Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1897 — Page 1

ON THE QUI VIVE.

The Terre Haute street railway system went into the hands of a receiver Monday morning, on the petition of the city of Terre Haute that the company was indebted to it in the sum of several thousand dollars for street improvements and was totally insolvent and unable to pay. Previous to this City Treasurer Balch had at five o'clock the same morning levied on the personal property of the company, the cars, for city taxes to the amount of about $5,000, and no cars were permitted to run, owing to the failure of the company to pay the money or furnish the bond of »10,000 required by the treasurer before he would release the property from the levy. Judge Jump was named by Judge Henry, before whom the court proceedings were brought, as receiver and gave bond and took charge of the company at once, and started the cars to running. But from the usual time in the morning until one o'clock not a wheel turned. This In brief is the recital of facts that created a sensation Monday morning, has taken up many columns in the dailies, and caused Mayor Ross and President Harrison to take their pens in hand to tell the public what they think of each other. Mr. Harrison says that if the mayor hadn't been after him all the time since he came to Terre Haute he wouldn't have been pushed to the wall in this way, and Mayor Boss says that if Mr. Harrison had done what was right the trouble would never have occurred. So there you are. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the mayor and Mr. Harrison to get a set or boxing gloves, hire a hall and settle their disputes for good and all.

There are very few persons in Terre Haute who do not regret the misfortune that has overtaken Mr. Harrison. The numerous street improvements which the growth of the city necessitated, the unusual depression which struck the whole country at just about the time he took hold of the system, the large amount of money spent in improvements, all united to make his path rough for him, and it has been known for some time that he was in straits. His road was bonded originally for $400,000. When Mr. Harrison took hold of it he issued additional bonds to the amount of $600,000, part of which have been sold, part put up for collateral for loans to prosecute the work of improvement, and part for supplies. In addition to this there is current indebtedness, which Judge Jump is now endeavoring to fix, and it is said that this will amount to over $150,000. It is hardly pos-

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£hatr even MwHtitrhion, with ~hi» ^wonderful push and energy, could have staved the trouble off much longer. I have no doubt that, if the truth were known and his pride out of the way, he is really glad that the trouble that has been harassing him is removed for the present, while the floor-walking, if any is to be done, is by the receiver. He has made a gallant fight, deserving of success, and y. V., along with the general public, hopes the receiver can bring the property into such a shape that Mr. Harrison will be able to realize upon the good work he has done.

All the news about the street car business hasn't been printed as yet. Perhaps it will never be, but some inaccuracies

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gone into the papers about the mat ter, some intended to put tho public qfflcials in a bad light. For instance in his interview a few days after the trouble began, Mr. Harrison, finding fault with the city treasurer, for trying to collect thtf taxes, said that he paid $9,000 taxes last year and *5,000 this year, which was simply a mistake of about $5,000 according to the books in the treasurer's office. He paid on his street improvement taxes, all due January tat, !«*', W.800 last year and &VXW l» January this year. It is easy to influence public opinion with such trifling inaccuracies as this.

The principal fault that is found in some quarters with the levy for taxes is that the treasurer shouldn't have made the levy because the taxes were good. If the taxes hadn't been good no levy could have collected them. If no effort was made to collect taxes that are good the city couldn't be maintained, or fire or police protection furnished. If it wasn't necessary to col lect taxes that are good the city would not every year advertise for sale many a little home of a poor man, in harder luck than Mr, Harrison, who geta behind in his taxes and is unable to pay If the trouble had come from any other source, as It was likely to come, at any time, and the fact made public that the treasurer had allowed taxes to accumu late to the extent of #14,000 or $14,000,^ the question would have been general, "What have we got a treasurer for It Is to be noticed that the treasurer isn't submitting to any Interviews concerning his actions in the matter.

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It la the general opinion that if Mr. Harrison had kept out of the light busi ne«s all would have been well with him He was too ambitious, however, and the feelings toward "Andy" Crawford for his seeming efforts to cripple the street railway were too acute, and so he went Into the fight. The company he fought is in the hands of a receiver, as well as his own. If he started ont to "get even'' with "Andy" Crawford he has certainly succeed**!.

Judge Jump, receiver of the company* has retained Messrs Harrison and Burke, superintendent of the company, in hi* employ. He announces that he will not reduce the wages of the employes, and the only change from the present conduct of the system will be the taking off of one car

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from the south Thirteenth and Seventh street lines, the lines not being paying with the three cars now used.

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Another Gazette employe was married this week, about the 'steenth since the fall campaign began. Cupid seems to have been putting in about

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time shooting his arrows into the force of Gazette employes. One of these fine days the sly little fellow with few clothes will pick out an especially gilded arrow and shoot it plumb through the heart of the old bachelor editor of the Gazette, who writes editorials on the best methods of treating croup, advises fathers of growing families what to do with squalling babies at the dead hour of night, and can at any time furnish a profound plan for raising families. Of course, when Cupid- throws this little dart, it will be sanctioned by some of the Anti-Kyophesus club, of which the Gazette editor is a member in good standing for life. No crooked-back bicycle girl can ever expect to catch him.

You can depend on the Republican members of the city council going soundly to sleep when that adroit politician, Pat Walsh, wants to work something on them, out of which he can get some credit to add to his boom for city treasurer next spring. It has never been customary to extend the time for the payment of the fall installment of city taxes, bscause it throws the settlement so late that the delinquent taxfes can not be put on the duplicate for next year by the first of January. But this is about the last chance Mr. Walsh will get to extend taxpaying time before the city campaign, and he shoved through without a dissenting vote a resolution extending the time one mouth. Only those who are familiar with such things can realize how much credit a man get3 who makes a move of this kind.

The'suit to disbar attorneys Duff Caldwell and Siegel Hughes for the part they were alleged to have taken in securiag the arrest of a man on a forged affidavit and warrant came to naught in the Superior court this week, the court finding that there was not a shadow of Wrong in what they had done. Attorney A. M. Higgins, who had the nerve to bring

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proceedings, it is said, went out into the corridors of the court house when he heard the decision and threw figurative boquets at himself at the fortunate escape be made, in that Judge Henry din't send him to jail thirty days for insinuating that there is a halo about the heads of members of the Terre Haute bar that is sometimes misplaced.

'•Willie!'' 'What do you want?" 'I want you to get right up!" 'All right," says Willie, and turns over for another nap, says the New York Telegraph. Half an hour passes and then— "Willie!" "Ya-a-a-s," yawningly. "I want you to get right up!" "Y-a-a-a-s."

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Fifteen minutes later. "You, Willie!" "Well!"' "You going to get up today?" "Yes." "Well, be about it, then. You march yourself right down here."

Twenty minutes elapse. "Willie! "What do you want?" "If you ain't up in 15 minutes I'll come up there and rout you out in short order! You mind that!" "I'm a-coming." "You'd better, sir, if you know what's good for you."

Fifteen minutes later. "Willie! If you're not of there in ten minutes I'll douse you with cold water, see if I don't! Get right up!'

Willie comes down half an hour later and the triumphant mother says: "Aha! young m&n, I thought I'd rout you out! You may just as well understand first as last that when I speak you have to mind. Remember that!"

Hints for Young Couples. A man's good qualities are never properly proclaimed until his widow's second husband tracks a lot of mud across the best parlor carpet.

Don't forget to tell your wife you love her every day. excepl Monday. Women don't appreciate sarcasm, and that's the way it sounds to her over the wash'tub.

Don't take it unkindly if your wife doesn't seem to appreciate the attention® your friends pay her. She hates to be pitied.

Don't be mean enough to think when your wife becomes unusoally affectionate that it's anew dress she wants. It may be only a hat.

If you married your wife because she was a cook instead of a musician, try to make yourself believe that the plates rattling In a dish pan is a Wagnerian overture.

COD'S LITTLE GIRL.

She left her home in the starry ways. And reached our arms in the April days. We thought to keep her and hold her here. And our Uttle girl we called the dear. One pleasant eve when the san had dipped Out of sight and the stars had slipped Silently back to their wonted ways. She tamed her face with a wistful gate Op to the bin® of the arching skies We knew by the look In her pretty eye* And smile that brightened her small face so. It wait tine for God's little girt to go. A kiss we dropped on her curly head. •"Sweet little heart, good-bye," we said. Then unafraid, though the way was dim. God's little gtrlweat back to im.

TERKE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1897.

ABOUT WOMEN.

One of our gentlest and wisest philanthropists spoke sadly the other day of the growing selfishness of family life. It ap* peared to her that the present tendency was to reduce the family to its lowest terms—father, mother and children. One lesson immediately related was regarded as a possible cause of friction, an intruder not to be tolerated in that sacrosanct circle. Grandparents, old servants, poor relations, were to be pensioned off or sent to

"home"—most of them would prefer the county jail. Here they might bicker and nag each other and fret their hearts out without disturbing the comfort of smug papa, nervous mamma or coddled children. A valuable discipline, what old-fashioned people used to call a veritable "means of grace," was thus lost. It was good for children to run a few errands to spare infirm old limbs, submit to some inconvenience, endure some harsh comment, have daily practice in respect for age, patience, pity, self-control. Good for adults, too. In her own youth, she said, an old servant had shared the home, past work pernickety and domineering. Like most old people, Polly had "ways" of her own, and hers were the "waysiest ways" the children were ever subjected to. All the small, useless treasures that children love had to be smuggled into the house and concealed from Polly's stern eye. If Polly was left in charge during an absence of the parents, many a cherished privilege was cut off and the strictest discipline maintained. Naturally they had not loved her at the time she had represented one of the disagreeables of life, like being kept in on a rainy Saturday, to be accepted and made the best of. Now, in maturer years, they looked back with positive affection upon her grim faithfulness, and they recognized that an element of fric tion might be an important one in the building of character. "3% 1

Clara Morris' mother was a cook -in a restaurant in Cleveland when Clara was a lanky girl of fifteen years of age. Manager John Ellsler advertised for some extra girls for the ballet in a pantomime he was getting up. Clara applied for a place in the extra ballet. She wore an old, faded calico dress, much too short for her, a thin shawl and a ragged woolen scarf wrapped around her head. When the extra girls were no longer required Clara was retained for small parts. That was the beginning of the career of the great,emotional-actaDessf.Jiow. appearing vaudeville, Clara MosriB.who, by the wayis of English, not American, birth.

The sweet poetess, Lucy Larcom, was a mill hand. Maud Granger first earned her livelihood by running a sewing machine. Sarah Bernhardt was a dress maker's apprentice, and so was Matilda Herron. Adelaide Nellson began life as a child's nurse, and Lady Hamilton as a housemaid. Adelaide Phillips, the singer now dead, was a treasury'girl, and so for a time was Sara Jewett, the actress. It is not generally known that Miss Braddon the well-known novelist, was a utility actress in the English province, perform ing principally in pantomime, but most of us know that Christine Nilsson was a poor Swedish peasant and ran barefooted in childhood. Jenny Lind, also a Swede the daughter of a principal of young women's boarding school, and beyond rather narrow circumstances had no especial difficulties in order to gain celebrity. vk

The great French actress, Rachel, had as hard a childhood as ever fell to the lot of genius. Ragged, barefooted and hungry, she played the tambourine in the streets, and sang and begged for a dole, Naturally she was illiterate and vulgar, but overcame both these drawbacks at the same time that she gradually acquired renown. Charlotte Cushman had the advantage of Rachel in the fact that, though the daughter of poor people, she was given an excellent education in the public schools. In order to maintain herself she aspired to become an opera singer, but ac cidentally losing her voice, she became an actress instead.

Clara Louise Kellogg owes much of her success to her mother, who strained every nerve to give Clara a musical education, and at one time was a professional spiritualist medium. Miss Kellogg failed three times. Each time she retired, not discouraged, but to devote herself to the still further development of her voice. Finally^ she took the public by storm. Her first failures were her last.

These are the struggles some of our famous women have had to reach the top of the ladder, and from them the young women of to-day who are working for success in any line may learn a lesson in patience, endurance and perseve ranee.

The care of children Is one of woman's most solemn responsibilities—one of the most sacred of all trusts committed to her care. Those who live much among children should carefully purify their every thought, word and action, for the ductile and impressionable nature of & child, chameleon-like, takes its hue from that of the characters which surronnd it. If we would cultivate a flower with success we plant it In a fining soil we water it fU. proper times we give to it its due proportion of air and sun shall we not equally study the constitution and physical requirements of a child In order to bestow upon it the requisite nurture, for children, like flowers, require study. All are not equally hardy, equally vigorous, equally beautiful. Some resemble hothouse plants and are frail and delicate others, like the

hardy evergreen, can bear and brave •change of temperature and hardship. The 'system which would be suitable for one Of these natures would be injurious to the other, hence judgment is needful.

Those who would govern children by harshness greatly err a child never loves the person it fears besides, all fear is more or less slavish and degrading. Rather teach them to act rightly from a Bense of what is right and wrong found their obedience on affection give them principles of action, and teach them to reason and think. We are all too apt to treat children as dolls, to dress and caress (them one hour and send them out of the way the next, not knowing that beneath the seeming thoughtless gaiety of those little cfhes there lurks a world of feeling and sensibility. Kindness is as necessary to them as daily food. An unjust, a cold br harsh word or action, especially if undeserved, penetrates the heart of a child with as keen a sting as it does burs and who shall say how many have grown up callous and reckless from having their first affections blunted, their feelings and wishes disregarded. Consistent practice is worth a whole world of precept, and example will influence while words or coercion are fruitless.

THE NEW GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

The Formal Opening to Take Place Next Tuesday Week—The "Isle of Champagne."—The Force of the

Now Theater. The auotion sale of seats for the opening of the new theater on the 2d of November took place at the Terre Haute house Wednesday morning, an£. while the seats sold did not bring any fancy prices it was manifest by the interest taken that there will be a large crowd present at the opening. Seats will be placed on sale at the box office of the theater the latter part of .next week, the exact date not being determined as yet. Proper announcement will be made in the daily papers when the opening day is known. s'

Some -fault has been found with the ^management of the new theater in regard to the opening attraction, but Manager Barhydt made every effort to secure some Attraction that had not been presented hepe before. No more interesting production could have been secured, although Mr. Barhydt made every effort to secure onjp less familiar. Before the opening date of the new house was positively kntfwn the great attractions had all made up their routes and it was impossible to change these for a one night st.and, even ough it wa§ fpr the_0peaf,pg of.a beautlr 1 new theater like ours. He regrets this as much as the theater going public here. The opening attraction will be the

Isle of Champagne," with Richard Golden and Katharine Germaine as the stellar attractions. Manager Barhydt wrote to F. E. Strouder, of the Masonic Temple theater at Fort Wayne, to learn from him the exact merits of the company, as it played there on Wednesday night. Yesterday he received a letter from Mr. Strouder, in which he paid the highest compliment to the company and the stars. He said that Golden made a greater hit than the originator of the part, Seabrooke, and that the company's rendition of the opera was splendid. The company carries fifty people and all the scenery necessary for the production, and made a big hit in Fort Wayne. The Pittsburg papers unite in pronpuncing it a splendid show, and the theater-goers of Terre Haute will feel well pleased with the performance to be given here, although they may perhaps feel that they would like to have had some other attraction. Theatrical managers are like other people. They can't always get everything they want, as in the securing (j,f an attraction for the opening, of the new theater.

THE ASSISTANTS.

Manager Barhydt has selected his corps of assistants for the new Grand. Will Parrott, who was doorkeeper at the old Naylor's, will have the lower door at the new theater. George A. Schaal, Jr., will be head usher on the lower fioor, and Charles Stewart will be head usher in the balcony, which will be the title of the floor that was known at Naylor's as the family circle. The other assistant ushers will be Edison Wagner, Roy Sibley, Ray Lawrence, Fred Butz, George Helmer, John Staff, Jr., Robert Heinl, Blinn Hunter and Chas. Ryan. They will all wear uniforms of dark green, trimmed, with black braid.

In furtherance of the sensible custom' that is becoming popular, that of ladies removing their hats in theaters, Manager Barhydt will provide a lady attendant, who will check the hats as they are removed before entering the theaters.

The programmes for the new theater will be far and away the prettiest things ever issued in a programme line here for regular entertainments. They will have a handsome engraved cover, printed in the highest style of the art, and will be very attractive. They will be issued by the Monk Introduction Co., erf which Isaac Monk, advertising man for the Chamber-lain-Barhydt circuit, is the head. Mr. Monk is here and'will remain until after the opening Tuesday week.

The most valuable book in the world is a Hebrew bible now in the Vatican. In 1512 Pope Julius IL refused to sell it for its weight in gold, which would amount to about $100.000. a

The Imperial diamond is considered the finest stone of its kind in the world. The rtiatm of Hyderabad offered #2,150,000, the largest price ever known, for this dlaSMMHL

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

"A refined girl wanted for general housework," reads an advertisement in a Kansas City newspaper.

The usual odds laid by an accident company are 1,000 to 4 that you do not die from an accident in a year.

Fifteen young women who are going to the Klondike next spring are now on view in a dime museum in New York.

A Southern paper refers to golf as "dude shinny." All well regulated kids have played shinny, but they would lick the life out of the boy who talked about "snooding a gutty out of a bunker with a niblick.",

Chicago sausage makers are nearly ruined by the Luetgert trial, as not a hotel or restaurant dares place "sausages" on its bill of fare. In fact, that mysterious edible has got a black eye that shows far beyond Chicago's line of vision.

A church has been built out of one big tree at Santa Rosa, Cal. The whole struc ture and its furniture were made from one goodly specimen of sequela. The interior is finished and paneled in wood, also, and there were a lot of shingles left over. v?-' 7

The oldest bank note in existence is in the British Museum. It was printed in China in the year 1368, S3 years before Johann Guttenberg, the reputed inventor of printing, was born. It was issued 800 years before back notes were circulated In Europe.

Compulsory" education about to be established throughout European Russia the ministry of public instruction having devised a system which will be enforced as soon as the czar approves of it. Only 8 per cent, of Russia's population of 130,000,000 can read and write.

Projectiles used by the United States army for its great modern guns cost as follows: Solid shot, 8 inch, $69.80 each 10-inch, $144.50 each 13-inch, $312 each 12-inch mortar shells, weighing pounds, $144 each 12-inoh mortar shells weighing 1,000 pounds, $195 each.

New York proudly claims to have William Shakespeare among its 2,000,000 inhabitants. Kansas City had one, too, up to a few years ago, when hfc moved to New Mexico. He was a shoemaker in the West bottoms and had evidence to show that he was a descendant of the immortal William.

Old Moore's almanac,* which won notoriety the past year by predicting tht Patiirfhfe, predicts for 185^S^rrible*clm war in the United States, the death of th«) Czar and the kidnapping of the young King of Spain, and that about the second week of November of that year communi cation will be opened up with Mars.

A Philadelphia policeman the other day arrested a little boy in knee breeches, to the great indignation of some bystanders, who went to the station house to make a complaint against the policeman. At the station house they learned that the little boy was "Dublin Joe," a notorious pick pocket, 40 years old, and that his pockets were filled with other people's money. No complaint was entered.

Evangelina Cisnernos, the little Cuban girl who escaped from a Spanish prison in Havanna, is a great drawing card for the hotel in New York, where she is stopping as the guest of the newspaper that secured her escape. From the time she first leaves he» suite to appear, either on the corridors on her way to dinner or in the great mahogany and gold dining hall, or even in her carriage, she is subjected to the most inquisitive as well as the kindliest scrutiny thatprobably ever fell to the lot of a young girl. Her mail is voluminous, and many of the letters contain genorous, if strange, offers for her services. One writer wanted her to become an employe in his bank in the South with a large salary another wished her for companion to his wife, and a third vaguely suggested that he was rich, romantic and unmarried. Only a few of the many curious callers are admitted to the heroine's presence.

MODERN PHILOSOPHY.

Vanity is a danger signal. Silence is sometimes slander. There is nothing sweet in the family jar. Most secrets are deceitful and treacherous.

Common honesty is the handmaiden of common sense. Settling up is a necessary requisite to settling down.

Even the school of experience has thickheaded scholars. Modesty never shows up to good advantage in the dark.

Life is a short session, devoted to unfinished business. j. People who live in glass hocuses should sleep down cellar.

The smaller the hole a man gets into, the louder be howls. Energy and intelligence vrill give even bad Inck a black eye.

Some people make music while others 'dance their lives The men who tries to trot out of tils class will never get rich.

A girl seldom kicks when an old man lays-his fortune at her feet. It is not fair to starve the children in order to keep up appearances.

Nothing is so narrow, contracting, hard ening as always to be moving in tie same I groove, with no thought beyond what we

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immediately see and hear close around us. Along pedigree doesn't prevent a horse from being the last of his race.

Some men can hear the ring of a silver dollar farther than that of a church bell^J There are more aggravating cases of son-in-law than there are of mother-in-law.

It is a physical impossibility for hearts to break, Jaut t^ere. ^re^lpts of cracked brains.

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It keeps some men busy inventing schemes to separate other men from their money.

When man begins to race against the scythe of timer, he finds that. Ue^i§.no 4^ mower.

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When a man's love grows cold he #j|' should put his arm around her and warm her up.

When amatTdep^rids too much on theories they become a condition and con,front him. ^1

Very few men ever see the collection taken up in church without thinking of a qa corn-popper..

A woman is so contrary that, if you tell -J her to dry up she will squeeze water out of her eyes.

The small boy sometimes steals into the parlor and gives his sister away before she is engaged.

Every girl believes in lier heart that she is better looking than other people think she thinks she is.

The photographer is one man who wants to be careful not to throw too much light on a knotty subject. 1

It is easy enough for a man" to' believe that a public office is a public trust—when some other man holds thq office.

At three-score and ten a man has usually accumulated enough wisdom to enable him to acknowledge his ignorance. 'j

A girl's education is said co be completed when she begins to hint to her

mother how to act before company. A woman would never be as happy if she thought her husband took as good care of himself when she was away.

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If you have money during a campaign year, place yourself In the hands of your wife and avoid the hands of your friends. »&»

If every man in America who wants an ofilce could get one, the women and chil- ,,?•§* dren would have run the farms and factories. It •'.

The woman who Begins helping her husband along by taking boarders will generaiiy. entire family.

There are three crowns: The crown of r? the law, the crown of the priesthood, and the crown of royalty but the crown of good name is superior to them all.

The men that look haughtiest and most

defiant when some women get on a smoking car are the name ones that daren't light a cigar on the front porch at home.

HARRISON PARK CASINO.

HUMANITY.

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One of the finest spectacular shows ever produced in this city is Humanity, which will be seen at the Casino to-night, A fair sized crowd witnessed the production last night, and thoroughly enjoyed its thrilling incidents as given by the strong ctfst engaged. The scenes of the play are laid in England and the Transvaal, and one of the bast scenes is the combat between man and man while on horseback. The scene is in the Tr.'itjsvjwil, and the combat is waged by a British officer, who Is attempting to carry dispatches to the main body of soldier*, and a Boar trooper, who suddenly interferes with the plan. Both are mounted on intelligent horses, and the sword fight is At clo&e range and so vigorous that men and horses seem in ,* constant danger of receiving actual injury. Finally the Boer, having received a fatal cut, tumbles from his horse, the fall Itself being as realistic as the fight. It is a good scene, spiritedly enacted, but it is only one of the exciting incidents that Humanity offers.

This will close the season at the Casino, and there ought to be a good crowd in attendance.

APHORISMS.

None but the brave deserve the fair.— Dryden. Cultured and fine manners are everywhere a passport to regard.—Paley.

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. Feltham.

There is one body the that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody. Talleyrand.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and fear of evil.—Johnson.

Evil events come from evil causes and what we suffer springs, generally, front what we have done.—Aristophanes.

When we read we fancy we could be martyrs when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.—Hannah More.

A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deeff# taste not the Pierian spring there shallow draughts Intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.- Pope.. rif* is made up, not of great sacrifice* or duties, but of little things. In which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually,

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heart and secure comfort.—-Sir H. Davy.

The biggest price for painting was V^ut -f paid for Meissonier's "1814," $170,000.