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% 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1877. BARUCH SPINOZA. Sketch of the Life and Labors of the Great Philosopher, ho Broke the Traditional Fet- ters of Religion and ¥ Politics, And Reasserted Man's Divine Right to His Own Convictions. Memorial Oration by the Rev. Dr. Kohler. Tee Rev. Dr. Kohler, Rabbi of the Sinai Con- eation, delivered the following memorial oration on the 200th anniversary of the death of Berach deSpinoza, the great Jewish philosopher, yesterday worning to 3 large audience ‘ast thou but one blessiug, my- father® slso me. —Genesis TTid., 35 We all feel ourselves related to great men. They realize our choicest dreams. They manifest _ the possibilities, the fine qualizies, of our manhood. As we glance g4 their lives we grow in strength. As wein simiration and revercuee follow the keen flights a1 heir souls, we canuot help being inspired by 1heir lofty ideals. We ourselves become heroes ‘hile sharing their strueglesand their triumphs. ‘Baruchl Spinozs, unto whom the best and ‘moet enlightened men of our age uvite in doing Jomage to-day, was one of those master-spirits +hoby their prominence fail to find their vlace within the sinall circle of their own time, their Iatonatity, and their religious sect, being called by a wise Providence to lead coming ages oowards to bigher, untrodden roads. The most jpdependent aud the most original thinker maun- sind has ever produced, hestands atone isolated snd despised, but only like the great Sirius, to shine his own brilliancy the ruling sun in whii our system of planets centres, and to to a higher source of lizht. Discoutented P and disowned by the world he was boru in, e boldly undertook to build a world _of s own out of adamantine rocks, s symmctrical proportions so grand ad on beights so sublime as to dazzle theeyes of the beholder. A sovereign in his 7ealas of thonght, he would bow before no au- thority, nor_surrender to auy power whether pumen or divine. Living in aa aze of bitterwar- fare and fanstic persecution, both religious and , hie strove for that caluiness and seren- ity of mind which, beine in accord with the law pervading the universe, would look down on ‘Duman actions and passions as mere curves and lines on the ruffled surface of life. Aud to win Sor bis rizid and bold_syster, also, the sympa- Thy of the hoarts, he, like Jeremiah amoug the pophets, and Socrates and Grordano Bruno smong the philosophers, wore the martyr’s ‘own, and his life was as unselfish and spotless ssthat of 2 saint. Haviog been excommuni- eated D the Jewish Svnagosue, and detested hike a dead dog “and the, devil's ambassador™ in. the following century by the Christian world, he was placed on tic pedestal of honor by Lessing, the insugurator of our era of toler- snce and enlizhtenment. Jacobi, the Christian mystic, though accusing him of atheism, ad- Tired him. ~Mendelsohn, the pious Jewish re- former, while combating his system, shiclded i, together with his departed” friend Lessing, asuinst the charze of atheism, trying t0 dd justice to Spinoza’s great genius and $he nobility of bis character, and. declar- e his eystem to. be much more in armony with Judaisim and true bumanity than orthodox Cliristianity. Herder and Beleiermacher, the Clristian theslogians, can- onized him. Megel, Schelling, Schopenbauer, s0d, above all, Guethe, the Otympian ruler of modern thought, vied with each other in offer- fnrtributes of thanks to thie peerless philos- ophier of The Hague. And to-day it is almost re- ganded a shame 10t to speak with reverence of The “reje-ted but boly Spineza.” Judaism, 109, of late, makes all etforis o reclaim him as of its noblest and gre champious of tth, in spite of his naving and given uffeasc to his mothe fact, cun the Svnatosue 1o-day better atone for 2 committed ssuinst him 200 year: i Liti (v 0¢ on i ¢ divine calling it Bless mto higher £ '&::l:s to be fmbued with a holier spirit of God? History, my friends, is an impartial judee kucel, and to lift the souis and a triendly redecmer. It briugs into esteem those who once were unjustly cist aside, and blzsses thuse who were but yesterday innocent- 1y rursed, while,«at the sume time, i charity on the_wrong-dvers aud pity on tue fanatic mob. For this reason let e, before skctching the life and tea.iings of Spinuza, cast a glance on his age, in order more thorough- Iy to uuderstand his appreciate his value an ness unto him. sitton. and better to mankind’s indebted- oza was born on the 2ith of on the Burgwall of Amster- @m, right behind the Portuguese Synagogue. It was the same year in which Galileo, the great, astronotner, in order Lo escape the iute of ior Gano Bruno, on his knees abjurcd the belief, sed in s writings, in the Copernican £sitem, then condeimnned us heresy by the Holy Eee. In the same mouth Gustavus Adolphus, tie stronghold of Protestantisimn, bad died on e battle-field at Luetzen, and Germany was, for the sake of religion, dovmned to biced for €ixteen years longer. In Spain and Portugal the smoke of burned heretics, of Jewish vie- tLas, Lunted for in the secrcey of the vizht to satisfy the hunger of the Christian 3loloch, still 10s¢ 0 bicaven strangely to illumine the world’s faith it & Joving Savior. In England sober Fu- ritnism bad, while taking hold of the State drowned the former gayeiy of merry Englan of the Elizabethan age with blood for the sake of loosening the yoke of the people. Hollaud, o0, had no sooner emancipated itself from th: thralldom of Spain than it stained fts free soil 1y shedding the blood and expelling some of fis best_and greatest citizens on account of helr beliet in a trec and humance religion. Yet, as the lofty mountain peaks reflect the nys of therising sun when tbe night still #preads its shades on the plain below, the dawn & pew era was heralded by the men of science- nomy, armed by the telescope invented *futhe Netherlands, unveiled ever new worlds i thedistant, sky. Natural scieuce made rapid Procress, helped along by discoveries never reamed of before. The foundations of the Clurch were undermined, new methods were lied, and other systems of thought required those offered” by scholastic cghi]oéouh)" stirred the minds aud spurred them on- ¥ands o new philosophical systems. To turn Ads: istotelian from the uscless treadmill of A and Platonic phrascologs fnermost secrets for the benefit of “man, was be cummon watchword of the thinkers of the Exteenth century, of which Bruno inItaly, Laerd Bacon in” Eugland, and Descartes in France and partly in Holland, were the repre- solatives. And it is quite intercsting to com are the life with the svstem of these three phi- losoptiers, who exercised more or less influence 0 Spinoza. While all agree in rejecting the old tnception of the world which concentrated around man as its last purpose, Giordano Bruwo God to be Nature as an acting force, 21d the universe, infinite in time and space, to be Nature a5 put into _cxistence, thus identits- matter and mind- Being condemued 10" the stake for his disbelief in_creation andin the existence of an absolute evil, be re- Plicd to his judzes: I suspect you pronounce Dy sentence with greater fear than [receive it.”! rd Bacon wanted knowledge to begin with observation and experience, but end where God and the soul is concerned, since these are en- tirely incomprehensible unto man. He unre- scrvedly submitted to the dogmas of the Church, and at last proved to be a liar and a ypocrite. Descartes was a pupil of theJesuits, £nd having made a pilgrimage to the Holy YVirgin at Loretto, in faifiliment of a vow for fnding the solution of his doubts, he at last. at- templed to reconcile the materialistic views of Lature, prompted to him by his studics, with e innate ideas of faith, without, however, ar- tiving at any clear and consistent, eystem. _ But, in no accord with the dogmasof the Church, his theory was refuted as heresy by the Eynod of Dort, iu” Holland. Tte political maxim_of *one head and one Tuler,” by which the Holy Roman Empire had mefutained itsclf during the Middle Ages, then 6o lust its value. The euccessful struggle of fhevarious States, nationalities, and _secis for Treedows und independence offered the- states- Ian new problems to solve, and asked the phi- loscprer for new methods and svstems: Here too, m Italian, Machiavelli, made the start’ by offer- 2 new radical principle; an Engtishman, Hobbes, followed. combiniug his sensualistic incs with the most absolute monarchism, ¥hich in bis opinion was entitled to enforce on the citizens of the State any duty and belief it plessed, with the same right by ¥oich the leviathan, the lsrgest fish, is. allowed to swallow the smaller one. Finally, Hueo Grotius, the famous Dutch scholar 2nd statesman, and also sufferer for the cause o his liberal Unitarian principles, farnished a Tew basls for modern jurisprudence by defining with scientific methods the natural rigats -da Cosia, who had leit Catholicism to emby ofathe individual and of nations. Such was the ?!n%ct Ot the age, and such the great problems d" ihe solution of which Spinoza, the Amster- am Jew, was to take part. = s daanu'mg_um\' to the Jewish affairs of Amstery Jum' we find there a settlement of Portuguese ls' who, under the free Constitution of tae > therlands, bad found refuge from the scourge of the Holy Inquisition. The peace and_pros- {:er “‘-) they enjoyed there induced mauy of their Grcl ren to jolu them. Partly they camé from h Crmany to escape the trials of the war, partly Cl‘;m} Spain and Portugal to throw off their bex‘ns?.!an disguise, under which they had alone 0 uble to maintain thelr lives. The Portu- f_ue_:e, however, kept aloof from the German and l:xh:.u Jews, proud o1 their higher pedigres and ;he great remiuiscences of. their past. glml«ml, there was still the mark of nobility on their countenances and in their demeanor, and their lnr;mds still betrayed traves of a long philosophic- al and ‘methodical training. True, the" old i nish-Hebrew spirit had long since’ dled out. No philosopher like SalomoIbn Gabirol soared up any more to sublime heights of thought, stimulating others to follow. ~Reason was no more beld to be the highest judge in the inter- pretation ot Biblical passages as in the days ot ,\Inlnfauides and Ibn Ezra. Free thought was shxn!;.ll.‘d; philosophy fucumbered and over- grown with mysticism. The fantastic doc- trines of the huif-heathenish and Christian, “alf Jewish Cabbala were in fashion. Still they were not excluded from the surrounding worid by a b{n.ul orthodoxy, Classical studies were fos- }u‘eul. Kunowlcdge was loved for its own sake. In the same year when Spinoza was born Manasse beu Israel, one of their rabbis, published a work entitled “The Conciliator,’’ intended to reconcile the dlscrcgandt:s of the Bible, both in the _Porluzufse und Latin language, which, by its vast erudition, shown by its quotations trom every known author in classical_and Jewisky eratiire, won him at the age of 30 a great fame in the world. He corresponded witiy almost all schiolars of renown, who admired and recom- mended him uuto Kings and also to the Lord Protector of England.~ And when he tearned of the sympathy manifested by Croinwell for the Jews, e went to London to plead for their re- admission into Englaud, and wrote there his re- marksble defense of the Juws against the false accusations brought forth against them by their enemies, reaching thereby a moral triumph in spite of the failure of his purpose. Manasse ben Israel was, however, not rezard- ed as profound in Talmudical scholarship as his eolleagues Saul Morteira and Isaac Aboab, who stood at the head of the Rabbinical school, into which young Baruch De Espinoza—such was his name—went. The thirst of the youth for knowledge and his vigorous intellect “could not fail to attract the agtention of Saul Morteira. But whether the promisinz pupll really loved his master’s method we know not, but feel quite sure that the hair-splitting discussions on ritualistic subtleties did not suit the logical ze- nius of Spivoza for any length of time. His clear mind craved for better food. He read tne commentaries-on the Bible next at hand and wost in fashion, but-was not satisficd. He turned to the philosophical writings of Gerson- ides and Maimonides; they stimulated his re- searclies, pushed him onward to_new inquiries, but at last tasted like water of the sca, whien only increases the thirst of the drinker. They stopped_balf way, pressing the letter into the yoke of the spirit. Nor could the Cubbala tolye his puzzles. Only the suggestive hints and striking notes of Ton Ezra to the Holy Scriptures interested him deeply. But was lic not gradually led his keeu criticto disbe- lieve in the suthenticity of the five books of the Jaw of Moses, on which Judaisin rested? He could not avoid betraying his indifference to- wards the entire Rabbimical lore and prac- and at times, alsv, bis doubt about the very foundation of the Biblical law. Years of severe struggzles and trials sed. There stood before his mind tue stately tigure of Uricl the faita of his fathers, but, dissatisfied with Rabbinical Judaisin, gave offense by writing against it, and, baving been excommunicated and persecuted for firtecn vears, at last com- mitted suicide in the year 1616, He bered four vears later to have h noble Knight_ Don Alarcon, who, fascinated by the truths of Julusin, became & couvert: and diedonthe fagotlikeasaint. Was it indeed ounly a sham and & chimera for which his people had sufferea, aud still suffered, death a thousand tines! Hecould not overcome his doubts. in waoich be was still more strengthened by Van Euden. his teachier in Latin and Greek, wio w: a Christian frecthinker. But above all, 8) 2 hated b isy. Ounce when a boy he was se to collect a debt for lis father, and found the ady of the house pravins. He was obliged to wait a long while, aud when she at last luja the mouey on the table before him, sbe dropped few torins _into a hole, believing berseif w noticed. He could ner this act of b; 4l in schod v exe conviction until they deteeted bis tnbelicl. His teacuers tricd their best 1o conviace him by argumeats, but cd persnade him by oilering a year 1,000 florins for continuing _his studics in the schooli” he refosed it He did not want to be vexed with re;i; ¥y his parents and sisters nelthor. ¢ learned Low to grind Jenses in order 1o become pendent. Freeof all shackles, he became ag: gressive too. In his Intercourse with younz men he communicated to tacm his doubis and Teasons of denial of faith, until at last the Jew- ishh communty ieit. provoked. One evening, as he returned from the theatre, a fanatic rusned on him and struck at him with a knife, yet tore only his coat and slightly touched his sKin. This outbreak of fanacicism wduced_bim soon to leave she citi‘. In the meantime Saul Morterra aud his coileagues—Man sracl toen happeoed to bein London—hurled their most - blasphemer and the and ex:ommuni- forih allowed to h him, or read any of his writings. It was, no_doubt, in act of in- excusable intolerance, but the fact must not be overlookea that it was mostly prompted by fear h comumty t the char, jugr and protecting that sort of intidel- ism which was then so_abhorred by the ruline Protestant Church of Holland. For tne same son the magistrate of Amsterdamn was Jed upon, by tie uuited Jewish and Ch clergy, to bavish Spinoza irom the Un this occasion Spinoza lelt first called upon to cetend freedom of thougit against the authori- ty of the Church based ou the Holy Scripures, in a memoir addressed to the administrative of- ficers of the_city, which afterwards formed the nucleus of bhis famous *Tractatus Tucologo- Politicus.” At 23 years of age he found himself alone in the great world, an outcast, who _could expect no sympathy _either irom the Jews or from Christians. ~Was iie also to despair like the un- fortunate Da Costa, whose fate be shared¢ Ifis Imind was 00 clear and too strengly framed for that. He found sheiter in the bouse of a liberal Christion in the yicinity of Amsterdam, where Tie devoted four years of study to the Works of Cartesfus, Hobbes, aad Bacon. and to natural sciences. He drank in full draughts of the re- freshing fountalu of modern philosophy,und was ‘cured of ail his woc and sorrow. The undis- turbed peace of a nature which lay on the geo- metrical forms and methods of this philosophy Drouwht_barmony and quictness upon his own soul. The happiness lie so greatly missed w found at last o have its true source in himsel Writing *On the Improvement of tiie Intelle in the manner his master Curtesius did, be says: 1y secking for riches, hovors, aud pleasures of the scuscs, the mindyis sv occupied that it scarcely thinks of the only desirable zood. But althoagh I clearly ceived this, I could not banish all love of wealth, honors, and sensual pleasures. - But finding that, ovcupied by these Thouehts, iy mind turned away from passions, Tliearned that these cvils were not incurable, aud although: at first these serious moments ere rare and brjef, yet afterwards, a5 the true fo0d became better kuown, they became - more frequent and durable.” Soon, however, from a mere pupil and fol- Jower of Descartes he gradually became his critic. His rizorous logic coutd ot adunit the Tncarnation nor creation out of notbing, and human freedom to be miracles, as Descartes and, Bacon would say. He was too well trained by the old Jewish philosophers of Spaln to end'in {hat “asylum of iznorance,” as he termed, the mirade. - He adopted the sharp arzuments -of Matmonides for refuting any corporeal attribute of God as an absurdity, and gradually. denied the possibility of any definition of the notion of God, until he at last arrived at the pure essence or substance. He learned from Gersonids and Crescas to conceive creation to be necessarily correlate and_cocternal with the Creator, and declared the tinite worlds in their infinite num-. bers and turns to be mercly modes of God’s manifestations through wind and matter. Bor- Towing from Chasdal Cresas, the strong oppo- nent of Maimonides. the idea of a law of neces- | sity ruling creation, leaving no room for human fréedom, he_ combined God with necessity. Taking thus different materials from different Jewish philosophers, he construed in his isola- tion Lis.awful system, which was to deprive: creation of its final causes and man of his free- @om, ves, the soul and_every’ beng of its very existence, in order to make God slonethe only reality ibat exists. In the same Way as with . Buddba and his modern - - follow- ers, every consclonsness of self enters the all-devouring chaos of non-existence, Spinoza’s god as the only existence absorbs every individ- uality, making of the human ‘mind only & foam- bubblé, reflceting the fleeting rays of the divine light. "Man acts with a purpose _the manner bees act in their. hives while serving their master, he says in his earlier writings, admit- - ting thereby God to have some end in view. This was the opinien heid by - Maimonides, but later. ho compares man to & stone .whirling throdgh the air and imagining himsclf to be fl‘)‘- ing. while followiog oniv a blind ' necessity, In 1650 Spinoza leit in company witle his friend and landlord to take his residence in Rhynsburg, near Leyden, where be miet many a sympathizing Iriend and admirer. among the frée Christian sect that lived there. Soon his fame spread; e zave instruction in the Cartesian. philosophy, and his friendship was courted by men of note. Among them was Henry Oldenburg, the Dutch Consul in London and member of the Royal So- clety, who held a large correspondence with him for many years, and _encouraged him to publish his Tractatus. He then moved first to a town near the Hague, and, afterwards, into the city, where he remained until the day of his death, on the 21st of February, 1677 (old style). He won there many warm [riends, from all of whom he refused to take any support, except from the celebrated and uunfortunate Jean de ‘Witt, with whom he stood on more intimate terms. - He preferred the seanty meal, consist- ing, of gruel and milk-soup, with bread and but- ter, to sumptucus diunersat_the expense of otliers, says his biographer. He made his liveli- Tiood by polishing lenses, which his friends sold for him. ~ On his father’s death, his two sisters would not ive him' his share of the inheritance 1 account of his having been excommunicated. He appealed to the Court, and, baving sained the cause. left all the property as a free gift to his sisters, being satistied with having won his right. Later in life, bis devoted pupil, Simon Vries, offered him 1,000 florins as an ac- knowledement of his services, but he would not acceptit. _And, when he learned of his having Dbequeathed hiin ' his whole property at his carly death, he would not acknowledge “the will on account of its being so unjust to his living brotber. The brother, however, being not will- ing to take the whole, offered hiin a yearly in- come of 500 florins, and, after a long contest, Spinoza agreed to accept 300. Once a friend of Liis borrowed the sum of 200 florins, and after- wards was unable to repay the debt. “ Never mind,” said Spinoza, *we will manage how to soare it.” He did not hanker for louors either. Being offered the chair of Philosophy at Heidelberg h the hope that he would "avoid miving of- fense to existing creeds, he replied that he neither his leisure nor his liberty of philosoy hising disturbed by an officlal career. He wus no man of the world. Mild and win- niug iu his manners, he did not like to obtrude his own doctrines on minds unfitted for them. “Your religion,” he said to his landlady, “is a good one; you ought not to seck another, if you only combine sweet hoaschold virtues with your piety.” He was shy and timid, and hated con- tlict, for which reason he refrained front having published his great work on Ethics before his death, though it lay ready for yeurs. Was it on Zeeount, of his ébnsumptive constitution that he sirank from any excitement? I believe not. Judging him by his works and his_system, we detect that same craving for peaceful harmony and rest which pervaded him in his later years. He used to waten spiders and burst into the heartiest laughter when witnessing their tizhts, ‘With the same disinteresteduess he looked on human affairs, analyzing - their passiors and tracing them to their sources with a wonderful clearness and surprising truthfulness.' Toint- ing to the natural basis of morals and of politics lie showed the same law which governs the storm in the air and water to rule with ele- mentary foree also the battle of the sensatious and appetites in the luman heart; and_in the anatomy_of the soul’s coustitution he has uo equal. Pursuing the principles of natural right as based on might to its least consequence, he found, in contradiction with Hobbes, the great- est welfare of the individual sccurcd and the Jeast right sacrificed by a republican govern- ment as_ hinted at’ in his “Tractatus Theologe-Politicus,” and - shown in his fraementary * Tractatus Politicus.” To him man is pusiied along by deceiving cloud-castles and will-o™wisps, above which ouly the wi man, the tranquil philosopher, rises to s motionless amidst the iufinite waves of lizht and to love Him without expecting his love to be returned. The world of Spinvza knows of o history lacking all moral purposes, as the struegle Detween the good and the evil amoms. menis of no bigher value tban the fight be- tween larger and smaller fishes in the water. Even virture itself is merely a hicher form of seldshness, as it secures the sweetest and most enduring reward. No doubt there is a striking grandeur in the architectonic display of thought starting from nce and cause, and comprising in it two attributes of existence the jntimte worlds of ideas and souls, aud _of bodies uud forms, in which the trazsifors form of man shares in order finally to taste with its intelleet the enjoyment. of God’s love, for Himsel But the system lacks, like gcometrical fig ures, motion and life, [ts great fault lies in its overlookinz the limits of human under- standing, as pointed out afterwards by Kant, and 5 the infinite which know, [y sa¥s, by ing the finite, Which alone cau_ be known to us. Tie great merits of Spinoza are not to sought in this philosophical positioa, though the of Hegel, Schelling, and Schonen- 1t on 1t, but in his reclaiting tie ason from the servitude of authori- ctatus Theolo-Politicus ™ swept Dbelief m” ve been greetly improved silie, Lhey owe to Lim their exisieuve aud pruc- cal influence. Ie broke the fetters of tradi- in retigion, philosophy, and politics, and erted than's divine right and liberly to live in accordance with iis own conviction, pro- vided he does not_intrude upon the rignt of others. lie wanted to remove the obstructions of old to pave the way for frecdom uid Lo wake the handwriting of God lerible again, both in iman and nature, True, he spoke harshly, and, in spite of his trials, in bitter unjustifiable terms of bis people and their faith, but Lis mis- take was that oi 1 reformer, who Sees only the of the institutions be is to point out. ninted, as he was, with the history and th e re of the Talmudical times, he iden- tificd Judaistn with Pharisceism, and went so far as to eympathize’ with the exceutioner of his o, Still let us not for shoulders on which we to- n of this lost sheep da; of Tsra ¢ 15 it not wonderfut indced that our materialis- tic age looks to the ideal:sm of this zreat Jew- ish thinker 1 pion? Sensuallsn and spiritualism, naturalism and supernaturalism quarreling with each in_our time, maukind Jonzs not for Spinozism and Pantheism, but for a Monism, as shadowed forth by Spinoza, fora unity of the world in which . there is room for a Darwim and Muses, for Jesus and Lubbock, aPlato_and Lucretius. Let us exclaim while concluding with Jucobi, Spinoza's most decided opponent: “Be blessed thou great, yea holy Benedictus! However thou_mayest have erred inthy conception of the Supreme Being, thy soul was penetrated by Its truth and thy lite by Its love!” ——— SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. To the Edltor of The Tridune. Cn1caco, Feb. 25.—People, in thinking of other persons who are deaf, and conscquently dumb, too often class them with ‘lunatics, idiots, and unreasonable beings; but this is a great mistake, and unjust to this silent class of peopie. Deafucss does not. cliange the soul or mind of a person, though it closes an avenue through which the mind gets a great deal of, koowledge. The hearing guides the tongue in the choice of words to fitly express the ideas of the mind, and, in theuse of languase, is thewost fmportant sense. Without language the mind igat a great disadvantaze, yet cven then the soul is at work drawing inferences and making comparisons, bus a correst understanding is only reached so far as clear perceptions can be placed before the mind. ~As deat-mute children grasp the ideas of language and apply it to ob- Jects about them, o Hlm swems to be taken from the eye of their mind. and curiosity for truth appears to know no bounds; the growling of angry clouds turns to. thunder, an the man standing up every seveuth Sun- day on a platform* to’ “swing' his arms and show his . nice clothes to thcm{»cople becomes a preacher of_the trath of God. All tirese changes take place, and the' soul fettered by deafness and iznorance begins to- throw off its thralldom and acquire written, and ' some- times therewith vocal, language. Al through the course of instruction for deaf mutes, the method is educational: But, like boyswho dare to jeer at somcbody who cannot lear them, some people are constantly soeering at them, and term sucl schools as are desiemed to edu- cate them *‘asylums.” k Deafness i3 quite common; extreme deafness Dot so comimon, yet there is easily onc deat and Gumb person to every 1,600 people. * Some peo- ple might be among those mute people and puss .u hundred of thewm on fhe street and never be, consclous of the fact.” Thie better éducated class -of mutes avold conspicuousness, bat to “those persons who know them and can talk with them \thereare plenty of .them. Deaf-mute instruc- ition has been reduced to almost a perfect sclence, and-- if many ‘of the ' public school-teachers of.. -children -and - ‘youth who have both the senses, hearing and seeing, to use, kmew ‘more- of soine of the simple Imethods ased in this silent -but thonshiful work, they would be more useful in their pro- tession of clenring away ignorance’ and wicked- ness, : and - by “leading minds and souls into Knowledge; fimguzge. angd ‘the arts of civiliza- tion. - ~ . It is pleasing to the fricnds of ‘thesc deaf- mutes, and the-mutes themselves, to sec that the county is moving-to naky some provision for their education nearer home, whichthe Jarge number makes necessary, and as has been done -in similar populous counties aud cities of other States. A Dilt is now in the Legislature asking for money to carry-on the school on a small seale for two years. 'The County Commission- crs should be the most interested in this mat- ter, as many -of them are', and, sce: that this sehool is suitably provided (o - "RELATIVE OF A DeAr-MutTe. CURRENT GOSSIP. RECONCILIATION: «+ A splendld era of prosperity glldsthe horizon wit e o e e B Fork T Tbune. Mareh o T The voice of a people has thundered For brotherly love; A nation of freemen, long sundered, Has risen above The promptings of greed and of malice, And shouts to the world: ++ Behold we have draned the red chalice, And down it is burled! ™ The victors cry out to the conquered: “¢ The fight lias been fought, The Unlon is saved and fast anchorod, ‘Fair freedom is wronght; And, brother, the old love is strengthened, Thy blood I8 our own— - Together our daye shall be lengthoned, And peace shall be known,” And, wet with the tears of repentance, The answer is sped: ++0'Northnen! we feared a death-sentence—~ You send us instead Forgiveness, good-will without measure; O zreatest of heart! Thy love we will cherish and treasure— Our savior thou art! ™ The smoke of the baitle has drifted Away from the land; Redeemed by the fre. and uplifted, The Nortnand Sonth stand Friternal, and look to the future, Their eyes with hope bright, Twin-born of the great mother, Nature, And filled with her might. And South winds, and winds of Atlantic, And winds of the West. Blow only one flag, one gigautic Free flag that is blest; Tts stars are the stars of the morning, Its stripes are the rays That herald the day that is aawning, The sun that sball blaze. Joux G. WiLsox, HORNETS ON THE WAR-PATH. St. Louts fizpublican. As the Missouri Pacitic train was leaving Mil- ler's Landing, Monday night, a gentleni came aboard carrying a stick, to which was curionsly attached a hornets’ nest. He had found it in the woods, and it bad the appearance of belng tonantless. But when brought into the Warm atmospitere of the car, and placed ncar the stove, the heat soon awakened its dormant life, and a low, humming poise from the interior warned the embryo naturalist and his compan- jons in destined misery that" the Sorrow was about to begin. A frautic effort to throw the nest from the window released the imprisoned insects, and the next instant they swarmed through the car, each individual hornet armed with fury and savagely bent on the war-path. They struck right and left, and everywhere left in their trail a cry of agony. Women shricked, and men vented curses loud and deep. But the gorrow waxed apace and the misery increased. People tumbled over seats and groveled on the floor. One fat old Indy took a recumbent posi- tion, and, stidking Ler abuormaliy-leveloped pedal extremitics straizht up in the air, executed an cvolution that would have done eredit toSol- dene’s kicker. Polonaises were torn and scat- tered in promiscuous coufusion, and shapely ex- tremities were exposed in a frantic search for horuets that had ventured in directions which hornets have no right to penetrate. Bald-head- cd men mopped their shiniug pates iu azony, and d—d the fool who had turned that happy car into a carnival of pain. Rushing to the res- cue of his beleaguered passengers, Couductor King was et on the threshold with Such a wurm rescytion that his inquiry, ““What the devil ——*" inay not have been o far wrong after all. But the conductor only clasped his lips with both bands, and_commenced an Indiay war-dance in perfect keeping with the condact of his passen- gers. He seeraingly lost all auxicty to inquire urther, or, if his curiosity was not appeased, he prctently refrained from expressing it. Finally the doui$ and windows were thrown open and the hornets began to leave the car. In a little while only a few stray ones were left, and these the passcigers kindly refrained from hurrying, but allowed to take their time, wlich, every- thing considered, was magnanious on the purt of people who had undergone so much discom- fort ou account of the intrusion of the hornets. A MAN WHO HAS SEEN LIFE. The Dayton Soldiers’ Home has an inmate with a wouderful history in Wiltiam A. J. McClure, now in his 107th year. He was born in New Jersey, and from his 15th to 30th year was inthe merchant-service, visiting nearly every port in the world. In 180+ he turned trapper on the Chio River, and finally enlisted in the army, being eaptured at Hull's surrender and taken to Dartmoor prison, but was freed in time to fight at Lundy’s Lane, under Gen. Scott, aud got seven wounds. When 47 he saved a woman from drowning at Charleston, S. C., and married her, but she died” at New Urleans, three years afier, when he served as scout for Gen. ~Juckeon in Florida. Then he weat to sea again, was wrecked in the Mediters rancan, and, with seven others, was captured and enslaved by the Arabs, but was bought and freed by the American Consul. Byron died about tais tune, and the roving to-be centenar; entered the Greek service, after a little into the imarine under Admiral Rodgers, theu served in the Seminole war, then in the Mexican war un- der Rogers; going to sea again was wreckea in the Albion on the Irish const, and was one of the nine saved from thut ill-fated crew, - He naturally tired of the seu, went West, and was, for many years, mail-carrier between Cincinnati ton, narrowly. escaping death from chol: ¢ past twenty years he hus Tived in Missouri, where he_married three more : wenty-two children, only three of whom survive. His last wife, who was_ sixty years his junior, died in 1571, azed 40. The oid geutleman is still active, aud tafks of going back to Missouri in the smmnmer in a skiff. He has beeu at Dayton since October, and the officers believe the strange story of his wanderings, as papers at Washington authenticate his agc and American service. Ky For DOG-STORIES. San Franzisco Mail. 4 ‘Mr. Robert Riddle, who resides fo the vicmity of the floating dock, is the owner of a setter whose performances are worthy of record. Some months ago, when Mr. Riddle, after a hard day’s worls, fell asleep behind the counter of his wine room, 2 malicious person set fire to a bunch of oakum and placed it on Mr. Riddle’s side. e then crept quictly out of the saloon. The' sctter ““Fan? scized the smoldering oakum, and darting out the door followed the retreating incendiary, and, under the pretense of fondle him, shoveéd with ber nose the. oakum into *his coat pocket. In a'few moments the malicious reseal was in a blaze, and only saved hiwmself ironrcremation by rushing into the bay. On anotner occasion a well-dressed man saun- tered into Mr. Riddle’s saloon and called for a whisky sour. . Mr. Riddle found that he had not a lim¢ in bis place, and whistled to ** Fan,” who immediately started off to the other side of the street and returned in a few moments with a Time in her mouth. R Ouce again did “Fan” chow ber_ extfaor- dinary sagacity. “A ‘gander wlo long has raled an extensive flock at North Point dock was' one | duy attacked by a ferocious cat. ‘*Fan’? saw the incident and ran to the gander’s assistance. Seizing the bloodthirsty feline by the back of the neck, she dashed with him inio the tide and dropped him i a receding wave. ~ Every time {he vat attempted to land “Fan” kept him off, until at last he sank exhausted and the~gander trinmphed. ! X ¢ «NOT GUILTY.” Detrolt Free Press. ‘When & grocer’s -boy. yesicrday _delivered a basketful of packages toa. lady on Columbia strect, ber quick eye detected the fact that. she-| had received only eleven oranges in placé of &' dozen. . ! R “ Ypung ma, yon ate that other orance- as you came along{" she exclaimed, ‘as she re- counted the pumber. = o c “ Never—never!”. he earnestly replied. cll, where is it then?” ¢They probably counted wrong, ma’am.’ Well, 11l go right back with yon and see.” “« didn’t eat that orange,” be after s " little reflection, ‘‘but 11l tell yon how ‘it was. Puwn here nm‘z::: thn;g glodt_a 8aw.‘an ;:m chap o his a0ging on.3 plum-trea eshe g;'dcfinfit o limb. *"He Was "the ' bald-hicad- ‘edést man I ever saw, ma’am, and ‘T've fraveled nll“o‘{uli]thel;wurld.m = M BRI, e oll, what'has that to dowith n aiggsted.. T D PN ki o omogost ots, ma’am—heaps. “ If ycu was a boy,and oty gaw:sach & hend. Wopl You Koty you olhity it it. and get awa oy, all right, wouldn's you put an orange agin it 2 “ 1t was very wicked,” she softly answered. *Well, I dunno but *twas, but if you'd seen that old ent cateh his legs and make' a jump, aud if you'd heard him yell out as he came down and grabbed for his bat,i why, ma’am, youw'd lend e another orange to. pop at some bne as T go back " i 3 A BATH IN JERUSALEM. €. W. Stoddard in San Francisco Chronicle. There arc baths about town famous and filthy. The chief bath is open to males in the morning and to females in the afternoon. Chancing to be at "this fashionuble resort in company with the polyglot,—we were'under the protection of the ever-attentive kawas,—we yielded to the seductions of the rubbers, the sudscrs, the swathers in soft linen, the slave bearers of lemonade _chilled withi snow, coffee and preserved ruse-leaves;:the pipe-boys, and the barber who puts the finishing touch to the most harmless of the sensual joys of Islam—the bath. Thus beguiled, we found the middu{ hours upon us, and were surprised in our batl by the cntry of aswarm of infuriated women. They buzzed about us like hornets. They would have stune ushad they not feared the frown of our kawas. As it was, we were glad to make our escape as speedily 28 possible, amid the jeers of twenty waddling pyramids of dry- goods that mlured “at us® with angry cye, and shook their little fists until their 1oosc silver armlets clashed again. For all this tumult we later learned it was only Miss Ka-foo-zul-um, the dauglter of the barber, cowmne to bathe. PETER’S PENCE FROM PAPERRAGS. Aontreal Star. A new method of ruaisiog tribute for the re- plenishing of the Papal exchequer has heen de- vised in Queber, and as it has the approbation of tne Archbishop it is likely to flourish. ‘Lhe process is a simple one. A depot has been es- tablished, and hither the faithful are directed to bring all old waste paper, books, and scraps of every Kind, rags, and the whole range of mate- rial that may be utilized for the purpose of pa- per-malking, so that it may be sold, and the cash procecds sent to Rome. We are not informed 13 to whether the scheme has met with any sue- cess, but there 1s no reason why it should not. Quebec overilows with Government printing; in fact, the necessity imposed upon the Govern- ment of keeping threc friendly newspapers and job oflices in work forces an_cxtensive publica- tion and distribution of public documents which no one ever thinks of reading, and which here- tofore have supplicd the small traders with wrappiog paper. Under such favorable circum- stances the population cnlog's peculiar facilities for the performance of meritorious acts, DOM PEDRO IN ITALY. Rome Correspondence New York Ecening Fost. Victor Emanue! has gone to Naples to receive privately the Emperor of Brazil, who first visited Italy in strict incoguito. But the Sicilian officers could not comprenend this modesty on the pary of an Emperor, and the Emperor and Empress saw by their carriage windows drawn up in line carabinieri, cavalry, militia, the Mayor with his tricolored scarf, and all the other civil authori- ties. This, they said, when Dom Pedro ex- ressed his indignation at the forgetfulness of is wishes, was the ordinary exercise of public service! **Ordinary service; very well! said the Emperor, and Wwith o {rown on_bis face he ordered_the curtains to be pulled down and drove off, leaving the autboritics to continue their evolutions alone. At the_station of Gir- genti the authorities attewnpted a presentation, but seeing the icy silence with wihich it was re- ceived they left the Imperial pilgrims in peace. A subsequient reception was not more fortunate, aud an uspiring poet who ad prepared an odé was also repulsed. ‘The Emperor scems to be determined to be fres froin the -cares of State, apd passes bis time m visiting the ruins aud wus-ums. e passed bis fist night in Naples in the astronomical observatory. A SELF-STOKER. An English mechanic has contrived to make a. ] steam engine do its own stoking. A large sheet- fron hopper Is set avbove the miouth of the fur- naceand infront of the boiler. This is the re- ceptacle for coals. Below the hopper a steel crusher is made to run somewhat rapidly, and, as the coals fall by reason ot their own gravity upon this grinding apparatus, they arc reduced o the uniform size of cob-nuts by the action of the crusber. leuu‘:] llho equalized fuel drops upon a pair of iro ¢ fans, inclosed in o box, and ranning in opposite directions at a high velocity. The faus are in iact the furuace-feed- ors, foras the box has but_one opening, and tuat leads to the fire, they blow the coals into the latter, and distribute them equally over the wiole surface of the fire-bars. The Iced is reg- ulated in quantity accordivg to the heavy or light work the er doing by meaus of asingle adjusting This is’ the auto- maton stoker. The furnace fires are fed, and steam is kept up in _the Loiler without the turn- inzof shovel, andall that the fireman has to do is to smoke his pipe and whistle *Down in a coal mine.” NO STRAWBERRY-MARK. Firginia (Ner.) Chronicle. There was a scens trom the * Bohemian Girl,” with slight variations from the original text, at the Virginia Police-Court the otber day, A | fair-haired young miss was arraigned for pound- ing a rival with o wash-pitcher. “What's your name?” asked the Court. * Clara Spud,"” was the answer. *¢ What¢" said the Court, shiver- ing with emotion, **are you related to tieSpuds or New York* Is it possible that you are the child I once adopted in infancy and lost on a ruilroad-train 1 Pennsylvania fourteen years ago! Have you got #_locket about your neck. with a picture of Boss Tweed in it, and a straw- berry-mark on your left arm®’ ‘You don't get your hands on 2ny jewelry of ming, and I hain't ot any strawberry-marks on my arm or clse where.” . The Court contemplated her for a mo- ment,.and murmured, *Tis pot she! Tis not ke and sent her up foF thirty dags. GEORGE WASIHINGTON. Detrois Fres Press. When the occupant of a business place on Michigan avenue was asked on the 22d of Feb- ruary why he didn’t hang out a flag in memory. of Washington, he replied: ¢ What do I know about George Washington?” “Why, you ave read of bim, haven’t you?” I suppose I have, but you don’t suppose I swallow all I read. do you!™ “But everybody knows that Washing- ton was a great and good man,” protested the first, “I don’t know about that. I've heard a ood deal against him since I came to Detroit, find I'mi ot woing to run the risk of offending some of my best customers by waving any flags around. I'm inst starting in “here, and I'don’t want to make any bad moves.” ** But, sir, but—"" *“Pleasego on,” interrupted the busi- ness man. “If people licar you {uwing around 1y place they'll think I'm a”politician aud keep clear of me. U'm peutral iu politics, and you cawt force me into the Washington Ring—no, [ s - TIE DIFFERENCE' IN FATHERS. A locai correspondent of the Boston Tran- script writes: * One Sunday, in the abseoce of th8 teacher, I took charge of o class of boys of. from 4 to 6 years of age. ‘Speaking the truth’ w7as the basis of our conversatfon together. I asked the boys if-either of them'conld tell the story of George Washington and his little: hatchet. One of the boys, promptly begun to tell the story, and was llstened to most attent- ively by th¢ dozen or more of tha class. One littie fellow, who had given the most careful at-* tention, turning his head a little one side, his Dbright eyes snapping;and with a most de- termined expression upan his face, exclaimed, “Well, Mr. B T don't care! My Iather had leander bush, and I cut’it down. He asked :;,e(;fmi dia it Itold himT did—and helicked mel?? ALE - HER REASONS. +. . Paris.Letiér to Boston Gazette. A Paris doctor, in great practice, has no-bet- ter patients than the very fashionable impures. Tigther pight, a brilliant ball wasgiven by Mlle. Loregte, and she invited her physiclan and his bétter-half:' The physiclan, of course, went (catch him ‘cutting the ‘goose that lays the olden . eggs!); but his.wife—ahem! -Wnen. gme. Lorette saw her physician_enter with no-- ‘body on his arm, she moaned: “Dear me, Doctor, 1 had reckoned go contidently on seeing your ex- cellent wife!l.- Whata' bitter- disappoiniment}’*: The Doctor replied: _“‘Ob! she is much more to be pitied than blamed. - She has two cogeént rea-’ sans for staying at home—and the second is the’ worst cold you ever saw."” ..* L PLAYING GHOST. ¥ - Sacramento Record-Union. : On ‘Tuesday;. at” Maryaville, : Louis Katzen- steine.put-on & horrible mask and at night went to the shanty. of some Chinamen to frighten thef'fii fan. One Of the Chinamen ran away WANTED-MALE HELP. ers”; the other selzed a pistol R A B2 < " Bookkecpors. Clerics, etos - t the ghost, who received ‘tiie ballet in the right shoulder, about three or four ANTED—AN, EXPE] EKEEP] Trthos, Dot b smontdee . Sotat Tna paly | VVANTEDSAN, EXFERIENCED, BOORREEPER, anged. directly. upward along” the bone, plow- e o Phnsaday & o Pr e orEne"s furniabied. inga big cavity to the scapuls, and there lodg- ing, and causing such severe injuries as to near- ly paralyze the whole arm. After Katzensteine received his shot he ran away from the shanty as rapidly as possible, throwing away his mask in one place and his hat in another. He isina ANTED—A ~ FIRST-CLASS, EXP SED, R00ds When Ut otherwise engaged. Permancat sitiae Hontos arst-class mnaa: no'others necd apply.” A statin salary want dress, stalln salary 0, FOSTER BROS.& CO., LADIES’ STOCKINGS. P b %0, ROS. & CO.. s Enplish Puper. * A correspondent writes from Paris that o new {fashion In ladies’ stockings is being introduced. The stocking Is of thick white or pink silk,—the alock being of solid but flexible gold, something Traaes. : “rA.\'TE‘D—!lOLDEBS. APPLY AT THE WX YV & VAN ARSDALE )IA)’UFACTUBWGBC%‘?. = Kingsbury-s., corner Michigan. Employment Agencies. ke an ordiuacy suake-chaln, about a5 thick 15 | WWANTEP _SORAILEOAD MEY; LEAYETO DAY 3 man’s ¢ finger, and ornamented with Vaier- i Dearls, * 'Ihe price of these. Smple articies of | LoLLYmE: Ofice, 28 South Waier c., Woam 1. . dress is only 500 francs a pair, which seems very Miscelinneous. ; l:}l;:fip‘ “g:ih fl%hgfiln- utton gloves at 20 L;h%&kfifi%“flfimfi“ EBACH shillings 2 pair, and ball-dresses which cost from 1 Panion: 120 t0 300 guineas_aplece, we shall soon attaln | fams reer W TOVEREY, Bo Sior, S Loits, Hor an Arcadian simplicity of -toilette, and a man who has say £2,000 a year will be able to let nis Wurm— ENTERPRISING MEN 1IN BVERY part of the Unlon to assist the introasction of a wife and one danghter go to about one dang staple artlcle that pays 400 per cent profit; sendSOcents each during the season. ” = s ;‘:w;fl ’}'foer“% Enhcs-_ 0 any family, or stamp for ANTED—1,000 AGENTS WANTED AT ONCETO scll o new 50-cént article; families will want ftom. lars froe. Address D. y 110 esch: prodts CIEERRLING Doy 3oL St Lou Mo ANTED—SALESVEN FAMILIAR WITH ME- e T e _competent men exclusive territory and. lineral tefms S be kiven. CHAUPION BELF 00K GOn 87 Lib: erty-st.. New York. WANTED-FEMALE MELP. _ e sl o Sl A Domestics. ¥ "ANTED—A GERM AN WOMAN, MIDDLE Tor pencral hoise WOTk &6 14 North BaAEAOR o ‘‘Seamsiresses.e ANTED — PRACTICAL SHIRTMAKERS, take the work to their homes; good prici WILSOS BEOS 67 Washington ot apshaless & - Nurses. VVAMERS A WET: NURSE.. OALL AT DR. HEDGES', 414 Centre-st. o GUEDGES: eptre:it. Ofice Bourk, 810 108 Laundresses.. ANTED_EXPERIENCED: SHIRT-TEONERS 0X ‘B0 & Wasningronae. o Lo ook WILSOX SITUATIONS WAm-mEo e Precibvorrbivin iR bvilstoioive Bookicepers, .Clerks, otc. ITUATION WANTED—IN A GROCERY, uSflw»gfie};um By a soung man e Cepetaces ganloen employer a tew undred dollam ApRY Bo% SITUATIONS WANTED-— FEUMALE. . A FILIA-“BUSTER.” | A 10-ear-old miss of Cayuga, Hinds Connty, Miss., stands six feet in her- striped stockings, kicks the beam at 195 pounds, and sports six fin- gers on each hand and six toes on'each foot. CITY REAL ESTATE. OF SALE—BY T. B. BOTD, ROOM 14,146 MAD- Corner State and Harrison-sts., fine stane-front four- story block, and lot 40x128 (biltiding covers lot), aud now rented'to good tenantaat £6,504; leases made after May, 1877, for §7,500. i et 13 per cent,—ihe cheapest property offered in this clty. sifl.m cash—Fine stone-front block, and lot 50x125: rents for $6,500 to_one tenant, pays prompt; $15,000 Qown: In best part of clty. Pl three-story mansard-roof dwelling, barn, and lot. south front on Adams-st., between Paulina and VR octagan front dxaling, and lot. on Wasbi ne octagon-front dwelllng, and lot. on Washington- lsliqs'i:!d'ufiwfl: Oskley and Leavitt. Will be Iflld‘l‘:’; Fine four-story brick block on State-st., 80x144. Will be sola low for cash. Two blocks of Palmer House. R SALE-A BARGAIN CAN BE- HAD FOR ‘equity {n the followlng propertys 461 West Wash- Ington-st., modern improvements. cellar under whole house; al¥o 137x178 feet on Van Buren-st.. eastof Cen- tre-av, can be divided into four partss Call on or ad- ?‘l’fi,fl OWEIXXCLPE. Room 8 Uriental Bullding or Brigzs llouse. TO id. 'O SALE—O: HINGTO! NEW STONE- {front houses; will be ready Lo occupy about the 15th of March. Also 2 on Ada-gt. ll.l]nlnlnfixl.hs same. For terms and price call or address I K. RUSSELL. 89 Ful ton-at., Chicago. Ill., principal. By the ssme party, 2 & ifon. This proj Is well wor the atten- tion of parties luoking folm\{m % Fox:—sina—hu:'nss WISHING TO BUY EITHER Houses or vacant lots In any vart of the city, Ren- Domestics. . ., QITUATION WANTED_IN THE COUNTEY, on 8 Coiorau omabs an do a1 Kinda of Work: Addreis 3ot y m: 508 Weat Congress ITUAT! "ED—-] . RESPECTABLZ English woman o & small private family {oz seaeral ‘THousework: I3a guod washer and Irvuer, aod ot a/ruid to work. Call for two days at No. 208 West Polk-st. e: s 1o offer thls and we shall deerm 1t a gleflim o lfilflfg Prices from $1,000 to $30.000. TURNEL & Rooms 11 and 12, 102 Washington-st B B e ek foes BT oih | QITUATIONS YTy LA e i 5% B AT B > : oo feet ot greind Rnown'as Mo Ells bt W | T e BT ot tionaities can b L 1% Doarborn-st Hoom g‘ 3 pay. sulted at Mrs. 8. LAPRISE'S, m.“_'l\! Aadison-st. . ITUATIONS WANTED—FAMILIES Gy N PURCHA 3 good Scandinavian_or G b heip e sappiicd at G, DUSRE'S offce, 8 MIWKee-ag, - - B SALE-8:500 WILL SE_NEW 2. ory and basement brick dwelling 970 West Polk- 8t., secoid door east of Irving-pluce, about half Its vaiue; terms to suit. Inquire at 335 Western-av. 7OR SALE—32.000 WILL. PURCHASE NEW 2- ory brick house 434 Irving-place, about half its alue: terms tusult._[nquire st 385 Westera-av. FORSALE-SS 500 WILL PULCHASEELEGANT 14 room brick hiouse, with large grounds,. souihwest comer Van Buren-st: and Campbeli-av.; fine stable: varlor, dining-room, snd_ kitchen on first G00r: prop: il be sold on easy terima; no TO RENT-HOUSES. 3 West Side. 7T EENT-2 HOUSES O FULTON -4 "of Oglesby. one $10and one $3 tli M &nd $20 per month. _lnquire at S0 Fulton-st.” . [0 REST_FROM MAY, L BRICK DWELLING 85 i Sentre-aT., near Jackadn-at. Iaquire'ar 88 Cen- -av. Z '0_RENT—$15 PER MONTH, 10-BOOM HOUSE, No. 10 Harvard-st. Large grounds. Loquirest3ss 1, then $15 erty cost $18,000, and _will be trads taken. Tnaaire on premisce: PORCHASE ELEGANT West Adams- For SALE-3.50 WILL oy iouse 102 terms o sult. Inqulre at 155 Soutn®| Western-av. . . e e e e i, 3 end ullding. fonthwes - D 5 Improve Dornand Washlion-ata. o oomerPes | month. nabirs of DK, BAXTEL, (Ne- 0/ SUBURBAN -REAL ESTATE. " Miscellaneons. 3 OF: SALE_HINSDALE LIOUSES AND LOTS FOR Rl et g ;als, rent, prices and terms to mit evorybady: l s Riahes B ubare O BTG 13 Deirbaraegt, o O COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. Tor SALE 5500, $1.500 DOWS—4 GOOD IM- roved farm uf 325 acres, 2 miles south of the Gty oply §4/25 for mont] ures .. n-front. modern improvemani fornace and modern improve: 11-r001 3 room' brick. ments. ... 6 rooms Over store. of Lawrenceville, Lawrence County, Ill.: 125 under | G-room flat, medemn {mproverrent cultivation; balaiice heavy timber. This is half vaiue. ck atore very-cheap. bor- 1 perares god faim of 145 acrer s miles rom | Bodnees LA e el o b ankakee. 1milc from del 5 ee 2 L, Tit+ 50 Taites Trom Ohloago. Tair house, barn, fonce, | Lom May L - /C. N MALE, 153 Liandolph-st. S ool 10 st goung e 36 romENT_TOON n T, Y] o * Te 5. BOYD. Lioom 14, 146 Madison-st. R e s S South Side, F s 1[0, BENT- SICELT-FURNISHED ROOMS AT RE- “duced prices. Apply at Boom 30, 115 Basc Raa- [FOR SALE— CENTS PER ACRE T0 CLOSE AN esta; My 000 acres land (n Shannon and Urégun Coun- title perfect: full nbstracts: terma casy; must OYT. 171 Broadwsy.'N. Y. | doiph-st. REAL ESTATE WANTED, ;ro RENT-STORES, OEFICES, ETC. 7% r b acres, desiraoly located, with good !ncum\:i“ti reach TDE"l,’;E\T— '0 LARGE 40X144 FEE‘S BRICK ity, " Address, givi 7 > gt ' State-st., between Jackson and Van Bu- 7 rfig oticer o Pertenrs PR ARTLere X | g "Wl reavlow. T, B, BOYD, [oom 14 148 Mad- “ ANTED—FOR_CASH, A COTTAGE AND LOT the North Side, i {ghborh 4 RENT—THE BUILDING KO. 150 STATE-ST.. phy Shorie FeriSice I booq melelioriond; TRt | T coticr o the ilos, sear Siaison 3 for 3 terin ke ST e T o S o STE T 3 toom 3, No. - N o, E AN VA ED A Tk = “7&. TED—A HOUSE AXND LOT VAL AT '~ STORE ‘ui'n BASENENT N0 180 ‘about 3,000, [n thie nofihboriiocd of Tulry.art o8 an: South Clark-st., near Madiso: 115, connectlag i3 rty-fith-st, v ve will e T WSONEE £ B0TBY 163 vahe | with Arcade court from Lasalle-st. _Elegant stand for fagtoust: aretall trado. _ Possession given at oace. This store s Ithe mladio of e buafucey cear.’ Auply 1 1o N O owner, Mr. J. UE. on ¢ prem| 01 . M. s I AN URA Le X . ‘Real-Estaie Broker and oating ABeRcy, DVANCES STADE ON DIAMONDS, WATCHES, | 3L97 Clark-st. : A Touix etc,, at LAUNDERS' privaie oifice, 126 ftan- e C.., Al dolph-st., near'Clark. 1oom 5aadé. Extablished 1354, A DYANCES OF FUINTTORE WITHODT TENOYV- X" ai,"diamonds. gold watches,/sud on houses on ‘eased ground or collaterals. 151 Rahdolpb-st.. Room 3. ALDWIN, WALKER & CO., HAVE MONEY TO loan on real estate o sums from $1.000 Lo $5,000. Hawiey Bulld'ng, corner Dearborn and Madison-sts._ E. S,CoLE & co. 14" DEARBORN-ST. HAS . monor to loan (o 3oms 'to suicat8and 9 on real Catateorsyears o . RENT—THE ELEGANT OFFICE, WITH VAULT on the northeast corner Madison and T location for insurance. banking, rail- business desiring a promineat corner. Clark-st. RENT—THE BEST LOCATED, DEST LIGUTED, ‘and most prominent office o silesroom In town. Apply 81682 Lake-st.. corner State. i 0 RENT-OFFICES SINGLE OR 1IN SUITE, t and rear, at moderate rates to teaaats, ‘et tree uptil May 1. OSET TO LOAY OF INPROVED AND ONDN- 5 N A o Chtsat and_vicinley acune- | Also high basement ofice, at 48 and 48 South Clark-st. Fent tates. ADOLBI LOED & BROTUEL, 15 and 131 | SCOTT & GAGE, Koom 3. S er T Loy T AV FONBe I HANDT0 Hlicolmnesus. > = R Da TN A REST—BUEDICE HOUSE.. CORNER OFWA. i veal ettate at O par cant Interess. e g AR ot e rooma: . madera |jm: wtal f ‘Datts, etc. 3 steam j2anAry I3 con- N ONEY 70 LOAN AT LOW I} N for produce, and on OTOGRAPHIC PARLOR ON SEC- Youchers, warchguse receipts 10 RENT=APH Pnadmotipares LZARLS SILVECHAN. B0k ond loors the block fs 100 feetloog: one of the Sosmmeres, Laickse: ‘Deat in the cliy; street-cars-pass every three minut:s L9 per cent In gums ,600. - ) | accommodstio ic 3 5 AVERY "&C0.. 15 Ladallc-st, SCHOLL, Sr., 138 Tarner-st., Grand Laplds, 170 RENT—TWO CONNECTED BUILDINGS, FACH '24x60, with cngine and_botler. suitable for maau- facturing purposes. > Apply t0 Chicago White Lead and. Oil Company, corner Grevn and Fulton-ats, V] OXEY 6 LOAN_IN SUNS TO SUTT-ON T proved and unimproved clty pmlperty and vicloity, 25 8.and per cent: larze sums with large margin av7. F. HENSH. 94 Dearborn-st., Ruom 4. “ WILL BUY NOTES SECURED UPON CHOICE RENT—FINE 320 ACRE FARM, 200 ACRE3 nyroyed city properis, 8 per ceat. D. B. under cultivation: good house, Baros, fences: DEWET K 80, 108 Fifthav.” ", éfc.: 1o 2 mpicaid Tam. ‘pear depot, fn Cheroked 50000 7508 Tor CoTE TIETOYED | SR Tt AT R R A city properiy fa sums of 38,60and | sopese. . ¥ A PR e LRGN "o, FENT-1 STATEST. OFFOSITE THE = = - "Palmer House, store and 33700ms above {-om May ©1VORCES. L a7 doqulrc st Koom 3,148 Dearborn-s.” B BSOLUTE DIVORCES—DO NOT BE SWINDLED sy **shystens™ ‘parties without. responsiblli- 5 " claiming the abllity to perform what is wel! known 10 be 1lc . You throw away time and money, Our {facilities are not sur) d by any firm In the country. **Divorces Brocn accord| npi tolaw.” . Law otice of P. MONTGOMEKY, 162 Wasblngton-at., Room 19. IVORCES LEGALLY AND QUIETLT OBTAINED by o relfadlc, confdéatlal astorneys fee. S35 pay When_divorced. P. WEST, Room 14 Davy Biock, 211 West Madlsor IVORCESLEGALLY AND QUIETLY OBTAINED = 1o every State add Torriery for incompatiailcy, ; 2 ye WANTED-TO0 RENT, : . TVANIED-TO RENT-A SALL HOUSE UNFDE- nished, located un the North Side, east of Clark- st and South of Chicago-av. Address ' 64, Trioune ANTED—TO RENT—A STORE AND BASE- ‘ment. or whole_bullding for wholesale businesw, on South Water-st. Inquire at SILVEKMAN'S Baak, Chamber of Commerce. s s NMISCELLANEOUS. ‘etc. esidence unnecessary. Fee after decree; A A A A AP i experience. A. GOODRICH. 124 Dearpurn-s! A:mm‘omm. MANUFACTURER OF GEN- JOTICE AN THE GNLY FERSON OBTAISING | 4ol bt Seah 2itices Takens uoes conmised e Vot e 4 Court o1 also refer to Clerk of Court and Dusicss men | 129 East Washington-st. B 12 Ghicago. G. I3 SIMS. 57. Ashiand_Block. Chi » a LLCASH PAID FOR CAST-OFF CLOTHING, CAR- " pets. furnitare, L) goods of and_miscelianeons goods of any - . SEWING MACHINES. kind by sendingjetier 10 JONAS GELDER, 604 Spate-st. JFOR SALE-SEVERAL LATE TSFEOVED Ma: |- IOAL MINE FOR SALE-TIE PROPERIY o ehties. embracing ail kinds tn the market, atfrom | o the . Union; Coal and iniog ‘Compeny, (0° §1510 535, Money loancd ou machines, : Loan Office, s tod o Bealirond. 78 milon 12Sclark-et., Rooln 3y apretaten. = * - 2 > east of Calpmbus..and- I - oath NEV AND LATENT DFROVED SINGER Mi- 2o mpie” itipy g .\ “chines, not three - weeks since- manufactured oy | smith-sli Otice, seates, 5o enu Stewart; cach uinchiue bears his. name; price $32and | T-rall uack, oy Ubwatd, attachment complete aud. warrsated. ~N. F. | Mine in acitve operations 200 scres of four-foot vein LAUSES, 300 East Division-at. 7 | ot besvbitmminoge coal 1o Onla with Fight of way to NE LATEST SINGEI: 852, HOWE, $25: VICTOIL. e i scii s I\ Sluier No. 3, 835; machins Tepaireds all | S3c|, s sora rasons Zor sale. The propercy will b6 dis- gars within uwo blocks; cheapeat, best place L buy. 40 | pased of yery cheap. _W. S. WOOD, Costocton, 0. i = HE COPARTNSERSHIP HERETOFORE EXISTING 5 TO EXCHANGE, oo | coutaaEEe AT R, AR Carrol AT, n s S0 EXCHANGE-BUSINESS PROPERTY ON WEST | 9ay dissolved hy mutual consent, Henry H. Hamerhar- 16, o Doy or SOIMAE If taNen §F ok ) Iof Pprehadet ML debia”dae the dfl”%x‘x‘u“’rfl" 1 o i bt s 5 . ‘whoalote is autbor 7['0 EXCHASGE_CASEC FEOIT LaxD, AXD OTH- B ey e e b coRcera wil be pald oy Llerreat ctate on the eat ahore of Laxe Michi Henry H, who it il contlnne tneblstaest or & good goods, oo face ander ik for s Eood aiock of ST, 000 STorerier BONRSRT | attueaboreRlen NN Pkl K & 0NN 84 b: B Pivess. Chicago, March 5 1877, . F['HE _GREAT AMERICAN' FERTILIZER—BY ITS use our alleys_can b made worth Bo mnre on yOur Alleys ‘ W States more. - If you gehln-xy(z;r commision merchant, Muskegon. Mich. - £ LOST AND FOUND. - JFOUNE-A LADYS GOLD WATCH AND PIN, | w; which the Gwner can have by proving property and | for this advertisement. particulscs. E.H.GUMMINGS, 562 Fulon-st., A etk M ATY i ANTED—SONE OSE HAVING THE FAC Q8T AT, MARCH 4. ABOUT NOON,ON Wa- 2 vioHry L e o Tt o o el v | SRR W BLLET, Abaes i “Vinder, Swiss make; $25 reward, 110 Firuh-a¥.. Koom ?2 5004 IEAETO ACENTE. OuUTFITE Al 2 = =5 ORI A O, b satier dge | oF Loy sddresd SCEER SRS uanos iop SEEEE SHONRY | PR SN0 RORRATE rent; lows ; i - 9 % Inthocity: - STORY & CAME, Il State-s:. e e i s 76 3 EAST VAYN..BUREN-ST.,. NEA ‘WILL BUY AN ANT PIANOFORT! - 8120 =y T8 B oot stiacs, St s o werk ‘Feench sctlon, all_new lm: S vamonts, Loy Bonch Biate-at.: by o PRESTON. ! - __MACHINERY. WASIEL-ORE WooD FLANEE A¥D ONE ) e in nnm'e'f“ Ingul A58 South Jederuon 1 K T e BOOKS, T oot - o TCREROUSE. FOT FURNITORECAND OTHRE. H PAID R BOOES—BIG PRICES PAID FOR. m?:&lglwgqm P08, - standard--works ef “any kind.” ~Csif” or “address v % W Tac, -0 ‘GHAPTN G, Cormer Maclson 8ad Dearborm-sia, Bl advacas i