Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1879, Page 10

0 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 26, 1873~SIXTEEN PAGES be tolerated for a moment, until the azgrieved abjed to simplify matters, a3 vou_will see by the & life-insurance agent ou his left, ““and you can meet desth with'a smiling face.” As soon as the winister’s back was turned the sick man bought a policy.—Derrick. “Do you say your prayers regularly every vizht and morping #* asked a sympatletic lady of a. Mitle bootblack, 1o whom ghe bad just given a trifle. ** I alluz sez 'um at night, mum, but auy smart boy can tuke care of hisself in be daytime,” was the little rogue’s reply. That was a_rood thouch rather severe pun which was made by an EGinburg student (and he ‘was nat one of the brightest of the class either), when Le asked, * Wby is Prof. the preat~ est revivalist of the aze?” and, on all * giviny it up,” said, Becanse at the end of every ser- mon there is a great awakening.” + The Rev. Joseph Cook on a boy who climbs a tree to steal nrplcs: “The apples are the ob- Jjective natural motive, the bov’s apoetite is the subjective natural motive, his intention is his moral motive.” It is hardly necessary to add that the boot or board the owner of the orchard applies when be catches him at it is the boy’s natural locomotive. Free Rirk Minister (to his Elder)—* John, I should ltke you to intimate that on Monday next I propose paying pastoral visits in the High and North streets, in which I hope to em- brace all the servant girls of the congrezation in that district!” His wife (whom he'd lately married from the South)—*You shall do noth: ing of the kind, sir! Let me see you dare to!” A sophomore, on being asked for an excuse for bis absence from chapel on Sundar, said he was out walking, and was £o far from college when the church-belle rang that he could ot reach the cLapel 1n seasop, and so attended the villoge church. “ Who preached there?”? asked the Professor. “I don’t knoy." said the student, “some stranger.” *‘Indeed,” was the reverend gentleman’s response, “i am surprised that Yyou did not recognize me.” - CHURCH: SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. Arthur Swazey preaches at the For- ty-first Street Church this morning. —Prof. George L. Raymond will preach at 10:30 &, m. 2nd 7:30 p. m. at the Fitfh Charch, corner of Indiana avenue and Thirtieth street. —The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach at 10:30 8. m. at the First Church, corner of Indiana ave- ‘ane and Twenty-first street. L —The Rev. J. Munro Gibson will preach at10:45 ‘8. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Second Church, corner Michizan avenue and Tiwenticth street. ‘The Rev. A. E. Kittridge will preach at 7:30 p. m. atthe Third Church, corner Ashland and Opden avenues. Morning scrmon by the Rev. Mr. Pentecost. o —The Rev. 1. T. Miller will preach at 10:45 a. m. at the Fonrth Church, corner Rush and Superior strects. _Evening lecture by Mr. F. G. Ensizn. —The Rev. Francie L. Patton will preach at 10:50 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Jeflerson Park Charck, corner of Adams and Throop streets. Evening subjegt: **Carrent Drifts of Thonght Res ting theftonement.” - “he Hev. Jamos Maclangblan will preach morning and evening at the Scotch Church, corner of Adzms and Sangamon streets, —The Rev. W. C. Yoonz will preach at 10 a. m, 2nd 7:30 p. m.. at the Fullerton Avenue Church, CONGREGATIONAL. " The Rev. Charles Nall Evereet preaches at Ply- moxth Church morning end evening. —The Rev. E. T. Williams preaches at the Forty-fifth street school-honee morning and even- ing. z —The Rev. C. A. Towle will preachat 10: 45 a. m.a nd 7:30 p. m. at Bethany Church, corner of Paulica and West Huron streels. —The liev. E. P. Goodwin will preach at10:30 2. m. 2t the Firet Church, comer Ann and West ‘Wasaington strects. _Evening revival scrvizes con- dacted by-the Revs. Pentecost and Stebbins, —The Rev. G. IL Peeke will preach morning and evening at the ivitt Street Church. The eveninz subject fex +* Abram. the Orgzunizer.™ = Rev. George F. Herrick, of Constantino- ple, preaches this evening in the New Ensland Churchon **Christisnity-in the Tarkish Empire. ™ & METHODIST. The Rev. Dr. Thomas preaches at Centenary Church morning and evening. © —Mrs. J. F. Willing preaches at Emmanuel Chaorch, corner of Harrison. and Paulina streets, 1his morninz. Snbject: **Faith.” Song service in the evening. —The Rev. S. McCheenoy preaches at the Park Avenve Church morning and evenine. —The Rev. E. M. Boring will preach morning and evening oi the State Street Church. —The Rev. W. C. Wiiling will preach in the ‘morning and the Rev. A. W. Patten in the evening zt the Wahash Avenne Church. —The Rev. J. M. Caldwell preaches morning and evenng ot the Western Avenoe Church, cor- ner Monroe street. M. M. Parkhuret will nreach at 10:45 m. at the First Church, corner of Clark and Waelington stroets. —The Rer.. T. C. Clendenninz will preach at 10:50 2. . m. and 7:30 p. m. 2t tne Laneley Avenue Clinrch, corner of Tihiry-ninth streer. - . —Tue Rev. C. Ti. Ebey will preach morning and E‘.’cm{xg at the Free Church, No. 49 North Morgan stree —The Rev. J. AL Caldwell will preach morning and evening at the Western Avenae Church, corner of Mouroe street. —The Rev. Hobert D, Sheppard will preach morning and evebing at Grzce Charch, corner of XNorth LaSalle aud White streets. —The Rev. S. 1I. Adams will presch this morn- 7 9t the Ada Street Church, between Lake and cn_strocts. Evcsing scrmon by Presiding- Kider Wil + =-Mrg, Jennie H. Caldwell will preach morning 2vd evening at the Michigan Avenne Charch. BAPTIST. ‘There will be preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p, m. at the First Church, corner of Soath Park ave- ‘nue and Thirty-first etreet. —Toe Rev. John Peddie will preach at 10:20 a. . and 7:30 p. m. at the Sccond Church, corner Morgan and West Monroe streete. —The Rev. J. W. Custis will preach at 10:30 a, m. at the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twen- t5-third street. . —The Rev. E. B. Halbert will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. atthe Fourth Charch, corner West Washington and Pauliva etrcets, —The Rev. A. Owen will preach at 10:30 2. m. 30 p. m. at the University Place Church, corner Doustlas place and Rhodes avenue. —The Xtev. Robert P. Allison will preachat 10: : 2. the North Star Church, ivision and Sedgwick streets. ¢ Rev. C. Perren will preach at 10:30 a. m, and 7:30 p. m. at the Western Avente Church, corner of Warren avenue. be R .tCIl;erg.-! will Dsrcu:h ::t 10:30 2. m. an .m. ut the Coventry Street Churc] corner of Bloominzdale road. - —Tae Rev. R. Ve Bapriete will preach at 11 a, m. and 7:35p. m. at Olivet Charch, Fourth av- enug, near Tavlor street. —The Rev. L. G. Clark will preach 2t 11 a.m. gt South Church, corner of Locke and Bonaparte sireets, —The Rev, C. E. Hewitt' will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:50 p. m. at Centennial Cnurch, corner of Lincoln and West Jackson streets. —The Rev. E, O. Taylor will preach at 10:45 2. m. aud 7:30 p. m. at Central Church, No. 260 Orchard etreet, near Sonhia street. —There will be rervices at 7:30 p. m. st the Tavernacle. No. 302 Wabash avenue. “—The Rev. J. Q. A. Henry will preach at 10:30 a. m. and 7:70 r m. at the Dearborn Street Chureh, corner Tuirty-sisth etrcet. —The Rev. L. G. Clark will preach at 7:30 at the Twenty-£fth Street Church, near Wentworth avenge. —T'be Rev. C. Swift will preach at 10:45 2. m. and {’:50 p. m. at Evangel Church, Rock Island car-shope. —The Rev. W, J. Kermott will preachatil a. m.a0d 7:30 p. m. ot the Halsted Strect Church, beiw 2en Forty-first and Forty-gecond etreets. —The Rev. J. Q. A. Tenfy prezches morning aud evening at the Dearporn Street Charch. EPISCOPAL. Bishop McLaren will offictate morning and even- g ut tbe Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paal, corner of Washington and Peoria streets. Holy Com- wunion at 1 a.m. —The Rev. S. §. Harnswill officiate morning and evening at St. James' Church, corner of Cass an Haron etrects. Holy Communion at§a. m, - Luwon will oflicizte morning ty Charch, corner of Twenty~ 1 street and Michizan avenne, 7 —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will officiate morning and evening at St Andrew's Church, corner of Washington and Robey streets. The Rev, J. Bredberg will offictate morning avd evening n‘th ?L Ansgarins® Church, on Sedgwick strect. near Chicago avenue. —The Rev, Clinton Locke will officiate morning and evening at Grace Church, on Wabash avenue, mear Sixteenth strect. Holy Communion at8 a. m. —The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will ofliciate morning and evening at the Churchof the Ascenslon, cor- perof LaSalle and Elm streets. Holy Communion a8 m. —The Rev. C. L. Lester will offeiatc morning and evening at St. Paul's Church, on Hyde Park zvenue, neer Fiftieth street. —1he Rev. B, F. Flectwood will officiate morn- iug and eveninz at St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street. —The Rev. G. F. Cusbman will officiate morn- ing and evening st St. Stephen's Charch, on John- son street, near Tavior. —The Rev, Luther Pardee will officiate morning znd evening at Calvary Church, on Warren avenue, near Ozkley strect.” Holy Communion at 7:43 e m., —The Rev, T. N. Morricon, Jr., will officiate ‘morning 2nd eveninz at the Church of the Epiph- any, on Throop sireet, near Adams. —The Rev. W. J, Petrie will officiate morning and evening at the Church of Our Savior, corner of Tincoln xnd Belden avenues. —There will be evening prayer at St. Luke's Miesion, No, 437 Western avenue. —There will be evening prayer at Hope Mission, No. 1141 Milwaukee avenue. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. M. D. Church gmgcnes at St, John's Church, Elliz avenue, near Thirty-seventls street, morpiug and evening. —The Rev. J. A. Fisher preachesat the corner ©f Centre aud Clark etreets in the morning, and at the corner of Joresand Homan streets in the aiternoon: —Bishoo Cheney preaches at Christs Church. 3orniug sudject: **A Question for Fathers and Mothens.™ Praise service in the evening, —The Rev. H. M. Collison presches at St. Paul's —T P. Goodwin “The Sccrcts Church this morning, and the Rev. in the evening. forning subjec of Success iniChrietizn Enterprise. ~The Rev. R. H. Bosworth preaches in Tillot- eon’s fiall, Enslewood, this morning. Ar. R. 1L Burke will conduct services in Grace Churen. corner of Hovne and LeMoyne streets. Subjects: Morning, ** Wordsof Caeer"'; evening, **The Three Crosses,™ ~Mr. C. M. Gilbert will conduct services this evening at Emmanuei Church, corner Hanover and Twenty-eighth. UNITARIAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford preache: of the Messiab. Morning subject znd to the Theatre.” Evcning: of the Body." ~Prof. C. D. B. sills, of Syracase, preaches at the Third Church at 3:30 o'clock. ~—The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach at Unity Charch, corner of Dearborn avenge and Walton place. "Subjects: Morning, **The Hidden Way ™3 Evening, ** Landon." ~—The Rev. James Kay Applcbee will preach in the morning at the Fourth Church, corner of Thir- ticth street and Prairie avenue. bubject: **The Unknown God. ™ t the Church Word for ‘The Salvation UNIVERSALIST. The Rey. Dr. Ryder will preach at St. Paol's Church, in Michigan avenue, near Eightéonth strect. ' Evening subject: **The Rich Man and Zarus. " NEW JERUSALEM. The Rev. L. P. Mercer will preach st the Unlon Church _(Hershey Music-Hall), at 11a. m. and 8 p.m. Evening subject: ** What Is Christianity? < LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Helfour preaches at the Church of the Holy Trimty, corner of Dearborn avcaue and Erie street. morning and evening. CHRISTIAN. J. Langhlin. of Indiana, will preach i Con- The Rer. A. i in the church coriter of Western avenue and gress street, at 10:45 5. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Jiev. Georze W. Sweeney oficiates as nsual at the First Oburch, corner Indiana avenue and Twenty-iith street. —The Rev. W. D. Owen preaches his farewell sermon at the church corner of South Park avesuc and Toirty-third strect this morning. —Elder M. N. Lord will preach 8t10:452. m., ind George E. Bacon‘at 7:45p. m., 4L the Second Churcli, Oakley avenue, between Jackson and Adams streets. —The Reva A. J. Laughlin, of Indiana. will preach at 10:15 2. 1. and 7:30 D. m. at the church corner of Westorn avenae and Congreas street. NDEPENDENT. The Rev. Jobm E. Morris preaches at Bercan Church, cornerof Fulton and May streets, morn- ing and eveni & ZThe Rev. N. F. Ravlin preaches at No. 381 West Madison strect morning and evening. Even- inz supject: **The Citizens' Leagae and Ifs Ob- ects. 3 ~—The Rev. C. H. Kimball preaches at the Chl- cago Avennc Church morning ana evening. ~—Elder Raymond will preach morning and even- ing at Barr Mission Chapel, No. 389 Third avenne. MISCELLANEOUS. A liberal rennion meeting will be held at No. 213 West Madison street at 2:30 o’clock. ~—The Spiritaal Conference of Chicago will hold their first public mceting ot the Athenmum at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Judge E. S. Holbrook will make the opening address. ~Mrs. Cors L. V. Richmond, trance medium, £peaks at the church corner of Monroe and Laflin streets morning and evening. The £irit of the Rev. John Pierpont will control in the evening, ana ‘present his experiences and work in the spirit ife. ~Dr. Mathewson will oreach in the’ Adventist Tabernacle on Green strect. Morning subject: **The Aavent of Christ a Necessity.™ ~The Disciples of Christ will meet at 4 in the afternoon at No, 220 West Randolph street. 1! F. Von Schlvembach, Sccretary of AL N. C. Association of America, preaches to-day at the Washingtonian ilome at3 o'clock. —The Rev. Mr. Jackeon will preach at 3 p. m. and 7.45 p. m. ai the Sccond Freewill Baptist Charch, No. 13 South Halsted street. —Thé lecturc of the R- v. James Kay Avplebee, to be delivercd at Hooley's ‘I'heatre this evening, wilt be on ** Wives and Motners." Mrs. J, A. Kanouse, President of the W. G. T. A.. will conduet the service at the Temperance Chareh, corner of Noble and Ohio streets, a1 4 p. . —The Rev. L. P. Mercer, pastor of Union Swe- denborman Church, which worships at lHershey Hall, announces & coarse of Sunday-evening lect- ©res’at that place, beginning this cvening. Sub- ject: **What Is Christianity P ‘The public are cor- dially invited. —ZElder W. C. Shannon will preach at the corner of Ohio and Carpenter strects, morning and even- Inz. Subject: **The Wonderful Prophecy of Zo- roaster.” TEMPERAXCE. ‘The Women's Christian Temperance Union will hold Gospel meetings at 3 Hall, this week. Decker; Toesday, M day, Mre. M 3 Thursday, Liiss Hoo Friday, Mre. H. R. Smith; Satarday, Mrs. L. 8. Rounds. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. J2n. 26-Third Sunday after Epiphany. Jan. 31—Fast. CATHOLIC. . Jan. 26—Third Sunday after Epiphany; St. Poly- carp, B. ML Do Jan. 27—St. John Chrysostom, B, C. D. Jan. 28—St. Ruymond of Pennafort, C.; St. Ag- nes, secundo, Jan. 20~St. Faancis of Sales, B. C. Jan. 30~St. Marting, V. AL -;‘m‘: 2{1}5%1’0(2{ Nolasco. C. 1d) 'eb. 1—St. Ignating, B. M. ; St. Bridget, V. t- roness of Irelund). 2t Lo LIQUOR-DRINKING. Results of English Scientific Investigation— Alcohol Particularly Injurions to the Young~The Old Should Only Drink at Meals and in Great Moderation. Zondun Spectator, Jan. 4. The discussion on alcohol, started by the man- agers of the London Contanporary Review, has been tedious to read when publiched in snippets throuzh three consecutive months; but, when read as a whole, the papers are not lengthy, and they contain some valuable information. The leading idea bas not been to consider the ques- tion of alcohol as a whole, but to obtain the opinions of experts on the subject of drinking, as ordinarily practised by average Englishmen, and especally its effect on bealth. Great ex- perts, like Sir James Paget, Sir William Gull, Dr. Radcliffe, Dr. Garrod, Dr. Risdon-Bennett, and six or seven others, have been inducea to record their opinions; and the result, when the papers are carefully studied, is a kind of con- census- very valuable to the uninstructed pub- Me. The great body of professional opinion here recorded is distinetly on the side of the value of alcoliol as a medicine, andas a luxury, or even a food, when taken in very strict moder- ation. Even 8ir Williata Gull, who is apparent- 1Iv doubtful of the use of wnie or beer for any but the old—holding that good food, particu- larly if taken in the form of Liebig’s extract, will supply all needful support—thinks that the {riénds of total abstinence o too far, and does not believe that in recommending absinence *“vou can start with the idea that thereis nouse in alcohol and no good in wine;” while Sir James Pazet puts, with great force and clear- ness, the argument from experience, which shows that as between the drinking. anf!’ the ab- staining races there is, **as to working power, both bodily and mental, no question that the advantage is on the sid¢ of those who use alco- holic drinks.” He might have added, moral power, it being undoubted that the Turks, Afrhaus, and other tcetotal races of Asin, are distinclly more addicted to crime than Asiatic” races, like the Burmese, Jews, and Armenans, all of which in- dulre in alcobol. “We find a similar result in a comparison of the races of Europe, among whom different proportions of alcoliolic drinks are babitually consumed. Comparing North and South, we certainly compare those who drink more with those who drink less; and the advantage is with those who drink more, cspe- cially when we compare them in respect of gen- eral activiy and lorce of mind and body, in readiness and fitness for work, in enterprise, in- vention, production, and all the sizns of the best mental activity and strenath.” Dr. Garrod sums up his opinion in the sentence, that “the majority of adults can take a moderate quantity of alcohol, not only with impunity, but often with advantage’; Dr. J. Riedon-Benoett says, ¢ the majority of those who have to go through the labors of a Parliamentary session, or any similar costinuous mental strain, will, I am convinced, admit thut they do their work better and with more comfort to themselves if they taketbree or four glasses of sherry or claret 3sapart of their deily food;” Dr. R. Brudencll Carter goes the length of usserting, ‘with evidence from his own experience, that “there are some to whom alcobol is a necessity, if they are to exert the full measure of their powers;” while Dr. Radcliffe positively de- nounces the total abstainers, and though refus- ing to recommend spirits even when well di- luted, on the ground of the moral danger of their use, owing to the temptation to increase thbe dose, maintains the cause of the lighter wines and light beer with vivacity and convic- tion. We may, we think, state broadly that all these experts,—one of whom it shoald be re- membered, Dr. Garrod, 18 a specialist in gout, the disease attributed to alcohol,—hold that, ex- cept to a few constitutions, the moderate use of wine or beer is uninjurious, or even beneficial. They do mnot usually define these con- stitutions, and are cuciously silent as to any ~degree of difference which may exist in the effect of sltonol on the differing constitutions of men and women; but they draw one broad and useful line. The young want no drink, and cre probably injured by it. During the period of growtl, the waste which alcohol Lelps to repair is less, and is far more easily repaired by oo food, und especially by wilk, while the taste, especially for sweet or Tuscious wine, is very easily developed. The young should be total abstainers, even {rom the beer which many puarents and schoolnasters think so essential to helth, its place being most beneticially supplied by milk or good meat-{food. The non-injurious eflect of alcohol in modera- tion being once admitted. the question et once arises, What is moderation¢ It fs elear that the answer must vary with every coostitution, and, indeed, with temporary oceupations,—3 man whea engaged in bard worls, such, for example, as hunting, being much less liable to injury from alcodol thun when compelled to remain sedentary,—and Sir James Paget refuses for this reason to lay down any exact rule. He says: “But some will say, What is this modoration? How may we define it? Let those who thus ask try to define, to the satisfaction of anv ten persons, what, under all circumstances, and to all peou! moderation in bread, or the wear- ing of jewels, in bunting, or the lanzuaze of controversy.” Dr. Radclille, too, is opposed, as we take it, to a rule; and Dr. Garrod allows that a rule is difficult; but still thereis a very remarkable concensus of opinion, even as quan- tities. All who mention the subject object to spirits, except as medicine, some because of the temptation to excess they involve, and others because the irritant action of alcohol is one of its e and is found to vary with the coucen- tration of the stimulant. Allwho mention the point believe the evil effects of aleohol dimiu- 1shed, though not removed, by dilution: and all are hostile to the use of port. sherry, Madeira, Marsala, or any of the fortified wines: though one—greatly, we confess, to our surprise—classes British ~ wines among the lighter drivks, 2 saying which must be the re- sult of very exceptional exverience,—the Brit- ish wines, 8s sold, with the exception of or- ange-wine, being often_injurious combounds of sugar, water, inferior brandy, and some tinct- ure intending to give flavor, Even Dr. Rad- cliffe, who of " all is perhaps most lenient to the wine-drinker, is strong ‘upon-this point. ,H"a says: As to the choice of fermented drinks, all that I cando now is 1o give Tou two ar three very bald bints, Speaking sencrally, I may say that lizht wines—not exciuding even' homemade wines—and emall-beer, and cider, and perry, are to be prefor- red to water with a little whisky or some other spirit in it; light wines, I say, not the strong- brandied wines which bave so long found favor in this country. Indeed, as (o these strong-brandied wines, 1 Nope the day will foon come—and the signeiof the times justify this hope—in which it will be felt “by all that they -are brandy, or some worc evil epirit, diluted with wine, rather than the Lonest and comparatively in- nocent wine which is commonly drunk in wine- growing countries,—as, for Inctance, Petit Bor- Geaux, in France, or, better still, a4 vin du pays like that whicia I had the good luck to drink a few weeks ago at Orvicto, in Italy,—and that for tins reason they ought to Le banished from the tzble. Nor can | make any exception even in favor of dry eherry, for what iy this, In too many cases, but a compound made up of water and the worst and rawest kind of whisky, called ‘silent spirit,’ and certain liqueurs concocted in the chemist's Inbora- tory,—a compound which, if not altogether un- traveled, has never been much further abnoad then Hamburz? 1 hope, t0o, that the day is not far off when there will "ha iore syimpathy with Prinee Hal’s liking for ‘the poor creaturc sn:all-beer,” than with FalstafP’s craving for strong sack, —when all strong malt liquors will have gone as much out of fashion as strong wines, ™ All prefer lizht French or Rhbenish wine, and, as arule, zive three or four ‘‘wlusses as the best arbitrary rule of limitation, all are in favor of drinking only with the late dinner and only oncea day, and & majority uppear to regard wine and beer, strength for strength, as equally un- objectionable,—an opinion, however, from which Dr. Garrod aissents, he laying it down as a prin- ciple that malt_liquor is not zood for the old, the middle-aged, or the sedentary. Dr. Garrod is, however, the only ouc who enters into detail as to quantities, aud he lays down rules which may be of the hizhest valuc to our readers. An ounce of pure alcohol, the twenticth part of an imperial pint, is in bis judzment the daily quan- tity which, at all events, can be showa to pro- duce no appreciable injury, and he gives the fol- lowing taple of the usual avproximate propor- tion of alcohol in different wines. It must be remembercd that two table-spaonfuls, measured in a chemist’s measuring-glass, is the equivalent of the fluid ounce: * In brandy, an ounce of pure alcohol is contained in two ounces and a quarter of tiat spirit; inwhisky and rum, the ssme proportion holds 2ood, assuming these to be about ten dearces under Excise proof. Gin is usually weaker. In port wie, ome in ubout five to six ounces; and the: sume holds goud with regard to the different kinds of sher- ry, also Madeira and Marsala. In champagne one in ten, as also in Burzuudy; and in Bor- deaux (claret) about one in twelve. In strong ales (Burton), one in twelve; in pale ales, ono in sixteen. In porter, one in twenty-live; in stout, one in sixteen. These numbers are to be cousidered as approximations ooly, as difer- ences of strength are often found in wines and malt liquors of "the same name.” It follows that the man who takes an imperial pint, or three-quarters of a customary bottle, takes too much, in these proportions: Times, .3 1-3 -31-3 Part, Sherry’ Madeira. Champagn Burgundy . Claret. .. Burton ale ... .. A reputed pint of stout is, therefore, quite suflicient, without wine after it; while as-to claret, the usual drink of the well-to-do, the rule is even more _simple: “ My opiniou, based upon & great nuber of careful obscervations, is, that the quantity of alcohol taken in the twen- ty-four bours sbould seldom execeed that co tained in haif a bottle of claret of good auality and it will be found that, in the cuse of French bottles, this is very little more than_balf an im- perial pint, or eleven finid ounces. The amount of absolute aleohol in claret may be taken at 8 yper cent, and tberefore, if we reduce the claret to pure or . absolute alcohol, this would fall sbort of a fluid ounce by more than one-teath.” That is the broad and intelligible rule, a half- bottle of claret a day. The French driok a bot- tle, but then they do it at two intervals, sepa- rated by at least five hours,—and they suffer. The hocks, we believe, though Dr. Garrod does not mention it, are a little strouger than the clarete, even when they scem cooler; ‘and those who care to ascertain the truth very closely should read Mr, Hamerton’s account of the French opinion that every white wine is more ivjurious in its action on the nerves thun any red wine of equal strength. We do not know the scientific data for that obiuion, but Mr. Hamerton, with his great experience, indorses it; und certainly the sweet white winus, Chateau Yquem aud its congeners, have very injurious effects. . We wish the experts had added a word as to the truth or falsehood of the opinion, so strong- 1y beld by the pubiic, that the man who adheres: to the same wine is less injured by it than the man who constantly changes bis stimulant, Everybody admits tht to be true if the stimue lants are all swallowed at one time, the medern practice of tasting many wines at one dinuer being admittedly mjurious; but it is probably true also of a whole lifetime. The quality of the alcohol is greatly modified by the wedium in which it is administered, and the body accus- toms jtself in 8 measure Lo one particular kind, as it will do—to take an extreme illustration— to poisons like laudanum or arsenic. ‘The consensus of the cxperts, therefore, who have written in the.Contemporary Leview, may be teken to be that alcobol is injurious to the young; that it should always be takeo at meals; that moderation is indispensable to its beneficial or indifferent effect, and_that moderation js the Freuch balf-bottle per diem of ordinary claret or stout. THE VILLAGE-SEXTON. The day is done, the sua is down, “The dismal night is drawing near; Across the dark fields, from the town, The tolling bell I hear. Another soul haspassed away, Anotuer beart wiil beat no more; The villuge-sexton died to-aay— His carthly toil is o'er. The hands that tolled the bell 5o long Are folded on his lifeless breast; e aoon will slecp amid the throng He helped to lay at rest. His hair was eray, his form was spare, He had s grave and solemn mien, And, 'mid its many lines of care, No trace of mirth was seen. f A rusty suit of black he wore; Each Sabbath-morn he used to stand Behind the ancient entry-door, The bell-rope in his hand. He rang the merry warriage-bell That welcomed home the new-made bride; He tolled the slow and solemn knell When desrly-lovea ones died. When Winter-winds bles keen and shrill, \Wnen Summer-roses were in bloom, He drove the dark hearse, o'er the hill, That bore them 10 the tomb. The bell will toll he oft hath tolled, w.;l_.l[fl \\‘t%rld!hyncl‘z!!lt:rlfl; :e the ume,‘ ile other hands 1 " Avove bis ifeless frame.” ¢ =01 Weall must die—tis vain to wee ‘The proud, the poor, alike must fall; Beneatn the 'sod we soon will sloep— The Reaper claims us all! LAWNDALE, CI1ICAGO. Evezse J, Hitl, BGSTON. Daisy Millar at the Serap-Book Club-— The Double Service of the Sketch. Daisy Millars at the Carnivalof Sleigh- ing on,the Brighton “Road. ¥ The Oarnival of Authors at Music-Hall— The Christian Matrons' Enjoy- ment, From Onr Own Correspondent. BosToN, Jan. 22.—Mr. Henry James' liitle sketch of Daisy Millar seems to be going about doing good, like a small tract, amongst the manners and morals of young women, to a cer- tain extent. I speakof the morals relatively as Mr. James himself treated them relatively, and as the old Greek meant when he dectared that “Maoners are the lesser morals.” To explain my statement of the reformatory work of the sketch, let me present a little scene and report a littlo dialozue which took place between Fiammetta and Brunetta at the 8.B. Club the other evening. Fiommetta, it must be understood, is not by any mrans of the true Daisv-Millar type. She is one of the products of New England life, where that life has not run for many years lifted above the ordinary wear and tear by affluent means. FIAMMETTA COMES OF A . GOOD, RESPECTADLE STOCK, but neither of cxceptionally refined or excep- tionally gifted people. She has lived in the little groove of what might be called a little provincial circle all her life, and up-to a very re- cent date she had oot the remotest idea that her manaers were not modeled upon the highest type of attainable perfection. There was no particular arrogance or egotism in this; it was the unconsciousness of jgnorance. With her home in easy distance of Boston, which she had always peen accustomed to look upon 8s really, and mot satirieally, the Hub of the Universe, she could uot conceive that she had ot absorbed in her limited sphere all the best of its ¢ulture and op- portunity. She went to a popular church, she was a member of several reading ctubs, and other societics for climbing into the hizh walks of culture, she frequented all the picture-gal- leries and art-rooms, and patronized the best pictures with the most candidly-expressed praise or blame. ? SHE DUTIFULLY WENT THROUGH THE ATLANTIC JNONTHLY with generous skioping of the ‘heayy? arti- cles, read the duily papers,—here and - there,— and cousidered hersell, iu virtue of all this, an accomplished und experienced member of so- ciety, a fine specimen of “a Boston voung la- dy,” deserving of consideration from every quarter. In this serene condition in regard to herself she read Daisy Millar. aud, further still, read the various_acclamations aud controversy that arose from the sketch. Violently indignaut at first at what she calls its exeggeration, she presently begins to feel convicted, as we shall see. Scene—S. B. Club, Brunetta—“T was read- ing this morning anotlier ‘view ? of Mr. James’ sketch of Daisy Milfar, and it struck me as nearer the truth of the matter than anything [ had met before. Listen a moment,”—and Brunetta, PULLING FROM HER CHATELAINE DAG A PRI- VATE LETTER, gives us the followine: “I confess that I am upuble to see any ex- aggeration 1n the Daisy Millar gketch, but [ think I can tell what it is that does strike some peoole 28 exagmeration. 1t is simply in Mr. James? foilure of oresentation. He has ot his fact of Daisy Millar, as a fact, all right; that is, the socially uncultivated younsz American girl who, never having been taught or brought up amidst conventional restraints, koows nothing of them; but be fails to carry out his fact by consistent detail. Daisy, his Daisy, expresses herself altozether too well, in too cultivated a manuer at times, lor the char- acter she represents. And in the same manner her mother also fails of consistency. Fancy a woman in real life of Mrs. Millar’s social status, which is nowh:re, and her iznorance, 8 woman who can say at one time of her daughter and the ecrubby little Italian, ¢She's always going round with Mr. Giovan- elli,’ grandly remarking in another pluce and situation, ¢ £ suppose be knows I'm a fady. I WODLD SCORN TO SCOLD HIM.! And young women _of the Daisy stzmp don’t fay ‘as I have hod the pleasure of informing you,” ‘people have different ideas,’ and ‘it would have been most unking.! Instead of ‘most unkind *she would in reality have said, ¢mean,” ‘real mean,’ sud instead of haviug ‘the pleasure’ of ‘informing’ him she would have rattled off, ‘as I told vou before, sir.’ But barring these inconsisten- cies, and _the corresponding inconsistency of a woman of Mrs. Wallier's propriety being upon “terms’ with the pretty valgarian, the char- acter is a true portrait of ~ thousunds of Awmer- ican girls, more’s the pity. Fiammetta—* But I don’t sce why American girls haven’t just as good a right to their inde- pendent on'%inality as people of any other nation. Whewgjravelers 20 to other countries, they speak of the peculiarities of the men and women with respect, as if they had a right to them.” “I have thought of that mysell when Ames icans are criticised. But here is the differen America is ou](' the new, the young Eogland, atter all. We belouE, theretore, not to a strange race, where customs, and babits have descended from genefation to generation. Our customs and ‘habits have always been in the best circles formed upon those of the motlier country, in most respects,— indecd, in all essectials. The persons that have brought upon themselves reproach in foreign countries for TUE FREEDOM AND FLIPPANCT OF THEIR MAN- NERS, are not American types so much as iznorant off- shoots of the uncuitivated American life,” Brunetta got 2 good dealof applause, but Fiammetta did not join in it; sbe only said, cautiously: “Well, I'think you arc right about Mr. James’ failure in representation of the details. I dare say there are Daisy Millars,— plenty of them,—but the trouble is, society is 50 much more cercmonious in large places that some very nice American girls might simply forget, you know, that they were not in their own town, and couldu’s be free and easy as at home, I think, howevyer, thit 1t is really a very good thing that Mr, James wrote this little story,—it will be a sort of re- minder, you know, to some very ice people how they might be misjudzed by Toreigners if they should forect to observe foreian customs.’ Fiammetta, after delivering hersell of this speech, seteled herself back serenely in her chair. Brunetta did not attempt reply; nohody atgempted repiy, but most of us knew now what a dns‘.\lc purpose Mr, James' sketen had served. While I write, the gay cling-clang of sleigh-bells make a merry tumult outside, and one has only tolook out down Beacon street and the long Brighton road to see a dozen Daisy Millars laughing and looking pretty in smart little cut- ters beside their pleased cavaliers. - IT 1S INDEED A VERY OARNIVAL OF SLEIGHING, and the beautiful horses, the clegant yehicles, 4nd the lovely faces sparkling and flushed with the pure air, the swift motion, make a picture every aiternoon uatil twilight which is well worth secing. Anotler thing that is occupying a good many people now is the preparation for the Carnival of Autnors,"” the entertainment to increase the 0ld South Fund, To-nisnt is the ovening night, and the sale of tickets promises a full house. The scene of the carnival is to be in the Music- Hall, where plenty of room will be had for “the pgeneral display and the sep- arate booths from which will cmanate the scparaie details. ‘These booths are variously named for the various authors, each indicating the possibillties from within. For instance, here is the Lonefellow booth, the Dickens booth, the Tennyson booth, the Ara- bian Nights booth, and so_on through the list of poets and authors who have presented suffici- ently brilliant pictures in their writings to favor itlustration in this way. Such au cotertainment 85 this in Boston is always sure of a full house, because it brines into it scores of people who h‘:{ve 2 craviog for the dramatic, and who have “scruples? about the theatre, Here, in a carnival like this, there is a magnificent scenic display, and sufficient dramatic suggestion to fire the imagination. Ope_can meet here Gocthie's Mephistopheles and Marguerite WITHOUT THE SLIGOTEST IMPROPRIETY, and 50 on through the whole range of tamous characters. All'the Christian matrons in town are expected to be present. The programme for to-night is, first, the procession of all the characters of the varfous authors chosen; then Louisa Alcoty will act as Mrs, Jarley in the Wax-Works. Then, in Booth Firsi, five tableaux from Goethe's and_* Faust.” In Booth Second, tableaux from “ Lalla Rookh;? gnom §mh. tadleaux from Tennyson’s Dors,” of Trying's 4 Sleepy Hollow, Dream of Fair Women;”_a Jittle quartette singing, and some actinz. ' In Booth Seventh, scenes from i Oliver Twist,” * Pickwick.” * Cricket on the Hearth,” and a procession of seventy-five per- sons in theDickens characters. In Booth Eight, “ Mistress Mary, quite contrary,” and games and singing. “Won't the Coristlan matrons bave 2 lovely time,” says nauzhty Braoette, * with all this artless fun, suecm‘l{ the opoortunity to pronounce upon the wicked * Faust ! By pest weck I shall hope to present an eye-witness niub; ure of the three evenings, the wicked ** ¥aust," Cliristisn matrons, and all. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Who Will Pay the Bill? 4 To the Editor of The Tribune. CHiCAv0, Jan. 25.—Will you please inform an old citizen of twenty-five vears’ residence in Chicago, and heavy taxpaver, who will have to foot the expenses incurred by the ring Com- missioners of Cook County for goinz to the Capitol at Springfield to witness the big fight gver tle elcction of United States Senator Gen. John A. Logan, OLp CITIZEN, ‘That Crib Man, To the Editor of The Tribune. CnicAcGo, Jan. 25.—While our noble firemen, who are eminently worthy, are sceking an in- crease of salary, and are without doubt richly deserving of it, would it not be well for the Board of Public Warks to consider the neces- sity of increasing the pay of Cbarles Kelstrom, that faitnful and valuadle public servantat the Crib? His family, sick all winter, is cut off from medical aid, and enduring all the bard- ships and dangers of an unprecedentedly cold and severe winter. No taxpayer, I venture to say, would grudge an increase of pay to so valuable and taithful e servant, Let the Board of Public Works attend to this at once. TAXPATER. A Savings Bank Running an Elevator, To the Editor af The Tribune. CuicaGo, Jan. 24.~A statement appears io this morning’s TRIBUNE to the effect thata pe- tition had been filed in the Circuit Courtznd'a license granted to the **Illinois ‘L'rust and Sav- ings Bank” to run and operate the Neeley & Hambleton grain-elevator, on the South Branch. | The depositors in this bauk are interested in the question as to whether or not it is a violation of the charter for a corporation orgenized to take care of savings deposits to o into the clevator business, ana whether this is not such a depart- ure from the objects of the bunk, as definea in the charter, as would result in a lorteiture of the charter if proceedings were instituted for that purpose. If this thing s lawful the bank will 500n be engaged in the dry-goods, boot and shoe, drug, aud grocery business; the whole thing to ¢nd with a slaughter-house. Unim. Rough on the Pacts. 7o the Editor of The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—{ have long admired the high standard attained by your valuable paper; the care with which the True and the Newin Science and Art are prepared for the educstion and enjoyment of a host of readers is praise- worthy; in the branches of painting, musie, and the drama your paperis an able and conscien- tious instructor aud critic. But I only echo the opinion of numerous persors, competent to speak with autbority, when I state that Tue TrIBUSE does not give sufficient attention to the selection of poetical literature, If the ob- ject is to cocourare home genius, you inflict evil that wood (?) may come; if to afford amuse- meut, it is at the expense of literary education. An oceasional classical zem from a volume of Keats, Woodsworth, Tennvson, or a translation from forcign classics, would perhaps cause the local poet to emulate purity in style, and would certainly be instructive to some and de!i{mlul to others. W. L’ D. Fonetic Speling with Comon Tipe. 7o the Editur ov The Tribune. SHERAWGO, Jan. 25.—I am iu favor ov the proposed plan oy speling skording to the sownd ov the wurds. I lope a jeneral interest in the subject wil be revivd. Before the Wor ther waz much atenshun given to the matcr ol over the kuntry; but the exitement ov wor times drove the subject ont ov the publik mind. What a vast saving ov time and labor wud be made if this sistem sliud be adopted. Langwaj iz made for aap, not man for Jangwaj. Many peple wud rite ther leters, speling akording to sownd, only tha wud fere that uth- ers wud not understand the rezon and askribe it tu fenoruns. | ; If now ther waz stasbunary prepard and kept forsale at the stores, which shud hav printed on the bed ovthe furst paj a notis that the shete was intended for fonetik sneling, and per- haps also a fu rules for speiing, then, ! think thoze interested sud bi and use such paper, and the sistem wud be brot rapialy into notis. Sosietivs mite be organized in each sity and hay such sta-hunary printed the kept on the market til the demand was sufishent tu produse its owu suply. This is mi fursy aterapt to spel fonetikaly, and I no that meny ov mi wurds ar not speld akord- ing tothe best fonetik rules. I intend tu be- kum familyar with thoze rules sune, and hope to du beter nekst time, So “au revoir.” % RaDIgAL. The Legal Frateraity. o the Edltor of The Tribune. CmeAGo, Jan. 25.—Whenever any charges are made agafust o member of the Bar the whole {raternity are ready, as one man, to come to the rescuc with ready pen and fluent speech. Skilled in argument, and with plenty of time on their bands, it is not diflicult for them to malke the worse appear the beiter cause. On the other hand, while men engaged inbusiness feel thas they bave no time to attend to such matters, aléo fecl a ereat reluctance to engage in any controversics, and it is only when pressed to it by a sense of duty that they will give their time to the correctfon of any ‘wrongs in the commu- nity. Some days since the writer made a note of the happy munoer in which Mr. Emory A. Storrs, in his interview with a reporter of the New York Graphic, brushed aside all charges made aSainst Judze Blodgett, and settled them to his own satistaction. “Jr. Storrs informed the reporter thatbe understgod one of - the charees (and be thought the main one) brought aguinst Judge B. was for interfering with the Grand Jury in the performs ance of their duties, and he says * there can’t be anything o that_charge,’ for (1) he don’t think much of the Grand Jury svstem. Ivis troublesome and bad to have men around inquiring juto, criminal matters with s0 much power and nof altowether dependent upon the Court and Bar. Thercfore, if the Judge over- stepped the limits of his authority and’ squeleh- ed the Grand Jury, it was all right. @) I Judge B. told Mr. Hibbard to disobiey the Iaw, it was all right, becausc “the snecific ground upon which Judze Blodzett's advice was based came under bis own coustruction of the statute,” That's plain; dou’t you see it? (4) If Mr. Hib- bard @isobeyea u pldiu provision of the law and made a report under oath waich was false, it would be ‘shocking to inJict him as_long us he Liad in bis pocket the permission of Judge B, to do s0. So, in Mr. Storrs' estimation, ki the estimation of ‘ nineteen-twentieths of the Chi- cago Bar,”’ two cminent lawyers (if one is a Judge) can do a lively business in this way with impupity,—one to constrne the law, und the other to break it. And according to the whole tenor of Mr. Storrs’ deliverance, of such fs the kingdom of Heaven. CiT1ZEN, The Patent Law. To the Editor af The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—I saw in Toe TRIBUNE a few days since an editorial advocating a change in the Patent law so 83 to permit any vne to make and scll a patented article by payiog a royalty to the inventor. I think o eritical ex- amination will couvince you of the error of this view. In nine cases oup of ten an inveator fs destitate of business tact und finarcial resources. When these elements are combined he is sure to get the benefit of the protection afford- ed by the Government, when, without any- thing except zeofus, the business man and cap- italist who supplement him nced some protec- tla!.z. Afteranidea is conceived it often re- quires a large amount of money to perfect the invention, and then, if the article s new, a great expenditure must be made to educate the pub- lic on its use before a profit can be realized. If any one could then step in and handle the 20008 there would always be fools euough to Dut prices &t such a fizure that the original plant never conld be realized. Experienced capitalists will seldom invest in a patent for speculation, but they will with a prospect for permanent and profitable employment of their money. It is true that gross abuses have grown up uuder the preseut Patent law. When grreat interests are at stake powertwl parties often obtaiu subsidiary patents, and then by costly litization aud competition force the original in- ventor out of his rights. Criminal as well as civil damages ought o be provided against infrinzers, and this class of piracy placed on the same basis as other robbery. The Government justly attempts to determine whether an appii- cant is entitled-to a patent ornot. When a patent is issued an infringement ought not to party has gone inta court and demanstrated the error. There is a disposition oo the part of in- 'ventors to cram into a patent as many claims as possibie, or to Zet out n great maoy protective patents never used, which stand asa constant threat to the oublic. The rule ought to be to declare & patent invalid if auny claim in it was found so. This would compel inventors to con- fine themselves strictly to the zist of what they invent. Pateuts oughit to be cancelled when the article is mot zenerally introduced within a reasopable length of time. This noic is not sent for publication, but baving experienced some of the evils of our patent legislation I sub- mit my conclusions for your personal considera- uon. Respectfully, GEeoxeE H. Briss. The Chamberiain Case. To the Editor of The Tribune- Cnicaco, Jan. 25.—I noticed au article in your ‘paper to-day which does s patient of mine sn injustice, as the followlne statement will show: On last Thursday evening about 6 o'clack a young man rushed into my oflice wanting a doc- tor to attend his mother at 148 West Monroe street, who was injured, baving a wound . in the head. [ asked bim where the wound was, and he said ¢ Here,” pointing to about thecentre of the forehcad. I told him the skull was very thick there, and to auiet down, that it might be only a flesh wound. I ‘went over to his home, and found his mother, Mrs. Mary Cham- bertain, with a wound un the forebead, about three inches long, cut_through to the bone. I dressed the wound, and, on leaving, Mr. Cham- berlain stated that he wanted to show me where she had fallen; so he touk a light, went oat on the sidewalk, and there was a pool of blood. [ then started for my oftice. I called yesterday to see her, and she made the following state- ment: ‘Toat herself and busband went out for a drive to Centrat Park fast Thursday after- noon, leaving home about 3 o'clock, and re- turned between 5 and 6 o'clock, and drbve up to the door. She got out of the sleich on to the sidewalk, and Mr. Chamberlain drove around to the barn, which is in’the rear of the :residence. She was hit with some weapon on the forchead, and knockéd senseless and robbed of $180 in’ money, which was in & pocket-book in the pocket of her dress. [t also contained two gold rings, fruit-knife, and two keys to box in. Fidelity Safe Depositors; also some valuable papers; which are of nonse ex cept to the owner. When Ar. Chamberlain came from the barn be found her . sepseless on the sidewalk, and carried ber {oto the house. The Chemberlains arca bighly respected family, always mind their vwn business, and - bave re- sided in this city for twenty-two years, and it 18 ny opinion, from the appearance of the wound and the adiacent parts, which I can bave sub- stantiated, she she was hit with a slung- shot' and Kknocked scnseless, and, should the blow have been on the temporal boue, she would be in eternity. R. Tmsopo, M. D. Constabler, To the Editor of The Tribune. CHIcAGO, Jan. 25.—Constables have been cussed and discussed from all sides, and vo one as yet has found anything to say in their favor, The * pcople ” seem to forget that they elect these men to the office they hold,—and they elect just such men as they want. Aa ‘ houest” Constable is not wanted—would starve to death, in fact, from the Iegal fees of the office. "There are in the three towns forming the City of Chi- cago thirty-eight Constableg,—in the county towns as many more,—all doine business in the city;m all about seventy-five of these officers. As there fs “legal” work for not mnore than onc-fourth of tne number, liow are they all to live but by taking illegal fees? The lawyers, too, are in 2 great measure re- sponsible for the illegal way in which the busi- ness is done. They want their cxecutions col- lected, no. matter what measures are used; if the Constable objects to do their bidding on the srround of illezality, they have no use for him,— they can get one who is not so scrupulous,—so that 8 Constable with a * conscience * will soon find bimself ont of business. 1 have been sev- eral years in the business, and can * talk from the book.” There is but one remedy for the trouble complained {of in regard to this offize. Abolish it. Let the business be ruu like the Sherift’s oftice. Elect one man to the oflice of +¢ High Constable,” wha shall be responsiblefor the acts of as many deputies as may be requircd. Any one havinz a wrong io complain of wili know where to go for redress, instead, as now, to bunt among the seventy-five irresponsible men. Let the office be = salaried one. One-half of the fllegal fees now extorted from the poor would be ample to run the oflice as it should be. It would also do away with most of the trouble complained of in Justice’s Courts. The oflice of ‘*Justice” is merely a collecting ageocy,” and a Justice’s busméss depends on the facflity with which which debts can be collected through his office. So the more unscrupnlous the Constables of a Court, the more business will be “brought to that Court. Under the present exemption laws, not one execution in a hunared can be Iegally collected ; if collected at all it is simoly extoried from those who arc really unable to pav. The cred- itor has exhausted all patfence before he brings suit, but once brought, he cares not what means are used 50 he ets his ;money; s0 he says to the Constable, whose fee depends on his suc- cess, “ Go for him.” As I said before, the ‘““people” make the Constables what they are by requiring_them to do their bidding,—regardless,—and it ill be- comes a man to find fault wich the feo’s with Wwhich he does his wurk;, even if_he does fret cut with them. ONE or Tz, Senator Bash's Mortgage Biil. To the tastor of L' Tridune. CHICAGO, Jan, 25.—The laws of Illinois re- latinz to foreclosure of mortgaces of real es- tate sre so unjust that it is strange that no amendment has been made even before the ex- celleut bill Iately introduced by the Hon. D. N. Bash, of Chicazo. | The existing law is all in favor of the cred- itor, and gives him all that the most areedy Shyloek can demand; itis framed on the “pound-~ of-flesh » prineivle. - Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other States have bad on their statute books for many years laws in substance the same as that proposed by Senutor Bash. - Chap. 140, Sec. 36, Laws of Massachusetts, provides: “1f, after foreclosure of a mortgage, the creditor recovers a judement for any part of the debt on the ground that the value of the mortgaged premises at the time of the fore- closure was lcss than the sum due, such recoy- ery shat! open the foreciosure, und the person en- titied may redeem the premises, notwithstand- ing the three Jears limited in that behalf may nate Bxpll:'cll. 4 Massachusetts, with an equity of redem of tliree years instead of a barc fuelve nwu!i:s':i:g in tp'lls State, gives hc‘{ debtors this additional equity in case the creditor will Lot rest say by taking the land for his debt. LRl ‘The laws of Illinois ought to protect the resi- dent borrower of money as well as the Toreign lenaer. : 3 Of conrse the hackneyed cry is raised of & lating the Constitution,” euf,—a cry ;:‘rise;x; favor of slavery acainst freedom, a Cry raised in opposition to every reform neasure ever pro- P stice ava n justice aud equity the tact ought to by coguized, even by courts, that a dollar a4 the time of foreclosure, in times like these, is \worth ‘I.Iluuflal vrhu.l it Wfl wnanme debt was incurred; it the value and purchasing el is Euubled. a PEE ofioney et the creditor then be satisfied to take morteaged land for his debt, land wnlcl}z‘-vtv‘;: once worth twice the amount of thatdebt, prob- ably, when the Joan was iade, ¢ L is urgred that Senator Bash’s law.sconl - couraze bidders st foreclosure sales, b::di‘?i!s notorious that in times of depression there is no market for real estate anyway, and nobody buys nt]mese sales except credilors 1o protect them. selves. In rood timies, when there is a mark i T et, debtor can sell his property, poy his debt, ::1):3 own the surplus, orif foreclosurs is made the purchaser gets a mood title, for in good times the land will gell for emough _at least to puy the debt. As to * driving away capital,” this Jaw will no more brine about that calamity (with our (high Tates of interest beld out to money-lenders) thao it bas in Massuchusetts or in other States. Shylocks will bowl, but the mass of our eur: zeus will rejoice at the Passage of Mr. Basl's proposed law. Equiry. A Modern Society Drama. To the Editor of The Tribune. Cr1cAco, Jan. 24.—A somewhat remarkable case came into my office 2 few days since, A very stylish Jady about 30 years of awe n;xd a rathier plethoric, well-to-do gentleman, dosired me tg give them an opinion on the legality of c&rtn}n proceedings. The lady having been married everal times, and baving four children living, she was anxioys to know whether they were legitimate in the eye of the law, her escort seemingly being anxious to uniln: 0 marriage with my fair' client unless a stain appeared upon her hozor. Becowing n’?acl_essly bewildered in its recital, 1 desired She would write out a history of her life and send it to me. it came as follows: - | murriaze we had Willie.) DEAT: Mu. Snirs: 1 hnve 0 2 one a ed. Having worked In 60 nbstrace oont oo e meclosed. Your friend, = Mant E. Ruopg; .S, —Fhther's name was John Smith -V MY LIPE. 1. Jotin Smith to Adolphus Claire: Special ranty (marriaze), Sept. 10. 150, reciies Yoy Junn Smith beancntlis. krants, devises, wad - Smith 10 marigges unto Adolphus Cinire, Mary E. aze 16 ary E. Claire to William Johnstone: pase, duly 8, 1561, recites that in coneri of ‘bad treatent by A, Clai E. 0 and_of symoatey by W ilin Johustone for Ao air¢ she mortzages her said J nnsxon(g. @ Coniiy, T Y. Circuit Court, —— County, Indian; E. Clafre: Divorce, eraned Dec. o sogii? Mary B. Claire. ant D(Ql fl!uflfl(—, ¥ " ‘ounty Cleric of —— County, Ilinoi Johnstone and Mary K, Claire: St S Feb. 21,1662, (By g 5. — Court, — County, Utah Ter., to fam Johnstoae! Divorce, 4ue: 5, 1957, Dok Tecites that, twbereas it appeass that Mary E. Johne stouc has for more than two years deacried Wil 1am Johnstone and defendant not appearing, g, cree :nl‘nlrd. o = s 6. William Johneton to Uriah Thomas T. Johustone: Quib-elaim, Ang.1, lbfiian]dh)cl.g that. in consideration of Mary E., his wife, not defending n certam suit for divoree, William Johg: stone releases and waives all ciaims to ber by reg: son of informality or'liegality,of praceedings . 7. Grand Jury of Coanty, N. Y., to Ma; E:Thomas: Acquittal, May 15, 1808, of fay s plcion that her late lamented husband, Uri Thomas, came to his death by her hand Urian left me another little wanderer, —Nettie, ) §. County Clerk Connts to Mary E. Thom. as and Jomes Z. Rhodelive: Marridee-licenss June 21, 1871. (Harry and Georgie were thy fruits of our love.) 9. Heirs-of ‘James Z. Rhodeline vs.. Mary B, Rhodeline: Bill to contest will. March 30, 1877~ Decrea recites that, 03 my divorce from Adolphny Claire_was obtaingd by frand, I was not legally married to James Z. Rbodeline, und taat [ at oney tusn oves 10 bis helrs all the property he left me i s will. B = d o Hayine carefully examined her abstract I wrote her as follows: va s Mapax: T have carefally examined the faclosed papera. Siore. Cause, incompativility, Defends It1s my opinion that twenty-five years ago yon would lhave been vigorously prosecutéd for bizamy, and that your chiléren wonld. have becy, looked nipon with suspicion. At the present time, howevor, siich things are become quite fashions® ble. Tossessing youth, beanty, exverience, and seandal, you will now be lionized by society as g heroine, ~ I will #ive no advice 1 to future mare riages. but I will'say that afould you again marry, uniess Mr. Claire or Mr. Johnstone'sce it to pros. ecute, yon have no need to fear the law vindicac. ing itself. As tney are both now Lappily remar. ried, there seems no likelihood of any interruption of fature bliss. Your social position havine bao enhanced rather than diminished. I can see no reason why you ehould 7ail to shine astve brighta cet gem iu the safoons of ‘modern aristocracy. T am, madam, fWith great respect, your obedient’ servant. . . ABRAHAM S1vEIys. Gen. Grant and the Corkonlans, To the Edlior of The Tribune. : CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—In a recent issue of yomr ably-edited and widely-circulated journal, I haps read & long editorial article, in which the cors poration of the ®Athens of Ireland,” the “ Beautiful Citie of Cork,” fell under the con« dempation of yogr trenchaat pen for notaceord- iz to the extremely taciturn soldier-statesman,' Gen. Graut, 4 publicreception. The rebulke you then administercd to tke Town Couneil of Cori was, in my estimation, couched in rathertos barsh lauguage, as it tended to demonstrats that the entire enlightened and liberal-minded population of the city approved of the disgrace- ful course pursued by a few gentlemen in the Town Council towsrds Gen. Grant. Now, the views entertained by these sentlemen abont Gen. Grant’s speech, waich was delivered in some town in Towa, Bo more - fleet the scntiments of the high-tainded; diseriminating, and liberty-loving citizens ‘'of Cork than did the assembdlez des irois tailleurs of Tooley strect represent the caltare, business capacity, and respectability of the citizens of the great -mctrovolis ‘of Eneland. Thess ob- servations will be most indubitably corroborated: br an article from the Cork Lzaminer of Jan. 6 which I now subjoin. This influential and gcholarly-edited journal is the leading orean of Catholic public opinion in tie South of Ireland; ana was founded by the illustrious and. ace complished author, scholar, and statesman, the late deeply-lamented Joha Fraueis Mazuire, M. P, Tle present cditor-in-chief is a gentleman of rore and varied literary attainments: ‘We cannat say that we guite approve the manner in whicl the méntion of Gen. Grant's intention to- yigit Cork was received in tie Town Council on Fris day. We bave never atiected admiration far the General as 2 politician, or even as - sokdler: 1l succesd in the laiter capacity alvwuys seemed tons ta have been produced less by skill than by tha do- termination, ~ haviny the preponderance of re- sources. to win by flingine away men’s livesat bota sides, knowing tuat insuch a coniest the sume must lie with him who has the most 10 eacrifce. His Administration wus not without merit, havinzdons something to bridee over the Zuif thag the Civil War tind Teft between the -North and the South. Dut it was not marked by any conspicnous virtoes, aud was open to the charge of rather Difter secta- rianism. Therc eeemed 8 moment when, in tho desperation at sceing ofiice pess from his hands, be s capable of raisingthe Know-Nottinz ery. But, heppily pechaps for himself, happily unques- tionably for America, it was too palpable that his season was passed, and he slipped quietly ot of the place '.Enl. in all hikelthood witl know him no more. Tjut he has Yornea stamp that ouzht at all times to be rezarded with respect by Irishmen. I hay been Fresident of the - United States. Be has been for eight years the chosen ruler of that country whivh contains more people of Irish descent than Great Britain and Ireland, and which is certainly united to Ircland by stronger ties ol sympathy and_kinsbip than any other under the sun. 1tis in bis capacity of quondam ruler of the United States that he has been received and feted, and wkat we fear is, lest any discourtesy shown to him may seem to be in any way applied to the ligh office he once filled, and the great peopls of whom he was once the representative.. On that acconnt, though we should not pert:aps have desired any exuberant cbaliition of enthusiasm, we should like that the name of the ex-President were re- ceived with that respect nttaching to the position wit which it has been 1dentifled. ~ We gather from tue spcech of Gen. Grant, delivered ar the enter- tainment of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, thas the General has altered his intention of visiting Cork; at least, such I8 the interpretation we place npon his intimation that Le is not likeiy to see the biarney- stone. 1f this nas been caused by the belief that his reception fere won!d be of an unfricndly pa- ture, we regret it. On that point, however, wo fancy there must be a misapprehension in hismind. The corporation mizht determine 10 abstain from any formal act of recomnition on personal gronads, but we are quite satisted the citizensat large would gee it was their duty to receive him with resoect, even though cordiality was impossible. From the teuor of the foregoing artide,‘m. Editor, it is maniiestly evident that the “a- suit ” offered to Gen. Grant by the searlet-robed Aldermen and black-robed Councilors, who, £ must admit, are gentlemen of surpassingly rore and briliiant inteilectual acquir emcuts, emanated from a deplorably imperfect knowl- edge of the profane history of the mighty Re- public of the West, or was the offspring of that religious marrow which satnrated all over with the oil of prejudice. Itisto be regretted that Gen, Grant did not proceed to the Capital of the South of Ireland, notwithstanding the op- probrium and indiguity which a few gentlemen, acting 1o a corporate capacity, #ndeavored toat- tach to his name, and I am sure, if he did, be would get a cead mulle yaithe from the warme hearted and gencrous people of the shamrock- decked Snnny South which he would find would be 10 keeping with the traditional aud proverbial hospitality of onc of the most sineularly uo- fortunate races that ever Sprung from the bosom of mater terra. AucHAEL NOONAE. ~ | —_———— MY DREAM. Teleot, and T drcamt that you gently drewness, _ . And plnced 8 soft hand on my brow; And the low, tender words that fell on my ear, In faucy I bear even now. Idreamt that yon took both my hands in your oWk And asked was the day full of care, And spoke of the days that forever are flown, When you belped me my burden to bear. Besida me you sat, with yonr fair head bent Iow, And left on my face a caress: : 1 wondered (in dreams one can wonder, yor know) 1t Heaven coald give greater bliss. You said, though the past had been heavy to beat, Before me there beamed a bright day; And sou whisbered, No sky was ever 30 fa1r But some cloud upon it must lay. You knelt as you geea in the days long ago, Commitiing my way unto God'; And, as your loved accents fell softly and lowW, I woke with a start and sob. _ Tawoke with a sob, for never your hand Shall I hold, or voice xhall I'hear: For long ance you went to the far better Land, And only in dreams linzer near. Cuicaco, Jun. 16, 1579, Lauia UNpexmiLls _— b LIFE. Nothing is lost, or ever wholly wasted; Our very sins impel us np. . Oniy throngh pai the fullest joys are tasted * From out Lire's cnp! After the §1orm and the sca’s nproar, Douoly sweet the peacefal shore To the worn sailor. Eternal justice unieriics the r Not always throuvh the eyes we za-es Of onr two lives, the unseon is (he beaty Thougli ta the other is ta peafse. From greatest falls we rise And lal the very scar and pain Are ourreminders] PagiF. Browse, ¢ R A A R R RS i e (3