Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1872, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1872. EDWIN FORREST. " Life end Services of the Re- nowned Actor. ,4 Account of Some Affai~s with Hi ] .. . Home and Habits. Soms of His Friends and Idiosyncrasies-=« “Nothing Extenuate,” From Our Oun Correspondent. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 1872 The death of Edwin Forrest is of more conse- quance, in thp estimstion of thousands of peo- ple, than the electicn of a. new Benator from Bouth Carolina, or even another recommenda- tion from the President. . HIS FAYT. ] @ Forrest has been the most ronowned Ameri- | _ canactor, and this may be said notwithstanding !} any preferences or tastes of people for more modern performers. A great histrionic career, .long lived and prosecuted, up to the end, fairly guccessful, must receivo dentification with the ‘political and other ovents of the period. 1IIr. +§ Forrest belongs to our history asdo few other ' actors, If weseck to placo at’ his sido any other dramatic name in the march of events 25 associated with all the public people of: his | ay, we ehall probably ful. Old men may strive to think up this or that character, snd say he +was ineffably Forrest's superior; and young peo- ple who have been taken with the greater mod- esty of later and more effeminate actors, may -endeavor to compare the production of recent pieces with this huge old man's resdifigs ; but, after all the dispute, and notwithstanding his excess of heavy and almost brutal force, person- al immodesty in the competitions of private life, and nearly inhuman quelities of geli-estimation and resentment, Forrest is the American actor. Heo has exercised that marvellous power over the imaginations of boys and young people, which was exerted in the days of his prime, over people at large, by idiosyncratic statesmen. It amuses us, in our day, to read of Tom Ben~ ton, and John Randolph, and even Mr. Clay, roaring away at ordinary peoplo as it they had special privileges on this earth. FORREST'S CONCEIT. - By -Fomestarrogated to himself as much greatness asanyof these statesmen. When deferred to fully and wholly, he was capable of kindly moods and of spasmodic fits of generosity, But his life was bounded by applause, from tho time he heard the first clap and shout when he tumbled in the saw-dust, dowa to that unbappy dsy just before his death, when horead Shak- speare to emall sudiences, and, seeming {0 ap- reciate his decline, met his end as suddenly as | Greeley. He lived, and moved, and had his ‘being, only to be considered a man of a8 much vesl greatnessas the great creations which he merely impersonated. ‘The actor'slife is very 2pi to be captured by the suthor whose phrases he speaks. In ~ no profession, unless poetrty be such, does & 1man ever reach the vanity of the sctor. M. Forres: would not have anybody £ay that he was not the gren.test 4 Macbeth,” the grentest “Romeo,” the grestest * Hamlet,” etc., which everlived. He never wanted to inquire into his demerits, but would sit like a charmed bird while hiz pieces were being mouthed by people afraid of Liis enormous will, many of whom basked in his sonchina and never told him the troth for thirly or forty yesrs. his 1.fe be written, 1t should not be written by any Of these persons, but by some one who can do #fall justice to the actor, sufficient justico to the man, and more justice to his times than to either. % My acquaintance with Mr. Forrest was short, and it remains smongst my quaintest reminis- cences. Ilbadlived in the admiration and the dresd of him. He had retired from the stage for several years abont the time that I came 1o the sarface’ and began to inguire beyond my a8 family and playmates ; and, when I firat, went to | the theatre, and was_caplured by its gorgeous i scenery and the heroic motions of the people on the stage, I was met at every corner by some older person saying: “That is nothing to Ned Forrest.” Insed toblanch in astonishment at the statement that he conld stick np his hatchet, when he threw it on the stage in * Metamors,” nine times out of ten; that he could drag Lincullos " by the scratl of the neck, with tvo fingers, from fly to fiy, and sometimes precipitato s Milenty intd. the blaket below that the man's bones would stick through it. In Ehort, nobody could see a play or 2n_actor but some fellow would start up and_exclaim, * For- rest !” and then all the human faculties were at once benumbed. He exercised an appalling in- fluence in theatrical matters_down to the day of his death, when the drams in America_wes 50 splendidly established that we can produce the uga of Shekepearo in New Yorlk better than Macready had ever attempted to display them. Tiis man's name unnerved troer artists. His personal Jife also had passed the limits of the Btage, and become s feature in such great occa~ sions as the Astor ;place riof, and in Courts of Justice, where names like Willis and O'Conor Svere put inferiorly to his own. It may bedoubt- ed whether any male actor, Garrick excepted, ever had such associates, and certainly none Tuled them so absolutely. FIRST MEETING WITH HOL In 1861, Mr. Forrest, after five years’ retire- nent, appearcd upon the stage sgain, and com- manded the attention of his old and long host of admirers. When he opened in New York, at . Niblo's, people came from Boston and all parts of the country to renew their former appreciation of him. In the inferim, 3 new class of critics and s rouUngaters had growh up, who were nop under the glamour of Es old reputation ; and, while some of these sneered at his resding, knowledge, and appearance, he drew vast honses, and mado more money during .the period of the War tban &t =ny other time in fe. He came to Philadelphis, where he was the only man who ever received the whole and ondiluted messuro of home-appreciation ani there _ he played a splendi engagement. It was latein November, or per- haps abont the first of Docember, 1861, when his Philadelphis epgagement commenced; and the proprietor of the p:g;}- which employed me, Javing meintained cordiel relations with Forrest Ence boyliood, was afraid that_the professional iitio—nn aged Englishmen, fall of prejudico o2 acerbity—would say somsthing in the paper wlich would call down Forrest’s wrath. At this distince I may point aS a high compliment to Foirest's force of character, that his mere wrath Could aifect the operations of a large daily jour- nal, Iut, as I was syoung sprout at the time, and emenable to_wholesome restraint, the pro- prietor sent word to me that he would like For- Test's performances carcfully written up, but underno circumstances ehould I indulge ina critical mood. I accepted the work in the * genuine spirit of bero-worship, for Ifully be- ioved in this man bofore I had ever met him. FIBST SIGET OF THE OGEHE. E: The opening piece was ‘ Hamlet,”—a part which he was too old snd too fat to look, re- sembling rather s male-dowager than a Prince. 1 wrote a column or two on his first perform- snce, in which there was very little butter, but a good Geal of oil; and the vain actor believed, T suppose, that it was & dense and deep criticiem, instezd of a laborious attempt to keep within waty tho limis of puffery without sppearing to be cntirely 2 flunkey. He was really o splendid reader at that time; and I saw him nine years efterwards, in Washington City, play * Othello™” with & beauty, doptls, And resonance of voica which aro marvellous now in my memory. Nature grandly endowed him,—too” splendidly in fact, so that, when old age came, on his strong features grew too prominent, and tho intensity which may have looked beatty in time of youth had become excessive, and tonched prosaic people 85 coarse and redundant. Thers was_this, however, in the man, which made him Prince, Commsnder, and King: abso- lute belief that he wasas greats persouagoin fact as the kingly people he impersonated. - When I hsd - written my sketches of his + Hamlet,” his assistant, John McCullongh,— now the proprietor of tho California Theatre, which is one of the best thestres in the conntry, —told me that Forrest was tickled with these notices; and, es the great bull was next to play “Richelien,” I wrote him s letter asking to be informed in advance sbout his contest -with Balwer for permission to play his piece in England. ‘T knew, of couree, that Forrest had gone to: the pley and hissed Mr, Macready m ¢Macheth,” ‘and excited a good deal of vulgar =dmirstion ebroad, ~snd then had n.t!emphed to_play- ‘‘ Richelieu” and .get the author's permission. Balwer. had re- sary before his conld be given, On this point, and one or two others, Forrest raised a needless contest between himself and the English actor, and no biographer-who traly writes- his history can approach this point without feeling that he acted the part, both abroad and at home. of a loud, intrusive, and inhospitable man, who had not 'been governed by the comities of the dramatic profecsion. There was no more rea- son for Mr. Forrest to have incited or counte- nanced . the Astor place riots, and the vio- lence to Macready, than for Mr. Macready to have first come to this country and hissed Forrest in one of our own theatres, and then at home had l.\im'Eelled with rotten l;ggs and turnips. _Yet, to the end of his days, For- rest delighted in keeping around him great toad- ies and shoulder-hitters, who boasted that they bad fired the first cabbage-head on the unoffend- ing Macready. Let this be forgotten if it can bo, but there aro Dersons living who will not have it 8o, but will attempt to write Iaborious ‘books to show that the greatest American actor “had a good right to incite riot upon the great- est actor npon the other sido of the ocean. INTERVIEWS WITH FORREST. I am wandering from the subject of Forrest's «TRichelien.” Ho replied to my letter that ha would bo very happy to giveme any informstion, sud desired me to call at the Academy of Musio at balf-past 1 o'clock in the day. He described my notices of him with some compliment, and ‘particularly referred to * an ingenious delicacy of oxpression.”” No wonder. Tho circumstances required o great deal of ingenuity. At the appointed_time 1 went to the Academy of Music, the same building where the late Phil- adelphis Convention was held ; and, in a short time, the groat actor appeared, Iooked at mo a minute or two, and immediately fell to the vast- er theme of himself, which I never knew him to abandon from that time forward. He hada copy of & large pamphlet which hehad published against Macready. I had not much sense of jus- tice at that day; but I rcmember, when I read i, thet - it scemed _strange to me that an American actor ehould claim the right to hiss an English actor in an English the- atre, because he had introduced a ballet into “ Macbeth.” Yet, Forrest claimed that, as a patron of the drams, he had a right to protest in that manner against any innovation upon the play. Macready, as you remember, had attempt- ©d to revise the plays of Shakepearo upon a scale of splendor commensurate with the text; but Forrest was then in the height of his renown as the great young American tragedian, and ho wanted to come home with the reputation of heving had some professional and personal com- bat with Macready. The latter's conduct, 5o far | a8 Mr. Forrest’s book showed it, was by far the best; and tho pamphlet which I read was, in fact, an irrelevant and foolish production, not. consonant with & just man’s ides of what the conduct of the grestest actor of America in his period should havo been. I observed at that time that Forrest had an enormousdesire to find out who had written any derogatory criticisms to himself, and he behaved as if he meant to Dring libel'suits against any peraons so offend- ing in opinion, or to have them bludgeoned, or to cover them with the enormons mantle of his disapprobation. Headid play, howerver, in a way that fully satisfied my notions; and Imust say that I have never seen him in &ny piece when ho was not, in many respects, a wonderful producer of histrionic parts, a noblo. reader, and & great physical being. A SIDE SHOW. - After this introduction, T used to gowith him tothe Academy; and once, Iremember, at a por- formance, when the ladics and men wero assem- bled in the green-room, and Forrest's dressing- room was at the opposite side of the stage, there ‘was such s piercing yell, followed by the running of awoman across the boards, that I got the idea that the cartain was up, and that 1 might be standing with my hat on before the audience. There are 80 _many flaps, and flies, and queer things around thostage of a theatre that a novice hardly knows whether the andience is before him or behind him. Isaid {oanactor there: “What is the matter? Do they exercise their parts with that sort of veliemence ?” ‘No,” said the actor, ‘it is only the Governor in one of his exhibitions of temper.” FEELINGS, . DETTER Within the sphere of perfect self-satisfaction, undisturbed by any adverse opinion or remark of lis friends, Forrest sometimes seemed to be & large and benignant mature. But he would not have any enemy treated with deference, and, in fact, he seemed tp live in the unbealtby and narrow arena of people’s admiration. - I have heard that, before he died, he fell to some self- comparisons which made him a gentler man ; but, at tho poriod I namo, ho was just over the meridian of lifo, ‘and full of his own vast- ness. _ Politics has many tyrannical men, but I think I never = sew any Cont grossman_ with the self-conceit and despot- ism of this actor. He would not play with an artist who had awakened a particle of his jealousy, or against whom somo secret enemy Liad said o word to touch Forrest's resentment. Much of hislater fame will be lost to him be- cause he went'around tho coantry with & set of inferior folks who would cater to his self-love, and sometimes parposely ghy badly in order that the newspapers would not compare them with Forrest, Ihave had persons come to me and say: “For God's sake don’t putin more than four or five lines sbout me, for, if you do, the old man will get down on me.” LESSON OF HIS LIFE. The lesson which the sctor may take from Forrest is, that his lLfe was & tem- perate one and & business ome. Al- though a Middle State man, he knew the value of money from early youth, and the terrors of liquor to men of genius in Lis pro- fession. He spoke to me onceoi John Scott and several actors who had passed away, and paid them this gentle compliment—and I rémem- Der it yet, because, from his great lips, praise even to the dead gave s new light to his charac- ter—of saying : ** Those men had great ability, 8nd T used to think that ey would beat me be-. fore the public; but this liquor temptation overcame them, snd they died young.” s i AOIND. I would not have it inferred that my am}uaint- ance with Mr. Forrest, which was tolerably inti- mate while it lasted, contains the full measure of his character. His knowledge, however, I am satisfied, was shallow, and msdo up from reading without any scientific form of education underlying it. Ho never shed light upon any of the great characters of that great author who stands in the dawn of our literaturo and throws his shadow generations upon generations be- yond us. hed tho fuollest wunderstanding of such arts as *“Lear” of any mortal man, becsuse he been to some lunatic asylum in Europe, and looked at the crazy men, and found out just what Shakspeare meant, That indescribable in- tnition which criticism can never reach, and which was Shakspeara's particularly, Forrest know nothing about. He secmed to think that you_could overtake Shakepears by piling up small experiencts. He had evidently believed that “Lear” was written by the Bard of Avon afier a %telt number of visits to & great num- ber of lunatic asylums. His business gift however, enabled him to make uso of all suggesfive . criticiem; and I remember picking out & paragraph from ‘‘ Hamlet,” and printing it in o newspaper, because the par- sgraph had struck my attention, and not his reading of it; snd, the nexttime heread the same_paragraph, I watched him closely, and found that he had worked down into the spirit of it, and did it better than before. Itwas this,— the superbappeal of ‘“Hamlet” to his old school- ‘mates not to treat him insincerely : *Let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consondncy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear the better proposer could charge you withal, b even and direct with me!” WIS CRITICS, There was muchbrutal criticism upon Forresty and this may have stirred his sensitive nature to ferocity. The New York ZTribune, at one time, spent itself in violence upon him ; and thess criticisms wero written, I belidve, by ono Stuart, aflerwards theatrical manager in New York. It was not in nature, however, for any _intellect to stand Forrest’s nonsense all his life, He was, in his prime, a benutiful presence, capable of sincere and frank friendships ; but, like too mauy men in eminence, he preferred flat- terers to equals, and reptiles to gentlemen. Much has been said about the deterioration of the drama in our day, but I am satisfied thot, in New York, Boston, and Philadelphie, plays have Dbeen better proauced within the past three years, and more faithful acting has been done,” than ever Mr. Forrest knew about or Mr. Macready equalled. The sctor in what are called the palmy days had to play the courtier in real life, and fo minister to “the_gallery gods” besides, In our day, actors attend to their business, liké other people, and the cartain rises tipon & com- pauy of artists, who_ disappear ~as_ such when the green drop {falls. Forrest attompted to_ keep up the iraditions of the stage, and make the actor the gssociate of the statesman, the suthor, and the lawyer, Thero Was_an _Ostentations’ notoriety sbout all that he did which inspired attack. .He lived in a castle on the Hudson, and, when he moved to New York City, filled his louse with that clnss of restless people who destroy domestic happinesg, and then there was the violent sean- del of » mighty trial, which nobody can take up 1o read in our time without disgust. A trul great naturo would have borne the &orrow, dis, chlrg:dthe woman, &ngd striven, by afecti iponded that to Afacready was committed the ‘mpersonation of Richelien™ in En‘.'g:nd, and %at the corsens of Macready weuld ba neces- \- 3 \ quictness, and industry, to condane with timo, . HI8 SGCOESS, ” l M, Forrest's professional lifo was, ot overy And yot he would say that Le | oint, & success, He might say, with John Rag- olph : ‘Who ever had euch constituents?” Newsboys, generation after generation, arose to learn the tradition of their predecessors, whils several men of wide association continued to be his worshippers, faithfully, and even humbly, down to the time he closed his eyes. He ac- nired a fine fortune by his worlk, but, after his 3ivurce. his home-life was that of a recluse. Probably his most intimate friends of character were John W. Forney and Daniel Dougberty. But, sll over the Union, there were persons who felt honored at the receipt of s line from him or & tonch of his hand. His house contained sourenirs of all sorts. from dis- tinguished people ; and the pictures and busts of himself in his best days showed a really beau- tiful man, with festures strong, expressive, and sensitive, and a type, indeed, of the great human heroes of the old drama. He was re- dundantly gifted with voice and sinews, but that is & complaint rarely made notr-a-days ebout men of the etage, who too often waste their force in the frivolities of such loose agsociations as the drama often brings about it. Nothing so frivolous exerciges the same influence-upon all ages of men and women s the actor. School-girls see him in some heroic ‘part, and write letters, often to their own beguilement. Women with means see their ideal often in the cheap imper- sonations of some noble author’s imagination. IS BUSINESS GIFTS. Forrest’s greatest lifo was his business-life. He knew the value of money, and the reposs which its possession gives toold age ; and, whila Dbelived in the association of pictures, good apartments, horses, end o_country-seat, he de- voted himself steadily t0' entrenching againat time. .He had animal passions in excess, but they wore not such s to_rob his_pocket.” For soversl years past, he had relinquished the ac- tivo rivalry of the larger stage, and consented to appear in_small, quiet towns. Ho was easily touched by an affectionate and nd.mi.riug word, and grew finally more amicable towar people who ventured to havo differences with his greatness. He was a secret admirer of many men not known to him, and his desultory reading was large and constant. ANECDOTES. _ I remember three things about his house which alweys struck one because he enlogized them. One was a faded handbill which was facked up in his library. Itsaid something like this: At the close of the poll, Mr. Sheridan will address the meeting.” ““Now,” said Forrest, ““that was the great Richard Brineley Sheridan, That is ono of bis Dbills. See how modest it is, Had he been an Americen, he would have said: ‘At the comclusion of tho meoting, our noble and distingnished states- man, the Hon. R. B. Sheridan, at the petition of thousands of his countrymen, will address the multitude.”” I used to hear him say so with in- finite fun, because the last kind of man was wholly himeelf, and he had not s particle of Sheridan’s modesty about him. : Another thiafi was an conormous Bowie-knife, with & blade fully a foot long, which, he said, James Bowie had presented to him. He always coupled the production of this knife with a long- winded story about one of Bowie's duels, which related how Bowie and another man had tied their left handstogether, and how Bowie had cut the other mau's bowels out, so that they foll in & way which Forrest described with & peculiar whoop” and *gulp,” which ‘made people sick at the stomach, The third article zbout the place was a very pretty peinting, by & German artist, of two girls going.in to bathe., They were quite young and shapely, and, as one put her too in tho water, the other looked on with a laughing shiver, a8 if to sey. **Is it cold 2 “Icomo down lere often at miduight,” said Forrest, “and light up the gas to look at that picture.” . FINIS, Ho was tho victim of idolatry, and of that deep devotion to his profession which made all social life subordinate to it. He believed that for him chiefly the great. authors wrote, and that the world was not only a stage, but nothing else, and all human' nature attitudinary. But he was much worried and harried by merely mean criti- cisms, inspired and done by people whom he had antagonized. He had the art to make men re- pelled by his coming. He was a savage-like _**Metamora” in many things; and, although ‘Edwin (Forrest) Booth was named for him, I believe Forrest never recognized him.for his in- comparable success, Sucl a life was prosperous and mesn, inflated and moody, scarred and scattered by deep whirlwinds, and at last quietly ended . without a witness. Forrest’s life’s, iu- deed, “‘but o poor player who frets and struts Lbus Hour upon the stage— * * * a talo full of sound and fary, signifying nothing."G - AT REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS. DRAMATIC. The greatest of living actresses bogins an on- gagement at McVicker's to-morrow evening, ap- [pearing in her vigorous snd unapproacheble ren- dition of Meg Merrilies, in the drama of “Guy Mannering.” The reappearance of Misa Cush man upon the Chicago stage, after an absence of 80 many years, is an event calculated to awaken an intenso intorest among amusement patrons, the more o that it is extremely probable, if not sltogether certain, that the present will be her last cngagement in thia city. Her recentap- pearances as a reader will serve only to increase the desire to seo her with all the powerful sccessories of the stage to heighten her grand impersonations, and, as Mr. McVicker has adopted & scale of prices 8o low under the unusual circumstances, nobody will need to be frightened away by reason of the expense, and the attendance will doubtless be very large. 'The cast of charactersin Gu Mannering; or, the Gipsey’s Prophecy, is as fol- lows: Meg Merrilies, Julis Alsnnering. Tucy Bertram. Mrs. McCandlish. Flora, nry Colonel Mannes Dirk Hatterick. Baltie Mucklet] the following vocal numbers will bo given: Gles, “The Winds Whistle Cold,” Messra. Roscoe, Moseley, Pendleton, and Grey ; finale to act first —+“The Fox Jumped Over the Pareon's Gate,” by the characters and chorns; song, “Oh! Stumber, my Darling,” Mre. Mvers; gles and chorus, “The Chough and Crowto Roost are Gone,” by characters and chorus; air, **Oh, Hark Thee, Young Henry,” Mog Merrilies | finale, “There is Nae Luck About the House,” characters and chorus. M'VICKER'S THEATRE. Miss Jane Coombs has just closed o1 engage- ment at McVicker's eminently successful in goinb of attendance, and rendered notable chiefly the elegant manner in which the various plays wero put upon the stage. The old come- dy " gems never before received 8o fine s setting in Chicago. the main the performances havo been_satiefactory in their dramatic elements, and have given as high a degres of pleasure to the auaiences as it ordin- arily falls to the lob of managers to afford. There have been faults and defects where per- fection was looked for, and excellences have been developed whore mediocrity was expocted, 80 that, all in all, the Jane Coombs' season ab McVicker's may be set down as fully up to the average. A parting word to Mliss Combs, who counts 80 many admirers in Chicago, may not be amiss, Even the most devout worshippers at the shrine of her talent and beauty have begun to discover that theiridol threatens to tarn to_clay;_ or, to speak more plainly, her warmest friends have of late notioeg in her act- ing imperfections which did not formerly exist, end which are so superficial and unnecessary; and, withal, 80 easy of correction as to lead to the confident hope and belief that they may be recognized and amended. ~Chief among these faults, is that of reading, in which Miss gnombs ehows a strong tendency to relapss.into the sing- ing style of elocution. " With the correction of this unpleasant peculiarity, Miss_Coombs wonld ‘be her old self again, and may rely upon & cor- dial welcome to_Chicago, whenever ghe makes her appearance here, Y ACADEMTY OF MUSIC. 2 A mosb successful season of two weeks was closed last ovening by the Lydis Thompson Troupe at the-Academy of Music, During their atay the ccmpany bave given burlesque aswe have never bad it in Chicago before—vwith a uniformity of dramatic and vocal talent and ex- cellence not commonly massed together ; with a coreful exclusion of that offensive coarseness which has herstofore Lept respectable people away from this class of entertainment; wil costumes remarkably rich end tasteful} and with that captivatng dash and which Miss Thompson vossesaes, and wi she bas infuged inio {hd entire orranization. On Fridey evening Lydia was tendered s com- plimfentary beiefit, and in spite of the intensal cold weather the house was densely crowded. “Lurline " was given for the firat timein Chi- eago, introducing all the members of the troups toadmirablo advantaze. Mr. Bockett mave the Incidental to the production of the play, finest specimen of genuina burlesque zcting of the sezson, while Edouin immortalized himself in his wonderfnl travesty of Bonfanti'a” dancing, and in the *‘Moral Ballet.” - A violin solo by ME. Withers, the musical conductor, bstween tho acts, was warmly encored, a8 were also Miss Atherton’s pretty song and darnce, and various otber attractive features. This week the Academy boards will be occu- §[ied by & new sensational drama, entitled “ Our other,” written by Charles H. Fleming, of Baltimore, with express reference to- the intro- Quction of the specialties of the Carroll Family, congisting of the father and three boys. The former, Mr. R. M.Carroll, isan excentrio charac- tar actor of good ability,and the boys, Little Dick, the *General,” and Master Edwin, are genuine prodigies. The remaining charactera will be taken by the Academy Company. The Praeger family of vocalists and instru- mental performers give s musical entertainment at the Academy of Music this evening, The roFrnmme includes the overture to ‘‘William ell,” Tyrolean warblings, selections from “Ernani,” “Trovatore,” and *Martha,” the overture'to Massaniello,” a duct ou_the table and bow zithers, solos on the mandolina and melophon, and various eccentric specialties. AIKES'S THEATRE. Rightly estimating that the extremely un- favorable weather of the past three nights kept ‘from the theatre a large namber of people who had intended to see the suburb performance of “ Juliug Casar,” at Aiken's Thestre, the manage- ment was determined not to withdraw the piece, according to the original plan, but to_give fivé ‘more presentations, ending on Thursdsy even- ing, and including the Christmas matinee. These few remaining opportunities to witness a rendi-~ tion such as Mr. Burett’s Cassius, which msy be said to have no supeérior on tho American stage, should not be missed by our theatre- goers, This being the last week of Mr. Bar- rott's engagement, his farewell benefit occurs on Fridsy night, when the charming romantio play of “ Rosedale ” will bo produced, with Mr. Bar- rett in his popular role of Eliol Grey, in which, previous to his appearance as Cassius, he had created the most favorable impression. In ad- dition to his impersonation of Cassius in the performance of ‘‘ Julius Cemsar,” Mr. Barvett ‘will deliver the famous oration of Anlony over the body of Ceesar. 1Itis a week full of rare at- tractions at Aiken's HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Althongh “ Fun ” proved to be & success in ita attractive powers, drawing excellent houses throughout the week, Messrs, Hooley, Padget, and, Iglmisdell have yielded to&strongpoynlu desire, and for Christmas weok will give * The Lancashire Lass,” which will be remembered in Chicago £s one of the most acceptable and suc- cessful -dramas ever written by Henry J. Byron. In it, John Dillon, a8 the Parly by the Name of Johnson, probably mado the strongest hit of his stage experience in this city, and 1t is the recol- lection of his mirth-provoking rendition of the role, together with a desire to enjoy it 'sgain, that has led to numerous requests ' for s rovival of the lay, ‘hich a few years ago enjoyed an extanded sun at the Museum, Besides Dillon in his originel part, Mesars. Blaisdoll aud Wilson appear ss Robert Redburn and AMr. Jellick, the parts then filled by them. The cast also includes Messrs. ‘Padgett, Soggs, WoodAeld, and Miss Meck, Miss Marie Louige, and Mrs. Wallace Britton, the lat- ter making her firat Apgesmnca. *The Lanca- shire Lass,” with such a cast of characters, and with the elegant scenic equipments for which Mr. Strause, the artist at Hooley’s, is be- coming noted, cannot fail to prove arare treat. There will bo » grand Christmas Matinee, as well 23 the usual Suturdsy afternoon performanco. “MYER'S OPERA HOUSE. The bill for holiday weok at Myer's Opera House embraces, in addition to the firat part and the admirable * Medley Chorus,” the songs and dances of Mastor Clarence Burton; o _ballad by Tyrroll; ¢ Obeying Orders,” by Kemble, Cotton, and Rice; Mackin and Wilson in_their great specialties ; Arlingron’s celebratea discourse on *Woman's Buffrege ;”_*‘ The Midnight Assault,” and ““A Tripto the Moon." The programme will be found to be unusually attractive. GLOBE THEATRE. The urbsne and popular Treasurer of the Globe, Mr. R. L. Marsh, takesa farewell benefit to-morrow night, and his hosts of friends aro getting ready to make the affair a benefit in the strongest acceptation of tho term. A choice bill has been devised, including the first appear- ance of Lucy Adams, protcan change vocalist ; Guy Linton, character singer ; Miss Sallio Swift, athiete ; Bobby Newcomb in fus tasteful songs and dances ; and all the old favorites. In con- clusion will be given *Tho Union Scout,” in- troducing Charloy Howard in the character of 0ld Uncle Jeff. GENEBAL GOSSIP. John 8. Clarko, the actor, lost twelve hundred pounds sterling by the failure of Bowles Broth- ers. Mr. Creswick, who is well known here, hss re- appeared at the Princess, in London, where he has been playing “ Hamlet.” It is denied that a new spactacle is soon to fol- low “Leo and Lotos” at Niblo's, or that the “Black Crook” is to be revived. The street, bills for Fechter's new theatro in Now_York, the Lyceum, sare to bo printed in London. Tho opening will occur some time in Tanuary. “ One of the little Yilzmutflas of the * gods” 2t the Dublin Opera-House consists of throwing on to tho stage & bonquet, to which a picce of twine isattached. When the prima donna goes to pick up the nosegay it is suddenly drawn up again, amid tho rocrs of the * deities.” Boncicault’s play of “ Arrah na Pogue” has been performed over 2,000 nights, and eritics continue to find something new in 1t to admire and write of. In the last eighteen years, Mr. Sothern has played 8,850 nights in hia throe famons pieces, *Lord Dundreary,” * David Garrick,” and ** Brother Sam.” Among actors, the sale of Edwin Booth's pic- tures takes the lead. MMore are 8old of him than all the other actors in the United States. Heis 2 particular favorite with the ladies. Among ‘women, Mrs, Scott-Siddons has the same expres- sion of face, and they purchase largely of her picture. It is hinted that Mr. Charles Foster, of the Bowery Theatre, is engaged in writing 5 drams, in which Colonel Tennie C. Claflin will make her debut. The story is that she has suggested the lending sensational effects, and that Mr. Foster had visited Mrs. Woodhulland her sister in Lud- mwtt Street Jail to confer with them on the matter. John Brougham’s mew play, the *Lily of Trance,” just brought out at Booth's Theatro, and which is based on the story of Joan of Aro, is not favorably spoken of either in a literary or dramatic point of view. Neither was it well acted, according to some of the critics. Others, however, warmly commend both the play and the acting. The French Republic seems as fearful- of the social undertono as was the Empire. A version of Mr. Boucicault’s play, “Tha Long 'Strike,” i to bo produced at the Ambigu Comique, but the dramatic censorship has suppressed every- thing in the action which relates to the insub- ordinate movements of the disaffocted work- men. The telegraph office will be all that will be left, and the piece is to be called “La Do- peche.” A couple of Yale seniors, filled with » longing to get ‘“behind the scenes,” bribed some of the subordinates the other night to allow them tc go on the stage as ‘“supes” in “Le Roi Carotte.” This was all very fine, bat & fight with some imitation monkeys wes next on the programme, and the monkeys leaped orn them and overcame them 8o completely thal they fled ont of the house wounded and half naked. Their thiret for theatrical life is not ae great 88 it was. In London, nearlyall the uvenin§ performances begin at7_o'clock, and the news+ paper advertisements contain complets time- tables of the pieces. For instance, the follow- ing announcement concerning the Gayety Thea-| tre, Strand: ) This evening, ot 7, Love s 1a Mode.” At 8, “Game of Speculation:™ ‘Mr. Charles Matheirs, Mesars Macleon, Soutor, Bishop, Teeadale, etc.; Missel Brough, Lelgh olc. At 10:15, ‘ Cool asa Cucumber ;! Mr, Charles Mathews, ; Y With roforence to Joseph Jefterdon's atate health, the Baltimare §u£ daya; a A lotter yecdived in Balimore from Hohokus, th residencé of Mr. Joseph Jefferson, tho comedian, con iradicts tho statement copied in the Sun recently :fi the New York correspondence of another jo =bout M, Jefferaon’s eyes and health, - Ho i feportel in excellent health, spending just now a few days it Boston, His mind is not disedsed in any way, and his immodiate family were much distressed st thé unwan ranted report., Itisstated, on perfectly reliable ou: thority, that a¢ no time has Mr. Jefferson had sny re; lapse, Ho could, be was lately nasured by Dr. Brown Bequard, resume his professional labors within 4 ‘manth, but of his own choice he will not return to thi stage until spring, ! A TLONDON CBITIO ON ‘‘FRITZ.” . Joe Emmet is in London, playing * Frits," aq rehabilitated by Hflhda'rvfl to arowded houses it iho Adelphi Theatre. “The Morning Post, in thi conrsa of an extended criticism on the perform ance, s8y8: 3 ! He impersonstes with ¢ vervo” and animstion max characters now, or nearly g0, to n British sudienci and sings in Breitmann disfect o varlety of song usually followed by o characteristic dance. Th generdl quality of his ballads may bo inferred frof their titlos—such 84 “Dats vats- the ‘matter ‘m Jacob? ung ey \ theatrical phi; “Ralser, dont you want to buy s dog?” “In the Zoo,” and *Seven Up.” But he fanotless success. fal in effusions of & more tender tone, as is proved by his touching. performancs of s “Lullaby” in th- second act, and his still better rendering in the third' of s charming little song_called Schneider, how you 'was,” sung for the especial delectation of a little boy who comes to see him in prifon, and_whom he hoists upon his shoulders, capering about the stage with such dainty drollery f action "{ist fhe " sudience, equally delighted with the song and the dance, inslst upon Lotk being repested three fimes. Mr. Emmet 15 alike qufait st the absurd dittles of the banjoand ihe sentimental strains of the gultar, but his favorite instrument is what he termsa * Toy Har~ ‘monic,” from which he extracts very melodious and pa- thetic music, playing no fewer than five variations on the dear old air of ‘“Home, Sweet Home,” Thereis, Bowever, in_Mr, Emmet's progremme one song .o which exception may be taken,—that in which he pro- fesses to give a description’ of the offence caused o the olMactory nerves by the cooking of saur kraut, o theme not particularly sttractive in itself, nor treated in & style to compensate by wit (though such compensation had been pos- gible) forthe transgression against good taste, With one or two pleasant exceptions, your “entertainers” are dull rogiies, and to spend on evening with them s like going to supper after the mannerof Polonius, “pot where you eat, but where yon are eaten” by in- tolerable ennui, Ar. Emmet, on the contrary, is & clever, amusing performer, and, as his types of char- acter are s yot unfamiliar to a London audien his entes ent has, independently of it intrinsic mer~ ita, an air of freshnass and noveity which will proba- by contribute 1o its popularity, In the United States 1t 18 6aid to have had s run of 1,000 nights, . music. Tke present week is musically a blank. For the first time for many years, in the height of the musical season, we are to have a whole week without public concerts. Concert-goers can_ therefore take & good rest and devote them selves unstintedly to the duties and pleasures of the holidays. . The most attractive mnsical event of the week will be the Christmas musio at Bt. Mary's. At the midnight mass, the choir will sing Mercadante’s three-voiced mass in Bfiat. At hslf-past 10 on Christmas morn- ing Haydn's Third (Imperial) Masa will be given. On Thursdsy morning, the choir- of St. Mary's will sing at St. Stephen's Church, corner of Sangamon and Fourth street, Haydn's Third Mass, with orchestral accompaniment. A Veni Crealor (baritone solo) written by Mr. Rohner, the leader of the choir, will be sung_by Mr. Frank Bowen, and, for the offertory, Mr. Schultze will sing the Cujus Animam from Ros- sini’s ¢ Stabat Mater,” with orchestra. OPERA, Our first regular operatic season since the fire (tho Wachtel season hnrdl{lhaing worthy of tho name) will commence at the Academy of Mueic Jan. 6, with an entirely new Englich Opera Com- sy, which breaks the ice for the first time in hicago, under the management of Mr. Edward Beguin.. The troupe comprises such artists as Rose Hersee, Jennia Van Zandt (who would have made her debut here with Parepa had it not been {or the fire), Mrs. Zelda Seguin, Gustavus Hall, Brookhousef Bowler, and & néw English tertor. The reportoire ias not yet been announced. TURNER HALL CONCERT. The following is the programme of the Turner ‘Hall concert, to bo given at 8 o’clock this after- noon : 1. March En Avant, .. Parlow 2. Overture to the l[lgl Fli 0zart 8, Waltz—Fleurs de Fantasie, ungl 4, Fantasie—The Maiden's Dream, with solo for i Lum] Zither.. g 5. Potpourri—Pust snd Present, Ne 6. Duet for Cornet and Trombone, performed by Mesars, Helms snd Braun .. Schi OERT, The regular Germania Band Concert takes place this afternoon a8 usual at Orpheus Hall, With the following programme 1. Milita 3. Waltz—* Sadness 7. e 4. Potpourri—* Bacchua’ Wreath 5. Violin 010.ursersirunnen W c) fr. " Loca 6. Golden Robin Polka (for two ‘plecolos). ... Bousquet Measre, Holm and Bareither. 7. Overture 0 Martha™.... . .Flotow 8, Introduction and Chorus from * Lohengrin Wagner 9, Bylvester QUAANIIIG...esiveneeesreressrsssnesPATlOW TRIUMPH OF AN AMERICAN BINGEB. Tho London Daily Telegraph of Nov. 26 says, refarring to the Monday popular concert of the %ruvio\u day: ‘“The vocalist was Mr. William actle, & young American tonor, who has already made a name in his own conntry. Ha.yfln'a ‘In Native Worth,’ and Mendelssohn's *Garland’ were sung by him 80 83 to win the ungrudging favor of the audience. Mr. Castle possesees a good voice, of ample power and compass; his ‘mezz0 voce is charming, and he sings with the taste and feeling of an artist. So endowed, a favorable debut was a matter of course.” MUSICAL LITERATURE, In musical publications st home, the week affords nonews. From abroad, however, there is soma intelligence of interest. Dudley Buck, well remembered here, has just issued a Te Deum in B minor, with Benediotus in E, anda To Deum in C. The Atlantic Monthly, while strenuously objecting to this class of music for Church sorvice, nevertheless speaks well of Mr. Buck's compositions. It says : Mr. Buck's compositions have the advantage of well- defined and often. sympathetic melody, and easily flowing, scholarly harmony, Their besefting fault ia certain sentimentality, which st times suggests the Wely-Baltiste organ-music, and which, to distinguish it from the would-be passionate sentimentalism of. the modern love-ballad, We will charscterize s religious sentimentalism, for want of a better epithet. Bentl- mentalism! Viola le grand mot lache! ALl the bad influ- ences to which an organist s exposed tend after all to thia : sentimentalism, which in the end is but i~ luted sentiment, * * * Whatever wo have said ot all depreciating Mr, Buck’s Church Services must not e understood to apply to them alone, but to the wholo grade of compositions to which they belong, If music of- this sort is to be sung in our churches, wo know of D0 rocent publications ;hua@ (Lnconteliille merits Tecommend them more 8tron, of Br, Buck's, ¥ e Mr. John K. Paine's Oratorio of St. Poter has just been published by Ditson & Co., but it has not yet reached Chicago, Another American comg:sm', Goorge Bristow, has just published his Arcadlan Symphony. The Wagner war in Luropo is adding largely to musical literature, A certain Dr. Mohr has just issued & pamghiet ontitled * Joint Btockism in Musio,” in which the_composer is charged with degrading his musical plans to level with ordinary operations on ~’'Change. A gec- ond pnmg et, entitled ‘‘ Richard Wag- ner an( Jacques Offenbach,” is Dby an anonymous writer, who tries to kill both these musical birds with one atone, and, of course, fails; & third pamphlet, entitled “Rich- srd Wagner: A Word in Explanation of hia Nibelungen Trilogy,” has for its author a eer- tain Gustav. Dallo, who chuflges tho composer with sins against morality and the finer Toalin of his audiences, But of all the recent publi- cations that have heen issued from the anti-Wagnerian cm{) that the title of “Richard \agner: A . Paychiatri Study,” bears the palm for its au . Its author is, as ho says in the_book, & practical hysician and psychiatrist in Munich, who, un- lor the screen of his science (?) attempts to as- perse beforo the eyes of the world the mental znd moral character of the immortal camposer of “Rienzi,” the * Flying Dutobman,” *Tann- hauser” and Lohengrin,” by declaring that ho is insane. If he is insane, it- is & pity that _other living composers could not be insane in & similar way. Apropos of Wagner, Dr. H. Wylde, the Gresham Profes- gor of Music, has been delivering a coursa of lectures on h'is works. Dr. Wylde does not sympathize with Wagner's theories, which he sums up as being “unmitigated intellectuality,” but he expresses his belief that Wagner's later worlks are destined to work a great reform in the art of opera composition. : MUSIOAL NOTES. The Lucea Opera Troupe is now in 8. Philadel- Liszt's oratorio of the Christ,” which is now finished, has made its n.ppammca’ in Pesth. A gories of Patti-Mario concerts will be coms menced in Now Orleans or Tuesdsy next, A e fozemall goncerts of Hess Rublnatoly sre ounced to take placeat Bteinway Hall, N. Y., Deo, 41, and Jan, $and 4. o > A monument has just been erected ta the memory of Chopin, the musical composer, at ‘Warsaw, his native place, ‘Tho principal musical feature at the second Thilharmonic Concert, on the 14th, was Ruff's Symphony, No. 4 (new). ¢ . Mrs. Caroline Richings-Bernard is once moro in opera with Miss Agnese Palmer, Mr. Mr. Bowardson (baritone), sod M. Frauk or. The Berlin writers speak very highly of the performances of & Mdlf: Olsenr{ y«a{’x;ngy Danish Ppisniste, who recontly zppeuo(i ata concert in that capital. M. Arban will insugurate his new appointment, a8 successor of Strauss, with an orchostra of 180 musicians, at_the first masked ball - in the Paris Grand Opera House. Since his return to Vienns, Herr Stranss has become an inveterate chewer of tobacco. He cuses himself by soying that the habit was re- commended to him in America a8 being excellent for the constitution, s 2 e A viter from Copenhagen says that a life-like porbrait of Oard Maria véleg;Vabgrshn lately baen the statement that Hem the death of his son, finger, ran to his mother and ma; out!” Tho s cessive hot days, appealed to mother for hel; , ::yelrnF “Ma, do fix mg, for I'm leakin, ge 51 ‘wife’s mouth b; lmfi' and she never heretofore, birth to in their neighbor Wigower ; and, on her return home said : are you a widower 7 ¢ Yes, my child. . Don’t faithleseness with which we that of the wife of a man Lul::eh t‘:;’ i:lap;::\:s n.n;nnged gnt for six months ) o i o el ) get up and make the kitchen discovered by a Telic-hunter_in that city. It was drawn by Hornemann in 1820, and differs in some respecis from the well-known likenesses. ‘According ‘to the ZLeipziger Tageblall, Mme. Coeima, Liezt's daughter, and formerly the wife of Herr Hansvon Balow, the pisnist, having gone over to the Protestant Church, was marrie to Herr R. Wagner_ during the recent visit to Bayreuth of her father, who was present at the ceremony. Mdme. Mallinger, ex-prima donna of the Ber~ lin opers, who has been singing at St. Peters- ‘burg for some time past with butscanty success. has ab len; succeeded—so say the German papers, at least—in captivating the St. Peters- ‘burg public, a feat which she had almost despair- ed of being able to perform. Herr Hans von Bulow recently announced a geries of four pisnoforte performances at Vienna. At the first performance he played the chromatic fantasis and a suite byBach, & sonata by Mozart, two ballads, the E flat minor scherzo and Handel varistions by Brahms, s suite by J. Raff, and finally, Franz Liszt's paraphrase of Schubert's walzes (* Soirees de Vienne"). The second Theodors Thomsas symphony con- cort takes place on Saturday evening, Dec. 23, New York, on which occasion Beethoven’s pas- toral symphony, Berlioz's “King Lear” over- ture, Liszt’'s symphonic poem **Die Hunnen- echlacht,"” the introduction and finale of * Tris- tan und Tsolde,” and Max Bruch’a concerto for yiolin opus 26 will be performed—the latter by Hr. 8. B, Jacobsohn. LA con’eg?ongent of the New York Herald, writ- ing from Munich, gives the following deacrip- tion of Wagner's plan for his new Bayremth theatre: ‘Worlmen have been engaged on_the foundations of tho theatre for some months past; the foundation walls are laid, and the contracts for the superstructure will be given out in & few months, The plan of the theatrical edifice {8 now determined, Externally it will be a very unassuming structure, ‘The walls cover- ing the sudience will be run up of lattice works that covering the stage will be built of stronger material, but without ornamentation, To compensate for the plain exterior, however, Wagner intends to spare no expense in acenic decorations for the stage and in the Interior arrangements for the comfort of the spectators, Thelength of the theatre will be nearly 300feet, and the width, including the side wings, neatly the same dimen- sions,’ The auditory will contain 1,500 spectators, and the space allotted o it is terrace-like, shelving down to the atage, The front will bo very plain, the entance covered by a simple roof borno on pillars. Four largs ‘water-towers, or Teservoirs, are a prominent featurs on the part devoted to thestage. Tho etsge will have breadth of 95 feet, and a height of 79 feet, the space beneath the stagea depth of 37 feet. The orchestra will occupy its accustomed place between the staga and the audience, but will be invisible, being 13 feet lower than the podium of the stage. The opening of tha stage filled out by the curtain is 45 feet broad and 43 feet high The interior arrangements of dressing Tooms, bureaus, and rooms for princely guests wil ba very complete, ' Liszt paid Wagner s visit o few days 8go ut BayTeuth, when the two overlaoked the labors of the workmen, and discussed the feasibility of plans 20d improvementa, e BEAUTIFUL “ILE” OF THE SEA. We walked by moonlight on tho beach, Whers dimly white the light-house stood ; And far 88 mortal eye could reach ‘Beheld the glostly vessels brood. At hand the ses, with scarce a sound, Just met and kissed the silent shore, And rippling back laid all around A swaying amothystine fioor. At 1ast the ses-gall's cry was stille And, save our quickly-coming hg’ulh, And dip of waves, the night was filled ‘With eilence infiniteas death. And hera e walked and swore to be True as the tranquil Evening Star That, yonder rising, softly threw Its'mellow, melting light afar. But, while we gazed, that besming orl e an i ‘Pureat dream of love o Paled to our sight, until it burned’ Naught but the merest spark above. With sudden terror we beheld This wondrons quenching in the sky, And, a5 the last gleam flickered out, Asked of our fears the reason why. What time thers came an awful voice, ‘Making our hearts stand still the while— #Why, durn the blasted wick, it's dry, And, dang it] we are outof ile,” Sinco then we'vo walked on Watch Hill beach At various times; but always we Now take a telescops along, And likewise an Astronomy, —Norwich Bulletin, AT P ST HUMOR. - Judy says that Miss Bateman is the reverse of & flower blooming in July’s garden—hs ia night Leah, and that is s dah-lia. —What is the difference between s forward minx and s shot rabbit? One’s over-bold and the other's bowled over. —A doctor went out for a day’s sport, and gomphinednf having killed nothing. “ That’s he consequence of having neglected your busi- ness,™ abserved his wife. —There is nothing like a8 good definition, as the teacher thought when he explained the meaning of ““old maid” as & woman who had ‘been made a very long time. —The Jacksonville Journal states that a ‘blooming, blushing school-girl . calle: at that office the other day and inquired for * papers for & week back.” The ides suggested was that she wanted them for & pannier. —Ezperientic Docet. Elder of Fourteen: ¢ Where is baby, Madge?"” Madge: “In the other room, I think, Emily.” Elder of Four- teen: - Go diractly, and ses what she’s doing, and tell her she mustn't! ™ —To find out what the Indiana Legislature is made of, go overthe hills of Jeffersonville, and cry sload, ¢ Who's yer law makers? " Of conse ccho will answer, ‘“Hoosier law makers.” —The married ladies of Hannibal, Missouri, bave formed a “Come Home Husband Club.” It 3! 01;1;_0:1& four feet long and has a brush on the end of it, —Henry Ward Beecher said ‘s fire devil sits on every Mansard roof.” For animp of dark- ness to do that is impo™light. —4Pity the Poor Teacher. "Teacher: ““And what are the four quarters of the world ?” First Pupil: “FPlease, teacher, air, earth, fire, and water.” Second Pupil (eagerly) : “No, teach- er, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,” —A naturalist_thinks that if a cat were pro orly fed twice & day on tortoise-shell scraps aé: might nltimately produce a litter of catacombs. —A littls gir] wes one dsy reading. the history of England with her governess, and coming to I never luughed sfter e looked up and said ; #What did he do when he was tickla%" i) ~—A lady wished to have her husband's life in- sured in a Boston office the other day, givi s reason that she wanted either n{n’uglg:ig :i some money, ‘‘she .didn’t care which.," She mever expected both st the same time, —The ather day a li tile Loy, who hed cut his , 12 ] Cried: “Tie it Hie it up quicls, for the juice is all mnn;lng The sama urchin, on one of tha Iate ex- )y —A Byracuse deacon cast s gloom over his pulling & button-hoak from his ‘Lizzie.” His wife's name is owned a_button-hook, but upon a hair-pin for such work ocket markeg od to rely —A Mrs. Day, of Springfield, Iil., Iately gave qt\mdx:nialets, waiifiifing %an honnds sach stocking feet, The beresved father ap, speare was quite right when he said we do not know “what a day may bring forth,” —Miss Anthony is 8aig to have abandoned the classics altogether, disgusted with the invidi sexual dishsncfion’ e o ras,ridions @ ed ont to her that, after phrase was temint{ne. alliihe 3 implied in the oft-guated TERR Coracia recti,” until Mrs. stmton.qpai:fi- meas part of the the family of o —A little girl wha was vlsiting a0 er father as a ‘heard them speak of ow that your mother ib dead?” ¢ Why, yes, I know that mother is dead ; but n.lw’uyu told me you 2Ne o en 301 ‘were & New Yorker.” —“‘Comparisons are odions.” Mrs, G.—“I really must give cook warning, Charies, She does use such very bad wi Mr, ¢ Really, dear! Mrs. G.—* 0— " ‘What sort of words are they 7" -well—the same a8 you xma?X ! —*1t is poseible,” said an experienced uncle 0 an adolescent neph: 4t - $oan Mdolement I 1;' ow, ‘“to be tolerable com. heifih, and you en; enable you to afford to gratif; inclina~ tions heiideu your own.” Lamiis if your wife enjoys good oy 88 much mongyy:unggll —One of the saddest instances of woman' e have ever mat was in Byracuge. It seems ¢ the wife was to perform the task ;:r "fl;e E'ucl(:’eedix;g sixzs maxatb.u. ‘The man’s half oxpired on the i o sflx& , and on the morning of Exoke:fi:mtqg uve;his iction. e co ave forseen this berasvement, he Would havo Shufed hor 0% 63 hed‘“fifin‘y‘lt:’xhe every morning ‘ 6 woman sudd died. Heis nearly He saya it Lot GLASGOW. Ab Striking Exhibit of Scotch Thrift. How Co-operation Works in Cares ful Hands. . From Qur Own Correspondent, Grascow, Scotland, Dec. 1,1872, Abont eighteen months sgo, & few residenta in this city undertook & co-operative scheme. Its great success has proved its perfect practicas. bility. Ishall sketch its salient points, in the hope that some Chicagoan sy be led.thereby to introduce something of the sort in the Garden City. _ A carrTAL oF £10,000, divided into £10 shares, was subscribed. The Company was then organized, and incorporated, under the laws of Great Britain, as the ““ General Supply Association [Limited].” By the erticles of incorporation, its management iz vested in a Committee of five. This Committea is elected by the shareholders. It consists, at present, of a coalmaster, & merchant, a manufac~ turer, a builder, and & drysalter. The detailsof the business are conducted by 'a ‘‘Mansger,” who is appointed by the five Directors. Tha ‘Company opened A LARGE GROCERY STORE. Tt has since opened another. At these houses. oods are sold only to three classes of persons = e stockholders, the people who have themselves *life-membors” by the payment of £1, and ‘those who have made themselves ¢ yearly-members” by paying 2s. 6. To tha two Iatter classes, non-transferable tickets ara issued. These may be required to be shown ‘wheneyer a purchase is made. Cash on delivery is the invariable rule. To obviate the inconves nience of always sending money with an order, the Association RECEIVES DEPOSITS - of notless than £5ata time, against which-it allows its customers to draw. These deposits accounts must nnver be overdrawna farthing. They may be withdrawn ot any moment. The advanteges of this system are obvious. Tha Association, by buying for cash and in larga quantities, gets its goods cheaply. Its mem= bers, therefore, 8ave in all their purchases, and: make sure of unadulterated articles besides. Alli this, however, is but & small part oft this’ admirable scheme. Arangements have, been made with twenty-two of .the first firms in Glasgow, by means of which the mem-~: .| bers of the Bupply Company can buy from tha' firms in question, at & reduction of from 5 to 20 Fer cent from regular prices. The list of tha eading articles old at these twonty-two placea covers four closely-printed pages of a pamphlst, of about thesizeof Our Young FaBa. It is almost needless ' to say that this list comprisea nearly everything that man can wish to have in, on, or around him. o ot e sei o S BT, “To get the reduction for its members, the Ase !ocil.gun ‘pays nothing. It does nofier?\-sn bind its members to trade at these honses. It does., however, ask them to.do so, and self-interes! makes them heed the request, The merchants! are indemnified in two ways: They secure a cons’ stant increase of custom, and their business be~ comes largely a cash one. AsI have said, tha' saving to holders of Supply Company. ticketay ranges fram 5 to 20 per cent. Meat, which sella ere for from 12d to 16d a pound, they get for &' penny a pound less. The reduction on iron is* 1234 per cent; on fancy goods, 15 per cent, and/ on “jewelry and groceries, 20 per cent. After- securing all these adyantages to its members, the “ General Sn;;iafly Compeny ™ finds itself, &' the end of each half-year, with 5 A SURPLUS OF PROFTIS. . Half of this lus is used 2 a dividend tay the shareholders. In ths eighteen months sinca they g::t in their money, they have received three dividends of 5 per cent each. Of the othez. half, part goes in salaries, expenses of manage= ment, etc., and the remainder is divided amon; the * life-members™—i, e., those who have pug in £1. The division is made according to the amount of fnxchuzs madoe by each during the. balf-year, It has, so far, been nearly 10 per cent s year. Thus, » life-member not only saves 20 per cent on whatever he gets from the Asso~ ciation's two grocery stores,.and from 5 to 20 per. cent on all his purchases from twenty-two other stores, but he gets a dividend besides. 8 that dis baye, during th uppose that he buys, during the year, £209 worth of goods, half fromh the Compary and helf from the other firm. On the former he saves £20, onthe Iatter at lenst £10. His two divie dends will amount ta £10. The result is, that an inyestment of £1 hes saved him £30, and netted him $10 besides. Such a statement would be incredible were it not matter of proof.-- The Association now has about 2,000 members,, who represent nearly that number of families. As the expenses of management by no means increase in proportion with the enlargement of: business, the prices of kgiv‘wcex-ies etc., are being cox;stmtiy reduced as the membership extenda.} This extension haa been the more rapid becauss it 18 for the interest of every member to get hia 1riends to join. All in all, the * General Suppl; Company,” of Glasgow, is a most robust pmufi of the fact that co-operation is both practicabla end profitable. o I e GOING THROUGH THE RYE. A blue June eky bent o'er the world, The Summer-winds were blowing, And cool cloud-shadows swept acxcsa ke meadows ripe for mowing, en, from a mazy thicket gres X mitistrel piped, imssly wissen, And, from the happy songeter’s tiroat, Gushed one unvarying, liquid noto: oty Bob-o-link, odink, o-imk- Bob-o-link, My life was mirrored in the dsx, o calmas Summer-acean, Nor height nor depth gave shade, e ome dssordint Sotign, Lish 2ea2 , blytho of thought, and £, ent through m‘;g\m"fing fl:fgn 'zxye, And parted its green stems to see Where might the coming singer be, Who eang, with such unbounded gles, Bob-0™-link, o-link, o-link-um, Bobolink, Full s0on I spled him where ho sat Upon a leafy cherry; A wild hop played ‘bo-peep, ‘00-Deep 3 WO 8 chattzred on a And cast four entious eyes at him. The wild clematis drooped herhead; STl die for love,” was all she said, ‘With noiseless step I crept anigh ; Above me flowed the rippling rye's ‘While high and clear my charmer trillod, And all the listening June nir lied ‘With bob-o-link, o-link, o-link-urm, Bob-o-link, 1In airy ecatasy he swung, AsTight as any fu!he%, For ho was drunk for ¥ery joy Of song and Summer-weather. According with his joyous st The south wind breathed a low refrain, Sobbed to sweet death 2nd sighed agatn, Down the horizon’s crystal wall “The fabled river seemed to fall,— That river of the gods some call, * Cloud-navies, with whito suils untarled, Anchored above o silent world, Casting long shadows on the grass Through which the trembling wir,ds From hazel-nock the catbird’s zroon Eept rhythmic cadence to the tune Of morning sweeping on ta noon, A smiling goddess, xosain hand, At Summer’s open door did stand, And dglvar uce;:ted all the Iand ; i\ YWhile clear and high my charmer trilie, egdu:flgofila listening June air filed b-0-linik, o-link, o-link- Bob-o-link, i did pasa, © Summer-deeps brimful of pesca 0 wealth of Sammer beantr " ¢ T drained your chalice long ago, And found that cold word, Dity, B0 hard to learn, 8o sweet to kn Teh looking o'e that long ago, On Some such lonesome day as this, ’Twould give me back unstinted blizs To nee again that rustling eye, Beneath another matchless sky, ‘And hear again, from care-free thro ‘The dawnful gladness of that note: b-o-link, o iak, o-ink-um, R8s, T A, MCGAVIEY, —That was a good, though rather o 3 i, which was msde by stadent 15 cae g ent theological seminaries (and he was not one of * the brightest of the class, either) when heasked, % YWhy is Profesgor the test revivalist: ave: i » “Great Aralaning’ RS N _—A youth, in sccontrements that indicate his rustic origin, passing down Broadway. ;}g " afternoon last week, 8aw & handsomely embels - Lished truss hanging’ in a show-window, and sush %end.ud from it a tag with this legend: < Patent upture Truss—none like it.” * Well” said Rusticus, eying it with suspicions , and edging away apprehensively, 41 shouln’t think they would like it/