Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1876, Page 9

* changes are numerous. INSUR/ 1ife-Insurance in the Years 1870 and 1876. Fower Companies, but, Immenso Increase of Business. War on Dwelling-Rates in New York City. pacific-Mail Steamship Company's Insurance. Why the Globe of Chicago Retircd from New York, Gontennial Buildings Insurance. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. NEW Youg, June 6.—0ne of the popular de- lusions of the day fs that life nsurance has ret- tograded during the last six years. A dareful compilutlon of the statlstics ns revenled by the oflivial reports of the compantes doing busliess §n this State proves very conclusively that this 1s pure delusion. The Dusiness busnot, only not fallen off, but actually fneressed, There are twenty-five fewer compunies now taking life sk than {n 1570, but $125,000,000 Increased nsuranee. One of the remarkable features of this pxamination of the statisties 1a the revelation of tho number of companien which fave retlred from buelness and reinsored their tivke, T may weem Mke recalling spirits from the vasty deep to reeal] theso departed companies, but ft i Instructive. Thelr names are as follown: North Amerlea, Guardiun, Widown' nnd Orphiana® flenetit, Natfonnl of New Yark, Economicnl Mu- tual of Rhode falaud, Halmemann of Ohlo, World, Excelstor, Mutunl, Proteetion, Emplre, New York te, Ceaftemen, Standurd, Commonwealth, Amorican, Tontine, Amicable of New York, United Seenrity (Philadelphin), Emplre Stuto (Watertown, N. Y.) Farmers® & Meenanics'y Hope, Nationnl, Tapital, and Herenles Mutnnl, These -m?mnxcn ste independent of thoge which wholly fafled. CUANOES IN Il STATUS OF LIPZ COMPANIES. Thero have been several changes in the relu- tive position of companies during the last six years, The fonr compavics which held the front rank in 1870 were the (1) Mutual Life, (2) Conneetleut Mutual, (8) Equitable, (1) Mutual Benefit of New ‘Jersey. They maintaln the enmne places in 1876, but from this point the The Atnn Life of llartford, from the Afth place In 187, ranks sixth In 1870, and the New York Life, from «ixth in 1870, 19 fifth in 1870, The Northiwestern of Milwankee was ninth, and is now soventh. The moro strlking changes aro thoso of tho Knicker- bocker of New York, Sccurlty of New York, run- ning downward respectively from the elghtl to the twenty-lirst puslllfin, und from the alxteenth ty the twenty-2eth, and ' tho Fenusylvanis Mutanl whic risen — from tho twenty-sixth the eighteenth, Universal of New York from “the thirty-fit o the fouriceath, the Metropolitan from the thirty-uinth to twen- tieth, New Jersey Mutual from thirty-eighth to twenty —clghth, snd Unlon Central of Cincinnotl {rom the fifty-sixth to_the. thirtieth, Theeo aro remarkoble changes, and fllustrate the growth of merftorious compunies. The amount lunured in th ten leading conpanica ot the beginning of 1470, aa compired with 1870, fa ay repriaented as ollows: . Amountof Amount of Inwurance Zuurance {1 furce Company, Ja 1, 170, Matal, of Now Yor! 210,04, 001 Connecticut, of Hurt 177,500 631 Fauitable. Gt New YOk ove i Mutuni Bunetit, Now Jeraey, 120, New York Lifo. 1 tns, OF HArTGFd. . Rurtliwestern, Miwa New England, of Jiostois. hiunix, of Haruord... 2, B, 700, Ttwill bo observed that two of theso companivs have luns Insurance §n force In 1876 than In IH70 e mowt extraordinary decreaso s that of the Knlckerbocker, of New York, which reported 84, - 308, 449 fnsured in 1870, and only 24, 472,003 In 1870, 1t I8 out of sich cxceptiond] experiences nu that of the Knlckerboekor that the delusion pre- vails that the }ife-Insurance business 18 declining. TUBLIU PREPERENCE FOI STRONG COMIANIES. Ora: of the clearest indications of tho lust six years? history of 1ife Insurunce is the preferenco of the public for the strongest cowmpunivs. Those which are well and pradently munaged, and gre free from susplelon us to reckless mun- agement, have gono abead rapidly, while those which havo retrograded or declined are thowe around which rumors have thickened, and the public avolded, There are several Instances of tompanies falling outright, and the mmnount In- tured inn those companies I8 an Interesting com- fentary upon the fucility with which the public may be decelved, Tho busincss of the hankrupt tompa nies stood ne followa in 18703 Urrat Western, New York. Asbury, Now. York Craftatgien, New Yor Anchor, New Jerscy. 4,200 Thenn fullures and the retirement of the other compuay named huve. predisposed the public to examine very caretully the ctrcumstances of the companies tn which they now insure thelr lives, Extravagunt expenditucen, Javislicd on snlarieannd comsnlssionn, have the effect of mpalring coms panten’ losaipuying abllity very materlally, and ot even the humbug of soft-kpeaking ngents can long decelve people who tuke palos to fuvestigate e question, JLATES ON DWELLINGS IN KEW YORK. The German Amerfean Fire-Insuranee Com- pany of this city is entitled to the credit (the sther compunies enll it diseredit) of reducing rates on dwellings to an unprecedentedly low price. For mmy years the standord rato on drst-clasg brick dwellings hay been 25 cents for ono ear, GO centafor three years, and 75 centa for five Jeare, Strangers who fnquired the dwelling rates sere wern always amuzed ot the small price, It eents the German-Amerlesn managers concelved At Iiden that there wits money 1 the business oven ita lower price, wo the Company in the month of Aprll cnused o clrenlar to be went o every fwelling In the clty advertising that they sonld Clueare fipteclars dwellings st 1S xnty for one year, 30 cents for three years, and 45 Yets for dve years, This was a Jiteral bomb- Miell g th catip of underyriters, but the peedily reeovered from it elleets, and followed Inthe wake of the German-American at u Hvely ait, Sinco the rates on dwellings have been it den, every dwellne b a fizst-clies dwelling, and the'suten advertined to e churied only on tho hest are now freely accepted on exen third-clin rirkn. he rexult 13” the worst demoralization ever wit- Dessed {nn thia city, It s freely charged that the Liverpaol und Lofudon und Globe, Royal, and other prominent Engllsh conpunles, are writhyg fivos-yenr pollcies nt -10 conts, and nw the rates on farnituro ollow thows on dwellings the denorslization ex- tends to furniture likewlse, FOSSINLE EVPECT UION AGENCY DUSINE: The wur on dwelling rates falls with partion- far geverity upon a cluss of purely Joeal compa- Bles, which have never been in the agency busi- ness, and whowe business s been very largely, not exclusively, the isurance of dwelling- houke property. A this war was commenced by the class of compnnles known an Natlonnl Board Companies, there uro many persons wicked enongh ta chargo that 1t Is dexdgned nsun set of retatiation Bpun the ity compuniea which huve refused to sune in Bonrd rutes, ‘Thin feature of the war threat. tus serioun consequences. Already komo of the locul compunles, ke the Arctic, Colimbla, Pacltie, Cltutan, wud others, heve beews to exabliet sgons es b the Bant and West, Dhey urine thit e the Natlonal Buard offices have made thele ety husineas Ungratisable, U fn pior Isto I teallzing that woall companies Y wape an unequul wag fis this beld, there ben project oy font ool eral companicn t orzenize & combiin - Underwilters Ageney o of the cw Intereated have Uon of detul] an o niy by effected, wen of enzng pur, iy ik, Hoarg ny Su taecutive afffcern of the Comp wen held, and b only n - i O moon the organtzati ‘ls {4 atcomplinhed, Sourd companlen ud & competitor In {he fleld worthy of their steel, LOYALAY TO THE NATIONAL DOARD, It 13 rumored thut the Meriden, of Connecti- tut, and another of the smaller companies, huve Withdrawn feom the Nutfons) Bourd. Huwever this may Le, I s nssumed - private conversas Uon by members of the Board that the ultimate nd of the watter will be the retirement of all th tualler companics, leaviug behlnd o compuct or- Sunlzatlon representing wnly the milllon-doltar :““’Punlnl and tholr Euglish compecrs, A wtriking ot b the salid udlicrence of the companles to the el amld diguers, whereas [ prosporlty they Shway from I ko falliug leaven fn Sho wituuniy tearon, Thero ¥ b Lty ‘hero 4 an umucno amount of recret Z Noury the administration of the Natlonnl oo tho purt of those who beljeve pinclplo of wuch an orsan- he . They belleve that the error Hes in ot 10 do “tou much, und that the oppoxltion enta ail othors urists from the ubuse und not wror iy OF e syutem. Thers 18 dlsvutisfuction il ¢ L laud auoug local Doards conuertiug what s luogualiny of the OWA a8 wewbors. o In Bostan & ol neerpL eomnk while I St Lo L ix Torfeiture of commisdimn, T e of fyorithan~thal seme asents can get 1 pattic. lar rate nnede on thele own rlriocand Wgher rates an thelr nvnls, - and Ineaners are given with grent {articutaclty thvolying the, falsiuet of the T, “mderneath thin murfieo loyalty thero 8 a tlorco cuypetition from no rd avent cnn plac fonm I non-toanl o 5 the penally Bcard ofllees, which under- mines agenta’ busl, aml renfora them anxious to eetaln their tixke, evenatn rednced rate, Yet the National Board e stronger to-duy than over, In #pite of foen within il without. A CERIOUS CONTROYERSY. The Equitable Life Company huve been en- gaged for some time in a curfous controversy re- specting the satue of o amall open courtyard tn the renr of thele elegant bhullding, coroer ot Broadwny and Cedar street. There {s asmall apnee perhapn 20 feet square helonging to tho ovwners of the bullding No. 17 Nussau séreet, and the proprictors of adfacent prembses have been In he babit of paylng a regalar rental for the lght privilego of this rpace. The ueual price iy $200 per window, ‘The Equitable Building haa sixteen windows on this courtyard, and the owners of the Tatter demanded 5,000 por annum na the rent, The Equltable deelined to pay this sum, whereupon theowners of the light space have commencel the crectfon of w tall chlmney dealgnel to shut out tha gt Crow winowy of the Equitable Butlaing, and toke them durk and undexdrable. "The chiney v 04 ita conntructivn will cort sevoml thousand dol- Iara, o the KEquitable ofliceparo wiling to pay n fair rental for the privilege, 1t ls poor nc»mun{ for thie owner of the courtyird 1o obstruct the lght in the manuer proposed. TUE GLONE, OP CHICAUO, 1§ NEW YOIK. It Is aauatter of history that the substantinl insolvency of the Globe Insurance Company, of Chienggo, was known long mro n this ity The Company did a general agency busi- ness here for several months, but lust year was examined by Deputy-Commirsloner MeCall, of the New York Department, and pronounced unsonnd. The Sceretary of the Compuny took the hint and voluntarlly withdrew Inetend of walting to be kicked out, A parly whe had agreed to buy on In- terest In the city agency some thne beforo mnde a Jonrney to Chileago to ancertain whether thero was y hope of an carly return of the Company to this I1e learned enongh while there to satisfy t the Company wan hopelessly crusheil ot be extriented Hs diine. enll Discoverien since the failure reves] the fact that thin virtual expolsion of the Company Trom New York wus the begiuntngof the down-hill rond that killed the Compuny. Tte hixiness receiv- cd a death-blow by the stab which the New York Departiment gave it The good rixks whieh [t wishe ed to retaln were withdrawn, while the bad ones the Conpany. wiklied 1o be rid of remained on its Dooke, The kind of examluntions & company re- celves from New York Js pretty sure lo make or amuko n company, 1 sound, tho Company ro- ceivesn clean bl of health—If unsound, u rejec- tion by New York I ke quick consumption, which cnds {ndeath, There are u few compantes which huve been turned out of New York still Hugering, ut thelr thie will sirely come, TUE PACIFC MAIL COMPANY'S INSURANCE, Tu the last annual report of Mr. Sldney DIl- lon, President of the Paclfic Mafl Steamship Company, appears an jtem which repregents the total cust of Insuring the Company's property at #06,000, gold. ‘This Is a handsome phau, wnl It reealls a pecullar controversy among the DI- rectors o few years ago, when Mr. Rufus Hatch way the General Manages of the Company, Mr, Tlatch guve an order to # certain broker to effuet Iusurance on the Company's veexels, and at the mame tmoe Mr. Russell Suge, Vice-President of the Company, gve s similar order, Both were exes cuted, and the pay-duy finslly rolled nround. The disburaing oificer of tho Company would_not puy two bills for the same thing, ko Meskrs. Mutch nnd Sageeach appealed to the loand, In the eod there wan 0 compromixe, under which ench parly or- dered one-half of the ineurance, and so settled the conlict. T'he Pacitic Mail Company under the old Towland and Asplnwall managemetit never Insured it stenmers, and saved money by I6 but when the Atock fell Info etock-jobbers' hand# and the Com- yany a foot-ball for Wall street npectlotors the anngenent was IndiTerent, and disnsters ensied, Last year the underwriters paid the Company more than the umonnt of premims, and the Steanhi Company i ahead on its insurance by o very large sum, in progress, but 1 (fl i trom A COOL THING PROM FRANCE. An energetiec Ameriean underwriter vecently returned frow sbroad, and us soon ns he landed reported very carefully that he would shortly open an agency in this clty for o combination of French companies, whichy It true, would huve been a big thing In the business. An Amerlean feiend was apparcntly very contldent of the ar- rangement, and axkced several of our merchants to act a8 trustees for the funds the company was lo deposit, nccording to uw, for the wecurity of Amerlean policies. Steamer nfter steamer arrived and no_intolligenco camy to confirm the reported arrangement, At lengtli the expectint agent wrote along letter to Franco remonntrating agalnst tha deluy, und requesting uurl{ informutiun a8 to wheit' the new scheme would go tnto operation, The xmu\\‘l.-lr was very brief, and, when written in plain English, meant just 'thin:’ **Wo will come whusiever you nre prepared to advanca funds for the Amerlean deporit.™ The company 18 not yet licre, nor its cowarkers elther, INSURANCE IN CENTENNIAL DUILDINGS. ‘There ure Yurge amounts of surance ou prop- perty fu the Centennfal buildings in Philadel- phia, written fn companies doing business here, Lut having no agencies in that elty. The rates ure: Maln Buflding, 2 per cent; Machinery full, pereent; Art Hull, 1 per cent, and other bulldinge at varloua rates, There has been & specia) committee, until recently, empowered to visit the Centennin] grounds und make rates to govern the companles, and they have ncted in concert with the Pllladelphia underwriters. Many Englixh com- vanfes not regularly engaged in Lusiness hiere have taken risks in Englieh property fn the Centennial bulldings, and, on the whole, it has not beena very liméult wubject to handle, althouzh at the outéet n great hmo-and-cry was' made that there wontd b objuctions on the part of esbibitor to exhibit their property unless guaranteed sgnlust tire, Nexo, ————— Plaus of Mon Marred by Mice, Denver Netes, . Tlie Land Oftiee of the Kaurns Paclfle, at Kun- sas City, has been ravaged by anfee und ruts. Rare speehnens of wheat,rve, corn, onts and sther gratn sent in from ulong the roud for u Conten- ulal display were rutlitessly destrayed us fust as brought fi. Polson, eats, und traps provy avalling to stop the ralds made upon the Gi gera! dizpluy from the Jine of the Kansas Paclile. Roedelheinvr, the ugent, resolved to separate ull Wiy treusures from the corners of the ruam and the wood-work, undso provent the mive renching them. But they went up the walls with the sume ease they hatl gone aver the fluor, and continued to shell “out his prive bunches of gra. Then he thought of s plhw. He Then stretelied wires from eaely wall neross the room, and to these he hitg his hunches of graln, o fult sure he had thivarted bls pestiferous tor- mentors, But they still continued to sk his chalve smmples. e concluded fo wateh all night and gee low it was done. 8o the other night he laid Wimself down upon the table be- neath his wheat und onts, and, witha light Dhurning, kept wateh untll the uttack commend- wd About 11 o'clock, when sl wes stild, o filo af sl ditdnutive miee wo up the curper ot thu roou, where the cornfee of the whnlow reselied to the celling, Tleve the detachment separated Into thrle"portions, One lot went wp the gus ple, wnother Lot follawed s plis Toard madled alome the sideof the wall, wmd another went to the top ot blaln pine partition. “Thore that went atongg the pape traveled over it sldeways until they came l{"’\"'“y over the wiren sustalnlng the preizo binehes”of wheat, when down thiey drappe ‘Twa out of three caugght i the sunpended bravches; those that misatd and fell started round to try it again, Thoso mice that went along the ploe plank, Lo helmer nya, were small miee ho [Mnkn they were futaales, ‘They started an the tight wire wndd balaneed themgclves upon it with the skllln!um-nm&nllrhn-:l uerobnis, unt went. down fnta the prize huneles with . The Lhipd de- tachment, Rovdellicimer save, were strong fel- Tows; mides he thinks. ‘They started o the run and unped from the top of the partition to e wlrv-‘il nnd entgehit hold of the wheat sheaves o us u"'f ew thraugh thealr. Not ane out ol five missed catebing hold, He suys he watehed thelr operations, mul notieed that 48 fust as they filled themsetves they dropped down upon the table und started he ——— ! TROPIC. O plowlny Sonth! O mystic land? Ty rpley hreezes ever fanu Oworld of rest, of xweet reposol 0 land ot arnee it of Tosel 0 islo of emernld, with thy charms B uarded in the jeulous arimns OFf the mynterious tirquolro-sea, Though far away, my heart's with thee. A dreamy lanid 1~ perfect drosm Of other Yands, —a more thun Queen; A tund of frudts and trogrant fowers, OF purplo vines and sunny howas, OF wlnging birdw, Whoxo sweet notea 811 “Fhe balmy adr with siiver 1}, — ‘Fhint balmy wir of rich perfume Caught from the budd kud towers la bloom, O land of my thougltal shall I see thee once more? Klall £ over reslsICthy sweet-riiling shorey Blll 1e'er azain reat by the cottonwood-tree, And eco the oot Tise from her bath in the sea? 1f not, Lehull dren, fn this_cold Northern clime, Of thy plurlous splenor, and madly shall pine EFor u glimpes of the land ou whleli God hay lald The colury 0f bsauty thut sever can fude, Fruix Buowns. THIS CIHICAGO CENTENNIAL. The Voico of the Philadelphia Girl, and Some Speoulntions Theroon, DPresent Aspeet of tho Exhibition—How the Judges Perform Their JDutles, Boautifal Bilver-Work---The Milton 8hield---Discouragemont to Robbers, The Ilclicon pousse-Work Is Made. Special Correxpondence of The Tridune. PiLADELPHIA, June T.—One of the things to fwprove a denlzen of another city when he cotnes to Philadelphis, and wanders around the streets or fn the Exhibition, s the sound of the embulne volee, OF conrae, the most that reaches 8 cur Ia Phlludelplilan; but there Is enough from other parts of the country to show him contrast, The young Philadelphiennoe [ gener- nlly pretty, white hiee elder sister hins lues in her face that indleate w former tlme of Dbeauty more or less attractive. ‘There i3 much stateliness of carrlnge abont the Quaker-City Indy; aud, after looking at her awhiile, you feed confident that under 5o uir- cumstances will she evir forget her dignity. Of course, there are exeeptions; but these, you know, only prove the rule. The thing ahout the feminine resident of thls city that awakes the notlee of the stranger s the volee, which hns o plteh exaetly llke that of Boston. How they get It hore, Lui ot aloss to tmagine, Most of us Kuow how the Buston volee Is pitehed, and they have it pretty much the same all over New England. But, a8 you come this way und reach New York, the bigh plteh disuppears, and you flnd nlower modulntion,—very much like that of Cleveland or Chieago. The rule holds good through New Jersey; but, when you cross the Hoe and the traln. moves into Philadelphis, you are among the voives of New England. 1 have uever dared to ask a Philudel- phian the reason for ft, and an fuDesful ignorance on the subfeet. But I that the causc of it dates back tou very carly perfod in the history of the country, nud possibly to s perfod prevfous to the eottlement of either Massuchusetts or Pennsylvanta, Who Wwill sulve themystery? GETTING 1N READINESS, T have not mentioned for o week or so the condition of the Exhibition fu the matter of readiness, Everything 3 golug on well, s there fs now very little L hat remalus unopened, T doubt if the Turks will ever get readv, 'Thelr nextloor neighbors, the Russiang, are pushing Into shape, and already huve many things open for examination. ‘fhe Tunlsfan Devartmeng lins sent away Its earpenters ad patuters, and will probubly have the most of Its gooda out of thelr enses by the end of the week, The Argen. tine Republie has opened {ts doors to visitors, and hns w very pretty collection for them to look ut., Nearly cverytbing 18 ready in the Maln Bufiding, und the sound of _the hammer ia heard much leas frequently than it wos, most of the cxhibits are ready, with the ‘exceps tion of th rimn part; and’the delny in ths case arlsex maluly from the heavy eharacter of the materkals to’he exhibited, A‘;mm. desl of time aud strength have been expended fn putting Krupp's_artillery in position; the guny are 5o heavy that uo “ordinary power could handle then and put them where they ‘are wanted, Tho lurgest of the guns required a speclal der- vick to tiimge it, and, because the derrick was nnt ready, the gu had to le several days on n rriuge, where it lay swathed i cloths e l{k ) Cnormous mammy, Some sitors were told that the appare cmbalmed eannon was the mummy ot un Eg; tian King, and the credulous rustles were not slow to belleve the stutement. But the gun s in position ot Inst, and very arge {t looks When everything around s so inuch sualler, 1t Iz poitited over in the directlon of Canadu, but it 5 not Jikely that much hain will come from it, since the weapon has no chargze Iu ft, and is not allowed tohave one, Carpetiters are husy upon the Btate Buildiogs hero and there, and are got- ting nlong well, though they still bave n far amount of work to do. The Michigan Bullding s Deen covered pretty nearly, und the touches are now belng applied to the fnterfor. The Kan- sns and Colorado Building was opened yester- dny, and the Callfornia Billdlng {3 promised to be vpened on the 15thof June, T don't see how It cun be mueh more open than it §8 now, as not. o slngle window has een put in its pluce, and the alr cun elrenlate throngh the rooms as frecly us in o grove of pine-trec I have alresdy futimated that nobody need hesitate to conse beeause the Exhibitlon™ts not ready, nud [ repent the intimation with o great deal'of emphusts, Bo little remains untintshed that it is of no_earthly consequence that some things nre not [n shape, except where an expert wishes tp study u particular thing, ora_partien- lar braneh or Tow of things, "To stay awny now becauso of the unreadluess ‘of the Exhibition, would be to imftate the example of the fellow who went to witness the play of * The Forty Thieves,” and got up u row and deinand- wd the return of his money becanse he could only count thirty-nincunthe st There is envugh here to kevp a grood nl,im-suvr busy for two months, and then he would not have taken fn everything und seen (t thoroughly, 1 have been here shiee the Tth of .\!u{‘ and hiven't yet peen o quarter of the Exhibition systematically andd thoroughly. 1OW TIE JUDGES WONK. Everywhere as you go about, yon mect two or three very energetie-lunking men who are busy T thelr nol und generully have g lot of docnments, cither written or printed, under thelr arms. These are the Judges ut work upon the varfous exhibits; und the most of them have abeavy task before them. One of the Judges on musfeal instruments told me to<dny how his Committee was operating, ‘They are Jookiug into plunos now, and early i the week they told cuchexhibltor to seud stnples of his plagos to the large il inthe Judges' Pavillo Bich man sent w gquare, A grand, and oo upright plano; and, when slt’ was ready, they had about vlghty fostrtuments, It happened ” that cach memiber of the jury fs o piano-player, ao that they needed no professional llwrfuruwr to nssist thein, They tured everybody ont of the rom, und then went to work to cxinuine the {nstru- ments and practice upon the When they wanted an explanation irom o maker or exhibit- or, they sent for him and heard his stor; when they ave heard o story on oy ment, they listen to another upon some otlier Instrianent. They cequired eacds muker to staty fu writing his clafios to superiority, and thus vid themselyes of dong and nat alivuys perti- nent Tectures. "The systein of swands “Is pine fng favor, 1 belleves ond certainly it will be hlgzhty K"i'"mr among the winners of prizes, us they will huve o written certitieate on which the nward f3 bused, and which will be of great use tothem In the way of an udvertlsasent. 1 ear that the suggestlon of specid diplonias to inventors, frrespeetive of thelr extubits or present or past interest 1 exhiblts, & gaining Tfends, and Wil probably come up fq dlscussion nt some of “the meetings before t tinal awards are wade, It was Totnd un exee Teat thing at Vienna, and would doubtless be no less useful here, There are mapy - ventors who huve parted with the productions of thelr mm{, and aro to-day lving !m\'\'rly or very near It ‘Po_such mei, s recognition of the goad they have done 1o soclety would bo a comfort um{‘t mratution that world be of no mean finportance o thelr declining years, AMONG THE SILVEI-WORKENS. ‘Chis worniug started Iw wuiongg the exhiblt- ors of fine work fn gold und sii but 1 foun somuny good things that 1 was unable to very fur, and wnluuucml[)' Ieft several exhiblts quite unseen, ‘The tirst object on which 1 drop- Jed wag the fanious Mllton Bhleld, or ruther & cupy of Ite—the original belng o the South Kenstugton Museum, fn London. The shield wus mude for exhibition at Puris In 1567, und wus suld for 815,000, It was made by Morel Ladeudl, who designed and wrought 1t {n sil- ver and steel by tho repousse process, utid spent many isborfoiis hours snd duys upon ft. 1 luve already deserlbed this e of working In my letter on the Austriun Depart- ment, and will brictly say now that It conslsts in ushing out the metul from beneath or hehlnd, run as une might press out a sheet of paper or niolstened leather. Tho orlelusl was prououne ed the thuest work of the kind ever shownj the copy, Wus taken by the clectrutype process, snd a0 (s ull the tinencss of the flrat work. The advantiges of the clectrotypo process areshowu when [t s stated that the coples are sold here, duty free, fur $100, the munagers of the Buuth KenslugtonMuseun havingdetermined that they could ussist fn dt‘\'ulupluli: tuste for thne urlgl‘?' wllowing thiess cuples to bu widely Qistributed. Tn Machinery Hall, TRIBUNIS ¢ SATURDAY, JUNE I, 1876—TWELVE PAGES. Atie vi it smpeiemen | T HOME. 't Kb ks i1 pevne for the reason that, wis delinente were taken from Mi)- Hse Loxt,” VIth Boak; and the wenek of that ook are_ adtiirably de- ineated, Al the faces express the proper men- tal posslon, from uwe and otear to hope and ceatntfe delight. I canmot say how muny figares are represented, hat there are some duzeng of them, and every fne nnd dot of thee ol nilu n8 perfect an n the fneat engrav- gz on woold or ateel. Not only are there figuree, but there are trees, and planis, and vines, and fraite —ull grace| blendiad n the most nd- mirable manner, 'Tie centre of the Skield 1a ¢ cupled with the represcntation of 8t. Miching with his m\mlnF swortl, atanding on the pros. trate body of the Dragan; and nround the space thun oceupled ure the other principal scencs of the ook, The signs of the Zodiae, with a deli- eate twining of leaves, forn the border of the Shield and 1F up the spaces hetween the several ovals, ‘The steel and silver of the main badge of the 8hield are enriched by Damascencd gold, s0 that the whole work hus an_ exceedingly cost 1y appearance. But there la n pecllarity of this plece of work eserves especinl tnention. Inolden thnes, ctups, and plates, und vascs, and all that sort of 1hifinz, Intended for presentation to Kings, and Emperors, and other well-towlo prople, were madir of gold, %o that the Intrinsde 'vadue, apart from the workmanship, was very urcat, Wt these things wers captured i du ni merots wars that huve devastated Europe, the intrinsle vaine caused many of them to go to the melting-pot, and consequently thousands of splendid works of art have disappicared, It wos not untfl recently that it has oceurred to any onie to put the work Into some cheaper thun gold, 8o a8 to suve jt from destruction shenever ft fulls into marauding hauds, The mukers of the Milton 8hleld have hit it exaetly; they huye eausead It t he exeented (o ateel and #iver, tauched here amd there with gold, In- triusically, the Shiell s uot Worth XI10,—pos- slbly not'£5,—s0 thut n thiel who Intended to melt his plumder ta avold detectlon would not fe trouble to carry {taway. But let jt he made of gotd, like the massive works of the Mididle Ages, and it would very suon come to griefy 1f put to el thraugh o revolution or two. The same prineiple I8 carrded out in the use of plutedediver ware, which Is pupltly taking the place of the solld artlele. Fhe mukers of silver-plated Kndves and forks cladm that they are fast sup- planting solld sllyer, and that the hest amd most * hiigh-toned " familles (n the country are patronizinic them. STEALING WITIE DISCRRFION. ‘he silver-plate men suy thnt eapert thieves now iuform themselves us” to the character of the ware i the houses they enter, and, 1€ they flnd it §s plated, the p Alezust, A few yeurs ngo, 8 gentlen ol Bowght 1 touple of plated forks to try, They were put wmowg his furks of real silvir, and, before they dud been there o week, hls g entered by burglws. The fellows ool o the vor-basket, and, to make soreof what ti were abutt, they took n fork ab randoin and hent (. By th one of the'vew purehi plated , thuy lueft the house, taking away nothing bat a few ollds-and-¢nds of no conse- quence, The sifver wan sule and unharmied hy renson of fts less vahuble companionelup. 1 have been told thut o skillfal burglar fn the clty will not assockite with one who steals plated ware or pinchibeek Jewelry, The exibitors of the Milton Shicld (Elkington & Couy of London) have sevesal other things of the sane Kind by thede colleetion, the most orna- mental of them beinge the S felicon Vase ' und the * Pompelan Toflette,” 1 Iy noui for thelr deseription, wift would take a colin or more to give an pdequate fden of their charas- ter and bennty, ‘The Vase g by the m the Shield, and when you know that he de X years to its constructiung, you wmay gve a s us to §s character. It fs desiened to illuy. trate Musfe and Povtrys and every part of e vase 18 (n keepiue with this lutent, © The value of the Vase 14 put at SX4000 0 gold for the art- wbor alone, some of which {5 so delleate that ft only be keen to perfestion under a i ing-glass, There are wany fizures on th and alao many tracings ot frult and flow ot the Shicld§ and altogethey the work 8 one of which both maker aud exhibitor can proud. ) DRESS IN JAPAN. Introductlon of Forelgn Styles. Neie York Iiome Journal. On the 1st of Junuary, 1538, wecording to fm- perial ediet [ssned some weeks previously, all the Government oflis n ;l'uklu and the rlous prefectures of the dujanese Empive up- peared fn ¢ Buropean dress” Tiggine the sluhit presented by n swldenly exteimporized revolution i intloid cosiume. ” Those above o certain rank wore coat and chupeaux, embroid- necording to thelr runk, i the style of the erich diplomatic costume. The amount of sold-lace, gilt buttosis, bullion, clinpeans, epati- cLtes, and einbroidery, thut suddenly appeared {nn the Capital was dazzling, If not stuisdng. The urdluary Governnent cmployes donned * fng dress M (1) conts, white teckties, chlinie: pot uts, und boots, snd uppeared fn tuneral sable, or the nenrest approsch to b i the bronze-hl doths which native dye-vats could furnish, I can say but little furegard to the cut, 1it, quality of the materials, or the approprinte- news to thie forms of the wearers, Slmply r marking that only o few of the native tullors Dad ever seen a sult of cluthes made by un Aweriean or European taitor, sud that iost of the oliclals had always worn their native cos- tume, thelr appearance in thelr new rig may he fmngined, U certaluly beggars description, Huts resting on nose-Dridges amd enrs, couf tuile fluppiog on boot-heels, cout-walsts below the thigh or spparently climblag to the boul- ders, with a rensonubly” goud chubee for reael ng the top; puntaloons overllowlng in luxuri- snee of uneibbaged eluth, or perhaps riding nta the bout-tops from their shortness; clluging tightly, ke burk to o tree, or o8 baggy und Joose wa ane fdly-Rupping rudl on o wus ts in ehronle seeession trom unmentionsbles, wiil afrigld zone of white shirt-muslin betweens ties of all colors; foot-gear mnging from cow-hide boots to ladies’ high-hecled guiters b rubbere; pumps und brogans, showing vast arens ol superfitous leatlicr, or pinch- fngg futo Lirth & new plague to the Jupunese —corny und bupluns—were wmong the nov- cltles of theday, As for gloves, the varfetics, slzen, colors, ninl anuterfals would distract u huberdushet to hote thein all: progressive glove- tips uf Lisle thread far In advance of the uctund fluger-ciids inside, vied in extravaganee or cennomy uf muterlal with: buckskin gaunticts, aud moirning-gloves, woolen mitiens, or white and lavender kids bursting over pabis to which they only half-reached, en nds that were, for the first time, Jearnfugs to shuke jn forcliu style. The use of those triifing articles of gentlenien's wear, such o3 suspenders, under- clothing, Buen handkertliefs, ct yet ta be Jearned by the nmjority. wmnusing purt of this remarkable pugeant wis that the wearers appeared i must vuses Lo cons slder thems=clves nud thelr get-up quite gqual w the Broadway or Regent street stundard, At present, however, forehn cutters are em- played by dupanees hotises, aid the general - pedtuned of the nutives witired (o our dress ls Yustly improved, many of them displaying the fustiduusness aod good teete In thelr new ves- ture which 1s charaeteristie of the dupane gentleman of the eld school, The wome, how- [ of the Mikndo's Empire sthll el to their own' beeoming matlve dress, Some of the younger etibers of the Enibiary of 1872, Wwhile tn Paris, enguged two French dressinukers and milliners to fnstruct the Jupaise Jadics 1 the mysteries of fomnte dress i Christendoni; Tt on thelr urrivad i Supun the Mikado, Prime Mintster nud Bupreme Coundl, paid their salury for three years, with passuge money, us ber contract, amd shipped the piodistes l to sunny Franee, Jupun was thus saved from a sudden deluge of female raphernatia wnl thed-buck dresses; though, or thut atter, 1t 1y probuble that this laier fashion {s borrowed from the Jupunese hudivs, who wear thelr gmments drawn ito the narrow- ent possible elreumference. S0 constricted 1s thedr dress that the walk fushiouable belle I Tokio often becomes wand hips heluge so pressed that motfon is best secured by woving the budy as muchias the s, Most uf the Normal Sehioo! young ludies i Toklo, the wives of the younger Government oflivials, and those about (o be brldes, lave one or wore suits of forelgn make Iy thelr tvusseaus, The gen- eral introduction uml wear of the fantsstic and ever-chunging costume of femude Chirlstendom Is not an |u|lrulml.||u-!wrhl'm 1ot u remote de- mnent of civilization i the Mikudo's Em- e THE UNDECORATED GRAVE, O pently-falling rmin? Foruley, where Northorn breezea Ulow, There coties & Winh, with pain, Your secret sud 1o know, O sweelly-singing bind! ae Tatnteat oarolv, aoft and fow, N0 hunan car hus beard, Deream you of care and woe? 0 little, drooptng fower! At shaded fuot of forest-tree, Tho bird aud you, this Lour, Knuw whiat v Bid from el BIng, desrest bird, Your swecteet sung, “F'o lull our sluln 1o reat; Dear little tlower, Breathe wweet perfoms Whers wlecpe oue dearcat, best. Cuicauv, Muy 30, 1618, May DESN. Another of Mrs. Sarah L.’s Bx- cellent Dinners. Iow to Be Content with “ A ITandful in Quict.” A Chapter on Yeast and Baking- Powders. Stale Bread, Bread Pudding, and Red Ants, ONE OF MRS4SARAI L.’S DINNERS. T4 the ¥ditor nf The Trivune. Cuicago, June 9.—~How the women do scem to enjoy their little flings ot me, Mr. Editor With what pursed-up mouths and solemnn meln dn they hiarp upon that simple remurk of mine, that I supposed myself *the best unpsofeasfon- ol conk fn Chleago” Well, hulick, however bombustle it may sound, untit I have hetter evi- dence than I have yet had, T shall continue to fatter mysell with the scif-limposed title. T have a stock of covk-books piled away In my closet, three feet high from Catharine Bececher down to Brillat Savarln, where every recelpt under thesun can be found, all of yoursund many Letter ones, but they are not worth n cent, nnd Inever look at them. But the book I do wn- sult [s an ol French excrelse-book, where, be- tween the pleces of varfous colored paper upon which {5 sernwled hinta on the mixture of in- wredlents, may be readt such sentences us thi “Cheese fs the first plate of ddeaxert to be par- taken of.”* “Cabbage may be vovked with a bit of chareoal.” > Melond and muskmelons to be eaten after the soup, umd ¥ 1o soup the JSirt thing, 08 an appetizer.” “One sardine to a person, or u plece of hofled tongne s a dors deurre” In this booli [ have culled and pre- served everything I have eser heard of that would prontote health und furnish an uppetizing meal. Out of this book I have made up & kort of daily billof-fa composed of varlous dishes” for the we siinple, healthy, und good, st @ my Jeste have trivd to five to the young housckesper hints of what dishes are yood together, us for in- stance, that beef and onjons ure natural; fish, egzgs, and macaroni; pork, turnips, snd upples Filee, ete, ete. Yo, none of you, have tuken up n day utid systemutically cooked's dinner for our benelit, Dhiave, to my fdeas of struction, helperd vouie woman umong the many rewlers of Tie TimeNe toarrange her dinner In g more wmodern style of eooliery than that to which we were all Csccustomed Csome ten e Dteen years aszo in our country homes. If some of you have laughed at ny assumed title, Fou huve’t done more than Idid when I wrote t, for I laughed st the mere thought of how mad it would nmke hulf the women wha shoulit reed it 1 koow woman’s nature thoroughly, and I know {f there [& one thing more than other thut she hates In this world it s to be taught by one of her own sex in such matters, Hai | slgned the name of * Pelige Slinzere* to iy artleles, these xareastic tndies wowd have rolled thel I fon, andd exelaimen “5lyl it n fine Sarub, Fou see, 151 bird of quite another plunge! Alus, alus ! the great prubien in soclal science that st be soon” svived fs, Why cannot we women endure each other hette T eonfess I am no hetter thun the uverage dn tlis respect, Tor I coutd only prhaw! most decldedly us | read the hast o1 Mo Dro Hale’s theories, and now I feel it in my bones that 1 must answer her, 1 don’t want to be disrespectful, but as [ rend her strictures upon the preparation of t daily soup to my mun, he Interrupted me with his usund_ brusqueness, * It really beats the de—1! And she udoctor? You don’t say she's . ductor aml writes mich nonsenset Well, all I have to v s, that that e written I the interest of the profession.” T call that criel and mean, but you know, Doce tor, that when people gssume to instruct others i the particular kelence of how to kevp liealthy, look pretty, und remain young, there § '3 anothier school who disagrees with them, wid my man belongs to the or suu}l school, N begin st th ning, 1 eall it cheap phraseology to be constantly serting that the 2 fean is it well-nourlshed A VIZOFOUS P he truth i exactly to the contrary. Physteally, wint few American Jo- burers there ure, aré poor sticka ws compared with the Juborug-men of uny other nutlosality, We must not cali thot a vigorous race which only works with the head. You say there fs no need of that righl evono- y hiere that Is practiced - Europe, and that e eun well nifurd to ent the etornul beef-steuk aud potatoes, while a Hitle furtheron vou speak of the expense of the soup psone of L reasons Wwhy we should not adopt the custom of making it Aguln you say thut the Frenchman I3 com- pelled’to make up Jis dluner ot of olds and cuds, and that bs the pofaticfen, You never were more ifstaken (ol your life. The pot- ansfen of Frunee b made exactly like the New England uiled dinner, with 1hiz exceps tlon, the Frencinan uses fresh beel while the Yunk #alt” purk or beef, or both, which the latter throws uway the former thickens with macaro- niy vermicelll, or some, other of the thousand and one good mixtures e knows go well how to muke, und eats it w8 a nourdshing soup. . The plece of meat 13 no serap ur end, but a fresh, substantial ’llcn-u of the rity rump, or sirlob. The vegetables are gencrally carrots, turnips, cubbnge, wnd potatovs, which, recooked fun - tle butter, are dellcious. This soup, meat, aud vegetabled, withn loaf of breadand a pint of wine, vonstitutes the French working-man's dinmer, Do our factory-laborers o fari-labor- ers et better Cone Swith our vist und unutilized publle domain, with o sl teeming with fraftfulness cheap beet and breadf' No, tna'am, And i Tl the people i Chicago hud ‘every day mich u dinmer, we might thank the Lord for 6. But [ W sorry to ssy, from my persounl knowls edgge, thut there tre buudreds i this city to-duy whoe would cover your fuve wll over with kisses to be given such a dinner. Letme finlel by saybige that the French army, nt least before ihe " Crimean War, was served twive o day with this pot-su-feu. The Germun suldier by wnoupreater from the day e eeases to pull at his mother's breast, Does auybody sup- pose that there 8 u nutlon on” the face of the globe thut would go e wark (exeept the American) and feed theie goldiers upon un unhealthy or expensive dietf It hus been ex- perlmented apon for hundreds of rope, mud the resnlt {5, the pot-an-few. Srom what you suy upon the subject of koups, 1 #im more conviteed than ever thint doctors do disagres upon the most of all fwportant ques- tion, ** Whut to vat.” As thix [x my Just Ietter but one (Saturday's Afnner, with your permisslon, of couree, N, Editor), 1 wiill give i good bill of fare, one that will bear |'l'(l|illl}: for the minfster, or some once a year visitor, It will take you from 8 o'dock fu the morning until 1 To¢k, ot leaving you iy thie to dress, anless you shonld e fortu- iute enongh to huve s tiesi-class girl, A bottle of gramdpu'’s Bours' Nuavoo C g (Hewr! Tear!) Jubjean Daked Nshy e, a)a mode; nsparagus with yellow satice, or green peas, oF kolrabl (turnips und eabbage), potatoes gouille fow }\Imw of cheeses ludy's fingers, und bluck cotfee (eafe hese dishes, wind you, ure 1o be well po—Serapo two carrots) anondon, s quarter af wnibuge, wid two turndps. Col e in pleces u little larger than dice, Put the pleces in o lnrge sauce-pun with s dittle batter and water: let It couk half an Towurs then ent yonr putataes In the sune way Tuke your meaf ont at the soup-hiettle, skim off the grewse, und put sll fnto your broth, and let cook another balf hour. Tn the lamusge of the uverage setvol- irl, 411 perfectly Jovely.” Haxed glsh—Skin snd Jone the fish, by ran- nimg w sharp kolfo along the bick. pread over Dlogz-pat & thin layer of butter, half un i thie pleces (ot Jlee pleces asyou queer- Iy saldl fn g rev tpe for omelette), Lay the fish upon ity and pour over the tsh one tahles, ful of vinegar or Catawbu wine. For the sauce, rub hutter, the size of & waluat, aud flour to- f.-uwr, wld weup of the Lroth or hot water, the ulee of the fsh, two or three mushrooms, it you jave them, ‘Furn this misture uver the fish dust with brewd crumbe, sait and pepper, und bake a fuw mwinutes or untdl a little brown., Gar- nish with four pieces of bread cut heart-shupe, Hicey ala mude.~Buy a good roust,—the ten- derloin. Have the butcher put ina good prece of fut before ho skewers it~ Put lu your lume boller, or o kettlo that can be hermetically osed, un {nch-thick slice of sult pork cut by 1all pleces, s pound of v plece of butter, sowme salt, two or three cloves, some whole per, une onlon cut fn quarters, and oue carrot quartered lengthwise, Lay the roust fu, pour wver u spoonful of vinegar, close, wd det over the tire; not too hot. i abuut ten minutes add cup of water, aud turn the meat, In ffteen another cup, und {n twenty more another. Turn oveasfonutly, but keep elosed.” Buiother slowly four hours, When dune, carefully place upon slatter, putting u ploce of trrot o each shiv, L,p, unJ Lottom, Yurn o)) the gressy vut ol 9 ———— e wir tro tallespoonfuls of water ive another hofl, and tarn oger the keftl: It the the meat. Arparaue~Serape. Put i water and salt and it fist boll; drop b the neparague, Bofl till temiler. Saties: Ono yolk of (-uf mixed with # tenapoonful of wuters a plece of Latter add- cdy and when hot atfr ih two tablexpoonfuls of milk. Pour vver the drafned asparams, 11 shonld have nparagur, § ahould not have [wm or kolrahl. ‘The kolrabl fs a nlee vegeta- ile. It 18 penled, ent. up, nnd bofled In water untll tenders fonr or five will be enough for alght or ten people. Totafves wrgflee.~1 hnse already given. The sattee that §e ealled Beehnmel s [:'nod for thir, ns well a8 tmost everything elso of a like chinractery oA carrots, tariilps, asparacos, fishy and, with sugar and wine or brandy added,, 18 seoodd for steamed pudidines, eake (mddlflf( ve, eten ote, T will give it entlre: Mix cold, and n, 8 ounces of well tagether, fn” u tin rau httter, a tablespeantul of flour; then add a pint of milk,—a little leas will do; atir continu- ally, wnd, when thickened, t off the firc. ol of an egie in acap, with o teas al'of water. Tuen into the eauce, and xwell; wit a Mttlo and pepper for vegeta- Inllcl; but for puddings, nutmeg und brandy or wine. Lady's fingers,—Four ounces of sugar: 4 volks of cpys, mix welt: 3 ounces of flours a little sl Beat the fyur whitea to o stilf Troth, stir the whites futo the mixture n little at a time until all is in, Butter a shallow pan. Senirt throwgeh s confeetloner's feringe or ulittle ploce of paper rolled up, Dust with sugar, and bake in a nuttoo hot vven. Mra, Theo. C. C.=What do you think of such an_ organization as a Dumas” Club for the diz- msalon of the culinary art s well as otlier sub- ta of interest in our lined Have patfence, Mr, Faditor. Onee more and 1 am done, [We hu]u: not.| Mas, 8ARAn L. s AN IIANDFUL QUIET.” To the Filitor of The Tribure. Eav Craine, Wis,, June B8.—Kindly “Theo. C. C." Infers from iy gramibling letter that T want gympathy, consoling words, and encourag- fnge littie pats on my shoulders, Now 1 dil nat {ntend to make any personal appeal. 37 T ecem- ed ta, it Is hecause of o melancholy habit—from which ¥ shall never recover—of putting mysell [ueo everything Ido. I really wanted to state but the fucts mind elretmstances of wany a wor- ried housckeeper's ey und tosee Il fn the united thinking of brave and gifted women,who huve titne to thiok, some plans might not he evolved for clearing up and simpilfy- Ing all this muddle of iy g To te sure I sald [ didut watit to be told to ** simplify,” uud [ don't! I want to Jearn bow to sfmplify. And if 4 Mre. Sarah L. will open un ocaderny and teach houselicepers and all those meditaring. home how to live sweetly, and cleanly, atd beaati- Tow o conduet housework und all the finearte fnvolved In uate, in g, slmple ltnes, without confliet or worry, making heatth, comforty and beauty the dizliderata, fnstead of inrenjous gourmyndizing and petty display— why, the sooner M. Long John fmimortalizes himself by furnlshing the dneats for the enter- prise the better! And berter a ** finiahing off R 18 IN at sueh w o college of houschold sefence as f o here hinted at ot all the scholurly — degrees with ambitions givls muy crown themselves! Kpowleds ix powel course, hut o brain that late mud expr ftself in t wrugeen iy easiiy el ftself powerk the probiem of come dark blue Monday, when “help ™ Hounees, buby fadls sick, and dinuer is ssunknown quantity ! Let the Coming Woman not leave her winnd edueatfon us ju- plete ns o brokeny column! Let her not adunte untll crowned by this one last de- greee—Mistress of Hounckeeptng,—and Jot it he i thoroughly earticd und s proudly worn s the others! ' aro & sanguine man praphesiod ually everstiing wotild b the stple turning of o eran , new clothes, drives, the remi-annual henre-cleanines, the weekly washings and frop- o and even the durned stockinge, a1t brought out by at eagy turn of one's cdbow! The {dea opens up an endlesa vistu. in which refined Tuating und enchentivg comlort walk hand o nd, It is painfully evident, howevers that be- e the present day and that Gar-oll tiwe of perfected hziness e vroad fields i which urmies of homekeepers may stil) find active vine ployment,~the erunk era hef: falntly fore- shatdowed [n the general tendeney to aeconiplish wore work und better work with less combug- tion and destruction of blood und muscie than in the old days. There will come a time, sure- Iy, when we will not all work ourselves to deuth! And the dawn of that golden age ought to be alreudy Mizhtivg the easte The usiness of lving—tur everyday cre—demanda to he smplified. Juke g2 we may s this Centenninl yuar over the *slmplieity of our forefuthers," there was u simplicity, siveet and honest, in Those old Lyes and those old homes, that we— with oup ¢ mplicatione—nre poorer aud meaner for havine lost. Heaven forbid that 1 which g 1 g ulways liberty to eanduct (telf! Liv- i atate—though it appears Hutle thresome from any humble stawdpoint of o earrlize, no wine-cellar, 1o giving of vast dinners—is, withaut doabty hgzhly ciidirable, What reeind anendurable fs he pliinblo s rige- wle to hnftate there W ulxh?‘ ones, The desire 0 keep L uie —the very phruse hus mocking soumd—ts a diecase that cours and kil the Jives of 1nen amd women intended by nature talive to serene old nge. One ougbt to be g e ashamed of §t as he would be ushuned of Scptennis Proviasiv! A ppearances ™ ean't be kept upl The skele- ton of Restricted Means s always' thrasting his nncomfortable bones (uto view, announcing thut eyl i shn, 1t s the unlppy class between the Independ- ently rich nud the” idepently poor who sufler from this maludy of *appedranees” To look sprentee] " i the eyes of thelr wealthy nelgh. hors, und tu Ispire’a proper feeling of awe sl respeet i the poor beneath them, 18 the splrlt thut one sees munifested with shinfneg exeep- tions throughout this misguided portion of so- clety, Aud yet we—the wmisguided—might he a0 huppy !=suffering neither the wejghty eares und responsibilities of the wenlthy, or the de- pressing deprivations of the downrhzht poor! bewin with our housesi fnstead of 4 bils- terlug ' them, as Howells would say, with I windows und ruflling snd knife-plaiting them with ull surts of cheap urehitecturl tom-foulery, —cheap In cffect, bt otherwlse costly,—why not huve plain houses, and spread theni out fi- stend of buddilng them one story shove the other! Doesn't ft seein, on calin retlection, us it there might be roon envttgh on this bl round varth for every one to haye something beside mere Cstanding room ™1 Room enough for every one to live o u *dirst floor,” with u noble tree or two to ook out npon, and ful ttle streteh of thiothy and clover iy | might roll aut vouie 1] from {helr & Tknow of no mere suggertively sad slyght,— short of the Httle white hearse andits attendant string of carrfoges,—than these ¢ etylish howzes, threo stories fu height, that elbow ewh othier aerons a dividing spuce of 5 feot, and e brace porrbly i enaciuted rose-busll in frout, und the ryer anda BiC of brick paves ment fn the res Puttern houses—wlithout In- dividuality, or seutiment, or imeaning of any htt erowd the children Into tho strect, ke of the father u respectable galley-elayo— mints ehain und bdl—who devotes Bis whole Hto to lard Inbor within the prison-gates of hils rhoporeounting-roon, und ot themothers jauded, nervous, eurly-old wonnst,—the nutnral resalt of uylog to be | hauckeeper, mrse, semnstress, und faithful devotee o Soctety, all ut the same thne, These houses are not bulld- exd stnply with the abject of Jome; the flurrs und worthment, md overworl with which they are Kupt up ds something ot demuinded by tha real necids of moderatoly-elreamstanced ™ fami- flea, They are paflded” becuuse Smith, and Brown, und Thompson, and Roblusow lnye such houses, and they wre furnished and maintatued not i aecordunce with individual tastes and In- dividunl means, but fngecordance with the tustes and wmeans of Lobiison, Thom HBrown, and Smith. The result §s, existenc privately und soclully, is kept up with distress with toll und sucritlées thut seem herol, until one retlects upon the teivial, fruoble cnds which Inspire them, 1t we conld only ceuse this perpetual trybog o live, and Juse Zee! 1€ we could unly suminon bravery enoiigh Lo be of lmted medus—sincs we are—atd gratlied cnough to be content with *n hundiul in quiet.” 10 we could only extermfuate the *ulm-crack ™ style n our Dotses md [ our ways of living, aind bulld up the elneere und the genudng fn its steud! Lives there u soul who does not see how much fruje- Jess tofl and belittling subterfugo wnight be avolded thereby i—und how selirespect, the riches of knowlidge, und the “sweet pesce of mind ? which waits upon content, might be atdided unto us? Bus, BNy, HEALTHEFUL BREAD, 0 the Kiitor of TAe Tribune. Cutcace, June =1t will be conceded by all that the subject of bread-making 15 the must fmportunt of any pertalning to the cullnary urt, With good bread, health sud cheerfalness in the fandly elrcle may be the order of the day, Without it, dyspepsis, and all of its attendunt evils, Wil naturully cnsue. Vurlous mudes of nraklug Ught wmd pulutable bread have been adupted, suine good, vtliers passable, andotlers tumbl should il at wealth and the regal ways in’ downright pernicfous, eomo of which we Projost e I ¢ to belefly WWeonss i this antle The mnat cammon mode for making t it purous biread for ages has been with yonst, Tt haa leen almost nniveraally con- to be the most wholeaome kind, aud few : ever suapected that any evil ean reault frow lts use. " Moat are ready to say: *Vhis 8 good enough for 5 want'no better” Buf scientiflc men have found by analsi that yoort by no means makes a perfect article of bread: and }mynldmm have discovered that it is often [v):'rnflrluuu, chpecinlly to certain clusses of fue ds. Formentation with yeast produces variong kinds of acids In the bread, nll of which, except earbonle actd, are pernicious. It also developt mh-m«u?dc vegetable organtsins of mold, Which all know niust be more or less polson u8, aceording Lo the extont of thelr development. o l"k; these concomitants of yeast-bread somo ic 1 ' 8 ol dyspepsia may by ascribud, {eluts have lllfil?l:!\l)gllhtrml{lll! moll a_fruftful sotree of cancers in those whe are predisposed to thin kind ot disease. The evil etfects of yeast are more often perceptile {n Geahun bréad than tn white, The cases are numerotts of those whe cannot et Grabinin yeuat-bread without causing distress, who ara ot consclous of uny paln”from white bread. Such persons often fuagtne that 1t Is the course ness of the flour which [ujures thew, fug 1his they are mistalken. 1t [x not the bean that causes sullering, but the free dovelopment of the varfous ubjectiomable aclds and molil or- wanlsnm, The ‘bran more readily and fally develop them thun the white starch portlon 6t the gruin, - Most of those whi complain of Grae han bread, could eat 1t freely if praperly nyule, Thiere ure ante. ainn Wi ek ¢ fpossiile b use white yeast-hread without constant sufTer- fug from “these canses, As white flour, ) vver, duee not develop them so frecly,n less nugna ber of persoma gre foitmd suffering 1 A lady, who made wse of white wh wis i eonstant sutlerer With g stomuch for vears. At leogth her phyalclug suspected thiat the bremd Wis the principal catse of them, She entlrely discontinued the use of yenst-hrend, amd there was a1 (mmediate change for the hetter, * Since then she bas sk fered but little with that complaint, Auothier ubjertion o yenst-bread that fermentalion fujuzes™ the gluten, the most nourbshing “part of the flour, ennsing o deterioration of its nutritlye propery thes. Another way of giving porosity to hread wuy, forinerlyy by the wse of saleratus and sour mik. The éffects of this kind of bread need l{ ua it I o gonenlly heen iernlclous that {t has becn gene erully abandoned, iasiog o Of Iute years baking-powders have hecona very populir. Peaple fiuve not stopped to ine quire how they were mude, or by whom. They tound theny convenient, and ndopted thewm wittie out weeertulnfng whether the mannfacturer w an nonest man, or whether there wus uty o nty of the purity of the article, Soine m tay have “been” what they to by, o pure antlde of aim-of= tartar and biearbonate of soda. Otloers hava beenuade of polsonous chemieals, sulphure el @qua fortl~) often bebig used to ficreasy the strength, Every one et see that the fatter must be destitute” uf healtly, roinetiines prie duetng disease by slow degrees, and i other v Fapldly developlug it.” As'pure cremeof- e expensive—It Lue been very extensively adulterated with tersa alta, alum, plister, o In refution to the effects uf those fnking-potw= ders mude 0f pure creaneof-tartsr ad fo, chenilats aud phy<lclans ditfer, Some think thein foctous; others consider them peralcous, o 1ot contuln any ingre L beiietit to the varfous thees ol the body in produciug strength and vigor, DBREAD, T the Editor af The 7y ibune. Crreaco, June 0.—T e luave to treg) on your columns to reply to Theu, C. nuther of “Iuw to Use Up le Bread,” In your 1 will come mence by attacklog his statement respecting the cooking of 4 beefateak, whivh el that his subststing on brend puddivgs from stale bread Lus corrupted his good sense, as well asaopetite, I he ever had nay of either, In the drat plice, it s too kste In theadud to sugaest any nprovement i the vooklng of heefsteal than that of brajling, which is the universal cus tom with all Enclish-speaking nutions, for ta none other ks the 1 enk hnown, Whenever tunity s offered, Yrolled meats, o) T tiptio terred to such s are eled, und Hifkowise connfderad more wholesome aud palutable by wll (telllzent and educated people. In rogard to s breadspudding, his e of soakitup the bread thoroughly in cold water {5 gocd one, hut then to feed sich stull to childeen wonll e o erfme which should be punfslied ws revercly s he snugests, in_ the camnienc Lis witicle, the bud cook ghould be, ing use of stale hread fur puldings certs s iirnt introduced by Dovr couks, Who, lavlig uo idea of ceonomy, or xuuh?; I thetr feguent sttempts to make omd brewd, were at noloss to secount fur waste af four in 1o othier vanner, Paddings, sy nnd ples are biad enouglyy, when well nude, to feed 1 hildren, utd certainly the firet puned cannot Do fmproved by composing them of stale brewd it only for chickens to cat, when thoroughly zoabnd o wold water., Yours traly, I 16 K. RLD ANTS, To the Bditor «f The Tribune. Trx Grove, 1, June $.=1 write this to ast for information through the Housckeeping Do purtment of your valuable paper. Beng troubled with that enemy of all good housewives, the red anty 1 thought perhaps some of your many correspondents might know u recipe for deatroy- ftrgg or driving them away, 1 g0, and they will impurt this knewledige” throush the Satirduy Isnue of TR TRIBUNE, they will confer a Lavor upon a secker after KNOWLEDGE. LITTLE WE KNOW, Little we know of onr neighbor fair Who Hvew across the way, And little we drewn of the many gricfs ‘Ihat darken hier i to-day, Al little we know of each other, And lesk we know of onreelves, And naught we know of the skeleton ‘Thnt rattle sbout un shelves, boucs In closuts allke of the wendthy, The stately, the Lumble und poor, Where the sentinel Pride with bars of reserve Mukes fast the miassive dour, Antlittle we Enow that groctings Of hupe nnd hearty cheer 1L fafl from 1w tht baso tasted not Of Joy fur many a year, Too little we seek 1o shun the wrong, Asul lens tu do the right, Ah! little you know the sorrow ‘I'lnt eadilens all my #a Andd rends the tisiing coly My cliceks so pule and wan, Litle you know that one who xhogld Have proved my #t I und wiay s plowed, etead, b Tirowe deep, "Phe paths 1 tread to-day, Ah ! nanght wo know of the ekeleton bones That ratlle aboit o shelyen, At little we reck that we're better known By other: by vurselves, Creann, April, i Tizaniy, Lawler's Slander upon Mitton, Chaambers’ dournul, About the mididle of the Tust century one Me. Lauder startled the Htevary workd by the publi- cutfun of 1 clrenlar I which he acensed Mitton of Javing borrowed from a previous suthor some of the. versified materlals for ¢ Paradlse Lost.” It wus cusy to neense wmat who tud ! Qeatd thres quarters of o century ; nevers & Milton's reputation stued too high to rinit this charge to be passeil over In sl ander named the aith strikingly ko gont glishepice. Dr. Doy obtuined a copy of the work Wit some difieulty, and went throtgh it Hue by Hoe without fndig uny such pussages os thy user had |vl‘\r(unrh to quote, What he did thid was this—that ono Hogens had translated » Parndise Lost? futo Lathn tn (690; that Lauder bad taken vight lines from this trauslation, and stated that he had found them in the works of Staphornlns, Duteh poct.nod divine, - Mennwhile, not kuow- gz whut Douglas was dolng, Lawder obtainal aubscriptions for w new ~edition of Hogens’ pocing, or that purt of them which contained the passage supposed to fuerhmipate Milton, When the work was actually printed, the result of Dr. Douglas® examfnution was mide public. “The publishers, Messra, Payne sud Butistict, fue sisted that Luauder should place in their lands table book frons which his excerpts hiad o Me then confessed that the wholg wlfufr was an fuventlon, ‘Phe publishers issued w el edition of the work, but inserted thia Irrvlnlor)’ note fn cach copy : ' A8 thls man hoe heen gty of such a wicked Ixu}wsuluu ol ug sl the public, und 1s uf so during an uvowal of It, we declare that wo will have ng further intercourse with him § and wo now sel his book only as u curiosity of fraud snd futen polation.” Dr. Johnson, before the cheat wap discoverd had so far been imposed ukwuu ts furnish a H-rufm-u and postseript to tho worlk Luauder endeavored to wurd off public censure by glviug tirst one matlve, then another, for his eonduvt.” Ho fell (nto obscurlty, and died g Lveat puverty ubuul Lwelve yoars ulturward,