Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1878, Page 11

IHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1878—8 IXTEEN PAGES 11 SR St B s oA S SR N S W = L S O R SR = «Court. Ball \\'nllu"!;_ux%x- Life™; overture to tolf’s £Grosy LI Smann’s * Traumerol 73 Schreiner’s *“Dur und ¥ i1y erzmss"T “gfxlllm‘;;s Jo; A Je’s “Hunter's Joy lop 7’3 ant ffi:;;ipls‘:t?;\;allo Quaarille.” ’ B psical and social was_ given at St. John's amosil i Chiureh on Friday evening. rx-flf:“,_mw.,;\m ¢ present. The musical ol wSpring Soog,” by Pin- " gnd M) Love's Like the Red, Red it 8 rrett, by the choir; duet, «Fly Away, gee” UATEC Afrs, Jewetd and ’ Miss Braee: s Phomnd,” O F. Dodge: * Love Jeto"; Stravss? . F. D 3eFd “Litdie Robin Tell Kitty T Am 86", bp Miss Braze; and < She Wandered ¢ Mountain Side,” and *Let Iler Go,” Jewett. mme of Mr. Eddy’s organ recital T cially miurked by Lisal's great s'*“’“vnuon of Allezri’s famous * Miscrere ™ oAl WAve Verum,” which be arranged menerul title of “Evoration a la o isine.” The work, both as to jts caodle S8 e setting, was extromely ‘fn- wors B on fragmentary, and was played 3 'mgst‘erl\'mflmmr. Mrs. L. M. Dunn, for- l\l‘“o[(;;l(\sbum" was the vocalist.- We be- £l 8 intends to remain bere wud pursue the 17 80 teaching the volce. s Temyle of Music, on Friday, Dec. 13, st S5 and Feb. 25, 1579, s just B erfected. The coneerts, will be given by son. and Messrs. Ledochowski, Rosen- cser, sod Eichheim. These names alone are ekt 680 U the bigh character of the music :nd:hc excellence with which it will be given. ospectus 3y “The programmes will D efully made with the design of not only A i r taste but also of elevating = tlie popular tast: % bost._vocal talent will assist at cach 3 et . Joseph Singer's class held thelr usnal - | recital et the house of:Mr. Adams, No. oot Randolph street, Nov.19. The efforts dtbe fapils were well received, and did great edit 10 their industry. The chief numbers “ Baccherini* Minuet,” for strings, the ',f:,d by Our Quartet, eud o Tumct‘ by (sl Tor plano and strings. Miss Jessie ’&;‘FJH rendered the solo partof the latter uch spirit. Oar Quartet (H.. Weyl, C. . Adams, and J. Stnger) did itself jus- irein both numbers. Altoretner, it was an en- + igrable evening. A complimenters musicale will be given to s Lts W. Graves, the young viavist who nas tly returned from Ler European studies, GLron & Bealy’s music-roos, Nov. 27, uron %3 orezston ehe will be assisted by Mrs. J. 4 Farwell, Mre. J. Balfour, Miss Ells White, & ¥eers, B 7. Howard,’ . L. Sloan, F. A. fven, 4. Ciarence Eddy, and F. T. Baird. e Graves will play the first moverwment of Reriboven's C major concerto with the Retnccke tz—the accompaniment by Mr. Eddy; ffsan's v Andsnte, with Variations; Kruce- s “Eomance Russe”; and Chopin’s Scherzo B fiat minor, 0. 3L Nolocsl orchestral veninre has mouscd the idespreed interest Which is manifestea in the Feics of Symphony concerts to be given by Mr. Pratt duriog the present scason. Not only ‘asical bot soclal circles have: felt a ripple of enthusizsm st the prospect of having a home orchesira established and a series of enjoyable orchestral entertainments. One of the 1catures of the prst concert will be the performance of Bebtnoven's “Coriolanus® overtare, with ap- propriate {llustrative readings from Shak- Foearc’s play, which will help to a better ap- tion of the music, and lead an added fn- terest to the celebration of the anniversary of the birthday of the great composer. ‘The first reunion of the Mendclssohn Club of rde Park was given on Monday evening in Tiood's Hall. About 400 werc present to vitness the performance of the Club. The pro- mmme of the evening contained the “Zitte " by Rossiniy *‘Che Soave Zeferetto,” brMozart, and “Bright Star of Hope,” by Hilery. Tnerc wercalso s solo by Mr. Frank Poot; & horn solo by Waiter Burnham; * Let Ye Dream Again,” by Mrs. Higley: ¢ Willie, We Hsve Missed You,” by M. L. Rothschild; s3weet and Low,” by the Misses Root: a_duct ¥ Mise Ingersall and Mr. Lewisj solo, “ Better Leed” by Miss Wilsun; solo, with violin diizsto. Miss Fanny Koot and Mr. Lewis. The leadiog attraction of the evening was Miss ¥sud Powell, daughter of Mr. Poweil, Superin- wadent of Public Schools of Aurora, who played tefithair of “Dancla” on the_violin, accom- Miss Acones Inzersoll. Maud is only & Iafle over 10 years of aze, and shight of figure, ud ke way she handled the violin bow brought ot repested plaudits from the audience. She Seapmpilof William Lewis, the violinist of this ctrand was placed under his training some time since, A CARD FROM MR. S, G. PRATT. o the Editor of The Tribune. CEICcAGO, Nov. 23.—In your admirable article It Sunday regsraing the opera, you cmbodied sentence 1o the effect that the masses of the people went to opera and other amusements to ke 3 sensation. Tratbiul as it is that tte majority go to the theatre to itness & sensation, as they do to a circus « mepagerie to ece a curiosity, and that tey patronize opera &nd variety shows for’ the sawe reacor, vet [ am convinced that ve have in our great Western metropolis alarze einority. numbering thousands, of caltivated 1d refined peovle, who attend ‘concerts and sher entertainmenis as well as the theatre and opera, because they really enjoy and appreciate tem. This minority i rapidly increasiny, and, tathe credit of our city, has supported its two laree singing societies’ admirably. 1t has also shown its discrimination and good taste in petronlzing Kellogz and Carey in opera, when Rfusing to run after them at Lhe Tabernacle toncerts, where they'were simply on the plat- lorm of eensationalism. G In defcn‘se of this class of intelligent and re- faed people, I have especial reason 1o bresk a fism’.sil bas beea their hearty support that made it possible for me to undertake a teries of orchestral concerts this winter. It ¥ in the belief that concerts of a pleasing, tideal. and popular character could be sus- ined vpon their artistic merits alone, that ese were conceived, aud I would pot enter the i of sensatioualism, thus placing music on a Il with the v ghow and circus, even ibough the alluring prospect of financial gain Yeckined me to sucha policy. True art cannot B;:ve upon the basis of sensationalism, for the 1525 wlll rush out to a horse-race, orrevel in n-flszrefim ley, while turning a cold shoulder to the = me inépirations of the masters. It scems to & at our local musical societies hould take ligher position, upon a plane 5o lotty that b tion, which feeds upon curiosity and fat- twson credulity, could mot cnter into their oogosiiion. Thiey make o mistalse in trying to T gle{ur pogular patronaze upon the basis fymactions of this cheracter, for their con- o lvnu then be too sensational to be artistic, o artistic to be sensational; thus disap- o Lr‘n-: the cultured who o to enjoy the wusic mnkg;;: sake, and the ignorant who 2o to be sty and excited. When the divine art feshes the thich plane of repose, calm cnjoy- it and inepired delight, and scfarates itselt hl excitement aud unrest of sepsational- . 1en, and then_only, will it be g healthy. ol Julsating with the clear. blood of pure 1 i and genius, rather than the feveri uced glow of trickery and deceit. 8. G. PraTr. ELSEWIIERE. The SERSTER’S “LUCIA.Y ity :;_'eflt successs of Mlle. Litta as Lucia, b will lendadditional Interest to the fol- Criticdem of Mme. Gerster in the same ol i m"m‘;‘h’fh snpeared in the New York Worid of Butit s 3 < Wi e Mme. Gerster's ercat succose thnt ghould o barticalacly recorded. Entering with the on. 1:11‘1]1:“'“ lefich‘ ln-_1|dc op o ihe Coaity gy va nel eilenzio.” the pure L] 228 Wonderful fiexiility of her voice en Ut emplatically werm recoznition, while in ..u,,_,m“fl'nz number. **Quando rapito in ths course of which she gave out with carness and witbout apoarent aontural iu ait, *brovas™ and A .came from all- parts of the Teierveg fork, ETCALCSL trumph waE, of coursc. cny e porouC famons ¢+ mad scenc, ™ when he ad iy Tliant =+ Ardon gii iuceusi. " the cadenza The ool which was written by Signor Arditi. lizg amey of this cagenza, and i1s flute 00- h.,,ng fll equals that of the aria, is in perfect 0 pcm ith it, £nd, what is of equal importance, Aeliny u“;f"ly fuited to Mme. Gerster's voice and ey 2t the dewend for iis repetition was no “Den opygeniPrse. After this remarkable speci- &, bat tion nothing more wae to be expect- 2, egore W28 0 anti-climax in the Bucceeding ke “pourEl d"amora pianto, ™ which she embel- Hageayi g ddv:hulc flourislies and astonishing ¥l ghand ended with a magnificent E flat in alt, gy yied the houee and completed her tris & e A1) hrough e opera Mme, Gerster actod slicity, ghe Lo FALE, exemplifying the gweet &im- tal g Perplesity, the anguish, and the men- Guisneogeneat of the aflicied Lucia with ex- MUSICAL NOTES. Mk, Anna Mebiig is playing in Russia. Oleniach is become ambitious. He_bas re- &lved tg oy Mpose an i ienna B ill be in ng Feor opera seria for Viennu. <, Rar: Franz Liczt has anthorized a Miss L. 200 in Nurnberg to is] let themode Liszt i at Rome, hurd, at work on f Of anerw oratorfo. * St. Stanlslaus,” tee S04, UFCttc of which is by. Barou von Dingel- L5 N fononnced that Rubinstcin’s opers, 10, Whicli was to have becn brousht out sheme of four concerts of chamber music. at the Theatre Ventadour ‘last year, is to be produced ut Antwerp—of course, With the gflfluzlip?sleg.mnch words to which the music was Miss Emma Abbott and the Hess Enclish OperaCompany bave. Liad. 3 remarkably guceessful sea ¢t Thestre, Phllndcluhi:._\scu atthe Broad Street Theatre, Herr Ferdinand Hiller" i er’s Jove of Handel in- duced nlhefil‘l)d;::t‘:r of tho Gurzench Canccrts s opcmninz rovie e oratorio *Joshua™ at * 8. B. Whitney,J. C. D. Parker, and E. Touri . C.D. ; 3 ec :;% :négm: the Directors of the new Mendels- sols C :rr‘;llgo?;fi. Boston, of which Stephen Dkt uctor and A. D. Turuer Mr. Candidus, the New York tenor, has been ‘s)glcfi!n‘lllv engaged for the Mendelssobn Mem- ot oncert, at the Crystal Palace, and also for s, conceri o the Liverpool Pailbarmonie On the 233 of October Dr. Vou Bulow gavean :‘gtl]‘;or}liflnr}' concert {n Berlin for the benefit of lhe E‘I‘! reuth fund. In it bescquited himself of oue s "li'lll!&c !ln&l’( 10110 Dlny&nfi ?cnil]l.‘ovcn's sonatas 0. 101, 106, ), a1 . Theperformance ‘Was praised 2s phenomenal. i For the six representations at the Theatre de lz’\ll\louuuic, in Brusscls; of Mme. Adelina Patti, the first of which was on the3lstult., the operas EFICQ(etl,,wcrc & Traviata,” “ Trovatore,” and i ifilfii\; " ':II ]‘J"(ilz[: k. Bm‘bl?m " of Rossini, i 3 nof A Go’ ctti, and * Faust ™ of M. Herr Brahms has composed a violin_concerto with orchestra expressly for Herr Joachim, which will be scon played at the Leipziz Gewandhaus Concerts, where M. Paul Viardot in the second Pyozmmmc had great success in a concerto by his reacher, M. Leonard, and in a rondo capric- clozo for the violin by M. Saint-Baens. Writing of Carl Reinecke’s Fest Overture, Derformed for the first thme at the. fourth Gewandbaus concert, Moritz Vogel says in the Tagetlatt, Nov. 1: *Thost who do not yet know thut Derr Reinecke is a maestro in the construc- Aion of archestral works may discover tht fact amination of this o e. - terwork throughout.* et JE AR A XNo tickets will be sold for the performance of Waganer's Parsifal,” at Bayreuth. in_1580, but Y‘lntes will be secured by membership in toe atronat Verein, formed on uesrly the same plan as the association which contributed to- ward the cost of the * Nibelung ™ represent: tions in 1576, The agent of the Verein in New York is Dr. Leopold Damroseh, through whom the subscriptions may be paid and the vecessary certificates procurca. A contribution of at least $5 for each of the three vears 1873, 187, aud 1880 entitles the subscriber to one seat at the first performauce of ** Parsifal,” and %o a copy of the Bayreuther Blatter, published ‘monthly under Wagner’s supervision THE GAME OF CHESS All commaunications for this department should b adliressed (o Te TAIRUSR. And 10orsed - Cheds CHESS DIRECTORY. gmcu;o Cursa CLUB—No. 30 Dearborn street. Cnicaco Cuzss AssoctaTioN—Hansen & Walch's N B oarboen acroet opocice Tt Saldig. Chess-players meet dafly at the Tremont House (Ex- chiange) zod Sherman House (Basemseut). TO CORRESPONDENTS. E. H. 1., Auburz, N. our kind proffer will be. ‘most acceptable. 5 Provlem No. 133.—-The correet solution recelved £ AL Henshel aud E. Barbe, clty. ety oL, PROBLEM XO. 155. Respectfully inscribed to Capt. G. I MACKENZIK, BY MR 0. I. DENJAMIN, CHICAGO. Diack. Vi i - White to play and matc in four moves. SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 153 White. Black. Et1oK8 1.P1Q8 Rt0QB 20Any 3 - Sate aecoratngly MR. MACKENZIE'S VISIT. Capt. Mackenzie arrived in this city last Tuesday ovening. 1iis presence ot &o early s date was quite on- expected, and consequently therc was not 5o largea erinz of lovers of the game fogrect him as would ve been the ‘However, his welcome by upon his arrival. contested by the Captatn wit oca! cxperts, On Thuraday evening e plased elght shmuliancous games with metbers of the Chess Assoclation. winning seven, The other belng crawsi. and on Friday evening repeated iho same performance, with the same result. Mr. MicKeuzlo will remaiu unul Tucsday. A CURIOUS, E AT CHESS. hen Charles XI1. of Sweden was dcfeated at the great battle of Pultowa and pursued by Ihe victorlous ftussians, he Fought refage onasmall f<land in the Duelster, in_the dominfons of the Sultan. Here. near the Town of Bender, surrounded by Swedes and Polos, —the remains of two great armles,—by Tariare seat by The Sultan to keep o watchful eye on ifs guests, and by 0 ¢ e Lo serve the unfortunate King. he raranent camp. and, s history relates, Termalned for years, till the Turk, féarmz lotiger 10 of Tend' the Caar. neremoloriy ordered Chirles foleave, Thw King refused, fortied his camp. and resolved 1o #tay and die if need be, while the ‘Turks and Tartars, 50 strong. besieged Lim_ there, with now and then 30 occastonal sliot 1o warn bim of his danger. Hls con- stent amusement while o camp was chess, and among 1iis most familiar opponents were tha Eu‘fll“l Poniatow- 1 "aud the_ brilliny Swede, Christian Grothusen. Pryxell, the Swedish bistoriau, has related his combats ith the Iatter, while the writfozs of Veltfre tell ug of his contests with the former. It was in January, 1713, Charles and s Gen, Grothusen. whils Tihas Desleged, were Just at the closeof a long contest, swhen Charles announced. **imnafe in threc moves (The vosttion wns as follows Place White {1 Bishop's tifth, his 1200k on bis Knicht's seyenth, X Enlght on king's quare, ‘and King's Ruok's_Pawn an BniEhts Pawn o Tuolr own squares; place Black Kin on'His Hooi's fourth. Bishopat Rinic's Jsishop's reventhi, Shd'a Pawn at Kina's Rook's third and Kine's Kufght's sk il words were 1o sooncr utered (ia a sty atte: fled and sutd: N1 do without fr, and declare AL this second announcement Charles, i to i3 rks, o 0 “mate in four nIOVES, a second bullet removed Wiite fook's Pawn. - Sith his accustomed fmperturbapility, remarke opvonent: +* You have our good fricuds, the scarcely contend aygainst rst time [ have ecen chess inyed it," continued hes: **Ithink I awn also:* and informed ““mate fu five moves.” with _muskets. Zan spare this unlucky “pi Grothusen that there was CHESS IN ENGLAND. Tlascd at the Divan, London, a few dass before 3Mr. Mackenzie's departurt for America. (Remove White's Q Kt.) te—Capt Mackenzic. | Black=Sr. 1. M. K4 i oy T to ' Brakes Kt P Bolis wBS oy 50 10kes QU - nates fn w0 move, a) Bost. If Qtakes B, then follows K takes Kt, ete. %b) A pretty termination. * . Stelnitz gives te 0dds of the Knight to an ama- teur. . (Tiemove White's Q Kr.) White—r. Stelnftz. i PoK4$ toB6 to K Rt sq, snawinsl on Feid, In its notcs to this game, ro- m(n.r::n:(ll;').;, Black's 19th rove (R 10 K $q): “*He .reatens now a clever sacritice of the Q B for the ad- Yerse K B I', foliowed by P to K 5 in case the opponent. 1t would appear that the I ‘could be safely cap- e even now. Supposc: fifed even now. Suppose: I & 1Tl {4 paked it fakcs P. ete. tages I foest) [ LAW REFCRM. Litigious L{awyers and Circum= locutive Courts. The Law's Delays, Quirks, Expense, and Denial of Justice. The Whole Thinz DBecoming an Unendurable Nuisance--Arbitration the Only Remedy. Unfiattering Opinion of the Illi- nois Supreme Court. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cri10460, Nov. 23.—The crowded condition of our courts presents a most serious question for public discussion. Auy one eptering our halls of justice will be struck at once at the immense thronzzof the litigants, aud will be impressed with the idea that all the world is “by the cars.” The impossibility of our tribunuls, va- rious as they are, and the Judees, in their mul- titudinous increase, to dispatch the overwhelm- ing delugeof cases. vressing for adjudicotion, calls for inmediate and adequate remedy. A late Judee of the Supreme Court ot Tilinois, who has given thought and investization to the subject, publishes the. statcmeot thay there is more litivation in the sinzle State of 1lliuois than fu the whole dominionof Gi Britain. What is the effect of this? 'The delay ucident to this clog of business is couverting our courts jnto engines of oppression. ‘For a man’s for- tune, bis business, Ins_reputation, as wellus petty questions arlsing in his every-day transac- tious, to e held in suspense for oue, Lwo, or three years before his mattors can be determin- ed, is ruin to him end an outrage on the nume of justice. The truth is, the public are rapidly losing faith in the law’s administration, The courts are deteriorating, and fast forfelting their former prastige. Go into our hizher courts any morning and witness with what hap- hazard haste the gravest interests of our people are handled and passed upon, and your rever- ence for the judicinl ermine and the machinery of the law will speedily vanish aud give place to Qisgust and alurm for the order, safety, and presersation of soeiety. Indeed the people are openinyr wide their eyes to the old superstition that clothed the imige of Justice with a high sanctity, ana discern more and more piainly the monkey with the scales eating the cat’s cheese. Why do all honest men endeavor every 03sible keep out of the Court-Tlouse?” Why do continually the admonition, ** Keepout they of law, keep out of law?” And why do rogues and scoundrels swarm aoous our judicial halis and fairly revel in the opportunity they afford for the triumph of knavery overintezrity? Who arethe frequenters of Lhese courts, theirpatrons, while honest men shun them, and advise all others to do the same! Who complains of the decisions of the civil courtsy do the rogues? . Is mot the com- m the honorable side that bas disappointed, that has met What, then, 15 2 system worth that works injustice,—that arrays umainst it all the good men of the country, who stizmatize 1t, end only_ speak of it in thunder tones of warning? The time, then, hns undoubtedly come for revulutionary lega! veform, for neces- sary aud adequate remedies, and for dealing with the courts, uot as if they were Delphic and oracular, but as evidently very fallible institu- tions. 'Too long bave the people aped in fear at these grand aud learned Judges, and sat meekly in pens before the Bench and Bar, while their dearest interests were wrested from their control, and manipulated to suit the arbitrary caprice’ or cupldity of a Jjudiclal priesthood. Men are eriticizing more closely every day the right of uny man, as priest, o sl d between then and God. So are they dispased to z{l stion the right of any man to stand between t! and justice. They want no sacerdotalism in Jaw any more than in religion. In England, whence we received the absurd, technical, and verbose forms with which crafey lawyers bave built-up a professon and hedged 1t about, and which are fost falling into disuse in this sensible are, colichtened stutesmen are leading off in abolishivz the nonseusical di- visions of courts, the difference in the forms of actions, and stripping their jurisprudence of complesity and ueeless tcchnicality. Think of the sbsuraity of the maxim that “the law pre- sumes every man to know what it is,”” when it 15 &0 intricate, and iatentionally made so by artful Tawsers, in order to form it into an exclusive ‘projession, that no two of the best trained legal minds in the country can ever agree what itis. The whole enginers of the Court-Houose system, with its expensive retinue of Judges, lawyers, clerics, Sheriffs, and jurics, is a stupendous fraud upon the credulity of men, and recks with the broken fortuncs and the crushed Lopes of its thousands of havless victims. Why the ages have endured the intolersble tocubus is ex- plained only by the hypothiesis that men are naturally aéspotic 1 orgenizing, Governments and making rulcs for socety, and the masses o0 ignorant to cope with ‘poverfully-orgenized intellizence, and either afrzid of innovatigps, or slow to learn that they possess the power to maice them. g In this new country we were fortunate to dis- cover that the simple form of republicanism was better suited for us, and we threw ofl the mo- narchical yoke, but were not as successful in breakimg away from many traditional customs that are cqually despotic. Itis now timeto carry the principle of simplicity that pervades our Government into closer and more mtimate laws that rule us in the daily walks of life. Just as you galo power by simplifying ma- chinery, so you 2afn cfliclenicy, in the laws by making them eimple,—comformiXle to commou sense and frec from the Tubbish of antiquity, Instead of volumes of statute Inws, some of them thicker thau they are broad, so that the mind is lost in a sca of enactments. let our Legislatures appoint Boards of the ablest jurists of the States to form codes of lawe, plain, in- tetlizible, and comprehensd that shall em- brace the broadest adjudeed principies of wis- dom, equity, and practice for the regulation and government of our people. Here is the oppor- tunity for sonic one to strike out v the lue of Jezal reform that will lead him to high distine- tion, and make his name u household word throughout the land. The mext step is to provide by suitable cunctments for arbitration us the mode of settllug the vast number of cases now crowding our courts. In New York they experienced the some over-press of busi- ness in their courts-that prevalls iu Illinols, and were compelled to establish courts of srbitra- tion, where 2 vast pumber of cases incumbering the court dockets might be amicably adjusted and settled. These tribunals are found to work benieuly in the interests of peace and in keep- jug the threads of busiuess from tangle and complication, In Frauce, lawsuits arc not permitted at the option of every malicious or quarrelsome per- ‘on or blaciumailer. There, a man, imagining himself aggrieved, must lay bis cause first be- fore the Prefect, who examines into the comn- plaing, and only on a clear prima-facie case of \rong and injustice being made out, und on the refusal ot the other sigle to do right, is the aggrieved party allowed to brivg his suit. Now, think how different it is in our own country. f{lere a wmun may be mude o target” for the Gatling guns of Kear- ney, st needs bieed at the pleasure _of his assailants. o the utter overthrow of his business fortunes. I remember once to have plaint always that has by with injusticel given umrage to ouc of the * honorable ™ pro- Tession, who, to revenze himself, tiumped up a pretended clzim against me, and brought bis action ou the caze. I was compelled to defend, and paid a lawyer $75to put in a plea and ap- pear for me, though, when the case was called, my opponent acknowledzed he had no claim, aud the case was stricken from the docket. He might have continucd this system of annuyance and injurs to me, with large fecs from me and smnall costs to him, ad libitum, but the wretch was us poor in dollars as i principle, and could not afford the littie expense of his littie malev- olence. But here is an illustration of our lovse system of justice that mnay confront you vis-a- vis any day, and may make you put on your thinking cap. In Sweden they have what ara called Courts of Reconciliation, where parties at difference must first appear, and where the matter in con- troversy is talked over {nformaily and familiar- Iy, and amicably settled, if possible, without being taken to an_upper court for trisl. Jtisa fact that nine-tenths of the disputes are recon- ciled in these simple, primary, aud inexpensive courts, and_only cases of importance and in- voiving hizh lezal questions take the attention ner tribunals. Hence fewer Judzes, a sufliciency of pay to obtain the highest talents, and to keep them above bribery and corruption. “And hence ample time is afforded for coreful investigation, research, and delibera-* tion, to establish precedents of cquity snd just- ice that make cveryone feel safe tn thead- ministration of the laws. But, admirable as_these courts certatoly are, ana effectual as the French system is to restrain litigution and prevent uurighteous persecution, tte same end would be attained by an act of the Leeistature meking o provision o a contract to arbitrate all dispates “arising under it just as bindinz s any other clause, and debarring the courts from any interference or any jurisdiction in such acase. Also by enacting that a party ina dispute may dropese a'reference: fo arhitra- “tiou an expensivi tion, which shall operate, as fn case of tender, tocntitle him to costs aainst the party refusin and, besides, entitle him to damages at the eretion of the court. Under sucli alaw as this litizants would have the satisfaction of choosing Bicir own ?u\mes in cases Involving difilcult points _of Jaw, and in simple cases of having the aid of their own friends in settling their disputes. Neighborhood differences would be adjudged by & man’s own neighbors. - Does any one doubt that substantial justice would be done? Will not mutual friends, selected in reicrence to skill zud knowledge of the subject in controversy, come nearer what is just and e riznt between the disputants than o jury of strangers or Court-liouse Hum- Certaluly such 8 mode commends jtself eminently as a peace measure, as a millen- nial harbinger and promoter of brotherhond and good-will among men. 1t would effectualby stop nine-tenths of the litigation that now dis- praces our clvilization, and 5o offends hirh beaven. 1t would put the rich man and the poor man on a blessed cquality of rights. Tt would stop vesatious suits and vexatious de- fenses. It would prevent the use of courts as engiues of oppression and instruments of mali- cious prosccutions. It would enforce an honest settlement, of debts, affording the creditor such an easy and inexpersive method that he would not, as now, be_tempted to forezo part or all of bis Just demand rather than incur the mreac ‘costs of u suit: while the debtor could not be foreed to pay more than he owes by the terrors ‘of a Iawsuit. While contemplating all the benien effects of such a law, is it not past ail moral anprehension Tiow a Chancery Court could refuse to cnforce terms of arbitration in a contract, while enforc- ing the contract itself in all other particulars, obtho plea that otherwise it would be oustei of its jurisdiction? Is it uot astonishing thata court of conscience will not, in the interests of -ucave, allow men to- sclect their own gimple modes of settling disputes, but rather, in the spirit of strife, contentios, and all that is wick- ed, force men into the prize-ring to tear and lacerate ench other, aud flil the world with hate and discord? \When courts of equity are guilty of such scif-assertion, and arrogare such inso- lent prerogative, is it nat time that the repre: sentatives of the peopie interfere and teach these inflated juriest that the interests of courts are subordinate to the interests of the people; that the courts are made for the people, and not the people for the courtsi What consist- ency is there between o law agoiust barratry nud’ for the vonsolidation ot causes of action so as to permit multivlicity of suits and such ral- ingof the courts to combel men to litizate be- fore them? And think what an assertion of in- fatlibility it is for them to asswmne that they alone can determine what is right between men! While the courts are thus arrogant, their satet- lites, the lmryers, can scarcely be expected to abateany in theirnotions of privilege. 1o all their discussious of plans to relieve the overtasked courts, thero is never a suggestion that in any way might endanger the Juwyers’ fees. One says, increase the lees, make litiga- luxury, make the losing side pay both lawsers’ fees. Now, my dear sir, liti- gation is alrcady so expensive that men contin- ually surrender their rightful claims ratberthan suffer the heavy exvenses of a lawsuit. And, while it would - be well to make 2 malignant | plnintiil pay heavier fees and costs for the lux- ury of litigatton, the defendant might be very wrongfully foreed iuto court, and might rezard the procecdings as anything clsé than a luxury, and it would be wrong to increase his burdens. _Another says, cheapen litization, open wide the doors of justice. Yes, in theinterests of lawyers, open wide the flood-gates of hate #nd passion, and deluge the land with the bitter waters of Marah. Let all the world be set to fighting, while the fawyers divide the spolis. T say, rather, do away with the oceasion for lawyers, and give us arbitration. Litfzation is an evil and a curse 1ot to be fostered. We want to hear the voice of the “truth? in the land, and not the voice that stirs up contention.- Listen to the sweet beatitude, * Blessed are the peacemaliers,” and noar the Divlne command, **Agree with thive adversary quickly, whiles thou art i the way With hini, leat at any time the adversary deliver thee 1o the Judge.” Then again, when that Divine voice rises in anger with the denunciation, #Woe unto you, also, ve lawyers,” tremble, ye instruments of mischier. I write not in your interests, but write in theiuterestsof the people, Tor their peace and happincss. There are good men at the bar, confess, but be- Heve they are very fow, and exceptions. Tt would savor of illibernlity and prejudice I know to indulge in indiscrimivate denuncia- tions of any entire class of men; but what I mean to say is, that the habit of taking any kind and any sido f a cuse thatoffers & fee is not calculated to develop a very bigh seuse of moral right, and that the temptaticns to play with the weakness and passions of mankind, not in the interasts of the peace and bippiness of society, but to cajole and deceive them for the purposes of 2ain, is too strong for the natural sclfisuness of men, and that selfishness ought mnot to be clothed with exclusive powers aud prerozatives of & dominant class and an overriding profes- sion. It is undispatably true that the practice of Iaw is becoming simply sharp practice. Eminent legal abilitics connected with u rectitude of character that will not stoop to dishonorable artifice and falsehood will often stand defeated before deep cunning, and be astonished at the success of plotting villainy. _While' it is cor- tainly a noble avocation io labor for the ad- wministration of law and justice, yet, in a much greater degree, Is it intanous to oppose them. And did yon ever know a case too jnfamous to command a swarm of luwyers to advocste it! The notorious robber and thief, Tweed, found plenty of these salable gentry to divide his stolen spoils with him, and help him escape the penaltics of his crimes. It is undenjubly true that this profession tolerates a code of morals, unrecognized by any other respectable body of men, and not suffered, fn the remotest degree, in any other relation of life—a code that allows of aman lending his utmost skill and ingenuity to further the schemes of rasealil- ty, because, forsooth, he is paid for doing i, Knowing all the time that he 1s wronging fnno- cent men of their property and their reoutations, They caunot complain of attacks upon them, when the erent O'Conor, of New York, has in- dulged in_scathing denunciations against the venality of his rrofcssiou, and when we almoet dailv read articles from the pens ot lawyers, ad- mitting the worst accusations ever brought against their fraternity. They are cffectuaily estopped fromrhetorical laudations of their call- ings, and when Matt Carpenter Jaunches before the nation the characteristic professiousl senti- ment that “ A Iawyer is not disgraced by any case except in the manngement of it,” every prudent client must well welgh the chances that his lawyer, when he Jeast expeets it, may find that it comports with that ** manage- ment? to sell him out for hizher pay from the otberside. You can never besafe in such hands, and 1t will be a blessed day when these gentry of AMachiavelhan morals are relegated to some hon- f‘él. pursuits that will yleld them a decent liveli- 1000, Yet it is from this orofession, under such training in_sophistry and false morals, that we select the Judzes, whom we clothe with more than kingly power, and whose fiat can hurl de- struction upon the beads of any of us, und rob us of our peace and our prosperity. And this in republican America! Is not such an investiture of power utterly focompatible with all our theo- ries of libertyand cquality? Iuthis day of wide- spread corrution, that pervades all official sta- tious, from the halls of Congressto the town counell, it is amazing that the people are 50 stolid and indifferenc to the dangerous powers hetd by the judiciary of the country. When the volce of warniug is rune in your ears, flatter not yourselves that your turn muy npot come next. No man is safe and no prop- erty sceure under the existing state of things. You may faney you have ulti- Imate protection, in all cases involving large in- terests, in appeals to our Supreme Court, Wwhere geven Jadges make thorough examination into the ruling of the lower courts, and bring ull their united acumen to bear on the justice of the case. But you are greatly mistaken. Such is doubtless the intention of the law. But the practice of the Supreme Court is altogether dif- ferent. In violation of law the seven Judees divide out the over-press of cascs, so that each case is given tos single Juage, who, like the singlc Judge below, makes whatever investiga- tion that suits him and his peculiar views, snd submits his opinion, in which the other Judges ignorant]y concur, or dissent thercto. Rarely s a case presented to tne whole court fn argu- ment by connsel. What reliance, then, can you have in the Supreme Court, when we constantly read in the newspapers the severest criticisms by the ablest minds in the State of its in- consistent and contragictory decisions Why, they give thc names of cases, fovolving identically the same principles, tried at the same term of the court, by thesame Bench, and arrued by the same counsel, that \ore 'determined diametrically opposite to each other. Think of this trifling with the fortunes of men, this unsettling ‘all the inter- ests of business, and rights of life and nraperl&y in the ereat State of 1ilinofs by theee - pretend- ing juris perlte, these sapieut, profound Doctors of the Law! The Judgssof our lower courts are constantly bewildercd and_confounded by these absurd and conflicting opinions of the Supreme Court, that scem to be on all sides of every principle. What says the Albany Zaw Journal, the ablest Tegral paper in the country, of thie decisions of the Iilinofs Supreme Court? It says of them that -¢they are disgraceful to the jurisprudence of the country. ) its reports that journal declares. that “they are befoe discarded from the shelves of all respeetable Jawyers”; of its standine as a court, that. “it is below that of any other Supreme Court in_the United States, not excepting Arksnsas and Texas.” [ shake hands with a distincuished lawver. who, in an artlele on- The Supreme Court” fn Tur Our €AGO TrIzuNx of Sept. 12, 1876, indoracs the statement,—** I am firmly convinced that this court has done more within - the last few years to destroy all confidence, not only in its own decisions, but, what is a far more” mischicvous and far-reaching misfortune, all confidence in the stability of law as a rule of action, than any other court of last resort in this coumtry;” and further savs: “1 think more than 100°contra- dictory aecizions Liave been rendered in ten Jyears.” Nowis it not remarkuble stolidity in the Judges of - this court, whom it requiros the atmost charity to characterize only ag ** mcom- petents,” that, fu the face of such a record as this, they do_not follow their three brethren {from the Indiana Supreme Beoch, who, being detected in selling the opinions of the court, bad their unmes stricken from the ticket, after their nominations; and wers foreed to step down and out iu shame aud confusion of face. As un jllustration of the paletul influences of suel mal-saministration ot law, and the ruinous workings of the Court-House system, I have it from an eminent divine of ous city, wio, having read some views I published on tnese subjects, sent me word that Le col indorsed every word I said. o stated that an_English fricnd of his, o wealthy capitalist, who had been doing business in this country, had been handied through our courts with such glaring violation of every protense of justice and right, that he at ouce closed up his affairs and left the country, declariny that no man could do busi- ness here with any safety to his property. Think of such exoeriences, as affecting the interests of trade, as utterly overtirowing all confidence. und driving capital from business. I know many men_of our_city who hide themselves arraid to risk their meaos in the un- principled habits of bustuess, and the reckiess and diseraceful action of gwur courts that en- courage these habits. No doubt such fears heve much'to do with the prolonzation of our finan- ciul troubles, und their removal is the yery first’ step towdrds re-establishing commercial “pros- perity. Let us notice, en passant, for a moment, the action of the five highiest lecal minds in the country sitting in the late Eleciral Gomtuission. Did they show any agrecnient as to what the law was? Did they not divide, vote, and decide just.as their partisan feelings and prejudices J)rmn ted them! Where were the great leznl learning, the superior wisdom, and the com- manding sagacity that caused these men to be selected to sit on the Bench of the Supreme Cowrt of the United States? While on this Commission, did thoy exbibit_any, did they dis- play any, fu their votes and decisions? Noj they shmply gave their individual opinion, mflu- cuced by common and ordinary nolitical bias, aud no better and no wiser than any other ex- perienced and educated body of men mizht layve given, True, they were sitting as a Com- mittee of Arbitration, but they were just as zood men as arbitrators a3 they were as Judges. As arbitrators they merely decided questions coming before them without aoy extraordinary aud dangerous powers; but, as Judges, these same men, fallible, partisan, prejudiced, as they proved themselves to be, are clothed with more than regal autho-lty, whose flat no man may dispute. i Now, my point Is that, as_law is not an exact science, thie decision of a Judge is eimply his opinion, that an arbitrator can hold and main- tain justas wisely and intellizently; with the advantage in favor ot arbitration, that it is ap- pointed with reference to peculiar knowledge and skill In the subject-matter tobe settled, and the disputants have the selection of friendly persons to represent their interests. Then arbi- tration s free from techinicality, the machinery, and delays of the courts. Itis simple and in- expensive, and unuccompanied by arbitrary ar- T injunctions, orders, and court dignity, all 50 alling toa free and manly soirl, For many of just such reasons, did the nation arbitrate rather_than liticate the late great Presi- dential question. The country- will be ereatly compensated for what scemed a most uufortunate polftical imbroglio, il tbe public will properly read its revelation of the fallibillty aud common humanity of our votentlal Judue: if it shall see with proper diszust, iv the chi canery nnd dishonesty of. David “W. Field, sample charactes ics of a vast majority of luw- vers, and if it shall bail with proper thaulful- uess the torns of chance that nided to call to the high oflice of Secretary of State William M. Evarts, a lawyer who will uever take a vase un- tit fully convineed there [s no fraud in it. Qur people are conservative and slow to take alarm, but I know many cases of monstrous wrong, and wsny are fast accumulating througout the land, that must soon arouse pop- ular indignation; that will sweep these courts out of existence, or greatly modify the powers they shamelully abuse. e do not want, and we tmust not tolerate, any ipse dizit absolutism and sovereimn decrees of Judgzes, or of any one clse, from President down. In clecting our Judges. Meu should be selectéd who are emi- nent for legal learning, above all suspiclon of corruptivility, possessing force and dignity of character to give gathurity to their decsions, and frec from paseion and prejudie, that lead to abuse of power. -There is no cleetion that so inthmately relates to the private interests of the ndividual as the election of our Judges. But 70 man ought 1o be intrusted with the pow- ers that to-day appertain to the Bench. The hority to fssue Injunctions and appoint Ro- Ceivers should be earefully guarded and restrict- ed tocases of clearly proven nccessity, and where amplest. bond ‘and sceurity are required, and slways to be relieved agalust upon filing eatisfactory bonds on the side of the defense.” The surest remedy, boweyer, against the evils of the present system is unquestionably the legalizing of arbitration. It would relieve the great pressure NOW Upon OUr COUrLs, and obviate the ills of too hasty adjudication. The free cholce of arbitration by disputants would tend to made the courts very circumspect how they exercised even restricted powers, lest the Judges mizht find their only occupation to Ve in turning musingly.over tne blank leaves of their dockets. A maw’s own neighbors, friends, und peers, who are best acquainted with all the facts and all the parties, would then judge be- tween himand s fellow. He would not, as now, have to stand silent before an angusg pres- cneo, while his Honor Sly Game and Esquire Thimble Rig play battledoor with his fortunes. How lone, 1 could the Board of Trade carry on its operations if every business difference led to a st at law, and it its rules did not pro- vide the peaceful method of arbitrationi It would not survive a week of dezal interruption. It would o to pieces in the clash of mad. p: sions. Yet acourt has recently interfered with the enforcement of its necessary rules, and put its injuncticn upon the Board's proceedings to compel the observance of the contract of mem- bership entered into and subseribed to by every member. . ‘Does it not ocenr to these members that the rowing intermeddling and assumtion of pow- ers by the Judaesin our popular elections, io at- tempts to control our Returaing Boards, as well asour Boards of Trage, and even the action of our churches, in matters of discipline, presage duaneer to the liberal institutions of the country aud the establishment of despotism? Is notour whole system of _division of powers based upon the experience of the world, that men like to wicld authority, and will, except in rare jn- stances, abuse -it, unless some wholesome re- straint be put upon their ambition? Well, if in the Board of ‘Trade the principle of arbitration is found to be so wise and eflicscions in ehecking discord, and if the seme cxueriences are found in our churches, Masonicand Odd-Fellows’ halls, aud other charitable institutions in *keeping peace in the family,” whynot extend the benign policy beyond the favored few to society in xe ersli Arbitration would prove itself a blessed helpmeet to the sweet amenities of this Chris- tian age. Iwould bex, therefore, the help of the press to present the subject to the attention of the people, and ssk the co-operation of ail the esoclations T meution to extend their own ex- periences for the happiness of others. But, not to continuc the argument further, leg me conclude by saying that, as our own greut nation with other leading nations of the world, in full plepitude of power, now incline to io- voke peacefal settlement of international dif- ferences by arbitration, rather than contest their rizhts on the battlefield, let us all carnest- I5 advocate this “new dispensation,” and throw Off the “*burden of law we fiud so “ eriey- ous.” Truth and justicc should not be ap- proached ‘throozh the mad passions of men. Wisdom's euiding star is peace. Courts and fomenting trouble, bitterness, and hate. Society baiids its structures on com- ‘promise, forbearance, and ood-will. Let our- watchword then, be, Down with litigation, with its attendant train of crime and wrong, and up with the banoer of trucc, that shall stav the conflict, refer. clashing interests to the’ publle Ssense of justice, in walch knavery and techoi- cality have no place, and which shall herald the dawn of peace, the day of rizht, and the lightof justice] shedding their glories on a_sfster tem- Ple of Christianily, inscribed to Arbitration. MESRY FAUNTLELOY. e —— A Gigantic Stride in Science. Aliticaukee Sun. A gentleman who has just returned from' a trip tells of a new use that has been found for electricity that even beats the telephone or the phonoaraoh. It is a desice by which tne color- od sleeping-car porter can be awakened ab every station. It fs well known that the normal con- dition of the colored person is to be aslee] The colored person grovs to sleep on_the siigil est provocation. In the ordinary affairs of liie this cccentricity can beoverlooked and provided for, but the business of siceping-car porters has bafflea scientists to devise a method of keeping A porter can keep awake by con- stantly. whistling, but this. practice, has _a tendency to awaken passengers who do not de- sire to be awakened. The inventor bas adapted electricity to this branch of railroading in such a s live by ‘manner that the colored parson's- usefalness’is - apart from his increased, at very little exnense. It is desiradle | that the porter should be awake at cach station where the slecper stops, in order to snatch the small bagrage of those who get aboard, and throw it under the seats. .\ wire runs from the encine under the cars, ana is connected with an electric disc in the cushion of the bind seat of the sleeper, where the colored man is apt to congregate, and at the same moment that the enginer rings the bell on approachiz a station, hetouches the thingumoob attached to the wirc. Suopose the porter to be seated in_his acenstomed place, peacefully dreaming the bap- Dy bours away, snoring for all that is out, and dreaming of his Nancy in St. Louis, for in- stance, His head is thrown back, bis eyeballs are in repose, his meuth is open like an approach toa tunnel. ' He Is siiting on the electric disc. ‘The hand of the engineer playfully touches the cornucopia, the lightning flashes back to the slecper, a charge of electricity goes meandering up the spinal column of the African, he is raised up to the roof of the car, and when he comes down ke Is wide awake and ready for bnsiness. There is no other thing on earth that will feteh o porter except clectricity. A con- ductor’s boot has been known to do ‘it, but it takes several applications, and the result is not quite as satisfactory. Raflroad companics that have adupted the teleeraph-awakener in the South are receiving the enrominwms of the neo- ple. This Is, fndeed, an aze of hinprovement. DIVOLCE. In Various Countrics and Times. Altany (N. Y.) Law Revlew. Divorce exlsted in all ages at Rome, and was always a privatc act. Fora long time it was not abused by the Romans, but toward the lat- t2r part of the Republic and under the Empire divorees became very common. Seneca notices this laxity of manners, and Juvenal gives o re- marksble instance of a Koman matron who is said to have goue the rounds of eizht husbands in five years, Pompey divorced his wife Muvia. Cicero speaks of Paula Valeria ag being ready to serve her husband with notice of divorce on his return from his province. Cicero himself di- vorced his wife Terentia, alter living witn ber thirty years, Toe bugband generally took the keys from his wife, put her out of his honse, gave her back her dowry, and so dissolved the marrinze. This might be done in the wife’s abscnce. Cicoro divorced his wife Terentia by letter. The laws in the several Greclan States regarding divorce were different, aud in some of them men were allowed to put away their wives on slight -occasions. Among the Athe- nians, either husband or wife might take the first step. ‘The wife might leave the husband or the husband might dismiss the wife. The Spartans seldom divorced their wives. The Ephori fined Lysander for repudiating his wife. ‘An Arab may divorce his wife on the slightest occasion. _So eusy and so common is the prac tice, that Burkhardt assures us that he has seen Arabs not more than 45 years of aze who were known to have had fifty wives, yet they rarely have more than one at s time. By the Molam- medan law 4 man mnay divorce his wife orally, and without any ceremony : be pays ner a por- tion, eenerally onethird of his dow- ry. He may divorce her twice and take her dgrain without her consent, but if he put her away by & triple divorce couveyed in the same sentence, he cannot receive her again until she has been warried and divorced by another hus- band. By the dewish law it appears that a wife could not divoree her husband, but under the Moliammedan code, for cruelty und some other causes, she may divorce him. ~Amone the Hin- doos, and also among the Chinese. 2 hushand may divorce his wife upon the slizhtest ground, or even without assigning any reason. She is under the absolute control of her busband. ‘The law of France, before the Revolution, following the juagment of the Catholic Chureh, held wnar- riage to be indissoluble; but during the carly revolutionary period divorce: was permitted at the pleasure of the partics when incowpatibility of temper was_allezed. The Cude Napoleon restricted this liberty. On the restoration of the Bourbons a law was promulgated, Sth of May 1816, declaring divorce to- be abolished; that ali suits then pending fordivorce, for defin- ite cause, should be tor separation only, and tha all steps then taken for divorce by mutual consent should be void, and such is ‘now the iaw of France. The power of the courts to grant limited divorces is well settled in this Cruel and fuhuman treatment and ment are trequent grounds of action. Austerity of temper, sallies of passion, abusive ianguage, and mere indignities to the moral character or reputation of his wife. vulgar or Zarsh lnzuage, with such evithets that deeply Wound the ifeclmgs and exeite tho passions without any menace indicating violence to the person, do not afford sufliient grounds of di- vorce. If awife render her busbaud’s ‘“‘condi- tion intolerable and his life burdensome,”s or it lier conduct is so vivlent und outrizeous as to render the proper discharze of -the duties of married life impossible, it is a good ground of senaration from her. Such abuse or ndignities offered by the wife to the husband would not Justify bim io turning her out of doors; he rust show such eruel or barbarous treatment or danger of his life as would entitle him to o divorce, Descrtion or sbandonment Ly either husbaud or wife is one ground for divarce, but the desertion or sbandonment must be inten- tional, or wiliful and malicious, with an intent to renonnce and disregard the marriage rela- tion. The retasal of a wife to remove Wwith her husband toa foreign country is not a willful de-, sertion. If a husband should go away and live’ wife, it is not considered ageser- tion within the meaning ot the statutes of New Jersey. The foilure to supply the wife with such necessarivs and comforts as are within the husband’s circumstances, and thus by cruelty compelling ber to quit him, amounts to actual abaudoament and desertion. ——————— ON THE HILL. The dreary day, €0 dark and ctull, . Was with the evening biending, ‘As, faint and weary, lone and i1l T paced o path ascending. The way ran through a forest old Where shadows deep were Iying, And oer the nillside, bleak and cold, The sullen wind was sighing. . T trombled with an untold fear, And thougat tho dead Jeaves falling The volce of one who, passing near, Tn whispered tone was calling. Bat, when my cup of sorrow seemed Pressed tuil to overflowing, A brilliunt light before wme beamed, A narrow puthway showlog. Beide it stood a cottage smi ‘Whicn saelter kindly offered. Rejoiced, T puced the narrow ball, Then on the threehold faltered; For sounde of music reached my ear, The cottage scemed 3 palace: Ob:equious servants, standing near, Served wiae in golden chalice. 0 peaceful night! O auiet rest! Without, the raln descended; . Within, 1 slcpt on fairy breast. By faicy hand defended. Since then, on pleasant Summer-days, T've roamed that hizn hill over. And wanderod far by devious ways Through ticlds of grain and clover. Bit only find about the place 'A dead tree, bowed and urokens Anct happy Fay, with carclces race, Tras since no welcome spoken. Ciicaco, Nov. 22, 1578, Lavra U SUNSHINE IN NOVEMBER. The cold, chilly rains of November Tiave fillen in tears on the heaths The trees in the wild winds are sobl “And chilled lic the Rowers bene: Tho birds have deserted thefr nests in the eaves, ‘And piled in fence-cornersare russet-grown leaves. DERITRL. The Frost-King is spreading his armor On moorlund, and valley, and glade, His feathery crystals descending An lightly a5 evening-enade: n The pinc and the fir-tree have donred coats of ‘mail, And sizhs through the casement my wind-barp's 1ow wail. A beam from the suxlight's bright crimson. 1s deep'ning the brow of the hill; 1ts arrows have plerced the dim forost, "And lodged in the oranches at will— The urmor of frost-work 1t tonchies and cleaves, And pours golden lizht on the moldering Teaves. Life brings to uli rains of November, When winda on our loves chilling blow, And we learn shat sad note of wailing, ‘As beantiful joys are Isid low: Oar bods of bright promise and hope's wreathing vine All droop 8s the frost with {tsarms would entwine. But rays from the sunlight of Friendshi Come piercing the frost-monarch's wold, And, shimmering down through the sadness, i Jtg urrowss fall tipped in pare gold; They lizht up the tendrils of hope. one by one, That_ivy-tise cling, though the brightness has flown., Yet Fricndship's ji (8 scem but the symbol And type of thoy. surer aboves Now cach by some 5w is proved mortal, Oft wourding and irsing oar love: When Jife, with ite A5 gleams of sunshine, is o' Immartal our glosies ! thiat wane nevermore, ~ - 2" B iy F¥e JTohe s =+ ANz BLye, THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS. Communlestionsintended for Tus DravanT Etron should be addressed to O. D. ORVIS, P.-0. Box:215, Chleago. JlL For Publisher's price-ltst of standard works on the Fame, address the Draozht Editor. CHECRER-PLAYERS' DIRECTORT. Atheneum, No. 50 Dearborn strees. PROBLEM N By ** The Malden of the ML’ White. 3, East Wobaurn, Mass. Z _u TO COPRESPONDENTS, New York—Thanks for scores. D. Carstairs—Thanks for the favar. Henry kyan—The position will be used. D. W. Pomeroy—Many thanks for the game. John Rirk—Please send solutlon to your st problem. 1ok N~ Johnson—Many thanksfor that neat little prob- P L. D 2 ot oIh, Downing—Can nend proof-slfpaof this column Lewls Brownell—Boo (@5 Thctomire Fectiveq, Sy malled. C. L. Jewett—T! 3 1 SiokyJemett=Tne solution to that position was cor Dewite . Calvert—Subs @) wiliten abaut the back Rambers e e () ave I F. S.—State aates of copl se‘l‘!ll you Pvml~l!lps. (2) 'l'h:un 'sls;o:‘:;ré;?fl wa il awes Pelletler—It s laid down as a draw in both Audersoun's Thli Ao Do P2 Adersous ThiRd and the A. D. P.. () Those games W. M. Purcell—A part of your esteemed contribu- tiona shali appear next week. ¢ oz apten s weat. lope o b Rembered ‘The publishors bave sent us 3 few extra coples of the English Draught Player, which we ean m or- Feahandents wpon Foceipt of prite, 10 eeate nche CHECKER CHATTER. 1t fa announced that the Priest-Rced m burg bas been postponed untll Monday, No Through the lincss tn his family Mr. Martins, the ex- chiamplon, has had to postpone giTi ghamplon, has | postoone Firing canibition gumes The Glasgow Herald announces that the - nual deaugius tournament in connection Wi e G en i Fow Cantral xed to begln on Satarday, As predicted fn our last lssue, the Davie-De ‘match at firooklyn 1s an easy v Tor thg for- mer. The result of the Grst four days'play shows 12w lns for Davie, Tfor Do Gon, auil § drawe: tol. 17 ehtaes. Mr. Wyllle continues to win about every gam yiTErbie oationcs oo shamciorg s iy, * flerd Laagie ” played i games, of which he lost 1 (fo 3ir. §cott). and drew I.. During his thres dasyvialtto Hltzh Wlintwrs, 77 garics were contested, ch won no less 3 fames were drawn. o Mlosiean Mr. D. Canstalrs, of Lafayette, Tnd., writes tbat, while he plays less frequently thian heretofore, he re- cetves Triw TRIUNE regularly, and reads the checker goslp with undfninished {nferest. Mr. Carstairs hes recenty had two sitiings with Mr. F9ank Grecnlee, tho ialented youog player of Latayette, with the following Have written. tch ac Pltts- a5, . Demputer returned to Xew York b g it rather warm for some of the players there, andulgout Newark, X J. ife has plaved. tn all ‘Zames, of which ho won 7, lost . me drawn. The Individual scores are IE !Dflu;g: @ @ 1N ¥EW The names of the grmes are quite a plaserns hnd e aestlon 15 piien axbeds ¢iple bave the names been pivent Therd 1 really none. uzzle to souni "G5 what orit l‘l?cnlllfllnfl‘ ish ecch Dy the open'nk moves. The **Dyke” has been 5o called becanse positlons which oc- cur’in l‘! are like s fence or stone wull, Scnttice n S“dyKe.” “The **Fife" was named I lionor of Jaies Wyllle, betng one of the zames played againat Ander- won i 1 *Glasgow ” way the trlumph game played by Sinclair, of that ‘clty, agalnst Anderson in a march at Ilamitton, Lanarkshire, in IR The «** Laird and. LI(? s & tribute to a worthy La: shire **luird and 16udy, ” SIr. und Mry. Cather, of Cambusnethan. The *"Maid of the Mill™ was made In compliment to a mill- er's daughter In Lanarkshire.”™ A "Paisley **Snab'™ o-'rfim to the **Souter,” it belng his favorite fi\m . The other names of the varlous gaies have cen given fn an cqually stmple manner.—Calt, - CONTRIBUTORS CRITICISMS. Ar. D. . Pomeroy has rent tn consideralle play I o 5 i 13 S, Chipmaive problom, No. 91 AS one draw, {f sound. f3 as good a3 many, @ fiomeroy apace for ong of His variations. r. Chi] solutfon, var. (l‘)"lgll.' posltion Kings,15, 3 tre men on & to move. Mr. Chipman . W wins. M. Pom- 'roy plays —11, - . Drawn, Mr- Hefter also ciaims a draw by 3128, fnstead of 31—27, 88 sbove. Dr. Parcell writes: **In solution to pmblum No. 01, var. 1. at tbirty-sceond move, Mr. Chipman brines bout a poxltion that allows black a draw. alth man down. Cariously cnough. efther to play. The position stands: Black man on 12: Kines on hlte uien on 20, Black draws,” n i5, 313 Kings. 2, 8. White 10 play, und w-18 1 Drawa. 2 16-19. (0 ‘Blaek to piay and draw. TR e — 6 ]23-19 = Drawa. s 6= 1 SOLUTIONS. SOLUTION TO PROBLEX X0. 92, By Jamen Lavailte. 13-17 fHeal |2l 613 g 1 a3 Black wins. 215 ! g N 8| 13 wins. 1-5 | 59 14-2 | Black o138 |20—m lonwd |27 7 wioe. HOLUTION T0 FOMTION No. 82 B 2 Black wins. GAME NO. 284—LAIRD AND LADY. A. Scryver 11-15" 1 10-17 213 | 21—14 B—11 | 15-18 217 283 £ 3= 1-18 2420 -4 Jenkiss woa GAME X0. 255—BRISTOL. Sacond game played at Chatham, Ont., between Mr. Jomes LAbadle and Trof: Laugsworth in i thelr match for $20. 2 GAME NO. 286—~IRREGULAR. Played by correspondence between Sir. L. R. Aldere man, Tracr, 1a., and Mr. Dayid Millar, Hollaad, Ia. Aldormas's move. 8 | oo | e B ere § Tiendd piaping the * Apranire Lasst ) Here o e laying the * rshire - but this spolled It ks GAME N HSTOL. Played by carrespondence Letween Mr. of Henry, 11, and Mr. Joha Schofield, of P Cook's move. To-g | 10— 1. 3. C 0 GAJME NO. 283-CP:0SS. od st Quincy, 1IL.between Mr. W. K. Abbotd Play and tHend: Abbotz's move. - 1—- 6 31—-27 2 % 6 ] Tz a1 —r 115 s 'Lt w0 7-10, 16—19. RIack wins st umx.—ED? »