baby look like a counterfeit. Of course if it were necessary to produce a crying baby you could be sureof it every ti me, out no play ever produced required a real baby to cry in the presence of the audience. It is only the counterfeit babies who do that, and they generally do it ia a very unnatural way. In many „.t .pieces where the point of the play turns 'on a baby the effect is lost by the use of a dummy baby. Thus in "Young Mrs.

Wiutbrop," when the doll baby is brought on, it is asking too much to ^expect the audience to get up much emotion over a mere bundle of rags.

Two or three irreverent parsons in an audience can always turn into ridicule any act where a dummy oaby is the prominent actor. But as between the chance»f the real baby misbehaving and

the chances of the dummy baby causing ridicule the general rule has been to risk the latter. "Real babies, however, have often been introduced' with great success. There is, for instance, a real baby introduced in -Confusion,' and it si ways excites the admiration of all the women and rnest of the jneu in the audience. The women always marvel at the wonderful patience of the baby, which, although wide awake, is apparently stowed away in a cabinet on the stage about a quarter of an hour. The faotls

that the cabinet has a hole in the back, and when the audience imagine the baby to be lying on its back, uncomfort- ,* able quarters it is really being nursed in ,4 the arms of the mother behind the scenes, and is put back in the cabinet only when the cue is given. "Beuclcault would not risk a real dog ii in the play of the 'Shaughrauu,' but his dog Tatters, who was purely imaginary, became quite a feature of the peice, es•:K) pecially In the description of the famous .attack in the rear causing the destruction of a very considerable part of a pair of pantaloons. Now there are'plenty of 'i^dogs who could be relied upon to do ty^this and more with promptness and accuracy every night. The boys who go to the Bowery theatres know all these dogs and have known them for years. Nothing but real bloodhounds will do to pursue the fleeing slaves ever the ice of the

Mississippi in '.Uncle Tom's Cabin.' It becomes really thrilling when the dogs spring at the throats of their victims. That is the sort of live properties that may be relied upon to give a realism to a play which can be produced in no other way. Such trained doga do not give the property man much trouble as •*'. their owners alone can manage them. "Emmett has a dog in 'Fritz' which is said to be worth f2,500, but he was never half as famous as Rip Van Winkle's dog Schneider, which never had any existence except in the vivid description of Joe Jefferson. That was so lifelike that I could imagine I could both see aid hear the dog on the stage, j, and 1 wondered he did not come when

Joe whistled for him. And yet when a real nico dog like the big one that was lately used in 'The Romany Rye' is used, it never fails to go straight to the heart of the audience. The house would always ring with applause when the shaggy old fellow obeyed the comm&nds of his mistress, and he used to sit upon his haunches and look over the audience as if he liked it. Then the scene in the bird-fancier's shop in this play, with real birds in the cages, is always interesting. for the birds flutter and hop about in a very, lively way. "Horses, too, have formed a considerable proportion of live properties. Adah Isaaos Menken and Miss Hudson used te create an immense furor in 'Mateppa,'and when they were bound te their foaming steeds and started on their perilous ascent of stage carpenter's crags the effect was startling, ana not to be approached by any mere description auch as Lady Gay Spanker gives of an -imaginary race. There is a telling scene 'Taken from Life,' where the hero takes a real horse from the stable and make* a fortunate escape. "Maggie Mitchell makes a feature of «,the use of chickens—real live chickens— which she chases about the stage with hoyden Uh glee, and they form a very important part of her properties. *4 'Humpty Dumpty* never fails to bring out a real live donkey, who kicks up t'his heels and throws his rider at the .bright moment. No 'Humpty I)umpty'

Vwould be complete without a real donkey. In 'Around the World in Eighty ^^Daiys' a real elephant is introduced, and in such plays as 'The Black Venur and

The Siege of Lochnow* there ia an opportunity for the display of a whole menagerie of live properties. Here, however, we border on the circus. ,J "Among the novel usea of live prop«rtiea is that of (he horse in 'Kerry

^fjkw,r

which is shod In the presence of the audience. Murphy, the actor, who .. has played that part many times, has a .--/real forge and makes a real shoe out of f. real hot iron, and actually nails it on, .-.Ml of which delights the toys in the galcilery very much. I never heard a cat

Vvbeing

introduced purposely on the stage but when one happens to get into a theater and to walk acrrws the stage at the wrong time it to sure to make a sensation.

TK*R*

comes time in every little

It a vounz ladv

and then send ba* to a cooking »ch^ to learn how to malt* a padding or cake "—what she might have learned In the kitchen at home, and been Itapnv In learning. It some other member of the family *upertnteatlK, but 4om i»ot lend a helping hand, a good deal of valuable .knowledge will be acquired in thb w^y.

BASE BALLS.

THEIR COMPOSITION AND CHARAC-TERISTICS-HOW THEY ARE MADE.

Ibe base ball of this year is the twin brother of last year's. It is as bard as a rock, light colored, and capable of knocking out the thumb of a blacksmith or a school boy with equal ease and impartiality. The covering of all the best balls is hone-hide sewed ,with linen thread. Siik and catgut have been used to sew balls, but in damp weather they do not last- as long as the linensewed article. The league base ball is the standard, and is used in all games where the players make any pretensions to skill. It costs $1.50, and sells at 15 a dozen. They are dear because they are all made by hand.

The basis of one of these spheres is a little piece of molded rubber weighing about one ounce. Around this stout yarn is wound by hand. A» the workyean winds, even and anon he pounds the undeveloped base ball with a little mallet. This makes it solid and bard as a rock. When it is two-thirds completed a rough horse-hide cover is put on. More yarn is called into play, and when the ball has attained the proper size, which is nine inches in circumference, it receives its final cover. This is also a horse-bide, finely dressed and perfectly smooth. It is sewed by hand, and the finger annihilator is ready for business. Rubber is used to make the ball bound a little, and yarn to keep it from bounding at all a nappy medium is thus attained.

From $1.50 base balls run down to 5 cents. The cheaper grades are made by' machines. Old scraps are brought from glove-factories, and the core is made by pressing a miscellaneous collection of kid scraps, bits of leather, rubber, rags, etc., into one compact mass. A few pieces of yarn, a leather cover, and the cheap base ball is ready to be knocked out In one round, or, more properly Bpeaking, in one inning.

NEWSPAPERS IN SCHOOLS We clip the following from the Anderson Democrat Review. The suggestion is a good one, we think, and would like to see a discussion of the same by the teachers of the country. "Every school teacher should take a good newspaper, a daily if possible, if not two or tnree weeklies. He should take a copy of the paper to school with him and devote a few minutes each day to reading the trost interesting editorial and articles on current events, to his school. You will be surprised at the interest manifested in such exercises by the school.

The teacher should exercise his very best judgment in the selections of the articles to be read to the school, carefully avoiding partisian politics or anything that would not be approved by the scholars' parents.

There can be more good accomplished by far, in keeping the girls and boys in our schools acquainted with the great and impoitant current events oi the

firesent

day than by pounding them

ull of ancieBt/and medevial history. There is an alarming amount of ignorance among the scholars of our schools about current events of National importance. If you don't believe it, let some teacher who should read thia, on calling his school to order next'Monday morning, ask his scholars how many of them can tell blm anything about the "Lasker resolutions" what they know about the war in Soudan, what is a Nihilist or ooming nearer home, ask bow many of them can tell you the number of standard silver dollars are required by Congress to be coined every month, or any other current question that you can think of. Create a discussion among the scholars on such subjects as these and you create a thirst for knowledge of an important nature."

THE UNPROTECTED WOMAN. New York Graphic. The business woman, who comes to New York to trade must needs have a lady friend to whom to apply for the necessaries of life during her stay. She must remain away from places of amusement during her stay. She must measure her words and actions as if she were a child, lest she be driven away from whatever temporary harbor she may have selected. There is an antipathy to the unprotected woman which takes away all her independence. It refuses her fair play at every respectable hotel and boarding-house. The fact of her friendliness is an invitation to every loafer to annoy her. Even institutions for the benefit of unprotected women are exasperatingly uncharitable in their judgment of applicants for accommodations. They are tied with red tape. The fact that a woman comes to them at night and alone is taken as proof that the woman is bad. The male individual has but to exhibit his face and his purse to secure the right to live, however disreputable ha may be but the woman must be subjected to suspicion and investigation from which she recoils with an instinctive pride and purity that men never experience and can not have. The unprotected woman is hunted by bad men and persecuted with suspicion by good ones. She has no righta which any man is bound to respect.

THEY ALL LA XJQHED. Lincoln, Neb., Dem. A funny incident occured in a house of warship at Nebraska City the other Sunday. A cealous pillar of the church was leading the singing, and in an effort to catch a very high note with proper effect his false teeth lew out of his mouth. Of course there was a general titter on the part of the congregation, and the minister, unable to control his risibilities, said:-"

Well, let's all laugh."

And they did. They roared. And then they finished the hymn.

WORSE THAN YNAMITE,, Professor Bell fonnd a oouple ofcoachwbip snakes while in camp near Santa Rosa Flat. He put them in a neat package and laid it an a stump. On the following day, which was warm and pleasant, a young lady and gentleman oat driving discovered the package and appropriated it. Aa the young lady untied the string the coachwbipe shot out like arrows. She tumbled out of the buggy on one side and be on the other, while the horse ran away.

MOTHER NEVER SITS HOWS. A little gir» unoonadoualv and touchingly testified to the drudgery of her mother's life, when on being asked "la yeur mamma's hair gray she replied: "I dout know. She5* too tall for me to see the top of her head, and die never alts down.'*^^^^^^^

FROM HEAD TO FOOT. The postmaster at North Buffalo. Pa,, Mr. 1. J. Green, says St* Jacobs Oil, the great pala-conqueror, ctfted htm of pallia In the head, ana also of frosted feet. -r

the business men who

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EYEING- MAIL.

DANGER IN THE PIE.

AT.Ti SORTS OF TROUBLE CAUSED BY EATING HURRIEDLY AND WORKING TOO HARD.

Ward's island. For a moment the emi-

nent medical expert was at loss how to

reply. His six feet of stature seemed all

THE DOCTOR'S LUCKY DREAM.

A RAILWAY ROMANCE WITH MOTHER AND BABY FOR THE HEROES. Atlanta Correspondence N*w Yprk. Tribune.

Walter Phelps Stuart made his advent into the world under remarkable circumstances in a Pullman car on the Western and Atlantic road during the terrible storm last week. On Tuesday night when fifty or sixty miles north of Acworth, Ga., Dr. Walter, of Merietta, Ohio, who was a passenger on the car, had a vivid dream of wrapping a newlyborn infant in a sheet. Hia vision seemed to indicate that the mother was in the car. The dream made such an impression on him that he arose aud asked the porter if anyone on the train was sick. "Yes," replied the porter, "a ladv is •fiery sea-sick, and we have telegraphed ahead for a physician."

The doctor, having volunteered to attend her, gave his opinioa of her condition, ana she admitted that it might possibly be so. The result was that ith her husband's consent he took the case in hand and in half an hour the number of passengers was increased by one. It was not until daylight that the infant had other swaddling clothes than & sheet, and the first garment was a decidedly novel one. The only other female passenger aboard was a young lady who had never in her life made a baby^'s dress. The doctor said to her. "You must take hold now. If you will do the sewing I wiil show you how."

Shey found an old salt bag, cut off the bottom, ran some strings through the top to gather it in at the neck, ripped the seam for a short distance on each side and sewed in some tiny sleeves made of an old undershirt. The red brand on

byterian clergyman living in Florida, to whose home she wasJ

The

mother is the daughter of a Pres-

her home in dnclnnat

SHORT RULES FOR LONG COMFORTS AT HOME Put self last.

Be prompt at every meal. Take little annoyances out of the way. When good comes to any one rejoice.

men good coma to anyone wjotoe.

tl 04e of others. Have a place for everything, Dg in its

vlew

DON'T IN THE SICK-ROOM.

This was the interrogative with which person to stare through, or a cola draft a reporter of the New York Mail and of air draw in directly over the patient a reporwr v. ~,i causing perhaps a serious chill. Express recent

me on

attendants at the insane asylum jn

wea]£

work, work, work, is the one tning i00fcing glass but get the best, and have characteristic of the American people.

town. They spend Jess timeat the table

than they

as for sleep,

consumeingeUingtoU^ And warm

1**

^ThafSroSds upon the man, bisicc-

cupation, disposition, and the place

They are always in a hurry. They win jn prettiest, daintiest china the house not take enough time, to eat. LOOK at

AGFOR(JG

lunch

down

where he sleeps. The old way of dividinir the day into three parts lsto^my iqm Qfty into tuiW pniio id mind a verv eood one. Eight hours for words around him are as the little step __ nltif*otAnAB o/ifADa ha KvaaIp /II* Hftl Ht,V

uiiuu a o~ work, «eigbt £for play, and eight for Sl06D^ "In other words,1 man should really spend one-third of his life in bed "They should take more sleep than they do at any rate. Insomnia was, until late years, a trouble seldom brought to notice of the medical practitioner. Now xt is a daily occurrence. Besides sleep, man should develop his mental powers by work. There is such a thing as mind-strengthening work. Brains can be strengthened and developed. The exercise of the centers of the nervous system is as essential to their nutrition as activity to the healthy grewth of the muscular system." "But work can be carried to far, can it not ., "Undoubtedly work is one thing, overwork another. Just as extreme weakness of the body produces restlessless and loss of control, so extreme exhaustion of the brain produces mental agitation. One of the first indications is Irritability. Next comes insomnia or sleeplessness. This is the two kinds. One that makes it impossible to cease to think, and another which renders concentrated thought impossible." .......

.. bowels, wnicb will not give way upon SJX place. immersing the body in the warm bath. Hide your own troubles, but watch The degree of temperature may bo deand help others out of theirs. termined hy the urgency of the sy mp-

When pained by an unkind word or deed, ask yourself: "Have I never done an ill and desired forgiveness

abe has consented. AWTLOPHOROS IS the thnchstone abe has provided. H. 8. Chandler, of The Independent, New York, says that "ooe

Never interrupt any conversation, Thegreatertbe suffering, the warmer should be the water especially

the bed a

Don't jostle carelessly against tl where a sick person is lying if

bit-nervous it will send a disagreeable shock all over him, or a throb to the ach-

"Doctor, how do you Mcouit for tho alarming increase of insanity in this Don't bang the door when yon go out, country or just a little open for some thoughtless

Don't throw open the shutters and let

broad stream of light for the poor

eyes to blink at, but Bubdue it to a

welcome»Boftness,

r00m

at once to go still higher in the Malei of place. measurement. His !Ln_ Dont whisper in or near the sick room the oddly designed charm tl»tw pe

brightening the whole

instead of glaring in any one

dent from his"p®8^J^^JffJSjb,hiev- nothing is more distracting or tantalizeyee grew suddenly laiwer and n^ irg to the sick than to be compelled to ous until at last the ®n^ listen to a mysterious half-defined noise a hearty laugh, supplemented by the

Qfany klnd

The reDorter was puzzled. and jerk him up when he wants a drink ««i??,nnv isn't it?" or his medicine, but gently put your «Verv '''answered the reporter. hands under bis shoulder or better still, •When I say pie," said the doctor, "I the pillows, having an extra one fcandy mean dyspepsia, and when I say dys- to prop him up with, and raise him, and pepeia I mean insomnia, and by insom- then as gently lay him back. nia I mean melancholia,, hallucination, Don't take any old spoon.you may delusion, illusion, and mania." happen to get hold of to give the food or "Oh-h-h-h 1" medicine in, but find the handsomest, "Yes. The nation. The atarve their brains. Rush, rash, rusn, Don

mysterious undertone,

Don't grab the patient by one hand

g|ve

i,jm drink from a dingy

crystal, and serve his food

and always with a fresh, sweet

nap^in

right from the drawer.

Don,t hia foQd half oooked halt

ov&done, but just right, and

int#,nded in delicate quantities a tray loaded down

some less than "^e intended. with the choicest food repells the weak "How much sleep does a man in good

atomach afc sight aQd dest£ya the appe.

u""

"•Mer

tb,n uo

Don't ever speak ^harshly ordiscourto the sick. The voices and

stones across the brook, or dainty flowers by the wayside whipb lures the weary pilgrim back to health. Kind words are often better than the doctors medicine, and much pleasanter to take, so don't stop to shake the battle before administering them.

BELIEF OF MORMON WOMEN. Helen Hunt, in May Century. "The two doctrines which most help the Mormon woman to endure the sufferings of 'plural marriage' and the doctrines of pre-existence and of the eternal continuance of the patriarchal order. The mere revelation from Joseph Smith to the effect that polygamy was to be permitted and was praise worthy and desirable, would never, alone, have brought the Mormon women to hearty acceptance of the institution. "They are taught, and most unquestioningly believe, that the universe is full of spirits waiting impatiently, to be born on this earth. These spirits have already passed through oneRtage of discipline and probation, and are to enter upon a second one here. The Rev. Edward Beecher once published^ book setting forth a similar doctrine. The Mormon doctrine goes further than Dr. Beecher's, inasmuch as it teaches that these spirits may select of their own free will wbt re and how they will be born into tTeir earthly probation and that they are one and all, anxious to be born in the Mormon Church, as the one true Zion, where alone are to be found safety ana salvation. They also believe that the time is limited during which these spirits can avail themselves of this privilege of being born into Zion. Tney look for the return of Jesus Christ to the earth before long, a'nd for the establishment then of the millenlal dispensation. after which no more of the spirits can

reborn and reclaimed. Hence

the obligation resting upon every faithful Mormon woman to bring into the world, in the course of her life, as many children as possible. Not only does she thus contribute to the building up and strengthening of the true church, but she rescues souls already existing and in danger of eternal death. It is easy to sneer at this doctrine as inconceivable rubbish and, in truth, it must be admitted that It is hard to conceive of an educated mind receiving it but it is no more absurd or unprovable than hundreds of kindred speculations and notions which have been devised, preached and passionately believed in times past. Neither has the absurdity or nonabeurdity, falsity or truth of the belief, anything to do with our judgment of its believers."

THE WARMBA THFOR INFANTS. Helen C. Lewis.

Only those who watch infants with intelligent discrimination know how

•u wu often they suffer from fever. With the"iront of the salt bag was its unique this feveir comes thirst. What dees and only decoration. the' mother put into that little dry

m0uth?

her home in Cincinnati. The interest- not rather increase it Be assured, it is ing event that took place was wholly ^he same with the baby. With the

fellow-paaeenger proved opportune. The child was named Walter, after the babies are feverish, restless and alee doctor, and Phelps, after the young lady ie8g| »0a have at hand the means to gi who made the salt bag dram. them relief and refreshing sleep I

tion

When anyone Buffers speak a word of ~uetal conditions to which I have alluded. ft is well to add there ia scarcely Tell neither of your own faults nor iiM«i tmnhia nf tAmnAnrvaatnn. ai

tb«

0very

ewnt.

Carefully dean the snow and mud

TATTLE

of ATHLO-

entirely cured hiro of Rheum*-

Often nothing but milk!

Tng in Florida, ^yjjen we adults have fever, do we find that milk relieves the thirst Does it

prescription Mothers, do you know that when

ieepfive do

not mean opiates, for, in "the eadf they add to the fever. I refer to the warm bath. For babies it is a blessed institution. Better that all medieines, it will impart relief and restoration to the feverish and restless little folks. The warm bath ia not appreciated. In addi-

to its charming effect upon the

idea, ft is wen to aaa mere is scarcely a lccal trouble of a temporary nature, as for example, pain in the stomach or

P®tient be one of strong conatitu-

tioa.

from your feet on entering the house. t«keQ

servants. When IndUoed to give and angTy answer. press your lipe together and say the alphabet.

When the little sufferer becomes

qaiet or tb6

„kia

moist,

out.

Always speak politely and kindly to wrapped in a fresh, warm blanket, During the last five years of my professional management of the sick, I waa in the habit of constantly resorting to the warm bath as above advised, and always with the moat satisfactory results.

it should be

robbed with soft, warm tew-

No other single means in the treatment

Rheumatism is tt» muet sulitle sod childieo csa be com,««d with I» tertHng. tt» brain IniMnud Neuralgia, sharper and mow erratic, is bowel affections are more relieved by a iudldou8

us8 of

th®

all otlur means.

raonos entirely cured mm or KDeuma- as Ayers Haraapanua. *namyshould SOOUK tfsm, from which he bad suffered from a be considered when making compart year and a half." |sons..............

hath than by

No otb«r preparation so concentrates and combines olood-puiifying, vitalizing, eorichingandinvigoratingqualitlea as Ayer's Sarsapariil*. Quality

THE STOMACH AND THE CONSCIENCE. The theoryithat the stomach dominates the conscience through the appetiteft was

unfolded by Carlyle. He

prophesied that the kitchen-range was to be tse throne and altar of the future. He said lhat the gridiron would be hanishdajn a censer in the coming temple of humanity. It is plain tbfet religion will not thrive with a bad stomach, and that poor cooking will show itself in wretched feelings. "Take care what vou eat," said a theological professor to Wis

students "for if you have sour bread it will show itself in your sermons." The ecoentric Lyman Beecher gave as a parting admonition, "Fear God, keep a clear conscience, ana keep your bowels open." The science that only touches the head and forgets the stomach is vitally defective. Wars have sometimes been traced to dyspepsia on the part of a king or prime minister. The kitchen has along probation, aud is still on trial.

The character and uses of food are yet but imperfectly understood, and we hope in these columns from time to time to unfold matters of practical and personal interest to every housekeeper who wishes to make sunny aud happy.

VIENNA ROLLS.

Says the Hotel Mail: The Vienna bread is made in various ways, some of which require the machiuery of a large bake-house and are not manageable in an ordinary kitchen. The so-called "Vienna rolls" can be made in any household by the following receipt: Finest wheat fleur, eight pounds milk, three and one-half quarts water, three and one-half quarts compressed yeast, three and one-third ounces salt, one ounce. After all the materials have acquired the temperature of the room the flour is pourea in a loose heap in the middle of the baking trough and a small quantity of the heap, on one side, mixed to a thin dough with the milk and water previously poured together, and mixed with the yeast and salt. The dough is allowed to stand three-quarters of an hour, well covered. After this time, or as soon as fermentation has begun, the dough is mixed Intimately with the remainder df the flour and the rest of the liquid, and left to rise for two hours and a half. It is then cut in pieces weighing each one pound, each of which is divided into twelve square pieces of equal weight. The con era of each of these squares having been turned over to the center, the cakes are put into the oven and baked for fifteen minutes. The heating must be uniform. If tke oven is hotter in one place than another the cakes must be shifted about. To impart a gloss to the cakes they are brushed over with a sponge dipped in milk.

A WORD TO YOUNG MEN. Observe that pale young fellow crossing the street. You see a good many of that kind just now. Some folks say it is the climate. The truth is, that the climate Of America, with a fair chance, produces not only the best complexion, but the best health, in the world.

Did you notice tke thing he was carrying in his mouth Well, it is that meerschaum which is doing the business for him. It is busy with three millious of our men. Let us study one of these meerschaum*suckbrs. we will take a young mail. He shall have money and plenty of time for sucking. Pale, nervous, Irritable, thin in chest and stomach, weak in muscle, he is fast losing his power of thought and application. Let us get near eaough to him to smell of him! Even the beast of prey will not touch the corpse of a soldier saturated with the vile poiBon. Nice bedfellow he is for a sweet, pure companion.

Chewing is the nastiest mode, snuffing ruins the voice, but smoking, among those who have time to be thorough, is moat destructive.

Young K. graduated at Harvard no devotee of the weed haa ever graduated with the highest honors at that institution ), and soon after consulted his physician with reference to his pale face, emaciation, indigestion and low spirits. He weighed but one hundred and eight. "Stop smoking!" was the prescription. In four mouths ne had increased twentyeight pounds, aud become clear and healthy in skin, bis digestion all right, and his spirits restored. One or two millions of our young and middleaged men are in a similar condition, and would be restored to health and spirits by the same prescription. On the whole, the cigar is worse than the pipe.

THE HOUSEHOLD,

HINTS FOR HOUSE-CLEANING. A imall piece of paper or linen moistened with the spirits of turpentine and put into a bureau or wardrobe for a single day, two or three times, is said to be a sufficient preservative against moths.

To clean painted woodwork provide a

late with some of the best whiting to had, and apiece of flannel, which dip into the water and squeeze nearly dry then take as much whiting as will adhere to it, apply it to the painted surface, when a little rubbing will instantly remove any dirt or grease. After which wash the part well with clean water, rubbing it d*y with a soft chamois.

To clean mirrors take part of a newspaper, fold it small, dip It in a basin of clean oold water, and when it is thoroughly wet squeeze it out as a sponge, *nd then rnb it bard over the face of the glass, taking care that it is not so w$t as to run down in streams. After tb* glass has been well robbed with the wet paper, let it rest a few minutes and then go over it with a dry paper till it looks clear and bright.

After sweeping and getting the carpet aa clean aapossil le, it may be brightened by going all over it with a clean flannel cloth dampened with water in which yon have put a little ammonia. Too much will take the color out of the carpet. A tablespoonful of ammonia to one quart of water is about the proper proportion.

That weak hack or pain in the ride or hips you will find immediately relieved when a Hop Hatter is applied. It strengthens the muscles, giving the ability to do hard work without suffering take none but this, 'tis sore.

FOB

8KVXRAX. YKABS

*HE SATURDAY EVENING

MAIL,

TERRE HAUTE, IND.

A Paper for the People.

A MODEL HOME JOURNAL.

ENTERTAINING, INSTRUCTIVE AND NEWSY.

BRIGHT, CLEAN AND PtJ.HK. S

THE FOURTEENTH YEAR

The Mail haa a record of success seld attained by a Western weekly paper. Twelve years of Increasing popularity proves it* worth. Enoouraged by the extraordinary BuooeaB which haa attended Its publication the publisher has perfected arrangements by which for the ooming year The Mall will be more than ever welcome in the home circle. In this day of trashy and impure literature itshouldbe a pleasure to all good people to help in extending the circulation of suofc a paper as the

SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

TERMS:

One year........................ ........,u..*.....t2 00 Six months 1 09 Three months 60

Mail and offloe subscrlj tious will, invariably, be discontinued at expiration of time. Addresd P. S. WESTFALL,

Publisher Saturday Evening Mail, TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Professional Cards.

J^R. GLOVER,

(Corner of Eighth and Pogdar Streets. GALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED. MTTKLEPHONS.

W. C. EICHELBERGER,

Oenllst and Aurlst.

Room 18, Savings Bank Building. Terre Haute, Ii 9—12 a. mJ Office hours, £Tg

J. RICHARDSON. R. W.

VAN

VA1AAH

RICHARDSON & VAN VALZAJ

DENTISTS.

OmGB—Southwest corner Fifth anu streets, over National State Bank (entran on Fifth street. Communication by Tel] phone.

W. BALLEW, DENTIST,

Offlefc 49S% Hiiin Street, over SngfI old confectionery stand. TERRE HAUTE, IND.

Can be found in offloe night and day

O. LINCOLN,

DENTIST]

Office, 19K S. Sixth, opposite P. O. iifl tract) ng ana artificial teeth sp work warranted.

entire

I waa troubled

with Catarrh bav»tried many remedies. Ely's Cream Balm baa proved the artide derirod. I believe it is the only cure. —L, B. CoBC«?f, Hardware Merchant, Towanda, Pa. (See adv't.)

I BAOicmsra from Catarrh for ten

Tearsobliged

the pain would be so severe that waa to send for a doctor. I had entirely loat sense of smell. Ely's Cream Balm baa worked a miracle.—-C. S. HAIX*YS, Bingbampton, N. Y.

specialties. (dAw-tJ

Ostrich Feather,]

COLORED IN ALL SHADES.

Ladies' Dresses, Shawls, Cloaks, E

Of all Fabrics, Cleaned and Colored.)

G-ents5 ea^| Cleaned, Colored and Repaired.

The undersigned would respectful form the citizens of Terre Haute and lty that he has forty years experience profession, which assures satlsfa its branohes.

H. F. REINERS, 655 Main Stre

Hat and Bonnet Bleach.|

LADIES* AND GENTS HATS of cleansed, Dyed and re-shaped in A styles to look as well as new/ on notioe.

Also Plaster Hat and Bonnw Bloc Milliners new and old work excited, 1 MILTON CAfif»PropJ 220 south Third street, Teife Haute

THE AP0LM) BA

CXE&CHIBfSTZR-A-'

Respectfully call attention to the aim ment that they ar^frdy^repare^ to

Balls, Parties Parades, Fun BerenadesJPoIitical Meetr Pleasure Excursions,

Picnics, Ac.,

Or any occamon upon which band or ortaesti* may be requiredliberal, forwhlch applyto ««rge Bi er) at barf office, s. w. cor jth and over Mjcrs clothing store, front floor, or to Tho*. McKennan, at his buslnes».phlostj

an®

wMrt. it Shannon's Bank. Maltary Band fully, Uniform. Equipped.

satisfaction guaranteed oc

tracts. 1 GAGG,

DTAUB

ARTISTS' SUPPI

PICTURES, FBAML&S, MOUT|

Picture Frames Made toll McKaen's Block, No. 646 Mai t« tweeo 6th and 7th., W. 8. Ciirr. J» H. WII-LIAIIB, id CLIFT,WILLIAMFj jvunrrAcruMKB* of

Sash, Doors, Biiaf

A3TO »«AMKB8

LUMBER, LATH# 8BE GLASS, PAINTS,

'J]

and BUILDERS' HAEI

Mulberry Street, Corner TERRE!