Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1874, Page 10

THE I CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 18 The Way of Beguiling the TUnwary, Mow the Roper Gets His Informa- tioms Instances of His Successes " and Failures. The Manner of Conducting a Bunko Game. The ' Plensuves and Profity of Keno, ~Do§crlptlou of the Plain Road to an Empty Pocket. Tie Trpose publishod Inst Bunday an articlo :on gambliog, whick was chiofly dovoted to faro, ‘and to what is tochnically known as * square *’ ‘gaming, on oxprossion impropor in itsolf, siuce all forms of gambling are unfair, but which still Jhas to be used to distinguish n mild from » vio- Nont form of robbory and fraud. 1t is now pro- iposed to give an account of the various ways in which money is oxtracted from the greedy, or tho groon, or those who possess both qualitios, by what are known as * skin games,” ** confi- 'donco oporations,” ** buuko,” oto. This i not 6o much for tho purposo of protecling the un~ wary, for nothing can do that, as for the inform- ation of the' general reador, who ofion sces items in the papers stating that this or that man ‘Das boon fleeced, but who does not undorstand iprecisely how it wns domo, and vain- iglorioudly fancies that undor eimilar circnmstances ho would Thave escaped unscathed, No, there arc men who aro born to ‘bo plunclered, and thore are others horn to plun- ‘der. Onoisborn z simploton, and asnother o ecamp, It is impossible to tench the former wisdom, and tho Intter can bo coorced into hon- eaby only by the 8wilt punishmont of the law. All that o papor can do for tho former is to in- culeate the groat Iaw of distrust; to urge men to suspoct all strangora; repel all courtcous strangers ; keep their pockets buttoned vp, and thoir lips shut ; ask counsol of none eave po- licomen, and not sock to make money in any il- logitimate wng, no mattor how fair tho chances may scom. But fraud wears a thousand faces, and changes its form to nccommodate every cir- cumstanco; ond o travoler may eacabe a hun- dred times, only to como to grief on the hundred [ aud fiat, whon repeated trinmphs have mado him unwary. ——— THE ART OF ROPING IN. But that which must perplex the reader, is how these viotins, the country farmers, or city ‘boys, these retired parsons, or men about town, got allured into theso places. They themsolves do not know.where thoy are situated, and thoy nover notio any of tho pooplo who manage them, How s it, thon, that strangors, whose topogrophical kuowledge is so undovelopod, maange to find their way to those haunts and hidden places **remots from the sun?” Tho way in which they are enticed thither is ono of “the moat intoresting parts of the subject. It is the chago, and not the capture, which is often the most thrilling. It is for that reason that so much is said concorning the devices rosorted to Dy .theso fishera after mon, in ordor to secure their proy. THE SLANG OF TIIE TRADE, The records of tho Police Courts have ina monsuro familiarized the nou-gambling aud non- slangy membors of the community with the technology af tho gaming fratornity, Thus the ‘word ‘‘stoerer” docs not siguify to tho public ut Jarge a nautical porson in a wator~proof coat, nlnucfi hat, short clay pipo, and rolled-up pants, standing in an attitude of raro discomfort at wheel, No,no! Anybody of average capacity, outside o primméy school, con tell yon what a *egteeror” is. Hoalso witha *‘roper.” Ho 14 not o apinnor of yarn or a gymnast, ueither is lio.s Shoriff nor a havgman, ~In his habits ho ig o “ateeror,” A *capper” i never confounded with s hottor, “Mad oe a_copper™ would bo an auomaly, because urbnnity is the principal attribute of tho *capper.” Allied to the “ cap- per.” by somo_extraordinary freak of elum ety- nology, is the ¢ bonnet,” tho English cousin of the American ‘‘capper.” DPerbops the name msy have been suggested by the nesociation of thega people with ompty heads, perbaps not. FUNCTIONS OF TIE BTEERER. But whatever may be their origlh, *ropers,” “cappers,” “*steerors,” * hounets,” and other people like then, Ylay an_important part in the dramn of “ nelarlous mouuf—mnk!ng." which halds tno boards of lifo with n tonacity of at~ tractiveness to which the credullty, groed, and welf-cstcom of mankind contribute perpotually. Your *stoerer” is u sort of humau pilot-fish, Like his sealy prototype, he ig o person of vivid hue and pmooth exterior. Ile swims intho jaws of the shnrks with impuuity, and gets his fi\-ing from tho refuso thrown him by his groody master, The stoerer is ot as rarely mek with in this latitudoe ns bis_prototype, and not a per- son who patiently rends this articlo but has seen him. Ho hangs around the largoe hotels, bonrds at the cormmorcial hostelrios, fraquents tho bill- inxd hall, loafs round the theatre, wandors into the lacture-room, isppens_outsido the sanctu- ary, Heis a numerously roprosentod animal. T{e looks like u loafor, or sume othor hiped, whose monosyllabio name would not Kraco theso pages if it wore given. Porhaps ho combines tho trade of *stesror" with the lowor occupation wo hnve hintod at; supplomonts bis caroings ab the faro-bank by rtho dollars thrown him from the brothel, This s not unlikely, for both help him to get a liv~ ug. His object is to ‘piok up a ftlat,” in gombling phrascology; in the vornacular, to cnsnore & strangor iuto tho gambling-holl, or nto the brothol,—genorally both, Tho modus operandi varios with tho person to be worled upon. Lot 1s give tha reader an example, which is furnished Ly nctual observation. MR, WALTERS' PERPLEXITIES. A fow doys ago o gontloman with hoavy side- whiskers, aud portly figurc had stopped from tho Sherman 1Iouse, and was walking leisurely down ‘Clark streot, admiring the buildings which ling the Court House square, whonastrangor stoppod Lim, ¢ drifith, my dear boy,"” said the stranger, * I haven't scon you for an age ; whep did you leave Morrison? ~ It's good for soro oyos to 6eo you ngain, How's your wifo? Bloss my soul, why didu't you write and tell mo you were com- ing to town,” All this was gaid with o rapidity and honrtinesa that would have touched tho heart of a brick. The sposker accompanied cach quory with n shoke of the land that wus honeaty itsolf. “Tardon me,” enid the strangor; *thero is same mistake hore. My namo ia Waltors, I nover_was in Morrison, having just arrived here from Yokoliama, via San Frauciéco.” * No," snid tho_hearty pecson, “it can't be. Youare jokiny, old follow.” * Not at all," said the Englishman, for such he wad, * Iforo is my eard," “ Pray oxcuso me. I hopo I haven't offondod, You resomble a lawyer of my acquaintauce in Morrigon, nud Imistook you. I wouldn't like to havo mnde euch s mistako,” # Not at all, not at all,” #nld the Euglishman, * Wo aro all Ilablo to mihtalos."” * Won't you take s drink 2" said the strangor, * No ; I'thaok you," snid the Englishman, . THE NEXT GTED, Now, to an ordinary persion, this little rencon. tro would have appeared a8 unworthy o second thought, Yo ono looker-on, howover, every word was of vast importance, Mr, Waltory moved on, and the person who had addressed him mot tho intorosted observer, handed bim a card nurroptitiously, told him the man was a honvy take, fresh from China, loads of money, worth working up, T'ho next thing sesn was thoe intereuted on-looker on the other side of the stroot wurklumn leeward of tho Englishman, Ho walliod as fast &8 ho oould without uitracting attontion, and mot him on tho cornor of Ln- Snilo and Madison ntroots, THF BTEERER'A DIGCOMFITURE, *! Waltors, my doar follow, how aro you ?" sald ho, **Thank you," sald vory woll, how are you ‘“Novor bettor. How fleshy you've got in tho Rnst ‘?‘Y," yoars. When did you leavo Hong- ong ‘1 novor loft Hong-Kong," sald Mr, Waltors, ‘! becauge L novor waa in that clty, I way nover in Qhiua, Iam nfraid you have mndo a mistake i the porson. I don't rocollect you,” Tha confodorate-steoror's ignorauco of guuq- raphy bad placed him in a nice fix, o didn't know whoro Yokohama was, 80 ho gave himself away atill mora chanply, *' I camo down in tho train with yon from 8an Franciggo—don't you rocollect our little chat in tho pmoking-car? " anid ha, ** T thonght yon hadn'tscon mo for two yoars,” persistod Mr. Walters, “ That was & joke on you; don't yon remembor ‘what you snid your wife would say whon you got back " blundored on tho_steorer, in liopo of striking somothing intolligible. “No, sir ; I nover smoke, I am not marrled, didn't go into tha smoking-oar. I am afrald, sir; i'ou aro mistakon, {f indeod you aronot nd— mpostor," roared Mr, Waltors, getting extrome- lyirate, But he might hnvo ronred nt the lamp-post for all tho good It did. Tho unsucs cersful stoorer had slunk away long before and loft Mr. Waltors pondering over tho oxtraordi- nary social condition of a city in which every- body-recognized him and yot know nothing at all about him, ?u'xyo Englishman, I am BYBTEM OF OPERATIONS, This eao, which is well anthenticated, ropro- sonts tho ready adaptability of the profossionnl roper. Tho intimate-friend dodga is capable of many modificationa. ' After tho intondoed viotim haa told his name and residence, which is exnct- 1y what tho stoorer wants to lnow, and tho lat- tor spologizea for tho mistalelio has made, ho inyiriably asks tho man to drink with lam, Our idivtic Western practico of overy man asking evory othor man to drink aids him. * Lot'a tako a drink to show thoro's no ill fooling,” enys ho; or, “Well, you'vo got them on mo thia timo suro ; what will you talko?" or somothing equally so- dactive and irresistiblo, cnsnares” the vietim into tho bar-room. hluk{ hero sorves a doublo purpose. It aids in drawing the strangor out, whilo it doadons his discernment. When ho is protty woll filled np, and rises to go, tho confedorate, who hins unobsorved notad down {heso thinga, followa him ont and then plys him with more drinks, until tho vietim js ready to bo steored into the Xrnpur place, and thon and there robbed in brond day-light under the guiso of fighting luck. TIE COUNTRYMAN, ‘Tho public has a goneral idea that the person thus onenared is alwnys a victim, To a cortain oxtont ho is,—bnt too ofton hois the victim of his own greed. The countryman is nlways n toothsomo morsol, o sells his pigs, and is brimming over with cash, Your countryman knows evorything, when hio comes to town. Ho can toll you all you know, and more too, What's tho use of your trying to toach him ? Beforo he loaves home, hohns plodged himself Lo show some of' these city fellows what thoy know and what thoy don't know. Hoar ahout how that ohap from Poduulk got taken in? Why, cortainly, but ho was the softest fool you ovor Bot oyen on, ho was, Why you could tarn, kim round your fingor any way you wanted to. Ife never had any mind of his own, he hadn't. Coming to town in this lofty apirit of solf-confi- dence, tho farmeor is just the very man to be swindled. AWALLOWED UP, ‘Whon tho stoerer, recn;f‘nlzlngin him vordancy personifled, accoats him, ho is sure of his bird, dend _sure, My namo ain't Smith, and I don't live ot Osbkosh, but I know your faco, dorn mo if I don't.” Ofconrso ho eaid Do know tho steorer's faco. He wouldn't Iet any city follor havo tho ndvantage ovor him that way, ~‘That chap down at Podunk would, but ho wonldo't, “ My name’s Brown, and I'm from Adnms County ; you can’t fool me, young man,"” and he Iaughs over the way he lns sold the steorer, like a groatgood-natured school-boy, *Woll, no, you'ro-too sharp for me,” says tho steoror; “‘and, now you've etuck me for tho drinks,” and thon thoy drink., Hore again Mr. Brown's gonfidonce in his own superior acumen serves tho ateoror in- good stend. Mr. Brown Imows he can drink more than those lean, Iank clti follers who nover got o bit_of frosh air, and lio in boed -til noon, and he drinke copionsly. * The stocrer loads’ him on, measuros his piloas tho drinks circulate, and finally snys ho's got a friond 1n_hin room walting fonhim, a etty sharp chap at tolling yarns; or this chap Igmwn John Robinson down in Adnms County that Mr, Brown waa tolling sbout, and so-on. Tho confedorato hac overhoard all this, and ig rondy primod with anocdotes of the most nston- ishing character, calculated to confirm Mr. Brown in. tho opinion that John Robinson is cither the most unmitimated ass or tho most prodigions genius that Adams County over pro- duced, necording to tho drift of Ar, Drown's Ernviuns Dbio :‘Fby of that gontloman. aving oim up -to tho gumbling den, it is no dificult matter to turn Mr. Brown's superior intellipence o tho contomplation of buoko, or to oxtract from Mr. Brown's pocket the ontire procoeds of his salo of stock, THE COUNTRY PARSON, One of thomost roady victims of this neat system is tho country proncher. Away from the scrutinizing eye of a gossip-loving congregation, profoundly impressed with his own wariness, conscious that he ia troading ground upon which fortunes aro_daily made, aud unconscious that they aro daity lost also, he is just the mnn the stoeror ia looking for. His business in town is vory Hkoly to invest. Perbnps it is his own monoy he thinks of s:doubling in #somo clover mchemo; porhaps he s ontrusted with the deposit of soms fabulous sum belonging to him as Trusteo,—3600, or oven moro, Now, the reverend gontloman ablors card-playing on the part of his congregation, Dbut, prodected by onowho never desorts hi faith- ful followers, why should hio not go in and de- FFD“ tho Phalistinos, evon'ad David and Jonn- than deapoiled thom, and by doubling the cnsh in tho coffors of tho chnreh, arm that body mili- tant to doubly crush the.power of ovil? Under such circumstances it noeda but Jittlo persuasive exortion to bring him to:the ‘plnymg point. Ho is .wary, Lo is sly,> bo plays cautionsly, but he is not an expert, and mo maq - can succeesfully fight bunko or ** short cards,” Ho loses usa matter of course, and roturns home full of penitenco if it is tho money of .$he church ; his orthodoxy soverely tried if he happona to be the only sufferor. ‘This may seom hard, but it is a mattor of fact, Many of the victims of bunko, and we do not think it an ovor-cstimnto to say most of thom, aro induced to play from the very outsot with the hopo of making money. It is a greed of gain that takes men into bunko and brace-faro honeca in most coses. Here nud thore tho ap- potito for gain is stimulated by judicious lying on the part of the ropor-in, and judicious’ p]f» ing with aloohol, but the victim' is genorally drawn into the toils through his own avarice. OUTSIDE ACCOMPLICES, It would netonish the world if it could be shown in detail how systomatio is the huunko rab- bory practiced in Chicago, There are agents in differont parts of tho State who lic in wait for tho stock anlo senson, and notify their employors in town whon nuy promising person is expected to come to Chicago. Au accurato description of his appenrance, habits, and character is sont, and on ostimnte of the money ho_will have about him. Tho world is still erowded with fools, and ihe proverb still holds true, *“A fool and his money are soon parted.” —— BUNKO. The beat known of thogo illicit games iabunko. That is, it is bottor known by some thnn by othors, sinco it numbers more victima who re- port their losses than any other species of fraud, Many mon are cozened out of thoir property, but, owing to the peculiar way in which it iy done, thoy sedulously shun publicity, and prefer to put up with tho loss .rathor wrock thair ropu- tatlons. With bunko it is somowhat differont. To bo swindled in this manner argues folly only, excopt for a church-membor, where it also im- plies Immorality. Thus the publio hna been ac- customed to ooing tho word *‘bunko,” but has nover olenrly nnderstood what it meant, Tortnoately, casos of * buukolng” aro di- minishing here, nwlui;htn tho groater vigilunco of o the police and toleration of faro- banks. Thero are fewer bunko opora- tors, siuce, uuder the prosent regime, a gamblor can live without resorting to these practicos. The countryman s still robbed, but it is done In a differont mauner, Still, cases of bunko will be nm:nninnnll{ happoniug, and, even 1f they do not, it will bo Interosting to nee how ensily n'mn bave beon duped and defrauded in the past, TA‘:B great boauty of Bunko ia the unerring cortalnty of its rosults, It is the only sure game one can play, It is an oxcellont gamae for n yourlg mau_who is taking his flrst fossons in gambling, Tt posseascs tho poouliar fontures roquisito for big abeclute fasclnntion for a timo, and 1ts rosults are a perfoct cortuinty, One may kuow what to oxpect boforehand. 1o may ex- oot to loso his monay with astonishing rogu- arity, No heart-ronding disappoiutmonts in this rospoct have evor boen known. Theroforo, Buuko ia 4 gaod game to bogin with. Qur road- ora bava froquently voad of thia er shist couns tryman's oxploits at Bunko, but wa challengo thom to cito nn justance whore tho gontloman from tho rural distrlets was thoroby enriched, oithor in funds or sulmnl 8pirits, “Thoro bas beon a truly romarkable similarity fn Bunko ox- porlencos, It is, to como to tho point, onc of tho moat impudont sud barefaced traps ovor sot for o greonhorn, and a man who wouly fall into it almost desorves to loso bus monoy, for it {shis eagernoss to gotsomothing for nothing that loads Litn on. Ho fancics ho 8068 & splendid chance to got a lsige relurn on a small invost~ mont, with no rislc of loss, and accordingly ho bites at the tompting bait,- Many attompts haye beon made to desoribo the Dunko procoss, Lut all have fallon short of acournoy by reason of lack of corroot information, ‘Ihoso who have boon * bunlood " novor can toll just how it was done,—tho oporation is 8o rapid and soon over, —whilo the Joilios who sharo tho spolls aro clnry of thelr deseriptions, . TIE APPARATUS conselsts of a cloth paiuted into forty-oight squares similar to a checker-board, and n dice- box containing eiglt dico. This {s what thoy do with the tools: A Bunko-ropor spolsa groons horn, and, by dogroos, makes his acqunintanco ; invitca bim fo drink, or to cat an oystor-stew, or to play o gamo of billiards, as tho caso may bo in If;“{:mi for tho drinks or billiards ho pulls oul with his looso “h“"f“ o lottery toket; is sur- prised; had forgotten that ho hind it; must go and goo what it has drawn ;- asks the victim to go olong: tho lottory ‘‘ngenl's” offico is roachod ;. ftunen sigh, *‘ronl ostato,” on tho door, aud maps on tho walls ineido; agont looks ovor o book full' of flFllI‘(!l; finds “that tho tickot has won $40 in gold, or 238.40 losa his commiission. THE ROPER BUGGESTS thot thoy have a privato drawiny chiango ; agant consonts, and produces the Bun- ko paraphernalia ; roper explains tho sochome in an undertono to tho greonhorn ; suro thing ; no chanco to loso ; morely dono in conuection with the lottory buslness _to “holp attract custom ; ho con #co for himsolf ; greonhorn soes it and wanta some of it ; tho amount is small, and the sohomo inviting ; produces $1.60, and is to share tho winnings, Buch are tho usunt B'rellmlnnfles, 'filh varintions “wecording to cireumstancey, 'hon - for the odd TIF PLUORING TROOESS commences. The forty-eight squaros on the cloth coutnin fligures to corrospond with tho varlons combiuntions of flgures which cau bo thrown with oight dice. A small proportion of tho squares contain the amount of a prize—two for oue, four for one, ote,; most of tho othor Bquares are marked ** 1B.,” moaning Bunko, and wvery few aro blanks, The rulo is, if o figure with & prize is tbrown, tho throwor gots from two to four times his monoy back ; if o ** B." figuro is thrown ho doos not Jose, but must *“ REPRESENT " HIS MONEY— that {s, must duplicate it, no mattor how large the sum bocomes; if & blanlk is thrown, hie lodes oll, but a8 the blauks are very fow, and aro numbered with almost impossible throws, such 8 B and 48, thero scoms to bo a smsll chanco of losing. To mako it perfectly fair, tho victim is allowed to throw for himself, but tho ropor stauds by, and, by moaus of rapid counting, with an ocenslonal tumblo of a dio, he takes good caro that the throw shall bo a * Bunko " figuro. IIe Loy beon proviously provided with funds with which to * roprosont,” and tho viclim can do no less than como down with his money, especlally agit is undorstood thnt his winninga shall bo corruspnndlugly incrensed. Whon ho has “ ropresonted ” until ho is cithor disgustod or out of monoy—tho indications of which are carofully watched for—they mnvage to count him as having thrown a blnflk, and that onds it. Iis friond, the roper, ia awfully cut up about it, and goos off with him, lnmnuunl; that 1t was thoir beastly luck to throw that losing number, but scon manages to slip away, and ro- turns to claim his share of the plundor, Buch is Bunko, and tho only wonder is that thero are fools enoligh to get swindled by it. It is probe ablo that the Buuko-men havo scon thoir bost dnya in Chicago, a8 the Superintendent of Polico Ling given notico that, upon a recurronce of a well-founded -complaint, ho will run overy Bunko-roper out of town. 1le should keep his word by all meana. —— KENO. Tho gamblor of small means, or the young man just loarning to tompt hazard, naturally in- clines to & game in which a littlo monoy goos & loug way, while the roturns aro largo when thero aro any. I'aro is too gxpensive, and the issuo is too soon docided ; tho winning or losing, even with chocks ne low 8 60 conts, is too rapid for the small gameator. IIowants somothing choap and exciting, whorein his money wili last lovgor. It is mo mattar that the * chonp " gnmes are the ocostliest of all, owing to tho houvy percontoge which the donlor or propriotor always rosorves for himsoll—tho playor has but.a’dollar-or two, and ho risks it in tho hopa of n lncky turn in his favor, Keno ia tho rage among tho cheap gomes, and is oxton- sivoly-patronized wheu it can bs indulged in without rigk of & raid by the polico. THE REVIVAL. In tho.rooont genoral rovival of &umming,lwno mnde its appoarance in force, Three or four games wero started, snd thoy carried on a thrive mfi businoss 50 long ae thoy wore unmolested. Whon Superintondent Rohm made himeelf un- derstood a8 opposed to keno and ten-cont faro gomos, tho first numed popular pastime received & sovero check in tho gliape of the arrest of kecp- ers and jnmates, so that thore is now but ouo gome in foll blnst. The patrons of kono are for themost part young men who earn small salarios, old finmhlon will have nouo of it, and the only ‘wondor is that thoro are people so inoffabiy silly 88 to play the gamo. But there are such poople, and uuoth of thom to moke o kono dealer’s fortune, if bo wero pormitted to carry on the buemness, Haturday night is the groat kemo night. It is thon that weelkly stiponds aro frit- tored nwiy by scoros of young meon, who can Enofly afford to lose thoir eornings. Clorks, ookkeepoers, mochanics, and barkeopers all havo & weakness for keno, and all contribute to- ward its support. WIENCE IT OAME, Kono originnted mnong the Germans, who call it Lotto, aud the children play it at homo for amusemont morely. Its application a8 a menns of public gaming for maoney is a purely Yaukeo oflnir, though it was o favorito among - Fronch Louisianinus, aud the puculiar phrases and ox- clamiations which attach to tho gamo have nlso beon aup) plicd by the Auglo-Saxon, Tho word “Lotto” has no _distinctive significance, buat it zni(:'ht well. bo adopted on account of its litnoss 0 ho faots porlaining to kcumi which is only | played by u “lotto” fools, 1t is puroly zame of chance. Tho result i not govornod m i slightost degroe by tho exeroise of cither skill or judgment, and thore is no advantage in copital, a6 in many other games, The more monoy s man plays against keno the moro ho loges. o THE GAME I8 PLAYED without the nid of cards or elaborale paraphor- nalin. Al that is requisito is & hollow wooden globe, in which aro placed ninoty small ivory balls the size of murblog, numbered from ouo to nmoty inolusive, Tho bulls are shakon up in the globe, and aro taken out one at a time, and the unmber ealled out. Tho game is to got five vurmbors in a row, and whon these como, “Henol” is called by tho Auc‘l;{ lioldor of tho consecutivo figures, who i entitled to tho poal, loss 10 por cont, whiol the proprietor takes oul for his profits, 'Tho houso iy supplied with 200 strips of thick pasteboard, about seven inches long and two inches wide. Upou thede ocards ara paiuted the numbors, in three rows, five in o row,—thus : 1 l ‘ 82 41 | | 56 . | | 13 l \ 48 | 50 | I ki I 84 10 ] 10 I ‘ [ I 80 I 90 UOW 1T GOES, Ench onrd contaius o difforent combination of figures. Wo will supposo that the veador has bought tho card shown by tho disgram, pn{lug 45 cents, §0 conts or a_dollar, or moro for it, a4 the case mny be, Thore are ten othors, onch having boughit o card. Tho globe containing tho marblos is whirled rapidly around, and a ball is takon out, and tho number called. If you find that numbor on your oard, placo a bution over it, and 80 on, as ofton a8 ono of your card-num- bory i called, It you are lucley you will ot fivo buttonsin nrow aftor fitteen or twonty bnils have boon called out. Tor instanco, you llud that 9, 83, 41, aud 566 havo been_called ; 78 is noodad to campfulu the row; when 78 comos you call “Kono!" nud the yool, loss tho porcontnge, in fium toyou, In thomonntime other playors have con putting on buttons, aud the game grows oxciting os thoy got within but one number of » row, You bappou to got it firat, aud all tho rest aro dieappointed. Thon it is that clisincteristio oxclamations denoto aunoyauce and disgust on tho part of tho unlucky onos, Each placo of pastobonrd hns its great number, ranging from 1 0 200, and & record is kept of the cards taken, and the kono I8 vorifiod by roferonce to the bally whioh bave been drawn from the globe, DIVIDING Tik: POOL. It fraquently happens that $wo players keno on tho same combination, an. the same figuron may ocour on difforent cards, though in difTorent order, that cage the pool 4 divided,, It therg age fon playore, ab 80 oauts per oard, tho 74-..SUPPLEMENT. ool {a §4.60, e the dealer takes out 10 por cont, Kono can only bo called uipon cards which are rogistored a8 having boon pald for, 'Tho choico of cards I8 mada at hap-hazard, ns thero aro no moana of knowing what figuros will bo drawn from the globo. ?t is futorosting to note that if you hiad chonen the oard noxt to tho ono you taolk you svould have seourcd tho covetad row of numbers, Thisnlso loada to rogratful and angry ojnculations, followod by n gonoral laugh at the exponss of the unlucky ones, : TILE PROFITS, 1t in nstonishing that keno shonld bo played at oll, sinco It Incke tho casentinl cloment of falr- noss, Tho {ll’flprlotnt gots all the monoy in tho long run in tho shapo of hle percontogo, no mat- ter who wina in tho meantime, ‘Thrce men may start with $10 ench, buying onrds at 81 onch thoy may win s oqual number of pools, and tho ond of a faw hours not one of thiem will inve ncont; Tho denlor will havo it all if thoy Fln long onough. Tho profits of & woll-patronizo game amount to upwards of $100 por day, over and above oxpensos, which are comparatively ll;;ht, and the players play thin for the privilego of having o chianco to squandor their monoy, Tow.of thom play for amusement ; noarly all ox- poot to win money by it, Ocensionally thoy aro succonsful, ns whon tho pool is large aud the playor 18 satisflod with winning ono; but hig {s not human mnature, and the monoy alwaya finda ita way to the pooket of the dealor, In roturn for his investmont, tho playor is fur~ nished with an. unhealthy oxcitomont, and a rathor palatable lunch when he gets hungry; nothing more. A a ganoral rulo, kono games aro conducted honostly, though thero are plonty ot chances for choating. - The denlor may rogis- tor a card which is not held by any player, and mako that card win by calling falso numbors as tho ‘balls aro drawn, for everybody s too busy to soo that he calls the numbors correctly; or ho sy bo in collusion with s player, aud, by call- ing his number, give him the keno; or, o may pay on_less cards than have boon sold. Thoso fraudulent practicos may bo rosorted to at timas, ‘but ns o rulo the proprictor is antisflod with tho logitimato porcontage, The dosired rosult can be accomplishied without tho atd of fraud, though it is undorstood to bo a standing ruls in keno linusos to rogister fewor cards than aro sold, whon_they are 8o numorous as to rondor detoc- tion diffloult, A " keno " occupios abonc saven minutos, and if ona card is counted out, tho gnin In[ considorable in the courso of tha day aud night. THE FARM AND GARDEN. A Cipher Too Much—Plashing of the ©@sage=HMedge—The Value of a Orop of the Osage of Ton Years’ Growth— The European Larch—The Rallronds Encourage Its Planting for Tics and Eence=Posts — Early Planting—Man« agement and Culture—A ‘Trec-Plunts ing Leswon, A From Our Agricultural Correapondent. Omastratax, 1., Fob, 5, 1874, 1t in sald that figures do not lie, and yet ono cipher MARES A MATERIAL DIFFERENCE, it it does not tell a downright lie. Wo write ono hundred thus : 100 ; now, add a commn nnd a ciplier, and we haye 1,000, This is just what happoned in my last letter, in spoaking of tho prico of Osage-orango vinoysrd-stakes, which are made to cost $4 per 1,000, instond of 34 por 100, Ihoponp ono has mado o sale of his Osago stakos af the figure printed, for it would not pay him for tho outtisg. Whilo on this eliBjoct of . 7 oBAGE, . it might bo woll to stato thab, after thohedge- plunts have grown too Inrge to plash, they should ba cut back to nonr tho ground, whou new ehoots will bo sent up, and theso may bo plashed the second or third yonr after. Ouo thing is gortain: that, to mnke a good hedgo of the Qeage, it must be plashed, and, aftor that, have annual shoarlugs, in ordor to keop the growth within bounds, and compact. I have a olosoly-planted bedgo, about 20 rods in length, in which tho plants woro got 6 inchies apart. Tho sotting waa dono in 1860. Thoso plants are now from 1 to 4 inchies in dismeter; and, in another ton years, the hedgo WILL DE A FAILURE, TFor the firat 4 feot tho hedgoe is without follago, and the wenker plants will give way, and cattlo will push through it. Thisis tho histoiy of all similar hedges, Yu March 1 will have this hoedge cat down, and tho stakes resorved for the vino- yard ; thoy will avorage at lenst 25 to the rod. That will bo 500 stakos, which, at 4 cents each, will be $20. Dodnct 1 cont onch for cutting and eetting, and wo havo $15, or 756 conis & rod, for the timbor in tho hedgo; and thon the hedgo will be all tho botésr. Now, supnouo o plant two sides of a quartor-scotion with a aheltor-bolt of Osage, any 4 rods wide, or 16 rows. Thiy would cover about 8 acros of land. This would roquire about 20,000 plants, At a cost o, Intoreet snd toxca on land for tou yoars.,... Total cost, By 10,000 vineyard atakes, at $3 per 100. Not profif... . . 8o much for a crop that requires TEN YEADS TO GROW. But this is not all. We have balf of our Osngo troos left, now ton years old, and auother ten yoars will mako thom valuablo for many pur- poson ; but, if wo can givo thom another ton ?onn-x. thon wo have thom of sizo for sagon- hubs, spokes, nud goaring, for which purpose thoro is no othor timber in North Amorica of oqual value, The wood ia hiard, is nlmost inde- structiblo by tho weather, and it neithor swells nor ehrivks, a6 water cannot pevotrate it It i3 s0 hard that you connot drive a mil in and, for this reason, will have no value for fonce-posts, unloss the posts arc mortised for rails, aeis dono in somo ‘parts of tho conntry with rod-codar posts, How much an acro of such timbor would bo warth at such o stnge of growth, it ia now impossible to eay, bnt it is cer- toin that it would bo a valunblo investment, TFrom tho Osago it is an easy trausition to THE EUROPEAN LAROK, s o treo that is prossiog itself on our attontion. The railronds aro beginning to nppreciate this fact, and now the Illinois Contral aud somoe other ronds propose to carry tho plants freo o farm- ors aloug the Hno of their road, Tor yoars, millious of theso larch-plauta have been annu- ally grown at Waulegan, and have boeu sont to ull” the Atlantic, Middle, and Wostern States, Yormerly tho \'s!mns wore imported from Eu- Tope, but that day is Fm, and wo have an abun- dust homo supply. 'L huve abont n lundrod trees from plants imported from France in 1860, One clump of these trees, numbering 70, and ocoupying about 4 square rods, are all of siza for fonce-posts, though they aro the mero cull of n lot of nurdory-stock. In tho flrst place, thoy were sot in rowa 4 foot apart, and 1 foot in tho row. In selling, tho bost troes were takon, snd thoy now stand, some of thom as sot, 1 fool apart, some 2, and somo G foot in tho rows,— leaving uone but the poorest and most unsalablo of the trees,—in nurserymen's parlanco, simpl: thoculls. Andyot thirty of those trcos wiil make one fonco-poat oach, whilo the other forty will malco two each; aud the tops, for vinoyard- stakes, will pay for the Iabor of cutting, Theso posts would sell vory rendily for 25 cents each, or the sum of 827.50 for tho wood of 4 square rods of ground, tho growth of thirteon years, from plants two yoara oll, costing at the timo about 5 conts cnoh, but which cau now be had at about 87 por 1,000, Thoso are snm- ples on a small scalo, but yot facts that show WIIAT MAY LE NONE. The writor bas no plants for salo, but has to purohase thoso that bo sets out ; and two yoars 80, whon Mr, Douglas chiarged 810 por 1,000, ho sot ont 10,000 larch-plants, Nearly evory ono grow, but tho white grub and May beotle dou- troyed mnearly a quarter of them, thus giving them & govore thinning ; those will bo roplacea tho coming upflnfi. ‘Tho planta ot on the dryest 1and have mado tho best growth, oven iu thoso two droughty years, and somo of thom aro 8 feet liigh and tho whole plautation looks promising. They aro in a sholter-belt about thrao rods wide. I may and may not cut any trees from this plau- tation of three acros ; but to-duy tho laud would sull st a largo sdvanco avor the cost of tho troes and setting. ‘Cho time is coming whon uo prai~ rie farm will bo considored comploto withiout ‘moro or loss of ARTIFICIAL FOREST on it, Womay loave out of the cousidoration its valuo_for ahelter for tho stook; the warm, sunny gide thut it givos to tho pasture in enrly spring and late in autumn; the prolection to tho orclinzd fn oaso of heavy storms of rain and wind, by which he orop’is forced from tho treos; but slmply tako into viow its salablo valuo for tho irmluot and far tho use of tho farm, Thero are thousanda of farms on which you cannot cut a pole for the honsroost, a stake for a grapo- vine, a hand-spike for adjusting the load in your wagou, & binder for o load of hay or atraw that you might wish to tako to market; and, what {a of primo neceesity, posta for the olu‘hln-hnn and yot nil of those can bo #o caelly grown that it is a wondor thatb pnoylo linve” not plantod thom, But an yot.those things have siot ontereld into tho valuo of our prairic-farms, as thoy will do In the future, 4 - Tho railronda begln to soo that thoy must on- oourago tho farmors to plant larch for FENOE-TOSTS AND TIER, aa thoro must bo grown nonr tho linen of road, In the building of the Indianapolis, Blooming- ton & Wontorn Rallrond, largo quantitios of homlock tics wore used, aud now Eheso are giv- Ing out, though losa ‘than six yonrs Inid down. The Illinois Contral Railroad was Inid through this farm in 1864, or nonrly twonty yoars ngo. Tho ties woro of white and_burr-oak, olm, binclk walnut, and hackborry. All of thoso have dis- appenred, oxcopt now and then a burr-onk tho is loft. All of those tlos wore sawed about 7 inches square, Tho hackberry gave out firat ; noxt tho olm ; then tho white onk, arid the black walnut ond burr-onk followed. I think some of theso burr-onks will bo gaod for the next fiva ‘ydnnm: whilo in Buropo the larch has not had to a roplacod for thirty years or more, sincoe it wan first put to that uro, i Tho way tha railronds have used the tree- plantors in this Blato has beon not only to diu- canrago troo-planting on a Inige scale, but to in- juroallof the local nurserymon. They have mado an ALMOST PRONIDITORY TARIFF in this respoct; and to-day they rato trecsin bales at double firat-class freight. There is no ronson in this, ‘lroesin boxes should pass nt lenst ns low a8 grocerios or dry sznudn in boxos, and in bales first-olass i a high rate. In ear- loads, tho tariff at prosont is—tho owner londing ond unloading—atrates for merchandise, or class A; whilo similar goods aro rated very much lowor. If thoso ronds wish to oncourago troe- rlm:l(ug, lot thom chango this classification, so hat forest soedling trees mny be grown in our own Btato, instend of Now York, I enlled tho nttontion of the Warohouse ' and Railrond Com- missioners to this rato on troos; but, as thoy have followed in the samo narrow groove, as n matter of right and policy, nothing could bo donme; but now that’ two or threo roads_hogin to =soo’ that somothing must bo dono to oncourage the planting of troos for tion and J\osls, tl\nf may bo induced to look furthor, and soo iffja littlo encourage- mout, or, at lenst justico, MAY NOT PAY DETTER in tho ond than this narrow polioy, The freight on o ton of troes, from New Yorlk to any part of tho Btato isloss than tho samo would bo for 200 milos if ehipped from an Illinols nursery. Tho truth is that tho railroads cannot afford to pursue this narrow }mlloy,l for, in tho ond, the; ara tho losors. It 1a their poliey, or ot lonst it should bs, to build up a local businees along the lino of thoir reapoctive roads ; and, though tho prosont Railroad law is against this, yot thoro are somo things that they may chango. Goods londed nt Kookuk, Burlington, Daven- lmrl, Lafayotte, or Torre Haute have an advan- ago over thoso from points & milo or two inside of our State line, Porbiaps it will not be out of placo to sny a fow words in relation to the HANDLING AND BETTING of laroh-plants. Wo must bear in mind that the larch is n coniferous trog, or deciduous over- greon; and that it must bo treated in a similar mmmcrL and thot it is doath to the plant to allow the rools to becomo dry. In tho noxt rlnco, it ia o plant that Qutu out vory early ; and hat it is not safo to attempt to_transplant it altor tho leaves bogin to appear, In this respoot it differs from most overgreons, For those roa- Aons, tho planting must be carly ; and it is bottor it tho land is fully propared tho autumn proyi- oua to planting. “As soon as tho trees arrive from the nurgory, and, if possiblo, before tho buds hnave commonced swelling, ‘huy should bo planted, This can be dono with o common spade, by thuratiug it into tho gronnd, aud, by working backwnrds and forwards, a hols is mndo for the plent, whero it is put in place, and tho oarth firmly prossed baok with tho heel of your boot, A mnn to handlo tho spade, and & boy tocarry the plants in o pail ot water, and sot them in, js TIIE DEST ADDBAXGENENT, and thoso will ot from 1,000 to 2,000 per day. "Thoy should bo 4 foob oach “way, or about six- toon plants to a aquare rod, In sotting, I marlk tho rows with piscos of Iath, and thon Iny a lino along this row of lath, and set tho plants-as near 4footinthorow a8 I can guess tho distanco, which ought not to vary much from the actual 4 -foot. ‘Tho first yoar thoy may bo cultivat- ed with a Triding-cultivator, and for two or throo yoars moro with- a double- shovel plow or & fiva-taoth culiivater, Aftor this they will noed no further attontion -until the thinning out. When of sizo for knoo- posts, Linlf of tho troe should be cutout, in order “lo give moro room for tho others. ‘wo-yoar-old plants aro the bost for soiting, and thus cost 37 por 1,000 at Waukegan, whilo the ono-year-olds may bo Liad for $4 por 1,000. Y hove nb doubt that any of the ronda leading out .of Chicago will carry tho plants frao, if applied to “;vhnn tho plants aro to be setmnear their roads. . In practico I hnve founa on serious diffioulty in thohandling of thoeo plants, and that is SENDING THE ORDER TOO LATE. It is surprising bow early this plant startsin tho spring, it being nearly oqual to the willow in this respoot, For this reason, I would urgo tho Farmors’ Clubs and Granges, that aro making up ordors for those plants, to got them in on timo, 80 a# to avoid tha loss that must fol- low in tho late planting. 1 havo several lottors of inauiry in rogard to the farmers buying the sced and growing thoic own plants, This may be dono, for there is plonty of aced for salo; but it is much the DEST AND_OUEAPEST in tho end to buy the planta. In order to grow uuedlluqu of this kind, tho conditions must b favorable and tho managoment skillful; both of theso are gonerally wanting on tho farm. Nurserymen prefer to buy young plants, to tho troublo and exponas of growing thom. Huudrods of boxes of evergreen trees, from 1 to 4 foet high, aro annually shipped from New Yorlk, tho young plants of which, at from ono to three yonrs old, wora grown at Waukogan, in this Btate. Tho socdling plant-growor solls the young plants to tho nursorymon, and they, by Tepeated root- prunings or transplantings, grow thom for tho final planting. A larch G to 8 foet high, that by not boen replanted when young, would bo a difficnlt troo to ship a distance aud mako & good growth ; aud the same mny bo said of all otler overgroen trees. 'I'hio tranaplanting gives them au gdditional quantity of flbrous roots neor the bado of the plant, whilo those not thus trans- plauted lose their flbrous roots by the digging up with tho spado. In 8cotland and England, thero is no gront difticultyin the bandling of the larch-plants; for, in i’ahmnry and Maroh, when the planting ia done, the wonthor is dnmp’ and foggy, and tho plants do notdry out; but, in our drying olimnte, TILE GREATEST OARE nmustbo oxeroised. It cannot bo expocted that every farmor is able to plant & half-dozon ncres of forest-irees, and waittho long ton yenrs for tho orop to mature; but hemay plant s few oach year, and, with this now Ctuband Grango arrangoment, will bo ablo to got them at reduced prices,—oyen loss, in somo instances, than 1 have nawmed, Five hundred or 1,000 plants will cost hitn but a trifle, aud, in the settingaud cave of theso, ha will learn to man- ago thom to better advantage; for all mon, ab their firat attempt at sotting, will commit somo blundor ; aud alittle exporioncoe in the plainest of oporations is of advantsge. You maytell a person how todo a pieca of work, and yot he will {ind, when ho comes o do it that he neods a littlo showing in regard to it. Wo must firat be apprentices botore we aro work- mon, Thinga have now settled down to so much of pormanence on tho farm, thut we may bogin to PLANT T'OR THE FUTULE, The man who juteuds to sell his farm at tho fivst opportunity doos not think it worth whila to plaut un orcliard, sot out & sholter-belt, and, loust of nll, plant out larchos for railrond-ties,— for ho doos not expect to reslize any value from them ; but now things have changed, and thoro ave comparatively fow farm# for salo, and, ovon if thore should bo occasion to soll tho farm, it would be found an advantage to have a growing orchard and noreu of forest-troos, whother of the larch, Osage, maple, ash, olm, walnut, or other ueeful trees. Ono of tho serious churges ngaiust the old manugement of tho Industrinl Univorsity, and ons of the oauses that lod to tho chango to the presont systom, was, that they FAILED TO PLANT FORDST-TREES, for tho purpose of showing tho cont and rolatlve valuo of somo thirty spooios of our useful trees. ‘Tha plan was to plant seventy moros in forest- trocs, and the Lo‘;lulutum approprinted 37,000 for tha purpose ; but the trees worouot pln\ulnd. and this valnablo losson was loagt to tho Stato, It is to be hoped that the now managomont will lose no time in correcting this very worious mis- tako, oud thus toach our farmors whut best to plant for this purpose, Tho State has once fur- nished the funds for this purpose,—a purpose that is in itselt aducational; for the lesson that 1t would teach our farmers would be of great valuo, and in timo ndd largely to thio tax-payin proporty, It cannot bo oxpocted that any indi- viduul will carry out such an experiment,—au oxporimant that shonld not bo trusted to' tho bauds of some droamy philosoplier or sohool~ maator, howovor valuable ke might bo in the soliool-room, but who has NO RBAGZIOAL ¥OWLEDOX . of achorloulturo, 1t baa beon RBpROsSd ttint Genernl who ia ablo to conquor o country Is quite as blo to govern it aftorwards; but some recent: ovonts in our 1\wmmnl hintory rathor call this in quostion ; and it in possible, also, that n school- nlmni hotanist may 110t bo tho bost possiblo troc- plantor. It In now fiftoon yoars since tho firat oxtonnive sholter-bolt and plantation of frull-trees was mado on tho * Grand Prairio ;" and now thou- sands of thom dot tho prairie-plains, from tho timbor-fringed Wabash to the fool-lills of the Rooky Mountains, Ruuar, —— IF | MIGHT. T¢ 1 might cheor some loncly heatt § Or if Tinight somo joy impart. To anio whio's lifo Ia clouded o'er s fow havo ever heon before ; And prore n kiss ou sorzo's choec, And teacls tho oyo with lova to spoak § Or cheor tho mourner in despair, And glvo to ono a slster's caro ; Or bid the sufforer's pain depart, And Lieal some bloeding, broaking heart § Or wipo tho tear from aorrow's eye, And bid it evermoro be dry; Or belp tho paor in thelr distreas, Aud comfort, those fn wrefchednees ; Or all some mortal gone aktray To acek again the narrow way s On1 if Tsomo of theso might do 7 An T s carthly life pursue, T'd feel that it wero 110t in valn For mo on earth to still romain, Ol 1 If it would * Onr Fathier ¥ please 7o It 1ms dlo soma ono of thieso, Or If T might do ono and all, Lre o from eatth my sontshoutd eatl, Oh | what o joy twould bo to me, When from thfs olay I am sot {re T know I'vo left on cartly, bohind, A memory of doeds wo kind, P. L. Dx LaA¥o, C11i0Aao, Fob, 4, 1874, goie et nl SN B LITERARY ITEMS, Queen Victoria' i3 snld to bo writing a bool, tho scone bomng laid in Gormany, ~M. Prosper Morrimoo loft a work on * Don Quixoto,” which {s to be publiehed with Lucien Biart's now translation of Corvantes’ romance. now writer upon Lord Byron suys that Madamo do 8taol attempted to oficct & roconeil- intion botwoen the poet and his wifo, ~T'wo journala ontitled tho Irisk Echo wero rocently started in Dublin on tho same day. One of thom established its prior claim to tho titlo, and the other went thmngzvh tho process of evo- lution and becamo tho Halfpenny Express, . —Somehodybas been claborating o translation of ‘‘Mothor Gooso” in Latin, and Bhepard & Gill are intending to publish tho volume under tho title Nugm Inutllcs.” —An English critio saidof arocent Fronch novol that *“ It is aa woll writton and immoral as his novols usunlly are, and that tho ‘most im- moral parts of its many immoralities are {ho nauthor's * moral roflections’ on tho actions of his own characters.” —Tonnyson writes to ono who had tamperod with his verso: *‘I objoct to variorum roa lnis. ‘When tho carpenter has mado his table, why should we treasure the chips? and, whon pooms liavo boen rojectad, why not let them bo reject- ed? And, 8 for biographical illustrations, it acoms to mo these had bettor wait till my death.” —The maximum of{cheapness in litorature has been ronched by o London edition of the *“Waverly Novels,” published by Dicks at 8d each, For about 6 conts ono may have any ono of Beott's novels complate, in fair priut, and illustrated by John Gilbert. —A Weatorn oditor, Mr, Jonathan Periam, is to record the * History of the Origin, Aims, and Trogross of tho Farmora' Movement, the Trans- sportation Quostion,” ete., in & boolk soon to be published in Cincinnati, . —Auorbach's forthcoming novel is to bo called “Walfriod: A German Family History of tho Present Timo,” —Gen, McClollnn is writing a sorles of articles on army orynn ions thronghout the world, for Harper's rflh}"mn' —Bayrrd Paylor i giipecting matorialsin Gor- many Tor a joiul biogapby of Goothe sud Behiller. -—A long poom from Walt Whitmon will per- Elox tho readors of the March [arper's ; g{r. toddard has writton a poem for the April num- Ler; and Btodman is to have his now poem “The Lord’s Day Gale,” in tho April Atlantic, —M, Victor Tlugo, whoso knowledgo of Fnglish is_purely thooretical, is attompting to Tovia the Buglish proofs of his now noval. lis chiof characters, by tho way, are Marat, Danton, Tobespierre, 8t. Jdust, and Thoroigne do Moriconr,—Rabespicrra boing etudied, it is stated, from Me. Lowas' biography. —*‘ Genesls Disclosed,” & volumo written by Mr. Thomas A, Dnvies, is an offort to show that ol commontators have Leon mistakon in su posing that the Biblo tonches tho unity of tho race,. Alr. Davies' thoory is that wo are told in Genesis of two distinct steps in the creation of man, ‘*Adam,” which moans the hamnn race in gencrel, was first crented; and anbau&mntly The Adom,” an individual from whom the He- brews wero doscended, was mado. —Niss Thorosa Longworth, an Irish lady who brought o serios of actions ngainst Maj. Yelvor- ton to prove that sho had lived with Lim as his wife and not ns his mistross, but failed in the English Courts, though she got a vordict in Iro- land, bes turnod up again With a book called “Porosina Porogrina ; or, Fifty Thousand Miles of Travel Round the World.” " Mnj. Yelverton's fathior, Lord Avonmore, ie now doad, and Lo has succcedod . to the Poarage. Miss Longiworth, thorofore, thinks she is entitled to sssume tho titlo of Lady Avenmoro. —Mr. Jolin Ruskin’s aingular periodical, Fors Clavigera, hos renched it~ forty-seventh num- ber with January, 1874, In it ho proposes to oatablish a community for the highost possiblo education of English mon nnd women living by agrioultuio in their native land. Its rules aro drawn from Bacon and Sir Thomas More, ** nn- dor snnotion always of thot highor authority which of Inte the English nation has wholly sot ityutrongth to dofy,—that of tbe Founder of its roligion.” —The London Saturday Review i once more * in the market,” Theanuual profits are stated to be .€7,000. Tho propriotor Lias, it is rumored, rofuaed £20,000, which, if true, shows him to bo sanguine. BSoveral rivals are scarcoly mnklnf o~ living. Tho Ezaminer, once a power in Buglish politics, lins beon bonght by Blr. P. Taylor, who, m his old days, has taken a violent autipathy to the game lnws, and who wants a nowspaper in ihicis 1o oan txpread bl anger Withou robiaints —An indignant writor of what ho calls pootry, who s long persisted in sonding us largo quan- tities of rhymes without #ecing any of them in print, dccuscs us now of selling his * pooms” to othors, ‘Tho nccusntion is, wo confess, by no moans unfounded. Wo hava sold at loast wag- on-lond of such poeme. And wo bave, too, the papor-makor's receipt to show for it.—Zouis- ville Couricr-Journal, —~Tho Thiladel=\s=carrespondont of tho Pub- lisher's W=7 hns becn to sco the well-known finangt and ecientific publisher, Mr. Henry Carey Baird, and has ** o confuscd remembrance of somathing boing aaid about & new hook on tho ‘Detallurgy of Greenbacke, with Notes on tho Iteduction of Funded Debts by the Boutswall process, {llustrated with dingrams, showing the oxintence of gotd in Nationsl bank notes by moans of spectral analysis. 12mo, convertiblo bonds, #3.66." I don't foel sure I have got tho words in tho order thoy were spokon, but I am positivo I héard all of thom uttered.” —The Iast -chaptors of “The TParisians," broken, unflnished, snd unsatisfactory, have been printed, and its company of clevor people have arranged thomselves for their fiual bow aftor tho inovitabla plonsant fashion. He and Bho aro mariied, to tho delight of the average reader, who must yot rogrot that Lord Lytton's pon foll to tho eorth befora it had drawn tho scono of reconciliation botween the beautiful Italian and the gallant English gentloman. Tho Inst duys, too, of tho Parls sioge he hns not de- soribod, leaving us at a half humorous, half nthotic banquet, whoso most piquant detail is nldlcntcd in o note by his son, Three of the nonrly starved ‘¢ Parisians "—wit, beau, and but- torlly—assemblo at an unoxpocted fonst, und ns it goos on tho_kind-heartod buttorfly discovers that ita maleriel is Fox, his beloved pot dog, which hio has kopt alive with infinite caro, an which at Iagt his friond the beau has slyly sacri- flced to tho huuger of the threo, *“Ah, poor Fox |" sighs tho beronved butterfly, as he con- templates tho woll-picked romains on tho plat- tor, “how_he would have enjoyod those bones | "—New ¥t ribune, —_— PARTING. ‘ 1t thou doat bid thy felend farowoll, ‘Bt for one night though that farowell may be, Pross thou ik palm with thine, - How canat thou tell How far from thee Fato or caprice may lend his feot Ero that to-morrow conics 2 Mon lave been known To flghtly turn the cornor of a strect, And days hnve grown To montl, aud months (0 Ingging yonrs, Beforo flioy Inotod In loving oyes agatn, Partlng ut best Is underladd with toarm ‘With tears aud pain, “Theroforo, lert sudden feath shoutd come betweon, O tine‘or distuncs clisp with prossuro tzu The kaud of kil who gooth forth; unseen . Fato goeth tvo | Yes, find thou alwayu time to sy Aomo carnest word botween tho idle talk | et wih (oo hncatooly ater nigh sud ds; o e {l 01 wi anlag T O e .middlo ago is vory small, L whot THE BOSTON LIBRARY, Sketch of a Noble Institution, A Collection of Over 249,000 Vol (TN The Yoarly Inoreate from 12,000 to 15,000 Volumes, Correspondence of The Chicano Tribune, Bosrox, Fob, 3, 1874, Tt {8 woll known that tho firat question put to [ a strangor in Boston is, * Tave you noon tho big organ?” If that Is entlefactorily answored, tho convorsntion moy pasa on to Bunker ITill Monu- ment, tho Btato 1ouso, and the Commfin § hut it igsurotoond with tho Publie Libfary, Aud hore Bostonians mny well bocomo puffed up with pride, You are willlng to pardon tho ox.| cossive eatoom’ in which thoy hold themsolves ; and thoir possesaions whon you gaze {n rapt ad- miration upon the wide sholves and lofty alooves * STUFFED PULL WITI DOOKS,— some musty sud worm-eaten, somo in paper covors, and somo in the gayost dovice of tho latost foshionable publigher, woll to liaten to your Bostoninn as hio recounts the way in which those treasurcs have beon' brought togother, and the way in which they, ‘havo boen mado most sorviceablo to the sick and’ poor. If you know a city fur away which lasa choico library of its own, aud may liko to hear of tho workinga of othor librarles, you will, por- Taps, take n noto of what he tells you. THE HISTORY of tho Puablic Library ol Boston doos not oxtond ovor a long poriod of tims: but it is, porhaps, unoxnmpled in its oxhibit of tho goncrosity of o literary community whon its intereat has onco .boen aroused. It would scom sirange that a clty liko Boston should have had no publio library provious to 1852, but such ia the fact, Various preliminnry movements had boon mada ‘beforo ~ thia _time. In 18 an ack passed the Btate Logislaturo authorlzing tho City of Boaton to cstablish nnd maintain a Tublio Library; sovoral prominont citizens had mndo gifts of books and monoy, and the city hind accopted some valuable books from tho City of Paris; but in 1852 was constituted tho first Board of Trusteos, with Ldward Everott s Prosident. Tho first roport of this Board must havo bean o moving documont; for, on rending it, Mr, Joshua Batos, of the woll-known London firm of Bering Brothers & Co., was prompted To orve $50,000 tawarda the noblo object of supplying hia native city with books. In 1854, a temporary Ronding- Room and Library worc opened to the public; ond, tho following year, tho corner-stone waam Iaid'for the building which now contains tha city's litorary tronsures. Tbis Library was open- od’in 1858, and, the same year, it ndded to ity stores the library, rich in mathematical works, of the distingnished navigator, Dr. Bowditch, In 1860, it recoived the library of tho Rev. Theo~ doro Parker ; and, in 1866, the anciont Princo Library, bequeathed by tho Rov. Thomns Prince, in 1758, to tho Dencons ,of tho Old South Olurch, wns roceived on doposit. Mr, Ticknor, tho historian of Spanish Jiteratnro, diad in 1871, aftor having bequeathad to tho city his Spanish and Portugose books, numbering neorly 4,000 volumos, many of which aro ex~ coodingly raro and cnrions. e also loft 34,000 as o fund tho incomo from which i3 to bo do« voted to the increase of this special collection, A yenr ago the Bnrton Library was purchneod at’n movoly nominal rato. It contnins many rarities,—Dooks that dato ns far back as 1486 Dooks in black lotter; original gmu-tml of old plays ; but it is peculiarly rich in Shakspeariana, The Library now numbers ovER 249,000 voruEs, and its_normal yate of yoarly incraase seems ta Do fixed at from 12,000 to 156,000 volumos. Tha money-value of thoe Central Library alono ia cstimated at $500,000 ; but, of courso, no such &um conld roplnco it if it should bo dostroyad, a8 maony of its books, eapecially in tho dopart- ment of oarly Amorican history, aro outiroly uniquo, DBesides the important donations al- rendy enumorated, minor gifts of books and money have been coustantly pouring inm, and "t will bo secen that the eity, has been by no meoans niggardly in its approprintions, Tor this vast storohouse of -learning our citizens are about equally indebted to the City Government and to private benofac« tora. Tho Boston Library ia not the Iargest in the conntry. Tho Library of Congress oxcoods 1t in numbers, bat doos not approach it in_oxtont of cirenlntion, Tho Astor Library is nolarger than the Bates Hall. OUR LIINARY CONSISTS NOW of one central building, facing the Common,and four branches in tho surrounding towns which have become » part of the city. Itis a curions fact that tho establishment of theso branches diminished but vory little tho clirculation of tho Central Library, whilo thelr own succoss wea very gratifying,” The laws of books scem to ro- verso the Inwa of trade, sinco a supply was found necessary in ordor to create a demand, Tho Contral Library consists of a Roading- Room: the Lower Hall, which contaius novels, {uvouilea, and tho lighter clzss of hooks; and ho Bates Hall, which contains o heavior kind of reading-mattor. The differenco in the books is not so markod as the differonco in the poopla who frequont the {wo halls, THE LOWER HALL is fillod with the lowor classes ; whilo tho great body of the well-droseed, who are able to got their supply of novels from the crculating 1l brarica ak2 conta » day, come only for the edi- tions deluxe of the Bates Hall, At alltimos of tha dny tho Lotver Hull is full ; but from 4 to 6, es« peoially on Saturday, it becomes densely crowd- ed. Tho soxes are found in about oqual num< beig, but the number of peoplo who have passed Our Ontholic fathers and mothora bave nok yet learned to care much for books ; but, from appearances, their sona and daughters will become a moro literary clasa. ‘Working mon and womon, rough boys, and glg- gling school-girls nre well roprosonted; but strikos a strangor most is the largo numbor of emall childron, Boys about as high as o rm['-n‘nambln pair of boots, palo, and thin, and old boyond their yoars, are engerly conning tho catalogues, or wailing for their names to bo called from tho desk., Yon cannot help longing to gend them to the Com- mou for ono good gamo ot snow-balling. Yon " look into the rending-raom, and find its hundred chairs {llled, chiofly by men and boys; and thon you ascond the broad stairs which lead to THE NATES HALL. Tho sroma of tho truo litorary air ponotrates your brain, and constraing you to an involun- tary siloneo, Alcoves three stories high sur- You will do; round an open space, which riscs to a frescoed coiling, Gray-haired men and women in speo~ tacles ave roading or consulting oatalogues; college students and young divines aro poring aver dusty volwmes; whilo at yondor tablo sits tho traditionnl Boaton literary woman, with fair bnir, somewhat dishoveled, finaly-cut features, and & suporcilious mnoso, To-day sho ham -had a volume of old and yellow newspapera brought to lier from the basoment, and she is taking rapid notes. Perhops sho is on the staff of the Woman's Journal. Lat us try to got some iden of the nmount of ronding which those peaple do. Evorsbody who lives in Boston con have, on application, a card ‘which entitles him to the uso of two books at 3 time. Tho holders of cards NuMner 58,000, and thoy tfake out, on an averago, 1,500 books overy day. This number varies with the ~ timo of your, diminishing through tho summer months, aud_ rcguimly reaching » maximum in March, The Teaco Ju- bilee, the small-pox, and the groat fire, each caused a porcoptible diminution, Of this onor< mons igsue, only one book in 7,000 is not re- turned, Soven hundred readors look over 800 magazines every day. Any book which is not in the Library will_be obtained on tho applica- tion of a eard-holdor, and 1,600 volumes wera ndded iu this way last voar. Nine lundrod poraons n & yoar consult tho British Specifica~ tions,pf Patouts, 'giving au averago time of two hourd to exch oxamination, The catalogue-systom Las boon found TOO CUMNROUS for furthor uso. It would tako from five to ton yours to make & complote cataloguo, and, by the time it was flnished, it would be, of course, very dofeotive, For books added sinco 1860, its - place hins been supplied by printed cards, which avo arrqugad _alphinbetically in drawors, and can be consulted with groat” cmso. The lodgor- systom for rocordingloans haw givon place to the systom in which tho borrower fills up a printod alip with his name, addross, and tho number of his book ; and the attendaut rotains it until the book {8 returned, 1 havo loft no room to B}wuk of tho Fino-Art dopurtment and the ourlositios in books; a0l mUNY 5oaerve Suea0 pubjedta fur .fiatxrx‘o‘r’tum.