Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1875, Page 5

SECRET SOCIETIES. story of the 0dd-Fellows® Insti- - L tute of Michigan. smupment Festivities in Chicago-- QOuhicr Nctes from the Order. g gy Mesons and ile Eraof Regalia and Xillinery. Pecder Ledze Eatertainment—Other Craft Hews at Home ard Abroad, ODD-FFLLOWSHIP. TEE LAXSING INSIITCTE. ryecta? Corvésvomdence of Tre Chicago Tribune. "vexxo, \ich. Nov. 26.~The interior of the guin bulding of the 0dd-Fellom' [ostitate is 50 7 compieted thst & visit to ts £5-acre park 1« »2 sgreesble pastime. The plastering and trc-Gnish over the eptiro building arenow com- 4, deaving coly the carpenter work snd teviog to complete tho whole edifice. Thw eomteact for fts entizo completion expired an the ofib tost., Lot the contractor bas had it estended 1 earing. The Grand Lodge room in the foorth Jtors fa said to be the fineat io the State, occa- pring the entire door, and is now complets ex- sest the painting and stairs toresch it. The main front bas been pointed, and, with the gotle porches, presesis 8 handsome front. Toe sotire cost of the new building will not protably resch ‘beyond the contract, §19,600. The Board of Commissioners have been em- arrsased by want of funds since the laying of the xaner-stone, on the 15th of Noveraber, 1871, sod 8 little modern history may be new to some of i foaders of TaE TRIBUNE @ Atthe Avnpal Communication of the Graod Lo77e of Michigan, beld at Lansing in Janoary, 1569, Representative Batubun. of Adrian Louge Ko. 8 introduced the following, which was sdoyted = Busoised, That there be a committee of three ap- Jt 24, couisting of the M. W. Grand Master, R. W. ‘Crand Master, and R. W, Grand Secretary, to taks ‘mio ecmideration the teasibility of ectablishing in this juneiction a Home foz the Widows and Orphavs of Lraed 0dd Fellows, and repart at the next sestion L4 Grand Lodge. Yesars. J. 6. Cartis, E. F. Whitney, and F. 1. Foster were made ths Committee. 11 the Annoal Communication held in the City +f Detroit in Jaonary, 1670, the following ap- pecruin the Joroal of that year: ?,G, 3L J, . Curtis made & “verbal report on the £at jock of 8 Home for the Widowa and Orphans of de- zea3e4 034 Fellows, which was nocopted, and, on mo- oz, the whols subject Was referred back 10 P. G, ML 1.5 Curtls, with_instructions to report plans, etc., at e pext sesuicm of this G. L. * Atthe Atnnal Communication held at Kals- 4200, Js0uary. 1871, the following appears in ik Journal of that year—E. H. Whituey, Grand Mzster, in his report saya : . The matter of 4 Orphans' Home wll be prominent. I ongt betors yau throngh e renort of your able Spacial Commitiee, and will, T trust, recefve that ear- 2, thoushtful consideration which ite great import- sn% will demand. 1 believe the time has come when we canafford to make more real thun ever befors our 1 comection that our laws regarding the duts of Jrotiding s widowa' and orphans’ fund in each lodge 2¢ pisced before the lodzes in the Jurtsdiction (hat o7 may upderstand thelr duties, M, Cartia, from the Committee, reported. get- ting forth the varions propositions he had se- cared from the subordirate lodges in rosponse s hiscircolar. and submitted the following in :izToport a< 8 general plan for the considers- tion of the Grand Lodg Perei—T0 scquire s eusicient amount of land, not 9 then 100, oF more than 5.3 act#, 10 6 piewssnt aud aedltby locstion. in the vicnity of some Jeading city or dltge that is exsy of access. Seond—To butid a school building on ssid prem- Bea. which abisil cost not less then $50,000, and {0 cx- ¥5d it from time to tizo, 38 nooenaity sy Fequire, 311838 e of the largest educational {nsiitations ba 0 erect » suficient number of small and srenient cotisges oo different arts of the traet, so Bat every Odd Tellows widow and orphan, and every Indigent Odd Fellow who destros it, can haves per. Bepent zood Liome, nnder the sustices of the Oxder. Posrth ~To build op a scual conimensurate with tho ¥ts of our Order. g6 frce 23 posaibls from sectarian- im, and =1} contamizating influencus, where the cons 124 damph ery of 0dd Fellows can_recetve s thorough Muostion at 2 norunal expente, and at the same tme be fader the wovstant watclfulbens of membars of our . ¢ sacrecly obligaled themeelves to guard B menial and moral \aining of our chidram. © At fhe sare eession the Grand Master sp- pointed tho following named 28 Commissionors Do ** The 0dd-Fellows’ Institate of Michigan ™ : 1.8 Cuoriin, Enst fagivaw; E. H. Thomson, Flint ; E. M. Pitch, Wayland ; AL T. Lave, Do- it ; E. C. Welleslev, Colan. 1t was proposed at the Annnal Communication & Lansing to to sesoss esoh member of this ju- nudiction 1 cent per week, but this not prevail- Ig it was decidod to sssess each member 50 seoly gem-anonaily for three years, rwhich taused diseatisfacsion, and the charier of one 0 728 rovokad, but it was reinstzted by the Grend Lodge of the United States in eession at Indincapolia recentls. Tp to this time every anplicant for sdmiseion bas pecesgurily been refused, except the fol- foriog : + Frevious tothe completion of tho tiile snd nosses- Aon of tho Inctitoie property, the Comm'esion re- vd a0 aprlicstion in propsr form, from Battle Sreek 45, in hehalf of Mrv. E'len M. Bar- See, then reaiding at Buttle Creek. for admiseion with Aer thres children into the Institute, sho being a wid- ol an 014 Fallow, The Commissioners decided 1o adimst her, and, agroeable to that decieion, tho fam- 5 ¥uereselved and taken in charge on the 192th Gay # Rovember, 167, aince wldch tima b his contia- occunency and care of the at be occine premisas,at 2o * Mies Delis Rogers, the formerowner of the In- Hitata, has donated to the Institute certain very rlusble property, among which may bo men- tioned & choice library of 1,200 or 1,500 volnmes, S philowophicel mpparsins worth at lesst 960D, ANy rars cictares, and 8 great variety of other ies too nomerons to mention. The only rec- mnmsnagm ssks ip return for tbeso usble gifts, is that evers brother in the ansdiction donate sod add to the library men- io0ed one volume of eome kind, such’as the giver mav gelect. Avotber domor has given & fa~ioad of furmiture, which has been accepted 38 placed in the Institute. . ILIINOI8 STEME. hsgnnlnaga No. 573, at Shannon, will hold 8 iral Wednesdsy eveaing, Dec. 1. b‘}” election of the officera of subordinate E: h&? lace nhthuuflm xgoinin of De- . City Lodges shonld eevd in their naw \ta to Tz Temexe for publication. ,g: g Waster Sherman visited Dizon 2 a few 0 and re| t in good egngxdon. ,'c:fL H. T. Noble snd 8] mmd 2 ; mmm men of Dxon are Adriel Eocampment No. 106. of this city, visit- % Iimoiy Encampmept No. 8 last Friday even- eveut was imrroved in an e . No.106 proposes to continue until each it in this city hes been wsited. h‘h‘!;mu Lidige No. 524 held » Rebekah mest- ;Inua;v evening last. After the confer- the degree, tho members and their friaode thereunto duty invited indulged in “the F;'nf motion " to the eou 1 jof the vial 0dd Fellows of Jolie icontemplute the ;‘ufdan of & building. It 15 to cost Trom $10,- eity, *y$ 12,00, aod"will be an ornament to the - The Order will occupy the upper stories 8a the lower ones will be used for aad stores. They buvo already iooked a¢ both on Jefferson an: i ety bt have ot decided apon & location. © —_— MASONIC. The following thongbta are condansed from s w-mmnqum of Phils- A0 branches of a; are now fonrizh- Bt=whohar Aucient Crart, Capitaisr, Crypuc, ing e Or Ancient and Accepted—and schem- 0 everywhers aro tryivg to build upon ons ‘Mmh of thess ntes other spuricus ones, 78 notbing of Masonry in them, save the = =huch is gennine and popalaris al- “otnterfeited. The greed of Rain or power mea o originate crdcrs whuch re quaal h‘"flufiq’ dub them with ridioulonsly high-souad- fules, and attribute to them a fiitions aad antguity, asd forthwith s vl :I!:.\mg lflw X:flnri:sily of oW new-{ungle legres. Yer- o l?;‘urto.ln these glw socieiies v \D impeon: jons regalis~venders Lbea by a2+ other class, who by this means drive .""flml R trade. What a ca azi:y to them would sty onuon of their bairas] How flat the 207 el S0t6tY Roods would drop! Suppose "l.""‘. of men ahould Le footiub enough to Bigre coo%unl crusade aga’nss the Esstern o & Enizhls of the Red Orows of Coosten: - Kalgits of Casthage—who would sall Efi’ i1 f K, k4 THE CHICAGO:TRIBUNE:: SUNDAY,: NOVEMBER '28, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES 0y more of th ibs, linery? Just thipk of the cocvalsioos in certain businees-circles that wounld follow—not in Phil- adelphis, for st 18 little given o novelties that dietarb the Maconic pesce:; but alas for New York, and New Jersey, and the prolific West! The potato-bug sconrge would bo nothiog to it. The holiday quasi-Alasons would go under by bundreds, and the places that knows them now would know them po more forever. Ancient Craft, or Blae-}asons, csanot oftes be charged with holiday babits. Trae. our Grand Lodges have recently goc icto tha'babit of being sttended by somo foss aud feathers, on_grand occasions, in the shape of eccorts of Enights ‘Templar, on foot or monnted ; and somo breth- ren, whose love for display does not with them, request to be 3lasonically buried with all the pomp of Templar parade and funernl cera- mouial: bat, except in these respects, Masons that are Masoos eao rarely, if ever, be charged with baving suv nonsense about thera, or play- iog 3Mason before the world. But we are growiog e inglv proud of our _vros- pecity. In the ends of the earth,—Japan. icdis. Auetraha, the Bandwich Islands, stately Mascnic Temrles have been or are being bnlit, and we point to them with what wodeem s pardonabls pride. But let us mot have what mizht ba termed » holiday pride, for certatuly that sart goeth before a fall. ~If. how- ever, our charity and standard of moiality sre made t0 keep pace with the muitiplication and erandenr of our temples, there need be no fear for the future. Wealth. unless it is squandered and djemipated away, does not ssp virtae. Not ‘mone¥, but the love of. money, i8 the root of all evil. Momey ia a good thing. especially bard mopev, but money that is wasted i3 a corse. And boliday Mesons get rid of it much faster than othar Mssons. They eat, driok, and wear it out,—in oft-repeated banguets, expen- sive jewels, and often remowed becauso often worn. and nuch abused regslis sud cloth~ ing. Tho sooner they cesase to be holiday, and become common-senso Masons, conforming to the ways of their Masonic forefathera, the more Iaryzely will the prosperity of the Craft beia- sured, and the truer wil Freemasons be to the vous which tbeyshave voluntarily assumed. Masons rhould not oiten be seen. labeled as sach, on the pablic thoronchfarex. The vomp of parade is unmasonic. What offics bas the Tyler to fulfl ona public street? The only stated place. and slmost the only place, whera Masons should apoear in full regaliz. should be tho tvled precincts of the Lodge, Chapter, Coun- e, or Commancery. Tho sooner we forego our excesaive haliday hsbits the better. HPEDER LODGR No. £69. Qnite an enjovavle affar ocenrred Monday evening Jast at Turner Hall, on West Twellth etreet, bsing an entertaiument given by the above Lodgs to their numerous friends. As enly as 10 o'clack the spacious hall was filled with members of the fraternity and their fam- iliea. The Lodge, although in the second year of its career, has been held a8 perbaps the best German' Lodge in the city, and 1t has in its midst many members who re well poscad in the work of the Order. It present officers are: Paul Ziemseo, W. M. ; V. Koof, S. W. ; J. Kum- med. J. W.: D. Kubo, Treasurer; William Blanke, Secretary. Noticeable among the ladies and gentlemen present were Worshipful Past Jiaster N. J.. Mandelbaum, of Nev Jersoy.; P. M. Ryao. of Urbsma Lodge; N. 8. Davis, of Waubansia Lodge ; L. C. Hefter, of Chicago Lodge; C. Gorauy, of Lnglewood Lodge s A. Dsube and Miss A. Daube, F. G. Brown and lady, L. O. Reichert and lady, L. Daube &nd his danghter, Miss C. Danbe, and others. NOTES OF NUWS. Royal Arch Masoorv has made such rapid strides in Kapsas that within less than nine yeaus it has increased from three to twenty-five Chbagptems. New Grand Lodges have neen formed in Man- itoba and Dakots. Manitoba Las been recog- nized by Caneda, and Dakota was form}d by Lodges chartared by the Grand Lodge of Iowa. * The report, last year, of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts, showed that 2291 bad been ex- pended upon a banquet, and $295 for cbarity— #0 that the compsnions’ bearts cost them $% more than their stomucbs. IS 18 well at sll events, that the balance wes on the right side. . _The work on the Masome Temple, Indianap- ‘olis, Ind.. has progressed more rapidly lawely. The workmen are now engaged in putting on the roof, while snside the building the finisning ia beiog pushed forward at & rapid rate. It is quite possible that it may be fally occupied by the 18t of January next. In Brazil, notwithstanding recent etruggles, Preemasonry is progressing. Up to last Xiarch there were in that couotry 169 Symbolical Lodges, of which 129 follox the Rite Ecos: 16 the Frenoh Rite, 10 to the Rite Adonhiramite, 1 the Rite Schroeder, 1 the Rua of York, and 4 tbe Rite of Adoption. Thers are also 121 High Grade Chapters. Emperor William of Germany to Grand Orient Lodge of Freemasons at Milan : *‘ Thanic all my Italian brothers, sud sssure them that I will do everything 1n mv power for our and their interests. 1 am getting old now. and can- not attend to much persooally ; but my son, who will take my place in thia great Organiza- tion, wili continue what I have begun.” The Grand Chapter of Wisconsin having voted a * Past Grand Becretary's jewel ™ to one of its members, &n 1ncorrigible Companion thus dis- ports himself: * We don't know whas s Past Graud Secretary’s jewel mav be, but we would guggest a8 & desigu, 5 pen of the Corinthian or- der, broken ; by it standing & Grand Secretary, ‘weaping, his hands impatient!y enfolded in the few remaining ringlets of his bair.” —— Havre and Antwerp. Dispateh to London Tmes, Paxrs, Nov. 11.—M. Martezn. editor of the Journal du Havre, has just published » psm- phiet in which he contrasts the iocreasing pros- perity of Antwerp, tbaaks to combined national and lacal efforts, with the comparative stagma- tion, if not actual decline, of Havre, debarred from belpiog itself snd unsble to pro- cure help from the Government., Just, he Bays, as the Freach Revolution sod the wars msade on France by Europe (perhaps he ought ratber the wars msde on Europe by France) first gave a great industriel and mavufacturing impetas to Glasgow, 80 the war of 1670, shcwing that ‘France could not maintain the transit of goods for Belgium, Switzerland, Germsoy, and even its own Noithern end Esstern Provinces, bas diverted the tiafiic to Antwerp. He wsa much impressed. on visiting Glasgow a few vears ago, with the deepeniug of the Ciyde. its extensive quavs, and tho increasing population, and he is still more struck by the efforts being made bv Aotwerp, which, unlike Glasgow, is pot mesufscturing as well as com- mercisl. He shovs tbat, while the imports and exports of Havie botween 1860 aud 1674 only Incressed from 937.000 to 1,873,000 tons, thoge of Autwerp rose from 827,000 to 3,48.- 000 tons, and that, while the ehips entering or leaving ~Havre last yenr smounted to 1,800,000 tops, those at Aotwerp were 4,000,000 tons. Havre retams its euperiority io the importation of cotton, owing to its well-or- ganized market, but Antwerp 1mports thrice the quautity of wool, Rheims aad the French Nortl- ern manufaciusers beginning to purchsse tbers; aod in wood, oil, rice, and eslt meat it far sar- Bavre. Certain goods, moreover. from E.vro, and even Rooeo, srq conveyed more cheaply via Antwerp and Alstce to the East of France than by the direct route. At Antwerp the State has provided s mar.time goods station, and is abcut to capalize the Scheldt tha wnole leng:h of the town and oo to the demolished soutbern citadel, forming a guay 5 kilometres loog, while the Municipality is stout to construct s new dock, sheds, and other improvements, the for- mer espending 60.000,000f ~uod tho latter 23 000,0002. There is slso a liberal ouday on education, charity, fine arts, and eanitary measures.” The town is sole propnetor sod manager of its maritime works, simrly payiog to the Bcate a percentage on tbe receipts of the g‘“Y\ whereas in France these belong to the (ats, the docks ari g managed . st by fonctiooaries with mo local jnterest and insuficient information. Hence the expendi- tore of 2,000,000f on & maritime boulevard at Havre, 8 work of socurity for the town, bas been ten years under consideration, and the Btare, though pocketingz all the port dues, pleads 'want of money when pressed to execute improve- ments. ?x Mariesa dwells on the grest superiority of .Antw [ s the transfer of m!n‘h‘ludi:fap from a’l:!sab{ndrd to tue railway. and holds up a8 a model the mew gm.t.-k:ub?l“ % the exEuvmxty of the docks, the Iargest iieves, in Egrope, He urges that to check the endeat tendency of mumh.nldn‘& for the East of France totake the Amiwerp routs, the mpany, which seerns to bave favored i movement by its oconcessiors to the Belgizn lines, oughs both from vpatriotiem and selr- interest to agree with the Western Railway on reduced rstes. It would be much beiter, ho seys, if Havio could msnageits own affaira; but, ag the law intiusts them to mr&:gem, the mum- cii sl sathorities mest urge the necessary im- g:umanu on the Ministers of Commerca and blis Worke. This pamphlet is an additional pioof of the evils of centralization 80 desr 10 ov-;yfl Goveroment of whstever dyuaaty of pasty. to have eaid | PASSING THE ORDEAL. Mr. NMoyer Subjected to Still Severer Tests. The Musoular-Contraction Theory Seems Pretty Effectually Exploded. The [Mind-Reader Successful While Using a Plece of -Copper Wire, A Novel and Intsrasr.ing' Eiparimnt in a Spelling Irial. The notoriety given the phenomenon of mind- rending by the Thomas-Manefield-Brown con- troversy induced Mr. Moyer. tho newly-discoy- erod mind-resder, to give a select seance yesler- dsy ofternoon with a view of exploding the theory advanced by the two first-named gentle- men of science. The entertsinment was given in a room of the Rryant Block, the use of which w88 gran.ed to Mr. Moyer by & business frisad. A gcore of gentlemen were present, smong whom were Mesurs. B. L. MoVickar, 8. Bogers, George Andrin, P. H. Hefferon, Joun T. Cahill of the Signal Sexvice, M. E. Stone and 8. F. Davidson, maoagers of the Northwestarn News Burean, G. A. H. Baker, Mr. William Wallacs, and repre- seutatives of the moru:ng jouruals. The gen- tlemen were all familiar with the muscular-ac- tion theory of Aeasrs. Thomas and Manafield, 20d ome of them were firm believers in that ex- planation of the phenomenon. TOE FIRST TEST was performed with Mr. McVickar as the sub- ject. Mindfal of the hint offercd by tha theory of Thomas and Maosfield, he palled back, slightly, upon the band of 3oyer, to see if be could lead uwsy from the object that he had selected for him to touch. Tbe retarding movement did not scem to bave the slightest effect mpon the mind-resder. He drew upon Mr. McVickar’s band strongly, sod, after s mo- ment of hesitation, while the influence was as- sorting itself, he walked slowly, but directly, to the object sslectsd,—a goblet on a desk in sn isolated corner of the room. In the perform- sues of this test thore was nove of that hurry that the scientists sassert is necassary to ipspire uervous action, and at the conclugion 3r. MoVickar aald that he bad hindered the miod-resdor a8 much as he could physically, without absolntely refusing to etir in obedience to the sunmons of his hand. He waa firmly of the belief that he had not as- sisted Mover iavoluntarily or uscousciously, be- cauee, having read tha explanations of Thomas and Mansfleld, he was espacially carefal to de~ prive him ot any assistance of a muscular or vervous description. After successfully par- forming the same test with every geutlemsn Ppresent, THE ALPHARET TEST was introanced. The jetters used by Moyer are of sbout the size of 8 common laying card, and after the performer was blindfolded, Mr. David~ 8on seattered the letters over the table, eo that they wersutterly disordered. Mr. Stone thought of the word *circus,” and commuuicated his thought to a gentleman present, sud then taking the Jetter ** R” from the table, he put it upon the head of a gentleman who sat on the side of the table opposita to which Mover was standing. Moyer fonud the two firat letters very readily, and when the ' R ” came in tnra to be found he passed his hand over the table omoe or twice, and then drawing it back with 8 swaying move- ment he moved with his sublect away from the table, walked aroand and behind it. and advanc- ina toward the gentleman upon whose head the Istter was, he_raised his band slowly and placed itupon the hidden letter. Mr. Stone, doring ths spelling of the word. kept upa steady though not very strong pull upon the operator’s band, and be was very positive that he bad in no way assisted him in bis search by involuntars or une conscious muecular action. 1o all tbess tests. however, the phenomenon wag copablo of explanation by the theory of Thomas and Mansfield, that is, it being granted that phreical contsct inewitably induced euch nervous action on the part of the subject 28 would indicate to the operator. throngh his ex~ quisite seoee of toucy, the locality of the article selected for him to find. This fact was suggest- ed by several of the gentiemen. Moyer ex- Aaimed, * Il show you that there is nothiog in this muscular-sction” theory, once far all, snd, saateling up A PAIR OF ORDINARY TATLORS' SHEARS, be nroposed to manifest his power with thom as tho onlv medium of commuoication or contact between himseif and the person oporated with. Mr. P, H. Hefferon was first selected for this wonderful test. Moyer put his iodex and second fingers through the rings of the handle of the shears, and giving the blade to Mr. Hefferon, he desired bim to Be lect en object for him to find. There was no_phraical contact of the parties to tbe test, the Land of the subject being several inches removed from the haud of the operator. The instant that Mr. Hefferon announced that he bsd fixed his mnd upon an object, Moyer started across {he room in the direstion of a trio of gentlamen, acd selecting Mr. Avdnn, be gave his noso a plasful twesk, when Mr. Hefferon Isughingly said that that was the most tromi- nent objoct that hud occurred to his miud, and that he bhad eelected 1t for Moyer to find, Bloyer exverienced more difficulty in his noxt test with the shears, Mr. McVicker being the sobject. Fe was snceessfal, however, and he subsequently submitted himself to every gentle- man in the partv, sod in everv case he implicitly obered the nnexpressed desire of the mind of the person with wham he was operating. In his controversy with Mr. Browm, Mr. Thomas perticularly attacked the test in which the mind-resder ciaims to read the mlod of one person THEOUGE TAE RODY OF ANOTHES * who is placed between the reader and the person Wwhose mind controls his movementa. Wiih Mr. Brown, the eubjects are arrangod {a this order : The mind-reader takes the hand of the one whose mind i» to remain Daesive, and the person ‘who exercigea the controlling mind is required 10 close bis haud aboat the wrist of the party ‘whoss mind is psesive. This peculiar arrange- ment, the scientists assert, admits of the com- muuicstion of nervous intelligence from the band of the thinker to the muscles of the wrist of the person who i3 passive, and from his band to that of the mind-reader, who thus ascertsins the whereabouts of the desired object. Moyer met this objection in the most novel 2ud unezpected msoner. Mr. Bakerand Mr. Cahill were selact- ed to illustrate the mistalten visws of the men of science. Ay, Cahill did the thinking ; Baker was passive. Mr. Baker, whose hand Moyer took, wore s heavy overcoat, which be did notremove. Mr. Cahill was requirod to put his hand on Mr, Balker's ara either above or below the elbow, on the ontside coat-yleeve. This was done, and the selacted object was slmoet immedintely discov- ered by Moyer. This test was varied in 2 great many wave. The haod of the thinker was suo- ceasively placed sbove and below, over, under, and upon !l sides of Moyer's arm, and the read- er was in every instance entiraly duccessful in his efiorts to find the hidden srticlea. The man- par in which the test was, in every case, per- formed preciuded the possibility of the thinker touchiog the flesh or musclas of the passive mind, and it seemed utterly impoasible for that intenselr delicate movoment, called 1avoluntary muscular action by Mr. Thomas, to manifest it~ sed! turough the heavy clothine of the passive erson to him, sud {rom him to the sansitive nd of the mind-reader. With the exceotion of Tex TaISUNE reporter, who had met Mr. Moyer before, the gentiemen preaent were strangers to Mr. Moyer, and of the six peraons who tried him in this difficult test four at least were, before the :x::-l. firm balievers in the ‘‘musculsr-action” 0y, The strongest. point in the srgument of Prof. Mausfield against the assumption that there was anything phenomenul 1n the species of mind- reading of which Mr. Moyer is an exponent is that none of the presnmed possessors of the power had snoceeded, publicis and anid an s~ semblage of strangers. in obeving the wishes of tho controlling mind when the connecting link betveen the parties 1o the experimest was of A COPFER WIRE. Mr. Moyer had come prepared to meet the sn- tagonists of the phenomenan of mind-resding at evors point, and after bringing the tests with two persons to & successful tarminstion, be pro- da & piece of corper wire abous 2 feet in length and ona-fourth of sn foch in diameter, throngh which his said he would resd the wishes of the gentlemen present, sod perform with it everything that he cid when in sctaal E:y!lcsl contact _with his eubjeot. M. :é:'rthmmm Nclv!n Agency, was 3 t person who tried him with the wire. Mr. Btone held the wire very loosely, and it swayed toand fro in his hand with every movement of the mind- réader, As the timo ihat$bo wirs wsa fofros dused the ssencs had oobsumed over $wo hours. it being after 5 0'cloak and growisg dark rap Mr. Moyer did not seem ‘in the lesat exhausted by the severe strain under which be had been so loog, and, though he bad porformed more than tventy succedssul tests, bo was spparently as freth 26 whea the enter- tainment began. His phymeal condition is re- markable by comparifon, iussmuch 88 Mr. Brown, after a protracted seance, is, 28 8 gen- ersl thing, quite prostrated, uvervouely. The object saiected by Xr. Stone wasa small knob or projection from 8 bracket upon & mirror in the room. The influence seemod tocome slow- 1y to Maver, and for soveral moments he stood pertectly stil, In the floom the appear- ance of the blind folded ma3, stand ing with drooping’ hewd and holding the haod of Mr. Stone, -cflzestad stroogly to the writer a gallows scene wlich ho witnessed some time aga, just at dusk, fn the munntaing of Nevada, and witen the roind-reader stated, for 3 moment, thers was & feeliog that onchas when watchmy & man walkiog to the gallows. An ex- clamation of eurpriss from Mr. Btons called the reporter to his sanses, and the whale party har- ried to the mirror, where Moyer was standing with his hand, with the wire in it, upon the idontical piece of the fixture that Mr.S.wone had desired he shonld touch. The commny were dumbfounded, and the strongest of iie ‘‘mus- cular-action” theorists wavered in thair faith. To support them, there was nothing but the vaponngs of two practically {nexpertnced in- vestigators : againet thom was the irdubitabla evidence of their eyes. They sl sgmed tnat, 88 the wire-test was performed, it was impossi- ble that any nervons movement. 8o dilicate as t0 be imperceptible to the ordinary sense of touch, could have been trausmitted through the wire. As Mz. Bione beld the wire bs ¢ould oot bave given Moyer a lunt if he had wanted (0, bat ashe was a very stroug disbeliever ix Moyer's powers before this occasion, it is fiirly pre- sumable thst he would be more aptto retard than to expedite his successful movementa. This was the final test, sod the geotlenen who took part in the enteriainment, many of whom thought before they met Moyer that they beld the key to the mystery, left the room more mre- tified than whon they entered it, carring with them the conviction that mind-resdiog was, as yet, a8 deep & mysterv as it bad ever been. and Batisfled that peither Thomas nor had found the solution to the problem. Scientists ars not wanting to defend :he claim that this peculiar power, however phenmenal it may ssem, is purely oatursl Among them is Prof. A. A. Griffith, late .of the Tuiversity of Michigao, who, in the course of a recet letter, savs : Hr. Thomzs occuples almoat the fdentics poaition that ] 2ia wher 1 bezan investignting this jower, two years A 3 un Arbor, in presence of Dr. c&'gfir and uth‘c‘rnmembem of the Fuculy of the Universits, an investigation was bad, basedupon this notion of museular contact, and that theory was ex- ploded by the copper-wire test, This subject bids fair to be prolific of coutro- versy, and, as Mr. Moyer bas sunccessfilly per- formed the cracial tests proposed by Praf. Mans- field and Mr. Thomss, it ie incambent upco those geptlamen to bring forward iew and stronger argnmeut, or their wrested lairels wiil adorn the brow of the unassuming ciga-maker. [ —— A Snake Story. Soringfald (Mase) Dnion. George M. Ball, s young man of B years, employed on the farm of Mr. Porry, o West- field, has boen accnstomed to drink, whie milk- ing night and morning, s quaotity ¢ warm milk, A few moroings since, failing totake bis acoustomed draught, somethiog came w in bis throat, ghokioz bim, and he fell over smseless. A gon of Mr. Perry waa surprised tosee1snake’s head protruding from Ball's mouotb, bit op at- tempting to seize it, the serpent retreatd down hig throst. A powerfol emetic wasadmirstered, and in a short time the yvoung maa vonited np » *‘hooked adder,” 2 feet 8 inches lmg, and abont as thick two fiogers of a mat’s hand. It lived only five minutes. Ball bas jrobably carried the serpect for at least twelve lears, as he was accastomed to driok from s smal brook whep & boy. Sinca parting from his tent his hea'th has greatly improved, and his apjetite is & little more reasonable. Open Every Evening This Wiek. In consequencs of the great demand fa cheap homes and the insbility of many busines-men to spara the time to make purchtses durng the day, Mr. Ira Browa will kesp his o%ics (loom 4, 142 LaBalle sireet) open every evening ths weel. Seal Sacques. The lesding fur manufacturersof the Vest are ‘Messrs. Bishop & Barnes, corner Stats and Monroe streeta. Inthe mamafsctarsof sexl sacquesihiey use the Shetland, South Soa, and Afaska akins,wnd use only the genuine Openheimer English dyed. 7hey cut all thelr sacques by the new French mittern half or closs fitting, which is conceded by a'1 £ be i1 mont. graceful fitting s35que Worn, with muff, bos,and csp 10 match, made plain or trimmed with any fazdesired. Their Srm having occupied the foremost pasition in the far manufacturing, as well as the retall Lat, cap, and fur trade, for the past nine years, warrait their doing m the fature, a3 in the past, manniactuing and selling only first-lass goods, We advise odr readers to give them a call. —_— Save Your Money ‘until Tuesdoy, at 10 o'clock a. m., When Mr. Lipman, the wall-Xnown pawnbroker, again sells the brfelted plodges, At this sale will be offered valusble id snd silver watches, chatns, Jewelry, instruments, a1d other gooda, At 22 o'clock will be offered some finegennine digmond fewelrs, such as studs, cluster andsolitsire Tings, pins, and ear-ringe, This stock will besold by Mr. Butters, suctioneer, 108 Madison strest, and all §o0ds will be guaranteed as represented. Merchant Tailoring—Vho's Ahesd P Graham, the nobby cont-cutter. Who's turning out the best work for the lesst naney 7 “ Graham,” 121 East Lake street. Why? Becauao be does his own catting and super- intendd his bustness porsonally, thereby savng the salaries pald by other merchants for cuttirs, ete, (".I‘va.mufn m;::d 15 :s Soat, Pa’:ldwm $8, gg. and s prices, Sou him a8 131 Fust Lake sirecty = L ——— The Teeth. Health, comfart, sud personsl appesrance are in- volved. Save your teeth. Rirst-class, relfatle, and 106 gentiemnen of the dental profeasios can be found at Dr. McChemey's, corner Olark and Rdoloh stzeets. Nuither painful nor expensive, Only §8 s fall Sot, bost gum teeth, Teeth extracted fres of charge :l'fl!fl Sto9am. . A New-Style Photograph by Gentile is Leing made, which be calls “ Paolgranhs @hizer ala Iirinoe.” Every ona intending) o have Bhotographs for Christmas should call and see them, Gentila has an Italian artist specialy engsgod 1 make Sopisa from ol photographs. B8tudios 103 State sireet. ‘The Elmwood. Clergymen, officers of {ho srmy, rafiroad cffictaly, and, n fact, all clazses of men, rocommend the Elme wood collar as the best ever worn. It will it better, look picer, and keep clean longer than axy cther,— thres good qualities. ————ey The Shrinkage in Prices 1 E?;n balf sospparent in any ofher manufactured xx- #icld in this markst as in the immense stock of turni- ture the manufecturars hsve ordered their sgents, Bampson, Greane & 00., 192 and 164 Statestrest, 1o sell. s ——— Their New Departure in Prices. Tt bas been only a fow days since Ordway & New- nd’s reduction In prices for all merchant talloring, and 138 Dearborn asd 209 West Madison streets are ‘busy places in cansequence. —_———— Importantto the Preservation of Testhw John Gosnell's Cherry Mooth-Paste, the most eflicacious dentifrice known. Try it, ¥or sale by all druggists. Wholesale agents, Tarrey k Bradlay, 171 s0d 173 Randolph street. —_——— Our Low, Flat West Nesds Is. Wakefleld's earth closet should fiad place tn evary Western home, and espeofally ontalde of citisa where thers are water works, Send to Daltom, 193and 194 Btats street, for circular, —_——— A Good and Faithful Wife will quietly take her husband's old clothes, send them :flmfitm with orders to clean and repatr roturn . Nothing will mors agreeably sur~ peise him, ——— Pianos and Orgaus. Hallet, Davis & Oo.'s Grand, Square. and Upright, 454 Bmith's Ameriown Organs, can be found only at .3 w..“xmn‘nu. carner State end Adams strests, — Henry Rocher. At the late fair of the American Institute of New York the highost medal for photogrsphy was awarded o Henry Bochsr, 74 Wabash avenue, Chicaga, Brand's Christmas Photographs. Engugements for sittings can be secured in advance 8 Btudios, 536 Wabsah avenus. Lundborg's California Water Zox tollet and bath ; delighsfajiyfragrant and retrsshing e . Otoriized Ox.Matrow for the Halt, ¥y Buak & Rifie, makers of 58 s ¥ Calogns, THE GAME OF CHESS. Ciesoo CHEss Crup—Nos. 63 and €5 Washington street; open from 9 a, m, 1010 p. m, Chexss players meot daily at the Tremant House and 8t the. Shn:.\w‘s Honl‘.‘h(bumtnl). S Communications with games, prod] or solutions should be addressed to tho Cily"&.llla‘:n:.( TaE Tam- UNE. Good problems or games will be pubHsbed tn this calumn, PROBLEM XNO. 2--BY D. T. BROCK, Wnite, Black, ¥r. G | % S PoR4 1.P0k4 toKB4 2..P tokes P -BtoB4 3..KEEttoBS gKIKDBS 4. .BloR:§ BtoKS6 i 5..?‘03& {:g&xfhfl | 6..PtoBS3 ] - 9..Ptakes B Q to K 2 check | 8..BtoK3 ARG gmxzz lll QtoR 5 chmek JPtoKKt3 12..P takea P SR i e e QuisQR? miis.:é}l, 16..R t: ?.noxn 17..Etto B3 PloB3 JA..Etto B 4 EioBal™ 118 1o R seneck toK5 K to Q square ttoB5 Pto QK3 o Kt é(e) fieza |paEy toQE4 | tases P and wing @ T move u the of White's troukles (9) Q takes Kt check would have been much bet- “g: *TU3..Qtakes Rt check K to K 2 (bast) W QoBTcheck XtoB3 15..Q takes Kt P, ko (2)1& d declaive, (d) There is nothing better, NOTES. The Toronto Chess Clubis about to have a tournameat. Mr. Reichhelm has retired from the editorship of tbe Chess Record, and ia succeedsd by Mr. W. H. Sagen. = i Mr. S8hinkman follows Mrs. J. W. Gilbert with » 16-move mate! We sympathize with Willing. Where 1a this kind of thing going to stop?— Chess Record. The match between Messrs. Mason and Albe- roni haa termioated in a victory for the former, the final score being 7 o 1 in Mr. Maoon's favor. Mr. Alberoni bas challenged Mr. Ensor to a mu;bx::ussoc,muwm coms off early in De- cember. Demosthenes, the Prince of Orators. Demosthenes has been styled, by ous second ouly to bimself iu the gift of eloguencs, *the Prince of Orators;” and the rank which Tally conferred, the common consent of the learned of all succeeding sges b2y smply coofirmed. How delightfnl wonld it ba, were we able to sdd that, while » Prince among orators, he waa also a Prioce smong men. Bu: truth, always most stubborn when it treats of grest examples, shuts ita book op tho willing eocomium. I the life of thig ¥rince of orators we see nanappily exempli- fied almost everything whica 18 & reproach to the reputation of this noble facalty, oratory—everything which is most calculsted to make its 1mportance to the interssts of society undervaloed snd despised. We see in Demosthenes the firat great mstance of an orator withoat courage, an orator withoot hon- esty, an orator without principle. We see in the story of his life eloguence altarnately exalted and debassd: pow exerted for the moblest of purposes; the mext moment eilenced for the bagest. We see & man whose philippics seemed animated by the purest of patriotism, sfterwards eacrificiug the honor of bis conaty for a paitry bribs. e s¢0 a man who is & very herv in rous- ing otbers to fight bravely for their rigbts, the veriest poltroon himself in the fiold, o see, finally, & man who'made it the pride of his life to animats others to die for their country, pusil- Isaimously fving from the evila which enviran bim, and rezolved to die for himself alone, seek- ing the coward's refuge in s suicide’s grave. ‘Whben Harpalus, ope of Alexander’s officers, aftar betraving his master and purloining his treas- ures. made his escape to Athens, it became 2 queation with the Athenians whether thev shonld give the traitur-robber shelter. Demosthenes, to whose opinfon the people looked up with rev- erence, declar~d st first that they ought on no account to disgrace the charactar of tbe Repub- lic by affording refuge to one 8o infamouns. A day was appointed for thesolemn decision of the matter. and in the meantime, Harpalus, genmble how much his success depended on gaioing over the Prince of orators to hig§eide, sought and ob- tained an opportunity of showing Demosthenes the pracions store of goodly ibings of which ke had robbed his royal master, Demosthenes wes particularly struck with the sight of & maserve olden cup. and, poisiug it 1o hig nand, ho ssked filml]fle. What is its weight ?* Harpalus re- plied, * To you it shall waigh twenty taleats.” When Demosthenes had departed the cup was accordingly sent after him to bis house,along with the twenty tslents in mogev. Next day, when the care of jus came ou for con- sideration, Demoethenes sppesred in the As- ssmbly with his throat muffled up, aod when called apop to speak he made signs that he had lost bis voice. 3 To the honor of Athens. thisact of lbf!mmlhll vepality was nof allowed to psas unpunisned. It was the canse of & fine of talents beiog im- posed on the orstor, to avoid the payment of which he fled to Zgins, where he remsined m exile, until an emergency io the affairs of the Repubiic prodaced his recall. Demosthenes once observed to Phocion, who 'was ut the head of & p: of orators whom Phil- ip had biibéd over to his interest, that the Athe- nisus would one day murder him in s mad fit. “Take care,” replied Phocion, * tna¢ they do ot marder yon in s sober oue.” The warning was propheticsl. The Atheniaus, as the price of their reconciliation with Antipater, were obliged to pass a decree condemming Demostbe- Des to death. The orator fled for refuge to the Temyle of Neptuoe sz Celaura; but, inwardly convincad that no place conld farpish him & sanctuary from such vengeance aa pursaed bim, hedrank of poison, and died. Thus passed away a man whose famo 84 an orator is beyond competition. Asja well known, it was earned by incredible pawataking aguicst serious nacur- ! dimadvantsges. This mach to bis immortal praise. Why run apy risk with yoor cough, cold, Rorseness, orindeed sny pulmopary or bromchia{ complat, ‘when a remedy afe, thorough, and so essily oblained 23 Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant cau be had ? If you bave contracted o scvere eald, save your lungs trom the Qangerous rrifation and_infismmation, which fre- 5 GROCERIES. HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Ty Sl i Y| O N GROCERIES!Christmas, FOR THE MILLON! | ygg pyprRe ST, A CIS PARLOR BEDSTEAD 0 W ison- Mammoth Grocery House, o e 109 Bast Madison-st. 3 Per Cant Chiaper tan i Any Ot Hms: 0 te Ciy, For OASH, or on INSTALLMENTS: ar{;:ovex!ftfdx ,iJC. gx‘;oeell;s dolfeel it CdI'BE[S, GSH.L'%'EESY UhfliTS, o i, oe 1 wilnot siop si- | CAINEP S48, - Lt FanepCha, ; Parlor Suifs, Foot Rests, Tioanges, Marble-fop Tables, Just Arrlveaxrin Transit 1,000 bris Granmated Sugar ar... 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