Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1876, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY MARCIE 25, 1876-TWELVE PAGES. ul SCIENCE AND RELIGION. Is Thero a Contlict Then A Viow of tho Case from the Soiontifie Standpoint. ——<<$—— (ho Eartl’s Centro and tho Cooling Pro- cesseeeWhat Kind of Itock Is Granite? ‘fst orgy in Order to Acoopt tho Wavo Thoory of Heat? 4S THERE A CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND. . RELIGION, [Conetuded.} go the Editor of The Chieago Tribunet FAINFIELD, culty in tho way of a reconciliation of acientiats and Christianity, and ono that ought to be racog~ nizod and fairly met and maatored, fa, that thoy aroso in the habit of demonstrating irrofutably tho articlos of thoir faith, that thoy fail to fix it upon tho tonets of Chrintinnity, which cannot bo aatd to bo demonstrated in any selontiflo aonso, Jhero is no propricty in ignoring this ack of ndoquato domonstration, for tho unques- tionabty a blind adkerence to the tonchings - of tho Bible, and an unquestioning faith ina ‘thus enith tho Lord.” Relloction rominds ono that no ‘roligious pronouncomont ia too bssoless to bo- como s national faith, however hideous or sb- prosont basa of Christianity ie urd, if it bo judiciously and acutely introduced and aupported; and tbo naturo of humanity is puch that to-day the auporatition of tho Hottontot ia not fully elimuotod from tho soul of on- Jightonod and Cbriatinotzod man ; whilst tho credulity of human nature is 60 dosply founded that itis gorged with shama, and decoite, and log, dey aftor day, to tho amazomont of the fow and thoughtful onlookers, who aro yot at timos ite victims also, Is ita wonder, thon, that, in effoct, tho sctontista say to tho Clirietian theolo- giau, Wo ask you to crodit nothing which wo do not provoy you must not expect us to boliove what you do notalsodomonstrate. Tho demand ja justand equitable; and tho altornative of doubt in their cage, and in that of countless ad- horonts in tho lessor world of mind, who are prono enough alresdy to sucer at tho purity and humility of Christianity, must bo accepted, if ic bo not answored. "Tho ordinary reply of Chrintlanity has boon, #*Wo teat your sctontific dictum by your own rules, and, if it accords, boliove it; do you thon try our faith by our mothod: * Belfovo on tho namo of the Lord Josua Christ,” and you wilt koow whoreof wo aflim, It has beon trlumph- antly aod ropeatedly wiolded as tho koon braad- gword of tia poleinio etrifo, and is popularly supposed to havo on ndamantino edgo: but its blado is notght bat load, lot it, be burntehod with ovary ald peraunsion or invective can lond to it, or whotted by the iluest motal grindstones of Togio or logomachy. ‘Iho refutation of it ia os follows: Bellef, or faith, ig no criterion of tho truth, since mankind ia adopting daily the moat miénatrous or ridiculous bolicfa imaginable, and “(an folua oa hol.” Vaith neods no demonstra- . tion, oftentimes will not consent to it, ou the ground of manifest Impioty, and, onco attained, excludes all necosalty of proof. On tho other hand, demonstration sddrogsos the iutolloot first, alwvaya produces faith, and that faith is infolll- blo—it is tho truth, Heroin consists the.appa- rently Inoxplicable differonco botwoen tho result . atlataod by tho tio mothods of aciontilic and or- thodox investigation : tho :formor {demonstrates facts, and compels tho botiof of tho Obriatian as woll asthe actontist; whilst the latter provides no satisfactory proof, and foils | ofton to enlist tho intoligent inquirer’s t intor- est. Heroin also is the absolute woak- nes of the ordinary syetom of thooloz- ical controversy, aud tho absolute worthlcasnous of tho rejoindor thus advexted to, Enthusiaam ought nover to load the champions of Christi- anity to the vain fmogination that they ara Bum- | gond, on whose sido the Lord Hrasolf is ficht- ing, aud who can, in au amergonoy, re-enact that mighty feat of ronting their oppononts with tho Jaw-bono of on naa. And Christiauity itself can- not afford to lose ita piostige ovur tho hearts of: rien, which it is gradually doing iu thia oulight- enod ayo, and which it cau only hapo to rotuin, orat gome future tima regain, by ovorwholtn- jogly adaailing sud carrying tho fortrces of their intelloot. ‘An orroneous opinion in rogard to this quoa- tion of a conilict ts, that Heiigion, or, to be spo- cific, Christiamty, ia, and bas been, the assailant; thot, because itis au alleged infallibte truth, thore- : , foro it rejects or opyoves all others; and that it has fought the progress of Science slap by step, because they two aro oternal oncmios. Doubtlesn tho attitude of Christianity towards sutontifio men has often bocn so threatening, and tte band haa fallow no heavily on thom, that it was easy to bo deceived na to tha ron! stato of facta; and wo must povuibly pardon oven Dr, Draper for fall- ing into tha mistake nnwittingly, a8 woll a8 tho many theologians, who, since thoy sro making no uttacks against tho progress of Science, thorofore imagine that thore iso halt, or that a truce has Deen declared, Tho truth may as woll bo opsnly svawed at once, and tho futuro accordingly disposed. It is Scienco thot hos always been tho aggressor, and thut coven now seems to bo steadily oncrosching upon tho intronchmont of the army within that vory areus of rovola~ ion, the Holy Bible. illetory would indicate that Beionco hes bven tho bittorest foo to Cliristiauity, ainco tho flercoat atrugelos of tho Inttor have boon wilh it, Being infallible, it bas sot up its dogtuas, hke another Nobuchadnazzer, and demanded reverence for thom from the Daniela of tho world, at tho risk of wild boasts, fire, or sword; aud timo and again those on- inching mon have solomnly intorproted tho mystic symbol on tho earth's grand wall, writton by the fugor of tho living God, whereby it baw been weighed and found wanting. Pushod to ex}romity, it bay fought and slain of nocouulty, put only whon it hay beon attacked. The truth fa, thon, fixed and unaitorablo; whilst Belence is progreaulng, active, » strong and fearlons, aud, like another inilnx of tho Goths and Vandals, it ts apparantly ovorrunning the Empire of Christianity in tho hearte of men, ond substituting, for the effeminate dogma of thild-like faith, the vigorous culo of domonstra- tion and rowultaut truth. 'Yno ory of Reconciliation ts dalnsion; thore is to poace possible betwoon Bercnco and religious deiths until thoy shall have submitted to tho only just and adoquate rulo of proof, Tho sooner, thorofore, thoy addread thouselves to it, tho moro effectually will thoy accomplish the Divino work, claimed to bo thelr own, of bring- ing men toa knowledge of tho one true God, Tho tlimey aubtorfuges adopted by Chrlstianity’s champions in’somatimos altempupg the recon: eillation of Bcripturo with tho truths of Solence, Is o laomontable travoaty upon honesty, aud, In ptaln language, woworthy of tho just and truthful Boing whom they profess to ropro- vout. A practical illustration oxista in the scientific viow of tho ago of tho world and tho antiqnity of mankind, aud tho Biblical record of the years intorvonlug botwoen tho creation of the iret man and tho Christian ors. Wo know au 8 fact that man existed on tho carth ages bo- Tore the Genotio dato of his croation, and, io evasion of the unqualified falaity of tho Bcrip- bural foxt, rofure iy takon in tho augortion thus $ho Dibteis nots book of scioncy, nor intended fo teach sucu truths. In auch wiso is auswerod She erroneous Mosnio account of creation in aix Gsysof ocarth which we know occupied tong ages in assuming ita habitable form, or some more ridiculous explanation, not even to plausiblo,. So aleo tha roply to the = pronouncemont of science = upon the childish fableof the Old Testament con- Corning tho creation and dutics of the aun ond moon. Ho likowiso havo various othar dogmatic Btatoments of Beripturo becn from time to time Bubverted; and tho mode of roconcillation lu to evade tho isuuo of tho proven falsity of alloged Fevelation from God Ilitmsolf, by tho cowardly loa that tho Diblo docs not toach ficlonca! ‘The most fitting roJoiuder is, that neither would the Word of God ‘lie, and your Libla does, Tho logic of tho hosttlity of taany thinkers to the Christlan religion, founded on the, Scriptural Tings, is fur and convincing : “God cannot Ho ;" tho author of tho Lible docs stat hood . after falachood ; thereforo, ered thor ig not God. And tho adhe- rents of Christiaulty mus tmoot the iuuue fairly, and not attempt to dony what overy houent mind sees plainly, —the irreconcilable differences boiweon tho Bible aud.Truth, Thore ls no reconciliation of those errors with Bclence, and they must be expunged from tho text, togothor with all doctrinal statements reating on tho 4ame authority, not uumistakubly corroborated ; or they must remains fatal wtone around the neck of Christianity, aiuking it dooper aud Siri aaa tates, h a ot ween Science and Chrustanlty?. With the poxvaralty of au ostrich, Betweon Neocssary to Admit a Waste of En- In, March 23.—Tho leading dim. \| Iron, zinc, antimony, and bismuth fused, on = = the champlons of tho latter ‘atick their | fluid, and the fluid from tho gasoons ; for ho has <t ty SEPTN the champions oF id” eands of tradition, | witnonsed it obansing ona imaltor ncale, Hut TOUSE KEES ING, bigotry, and superstition, and disclaim it ‘abso- | from what provions stato did the gaseous atato A Chapter on Flour. tutoly." Christianity in founded on tho Bible, Ta the Editor of the Chteaqo Trtbune* which a “itself tho essontiat exponent of all truth," sad, becatso “all truths ara in bare mony,” thorefore thore 4s no vontest between Christianity and Scionce, they repent. Tholr eare aro shut tothe echoos of thoro conflicts, ono aftor another, rovorborating down tho length of olghtcen conturios, whorela Sclence attacked the vory tonets of theig faith, aud the purity and crodilility of fta founders, and ovorthraw them romorsolessly and abaolately. Thoir oyoa aro clogod to tho derisive smile with which im: hares inteligonce has juet grooted their refusal takoup the gauntlat of “the prayor-toat,” with lopa of tho proscribed faith in tho susto- nance of tholr V’roserver than that of that ol nav, in the infancy of tholr rolegiou, who boldly gavo the gaugo of battle imeelf, and, at his prayer-test-with the scol- ere, ag itis narrated, prayod down firo from Heaven to prove his God's anpromecy. ‘Thoy fail to seo that their declination of tho test of prayer has forovor sottlod tho fact of its inof- Detonoy in phgstaat effaira,—ono of tho cornor- atonos of thor roligion, and tho substractura of (hele grost doctrine of Divine Intorposttion in htiman concerns at tho roquest of falth, taught Bo enfphatically by Jesus and ils Apoation, which 4s now brokon in pieces, And thoir intol- locte rofuge to grasp anothor fact of momoutoug import to tho futuro etatus of Chriatlaulty, viz. That, slowly bub suroly, Bcionso ie undermining anothor cardinal doc- trine, suother —cornor-atono, inthe reat tomplo to the God of Boripture,—tho porsonal creation and government of tho earth and ite inhabitents,—if, Indocd, it may not bo sald to havo already boon romoved. With theso ohfef doctrines subvorted, the othor doctrines of Christianity will moat probably prove dey hueks to tho intolligont soul thatattempts to foad upon. thom, and will accordingly bo rojected. Such, then, fs an impartial viow of tho etatus of aclonicoand Christinnity, in tho light, of his- tory and reason. Thore is undoubtedly acon- flict; nnd if the common senso of to-ay will not, the futuro will dotormiue which are the two opposing partica, Scioncesimply sools for truth, and in ta purenit is tho} relontloss foo snd tho asaurod victor of avery crror that may oD- poso ita progress. If it finds thom ina national religion, in tho foundor of 8 world’s great falth, arin tho sacred utterances of tho God of tho Diblo, it witl rusk thom out as fearlessly and a8 thoroughly as from tho superstition of ® fatich- worshipor. Science iano rospocter of porsons, and seke but ono thing of every petitioner for ity eredenco : that it ba domonstratod; and dem- onstration it will havo, or oleo just acorn and aubsequont oblivion, Will not the championa of Christianity consent to read the many signs of thotimea, and accedo to adomand for tho dom- onetration of thelr faith? Or will thoy bitudly closo their ears to tho toachinge of bistory, and’ rofnse’ to erodit the portentoug throatonings of futurity, 8 prophotic aa was evor o lamontation of their cldor scors? ‘The timo is ripo for “strongthon- ing the watls of Zion aud building up ita wasto placos,” which have been sadly lamagod during these latter dave, Is thoro no ugw Nehemiah, who will etand forth in the world and proclaim, “Tho God of Heaven, Ho will proaper us; thoreforo wo will arige and build ?” Or ia thore no modorn Paul, who will'demand, sa_ with tho yoleoof another Oracle of God, ‘Prove all things, and hold fast that which is good ne 0) omorgo? Neithor the astronomer, tho gooloziat, nor tho chemist in sblo to anawor this. One philosophor may say that ft jumped instantly from tho solld to the gaseous through a collision with somo other bodys ‘pnather, that it always oxisted go; whilo still another, to got over tho difficulty, may assort that it was croated fo, ut the Iittle adveuce-guard of Bcieuca, tho real workers, aroatastand-atill, ‘They stand in ut tor darkness, waiting pationtly fors light. And thoy are wise for so waiting. They know that, In travoling thus far, thoy mot and ovadod many pitfalls, filed with tho Lanes of many a specula- dive pliloxopher who, unwilling to walt for tho fight of truth, shining throuzh experiment and observation, struck outin the dark, thinking ho could wee bis way to the point from which ho atartod—thua coinploting a cyclo of ovente—by the dim and uncertain light of a cortaln partiou- lar idoa which ho had formed. Therefore I say thoy sre wiser for 60 waiting. But, if I woro to foflow in tho footstopa of ,tho thooriatu, and sssort that tho force known oa Gravitation is a purely mochanical one, sustained and kept up by the spparenty wasted forces in Naturo, who conld disprove it? Worol to sesort that the ethor is but another stato of mattor, and that tho agitation of its particlos, caused by waves passing through it, causes thom to unlto in cortain ways, forming cortain substancos, ond that these substances, when thoy have recoivod motion onough, become visible iu the hoavons ad firo-miat, and thot this is the canso of the oobule, —who is thar tocontradict mo? Imako neithor of theso assertions, howover; I siniply repoat what f aatd at tho outsot, that it ia not necessary to admit awaate of energy iu order to accept tho Wayo Theory of host. “Tt aeoma hard to boliovo,” exclaims Mr. Iol- Jintor, “that things aro arrauged so imnprovi- dently." cannot think tbe Creator guilty of so clumsy a coftrivanco,” sald Bir David Brow- stor, years aga, “ns tho filling of space with othor {n ordor to produce light.” This was mout effectually answored by Prof. Tyndall. “ho quarrol of Sclenco with Bir David, aa with many other persons,” said Tyndall, "ix, that thoy pro- fess to knowtoo much about the mind of tho Groator,” {congratulate Mr. Hollister on bis wondorfal rapidity in roading and oxplaining tho Biblo ao- cording to Science, I fcan fully appreciate tho prodigious tabor required of a persevering and indefatigable mind to road this Book in this way, and actually get over tho greater part of tho tirst chapter in the romarkably short pace of tivo years, Tow ho got over ro far, how hoe got over tho frat aontonco, f am entirely at a loss to ‘undorstand,—tunleas he acted on the supposition suggested to mo by aclorical friond, that tho Bi- blo is not wholly inspired, but made upof a mix turo of tradition and inepiration, and Tine it is impossible to toll exactly whara tho ono fadoa into the othor, ‘This, I think, is a gront. im- provement on tho genorally-accopted doa of tho Scriptures. Itis cortainiy more ropsiblo, mare reasonable, and moro worthy of boliof, than tho absurd and palpable falashood that the Bible containa tho trath, tho whois truth, and nothing but tho truth, Jas, McCoumrox. ag PHILADELPHIA, . A Vory Unfavornbie Picture of the City of Hrotherly Love. Speciat Correspondence of The Chicago Trbune, IK. Purnapetrura, March 21—Dut for the accl- dont of tho Centennial, Philadelphia would bo hopolceely bankrupt, collapsed boyond hopo of roinflation. Her mannfactories sre idlo, her commerce ia unimportant, and Congress is growing doaf to hor anoual prayors for subsidies —direct or indirect, Outside tho Pennsylvania Railroad she cannot boast s single remarkably atrong corporation, and this rond has practically changed ita torminus to Now York City,; If a Philadelphian ever gots money enough to go to Buropo he must go to New York to take steamor. With all the edvantages of natural poaltion, tidowator navigation, and o bundrod yoara sho start, this city bos boon distanced by Chicago in tho matter of public works, railway inter- communication, + and productive -« industry. the country in regard totruo and healthful foods, It is occasioning much dlacussion, which will in timo result in tho diasomiuation of wound and ro- Mablo information. 1 + At the East, particularly In Now England, thore xcoms to be a fuller appreciation than thoro fs among out busy Western people of tho groat Inok that.oxists io tho supply of pore and wholonomo whoat foods. Voople are waking up, frowaver, to tho fact tbat wheatis incomparably tho royal grain, but that, io oar process of pro- ring it for food, it has boon the most foarfule iy abused substance in tho world. I find much anid by some of your correspond- onts about the uso of “Graham” flour; and horo, for ono thing, there fa great noed of batter information ond earnest roform. Thin term “ Grabom " mlanomer, and ought to be no longer used. moaus anything and everything —for it is slmply 8 cover tudor which is palmod off tho poorest and vilest of all whoat ous. knows the vast differouce there js iu whoat boing the aweat snd palatabis food, sound, ripe, and fall-grown whoat tn capsble of yielding. Dealers who handle and sone who eat * Gral evor of the beautiful flavors of tha puro, ripe, unadulterated grains. ‘Tho moss of those in’ards.” in human dl and woll pound to furnish to the system si tho needed vital, minoral olomenta, principles, Phosphorus, function. pluny intendod. Ia it any wonder, thoreforo, pation, will stant and provalont ? THAT CONFLIOT~-THE SCENTRE OF THE EARTH. ‘To the Biditor of The Chicago Tribune + Deconau, Is., March 21.—It soome to be bo. coming tho fashton to write on ‘Ja there a con- fict?" and I wish to add my mite. ‘Ie tharoa conflict botwoon Sclonco and Religion?" First, I think wo must dotormino what kind of Selence {a meant, and what {a moant by Roligion. All the pointa of Physical Science are, nat opposed toroligion ; but I think that the bases af Mota- physical Sctonce aro opposed to Noligion, Iam using tho ward Religion now io its common algnification. But. now I wish to show that 4 Religion - is the + wrong word to uso % here, +s Roligion ss f£ vundorstand uso, and highly recardad thero. “attrition is appl integrated) whole-wheat food. Tho cold it, {a tho worship, or rathor the systom of | With all hor ‘aida, in tho way of his, CE ee Ae atest worebip. , Theology is that op which tho aystom | toria + rominisconces ° and - local ‘ tegenda, | adapts a whole-wheat flour trade, tho purposes ia based.’ Copsequently tho way the question | as sources 5 of ¢ Utorary {neptration, . abo | for which white or boltod flour hes herotofore should roally bo stated is: “Is thora @ conflict botween Science aud Theology?" I moan, of courso, the Christinn Theology. In some points thero is, and iu some there ty not, As for those points whoro tlore Ia no couilict, Twill pass thom by, bocauso thoy aro wousrally Iwown, For instance, tho scientific aud theologic idens of tho creation of tho world can oasily bo reconciled. ut, among tho paluts where thoro {sa conflict, firat wo bavo Siraclos. ‘Iho sciontiat beliaves tho world to be goveruod by immutablo Tnws, aud therefore thero cau be no such thing aaa miracle, Dr. Lo Conto, in his oxcallont svork entitled * Koligion and Scienco,” argues that the conditions may bo changed so ay tu ad- mit of au apparant cliango in tho law. ‘Thia ia gu imgonious argument, and, at first alight, good ono; but wo must remombor that those Conditions are also fatos, and so on ad infimtum, But it may bo soid that tho Bible tells us that miracles wero performed. But there are abuud- ant reasous why we should believe that tho Biblo js not what it purports to be, and that “Nature is first, Diblos after.” ‘The idos of miracles algo inoludoa tho ofticscy of prayer. Anothor point 1s the fallof man. “Tho doctrine of devolopmentia opposed here. Tho doctrino of Evolution is n{moat conclusively proven ; and with it ia proved tho fact that man bay,siuco his appoar- anes on carth, risen from a lower toa higher grado, ‘Thore aro also tho ideas of the immacu- Inte conception and the rosurreation, tho ides of las notoven a good second-class dally nowa- paper, and, incredible as it may com, not a angle first-class Lotol, Without thess, how can any numbor of square miles of honses and bigh- woys bocallod anything morethan an over- grown yillago? Of hor 800,000 popufation, not throo individuals haye mado anything kos national reputation, William Ponu waa an overgrown boy, and hoa nover maturod, Take out that iron-vieaged old skeptlc, Stephen Girard, aod nono of Lor milliousires have left o mark worth romombering. Even now a strong effort ia boing mado to violate the trust imposed on the city in the mattor of the Girard ostate by running a thoroughfare through ond rulning tho Girard Collego grounds, and tho keeper of Indopondenco Hall peddles 10-cent inodals at 50 cents apicca iu front of Washington's statue, with Jefferson, and Bon Frautilin, aud Nobert Morris, and s hundred other Bovolutiouary horoos, staring him in tho face, Philadelphia ta pro-ominontly city of moderation and mediocrity. With idlo capital enough to hold tho balauco of power in trado, Ler voice is not heard io any of tho marta of the world. Fall of publiwhing-honsea and printing-ollices, Lippincott’s severcly common- Diseult, goms, ete, rious kinds, ig a componout part, can now Lo made of a flour containing all-the food elements of the whcat. ‘This ie a most important etep, wholly in the aa eelvo the carnest couragoment of every think- ing person in the community,—lodeed, tu tho the press, for dissipate tong Hour. it ia: no aciousnesa fy go hard to rouse, bons Aro more OF so usual. discass, paralyuls, it is that four, which is tho univorsal food, —.— For Young Housekeepers. Yo the Editor of Tha Chicago Tribune: ct y i rovided ag a full food that most marvelous redemption, the doctrine of ondiess rowarda and Blace monthly snd tke penny-a-liniog Public Lari = é e. punislimonts, tho ides of tho'Irinity. All these | Ledger ara lug titarary tnastarnicces. casting | Sabstauco—whoat, W. 8. 8 a untvorsity, tion is so obscuro that a majority of tho presout genoration have for- gotten ity very existenco, and s stranger in tho city would havo dificulty in inquiring his way wit. Colabrated for her modical schools, sho has boon compolted to import the only aurgeon who has vor acquired other than a local omi- neucoinhisprofession. Overflowing with divin- ity scholars and thoologastus, who would havo Cohgross logislate tocumpel the Goddess of Lib- arty to subscrioe to the thirty-nlue articlos, sho bas nover produced an ominent preacher, nor a scrap of religious Htoraturo beyond Harnes' notes on tho Gospels. Hor costlicst church odl- fico las Catholic Cathedral; hor tluost oxample of ecoular architecturo 4 Masonic templo; while inher ordinary ideas abo has nevor advancod boyond the monotonous sripidity of hor tradi- tional red briok fronts, whito marble atopy, aud white window-blinds, Her boastful reputation for benovolenca in en~ abjing tho laboring classed to poxwers their own homes is based upon the strictest principtos of safa invostment, uador the suger-conted guise of *¢ Building and Loan Associations," whowo prac: tical rosults aro 8 ruinous rato of intereut com- pounded monthly, ewimming psesponta during 0 omnts may bo reconciled with Belonce in timo, nub at presont they aro oppoued to it. In Mota- physical Sclence tho principal questions are the oxistenco of a porgonal Delty aud the immortali- ty of the sont. I wish now to look into tho articlo of “Cherry James" in rogard to tho oontro of tho arth. ~ Your correspondent uses thin oxpression: ‘Wore it posible for tho cooling procoss to begin at tho surfaco,” Wore it possible! Lt docs bogin at the surface. ‘Luo only instance whore solidification bogins at the ecntro fs whou,grost pressure ts exerted, For this roason the carth may have s solid nuolous around which is @ molton mass, and then a crust from 45 to 100 milog thick. Your carrospondont alyo says it ie au established truth that all sub- stances, excopt ico, tncroase in wolght when coollng, Iwouldlixo to kuow bis authority. their own construction. servation, I should like to offer a fow inte, neomo, and do not oxpect holp from fathoror cooling to the point of solidification, expand, or friends, if you should como short, Ifyou aro im other words # mass of moltou iron is heavior than a like buik of solid fron. Yor proof seo the latter part of Sec. 61, pago 82, of tho Scienco Primor on Physics ; also, Fouts Natural Philos- ophy, page 231, foot-noto. Whoro your correspondent makes his greatest 9205 month for rent, mistake ta wero ho says that granite is an | Wo first fow monthe, with forocloyed morteagos | yooson, and 2° think you oun find a fow Equoous rock, Your correspondent flatly contra. | 90d lose of all in the end,—tho rich shareholders } rooma in a good location for this. sum. ¢ Bottor lets Lyell, Dana, ond Nicholson, aud sote ila | belug mado richer and the poor ouos constantly | got along with two or three rooms in a food and invariably poorer. All tho Jawa are on tho aide of tho fandlord and tho mortgages, aud foreclosed mortgages, forfeited collaterals, and diatraint for rout sre turoing bundreds of families into the stroot avery weok, Nowhere in tho land is imprisoumont for dobt moro common than fo the city of eo-callod brothorly love, It is that kind of love which prey ‘on its knees Sundays sud on its voigh- ore tho rest of the wook! Even the stir of preperation: for the Natlon- al Exposition is but » thin, spsemodio galvan- ism of buainogs, Jt will put more money into the pockets of the monoyed aud tako a little more out of the pockets of tue poor, Tho Ex- position-grounds are to bo alosad on Sundsy— out of deference to tho hide-bound opinions of those who would prey. a8 above, no doubt! And thus tho poor laborer will be compolled to atay away from tho show or lose his time, with danger of losing bis omploymont sud lt. uation, Notwithatanding the lavish expenditure of money by tho nation, by the yarious Btatos, and individual subscribers, sod grand as the affale will undoubtedly bo, it is not by avy means to be made a poor man’s fair. Tw apite of all tho work to bo dono hero in eroat- ing the mammoth structuros required by the Exposition, iu preparing the extonsive grounds, in anlending and altoring railway tracks, and tho thousand and one axtra things to bo done to put the entire olty in Contounial order, there are 40,000 idle workinen in tho city to-day, and hun~ drods of others aro daily arriving from the coun- try and from othor olties, hoping to flud Lore at Jeast wowothing to do to earn their daily read. Nor is the discouraging picture of the business proatration of this cily one whit worse than ugh be drawn of any of the lergor citics of the nion. : ‘Tho cura must como through « rovivat of busi- ness contidesce, snd this cannot tako place till oploton up against theirs. Granite teins may have been formed by particles of granite boing pressed into asolid form, or by water filtoriug brough thom and comonting them togetbar, Granite rocks are cither of ignoous or of meta- morphic origin, Your correspondent alao as} that ripplo-warks aud fossils have been found In ranito, Hoe must bothinking of ghale, I would ike to see his authority for that atatemaut. Any ono who bag studiod geology can sea that it is wrong, and, for proof that (tia wrong, look in any first-class geological work, 1 will heroatate, for hig oxprosé bouoilt, that granite dooa not con- tain foasily, aud is nota wodimontary rock; that ity etructure and constituents are nol directly in controyerdlon to its igncous origin, but exactly the contrary. Boo Nicholson's Toxt-Book on Geology, pages 66-59. If be aa any proofs for his etatementy, I would like to Lave him addroes & postal card to mo with the references on tt, oe, W. Cootzr, THE WAVE THEORY OF HEAT, To the Eulstor of Tha Chicago Tridunes Curcauo, March 23,—The point mado by Mr. 0. J, Hollister in his lottor of the Gth inet. le ono that was not in any way disputed by any ono, ad faras I havo soon, who undertook to answor hia objections to the Undulatory Theory, For my part, I would thtuk long and often bo- fore I would venture to agsert that tho proposl- tion, There fu no waste Io Noturo,” ie not euf- ficiently domonetrated ; but 1 caunot soo why it is necessary, a4 Le claims, to ndmit s waste, in order to accopt the Wave Tueory of light and beat. Thero is, certainly, m grest apparont waste; but it may be only apparent, When s wave of host leayes (0 carth, it ia gono, core tainty, aud will never come back; but does it follow that its equivatens will nover como back? ealthy location in a goca bonso, with modern Muprovements, walking to aad from his work. A largo sun in ovoning, Dao not try ta got a faspionsble atroct; bo content with quict and respoctabinty, It fy to bo rogrottod that so many Uiroc-atory brick bousos, titted up exprevaly for ono family, haya been built in tho past fow years in our city. These houses may bo rontod very low, oud aro yory protty and tempting ; but don't think of such a house, untess you have an income of at toast €2,000 a year. Theso great windows, and. spacious balls and stairways, involyo gront oxpouse, both in monoy and tabor, E think Jandlords will bo obliged to it up aomuot theso honsés for two families; thoy could casily bo ar- ranged #o shat two, or oven threo, small famitios could bo accommodated, ‘Wo will suppoue that you have succooded, after weary days of searching, ju securiug rooms to suit. Lhope you have a front room for your living room,—wo will nog caligit parlor.” Let this room bo a true oxpresyion of your awn tartoy aod dvairos, Do not buy ansthing bocause it iy stylish, or because othor people have wuch things. Buy just what you want, and what you can afford to pay for, Cover the floor with tho bost quality of ingralo carpot, sclocting a nost. quiot pattern, with figuros cavily matched, and colors light and choorful, In some cozy corner allow your husband to pave his own chair and table, with books or papora to his taste, Your wa towing-machine aud work-basket, and all he pretty little nothings, tho glifta of fricuds and works of your own loisuro hours, will fud a placo and furnish your homo, with little holp from the upholsterar or furuituro dealer, Do not be porsuaded to buy on monthly fo~ What if parts of tho wave dotravol through apse | Congress hes reco’ atallments; save up your installments every until thoy aro loat,—Is tho force which causea How of ditly-dally ad aostietions one oan month and, when you have the movey, bay for ‘Begin with tho full determination to have no bills to pay at the ond of tho month. If you will ouly bagin with ono or to month’ pay in advance in bank, you can always koopa good margin aliesd, and thus have the groat advan tago of cash purchases, or chairs, got one or ¢wo low eusy cauo-veated rockers, and two or throe plain reception chairs to match ; @ couch, if iu ‘eau afforda good ono; but if the monoy is limited, and if your busband cen use @ saw aod Lammers, hayobim make ® box, the proper the wave ncceasarily loat? If we admit the ex- istence of this flaid, what right have wo to aa- mume that ities simple snd unchangeable sub- tance When tho astronomer pierces the depths of apace with his telescope, bo fads thore matter fn three different states,—solid, Muid, and gas- cous, Where did is coms from? ‘The geologist tolls us that the solid camé from the tluld. ‘Ino chemist tells us that the solid came from the is tinanclally domoralized for want of legisla, political loaders, fg gee ‘The divine wrath of Dido, snubbed by pious Hiness, wagu't s circumstance to that of a Gor. man saloon-koeper’s wife, to Elizabeth, the oth- erday, when she gots note from bor husband stating that, baviug drawn a $2,500 lottory prize, hohad concluded tostart for Europe. New York Commercian tors. it hay not even - Hyne Pann, Ill, March 22.—I hope your houns- koeping column may be continaed and become an important foature of your valuable papor. Thoro ia 8 growing interest wpringing up all over reparne "Pho currant “recipe” for * Gral fara {a third rato flour mixed with bran, Auy ian who foods knows how vory far such 8 flour fs trom tho thousands of per- "know nothing what~ consumers think there ts eat value in ising such flours coarso; that it fe noccrsar to have “something ta scratch the wdust would do just ss woll for that as cosrse bran. An ignorant market of die- tracted yepeptics and waudering oxperimeuters ot hava dono much to fostor this notion. But thero novor was a xroater mistake. Tho real truth ia, and tho real benoflt comes from tho abllity of tho ‘whole wheat" (olump those broadly termed tue phosphatic ayd nitrogenous which fa generally farnished to tho system in auch whoat, {a tho great pabuinm of tho nervo-tixsucs, and nerve forces underlics and ia the motive power of all tho functions of the body. ‘The system can no more digest with- out nerve powor than an engino can rua without ateam, ond the samo can be waid of every other ‘This {3 whoroin tha whole whoat 1a most valuablo, and wherein whito or bolted flour ig Iamentably doticiont.+ Tho Isttor does nat sopply nerve food,—for 196 pounds of npo, wheat contains over four timos as much of this vital food as tho same wolght of white flour docs,—so that to got the necessary normal amount of mincral food thero fain 106 pounds of whoat ono ing toest ovor fonr barrels of white flour, and thus tax tho system to digest over four times as much starch ag nature over that digestion so commonly Rives out,—that dyapopais aud consti- all their attendant evils, aro 80 con- + Boveral of your correspondonts maka mention of what they call “attrition ilour.” During recont vislt to Boston I found this four much in Why the term lod to it, I don't knows; but the mannfacturors ought to abandon tho use of that tltlo, as it doos not expresa what their pro- duct 19, + It should be callod cold-ground (or dis- flour,—although that hardly oxprosges it,—-for the astonishing part of itis, that tho bran-portion of tho whoat fa re- duced to an even fineness with the rest of the flour, This ia a now, indeed a great, achiovoment; there is nothing like it in the whole history of tlour as & grinding, or roductiou, without tho uso of mill-stones, completely protects tho food-olomonts from any injury; aud this even fineness of tho bran-portions of the wheat fur- nishos afl that partin which tho vital olomonte reside in & condition eminently promotiva of al- boon oxclusively used. Hence not only broad- but doughnuts, caken of va- Pie-crast, crackors of all lunds, and the whole rang of cooked foods of which flour ‘bt direction, add such products aliould re- gountry,—and Bhpuld be geporally aided by light tauk to the ; prejudices barvacled upon habit in tho uso of while devitahzed Tteforms of: this kind como slowly, projudicoe are soxtrong, and tho apathy of people upon matters not affecting their imsmediste cop- Yot thore is not a family iu tho Jand but that aome of its mom- Jeua euffering from some form of tho proyailing weak, ncrvous, and dyspeptic ailments, to say nothing of tho bed tect, do-.| fective bonee, weak musclar development, now In these days of insidious norvous heart-discase, and fusanity, whore thero i# such froquout and euddon break- ing down of brain workors, ther it a cry in tho tired, care-worn, boseeching faces” of men, women, and childron for something they lack,— should contain all the vital anetaining ctomonta which God intended wnan shon!d have when Iie Curcauo, March 24.—The season {6 approach- ing when tho birds aro beginning to gather atloks to build their nests; and thi forothougut on the part of the feathered tribes should eug- -geat to our young peoplo who havo thus far in thelr happy,: young married lifo beon cozily sholtered in the mothor nowt, that it becomes (hom to bogio life in oarnost, and in a home of ¥rom the storo of my own oxporience and ab- through your.columns, to the young wile, First of ail, count well tho cost, consider your quro of #100 o month, you can safely begin to Took fora ome, You should not pay moro than Fifteon dollars is enough to pay if you dosiro any margin loft of your in- como ovor living oxpansos, « Rents aro tow this than on outiro cottage, built long ogo, with Little, clows rooms and uo conven- ionces, If possible, find a Louse near enough to your husband's placo of business to sdmit of bis tho your is thus savod, and a man fw bettor fora brisk walk of w milo, or ovon more, morning aud length and width, with a frame for cover, upon which you can tack a atrong canvas, Cet somo moaa and cotton-batting, and make a Httle aush- fon, just to fit the covor. [uy light chintz enlico, covor tho ides of tha box plain and tha cushion, putting s frill around the front and ends of tho cunlion, to cover tho joining. Tha cover should be hinged, and the oushton tacked on it, The box furnishes a good recopte- clo for nics dresses or hat-boxea, aud many other Qungs, which aro always in wantof s place, You can set the couch iv a corner of your rvom, and place a nice, large “pillow with ruffled caso on ft, or maxea nice pillow cover of the seme calico, This wane calico will make nost lambre- quins for your windowa or cover cushlous for our rockers. Now you will need one or two ittlo tables, which you can cover with pretty mats, instead of cold marblo alabs. Whatever you do, pray don't buy o set of cheap parlor furniture; and don't order curtains and lambre- quing without flrat inquiring well into their cont. In my noxt lotter £ will toll you how you can arrango & bedroom and kitchon, J. Ee —+ brick. Thon I always have my ray. I gat a large oork—for inatanos, » jug cork,—shaye offs little of the brick-dust on to my hand, dampan tho cork, dip it into the dish, and rub’ my knives, It saves tho enda of your fingers, A good-sized cork will last s long timo, and unver wears out the stool. ‘Thore is an clasticity and spring iu the cork. Try it You cannot help but like It, "Phere aro so mauy little things, if knowo, will mako labor light, and housokesping a pleasit-0, Aust Loy. the lotter describing the burying-piace cI Somo considerable saoltonient ned cnrl- oxity took place a fow raya since noar Hillaboro, Coffea County, on James Brown's farm. A man was ploging in ® field which hag bean salti- vated many ycars sud plowed up a man‘a akull and other bones, After making further examina- tion, thoy found that there was abont 6 acres in the gravoyard. Thoy were buriod in a sitting or atanding Position. Tho honos show that thoy mere a dioarl trike of people, about 3 feat bigh, mat hal thore wert 100,000 buried thore." i abomt 75,000 68 WHITE OR RED. ay, maiden, if thon wilt not tell, Nor bid mo go, nor pid ma stay; Tf, saying true T love theo w No suewer wins me, Tl ting frora thee, one a] 1 Pate Nera san reveal Pt ‘What 1 would know, and thou ecnceal, ‘Two flowers I offer for thy cholce,— One radiant ans virgin’a blush pe — Horsford’s Bread Preparation. To the Editor of The Crteaao Tribune: Cnicaco, March 21.—f am very glad to see, among the letters upon Housckeoping, montiom of Horsford’a Broad Peroparation. The letter was signod Aunie M. Male, M.D. I ahould like to ask hor where in tho Wout that proparation can be obtained. Vor a timo [lived io Miaasa- chusotts, and while there learned to mako broad with this preparation, and for four years used no othor, Itcortsinly aurparcs all othor bread in Bervant Girls’ Wages. 7 When memory recalia the To the Editor of The Chteao ee lightness and swoetuoss, and, which ts quitoan Sho oft has heard {a twin non, Cutcaao, March 22.1 noticed » paragraph in | tem. tho easo with which ttismade. ‘To one Netologs true; but'pet more tear quart of sifted flour pus in threo tea-apoonfuls of the powder; mix it thoroughly with tho dry flour, adding alittle malt; mix quickly with the hand, as much milk, if you have it, or water, an will tako up, adding perhapa 6 little flour for cading. It docs not require long kneading, and indeod Vrof, Morsford saya stir with a spoon; butitdoosn’t make as smooth ® loaf. Put it inte your pan, aud sot it at once into the oven, which should bo hot. Jt risoa, aa cako doen, with baking. Only aco the saving of caro and fabor. ‘There is no yoast to make, no act- tug and keeping warm over night, no waiting for tha bread to rise, and, a4 ail housekoopors find sometimes, no refractory bread wanting to 0 into the oven, when the meat for dinnor is aking. L usod often to make tho broad whilo gotting breakfast roady, and havo it baking while wa ate, It was recommended to us for ita boalth- f{ulneas, as the acid is propared from & phospate of lume, and Prof. Morsford nye Tepluass, in tho bread the part which is ao healthful but is sift ed ont in all pice white flour. Bly husband had for years been a sufferor from dyspepsia, that at this time hed become very severe, Wo hear no more ahout dyspepsia ac any rate, ond I give the broad preparation tho credit. When I camo back to the West, I brought some of this bread preparation with us, but can get none here, and all winter we have used compressed yeaut. The broad socma to be good, but every mouthfal re- minds one of yoost, with » balf-sour taste. ‘Tho recipe fur Now England brown bread is very good, but does not Dr, Malo know that the Bunday's paper of the 10th inst. alluding to ‘Than garnered we movoment towards bringing down the wages of servant girla. Tho article appeara under tho ead of * Now York Gossip,” but tho subject lisa been disctiseed to noine oxtont hero to thie city, Bo that my answer will not, I think, bo out of vlacehera, It exvors little of good health or found morale to hear any one talk of bringing down the wages of tho already ovorworked working-women. * Their yoko is not casy now, nor their burden light. It would contribute groatly to Uieir health and long life if some- thing” like , a+ 10form wera sccompllehod in regard to reguiating the working hours of these samo aservant-girls. ‘The average prices now pald to eervant-gitls for their work aro not a compensation for the labor performod. ‘Thoy aro oblized in most families where they work to perform sixtesn hours of grinding toll every day almout tn the weok, with no rest only what thoy tako at their mosis, Tho hours of wark- ingmon have been regulated by law, limited to ton hours por day, and would it bo any more than just to limit the working hours of women ? Thelr muscles aro no atronger than men's. Itis a palpablo fact, ono overy day romarked by thore who consider tho well-being of these pationt tollors of the Kiichon worthy of consideration, that’ the servaot-girla of Chicago sro over- worked to euch an oxtont that they are broken down in constitution bofore middie life. ‘There ig as much {nation in the argament that girls’ of wage or seer} The other white, as though Its birth Were of tho nowly-cryataled auow, Ere, tn Its downward flight to e It nullied grows, and to and fro Chared ia by the sprites of frost, Whirled around, and wayward toased, ‘TU ‘midst ste fallen kind "tie loat, If, neatling in thy mtdntghs halr, ‘Tho joweled flower of snow sball ba, Tis prewence as a presse fair Tl greet, of brightest Lops to me, Maiden, waiting day by day For the word thou wilt not gay, Lie white the emblem of thy yom Bat, ahonld tt be thou wishest spare ‘The wiery ‘would briug to know ‘That I ain naught to thee, wilt wear The tower of red, and bid me go? ‘Words were needless; let the olga, Ecarlet with tha ulghtentwing, * If T may never call thee mine, SAD STRAY THOUGHTS. aca, ‘MY Love. weld grave lies between my love and f for syeand LH I took a white rose from her breast and kissed her Lips one day, day, and slo was lost Corever then to One dark, wad 108, ‘Though weary years should atretch eut Elernity. Se frages should come down becauso dry gooda and | Cofo-meal of the East ang of the Went are very oli arcien lve auored a eduction tn fron, | AE n'whtch to Baka fe Yo ive tue Nom Aloe dears ‘a4 there in meroy in tho plea that soldiors shoul ¥ = ‘Mua fated Into atill more dreary ny} bo made to ight on Usif-rations becanse our | 2agland brown broad in perfection ¢ Eneelngiow, i pray” ‘And, low, I pray ‘That morning's checker'd, golden raya of ight ‘May tremulounly fall ‘Through boughs of casement-roses, reach thelr red, : Warm fingers through them ail, * To touch my sleeping face, and fad it dead. Union soldiers fought valiantly on half enough to est.» Dry goods hove sold at rates affording the dealora in them immense profita; while the wages of servants are nothing moro than thoy can manage to live upon, While tho country is going through a great financial crisis, while the Tich as woll a§ tho poor are grosning under the unwonted preseuro of tho hard times ; those ladies in whose employ tho servant girle are kept aro promenading the stroots, attending the thea- tro, balls, parties, going to church, and various places of smusemont, attired in as oxpensivocos- tumes as they were when greenbscks wero plonty. But ation the scarcity of money 1s folt ; tho want of means to buy a fashionable hat, ora now cloak, or a much-coveted dress-pattora, and money ta moet tho drevamaker's and milltner's Dilla must bo bad, No rotronchmont is possibic to thom in these matters. Wiero aliall thoy go to oko outs few more dollars for these neodless extrarngancoa? Why, put down the wages of the servant girls? Thoidesia simply outrageous. One mouth's wages would buy two or threo yords of dresa-gooda, or half py the dress- makor, and by taking one-third or one-half off their wages overy wook considerable addition could be made to the wardrobe of the mistress and thorefore sulfishness, Leartlossnoss, and nll manner of pride and meanness, domanda that it must bodono. Ie uo reform in dross needed? ‘Must we bring down the wages of sorvant girls? Why did tho writer of that article sign horsolf Beauty"? 1do not know but the name is per- fectly consistont with the theme, Beautics aro proverbially boartioss aod gelfleh. I am very roapoctfally, pus, UMLe Senvanr oy THE RiTcuex, —_— Baked Indian Pudding, To the Editor of The Chteage Tribune: Cuamraiox, Ill, March 23.—Necognizing the Imperative demaud of the popular taste for aweect things, °F am hero to offor s compromise, aud to present a nutritious aud digestible dish,” com- potinded from the chespestand commonest ma- torinls, » viz. 3 mild, ‘corn-meal, molasscs, and beof-suet—tho Indian pudding of, early colonial times ond Puritan New Eugland. “Let mo have some place now, while I bring in the time-hon- ored ingredients, and more room to show how to mix these, and still moro room tv round the taslofil matter up + Cow's (not milkmen’s) milk, 3 pints; fne- grotiud corn-meal, 6 tablespoonfuls; New Or- Toans molasses, 2 tablespoonfuls; boef-suet, 4 ounces; + powdered cinnamon, 1 teaspoon- fm; , common - ast, , 1 even toaspooutul. Host? tho milk -tov the — boiling point. taking care not to-burn, aud then gradually stir fn the corn-meal, so a8 to avoid lumps, and stir ten minutes aftordn order to give an opportunl- ty for tho moa! toswoll and pe hold in suspen- gion, Thon add tho suet, proviously cut into dico—but a quarter their eizo—ndd aftor tho salt andcionamon, Thon etic till tho mixture foams MB. Pe —»s— Whole-Wheat Flour, To the Editor af The CAtcago 7'ribune: Cincaco, March 23.—I was glad to notice in your lant Bsturday’s tssue eome of your corre- spondenta calling attention to ‘Cold Air Attri- tion Wholo-Wheat Flour." I havo been using it now for over cight months, baving heretofore always used white flour exclusively. By its constant use I find the health of my family groatly improved. I bavo uacd tho flour for nearly all the purposes of cooking, making not onty bread and biscuit, but various tabte-foods, such 28 crullera, drop-biscuit, gingerbread, jam- ples, sponge-calte (light and elegant), steamed pudding (very superior), ¢@tc., etc. Your corre- spondent ‘31, F. G." gives 3 good rocipe for bread-making with this flour. My mannor of making is somewhat similar, only I set a mod- erately thin sponge at night, aud wot up {n tho morning, sod put in the pana to riso for tho oven. ‘T'he socrot of success with thia flour is in thorough working,—no$ kneasding.—so that tho yeast and water and milk are thor- oughly p distributed in every pee, of tha dough.'' The more. it 1, thus * worked the Dotter, the bread, and * raised biscuit alwaya ara. I suppose it Is because the gluton and bran of‘tho wheat is wo finely distributed through tho flour that ¢his thorough mixing is necessary, as othorwise tho whole of tho masy of dough will not be eventy and perfectly leavened. Ijind Lean mix more thuroughly with the band than with sspoon,—the dough when proporly prepared ts too soft to knosd, but is moro Hike » thick battor. If any of your roadera wish sny of ty recipes for using cold sir whoto-whoat flour, { will cheorfully furnish them for publication in your columns, Ihave also used the attrition pearlod whoat, spoken of by ono of your other correspondent nd I find it a most delicious, wholosome, and healthful food. I cook it ina qloge-covered double boiler, and find two hours 8 sufficient time to cook it. Tho wheat should never be disturbed while cooking, It roquires no attention, except to keep the under boiler suppliod with bouing water as nooded. ois —— Baking-Powder Biscuit,'Etc, Te the Kditor of The Chicago Tribune: ALLEGAN, Mich., March 23,—Having become very much interested in tho Housokeoper's Do- partment, I will rewpoud to * Hd. E,'a call for arccipo for baking-powdor biscuit: Sift to- gothera quart of flour aud three teaspoons Ubaking-powdor; rub Into the dry dour ahoaplug tableapoon of cold lard, anda pinch of galt. I uso water for wetting, though sweot milk makes them white, Thoy must bo as soft as possiblo, and roll out. I also have na excellent rocipe fora cheap ‘TO-MORROW. ‘To-morrow! what ca to-morrow bring but wot + To-morrow will come aud to-morrow will go, And the heart will live, And the heart would give All that to-morrow's to-morrow bolts, to know" ‘If alf the coming to-morrows will bring but wo, 13 MEAVEN. Only a tress of gold-brown hatr, Baved from the sad; Only « trees of gold-brown halr,— ‘The reat with God. Only some withered dalales white, ‘Under the anow; Only seme withcrod daisies white, ‘That breathe of wo, ee LIFE. A mystery that none can unravels Abubble so brilliant we gazo op and marvel ‘That all {tn gay scenery {s ever receding: A volume unread, yct forever we're reading; A bargain commenced, yot still not completed; Aavcret not kept, yot forever secrated 5 Amine, though discovered, {ts tressures concealing j Alresia, altiiuugh hiddon, ite waters revealing; Aship, though in port, yet forever ‘tis sallin, ar endnurckes, setalwase failing j. A message rocelvod, but still not delivered ; A meanura unbroken, thougls atch moment "ta ably> erad 5 A portrait not paintod with Time’s {ron crayon, But folabed when Death his fast colorn Taal Igy on, Cricauo, March 23, 1876, Bins. 8, C, Loomis. TO THE UNKNOWN IDEAL, Dest love! tn dreamt gaze ear lors wT gaze 0} thy brea ‘That sinks and aweils upon inp ood) fa beats O Heaven! is it wrong iu dreams to peep, And better too such thoughts be not expressed & Abf save such dreams, repose would be unrest. And thue caressing!y my boart doth creep, pon such lovely throne sweet watch to keep, Aust alnka and swells 11 love,—tby bosom’s gueat, Muse! io speaking of Platonia bliss, Cau poet's pen or artist's pencil pati ‘One thought se aoft, so dear, so pure sa this? Or cap Love's ouphony, howover quaint, Elucidate the thougut of Love's first kiss, ‘And not its beauty or expression taint T LaCuosun, March 21, 1576, —_—___>___—_— DOUBT. Init troe? Ie tttroe, ors fancifal seaming 2 ‘Where hiaye I read it, and how have 1 beard Maato again, but doce not slop over. Now choose » . ow : it ‘That Somebudy watts for s kindly word, See Se eee eestor store | cet, Canc agen eens lablesnoose -tnctued: |: stdin Somebecy thinks ofan, waxtog ordretmibaa $ throw bours, in a atrong, but not fierce beat. Lt] putter,» two tablespoons — awoat — milk, Did the winds, or the waves, or the birds say, He's tonely, iad aud {capattent to took on the face Haloed by Memory's glamour and gran 7 Isittruo? Ia ittrie? Doea be love me—me only ? in well to Intorpore as tin piste or piece of sheot- iron, between the atovo bottom aud the pudding dish to avoid buroing, aud at the end of an hour aud a half give the puddiug 9 good stirring to insure tho propor suspension of the corn-meal in the critical operation of baking. If tha iu- gredionta have beon good, and of tho kind de~ xenibed, the proportions rigorously adhured to, the manipulation skillfully dono, and tho baking faithful aud steady, the result will bo a pudding of first-rato oxcellonco,-and of a land of ment ‘out of all proportion to~what might bave been logically. inferred fromd¢ie commonnesy of the articles, ‘And bore let mo say that it is probably to the kind of molosses used sod somo aurecognizea and rocondite chemical quality which that sweat stuff posscsgos, 1a owing the culinary miracle which makes of milk, molasscy, and corn-meal a custard which, when the first timo tested. ia a ploasing revelation to the cultivated palate, Nothing but truo aud puro Now Orleans molasses willanewer the perpose, White sugar, brown sugar, crystal syrup, sugar-house drips, and maple sugar, or aby ono of the dozen ‘differevt balf-uweot and wholly villaznous compounds of starch aod dulphuric acid, ench and all may be tried, and tho result will ben nasty but logical mees of milk, meal, and molnsxcs, and wothing mora, « But in. conclusion, to complete the threo ‘courses of the primitive Puntan New England dinnor, tho brown bread aud'tho baked beans aro waiting to be served, but mish Jour pormission sliall wo lot them walt ¢ill this day behaity this oue cup flour, two teaspoons baking-powder, tla- yoring. It must bo baked in loyers, ns tt ia not good in aloaf. Wo use it moetly for jolly cake, but it is excellent for custard cake, cocoanut cake, or chocolate cake, Will somo one give moa good rocipo for crnam cookics? Ibavo plenty of cream to cook with, but have no wucceds with cream cookies. Tam glad to sco s word spokon against pics. We long ago, banished tho abomiustions known aa minco pies from our (able, and for the past yoar have gotten almost en- tirely , out of the babit of: making avy Kind, ‘with the exception of an occasional borry ple. Thoy aro ‘a wearinosa 0 the ileal," which it would be wall ta dispense with alto- gethor, aud thon think of tho rapidity with which tho Saturday's baking could bo dispovod of and the kitchon mado tidy, without the pics. ‘Will some one please tell mo how ‘attrition arled whoat” is mado, and whore it is ob- toed? Also what is ‘attrition doar"? Teaw both spoken of in [wt Kuturday’s sano of Tue Tatwrre, aud do not think I over heard of thom bofore. mG. f. _ Biscuit and Corn Broad. To the Fdttor of The Chicago Tribune; Cuncaao, March 21.—For tho benefit of “IT, LE." I furoish a recipe for dalicious, digostiblo baking-powder biscuit: Two largo cups of sifted dour; butter the elzo of an English wal- nut; alittle salt, and two tesspoonfuls of bak- ing-powder. Hub these ingredients well to- gether, and thon mix rapidly with sweot milk enough to form a very soft dongh. And horcin lies the secret of succoas : Never knead the bie- cuit, undor the rmlstaken idus thot it sould forsf » amooth, bread-like masy, stiff suough to roll; but mix it very quickly, just stiff? enough to shape mto biscuits with the hand, and bako immediatoly in a hot oven. L would also like to give my recipe for corn- bread, which all who havo eaten thereof think delicious, and not “ee on the stomach.” Of course, dyepeptics should avoid all warm bread, Uorn-bread: One large cup of tue corn-meal; one largecupof wheat flour; # tablospoonful of wogar; &# tablespoonful of butter; a littlo salt; and ¢wo toaspooufuls of baking-powder, Rub all theso thoroughly togetuer, anid thon add two eggs and usvoct milk enough to malo a bat- tor womowhat thicker than for pancakes, Pour into a butterod tin and bake in & hot ovon. If eithor bisouita or corn-broat! aro loft ovor, they may be freshened very nicoly for tho noxt meal by placing in tho oven a few minutes beforo going fo the table. While on the subject of wholesome diat, tot moadd that, og usually propsrod, parenips are much too greasy. ‘Ihoy should bo boiled in walt and water wutil tendor, drained, dipped in better roado. with an ogg, flour, and milk, aud {riod fn plonty of tard or drippiug uutil crivp and brown, Propared 10 this way they will be fonnd yory nice, while the battor prevents the fat from porietrating the vegetable. ‘The batter should not be too thin. Tana youug housekeeper myself, and anx- fous to profit by the experiance of othora. At tho wan aha'l bo glad to contribute such hiuta occ b4 my OWD experionce may nuggest. Puvsictan's Wore, ee " A Pigmy Graveyard tn Tonncesces Noshelie American, ‘Are bird ever cruel and {alee in wong 7 ‘Aro friends never faithlesa? How lous, how tong, Can a hungry heart feed on the husks of believing 7 e ALICR. The Pope Deciding Acninst a Bishop. Boston Traveller. Monsignor Carfagnini, tho Italian Bishop of the Diocese of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, attempted to conflucate the property of the Con- coption Bay Bonovolent Irish Sociaty, aud an appoal wos made to the Pope. Tho Propsgauda has considered the caso, and Its docree, eann- tioned By koe. Pope, ix that the Benevolant Irieh + Bociety is a national and not s religious orgent- nothing to do with it, and is not justified in as" tompting to orueh it, GROCERIES. FH RUSTED COTE SLACKS, 109 East Wadison-st, The Only Grocery House.in the Northwest Using Burns’ Im- proved Steam Roaster. ——— Knife-Scouring, To the Eilitor of ‘The Chicago Tritune ¢ Cutcaco, March 22,—Experience, they say, ix the best teacher, I sm sure that 2 havo found it 60, Iwas but 17 yoars old when I waa married, 0 of courdo there was but little op- portunity for tearning much Dy prectice in my thlabood’s home, learned much by observa- tion, but my experionce haa boon found in our own home, I Lave vow been marriod a Little over thirty yoars. Wo havo Ind our ups and downs, "but a heart for avery Gute." I ballsva wo have upon on avorage had more enoshine than ubado, but there eeomed to bos silver lin- ing to avory cloud. fitoro Twas married—L thing I wea about 15—my parents wout East for a visit, and 1 auaisted ray older sister in ber duttica as house~ keopor, Wo lad 8 vory good sorvant, but I con- cluded tho day bofore our parants' return to mako and bake a cake in honor of their arrival, Ltook extra pains with the mixing, put itin a Muted carthon dish, aud placed it in tho avon, Inwbout ifteen minutes I looked at it—'twas nicely browa., The domestlo was not in the Kitchon, so] took it out, had a large dinuer-plato ready, turned my dish upside down upon the viate—when lot and behold, my cake, {n creamy tubstanco, was all over the table—tho thin, brown crust upon the plate. “Now wasn't that provoking?” What was tho troublo? Well, I will tell inatperiencod housekeepsra: My ovon was too hot, and I should have known that a large pound-cake could not be baked in fifteen minates. 1 know better no 1 have my oven st 8 moderate tomperaturo ; 1f 1 think there ia daugew of burn= ing on tho bottom, I placa a brato undor it, but sLgive a good sized oske an hour to lake, aud, Wo sell moro Coffees than any other tou Grocery Stores in the city; which is abundant proof of superior quality and closo prices, = NEW SEASON TEAS, | Fine drawing Moyune, Gunpow- der, Young Myson, Imperial, Fore moxa, Ovlong, and Japan Teas, from 60c to 80c per pound. Colgate’s Cushmere Bouquet Soap, per cake, 20¢, rr a Htandord Granulated 8: Proctor & Gambla's Gorman Mottled Soap. Kirk's German Mottled Soap.. Duryoas’ Satin Glows Starch, p ‘Now Orleans Molaaacs, por gul. 3M Caus Baltimore Peaches, % it with a broom An auciens graveyard of vast proportions has 3-1b Capa Tomatoes, per das. thon to maka it doubly euro, (7 lt orfantly dry, | boon found ib Coffee County, Wie aimilar to | 3:0 Cans Mestureay'a Gora, et dbz. you may risk taking the cae from the pas, Do | thove fouud ig White County aud other pisces iu | yoy pe, pring « Hiddie ‘Tennesseo, but is vastly more extensivo, and shows thes the race of pigmies who ouve in- babited this country wero very numerous. ‘Tho amo peculiarities of position observed in the White County gcares axa found in thoy. The. hot leave itupside down 8 socoad, for it will make it hoavy or spoil the abapo of the Rout. Ono of the nicest things to know, ou; cially if you do your own work, ia bow to scour nivos, Lbayo alittle board ou which Z keop my bath Bugsr. , Abend for a copy of our Price Current, Taye the winds and the waters conspired in deceiving zation, and thst the Church, therefore, bas)