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“NEW PRODIGAL SON. E Plaribus Unum and His Sons North and South. South Becoming Dissatisfied with Things Tries to Leave, Be Tries for Four Years to Destroy His Father's Honse. Failing in That, He Now Proposes to Get Control of It and Re- form It. Writtem for The Tribune. A certain man !?bd two sons. Thename of this man was E. Pluribus Unum, and the names of his two sons were North and South. At the time of his settingup for himself, the father was an ardent lover of freedom, and showed hislove for it by fighting for it and almost dying forit. Buf just ashe was about to breathe his last be breathed his first. But when he came out of the fight victorious and frce, he made a prndamntiun tothat effect. This he called his Declaration of Independence. It was writ large and lucid, so that there could be no mistaking what it meant. It declared that all men were created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalicnable rights, and that among these was the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nevertheless E. Pluribas Unum held slaves, and so did his gons North and South. -In course of time the father of E. P. U., whose name was John Bull, sbolished slavery, and so did all the great land- owners, who were all astonished at E. P. U. for making s0 much of his own liberty and making a5 much as he could vut of the bondage of other ple. For he cclebrated his Declaration of mencudeum on every Fourth of July with much bubbub and ado. - Then E. P. U. and his two sons North and South made a Constitution for the government of the family and the lands thercto belonging. That Constitution protected the white peoplein their frecdom and prevented the black people from gaining theirs. If any slave should fol- low in the footsteps of his master and flee from Londage, he was to Lt returned to his master. The world saw that the Constitutioncontradicted the declaration, and twitted E. P. U. with the singular inconsixtency. E. P. U. was not bliud to it himself, nor was his son North, and they hoped that it would soon come to an end by common con- gent. After & while North sct all his slaves at liberty. But South, while guite cqualing his brother in hie love of one’s own liberty, did not share in hLis desire that_other people should bave theirs. So the thin end of the wedge came fn be- tween the two brothers just thus and then and there. North was of rather a phlegmatic temperament, and would take a guod deal before he would show resentment. 1le was fond of trade, and disliked a row. Sonth, on the other hand, was idle, chol- eric, and casily fenited. e was especially frrita- ble and exactinz with reference to kis in- alienable liberts to hold slaves. and to use them ax hie lust or avarice should dictate. The auction block was hix, and he made it, and he wmade man and wife and unmaae them. What God had joined together he could put asunder. More- nver, he mnst have additional rmarantees for the ¢ turm of the slaves that had the temerity to put in practice the inslienable peculiarities of the Dec- ion of 1 pendence. 1le must have a special law, obtained it onquercd hia prejudices,” and -got down on his hands and knees. ~ So did his father, and they both crawled between the legs of Sonth. Zouth, however, wae not content with this. While it increased the discontent of North, who began to awaken somewhat to a_sense of his humiliation. So the breach between the brothers widened. South became more and more exactiug. and North less and lese disposed to submit to his brother's ex- actions. RULE OR RUIN IS TIE PRODIGAL SON’S POLICT. The father purchased new land. Southscized apon it for the uses of his slave labor, knowing that slavery must extend or decay. North went to the new land with his free laborers, and South went there with his slaves and with wrmed ruftians to defend his liberty to extend slavery. There were several fights, and North won. South was furious. Then the question at issue was put to the people of the new land, who voted azainst slave labor. South was more furfous. Sothe quarrel between the two brothers waxed hotter and hotter, and became what was known as **the irrepressible conflict,™ In every sontesr, whether with the ballot or bullet, South wae worsted. Finally the two brothers agreed to robmit the question at issne to the whole people of the estate. So the people gatbercd together to vote upon the question whether the nmew lands should be devoted to freedom nccording to their- Declaration of Independence, or to davery according to the new ideas of South that o far from slavery being temporars and injarions. it was a divine inetita- tiom, sanctioned by the Chnreh, protected hy Prov- idence. and to be perpetnated forever. XNorth was beaten in this contest, and acquiesced. South was trinmphant. and became more overbearing and dictatorial than ever. _ITe had everything his own way for four years. IHe filled the minds of his peopie with the bitterest animossty towards the people of his brother North. R Acain the two brothers agreed to submit the matter in dispute to u vote of the whole people of the two sections, Slavery was not to be molested where 1t then existed, bui it must not be extended into the new lands is the majority of the whole . Jeople pronounced against its extonsion | For here was a distinction made in the family Consti- tution between the rented aund unrented lands, To, thosc who rentcd lands the Constitntion gave certsin inalicnable rights. and smong those _rivhts was the right of the white peonic to deprive the black people of their nights. These land were called States. The unrented lands were subject to the control of E. P. U., and be left this stion of slavery ve. free- dom to the pleasnre of his whole peo‘)le as tifls family Constitntion required. These lands were called Territories. The second contest came on, and Norih was victorious. Then South, instead of quietly ncqmieecing, 38 hiz brother North had done under similar circumstances, flew into a {A:\sa!onbe ond 2ny in which he had been in the habi e and it of indulginz for thirty years. In this temper he went to his father and said: ** Father, #ive me the portion of land that falleth 10 me, and 1 will live by myself, for 1am determin- ed 10 enjoy the liberty to hold slaves without beinz questioned or molested. I will no longer endure 9 interference in my right to do what I choose withmy own. 1f youdo not grant my request I will force You to comply with it.” TIS FATHER REMONSTRATES TO NO PURPOSE. Then bis father said unto him: “Come,let us talk over thisrequest that you make of me, my son. Let us give plac to passiou and sway to reason. Let us calmly consider of this matter. Ihave never contemplated any such division of - ourestate. On the contrary, I have from the very first, as you very well know (for you con- curred with me), taken every gprecaution agninst such a catastrophe. A division of the eseate would be fatal to all concerned. Division would be followed by disintegration. The only hope of the esjate is in its perpetaity as it stands, onc and indivisible. 1f your section were an ixland of the sea, or if it were only a few hundred miles from that of your brother, Tdo not know but that T woulddmnx[der your proposition, but, ae my father used to eay with Xel?epmnte toa 1::mb!esoml: section of his do- main called Ircland, thatwas alwaye clamoring for its independence: *As there iz no getting rid of you T propose to keep control of you.” B _*“Then ns rewpects your pretexts for claiminga di- vislon of the estate: In the first place, you agreed to abide by the result of the contest that has gone aningt yon, else why did you go intoit? Inthe second place, if you have difficulty in re- covenng your fugitive slaves mow, under a treaty with your brother, will the diffi- culty “be diminished by = taking an atti- tude of hoetile independence toward your brother? In the third place you can hardly expect a Wer wazed in the name of and for the perpetuity of €lavery, to secure the approval of mankind or” the bleseing of Heaven.” But all thie was lost upon South. His ears were closed azainst reacon, and his eyes were blind with rage. So ne shook his fistat Lis father, declared that hie would fight for hie liberty to hold slaves, and exclaimed, **Give me liberty or give me desth ! Then the father's epirit was stirred within him. hesnid: -*Very well then, sir, if youbegin the war it shall end only with_yorr overthrow and the overthrow of the hateful institution for which ¥ou propoee to fight.™ = LS SoE. P. U. and his son parted in no very friend- 15 mood, and South was a8 bad as bis word, for he immegintely made war upon his father's housc. Then North arose #s ont of a long stupor, and recolved to subdue his bLrother or perish in the ettem) The war was long, bioody, costly, and terrible. Sonth had the advantagedf snger, which 15 of great nse in_fighting, and North had the advantage of a dogged peraistency, which isa still better qualification. ) 2 South was ag acrid and vindictive during the War ashehad been during the years that he epent in trying to provoke it. _He deliberately etarved the ‘prisoners that he took in battle, and set his troops 10 massacre in cold blood the negroes found awong those prisoners. Sonth's hutred of Lis slaves was only equal to his love of lib- erty. 1le was not not only ready fto_dic fighting for his own freedom, but he compelled his eluves 1o die if be canght them fighting for theirs. o Siavery was to be the corner- e declared that Slasery was to be, the corner, HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, I876—SIXTEEN PAGES. necessity, carefally dieclaiming any motiv: Eh!lnnlhrupy. If he coula have bgmlght :S!ou‘l’l{ dztl];\\'hh his slaves be would have preferred to THE ALLIES OF THE PRODIGAL SON DO WIAT TUEY CAN FOR LM, The War would not have becu so long if there had not been allies of South among North's pcu_nlc. These were called Copperheads, from their resemblance to the snake of that name. They were industrious, sly, and venomous. They were too cowardly to join the army of the pljodlau{ som, and they could find no arguments ?\‘Xfll Wwhich todefend theirsentiments. It would be impossible to estimate the amount of damage they did to the cause of patriotism. 1f they bad been found among the people of the seditious Sonth, instead of amongthe people of the loyal North, they would have been classed with negro prisoners of warand dispatched in the same manner. But such is the forbearance of North that he endured this treason in his own camp with the same dig- nity that he sbowed in meeting the armies of his rebellions brother in the field. Finally, these Copperhends became 50 hold that they came together and voted that, after four years of failure to restore the union of the two scctions by the experiment of war, there should be & ccsgation of hostilities, This mecunt, of course, that the War shonld be madea failure by putting an end to it just then. The abandonment of the struggle was the dismemberment of the estate. The prodigal son and his _Generals were much “encouraged by this _division in the camp of his brother, and Jooked forward to a speedy and complete trimmnphof the rebellion. But they were grievously disappointed, The allien of South were unsuccessful in their attempt to get control of North’s army and navy, and it was not long before South was conquered, and obliged 1o surrenders At this juncture the most awful.and ageravating event of the War occurred. The wise and faithful man, Abraham Lincoin, who had been chosen by North's people to preside over their strugzle for the preservation of the estate was shot dead by a partisan of South, whose causewas according- Iy crowned with the capstone of_a cowardly assas- €ination. An event of “a’‘quite different character goon followed. The man whom Seuth’s people had chosen to preside over their struggle for the liberty to extend slavery, one Jeff Davis, wus caught inthe actof trying toescape in the dis- guise of & woman. So Providence, as though to put its seal upon the awful grandeur, of North's success, and the contemptible excuse for South’s rebellion, made Lincoln a martyr, and Davis a fugitive in petticoats! A foreible illustra- tion of that axiom in Scripture: ‘‘Ie that hum- Dleth himeelf shall be exalted, and he that exalteth himself shall be ubased.” Davis was not hung. He was *let alone," much to the chagrin of his fricnds at home and his followers abroad, who have never been able to get him _out from under the ehadow of his ridicalous skedaddle. An sgent of Lis, who obeyed his orders in starving prisoners— m The murderer of Liucoln wis also killed, but 1o one was hung for their rebellion. THE FATHER RESUMES HIS POLICY OF CONCILIA- TION. . No sooner was the War at an cnd, and the prodigal son compelled to return to his father’s house than the father resumed the attitude of conciliation toward him that he had taken dur-~ ing all the years of his privy conspiracy and in- trigue. Pardofi was offered and a welcome home upon the ecasiest conditions. Bygones should be bygones if South would simply promise never todo so any more. He should have a sharein the family government as of old. He should assist again in mdking laws, secing that he had been so good at breaking them. North said little, but thought much, and his father secing him plunged in meditation and doubt, said to him: ** Why these misgivings my son, surely you are not jealons? All that I have is | sours. , It is mect that T should give yonr prodigal brother an opportunity to reinstate himself, lest he be confirmed in his sullenuess and obstinacy." Then North replied: **No, father, I am not jealous. 1simply feur lest your forbearance will be abused as in the days when my brothet was preparing for his rebellion. I do not helieve South will attempt, immediately at least, to recover what he cells his *lost canse,” but I am afraid the spirit that was in him before his rebellion i in him now, and you had better have a care lest you foster it acain at your cost.” E. P. U. was not insensible to the apprchensions of his son North, but he wae of todcontiding a dis- position to believe that his prodigal son would re- Pay his father’s confidence by abusing, it. South saw this, and made up his mind that, if ever he was to get back info the good graces and pood places of his father, he must walk warily hefore him. But no sooner was he securely installed in the fllmflg councils than his father's hopes were dashed and his brother's fears fully realized. So far from repenting of or repin- ing over his rebellion, he gloried in it. Instead of repreaching himself for the desolation he had \wrought, he npbraided his brother for it all. THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS TO I3 FATHER'S TOUSE IN ORDER TO REFORM IT!! His spirit was, in short, the very oppositeof that of the prodigal son of the Gospels. The prodigal son of the Gospels was smitten with remorse, and overwhelmed with shame, as soon 28 he was devoured with hungerand overtaken by bankruptey. And when he returned to his father’s house he confessed that he had sinned against heaven and his father, and was no more worthy to be called his son. ‘When our prodigal son had spent all, and be- gan to be in want—of office, he returned to his father’s house, not as a peunitent and humble prodigal, but as an impudent and presuming “Reformer!” He was filled with the same bumptious and impertinent temper that he had when he gathered all together and undertook to set up for himself. After he was subdued, he came to himself, and said to himselt: How many office-holders of my father have oftices enongh and to spare and I perish with- ont any office. I will ariec and go unto my father.” So he arose and went unto his father and #2id unto him: “*Father, it is very doubtful whether I ehall ever consider yon worthy to be called my father again. You have nearly broken up the family and almost destroyed the Coustitution and the Union. T went out huaging the Constitution and I have come back hugging it. Now I'll tell you what I propose to do. I propore, mow that I have 2 little foothold on this threshold, totake charge of the entire houehold and reform it altogether. To the vanquished belong the epoily, and civil-service reform isthe only bope of the estate. Thave a large number of oflicers and soldiers and politicians who have been. feeding on my rag-moncy 5o Jong thut they are ravenous for some of yours. As for that brother of mine, T want him to understand that I am not going Lo etand any more of his bossing itover me. I have had enongh of it. T'I let him know we did not go into that war for Iiberty and union, one and inseparable, for noth- ing. What he needs is civil-service reform, and he shall bave it. And, what is more, Iam not go- ing to have our niggcrs voting gainst us, their ‘natural protectors and natural reformers, I don't propose to hug the Constit: they have a mind to go in v at reform, they shall have the liberty to vote with us, if they haveto_esercise it at the point of our bay- onets, But, if not, give us liberty or give them death—and reform! ™ Awmiin the prodigal sonis true to his word, for, a8 before the War he hunted his negrocs with Dloodhounds and Democrats, and as during the War he murdered them in cold blood. €0, mow that the War is over, he huuts and kilts them withont® excnse or mercy. While repudiating with chivalri gmation the charge of maltreniing pnsoncrs of war, he stands out be- fore all the world, and shoots in their tracks un- armed and unoffending negroes. He orders them to run, and shoots then a8 they run. He professes to **acquicsce in the results of the War, among \which 4 the sccarity of Dis frced people in theit life and liberty, and procceds to deprive them of both, by masked nssassins and troops in uniform. Furtliermore, no sooner is the prodigal gon se- cure in his seat at the family councils than he pro- ceeds to carry out to the extent of his opportunity his Civil-Service reform, by appointing to places of trust and profit persons who participuted in his rebellion. He substituted his own soldiers for fhose of his royal brother, on_the ground that “ifo the victors belong the spoils," e distributed _his _ epoils _among such 2 the man Fitz-Hlugh, ‘who was .afterwards discharged for impudence, and the man Hamble- ton, who was espelled for the impndence of nam- ing his son after lglce aseassin of Lincoln. Twice has he attempted by the aid of his allies, the Copperbends, to get supreme control of his father's house, but in both attempts he utterly failed. The first time he persuaded —one of North's Generals (his best General for on encamped army) to lead :his forlorn hope. The second time he beguiled and used for the snme urpose a noted man of North's people (noted for is life- 1onz opposition to South), but an unstable- minded man, who died of the chazrin and mortitica tion which are sure to overtake sooner or later all conscientions gentlemen who succumb to the re- formatory machinations of the prodigal son. 'And now for a third time the prodigal son en- déavors 1o secure the entire management of his father's honse. which he has done his utmost to destroy. e has, as might be expected, learned pradence from cxperience, and trime his eails to Pateh the popular breeze, Ncvertheless, the end he has in view is mo more trans- parcnt than the means by which he proposes P ccomplish it. While he no longer has the effrontery to declare that his subjuzation wos a “*failure, " he has the pmumrnon todemand con- trol of his father's honse, on the ground of his ex- clusive fitness for_roforming” it le would iuavgurate L llsu ?ifltllle z]u;:l: s o \ous Mso;l.-l.w]llon. jnstead of the Geoeral clped to crush it. 1le would have all the ion and them too. resent servants of his father’s house give plice to {)huee who bad been faithful servants of his, This is his method of reforming the Civil-Service, which he has already exemplified by the zppointment of civil servants such ns Hawmbleton and Fitz Hugh, who were dism for incivility and_imbeciltity. i ce S0 we sce that the ** Vulture of Sedition™ 12 th sane rapacious enemy of the public pesce, whether its cunning craftiness at Washington aflects the parts of **reform, " orits **wildacts™ at the South nnreasonable fury of the beast.” his prodizal <on has the same uypo- e bie of disquise, After four years of failure to destroy his father's house by the experiment of war, e’ proposes to Bet control of it by professing to reform it! For Presiden: 4 For Altern CRIME. + « BLESSING IN DISGUISE. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. LavAvETIE, Ind., Aug. 5.—William D. Reed, under indictment for forzery outhe Singer Sew- ing-Machine Company, brought here for saf keeping from Bentou County, eseaped from jail last night, and has not been recaptured. About the time the forgeries were discovered, he skipped from Benton County, and after a long and diligent search he was found in Wyoming Territory, and brought back for trial. He feigned sickness successfully, and was put in the hospital of the jail. A woman came from Wyoming whom Le introduced as his wife, who was untiring In her deyotion, ad- ministering to his _wants, brought him many toothsome articles, asmong others n saw with which he sawed off the iron bars to his' window, and with a_rope made of hed clothes mnade his escape. Sheriff Visely offered $200 reward for him. Reed is about 6 feet high, 35 years old, weighs 160, has dark eyes and com= plexion, wears a mustache and_side whiskers, and bas a bigh forehead and high cheek bones. He is an 0ld offender. CHARGED WITH FORGERY. Special Dispatch to The Trioune. Quvey, IU., Aug. 5.~A man named Will- iamson arrived from Galesburg, last evening with o warrant for the arrest of J. M. Birce. alias J. M. Birch, of this ¢ity, on a charge of forgery. Itisalleged that he signed the name of J. Williamson, of Galesburg, to a note for $L,000, and megotiated it some months since. Willmmson left for Galesburg with his prisoncr this morning. Birce is reputed to be quite wealthy. He came to this city from Edina, Mo., ten or twelve years ago, where he had been keeping a small grocery store. Ty PISTOLS TRUMPS. Spectal Dispatch to The Tribune. Derrorr, Mich., Aug. 5.—Several men were engaged in a game of cards at a saloon this af- ternoon, when a controversy arose, and Michael Tobin was shot by John Schnel, and fatally ‘wounded, the man living but a short time. e —— THE METZGER PILE. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. DAVERPORT, In., Aug. 5.—A wealthy resident of Holland in 1691 dicd, leaving large estates, but no heirs on hand. The property was ap- propriated in 1692 by William of Orange. From that time until the present the property has been withheld from the proper owners. The knowledge of these facts coming to the Prussian authoritics, and Bis- marck taking a lively interest in the restitu- tion, proceedings have been commenced for its recovery. Severalof the heirs emigrated to this country, and one of the direct descendants is Chrristian Metzger, of Buffalo, this county, at present working as a stone-mason. This heir 1o a share of the Metzger cstates has entered his caim through™ a leading Davenport lawyer, who, after examining the documentary evidence and genealogical proofs, has accepted the service on 25 per cent of the recovered cstates, which it i8 said in the agaregate amount 16,000,000. 'The remaining beirs have also employed logal assistauce on the same term: and there is but little doubt that the sum wifi be shortly added to the national indebtedness of Holland. ————— PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA, PrmADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 5.—~The National Guard cncampment in Fairmount Park is a grand affair. There are at least 3,000 men un- der canvas there. This morning Gov. Hart~ ranft, the Commander-iu-Chief of the National Guard, established his headquarters in the en- campment. Adjt.-Gen. Latta has also quar- tered himself in an adjoining tent. Maj.-Gen. Bankson has ordered the First Division to par- ticipate in the grand review on Thursday, and it Is cstimated that nearly 10,000 o> il be'n ne. ———— POLITICAL LYRICS, SOUTHERN ‘ PATRIOTISM." "Tls of our glorious Butler, Of the old Confederate States, T wish to pen a line or two, To let you know we're mater Oh! waen't that a glorions hit We made in Hamburg town Rach nig tied loose, we made him git, And then we shot him down. Well, pard, I reckon we will pause Till after onr clection, Por fear we might defeat our cause, And that would be perplexing. But when clection-day rolls round, ‘The stufling we will do; Andy if a nigger tries to vote, ‘We'll blow him through and through. T tell you. Tilden is the man; Democrats up North, Just siing the grog with witling hand, ‘And we'll beat in metre shorf, And, when 0ld U. S. Grant we sack, On! won't we play the deuce? - We'll raise the hair of evers black, Just like our noble Sioux. Then we'll unfur] the Rebel fiag, And give it to the breeze, Ani every nigger that we tind We'll hang upon our trees. DEMOCRAT. THE IAM-ERICAN RACE. *Twas by the wayside, near a Sonthern town, 1 epied a sage beneath a tree reclining; His old straw hat was guiltless of & crown, s pantaloons had Iess of cloth than lining. Addressing him about the latest news, 1 quickly found him, by his salutation, A 'man of houndless and erToncous views, And vast and various misinformation. 441 reckon yon're & Yankee, come, ™ eaid he, ++Tpon some sneaking mission or other, To cee how being cqualized and free Agrees with him you call your colored brother. Estinction waits on him, with all his rights, So freely given by your laws confounded ! T'll keep attacking the defenseless whites Till all the colored race are killed or wonnded. ++In New Orleans, ~bchold the lesson tanght!— When in convention cértain blacks assembled, A sound of peacefnl thronizs ontside was caught, And in the halls the blacks bloodthirsty trembled; Then through the windows, lobbics, outer gate, By the unarmed Cancaeian race snrronnded, The Freedmen rallied in their murderous hate, ‘And nineteen colored men were badly wounded. ++1n Central Georala, several monthe ago, The guns of Afric held a loval meeting, And divers white men went fo see the show Ana give the speakers fricndly Southern greet- ng. But lo! When speaking hnd gone'on a epell, ‘And all the air with [oyal words resounded, Tpon the hapless whites the negroes fell, ‘And nineteen colored men were badly wonnded. ¢¢In old Virginia, ata rural place Where many Africans had come for voting, The merest handful of the bigher race Were looking on, the minor matters noting; When, at a cry about some votc refused, ‘The blacks {nfuriate on the handful bounded, Thelr knives and pistols mercilessly used, And fourteen colored men were badly wonnded. +48o, at the Capital of all the States, — Your boasted Washington, the placid city,— There were, in journals of the proper dates, Correct reports of what should move your pity: The town-election rallicd countless blacks, Who, armed and maddened, and to riot honnded, Made on the nnresisting whites attacks, ‘And fifteen colored men were badly wounded. ¢:Yet, furthermore; of late, in Tennessce, Where Stokes waa beaten at the polls by Senter, The savage negrocs, armed from head to knee, Seemed on a fight than on their votes intenter; To vent some petty, diabolic spite, Tpon the plea of some vague charge unfounded, Tiie} tumed in fary on a single white, And sixteen colored men wero badly wounded. ¢ The race Ham-erican is dying out!” The eage concluded with a dismal zesture; And left me victim of amazing donbt, While he went onward in his ragged vestare. 1If Southern whites, unarmed, o deadly are To Southern colored men fall-armed and banded, How much more fatal would they be by far If by the Reconstruction laws unhanded! —Orpheus C. Kerr in the Graplic. ——— An Expensive Mistake. Detroit Free Press. ‘The proprietor of one of the numerous cizar stores with which Detroit abounds, now ona visit to Philadelphia, recently wrote to his boy clerk giving him eertain instructions relative to business wmatters, and closed by telling him to “Give my regards to all the folks who come in.” The clerk read * segmars » for regards, and in his reply to the proprietor he dwelt elo(gxemr Iy upon the encomiums which had been Irecly bestowed on the *“segars” by these to whom ke had been industriously giving them away since his receipt of the letter. FOREIGN. The Siege of Trebigne Commenc= ed by the Insurgents. Abandonment of the Tarkish Por- tion of the Klek Forti- fications. Over Forty Fishermen Lost in the Recent Storm on the English Coast, TURKEY. POSITION OF THE ARMIES. ‘CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 5.~The advance from Nisch fnto Servian territory 8 slow. Keran Pasha has been ordered to move at all hazards, but he has not done so 83 yet. This inaction paralyzes Osman Pasha, at Widdin, for the Servians between Alexinatz and Saitscharare on the inner side of the circle, whilst the Turks, from Nisch to Widdin, are on the outer side. The Serviaps are maneuvering on a line 40 miles long, and can casily mass their forces, whilst the line on which the Turks are operating is 100 miles in length. KLEE, RaGusA, Aug. 5.~The garrison in the Turkish portion of Klek yesterday destroyed the for- tifications and embarked for Antwari. English surgeons are being engaged for ficld service. TAE SULTAN’S ILLNESS, . CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 5.—It becomesinereas~ ingly apparent that the illness of the Sultan is of a chronic nature. It appears, howdver, that the danger of immediate catastrophe has disap~ peared. The Sultan continucs inateessible to the diplomatic body. ANOTHER BATTLE. A battle has been fought near Gurgustovatz, in which that town was set on fire. The Ser~ vians fled in the direction of Alesinatz. SIEGE OF TREBIGNE. RAGUSA, Aug. 4.—The Insurgents have com- menced besicging Trebigne, and are occupying the roads in that neighborhood. It is stated that Moukhtar Pasha dare not ventureto at tack the beseigers. ROUMAXTA, BucHAREST, Aug. 5.—The Roumanian Minis~ try have resigned. GREAT BRITAIN. FISHERMEN LOST. Loxpox, Aug. 5.—Over forty fishermen per- ished in the gale on the coast of Great Britain on Thursday. EDUCATION BILL. After & Jong 2od bitter discussion, and many divisions, chiefly in consequence of the reaction- ary amendments made by private members, and aceepted by the Government, Viscount Sandon’s Education” bill passed the House of Commons to-day by a vote of 119 to 46. The House met 2t noon to-day to consider this bill, and, though it passed through the Committce last night&lt Lm?& under three and a half hours’ further de- al CUBA. THE INSURRECTION, HAVANA, Aug. 5.—The insurgent brigand Tn- gelsit Cabilsilla was killed yesterday 'mear Youguarmes ina fight with guerrillas. The insurgents had six killed and some wounded. ————— IN THE GROVES. The Enights of Kt. Patrick Off on a Picnie ~—The Sports of the Day. The queer little depot on Carroll and Clinton strects was unusually excited yesterday morn- ing. About 9 o’clock groops of people in holi- day attire, and bearing huge lunch-baskets, be- gan to gather there from all directions. It was not a formal assemblage. The young men, many of whose faces were tanned and hands roughened with toil, chatted with their girls un- trammeled by the rigid usages of society; and as to the young women themselves, they were 28 merry and talkative as could be expected of any Irish lassies who have a day’s outing in prospect. There were also older people, some of the men looking rather constrained in their starched shirts, and black coats, whose elbows showed just the least tendency to glossiness, and the wrinkles in which betrayed that the garment had not been worn recently. -Small boys abounded, of course, some ragged and dirty, but most of them fitted up in clean jackets by the careful maternal hand; while of abies there was no end. Some looked over the shoulders of little girls who ered under their heavy loads; other, reclining comfortably in their mothers’ arms, sucked their thumbs with praiseworthy amiubility, and gavo all the tokens of inward satisfactior. THE MEANING OF THIS GATHERING was that there was about to come off the picnic of the Knights of 8t. Patrick at Sharpshooter’s Park, and, after the crowd at the depot had at- tained respectable proportions, along came the noble Knights_themselves, marching down the street in grand style, headed by a resplendent marshal and a brass band giving forth one of those _stirring strains so dear to the heart of Erin, ~Ah! what happiness it is for men to dress themselves in gold-lace and feathers, and play that they are Dukes and war- riors! And surely, one cannot have the heart to discountenance ‘an amusement so simple and withal so innocent. The ap ce of the Kuights on _the scenc created a bustle and caused a thrill of excitement to run through the entire company, many of whom had by this time taken their scats in the excursion cars drawn up in front of the depot. Handkerchiefs were waved out of the car-windows; barefooted urchins ran ahead of the procession, swinging their m\lps and shouting with all the strength of their lusty lungs; and even the morose and blas¢ railfosd men paused in their work and gazed around. Then, after wiarching up to the cars and brenkini:nks, it was touching to sce how suddenly the Knights threw off their proud demeanor, as if it were their armor, and greeted their acquaintances whom they recdgnized here and there in the throng, and even condescended to cross the road to an adjacent saloon and get a beer. By and by the engine_shricked, the bell rang, and the train moved. There were half a dozen cars, all filled. Bumpitititity, bumpititity, bumptity, bumpity, bumpititity! Conversation grew general, and only here and there could any sentences be distinguished. * Where’s Kclly i ¢ Oh, there he is.”” ** Niver mind the babby !’ + Luk out fer yez, Johnny, ye’ll lose yer hat, bye!” Bumpitititity, bumpitititity, bumpity, bumpity, bumpititiiity! In one of the seats was o very pretty gisl with round, rosy checks and brown eyes peeping coquettishly out from under a broad, white illusion hat. Beside her sat hier admirer, why had captured her for the day and felt hapry accordingly. Soon after starting, who should come in but one of the Knights, who, 2= could be scen at 2 glance, was o hated rival. The Xnight had all the advan- tage of his fine uniform, and the fickle fair one cvidently regarded Hm with favor. They con- versed together familiarly, while the Young fel- low in the seat, who wore plain clothes, strug- gled vainiy to concel his disgust at the turn affairs taken. OFY WITH HIM. The conductor came around for the tickets. Two unkempt urchis sat in a scat, and could produce but one ticket between them. The unmh‘xi.'tur sternly sa'd that one of them must et off. g “I didn’t meanter,” sniveled the unforiu- pate gamiv. * Man sid we could both goon it.” No use! The inexcrable conductor led him to the door and droppel him_at the first stopping- place, while his mote lucky comrade_chuckled s_c:jmy to himself dwring the remainder of the ride. Bumpititity, bumrititity, bumpity, bumpity, bumfi! 'fluzy train stoppyed. The young man who had been so badly treated by his fair com- panion got up sullerly, and left the car without waiting for the girl. The hated rival, however, was_at hand, and promptly shouldcred the lunch-basket. The people straggled off into the {;nrk,in twos, threes, and family groups. The and_played @ brawe air, aud the Knights fol- lowed in order. Arrving under the trees, all dispersed in differnt parts of the spacious grounds, where the vomen were soon busily en- %nged in opening biskets and fetching out of heir depths enormous sandwiches and pies which were depogited upon the tables scatteres here and there. Then, what lots of fun! Life in the open air is alvays pleasant in summer- time, aud can be very favorably compared with life on the ocean wave. And folks who spend their days in a great cty— especially if they arcof the hard-working class —can gppreciate so Highly the blessings of fresh air and green foliage After dumer the older ones sat about on tte grass_and watched the later generation, maay of whom responded to the lively tunes of tie band, arid showed grace- ful heels. Daucitg continued at intervals throughout the afternoon. TIE RAIN. Light cdods had been scurssing over the sky, | | and these gradually clustered and took ona | darker tinge. Soon the patter of rain-drops was : heard on the sensitive leaves overheud, aud now and then oneof them would find its way through to the earth. Then the people hastily gathered up the debris of their lunch and sped into the ! wide restaurant which has been built there for { the accommodation of the public. g “Too bad it is, indade,” sighed a corpulent ]ud{ ‘““to haye the rain u)omlgsn’ jist s‘;file all av Mary Ann’s toime. You know that Macairty, i’\fi's1 O:?nen,—hn an’ Mary Ann's blissid thick o-day. Happily, the rain was not heavy, and lasted but a’few moments, when the sun came out from behind the clouds as cheerilyas ever. It was determined to proceed with THE PROGRAMME OF GAMES that had been laid out. Accordingly, the crowd went “over to a vacant field near by, where 2 foot-ball match was filnyed, several fat men participating with great eclat, The boys screamed with delight, and the young women plumed themscives upon the successes of their favorites. After that there was a_succession of races of every conceivable kind, begining with a boys’ running-race, and including a girl’s running-race, a sack race, a fat-man’s race, aladies’ running-race, a ladies’ walking-match, a gents’ walking-match, anaa chase after a greased pig. The running course was a well-beaten circular path, about 150 yardsinlength. The fat-man’s race, for which there were several entries, was marred at the very start an accident, one of the competitors stumbling and fall- ing, together with the next mun to him, whose legs had unaccountably become cntangled in his, and both of them act- ing as snarces to the unwary feet of the other runners, who subsided one after the other upon the living he_‘qg. Another trial proved more successtul. e ladies’ race was also ludicrons, There were three contestants, two young ladies and one of maturer years. The latter was speed- ily left in arrears, but, nothing daunted, pur- stied her mad carcer, her bonnet flapping wildly behind, being retained only by its strings, her wide and cumbrous hoop-skirt swaying to and {ro, while she clutched it fercely with her two hands to save herself from tripping. ‘With these amusements the afternoon passed away only too quickly for those who entercd into the 8pirit of the occasion. At 6 o’clock the excursion train returned to the city, bringing the major part of the company. It would be ‘wrong to omit saying that, on the way home, the young man whose brown-cyed - frirl ha slighted him 8o wickedly in the morning was seen sitting up very close to her in the car,— though, to be sure, therc was plenty of room on the seat,—and one of his arms was quite invie- ible. Ashe was slt.tlx:f on the outside, and as their seat was on the %}lt-hnnd side of the car, and as it was his right hand _that was missing, the impression upon the unprejudiced observer g]m:]ld be that the couple had become recon- ed. —— INDIANS. RAIDING SAVAGES. CarYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 5—On the return trip from Deadwood, the stage was attacked by Indians at Indian Creek, the stock stolen, mafl-bags cut open, coach destroyed, and one passenger wounded. A camp of fiftcen Indians was surprised and attacked at old Bridger Ferry, 40 miles north of Fort Laramie, by & party of herders. One Indian and two ponies were killed, and four- teen ponics captured. The Baker & Davis train, returning from the Hills, was attacked ncar Owens’ ranch, 25 miles south of Fort Laramie, yesterday, losing ten bead of horses. A Sergeant, eight cavalrymen, and a number of ranehmen started in pursuit of the Indlans, but failed to overtake them. There 1s cousiderable excitement among the' stock men in the valley, and horses are being corraled. Cartfs, with_sixty-five Utes, arrived at Raw- lina to-day. They proceeded to Fort Steele to be armed, gnd Wwill then start porth to join Crook’s command. One company of the Fourth Cavalry left early this morning for Ft. Laramie. Another arrived this evening. They move north as fast as they arrive. Several companies of the Fourteenth | Infantry are en route from Utah. At military headquarters in this city word was received yesterday that a ranche had been at- tacked sbout 50 miles north of Laramie by war- parties of Indians, and that they had also made an onslaught on a settlement on Sage Creek, on the Custer City road. —— RETURNED XOSTILES. Sr. PAvL, Minn,, Aug. 5.—News by way of Bismarck is to the effect that Rain-in-the-Face, accompanied by 220 Iodges of Indians from the hostile camp, have arrived at Standing Rock. This Indian murdered a trader of Stanley’s ex- pedition in 1873, was arrested therefor by Capt. Tom Custer, but escaped, and is said to have cut the heart from Capt. Custer’s body, and to have fired the Inst shot at Gen. Custer. An intelligent and reliable gentleman states that though special effort was made on the part of the Agent and the Indians at theissue of becf on Saturday to make a showing, still there ‘were not 500 bucks present, while there should have been over 2,000, from which it would scem that large numbers are with the hostiles. There are those who are well-informed who rate the Sioux fighting force at 27,000, and believe there are 10,000 well-armed warriors now in the field. pasiedo bl SAMMY *‘ BEFORE AND AFTER.” To the Editor of The Tribune. . CmrcAco, Aug 5.—I am glad to see and to say that, in my opinion, you have most fully and completely answered the charge of the Times, that THE TRIBUNE, previous to the St. Louis Convention, spoke somewhat favorably of Tilden as an honest and able man,~—and for a!Democrat—a pretty good sort of *reformer,” ~—iu all probability the best man the party counld nominate. To every candid mind your answer must be satisfactory. Why, we all thought so before we knew much about the man. I am sure that Idid; and for several days after the St. Louis Convention I told several of my Democratic friends and acquaintances that it was the best nomination they could have made. But, bless me! This only shows how little we know of a man’s real character and history till he is nominated for office! or, from what his friends say of him. I am one of the martyrs who went to Cincin- nati in '72,—one of the *Independents,” or Greeley Republicans, and of "course T felt ratherfavorable towards a good, Liberal-Reform Democrat,—if such could be found,—especially if Bristow should not be the Republican nom- ince. In other words, I would rather have an able, honest, “Free-Trade” Democrat for President, with a Congress to back him, than a 4 Machine” «Republican, with *Protective- Tariff "’ ideas,—no matter how able and honest he might be. And, frem what Iittle T had heard and read of ~ Mr. Tilden, and it was nmrlfinll comprised in his tilt with the Erie Canal Ring,—I thought, as did many others, that he was about_tbe next best mnan to Bristow. But things don’t look that way now! That canal business forms a veryysmnll part of the man’s history and labors! Yet it imabout all that is favorable, and even that, when you come to understand it and get at all the facts, don’t amount to much. Take Sammy Tilden— “Uncle Sammy,” as the Times delights to call him—sum him up, and make the most and hest you can of him, and what does he amount to? Simply this; An old miser, crafty, intriguing, slippery, and ¢ devilish sly,” and if not currupt in politics, corrupt as sin in bis professional deslings asan agent and. atiorney, and hence not an honest man, in the proper sensc of the term. An old man—nearly 70—and a bachelor! Too stingy and mlscrlg ever to divide his money or his affections with 3 wife! Wealthv—too wealthy to have become so honestly by the ractice of his profession—worth geveral mill- ons, it i8 said, and how made? mlif cheatinf and swindling weak and crippled railroads an corporations. Nobody denies this, and it seems to be true; and the more it is looked at, the worse it grows. From Jooking on Mr. Tilden as probably the best nan for the Presidency outside of the Re- publican orgmnization, up to the time of nomination, and for some days after, I now regard ‘him as entirely and utterly unfit for the position, and not only that, but that his election would be a national shame and disprace! An old bachelor miser for President, and 8 worse one than Buchanan! And yet this is as nothing compared to the danger which we can_all now see threatens the country in the elcction of mi(/ man as a Democrat, at the present time. It would simply be turning the Government over into the hands of its enemies, the * Confeder- ates,” and their allies. Any one with but ordi- nary intelligened can sce what that would amount to. Hence I regard this as the most important Presidentihl election since that of 1860. The time has not yet come fora_ Dem- ocratic President! d. —— Protests. The Stern des Westens, the German Demo- cratic organ at Belleville, T, protests man- fully against the *“*crow diet ™ set out for it by the late Democratic State Convention, OUR CLIMATE. A Comparison with That of East- ] ern Cities. To What Chicago Owes Its Delight- fully Cocl Summers. This City the Best Summer-Home for Children. CIOICAGO CLIMATE. COMPARISON WITIL EASTERN CITIES. Dr. T. C. Duncan, President of the Chicago Academy of Homeopathic Physicians and Sur- geons, baving recently made s tour of the Eastern cities, related his experience*and ob- servation at the meeting of the above. Sodety Tucsday evening. His remarks were substan- tially as follows: I was surprised to find the deference they pay to the hot weather in the Eustern cities. Churches are closed, Sabbath-schools adjourned, business suspended, and cities nlmost descried. Our physicians who remain at homg have little to do, for the bulk of the better cl: are off to the mountains or scaside. 1 tried to account for the greater heat of the Atlantic cities. Cities, of courve, are hotter than the country, but the conn- 1ry is hotter on the seashore than is a correspond- ing latitude in the Xisei!!lpfii Valley, forexample. ‘The Gulf Stream is, no doubt, responsible for this difference. But there are other causes, thatIhave tried to solve, for the Eastern cities being so very hot. Ileut is suppused to be due to the light pass- ing through our denge stmosphere. The ehape of this atimospheric envelope, our friend Dr. Adam Miller has pointed out, is like that of a vast con- cave-convex lens. e says raya of light passing more directly tlirough this wonderful refructive Jens give us the greater heat of sammer. Now it is casy to see that the depression of a valley will produce a local double cancave lens which willcon- centratc the rays of light like an immense sun- mlass. 1t is this I account for the great heat of Pittsburg. Their large furnaces and smoky atmos- phere do not tend to Jessen the heat. ~They buve a great amount of cholery infantum and heat pros- tration there BUT NEW YORK i8 not shut in by hillsand i1 on u bay. Why shonld it be so hot? There are two cxplanations, I think. ‘We all know the increased heat of » moist atmo- sphere. Now, when evaporation is_going on the air is more dense. New York is situated between two large evaporating bodies of water. This dense, highly-refractive vapor on both sides, it seems to me, corresponds closely in effect totwomountains, 20 that New York is really in a valley. ‘The heat thus reflected and concentrated upon the city ren- ders it intensely uncomfortable. Another causc is, that the whole city slopes towards the sun. The streets are narrow and the buildings high, which confines the heat. In the fower sections of the city the rooms are small, the ceilings low, and the poor people scem crowded together like cattle, reminding us of Wells street section in the ante-fi ys. 1do not wonder that New York is hot and ; sickly. Dr. Lilienthal writes that they have. nof so much cholersa infantum as heat prostration to deal with. He uays that Ge um 18 the best remedy. PHILADELPHIA is sitnated very much like New York, between two bodiesof water, from which must rise banks of dense moist _air, reflecting and concentrating the heat upon the city. The red brick buildings and ‘brick and stone pavements give a large amount of radiating surface, It is a fact that the reflected heat in that city is_almost as intense as the direct raysof thesun, The mountains to the west and the oceans to the east forman outer wall, giving a double radiatimgsurface that produces & heat thas will not be forgotten by thuse who visited the Cen- tennial about Jnl{ 4. The large amount of surfuce drainage loads the alr with deadly carbonic acid gas, which alone must produce u great amount of sickness in_ Philadelphis. ‘Washington was the hottest city I visited. Itis situated on the north bank of the Potomac Valley, ing about vertically ’ are concentrated by the hills on either side upon it with great intensi- ty. The sanitary authoritles have done much to make Washington a charming, healthy city during the cool eeason. CIIICAGO. 1 retarned to Chicago on one of the hottest days we have had thie season, and found it delightfully cool compared to the heat endured in Pittsburg, Jersey City, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, and Washington. Iere we have cool evenings, but in those cities we were persplring ull might ay well as all day. We have, f¢ is true, 5 dense bank of vapor to the east of Chi- cago riging out of Lake Michigan, but fortunately for us no h%l]!: nothing but the open prairie to the westofus. This accounts, 1think, for the fact that it is hotter a few miles west of the city than it is in Chicago. Some years u;'fl} you will remember, T pub- lished in the Medical Intestigator an article by Winchell, ir which he gave the comparative tem- peratore of the lake region. He drew lines throngh Dlaces of the same temperatore, and while the temperature for Chicago was given at 72 degrees for July, that of St. Paul was given at over 73 de- grees, =0 that the isothermal line passing throngh This ity runs nearly north northwest. _Strange as it may 8eem, Chicago is cooler than St. Paul. Some of our well-to-do St. Louis physicians who leave that semi-tropic city during the months of August and September, Lave finally settled upon Chicago as the coolest and at the same time the most com- fortable summer resort they can find. TOE NEALTHIEST CITY. Dr. Hawkes remarked that it was not only the coolest city on the continent, but also the most thy. - Dr. Duncan said that he was rather sarprised the other day when Dr. Gatchell. who has given vital statistics cluse study, states that Chicago has only about 7 per cent of deaths from con- sumption, while he s2id in the Eustern States the rate was 20 or 25, and in Boston about 30 per cent. TAE DRINKING WATER. Dr. Duncan also said that the water_supplied the Eastern cities s all from rivers. These are shallow, and loaded with organic matter, and during the hot weather the water is nauseat- ingly warm. Ice water is a necessity in those cities, and the constant use of it chilled the stomach, weakened the digestive organs, de- stroyed the np%etite, and produced a weak, fev- erish state ot the system. The luxury of a cool stream of hydrant water flowing on the heated hafids of & Working man was something un- known in the East. Dr. Duncan returned with the conviction that we do not appreciate Chicago as we should, and as it will be appreciated in the future. CHILDREN. CHICAGO AS A REALTI RESORT. T the Editor of The Trivune. CnicaGo, Aug. 5.—However much the people of Chicago appreciate the advantages of this city as a place of business, they do not yet ap- preciate its salubrity and its freedom from epi- demic maladics. Having been a residént of Chieago for fifteen years, the writer has almost aright to claim that he is one of the *old set- tlers.” 1 have had emple opportunities to con- trast the health of Chicago with that of other ‘Western localties, and have been struck with our remarkable immunity from malarjous dis- eases. In fact, it may be said that true mala- rial febrile disorders do not originate in this city. The same may be said of many other epidemic maladies arising from miasmatic causes. The intention of tlds letter, however, is to call public attention to the remarkable health- fulness of this city in relation to the fatal or dangerous disease of ;uung children. In an extract from the New York Herald which you suhl(shefl. it was stated that from July 1 to uly 13, 1,508 children under 5 years of age Gied in New York City. Estimating the mortality for the remainder of the month to have aver- aged that of the cighteen days, the number of deaths for the thirty-one days would have been 8,105, or 100 per day. While in Chicago, I see by the official report, the deaths for the whole month, of children under 5 years of age, num- bered but 751, or about 24 per day, making in round numbers twice the number of deaths of young children in New York City in proportion to the population; or about 1in every 10,000 in New York to about 1 in every 20,000 in our city. And T think statistics show that there are more children in proportion to the poFuhuon in the latter than the former —city, Which would be an item in favor of Chicago. The summer heat ot Chicago is far below that of any of our large cities. Through the months of June, July, and August, the mean tempera- ture rarely exceeds 70 degrces. The same may besaid of itslake-shore suburbs; while bacl from the lake it reaches 75 degrees, and in the other cities the mean is nearly 80 degrees. Now, 10 degrees above 70 degrees tells with fearful effect on children, largely increasing the rate of rtality. A ere e but threc months of theyear—name- Iy, March, April, and May—during which chil- ren or adults can better their condition. But the discases of those months are not those which increase to any notable extent the rate of mortality in young childfen. While it might increase their fort to beaway from the lake- shore, it is not necessary as a strictly sanitary measure. By copsultiug the mortality reports of other large citiesand towns of the United States, 1 find that none show as small a per- centage during the month of July as does Chi- cago. re must be some natural canse for this ;1 :fulness, for we cannot pride ourselves on the enforced sanitary condition of this city. We have in the city limits square miles of upn- drained ahd unsewercd streets, where the lake water 13 not carried. Itis the unrivaled location of Chicago which grives it its healthfulness. It stands ot the shores of Lake Michizan, and lies cnly afew feet above the level of its waters. ‘There are no biufls in {ront to keep the blessed 1 lake breeze from aweeping aver tha vity. There are no encircling hills to pen up the breeze and throw it back upon us -‘lflFl:r it nf, swept the city ?‘_1; in;gxx:‘rétli‘z;t 2 The el:«;r-shrmmg winds, which X s complain of, are the greatest boon which a kind Nature has'conferred s, ey cateh up and e away all the noxious gascs, the miasmic exhalations, and the im numcrable poisons which pervade the air of z city of half a million of people. These noxious influences are not allowed to remain lo .enough to breed disease, but are swept aw: glu%vl::flfismd disinfected, and never return te e nameless offensive smells from Brid; port, fortunately, do not cause disease agx:x' death, except in the rarest cases, notwithstand- ing the periodical outbursts of furor which we show against them. They may excite or pre cipitate disease in a childy or adult already ill, but do not originate disease. (Sec the report of the celebrated French Commission to the Academy of Medicine in Paris.) Our location excels in salubrity any other lake city. Even Milwaukee, pleasantly situated as she is, has blufls to the lakeward, which de- prives her of the beneficial influence of the lake brecze. Chicago has a few suburbs which rival her in healthfulness. Among these may be named, in_ the order of their galubrity, Evanston, Winnetka, Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Lake View. Those suburbs which are situate on a woody bluff, or with woods be- tween them and the Iake, are not as heatthful. They bave o much higher lemgemmre in sum- mer, and lose the benefit of the fresh luke breeze. : In commenting on the healthfulness of our city, I am often” asked: “ Why is it necessary that we should take our children out of the city in the summer?” I confess franklr that Ida not knmow. I have mncver becn able to see any reason for such habit, for it is nothing but one of thosc unreasoning habits which obtain with. all people. There are many exce] tionu.lca:% 1 erant, when it is likely that the clck child wil improve under change; but that young children in health should be taken out of the city for their health is absurd and senseless. %, If the mania for taking children out of the city was confined to the poor, or those who are obhiged to live in narrow, dirty streets, in filthy, unventilated houses, or lo- cations ~ near the river, I could sce some reason for it. But unfortunately these are the very people who cannot go away from their unhcalthy abodes. The health-reports show that the great majority of deaths in in~ fancy occur in the wards where the unhealthy conditions alluded to exist, while the wards which lie along the lake-shore possess an almost complete immunity. Now, it is in these latter Wi where live ‘the majority of the men of roperty in the city. Here are the best resi- ences, possessiny, in'many cases, large grounds, excellent sewers and ventilation, and all the conveniences of modern life. And, strange to say, these are the people who, on the approach of warm weather, feel t?xat they must leave their clean, dry houses, their cool and quiet rooms, and rush off into tac hot, close country, to place their children under the %@nera.lly poorest of hyrienie influences! Wiyt ecause they do this thing in otlier citics, there- fore it is the proper thing to do in this is high time that these people fnform themselves of the conditions under which a removal from the city is absolutely necessary. I would let them ask their family physician’s advice, were it not that many of our best physicians have hut limited judgment in this respect. If they find that the children under their care are drooping under the influence of heat, and do not rally under the administration, of drugs, they hastci to advisechange of air. 1If, instead of this ad- vice, they would pay more attention to the hygienic “conditions, “attend to the diet and nianagement of the children, direct as to their baths, a8 to the ventilation' of their sleeping- rooms, etc., they would not find it neeessary to send thelr little patients away from their healthful homes, into a country-hotel with its many abominations. ‘What with our Floating Hospital and orr many pleasant lake-shore suburbs, I see no rea- son ‘why children ghould be taken away for their health. I will go further, sad sssert ‘that there are hundreds ef cities and towns in Illinois, Towa, Michizan, and Indiana where the cnildren are the victims of epidemic ond malarious discases tosuch an extedt during the summer months, and these diseascs arc at- tended with such frightful mortality, that they would gain greatly in every respect i they wero removed to Chicago or its vicinity. This is no fanciful advice, for I have kuown many fn- stances when a removal to this city has been the means of restoring to health sick children from the country. I havealso known hundreds of cases where a city fumily have lost children ll)z illnees contracted in the conntry—Iliness whicl could not have been contracted in their own ‘houses in the citv. ‘This hastily written lctter may contain some small errorsin statistics, but not enough, I be- lieve, to invalidate the point I wishto make, and to which 1 fnvite the eamest attention of the citizens of Chicago. E. M. ——————— ‘Buylng Judge Fuollerton. The Cleveland Leader explains one of tim intricacies of the pool-hox in connection with Chinese cheap Iabor as follows: ‘Wan Lee had long wanted a horse with which to collect and [deliver his *‘laundly™ work about the <city, and during last week came to the conclusion to buy one. On Wednesday cvening, while aim- lessly etrolling by the Kennard Honse, be heard the pool-seller shouting, **How much for Faller- ton, gentlemen; how much for Fallerton® Tam offered only 340 for this horse; the Msid rold for $100! Who says $45 for Fullerton?” Now Wan, in his travels, had heard something about fas rees, and knew that Fullerton was asthe sayingis. So when he sawa chance to buy him—as it struck his hcathen in- telligence—for only $43, he concluded he had bet- ter close with the in at_once. and secure a horse which could whiek his delivery-wazon aronnd at a lively rate. With a rapid nod he conveyed the knowledge to the seller that he would give tie $45, and as there were no higher bidders the pur- chase was made. ) ‘Wan edged up to the stand and asked: **When me pavee, and when me gettee hoss»" **Pay now," said the hurried clerk, *‘and come around to-morrow night for the chuuce. ™ + Alle light,” sald Wou, s he uerolled his piz- tall, extracted his hard-earned money, and de- parted with the card which secared bim tho pook 23 far as Fallerton was concerned. ‘Thursday night he was at the Kennard at the ap- pointed time, and when he eaw the pool clerk, poushed his card forward and sald: **Alle light, now—me wantee Flalleton. **Fullerton?”" said the clerk. **Ile didn't win. Smuggler took !he&ol el B "ll.lu caree nothing about plool—me wantes 0881 " *+Yon have no horse here. You paid for yonr chance and lost it.™ h_“&nat him? Me pald florty-five dolle. Ae lost im?" " Yes. " **Whatee you mean? You thlief! ‘me florty-five dolle or 5o to flcece hous **You will get nothing,” said the clerk. ‘bet your moneyand lost it.*" ’an went for & policeman, and explained. When he learned that his $45 were gone forever, ha ehook his fist toward the Kennard House and s! ed for home, scattering Chincse oaths along his path at the rate of about a thousand to the minats. ———— A Brahman Debtor and Creditor. Pull Mall Gazette. A singular case of attempted suicide, which brought the Vedic superstitions and the penal code Into embarrassing contact, s reported by the Allahabad correspondent of the Timesof Jii- dia. * A Bralman of the Brahmans” claimed a debt or a concession from sn adversary. His importunitics being of no uvail‘, he at last avow- ed his intention of sitting in “Dharna” at the door of the other until his demand should be complied with or Heaven releasc him from his sufferings, and o cast the blood of the hol upon the head of the obdurate. He accordingly “'sat,” but, the operatfon becoming tedicus after's time and ot producing the desired re- sult, he proclaimed his_determination to live no Ionger on the earth with the stiff-necked. With his janeo in one hand and dust from the thresh- old'of his oppressor in_the other, the -Brahman forthwith Ieaped head foremost nto the village well. Seized with terror and remorse, his oprcnent. rushed to the mouth of the fatal well, and, with hands clasped, in contrit: tones besought his in- Jured victim to avail himself of the rope thrown down to save him, and only to come up, whenall would be well. Thus adjured, the holy man con- sented to be pulled to the surface of the earth again; whereupon he was seized by hisadversary and handed over to the police on a charge of at- tempting to commit suicide. ——— . Madame Ratazzi and Her New Book. Rome Currespondence Graphic. ‘Madame Ratazzi ‘off somo. of her social scores against Italian Court people in that curi- ous romance I have mentioned, *Si Jetais Jteine,”! which is eaid to contaln her version of her liaison with Victor Emmanuel and the reason of her marriage with his Minister. Some pas- sages in this preface to her new book seem to hint at spicy political revelations. It has been said thata large sum of money was offered her by *‘certain persons™ in Italy not to publish some papers she held, and not to tell all she was able to disclose; and it is also sald that the most confidentinl of these papers left by Ratazzi she has alreml‘y given to the Italian Ar- chives foragood quid pro quo. The forth- coming book will prove this -assertion either in the yea or nmay. She says in the preface that when she first put her hand to the task she found she had to write the history of a PA:Oph:. Then follows this fair social *ten-stroke 72 **In Italy, as there arc no salons, no court, not cven pmgcrly speaking, the home of the English, nor the foyer of the i?rem:b, the Italisn casa (nouse) is simply a shelter for the night. The political man lives in public, and, when he fix]\:(y:,: himself to his eountry, his country tukes ou payes “Yoo

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