Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1875, Page 3

THE CIGAR. fnformation for the Friends ot the Weed. An Inspection of the Process »f Manufacture. Difference Between Havana Tobacco and the Amer- ican Leaf. What Constitufes a Strong Cigar--- Dexterity of the Workmen. Regulations of the Internal Revenue Department. Bow It Is Sought to Check Attempts - at Fraud. Tho Way to Lvade the Law. s To discuss the cizar in tvpical American stvle Bght ooe after dinner. Yon've nothing to do for fhe nekt half hour; elovate your heels (whether by putting them atop the mantel-niece, & table, or a chair-back) to & level with vour chair; tp back sour chaur at the angle of perfect ease, 2od tilt your hat down over your face, till ounly by Iookiog strsight down your uose, can you get miew of elge thun the brim; take the cigar be- ! tween your teeth. with your lower jaw pmlmfied &0 that the lighsed tip of the weed sball be with- In threo-quazters of sn inch of your right eye. $7ben Legin pufling. Having pufled away liko & ‘jocomotive until the air is thick with smoke, withdraw your rignt bsnd from the depths of your pantaloous pockets loug enough to take the cigar from between your teeth while you squirt saliva at a spittoon exzctly 16 feet distant. Taving replaced the cigar betwsen vour teeth as before, resowae smoking. Then, if you succeed, you will nave discussed your cigar in the true merican style, which 18 Do mora to be mistaken <asn is the s:ags Insbman or the lan!ation Saikey of tue miustiels,—and 1s £o wore Lke tho gt x TO APPRECIATE YOUR CIGAR, wait until the day’s work is over, and the more wok hss Leey crowded into the day the more will jou enjoy your smoke. Let i be, foo. & few minutes after ycar evening meal. To bLepin with, make Bsure that the weea is lightea all rcund So that it wilt burr. evenly ; ard. pufl, not after the manner of » steam-engioe, bat with leisarely ease. Then, 25 10u watch the thin wreaths of smoke sesum- ing o thonsaud fautasiic ehapes as they grace- ful 7 flost aluit, if you dow't cowe nixher enjoy- ing il @ very perfection of lazy self-complaceuce, if all the cates and weariners of the day don't vaorb like tuo smoke iuwelf, and if you don't experience & delicious souse of baving puffed away 1ret ¥ much all that makes 1fe disagree- avie, audof bavieg a.tained that troe caim which is e acme of life—why, if you d.n't expericnce a'] this, yocr ‘conecience must be eadly burdened. or vour stomsch ce out of order, oreice you have no busiess to smoke, and shouldu' have t:ied 1t. TO EMJOY THE BOMANCE OF THE CIGAR, you needu’t ve iu the heyda« of youth wheu life 18 80 full of gioricns poesibihities thut norumance scews romsutic. Giveu a claar Havaos, and a smoker wao is worthy to smoke it, and no more.s ‘wanted eave iLat 11 Le ripht. and that he bealone. ‘Wuat s« eec vision8 will he Dot see through the tiwy smoke clonas if he only leta h maelf look ? Alitbe romances of nis youth witl bs beforo tum, colv 8:itcned and deepened as the youtbful rowance never is, 1be vrightret, tendelest eyes will Jook out from the em. ke-cloud with mcre thiilliog zlance than ever - they shone inlo bis befurs Lis bair was streaked with g237.2 and he wiil almost hiear vaices more musical iban ever was voice taat fell upow his ear; and it wili all be, not the phost of Bome dead love, but the true idol. toe ideal of his best tevealed to i 1n emuke, to be sure: a8 we never realize our idesls, that probably is 1o mgheet we ever come to it. 70 LEABN THE INIQUITY OF IT, Low it fills the system w.lu wicotine. and colors brain like & meerschaum, and ehatters the nirves, and creates an apuetite for al- cobolic' drioks, sud how enough money is wased fur cigais esch yesr 10 feod all tbe buugrs. sud clothe the naked. and euppoit the schools, aud defray tha expenses of Government. resd Dio Lowis aud the tracts of ths Anu-Tobucco Associations. Probsbly you will find & lesga share of crnne set down to the scoie of \he weed ; aud, waynap it's all true enoogh. But bimeelf a victia to this gentiest ©f vices: wih a thivkiog nerve probatly eie this colored like any meecrschaum. the wnter doe:n't feel equal to tuat phase uf tne topic, aod here leaves it. Were it purnoted to exhanstively consider the sabject, of course THE PIPE would come in for elsborate disgmisition. But eveuif the long-winded ecsay is powadas 10 be tolerated in a cauly oo suy topic, life 18 %00 sbort for elaborate treatmeut of what at last ends 1o emoke. Besides, tae ripe is tae detnier Tesort of (he blase smoker, who, all 1nsensible $5the delicate fizerance of the gennine Havana, 1akes 10 the rank jeaf just as & toper discurds fi“.f.,‘;‘},’i‘ wines with duinty ex:;:uqnu for braud; b hlfln dixcover almost as muc ':;u of the weed Lie wrote: rvine tn hooks, glorious in & Bben tipped mm%mw. m-lm\,:,P:ch, and ripe, her charmers, Wooing the cure<s Mure dazz ingly when danay iu fall dress, ct the true fovers more admire Ly far, Tuy nased beautics—give m the cirary COMING TO BUSINESS. But to cansider the cigar itelf. not romantio- alks, philosopica ly, vor maral'y, but s to the Procees of its manufacture, where spd bow it in made, and the etages through which 1t passes betore you fizht it afier duner, come with us, You shiall uot be carried back to the daya of Bur Waiter Ra eigh vor rega.ed with the thread- bere 8101y of how. when be sppes;ed 1o Eogtand, smokiug for the fist time, & pail of water was dssbied over him to arrest Lis combustion. You Doed wot I'Ilk -more than s half-dozen blocks from Tug LeiBiNE otiico to find mome of the largeet of the three bundred snd odd cigar Thnutactories of Chicao. which turn out soou- Ally nemrly 76,004,000 cigare, being in ths neigh- borhioad uf about 1,000 for each male inhabitant ol fall uga. F THE MANUFACTURE. Entering the largest of theso the otber day, And haviug asked permission to look through the establishiment, the reporter was ushered iuto & Toum filled wiin lea(-tobacco—bales of it from Havana, and boxes filled with it from Conneoti- Sut—thefloor covered with 1t spread there to dry, Rad the very air treighited with 1t. “HFRE 13 THE QENUINE HAVANA" Suid the foroman, pornting to s lot of packazes not alike in appearauco tea-chests, except that they WEo coveied wath bale-cloth. Within this was :mermg of the leaves of some gigantic tropi- water plant. Theee had dried out until they of sbout the thickness and almost the b ucas of jesther, and about & balf dozep of ¢ melosed -Lie bale, which ordinaruy weighs voo 30 to 125 pounds. the Iatter being fhe "“&btaf the particular bale examuned. ‘Bumell that,” ssid the foremsa, taking out of e & package of the leaves lIaid together at- b 28 evenly as the leaves of & book uncut g ithout -covers, but looking more lika & oy imed file of old letters. *There's "hvnr. that with all the atiempts bave been made to imitafe it be imitsted. The genuive Havaos, glu be grown oaly in Cube, sud that is the i obacco grown,” ho added, with & kaud of Ceriaunly the favor was delicious ; bouget of Smu,: uuwers could scarce have seemed more linm. Veteran smoker, and it wes about as ua- = *hat veteran amokers aie accustomed 0 a8 !fl“e;hnuh to the finest Young Hison. It wag u::a 10 draw tears to the eyes of sn old smok- ol suafl that tobscco and note the delicate, textare and color of the leaves. and then to Cengeyonthe Havans eigars that are sold 8¢ 15 The package, which is known in the trade a8 & TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE half the size of the ordinary drv goods cass, “is the eend leaf (American). Catch the fiavor of that. and eay whether anybody conld mistaks it for Havspa.” The reporter tried it; of courss nobody with soand olfactories could fail to note the differ- ence between fhe odor of a dandelion and the fragrauce of the magnblie, and gave s vivid im- preesion of the euormity of the fraud practiced by dealers in Havana c:gars geverally. TIE FIEST STEP. “‘When do you bogin making it into clgars?” quélied the reporter, aad thereon the fore- man explained 1 dotail. Furst. the tobacco 18 taken from the bale or box and *cased,"— nioigieued by dipping each bunch of leavesn & tub of water,—when the leaves ars shaxen out aud spread on the floor to dry, until they have resched the proper atats of pliability for further working. which it does after from 12 to 24 hours’ exposure to thesir. The stems sre stripped from the liavapa tobacco befors it is shipped ; but from the seed-leat (American) the atoms pave to be removed. This process—* sirip- ping," it is called—was witnessed in another Toom, where a number of girla were busily ea- gaged 10 msrin; tue stem or spine from the to- bacco leaves. ‘This la & work requinng ho little wmanual dexterity, it being ali important to svoid teaning the leaf in remnvmf the atem, for, if toru. 1t can only be worked in for filings or scraps; mod, 88 yet, no machine has been in- veuted that will do this. GuM. The girls who wers doing this work were ob- served to be busy chewing sway, and spitting with no less precision of aum than that of a vei~ eraa chower. uewing are they?” queried the reporter. « Yes—gum,” replied tho fcreman, withasly grin: 6o it seemed after all that the coastant Laodline of totacco hadn't developed in these demvisees an appetite for the weed. ‘Afier baving beeu stnpped,—the stems being set aside to be cut in:o smoking tobacco, the Ieuves are scrted according to qualitv and color, and *‘ booked,"—the leaves being straightened out by band and pilad together like the leaves of s book until tbere are from 3{ to 11§ pounds in & pile, when it 1srolled iuto s pad, and theuce Roea into the haod of the workman. THE SBORTING BY COLORS is according to the division of cigars into the five standard bravds, *‘Maduro,” **Colorado *+Colorady,” * Colorado Clars,” _the Maduro being the darkest. It interest smokers to kuow thst the notions that a light-colored ci- may cuarrent §1“ I8 necessarily a light-flavorea one, and.s aduro necessarily bigh-favored, isalls hum- bug. Ihedegree of tlavor does not at all de- pend upou the color of the leaf, but upon the quality and growth of the plant iteslf. The color depends wholly upon the curing of tho leaf. ‘Yobacco is not worked into cigars antil from one to two years after it is gathered. Meanwnile it undergoes the sweating process, and when (hat is thoroughly complote, the leaf attaing the dark color; when partially complete 1t is lighter, and tbough the workmen nsist that it is not 8o, perhaps after all the degres to which the smoking process bLas gone probably does affect the flavor of the cigar, though, ac- coraiog to the theory of the cizar-makers, the ouly cigars fit to smoke ate the dark ones—the AMaduios. But, after all, the color belongs only to a sivgle leaf, —the wrapper of she cigar,~and howerer dainty one may about seiecting his cigara with s eys to the sbade, the true flavor depends upon not the wrapper, but the filling which the wrappe- conceals,—all which the fore- man impasted, and then showed the reporter into TEE CIGAR-MAKERS' ROOX, h) where the process of manufacture might be se2a. llere were s Beries "of loog work-tables, di- vided longitudinally by a board sbout a foot mgh set io ths cenire of the tabie-fop, and ciosswise at intervals of about 3)4 feet by strips reaching about half that heigh:, the space thus marked off being altotted to a workman. On the oater mar- g of the work-tablys on either side wera curious aprons louped up &9 8s to for:n & gutter for the reception of the clippings and sc:aps. On ons side the workman was bis book of wrappers, whether Havana or seed, and on the other a little prie of filling. conaisting of the rorn leaves aud fillings. Iu frovt of each man was a block of some hard woud,—lignum vitm, apole tree, beech, or box-wood. A few of the wrkmen used a block covered with zinc. Theso blocks, eome of which were square. some circu- lar, were about 15 inches n dizmeter or 15 inches square. Qo them the wrapper is cat and the ciparrolled. The process is gompara- tively simple. yot tequires & dexteritv snd nice- tv of touch that evidently can only be ac- quired after loug practice. The workman tirst takes from s book a leaf, which, from the ecasiug or dampewng, is softer and more pliable theo the fivest glove leatber. apreads it oot smoothly on the block (wben the finer quality of tobacco mav be at once recognized by the sott velvety sa face and the delicate lines of the veins tu the leal). and cuts-ont of it a strip from 6 to 9 inches in length, sccord.ng to the size of cigar to be made, and from an inch to an 1nch and three-quarters broad. This 1s for the binder. Fiom his pile of fillers—leseer leaves, tora leaves, cuttings, etc.—he takes Lhe reguisise quantity, and so quickly tbat it can't be described, ‘except that it is somewhat 88 an expert makes & cigareite, and defty rolls it with:n the bindar. Sumetimes it is then placed in & mold which ia tightened under a screw-presg, esch mold holdiug twenty cigars, to get ‘‘set™ before the wrapoer is put on. The mold gives & wore voiform shape to the cigar than cau & worimau brbsnd: bat for come reason it is not favored, and few of the better p1aies of cigars zre even s0. 10 the mold,~the whole =ork being done by bhand, With only the bioder, the cigar 13 but AN INOHOATE THING, with rongh ends, snd ouly haif-shaped. Then the wrapper 1cut in the seme munper 28 wss ibe bim{’er. only with more care, and rulled over the binder. It is a mvstery to most smokers bow the wrapper 1s held fast ro as to keep the cigar together. But, in fact, there is Do mys- tary about 1t; at the tip at the closed ead of the cigar the wrapper is fastened with ‘paste. the veriest trifle of gum tragacanth, which of all mucilazes seems that alone adopted 10 the purpose- The end of the cigar to be lLigbted 18 thea cot off with 8 gauge-kuife,~not unlike s mniature bav-cutter of the primeval t-pe.—or'the workman sim; ly by a mark ou the rolling-board outs the ciuar #0 a8 to make il of the exset length required. And that was what the wo:kmen, seated on their stonls at those- long taules. were doiug when the foreman directed the reporter's atten- tion to THE SKILL BEQUIRED for what reemad 1o easv. Sad he: “In the tirst ,lace, the cigar-worker must not put too muah tabacco in the cigar; the leaf is eoid us by the pound, and we must know bow many cieats will be made out of each pound.: In tbe pex: place the cigars must be of aniform size,—ihickness,.—and most be rolled in pnifurm model, not some thicker at one end than the other, but all alike. Tne same ci- pars like the ** Fum.rs " are made thicker near the stab,—end to be lighted,—and wheg Fumars are belug rolled all must be made 1n the same sbape. If you will watch you sill see it takes s practiced band todo this, and the cigar-maker can no more do_hig work ‘snd at the same time be taiking or lookig out the windows than could a type-setter do his work.” A lutle observation sufficed to demonstrate the truth of this ; and looking st the pile of finished cigars on each mau's 1able ss alike almost, save in color, 28 8o many pess, the wonder washow theycould do it—just as the won- der is how any skilled workman can do what any skilled workmap does do. But the labor re- uired to make a c:gac is evideuced by the fact that a good woi kmun can only turn out from 250 to 400 per diem. THE NEXT STEP. “They are ready uow to be smoked, I sup- pose,” observed the reporter potuting to the piles of finished cigars on the work-tab] A 4 Not exactly,” suswered the foreman; *‘come into the next room aud you will see w hac else has tobe done.” And into the next room both weut. There upon a great table by the windows wasa mao busily engaged jn sorting the cigirs accord- ing to the colors. There were, he eaid. really about forty different shades of wiappers to be distinpaished, though the classification for eale is aocording to the five standards, ‘‘ Maduros,” etc., above noted. This final grading of the ci- gara by colors, thougb it ia only to suit the ca~ price o{ parchasers. sinoe the color is only that of & Bingle leaf in the cigar, requires the utmost picety, and unlees done with accuracy and pre- cision the cigars would prove almost unsalable, After being sorted the cigars sre counted and boxed in the boxes with labala in Spanish pasted ou the wside of the ligs, bav:ng thereon the ad- vertising cards of the famous Havans maoufac- turers -who, prokbabiy, all together, don' sell s tuonsand boxes a year in Chicago, though every smoker smokes their brands. 4 ‘- Weli now, that's all, isn’t it ?” queried the reporter, who for once was tired of cigams. AT THE COLLECTOR'S OFFICE- # Just godown to Collesior Webster's offics and you will find out the rest,” smd the foreman, with s amile; and to tha Collector’s offics weat a0, weigls from a pound to a poi i N und aod & { the reporter to learn the rest of it. Anda :;l&-nd B s s et 8 paid oA 8 | Seniof it ba fonna thero was. First, berain's Sgee. each tied with a strip of | cigar-manufacturer cap commence business he h‘“"‘v‘, 2ach soutaining from thirty-five to forty | must file bis application for license, setting forth o up in letter-file ordes, aud known in | the names of. the members of the firm (if it be s 48 hapa” partpership) aod when aod vhmwgifin the e - AMERICAN LEAY, street sud number avd location in the buildmg—. Tars, said ‘the foreman, tumnipg tos box | the business is o be conduoted, ) the Luwper of workmen to be employed, Ou this statement the smount of the manufac- turer's bond s determined, ' the scale being 2500 for the propriecor, with an additional $100 for each- workmsn employed. Boad being given in that amount with sureties approved by the Collector, the manufacturer pays his spectal license-tax of $10. INVENTORIES, ‘Next he is required to make out s sworn_in- ventory showing the exact number of pounds of leaf tobacco, stems. clippiogs, and wasta on Land. Then hie may begin manufactunng. beiog required to furnish monthly sworn stataments showing dares and amounts of tobacco pur- ctased and from whom ; balance left on hand from precediag month; number of cigars on hand, and amount of Government stamps on band, so0 that all tobacco that goes into the manufectory. mast be showi and accounted for one. sides, 38 a furthec check, leaf dealers by thecase are required to keep e daily sales-book open to the {nspaction of the revenue ofiicers, showing every sale by them made, to whom, tue address. atreet. and nomber of the buyer. and the amount of tovacco sold. Bv comparigon of the books of the manufactur- er with those of the leaf dealer, the amonat of stock marked up by each manpfacturer can be ascertained with approximate accuracy, and from that the number of cigars maoutactured. But it is only with approumato accuracy; and by collusion with the tobacco warehousemen. and through purchases made from warshouses abroad, wno doubt it would be easy enough for the manufacturers 10 perpetrats frauds on the revenue. Tue man- ulacturera cannot move their factories without first closwg up their business uuder charge of & Deputy Collector, and giving new boud, 80 that they are under CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE, 80 to speak. Then uo cizars are permitted to be | sold except in boxes of 25, 50, 100, 250, or 500 each. duly stamped at the rate of $6 per thou- 8a0d, and peddhing of cigars at retail is absolutely prohibited under severe panalties, 8o that when next auy itinerant dealer offers you & dozen cigars at a bargain, you may hand him over, to the police. Further, the manufacturer must keep an account daily of the number of hands he employs, giviog their names, the number of cigars, cheroots, etc., manufactured, and number of pounds of leaf. stom, and clippings consumed in making them; his record of workmen employed muat shaw the date of their cmploymeut, whon dis- charged, number,of days' service, 6tc., and alt this is at all times open to the iuspection of three Deputy Collectors who are coutinuall employed in ins&’echn: the factories—of whicl there are just 300 now in operation in this city, which turued out last month 4,622,882 cigars, on which taxes were paid to the smount of $206.089.45. July, however, is a dull montb, and the azgragate annual msoufacture iu Chicago is_about 75.000.000 cigais. With all thesa checks, however, npon frauds, and with the Special Deputios and the Secret Ser- vice Burcaus. Srl.\n time can be spared fromlook- iog after the dietillenes), FREQUENT PETTY FRAUDS are practiced. Tue opening of a stamped box does not invalidats the stamp ; on tho contrarv, the law requires that cigara sball be sold only out of stamped boxes, whick, of course, bave to be opened in order to make sales. And, as it is impoesible to stamp every cigar, berein lies the opgortunity for fraud ; for how many bundred cigars may be sold out of a box once ‘stamped, despite the severs reualties prescribed therefor, is one of thoso things Do fellow can find out., In a sumEad box, the small manufactarer may send hus cigars to the retailer. and then empty them into the retailer's stamped box, and catry back hiy (the manufac- tumr'A? stamped box. to be refilled snd emotied in the fike fasbion. The frauds practiced, how- ever, are comparatively faw and trivial, aud with the checks kept by the account of leaf dealers’ sales to manufacturers, and as the handlivg of the leaf 18 s distict business in which the cigar manufacturer cau scaroe socretly embark, a3 a matter oi fact few cigars comparative- 1v are sold on which the tax is not paid. Were the whisky tax paid to the like extent, the Treasury would be the gamer. Such, in _brief, omitting the agricultural o ion of it, i8 the lustory of the cigar. If you are sure it i§ geonine Havana, is well made. that the tax has been paid. sod that the flavor is just to your liking, when you bave read thus far, light & fresh HUMOR. ‘The weather just now is dublous, but it is not such a dubious as we would be done by, 1 have bonght my first las,” was the re- mark of acobbler whon he et up busiuess for himself. A whive from the Fast—The claret is still flowing freely in the Turkish provinces, but the Porte 18 very nearly exhausted. A Maryland doctor agreed to cure a criorla by “{aving oo bacds,” ana failed. ‘Chen the friends of the cripple **iad Lands o™ the doctor, but it will be some time before be is cured. * Some men,” eaid a stonemaaon, *‘hecoms useful citizens, and others become vagabonds; just' a8 some slabs of marble become useful doorsteps aad others become lying tombstones.” New Haven, Conn., has a cat which goes into the water and catches flsn, and her proprietor wants her to bave a family of more of her kiod. He seas & way of kitten & living withont much labor. A Kentucky paper fells how it is * down thar "—thus : *‘The tinme Las now arrived when the average ycuth starts out of an evening to huot coons, and stops in the first melon patch he comes to.” A foolieh young man out West, in 8 newspaper oftice, desites to kuow why the police ara nob turned out in New York and tne thieves put in. Thbat is exactly what bas been done.— Cincinnati Commercial (Ind.). : Danberry has the champion patient bov. He comes from a chronicalls-borrowivg family. The other day he went to & neighbur's for & cup of sour milk. **I haven't gor anythisg but ewest milk,"” eaid the woman, pettisbly. “T'll saitull iz sours,” said the obliging youth, sinking into a i . A ragged litfle urchin came to a lady’s door, ekiog for old clothes. She broognt him & vest aod a pair of trowsers, woich she thought would be a comfortable fit. The young scapegrace took tha garments and examined each; then, with & dircounolate look, sud, *Thers an’s no walch-pocket.” A man who cheats in short meseure iss measureless rogue. 1f in whisky, then heis & rogue in epirit. If by falsifving hiw accounts, then he 18 an unaccountable rogue. If he gives 8 bad utle to Iand, then he is a rogue indeed. If he gives short measure in whest, then heis & rogue in grain. Prof. X. in Rochester Uulversity insists strongly on pronounciog final us in Latin like Enghsh oose. Student in recitation, not sppre- cisting the point, comes nson the word *‘ pro- Juqua.” ** Professor, would you, on your prin=~ ‘civles, rronouuvce the word prof-you-| vrof-you-goose ?” Professor, 1n rage : the room instantly, sir " ¢ Papa. did you eee those nice little guns down to the storer” msked a- little 6-year-old boy. “Yes, Harry, Lsaw them. But I bave so manv children to feed and clothe that I cannot afiord to buy Byou one," repiled his father, reriouslv. Little Harcy glanced at the baby ini the cradle wmith 0o loving expression on his face. Finally hesaid: ** Well, papa, I'll tell you what rou can do, you can ewap little Tommy tor s gun.” Maater Willie (who bas just been described by wvigitur as ** Such an intellizent little fellow !")— **Pspa, has tha gen'lum brought mv pew boots 7" Papa (who doesn’s see what 18 coming) ' Boots, Willia? Why, what maken you ask 1 Master Willie—** Cause, when he came 'fore jou eaid bo was a snob ; and I ssked Jane what s *8nob’ was, and she sald a shoemaker ?"—Sen~ sation. Uoabridged—Two colored citizens Saturday bad & little trouble on ihe Pust-Office corner. * 8ir, I stigumtize you 28 & falsehoodder! ™ ex- claimed the first. “And you, sir, are a canterin hipelcrite! ' replied tue second. Akl tal awayl" growled the firat; * but my characteria sbove disproach,” *“And your ipfluenzoes don’t detach from my reputation one Iowa! " growled the other. ‘And thua they parted.—Lelroil Free Press. Au old darkey approsched s vyender of fruit and asked : * How much do you ax fordem watermillions, mister ?” * One for two bits— two for four bits—three for six ehillin r 8 fine, Iarge slice for & thrip or pi me |" rattled off the sidewalk merchant. * Phew! mister, ou must think ['m de man what busted de eednan's Bank, don’t ye 7" and he went away without buying any of the tempting froit.—A¢- lanta (Ga.) Constilution. A lately-appointed Postmaster of a Western Massachusetts town csme down to Boston the other day to “qualify ” and have his bond for $600 sppraved. The bond was all right, and the regular queation waa put totbe P, M. : * Bow mach are you worth, 8ir 7" *Wal,” he replied, I don't fell baow much I'm worth. Bradstreet sets me at 310,000, I guess, 1.{"“1 better put it down at that figger.” *“How much do the Assessors set you at?” “\Wal the Asaessors don’s set me at quite so'Ligh s figger ; but (in & copfidential whisper), "tween yau o’ ma, I’ one o the Aspessors.”—Ji Lary 0088 Or * Leave , WHEAT. Deficiencies of Flour as a Nerve- Food. A TWithdrawal of Seven-Eighths of the Nerve-Producing Element of tbe Wheat-Grain, The Evils That Necessarily Result from Such an Unwise Procedure. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuns; Hype Pazk, 1L, Ang. 27.—The Boaton Jour- nal of Chemistry is doing good work in molding public opiniion in the right direction npon the subject of the deficiencies of flour as a nerve- food, and ths corresponding benefits that might result from the geueral use of the wholo wheat. In = recent article on the subject it points odt ‘how affections of the nervous system are pro- moted by the use of fine floar, aud avers that the Roman soldier conld not have sccomplished his historic achisvements had the flour of nowa- days been his wheat-food ; that, no matter how mauch freah air and exercise be had, lus physique would bave failed with imperfect food. *‘He could not have developed muscle enongh to climb mountains, swim rivers, fight hand-to- hand Sghts, and endure privatiops, unless his digestive orgaus bad been fed with ali- ment which supplied the waste of tissue consequent mpon exertion, and the with. drawal of nerve-force, vitahity, or li or whateveryou are pleared to call that dynamic power which carries along the carrents of our physical existence. In speaking of muscalar acdions, we are apt to rega:d the muscles them- selves aa the source of power. BAt, if we should separate the nerves which connect the given muscle, or set of mauscles, with the epinal or cranial systom of nerve-centres, it would be found that they would become aa powerless for action as the engine when steam is cat off. Bo that itis more in accordance with the facts to speak of the nerve-force as the primal source of all the muscular forces of tha body. “In this hght we canmot conceive of the TRoman soldier as other than a person of IMMENSE NERVE-POWER. It might not bave been intellectual nerve- power, but it must have been & neurotic power sufticient to wonderfully sustain and con- trol the still more wonderful combi- nation of mechanical forces found in the muscular syrtem. It is very generaily ac- knowledged by pliysiologists that thera is more or less waste of nerve and muscular tissnes dur- ing the exercise of the vatied fuoctions of the buman body. No light is seen; po sound 1s heard ; no touch is felt ; no amell is perceived ; respiration is not kept up ; digestion, secretion, excretion, cerebration, phonation, and mascular wmovements, are not performed without a waste of the tissues which are the agants of the funo- tions named. 2 % Now, the Roman soldier must have haa just this tissue-destruction, and must have supplied it in his food, or else he would baye brokea down under such severe tests. History shows that he did not break down, and it is & very interesting question, WHAT HE MAINLY SUBSISTED UPON. In looking over the list of the Commissary Department of the Roman Army, we do not find the modern diet-table. Frumenfum—grain, or wheat—was the maio article of diet. A bag of wheat was & regular part of the outfit. Ii was whole wheat, not flour. When the soldier was bungry, all he bad to do was to eat it by chew- ing it whola on tbe march ; and then, rubbing up with a stone, eat it either uncoaked or boiled. Any of the animals he might chance to find were canght and appropriated as additional food, and were somuch clear gain. There might be, at stationary camps, other articles of diet ; but, in the long Tuo, onbolted wheat was his prineipal food. This being the gase, it is_clesr that open- air Le and wheat are, or were, the eloments that can make a perfect physical organization. 1t is not here atserted that no other combination of freah air and food furnishes the ssma food-data ; but 1t is desired to emphasize that wheat bas thio undispnted character of A PERFECT ¥0OD.” Dr. Nichols, the editor of the Journal of Chenristry, eays he entertains the profoundest respect for & grain of wheat. **It is a most marvelons combiuation of substances admirably adspted for tha building-up and sustenance of the tissues of the human body. It is emphati- cally the food of mansind. Its history is traced back to the esrhest ages. It has been found buried with the mummica of Egypt. Our mod- erp civilization has adopted it, or, rather, nrap- srations from it. 'Tue rawing of wheat, and carryiug it to market, occupy the stteution of l“ie portions of the humsu race. XLast yearit tock 225 rull szed slups to carrv the surplus crop of -Califoroia to the markots of the worid. The mampylation and consumpiton of four fram wheat furnish employment for s much larger number of people than the producers and treighters; aod, if wo inciude ibose who cat the food prepared _ from wheat aod wheat-flour, there 18 bLardly an individual in any civilized community through- out the world’ who does mot come into the most intimate relsiions with bread, pies, eake, pud.deu, gruels, crackers, muflios, damphings. etc., all delived from wheat. The cousumption of flower a8 » food being so nniversal and large, may we not infer that the characteristics of the tissues of the bodies of our race must be deter- mined in some measure by this our, because these tisgues are built up, nourished, and sus- tained by the food which is consumed ? _ **The old Roman goldier was a perfect animal in orgac.Zation, and tne type of the most vigor- ous manhood probably the worid ever saw ; and mav it oot be reasonable to conclude that his diet may have thus made him, or that he could not bave attdined his condition without his wheat or some ather sualogous grain ? “ Now. of 'WHAT DID HI8 WHEAT FOOD CONSIST ? From tables publisbed in Johneton’s *‘How Crops Grow,'—a hook deserving a piace in every library in the land,—wae ascertain the following : Composition of 1,000 parts of substance: Water. 4sh. Potash, S Magnesia. Lims, 23 Wheat-grain ..14% 177 65 0. 0.6 Fine wheat~ HOUro...,. 138, 41 15 01 0% 0.1 Phosvhorie Sulphurie Silica. Sulphur, afl('L actd, 03 0.0 It will be seen that there is a cousiderabla withdrawal of mineral elementa 1a tlour, while the starch is aboat the same. The witbdrawal of ul)?s\z: is r‘m’:;lv 4;':6; of sods, 5-6; of magne- sis, 17-22; of Lime, 5-6; io acid, al- most 7-8, ’ 1 9L MR e AR u ‘*Note that phosphorus, or phosphoric acid, is found lagely in the albumen of the nervous tisaues. Itis found also iu the bony tissues. *¢ Chemical constitulion of nerve (Vsugeala): %Il:nmul 7.00 100,00 _“ Albumen is found solid in nerves. Its com) sition, according to Scherer, ig 28 follows = Carbon.... Ozygon, Sulpbur, Phosphoric acidf Here, then, is a withdrawal in flour of near! seven-eighths of the proper nerve-food found in wheat, the main ration.of the old Roman sol- dier. . It is prababiy the saluble and assimilable {form of phosphates, one that the digestive sys- tem can absorb, and the notritive system appro- priate to its eustenance, Thus modern civitized mankind are generally linng upon & food which is i DEPRIVED OF SEVEN-EIGHTHE of itg nerve-prodaci: xxob- or,l}élifl :&Po:;pfifflmfl' e * Eight-eighths were designed for man's nse by the Creator. Eight-eightha gave the Roman eoldier his nerve, energy, and mascle, Sunpose he bad had only our flour-bread, and got one- eighth ; would he not have sensibly suffered ? Could he have carried bis 60 pounds of baggage? Indeed, we find that the abeence of whbat Cmaar ' calls frumarta—corn or grain (mot fhu maize, nr:d)lnd.\m corn, en-nodiscove: par excellencs, or wheat— from their ration was the cause of Gamnita, dis- SUKNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. which was | turbances, and eometimes war, Suppose Omear bad started a firat-clare modern flouc-mill, and, sevarating almost seven-eighths of the nerve- food from their wheat, had fod Lis eoldiers with tbe unostoral manufactore; may we not be allowed to thiok thera would have been equal trouble? For one cannot imagive such a large duninution without s corresponding lack of tonicity in those tissues needing and accustomed to a full supply. To putit differently, suppose Ciesar bad removed 371¢ per cent of his soldiers’ proper nerve-food from their wheat, would ke oot bave & right to expect only 1234 per cent of energy. fone. or vital furco io tuoee soldiers' nerves? And yet this is just the state of things our boaeted modern civilization has put ug into. - Because public opinion says the whiter and lighter the bread is baked, the berter it is, therefore &1l Cliistendom acknowledges the dee- Imtation, and eats the food which contains the less of solid, substantial elemeuts the whiter and lighter it is. , **1t cannot be denied that NEUROTIO GOMPLAINTS are very common and chronic. Never were there 80 maoy insane people ; never were phyai- clans called” wpon oltener to treat nervous dis- eases ‘than at present. How olten do people drop dead from heart-diseass, found, upon ex- amiuation, t0 be solely for want of proper in- nervaticn, How marked is the prevalence of narulysis. How the nerves of special sense suf- | fer. "We have trouble with the eves very com- moaoly. Qur children, if we have any, grow up thin, ethereal, nercous anemic. - They die of consumption, and break down readily under the discipline of echools. Then see whet a vast amounc of nervous diseases in women 1 every condition and class of society. Go into any publ.c assem- bly, see the cey of distress and care impiessed upon the countenances,—a cry for something they lack. 1t is a beseeching look. Some sayii is from hard work! Well, it is batd work to fizht the battlea of life with buv 124 per cent of nerve-food. ** May 1t not be that the diet of our farmers,— while bread. pies, cakes, doughnuts, crackers, de- ficient ag they are in the full amouat of nerve- food.—is partly the cause of their own, and par- ticularly thewr wives' decay, and distressed loois, and decayed teeth, and wesk nerves that trem- ble, and atiake, and achs when engaged 1o ser- vices thac should be pleasnrable, o t paioful ? Coosider the amount of narve-force it_taes Lo digest starch, which ia the main constituent of flour, compared with the amount required to di- rest anumal food containing the same amount of nerve-food. * Sometimes cases of dyspepsia (difficnlt di- gestion) seem to depend upou the fact that the nerve-power (80 scantily fed upon fionr)is all nsed up in labor apd work in carryingon the other functions of the body, 80 tbat there is nono left to digest the food. Io other words, the whole system is 100 tired to eat. What follows? As a matter of course, the whole system ia un- nourished ; the other functions fail 'in their full performances ; and, if this is carried too far, the nervous system rebels, and we have neu- ralgia, beadaches, anddistressin various parts of the body: and, i these things be continued, iseass resul:s, EOMETIMES FOLLOWED BY DEATH. 4 Ag nerve-forco1a 80 ind:spensabio a part of animal hfe, do we reason incorrectly when we assert that, in our opinion, pervous disease would not be £0 prevalent if the human system was fed with all the 100 per cent of phosphoric acid that Ged intended it should have? Oursis such 8 bustling, active, nervous aze that we need more nerve-food than ever befors in the histqry of the world. How many of us wearont, how many of us euffer, how many of us fail, {rom want of prover verve-food, none can tell. One thing is certain; the old Roman soldier did ot give out unul the introduction of wealth brought oo an age of the most extravagant liv- ing the world ever saw. If the diet aod habits had been kept down to the wheat-standard 1o the pulmy dave of the Empire, Rome. too, might have withstood decay (other things being equal), a much longer time. And what perpetut- ty can we expect Jn our own country, if we rear & weak race, with feeble nervous systems, on food which bas lost nesrly 873 per cent of phasphario acid 2" DOESN'T CHEW TOBACCO. T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune = Orrawa, IL, Aung. 27.—I read in your paper some days since s Little paragraph statiog that the sons of the Rav. Gearge Trask chowed to- bacco and were in the habit of lighting tbeir cigars with their paternal Anti-Tabacco Tracts. tho snimus of the article_displeased me, and, from my knowledge of Mr. Trask and his family, 1 felt sure it was entirely untrue. I therefore cat it out and inclosed it in & note to his widow. The inclosed is, her reply. Will you do me the favor, aud Mr. pubbsh it F. Frrcesuro, Maes.,, Aug, 21. 1875.—Tre Rev. Mg. Bascon—My Dear Friesp : 1 am very glad rou have given me the oprortunity to pronounce the paragraph from TuE Cricaco TRIntNE uiter- 1y false. I bave but one living son; he is 42 years of sge, and has pever tasted tqbacco or Jiquor. _Oue adult son died ab the raid in Law- rence, Kan. ; another tive years since. Your name is familiar to me, among my dear husband's frieods. It is plensant to me that the interest awakened 10 his cause is still active, and I trust the seedeown may bear abundant fruitin God's own tima. Bincerely your friend, Rots F. TRask. Bascoat TO MY GUARDIAN ANGEL. O Angel, bright Angel, by me to-night, Making the darkness seem unto me Light ! Here with your soft, scothing presence to tell “That some time for me all things will be wall ; Bidding me think of bles:ings, DOt srTOWE,— Of busy to-days, not coming L0-morrows ; Teibng me ever of beautiful peace Bome time to come to me, never to cende,— Angel, sweet Angel, spresd 0'er me your wings,— ‘Beautiful, glistening, snowy-white wings L Thou art o nesr me, and yeb 80 afar Why should thera bs aught this pieasure {0 mar 3 Give me a touch,—just ond sweot, loving sign Tutrust to my, keeping,—ever more mine b Just a breath, & whisper, that 1 may know Tou pity and fove me through all my woe ; Love me with love that I never have imowm Bince that you gave me ere I was alonz,— Oh ! droop your wings o'er me soothingly soft Twill woew like the dear hands Ive fult. 80.aft] Tnder their shadows my cares I'll forget, Knowing you are there, my darliug on Just as you nsed 10 stand over my sleep, Before you left me to mourn and to weep; Just as you once did when ¥ was a child, ‘Afraid of the darkness, and storm 8o wild. How 1 loved 1o hear vour ight footateps glide, ‘And you nestled lovingly at my eide, Spom’v to me, bushed me, and calmed all my fears: ©Oh ! togo back to those sweet, childish years! Now tia nct gliding of footstepa I hear, Nor 18 the terrora of darkness I fear; But the faint Tusbing of white wings se light, Fanning my hot cheeks, 80 wet every night,— ‘Wet with the tears of my poor heart's unrest, Aud the terror of living all unhiest. O my Angel! let me feel that dear touchl "Fwill bring to my rad soul comfort—so much ! ‘Bend oer me Just OTCE, CATeas me oNCE mAre, ‘And kiss me, darling, as you.did of yorel Yes, dearest, 1 know, though it canuot be, That thou csn'st give this sweet boon unto me; That soon, without bidding, you'll stand some might Fo my opened eyes s glorious sight. : Then shall T nee you, and know you, aud feel That from my blind eyes you'e Lifted the seal, And wy poor hands in your own you bave clasped, And given me all I've prayed for and asked,— ‘aken me up in your dear arms once more, Ao Bomie 1ha away 10 Heaven's bright door, 1 _——— The Toothache. Cincinnati Gazetie, 3 A gentleman aays, after suffering excruciating pain form toothache, and having tried in vam to obtatn relief, Betty told me a gentleman hs been waiting soms time in the parlar, who said he would not detain'me one minute. He came.— s friend I bad not scen for vears. He sympac thized with me, while 1 briefly told bow sadly I was aftlicted. S ** Dy dear lrin&d," exclaimed he, “Ican cure in ten minutes.” . el }llno:g ‘l:l:v ?" inquired I'; “*do it in pity.” +Instantly,” said he. **Datty, hava jou axy alum " ‘.‘B’nngu‘n it, and eome common sslt.” e Bri . : Thay w’ara produced ; my friend palverized thom, mised in equpt quatizies; then wei & smaH piecs of cotton, causing the mixed pow- ders to adhers, and placed i in my hollow tooth. “+There,” said bo, **if shat does not care you I will forfeit my besd. You may tell cthis in Gath, snd publish itin Askelon; the remedy is infallible, ; 1t waa so. I exparienced a sensation of cold- ness o applying it, which .gradually subsided, ana with it the torment of the toothachs. —_— Coiored Shirts. i Boston paper thinks it a curions illusf olehe nncer':tinfiu sttending bosiness Cpera- tions, especially waere fashion “has s voics, that one of the prominent causos of tha failure of cottan-mills ta_pay dividends of late, is the lored shirts change in the fashion of shirta. Color of various kinds and other gsrments bave sud- denlz become all the Eg:. m;lu tl.’cr;l:m t factories, wl ‘make oD s "ho:g:f;iva been seriously afected, their market ing materialiy cut off and theirwhise cot:ons being lalt qn thals handse . Trask's famuly the justice, to - THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND. Characteristies of Hans Christian Andersen. How His Vanity Showed Itself—His Childish Simplicity. Lendm Specialor. The child-world kas lost a friend, who was fo it what Shakspeare is ¢ the grown-up world of men and women, by the peaceful psasing away of * dear And'sen,” a8 every one in Copenhagen called the wonderful story-teller—to the last & child in heart and in ignoraace of the ways of worldlivess. Ho belonged to the quaint and simple Dapish city all bis life as entirely as Thorwaldsen belonged to it in his later years, and in a more intimate way—in proportion Lo the éxpansivenessof his own pature and the warmtn and variety of his own sympathies. He be- longed to every family, and had, more than the entree,—for, after all, that 1mplies & grace—hin own place in every household. With the ser- vants, a8 with the masters, he was ‘‘dear And’sen,” and nobody ever pagsed him with- out a ealutation. It is hard to fancy .cityand subwb without his familiar, shabby, ungainly, elouching figure, in its ill-fittmg uobrushed clothes (he always woreflopping tron- sers which touched the foes of his gigantio boots, and a shawl, his own or aoybody's, it did not matter, wrapped round his shoulders), and his ugly, musiog face, abstracted-seeming, but keenly observant, too, with.its bigh, receding forehead, its closels-set eyes, and the steep in- cline trom the top of the forshead to the nape of the neck, as if the back of the head had béen sliced away. His individaality was, perhaps, more marked then that of any famous mar on record, and remained more entirely suchanged by the lapse of tume and by circumstances. He never ceased 1o be a study to the observer who first.regasded him with tbe curiosity he inspised in every one; but each day's observation was a fresh conflrmation of the impression he had made within an_hour of meeting bim. In that charming Danish societr, , frank, kindly, simple, cultivated, it was a child they bad set in their midst,—a child, accord- ing to the ideal of childhood ; keanly sensitive, entirely egotistical, ibnocently vain, the centre of life, intereat, concern, and meaning to him- self, perfectly unconscious that there existed another standard, an_outer circle, taking it for graoted that everywhere and 1n everything he was to be first and all; glad with the gladness, sorrowlul with the paseing gnef of childhood, petulant and poutiog, downright, without & nation of reticence, or indeed of modesty, but equally without a notion of ewil or indecency; iUl of optimiat satisfaction when all was well with himself, and yet incapable of self-seeking, or design of any kind; disiuterssted as much from 1gnorance 6f advantage to be gained or ob- jects to be sought as from the nobler source of isintereatedness ; incapable of considering the coavenience, or of understanding the waya and methods of other people; in & word, atways m- teresting, but sometimes troublesome. Nobody in Copenhagen would, howevar, have been guilty of tha treason of thinking Andersen troubleroma. To the inexhaustible indulgence accorded to & pet child they added the profound veneration with which fmaginative people regard genius, especially in its poetic manifestation. The ** dear And’sen ™ had rooms of his own, but he was rarely in them, and hs not oniy went a8 often as he liked, at any hours he liked, to everybody's house, but'he might bring any number of people, ahd to bave a friend who kpew Andersen was passe partous in Denmark. He was perfectly regardless of the ordinary forms of social life ; his pereonal habits were exceedingly careless, not to say repulsive; he was not agreeable as a next neighbor, or 28 observed from over-the-way, at a dinner-table, for he ats voraciously, and was = decidedly dirty feeder; he bad Do notion of time, and a8 perti- naciously required overy one to be at his beck call as any curled darling in the nursery who is at once the pisgue and joy of ths household. He had not an idea of self-restraiot or of apro- pos. and his intense egotism was nourished by everybody and everythmg. It never occurred to bim that be was not the centre of every one’s life and thoughts. Ha onca entered & room, shook bands all round, and then, deecryings stranger,—a voung English lady just armved at Copenbagen,—be went up to her, took her by both hands, addressed her as ‘‘the Euglish rose, who had come to Deomark to see a rreat poet ;" added, “sli your friends will be bappy that vou are with Andersen,” and went off to fetch a photograph of himself, which he bestowed on her with much emphasis. The ad- miring circle perceived nothing either absurd or blamable in this, or any other manifestation of Andersen’s sanity ; and indeed its frankness, 1te simple relisnce on every one’s absolute ad- miration, preserved it from ridicule or censars; it was go childlike. He nevar conceived the no- tion of satire, he did not fear it therefore ; and though his vapity was easily burt, and he would pout and gulk like an offended child. until coaxed into humor again, be never sus- pected a shade of ridicule of him in_any one's maoper ormind. Wherever he was, ho was in- variably served first at table, and he wzs deeply aggrieved at & departure from this cus- tom on the occasion of “the English rose’s * arrival at the house, near Copenbagen, whera he waa then staying. He becama silent, sulked, woald not eat, and disappeated early in the evening. The next morving their hostess cams to the English guest snd ssked her if she would mind not being belped first, *“it made dear And’sen 8o unbappy; he went to the kitchen aud told the servamts he could gee they no longer loved him, since they thoueht moreof the En- glieh 1ady than of him.” When be wanted to go out to walk, every one must go; if he cbanged his mind aud sat down to wrie, every one mrust stay at bome, for presently he would coms into the room to read what e had written, aod would be much ruffed by the absence of an auditor. He would walk up to a stranger and sav : ** They wntein such and such a paper that I have such thoughtful eyea; do you think my eyes 8o thoughtful?” or, *Every oue in the world knows me; sl the Kinga in Europe have embraced me, soverelgns come to mest ms st their door;” and all this as frankly aa a child would ask you to admire its new frock. He nevar forgot his origin, nor did he ever boast of it; he would say simply, ** It 1s vary good of iod to have given & poor cobbler's son & great genius,—to have made me s great poet,” The barsb Danish tongue admits of no jloritura, sod, therefore, though his ideas wese 80 poeti- cal, be clothed them always in the moas direct and downright words, and be never had any-ides that thera was anything wbich ought nottabe said. He epoke very lictle English, and was no judge of the rendering of Daonieh into that lao- guage, o tbat Mary Howitt's fiat, bald, aimost literal translation of bis novels (if they may be go called) audstories pleased him; be conld under- stand them. hessid. Hisvoice wasexquisitely me- lodious ; bis reading of his own- Biories, which he had acted, 80.expressive was his goature, was indescribabiy delightful. He- beld one speli- bound, seeing. hearing nothiog but him, and his story-telling was aven more cbarming. General conversation ke had none; it was diflicult to- discover on what subjects he really did know anytbing, for he never conversed; he brought evesy topic that was started back to himself, to- the clond-land in which he lived, to the point ia- which his interest centered. His talk was al- waya like that of an ideally-gifted child—ques- tion, narrative, fancr, but never meeting, or go~ ing with, or barrowing from other minds. He would begin to tell a story—after a few minutes’ abstracted gazing at soms little object, & straw, a pebble. no matter what—most ly & toy or a flower—aod. pour out his faocies in the plain, nnadorned forms of the Danish, ha voice exquisitely modulated with every emotion or mesning, and his great, ugly, spe-lika haoda. which looked as if nothing that they tauched conld escaps-sullying or destruction, deftly cut- ting out the quaint desigus iv paper, with won- derfal rapidity and delicacy, as he spoke. Fairy scenes, dances, lovera seated under trees, roups of flowers and plaats: these and count- eas other objeets wowd drop from his cuttiog, twisting, Bpping 8cissord, 38 fancy after came from his lips. Nothing was soulless to the man with 8 cl 's soul, and 8 great imagination and also = chiid’s untroubled belief. He did not seem to have any dafinite creed, and ha attended po place of worsbip; *he bad no neéd of spiritust help, or comprehension of spiritual donbt or difficulty. The good God and the Chriat- child were the sum of his idess, and ha fonnd them everywhere. **Goa has made it ro ; it is right ;" or “ God bas said it is wroug,” was all s law: and he could no more have put his mindinto & palemical attitude. than_ke could Bave tubbed or ridden to hounas. Iogenious people, who insist on_seeing evervihing double, discern, Pantheism onder the qusing conceita of th1a f1iend and confident of the fairy, and flower, and bird world ; but thereis no such thing—at Jeast it was not in bimseif—no ebtlety of any kind, only the ever-flowing fountaio of a wun- drous and 10exhaustible fancy to which all living _hings mirrored themselves thersin. You lived in big stories while he was them, and he | “wdn tkomaivays Ha weohd walk oz with & {riand or two at Petershol, and be silent. almest salien—aever ialing to remark and return the salutation of passers-by, however—for a time ; then he would begin to poke adout oa tha gronnd with his invarisble stick, looking etactly @ an old bone-picker, until he had fouud a booe, a pebble, a twig, a bit of & rag—soy un- conmdered Lritle of the wayside, when he woald stend sl scratching his ‘left cheek, avd look fixedly at the thing he Lad in the paim of his hand. Afier a littlo he would call hia compauton uo with a gestare, and bezin, **Ooce in a faix llnq thero lived,” etc.. and trace the bit of boue back to the animal it bad belonged to, and to ite bilef life in the pastares, the twigtoits forest kin, the Pebble to ita conntless fellows om the iliimitabls shore in the moming of time. the rag to its threads in the loom and its ubare in a court costume or an infant's robe, uatil one degan to wonder whether it could be fancy, or wers all true. He loved obildren, storks, and flowers, with something approach ing passion, of which, otherwisa, thers was no trace in lim. To children he yielded place, which no *‘big peopls™ ever expected from him. He would bear interruption by a-child, and patiently an3wer it3 questions, always be- comiag more child-like himself in doing so; he understoed children and they understood him, after the oocnlt fashion of the higher animala, and he might be commonly se2n built upin a bower of children, with one on eacn foot— whero there was a}!lenty of room for it—and an outer hedge them as the less privileged andience. To them ha was ‘-dear Ard'sen,” too, sud = play-fellow, also a confidant and belp- or.” Many a tooth has beon extracted, many & dose of medicine administered, under tho inda~ ence of & story from Andersen; sud tae Copen- bngn children's favorite toys are tho personages of his stones made 1o terra-cotta. The chief fa~ vorite is ** Ole Luckoi,” who comes to visit the litule ones in their sleep—nover until thoy are fast asleep, though—and whispers to tam pless« ant dreams of the coming of Banta Clans. **QOle Luckoi ” is a comical littie feilow, with two umbreliss tacked under his arm, oné, to bo held over the hi of good children, bringing good dresma; the otber, to be hed over the heads of children who bave thoughbt or done, * what the good God does mot like,” bringing dreams of discomfiturc. Andersen never invented a story or created a personago to frighten a child, to produce any facking of sus- pense or repulsion § E.nnloi was not to be waited for in the dask, with trombling limbs snd_beat- g heart; he could never be seem, and be al- ways knew when ho trod mpom the &tars whether the ohild was really sleaping. In every order his descriptions, and the accessories of his stories, imprompta as they nlwsys wers, were wonderfully accurats, aod people wou- dered, for he never studied botany, or any other’ Bcience from books, yet when be gave a soul and s costume to a flower, he never departed from ita color or its character—for in- stance, in his wonderful story of the despotic father-carrot, and his lovely dsughter, in her paleyellow gown, with the feathery groen neck- lace.” This story he improvised to reward a little girl who had obeyed Ler mother's injonc- tions that she shonld eat a toush old carros which was in her plate of soup. To get hum on the subject of storks was whimsically pleasat. He had also studied a colony of these birds. th:t every one had a character and » history for him; stork family-lfe, stork heart, stork brain, every reality and every fancy thit even his imagination could bring ont, wauld reward the ioaer a6 to- stork cRarac- tar and qualities. * What & pity ilis Aodersan cannot have a Stork-wife!"” was more than oncu sai. All thiogs apimate and the things we call inanimate respooded to the call of s delighiful fancy, and he reveled m hig own power. That it conid bave a rival in attractiveness, or that it ever conld bors others, no more occurred to bim than it occurs to an only child to suspect the existrnos of a rival with its parenws. ‘Wherever he waa he was nob only first, but. all, a8 a matter of course. The *name-day " of the * English Rose,” as he called her, befelt whis she was in the ssme house With the poat, and sevéral outer guests were also there. ARer tho pretty Danish fashion, her hostess Rave & nsme-fete, of which the rose was Queen, with ths right to chooss aKing for the dsy. Her privileges were axolained, and she prepared to declare her choice, bat she had reckaned withont *‘dear And’sen,” who greeted her at once with “ J—I—yes, And’gen bimsalf will ba yoar choics ; you shall say that And'sen was your name-day Kiog,” and 80 it had ta be. He never left her side all day; he was as constant a8 one of his osn storks, and his entiro conviction of her proud content was so simple and 50 manifest that no one could have ridienled it who boauted auy beart or the faintest sense of humor. He had no power of enduring physical pain, or any notion that it was undigoified to bemosn himself. He would talk to his friends qf every ailment and sensation with quite pathetic ear- pestness. To eoe Andersen rub hie stommach slowly and heavily, while Lie explained, **I was bad all the night, and when the pmn csme' I asked the good God to take me away, but when it went I thonght I should like to live,” and to hear him gravely repeat the gestars with' the statement to each comer, waa the faaniest thing possible. Every one listened and sympathized with profonnd respect. Hs ran a thorn ioto his finger one day, amd zot only did he cry, throw himeslf abbut, and finally scream when it had to be taken out with a needle, but he declined to eat dinner, and so completely took it for granted that nobody else could eat any that nobody did, and the.meal was not even served. When the thorn bad boen ax- tracted ke wept with joy, and sat for héurs hold- ing the uttle instrument of tortnre between bis finger and thumb, exhibitiog it. to' all new- comers, and expatiating on his sufferings. Sud- denly he coughed, and missed the thorn. Im- pouibh to pervuade him- it had not flown inio his mouth and been swallowed. * Will- it be ss sore here a8 it was here?” he asked mournfully, touching his stomach and his finger alternatelv. His marvelous. simolicity extended- to every Affair of life. He, who made many rich, was poor himself. His books.bronght him very lit- tle ; the tiny pension ailowed him by tho State, and bis free atall at the theatre constituted wealth. But he never: thought of mouey: it that, too, he had all achild’s perfect trustful- nees. Soms spirited sttempts were made to marry lum ; one, in particalar, by a bandsom« peasant girl, who wrote him & love-letter aud took it to him hersolf. When he hiad read it siic urged her canss_in words, **I would be 8o good £o you,” she said; ‘I wonld take such care of yor™ *I don't doubt it,” he rephed: ‘‘bnt, my good girl, L don't want to be masried.” o had & grand passion, he nved ta say, once, sad it wag enough for all his hfe; and' then he would weavo some af lus purest, brightest. moet beaa- tiful and graceful fanciea round the image of— Jenny Lind. X Some mysterious affinity existed: between him sod the flower world. He would bandle Howers and whisper to them, snd. thex wonld take wons drous combinations at the bidding of his Lig, flat fingers. When he held flowerw, or presented them, he become almost. graseful, and he Bad n floral langnage all his own. A quick observer might trace Andersen’s readivg of character, or rather the ravelation of his true-child wetinct, in the flowers which he would present to the ladics whom he selected for this coveted hovor. He sloeps weil io the city which loved and hon- orest him so truly, whose evary-day life is full of lum and of associations with him, whoae every familiar object has been lon:- new meaning by his extraordinary faucy, and his eimple, truatful, child:-like besrt.. His memory will be kept gresn throngbout s long period of remembrance by plentifal traditions af one. whosa. was 28 unique as his genio. + gy SUN AND STORRL There's beanty in the rippling wave, ‘There's peace upon the waters | grandenr for the storm 1o eave- Earih's'saddest 6008 and ‘The passions of the human bresey Bow dawn.in.cev'rence under The World-King in his wild unrest,— His wyird, exultant thundsz. The fieecy sky gives way to Night, The waters quake snd quivez; . While, In attenusted light, Mz wanders by Death’s river, The clouds dissalye: the promised bow Appears: the sun sdorning Oid Motmer Earth with yoldad hame Tha wrinkled Brida o/ the Morning! ‘Tha bizds sing sweeter than befors3 The flow’rs o'erfliw with beaury : Zen thonaand Hitle beads of raim _ Do trembls in the Lalance, And, shim’rivg tn the sunny ‘Eield gratetully their talents. How bright the grazses on the hills, How relvoty the meadows | How ev'ry. pulse in. Natore thril] ‘How vanished are the abadows The blithe cock challanges the atr, Amid domestis cackle. + ‘The school-boy bastens to ‘His rod aod fiahing-tackle: Then down ts road be whistling goes, Pree from perpiezing quibble; Ful! sure at last, wacn line ha tixows, Of » munnow—or & nibbis! , Ob ! this is 1lfa,~t0 breast the 420 warhly Nasaies piee chass, Bom%;mnmger. Warzzs BrEsas PALICE: RAERGER, I, DO, WA