Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1875, Page 9

Tein said, “but pointing each over his shoulder at his neighbor schon asked whore the money was. Similarly sitasied is tho Democratic State Central Com- pittee of Dlinois in regard to its “ address.” Who wrote it ? They all point to the next men, and nobody séems to know for certain. Was ita zound-tobin? . From y:esent appearances, it must Lsve ‘been, for all iisclaim it, One mem- Ler, with a f=: spprecia‘ion of its value, and in terse, Democictic -pbraseolocy, threatens to “Tick ary mau who cherged him with ‘writing acy such, d——a foolry.” The. Illinois State Journal bes found aclew. Whils the Committes individually repndinte it, tho Stale Register gol- exply approves it as most timely and proper. Did the ctor of ‘the Register write it? “Em dontly... Alone? - No, for it appeared first in s Chiesgo paper. It. was beyond oven his style; be must Lieve had xesistance from s Chicago man, and who so likely as Ger. Lizn? Who was the sathor of this “dd foolery.” if not the editor of the Register and Gen. Lirn? If they ware not its parents, ther ought to discover who are. Thoir reputations for sense are at stake. —_— BOORRELLEES.—L i JBmrony or, zr Boomsruurms: Tae Ou’ axp Fe laa Mr. Carwen iezins his nccount of the great English pablisters and books: Jers of the prea- ent century with 2 histors 27 the Longmans. This-honse, ¥ith:.the excey‘on of tho Riving- tong, is the oldest in Londa; having bosn found- edin 1724 BSiace ics estab!tshment there has not failed to vo a Thomas Lorgmsn at the head. of the firm, # son of the samo name being always resdy to sacceed to the business on the death of his father. The reputetion and prosperity of tho house bsve been founded upon the publica-_ tion of clansica! and educational litcrature, ‘During the early caroer of the Longmans it wag the custom of bookscllers to unite in the expesge and profit of the issue of “works; and accidingly we find this firm sbsring in the publication of Johnson's “Dictionary,” the “Cyclormdia” of Ephraim Chembere, Johnson's “Lives of the Posts,” “Gil Blas,” “ Humphroy Clinker,” and ‘‘Ras- “~ gelas.” In 1794, the house had embarked £109,- 090 in various publications. Among these was ‘Murray's “English Grammar™ one of the most profitable school-books ever issued from the press. The anvual esle of the * Abridgment,” in England alone, was from 48,000 to 50,000 Among other less valusble copyrights owned by the firm was that of the “Lyrical Ballads,” tho joint nroduction of Coleridge and Words- worth, This volume, which contained Cole- idge's “Ancient Mariner,” wes first brought out by Cottle, of Bristol, and when, two years later: (1900), he sold bia entire copyrights to the Long- meng, the price sot upon this was 0. Tho fre: edition of the work was finally worked off, and iben Wordsworth, detaching his own poems and adding several new ones, obtained from Loagman £100 for the use of the two editions; bat the arraagement was not Incrative. to’ the bookseller, Longman contioued the publisher of Wordsworth, and in 1807 iesued two volumes containing many of the poet's choicest pieces, which met'with no succoss. In 182¢ the “Ex- curdion” appeared, but it took six years to sell the first edition of 50° copies. So late as 1829, Wordsworth remarked with bitterness ‘that he had worked hard throueh a tong life for Jess pe- roulary emcloment than a’ public {performer terns for two or three songs.” ‘The roturns from tho poetry of Coleridge and Bozthey were,in the beginning, scarcely mora ercouraging. Southey’s profits on “Madoc” amounted, in the first twelvemonth, to 8 pounds, 17 shillings; and a penny. In dirgust,,-he- writes to a friend: “ Books are now so. dear that they are bocoming articles of fasnionable furniture more than acyhing elec; they who do buy them do noszerd, and they who read them do not buy them. .I have. scen a Wiltshire clothier who fives his bookseller no other instruction than tho dimensions of ‘his shelves; and have just heard of a Liverpool merchant who is fitting np a library, apd bas told his bibliopole to send him Bbakspeare, Milton, sod Pope, and, if any of thase fellows should publish anything new, to Ist him have it immediately, If‘ Madoc’ ob- tains any celebrity, its size and cost will recom- mond it to those gentry Abros consumeri nati, bom to bny octavos and help the revenus.”. Coloridge’s translation of Schiller's “Wallestein,” brought out by Longman in 1800, remained on the publisber’s shelves sixteen years, and then ecld rapidly at an advarced price. ‘Ts 1802 the’ house of Longman paid Scott £300 for **The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” after- wards adding £100, “handsomely given to sup- ply the loss of a fine horse which broke down eudéenly whiio the author was riding with one of the worthy. publishers.” In twenty-eight years, 44,000'copies of the poem had been sold: a the statement rests on infirm witbority, thet Ecctt received upwards of £20,- 0 from thees podlishers in fiftcen years, they having ‘issnod ‘Gay Mannering” and the “Monastery” in the meantime, ms In ‘1814 Mr. Longman entered into an srrange- saat with Thomss Moore, whereby the latter ‘was to receive £3,000 fora poem of the length cf “Rokeby.” -In pursuenco of this agreement, Moore retired from London to ‘a lone cottage among the fields of Derbyshire,” where he wrote “ Lalla Rookh,” 3 work whose success justified the lsrge price the publishore paid furit. Dec. ‘237° 1818. Moore made 2 note in bis Gery which shows the substantial estimation, tn'oiia casa at lecst, in which the poem was held by.bia readers: ‘The young Priatol Indy who incloced me £2 atter reading ‘Lalla Rookb’ had ‘Yerylandable ijeas on the subject; anc, if -ev- exyreader of ‘Lalla Rockh* had done tho samo,’ Tneed never have written again.” But ono of the most euocessfol works that ever bore the im- Fant of Longman wasthe “History of Er- giend” by Macaulay. The first tro volumes We issued in 1919, and withm sit months five editions, nambering 15,C00 copies, had been dis- Ieudof. In seven years the aule of these two ‘tAlames kad reached in. England nearly 40,000 ‘copies; while'in the United States, in five years, it had reached 125,000 copies. For the right of Fublishing this portion of the work for ten years, Macaulay received from Br. Lougman £600 per Suna, ‘retaining in bis own hands the copy- hea the eecond and third volumes of the “Histcry” were published, the. sale was still More extraordinary. The entire impression of 35,000 copies was exhonztod on the firat day, and ati the demand of 11,000 spplicents remained ‘Unsupplied. In New York, 73,000 volumes ware Soldin ten deys. In Philadelphia 25,000 mors ¥ere immediately iasned,—10,000 being stereo- {Yped, printed, and in tho hands of the publish- ‘rwithin fifty working hours.. The aggregate fle in Engload end Americs, within four weeke of the date of publication, excesded 160,000 cop- For the copyright of these two volumes it fa said that Macaulay received £16,000. The present hanee of the Lougmsns comprises fhe two brothers, Thomas and Williom. Both Setitemen hrve not only Iiterary taste, butitalent, Which the one bas ebown as editor of » meguifi- Cent copy of the New Testecsout, and the other MS author ef a volume of Alpine travel, and of s “History of the Lifo and ‘Times of Edward IIL” id Constable he famous bookseller of Edinomg, gained hia chief colebrity 28 the pab- Tater of the Zdinvurg Deview and the “ Wa- Yetly Nove.” ‘The former publication was Started in 1902, but we have not spaco here to moro of ita history than this tare fact: Tn 1B Constable issued a fine edition of the iNorks of Walter Scctt, Fisq.,” comprising the Lay of the Lest Minstrel," the * Blinstrolay of tho Scottiuh Border," ands series of * Lyrical Falada.” Hearing. in 1806, that tho poot was Sgeged ia the composition of a new work, the Publisher offered him 1,000 guineas fer it. Tho ‘ler was accepted, and, in the ensuing year, the Yerk in question, ‘Aiarmion,” was given to the alia Ite anccoss wae immodiate,—2,000 cop- sta goings znd a helf each, being sold with- teeth Par a few yasi tho connection be Seite Constable uo5 Ronis wae beverly bok, “THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1875.~ about the time that Scott turned froma the com- Position of postry to proso, their brainosa-rela- tions were resumed. i The history of the publication of the Waverly Novels is this wise: In 1805 Scott had amused himself in the composition of a novel entitled “ Waverly"; but proferring, after all, to se- care the reputation of a poet, he tosaed aside the unfinished manuscript, and devoted himself exclosively to the cultivation of the Muse When, however, bis poetical reputation became obscured by the more brilliant genins of Byron, he bethought himself of his neglected novel, avd sot about completing it, This was in: 1811. When the work was presented to Conatable, he recognized the authorship, aod purchased the copyright for £700. The novel: was two or thres months winning public favor; then “‘eloop-load after’ sloop-losd was seat off to tho London market, and, on the ra- In’ a brief period,. 120,000 copies were in the bands of curious readers. By 1825, nineteen of the Waverlies hod been’ writ= ten and publishod. Constable was wont to pride himself greatly, upon.the share he had had in the success of these novels, and especially upon the advantage which his advico had afforded the su- thor., Many of the titles, and more than ono of the subjects, were due to his. suggestions. It was esid by his partner, that, in his high moods, ho used to stalk up and down his office oxclaim- ing, “By God! Iam all bat the author of the Wayerly Novels!” p Constable was careless in business affairs, and ac this juncture be failed for upwards of a qnar- ter of a million. With tho loss of his stock “be Parted with the copyright of the Wavarlies, Bat to add one more item to their history: In 1851 tho AMesars, Black, of Edinburg, became solepro- Prietors of Scott’s novels. In 185% they an- nounced that 120,000 completo sets’ of the Wavorly Novels had been sold in Great Britain alone, and in 1853 it was computed that upwards of 3,500 tons of paper had ‘been used in their Publication. As proof of tho continued popu- larity of these novels, it is related by a writer in the Iiustraied News of 1867, that, on a journoy to Wales, he inquired 2 ths. London Station, “ Boy, whore are.the Scott Novela?” ‘ Don't Keep them,” he replied.” “Don’t keep them! Why not?” ‘ Bocanse, it wo did, we should not scll anything lac.” 3 The extensive London book-honse of John Murray was established in 1768. The name and trade have regularly desconded from father: to son through three generations. In the time of the second representative, from 1793 to 1843, the ‘house attained its highest eminence and had its most interesting career. The publications which are most worthy of noteduring that period, aretho Quarterly Review, the first number of which ap- peared in 1809, and the poems of Lord Byron. The association between Murray and Byron, Which continued until the death of the latter in 1824, was begun by tho publicetion of “+ Childe Harold” in 1812 For tho copyright of this work ifurray offered £000; bat the sristocratic author was at this time too proud to write for pay, and he generously gave the poom to s rela- tive and friend, the novelist Dallas, with whom the bargain was concluded. During the publica- tion of bis poem, Byron made a lounging place of the whop’in Fleet street; and “his great amneement,” says Murray, ‘was in making thrasts with bis stick, in fencer’s fashion, at tho * sproce books,’ es he called them, which I had arranged upon my shelves. He disordered. row forme ina short time, always hitting the volame he had singled’out for the exercise of husskilL Iwas sometimes, sa you will guess, glad to get nd of him.” . Byron's patience was sorely tried by the print- era, who blundered then as they do now, and he writes to Murray, in a “blaze of indignation! " You have looked at it? to much purpose, te allow eo stupid a blunder to stand; it is mot ‘courage,’ but ‘eamage,’ and if you don’t want to ses mo eut my thront see it altered.” Again be saya, “I do believe the devil never created or perverted such & fiend ag the fool of & printer.” ' For God’s sake,” rises another agonized wail, ‘‘instruct Br. Murray not to allow his shopman to call the work “Child of Harrow'’s Pilgrimsgo!!!’as bho hes dons to some of my eatonished friends, who wrote to inquire after my sanity on the occasion, aswell they might!” Byron was extremely snxious that no illegitimate efforts abould bo made to secure the success of “Childe Harold,” but all the world knows how he woke the morn- ing after its publication and found :bimself famous, The connection between the poet and his pub- lisher preserved its friendly character, and a reg- wisr correspondence passed between the two, after Byron's departure from England. At one fimo, hearing that tho post was in pecuniary straits, ‘Murray sonds hima draft for £1,500, with generous offers of further assistance. Again, Byron presents Murray with “ Parisias " and the “ Siege of Coriath,” sod returas a check for £1,000 which tho latter had forwarded “I bave inclosed your draft, torn,” writes the whim- sical post, ‘ for foar of accidents by tho way. I wish you would not throw temptation in mine; it is not from o disdain of the universal idol, nor from o present superfluity of his tressures, I can asaure you, that I refuse to worship him; but what is right is right, and must not yield to cir- cumstances.” With other tokens of friendship, Byron presented Murray with a Biblo, which gift was not @ little gratifying to the publisher, who took hope that a man could not be a deist, au atheist, or wores, whon he sent Bibles about to. his publishors.”, Ona day, on looking the book over, it was discovered that tha playful poet had turned the clause, “Now Barab- bas weé 8 robber,” into “Now Barabbas waa a publisher.” Aftor tho death of Byron, Murray paid Moore £4,200 for his biography of the poet. Along in those times, the boolt-house in Albe- mario street was 8 favorite resort of both artiste and men of Jetters. There, on aty afternoon, might be met such writers 2s Scott, Moore, Campbell, Southey, Lockhart, Hallam, Wash- ington Irving, and Mrs. Somerville, and the peinters Wikio, Philtiys, Newton, and Pickers- gill. Marray’s generous and honorable dealings with authors made. him thoir friend as woll as publicher. Zhe preeent roprosentative of the honse succeeded to his father’s business on the death of the latter in 1243. Although his list of publications in the departments of belles-letires and travels is oxtensive, he is best known to tho public through his “Guides” for the traveler and sight-aeer- Mr. Henry George Bohn, who deserves to bo remembered with. gratitude for his efficiont service im bringing within the capacity of limited purses many of tho bost and rarcst treasures of literature, was the son of x London bookseller, azd has until a late period Inbored diligently in upholding the trade. In 18:6 he began the issuo of his Stendard Library, which ran on for 150 voiumes. The ensning year the Scientific Library was commenced, and immediately upoo the hoels of this followed the Antiquarian Library, tho Classical, Dlustrated, and Historical Libraries, the British Claesics, otc., etc. . Not in- duding the Shillmg Library, Mr. Bohn has pub- lished, in bis various cheap uniform collections, 602 volumes, These rank in the highest class of English and foreign literature, and, in the ordinary high-priced editions, wenld bo altogether boyond the reach ‘of the poor atadent. A few yeara ago Mr. Bobn trans- ferred his “ Libraries” ayd his premises in York street to Messrs. Boll & Daldy; yet he has not “\together severod his conneatton with the book- house. It is stated that nis dovotion to work bas been £0 acvere that tor years be has been in the habit of undergoing a weekly examination by bis surgeon, that the first symptoma of ao over-strain of his mental organa might be re- ported ix time far warning. : For want of space wo pres by without 6 wi the soveral other great booksellers, whose career Mr. Curwen describes with more or lees foiluesa, and close our paper with & briof akatch ‘of tho celobrated Lending Library of Mr. Charlos Edward Mndiv. The firet circulating library in London was founded by Wright, « bookscller’ ox tha Btrand, aboos tine year 1735, Forty years after, Chace ware aniig four scgniar citosiating libraries in the city, and the books furnished by them were of the poorest class. Gradually thoir character was improved, whilo for nalf-2-contury the book-clubs, which grawoutof Barns’ Bachel- ors’ Clab,” did much in siding them to dissem- inate useful reading among the people. In 180 Mr, Mudie oponod a little shop in Upper King streat, Bloomsbary, where be conducted the business of newsdealer arid atationer, which had fallen to bim from his father. It had been the custom of the élder Mudie to lend cheap noy- els at the usual -suburban -charge of a penny & xolnme, and the son carly acquired , the, ambition to own's tirculating library that should: be an honor to hunself and‘s bonefit to the public. : In 1842 ho inaugurated the enterprise by lend- | ing volumes to subscribers at thorate ofaguinea Por snnuin. “At the ond of the first ‘decade the’ library ad outgrown its accommodations in Up- per King stroet, and wes removed to ita present location in New , Oxford and Muscum streets, But. the “business ‘extendsd beydnd | the limits of Mr. Mudie’s capital, ‘and’ in’ 1864 he formed 8 stock company, to which Mr. Mur- ray, Mr. Bontley, and otber publishers, were ad- mitted. The value of tho property at that time was ostimate’ at £100,090. Mr. Mudie retained one-half of this, while his services inthe busi- ness were continued at agalary of £1,000. The stock of books on hand at any one timo varies so constantly, by the gala of old and tho purchase of now volumes, that itis impossible to give an estimate of their numbers. An ides of the magnitude of tho library is conveyed in the statement that there were put into circulation 2,400 copies of the last two yol- umes of Aacsulay’s History, 2,000 copies of “Dr. Livingstone’s first African Travels, “2,500 copies of ‘Enoch Arden,” and 8,000 copies of “Lo- thair.” It is said that, of ll the works in the library, Dickens’ are the eoonsst worn out. Novels are of ‘course in greatest demand ;’ but, of Inte yenra, scientific works are rapidly incroas- ing in popularity. It is a singalar fact thst there is not, ‘up ta the presont day, an absolutely free circulating library in London. A book holding the information contained in the “History of Booksellers" must possess a con- siderable value, althongh it does not cover the subjoct or trost it in an adequate manner. ‘We prizo what it gives, though wishing it had been more, ond more akilifally presented. In. # seo- ond edition, the various errors in datos, which are evidently typographical ‘blunders, should be carefully corrected, and sn index, without which no book is fit for duty, should be provided. Mr. D. H. Povsgy, s lawyer of Joliet, writes us with referonce to our: recent charge of inconsis!- ‘oncy on the part of the Democratio press for de- nouncing the alleged interference in the Louisi- ana Legislature and upholding the aispersing of the Kansas Legislature in 1856 by Col. Smmavzr, under the direct orders of President Prence. Mr, Prswzy-then sks: “ Where is the consiatency of the Republican press ia upholding the action of Suermay and the Administration in dispersing the Louisiana Legislature?” For a lawyer, Mr. Poxwzy does not make his points vety euccess- fully; we havo raroly seen’ more errore crowded into a single short paragraph. “We will summar- ivo them briefly: 1, Gen. Suerman did not ‘dis- perse the Louisiana Legislature,” since he was not in command, and -had nothing to do with the matter, 2 Tho Administration did not * dis- perse the Lowsiana Legislature” or anything eles, for Gen. Grant gave no orders in -the case. 8. The Legislature of Louisisns was not ‘die persed” atall;. the military were caliod in by the Governor, at the instance of the majority of the House, to eject five intruders whom the mi- nority had seated by s coup @'etat,—violently. and unlawfully, in order to obtain control of the House. ’-With theve exceptions, Mr. Prxwry’s inferentis} interrogatory may be correct. Is this a specimen of Ais legal ‘consistency? ~ Tho City Council of Peoria bas spoken,—so did Dalsem’s ngs, for that mstter,—and the thing w Betticd. Tne following resolution was offered by Ald. Donne: Resolved, Aa the sense of this Council, that we havo Jearned with indignstion af the interfercnoe of the General Government, through its soldiers, with the Legislature of Louisiana, and that we hereby anter our solemn protest against said outrage on tha representa~ tives and people of a sovereign State, as subversive of the richts and liberties of American citizens, Aeactoed, That our representatives in Congress be, and they are hereby, requested to stamp ont all “ban- ditt” disposition in high plsces, by demanding the i romoval of Gen, Sax0iDaN from the com- mand of the United Statea army in the Gulf Statea, Yeas, 7 Dems. ; nays, 5 Reps. After tho next election in Peoria the chances sro that these resolutions will be reconsidered avd expunged from the records of Peoria City Council as falso in allegation os wall as dishonest in purpose. The Hartford Zeening Post, in an editorial re- viewing the prosent situation in Louisiana, no- tices the esgerness with which the New York press has joined the hue and cry against the President, snd makes the following sensible comment upon it: Hence, this desperate attempt to stampede thi mises foto s whollatle ‘and unressoning eoudemme ton of the Administration will fail, New York City isnot the American continent, Its people havo a3 Kittle Lalance as any part of our popniatiun, and the theatrical performance of x few New York politicians ‘will not be accepted as concluding the right or wrong of any great public question, POLITIOAL HEMORANDA, The Connecticut Prohibitionists haves State Convention at Middletown, Jan. 26, to nominate candidates for Governor, etc. The sum of $3,000 has beon raised in Boise County to enable Fenn (Democrat) -to contest the acat of Bonnétt (Republican) as Delogate in the next Congress from Idaho. ‘The Virginia Legislaturo is considering whom it will elect Lieutonant-Governor for the unex- pired (two years) term of Gen. Withers, soon to take his seat in the United States Senate. The New Hampshire Democrsts have nomi- pated for Congress: First District, Frank Jones, of. Portsmouth ; Second, Samuel N. Poll, of Manchester; Third, Henry A. Kent, of Lan- caster. a The West Virginia Legiclature, which mot Jan. 18, will be voxed with the State Capital question, as other Legisiatires have. beon.. It is said tho ‘United States Senatorship will be made the basis of & trado to bring the Capital back to Wheeling, whero, in truth, it ought to be. oe Tho Bhode Island Legislature. will shortly take up tho Senatorship contost where it left off in June, and, if Gen, Burnuide doos not develop increased - strength, he will be dropped. Burn- side, ShefSeld, and Dixon, tho candidates in Tune, are all actively at work, Henry B. Harrison, John T. Wait; and others, having, doclined the Republican nomination for Governor of Connecticut, the Hartford Courant suggests tho name of Theodore D. Woolzey, ex- President of Yale College, for the first place on the ticket, ‘ The Florida Legislature hss great trouble to. orgsnize, ‘The Senate is a tie, and the Governor hse rofused to interfere and untie it. The House, after some days’ balloting, elected Thomas Bennsk (Democrat), Spoauer, by a union of Democrats and Conservative Republi- cas. i On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the Logislaturos of Dela" ware, Florida, Indinos, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nobraska, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, will go into elections for United States Senators, The Leg- islatures of New Jersey, Wost Virginio, and Wisconsin, will elect Jan. 26. The Michigan Probibitionists have called Stato Convention at Lansing, Jsu. 27,to nomi- nate Regents of the University and « candidate for Justico of the Suprome Conrt. They will also petition the Legialature to establish a Stato Constabulary, whoso special duty it shall be to enforce the Prohibitory law. 7 ‘The Olorkship of the next (Democratic) Houso sm Congress ia being sought by Southorn men, and lesding aspirants namod aro Thomas 8. Bo- cock and Thomas Whitehead, of Virginia ; Frao- éi¢ B Bhober, of North Carolibs; Dudley. Ra Yass, 65 us0.gin; daid David Gtopiod, 6f Alabama, All these have been members of the House, Movernents in North Carolins, Georgie, Ala- Dama, and Texas, to upset the Reconstruction Constitutions, are temporarily dampened by ths President's attitude towarda Arkansas and Lonisi- ana. The advice is freely uttered, in North Carolina, thst “the boys” had better wait until thore’s a Democratic President. ¥ ‘Tho Pennsylvania Logislature, just organized, holds for two years. The Lieutenant-Goyernor, soon'to be instgurated, will hold office for four years, #4 Governor will bo elected next Novom- bor for three, years. The biennial elections will begin to dete from 1876, and terms of office will all bo loveled up to date, in 1878, .. PERSONAL, The Arcadian speaks thus pleasantly of a Chief of Police: ** Capt. Irving, wo are glad to say, is in trouble. Matilda Heron applauds her own Lady Hac- Leth, but cannot for the lite of her convert any- body elso to her opinions. _ ‘Mr. Hatchet, socarding to the London Daily News, waa ® great American impersonator of Halsioff. And this is fame! Ata fire in Salom, Oregon, Dan Murphy saved a 250-pound anvil by carrying it out into the street. He was bound to save something. Joo Jefforson refuses to pay for eomplimen- tary notices by publishers. He is right. If comphmentary, they should not be paid for. Erastus Corning gave a $6,500 party at Albany tho other day, which wus attended by 2,000,000 worth of diamonds .and $20,000,000 of real es- tate. John Mc&lurn, one of thé Boocher-Tilton jury, never believes anything he reads in the papers. As he lives in New York, one can sccount for bis incredality. j James Parton is in the city, and will lecture this afternoon before the Sunday Lecture Socie- tyon “Our Scandalous Politics.” He spoaks for bis own. - King Alpboneo says he is “happy to re-enter Spain by way of Earcelons,” but he forgot to aay by which route he intends to leave, 28 soon as the Spaniards get tired of him. If that important guardian of Paradise, the Bishop of Lincoln, will not allow Mr. Keet to call himself “Rov.” on his child’s tombstone, he will bo sued by the Wesleyan Oonference. Dr. J. G. Holland is waid to make the vory cleaneat copy. If Joaquin Miller and such would make cleaner, and send blank paper te the publisher, what a boon they woald confer on the pablic! = ‘The death in this city from eating too many herrings, reported two or three days ago, would not probably have occurred had the pationt been of the female gox. Why? Because she conld have been cured at the Erring Woman's Refage. ‘The champion turkey of Massachurolts was so big this year that they hid tp knock him on the head with 2 Bede hasimer, and draw bim op with a windlass, One of his bims was sent tos Boston charitable insti- tution, aud furnished « meal for sevanty-five St; Louis Glooe, * ‘ust have beon raised on derricks. Sardou's inst play, “La Heise," having proven a failure, and Offenbach having request- ed him to remove it, the great author writes = most egotistical letter, abusing the public for not appreciating his genina. Evidently Sardou 38 o Sardine. . Bee bere, fair play now! It is rumored that by epecial dispensation King Kalskeus jumped from the third to the thirty-third degree of Ma- Sonry atone caper of the Masonic gost. We give the beast credit for unusual atrength, but euch discriminating agility is odorous in the ex- treme, ES ‘At Douay, Frarico, a man has just been tried tor ‘violation of @ sepalchre,” because he poured half a glass of gin on s comrade’s grave, having previously swallowed the other half. It had been long previously agroéd between them that they should take « last-glasa together in that way. = Two brothers Denslow, of South Bend, are clairvoyant. “Thay saw the hair of s Chicago man named Tiffany, and cured his disorder. This clarvoyance is a remarkablo thing. Wo have seon a man who, by glancing at a person's ‘finger-nails, can tell whether he shovels coal or slings gin for a living. By premature explosion recently, the emi- nou’ chemist and philosopher, Dr. Dorsmas, has discovered s now cure for spinal neuralgia, The pationt, who resided at the back of Dr. Dore- ius’ house in Fourth avenue, aad who had not left bis bed for years, ran ever 4 miles before ho recovered from his alarm. Pope Leo XII. once borrowed money from soms noble families and exempted their prop- exty fzom taxation forever. The Italians be- lievo in the succession of apostolic virtue, but when it involvos cash they become Rationslis!s. ‘Tho merceuary ruffians demand that the noble fomulies pay their taxes and talk about back-pay too. ‘The profits of the “Shaughrann ” at Wallack’s are thus divided: Mr, Boucicault receives 50 per cent sa suthor aod 25 per coat ag actor; Mr. Theodore Moss receives 15 per cont a8 meuager and 8 per cent as trons urer; oud Mr. John. Lestor Wallsck receives the balance, and is starring down in New England to pay for his yacht. ig ‘Mr. Sothern recently officiated at the benofit of s stage-manager in Birmingham, Eng. end ins littie speech oa the occasion said: “ He snd I attacked the dramatic ‘profession on the same night, some twonty years since, he aa x prompter, Ina tho Ghost in ‘Heznlot.’. He wes then tho very worst prompterI ever saw. After tho por- formance, he gently and most kindly intimated to'me that I was the most fearful actor he ever witnessed.” Col, Forney bas been to call on and Innch with the favorite Roman Catholio orator ef: London, Monsignor Capel, who lives in s boau- faful mansion at Kensington, formerly owpod by. Mr. (Lord Duvdreary) Sotho. It haa the air of 9 oowfortable; etadeat’s retrost. Mon- signor Capel is young, evidently nut yet 40, af | fiue presenco, handeonie face and féatares, erect, tail, and stout, He doon pat Col. F. at ene, and taicéd on various topics with tho utmost familianty and freedom. : ‘The Washington Capital hss a correspondent in London who writes that a lady of upper-ten- dom remarkod t him the otfier day that she be- lieved thoy had no old chuyen-ruing in Ainerica. ‘Bog pardon, madam,” rephed the correapond-* ent; “no end of church-rains. There's Ply- mouth Church-ruins sod Clendenning Church- ruing and others just ‘like thom lying all around. . Tbe honorable ; sristocrat brought her off-eye to- boar on me, and said something in-s feeble’ way about ita being *rawther damp, you know.” It is understood that, after his retirement from the Senate, Mr. Schurr will devote himself to the writing of a political history of the United Statos, and, for that parposo, may spend ono or $vo summers near New York, where he can have quick acceas to our large Ibrames, - Ha has studied the subject for many years, 60 much 20 as to have led Mr. Charles Francis Adams to say of bim, some years ago, that the man who best |. understood the political history of America was a German; whilo ho bes the scholarly scquiro- ment and writing sili and mental impartiality necessary to do justice to the themo. A Washington dispatch to the tho: Now York Tribune suya: “ Mr, Farwell, of Dlinoia, who is not conspicuous in the Honse for hia confidence in Geo. Gront, gaya the Lonisana message is very able and considerate, and that the course of the President in the Louisiana matter haa been con- sistent fromthestart. Themesssgo, be thinks, was somewhat too apologetic about Gon. Sheridan, avd he by no means approves Gen. Sheridan's language. He knows Gen. Sheridan intimatoly, and ssya thore is nothing be likes so much as a row. Ho wext to Now Orleans with about the game ideas and intentions aa ho would go te Sght- te Indians, Mr. Farwell thinks ths affect of tee moksage Will be prod.” : painiote SIXTEEN PAGES. - -- - - COAL. CommonSense Suggestions of Economy for Theso Hard Times. Iinois ‘the Great Natural Coal-Field of ; the World. Effect of the Gradual Introduction of the Native Fuel, A Promise of Permenenco and Stability Items of Our Local ‘Trade. There is porhaps nothing that constitutes. an item in the markets of the world, nothing smong thecommon staples and commodities of commerce and domestic lifo, in regard to which, in the mat- ter of natural facts and features, the industrial system incident to production and distribution, and the circumstances end conditions which op- erate to establish permanence and law in cost acd prices, as coal. The cost of this natural fael to tho” people of Chicago, for domestic and com- mercial purposes, now sggregataas a disburse- mont, annually, by rich aud poor, of many mill- ions of dollars, giving it proper rank with floor and pork, and tea and coffee, as an item in tho common expenses of life; and yet even tho in- telligont mercantile element of the community have been iguorant or practically indifferent to conditions, circumstances, and laws governing this mighty interest which in any ‘other depart- ment of commerce are public and conspicuous facts and eubjecta of general information, the prices of coal daring a period of’ twenty years, and until s recont day, ‘being permitted, withont the special wonder of the com- munity, to slide tp and down s prepos- terous scale, and to play such~ fantastic tricks as would be an impoassibility in the bisto- ry of wheat, or corn, or potatoes. Every com- munity is master of the situation in regard to ite own local agricultare ; the people of Cuba understand tho natural and commercial history of cigara and oranges ; the people of Louisiana, of molasses and cotton; the peopls of Iinois, of potatoes and grain. And yet, whon it is conmd- erod that the State of Illinois itsclf ia BWOLLEN AND FAT WIT THIS RICH MINERAL, constituting, as it dons, the great coal-ficld of the world; thst there is enough in that singlo realm, if divided, to sllow an nore of the natura! deposit to every man, woman, and child in the State; enough, by continuous measurement, to form & belt-bed of coal several feot in thicknesa, s mile in width, nnd extenaing once and a quar- ter around the globe,—that, reckoning the pos- sibilities of production, the storage of coal under. the soil of the Stato is suffi- cient to supply the world for thousands of years with millions of - tony an- nually,—in the presence of theas stupendous figures it bocomes s matter of astonishmont that the genius of Western cntorprise should have waited almost until yosterday to touch that fruitfol field, in the name of the West, with tho wand of human industry,—that, for twenty years, the figures im Erie coal should bo permit- ted ta dance in ridicule all the marry steps De- tween $4.25 s ton in 1849 to $12 in 1856, $17 in 1864, $14 in 1865, $11 in 1865 end 1867 and in 1871 and 1872, anthracite keeping time at $12 in ore in 1961, $20 in 186%, 922 in 1865, $14 in 1868, and $12 in 1871 and 1872, while the very railway lines which brought us a portion of theae supplies were known to traverse the beds of millions of acres of YLLINOIS AND INDIANA COAL, incinding the rich felds of Fountain County, in the latter State, now operated so succozsfully by W. P, Bend & Go., of this city, and the great Wilmington Basin and adjoining fields, on which the city now so largely depends for suoplies. Nor cao these tricks of pricea in the anomalous history of coalin Chicago be sttribated to the principle of monopoly nor to the action of indi- viduals. The community itsol? would appear to have been collectively responsible in ita lothargio indifference, and the peraistent failure to givo Tecognition and response to such action as waa taken at intervals by capital aud enterprise, As earls az 1856 Mr. Robert Law - SUNK A SHAFT IN LA SALLE COUNTY and placed product of* neiive coal upon_the Chicago market at alow price. He received no oncouragement snd abandoned the mining enter- prise. ‘ind thuse of our lergo firms and com- enies who bave realized success ir minin, troducing the llinois and Indiaus extensive use, including the Chicago, ‘ing: ton & Vermillion Coal Company; the Wilming- ton Star Coal Company, of which G.-W. Young, Eaq.. of this city, is Seoretory and Treasurer; tho Wilmington Coal Mining and Manufacturing Company Miainend Mine coal); W. P. Rond & Co., and othora, havo all bogua thoir enterprises at a comparatively recont diy and after the most strenuous efforts of capital had been repeatedly baffled in the same fields. THE HISTORY OF MINING AT WILMINGTON, comprising the futile and abortive efforts and hideous Guconragoments which attended and preceded its inauguration, with the fact thet the manufacturing industries of the city aro now 80 largely dependont upoa the supply from theso native mines, aside from the vast product which goes to domestic consumption, 1s interest- ing. ‘The‘first shaft suck in this basin was by one Robinson, of Madison, Wis., who, though unknown to fame, and without honor in his own country, was s true prophet. Pnrchesing 140 acres at Braidwood Station, on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, noar Wilmington, in 1886, Mr. Robinson sunk his shaft, and slong with it all the money he brd brought from Wisconam. The first yield of » few thousand tons, thon; rovealing neatly all the qualitios of the beat bitu- minous ecal in existence, mets foundling’s re- ception and s foundling’s fate,—no name, no precedent, no prostige, no favor, no demand. Mr. Robinson sold out, ond his‘ interest passsd through a succession of hands, the last to lease the mins previous to ite possession by the Chica- go, Wilmington & Vermillion Company being Mr. W. E. Johnson, of this city, 8 man of entor- rigo and determination, and. thoroughly posted in all departments of the coal interest by Jon; sssociation with the trado, but who relinquishes tne mining enterprise after s brief but thorough test of the chances of success, becoming after- ward, and continuing till the presezt timo, s very large operator in the prodyct of tho Ubicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Company. it was the latter company with its large capital, perhapsthe strongest coal organiz: weat of the: Alle- heny Mountains, seconded @ little later by the ‘ilmington Star Coal Company and the Wilwing- ton “Coal-Mining and Mooufacturiog Company, which hes since manipuleted tne Wilmiozton field in» manner to render it one -of the main sources of the coal supplies of tho city, develop- ing the business from the first product of 23,000 tons in 1866, and’76,009 tona in 1867, to the pres- ent average yicla of 2,000" tons 8 day, ono-balf the amount being by the C., W. & V. Company. ———— LAUREL HILL AND COAL CREEK MINES. ‘W. P. REND & CO. Among those of the coal merchants of Chics- go who represent the great interests of produo- tion and distribution, as: proprietors, minors, and wholesale and retail dealers, sad whe may in justice be said to have randerad the city, the community, and Western commerce in general, a large practical servico in producing and intro- ducing upou our markets new and valuable coals whose merita for domestic or commercial pur poses have met recognition and acknowlodg- ment on all hands, and who, py erousing and stimulating the principle of competition, have aided to inaugurate the new syatem whith scoms Itkely to govern henceforth in this groat interest, —the system of stability, regularity, and por manenoe in the prices of coal,—is ths firm of W. P. Rend & Co., whose principal office, corner of Ann end Carrol! streets, constitutes one of the headquarters of th= trado for onz Wost Sida population, the branch offices of the firm being: looated st the corer of Peoria and Kinzie. and of Ada and Kinzie streots,— dock nad shipping depot, foot of North Miarket reet. ‘The firm, though orgsnized Jess than six years ago, have succeeded. by 6 system of vigorous and persistent entervrise, in Jevaloping a trode of great magnitude, moderately estimated at 200,000 coop the past season, including » consid- erableretai! tratiic, and extexding to dealers, man vfactaters, foundries, brawerics, sovarsal of tho leading cailwsz. companies, and to towns and cities ef tho Northwavt. The Arr are gnown to seaniseterra cid tha rile 94 pryitlatand of 4 Laurel Hill Mines, Allegheny County, Penn., and the Coal Creek Minos in Fountain County, Ind., 140 miles distant from Chicago. 2 (THE LAUREL TLL MINE is said to be the most productive mine in the im- mediate vicinity of Pittsburg, and supplies the Chicago market mth s monthly average of 10,000 tons of coal, of a qualiiy remarkably aad specially adapted to steam purgoses, tho mapu- facture of gas, domestic consumption, ate. Its Mertanaa steam coal, which would appear to have been authoritstively determined in ita iavor Uy testa and experiments at the Watcr- Works, and at * yarious blocks in the city, have brought this Lauret Hull product info very nigh favor among tug-boats, | rolling-mille,. brewars, packers, etc., while its super-bituminons quality, edapting it to the pro- duction of gas, has lod to “its very general adop- tion in towns and cities woat of Chicago requir- iog & gas coal. The amount bronght to Chicago fromthe 4 FOUNTAIN COUNTY (IND.) ANNES, where the firm owns rich field eg acres, is estimated at about 00,030 tons annually. It is semi-block, o very dry aad clean ‘coal, and, though placed on the market at ono-half tha etandard prices of wimilar coni which prevaued fw years ago, i held in high favor for domeatia and commercial purposes. Tho force required to manipalate both these. mines is an averago of about 450 men, the pro- Lristorship of the ozigital interest enabling the iirm to placo their product on the market ata miner's proat only; the fact also thet they own an equipment of 400 cara affording them oxtraor- dinary facuitios m transportation, going far to account ter their enormous tonnage. In ad- dition to their own product, however, the firm handle considerable quantities of Lacka: anthracite, and the Hooking Valley and other soft conls, and aro very thoronghiy equipped with all. tixtures, sappiies, and conveniences necessary to manipulating all details of an ex- tensive retail patronage, pititsaske Olney WILMINGTON AND VERMILLION FIELDS. THE CMIAGO, WILMINGTON .& VERMILION COAL CoxPany. To the Chicago, Wilmington & Vermillion Coal Company, mentioned above as perhaps the strongest coal organization westof the anthracite district of Pennsylvania, is due the credit of having first rendered the great natural coal de- posits of Finois immediately and practically available to Chicago and our. northern markets, thas constituting a sort of balance to the ancient and original sources of supply, and affording the community a perpetual protection against that cruelty and tyranny of prices which pro- vails forever in all markets where that balence is wanting. Tho extent of field owged and oper- ated by the companyaggregetos about 11,500 acres, and includes’ 2800 acres at Braidwood, 4,009 acres at Gardnor (both in tho Wilmington basin), and 5,000 acres at Streator known sa the Vermillion mine. The.mining force of the Com- pany numbers about 1,100 men, mrolving a pay- Toll, as an item of the expense incidont to the business, of $75,000 a month, ornesrly $1,000,000 a year in labor. The force at the Vermillion mine nambera 500 men, the mining equipmont in hoisting. ma- chinery, etc., at Streator, being, it is said, the finest and most elaborate in the world, manipu- latung a larger tonnage than has been claimed by any single shaft, the cost of the shafs being about $50,000. Tho aggreeate daily prodaction of tie several minea of the Company now reaches about 3,000 tons, the transportahion to Chicago being by the Chicago & Alton and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads, the Company itsolf owning about 500 cars to {facilitate shi; ment and distribution to rarious markets through- out the Northwest. The entire pzoductis known as Wilmington coal, and sells at 9 aniform and standard price of 5,00 s ton delivered to retail consumers. This low price, aud the still lower wholesale fizures, have naturally enconraged its introduction into popular and general use, an tho eatisfaciion which universally attends its adoption, both for domestic and commercial pur- poses, gives promiso of the perpetual and in- definite expansion of the trade in our best native coal, The business of the 0.,W. & V. Coal Com- pany is conducted by A. L. Sweet, Esq., General Suporintendent; H. F. Walker, Cashier. General Offive No. 16 West Van Buren street. Tho main yards of the Company are at 381 Archer avenue and No, 10 Sebor street. . STAR COAL—THE WILIINGTON STAR COAL COx- PANY. Another of ourlocal companies entitled to men- tion og among the pioneers of ths mining in- terest ia these northern latitudes, and who have contributed the inflaenca of capital and enter- prise in conferring upon the commmnity the pies of our native mines, is the Wilmington tar Coal Company, known to manufacturers and the trade as -proprietora of a rich field of about 1,000 acres st Braid- wood, south of the Town of Wilmington, and sbout fifty-five milea. distant from Chicago. These mines embrace what is known as the out- crop of the Wilmington mines, the distance be- lowthe surface not exceoding 60 to 70 fest, a lo- cation claimed by gcologists as peculiarly and specially.favorable for the exhibition af the best qualities of bituminous coal, and f@.goncral freedom from the faults and tapas eal phates, &c. The coal mined at this point & dis- tributed in very coarse blocks, and 1s ssid to bs the coarsest coal that sopears in onr mar- kets. It presents gmany of the foatures of the famous Brisr-Hill coal, and though the balk of the product finds consumption among onr msoufactarers, from its excellent adaptation to steam purposes, unques- tionable euperiority is claimed for it sa.8 genoral domestic fuel, a very strong point in its favor being, of course, its economy. Amang the ho- tole hero it has been oxtensively used and given zood satisfaction are the Patmer Honse, the Grand Pacific, Woodraff, and others. TheCom- pany employ a force of several hundred minery, the monthly: prodact being estimated at about 15,000 tons, and some ides of the fraitfulnces of these domestic fields. may be formed from estimate that the — degosté of this region alone is _ e:1fficiont supply the tonnage of tha world during a psriod of several years. .The mais office and yard of the Company is st’ No. 97 Wort Twelfth otroat, with branches at 289 Archer avenue and 75 Wost Chicago avenue. Office, 153 Monros street. W. Young is the Secretary and Tressurer, Chi- cago, and Ao Crombio the Hine Superintendent, t id ws DIAMOND COAL—THE WILMINGTON MING & MANU- PACTURING COMPANY. This enterprising and successful Company, who have done much to populariz the consump- tion of native fael by introducing the superior article of domestio coal xnown'as the Diamond Mixe coal, now in extensive use in fomilies, hotels, and ‘offices throughout the city, was or ganized five yeers ago, the Company at: present owniog 1,000 acres among tho mods desirablo lands in the Wilmington Basin, manipalating two alinfts ands minmg force of 30) men, toa pro- ducing czpscity beiog about 180,000 tons per au- rem, and requiring throo large. yards to accom- modate the Chieszo busines, located corner of Forquer sad Besth swroots, No. 65 North Canal stroet, and No. 84 Deering street. The general offica is at No. 123 Dearborn street. “CBICAGO TRADE IN WILMINGTON COAL. Of frins and individual operatora in Chicago, who havo paid special attention and coumbuied practical and porsoual effort toward stimulatiog aud cultivating the local sod geners! tradic ia the produet of the Wilmington fields, is Mfr. W. E. Johuson, 188 South Conal atrect, known to the genersl community of consumers by fifteen youre’ association with the trade, first, in con- nection with the office of Price, Morris & Co., and aa successor to that old firm in 1863. Mr. Jobnaon, who may be regarded as very good authority in regard to the development of the Wilmington interest, bis offica constituting a centre of supply, not only for retail consamp- tion but for’ general deslera in the city, reports the tonnage of Wil- mingtos. as hfs own oifica at 60,009 the prosont season being an increase of about 10,000 tons annually since 1871-2. His yards for the distribution of this product, as well as for general supplios in tho fiver qualitiés of anthra- Cite, aud the older and more famous bituminona coais, are located on the corner of North avenue and Nobis strest, snd af West Forty-o:ghth ond Kinzie streets for the gonors! accommodation of the Central Pack and Northwostera’ Car-8hops neighborhoods, —.—— BALTIMORE & OHIO BUCKEYE COAL. ANEW ARTICLE. ‘The recent introduction of the Shawnee coal, better known porhapsas the Baltimoro& Ohiocoz}, in this market through the medium of the Balti- more & Ohio Bailroad Company, has created a @ocidéd sénsation among dealers in’ Eastern coals, giving promise of something like a revoln- tion in the soft-coal market of the West, having alresdy had its effect in reducing the price of those competing coals very considerably. This coal ie mined et Shawnee, Porry County, 0., by the Card & Upson Coal Company, they. being ono of the oldest and largest minera of coal in that region, and they haverecently made arrangementa with Messrs. Hartwell Bros., No. 75‘ Washington street, making them sole agents for their supoti- or coal, which will be known and sold by thor, at wholessle and retai), under. the.nems of tho Baltimore & Olilo-Buokeye ookl, The ia tseé fron! sulpius, amass 00 aiukar, avd vacy for the Wilmington coal, amoug the little smoké, leaving’a pure white ash, and for steam, domestic. and grate purpesea it has ro superior, and is claimed to bave no equal. ‘Tha Laltimore & Ohio Railroad: Company sra.ontitied. to great credit in their exarziong ‘to place this coal in this market under favorsblo cirenn- stances, and the public may rely oa this curpora- tion doing all in their raver to sapply, the West with cheap coal, and they are. desarving of tie support of general con: consumers, GENERAL ITEMS, | W..M. 4.3. P. oxcorn. A largo numberof prominent dealers who hare boen idautificd with the anthracite coal intorest bave recognizea the increasing popalar lamond 0 ‘Welle known firm. of W.-M. -&J: 2. Oleoth, No. 148 LaSallo strost, snd have during govcral season: past mado that product a feature of the genccal trade. - The Messra. Olcott are widely. being the firstand original firm to represent market the magnificent enthrecite of tho femora Luzerne Coal and Iran, Company, owning save. collieries in the anthracite field, with a producing capacity of 2,090,000 tons per ann@m. Aside from thie, tho firm déal largely algo in the colebrated - Briar Hilt and Erie coal, and the Wilkesberca- It 8S. E Lackawana, making » specialty of ecreeniog and preparing coals, to give them’ eee sanisiice Parlor snd domestic use, Yard and No. 1 North Market strect. - - bes A LAXDMARE,. Among the landmarks of tio coal trade in Chicago’ is the old ofico of AL Dunne, 313 Archer avénue, formenty- occupying’ the ‘aile’ of the Nationel Etovator, nesritho bridge: Mr. Dunno hss ‘been associated with tha trado for upwards of twenty-one years, and, thon¢h han- dling large quantitics of the Delaware & iladsoa Canal Company’s Lackawaona, Scott & Co.’a Fria coal, otc., and in early times a large yassel-own- er, contro'ling a large proportion of the cord— wood business of the city, is now among thoza who give prominenco to the trade in ont native coals. Mr. Daune's branca yard and offices sro at the corner of Cottage Grove cad South Park avonues, Twenty-sixth and State, and 819 State street. - Office, No. 106 Dearborn streat. : A. E. OURTIES, ; office No. 300 Canal street, dock foot of Herrison street, prominsatly identified with ‘the coal-in- terest dunng ® poriod of fourteen years, bis original office standing on the present site of the Crescent Mills, afterwards and for six. sears on tho present eite of the West Side Briges Honne, supplying our horels, restaurants, and families with hard and soft coal, wood and kindling, vith n patronsge extending io schools sndcharches, and saburban residents at Hyde Park, Higin, Evanu- ton, etc., reports his largest tonnago for the present euason in the Wilmington coal, and MESSRS. ROGLY & CO.. whose office, Nov. 149 and 151 Sfadison stroat, represents s tonnaze, mainly, it is true, in the Delaware & Hudson Canal’ Company's pure Lackawanns, adequate to the comestic eurply of a voptlation of 50,009 persons, reports in ta- vor of the economy of: Wilmington coal, which the firm now bandlo in iarge amounts, ag the do- mestic coalof the poor and middling claasea. Tho docks occupied bs this firm aggresate s river frontaga of 750 feet at South Halsted atroet and Chicago evenue bridges. THE GUILELESS SCHUMAKER. By Crofutt, in Mtnncapolie Matt, A lawyer lived near to New York, ‘He was one of Coke’s cunningest scholars $ ‘He made the Pacific Mail fork ‘More’n s fourth of a miltion dollarg= And John G. Schumsker he Is the man that it tarned out to be, “ That's s pile!” said the banker, surprised; “Your name? Sach a check {a a rarity.” “I travel incog—and disgnised— For the sake of concesling my charity.” And Joba G. Schumaker he Added “That's not much maney for me!* And to Irwin be chuckled, ‘# You'ra sly ;” ‘But my conselence is clean, every thre, I will never a Congressman boy, . For I am not corrupt or # briber.” ‘And Jobn G, Schumaker he Said: “ My name is Old Hansstes,” He dined with two Dicks and a Jim, : “No bribes for our hon'sble brothers! ; Ob I gua not!” And they winked at him And ke stung a wink ct the othors, ‘Then Joun G. ‘ Bchumeker,he ‘Ten thousend reserved for his fea, Ho took fifty thousand and strayed ‘Where he saw a chap tuking s nlpper} “Ho! Stranger!” hie shouted oud laid ‘Tho maney right into hie fifpper, And Jobn G, es Schumaker, he ‘Walked right off and want to bis tes, “ His friends called him Smith” ho redsctod “ tt was kitid of Smnith not tn refaso itt And ‘hoped be would get re-clacted ;” ‘Parhaps for the Goapel he'll ase i” . And Jobr G. Schumstor, be Bald “TI trust he is pious ike me,” ‘Thon ho thought “I can’t gress who he te ‘That fs more than buck-puy and per diem: Bat it's not quits the way to do biz; ‘Yor ho msy not bo honest as Iam.” ¢ nd John G, Schumaker, he Said “© that’s what's the matter with ma.” Don't irritate your Innga with a stubborn cough whet a safo and certal romedy can be had in Dr. Jaya ‘Expectorant, . SAVINGS BANHS. Hers, Fare & Hechanis BAVINGS BANK, ees no ese Bear Madison, no Old Coart Ronse “S85: THE BUSINESS OF THUS COR. . PORATION is confined cxclusive- ly to the receipt and care of Save ings Deposits and Funds for.In- . vestment. No commercial or gen« eral banking business transacted, SUMS AS SHALLAS ONE DOL- LAR received from any person, and 8 bank bock furnished:- MARRIDD WORLEN and minor children may deposit. money so that no one else can draw it. INTEREST at tho rate of 6 per cent per annum, is paid on sums ot One Dollar or mors. ' PYOSE DESIRING TO INVEST their savings upon real estate se- curity ata higher rate of interest than can be safely paid on Savings . Deposits, should call at this Bank - and examine its, INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES, SYDNEY MYERS, Manager. - HARD and SOFT COAT. Dry, olean, free from slate, ‘well scresned; of all the different kinds. ~ Delivered to any part of the city at the lowost market price. a WH GLE GLOTT, Office, 148 LaSalie-st. Yard, 1 Worth Market-at. FLOUR. APT THE BEST, 40 Te FLOUS, EVENS, 18 WEST VAN BUREN: iy enarantend Ur mony, re- atte winter, 97-8 raf tampon cst taal re ro Winter, $7. Bolle of se hora Be g tor, €6.75 deck Crt, Beat Mirenct Walia Winey, Danth Minsomta Spring Bh Se fuuekehat te ioe 7 ne, y . i ‘au BATLOF Abe elye Woes we he ward, U. UL aed