Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 27, 1872, Page 6

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Ad- vertisements should be Landed fn at that The @hieago Trihune, Sundsy Morning, October. 27, 1872. PROMOTICN OF TEMPERANCE. Tt is not too l2te to assert that prevention is better than cure; that it is more easy to avoid evils than to remedy them. Thisis certainly true in tho matter of drunkenness. A taste for stimulants is so umiversal among men that it may be eaid to be natural. Among remote tribes that have never had communication with civ- ilized people, the process of producing some stimulating or intoxicating drink is well known, 2nd among such tribes intemperance exists in its worst forms. Among the northern nations, aleoholic liquors have alweys been in use, while the milder wines have generally satisfied the tastes of people inkabiting warmer climes. At ihis time the question of the drunkenness of the people of any nation may be determined by the extont to which spirituous liquors are nsed as a common beverage. In those countries where light wines and beer are the common bev- erage, the aggregate consumption of these is greal, 2nd their use by both sexes is almost universal, but drunkenness is rare. In France, where pure wines are plenty, total abstinence is very rare, yet drunkenncss scldom noticed. In Russia and Scotland, where brandy and whiskey sbound, drankenness is common, and is believed o be on the increase. In this country, peopled by men and women {rom all parts of the world, there is a great diversity of tastes and habits, but we think it safe to say that drunkenness is confined to those who use whiskey, rum, gin, or brandy, and does mot prevail among those who drink wine znd beer. Hence it has occar- red to several eminent physicians and philan- thropists thata proper field of laborfor the friends of temperance is to cultivate rather than repress the taste for wine and beer as substi- tutes for the more fiery and maddening drinks, which lead to intoxication and erime. To the extent that this use of wine and beer as substi- tutes for alcoholic drinks is increased, there must be a reduction of drunkenness and of its attendant misfortunes and crimes. If Christ changed the water into wine at Cana of Galiles, surely His followers may labor to change whis- Ly into wine in Chicago or elsewhere. Men are not to be wrenched from their long- aceustomed habits either by denunciations orby arbitrary laws. Laws for the regulation of per- sonal habits, tastes, and customs have failed to accomplish the end sought. Humen nature rejects them 28 oppressive, and any enastment which fails to command the general approval of the community must fail in being observed. For this reason, prohibitory laws have failed ‘both to prevent the sale of liquorand to prevent drunkenness. Thers are those who look upon the use of tobscco as hardly less injurious than theuse of liguors. These men would, if they always thinks to deseribe the gradual process by which the running brook has been transformed into stagnant water, how the dairy has proved to be a failure, aud how you must go back to town if you desire to secure the choice cuts of beef and the early vegetables of tho season. Yot eome of these secrots of country life must have got abroed, for there is an evident reaction in favor of metropolitan life. Dr. Holmes, in arecent instalment of ¢ The Poet 2t the Break- fast Table,” comes out boldly enongh in defence of cily life and concentrated communities. After expressing the very sensible opinion that the pretticat and best specimens of womankind are raised wunder glass, just as the finest fruit is, Lo adds: ‘““Eeep her in a - wide street of a well-built city eight months of the year, with good, solid brick walls behind her, good sheets of plate glass, and the sun shining warm through them in front of her, and you have put her in the condition of the pine- apple.” Further on, he says that *People don't know what a gain there is to health by livieg in cities,” and that “A first-rato city houseis a reguler sanifarium.” A writer in Applelon’s Journal, following Dr. Holmes, is of the opinion that the City of the Future is tobe one of scientific compactness instead of scien~ tific diffusion, and recommends the build~ ing of tall houses, with steam elevators, thorough ventilation, perfect drainage, each floor a household in itself, the roof set aside for & garden and promensde, and the whole adapted to co-operative housckeeping. It is claimed by the new set, thus underteking to dis~ pose of the problem of city life, that there are fresher-looking women and heartier old men in the largo towns than in the country districts ; that the city-bred lady has more attractions for out-door exercise, and so takes more of it; that city cooking is not so productive of dyspepsia a8 the fried grease and hot bread of the farm-house; and that the ap- pliances for carrying off the rofuse matter of crowded communitics leave s more healthfal condition of the atmosphere than the damp fields and primitive customs of coantry life. Every one will recall the general complaint of mosquitoes and ague—two scourges that might have taken their places among the visitations put upon Pharaoh—that has come from the sub~ urban villages and raral districts during tho past summer, and agree, at least, that the partisans of country life have not all the arguments on their side. MRBS. MILLER'S HUSBAND. It used to be that poets were born and not mede. That was in Horace's time. Even later and more progressive men, who have felf the divine aflatus, have been content to work at it during life, =nd look to fature genora- tions for their roward. We have changed all that. Advertising is on element not to be ignored in the process of making poets, and, if Mr. Joaquin Miller is not one of those mysterious and ethereal beings, it is not becanse he has failed o recognize the value of the new ingredient in their composition. The advertis- ing is not the less valusblo, perhaps, because it i gratuitcus. Whether or not Mr. Joaquin Miller—it is & wonder that he hasnover yet been confused with ¢ Joe Miller” for short—has entered into a compact with Mra. Joaquin Miller for advertising for mutual benefit, it iy hard to determine. It hes been hinted more then once that Mr. Charles Reade has come down handsomely in order to have some of his moro meretricions publications duly denounced into noforiety. It is certain that New York theatrical mansgers, who have indulged in Britieh blondes and short-skirted spectacles, have been willing enongh to pay by the line for rould, include tobacco in the prohibitions of the OMainelaw. Doesany person imagine that such t lew could be enforeed, and that the use of to- bacco conld be interdicted by proclamation or statnte ? The absolute prohibition of the sale of liguid stimulants is resented and resisted for the same reason. There must be aline drawn some- where, but we question whether any good can ever result from prohibition. The remedy isin fur- nishing the public with & stimulant which will satiefy the taste, and which when used will pro- Juce the least injury to health, to life, and to public order. There are thousands of persons m this community who habitually use wine or beer in place of tea and coffee; these eame peo- ple rarely, if ever, use spirituous liguors in any of its forms. These people are temperate in their habits, and euffer none of the usual conse- quences of drinking, The man who induces & dozen men fo discon- tinue the nse of beverages that produce intoxi- cation, and to adopt something in their place which leaves them sober, is areal benefactor, and is the practical promoter of femperance, sobriety, and good order. He prevents drunken- ness. Ho keeps men sober who otherwise svould get drunk. Heprevents disorder by taking sway the most frequent cause thereof. He is, in faet, the true, practical teacher of temperance. This hes no bearing upon the question of the Sundzey laws, nor has it any bearing upon the question of enforcing existing laws, but it has a direct bearing upon the question of how far laws for the regulation of social habits sbould ex- tend. We cannot help believing thet the cause of temperance has been alweys defeated by ihe extreme policies advocated. The question is never regarded in a practical way. Itis the in- discriminate war upon thatwhich is harmless, 8 swell as that which is harmful, which arreys against the temperance reformers an opposition always powerful enough to defeat them, oven in 1hoso States where they have the law-making gpower on their side. CITY LIFE VS. COUNTRY LIFE. ©Of Iate years, the tendency of dwellers in cities to find couniry homes hzs become almosi & manis. The best arts of the landscape-gardener and the most ingenious devices of the advertis- ing-agent are combined to allure tho restless Qdenizeng of acrowded community. Visions of blue skies are strangely intermingled with the realities of cozsmntation tickets, and the advan- . tages of cconomy are gphanced by the prospects of pure atmosphere, fresh butter and eggs, run- ning brooks, Jice-cold springs, dom from city faxes. Yet fhere are some drawbscks to the elluring piciure. Tt has been quietly noticed the¢ when a business man’s country house burns down, he seldom | builds it agein. He peraists indeclaring that he intends to rebuild, but the postponement is of :he most vague and indefinite character. Xf the cural resident has s particular friend, he isal- #ays willing to make the sserifice of selling him s home at an aéractive veduetion in price, Commutation tickets, which wers provided in large quantities in the early enthusiasmof conn- try life, are thrownin at 2 great discount. There is a solemn silence as to the prevalence of the ague; & virtuons indignstion is exhibited at the mention <of woaquiloes; no one and free- ‘proper newspsper dennnciation. So it may bo that the later ¢ Joe Miller” may have conceived the rather brilliant, though not altogethernovel, ides of having his wife abuse him, that he might come beck to the charge, and thus contribute several columns of tolerably-entertaining resd- ing for the public and exceedingly good advertising for himself. This much has been done at any rate, whether or not Mr, Miller is entitled to any credit for the enter- prige. ‘We have all read Mrs. Miller's account of the life and career of The Poet of the Sierras, as gleaned from her matrimonial experiences. Now ‘comes Mr. Miller from the other side of the continent, and, through the universal charity of the modern reporter, he is enabled to present his construction of Mrs. Miller's utterances. Mr. Miller begins very decorously by decleri:.g that he would say nothing egainst the woman whohad been his wife, and then procecds to deny pretty much everything that his ex- wife's gentle estire had prompted her to tell sbout him. This scems tobe & case of the “lie inferential.” 3Ir. Joa- quin Miller probebly rezards it simply 28 o bit of poetic license. The extent and velue of the incidental advertising, it will bo observed, Te- main abont the same as if there had beena gen- oral admission insteed of & general denial. In fact, the opportunity is the better improved, for Mr. Miller's denial adds another column and 2 half {0 the Iatter-day process of poet-making. There are some points i Br, Miller's general demurrer that are well teken, bub which would be difficult, perbaps, to sustain, For in- stance, Dp says that, while “there mey be such books s rhyming dictionaries,” e never saw one. Fhic assertion is what he might call, in some of Lis translstipns of West- erndisleet, “too atfenuated.” If Wall Whit- ‘man hag spid g0, it would havo found ready cre- dence, because Wals Whitmun has that supreme contempt fcr harmonjous eoynds that would bave led him naturzlly to adopt the Cheygkee as iz yernacular, if the oplion of language had Dbeen fefhto him. Bub it is highly improbabls, poetic liceszo fo the contrary notwithsisnding, that so modern eyd progressive 2 poet as Mr, ‘Miller should have negiccted to avail himself of 80 eervenient & manual as the ¢he rhyming dic- tionary. Heworidsearclybeat mé_hepqw;;gnb the rocks of his mountsisiyz district, nar frot pnd fnme over the hot stove of his pectic Forkalop, in sekxch of 8 convenient rhythm for fhe word ‘“over” wheu Za could turn to 2 page and find #eclpver,” or for*‘evar” when he could turn to ancthér and discover Holeyer.” Life is too short for ene Zan tp go over .anothey jran's la- ‘bor unnecessarily, ez if Mr. Miller j_,;qs nege iasted to employ the rhywmizg dictionary up this tize, he will probably not fzuess his hint st whet Jie might have done, and meis a better pso of it hergafier. The Poet of the Fierzgs is o modest man withal. He admits thathe hps gover written a € Childe Harold ” or a<*Don Juan He goes forther. He seye thst he is lame not because Byron vas Jame, but mainty hecause of a stray ‘bullet or two, £nd of drepdfully unromantic but terribly rheumstic affections. In other words, r, Miller confesses that thero is nothing of tho ! Brronip gbout him. This is probably true, unless it be in his comprehensive affection for womankind, which, according to his own ad- mission, 18 simply illimitable. The Poet of the Sierras has had, and promises to have, a varied and interesting experience in this line. If is so cxtensive that he cannot now remember whether the Willumette. bozuty in the classic shades of Orcgon weighed 200 pounds, or 150 pounds, or 250 pounds. He now devotes himself to listening to the histories of chambermaids who work for $9 & month in the attic stories of New York taverns. He proposes, efter having visited New Orleans and the Holy Tand—which he thus apparently sets down as the two moral exiremes of the universe—to pitch his tont in some lonely spot overhanging tle Pacific Ocean, put Tennyson's theory into practice, and take to himself some eavage woman to rear o dusky race. The circumstance that Mr. Miller, with all this, does not contem- plate marrying ngain, scarcely renders his feel- ing for womankind any the less. Byronic. Qtherwise, the resemblance, as Mr. Miller feems anxious to have it underetood, is as faintas possible. ‘WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. L An International Conference is mowin ses- sion, in Paris, for the purpose of reducing the canflicting systems of weights and measures to one general standard. Very little has been said or heard of the Conference, and yet it embraces in its organization some of the most noted scien- tific meninthe world. ifr.J. E. Hilgerd, of the Coast Survey, who has charge of the stand- ard weights and measures at Washington, rep- resents this country. England is represented by Prof. Airy,the Astronomer Royal, and Mr. Chisholm, Custodian of Weights and Meas- ures; Germany, by Dr. Yorster, Director of the Observatory, and General Boyer, President of the Geodesic Institute of Beilin; Rusais, by M. Jacobi, of the Bt. Petersburg Academy of Sciences; Prof. Strave, Director of the Observatory at Pul- towa, and Prof. Wilde, Dircctor of the Central Observatory at Bt. Petersburg; France, by M. de Bort, Minister of Commerca and Agriculture, General Morin, and M. Tresca, of the Conserva- tory of Artsand Trades, and varions members of the Institute; and the Holy Seo by the ro- nowned astronomor, Father Zecchi. Itis & proof of the general interest which is centered in this matter that Austris, Bavaria, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ttaly, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, tho Argon- tine Republic, Pern, Nicaragus, Uruguay, Tur- key, and Venezuela have all sent their most eminent men to this Conferonce. Of tho dcsirability of feducing weights and ‘measures to a common standard, the world over, there is no doubt : of the possibility of accom- plishing it, there is every doubt. The universal element of habit, and the fceling of each na- tionality that its system is tho best, will un- doubtedly operate to prevent any practical re- sults being reached. Wo shall prob- sbly lLave any amount of learned disquisitions on this topic, and profound mathe- matical and estronomical essays, covering o wide range of scientific investigation, and then the Conference will adjourn without taking any definite action. It will be very difficult, for in- stance, to convince an American that there is any better eystem than the good old rule of measuring twelve inches to the foot and twelve ounces to the pound, the gentlemen from Venczuela and tho Isles of the Sea will cling to their- systems with persistent tonacity, and the profonnd astronomer Zecchi will undoubtedly bring proofs from the stars and meteors, on be- half of the Holy See, that all the systems oaght to go with the Index Expurgatorius, and that s new one should bo constructed. The French have the preponderating influence in the Con~ ference ; it is the French metric system which bas inspired this meeting, and they have hopes to reduce all other systems to their official stan- dard of the “metre,” tho *litre,” and * gram- me."” And yet, according to the statement of French papers, the official system has not been adopted to any appreciable extent by the people atlarge. The chopkeepers still Tetain the old weights and measures, and do business a8 their fathers did before them. The prospect, there- fore, that the French suthorities can induce the foreign members of the Conference to accept & system which their own people are not willing to adopt, is not & very brilliant one, nor does it seem at all probable that any result will ensue from the meeting except some verylearned and very tedions disquisitions of an exasper- atingly technical description. The world will, undoubtedly, go on weighing and messuring as it has dono since the flood ; and, as it has got along very comfortably, and without conflict, for thousands of years past, it will probsbly con- tinue to do o for thousands of years to come, content to leave metres, litres, znd grammes, yards, feet, and pounds as they aro. CHARITABLE GAMBLING. An interesting suit was recently brought in England, growing out of a violation of one of the statutes, known as the Pedler's Act, which provides that every vendor of goods shall take out a license. The cherge of violating this act was brought against a nonconformist Iady, who had been taking round a ‘‘ missionary basket”— in other words, a basket containing contribu~ 8 of fancy articles, which are taken round and offerad for sale by the various contributors inturn. In this manner the ladies belonging to thie Wesloyan Methodists, end other denomina- tions, have done & thriving business for some timo past. Tho megistrate before whom the lady wes Lrought, in giving his judgment, said thet there was coneiderable difference of opinion inthe interpretation of tic geb, even smong lzgal authorities, many of them believing thet ¢ho sale of articles for charitabd purposes, vithout ¢oy profit to the saleeman, i not plece such o 3 i on this view, the Riagisirate dismil mons. gistrate will be applsuded by i :;b'\ ect was a charitable ) Elgicln_h A;,g Dot re- colvo any prox gherefrom, and the purghaeer, i is to be presumed, received 2 quid pro quo for the money invested. There are litéio mgtters of ‘business, however, connected with church enter- px:ipzu l:'hjs country which the general com- munity Jould %o glad to seo placed un- der 'the ‘operation’ of & statuto similar to fhe English DPefler's Agt, Tho mild form pf gembling 'pm_um 26 church {fairs is an instance £o the point. The lottery is tho favorite form of this gambling. An article is put up and rafiled for. Oneperson is success- ful, and the rest throw away their monay, and the successfal person, although he has virtually wagered that he will draw something worth much more than the price of his ticket, in reality of the the world st J; s 9m n of | remedy is theset, A “hig) !c!;al authority”? heving tak- inel. Even granting that the article is worth mora than the chance he took, thisdoes not alter the character of the proceeding, and the charitable mnature of the object does mnot divest it of its illegelity and impro- priety. The Post Office, the Well of Rebecca, and the conventionsl calke with the ring in it be- long to the same closs of petty swindling. In all these caseg, tho purchaser receives no equiv- alent for the money he pays out, and submits to Do swindled in a mild way for the sake of the cause, which is an indefinite kind of consolation afterall. The pédler's license, it seems to us, would apply in these cases, and might make somo amends for this charitable law-breaking, of which no magistrate will tako cognizance. The Evengelical Ministerial Association of Cincinnati, which met recently, had under dis- cussion the subject of criminal sbortion,—the ‘wilful destruction of unborn children. The sub- ject was introduced by the Rev. Dr. Hatfield, formerly of Chicago, much to the distaste of some of the other clergymen. Ho insisted, however, upon its discussion, and, in the course of his romarks, made the startling state- ment thiat there was not o block in Cincinnati where the evil was not practised, and from which there were not ‘“women coming into the church and to the sacrament with hends stained with the blood of the unborn innocents.” Argu- ing from this statement, he contended that it was timo for the Christian Church to look the matter directly in the face, and for religions men and women cverywhere to counsel together as to the best means of stop- ping the evil. The brondcast statement of Dr. Hatfield with reference to Cincinnati was evi- dently not rolished by the ofher clergy, some of them denying the statement point blank, and others gently hinting that the Doctor was hasty and rash in his charges. Asit is only a short timo sinco that Dr. Hatfield classed somo of the most excellent ladies on the lyric stage smong improper characters, and 28 he has more than once been very careless and loose in his statements, the other members of the Associa~ tion did well in not accepting his cherges s suthoritative. The evil of criminal sbortion cannot be too generzlly condemned or too severe- ly punished, but that it exists to the extent charged by Dr, Hatficld few will be willing to bolieve, except upon better authority. It is a ‘wholesale charge against women, almost as gra- tuitous as those which he has made against ac- tresses and singers. The Association very prop- erly took no action upon Lis suggestions, prefer- ring to wait for something more reliable. T e Concerning the emancipation of women, M. Baudrillart tells us, in the Revus dcs Deux JAfondes, that if is by no means a modern idea. Four hundred years sgo, writers were found to plead their equality with men. In 1509, Corno- Lius Agrippa, very powerful in his day ss a thinker and author, wrote of the *Superiority of Women to Men,” which he demonstrated in thirty chapters by a cloud of mythological, physi- cal, historical, cabalistic, snd moral proofs. Arguments for tho equality of women are found even in Plato, as Ruscelli showed in his book in 1552, No wonder that, with such encoursge- ‘ment, women took heart in their own couse. A fair Venetian, Lucrezia Morinella, wrote fear- lessly of “The Nobleness and Excellence of ‘Women, Together with the Faults end Imperfec- tions of Men.” Henry IV. had his conjugal constancy, nover very strong, severely tried by tho conduct of his first wife, who openly ad- vocated similar views. Women, in the seven- teenth century,had grown to be more *“ noble, bet~ ter politicians, moro courageous, more learned, more virtuous, and more economical than men,” Even tho friars wrote in the same strain,—but this is not eurprising, as they were bachelors. Hilarion de Coste published two huge quartos colebrating the praiscs of one hundred and fifty women, distinguished in the fifteenth and, six- teenth centuries for their talents, and Ribera sang the “ Immortal Triumphs and Heroie En- terprises of Eight Hundred and Fifty Women,” il S s s Dr.J. E.Allen, who recontly testifiedina murder case at Memphis, involving the ques- tionof emotional insanity, has perhaps sum- med up the whole question in & nutshell, and at least deserves credit for his remarkable sin- cerity and frankness. During the courseof his testimony, he stated that he had for ten years been Medical Superintendent of the Ken- tucky Lunatic Asylum, and that during that time, he had more than 2,000 inssne patients underhis charge. The result of his investiga- tions is contained in the following statement : “The more Istudied the question of insanity, the less I wunderstood it; and, if you ask me where it begins and where it ends, neither I nor any other physician in the world can tell you. On occasions like this, Iawyers make fools of themselves in trying to make asses of doctors.” In view of the fact that no approach to the settlement of the vexed ques- tion of emotional ineanity has yet been made, and thet no two doctors can agreo upon any one point in connection with it, we are ledto be- lieve that the Memphis doctor, in his blunt way, has stated tho oxact truth, and that his right and left-handed fling at doctors and lawyerscon- tains more than one grain of common sensa. —_— If there bo any one fact more than another to weaken human confidence in the accuracy of history, it is to bo discovered by any one who shall seelk to gain from hia neighbors, eye-wit- nesses of any important event in the past, in- formation 83 to precise dates and details, Seventeen years ago, this city wes stirred with tho peril and alarm of the Lager-Beer Riot. Multitudes of men, active in our streets to-day, shared in tho exciting scenes, And yet among them even if, as officers, they werp foremost in the fray, or as lookers-on sharod in its dangers, Dot one of very meny consulted by our reporters could give the procise date, or even the month of the occurrence. One excellent gentleman, whose memory is good for & myriad of facts, who was among the wounded on ths occasion, asserted that it fook place in Oct Boveral, whose impressions wero most vivid 28 to the leading features of the ovent, wero positive that it transpired in July. Officer Hunt, who indeed has reason for an indelible impression, having lost enarm in the asseult, alone was able to givo tho precise date us the 21st of April. praiiiin s e b Mr. J. Y. Scammon, of Milwaukee, is a sound Coustitutional lawyer. Ho tells us, in the ‘present emergency, that the right thing to dois 10 enforto the Sundsy law. -And ho then adds: The_true counsel to tlie city suthorities is, to be giiided by a 1cise diseretion in' the-enforcement of the Inw; to those who have urged *its enforcement, to re- member that possibly tho. peace of 5 greet-city is at stakej and tothe anii-Sunday lsw men-and tho Por- sonal Liberty Ztagues, to bear in mind that their rough th ts, the” Common Council, and the Legislatu ¢ : Here i8 wisdon in nuggots. The Isw ¢ught to he enforced. It ought to be enforced with ““a Undoubtedly, in this case, tho decisfon drawa something, the value of which is only nom- "It ought to bs enforced so 48 igt. ‘That is, on the hole, &t safgreed sn somewhat 4 They gre at the same time in- legtaplis, Pall Mall Budget illustrates this by showing that what wonld in English be called the Ithine and Neckar Steam Navigation Company, and in Trench the Compagnie de la Navigation par Bateaux @ Vapeur sur le Rhin et le Neckar, could be given in one German word: Rheinneck- ardampfschiffahrigesellschaft, The nomination of Frank Warren for Alder- man in the Becond Ward by the “Law and Or-" der™ party is one of tho most surprising devel- opments of the present eagitation. We fancy that Mr. Warren is .perfectly thunderstruckto LITERATURE. | OLD AND NEW. In 01d and New for November, tho Rev. James Martineau continues his metaphysical and recondite study of God in Humanity. Some ex- tracts are given from the edition of the * Gesta Romanorum,” recently published by Bouton. Historically, these old lgends are 2s authentic a8 the travels of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, but they illustrate the lessons taught by popular preach- ers half a Millennium ago. Wo give one of the best: 3 In tho reign of Otho, thero was & certain slippery priest, who created much disturbance zmong his ‘parishioners, and many were extremcly scaudalized, One of them, in particular, always absented himself from mass when it fell o tho priest's turn to celebrate it. Now, ithappened on s festival day, during the time of mass, that, 13 this person was walking alone through & meadow, 8 sudden thirst came upon him, infomuch that ho was persuaded, unless pres- ent relief could be obtaiged, he should die In this extremity, continuing fiw-fln he discovered a rivulet of the purest water, bf which he copiously drank. But, the more he drank, the mors violent be- camehis thirst, Surprised atso unusual an occur- Teuce, ho said to himself, #I will find out the source of this rivulet, and then satisfy my thirst.” As ko proceeded, an'old man_of majestic appearanco met him, and £aid, * My friend, where are you going?” ‘Tho other answered, 1 am oppressed by an excessive drought, surpassing even belief. I discovered s little stream of water, and drauk of it plentifully ; but, the more I drenk, the more I thirsted, SoI am endeay- oring to find ita source, that Imay drink there, and, if it be possible, deliver myself from the torment.” The old man pointed with his finger, = “There,” said he, “is the spring-head of tho rivulet. But tell me, mine honest friend, why are younot at church, and, with other good Christians, hearing mass? ‘The man answered, “ Truly, master, our pricst leads such an execrable life that I think it utterly impoasi- bio ho should celobrate it 8o as to please God.” To whick the old man returned, “Supposs what you ssy istrue. Observe this fountain, from which S0 much excollent water issues, and from which you have lately drunk.” Ho looked in the direction pointed out, and beleld o putrid dog, with its mouth wido open, and its teeth black and decayed, through which the whole fountuin gushed in a _surprising manner. The man regarded the atream with great terror and confusion of mind, ardently desirous of quenching his thirst, bu apprebenslve of poison from tho fetid and loath some carcass, with which, to all appearance, the water was fmbued. “Bo not afraid,” said the ol min, observing his repugnance, “Thou hact already =~ drank of the _rivulet; drink aguin } it will not harm thee.” Encouraged by these sssurances, and impelled by the intensity of his thirst, e partook of it _once more, and inatantly recovered {rom tho drought. O, master!” cried ho; never man drank of such dclicious water.” The old man snawered, “ See, now, as this water, gushing through the mouth of o putrid dog, 8 neither polluted, nor Ioses aught of its natural taste or color ; #0 18 the cele- bration of mass by o worthless minister ; and, there- fore, though the vices of such men may displease and disgust, yet should you not forsake the duties of whicl they arethe appoiited organ.” Ssying these words the old man dissppeared ; and what the other had seen he commaunicated to his neighbors, and ever after punctually sttended mass, He brought this unstable and transitory life toa good end, and passed from that which is corruptible to inherit incorruption ; which may our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, grant toall “ How to Sleep,” by E. E. Hale, gives sugges- tions that are very sensible and very valuable. A shallow article, entitled, * Have Working- men Any Causes of Complaint " asserts that, statistics aside, the condition and prospects of & mechenic in the City of Boston to-day are infe- rior to what they were twenty-five years ago. The canees of complaint arethe lessened chance of becoming & master-workman ; the increase in the hours of labor ; the loas of privileges inci- dent to & city-life, with no offeetting advantages. The remedy is not in co-operation, nor in the organization of a political labor party, but is to be found “in the workingman himself; the mover of public opinion, be he writer or speaker; and the Church.” CATHOLIC WORLD. The Catholic World isslways able in its expo- sitions of the ideas, intellectual and religious, of the thinkers of its sphere, and eustains its character in the November number. # Centres of Thought in the Past "—Article I —is a sketch of human thought and progress, which, it i8 claimed, have always been sustained by the influence of the Church, which runs through the whole like the ground melody of the system. The University of Paris, those of Bo- logus, Padus, Pavia, Salerno, Naples, and Roms, and that of Oxford, are described with reference to their intellectual agency. The conclusion to which the author comes is in full sympathy with the teachings of his school. Hesays : Little now remains to be said, Wo have come upon the uninviting times when reason broke away from faith, and carried desolation clong in its headlong courso through the field of the human intellect. A literary and_philosophic madness settled on men's minds, and Babel seemed to have come again, except ‘where the calm round of old studies was pursued with the old pirit of quies within the sphere of the ancient faith. All beyond waa confusionand hurry; every one set up 08 5 teacher beforo having been a disciple; each man dictated, and no one listened ; esch would bé the originator of a system, which his first follower was suro to alter, with the perspective of having his altera- tions remodelled rgain by his_first pupil, snd so an ad libitum, till eystems came to be called by men’s names, ond to vary in meaning according to the particular temper of each one that undertook to explain them, "With all its turbulence and occasional excesses, cone trasted with tho cynical refinement and polite indiffer- entism of to-da5, Wos 2ot the older syatem tho better ome ¢ A Dark Chapter in English History” is aref- utationof the charge that the Catholics in Eng- land were concerned with Guy Fawkes in the cel- cbrated Gunpowder Plot, to blow up, at one fell swoop, the King, Lords, and Commons of Eng- land. Occasion is taken to introduce somse very moving details of the tortures to which Catholica were subjected at that time. The English people have been engaged lately in lashing themselves into no little fury over the Massacre of St. Bar- tholomew’s day, the subject having been unfor- tunately revived by Dean Stanley in one of his sermons. The statements made by the author of this paper, which are by no means news to those familisr with the history of thoss times -+ will serve to illustrate again the familiar truth that tortures, persecations, burnings at tho steke, the rack, thpmb-gcrew, balf-hanging, and disembowelling gro brutalities peculiar to no single race or re- ligion, but sre manifestations inevitable in & certain primary stage of the development of & people’s character. Fiction and poetry are liberally interspersed among the more serious articles, Among the remaining articles to be noticed are ‘““The Homeless Poor of New York City ;" “Number Thirteen,—an Episode of the Com- mune;” “The Use and Abuso of the Novel ;" and “Personel Recollections of the Late Presi- dent Jusrez of Megxico,” There ere reviews of & number of works of in- terest to Catholics. LIPPINCOTT’S, Zippincoll's Magazine comes es usual wih its bright cover, dainty pepor, clean typography, and scanty and inelegant engravings. Papor- malking is the subject of the first article, enti- tled ““From the Field to the Fireside.” Reginald Wynford, in his article, *“The Lon- don Season,” tells how the gay world of London moves on its hidden springs. Among other se- cratg, this: There are a certain clga of men in Tondon soclety ‘who are applied to by ball-giving ladies for dancing~ ‘men, just as they would send to Gunter’s for waiters. To these men thie ball-room seems the natural arena, Thay #avo b3]]-givers a world of trouble; and, 28 some of them'ure'very needy vounger sons, it seemsa pity that they ten't enter int5 s eontrpat to do the whole thing and to be paid for it, - Their reward lies in being deferred to, and -in exercising:a .sart. of -patronngo amongst the aspirants to fashionable balls, There sre $wo or thres men who are supreme. in these-respects, ang goul ball He i’ guests juvited s month beférehand. * To give sicceasful 10 ptten giving. ‘ne find himself in that compsny. er8 R worth and the Countess o young men in London, bogrding-houses : All Bavo 5 bed-room and sitting- 1 apait. * The 7ent of such rooms on tee ?::Langgor, i a gool a;ahty[ vories from $6t0310 5 week. Inall these lodgings, tliey serve breakfust to each lodger in oiva xoom, and generally will givo a plain dinner if :cqu i but there'is 4 tacit ‘understanding that this fecommodation will not be required every duy. Per- 13P5 2 mo great clty in tho world can you bealtogether a fonn dnd done for i 8o cheaply and comfortably {sin London. Many of these lodgings ara over shops, ok thexe s 3 private door at the side, 0 _that th shop {3.mot the slightest annoyance to the fodger. It is not ought in the least in/ra dig. thus to livo over hop. A Mission to Costa Rica ” completes & series ni: papers which have been appearing in ZLippincott's, descriptive of diplomatio: service abroad, written by R. M. Walsh. 2 John G. Barawell uraves that “{orpedoes” L “in gociety,” hve . are dangerous, not only to the enemy, but some- times to those whouse them, ea:e‘less]yk:uh i During the siege of Charlestop, a steamer v = Just. rus th blockade through o _sharp fire, passed up ibe harbor and anchored. The Captain, knowing the danger from torpedocs, which areas watchfal for the destruction of friends ss of cremies, picked up one With the 2id of oneof the crew, corefully lodged it upon the bulwarks justabsft the wheeliouse, and Leaved it into tho river, under tho impression that it would peacefully sink into Davy Jones’ locker without complaint or anger. The torpedo, however, had no such pacific intentions, and, at the 'instant of impach with the surface of {lis waler, cxploded with the roar of a thirteen-inch mortar, tearing the wheelhouse into fragments, and knocking the master to tho deck, serl- ously jarred, Had this torpedo_exploded threo feet deep, the ship would Dave been in great danger; at fivo feet, she would have sunk likea shot;as it was a surface explosion, the planks were only sbrased. T. C. Do Leon describes the Creoles, the Cre- ole Carnival, and New Orleaus Society. ““In the Dark” is o thrilling story in Kate Put- nam Osgood’s usual vivid style. *‘An Evening with a Spirituslist” recounts some curious intercourse had, through a medium, With various alleged deceased individuals,—one of whom, shocking to relate, used profane lan- guage. They did not differ from the usual ex- ploits of that character, The writer could not decido whether the power by which somo really wonderful feats were performed was clairvoy- ance, mesmorism, somnambulism, or something else not yet honored with a name, but says: “YWhy we should denominate it ‘Spiritualism’ we conld not understand, for the power evidently ‘belonged to the professor, and not to tho spirita of the dead.” “The Strange Adventures of & Phaeton,” and “Annio's Story,” are continued. PENN MONTHLY. The Penn Monthly for October discusses American Shipping Intorests, and what should be the ides of a University; places ‘““Don Quixote” and *“Gil Blas” 28 foremost among novels; asks whether the commingling of the manifold types of mankind on the American Continent will produce & race or a hybrid; and concludes by & few unimportant paragraphs, and a hasty review or two. OUR YOUNG FOLKS. There iz one field of literature in which the mature critic must yield to keener and fresher judgment. Only children can tell whether the ‘books and stories written for children are good. Tried by this test, Our Young Folks stands very high in the estimation of the aged reviewer, who confesses that he finds no little pleasure for him- self in glancing through its bright and happy pages. Inthe November number, A Chance for Himself " is continued, and & wonderful dis- covery is made. The schoolmistress in Siam steps down from her lofty seat in the Atlantic, and tells the little people the strange times she had in that Oriental land. There are stories and poetry of dogs, and birds, and babies, and birthdsy parties,—everything, in short, to de~ light little boys and girle. i AN INDIANA LOVE-STORY. THE END OF THE WORLD. A Love-Story. By Epwaep EGGLESTON, Author of “The Hoosier Schoolmaster.” _ Thirty-two Tllustrations, New York: Orange Judd & Co. Chicago: Cobb, An- drews & Co, “The End of the World,” as well as tho pre- ceding novel by Mr. Eggleston, “The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” appeared at first in & serial form in Hearth and Home, of which Mr. Eggleston has been editor for about a year. In this story, as in the other, Mr. Eggleston concerns himsclf with the plain people and the possible incidents of Indiana farm-life. He writes of what he has himself seen, and gains great dramatic, as well as moral, power from the homeliness of his material, and the skill of its composition. “The End of the World” is alove story. August, a Dutch plowboy, falls in love with Julis, the daughter of his employer, whose termagant wife, and “ the new singing- master,” o villain of the usnel deep dye, bedevil the unhappy lovers. The sketchos of char- acter and customs, the reproduction of dialect, are done with gkill and no little humor. Jonas Harrison, the wit of the novel, describes the new singing-mester : Sings like an owlingale, I reckon. He's got more seals to his ministry a-hanging onto lfs watch-chain than Tover seed. Gota moustache onto the top story of his mouth,—something liko a tuft of grass on the x00f of an old shed-kitchen, Peart? He's the peart- est-looking chap I ever seed. But he ain’t no singing- master,—nct it I am any jedge of turnips. He warn't born toservo his dayand generation with s tuning- fork. I think he's a-going to reckon waters little in these parts, and that ho's only playing singing-master. He kin plsy moro fiddles than one, you bet hoss. Says he come up here for his wholesome, and I guess he ,if ho'd staid where he was, he mout a-suffered a leotlo from confinement to Ris room, and that room p'raps not more nor five foot by nine, and ruther dim-lighted and _poor-provisioned, an’ not much chance for taking exercise in the fresh sir. The singing-master forces himself into the family of the termagant wife and the blighted daughter, who had been ruthlessly severed from all communication with her agricultural afinity. The plow-boy, who, though * Duich,” was “ true,” had been discharged, and his place in the story is taken for the nonce, by “tho Hawk,” as the singing-master is called, He smiles his square-smile, which was * like some joint stock companies—strictly limited ;" alludes strongly to the times when “I was travelling in France with my poor dead mother,” or * dining at the house of the Americen Minister at Ber- lin.” To these plain country people, in 1843, ho was better than & Iycenm full of lectures. As Mr. Eggleston puts it, ho has thet flavor of ‘““otherness” that they craved. He gives Julia singing lessons ; offers to aid her| in communicating with her lover; does it, of coursp, 80 as to alienate them, in hopes himself to win Juliz, and the broad, paternal acres ; but e spins his web too coarsely, and, just before Julia is canght, ehe falls throngh the meshes, and escapes. There is a steam-doctor, with his “corn- swoats and calamus ;" therois an Elder Hankins, of the * Millerite” persuasion, “who continued to whirl before the dazed imaginationsof his rustic hearers the wheels within wheels, and the faces of the living creatures of 'Zekiel,—contin- ued to cypher the yorld out of existence, zc- cording to formulas in Daniel,—marched out the he-goat,—made the seven heads and” ten horns of the beast do service over und over sgain;” there is, by way of “somethin’ Iludicrous,” & Iynching of one Gotlieh becausp he was aDutch- man; there is an “evening with gentlemen,” in which appeer “the Hewk,” who, under the nsme of Parking, g river-gembler, scduces Julip's brother Normsn into gambling away his employer’s money, and August, now a *striker” on the boat; finally, there isa doadly illess which brings August to the verge of the grave, and brings Julia to his bedside, in spite of. the old folka; there is a Millerite excitement, dur- ing which the termagant wife and the rest of the malevolent meddlers with August and Julia assemblo on a *large bald hill overlooking the Ohio,” to await the coming of the Lord, where- upon August and Julia sedetely depart and get married,—and this is The End of the World. e POLITICAL, Complets £nd final returns of the Dalkota elec- tion give Arthitrong, Libarsl, the® seat in Con- gress. ‘The contemplated frend in returns from along the ling of the Northetn 'Pdcific' Raifroad were too bareface to be carried out. * The voté in Baltimore, last ‘Wednesday, for ‘mémbers of the Gity Council, eggregated 14,243 for the Tegular Liberal ' daadidstes, snd 11,248 for all opposition candidates, acluding imany Libérals on Temperancs, Citizens', Beform, and NG o ckets. The vote'in November #5000 for Giselog, g 15,00 fer | Grant. o laekd —The Cameronians have deviu-- William Elliott, of Philadelphis, Speaker of the Legislature, —James 8. Thayer, who is making a thorough canvass of New York, belioves the indications are, that the Liberal ticket will receive BD,‘(IOB majority in the State outside of New York City. —The candidacy of General Dix for Governor of New York has brought relief to at lesst one poor mortal. A Troy letter says: In 1864, during the war, a prominent bounty-broker liere was despoiled of some $300 under some urdgrmn General Dix. A suit hus been pending for some time, and was soon to come to trial for the recovers of the amount from the Government, To-day tbat flag hus been suddenly pulled dovwa by the @overament send~ to re-elect I ing drafts for the full amount. Eight years hsve elapsed since the trapsaction, and it was not until the author of it vas put up before the people 23 a creature of tho Administration that they could sea the justice of e claim, —We learn from the Washington Patriof that the publication of the Ku-Klux report and testi- mony, o fire the Northern Leart, will cost the Government £50,000. Thousands of copies have been used as waste peper, the report having failed to answer the iutended purpose. Twa cart-loads of these documents were carted some duya ago from the Post Officato £ shop on D street, where they were put in bags so_z4 to be shipped to the paper-mill. - —Ulyases Mercur, just elected Supreme Judge in Pennsylvenin, is in Washington on business connected with his district. He does not intend toresignhis seat in Congress until after the counting of the Electoral vote. There are no indications that the Presidential election will ba thrown into the House of Representatives; but, in case of any such event, with Judge Mercur's seat vacant, the Pennsylvania delegation wonld bo a tie, and tho vote of the State would be lost. e e oo THE SUNDAY QUESTION. What o German Thinks of Sunday Laws, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: There has been & good deal printed on this question, but all from this side,of the appla of Discord. To break the monotony of onenees, 1, from the offier side, take the libertyto ask a *few questions and express’s few sentiments. I am & German,—one who does not favor Suondey laws different from Monday laws, or laws for any other day of the week; one who does not believe thatsll the crimes committed in this city. have been commit~ ted on Sunday (though one iz lead to believe so from rending certain reports in the papers) ; one who does not believe that the Sunday law.would reduce crime 100 per cent, as sanguine AMr. Davig thinks. ButIdo believe that, to stop crime, to some degree, Stndsy is the wrong day to commence on; I do beliove that such stoppage will be done ‘mora efectually in si< days out of seven, than in one dayoutof seven; Idobelieve thisSunday ques- tion ought not to bo touched by the so-called Vigilance Committee ; I do beliove that, owing to an unusuel number of crimes perpetrated here lately, the friends of a good many citizons have become frightened, and consequently the entlemen who cling to the enforcement’ of g Sunday Iaw thought it a_capital time to push their pet child before the frightened community. By the enforcemont of a Sunday law, 100,000 foreigners, bronght up in the customs of their country,—and consequently with a mind entirely unabile to comprehend the purpose of the law,— wonld feel as if some one wero taking away from them a rightfal Labit, indorsed and enjoyed by as high on authority as Luther himself. I will close with the following four questions = 1. Ts the Sunday-law question a religious one ornot? 2. If 5o, has a State or a city the right to pass alaw to enforce such a law? 3. Does our Constitution mention anything in regard to Sunday observsnces ? ; 4, If not, have fifty sects, who perchance agree upon keeping a cortsin day in & cortain fashion, the right to force one sectiess class of people, numbering the trifling figure of 100,000, to comply with the mods of Leoping this ceftain day commanded by the laws of their creed ? Cricago, Oct. 25,1872, Gusrave LoEs. An American on Sunday Lawws. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune = Ste: Theremark of Tur TeiBCyE, that the movement for the suppression of crime seems to ‘be perverted into s movement for enforcement of peculiar views of Sabbath observers, strikes me s eminently correct. That some -of our clergymen, with their religious adherents, have taken advantege of the movement to establish their raligious notions, is so patent that the cause is losing the sympathy of 2 large class of Americens, who, though in favor of the tems perance cause, do not believe in enforced ob- servance of the Sabbath. - I protest ageinst al- lowing religions zealots to arrsy the American classes against the right of our German fellow- citizens to enjoy their native and innocent -bev~ erage on the first day of the week. The classes that these clergymen represent are not a moiety of the respectable native-born American people, The enforcoment of a Sunday law zm'gfz: per- haps have been practicable twenty years ago; ‘but the people have become too much enlight~ ened now,—havo got too much educated out of .the old Puritanical sentiments of those days,— to tolerate such intolerance. Brought up 23 s Puritan, I know how it is myseif. . I would advo- cate the placing of liquors as contraband mer- chandise on- all days of.tke weelt ;-bat "o say that Germans shall not drink their lager on Sunday, I consider merely raligious fanaticism. Crxcaao, Oct. 25, 1872. " AxpHa. Saturday Half~Folidays. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: ° K Sm: Heving watched the progress of “the Lager-Beer War ” with great interest, T shonld like to say & few words on ‘the subject of “ Keeping the Sebbath-Dey Holy.” : It is evident that a large proportion of our population,—mechanics, clerks, baokkeepers, &c.,—who work all the week from 7 in the morning till 6 in the evening, must have some relaxation from the severe bodily o mental 1zbor which these different classes are subject to; and is it to be wondered at that they should seize upon Sunday, the only day they have to themselves, for purposes of recreation 2 The same question has arisen in England be~ fore this, and it is partially solved by the Satur- day half-holiday which is now the nniversal cas- tom there. I would suggest that any one of our great business-houses should start e Saturds; Balf-holiday, and they will find that their work will be dona just as well, while the benefit to their employes 0f having a legitimate day of recreation would be incaleulable; and, if the practice should becomo general, it would un- oubtedly do muoh towards s quiet Sabbath. AN Yours, zespeetfully, Eproxe. CxicaGo, Oct. 25,1872, More About Saturday Half-Holidays. T the Editor of Tite Chicago Tribune : Sm: Atstimo whenthe Sundey law ques- tion occupies the press, it would seem not sn unfitting moment to draw public sttention to the hitherto unsuccessfully-attompted system of closing business on Saturday noon, Tt is well enough for people who ride in' théir carringes during the week, and very easy for them, to observe the Lord's Dayin what they deem a Ohristian spirit; but how fares it with the clerk or workingman, who -hagto dridge from early in the morning until. ‘evening, with scarcely sufficient time allowed himto est his dinner, and to whom Sunday is the only day which he can call his own ? it to be’ won. dered at, when such as these—and they form a vast_majority—forget that the seventh .dsy should be their Maker's, and spend the onl; time allowed to them in what the above-nam Christians consider an indecorous manner ? A man requires physical recroation as neces~ sarily a3 mental; but with our present system, such is absolutely denied to the workingman or clerk, who would gladly devote Sanday to" his Creator, but has no other time for bodily excr- ciso or Physical relief from his daily toil, - In New York, business closes at noon’on Sat« urdays, or at latest, at 3 o'clock in the sfter- noon. The necessity for this must be as asutely felt here as there. ., In England, business is mniversally suspended at 1 o'clock, the necessity for this having ‘been recognized long ago. Could no such As coclation b estoblished hero as the *Saturda Half-Day Closing Association” there? - 1If the working class of the community have Saturday afternoon for themselves, thera wiil be less inducement for infringing the Sundsy las, and it might prove o more effectual’ mesus. to bring about Sunday observance than all'the clos ing of pyblic houses. Yours respectfally, 23, 1572 S ACE 'micaGo, O¢ A Crzmr. fire has not yet’ exhaystod i'g 1pox the country at largé. $57 York J_raiz'unsmpi}‘: it ak ?Big The Chicago ‘benefiosny Fesults this couneotion, .- 4n the fact thai it S ton . -+ « szgyenlg) to the idea that tas 5 Hy fires moro nearly concern thame... y surance compnnies, from the fact that Y tugww.-, ing the risk, the rates of. fnsurance arolesséned. The result has been avery decided increase in the number and charaster 0f fire organizations throughout the couny during the year. It isow stated that ther=are1,200 distinct fire department organizitions in the United s%,xtes,amm;dfi:.r from one to fifty companies each, and com; ing an aggrogata foroq of 250,000 men, supported at & probablo cost of $20,000,000 per annum ta the authorities, indepandent of large sums ex- pended upon themselves by -volunteer memba:_s