Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 43, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 April 1872 — Page 2

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THB HOUSEKEEPERS TRA OED} Onl da^, I wandered,

A|rf PC?* ^omu the^pict She areast bemud on Uke (58bi*&p|jpwie tMrwIler w(Ul she wleldHi her broom: "Oh! life Is a toll, and love Is a trouble,

And beauty will fade and riches will flee, And pleasure* they dwindle, and prices they doable, W* And nothing Is what I could wish it to be.

"Th -re Is too maeh of worrlment goes to a bonnet There's too much of Ironing goes to a shirt Tli re's nothing that pays for the time you

There'snothlng that lasts yon but trouble and dirt.

"In March it Is mud, It's slush In December 'J'lit- midsummer breezes are loaded with '•an In Fall the leaves litter, In muggy September

The wall paper rots and the candlesticks ,j ro*t.

"There are worms In the cherries, there are •lug-i in the roses,

And ants In thef-uxarand mice in the pies, The rub»«isti of *pller» no mortal supposes, Ami ravishing rones, and damaging flies. "It's sweeping at six and ducting at seven

It's vie uals at eight, and di-he« at nine It's poti lag and panning from ten to eleven,

We scarce break our last ere we plan how to dine. "With grease and with grime, Irom corner to center,

Korever a war, and forever alert No rest for day lest the enemy enter— I spend my whole lift in a struggle with dirt.

"Last night. In my dream, I was stationed forever On a little barelnle In the midst of the sea My one chance of life a ceaseless endeavor

To sweep off the waves ere thev sweep off por me.

"Alas! 'i wan no dream—again I behold it! I yield I am helpless my fate to avert." She railed down her sleeves, her apron she folded

Then laid down and died, and was burled in—dirt.

NEWS AND NOTINOS

Congress has been petltoned against recognizing God in the Constitution. Vagrancy Is a crime unknown in the Azores, ii being the natural habit of the population.

A Bonapartist reaction is said to be takim place in France. The people, always changeable, are dissatisfied and sigh tor a ne# government. In the meanwhile Napoleon bides his time.

And now Duluth is trying to get notoriety bv claiming the discovery of gold noar there. Next thing we shall hear that a cocoa nut patch has been fonnd on the hills back ol that charming placo.

According to the Sm Francisco News Letter, the Indians have become so peacnable it is hard to tell an Apache from a white, the only difference being that the bitter has no scalp, and the former has two.

A Mississippi girl just out of school hired a lew negroes last season and undertook to carry

the farm at the

homestead. The result at the end of the year was eight banks of potatoes, 000 bushels ot corn, and $9(59 in cash from the sale of cotton, after all expenses were psid.

Th nail-eating cow has at last made her quietus-at Columbus, Mississippi, with iit'teen nails, two or three bullets and several bare chicken hones. This diet gave her a severo cough, and is not recommended for consumptives, but it ive her a voracious appet ite, a fact which Is suggestivo to dyspeptics.

A letter from Li in i, Peru, says that

yon

may see there wretched old duennas, p.n't Indian, part Negro, and part Hpanlard, »s ugly as night, with only a single long cotton garment and an old poncho lor a dress, and the poncho clasped bv a diamond brooch that the Queen of lOngland would not disdain to wear.

The number of persons now mounted Upon the political fence, waiting to see on which side to jump, is surprisingly great. Souio wait immovably until the auspicious moment, but many in their nnxietv wobble from one side to the other, falling upon neither. And there are mafty sensiule and intelligent people among them, too. men who believe in principles and have convictions. Hut is human nature to always want to bo with the crowd, to be found on the winning side. That Is what keeps a party In power and the thing that will elect Grant if he is elected—a thing by no meant* certain.

Taxing the experience of other countries an a guide, a return to specie payments seems a

long

way off. In 1H.17

when our currency averaged seven dollar* per head it liecaine incontroverti Me. K«tlimiting our population at forty millions and the safe limit of currency at eight dollars per head, we should have total currency of three hundred and twenty millions to enable us to resume specie payment now. But we have almut twice that amount, or sixteen dollars per head, and according to the specie standard of the world our bills are worth about halt their face. The average currency per hejd in Great Britain is nine dollars, in other Kuropeun countries it is less. The present tendency l* to decreased amount of currency per capita.

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The ravage® of the borer, aud other Insect enemies of fruit trees, may

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ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

A Keokuk girl reads thirteen novels a week. The sultan j»fTurkev|f eatablishin schools for w^ttieuffif ThQik crfeduca houries!

Somebody Jlfrtai^whfeh, a girl most pleasure to hear nerseif praised or another gtil ru#down?

A Connectie&t-"girl died in consequence of being told as an "April fool" that her lover was dead.

Man and wife in Russia own their property seperatelv and instances of wives suing their husbands for debt are by no means uncommon.

The queen of Madagascar TPgnlarly reads and profits by the more prominent American fashion journals, and is a great admirer ot style.

A woman in Manchester, England, has been arrested for chloroforming women, and, while in an insensible condition, cutting off and stealing their hair.

Not one of the hundred girls belonging to the St. Louis Normal School wears anything iu the shape of chig nons or waterfalls, or dresw made of any other material than calico.

Miss Annette Conise, of Tiffin, Ohio, notwithstanding that she'has studied law a year, cannot, according to the opinion of the Attorney-General of that State, be a notary public.

Will Home one please send us that item about the Wisconsin girl who ploughs and harrows and plants 45 acres of land with her own hands? Wcannot reolize that it is Spring time till we've read that item. We havn't missed it for ten years.

The medical faculty or Moscow, Russia, look with favor on female physicians, and have resolved to adujit them to the educational courses and lectures of the university, and to the privilege of following »li the labors of the Medico Chirurgical Academy.

At New Year's the Mormon sistrcn of Ephraim, Utah, resolved to lay aside all the epg* laid by their chickens during the Sundays ol" 1872 towards a subscription for the benefit of the poor matrons of the persecuted chursh. Unfortunately lar the scheme the chickens are so pious that so far not an egg ts been laid or laid by.

Lydia Thompson was presented with a bale of cotton during a recent performance in Sivannah. In thanking the donors f*r the present she remark ed that "this token is too large to he worn as a charm upon a wstch chain, but I shall ever hold it in remembrance, for in every sense of the word it is the greatest testimonial I have ever received."

In addition to the gratification of po litical appirations oflercH to woman in \Vvoming, a correspondent from that Utopian region writes that a choice of hundreds husbands may be had by all spinsters or widows who can find no mates elsewhere. Miss Anthony, of course, won't go but if this intelligence be generally promulgated the emigration from Now England will beat Saint Ul-sula's troupe out ol sightj both in number and years.

The ceremony of ordaining Miss Wi'son a deacon in the Episcopal church was made tho occasion of a special service recently in Brooklyn. Bishop Littlejohn preached on the occasion to a crowded congr.eg uion from I'hillipi ans iv., 3: "And I entreat thee, also, true yoke-fellow, help those women which labored with mo in the Gospel with Clement, and also wi Ii other my fellow-laborers, whose names are in ii Book ol Life."

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CVLTVHAL ITEMS.

Now is the time to beautify your premises with trees and shrubbery. A farmer is planting a peach orchard of 7.5(H) trees near Shawneetown.

The Ion* continued eold of the j.w °'^winter l« believed to lnvo eftoctually disposed of the potato-baft.

A drover who sells his cattle by live Weight, alwavs gives them as mach water as they will drink »efore driving them into the scales. "That," he says. "is what I understand by 'watering jrtock."'

mwI-

Jv lie checked by washing the body of t\»e tree with soap or lye, the last of May or first of June. Thla destroys the eggs in th* moss, etc., on tho bark of the tree.

or Pi.axt*.—1*« are of

.Egyptian origin celery originated In •f.- Germany the chestnut came from Italy the onion originated in topi the nettle came from Kurope tobaooo is a native of Vinrinia the citron I* a native of Greece the pine is a native of

America oats originated In Northern Africa rye originally came from Sitberia the poppy originated in Che Bast the mulberry originated iii Persia parsley was first known In Sardinia

the pcajr and apple are from Kurope uritJioh waa first cultivated In Arabu tM SMoflowex waa brought from Peru

walnut and peach came from Pec'alas the horee-chMtnat fai naUva of Thibet: the cucumber came from the jgaet Tndiea the radiah originated tn

Chin* and Japan.

A young lady says that a young gentle man ought never to feel discouraged when the "momentous question" Is negatived by the object of his choice, "lor in life, as in grammar, we always decline before wo conjugate."

The woman's rights movement is very unpopular with Mr. George Hunt llopkmsville Kentucky. He mildly asserted his marital privileges by knocking Mrs. II. down the other day the lady under the inspiration of these latter day ideas, "saw him" and went a fireplace instrument better. George says it was the worst game ot poker he*over had a hand in.

How they do things in iffartfonl—A pretty woman goes into a dental olliee with "her husband to get a tooth ex tracted, and takes gas. After the tooth is out, and she is coming out o'' the effects ot the gas she throws both arms around the dentist's neck and exclaims:

Oh, yo*u dear young man if I wasn't married, I'd marry you." Husband enjoys the tableau—nd so does the dentist. *v

A Western girl recently discovered that her lover was about 10 take anoth or girl to a ball, and disguising herself as a hackman, drove them several miles out of town and left them iu a denso wood exposed to a pelting rain storm—young lady in a low-meked muslin dress, and kid slippers, and her escort in full party toguery and thm booU. They found shelier tn a neigh* boring house, where there happened to be a minister who quickly made them man and wife. The disguised hwekman now Hits in sackcloth in ashes.

SERVED JilM RIUHT. A genuine bully called upon a Friend, avowedly «o thraab him.

Friend," remonstrated the Quaker, knocking aside his visitor's fists, "before thou proccedest to chastise me, wilt thou take some dinner?"

The bully waa a glutton and at once consented, washing down the solids with libations of strong ale.. He row up again to fulfill his original errand. "Friend," said the quaker, "wilt thou not fir*t take some punch And he supplied abundance of putich.

The bully, now ring, at tempted to thraab his entertainer oat, quoth the Quaker:

Friend, wilt thou not take a pipe?" Hils hospitable offer waa now accepted, and the bullv, utterly weak, staggered across 'tie room tb chaatiae the Quaker. The latter, opening the door, and pulling him toward it, exclaimed:

Friend thou earnest here not to be pacified. I gave thee a m«*i offering, but that did not aesuage thy rage. I •rkve thee a drink offering still thou wert beside thyself. I thee a burnt offering neither did that suffice. Now I will try thee with a heave ottering." And with that he him out of doors. That sumced tun.

Somebody has bees Ibol enooxh to waste good ink and paper In printing a book emitted "Lecturea to Men," just aa though they would boy that which they get Iw nothing every night at home.

The mother's heart the baby's 1st 2th. vifttli gip itf MiWrau frightened deathly tlv mill into which sh

TKRRE-HAUTK SATURDAY EVENING MAII* APRIL 20. 1878.

THE LITTLE PEOPLE

isiOf a

A thirteen-year-old gifi^n fftrsaw, Ky.,' is said te play two tuiiies on the piano at once, one with each hand, while vocalizing another tune.

A boy in E ist Saginaw, Michigan, chewed a catridge and can not tell how be lost his, ju^ler, lip, far, waot/f a tongue. J/, f. ,1 I

A naughty hov being told by his mother that God wonld not forgive him it be did something, answered, "Yes he would, too-^God tikes to forgive little boys—that's what He's for."

A li'tle Dan bury girl, when asked by her mother in regard to suspicious little bites in the sides of a dosen choice apples, answered. "Perhaps, mama, they may have been frost, bitten it was so cold last night." The mother retreated.

Wasn't it rough on Clara, iust as she was tilling Frederick at Innch how ethereal her appetite was, to have the cook bawl out "Say! will ye have yer biled pork and beans now, or wait till yer feller's gone?"

A little boy recently became greatly enamored of a toy trumpet which had been given him. One night as he was being "put in his little bed." he handed the trumpet to his grandmother, saying: "Here, gran'uia, you blow while I pray!"

A man and wife in Detroit left their tour-year old son alone the other evening,* though the child begged them to take him with tbem, saying he was afraid of bears and wolves. He screamed violently wheu they left the house, and on their return they found that he had been made insane by fright. It is feared that he will be an idiot for the remainder of his days.

Johnny, where is your pa?" &" Gone fishing, sir." He was fishing yesterday, was he not?" u'" "Yes, sir." 1"'

What did he catch One ca/fish, the rheumatism, two eels, the toothache, and some little ones. savs he will catch fits to-day just wait till he gets home."

A new lady in town was attracted, Sunday evening, by a little boy on the street. He

whs

a bright little fellow,

but was rather shabbily dressed, and hid an appe trance of being better acquainted with the shades than the lights of this world, "Where is your home, mv litte son she asked, "I hain't got no home," he answered. "Got no home?" she repeated, the tears standing in her eyes. "No, marm," said he, equally affected. "I board." The sweet, sad face of the lady suddenly disappeared beneath the gossamer film of her veil.

A scrub-headed boy, having been brought hetore the court as witness, tho following amusing colloquy ensued

Where do you live?" inquired the due. Live with my mother."

Where docs your mother live?" "She lives with father." Where does he live?"

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He lives with tho old folks." "Where do they live?" says the judge, gettimr verv red, as an audible titter goes round tfie court-room.

They live at home." "Where in the thunder is tliolr home "That's where I'm from," said the boy, sticking hi» tongue in the corner of'his cheek and slowly closing one eye on the judge.

Here, Mr. instable, take this witness out and tell him to travel he evident ly d'»es not know the nature of an oath." ft 'H

THE NOB LIC RE VENUE. The cofliii was a plain one—a poor mis -rabl pine coffin. No flowers on the top snioo'li ribbons about tho coarse shroud. The brown hair was I tid'fleccnily back, but thero was no crimped cap wiih neat tie beneath the chin. Tho sufT-r from cruel poverty smiled in her sleep she had found bread, rest and health. "I want to see my mother," sobbed the poor little child, as the undertaker screwed down the top. "You nnot get out of the way, boy —whv don't somebody take the brat?" "Only let me see her one minute!" cried the helpless orphan, clutching the side of the charity box, and as he «a7, upon the rough box agonized tears streamed down the cheeks on which no childish gloom everlingored. oh! it was paintul to hear him cry the words: "Only onco let me see my mother only once!"

Ouiekly and brutally the heartless monster struck the boy awav, so that he reeled with the blow, tf'or a moment the boy stood panting with grief and rage—his blue eyes distended, his lipHopened apart, fire glittered through nis eye* as he raised his little arm with a most unchildish laugh and screamed "When I am a man 1*11 kill you for that!"

There was ft coffin and a heap of earth between the mother and the poor forsaken child—a monument a great deal gtrouuer than grauite built in the Imy's heart, the memory of the heartless dead. *1

Theeonrt house waa crowded to suffoca! ion. "D*»'« anyone appear lis this man'* counsel?'' asked the judge.

There w«s stlenco when he had finished until, with lips tightly together, a lock of strange Intelligence, blended with a haughty reserve in the band-

som«

eatures.a young man stepped forward with a firm tread and kindly eye, to plead for I ho erring friendless. Ho was a stranger, but at the first sentence there was a stlenee—the splendor of his genius entranced, convinced.

The nun who could not find a friend was iccquitted. "M*v God bless you sir I cannot he sai l. "I want nothanks replied ihe stranger. «l_I_believe you are unknown to me." •*M *n, I will refresh your memory. Twenty year* ago this very day, von at ruck a broken-hearted little bov away from his dear mother's coffin. 1 waa that boy."

The man turned livid.

IMITATION.

Our friend Spot" sen tbe following article on Whe head disg school! ed tha two days

tow

Ivill Idee! Jve. as

elirigfp

iny'r

^b3mp fitly

_~ned the aforesa

developed itself. My father used to tell me th&<Mg Lives of great Inen all remind n.«

We can make our lives sublime," and I at once proceeded to imitate great men, that my exUtep" Ss sublime as any body«-

I began on Washington, upon whose aota enlarged somewhat. 1 took my little ha ch*t, crept to tho young orchard of cherry and peach, and leveled it to the ground. My bump of imitation was at work. My sire discovered the deed, and when he asked me regarding tbe authorship, forgot a portion of the Washington story, and swore I didn't know anything about it. But my *'lit'tle hatchet" condemned me. Particles of the soft young bark adhered to it, and you wouldn't take the application of peach and cherry that I g»t for all tbe lives of G. W. published since the death of old Weems.

Then I resolved to imitate Alexander. We had a fine colt, as fiery as Vesuvius, and as untamed as Muzep-

Fa's

Tartar. He should by Bucephalus, his Alexander. White the old folks were absent, I bridled the colt, with difficulty, led hiui from his stable, and drove my spurs into his flanks. He snorted his posterior extremities shot upward at the sun, and I described a faultless parabola over his head. Bucephalus nad conqueredhis Alexander. Ancient history had been xeversed. An hour afterward they picked me up with a broken arm, a dislocated collar bone, almost scalped, and a nose knocked forty miles lor Sundays. Tbe physicians hoped, for my own good, that the buuip of imitation had been spoiled, but subsequent actions declared its faculties unimpaired.

When quite young father had impressed upon my childish mind, the life of B. Franklin, how worthy of imitation it was, and when I recovered from my Bucephausian exploit, I resolved to please the old man by imitating Ben, I made a kite, painted B. F's. nice sayings all over it, stole the door key, and went out into the fields to jerk the lightning from the clouds. I succeeded a little flash of fire ran down the string and knocked me senseless. For hours they thought me dead but I recovered with a hairless cranium. I wasn't done with Franklin yet. You know be walked through Philadelphia once with six loaves of bread under his arms, three loaves in his mouth, and a handiul of ginger cakes. I resolved to thus imitate tbe postmaster sage. I got my sister to stand in the door and play the young lady who laughed at Ben. But where was I to get the bread? Our cupboard happened to be as bare as Mother Hubbard's famous larder.

lucky thought struck me. I resorted to tbe bakery, sent tbe baker into tbe oven to see if the mince pies were done, gobbled my paraphernalia and started. I tell you I cut a figure going down town with six loaves oi bread under my arms, and sister shamed me just like the girl shamed Franklin. Suddenly somebody cried "Stop Thief!" and saw the baker coming at me. I ran under the bed and let tho curtain down, but it was no use. The brute broke up the didactic entertainment, and it cost our folks about fifty dollars to keep me from going with tho sheriff. It learned them a lesson, however— to furnish their offspring wil bread, That, moral saved me a birching. The bump of imitation was still "up to snuff,"

Then I fell back on Columbus for want of modern examples. I read how ho made the egg stand on end. It was near Easter, and tho boys had laid in the usuar supply of ovate "bivalves." I bet that I could make an egg stand on its beam ends. They staked a dozen of bivalves on the proposition. I simply played Columbus, and tho little rascals swore it wasn't fair. I reached for tho stakes, and got them, too—all over me. I was a walking specimen of unadulterated eggnog. Then they licked mo, andthatdilapidaledear had been whole were it not for Columbus' foolishness. The imitation bump will never leave

me. Spot.

"U«v«» you rescued me, then, to take my life?" "No, I have a sweeter revenge. I have s*v«l the lite of man whose brutal ooudaot has rankled in mv breast for the 1-tst twenty year*. Go, then, acid remember the tears or a lriendleas child."

Tbe man bow«i his bsad In shame, a»d wont Aon the presence of rnagnaohnitv as grand to him as incomprehensible.

[New York Letter to the Boston Tithes.] OPERA IN AMERICA.

A Trick Upon Two Bloody Englishmen.

Some weeks ago, when there happened to bo no opera at the Academy of Music, couple of traveling Englishmen arrived hare by steamer, and pat up at the Clarendon. At dinner they fell into conversation with an American wag, and asked him if thero was anv opera in New York.

"O,

yes," said the American, "we

have opera the entire vear at Signor Pastor's opera house, and quite often at the Academy."

Dear me," said one of tho Englishmen, opera the entire j*ear. And can they make it pay?"

Certainly," was the reply. Signor Pastor has made a foitune, and his house is constantly filled."

But I should think that your people would only go in the season, you know. Perhaps, though, you don't have any particular season in this country.''

The American explained that we were passionately fond of tho opera, and would attond at all seasons. The Englishmen thanked him for tho information, and withdrew to dress for the opera.

Pasta is a famous namo in the oporiUic world, and the strangers thought it waa all right. It maybe necessary to explain that Tony Pastor's Opera House" is on the Bowery, and is a cheap kind of variety show-place, something between negro minstrelsy and the poorest grade of Eaglish burlesque. Its audience is mixed or rather an unmixed lot, and is maio up of newsboys, Imolbkcks and IViwery roughs in general, and requires the constant efforts of policemen to keep it in order.

The Englishmen orrayed themselves in full evening dress, including the conventional swallow-tail ooat and white neck-tie. They called a carriage, and ordered tbe driver to take thern to Pasta's Opera Honse, and tbe driver wonderingly obeyed. They saw the sign Tonv Pastor's Opera House," over the door, and made their, way through the dirtv crowd to tbe ticket office. The cheapness of the seats surprised tbem, and so did tbe noise in the bouse. The boys in the them with cores, idy. As they reach their hotel, one of tbem was beard to remark:

I tbem, ana so aiu ine none in toe The boys in tbe gallerv pelted with peanut shells ana apple and they eacaped after a Brief

Just as I told yon. the Americans don't know anything about music, and von can fool tbem wit* a cheap perfltMvaaee from Cremone Garden and call it opera.

aid gta» a salary of tlfittaysar.

librarian

[By T. W. Hlgglnson iu the Woman's Jour-

THE OB

|tis this week limitation

HEL.

Of tM

%a£bg Wteljpa interval between twxt lectnrloj:' engagements in Central New Ydrk, Fspent that.time at the Onedia Community. After ^tolerably extensive acquaintance with the various types of religious enthusiasm, I can truly say that I never met with a bodv of men and women in whom that enthusiasm seemed a more genuine fthingt or less alloyed by base motive. The very fact that* some of their main principles seem to me false, and others actually repulsive, should give additional weight to this testimony.

As you approach the statelv edifice of the community on a winter day you hear the voices of children, while a little army of sleds outside tbe main entrance shows that out-door happiness is at hand for them. Entering, you find yourself in a sort of pa.ace of plain comfort admirably warmed and ventilated, with spacious corridors, halls, parlors, library and natural history museum. You are received with as much courtesy as in any private house. The men you meet are well dressed, well mannered, well educated, the women, though disfigured by the plainest of all bloomer dresses, look healthy and cheerful. At table and in tbe din-ing-hall, where the sexes meet, you see cordial and inoffensive manners. Your food is well cooked and served with home-made wine if you wish, and the delicious bread and cutter and snowy table-cloth of the Shakers. After dinner, perhaps, tbey give you an improvised concert. The family assembles in tbe great hall. Tbe side door of tbe wide stage opens, and half a dozen little children from two to three years old are let in as the advance guard of the juvenile department. Tbey toddle about tbe stage at their will—its being protected by alight partition for their benefit—and shout and crow to their parents, who sit below. The little ones are all rosy and healthy, all about the same size. «nd all neatly dressed in little frocks and fresh white aprons. It is a pretty prelude for an afternoon's performance. Then twenty of the elder chlidren follow and sing some songs. They also look happv and well cared for, and are neatly, though ungracefully dressed. Then you listen to really excellent orchestra of six or seven instruments, led by a thoroughly trained leader—a young man brought up in the community and educated at their expense—while a boy of 11 plays the second violin. They plav good German music, while the little ones find their way down upon t»ie floor and are petted by their special parents and watched with apparent admiration and affection by men and women generally. This, at least, was what I saw that day. Later I saw the machine shops and silk factory but these can be seen anywhere. But a family of two hundred living in apparent harmony and among the comforts which associated life secures—this is not to be seen every day, and this is what one at least convinces himself that he sees at Onedia.

Meanwhile theessential theories upon which all this rests appear to the observer—to me at least—all wrong. At Oneida they practice community of property. I disbelieve in it, and only believe in association and co-operation. At Oneida they subordinate all the relation of tho sexes to the old Greek theory, held by them as Christians, that the community has a right to control parentage, and to select and combine tbe parents of the next, generation of the human race, as in rearing domestic animals. Such a theory I abhor I think it must cause much suffering in its application, and that it will defeat its own end by omitting from these unions all personal emotion. Therefore, I utterly dissent from all the essential theories of the Oneida community. All the more reason for trying to do them justice. In the wonderful variety and complexity of human nature it often happens that theories which would be aegrading iu your hands or mine are somehow purged of the expected ill effects to the hands which hold them. Thore is a divine compensation that limits the demoralizing effects of bad principles when these are honestly adopted. I found a good deal of such compensation at Oneida.

It must be remembered that t}ie whole organization is absolutely basoJ upon a special theology, that nono who do not adopt this would In any case be admitted to membership. As a matter of lact, they have for several years admitted no new members whatever, having no room. This cats of! all floating and transient membership, and excludes all the drift-wood of reform. Members must be either very sincere proselytes to a religious theory, or else very consummate hypocrites. Th© community reiects the whole theory of "attractive industry" of Fourier, and accepts a theory of self-sacrifice. In the same way it rejects the whole theory of "affinities" in lovo and marriage. It accepts instead a theory of self-con-trol, and even what seems unlawful and repulsive indulgence must be viewed against this stern back-ground of predominant self-sacrifice.

Tho two things they most sternly resist in practice aro, first—lawlessness,, or doing what is right in one's own eves and secondly—exclusive ownership. whether of property or wife and child. All must be subordinate to the supposed good of the whole. They admit that Uils theory would be utterly disastrous to tho world in its present stage if adopted without preparation. Nothing but religious enthusiasm would make it practicable, even in a community of two hundred, without its resulting either in agony or degradation.

But now, as a mailer of fact, how Is it? I am bound to say as an honest reporter, that I looked in vain for tbe visiblo signs of either the suffering or the sin. The community makes an Impression utterly unlike that left by the pallid joylessness of the Shakers, or the stupid sensualism which impressed me in the few Mormon households I have seen, saw some uninteresting faces, and some with that burnt out (ire of which every radical assembly shows specimens, but I did not see a face that I should call coarse, and there were very lew that I should call joyless. The fact that tbe children of the community hardly ever wish to leave It that the young men whom tbey send to Yale college, and the young women whom they send for musical instruction to New York, always return eagerly and devote their lives to tbe community this proven a good deal. There is no coercion to keep tbem, as in Mormonism. and there are no monastic vows, as in the Roman Catholic church. This invariable return, therefore, shows that there Is bappinees to be found in tbe community, and that it is ol a kind which wins the respect of the young and generous. A bodv matt have great confidence In itaelf when It tku* voluntarily sends ite sheep into Hie midst of tho

wood's wolves, and feurlessly xp-jcts their return. .^Mir I came awa^ from with incr sentimei a form,j the degl pect to re to me so increased^ftfespectF for the pi associations, which will yet "wtSure to the human race, in the good time coming, better things than competition has: to give. I saw men and women them whom I felt ready to respect and love.. I admire the fidelity with which they maintain the equality of the sexes. Nevertheless, I should count it a calamity for a boy or girl to be brought, up at Oneida.

respect for xeligious

which^n however distorted leeppfBenMnd women aonv tionf jvhich one woulc^Bx-f1 froib a life which seems

Png.MI brought nwiurjnlso for the principle of

PITH AND POINTS.

O&tlkndtsb* Proverb^ etoj, Selected by George Herbert, aud first printed in 1610:

Pleasing ware is half sold. At dinner my man appears. Who gives to all, denies all." The house shov\s its owner. Man proposetb, God disposeth. A good bargaiu is a pick purse. A scalded dog fears cold water. Every day brings its bread wiih it. The German's wit is in his fingeis. A horse made, and a man to make. The gentle hawk half mans herself". Look not for musk in a dog kenne'.. A crooked log makes a straight fire. The devil is not always at one door. He that gets ut of debt grows rich. God sends cold according to clo hes. He that studies his content wants it. !s Humble hearts have humble desires.. All came from, and will go to others. Empty chambers make foolish maids. You can not know wine by the bar rel.

Quick believers need broad shoulders. He begins to die that q.iitshis desires.

Who removes stones bruises his fingers. Light burdens, long worn, grow hea-te vy.

A cool month, and warm feot, live? long. He loseth nothing that loseth not God.

One sound blow will serve to undiv us all. A cask and an Ill-custom must bo* broken.

A fat housekeeper makes lean executors. If you would know a knave, give liiin, a staff'.

He that will take the bird must not.scare it. He lives unsafely that looks to near? on things.

When all sins grow old, covetousnesf* is voung. The wolf knows what the evil beast thinks.

He that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace When a fr morrow.

When a friend asks, there is no to-:

Benefits please, like flowers, while they are fresh. A (too) gentle housewife mars tho household.

He who hath none to still him mavj weep out of his eyes. Not a long day, but a good bent, has'ens work.

Old men go to death death comes to« young men. II« pulls with a long rope that, waits® for another's death.

Building and marrying of children are great waster^ He hath great need of fool that plays fool himself.

All is well with him who is bclovi of his neighbors. A handiul of good 1 to is better tnan a bushel of le arning.

Great strokes make not sweet, music. (We commend this to Julnlee

Between the business

day

Gilmorc.)«

Emmhrson

QSO

life and the

death space ought to bo inter

posed. 4^1

JO MIJCH FOR THE DE VIL. This is Edward Hale's story: A minahad sold himself to the d« II, lio was topossess him at a certain time unless lie,, could propound a question to ItMHut ic majesty which he could not answer, he being allowed to put three questions' to him. Tho timo ciimo tor the devil to claim his own, and hesubsequently appeared. The first question tho in in asked was concerning theon»gy, which caused tho devil no trouble to reply. The second ho answered without hesitation. The man's fate pended on tbe third. What should it be

He hesitated and turned do and the cold dew stood on his forehead, while ho shivered with anxiety, nervousness and terror, and tho devil triumphantly sneered. At this juncture the man's wife entered the room with a bonm.t on her head. Alarmed at her husband's condition, she demanded to know the cause. When Informed, she laughed und said "I can propound a question which the devil himself cinnot an-?, swor. Ask him which is the front of this bonnit?" The devil gave it up and retired in disgust, and tho man was tree. ,ti5

says: "Do not hang a

dismal picture on your wall, and do not deal with sables anil glooms in your conversation." Beeclier folUws with "Away with those fellows who go howling through life, nil the while passing for birds of paradise, lie that cannot

laugh

and be bog iv and look

well to himself, lie should fast ami pray until his fico breaks forth into Ugh." TaImage then takes up the strain: "Some people have an id«-a that they coidfort tho afflicted when ', tbey groan over them. »n't drive a. hearse through a mini's

soul

Iokbs

price ilAt.

and if

yon want splints, do not make them of cast iron." After such counselintr-i and admonitions lay a* 1» your Ion.' faces.

A JoSfW have a large

•lock of one-horiM- Plows nil can furnish them In any iu lty to dealer* at rate* far bee a-iy In the murkct. ittend i"

Thk low bitch, tbe patent *-vener, the Mjuare frame, shape of the buri'!!«*,•. make the

Wki»the

superior to any other tile-

ItifjC two-hor»e com Plow. 8e« it at Join* A Jones.

Ti?K

Wrra Walking Two-horwCorn i'low Is tbe fastest machine in the bu*b«*» to sell, because a farmer can see for himself that he saws the pri* of It In a mouth, inmoney actually paid out for labor,

Jo*im

Joxiw A

have full authority from

tb« factory to warrant the Wkik Cultivator to work

im»

well as a Uoable-sUovel, and to

suit the purchaser.

THKb**t plowing at our County Fair tfrt* done with ao old plow end a Hulky A tta» liment, such as Jones A Jones. Terre-Haute, are selling. Tbe bun*, the old, a woman anybody, can ride and plow with it.

With

Wkik comivator

the

Will do the work of

and tbe wage* and

IJYESIUtwo,boardsosave

land of a hired man, which wtH

pay

for tbe machine in a

month. |n* ,.&>