Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1880, Page 10

16 CHICAGO TRIBU SUNDAY 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES ‘WEST OF CITY LI A RADIUS OF SEVEN principle of Alexander’s solution of THE STAGE. The Character of Campbell’s New Play for the Union Square. Ada Cavendish—Her Failures and Her Successes. Theatrical Notes-- Foreign and Domestic. Our Professional Directory—Location of Stars and Combinations. CAMPBELL’S NEW PLAYS. In the course of a chat with Bartley Campbell the other day he told us one or two things which may be interesting to the theatrical reader. Bartley, since he leaped to the hight of his pop- ularity, has been a very much interviewed man; indeed, you can scarcely take up @ paper, poilt- ical, dramatic, scientific, philosophic, or artistic, ‘ut you are confronted with Campbell's opin- fone on copyright, Campbell's views on the morality of the stage, what Campbell thinks of dramatic construction, Campbell's views on the modern school of acting, and all about Campbell's ideas concerning the ancient Greek plays. We are told of Campbell's babyhood, Campbell's boy- hood, Campbelt’s struggies, and Campbell's rapid accumulation of 4 per cent Government bonds. Campbell is paying the penalty of greatness. In the midst of bis interviewings, of investments of money, entertainments to friends, and the direction of five or six companics, it is a matter for wonder where be finds time to write the plays he is said to have in preparation for cer- tuin New York theatres. But he does find time, and he is just now pbuilding a play which, it is expected, will open the Union Square Theatre next season. “I haven't named it yet,” said Bartley, al- luding to this coming work. “It is a domestic drama. There is in it a powerful emotional part. Yes,the play is American. It deals with Eastern ife. The story opens in the moun:ains of Pennsylvania, and the last scenes are inid at Newport in the season. J think I've struck a good vein incomedy,—a man who.owing to the scrious bent of his mind and expression was originally intended for the ministry, but who, 4n the chances of life, has drifted on to the stage, where, instead of playing Hamlet, Romeu, or Richard.—the roles he gloried to play.—he was selected to act low comedy, owing to the serious xravity of his face. Everybody bus laughed at him all his life, and the horror of being con- sidered a funny man is the bane of his existence. The serious interest of the play deals with the desertion of a young girl by her young busband, who, socially. is above her. The heroine becomes un actress in order to carn a living for herself end child—a daughter. Sudsequentiy this child js deserted by the mother, and the child. de- serted by father and mother. ultimately proves the link which reunites the family. One of the strongest scenes in the play, I think, is where the daughter pleads with her mother to give up a lover who is betrothed to a friend of the Jormer. During the interview the mother rec- ornizes her own child in the petitioner. In an indirect. way 1 am trying to show some of the pure gold that Hes imbedded, in the hearts ot people whom a large section of the Christian world scorns and condemns, while they them- selves Iack ail the elements of that charity Hutch should permeate their sayings and loings."" “What about ‘Matrimony '?” “That is finished,” said Mr. Campbell, “and will open Daly's season. It is a piece of domes- ticity in 2 framework of frivolity. It is a com- edy. The chief male character fs that of a newspaper man,—one of those knowing fellows who can give you advice upon everything, from nursing an infant to the most abstruse science. He advises a young husband how to manage a young wife. He sets the whole house by: the ears, and he tumbles intoa peck of trouble.” In May Mr. Campbell intends to make a trip to London, where at the Princess' ‘Tho Galley Slave” and “Fairfax” will be produced. Later “My Partner™ will probably begiven the Lon- doners.’ All foreign rights for the latter play are owned by Mr. Campbell. The MS. of “The Galley Slave” has gone to Berlin, Germany, where arrangements are being made, if they are not completed, for an early presentation. The same play has been translated, we understand, for an Italian theatre. In view of the popular- ity of his works in this country, andthe demand trom abroad, it is scarcely news to say that there 4s no dramatic author in the world at the present day who is claiming more attention than Mr. Campbell. and we question whether there is an- other more money. MISS ADA CAVENDISH. A dramatic event of much importance occurs on Monday evening, namely, the reappearance at McVicker’s of Miss Ada Cavendish. The career of this Jady in America has been a singular one in some respects, From a high position on the English stage she at the be- ginning of last season came to this country, and for eight or ten months met with peculiarly hard fortune, solely on account of the stupid manner fa which she was managed. Wsth an indifferent company she made her début at an obscure New York theatre, yet in spite of these obstacles she made an emphatic artistic success. Immediate- ly upon the conclusion of this engagement she was whisked away to Canada, and thence hur- ried from one distant point to another in the tmost aimless way until, owing to the effort to faithfully fulfill the contract with her agent, a serious illness overtook the lady. Everywhere she had received the highest indorsementsof the press. and had left the impression of a remark- able mind and of true drumatic fire. Owing to the extraordinary method of conducting busi- ness on the partof her management, the tourwas a financial failure. It was a string of needless truubles imposed upon her by the stupidity or wrong-doing of persons whom she trusted. It was rumored that Miss Cavendish mtendedtoreturn tw England, and that our public would see her no more, but the energetic lady upon ber recovery: in the summer of last year—a most unfavorable geuson—appeared at’ Wallack’s. There Miss Cavendish acted Reésalind, Julia, and Aftxs Gwilt, and made one of the brightest successes of her whole dramatic year. er good fortune during the present season has been in striking contrast w her failure of last yexr. It may be stated that Miss Cavendish first at- tracted attention in 1865 at the Prince of Wale: Theatre, London, a8 an actress in burlesque. Her first appearance at the Haymarket was in 1866 in a comedietta entitled “A Romantic At- tachment.” At the same theatre in 1569 she was the original Mra. Pinchbeck in Robertson's com- edy of “Home.” Subsequently at the Haymar- ket she acted the réles of the Marchesa San Pietro in_a revival of Palgrave Simpson's “Marco Spada,” Diana in_ Marston's drama of it name, and Jtdia in ~ The Hunch- vack.”” In each she made rapid progress in pop- ular favor, and in 1673 she created the character of Merey Merrick. On Monday evening she will appear in “ Laay Claucarty,” the following people figuring in’ the cast: Mr. §. W. Pierey, Mr. E. A. Eberle, Mr. J. F. Hagen, Mr. J. Carhart, . Mr. L. Eddinger, Mr. J. Matthews, Mr. ram, Mr. Henry James, Mr. George Christy, Mr. Harry Moray, ‘Mr.G. Spangler, Miss Helen S wick, Mrs. E. A. Eberle. Josie Wilmere. LOCAL NOTES. , Bartley Campbell left for New York last Right. Hooley, it is said, is doing well with his new venture ja Boston. Miss Kate Putnam, the soubret, appears at Hamlin’s on Monday evening. “Tom Brown’s Mosquitoes.” we are told, reached the city from Texas or Thursday. “Ben McCullough,” with Oliver Doud Byron in the leading role, to-morrow night at the Academy. To-morrow evening Sprarue’s Minstrels be- gin a week's season at the Olympic. The Oates company follow. “The Galley Slave” at Haverly’s and “Hearts of Oak” at Hooley’s will be presented during the coming week. “Lost at Sea" will be presented for the last time this evening at the Olympic. The piece bas drawn fairly well during its run. Mr. Frank M. Kelch, the advance of Barnum's Circus, wes in town yesterday. The “own and only prentese appears on the Lake-Front on May 3) ‘Miss Annie Morgan, who was under engagrec- Ment to travel with Mrs. Soott-Siddons, has found it necessary to throw up her contract. She has gone to Brooklyn to fill dates. Vie Reynolds bus had a farcical comedy writ- ten for ber by a Boston journalist, Having made ah engagement with Rice for the Surprise Party, it isn't Likely she will appear in it for some time. atoreinie Hoon ey compan has Deer i orminized, the following people being in the troupe: John W. Burton. bd Melvar, I. Dilks, Charles Thorpe, Harry J. Mortimer, Charles Hooker, Miss Annie Burton, Miss Marion Dun- uing, and Miss Belle Wallace. They take the rond on tho: ‘ickel, the prestidigitateur, yesterday closed bis engagement at Central Music-Hall. In many of his tricks this gentleman exhibits considera ble cleverness, and had be only that flow of ready talk which characterized Heller and which gerves Herrmann to such good purpose he would undoubtedly occupy @ much more prominent place than he hotds. Apurt from this drawback, the wizard at Ceuiral-! furnished an amusing entertainment. e following fs sent in for publication: “The caneruve ‘Theatre and ‘Publishing Ascociation, organized under the laws of the Stave of Illinois, with 0. A. Bishop, President, A. M. -Ginsgow, Secretary, commence a series of entertain- mentsat the Twelfth Street Turner- Hall Wednes- day, March 21. The object of the Association is to furnish first-class musical and dramutic performances at prices to suit the means of the workingman and his family, and building o theatre capable of accommodating 4,000 to 5,000 people, the performances to be tree from poli- tics or religion.” John. Allen, we believe, will be the business manager of this concern, and Harry Bell and Kate Gilbert have been engaged as members of the company. LOTTA’S FIRST EXPERIENCE. “ When I first went on the stage,” Lotta has been telling an interviewer, “in the summer of 1858,—-twenty years ago, by the way,—I deter- mined to onginate an entirely new school of acting. You may laugh, but my first idea was tragedy, and I actually had the part of Lady Macbeth committed to memory. The successful lady stars at that time were Lucille Western and Kate Bateman, and I felt that if there was any money to be made it must be in the same line they were in. On Christmas Day, 1863, 1 was stopping with a friend in St. Louts, when Li cille Western visited that city and played .“ East Lynne" atone of the theatres. I went tosee her for the first time. At the conclusion of the performaney L concluded that tragedy or emo- onal acting was not my forte, for I was as witnessed before after hiav- ashamed of puny efforts, the mirror in my_ dressing-case, ing seen what Lucille Western could do in the same - line. was thoroughly disheartened, and sat down and bad a real good cry. The friend at whose house I ‘was stopping,” continued Lotta, * was @ promi- nent newspaper man, and had a penchant for entertaining members of the thestrical profes- sion. Go there when you would, you were always certain to find some actor xt his table, ‘Well, on this Christmas Day I was telling you of, when I came down to tea, my eyes still red with weeping, I found an elderly, good-natured, Zood- looking ‘gentleman there, I was not a litle fiurried on his being introduced to me as John Brougham, thecelebrated actor and play-writer, for 1 was not then so well used to meeting celeb- rities as Iam now. I am sure Mr. Brougham must have thought me a little goose, for L had uot spoken to him two minutes before the rec- ollection of my disuppointment again welled up jn my mind, and the tears came to my eyes. ean never forget how he questioned me as to what was the matter, and bow kindly and father- jy he wormed out of me my secret. “The truth is, dear sis,’ said he, after learn- ing the full extent of my atiliction, ‘you have chosen the wrong branch of the profession. This rage for weeping and wailing will soon run Out, and the peop! je will demand a more cheerful performance. Take to the soubrets, my girl.— there is more money in that. What you want is to hit on something odd and peculiar. Give the people something new. The American people are great for novelty, and will put a fortune into the purse of the one who pleases them." be Paia not soon forget what he had told me. I am a great girl for action, and when I take any- thing into my head, instead of dreaming over it, Ygo energetically to work. But. for the life of me, I couldn't think what school of acting to choose, untii one day in Chicago, at a hotel where 1 was stopping, I came across the counterpart of the mischievous creature, known throughout the length and breadth of the land us Lotta. She was a little miss of 10 suinmers, and_as provoking a little imp as was everborn. She was up to all sorts of tricks and comicalities, and yet. in spite of her mis- chief, one could not help loving her. In a word, she was at once the terror and delicht of the house. Isawin an instant where an original character could be found, and begun tostudy the oddities of the little elf. Then I would goto my room and practice what she had done. In the farce of “Nan, the Good-for-Nothing,” there occurs a splendid opportunity for introducing the vagaries of 8 spoilt, wayward cltild. How. well I succeded in that farge, and in other. kin- dred plays written especially with a view to in- troducing these oddities, my career for the last fifteen years will attest. I had no trouble. I swam at once into public favor, partly by good Juck, partly by the oddity of the thing, but chiefly by the. wisdom and enterprise of good managers, to whom successful stars owe more eee they have often the cundor to acknowl- edge.” PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. ‘The following stars and combinations will, during the coming week, play at the placcs named. Managers and agents please forward routes by Friday ot each week: “All the Rage"... West Meriden, Conn, .24 ‘New lirtiain, Conn.es. 25 Be a Ei ey ize S 3 Abbey's Pantomime. “ Alvin Jeslin”... one, In... ‘Marshalltown, Ta, Cedar Rapids, 1 Clinton, Ja, Dubuque, ».ftochester N Abbey’s “Fairfax”. Boston Theatre ‘Big Four Minstrels. Jed Wing, Minn. Wi Madison, Wis.. Milwaukee, «+-Boston.. ‘Gelina, “Ais. ‘Meridian, Miss. Jackson, Miss. Boston Ides! re. BW. P. & We Monmouth, 1). Beardstown, a Tarwell, Mase... ‘Worcester, Ainss.. Springfield, Mass. lols oke ‘Troy, N. “Fun on the Bristol”. Florence, Mr. and Mrs. Gray, AdB.....-.-2-+2+00. “Galley Slave,” No.. “Galley Slave,” No. Grau’s French Opera. Haverly's Mastodons, Haverly's Georgias ... Lotta. McOull Murphy, Joseph. “My Partner™... Mitchell's Pleasant McKee Rankin..... Decatur, 0. Springtield, Palmer, Minnk Pixley. Annie. Raymond, Job: Roberws’" Hmp'ty Dav Richmond & Von Boy! Rentz-Santler. Stevens, John A. Strakosch, hern, B.A ‘Vifany, Annie Wat ‘Thompson, Den. “Utica, N Oswego, B. Syricuse, Huchester, 6 Wallace, Minnie... “Wabash. nd i in Webber, Harry.......00-+. Weathersby-Goodwin GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP. Jennie Yeamuans Is tho soubret of the “ All the Rage” party. “Nym Crinkle ”.is now on the staff of the New York Graphic. “13-14-11 " is said to be the name of the latest Western company. Miss Ellie Wilton is seriously fl with typhoid pneumonia.—Mirror. Warren L. Brigham, formerly a Boston actor, @icd last week. His age was 34. Hennequin's new farce, at the Paris Palais Royal, “La Corbeille de Noce,” is afailure. “La Moabite,” by Paul Deroulade, is 0 play announced at the Comedie Frangatsee oe “Chawles” wes replaced with “Champagne and Oysters" at the New York i sg Ossie Park Theutre It is again given out that Salvini will act in America next season unde: : of Sir. Haverly. eRe management It is rumored that Mr. Kendall, of the St. James, London, will sever hi e ee er his connection at the ‘William H. Jones, Inte stage manager of th New National, Phiindelphia, Dokjaw in That clip on the Lith. Pam dled of lockjaw in Joseph Hatton and Charles oration, have written a Tes Dicketis, ecole ded on Edwin Drood, which ee ae the Princess’, Londun. bas been accepted for The accident to Zo at the London Aquarium has raised a chorus of indignation i; against such performances. ‘She pe trapeze suspended ninety feet in the air Tata: net Recently the net broke. Zico fell through, and by a miracle escaped being smashed to pieces. : .xperiment of a summer theatre—not a makes ‘t place of light entertainment, but o handsome establishment with the best dramatic erformances—is likely to be made this year at Vantasket Beach or Revere Beach, near Boston. pe Two Orphans” will be revived at the ain Square "Theatre on Monday. The parts formerly filled by Messrs. Rankin and MacKay will be intrusted to Messrs. Courtaine and Ram- es Jewett and Harrison will be the y. Mis: Orphan ‘Thorne the Chevalier, Mr. Parselle the Duke, Mrs. Phillips the Duchess, Miss Cowell the Marianne, etc. A On the second night of.‘ Daniel Rochat ” the disturbance was still worse than on the first. This time the gods had possession of their own domains and they were on Rochat's side. Cheers and counter hisses, which lasted for more than half an hour, interrupted the third act, “ A bas Jes casquettes!” c! the stalls. “A bas les chapeaux claqués!” replied the gods. Mean- while the nctors on the stage were silenced. Delaunay stood and waited. Mile. Bartet, who was playing Leah Henderson, quietly sat down till the row was over. ANew York paper says a bill is before the Legislature which proposes to permit the sale of beer in theatres, or, in other words, to supple- ment the attractions of the stage with the temp- tations of a ariuiinyroatiion: ltis gratifying to know that Messrs. Wallack, Haverly, Mackaye, Daly, Palmer, Mose, Bireh, and Backus. and other: managers of reputable ‘places of amuscinent buye sent a petition to Albany protesting vigor- ously against the passage of the act, which, they iy, Would tend to the degradation of the pro- ssion to which they belong. In a notice of Clura Morris’ new play, “The Soul of an Actress,” published in the New York Trine, the writer sensibly remarks that the stage inour day gets fully its share of every- thing, and that there is no loud cull for a senti- mental view of the social status of members of that profession. It inny not be amiss to add that persons who have known many actresses cannot fail to be aware that while, as a class, they are a little harder and more selfish than the most hard and selfish of other women, their “souls” differ in uo marked attribute from those of average humanity, There ismuch bosh in circulation respecting the trials and priva- tions and hurd fate and enormous strain and wild temptations to which these ladies are sub- jected.—the fet, meantime, being that they are a prudent, self-sufficent, saving, calculating, well cared-for, and magnificently pnid class, ans that they occupy in the attention of society ‘and the consideration of the press space and prom- inence such as is not accorded even to men like Disraeli and Bismarck, Emerson and Tennyson, or Huxiey and Darwin. Mrs. Johanna Coleman Pope, once a favorit actress, last Wednesday died in Indianapolis. Hee age was 71. Mrs. Pope was born at Strat- house, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, En- gland, April 27, 1809, and passed the earlier years of her life in that locality. She made ber début in_ Sussex, England, us Mrs. Haller in the “ Stranger, Subsequently, she appeared 23 dJidia, Portia, Mrs. Beverly, Belvidera, and inother purts, being associated with Charles Keane and Richard Young, Macready and Nesbit. in isi6 she came to this country. She was playiug with Macready in New York at the time Edwin For- rest headed the Astor House mob, and, fired by jealousy, attacked the theatre in which the ‘company was performing. She was Mucready’s favorite Juliet,and supported that eminent actor during the most of his brilliant carcer, She re- tired from the stage after the suicide of her hus- band, who was insane for several years before his death, and bas since been the instructress in elocution of several of the most prominent actors now before the public. Among her pu- pila Lawrence Barrett is numbered, she having given him instructions many yeurs ago. — FRESH EARTH AS A DISINFECTANT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. CricaGco, March 20.—The value of fresh earth as a disinfectant is not sufficiently known, nor is its use where its merits are theoretically recog- nized as general as it should be. It seems to be so much more certain and easy to procure some vaunted nostrum at 8 drugstore that is war- ranted to do its work that the more simple and effectual agent that Nature has so bountifully provided is given the go-by, * Soil to be etfectuul must be rightly used. Were the offensive matter is massed and buried it would require far more earth to cleanse it. De- caying matter put in a deep pit will not be benefited much more by the earth walls which surrounded it than were they of stone, and were it boxed and quite deeply buried under ground it would still exhale poisonous gases. Earth should be as finely broken up as possi- ble. finely comminuted soil is good, and then applied thoroughly, the more thoroughly the better, but covering well over will do. The immediate con- tact of the earth with decaying matter stops the generation of gases, and processes of ab- sorbtion or chemical assimilation more or less completely render the sequence harmless. Some disinfectants step in and arrest Nature's process of assimilation, but never wholly, and they are sure to break out again, often with re- newed vigor. Others do not seck to arrest, but to trap or neutralize the gases gencrated, and never with anything like complete success. A small pile of tu: me or cabbage in your cel- lar left to decay will fill your house with their feted odor for months. You may help the mut- ter some by strewing chloride of lime around, for that catches some of the gas. You may de- fer the decay a little by carbolic acid or some other of that sort, but it will searcely be effectual. while if well covered with fresh soil your turnips may return to mother earth and ‘hia household: know nothing of the matter, This city is largely a city of cottages, each with good yard-room, and that disagreeable, noisnme place, the back yard, can, if a little care istaken, transforined into » place of health and sweetness. Enrth-closets can be improvised without the expense of the patent, and we ought to know that, for this purpose, cou! ashes in the winter, when the ground is frozen, will furnisha fuir substitute for earth, There should be no underground pits from which excrement can escape only as gas, but well drained and con- stantly earthed, it can be removed with little or no offense and used in the yard to enrich and instead of bearing the reproach of an unpardonable offense. T think that a judiciously-made and cared-for earth-closet is far preferable to the ordinary water-closet of the town, for while it is quite as cleanly, it has no connection with that network of pipes that are feared to be frequently the distributors of discase in otherwise healthy lo- culities. Besides they are cheap. ‘The kitchen drain is a noisome and unhealthy ace, but can be nearly. if not entirely. cleansed a continued use of earth, the soil being used over and over again s occasion requires. The potency of this agent is not understood, and people generally have an idea that a far larger quantity of earth is required to effect a result than is really necessary. The curcass of a horse weighing over 1,000 pounds, buried in finely comminuted soil’ to the depth of nine to twelve inches, will mingle with the earth and not one unpleas- ant odor exhale, and the decay will be far nore rapid than if exposed to sun and air, and years would elapse before decay would be complete if buried in a close box at adepth that would insure the safety and comfort of those who live near the spot. Perhaps architects und others who have studied the matter can add to these surges- tions, and a great public good be accomplished. Pro BoNo PuBLICO. ——— ANTE-MORTEM EPITAPHS, ON THE BRILLAT SAVARIN OF AMERICA, [Suggested by the report that a witty epicure had made bis plans to reside permanenily in Lon- don, where be ts familiary known as The Pre- bendary; a captivated Scot, at Lord Rosebery’s dinner to Mr. Gladstone, having mistaken the genial American for the Prebendary of Glasgow.] Here dwells the remainder of * UncieS—m” W—d, Who talked like a wit And who lived like 9 lord. Though reiguiny a senzon the King of the Lobby, ‘The jest wus his trade And the stomach his hobby. They lured him to London by urts culinary, And settled bim there As the Scotch Prebendary. ” Fae Excuse "was the motto of Rosebery’s ey He tickled their hends, ‘And they tickled his palate. ON THE PASTOR OF THE SHEPHERD'S FOLD. Parson C—l—s's gone to make his reckoning Eye ie slubter: of ie Fold. ee ie Accusing Angel long was beckon! ‘To the Shepherd bad aud bold, ine To answer for these misquotations rougher aan kis featens moral creed; “Come, little children, unto me, and suffer "— “On my limbs let us feed.” oe e ON A FREE-RELIGIONIST. B—b I—g—rs—| went—whither no one knows. He bad his faults, if you believe his foes; He had his virtues aiso, if you will, ‘Though some aver he used his virtues fll. Tradition says he sculed high Heaven alone, And advertised to lecture from the Throne, Rat, being dropped, fetched up on Satan's level, And served his Highness as First Talking Devil; Rut if tradition errs, none surely will Deny that B—b could abiy fill the bill. ———— Schools and School-Attendance in Eu- ropean Countries. The Neue Freic Presse makes the following comparision of echools and school-attendance in diiferent European countries: Germany, with a population of 42,000,000, hns 60.000 schools and an attendance of 6,U0),000 pupils; Great Britain and lreland. with a population of 34,000,- (00, has 58,000 schouls and 3.0W).(40 pupils; Aus- tria-Hungary, with a population of |37.000,000, bus 3.00 schools and 3.00000 pupils: France, be ely PE ae , hus 71.000 ay puplis; Spuin, with a populatic if WU,600, has 20,000 schools ana 1,000,000. pupils; Ttaly, with a population of 23,000.00, hns 47,000 * ),U0U,, 000 id 4,100,000 pupils. = sections aD Dust of the road is the most effectual, but REAL ESTATE. Fair Demand for Investment Property, but Speculation Dormant. Full Particulars of the Sale of the Huck Estate. Large Sale of Acre Property at Hinsdale—Other Trans- actions. South Side and West Side Boulevards —The Pavement Question. Speculation in real estate is either dead or sleeping. Transfers show a moderate activity in investments, such as the purchases for rail- road right of way, manufacturing sites, and houses and stores for use. But the fever of last November to buy to sell again has seemingly disappeared, Indications are not wanting of LIVELIER TIMES in the near future. An unusual number of in- quirics are being made for building lots on the avenues south. Assconas the weather will al- Pw property to be shown to advantage business is expected to show un improvement. The large capitalists have been “sitting down” on the market, in order to make some large purchases they have in view on favorable terms, Their influence has had its effect IN REPRESSING SPECULATION, but astill greater influence has been the greed of sellers, who have raised thelr prices till buy- ers became disgusted. THE MOST IMPORTANT SALE of the week was that of real estate belonging to the estate of the late John A. Huck, which took place in the Probate Court yesterday by order of the Court. About forty gentlemen attended the sale, among whom were to bescen Messrs. Robert Law, Henry Corwith, Conrad Selpp, W. C. Seipp, Philip Bartholomae, Ed Koch, C.N. Hale, Chris- topher ‘femple, John Johnson, Jr., and others. Nothwithstanding’ that the representatives of a lurge aggregate of capitul were present the bid- ding was by no means lively, the lack of specu- lative interest being due to the fact that the roperty offered was all heavily incumbered. he saie was conducted by Mr. Elison, and the interests of the estate were watched by Mr. E. A. Small, its attorney. Tho conditions wero it the property was sold tor cash, subject to all incumbrances, andaciear title given to each purchaser. ‘The first property put up consisted of four three-story and basement brick houses on the corner of Chicago avenue and Rush street, each lot measuring 25x50 fect. The property was claimed to have a rental of $2,400, and to have an incumbrance upon it of $20. , which in- cluded 1 pro rata share of « Judgment of $20,000, which the German National Bank held aguinst the whole estate. After very long wait fora bid the equity in the property was finally knocked duwn to Conrad Seipp for $50. ‘Three brick and stone three-story and French- roofed divellings. with stables, on North Deur- born street, between Gocthe and Division streets, with a frontage of 25 and a depth of 132 feet to each lot, were then putup. The incum- Drance on ench house and lot was $7,882.02, in- cluding the German National Bank judgment. The houses, it was claimed, were well rented, and cost $37,000 to build just after the fire. The contest for the purchase of the equity in tho roperty lay between Conrad Seipp and ©. N. Rate, who secured it finally for $225. The old homestead of Mr. Huck, consisting of 67-10 acres, inore or less,on Fullerton avenue and Green Bay rond, having a frontage on the north end of Lincoln Park, was sold, subject to an incumbrance of $67,486.28, for $10 to Mr. P. Bartholumae. The equity in x couple of improved lots, hav- ing u front of fifty fect on Larrabee street and Huwthorne avenue, and a depth of cighty-three feet, and subject to an incumbrance of $8,917.53, was suld to W. C. Seipp for $5. A lotof ten acrosonu the wost side of North Robey street, between Webster street on the north and Jefferson road on the south, subject to an incumbrance of $2,177.90, and anvther lot of equal size immediately west of the previous one, Subject to an incumbranoe of $2,171.82, were bought by Mr. Ed Koch for §50 and $15 respect- ively. ‘The lot and three-story and basement brick building on the southwest corner of North Clark and Michigan street, subject to an iucumbrance of $18, was sold to Mr. Small for S50. The following lots were offered separately without Inducing bids, and were finally bunched, the equity in them being purchased by Mr. Joha Johnson, Jr., for $25. The total amount of the several incumbrances amounted to $57,726.W3, The individual} lotgand the incumbrances thereon were as follows: . * Lot on North. State street, between Schiller and Bank strecis, teed feet front, and depth of 3S1.52 on the south line and 125.63 on the north line: ineumbrance, $8,800.80. s Lot on the northeast corner of Bank and State streets, 8 feet front on State and 137.36 on Bank street; incumbrahce of $7,680.01. ‘Lot on the corner‘of Astor and Bank streets, 80.06 feet front on Astor and 137.36 feet front on Bank street; incunibrance of $4,182.75. ‘Lot next to the above. being 80 feet front on Astor street and a depth of 125.68 feet; mmcum- brance of $3,734.68. © Lot on the corner of Bank and State streets, 48.5 fect on State and 150 feet on Bank: incum- brance of $4,851.59, Three lots on State, between Bank and Goethe strects, south of and the same size as preceding lot; incumbrance of $3. 39 on each. Lot on State street, between Bank and Goethe, south of preceding lots, being 2 frontage of 80 feeton Stato and a depth of 160 feet; incum- brance of $7,269.05. Lot southof the preceding lot, having a front- age of 28 feet on State street and of 150 on Goethe; incumbrance of $3,230.02. Lot having a frontare of 50 feet on Bank street, between State and Astor, and a depth of 131 feet; incumbrance of $2,111.38. ‘Lot on the southwest corner of Bank and As- tor streets. 57.5 fect on Bank and 65.5 on Astor street; incumbrince of $1,452.94, ot on Astor street, between Bank and Goethe streets, 7x65 feet; incumbrance of $1,464.25. ‘Lot on the southeast corner of Astor and Bank streets. & feet front on Astor and 4) feeton Bunk street; incumbrance of $1,631.63. Similar lot gouth of the lot preceding; incum~- brance of $1,41 D. Ward & Co, have purchased 214 feet on Archer avenue and the river, and are makin; extensive preparations for the manufacture o! oleomargarine. * has bought of J.E. Smith, the 0. J. Stouxh murble-front house, No. 50! Michigan avenue, “for $9,000, and lately bought of Amos T. Hall, Esq., 200 ACRES NEAR HINSDALE, for $15,006 cush. Mr. Stough sold lust week 160 neres of the same land for $16,000 cash to El- bridge G. Keith, 0. S, A. Sprague. and A. C. Bart- lett. These gentlemen propose to combine & little summer recreation with making model farms and raising fine stock. G. 8. Hubbard, Jr., has sold 40x100 on Canal street, near Harrison, for $8,500; 181x125 on Cu- nal, near Twelfth street, and 200x125 on Judd street, and 200x125 on Wilson, in the reer, for $40,000; 100x150 on Ellis avenue, near city limits, $8,000; 40 acres in Cicero, 320.000; 20 acres in Hawthorne, $20,000; 10 acres in Cicero for $6.000; 0 acres in Proviso, $15,000, and three lots in Riv- erside for $1,100. Thomas & Bragg report the following salcs during the week: No. 160 West Monroe strect, two-story and basement brick warehouse, with lot 24x 190 fect, for $6,000; 84 Johnson place, tyo- story and busement brick house and lot, for $2,- 500, and 86 Johnson place, two-story and base- ment brick house and lot, for $2,500. ‘'T. B. Boyd has sold for George Braham to Mrs, Scott, brick dwelling and lot on Thirty-second street, between Michigan and Wabash avenues, for $4,300; for Mrs. Nannie Bell to Barnard Bradey, brick cottage and lot_on Twenty-eighth street, near Butler, for $1,300; for Mrs. Eliza Vocke to LV. Klvever, three-story brick dwell- ing 2nd lot on Indianz street, between Dearborn avenue and State streat, for $6,200; for Mrs. C. 0. Tobin to. Mrs. Theresa Gebring, cottage and lot No. 533 Cottage Grove avenue, tor $1,950. BE. C. Cole has sold No, 277 Erie street, 24x15, three-story brick with brown-stone trimmings, for Sumuel Ashton to J. F. Tucker, for $13,500; Ne street, two-story and basement wx162, corner of for $9,000. ty-fourth ‘hird and Se’ Six acres on Seventy strects, x mile east of Stoney Island, were sold 00 an ere, enty: for $ Frank_H. Collier has sold for Edwin and Julia Brainard Lots 5, &, 7, 8,9, and south two fect of Jot-10; Lots 11, 12,13, Ti, 15, 16, and the north two feet of Lot 17; Lots 18,1920, 21, and 2 in Block 6, Brainard & Evans’ Addition, The purchaser was Richard T. Crane, of Crane Bros. The property. was sold without the buildings, and the price pild was $35.9, $18,9ucash and 320,00) eed. at 6 per cent, due Sept. 1 this yeur, Seventy thousand dollurs hus been oifered and refused for the northwest corner of Michigan avenue and Thirty-third street, 125 feet front, known as the Porter place. In the SALPS OF THE WEEK were 20x125. improved. on West Adams strect, west of Hamilton avenue, $5.00; 25x125,_tm- proved on ‘lumpkins street, south of West Tay- lor Street, $5,000; 24x100 on Ogden nvenue,- west of Harrison, $3,000; 24 1-5x1W, improved. on Wa- bush avenue, northeast of South Water strect, $16,000: 50x12 on North La Salle street, north of Goethe, $ 616 Wubash avenue, 8 198x170 on Michigan ayenue, northwest corner of Sixty-first street, $5,000; 142 on North Franklin street, northwest corner of Cenire, $4,500; 244x123, improved, on Sedgwick street, south of Centre, $3,500; 2x70'4 on Canal strect, north of Adu $5,000; 2558's feet on Grove street, northwest corner of Eighteenth, to river, $72,623; 25x19 on Peoria street, north of West hington, $3,325; 36 feet_on Hush strect. to Cass, $4.000; 10 acres on Forty-ninth street, northeast corner of Snowdondale avenue. $15, 000; 0x15 on Bellevue avenue, between Hors: third and Forty-fourth streeta, $3,600; a onCiybourn avenue, west of Webster, $4,800; 41 feet, improved, on Calumet avenue, torailroad, north of Twentieth street, $10,600; $0x113 on West Chicago avenue, southeast corner of Green street, $10,000; 48x75 on South Water, northeast corner of ‘Wabash avenue, and $Lx on Randolph, southwest corner of Dearborn place, $80,000; No, 203 West Lake street, $3,000; 28x115, improved, on South Halsted, northeast corner of Forquer, $3800; 40x163; on State street, south of Hubbard court, $10,000; 100x174 on Frederick, west of Larrabee, $3,000; No. 114 Honore street, $3,750; 22x08 on’ Butterfield street, northwest corner of Thirty-second, $3,400; 100x130, Sprayed. on Paulina street, south of ‘Augusta, $9,000; 20x79 on North State, east of Mlinois, $3,500; ‘30x25 on Carroll avenue, east of Union street, $4,550; 22x161 on Michigan ave- nue, near Fifteenth street, improved, $9,000; 50x120 on Sixty-first street, west of Stewart avenue, Supeored, $4,000; 45x10, improved, on Drexel ‘boulevard, northeast corner of Brook street, $9,000. LOANS. Loans last week and the week before were a8 follows: Last week. ||Previous week. No.| Amount.||iNo.| Amount. Totals. | Too!s 465.598] rs4]$ 212.787 In 1879... 1} r16{” 200,533] 143|° 299,380 BUILDING. Permits were issued last week for ninety-five buildings, to cost $160,000. Among them were those tu A. Bartos to erect a two-story dwelling, Loomis street, near Zion place, to cost $3,500: one to E. Sinrz to erect a two-story store and Hall, No. 63 Emma street, to cost $6,000; one to George R. Clarke to erect elght two-story dwell- ings, Luke avenue, near Thirtieth street. to cost £30,000; one to Mr. Gillette to erect a two- story dwelling, Michigan avenue, near Twenty- ninth street, to cost $18,000: one to repair Empire Warehouse, No. 210 Market street, to cost $12,000, Union street, No. 161, two-story dwelling for C. Anderson, to cost $2,500. Clurk and La Salle streets, near Eugenie, thir- teen two-story stone-front dwellings for 0. 0. Ostrom, to cost $85,000. In our recent list of new houses on Michigan avenue we omitted to mention the residence of Mr. B. F. Murphy, pork-packer, to be located on the northeast curner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-ninth street. The house will be of THE QUEEN ANNE STYLE, which at present is all the rage, will be made of brick, to cost about $30,000. THE STOCK FAIR. The project for an Agricultural Fair-Grounds on the West Side seems for the present to be at a standstill, as the business-men have been back- ward about subscribing for the stock. The books were opened, and about $100,000 of stock sub- seribed for. But the subscriptions stopped there. There is no further effort being made at present to rush the enterprise. The contract has been awarded to J. B. Smith &Co. for planking Centre avenue from Twenty- second street south. ‘The West Park Board have applied to the De- purtment of Public Works for an order to com- pel the Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central Railroad to build a viaduct over its crossing at ‘Washington street, in order to make TRE BOULEVARD safe, When, in 1872, a franchise was granted to the Columbus, Chicngo & Indiana Central Rail- wuy Company, one of the conditions was that it should build viaducts over its tracks at Hulsted, Sangamon, Lake, and Madison streets within a yeac, and should build two viaducts per year thereafter at streets to be designated by the De- pirtment of Public Works. None of these yinducts have yet been built. The only thing in the way as far as the city is concerned is that it will have to spproprints for the approaches, which it is not believed can be done this year; then again, there is a question as to whether yinducts are not more needed at Madisan and Lake streets. HE PAVEMENT of the new Washington street boulevard was discussed by the West Side Park Commissioners and about thirty property-holders last week. No agreement was reached as to the merits of the different kinds of pavements talked over. Oa motion, a committee of three, consisting of Messrs. J.T. Rawleigh, D. H. Hale, and T. M. Avery, all West Washington strect property- holders, with power to fill vacancies, was ap- pointed, with whom the West Side Park Com- missioners inight confer upon the subject of the proposed pavement. THE MICHIGAN AVENUE BOULEVARD came up before the Park Commissioners in a resolution offered by Mr. Russell that the Con- struction Committee be requested to present a sketch or plan with lending specifications for the improvement of Michigan avenue boulevard, and that the consideration of such report be made the special order for the next regular meeting. ‘The West Park Commisstoners have adopted aresolution, introduced by Commissioner Wood, instructing the engineer to prepare pluns, speci- fications, and estimates for thé construction of a driveway $ ON DOUGLAS BOULEVARD, from Central Park to Douglas Park; the drive- way to be of the same width and muterial us the Central boulevard completed between Central Park and Humboldt Park the past season, The Improvement Committee was instructed to re- port on the possibility of planting trees and sc- curing filling for the same along the proposed new driveway. Acting-Engineer Cole, of Hyde Park, reports the expenditure ot $18,199 on the streets, high- ways, culverts, and drainage OF HYDE PARK during the past year. The most noted improve- ments were made by special assessment, name- ly: Stony Island avenue ditch, two miles in length, ending in Lake Calumet. The special in this case was not large enough to cover the ex- ense, which exceeded the amount largely. Ellis avenue has been improved with cinders and stone at an expense of $5,075. A contract has been made to coinplete the Forty-first street sewer at 1 cost of $19,500. ‘As soon as the new engines and cars for the Ulinois Central are finished its NEW BURURBAN MERE will be opened from this city to Parkside. It is the intention of the Illinois Central Kuilrond to run these new suburban trains as often as the business requires it, and the managers think they will be able to start 2 train from either end of the line about every fifteen or twenty min- utes. New York Is at last to have SOMB MODEL TENEMENTS, The Improved Dwellings Association, which was organized as a stovk company ten months ago with a capital of $500,000, of which $300,000 were subscribed, has just completed its plans for some improved tenement-houses which it will build on its property at First avenue and Seven- ty-first and Seventy-second streets. The prop- erty was Sought three months ago, at a cost of more than $50,000, and mensures 200 feet square, The buildings, which will occupy all the avail- able frontage and leave a large open court in the rear, will cost about $200,000. In their plans the Association has sought to in- corporate all the good features of the best im- roved tenements lately built—as, for example, Mr. White’s house in Brooklyn and Mr. Schultz's in New York—and to avoid all mistakes. Prob- ae a steam drying-room will be provided in which the tenants can wash and dry their clothes by paying from three to five cents. a week. ‘Two hundred families in all will be accommodated. The rents will be from $7 upwards per month, and none will be much above $10. The rents will be placed as low as possible to lenve the Association 5 per cent profit on the investment. The rooms will be heated by the stoves of the tenants. The plumbing will be done in an economichl fushion, but good material will be used, and every improved appliance for drain- age and ventilation will be adopted. There will be a current ot air from front to rear through each cet of rooins. IN SAN FRANCISCO, the Bullctin says the spring demand for real erate is not asiautleg as could be desired. The sales are smaller than for any correspon spring in some time. 53 ponds SATURDAY'S TRANSFERS, The following instruments were filed for rei ord Saturday, Starch 20: ee A Foy OPER: ‘orry st, 161 ft 3 of Fullerton av, wf, 2% dated Mareh 20 (Charles Muller to fan Bok, Erie st, 118 fiw of North State, Improved, dated March 3 (edward Lo Paras: man to Joseph F. Tuck CSIC , Sxii8 ft, im ahd 3. Stephat ker) Forquer st, 96 ft ¢ of Jefferson. 5 proved, dated Marah 20 (A. 3. Rigovencel Mlecan). ees st, w of Clybourn ay, 8 proved. dated March 19 ‘ichsries Bernese to ay ailiaa Rutzen). sates ‘est Monroe st, Lift eof Wood, 8 f, 3: 4 ie dated Feb. Z Games A. Blair etal. tof C 0 wcorof Sacramento av, i8 rch 1s (Sebastian Mustum ‘to North Wate ; ft, dated March 13 (Ann E. Webster to Van H. Hizgi 3 on Bt 132-10 ft w of Lincoia. sf, Mi tt, dated’ March 6 (J ne to Mary a. Hooker). te, Woodland Park, 318 ve ay, f, Sx16-10 tt, improved, dated March 19 (HL. Nand Wiswell to Nurman B. Reum),... FUT dated starch 18 (S. and St Hoseaherg ts nrc! S. Le Daniel i: Hels). “5 patella ie ted 18 6) Vincennes av, 1 F. SIMXLS ft, dated March 10 Broomell to John De Forest). ci Herndon st, sw cor of Webster av, w f, 15x15 it, with 75x13 ft s Of and near'the above, dated Mare 2 (Edward C, Wuller to Gerhard Forenian). + ve Aand J. rani z t dated Muteh 13 (Henry A. Cravener w 1. J. and §. W, Lamson)... Bissell at, i tt s of Centre, wf, 4ix(% frin udjuining block, date oeb to Fridolin At n As Panlina,n t, 243x135 ft: Paiao North Wat fey ot bing: stab io Shehican su dated w Qct. 2, 189 (Moses J. Richards to Smith) . eee 7,000 ‘West Madison at, 17 ft of Bishop cour, sf,” “2x15 5-10 ft, dated March & (Pivenix Mutuat Lite-Insurance Cv. we George B. Cook 8,500 SOUTHOF CITY LIMITS, witht ‘BRYEN MILES UP THE COU! HOUSER, Prairie av, 197 {t3 of Forty-sixth st, w f, 100x161 it, dated March @ (Charles Fleetwood to M. Pew). it Winter st, 513 tt, a an nines D. rinter St sta fig a Brian oh [5 fa (South A Busiding Co.10 Jaines Heater: AMITS, WITHIN MILES OF THE COUBT-HOUS art st, 175 fts of Wabans! wf, %xi00 ft, Mozart af 175 163 Gf nop Gacenebauin to J. Bebmitz). | 8 851 The following is the total amount of city and: suburban transfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for record during the week ending Saturday, Maree 20: City—Sales, 137; consideration, $632,669. North of city limits Sales, 4: consideration, $7,610. South of city Himits—Sales, 23; consideration, $76.512. West of city limits—Sales, 2; consideration, 31,251 Total sales, 166; total considdrution, $717,072, —<—<—<————— PRECEDENT ANDSLAW. [Two of the Great Forces that Hold So- clety Together. London Pall-Mall Gazette, At this day the regard for precedent which pervades not only the law itself, but every de- partment of life that has become colored by legal ideas, appears to usa thing requiring ex- planation. And very fair and reasonable ex- planations are forthcoming. Not to neglect the results of our predecessora’ experience in a like matter is easily admitted as the plainest counsel of common sense. Nor is it difficult to see the advantage of applying this most general rule with a certain artificial nicety for particular purposes. Other things being equal, that con- clusion is most probable which has been arrived at upon the fullest disoussion and ripest consideration. Thus the decision of three or four Judges after careful argument and time taken to prepare the judgment is manifestly of more weight (assuming no great disparity of abilities) than that of a single Judge who has to make up his mind on the spot. Hence the gradation of authority in our English sys- tem of judicial precedents may be rationally as well as practically justified. And on most ques- tions affecting action we feel that the judgment of a competent and adequately informed per- gon on a question of the same or a like kind is considerable help for shaping our own course. ‘This is in part, perhaps, because the reusons and motives of conduct in any but the sump jest affairs can but seldom be fully expressed; so that there is actually more to be learnt from & prudent man’s actions than from the reasons he gr any one else can give for them. ‘This and much more isto be suid for respect for pre- cedent on the ground of reasonablencas. ‘Then on the ground of convenience there are divers arguments of weight. If it Is known that a decision once arrived ut will be followed in the like cuse in time to come, the uncertainty of men’s aifuirs is diminished and occasions of dis- pute taken away. The sume questions must not be agitated forever: fnterest ret publlee ut at finis littum is a good maxim for standing causes of litigation as well as for every lawsuit in particular. Andon this head, also, it would be easy but supertiuous to enlarge. There {s yet another ground of convenience which may seem at first sight of small account, but which is greater than it seems. Two sorts of cascs present much dilliculty of choosing on principle what todo: those where the choice is between several ways of doing the same thing which are in themselves indifferent, and those where the question of substance is such that Ho pertoetly: sonable solution seems attainable. Yet something bas to be done: an the chvice being once mude, it becomes naturia for the saving of trouble and perplexity to do the same thing, or as nearly as muy be, when a similar case recurs, The fact of having tuken a particular course once will of itself determine a sertain tendency t follow it aguin if the condi- tions are repeated. Inthe same way the ex- perience of a thing having been done by others will on a renewal of the circumstunces give rise to a certain expectation of its being done aguin. 'This ig a general fact of human nature, included by psychologists in the statement of what is called the law of association. Thus a single in- stance makes a precedent, and the precedent tends to confirm itself by repetition. It seems not unlikely that this is the manner in which the ideas of precedent and custom are originally formed. Whathas been done once Is done again, not because it seems the best thing to do, but because there is an unreasoning tendency to du it which in the absence of other and stronger motives will prevail. The more often it 1s done the stronger will be the expecta- tion of its being done yet again on the next oc- casion, and this will ut length become a sense of necessity. No words are needed to prove that even the most freethinking of mankind are to & atextent the slaves of habit; and ancient customs and customary laws are a special kind of habit produced in times and circumstances excluding retiection and criticism. Neverthe- less men begin to ask for at least the show of reasons at a very early sta; of s0- cinl growth; and, a merely vert show being in those stages enough, the thing ts rendily made to explain itself. A man tgnorant of the arts of exact reasoning, and feeling in himself the impulse to do what he has done before, necd have no difficulty in accepting as the sufficient foundation of a custom the fact that it is accus- tomed. Itis the familiar aud natural thing, therefore necessary and rixht. ‘Our fathers have always done so,” is the standing reply to the inquiries of astonished travelers or of the bolder minds. which may appear in the tribe it~ self. And it-may well seem conclusive to amind which has not learnt to distinguish the expecta- tion that the future will resemble the past from the use of experience asa guide to deliberate action. The will or ought of natural sequence is confounded by this untutored contemplation witb the vught of rationul conduct and ethical uty’. "Another point is to be noted in the psychology of custom, which may be of some importance. We think of customs as establisbed by long use, andins liwyer's idea of custom this is a vitai element. But this is because we have learnt how grent are the dangers of error if we conclude from solitary or few instances either as to rela- tions of cause and effect ur as to the convenience of a particular course of action. There is no renson to suppose that when society was fn its infuncy mankind were troudled with any such scruples. If we may draw inferences from the childhood of the individual to that of the race, one or two instances probably sutliced to make a good custom for our prebistoric ancestors. Itis notorious that young children will appeal to precedent in support of their requests alinost 3 Soon as they cun frame a coherent sentence. They will allege, if they can, the leave of a competent authority as alrendy had, as by offering such a plea as * Mamma lets me doit” to a father’s prohibition of sports threatening danger to the childor destruction (o furniture. But if the authority referred to turns out (es generally happens) not to support the argument, the child's artless cunning falls buck on the defense of bare precedent. “ One day I didit.” or words to that effect, are brought cut with an air of perfect seriousness and contidence; and, though the plea is overruled, it is at least doubtful whether the pleader is intellectually satisfied. It may be suspected that we have in these invol- untary revelations of infant logic the trve prim- itive form of the universal argument of archaic eonservatism. ‘One day I'did it" is the sim- ple and undisguised statement of the mental roveas wore plausibly expressed by children of larger growth in the shape of * Our fathers buve always done so.” The child is father of the man in more ways than have yet been ob- served with adequate cure; and the study of children's ways and iangunge has not improba- bly a considernble part before itin the psyoho- logical researches of the near future, ed JIM. - [Being the remarks of a Western Congressmas a Stranger in Washington.) oe Jim! That's him— Jim Biaine, Of Maine! D'ye never hear How, in the year Of cighteen-eighty, Jim stood’n fought ‘em all— Fought till he made ‘em fall By his blows weighty? ‘0 Shot Stranger, luk y’ ere: Mos’ cur’ous thing F'r even a political To try to sloat 8 State. But, Stranger, you ay cha ine in two if ain't what they tried to do ain Wi iy ar The folks is squar, And don't travel at no hot rate. int, Yer See, or Jim, He Saw the’r glim An’ know’d their tricks; a Bes in heat head o’ his a thump, ’ sot his brains to work on An’ spoilt the fix. ra Eh! Blaine? Why, Stranger, he's all brain! Brain's his— ; ‘That's what it is. That's the ring! At was a big thing— Stranger, you're right! An’, say! come up to-night An’ see him— Bess yer, Stranger, Jt r, Stranger, Jim ain't proud, Ifthe is Prosident; ‘an’ be knows in # crowd aynen 2 ans white, at's Blaine Of Maine! *s ‘ That's him— Jim! —Roekland (Me.) Courier. The Game of Fifteen. Philadelphia Times. The more you Struggle with it; the worse it gets, and the laboriously-arranged rows become all mixed up aguin. It is at this point that grim despair settles down upon all but the most cou- rageous. Sometimes the 13—14come intbeirright order, while two other numbers are misplaced; but we believe that every combination can be reduced ultimately so that the real protien is to t the 1b after the 14. An enterprising Yankee lately adveriised to send the solution of this problem for two stamps, and to the many who applied he sent back the answer: “Take up No. 6 carefully between the thumb and forefinger, and place him where he belongs.” Thisiaon the Gian knot: it is herole, but not eatisfeotes, O° Tt is not necessary, howover, to venetor heroic measures, ‘The 13—15—11 combined soluble, but only by changing the directs ot columns. ‘This ts the secret of the ty ‘The player has started with the rps ees ranging the numbers in horizontal rowa05 has failed. He has now to go on from gat Ma ing place, and arrange them in tertiey § balt- ‘This is the idea intended to be conveyeq who have spoken of “turning the Dong phrase apparently borrow. 1. Sniy confusing in” fiftes hess, buy HAYES AND GRANT, What the One Did to Pull Down the Other to Rebuild the Party— Grant Gave Way to the Machin the .Consequences—& Weak the Executive Chair. St. Paul Pioneer-Press (Rep,), We need a strong man in the White 1; brace up the Constitution, to restore tothe publican party the power and Prestige it Re lost, and to lead it buck to new victories over old fields of conquest. eri When the Forty-first Congress met j session on the day, March, 150, when Pree? Grant was first inaugurated, the Republi eat had an overwhelming majority inf! branches. In the Senate there were atin Republicans to ten Democrats, though Southern States were not represented, y] subsequently swelled the Republican phalans sixty-one. The House contained tg qt? licans and seventy-two Democrats, counting few on both sides not yet admitted 19g? seats. Every Northern ‘State was re, their by Republican Senators only, except Cant! Now Jersey, and Ohio, which had one Reve can and one Democratic Senator exe! me represented Southern State except Delay’? Sonate by Republicans. The Tepeee eae nate by Republicans. The Rey trolled the ‘State Governments of ea cins oon. ern State save these three. At the end of Years when the strong, maa retired treet White House, the proud Republican maja? eighty-seven in the House which had haley y trlumpbant inauguration had not only vaste from the scene, but bad given place to q = Democratic majority in that body. whicy am in the party roll-call thus: Democrats a Republicans, 107; Independents, 2 J; cratic majority of seventy-four. In Senate tho Republican “majority, ales’ reduced from fifty to seventeen, y dwindling with every Senatorial election”! that when the Senators-elect took their seats.) the next session the Republican majority hat wasted away to just two. Meanwhile the Re ublicans bad, during Grant's Administration, jost control of the Stute Governments of all the twelve Southern States which had laid the ute of their Blectoral vote eight years before st the feet of the conquering hero of the Way, Nine of them had been totally snatched avy from the Republicans—several of these by thet violence—under the eyes of the strong man an in spite of his bayonets. Tn the remaining tareg the Republican party lay manacled and hel less under the feet ot the’ triumphant bale dozer, and appealed to the strong man {y vain to deliver them. Hayes had bare} been elected by one disputed vote, and tre quired four months to determine whether thay vote was lawfully bis. From the hights of so great, and intrenched in such overwhelming popular majorities a4 to be, or seem, fnvineith The Republicnn. party during the cight yeasred Grant had declined by slow steps during his first verm, by swift steps during his lust, to the ex. treme verge of utter ruin. From the day of hig second inauguration till be retired from the White House the whole history of the licnn party was one of successive defeat and disasters. Ho found it a strong, vigorons, and triumphant majority. He left it a feeble, de spondent, and demoralized minority. We need astrong man in the White House. Yes, a man wus necded to lift the stranded ship from the rocks, where Grant had well-nigs made utter shipwreck of it; to cleanse the Gov. ernment of the reeling scandals that had maie asickening stench of it in the nosttils of the Nation; and to restore the Republican party to the confidence of the people in its capacity to rulo wisely und honestly. The arduons task hag been gchieved, not in the sense in which Grant is conceived to be strong, 23 the embodiment of physical force commanded by a domineering self-will, but # min who fs strong only In his up rightness, in bis clear views of the right thug to do, his unselfish and firm persistence in doing it in spite of all the howls of the hungry wolves of faction. Three years of Haves his washed the Republican patty of the stains of Grant's Administration; has rebuilt it from bottom to dome on the solid foundation of the public confidence; has rein- vigorated it with the pride of its fresh achieve ments and the cournge of the clear and sound convictions which make it strong with the peo ie. The man whom the machine politicians ave agreed to despise ns weak, is ae ‘the ang ‘How es and Man iq man who has rescued the Republican a@ great extent, so fur as it could through the administrative machinery, from the low moral temperature which had chilled and benumbed its vitality during Grant's Ad- ministration; poured the heat and glow of sum- mer in its veins, and made not only its victory inthe Presidential election: this year posaible, but its enduring sscendency probable, ifits leaders are wise enough w profit by thetwo contrasted lessons that Grant and Hayes have respectively tausht them. That lesson is that the streneth of our Government, or of the party which is __ responsible for its administration, rests not on the pet might, or grandeur, or popularity of the Presi- dent, but on the moral support of the best and most disinterested public opinion. The verdict of history will be that in ull those elements of strength which are essential tos wise and suc cessful’ administration Hayes {3 infinitly 8 stronger and Driver man than Grant He bad the strength and cournge. which Grant had no, to break with the politicians and sacrifice his own popularity inorder to save the party; to takeaway from Senators and Representatives that control of the public patronage which a long course of party usage had vested ia them, and, by restiming the constitutional powers of the Execu tive, to strike duwn thut corrupt and corrupting spoils system which bad debauched the olltil of the country, and weighed like an incubus on the Republican purty. He had the strength and the courage. which Grant bud not, to dis and defy the angry cl:nors of the politicians appeal to the conscience of the people, tothe ultimate public judgment, and place the future of the Republican party not on the mercenary activity of the plunder-fed machine, but on fiat morn! support of the people which comes from public and patriotic ;motives. He plowed through the exhausted, worn-out crust of, litical sentiment represented by place-hak or plice-bunting politicians down to the fresh, rich subsoil of the public conscience, and thas struck the sources: of new, and more vigorous ‘¢ for the Republican party. Grant set out with seeing dimly that this ought in some way to be done, and with wishing ins vague way todo it. But he bad not them cournge to persist. The stout heart thet never flinched in the stress of the hottest battle ever raged quailed before Conkling. Carpenters Cameron. and Logan, and the men who told Itwould not do: that the life of the Kepublican party was tn these shullow and dirty stream Senator‘al bounty, instead of in the everinst deeps of the putilic conscience. He lacked couruge to carrs out bis first intention of Fe forming the Civil Service, because he lacked clear convictions which ‘belong to a characht elevated enough morally or broad © 4 teliectually to look over the heads of themes about him into the heart of the mattex, He a no-political insight, and never could eistinguish false from true in the voices of public: sentimer So far from being a strong mun inthe PAD sense of large self-centered executive fot ¢ and capnelty: for civil administration. be Det himself essentially a weak manin the Bxccul to ne chair. Fle was weak not only in yield! whea he should have been intiexibly firm, Dat be Nin still weaker in the obstinate self-will with # ict he persisted when be should have siclded. was So Strong in his personal attachments dl be was weak enough to sacrifice not only 4 public interests, but his parte their oftent . most indecent crutification. e obstinacy ia which he fullowed his personal _preatleeti a his choice of Ministers and favorits; the ex oY to which be allowed his counsels to beswared Of personal intluences—not always of the hig! =~ glen -siamped his Adiinistration 2s a Gove! i nt Lirgely of nepotism and personal favorit s im. Tf the Republican party {sso desperately West as to need iS strong ‘Ran to carry, Tt fg clear that Grant is not the man to help it. The party ts need to be far stronger than it is to successfully carry the burden of his weaknesses. A Clerical Anecdote. A very good story is told of @ young who was invited to preach in a in Pennsylvania on trial, An told him that it would please the peop) alittle Latin, Greek, and Hebrew tau mons, taking it for granted they wou ‘about stand it, when really they knew nothing pur those languages. The young minister Ly; ‘new zled,a3 he was a native of Wales, 200 0 yay nothing of those languages himself. Bor ven 0s equal to the demand; and in his Drees ures having mage a quotation from the ie he said: “This passuge, brethren, BA yy ia slightly altered in the transtation: it its full the original Hebrew that you can gTasPIT ig meaning”; and he gave them the pase rand good Welsb. They lied it, apparent Greek presently he gave them some, Welsh, a5. pais and then some more a3 Latin. Thea . Weist, ing to give them the Chaldalc versium A "goon. when he saw a Welshman sitting by the TRS almost bursting with suppressed laugh! er but reacher did not lose his self-possessr pola Instead of the Welsh quotation ne ¥ rae oy to give, said, In Welsh, * For goodness {hav friend, don’t say a word about this till a, chance to talk with you.” The Ween ealled etnyed fhe eet mr nee sconery iron WhO e preacher to be their pastor. ry? dia foveal the seoret: the soung preacher, oF? old one who gave the advice? — RENTING AGENCY. ~ CENTRAL RENTING AGENCY. tee Owners wishing Tenants for Houses, Stores, please leave details at Our Oftice, as we have ® sre of applicants daily. HOTCHKISS & CRANDALL, Beating Agest's - 108 Washington-st, Meth. Chisreh Block