Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1875, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 6 1875.—SIXTEEN PA( GES, e —— 088, oF tries to go, a8 & matter of cowis, ang mortelity. Thess doubts must bes faced; they carnot be smothered. The clergy must preach Jess and srgue muie. In the great battle that is pow bemg waged between Orthodoxy and Heresy, bow few clergymen are actively en- Babbsth.” Can any languige be more unscrip- tural? Though Christ declared the Babbath made for man, nowhers io the Lible is it called man's Sabbath; nowhere do God’ servanta call 1t **our” or ‘*‘my " Sabbath. Nowhere in the Bible is the torm * American " Sabbath found, 4! Yioet of the bard fighting, on the . torm. 4 5 Eitietian e iadcna;y laymen, who. av0 sale the expression itsell bLeing an absurdity. dom armed with any better weapon tban blind | Nowhere in the Bible do we find the The clergy themselves must join | ¢xpression ‘‘Chnstian™ Sabbsth; the Sab- srd take the lead in the conflict. Complaints zre bewwg coratantly made of the absence of woriingmen frem cburches and chapels and the rupid eprozd of Atheiem, &, Porbaps the best achos of remedying this state of things would Le for the clergy to convert their pulpits into {ree discnssion platforms for haif an bour at the clote of ths sermon. If this desirable change e made, workiogmen would come in crowds 10 the chorches. They want something mors {he: mere eesertion; they want the why and the wherefore. CosmisT. —_— PROF. SWING ON THE SYNOD. AN OPINION AB TO PRESUYTERIAN SELY-RESPECT. Prof. Swing bae the following characteristic article in the Alliance : The Symoc.of Lilinois North, which met last sutumn andsproiatd tz2eold Llind msn, Dr. Frame, to de. fend au sbrent wnd dead heretic, trembled around Cleveland tLis week for fear somebody might poke fin at their records of the cae, At fast the womlx Synod of Tllinois North ¥ were called, and the com~ d 1 examine them reported that, while cthing Touen in Depmark, the Aseem- 11d j.2rbaps Letter go onabout other business, ton as sugeeried. But not untl a few «lqueace bad been tncorked. Why should rried ali tue way from Ottawa, Iil, to . £nd not be fired off st all ¢ It had been ed n anticipation of mecting game, and oW, whin lie game Was msing, wEY not shoot? Nt i s Gunofor? Bang the Gunu went, and after e report wi wetehed care t nothing dropped, Away weat al the Lirds in fice sytle, Bt Gvnn got off oae good thing, He says the Byn- od &id a0t do ennugk, * The Leretic sull rpeaks co.” Thais abws that this Gunn compasses the deach of the cfeadez. TFor,us desd men tell 7o tales, %o dead Ireachert Gtter Do herery, Ttis sad thal in sach 3z enligitened age Ar.Gunn should desire to put 10 deatl such & citizen ns Mr. Swing, a man who has & und who iz 1o0kiag furward Lo a suipmer vace- it ir poteitle be and Dr. Thorass or Dr. Helmer wauid like to go fishing onze more xt Joast. If that Guun could Le quietly put away far & few years, or if scraebody st Otawa would dampen the man's powder, we ehouid feel more aicags, The Inter-Ocean corre: spondent eays thet the Moderator of tha Assembly miade & puwerful £ -ech on bebaif of the Confession of Faitk, end deciared tuat 2o New S-hoot man who en- tertubed any self-respect could ever favor a revision ©f the rtandards. We hope that ike Teporter misun- derntacd the Moderzior, for, althoush Al.derators gen- erally, a'ter siiting & few duys, are Lisble Lo bocome full of guih over the great undivided, undivieille, and ev- cxsng [ Tesbytenun Church, and {rom tbeir throne Cf oficiil grooluess are wout 10 vee day when al ‘e other gorte will be swaliowed up by the sect nnder their gavel, yo, kven wiale we remenler Liis weakness of e Lih offce, wo canpot Lelieve that it could ever Iead 10 2. tterance Ko flat 2a the One reported by tele- the staxdards groph, * Heled planted his feel cn Eruly, end there he proposed 10 stand. s We €0 20t aee why New School PresUyterian self-re- #pect showld need ake its siznd upon the doctrive of 1l confestion that the univerne was mode {n 8 woek. 7hy ot depart {row that article & Little 3nd sgree with Hugh Miler or Tavlor Lewis? Nor do we teo how w Scisaal 6elf-respect can take its eternal eiana upon E nts dsing i fafancy,” and Jike Lutker 83y, “ Here I etand, $0 help me God.” Nor do we know wiiy New School self-reapect should forbid sny doabt 85 10 (e sublitme greatness of Edwards ss a theologian. Itwould scem the priviiege of simost acy American citizen 16 piace upon Edwsrds such an_ esiunate as he £2t to be truest, and then o Ro to bed &t night with & belf-respect alimost equzl 1o that of e scling Mod- erator. Sed-tespect it 3 quecr thing. Umitsrians and Lo bave st Fliny snd Cicero were full of it Witbout standing st all tpon the Westminster Confes- Flon. We shall Lave to cliarge the Moderator with am- Yiguits, He will explain. 1f o man should feel that Gid did pot, outef Hie mere good pleasure, create some Tuen oulyto be damped, we do not see why the holder of nuch u feeling ahould forfeit his self-reapect. low New Schoul helf-reeozt 16 depending upor such & meihod of damzation, we do ot sea. Awbiguity! subiguy —_— ANCIENT FAITHS IN ANCIENT NAMES. DE. FELSENHAL ON DR. INMAN. Dr. Tnmsn's ponderous volumes deal largely in Riblical nomes and Hebrew history. Beveral weeks ago we requested the Rev. Dr. Felsenthal 10 examine it and give his opinion in wnting or otherwise aa to its merits. Tho learned Rabbi, 1 returning the work, handed the following com- mipication. As we have no font of Hebrew 7Py, we are obliged to_omit the words in that Jaggage, giving only the word as rendered by Ioglup Jetters : Fatiie bizor o7 The Chicaoo Tribune: No. 2 SouT DESPLAINES STRELT, CHICAGO, June 8. —About o months #go you bad 1he inndness to loun me Lty s gncient’ Faith Embodied in Ancient Nauies.” Hier haviug resd a considerable part of the Lulky volume, I return the work to you, and express 2y cordial Ly for your having enabled meto peruse tuis mtesestitd work. + Intererting " 1 call thib book, iougl it8 eITg 1y detalls and its unrelisbility in enriahialoh guq conclurions are, 1o my judg- ., ingumerabie. The jdea which led the author o afitake the Willig of Lis book is mndoubtedly coredt fo 8 CTeat exte ideais that an investiga~ 1100 of the yTOPET BONMpov.thing amoug the varivus patious, 30d tie EROWiedi of (hess origisal signifoas tion, will greatly Baeist UK oxting 4 cleater insIght 0t ture, aud edjacaily fnto the prusitive 3 Unces Luve been luid bare, in tho Proper nOULS &8 ¥el.f (ns Indo-European lapguages a5 of the SEitc 10UR w Vo \hiced hell) we eurr get s clearer copoepLion of ubula roigiguy views, Lot by sceonuplinh thie very LOBCUL buo, very vast lcarning 1 required, alko 3 bigh diweg ‘of critical acumen, 8 souud meitiod ininvestigalisy 100,000 well-weighed conclusions, Butin all t25x'S 5 494 18 lacking, 5 To substaztiate this, permit me 0 quoia » gy R nage 536 Galal,” e ron he Vol 1, & “Gala," ke roller,” " be ro., ko s tlonc.” A variant of Gaili; possibly from Reiah, ® and 4 el '— Bl revesls.” §5ia,’p. 6082 = Jada,” Lo 15 wite,” “he gees.” This rame ix slmost ideatical with Mt. Ids, on which Taris delivared his judgwent. 1iis Aruost the same ath “idein ® and * idea,” aud closely resembles Ada, Tuid, “Jadon” for **Adon,” *the Lord u= the Mas- ter. Tossibly Jah-Dan, ©Jab, the Judge Thures puscages, Which could be mulliplien ny Bundreds, are suficient to show that X, Innan isde Yold of ahy sound Hebrew kuowiedge, and that bis eouclurions are wiid, sottomlese, rocziess, Bold, non- tenidcal unersncea—* only tis and notking more.” “Another {nstance of gross ignorsnce I notice on page 4, where 1t 15.£aid that both the hero of the deluge and i of the datihiers of Zelophebad were called Noab 4nd tiiet there i o disunction Letween this male and fomnle apjellaive. It is troe that 1n the common En- §iah versiun of dbe Bibie Loth nzmen are rendered by %04l Dut in the origmal tho first is callod Nua'h, waile the aecond {3 eallod No'a, ‘Aimost Indicrous is (page 1) the identifiextion of the Famue % Bar-On” (theson of Om) wih the title of butior * Baron.” : The same must be exid of the hypothesis (ibidersj that John 18 denived froxm Jonsh. _Jobn (German, A= iz 1 & Gerivate of Josniee, Jomaasa. But Jionl £0d Jo'lianan are two radically difierent namea—sk rudically different 25 the two English words tre and thiree. 1t ia totslly erronsous to conclude rashly 13t whiis twq worde hixve some eimuilanty in sound, :bey must De ideatical or of he same root, What wrald you sy if aty cne would connect Lorse with hosr. of tne En- gliEb eye Witk the German “ea1® (projounced slike, Dt méaning eg8) 7 “The stpporoons of Mr, Inman, st at an early time there wasa mutual contact Ietween Jews and Tiizidoos, or that Judaism is an ougTORLh of an orig- inal Phallic worsbip, and to forth aTe Mokt fanciful, aud not supported by facte aud Well-established his- torical discoveries. No. Adr. Intas is not the.S88 & sdvance the sci- erive o7 istory or phiivlegy The WOrld of scholarship Souid ba jurtaswell of »ithout his twa volumes a8 i (e Eime. O isen, the vork 18 8 valueless one. Thia dues Lot eaktude the fat that & considersble Dumber of siugle ristenients pyst be admitted aa trus, How could it Le othermase in%s*work Whose pages number 067 Witk Great respect 1 remain, my dear wr, yours sery trt " D, FRISENTEAL, o THE AMERICAN SABBATH, ITS TSE B UE BECLNT TEMPERANCE OONVEN- TION. Tothe Eauer of The Chicugo Tribuna: Cmicaco, June 4 —The Sabbeth resotution of ths Nasional Temperance Convention invites the « m, first of all, of the friends of temper- snce. It zeads: Zeeoired, Thet we charge {he Lauor trafic with s @eliberate Jrrjore 1o desecrate and to destroy our Amcricin Christisn Sabbath, hallowed by the law of God, xnd sacred 10 all our hears. The discuseion of this resclution in the Con- veotion has boen eharactonzed in the papers as the utterauoo of “‘nonsense.” It was mainly zpon the use of the term American. Now, in pointiog out the weaknesses which appear o me in thid resolution, let me define 1y position. I am & Prohibitionist, a tem- perancs worker of twelve years' experience in the work. Iaman Erangelical Christian, fully in eympsthy with the work being dome by | oods, Earle, Hamnond, Adams, and others of | that class. I beliere the liguor-seller bas a soul bath law having been given by Moses to the Jews. Nowhore in the Bible does Canst or any Christian reiterats that Sabbath taw, or urge its clums upon the CLristian conaciencs; nowhere are Christians rebuked for Sabbath-Lresking, though some of the churcnes were composed of converts from heathemam who wouid naturaily require instruction upon that point, and be led 10 g astray in somo Instances after being in- structed. In ail the minute cutalogues contained in the New Testameut, not once is Sabbath- breakiog menttoned. Moro than this: 1f the Sabbath law were ro- peated, aud Sabbath-breaking tebuked in every chapter in the Bible, it would have no possible application to Bunday observance or . neglect. Sunday is never referred to 10 any part of the Bible as the Sabbath ; nor is thore the slightest Scriptural suthority for its obscrvance. ~ The participial phras, hallowed by the Law of God, will seem to the intelligent whisky-desler as an uncaadid attempt to bind his conscicncs, or at léast to array against him the Law of God. For the eapecial instruction of tradition-lov~ ing, mistakon Clristiane, Paul distinctly says : “ Let no man judge vou i meat, or in drink, or in respect of & holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath, which are a shadow of thiugs 10 come ; but the body is of Christ.” Again: **One man esteemeth one day above suother ; tnother esteomneth every day alike. Let everyman bs fally persuaded in hia own mind,” etc. * Both of these quotations refer to Christans in tue Charch, But it we cannot, without violatiog or disregarding the1nstructions of Paal, try to en- force upon Christian consciences Sabbath ob- Bservances, how much less should we attempt to enforce upon liquer-dealors the observauce of Sunday bacause we meet on that gy to worship God. 'And vow, suppose the Americans to _have en~ acted a Sabbath-law, or the Christians to bave choser a day on which to worslup God publicly ; bow sball we attempt to euforce a Christian Sabbath opon the heathen, or an American Sab- bath 28 & religious observance ? That Sunday is dear to the hosite of most Christians in Amer- 1ca 88 & day traditonally beld acred to the wor- ship of God, 16 ot doubted ; but to chaigo the liquor-dealer with any worse or different motivos for selling intoxicating drinks oo Sunday than on any other day, may create more bitter feclings against him m somo quarters, but does not scem 10 me calculated to convict him at ths bar of his owu conscience, or Lo convince him of our love of justice, even to the ensmits ¢f all righteous- Dness. 1 do charge the whisky-dealer with grave sins against God. He hus become unmindiul of the goodness of God towards him ; he1s willing no loager to remember God, and his foolish heart has become darkened; he neither worships God for His goodness, thavke Him for lis mercy, or trustsio Him for salvation ; heis engagedin a business which drags his fzllow-men down to everlasting woe, and etails misery and wretch- eduess upon the families and associates of hus victims ; he is making more ditticult every good work in the world, and inereasing the power of every evil influence; he has arayed bimself openly 84 the enemy of God and of his fellow- men, his every day occupation beiug 20 aggr sive warfaro upon all thst is sacred to men, and &l that is Jovely before God. That 18a fair chaige. It caonot be worse. Wby add to it unfair and inconsistent charges ? A PROHIBITIONIST. —— RELICIOUS MISCELLANY, TRE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The Towa Baptist muuisters Lold a convention in Des Momes this week, beginning Wednesday. Several noted men from sbroad wili be present. The Congregationalist reports 1,66 admis- eions, 925 of them by profession, in Congrega- tiopa! charches throughout the country at the May commanions. B Anp extraordinary revival has been experienced in the Methodist Church in Huatington, Ind. As the result of a forty-four days' meetiog, 120 profeseed conversion. Dr. Rsmbaut’s new Baptist Tabernacle Church, Brooklyn, 18 nearly completed and will be dedi- cated in September or October. It is of brown stone, and cost, complete, £30,000. It was the North Baptist Church, and not the North Star Church, that was dropped from the records of the Fox River Association. The former organization disbanded soms years ago. The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presby~ terian Church reports that the entire Teceipts of the year have been $456,718,—$32,000 less than last year. The dabt of the Board, May 1, was £33, The Rev. A. Damen, B. J., and companions have coucluded & mission in St. John's Charch, Paterson, N. J., duriog which 10,000 persons re- ceived communion, and about forty, youag and old, joined the chureh. Ip the General Synod of the Irish F) Chiurch, the motion to declare the word ** pi in the Prayer-Book to mean only preabyter, was vehemently opposed, and fost by s voig, as fol- lows: Ayes—Clergy, 40; Iity, 106; Noes— Clergy, 1043 laity, 43. Emmangel Reformed Episcopal Church, of 4wark, X.J., which ia formed of members of Tul-sy Chureh (P. E.) who followed Dr. Nichol- £96.= tis withdzawal, numbers 200 commusi- Cumming? L8 been'devomioaiod br ishop b he A i pammns GEhe Bavuer Tariah of the lteformed The total non, & Spited Sistes s glve S8, SIS0 T the S7TTRAE00T0 1 Bundsd ssbool scholars, 5,637,- bracing tewhors, ofiicers, me:’!:gex;shm,_ o 316, o Cintt o namber ) fEbolare 5370, teachors and oliCurn, 35,745 00818 4,01 ¢ ncbalans, 271,381 ; totds Sunday-ech®da-school skip, 397,126 member- The Scatbern Baptist Convention, ‘whict. at Charleston, May 6, roporst that the Home Missionary Board Las empioyeu Quring the vear Sfty-one missiovarics and agents, incinding the native Indian preachers. It aiso Teported 1,045 baptiems, 20 chmiches orgauized, 13 meeting-houses built, and 204 stations sup- plied by the missionarics. In Lhirty years 59,970 beptisms had been sdministered, 1,940 Sunday- schools organized, 4,650 churches and stations supplied, and $925,235 contributed for mis- siorary work. “The discussion of the cxpedience of having & second sermon on Sunday bas reached tho old Puritan churches of Massachusetts, and the Congregationahsts of Leicester have decided to hava only the morning sermon, and to give the afternoon to the Suuday-echool. In other instances, especislly in Bosson, the second service is made clucfiy musical and de- votional, with a short addrese or exposition in- stead of a sermon, very much like the sorvico of vespers for some years familier in New York and Brooklyn. The will of Susan D. Reynolds, Iate of Boston, been presented for probate. After matan yarious family bequests, she gives as followi Ta the Treasury of the American Baptist Mis- sionary Union, 84,000 ; Baptist Home Mission- ary Society, $1.000; Amenican Tract Society, $1,000; Mderican and Toreign Biblo Society, £1,000; Baptist Publication Society, 300 % Newton Theological Institution, $500 ; Trustees Shurtleff College, Alton, 1L, €500 in'aid of the Chair of Piblical Literature aad Intorpretation, now filied by Prof. Edward C. Mitchell in the Theological Department of said College. Bisbop Cozxe, of Wesiorn New York, writes to a0 Engliah friend his fears of tha secondary re- enlts of revival movements like those of Moody and Bankey, and says that in New England they Laveled to unbelief as tho practical reaction from excitoment. The Archbishopof Canier- bury bas his migivings, vet ho is not sare by any means, that good may not cows from those meu and cheir work. It 18 becoming every day more evident that they aro mecting a want that 1 not met by the prevailing rcligious administration, and tuat the regular churches, whose pastors an. derstand ve:y well how to strengthen good prin. ciples alieady formed and to edify this -devout, do pot koow 8o well how tosrouss the indifferent and convert the ungedly. Thess worthy pre- Intes probably have something tolearn in tlus to save. It is the daty of the Christian to bs al. ‘ways fair, frank, logical, and coasistent, but es- | 1espect from those revivelists, and somethin also to tasch them in rewrn. & A number of the congregation attending the pecially 0 in connection with temperance work, ; Episcopal Church i Clairmont, N. J., have pres Christians claim that the Bible is their only rulo ; of faith and pracnice; that nobing should bind . ths conscience not found in the Bible, i To eay nothing of the rhetoric in charging & | traffic with & parpose, we may well ask the advo- cates of temperance to remember that o charge | of evil should be lightly made. If it wers pos- | e:ble for us to over-accuse Satan himself, in sach an ove @ bo would gain a victory over our wouls, for uncandar comes from some other wource iban from God. Tho charge made seeces 1o bave been worded in the manner best slcn- jated o sppeal o whe narrower ana more sclfish tincls of profeseing Christians. Not God's Eabbath, but ‘“‘our” Babbath, “our Anerican seoted to Bistiop Odenheimer a petition request- ing the removal of the Rev. Dr. Batten, who has been for fifteen years Rector of the church. The grounds of complain: are, primarily, that Ar. Datten is too far savanced in years to dischargo the daties of his Rectorship craditably. The pe- titioning members think that, by indacing a larger attendsnce, s younger minister would buiid up the little church more rapidly. Mr. Bat- ten is thought 1o be t00 plebeian in his habits. He froquently carmes his Sunday dinner home from market in a large basket; and occamions bave been known whea he has carried a broom bome from New York under his arm. Another clasa of objectors sllege, also, that the Doctor is oot 80 eloquent a man a3 be might be. The old- | et members of the church Aré i favor of Mr. Batten’s retention, and the Bishop will not prob- ably regard the petition. The Becond Church of Springfield hava for some time been loaded down yrith a $30,000 dsbt. A ehort time ago they called the Rev. George I, Fallerton, of Waluut Hills, O, They pmd off that debt; and now have oue of the Adext churel edifices iu tho State,- without an inoumbrauce: The dedication sorvices . came on the fortieth anniversary of the church. Iu_themorung the;| F le, tho first pastor, gave & historieal eiiag the eatife history of the church: In tha eveing tlis Rov, Chiflcs L. Thompson, of Cbicago, preached the dedication sermon. There are iow churches in the West better equipped for effective service. With an audience-room capabls of eating 1,200 péople, a large organ behind the pulpit and another one in the puipit, an eficient roll of oficors, 8 united and active membership, sod no debt, they have all the conditions of church bappioess and use- faloess. TIVE EPISCOPAL BISHOP. The election of the Eniscopal Bishop of Tows in the subject of considersble discnssion. The trouble is, 8o far as can be learoed, that Du- buque wished to name the Bishop, and, because she could not, she got mad. It was 0o real ob- jection to the Lisnop-clect, but to soy oue it Gid not suggest. it Waa suupiy & question of faction. They wonld accept a tbird man, but not a mdn suggested by their opponents. Du- buquae is famous for that kind of work in con- ventions, roligious or political. It has the mn-~ terial for making a good deal of noise i such Dbodies; and it usually bas 1t on hand. PERSONAL. Tbe Rev. G. H. Wells, of Montreal, is visiting friends 10 this city. Tho Rev. Dr. Swazey has retarned from the East, whore he has been spending & few weeks. The Rev. S. E. Wishard, of Franklin, Ind., i§ visiting the city in the interest of temperance. Tho Rev. Samuel Vigo McKee, of Gillman, L., was looking up tewsperanca matters in Chicago 1:8t weok. The Rov. W. I Blair, of the Presbyterian Chureh 1n Spring Lake, Mich., is visiting fiiends in the city. Dr. Thomas has gone to Iowa to lecture be- foro the Simpson Centenary Collego at it com- mencement pext week. - Dr. C. E. Folton is to deliver the address be- fore the Adelphian Society of Coruell Coliege the 22d of the prosent month. The Rev. J. H. Burns is ofiiciating regularly at the County House, and will administer the sacra- meuts in that 1stitution to-day. The Rev. Dr. R. W. Patterson haa refurned from Cleveland, where he attended the Presby- terian Assembly as a delegate from the Chicago Presbytery. The Rev. Dr. Z. AL. Hmmphrey, pastor of Cal- vary Presbytenan Church, Philadelphis, bhas becn elected Professor of Ecclemasrical History in Lane Seminary, Cincinoati. Dr. Jutkins, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church, has been sick for a few weeks past. Ife ie, however, improviug, aud bas been attending to somo of his rogular daties, The Rev. E. N. Barrett, of Austin, has juss receivod & unanimons and urgent call from the Congregationsl Church at Clinton, Is., but his chureh firmly refuso to let lum go. The Rev. 8. McChesney, formerly pastor of Trinity M. E. Courch of this city, and who bas been scttled in 3linueapohs. Minun.. for a few mouths, has been in the city during the past week. The one hundredth birthday of Henry Boehm, familiarly known a8 * Father toebm,” of the Newark Methodist Conferencs, will occur June , and be colebrated by the Newark Conferenco in Tty Church, Jersey City, where Father Boshm lives. 3 The Rev. R. 0. Morgsn, D. D, after fitty years' labor in tho ministry of the Protestant Episcoral Chureh, twenty-five years as Roctor of Trmity Church, Now Rochelle, N. Y., has been perwitted to retire, with & liberal sunuity al- lowed him by the parish. 3 The Rev. B. Hewitt is the present pastor of tho Halsted Street Church at the Stock-Yards. He has been laboring there eince the 1st of January, and with encouraging success. The church” 18 an offshoot of the Second Baptist Chbureh, and in 8 locality whora it influence is much needed. Tho Dev. Georgs Grook, D. D., who has been editor of the Methodist during its fifteen vears of lfe, has retired, avd will be succeeded by Prof. D. H. Wheeler. Dr. Crook desorves the great- est credit for the success hé bas made of tha Methodist, and can but bave a feeling of satis~ {faction at the success in the Churchof the prin- ciples he has advocated. The Rev. T. J. Morgan encceeds Dr. G. 8. Bailoy a8 Secretary of the Baptisi Theological Uuion. All leuters of inquiry about the Theologi- cal Semunary, applications for catalogues, etc., ehould be addressed to T. J. Morgan, 70 Oak- wood Boulevard, Chicago. By a vote of the Board, the Secretaryship has been dieconnected from all financisl agency, and made an unealaried oftice. Prof. Morgan, in accepting the office, does not in any way modify his relations to the Seminary as Professor of Homilstics. - By BREVITIES. A mourning widower declares that nothing brings him such affecting memorios of hus dear, dead wife as to stumble over a fat-iron. A lady, on separating from ber husband, changed her religion, being determined, sho #a1d, 1o avoid his company in the next world as well 2s this. Striking Coincidence—The Baptist denomina~ tion is rapidly increasing in California, and a general system of irrigation for the entire State is under cousideration. Mamma (sternly)—*‘ Now, Miriam, say grace.” Minam (who, for previous miscondnct, has been deprived of pudding)—* For all they Lave ro- ceved let fhem be truly thankful.” A Presbyterian missionary io Japan remarks that there isn't much to chooss between the two mv':ilmg religions there. The one is Budd- T :bmh is sin, and tho other is Sintoo. 5 ':‘;d?f a clergyman was delivering s col- % " ory, when, in pulling out bis band- kerchief, be 1, g 7 'led out a pack of cards. * Hul- loa!” he exclain, | “ Iy 5 : coat!” " ve gol on my father's In an English Sun, F dangiter, who was very BrICH00L the Viears inquired of one of her pupie s oF Sible-class, in a smock-rock how Queen Sheba came to Se. % 2 g ~mon. Tere plied: By railway, miss.” Onsing for sa explanation, she recoived answer: * wocanas, Miss, the Bible says she came to Jerusalety with a very heavy train.” Twao persons were once disputing 8o loudly on the subject of religion that they awoko a big dog which bad been eleeping on the hearth befors them, #0d be forthwith barked most furionsly. An old divine present, who bad been quietly sip- Ding his tes while the d.eXuz.nu were talking, gave the dog ik, an exclaimed ;- Hold your tengue. vou eilly brute! you know zbout it than they do.* & FOHI (#)10 TrrTyTEE L In epite of fricad Whalley, Who growls “It' all no gor Things still scem quits jolly With Fope Pio Nowo, He senda his Ablegate And Count Marefoschi The Cardinal’s Red Hat To elap on McCloskey { B with lond * juebilats » The Arat Hul jn Yankeet EzT“ retro " m;;l)"anxwon\ ¢ Moody and Sadk . y and Sankey-dom ! Thero Wor 03co & mason at Guiseley gat i Intov Lis heead ’at hs wor jm:cunbytgzgl: prescher, 50 hewent to £6s & Mathody parso. an’ aest bim if Yo couldn’t get lim s job as & *local” somewtear; he wor sower if they'd mobbut give hum s reight chonce he conld con- vert sinnors whoesale. Well, after & gooid deal o' bother ¥’ panon gat a vacant poolpit for Lim 1’ some abtsids country place, an’ theer ons fine Sunda’ moni' m ' mason went, reight weel emted wi' hizzen. Up into't pooilpit be matinted, like oe at wor weel used £ job, All went on quieily énif, whol ¢* time come for him to bagio his sarmon, 1’ theer wor s rare con- gregation to listen tal im. ** Nah, my fricnds,” he bogan in & Btammieri’ goart of way, * 't toxt is this: ‘I am € leet o & world.)" Ho then waited & b an' after thump- in' ¢ pooilpit top toathree timés he gat on a bit farther. ‘ Fintly, my friends,” ho eays, “firstly, I—I—T am ? leet o' ' wor'd,” an' then be com' to another tull stop, sn’ thumpt the pooilpit agean & bit. ‘Yes,”ho went oa agean, **int'nrst place I~Y—I—Tam ¢ Jeer &' " world," but he couldn't get = word farthor. dew what he would. At t' hist, hamvyer, thes: or an owd woman ameng t' songregation saog ht: “Itelltha whatitis, Isd, it 2 vworld, thab sadly wants maater© Aoe poor mason hookt it aht o' #'chapel asif he' | | perance” this morning, at the Church of 5641 bitten wi'a mad dog. He wor n‘;';u knbim tb énter & poollgit ¢ alier.—Once a Week. CHURGH SERVICES TO-DAY: . EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Dr. Cushiznan will offictats at St. Btephan’s i 3 nfig at the Chufch of b8 A of Washitigton anid Rdbey streéts. a7 —Tre reguer sesvicos will 58 HENT K¢ EN6 CHUFEH OF Our Savior, corner of Belden #nd Lincoln sventies. ~—The Rev. H. G, Batterson; D: D5 of Philadelphts, will preach this morning and evening st 5t Mark's Church, on Cottsge Grove avonus, corner of Thirty- sth btreat, RN e 2l - —The Rev, E. Scllivkn, Rectdr, will preich morriing vd évening st Trinity Churehi, corner Twendy-stxth street dnd Michigin averue. b —The Bov, B. G, Perry will ofichate at All Baints® Church, corner of Carpenter snd Fourth streets, morn- ing and evening. . % The Riev, 7 0. Kinney will presch morning xnd evening in the Church of the Holy Communion, od South Desrborn strest; between Twanty-ainth and Thirtleth strects. —The Rev. Dr. De Koven, of Racine College, vill officidte morning and_ evenifig in the Chiurch of {h Epipbany, on Throop ktrest, batween Adame aud Mo ot A . Btreet will preach and ad —Tia Rev, George C. g - minier Loly Covymunion st St, dames Church thid morning, —The Rov, H. N, Powers will preach morning and evening at 8¢, John's Church, on Ashland avenue. —The Rev, Arthur Bitchie, Rector-elect, will preach ‘morning and evening st the Church of the Ascerision; corner of Elm and LaSails streats. 3 —The Rev, . Barbert Smythe, Rector, will presch this morning and evening at the Memarial Church, on Indiana avenue near Thirtieth street, —~The Rev, Luther Pardes preaches morning and evening at the Warren Avenue Church, near Western avenus, . TNITARIAN. & The Rev. Brooks Herford will preach nt the Churchi of the Messiah mornlug and evening. Evening sub- Jeck: “Modern Reformutious.” —Tho Rev. C. W, Wendte will preach at the Fourth Church, corner of Prairie avenue snd Thirtieth streat, this morning. No evening service. ~Tho Rav. Robert Collyer preaches morning snd e¥ening 1 Unity Church, on North Dearborn stroet. —The Rev, E. P, Powell will preach at tho Third Chureh, corner of Monroe and Zailin streets, Morning subjoct: * The Living God, of the Immauence of the Deity. —The Rev. E. P. Powell, of tne Third Oburch, will preach thls afternoon st Unity Chureh, Osk Park DBAPTIST. The Rev. Florence McCarthy will presch at Amity Church, corner of Warten avente sud Robey strests, morning and evening. Morning subject : Learning of Josus.” Lyoning subject : * Moses in the Mount," The Re, Robert P. Allison preaches morning and evening in the Bouth Church, corner of Locke and Bonaparts streets. —The Rev, N. F, Raviin will preach this morning at "the Temple Church, cornér of Harrison and Sanga- mon stzeets, The Rov, Jobs Darby, of London, will preach in tiie ovening. 3 —Tuo Rev. J. B. Ssmpson wiil preach st the Im- mannel Chureh, No, $32 North Halsted street, ih the morsing. The av. C. 3L Joses will presch’in the evening. S Tho Rev. O, I, Sampaon prosches this eveaing at the Centennial Chureh, No, 320 Ogden avenue. —The Rev, J. M. Whitehead will preach morning 200 ventng in (b North Star Onuxch, cornee of Di- vision and Sedgwick streets. —The Rev. T. W, Goodspeed presches morning and evening in the Sacond Chiurch, corner of Morgan and Monroo streets, Baptism u tie evening. —Tne Rev. james Goodman preachies morntng dhd evening in the Hyde Park Churol, —Tho Rev. . M, Ellis preaches morning sad even- ing ai the Michigsn Avenue Church, CONGBEGATIONAL. Tho Bov. Albert Bushnel) will preach at the Leavitt Stroet Church morning and evening. —The Rev, Norman A Millird wilf présch at the Wicker Park Church morning and evening, Evening subject :_* The Sabbath in America.¥ —Tne Rev. William Alvin Bartlett will preach at Plymouth Church, corner of Indians svenue and Twenty-sixth street, morning. FPraisa sorvice in the eveuing. —Auniversary exercines will be held at the Taber- nacle Charch, corner Indinna snd Morgan streets. Tbe Rev, Dr. Healy will preach in tho morning, Ths evening servico will conalst of addressos by prominent epeskers, P Fhe Rev, W, W. Patton, D. D., will presch at tho Oakland Obarch, morning And evening. g —Tho Rev. George P, Kimball preaches morning and evening at Bethany Church, corner of Paulins and ts, —Tno Rev. L P, Jones, of Wis , will preach morping and_evening ot the Welsh Church, Room 10 Daris Block, corner of Maditon and Green streets. —TTe Rey. C. D. Holmer morning evening in the Union Park et S PRESEYTERIAN. Tho Rev, Charles L Thompson will presch st the Fifth Chureh this morning. —Thero will bo presching at the Ellis Avenue Church, near Thirty-seventh sizeet, this marning, No ovening service. —The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach st {he Reunfon Church, Fourteenth street, near Throop, morning snd eveninz._ Evening subject: * Walking with God.” —The Rev, David J, Burrell will preach at the Went~ miaster Church, morning and evening, Morning sub- and Ject: The Virgn Mary." Evening subjecs: “As Thy Days So Shall Thy Strength Be.” —The Rev. J. W. Biln preaches morning and_even~ ing in the United Church, corner of Monros and Fau~ lind siréets, —The Rav. Dr. Plummer, of South Csrolins, will preach in the morningat the Fullerion Avenue Church, The Eev. W, C. Young, pastor, in the even ing. —Prof. Francis L Patton preaches this morning in the Jofierson Park Church, cormer of Adams and The Rav. W. 8. Plitmhet proaches g service, —The Riev, W, A. Brooks, of Kew York, will preach thiy evening in the Campbell Park Chopel. —The Rev, G. P. Suwall, of Cayugs, N. Y., will preach this morning in the Bixth Church, corner of Oak snd Vinceanes avenucs, Tho Rev. C. L Taomp- 6on will preach in the evening. —The Rev. Samuel . Duificld preaches mormiog 504 ovening in the Eighih Church, corner of Washe ingion and Robey streets, —Tho Rev. J. Monro Giteon will presch morning and evening st the Second Clrurch, corner Mithigan avenue and Twentisth street, BEFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Dr. Cooper will give the second lecture of the course on ** Tho Grestnens of God,” this evening, at Immanuel Curch, cornst of Centre and Dayton strects, —THo Rev. W. M. Postlethwaite will preach at Christ Chur:h morhing sud evening. Morning subject < * A Reasonable Service.” Evening subjoct: * Banquel- ing Honses.™ —Sergices will be held this morning and evening at the Eromanue) Ohurch, corner of Hinover and Twen- ty-scventh streets. —The Rev. A. Walkley will presch for fhe Beformisd Eplscopal Churen at the Baptist Ghurch, on Lock street, at 3 p. . —Tho Rev, 8amuel Fallows, D.D., will preach morn- ing and evening fn St, Pauf's Church, corner of Lake strest and St, John's place, oppoite Union Park, METHODIST. ‘The Rev. J. G. Truosdell will conduct the services ‘morning and evening at the First Church; cornet of Clark and Washingten streets, A —The Rev. M. M. Parkhurst-will presch mofning and_evening at the Michigan Avenus Clurch, on Michigan avenue, between Thirty-eecond and Thirty- third atréots, Sanday-schiol at 2:30 p. m. —The Rev, H, L. Martm will presch morning snd evening st St Paul's Church, corner Maxwall street 200, Nowberry aveiine, Breiing aublect: * Profan- 5.7 3 “~The Rov. Andrew Church, of Providence, R. L., preach morning and evening at the Ada Birest Church. Sunday-achool at 2::0 p. m. —The Bev, B. 8, Cantine will preach morning #nd gréning 1t 8o’ Falton Street Chiurch. Lovo feast st :50 2, 10, —"hi'ig Children‘s Day at Trinity Church. The Bov. Bt o o hort sermat, and there will be singilig Peach o eh g —Tno Rev. Dr. rauletis PR at the Centehary Mothodist Chigitimors, will preach near Alorgan, in the morning. . The' pastiprroo sireet, Dr. Peck, will preach in tho evéning. Subject i FHL: Second Coming of Christ. —The Rey. N. Jackson preaches this morning sod eveulng at ths Forrest Avénus Church, UNTVERSALIST. The Rev. Bumner Ellls will discourse g “Tem- Redsem- ar, corner of Washington and Sangamon streets. —The Rev. J. W, Hanson preaches at the old school house in Englewood at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Sab- bath-achool ut 3 p, m. —The Bav, Dr. Ryder will preach this evening at St. Paul’s Church on Washington svenus, between Six- G Sunday.achio wal e S place o0 tha” repaler e Sunday-achool s the of the re; ‘morning servics. : 2 The Ter, Dr. Edmars mat i ® Rev, Dr. Edmund Belfopr will i Cburch of the Holy Trinty, corner af Er lfldDumx: born atreéls, morning and evening. The Rev, C. . Mertimes, i e Bev, O, F. Mortimar, partor of the Oesntisl Christian Church, will preach l:lul ‘morning and even- ing st Campbel f':n.imm of Cempbel) sseous and wn Buren vening subject ; ¢ the Viogin o g subj Adoration of Elger 5. 6. MOt o pe Hall, . G. will presch st Ad No. 213 Weat Madison strect, BOrhibg and evenion. —4. A. Wheelock will lecturs beforo the First So- cloty of B 13 8¢ Grow's Opers Hall morning aud svening, Moraing fabiect: ~ Tue False and tho rue.” In the ovening the speaker will reply to th Rev. D.J. Burrill recent. ecmaon touching Sptsituat: —TThe Soclety of Friends will meet at 11 'clock this morping in Noom 29 Methodist Church Block, Eliha Durfee, & prominent minister of he Socisty, ia exe e D of 4 “hrist o Disciples of Jesus Christ meet s & p. er R. F. Clark, of Eansss, will t Green Streel, Tibernacle moraing 2nd oveaing. . Helk nesy meeting at 3 o'dlock p. m, . pshete OO0 CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. 4 June 6—Second Sunday after Trinity, June 11—§t. Barrabas, CATEOLIC. 6—Third Suaday after Pentecost : B, Norbert, 782, Venantias (from May 18). 8-St Peter Calosine, 2. C, from May 10 S8t is_Caracciolo : ‘Primus and Feelan, s 000 47 5. Scotiand, W, John rr’.&’;a..,n. ol F : oy M + B8, Basilides and Juns Juna June June " THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Third Annial Report of the Board of Directors. Kamber of Visitors During the Year— Books Circulated: Protest Agatast thé Propositioh of the " Finance Committee, Aotual Peonniary Standing of the Library @ Mist Have Funds or its Usefulness B : Destroyed. This Board of Dirsctors of the Public Library met yehterdsy afternoon st their mew rooms d adopted the following anuual report, which will be subruted to the Council Monday even- ing. It will be read with special interest in view of the attempt of the Finance Committes to Jeave the Library destitate of the means to carry on operations. The report is as follows : To the Honorable the Mayor ard Common Council of Chicago : ’ The undersigned, Directors of the Chicage Public Library, in discharge of the duty assumed by them under their appoiatment to tase chargo of this trust, in accordance with the provisions ofthe * Free Library bill" respectfully beg leave to submit this their third annual repurt. THE NEW QUARTERS. Since the report of iast yeaz, the Board bave removed the Library to the Dickey Building, on the southwest corner of Lake sud Dearborn streets. With a view of economiziog in the amount of annual rent, a8 well 28 to secure in their new quatters such an allitment 6f room by an iocrease of tho space and light to be obtained, they have loased the third and’ fourth stories of eaid building, with one Iarge room on_the secoud floor, fors term of four ynars from the 1st dayof May, 1875, at an aonual rent of $3,500, which is a re- duction of $1,500 per apnum on the smount of rent paid for the rooms recently accupied. And, upon a careful estimate made by the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, it is confidently be- lieved that s farther sum of very consideiabla amount will be saved in heating sud lightmg the new rooms by economy in the difference of mode which 18 intended fo be applied, and the better character of the building in these respecta for that purpose. Besides the considerationsalready named—the space afforded by the two stories which have been finished under the contract made with the owper of the building—ihe Library will now place at the disposal of all visitors SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS for those who desire to resd in the Library, with a view to consulting all such works (of which thereis now a large colleotion) that are too valuablo for circulation, and may be used by the student or scholar, books of reference in conoection with whacever branches of lssrning, an history, philosophy, science, and all he may esire. INCREASE I¥ YOLUMES. . It will be remembered thasin March, 1874, this Library was removed from the *Taok,” where the nucleus of the present library was formed. The books then on hand from doma- tions made abroad numbered sume 9,379 vol- umes. The Library was opened to the public May 1, 1874, -with 17,355 volumes; on the 18t of December last it had 32197 volumes. and the present nomber of volumes is nearly 40,000. Congideriog the shortness of the period elapsed since the Library waa first organ- ized in Afay, 1872, this would seem A very rapid, ¥ and, under eome cir- cumstadces, a very Bati-factory, condition of progress. But when it is taken in connection with the extraordinary demands made by our own people mpon its capabilities; the libaral sympathy of the people abroad and at home who generously contributed towards its foundation ; the ready co-operation which immediataly after nm-(m‘t fire and during the year 1872 all oaur public anthorities, State and “municipal, lent to the inauguration of tha entsrprise; this Board confess to & feeling of disappomtment in the lack of financial means enabling them to realize the just expectations of the general public by providing for their dewands in the ratio of tho INCREASE GF BOOKS TO BORROWERS and readers. This increase has been without parallel in the history of American libranes, Mr. Poole, the iabrarian, 1 a recent circalar to the pablic, maken the statoment that The other large public libraries of the country have beon years ia developing what haa been done in Chica- coin’a fow months. Tha Boston Public Library, st the end of ite Sth year, bad a less number of book- ‘borrowern, and onc-fourth as many_books tuken out, a8 our Library hzd at tho end of ite fifth month, The Cincinnati Public Library, st the end of its sixth year, with twice a8 many boaks, bad only half the cireuln’ tion of the Chicago Publio Library at the end of its sixth month, And the Librariao’s report accompanying the present document, exhibidng in detail the con- dition of theLibrary, will show that the number of books taken out in circalation since the 1st of June, 1874—~the date of our last report—has reached the total aggregats of 399,155 volumes, while at the beginning of the year thers wero on the shelves only about 18,000 volumes, which bas been inciessed by purchsses during the year, until now the whole number of volames on our shelves is about 40,000, while tho number of borrowers has increased to nearly 21,000. It was in view of saoch progross ag this that the Board solicited from your honorable body the full amonnt of the fifth'of a mill tax last year, which the Libzary bill provides way be levied on the valuation of propertyin all cities of the State of over 100,000 inhabitants, in which the Clty Counicil has established a public library for the use of its iuhabitants. This would have pat to the credit of the Library fund s sux last year of nearly 260,000, Insiead of which the appro- gnufion wag limited to $25,000. It was well an- drstood that oor operating expenses would ox- ceed that sum. Tho Board had opened the Li- brary to the public on the ist of May, 1874, in antcipation of the receipt cf the levy authorized by law, but were greatly disappointed on finding that they wera to receive less than balf thatsum, and that your houorable body refused your con- currenca1n what they conceded to b then an urgeut publlc demand. The sccompanying report of the Library Com- mistee will show how THIS DISAPPOIRTMENT caused thin Board to arrest the execution of ordera already sent abroad, and che coniract for binding more than 3.000 volumes of the British Patent-Office Roports, under a contract made in 1873 with ell & . Co., of London, The Board also reduced the number of news- papers and pertodicals in our reading-room, and, sccording to the sfatement in the teport of the linaWittea ‘‘came toshalt aloug the whole ad i ‘h‘e""udun do not find what they expect- ® Townecia—more especially in the lina of recent publicatian to plead the low condindy (ou 0o Permitted :fur tfihmnc:::man Councll Iast yeat taa reduced And bere we may also b excused for ploading in behaif of this trust, the injustice referred to in the report of the Library Committes. It now appears that the QAGE DEFALCATRN, which, against our repeated remonstrances, was charged in the Comptroller's oflice to the extent of over $6,300 upoa our library fand (tbe pro- portion it is said the fund should bear), took place before the organization of this Board, or the levy and colléction of any portion of the tazes raised for its mamtenance and support. We sgaio args that in thia respect our sccount with the city may bave the proper credit on the booka of the corparation. In connection with the prasent Comptroller, this Board, while expressing their gratificition at the Liberal sdvance which ba has made on bis estimate last yeer, yot submit whether the Li- brary bill, in allowing you,to levy not more than one-fifth of one mill for the support and main~ nance of a {ree Library, did not intend and re- quire_ that this whoie sum should always be raised whenever it was needed. WE RESPECTFULLY INSIST that this need does mow exiat, and fhat ihe $50,000 recommended for the present. yor (1875) 28 a0 appropriation is altogether insuficient to provide psyment on contracts deferred, the in- cresse of the Library, sud the generally increas- ing gnb‘hc demand. Ihe Board has been furnisbed by the Comp-~ troller with a statement of our cash resources now subject fo draft to the credit of the Laterary fond. By these statements, while it would ap- pear_that there was a balance to our credit of 32277165, yet, aa » matter of fact, there is only & cash credit, money on hand, to our accounf, subjoct to draft, of $2.5%, the rest being for taxes for 1872, 1873, and 1874 uccoliected taxes. This credit, however, is overbslanced by the proportion of the Gage defslcation charged to this fund of §6.308, leaving the balance BRAinSt the library fund on the books to dats something ‘more than 34.000. this connection, however, it should be sisted that of the tax lgvisd of suth spprapriit- od for 1874, thers is yat remaining hngofl;uhd abont §20,000. i e THE ROYNTNG EXPENSES . © . | of the institution, if the circulsticn of baoks jutained, capnot be less than ggi,mfi“u and may reach $30,000. Ay calcaiation wa- aro able to make upon the raceipts of s smaller sonaal revenue than §30,000,—for expensss,—and £2).000 mors tomake what_wo_cousider _indispensable _pur- chases, will matorially cripple the library, while it will efactually put an cnd to its X\:.uthar Progross. e Tven without the addition of more revenus to purchase books, exclusive of tho rasning ex- ponse account, it can readily be seea from the Tatio of our increase tbat the time 18 coming, and that spoadily, when the number of book- borrowers will b greater in numver thaa the books now on the shelves. . To your honorable body, therefors, TRIS BOARD HOW APPEALS, 18 the legitimato ro; resentatives of the people of Chicago, in behalf of that people, for the AMouDt Decessary to feop open this wstitation. We entertain no shadow of doubt but that when our actual condition is properly under- stood, you will do so. Let ttere be, if possible, Do miskuprebenaion. For if we are correctly ad- yiged aa 1o the reason of tho Lmited and innde- quate appropriation made last year, there was a mistake mado io regard to the amount of actual resources subject to onr dispasal. THE FATLULE OF TUIS, . the first Free Librasy establiched in this city or in Iltinois under the ** Free Library act,” would aot, we respectfully insst, be ereditable to Chi-~ cago.. . On the contrary, it would bo of deplora- bls occarrence. The Board daring the past year have drawn agoinst and expouded Of the library fond $58,- 708.81, of which $28,410 has beea paid on the purchases made of books proviously ordered, prior to December lat, when 1t was deemod prudent to decime_all further scquisitious in view of the insufficiency of our fund. The stitéments atiached will give all mneces- asry dotails as fo the soma pmd out on scconnt of salanes, newspapers, aud peri- odicals, bookbindery, faroiture, fixtures, sta- tonery, heating, ipsurance, reut, and printing. A very satisfactory item will be found in the fact l;iflt the Secretary has received on account of fnes from book-borrowers tpe sum of £3,648.72, while we have paid out for rebinding the books damaged only $1,991.80. The Library now contains 39,236 volumes. The accensions the past vear have besu 21,053 volnmes ; 969 of those have been donations, ard 20,122 acquired from purchases. The total pum- ber of pamphleta pow on band is 7,803, of which there wero received from donations Isat year 1,943. We refor to the Librariao' report accompanying for all details under this branch of our report. ‘The Board call your specisl attention to the present branch of this report, in which wo are required to give THE NUMBER OF VISITORS sttending and number of books loaned ont, etc. The whole namber of visitors to the reading- room daring the yuarhas reached 236,021. The fsgnes of perodicats bave beén 135,855, and books issued in reading-room to visitors, 21,994, The average of daily visitors has been 647, and average issue of periodicala 371, and of books 91. THE CIBOTLATION of books loaned out to borrowers bas approxi- mated 400,000 volumes, or, to bo accurate, 399,- 156 volumes. ~The largest number of volumes issued in one dsy (which was Alarch 6) reached 2,452 volumes, while the smallest number issued in one day was 840. The Librarian will give all details in this branch of the service, and in re- gard to all the facts, which his great experience and skill enable him so well to handle. His views on the progress the Library itself has made and is maluog will be found to have a pe~ cuatiar interaxt. The Board submit the above facts, of which they sre cognizant, not doubting for s moment that the strongest argument to be made in fasor of the ** Chicago Public Library ™ 18 tobe derived from its own history and progress. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. Swindling of American Ladies by Parisian Dressmakers. Open-Air Festivities in Paris—Fondness of the Freuch for Qut-Door Life. The Parisian ** Sportsman "—His Queer Imitation of John Bull, PARISIAN SWISDLISG GF AMERICANS. Tt is some time (says the Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia Press) sinée I have chron- icled amy of the pecalisr forms of cheating, or other unpleasantnesses to which American cus- tomers foo often fall victlms in Paris by reason of their unwariness in the trustfulness which is born of fairnessin dealings at bome. But lately WO cases of & pecullatly flagrant nature have come under my observation. In one instance an American lady sent to & fashionable dressmakar two drosses to bo romodeled, one a black velvet ball dress, which was simply to be retrimmed with lace and jet, and the other was a black silk walking-dress to be made over entirely. The dresses were sent home in dué course of time, The blsck silk wis handsomely zemado, and was trimmed profasely with velvat, for which 5 high pricé was charged in the bill. The ball dress looked all right, but when it was tried on the Skift was found to be strangoly shrunken from its origioal foll dimeosions. On examina- tion it was discovered that by dint of ingevious piecing and goring, the velvot needed for the wsalking-dress lad beer abstracted from the ball-dress, which was of courss ruined by the process. Thelady, there- fore, had boen forced not only to pay for her own velvet, but to compensaie the rascally dress- maker for spoiling & costly dress. In ihe second case, ayoung Amcrican lady ordered some dresses of a dressmaker, and took bLer & quautity of rich embroidery to be used on one of the costumes. Sho called one day to give an order, and on her rotura to her hoto), was met by a policeman, seut thither by the dreasmaker, who, having lost hor pet dog, secuséd the young lady of baving stolen it. Vaioly did she protest her innoconce; her apartment was searched, and the police would not suffer her fo quit her room. After some bouts of this annoyance, tbe dresswaker sont word that the duz bad been found, and the young lady was of conrse released. Being s sen- sible and spirited girl, and in no wise inclined to submit to such treatment, she ment at ouce to the drepsmaler to revoke hor arders and to get back her embroidery. The woman behaved with the greateay insolence, and not only refused to spologize for the insult and the annoyance of Ter faise charge of theft, but declsred that the dresses ordered had been cut out, that they should be made up, aod must be paid for, sud that she would not give up the embroidory. In this dilomms the young lady applied to a juge de la_paiz, who, after heariog her complaiat, Gis- missed it ou the ground that, as sbe had only been accused of steallng & dog, thera had been no damage dons to her character. But as she ;rl oot minded to let the matter reat there, she 803 Americlsrl.:“.:ny;‘: al“::: of . the celebrated ponding, and I shan aw,; aenouemens with much inforest. I am wilkies ta that In this oue instance af Toast v 00 descend on the heads of those 109 ofta; - inhed rascals, the cheats of Paris. CTPUY The olty is now crowded with Americans, many coming home from Italy, and others ar- xiving for the summer sesson in Europe. The hotels are jammed {rom ground-floor to garret, one unfortunate party baving gome the rounds 2 llgénuen hotels bafore finding & place wherein ge. The affair is still OPEN-AIR FESTIVALS IN PARIS. Lucy Hooper, in her last Paris letter, says: The warm weather has called into full activity the cafe concerts and open-air festivities of Paris, to the prejudice of the theatres, which, never very cool or well ventilated even in winter, bacome in the summer torrid dens af suffoca. tion and discomfort. The Chsmps Eljeees looks a5 gay as a scene from fairyland of from tha last new. spectaclo at the Gaite) with all its myriad cafes-chantants, encircled with lines and srches of moon-like lamps, whils here and there plazing letters of gas and arrows in jets an- nouncs the proximity of some ball or concert —Msbille or tha Coocert Musard. The opoa- ing of the summer circas on the Cbamps Elyses wag, as is usual bere, & grand tasbionsble festival. - Why it should be so Dobody knows, but there is always a rush among: the fashionables (and the demi- mondaines too, of course) to get seats for thag particnlar nigat. Not that the performances merit day such distinction, for any good Amer- can_eatablishment of the kind m{l far garpass the Parisian circus in excellenco and varioly of atirsctions.. Butit1s “the thizg " to go to the oircus on the opening might, audso everybody 6vorybody drives o the Boia nowadars, pariis ulariy on & Sunday. Last Sunday the. v de I'Imperatrice presented ths spectacle of foge solid and uobroken lines of carriages, extend. ing from the Arc de Triomphe to the Boi go Boulogne, sud all compelled to mave a o suail’s psca- by resson of- the thronz. This iy tho height of ont-door enjoyment, and iy what is called drivibg here. Bat.it ia ot driy. i leasure consists in_looking and bein ud the toileties are worih gazing an at least from a feminiae poinf of visw. - Imaging over thig throng dnd crush of cartizges, s sxy blue as & Aawless axpplirs, an stmosphers sofy 88 8 mich and sweet a8 a kisz, & flood of golden sunsbite, and all around the verdure and loys: Iiness of that beautiful avende—then fmiaging the barouches aud landaus snd victorias tillsd with damos and damsels arrayed in all the spien. dors of the ricliest of spriug toilettes, and thag ‘*dost like the picture?” Most people do whan they come to Paris. L will doscribe one of tha toi. lotces warn Iic Sixnday o the faces as a sampls of the rest. The coreage and oversirt wers of alest blue brocadea sursh, looped ovar u gonncod underskirt of pale blue silk ; & scart of hight rose-piuk surab was tied aroand the lidy's turost. Her boonet was of finest rice-straw. trimmed with & scarf of light btue surah hneg with pale pink. The Uni8 Were Of tho wuw dolicate, aud the whole costuma fitted liko 3 glove. Midsme de Ratazzi is to give an oveg-air fete shortly fn the gardeus of tha Hotel d'A s, The programme includes various games ang sports with prizes to be given to the most skil). fal. If the weatiier prove mnpropiticui the fets is to be transferred in-doors. Tha nsmes of the managers of this fete have been published, and they include those of some of the ieading saciety men of Paris. But I am rather curious to leary what Indies will be prescnt at it. The fondness of the French for ont-door lifs has often been rematked, Every fine ofternoon the Champs Elysees present as dense a throng of sivters on the sidewalk a& of carriages on thy roadwsy. Every ealo has its littlo crond of cag. sumers in front of it, sipping beor or coffes, or eaung ices. And this kind of thing is not only prevalent in spring and summer, Lut every mild winter's day calla forth multitudes of thase dwellers in the opec air. It has often boen soarce of wonderment a8 to why the American public has never adopted this mod of enjoying the sunshine and fresh wir. There are, 1 beliove, various causes, chlof zmogg which i8 the lack of broad sidewalks, tempting cafes, aod ehady svenues where:n to enjoy such & seance. Xorsover. we are a home-staying people, for the rcason that our homes ate pirtict’arly pledsant. DBui thass loungers on the Champs Elysees and the Boule vards have fo nice, airy lictie houses whersin to git with their families, and to which they can welcome a friead. The umal), stufte spartments inhabitéd by all but the weaithy in Pans becoma almost intolerably close in warm westher. Aad 80 this bright, out-door life that go charms » stranger 18 merely an evidenca of tho discomfort of ordinary Parisian homes in_general, Fresh ar and cool and sbundans water are Americtn necessities, but they are Parisian lnxunes. TRE PARISIAN ‘/SPORTSHAN.” ‘The Parisian ** sportsman * (éavs the London Times' Pani§ correapondent) is just now at the height of his glory. Like his Engliah model, bs has made s book, in which ho has reckleasly heaped all his bets on one borse, Salvatar, Nou gat, or 8t Cvr, a8 the case may be, and he 1means to appear at Chantilly in the exaggerated costume which his tailor has prrsuaded him is the attire’ of “high life” on the other side of tho Chatnel, with a necktie and pocket-handxer- chief of the colars.of his favorite. Indeed, An- glophobists of his claas are most particular that their dress shall bo faithful copies cf the plates eutitled * Latest Fashions,” which certainly ap- pear in Eoglish tailors’ shop windows, bat which very rarely appear represented on the backs of Enghsh gentlemen. Ba the sportsman is determined to bs more English thau any Englishman. His shit collar i8 80 bigh and etiff that by no_exeriion can he turn his head round, his frock coatissa loog that he resembles one of the occupants of a toy Noab's ark, and the pattern of his looge tronsera i8 & wondrous design which must have cost hoars of toil to conceive, Add to thia elaborately pointed boots, a hat which is sil carl, aod & bouquat of vaiicus colors and large kize, and you have onse of the numerous young wentlemen wha are to bs meton tho evering of &ny race day witha Grand S:and ticke: hanging from their button-lole, and & large pair of field-glssses slung round their shouiders, His conversation 18 not brilliant, and bis politics, if =uy, ars either Bonapartist or Lesitunist, thoogh to bs sue, a8 he very truly says, he Las vever studied the question, bnt he bas & profound contempt for **les Rabagas.” His food is largély made up of half-cooked beefsteaks and pale ale, and his princial evening amusement is the theatre, for which, in contradistinction to most of his conn- trymen, he is always carerul to array himself in evening attire. Ho knowa all the leading repre- Béntatives of opera bouffe by sight, but_ he haa never been to the Thestre Francsise, except oo rire occasions, which are marked down in bif mental character a8 penitential ceremonies. To Englshmen he is singularly deferential, and he will hold thé greatest iguozamui from the other side of the Channel 1n the light of & Solon, provid- ed that e will givs hisopinion on raciug matters, or discuss the pedigree of Liabeatcher, by John Bull. and other ammals with lovg byt fictitions pedigrees. He bas a wezknees for dog-carta, and would like to keep a Hansom, but has realiy the same secret distrnst for the latter kind of vebicle 58 be bas for his bouledogue Toby. Heis sure to bo 2t Chantille on Sunday, and those English- men who see him: there must look upon him only 23 a harmless f:natic to English 1deas, who ir s0 Yery French tha: he csnnot be anything else, much as he wou!d desire to be 80, Above all. ke mast not be mistaken for one of the reslsup- porters of racing in France, who are known 1 our own oountry as well as hero. CEOWNING THE I0STERE: Pentecost (says the Pars correspondent of the New Yotk Times) is the dsteof the fews of Nantérre, and the day upon which virtue 18 re- warded by the crowniog of a Rosiere. It is & great day in this quiet suburban willsge. The streets are hang with fliga and banners, and Venetian lanterns of varions colors ars put out in every direction for the ilfumination at might. The well of Sainte-Geuevieve is decorated in s exceptional manner, and about it, and i fact on ail sides ono sces tables covered with the cakes of Nanterre, which the people offer for sale on this dsy. This is the famous galette, withont which no ona would thiok of returniug from the village. The church is also orpamented, & pl form covered with crimsoh veivet, with gold fiinge, being erected for the ceremony. Ths streets are thronged with peaple in their Suo- day clotbes. At the appointed bour thers 18 8 flourish of lmmggts. and the Mayor. with his maunicipal 8ash about his waist, heads a proces- sion to the houmse of the young girl to be crowned. Bhe takes tie arm of the Mayar, ¥50 is foltowed by tle other local ofticials aad oy the people, when all march to the church, paas- ing botween two lines of soldiers ranged outside. Formerly it was the firemen of the place who perfarmed this sermce, but afier the song Pompiers de Nauterne, 80 much fun was mid of tue firemen that soldiers were substituted. Yeb 00 fireman_can Dow appear :n the sfregt With bis brass Roman casque witkout hearing the populaco, ¢ Ial 1s, zinc Iai Ls, 5 Ces beaux militafres, o i The Rosiero of the year is a bright blonds, named Marie Louise Thomas. Sbe is 10 her 1% year, tall, slight, but by no wmeuna fragile, wish charming face and very gracious manoets. Sho i8 the oideat of thres orphans, and lives with ber grandparents, supporting them with her isbor, and taking a motherly care of them all, despite ber youth “and dapgerons beauty. On enteriog tho church the Mayor, the adjofots, and Alder- mon, with the pairons and patronesses of the feto, take their places upon the platform, an dfter the speechmaking, the young frr) is call up to receive hor crown. The IRoaiers of last year, a bright branotts, whs pres- ent on thus occasion, Mlle. Thotias receives in addition to her crown, an elegant Lrousyes: front the patronees of the fole, Lgu gam of francs from the fuod of ita founder, sud 500 fraccs more from the town on condition that abs does not marry uatil the expiration of one year 1f she is already engaged and intends to wAIY. this dot i3 generaily made up by privata doné~ tions, but powadays it bas been found nora prudent to discourage immediate marisge, i order to grvé time for sa examination intd th titles of the prefendant to so much youth, Virtus, apd comparative wealth. Theides of thus ré- warding viitue 19 a very good one, whatever strict moralists may say about virtye being its own reward ; and sach gnod results base follow- ed that the samo eyatem has been adopted i many other towus and villages. VA White Rose on an Apple Tree. Reading (Pa) Eae. : On the premises of Mr. N. F. Becntel, Parido- men avenue and Franklin sireot, i3 to be seen one of the most remarkable curid-ities ever beard of of the kind. A o crab-apple 'r9e '8 growing in the yatd, sud od thé tob of the tres 12 ulooming s pure white rose. The ross fiein, which is growing from the apple branch, i8 over 2 yaard old, as it Lids already bloomed two years. The flower can be beat scen from the story of the house. | é ; { o At B it