Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 July 1886 — Page 1

Vol. 17.—No. 4.

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

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•'•Fourteen years' is becoming the standard in the Circuit court. It covers a multitude of sins.

Our people are causing Maxinkuckee and I^ake Mills to figure largely in the personal columns of the papers just now.

The cool weather of the past week can easily be explained. Its a cold week when the opera house stage is free from amateur actors.

Hartley Campbell, the dramatist, who has done so much to interost and amuse theater-going people, is dying at Bloom ingdalo insane asylum.

If the selections from Rose Elizabeth Cleveland's now book, "The Long Run nro fair samples of its merit, the book will be a good one to take a "long run away from. _____

A number of workmen at tho car works struck one day this week for ice Mater, and were so successful that they are now thinking of striking for straw hats and Japanese fans.

Bum Jonos stays he is worth $100 a day now and if ho can get enough newspaper advertising ho will be worth $1,000 a day and will then go to Europe. Some mer chants would do well to try this plan of going to Europe.

As the small boy would remark, John liainb wants tho office of Congressman now, 'cause he needs It in his busi noss." Tho Republican nominee has his work cut out leforo him, and can ex poet to have his hands full.

Vi neon ties hadn't had a sensation for several days, and so her representative in Congress, Mr. Cobb, to keep up tho reputation of his section, had to get up a tight In the House, succeeding in getting his mouth slap|ed. A groat amount of ability is required to conduct such discussion. ______ "Heat" is the latest new gamo with cards, but it must not be confounded with the gamo of the same name usually played when your back yard is tilled with midnight visitors. Fortunately It is too complicated to become a rage like progressive euchre.-

Parson Downs, of Boston, has oontrlv od to got himself involved in another Hoandal. Parson Downs should be given a good ducking In a goose pond, and if tho bath worecontrivod so that he should never come to tho surface again the world would not lose much by the transaction. ______

Indian Territory has turnod out a cow boy evangelist, who rejoices In tho truly evangelistic name of Wosloy and is very plain in spooch. In a recent sermon in Kansas City ho spoke of "tho whining old whelps who had boon hit with some of his gosiol rocks." At this rate Sam Jones will soon be at a discount.

The cable dispatch editors must bo hard up for news when they send two or three hundred words to tell us that Baron Somelody has secured a divorce from his wife for adultery with Baron Somebody else. The United States can furnish enough items of this kind with out calling on the continent.

Chicago takes groat pride in tho fact that her people in one day this week used for drinking purposes, including waste, over one hundred milllou gallons of water. This is made notable by tho fact that it is more water than has been used in Kentucky for drinking purposes since the opening of the century.

,!f all reports lie true the President's recent message forbidding office holders to take any active part in politics must have been called out by the recent primary elections at which Democratic congwssional delegates were chosen. It remains to bo seen whether the 'message will have any effect upon the Vigo brigade of ofltee»holders.

The theatrical managers who gave dates to the "Bandit King" and similar shows, can now prepare to receive their Just reward. Frank James and a Texas outlaw who has killed some twenty-odd men, arc going to star next year in a lurid drama. A shot gun brigade will le the only safe protection against these d«wperado«s

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There ts talk in some of the western papers that our former townsman. Delegate Charles Voorheew, of Washington Territory, will have serious opposition to a second term in Congress. Some of the leading Democrats of the Territory, so it la said, are angry at his opposition to the Northern Pacific railroad and will not favor his rcnomination. Probable there la not much In this but talk, however. Mr, Voorhees has made a more than commonly strong record in Congrtww /or a first session, and will doubtless Ret hi* second term if he wants it, and the Democrat* can carry the Territory.

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Dakota, ambitions to show her boundless qualificat ons for membership in the States, is running the whole weather scale. Last winter it was so cold up there that their weather stories threw Baron Munchausen into the shade, and this week the mercury took a shoot in the other dilution and went up to 102 in the shade. Such a State as that cannot be held back. Down with the bars and let her in.

Can it be that the F. H. Nugent, who is organizing a colony to enter the Indian Territory, is our own Nugent, formerly editor of the Indiana Statesman? The initials arp the same, and it would not be surprising if they were one and the same. If Nugent makes no greater success of his Oklahoma scheme than he did with his greenback paper here his colony will be short-lived.

At the meeting last Saturday the Vigo Agricultural Society voted that no more passes will be Issued to stock holders until the debts aro paid. This is a sensible move, but the stockholders who paid no assessments, and have carried their sisters and their cousins and their aunts in free on family passes will now have the opportunity of thoir lifetime in criticising tho work of the society. It is likely some of them will not lose it.

Canton, Ohio, by a subscription of $100,000, and a donation of land and taxes, is to have a watch factory, removed from Covington, employing 1,200 men, and paying out annually in wages nearly one million dollars. There have been numerous Instances where Terre Haute might have secured desirable additions to her industries, but the public spirit and the necessary funds wero not forthcoming. The money is here, but unfortunately it is not to be had for such pUrpOSOS. ,* J*

Miss Cleveland has already had a falling out with the publisher of tho Chicago magazine she is to edit. Sho doesn't want her namo to appear in the publication, every line of which, including advertisements, poetry, etc., must have her approval, before appearing. It is intimated also that tho pouters must wear full dress during working hours, abhor the "growler," and bo firm believers in Brothor drover and his policy. If the publisher lives to get out*the first numter he will probably, pha'nge

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It Is said that a donation of $1,500 will induce the Streot Railway Company to extend its track to Collctt Park, and Mr I. Fechhelmer has set about the work of raising this amount by subscriptions from those interested. Too much stress cannot bo laid on the benoflts that would arise from such an entenslon, not only to the peoplo, but to tho railroad company as woll. But we greatly fear that, as tho company has recently been robbed of two or throe hundred dollars, the extension cannot possibly bo built this year.

Tho Reading, Pa., Herald devotes some of its valuable space to abusing tho railway passenger who persists in open ing his window and

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thus letting dust and cinders into the oyos and on tho clothes of the next man. Tho Pennsylvania paper calls this objectionable passenger "a win-dow-opening animal' and all this, but it is really scolding the wrong party The one to blame is the railway company. In the Pullman cars when the window is open a wooden arrangement two or three inches wide is placet! under the sash on the forward part of the opening. The two or tree inches of projection keeps the cinders and dust out and gives the pas sengers free air without the accompanying disadvantages. This wooden device is very inexpensive and every railway company in the country might provide half a do7.cn of them for each car and thus add materially to the comfort and health of tho passengers.

The groat danger of cigarette smoking arises from the fact that the cigarette is so mild that the smoker uses one after another, smoking almost continually and so gradually poisons himself with the nicotine. Cigarette smokers use the vile little tubes from morning until night except during meal time. Besides generally the worst tobacco Is used in making up cigarettes. Excessive cigarette smoking causes palpitation of the heart and Anally kills the user of the weed. Two deaths occurred in New York last week that were directly traceable to the cigarette vfee. One of the deplorable features of the use of the cigarette Is the fact that so many boys smoke them. France has a law preventing the sale of cigarettes to boys. The United States should have a similar law.

The Scientific American says If a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal is left uncorked in a room at night, not a mosquito or any other blood sucker will be found there in the morning. Mix potash with powdered meal and rats will depart. If a rat or mouse gets In your pantry, stuff in its holes a rag saturated with a solution of cayenne pepper and no rat or mouse will touch the rag for the purpose of opening communication with the depot of supplies.

Female detectives have become a Axed institution In New York City. -.

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TERRE HAUTE-, IND., SATURDAY EVENING,

TWENTY-TWO YEARS A CO.

A LOOK THROUGH AN OLD CITY DIRECTORY.

Twenty-two years ago is not a great length of time in the chronicles of a nation, but in the history of a town or city it is a huge span, and brings almost countless changes. This thought was never better emphasized than by briei glances through a copy of the Terre Haute City Directory for 1864. The work is the property of C. O. Ebel, of this city, and is valuable, copies being rare. The book was issued by Rufus H. Simpson it Co., and contain besides the directory proper a sketch of Vigo county by Gen. Chas. Cruft, a biography of Col. Vigo by S. S. Early, and a sketch of Terre Haute by Jacob Hager, all interesting to-day to those who find pleasure in comparing our present condition with that which existed during the closing years of tho war.

Terre Haute was beginning to put on city airs then, and her merchants made money rapidly. Mr. Hager in his sketch of the city estimates the numborof hogs packed annually at 01,000 head, $800,000 being annually invested in this industry in all branches. The grain shipments from this point for the ten years previous had averaged over $500,000 a year.

The religious condition of the people were well looked after then, with fifteen churches, including a Jewish synagogue. Rev. Lyman Abbott was then pastor of the Congregational church, which was erroneously located at the corner Cherry and Eagle streets.

J. M. Olcott was superintendent of the public schools, and among his list of teachers we read the familiar namos of Miss Emma Button, Miss Orinthia Archer, Miss Maria Smith, Miss Jane Hersey, Miss Marietta Grover, P. B. O'Reilly and Bonny Hays, who, peace to his ashes, feouId warm up more boys in a given length of time than any other man living. C. Probst was then, as now, instructor in Gorman in the schools. The city schools then had 1,460 pupils, for which twenty-one teachers were employed at an average monthly salary of $33.15.

Albert Lango was then mayor of the city, J. F. Gulick* clerk, E. D. Carter treasurer, P. B." O'Roily assessor, Moore marshal, C.,:S. Domoroat en$ G. G. Boord street commissioner, R. Thompson city attorney, and Drs. James Bell, W. L. Mahan and J. H. Long com prised tho board of health. They had good men for councilmen in those days as witness the following list: W. R. McKeen, Win. Coats, J. Fellenzer, J. H. O'Boyle, Allen Pence, Jacob Engle, John Haney, John E. Wilkinson, Samuel Paddock, A. O. Hough

The fire department was then solely volunteer and consisted of the Niagara, Vigo, Northern Liberty and Union Hook and Ladder Companies, with John A. Bryan as chief enginoer

The military spirit was active then and was represented by the Union Rifles Fred A. Ross captain Meade Guards, Chas. M. Smith captaiu Terre Haute Guards, John A. Bryan captain German Guards, A, Reiman captain, and German Artillery, Chas. Schwab lieut.. •,,

We aro reminded that the cfnel war was not over by the list of membors of tho "Soldiers' Relief Committee," of which Jas. Farrington was president, Wm. R. McKeen treasurer and Jagnes Hook distributing agent. This remindor is strengthened by the frequent appearance of the word "soldier" throughout the alphabetical list of names,

It is in tho latter part of the book that we discover the vast difference between the Terre Haute of '64 and that of to-day. The list of names occupies sixty pages and does not average more than twentyfive to «the page. In the business firms one can realize the changes that have been brought about In this quarter of a century. Just glance through this list of the leading merchants of the city:

E. A. Chess, musical merchandise. C. Wittlg A Co., dry goods. Nippert it Dunn, dry goods. T. W.Stewart, agent American Express Company.

Ben Hubbs, House. S. K. Allen, furniture.

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I*. G. Hager, ice. ,*... t, Hartsock 6 Bannister, clothing. Thos. H. Barr, druggist. O. Bartlett, books. -v W. H. Buckingham, books.

Jacob Butz, Clark House. JBTJ I). N. Gould, grocer. J. A. Foote, Star grocery. A. J. Woodmansee, carriages. John G. Davis Co., dry goods. If. Keres, manufacturer of carriages. J. W. blusher, photographer. Henry Robinson, auctioneer. Jacob D. Early A Son, pork packers.

Walter A Eppingbousen, monuments. R. S. Cox A Son, wholesale grocers. Pot win & Judd, saddlerv hardware. Nam'l Mack «fc OtK, clothiers. Scott A Valentine, stoves. Ph. Rive, grocer. John EL «ilkinsc ilkinson, saloon. John Haney. commission. Jos. Fellenaer, lime and stone. Claussen Bichowsky, whobsale grocers.

McKeen A Doming, bankers. Major B. Hudson, queens ware. S. S. Kennedy Jt On., woolen mills. G. W. Patrick Co., druggists. B. Kuppenheimer, clothiW. I* Loeb. clothing. D. W. Minshali, merchant tailor. Jos. Yates, hats.

These are firms selected at random from the advertising pages of the work and illustrate the business cl^nges that' have taken place. There area number of firms and individuals whose advertisements appear in the old directory stilly engaged in the same calling here, among them Isaac Ball, R. L. Ball, Bement A Co., F. L. Meyer, M. Joseph, W. H. Scudder, P. M. Donnelly, S. T. Reese, A. C. Combs, C. Eppert, C. C. Smith.

There aro many pofnts of interest about the old directory that cannot find room in a newspaper article, and which rendel- it more valuable as the passing years take us farther and farther from the events which memory cannot record so faithfully as history. Some day, no doubt, our children and our children's children will find a like pleasure in reviewing those events, which now looked upon as uninviting and uninteresting, go to make up our local history.

A recent St. Louis marriage, according to the Spectator, is tho ilenouivnmt of a very curious and interesting courtship. *J*he story runs as follows: Several yoars ago two young men came to this city and established themselves In business. They were firm frionds, and had sworn to rornain so. Ono day one of'them mot the lady who is now his bride, and Avas hi" stantly cnslavod. Ho told his friend how it was with him, and asked him to see the young lady, to become intiinatolv acquainted with her, and to advise bim whether or not to propose marriage to her. Of course, that was nothing which one friond might not do for another but tho matter became complicated somewhat- when the second gentleman confessed that tho little god of love had attacked him also, and, worse and worse, that tho same young lady was tho innocent and unconscious causa belli*in both trases. And what did thoso two model young mon do? Fight it out? Not they. They "arbitrated." They mot amicably and

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ment. Both loved the same girl. That %as certain. Only ono of them could haVo her.. That was'equally certain. The sentiment of tho old Scotch song. "Tliore's nao room for twa, ye ken," had their united and unqualified endorsemJht: They therefore docided that oach should, liavp an equal chance with tho other.^ptt sltould wooaf t«* his own bfotMra, taking turn about every othiw day. Tho odd day, Sunday, they would together awooing go. At the end of a certain time thoy would both propose to tho young lady by letter, and quietly abide by her decision. Above and under and on either side of all they were to ffeinain forevermore firm friends—the modern Damon and Pythias. The agreement has been carried out to the letter. The lady has mado her choice, and Is married to the ono, and the other "ain't ., nn', saying a word.

AD VER TISINO THEIR MOURN ING.

Howard, in the New York World, thus lets looso tho vials of sarcasm upon one of tho fashionable follies of tho day: "Come with mo to Central Park, whero everything is bright and beautiful, and where even sad invalids sitting on the benches draw funny pictures in the dirt with their canes or parasols, and little children lame from their births emulate the gambols of their sturdier companions. Come to the Central Park, where the bird^ sing and the cows low, aud the monkeys chatter and the sheep wig-gle-waggle their little tails, while the robbins jump red-breasted here and there, and squirrels and chipmunks and wild-cats startled from their nesting places, leap across the path skirting the themselves in tho ed 'otne and see to what idiotic degree fashion tempts its votaries. Standing near the mall, my attention was attracted by a ,ir of spanking bays sturdily coming the road, drawing a superb landau in which sat two ladies—oh, hdw black,

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how somber, how dismal, from the onyx tip of their black lace parasols, through hot, thick veil and heavy draped mourning costume! The coachman and the footman on the box my eyes!—but they area sight, wide mourning bands upon their hats, black gloves upon their hands and the wide top* of their professional boots absolutely covered with crepe, while on the long, tapering hawtlaof the whip stood fortn an invitation fO the gaping crowd to see how bad thpjnonrners felt, a huge black rosette, wftose long, heavy ends fluttered in the breeze as the horses champed their bits aftd waved their tails and darted down the drive. Of all tho idiotic displays, of all temptations to ridicule, of all provocative to what our reportorial friends eall 'derisive laughter,1 that picture caps the climax."

.1 NEW MANIA FOR fiADIRS. »t. Paul Globe. "A new craze is on,"said a Third street music dealer yesterday, "and it is a craze, too, of large proportidlias The society ladies have taken A sudden notion to bone playing, and the trade in these instruments has quadrupled in the past two weeks. I have no Idea what started it, but ever since Haverly's Minstrels were here therp has been a great demand for bones of course the ladies don't come into the store and call for bones. They always want castanets, and when our stock is spread out before them they pick them up and clatter around the store like a first-class end man. They are not contented with one ptir either, they always buy two and play with both hands, going through the motions very gracefully, but not musically."

American male fashions mostly originate on this side of the water.

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WOMEN'S IF. 117?.

The girl who never screams wl\en she sees a snake isn't a safe girl to marry. With her calm, cool, collected, unexeitable disposition she would hit where she aimed with the rolling pin every tinie.

A young woman of Ashton, lak., has a farm which sho worki all alone. She has three horses, and hist year she raised 1,200 bushels of grain, and now luissevon-ty-five acres of wheat, fifteen of corn, and is breaking up more land. She averages alK»ut one otfer of marriage a month.

Amelia, ftke favorite wife of the late Brigham Young, has denied the story that she is a cousin to Mrs. Cloveland. this will relieve Mrs. Cleveland of tho unpleasant duty of making tho denial herself.

A Philadelphia newspaper tells of a brido who, arriving at the church in the rain, had her white slippers covered by a pair of ^Vrctie overshoes, which she forgot to remove. Thoir appearance as they peeped in and out under hor white skirts, as sho walked to and from the altar, wasn't at all like little mice.

Tho bathing drosses this soason are quite pretty in comparison with thoso oi a,few years ago. An eastern correspondent says thoy vory nearly rosomblo ball dresses, tho one difference boing the length of the skirts. Many of these lovely garments aro often worn just for effect on tho Ijeach, the wearers having no idea of permitting tho phantasies to get wet.

The American woman's idoal of a husband has boon raised of lato years, says the Hartford Times. Now that sho is beginning to use her brains and do a littlo of her own thinking, she prefers to "hang on a willow" rather than have a dissipifted husband hang on to her{ or to put lip with the hardships that marriage, undor existing circumstances, is bringing to a large proportion of unfortunate women..

Out of "nearly soven* hundred assai graduates about two hundred have been drawn in nup'ial noose. Tho full-blown buds left havo taken up various calling. Thoro are 17 physicians, 2 organists, 10' bookkeepers, 6 chemists, 15 school principals, farmers, 1 census clerk, 2 insur* ance agrihU^230 teaeh§r». clerk, ftHibrarlaris, 1 copyist,'IS music teachers, 3 astronomical assistants, 2 journalists, 3 gymnastic teachers, 2 missionaries, 3 public,readers and 4 an thors. And yet they say women haven chance.

HOUSEHOLD "CLOCK- WORK.''

Florence M. Adkinson, editress of the women's department Of the Indianapolis Sentinel? says: The idea of system everywhere is beautiful to contemplate. System is the rule of tho universe. The planets revolve regularly about their suns, and thoso solar systems in turn move in their orbits about the distant central sun. The seasons come and go in succession. Day follows night with unvarying certainty.

In the great business establishment of the manufacturing and mercantile worlds, system is the first law. Every ono from proprietor to errand boy has a round of duties fitting together and carrying on the whole wheel moves within wheel, and belt follows belt, and all moves like clock-work.

What a fascination there is about that phrase, "like clock-work." It expresses tho acme of perfection in house-keeping. System is urged upon house-keepers as the best panacea for the ntimorous voxations of their calling. But of all the hard things that come to a house-keeper's ken, the hardest is to live up to a system. It is ever a humiliating falling short of a high ideal, a dream of perfection never to oe realized. Doubtless it is better to have a system and fail than to have no system at all, but daily failure and disappointment tries the flesh and the soul.

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on through a woekVj calendar to declare that the house shall be set in order by 9 o'clock, that the next two hours sfiall be devoted to sewing, that by two the dinner getting and eating shall be over and the afternoon toilet made, that the next two or three hours shall be assigned to rest, recreation, reading or special work, and that the supper shall be over in time to give along evening. It is lovely on paper. But woman proposes and* circumstance disposes. On Monday morning the rain may be pouring down, the home keeper, if her own washerwoman, may bo frantic with pain, Bridget may be affected with some Hi to which servant flesh Is heir to, or Dinah may send word that she is obliged "to 'tend a funeral." So with every day something may happen to disturb the clockwork. Mold corrupts, rust tarnishes and roaches and ants break in, and the setting in order consumes the whole morning in consequence.

Dinner waits the coming of the master or of the grocery boy, and the long afternoon is spoiled. The hour for reading is consumed by the ubiqutious book agent, or the blarneying woman with "handmade laces" marvelously cheap, or the neighbor who comes to lorrow and lingers to repeat for the hundredth time the story of her domestic tribulations All honrs are subject to unexpected invasions from the return of the "uncle from India" to bumped heads and eolie among the "well springs" of the house-

hold However hard housekeeper week to see tern shattered, and to find herself weig ed with multitude not yet done.

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HOW A SfK'lHTY llKLLKGOKKTlUtoruiI THE CERKMONY.

It doesn't take a girl lonj» to get out of her toggery when once sho has gained the privacy of her own room. Sho is liko ono in avic^ oven though her clothes are made big enough, they aro a great load, and corsets have an emphatic way of asserting themselves about midnight*

Tho great majority of womon long for the hour when they can disrobe, and Adolphus littlo suspects when ho leaves Angela so lingcringly at tho door that sho is wishing with all hor heart he would govon home and let her have a chance to get her corsets off.

There is along mirror over the ilress-ing-ca.se, and when Angela ha^ doffed her wrappings, prav, wore she woman did she not approach its shining surface and take along look at her pretty face before she bogins to disrobe? If you w'oro •'$ a mouse in the cornel* there behind that little cabinet and slvlv peeped out at the side von might see lior give a long, critical look in the glass, which might irtean one thing and might mean another. Angela is studying her good points, and sometimes she is satisfied with tho serutlnv and soinotimcs she is uot. If the former is the ease sho turns away from tho mirror smilingly, but if her sonso of criticism lists been awakened she turns awav with an impatient littlo frown, biting her lips and prin-ooding to undress as vigorously anil her life hung upon the condition of getting to bed at a oortain hour but if she diseovcros something in her face that pleases hor. she turns away satisfied, trilling an air and proceeding loisurely to divest her slender figure of its numerous burdens.

And now the silken robe is unclasped, carefully pulled over hor head, as carefully shaken out. and hung up in her wanlrobe to await its next appearance. O! ho\tf much more easily she breathes without it you can almost hoar her sigh W of relief, and thon ono by one her garments are unfastened,and fall on tho floor, leaving hor a half-niulo Venus, hor beauty sacked to her eyes alone.

When tho corsets comeoffthe long-im-prisoned flesh soems to rojoico, and Angola knows her bust and sidos are ooverod with small, fine marks, made by compression, which havo given hor an itching sensation for two hours past, which she has boon obliged to suffer in sllcnee. She takos off her garments ono by one, thoro aro so many of them, oach oho dependent on tho other, like tho 5*component parts of a machine, and when she bus takon off the last one, sho Is as pretty a "Marguerlto" as ovor "Ftyist"# would care to feast his eyes upon,, for Unless a woman Is dark-sklnnot aji^l sheriA-ttf wny#'prcl£y in* the guTstf nature gave hor, uartioularly If tho soft, graceful lines or early maturity havo crept into her form, and molded hor with oxquisito graco, half statue, half woman.

Thon sho slips on a dressing-gown, and, sinking into a low rfbift, deliberately* unbuttons one shoo, thon the othor, and sticks hor small feet into slippers whily she brushes her hair. Now, when womon roach the hair-brushing stage they will always exchange confidences, If thoy aro together but if one is alono sho

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jrows sontimontal, and ofton stops to pensively into tho flro, or to gaze at the half-blown rose there on tho dressing table.

Did ho moan anything, ho who gave that rose? Was sho really anything to him, or was he liko all the rost?

And thon she thinks of the womon in her set and of tho clothes thoy wore tonight, and sho is not at all ponsivo now, for she is in rapport with no woman on earth, just as no pretty, gifted woman ovor was before hor and over will

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ter her. All this thought out and put away in hor own way, Angela exchatigos her drossing-gown for the soft, lacy thing which is her night dress, sits on the odgo of tho bod to pull off her slippers and silken hose, and has soon sunk down among tho pillows to dreain of coming triumphs. Her face is warm and rosy in her sleep. Her small, white hands aro often clasped and tho rich tressos of her hair stray over hor pillow like rays of sun spun fine. The thick shadows of night rail about he. Tho angel of peace takes her in his arms. Iler breath comes sweet and low as that of a child. She is among earth's lovollest pictures— a youthful sleeping woman. —(Galveston News.

FOOD OF OUR FATHERS. [Boston Pont.] Tho people of the last generation, Dr. Hodges says, "know nothing of luxury they had the 'rog'lar' and solid meals at noontime, which are said to bo the foundation of tho stability of character, and they enjoyed-at least nine hours of sleep every day." How hsppy, indeed, are the men and women who are able to look back upon such a state of life, and how unhappy by contrast are those who remember a different state of things as the practice of the older generations, and suffer in their own lives it* effects! To these unfortunates tho tables of their fathers and mothers appear in their recollection burdened with unwholesome and scarcely nourishing dishes. The chief dish there is ono of salted pork, whose contents have been shriveled in the greasy frying pan Into indigestible scraps, "there are potatoes, most frequently fried in the same grease as the pork, or else boiled their starchy substance is expected to be the chief feature of the meal. There is hot bread, made of a poor quality of wheat flour, which has neon carefully deprived in the milling of its most nutritious properties. There is butter, which is generally good. There are fried apples—not nourishing. There is tea, which has boiled long and long, its stewed leaves surging round and round in the teapot preparatory to being poured out in black masses into cups for drinking. And to crown tho feast, there is dried-apple pie! This Is the regular meal that some mature peo-

remember, though at intervals, to monotony is varied with excellent brown bread made of Indian^orn, with innocuous baked beans, and with glutinous "flap-jacks"and griddle-cakes.

A man can profess more religion In fiftv minutes than he can practice by working hard tor fifty yean.