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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

The people are paying $1,300 a day for the services of Mr. Green Smith and his gang. Arc they worth it?

What ha* become of editor Cutting and his band of filibusters? Have they beet) frozen in by the cold weather?

Green Smith is the Jonah of the Democratic party in Indiana. It is a pity there is not some providential whale at hand to swallow him.

The Democrats would part with Green Smith for a very small consideration if they could only find a laker. Mr. Smith

become an elephant of largo dimensions. The curved gutter crossings continue to claim their victims, and it would not be surprising if the city should have a damage suit to pay before the winter is over.

It is too bad that Indiana's tiew State House should be dedicated by such rowdy proceedings as have marked the present Legislature. Both the State and its new capitol have been disgraced.

Muncie has natural gasand no mistake. The town is full of gas pipes and a number of families are using the gas for domestic purposes. If the well holds out Muncie will be fixed for cheap fuel.

A magazine contributor has sued a Chicago paper for damages for calling him a crank.' If he wins his case, the newspapers of the land can expect to go into tlie libel business on the wholesale plan.

While St. Louis can show one saloon to ever 17". inhabitants, she has only one church to every According to these figures St. Louis must care sixteon times as much for beor as she does for gospel.

The nomination of Judge Turpie is a crushing defeat for "the Senator and I" who have been working for McDonald. Our sonator is getting several black eyes and he doubtless wishes ho had stayed in Washington. .* A gentleqtoii ^nxiflwjPs

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is no more intoxicating than beer and that mescal resembles Holland gin. Now wo should like to know what it was that Sedgwick and Manning got hold of down in that country.

A strlngont anti-mormon bill has been passed by the House, and will no doubt recelvo tho approval of the Senate. Will tho President have tho backbone to enforce it, and curtail the power and the privileges of the saints. That seems a question just a litMo difficult to answer.

Miss Minnie Davis is soon to blossoih out In literature, having written an article for the North American Review. It is not about the "lost cause," but is on so unjwetical a subject as tho Irish question. It seems to us that Minnie might have been a little more romantic than that. _______

The Democratic editors of the State met at Indianapolis yesterday and discussed the question, "How best to snccoed In If the question had been "How best not to succeed," it could be easily answered: by permitting the gang to run the legislature as It has been run thus far. _______

The railroad companies claim they don't know of any better method of heating cars than by tho old fashioned system of coal stoves. Hut sleeping ears are warmed in a safer way. Why can't the ordinary prtssonger cars be heated in some similar way? Tho various State Legislatures should seo that tho cool stoves are pitched out.

An English writer asserts that the man who will walk live miles every day will live to a strong and wholesome old age. The English are great believers in physical exercise and especially iu that of walking. They show their faith by their deeds and the result seems to justify their belief. Walking is cheap. Let those who need exercise try it.

The cable tells us that Lord Iddlesleigh, the British minister and politican, died of a broken heart because he had been doposed from office. How different an effect that would have had on an American politican. In place of giving up with a broken heart he would have hunted up a knife,sharpened it and then played "even" with the man or men who deposed him. &

An Atlanta military company which propose* making a tour of Europe in the spring, has been refused permission by the British government to visit Ixndon in full regimentals* presumably because the captain of the company is an Irishman. The big-headed peers who refused this permission had beat beware, or we will send two or three more companies along with the Atlanta soldiers, capture the island and turn it into a parade ground for our soldiery.

Cheaper theater prices are the order of the day. The reduction by the Chicago theatre has been followed by the opening of the new Lyceum theatre in Philadelphia with 10, 20 and 30 cent prices, although the theatre is first-class in every respect. $ The change has been late coming and has long been demanded by the public. Some of the managers show a disposition to rebel, but they will probably have to come to it in the end.

The Chicago drug clerks are moving for reduced hours of labor. They are behind the counters about fifteen hours a day and as Sunday does not bring them inuch relief, they think it is about time to strike* There is no other line of business so confining as that of the druggist. Every day in the year tlie store must be kept open and even at night the clerk is subject to call. Something might well be done to lesson the slavish confinement of the retail drug clerk.

An Indianapolis clergyman astonished the Democratic Senators this week by praying that the Lord would bring about a speedy settlement of the differences that prevent legislation. The idea of the Lord having anything to do with their deliberations seems to be a novelty to some of the great men there, in which no doubt they will find company in the majority of the people. The impression seems to be that the Old Nick has more to do with the average Legislature—and that of Indiana in particular—than any otherinfluence.

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Among Hie "stories that cbm6 to lis from the capital as possibilities of a deadlock in the election of an United States Senator, ifc the reappointment of Hon. John E. Lamb as District Attorney. It is understood among those who claim to know that Hon. David Turpie, at present holding that position, will be appointed by Gov. Gray as Senator in case of a failure of the legislature to elect. That will create a vacancy in the office that can he utilized to Mr. Lamb's advantage, and there are thoso who maintain this will be done. With Mr. Harrison out of the Senate it is thought Mrj Lamb might be confirmed, and thus be provided for until tho next Congressional campaign, when, in all probabilities, he will again become the candidate of his party to succeed Mr. Johnston.

Even a legislative committee cannot expect to draw against a female minstrel^

tigators in this city Wednesday night had to lay aside their dignity and take in the antiquities of the jockey minstrels* And after seeing that performance, some one should suggest to the law makers that their season's work will not be well-done if they fail to enact a law prohibiting such "femalo minstrels," "jockoy minstrels," and "Adainless Eden" parties from devastating the country. A crowd of females like tho last, whose coming was heralded by a column account of their drunken antics in another city, should be denied the use of tho opera house. We should have no shows hero that a gentleman cannot visit accompanied by a lady.

Down iu Texas they sell pools on the result of a Democratic Senatorial caucus, but it's a very uncertain piece of business here in Indiana, as witness the nomination of David Turpie. This is another victory for Isaac P. Gray over Joe McDonald, whom he beat once before for the empty honor of a caucus nomination. As a general thing the Democrats in this vicinity favored McDonald as against Gray. When McDonald came here to speak in the last campaign, a protest was made by the kickers against his efforts in behalf of Lamb, and they threatened to defeat his senatorial aspirations. That is why some of the Opposition smiled when they heard of "Old Saddlebag's" defeat. In the caucus which defeated McDonald, Mr. Lamb received a vote for Sonator which shows that he still has a friend over there, most likely Con. Meagher.

The school book publishers will have their ire aroused by a bill introduced in the Illinois legislature by which convict labor is to be utilised in furnishing school books to all the public schools in the state. The school book monopolista will be sure to have a lobby at Springfield to defeat the bill which will tend to decrease the enormous profits they have been enjoying. This is one reform that has been due for along time, and is not very near. The rings in the manufticture of school books are powerful and grasping. They dictate the wholesale and retail prices of all school books, and no retailer is given the right to reduce his own profits by selling under the ring price. Once he does and he loses the right to handle the goods. There have been many efforts to break up this combination but all have so far proved unsuccessful. Perhaps this movement by the Illinois legislature ^111 have the effort of weakening it.

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THE LEGISLA TUBE.

This is the ninth day of the State Leg* islature, and each day has been a repetition of the disgraceful proceedings with which it was inaugurated.

On Monday the republican Senatesmet with the House, and the vote for for Lieutenant-Governor was counted. Robertson was declared elected and took the oath of office. While he read his address, in a cool and dignified manner, the Democratic members howled themselves hoarse. The noise made throughout was as deafening as disgusting.

The next day Lieutenant-Governor Robertson was on the floor of the Senate. He made no attempt to .take the chair and was not asked 'to. On Wednesday he made a formal demand for his pla!!e as presiding officer, whereupon Presidetat pro tern Smith filed quo warranto pitoceedings, and the courts will now decide who,i8 Lieutenant-Governor.

The Democratic caucus on Thursday evening nominated Judge Turpie for United States Senator, and the Republicans last night nominated Senator Harrison. The election of Senator is set down for next Wednesday. It is almost certain that there will be two joint conventions and that both nominees will be elected. Then the contest will be transferred to Washington.

At fivo o'clock yesterday evening our Con Meagher was unseated, and H. C. Dickerson was voted in as Representative from this county. The vote was 51 to 40—a strict party vote. The Democrats were in caucus last night, and it is believed that retaliatory measures will be takon in tlie Senate to-day and some Republiqan Senator unseated. Lively times are expected.

Progress in making church service more attractive, by the addition of instrumental music, and paying salaries for the best vocalists is not the least ofthe modern improvements on the uuin-' viting service in many churches up to a*' recent date. But in many churches tho struggle has been a hard one, as many members formerly regarded the introduction of any music other than the, voice as a mortal sin. A venerable Methodist minister tells of a circumstance' which happened in his church where, after a long struggle, the choir finally succeeded in introducing abase viol. A pious old lady, upon hearing the first notes of the tuneful violr _inste£fcly» 1 hel'pei^na ^ppYtlg into YhiTtti: gan to dance, at the .same time exclaiifi,ed—"If it's no harm to fiddle in church, ifc's no harm to dance!" And she continued the saltatory performance until the music ceased!

Elmira, N. Y., has somewhat of a novelty in the theatrical line, and, which it is doubtful, if any other city possesses and that is a theater in a church. The Park Church is the largest and handsomest church in the city and is presided over by Rav. Thomas K. Beecher, brother, of the Brooklyn devine. Mr. Beecher has some views of his own on the subject of theatricals and to that end, when the church was erected, he caused to be built on the second floor of the church a regular little theater with all tho necessary adjuncts, such as a large stage, scenery, flies, dressingrooms, footlights, etc., and it is there that every month or oftener he has plays such as Shakespeare's, operas, fairy tales, etc., presented hy local talent for the benefit of his congregation.

The death wave of the past year and a half has been remarkable in this, that it has taken representatives of the two great parties at eaoh Presidential election far twenty years back. For instance: 1864, McClellan 1868, Grant, Seymour, Colfax 1872, Grant, Grate Brown 1876, Tilden, Hendricks 1880, Hancock, Arthur 1884, ^Hendricks, Logan.

The Brooklyn Eagfe discussee the question as to whether marriage is the only way in which woman shall make a living. And yet there are some women, not without experience, who would like to know how to make a living by mar-

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A writer says: "Some people would sooner help a stranger than a friend." Yes, and nine times out of ten they will get more thanks for the help.

The statement Is made that one company alone in Pittsburg supplies the natural gas to 10,000 dwellings In that city, and the vicinity.

The Toledo council passed an ordinance allowing saloons to keep open on Sundays after I o'clock if they sell only beer and native wines.

WHY BUSTLES ARE WORN. Clara Belle. For the benefit of the entire masculine sex who have puzzled over the problem of the bustle and wondered why women will wear the thing, ever since bustles were first thought of. I want to say right here that the pnilospny of the bustle, the reason that women will stick to that hump with more loyalty than they show their country, their church or their lovers, is that it makes their waists look smaller. The bigger and more sudden the swell the smaller the waist win look, and that's the whole business.

TERRE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15,1887.

[Written for the Mail.] RETROSPECT.

Atlown life's .stream I've wandered, Its devious ways have sought. On many schemes have pondered,

And most have came to naught, My way lias been attended With some small share of joy, And good and 111 have blended

To form a strange alloy.

But now the length'nlng shadows. That came with settingsun, Are stealing o'er life's meadows,

My day is almost done. My eyes have grown quite misty With looking far away, \nd down the unknown vista,

I scarce can seo to-day.

Youth's hope and its ambition. Are in the afterglow, Belief in their fruition

Was last of all to go But now Hope's star forever Behind the vanished years Has set, the solemn "never," ,.

Is ringing In my ears. r.

I longed to climb the highlands, The road to fame was free—^ I cared not for the bylands,

They had no charm for me— f. So, up the heights, unheeding The wayside flowers, I passed, sV," To find Fame's highway leading 1*^5

Up to a grave at last.'

Most friends I loved have perished, -v/jr Or fallen by the way, And many an idol cherished,,

Has proved *ut common clay Upon the altars broken, The ashes lying cold,

Are now the only tokejns That I worshiped there of old. C/ -rf The old familiar landmarks

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Are passing fast away, And Time's defacing hand-marks Are over those that stay Gone are the well-known faces,

Each friendly voice I heard, And strangers in the! places, Pass by without a word.

And oft I find me sighing, To be again with those For many a winter lying

Beneath the drifting snows. Ves, the old man's growing lonely, The age has passed lilin by, And naught is left him, only

To lay him down and die. —BEI.TvK

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WOMEN'# WA YS.

The cost of introducing a girl into society in New York and carrying her successfully through one season is esti-

or wearing apparel •At an exciting revival meeting iu the Second Baptist Church, at Adrian, Mich., Tuesday night, Mrs. Susan Brown, aged 65, sprung to her feet,, shouted "Hallelujah!" and fell dead.

Jennie June says that women were born to be troubled with corns, bunions and dressmakers, and the more one kicks against it the mora sorrow they will call down upou themselves.

Tho divorccd wife of ex-Senator Fair, to whom the courts gave $4,500,000 from her ex-husband's estate, can not find places enough for the interest on her money and is rapidly adding to that sum.

A young man in Boston proposed to a young lady in Now York by telegraph, adding: "Answer yes or no at my expense." She sent him 600 words of explanation, without coming to any conclusion. Very few girls will want to be courted by telegraph. It's too awfully sudden.

A Galveston woman compositor who belonged to the printers' union married a non-union compositor, not long ago, and then tried to get him to join the order. But he refused, and the union voted a boycott, in which the wife participated, having left her husband and begun proceedings for a divorce. This is boycotting with a vengeance.

LITTLE SERMONS.

It is time enough to grieve when sorrow cannot be shunned. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

When conscience says, "it is right," go ahead. It is a guide that will never deceive.

Spite is a little word, but it ropresonts as strange a jumble of feelings, and compound of discords, as, any polysylable in the language.

Villainy is often most successful when most audacious. It carries its point bofore the victim has recovered from the surprise of the attack.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is health. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the' friction.

No matter what the apparent odds may be, the brave always enter the conflict confident of success. Hie coward hesitates and asks, is it safe? little thinking that his doubt is a declaration of defeat.

The Rev. Dr. Talmage said in a late interview: "The summary of the whole thing is that this Is a grand old world, and I want to stay in it as long as I can. 1 would not want to get out of it at all if I did not believe that-there was a grander one. This is a good enough one for me for along time jet."

FAVORITE ACTORS AT HOME.

JEALOUS WIVES WHO STIFLE PASSION FROM THE WINGS.

PLFTURKS OK DOMESTIC BLISS—MRS. MANTELL READING HER HASBBND S LETTERS WHITE HE SHAVES—I)K BELLKVILLK TO

SETTLE IX UTAH—ACTORS NOT AS OF OLD.

The private doings of public characters is always a subject of curiosity and interest, and of those who have become popular personages behind the footlights enough has been writteu to fill a library. Indeed here and there you will find an actress who possesses a good sized library of nothing but scrap books tilled with descriptions of her personal beauty, her diamonds, her dresses and her lovers with, perhaps, a scanty line, at long intervals, as to her merits as a performer. But in regard to the actor, his domestic arrangements are not a subject of consideration with his manager. Howover, it is not generally known that those dashing footlight favorites are married, and a few of them from whom the lovostruck ladies sigh are models of domesticity and marital happiness. Man tell, for instance, as be yawns in his slippers and scrows up enough energy to reach down his shaviqg cup, says to his spouse: "Marie, dear, just look over that lot of stuff and see if there is anything in it."

Then she opens the delicately scented billet-doux, picking out those which bear no monogram on the envelope, and promising in their anonlmity to be more unmeasured in their gush. And as she sips her chocolate she laughs heartily over the more tender portions, declaims them" to the well-lathered husband, pelts him with the pet names coined by his admirers. And lie—he pretends to be very mad, because a man cannot comfortably laugh when his face is covered with soap, so he stamps his foot and cries: "For God's sake, let up you'll make me cut jnyself."

This is a picture of Mr. Mantel! at home. Perhaps he doevn't have all his letters addressed to his home. There is some consolation in that for tho sighing fair ones. But very little for Mrs. Manteli is also an actress, and acoompanies him to the theatre and uearly everywhere else.

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The admirers of Mr. Oourtrice Pounds must also have a care in their epistolary adulation, of his charms. He also has*a wife, a strangely jealous creature, who stands at tho wings like a duenna while he plays, and bites hor lip and stamps when ho does any funny business with the girls. When Pounds came here he was entirely unknown, and thevo was nothing in his appearance, excopt possibly his unkept hair and peculiar indifference to ordinary politeness, to attract

M^lam^f-P^i^n^of*w:Li'd^^M "fovelv" ever after. M. B. Curtis also has a wife who is keen enough to hit on tho fly any auior ous glance flung at her giddy husband. People from the front would never think it, but there is a great deal of femininity about Curtis' tastes when off tho stage. He spends a great deal of time on his afternoon makeup, likes scented baths and perfumery in general, and has a passion for jewelry. Then again, there is no old maid in all the country who has such a love and interest for birds. He has quite a number, and some of the first favorites he carries with him.

James Lewis of Daly is often mot with on a fine afternoon with his two pretty little girls. He is domesticated, of course. No one ever charged him with being a "masher." Yet when the company was at Paris, neither the beauty of

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Ada Rehan attracted half the attention the quaintness of Lewis did. In fact, the Parisians voted him the only one of the company worth paying to see.

Dixie is married, of course: but Mrs. Dixie is not permitted to play the part of private secretary to the same extent as Mrs. Mantell. Nat Goodwin, on the contrary, probably has all his love letters intercepted—if any are addressed to him— and aoes not even have the fun of hear-

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ing them read. nisbed an elegant flat, and boasts ing the finest private library of any actor in this country. And therein he sits in slippered ease, when it is his night off from the business of fun making, and dreams of a farm in a pleasant valley, where he will build him a bower of roses, and with his books and his solitude think great thoughts. On the Sunday evening he usually has a reception, and tries to appear full of frolicsome humor. It is all a pretense. He is acting the old part. He is in soul—or thinks himself—a real, wrinkled-browed, profound philosopher.

In fact the actors who are fairly blessed with this world's goods live much the same as other people in similarly fortunate circumstances. Time was when they affected the pariah and herded together iu Bohemian conviviality. Fifteen years ago Frank Drew, who is now doing very small parts with the Madison Square company, was the leading star in New York. In those days he, Frank Brower, the famous minstrel Eph Horn, George L. Fox of Humpty Dumpty fame, Charles Backus and Joe Jefferson, playing at the theatres, which were then down town, used to assemble nightly after the performance at the De Soto chop bouse on Bleeker street. They are all gone now except Drew and Jefferson, ana the actors of to-day are of a different class. But this historical item has no place here, except that it is a reminiscent, especially those one meets with on Union square, or in Rollins'. The most youthful of them will refer you to the time when he was playing with So-and-So at $500 a week. The only "shabbygenteel'' of this country join this crowd, and if they dare not refer to incredibly big salaries, thev do to their titled relatives and friends "on the other side, you know."

Ail these belong to the race of actors of the past let us return to the modern actor. Such men as Joe Wheelock, who used to be afire laddie, and is now supporting Mrs. Bowers in public, and a wife and family of pretty children in domestic luxury. He and Tom Whiffen and Lewis and Goodwin and several others give receptions on the Sunday evening, and, generally speaking, live quiet, domestic lives.

Such really gallant fellows as Fred de Belleville and Fred class.

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ficult question in regard to tho latter Out in the West lie started a piece called. "Jack of Diamonds," and became exceedinglv popular. When he oainc East he called it "Forgiven," and the handsome figure he cuts in it plavs such havoc with the ladies that, if he is not married, it is curious how he escaped. Belleville is the result of Palmer strip to Europo in search of a successor to Charley Thorno. When he first came over he spoke with an objectionable French accent. But the ladies found it charming, and everything that he said and did. In "Monte Christo" he was a great success. He is married, but not domesticated, because his wives are scattered all over the country and in Europe. When he guts x? rich enough to buy a whole township in l"tali Territory he will retire from the stage so the ladies who are now shower- -,i ing upon him tiny notes, crossed andi, recrossed with amorous outpourings, as Is has been their hero's career, have still a/-. thread to peg their flimsy hopes upon.

And then ambition with its lust of pelf and place of power, longing to put upon its breawt d^siittction's- wt^btes^baugo: Then koener thoughts of men, and eyes that seo behind the smiling mask of craft flattered no more by the obsequious cringe of gain and greed—knowing tho

the dusk is waiting for the night—sitting by" the holy hearth of home, as ths last* embers change from red to gray, he falls asleep within the arms of ner he worshipped and adored, feeling upon his pallid lips love's last and holiest kiss.

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INUKltHOlil/S VERSION OF THE AOES^i?^ OF MAN.

llorn of love and hope, of ecstasy and? pain, of agony and fear, of tears and joy —dowered with the wealth of two united hearts—held in liapj.y arms, with lips upon life's drifted font, blue-veiued and^' a he re or willing feet and wooed to shadowy shores of sleep by siren mother singing soft and low—looking with wonder'*/,^ wide and startled eyes at common things1"" of life and day—taught by want and wish^ and contact with tlie things that touch the dimpled llesh of babies—lured by light and flame and charmed by oolor'sf" wondrous robes—learning the use of1 ,) handH and feet, and by the love of mimicry beguiled to utter speech—releasing prisoned thoughts from crabbed and curious marks on soiled and tattered leaves—puzzling tho brain with crooked led

uumbers and their changing, tang worth—and so through years of alternating day and night, until the captive I grows familiar with the chains and walls and limitations of a lite.

And time runs on in sun and shado, until tiiu one of all the world is wooed and won, aful all the loi*e of love is

taught and learned again. Again the miracle of birth—the nain and joy, tho kiss of welcome ana the cradle-song, drowning the drowsy prattle of a babe.

And then the sense of obligation and of wrong—pity for those who toil and weep—tears for the imprisoned and despised—lovo for the generous dead— and in tlie heart tho rapture of a high rosolve.

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useiessness of hoarded gold and honor bought from those who charge the usury of self-respect—of power that only bends a coward's knee and forces from the lips of fear the lies of praise. Knowing at last the unstudied gesture of esteem, the reverent eyes made rich with honest thought, and holding high above all her tilings—high as hope's great throbng star above tno darkness of the dead XC •the love of wife and child and friend. \t'J

Then locks of gray, and growing love of other days, and half remembered ,f things then'holding withered hands of those who first held his, while over dim and loving eyes death softly presses down the lids of rest. *V.|

And so, locking in marriage vows his children's hands, and crossing others on the breasts of peace, with daughters', babes upon his Knees, the white hair1 mingling with tlie gold, he journeys on from day to day to that horizon where

THE BENEFITS OF COLD. [Herald of Health.] Cold Is an antiseptic and a 0&W&?fuI> digestive stimulant and I here record the prediction that the hospitals of the future will be ice-houses. Dyspepsia^ catarrh and fevers of all kinds c:in be frozen out of the system. Not by letting the patient shiver in a snowbank, but by giving him an extra allowance of warm bed clothing, with the additional luxury of breathing ice cold air, which, under such circumstances, becomes as preferable to hot miasma as cold spring water to warm ditch water. I have also found' that the best brain-work can be done in a cold room, and that stove-heat has a tendency to stultify like a narcotic beverage. Warm wraps make fires tolerably dispensable.

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THE MOTHER'S RIGHT TO HER, CHILD. 'fo tTi^ question, Has a* mother atiy right to the babe whom she has borne at the peril of her own life? the heart of humanity can give but one answer. By a law of human nature, alike natural and irreversible, her claim in this respect is superior to that of any other, not excepting that of the father. It is from her' bosom that the child draws its susten-^

ance, and she is its God-appointed care-f' taker, at least in its earliest years, and.fy' her right can not be overborne without cruelty amounting to outrage. And yet, %/fr strange as it may seem, tho laws in nearly every state in the Union give the power of custody of the child, not to th© wife and mother, but to the husband and father. The mother tnav be a paragon of moral excellonce, and exceptional! vweil fitted to nurse and train her child, but the father, though a man utterly vile, has a legal right to snatch the bal»e from*^ its mother's arms and dispose of it as he

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