Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1874, Page 9

TIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, 1o termed It, in twenty-six volumes, which, boiog ugsble to find a publisher, Fo rosolved to print with bis own kands. With s few old types T pross made by bimsel, be began the work of trposTaphiTs prnting ooly a pego at a time. Fortweive long vears he pursaed bis extrsordi- Jars tabors, and ut last, in 1807, brouglt them to ‘ peloso. Af each volume of the tweuty-sixoctavo +¢iomes of Lis work contained about 500 pages, o must bave imposed and distributed bis types, snd put s press 1wto operation 13,000 times, or Eosmderably more than throe times a day, omit- {ing Supdeys, ducing tho loog period of Lis task, —en amouat of toil without remuneration which shnost Etageers belief. Only fourteen copies wero printed, which 1> bound with his own beods, aod & few of which be deposited in the paliic ibraziea of London. Ho dicd st an ad- P aced sge in 1526, Lopiog to the last for a fav- gebleverdict from posterity, though his magnum ypue—nagnuiin size onls, sud, a5 Sheridan eaid of GibLow's history, vo-luminous, not lumi- Soss"—was utteriy worthiess. “Jat it is not in the literary productions of the eighteenth or mnetcenth ceutury, butin those of the gxteenth sod seventeenth, that are to lo fownd somo of tho most signal cxemples of wisdirccted intellectaal labor. Wo refer to thoss torturing expori- monts upon 11ogasgo called anagrame, chrono- s, echoes, macaronies, loulsrimes, scros- tres, palindromes, alliterative verses, etc., which et pouted furth in Soods, ot by mero fip- sat idlore, cr dunces who doem themselvas wits, Lut often by scholars of brilliant abilities od attainments. Weery of the soarch after Jdess, disgusted with ereat spoculations that ended fn doubt, ond dissatisfied with wisdom that brought no beart's ease, and knowledge fhst only increased gorrow, the thinking men of those ages, like their predecessois of more an- cicot timea, often employed their leisure mo- ments 1o the compositioa of laborious tnfles,— magno conclu magnas nugas,—which mocked the frmats of their graver studies with some- thicg of & fairy quaitncss. Tollies of this sipd dete back, indeed, almost to the invention of letters. The Greeks had their lypogram- mstists, who conld write elaborate poems or treatises from wluch a particular letter was ex- cloded. Both theyand the Romans bad their Jarkinie poems, or reciprocal verses, so written that tho ne was the same whether read backe ward or forward, a8 in tho followng : Roma, tibi, subito motibus it amor. ZLope do Vega wrote five novels, tho first with- octsn A, the eccond without a B, the third with- ont & C, aud 50 on. At one time, even long after the resival of learning, the grand merit of & targe part of Engheh and Scottish verse lay in ko ndiculous conceit of all tue words of a line Teginzing with the same letter; atanotber time, i3 wae a favorize device to wiite Latin verses of vhich every line began with the eame syilable 1aat hizd concluded the preceding one,—~a kina of puge 0i shutilecock. in which one player sta- tioned on tho left tossed a line across tho pago to s Eecond, who, pyseing with the velocity of ught to the eame side, hurled soother at & tlird; and thus the match cootinued till he who 1gen the sport pot & stop to it by making his a; pearance on the opposite list. In this way the ior, hapless poetaster was forced to hobble g an averue, guarded on either ide by a row of unrelenting monosyllables, which, if his lesome fancy manifested anv inclination to per according to the freedom of her own will, brought her effectually to her senses. 3at, of all the ridiculons shackles invented by the devoices of these coxcombical arts, the ye: brictions on the shape, form, and length of Jo g, were the most sbsurd and Iludicrons. Thare are mauy poems of the sixteenth century on which s ozt of Clinese ingenuity seems to Lato been expended ; the lines boing 8o drawn in fzere, and stretciied out there,—so cut, twist~ ed, and tortured in every conceivable way,—es 10 Lave 8 rude, general resemblance to the most fau astical objects. Of courss, it was a rare tri- umph of ingenuity when an amatory poem conld be squeezed into the shapo of a heart, fan, or lsd:'sgown; a still greater, perhaps, when a ouiet on destiny conld bo put into the figure of s jur of sciseors; but when an anacreontic cou’ 1be conxed into the form of & wine-glass, or 8 weditation on mortality into the shape of an gless or tombstono, the effect was abso- ovorwhelming. One Benlowes, a wit who, 1101zl pow forgotten, I8 seid to have been **ex~ t¢ lo this kind of lierary carpentry. Lutir, the sathor of Hudibras, thus ironically _ commends him in his “ Character of & Small Poct”: “There is no feat of activity, nor gam- bol ¢! wit, that ever was performed by man, fron: him that vaults on Pegasus to him that les through the boop of an epigram, but wes has gol the mastery of it, whether it 3h-rope wit or low-rope wit. As for alfars sad j yramids in poetrs, he has outdonoe all men inth:t way; for he has made 2 gridiron and s 1: an in verse, that, besides the likeness in thapr, the very tone and sound of the words did perfeatly represent the noise made by these uter: ils, such a8 Sarlago loquendi."” Anither excruciating exercise of wit, which wig vogue in the sixteenth century, especially with those who could not aspirs to the Loftyart of shinped-verse-making, wasthe framing of cnagrams. By the ancients, anagram- g, or tho traneposing of the letters of eeitsin words 8o as to prodvce new words, w8 claseed amonz the cabalistio eciences; 2] it was often thought that the q,mfi‘ ies of A man's mind, and his futore des leiters of his name. When this could be in guch & wey as to bring forth & word or €xnte:ce pointedly allusive to the original ides, 1t was deemed a mervelcus foat, and the happy Vit %6 ready to scream with joy. Ia Fraocs, s2ch Teight was attached to this jugglery with lsiters, that Louis X111, pensioneda profossional tzansposer of worde. Occasionally a name would 2pesrto defy all attempts to torture it into weziing, and the pains and throes of the sna- 6732 matist, while in labor, were sometimes tar- ble to bebold. An old writer speaks of the uty as “ 5 whetstone of patience to them et ball try the art.” Addison gives & most Iedicions eccount of one of these word-torturers, who, after shutting himself up for Lalf & year, aud Laving taken certein liborties with the name ©f bis mistress, discovered, on presenting his 0eg-am, that he had misspelled her surnama ! L5 which miefortane be was 80 thunderstrack thet S ehortly after lost bis enses. Nowonder; fit‘\’n’ln explosion of wrath wers justifiable, £ad ome might be excused for losing sll self- =nmand, and ersing ont with Hamlet, ~Ay, turn Sillace 0% Somng and rote Npped aherabis, 1 mast bo in's case like that. E A most a5 unhappy as this was the experience f Daaiel Dove, who, nftsr long brooding over biacwn name, was able to hatch from it the ’l‘mllolx_a presage, “leaden void.” Enowing L’u s With s chacge of one letter, he might have oeome * Ovid,” he felt like the man whose lot- \erz-ticket was pext in number to the £20,000 “e. Bometimes from the eame name may be *liructed both good and evil omens, 88 in the “2:¢ of Eleanor Davies, wife of the poet, and the s€andra of hor age, who belongod to the Court ©f Charles IL Having estracted tho quintes- M3¢8 of her owm name, and finding it in the im- .f“mmm. “ Deveal, O Daniel!” sho began ? €703k prophecies by no means agreesbls to the b Overnment, when she waa silanced by an ar- " drawn from her own quiver. 8he was ar- ::-‘gne:l before the Court of High Commission, s Judges of which vainly racked their brais 1 SrGuments to disprove her claims to WmBpira— :kn, *hen luckily it occured to ons of them to © his pen and writo o lotter anagram upon Toame: Dame Elesnor Dsvies: ' Never su ::x: ‘l ladie "—which, hoisting the engineer phei ©Own patard, forever silenced the pro- oy % The ingenuity of the Judge is only alieled by thet of John Bunyan, whose ans- n bis 0wn name, * Nu hooy in & B," fss 7 tsiamph ovar the duBvulties of ortks- A tly loarucd in his day,” bed a wonderful | SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS. In the year 1867 there appeared in the Quar- terly Keview an article on the Talmud (the book of the civil and canonical'aw of the Jewish peo- ple), which, from the research and learning dis- played in connection with the subject, created a wide seosation. It passod through several cdi- tions, and its aathor, Emanuel Uscar Menahem Deutsch, became the lion of thehour in London literary circles. A sobordinate ofiicial in the British Museum for eightecn years, he had, by incessant toil and application, mded by pecaliar powers of mind, gathered the material for an important work, of which the Talmud article was to have been the preface. Of his work we do mot propose to speak, mor of some fragments loft behind him which have recently beea published. But it seems to us that, in o part of so strange snd oventful a hife-histors a8 bis, beginning shortly after the publication of the famous article, and closing with bis death in the spring of 1873, there is a pathetic sonee of a grim contost, sin- gle-handed, with death, that may not bo dosti- tute of interest; which may even serve to canse those who walk in health and strength, mtent only on their daily worlk nnd thoughtless of their physical lifo, to pause for & moment in wonder at the capacity of the human body for endur- ance snd the human will for fortitude. Froma memorial by tho Rev. H. R. Harweis, wo gather tho facta which came under his notico 38 an in- timate friend of Mr. Deutsch. It was in the summerof 1869 that the state of his health first cansed alarm umong his most in- timate friends, and to Bir. Haweis be confeseed that ha got no sloop at might, He had been'in the habit of writiug ail night. going from his lodgings, after a hosty breakfast, to the British Museum, whore he scrupulouely performed his official duties, while engaged in liternry work of the most exhausting naturo. Boyond this, the petty jealousics of tho officiala st the Museum complicated the state of his health, Notwith- standing the attentions shown to him by men ominent in leiters and art, they scemed the more disiuclined to allow him the honors he had wop, and coldly rejected anv courtesies proffered him from with- ont. An invitation from the Viceroy of Egypt to attend tho oponing of the Snez Canal was de- clined. A petition to Parliament to appoint him keeper of the Semitic antignities at the Museum, signed by the Doan of Westminster and othors, was quietly shelved by the Trustoes. Gradually the whole temper and tonme of his condrct chaugod, and from having been, says Alr. Haweis, *‘the most open, genorous, good-na- tured, and amisble of meo, he became st last the most reserved, cold, cantious, and suffering; of the subordinatos of the British Musoum.” But thess are trifies to what follows: In March, 1870, came the first warning “of that dreadful storm which took three years from that time to shatter his life.” He was in the clutches of tho Doctors; acd in December he writes to Mr, Haweis: *“I marvel that Ilive to tell the tale.. I am now opiated, and bocussed, and stupefied.” He was utterly unfit for work, and obtained with difficulty some months of sick leave. His lodgings were full of visitors. Thoy brought him fowers, fruits, and delicacies. But his sufferings+were great. “Of all medical and surgical appliances, he had o pecutiar loathing; of physical pain, an intensa scusitiveness.” Ho could mot eat; he was fllcared for; he was sbsorbed with anziety to cooceal his state from his friends, and—for fear of & sum- mons to resign his position—from the officials of the Masewm. Ho now took up his. abode with Mr. Haweis, aud from this time (danuary, 1871) became invisible to all but = few of his acquaint- snces. A deep depression took possession of him. The most skiliful physicians aad surgeons conld afford him no aid. Be went to the sea- shore, but soon returned. His agonies at night were fearful. *‘ Uoder the heaviest opiates ho could not sleep more than kalf or three-quarters of an hour; he was then huntedap by bis agony, and bad to go through by himself, in a drowsy and stupified state, s dificult and painful sur- gical operation, which bad to be repeated some- timos ten times a night. Through the spring and summer of 1871 came no alleviation of his misery ; and in June, 1871, his leave was up, and Le returned to his duties at the British Musenm. Mr. Heweis' descrip- tion of his daily routine is & vivid picture of & desperation aymost approaching madness : He was determined not to bresk down. After ona of his terrible nights, he would rattle off in the morn- ing, in & cab which shook himn to pieces, to go througn nis'tale of bricks, &nd return apout balf-past 4. 1 dresded to meet bim on thiess occasions. H1a face ap- purred snnken and cadaverous, with o pitiful, almost Eavage look of dull pain fixed upon it; Le seemed. after the strain, tolose all control over his foatures, sud the muscles relapsed snd fell anyhow. For the next hour OF two, the Teaction was complete, Somo- times he was fiercely hung:y, but could cat nothing, s digoation buing aiready if-deatrosed mith opiatan; At others, he would lis down in a stavering fit, azd fall into almost deathly iusensibility, fzom which be awoke in dreadful pui, About§or9in the cvening there would often be a short respite; be would sit up, snd we would join him: he would smoke, aud cust, and forget himself, and take s little tea, With the slighitest respite, his spirits and_courage returned, to- gether with Lis considerateness for mo,—his regret for a baaty word wrung {rom bim by pain,—bis hope that be might pull through ; then suddenly, in the midat of merriment, * Go! " 'ha would say, waving his band, and bis face would full, and we le(t him 2lone with bis dark enemy, to prepare himself for another night of opiates and agouy. In order to spare himself the pain of riding, he moved to lodgings near the Museum. Ho believed he was dying, but he clung to hia post, Very grim are his brief notes, written almost daily to 3r. Haweis : Qor. 18, 1870.— . . . night ; but the night cometh, . . . axd morning.” ucr, 19,— Woe {s me, Allams! What a night! These intervals of * balmy Test’ now foma the most maddening part of my existence.” Deo.0.— 1 sm a little easier to-day; but, O1 5o weak and proatiate | Dro, 13.— I am doing the 10 to 4 [at tho British Museum) ; and my state when I return, and for bours aster, 18 something piteons.” JaX. 31, 1872,—+ Again have I entered the dark ro- cesses—wih s vengeavce, . . . Nobody has been let near me for about twelve days now, a3 Lawm in per- manens sculo misery and paln, [ can scurcaly sce what I write, The morphiza deprive me Dow, ulasl of the fullneas of my eight.” Fep, 14.—* It was an ugly episode, but T did not miss balf-an-hour of my British-Museum time.” JUNK 10,—* Thera is nothiug left pow but an sg- onized bundle of bona and nerve. But we must hasten on. Concsive him this while performing -his daties at the hMuscnm, striving to conceal his sufferings, and chargiog his frionds to *‘change the conversation,” or % tabgo his name utterly,” when he was men- tionsd. In August he went abroad in the sum- mer-vacation. At various Spas he found _lbe most temporary relief, lasting generally bit & day or two; ‘aud, at the end of the vacation, re- tarned to his work. Work! for a man upon whom the hand of the Destroyer had set his seal. Work! for & man over whom the dark shsdows of tha valley were elrsady deepening. It was tolerably evidont,” said Mr. Haweie, *“to every one at the British Museum, that he was dyigg, snd meant to drop at Lis post. Ho was not fikely to deciphor any more inscriptions, or write any more Talmnd articles, or give auy more troublo.” Not likely, indesd! The iron frame was shat- tered. Courage and endurance were well-nigh gone. Feeblo and sbaken, ho wept now. *‘Days apd days passed, and we staid away at his own request. We only know that the horrors were increasiog.” It was nearly done. But, as wo have seen the sun, after s bleak and choerless dsy, lighten up tho sky with one brief farewell gleam of brilliant light and color, 50 now thore came from the East farewell flicker of the departiog spirit which animated his feoble clay. He had leave of ab- sencs in Egypt **for his beslth.” He hed burned his pepers, paid his debts, torn his lottors, and mede his pesce with all men —and the British Museam. From Cairo, Feb. 1, 1873, he writes: . . . ‘‘Ahimel what life there iain the old skeleton yet. . . . There are fireworks awsy in the Regal Gardens, and I £es the Tockets going up, and bursting into ten millions of green, and blue, and golden suns, and moons, snd stars; and the distant sound of cymbals and trampots strikes melodiously, Iiken far-away bunt, on my ears; andit all fecls some- how like an esrly German spring, all softness asd saréss, 4nd 4o idhovl thls aftarioon, with A X am as lively 28 » cat to- the mext full sixpeace to spend freely on lollipops.” And from Luxor, Fob. 20: . “The Nile, and the temples, and tho mountains of Lybis. snd the den‘efi, and I,—wo look atesch other, and ther? i8 none to interfera with -our silent com- munings, mora, and noon, and star time, save, p(:rhnps, a palm or two that will come between ;:lth"nphned, tender hands, besoeching. bless- In the hospital of the Pruasian Sisterhood at Alexandria, he died~heroic, colm, and patieat to the last. Once he eaid to his fricod: * Do you Lnow thereis a fiightful curse—a namoless curse— 1aid on the man who touches or divulges certamn sanctities in the Tulmud; and I, the first man for hundreds of years who could read the secrots, have dono it, and the curse is come upon me.” We may not believe in this, Wo live in an nge which is not prone to sccept-supersti- tions, or placo faith upon the. powors of amathems. Dutwe msy emulate the endurance, and bear witness to the noble fortitude, with which unflinchingly he fought his way to the Iast, striving against the powers which too often dnve mon to doeds of durkness, suicids, or crime, —_—_—— FARTHER INDIA. THE LAND OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT; A Naz- RATIVE OF TBAVEL 15 BUBMA, Stast, CoCHIN-CUrNa, =T, By FuaNs VINOENT, JB With Llustrations. New York. Harper & Bros. 1874 Alr. Vinceot has given us & very readable book about couutries littlo known, and which are out of the ordinary route of travel. Coming from Madras to Rangoon, he journeyed up the Irrs- ¥addy, the fourth river in sizo in the world, to Maudaloy, the Capital of Durms. Returning thenco, and kirting the const of the Malayan Peninsuls, calling st Penang and Singarore, he proceeded to Bangkok, the Capizal of Siam; and, crossing the country to the castward, once more renchod the coast at Saigon, the Capital of (Freach) Cochin-China. Thesa are eminently proper countries to travel in. The poople—a quiot, orderly folk—offer no impediment and demand no tribute. Bluch of the journes, bewg performed by rivers and o~ tersecting corals, is of that easy description that requires litile exertion from the traveler, excopt for defonse against mosquitocs. Rico, bananas, fowls, and Manilla cheroots are everywhere to be bad in profusion. The presenca of fow Euro~ peans at the ports insnres the ability to procure the neceseary clarot, sherry, and cognas ; and, with three grains of quinine each morning in opoe's coffee, immunity against fevers 1s secured. * Moraover, Mr. Vincent seems to havo been on excollent torms with the ruling powers, aad was favored with * audiences " by the Kings of Ava, Siam, sod Cambodia. Something of a Yankeo, t00, we judge ; for, with admirablo finesse, he preeents these angust and sovereign rulers with gold-mounted (washed ?) magnifving glasses, ro- volvers, otc.; Majesty, in its turn, presenting him with sapphire rings and golden pomade- boxes. * Pleesantly and well suited * one might journey in aland whero the supreme power grant- ed to the traveler the rcsources of an Empire. Elephiants, buffaloes, with bullock-carts, by land ; house-boats, with stroug-armed rowers, by water; and rations unlinuted of rice, fish, banauas, fowls, eggs, and cheroots, Tho White Elephant is, however, & * fraud.” White eyes, with fore- bead and ears spotted white; the rest of the body of s dirty, soiled, coffea color. But the spirit of Buddba iohabits them while undergo- ing transmigration, and to the Buddhist they aro deemed sacred nost to Royalty. Their posses- sioninsures pence and prosperity, their doxth is anational calamity ; with Royal ceremonics are they attonded in lifo, &nd upon a fanersl-pyTo of aromatic wouds burned after death. Buddbism reigns suprome in Farther India. Pagodas of giant and curious architecture riso above the dwellings of tho poor and tho palaces of the nobles; the sun reflects from their gilded surfaces, and within the images of Buddla are inpumeratle. Bangkok has been called the “Venice of the East," for its thoroughfores are canals. Its Bbouses are built upon piles, or float uron the stream in rafts which extend for soveral miles along the river; aand it is said that there are some 12,000 of these floating ghops and dwellings. Doats are tho universal means of communication; & few roads have only recently beeu built by the King. From the summit of the principal pagodn in Bangkok tho view is of the city. mostly concesled bys virgin forest of almost impenotrable density; while berond is & waving gea of cocoa-nut and betel-nut palms, fields of rice, and jungle. Much of the country ialow, and overflowed by the rains. Pecalisr aro thie customs of the poople. im- ple-minded, iodolent, food of amusemont and gay-colored apparel, and hospitablo to strangers. A skort whits jacket, s pievs of silk or cotton cloth worn sroutd the bips, and falling to the ground, both sexes bare-footed, aud tho males tatlooed upon the thighs; euch is their apparel. " Holes in the lokos of tho ears are bored, which, being often an inch in dismeler, serve to hold ornaments. When not thus in use, they afford a convenient recoptacle for cheroots, bouquet-holdere, or any omall articlo in frequent use. Smoking is ui- versal aud oontinnal smong both soxes and ali sges. Babes at the broast alternato tho nour- isbmont of * Nature's Nile"” with pufls and pulls at their cheroots. Tho laws of marriage aro pecaliar, and divorces are easily accomplished. Two persons tiring of ecach other's so- ciety, onter their huts, light two candles, sud quictly await their burning. Tho one whose candle burus out first gots up and leaves, tskiog nothing but the clothing he or she may happen to haveon; all elsebecomes the ‘property of the other. Amopg this people, 5o wdolent, thoughtless, and incapable of exertion aud efort, who live for to-day, snd go down to the futnre without a thought or ides which shall continte,—thero ox- ists the grandest ruin which the world Imows. The ruins of Augkor and the great Nagkon Wat own mo superior, hardly & rival, in exiet- ence. Built, no ono knows when or by whom > tradition and history alike unable to throw auy light upon them ; in beauty of ar- chitecture, solidity of construction, and magaifi- conce and elaborateness of carving and sculp- ture,—they bavo come down to our time with enough of their original perfection to swe and amazo the bebotder. Risiog from an outer wall half a mile squsre, reached by o causeway 1,000 feet in length, paved with elabs of stone 8 feet by 2,—the main edifice 600 by 800 fect in size, raised on three terraces, and surmounted by o central pagoda 250 feot in height, with four others 150 feot in height at the anglos,—is the Nagkon Wat. Al to tho very roof, is of stome, Iaid without coment, 20d 8o closely fitting that the jointa can scarcely be discerned. The quarry from whichit was built is S0 miles distaat, and tko fmmense bowlders of voleanic rock could only, it 15 sopposed, bavebeen transported by water. Au outer gallery of sculpture, consisting of halt 2 mile of continous pictures cutin basso-relievo upon sandstone slobs six feet in width, repro- sents subjects taken from the Ramayana, the Sanserit epic pocm of Indis. On the wells are near 100,000 separate figures ; warriors riding upon elephants and in chariots, foot- soldiers, boats, unshapeiy divinities, treos, monkeys, tigers, griffins, fishes, ser- pents, bippopotami, crocodiles, bullacks, tortoises, soldiers of immense physical dovolop- mont, and paoples with beards. Corridors of columns oxquisitely carved, bath; and image- houscs, fountains, sad temples, aad grand stair- cases, aro now battersd and worn, moss-covered snd crumbling to decay. The imazination is baffied, and learning stande powerlees to de- ciphor the lazcriptions which might afford & clae to the builders and thoir place in humsn Bistory. ; o would fain linger over tho description and revel in the delights of thoss two nearest ap- prosches to the sarthly Paradise : Pulo Penany and Slogspore. Ona dreams in this, oor in- hospitible clims, of the faroff palm-grovas TAY 10, 1874. the brilliant floral treasures, the deliclous fruits, the eparkliog waters, the genarous, balmy temperatnre which clulls not the most delicato flowoer, and tho breezes which insicuate among the deep, shady cascades, the porfumed 8ir of these gems of the tropics. But they are maccessible to the ordinary mortal. Whither they are, we cannot go; their God is not our God, neither are their people ours. With the inconvenionce and discomforts of long voyages borne for us by others, we are content to view their besuties at seconi-hand, and look upon tho vision, nndimmed by passing vexations, as an oasis from which we catch for the mement a passing inspiration and pleasure. Slowly, but surely, are these bright lands pass- ing under tho control of tbe Western Powers. Not moro deftly does the weaver's band throw under tho shuttle the thread of which ho weaves his fabric, than do the crafty policy, the insinu- ating diplomacy, the unrelenting force, of En- gland and France entanglo these feoblo and eloepy nations in & web from which thero is no escape. Their possessions dot the const- line; their boundaries are each decade advanced, snd bound together with the power of the tclegraph and steam navigation. Their civilization infascs itself somowhat into the worn-out, enfaeblod life of tho Enst; and, the while theso Celestizls are curlously consid- ering, with a childish simplicity, the toys with which they aro for the moment amused, the heavy hand of moderu progress is laid upon them, and the dominion, the power, and the wealth of their fertile fields, troad forests, and noble rivers, ara passiog from their grasp to that of the outside barhariana. ——— Stophons. A correspondont of the Putersburg (Va.) News met the Hon. A. H. Stephens on the cars enroute for his home in Georgis, when Mr. §. said: I am going home to die. I have beeo s great suf- ferer, but this is the firat time that any vital or- gan bas been attacked. Until this my general health was better than for thirty yenrs, but this Lias beeo terrible, a0d T must saon yield unloss I am relieved. 1 hope I may recover, but I scarcely expoct it. Iam now G3_years of age, 5 constitution wili not stand such & sovera GROTERIES. New Prices FOR THOSE FIRST-OLASS ROGERIES! AL 191 V. Hatsnt. FLOUR. PLANT'S, - - - - - - = $1150 FLOUR (Equal to Piants), - - 11.00 ST, LOUIS (Goed), - - - - 9.00 BEST SPRING, - -~ - - - 6,15 Teas, Coffees, Butter, Potatoes, Eggs, &c., AT EQUALLY LOW PRICES. Farsyin & Drysiale, REAL ESTATE. FOUND, A purchaser for one of those splen- gid blocks at MELROSE or WEST MAYWOOD, near now depot. 20| blocks and half blocks yet for sale at §7 per foot, 10 per cent cash, 10 per.cent 1 year, balance within 8 yoars, 8 per cont interest. B. F. CLARKE & CO,, 122 LaSalle-st. DOWN. To responsible tenants wo will ront the largo House and Grounds 620 Hubbard-st. at $50 per month, and 626 Hubbard-st., $40 per month. B. F. CLARKE & CO., 122 LaSalle-st. CHEEKY. The proposals made by the leaders of the People’s Party to incroase the saleries of the City Comptroller and other city officials, when taxpayers ere already burdened almost to des- eartion. We are selling choice ots at WASHINGTON HEIGHTS and MORGAN PARK (outside the area affected by this enormous tax- ation) on the very liberal terms of $10 cash, and monthly payments of $10 eech, with interest at 7 per cent per annum. Freo tickets to visit this property. B. F. CLARKE & CO., 122 LaSalle-st. WABABSH. Three lots, each 50 feet front, ‘Wabash-av.,, near Fifty-sixth-st. Must bo sold as the owner needs money. 122 LaSalle-st. H R AR A e AP AN ARSI VAPOR BATHS, fur Ladles and kaen-st, ar LaSalle. Syghanat mene LaSall faraisned wich all modera applications for the trestment of Disause. from 10&. m. tod p. m, 188 CLAREK-ST., S00TT, — HATTER, H AT Turkish, Electric, Gontlemen, The tioest in tho TRICAL DSPARTMENT of :Pll establls ):; DR. @, C. SOMERS, Proprietor, BUSINESS CARDS. Geners) Agetits for the White Kock Mioeral Sp::‘?.:t- B. F. Clarke & Co., BATHS. and Sulphur conatry. Gmuod Pacinc Hotel. ~ Private eatrance oz mawt fe not surpavsed {o Lhis couatry or Karope: MRS. DR. SOMERS will be in sttendance, for ladtes, SEEBACH & DELBRIDGE, WEDDING CARDS. CHAS. J. ROBERTS, D ENGRAVER and Dealor In Tine Stationery, 41 MONROF-NT., or.prite Palmer Hozse. SUOTT, — HATTER. Br R, HUNTER, On Catarrh and Ozcena. LETTER NO. 3. The nose iy the ontpost of the laags. Itwarnsus by the #ense of rmell oi noxions imparities ia the air, and tous epables us to avoid them, It warms and wodifies the air {tsolf, and thas shields the langs from {rritatiun. But wo are constaa:ly exposed to dust, smoke, gas, aad other Injurious influences, Which cannat bo svoided. ‘These fall first upon tho nasal paseages, and, sovnoror later, sct up an irritatfon in themucousmembrage of that part. When the mucous membrane becomes (nflamed by any of ths causes montioned, its mucous secretivn be- ‘comos changed In charactor. The lining of the nuse ex- tends downwards to ths throat, and from tbe throat to the lungs. When discass cownmencss {n tho Dasal pas- asges Mts tondency i always to go downwards ta the chest, inflaming tho throat, Lawsnr, and Bronchial tubes o Every broath wo draw dirselly tends to carry It anwards, for thoalr, in passing through tho noss, becomes corrup:ed and polson- v by lts sritatiog secreflons, and, in that condilon, s taken lato the delicato afr cells of tho lungs. Tuon, again, th secretions formed In tho 1080 ate continually dropping dowa lInto tho throst, and, by their frritating broportlon, inilaming and dlscauiag eveey past widh whica {57 cortota contact. e f e bt fasigs from diasaso, we must keop the nowo Boaithy, aud fres frum obateaction. If we do tot do thal¢, we catnol Lreatlio thruugh the nostrils, Unless we brtithe Tarousn tho nowirii, (o ait passen directiy to the Iuogs unwarmed and unpurifizd. Woosser s comp slled to breath througy the wouth (Bacauso of ths nuse being. Shatiicied. hy ueld or Gkt Chusow), Kaowe that i b wu atural 80d {ajurious, for ho oxbriUnces a scnag of dry. po-sin (ha turoat, sud the chest sovn becomics sore asd tatod. But tza danger from catarrh {8 ot atons to the throat and lungs. 10t liablo to extend througd tho interual pasasges to thoeurs sad prduco deasucdt, or upwards 110 (0o fruntal sinuses, cauwng Aeadache, OF bacusacds futo tno brain, laductug cugustlons, walch tay oud lu in-anity of dath. 11 théro Iy any tendency o serafula In the ssstom, or other taint ia thio bivvd, catarra assumes a melignant Torm, eutiog taruagh iy wewbrpno tu the buuer, nad camidly sprosding i3 (a.al ravagod 1o tho ear, (5o braia, auy we lwags. “Fhe orror is oo widespread goncral amwog phyicians 10 casy ctisracterized by cuup nignt sweats, spitting of bliud, aud sucis symptowms. “Yugne aympLOMS ouiy uecar io it advanced stages. lniis sory Ht.Jo cougn and the expocioraifon f3 only mucas. Thoy ontirsly overiook and neglect Lhe discaso in %is eartior manifeatativus. Wero this not so,, wo snould nut bato to llaea to such oxproaious a3 "*1t is oaly & " Ths dis-ase Is all in tho throat," or it i3 mere- tion.” Alusl tacrs ars tew who rronchial Base tiuo alloctions 120 do not soon leazn bow short is tho stop from thom to cotirmed €opsumption. It is this igaoranco which Joads 16 the provalance and fatality of :xmlum{)dufl: authing fs duno to prevent 1t by toe curs of 11080 atfections uf Luo nuso ta which 18 gonorzlly takou ite riso, and nulblnr 18 dowo to get rid'of tuborcles atter they fonnea uatil tho luags becomo ulcornted and tho last 25ge bos arrived. Consumpiion has peva:al stagcs, 1t i3 ‘otten mouths sod ovun yoars sormiag, during all of which timo there s nothizg bui a alight catarrh oF vecaslonal sore fhrest to iudicato the danger. Undor the caustunt ircl:ation producod by thusd causes, retiun’ whicn results, taburcles ngs, and consumption s sat up... But 0 Flli:m. koows wheu this cuange takes place. Tiisa si- ant cuaoge, which can only be revealed by tho stetho- i be aot discorerad, 1t o o of to physicisn, and vet, if it 0 pliout of consumpdion, It exists ai all seasons of the year, butfs worst in 110 wiater montbs, snd thowo alllictod witn It are oxtremaly llable to take cold. By 2y other nickns ca we so oifectuaily guzrd tae ‘ase as by curing these catarchal atfuctions. ow are Luay to ba cured? That I3 s guastion which everybody will ask, for I find here iu the West few peopla Uoliose catarrh ca be eurcd. “The t-uth is physiciuns ke done very littlo to carc 1:, 10d pationts havo been driven by necesei y to the use of quack nostruins and patont catarrh spacitics which aro worso than nothing. The most that Liny been domo I8 to epirt & littia warm water, or selt and wator, up tho nostells b5 & dunche agd then 1480 t €A o patury o ko on trui bud w worme GEil it onds in destrugdion of the lungs. And yot ca.archin i'scarly stago 1sonly & simple ciron.c inlamwation, and as easily roached and curod s a similer (nilammation (n 22y otbar part of the body. Even in its moat malignant fonn it dependa on oo Imparity of ths bluad, which can earlly bo osercomo by roper romcdies. The courso of treatment I bave uliowed with almost uniform snccoss it .to direct & ‘warn ‘alterative vepor to 'be inbajed’ throush thonoatrils, two or threa 1imes a day, fruin an instruzeat inventod by me for that purposs. By this meaus tha dis- cas0d mombran is acted on fa every part. Thoa | dxily Cleanso the auatrls with & incdicated wash adapted to tho condiifon of the caso. This {s applisd by a ehowuring Sreing of speclsl construation. Whon thers . ats ulcers in the nuse thesa have to bo carelully touched by 33 oairiagen: solution apyllod by 3 camel's kals panoll. Thon, witers tce goacral ealth s not. goud, & thorough tonic'and shterai vo course must bo-sided. Under th combinod use of thess mesus [am ablo to breuk up nnd eSvcuially cure any caso of catarrh Lowever invetorate. “The instrumcnts meotiozed aro used by the pationt st ome, but, when he caa do so, Letter tocome to the office evory day or two fur the sppiicsidon by the camel's bair peacil. Thero Is uo pain or discomfort in the nss of this reatmeat. Even littla childron submis to 1t witbout mn‘fl(fllu’. “The use of douches of all kinds are the pressure tucy put upon the intern: been a great incroaky in thanumber of c: of doafnes since tbelr introduction, sod fn wany instances this doaness has boea traced Cirvetly to' the wsd of tha uche. ‘Theas diseates can never be succossfully treated by general physiclans, They requiro mots rime, exparience,. and personal auention than phyalcians Io gezeral prace’ tica caa giva thema. ROBERT HUNTER, M. D., 385 Wabasheav., Chicago, Muy 8. objectionsble from al our. Thare hay ow York, ths writor of ttess Tot:ers, is now oa a prof al vhit'to Calcago. Ho hus ucd an utiico at 35 Wabashoav. fur the oxclasiva roatment of Catarr, Consumption. Brouchitis, and Avhma. Porsonsata’ distance can consal: by lotter. Hlonrs from 9 ta { o'cluck. DRESS GOODS, &o. 8 ‘NoTE.—Dr. Hanter. of 2.00 Lyons Blk. Silks for 2.50 Lyons Blk. Silks for - 3.00 Lyons Bk, Silks for - 1.50 Strip, Sum, Silks for - 3.00 Drap #Ete for - 2.00 Black Cashmere for - 1.75 Black Cashmere 50 Blk, Mohair Al .23 - 75 Blk, Mobair A pacas = 40 Dress Goods for - 1,50 Guipure Laces for - 1.00 2,00 Guipure Laces for ~ 1,50 Kid Glovesfor - - 100 Fine Embroideries, 10¢, 15¢, 25¢. Gros Grain Ribbons, new shades, for 121-2, 15, and 25¢ per yard, A full Lige of Staplo and Foroign Goods at extra laducs~ ments. Wo always return meney when any goods bought from U8 Aro oL Eatistaciory, and poy oxpencs. Wo import onr o goods, and huy oxclusisaly for cash, . 284 & 286 W, MADISON-ST, HOUSEKEEPING GOODS, ISHER AND VOYT VERRLCERATORS PARAGON RANGE BEST TO BUY. STOVES STORED- GEO, H, WATSON & (0, 302 West Madison-st. FURRITURE. You can get a good AC- curly wiagea Lacre 13 no ulcoration of thu luags, otcen |- Bankof Chicago, ment is trua to the Baid DpWArts for B bt = o Vo po s iR good VIOLIN, with | ¥ o, diataey Panii. BV vow. AR Direotors. LADIES' UNDERWEAR, &o. LADIZS' GOOD3. R B, TDOWELL & 00, HAVE REMOVED TO 228 West Madison-st. CORNER PEORIA-ST. ‘We are now offerin ecial bargains Ladies’ Heady Made d‘ot’{gn i 2 UNDERWEAR. 1,000 Ladies’ Chemises, with Cor- set-cover bosoms, at 50c. 5(_)[ _doz Ladies’ Nightdresses at oC. 50 doz White Skirts_at 50, 75, $1, $1.50, and upward. 60 doz Ladies” Fine Hose at 10c per pair. Real Balbrizgan Hose at 35, 45, 50, and 75c¢. 40 doz Calico Wrappers at $1.50, worth $3. 30 doz Gents’ Fine Dress Shirts, in odd numbers, at $1.25, worth The above gnods, with many others, are offersd at just bal{ tholr former price. W call special attentlon to oar CORBET Department, which s tho largest in the city, comprising. a1l tho celebrated makes, which we bave reducsd to the followtng prices: Our #1.00 Corset for . Our 1.50 Corset for _, 2.00 Corset for . 3.00 Corset for .. 8.50 Corset for 4.00 Corset for .. 5.00 Corset for .. 8.50 Corset for .. 7.60 Corset for . -- 4.00 MAD, FOY'S Skirt-Supporting Corset for $L : Ladies comlng from » distance, on the strength of this advertisement, for Carsets, aad hot finding the prices the loEzn, will be rnmlm‘-:d with & m-mu (a:mx, gratis, o o give s oheerfally rofuadod: REMTUBER THE PLACE. Croods Sont C. ©O. D). BANK STATEMENTS REPORT OF THE CONDITION orF THE NATIONAL BANK OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, At the Close of Business, Blay 1, 1874 RESOURCES. 78,150.38 50,032.19 nngos i 10:383.77 25,0004 115,000.00— 654,429.53 82,204,853.37 596:009:28 8. B Chocks snd cashitens 7,532.08 Exchango for Cleariog 115,108.26 75.400.00 LIABITATIES. Capital stock. Harplus fund, 30,315:54 —— 82,074 180,000.00 320 116,471 Due to State Bax! s2atanken....oos_ 21,002.98 1,402,240.23 $2,204,533.37 State of iinots, County ef Cook, sx. . 1, Beary H. Naga, Cashior of the National Bauk of Itlfauls, o soiemanty swear that ha shova statsmoat 1s traa, 16 the best of my knowlodge 2ad bol bicribed and before 6 (3lses dar oF scribed and sworn {0 before mo tbis ¥k day o . B HINTY; Noary Tobi w. H. OVISGTON, FEED, MAHLA, GEO. SOHNEIDER. Report of the Condition OF THR Herchants' National Bk, OF CEICAGO, At Close of Business May 1, 1874. RESOURGES. siring anrcaomors foo biaeit o caoap aods, o S i TRheA < fication piren ta outaide 3nd mil orders. ,060. LRSS hehing o kaow the Drico of goods, or of a8 | Oremtecta oot 82,133,00843 plcs, addsoas tho S, “Honds g 500,000.00 ¥ i' 1 4,000.00 3 3 579,448.47 or = J | NSucha Basis..o. 518,020.64 s from Banks and Bankors 3 $:958.53 Rovenus Staay Exzchangos for Cls ing House..... Blils ol 303,00 hfs 870,053.81 5 ... 128,088.00 i Inding Nick 5 G et posras Uui ed Stares Cor. titicatos of Deposit oth Capital Stock pud (o Shrplas 14,248.23 Wiehal] 1,310,0290.00 401,86 £5,48558 E 1 Intereat Natiomal Baik e, 433,500.00 Demani Cersificates 5,038.31 1,375,187.47 (615.951.17 —————— 3,290,520.89 4,738,269.12 Koven, Caubior of the Morchants' National do solerunly ewear that 1oe 3boso state- ofimy knowladgs and delict. JOHUX DE KOV Hsblitles... Stain el hina, Congiy of Gonk 1, .Tohs. CORDICN for Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, and all kinds of Musical Merchandise, wholezalo and re- ROOT & SONS, 109 STATE-ST. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. OLUTIO G. P, iofman, koozh a8 the Is'this da7 gissClved by mutnal =tiring. The b ess will be QN COLIIN! FLE iy STEMA, TPIANS ASTENA OURE relieren the most Sk siolent paroxysm in FIVE wum- Colora the Halr, Waiskers, and Mo BLACK or ELOWN. Efoe i mos fuds or wah out. 60 coais 8 buz, TPHAM’S CORN AND BUNION OINTXENT | Cures quickly and permancatly, It contaics ¥0 ACID er cavsTic. o Never falla to rsmova Tapo Worm 1@ TWO iOURS, WITH HEAD COMPLETRE. Price, ro cxlstisg buiweva C. J. Bur | A roes e SOOTT, = EATTER, MAEDICAL. ates, and offea’s s spoedy cors. W conlaa JAPANESE HAIR STAIN e a beautifol {5 PREPARATION. 1t conststs of only Prico, L0 conts 5 bot. UPHAMS TAPE-WORM SPECIFIC . 138 Lake-st., Chicego, Sole THOMAS 24 LTHOP: No, 128 Laks.-o ont crrhwesi 00000000000000000300A00000000I0CITC00! oomoooaooaoeomcoflomoooooooccocngg JOEN H. DAVEY & €9, REMCOVED 994 8 996 Vgt Mot (LATE MANNHEIMER'S STORE.) ‘Will open, on MONDAY, May 11, with an entire new stock of DRY GOODS, bought at the recent de« cline in market prices: Dress Goods, Shawls, and Fancy Goods, In all the Newest, Choicest Pat~ terns, which will be sold at VERY LOW PRICES. JOHN H.DAVEY &CO. 204 & 206 Wost Mt 00000000000000000M000063000000000000000 00000000000300000300003000000000000C068 PIANOS. CHICKERING Kiis With Chickering’s Double Agraffe applied to every string is perfection. Call and sea them :vhachar wishing to purchass or not. REEDS TEMTLE CF HNOSIC, C TDearborn and VanBuren-sis. CHIROPODIST, A WILLARD, H.D,, 209 STATE-ST,, TREATS ALL DISEASES OF TXE FREET. In’a fow minates, withoat paih, bisod, or Los sllek laconvenianco. Bonthoast corner Adams, Corm, Bunjons. ogrowing Nalls, sad Chilblains eradies ted pata, REFEREIN CES, L'C. P. FRERIZ 3 Offico haurt, 9. @. to 6 p.m. Saadzy, 9 8. m. to1p.m, MILLINERY. Grand Opening NEW STORZFE. Chonpest FRENCH MILLINCRY {n thecity, Trimmed Hata and Ecoonts from §1.20to 310 each, {a tho latest PARIS STYLES, and of best matarials. Having nousael faoilicies for importing goods, we mow offe them at thess uanrocedented low firices. IIES. C. OEEMN, Agent, No. 330 South State-st. DENTISTRY. Dentist, 160 Bouth Clark-st., bet Madison and Monroe, Best Gum Sets. i s8 Best Plain Seta. 2 se Gold Fillings, from. Js3t0 sa Silvor Fillings, from. tslto $3 Teeth Extracted without pai . 60 cents. ALL WORK WARR, D. BOSTON ENTAL ASSOCIATION, N. W.cor. Dearboru and Madison.sts. &7 FOR a fall upper or loxor st of BEST GUM TEETH for tho nuxt ten days. Filling at reduced rates. ‘We usa none but the best mas terial, abd warrans all work first-class. Pleasa bring this advertisement wi*h yoa, DR. SMITEDS ENTAL ROOMS remosed to 7] Madlzan-st., cornor of DT or ame werk Tongor, lusere et Ghra Testan 20; Hest Plain. £4 Teeth oxtsaniod without Ering this with you. SODA WATER. FURE S0DA WATER, Druggists and Confectioners supplied with Soda and Mineral Water in the Tatent Block- Tin Lined Steel Fountains by EGBERT C. COOE, Dealer In Soda Water Apparatus & Material, 50 and 52 Fourth-aw T00R WINDOW-SHADES - Canbopotap toroll down from the top as well sa ug from tho Rottom, with HALL'S MAGIO SHADE-FIX- TURES. Tbo beat and chospest in ase. Take noothar. Send postal-card and estimates wiil he giv GHICAGO CURTAIN-FIXT! 145 Soath Citnton- TOR BALE. EWPORT LAP DUSTER. The chespest and best article of the kind ever introduced. 7o buggy ourit complats without it. Eor oo jobbng LadnbT e BETI 0O = 2 e 354 Medinon-st. P.& J. CASHY, 41 mncl A3 Fifthen V., Ko pBead the largast arsoitencat ta the city of Now 54 -4 s _wne, Cerpats 3 8 Sandat (8 TR, S, At Shoiviag, bougb aad woid. Coal Reduced. ter Monday, May 11, we shall rell hest Wilzoe O e Aon e Y57 Loae tom for N, Smaeld aad Laego Bag Uaaly cotl g o S80I T Washington.st. O M DYREACUGE Strawberry Boxes! 2 d Boxes, fer all kinds of Froit: Jiuncpmt b s e s o Benia e Ui SUpn WL, POTEIDN new Paten! DR.1.R. PHILLIPS H 1