Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1880, Page 9

HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1880—TWENTY PAGES 9 WOUSEKEEPING GOoDs, OW READY! ntracts being made before eorecent ADVANCES, we there- fore offer ON EASY PAYMENTS, EST : Bee SHEAPEST, ' - LARCEST, LINE OF Carpets AND - NOVELTIES ur own make, in PARLOR ore and CHAMBER FURNITURE, Fasy Chas, Lounges, &c, &c. We have an extensive stock of "ONG STOVES. AND. RANGES, Our terms are *¢ Easy Payments! Only One Price! JOHN M.SMYTH, 132 & 184 W. Madison-st. “FOR RENT, | A few more Offices, single and en suite, in the BATARD BUILDING, 160 and [62 Washington-st., Near the new Court-House, suitable for Attorneys or cibers. Bullding heated by steam, with Passenger ‘Blevator, and kept in first-class order. Single offices, “with good ight, at 83 SAITL GER, 2114. Dearborn-st. “TO RENT. Desirable Store (five floors and basement) 250 and: 252 Wabash- av., with side entrance to upper floors, which will be rented sepa- rately If desired. ALFRED W. SAN- 80ME, Room, 7, ({0 La Salie-st. No. 550 Wabash-ay, TO RENT. Will be rented for Residence, or thi make suitable repairs for business pur cen Apply ‘toowner, D, H. DENTON, 33 and 3 Times Buliding. TO RENT--HOUSE. And Furniture For Sale. ‘The subscriber has a lease of a very desirable house pfsometwelve or fifteen rooms, three stories and ent, in one of the best locations on the North Eide He desires to sublet, and sell his furniture com- ‘urniture and ail de elven laa i GCOS To Rent---Offices. Several good OFFICES in the METHO- DIST CHURCH BLOCK. Inquire at ROOM 12 IN THE BLOCK. TO RENT. ‘The Large Stores, Nos. 174 and 405 2 usiness. Possession given immediatele, Apply N.A. MAYER, 163 East’ Adams-t5 TO RENT. Store and Basement No. 163 No. 163 East Adams-st., with fave ratio, Willrent together or separate. Cheap Sood tenant, Apply on the premises to si Plendidshow window, with sixty square feet of Featina most desirable locati Plark~ or jocation on, Clark- Chath cs omer. immediate possession. Address TO RENT, Second Floor, 79 and $1 State-st. Larre room for Commercial Purposes. Apply to W.E. HALE, 81 State-st. OR RENT OR SALE “7 terms, Stores, 1§ and 20 Michican-av., x12, RUFUS C. HALL, Atty. S Dearborn-st, KENWOOD RESTDENCE To. Rent, 21-2 bloeks from Depot. EAN & PAYNE, Comer Randolph and Dearborn-sts. To Reni, Btore, ‘a4 Basement, No. 153 State-st. Apply to L, OTIS, 142 La Satie-st. illet & Camston S We Paneer a number of very fine NEW Rosewood m fhcs the above make that have been rented out 16e to six months, forcgent t our removal, May 2, we will sell them Wi ‘without regard to cost. REEDS durable in every respect. ED'S TEMPLE OF MUSIC, __.191 State-st. ~—~___OPTICAL GOODS. Fine Bpectact Prinespishetacles suited to all sights on scientito Rrvscopes, popera and Field Glasses, Telescopes Mi- REAL ESTATE. Mammoth Plans for the New Pull man Car-Works. Uncertainty as to Where They Will Be Located. Activity in Real Estate on Michigan Avenue and the Boulevards. The Market Otherwise Dull— Business of the Week. Leases and New Buildings — More Horse-Cars—Suburban News, Every one has known for months that Mr. Pullman. was about to add to his other vast enterprises the erection at Chicago, St. pred orsome other Western point, one of ) MOST EXTENSIVE CAR-WORKES in this country, if not in the world. Real-es- tate owners, real-estate speculators, and real- estate reporters have followed Mr. Pullman and his associates like bloodhounds to scent out the location of this great enterprise. Just previous to his departure for the Far West, Mr. Pullman declared that it was not yet de- cided where to put it. Purchases have cer- tainly been made, and heavy ones, of suita- ble real estate in a locality that seemed to offer the.best advantages, but that does © NOT DECIDE THE MATTER. So open is it that during the past week the representatives of the Pullman Palace- Car Company have examined the tract of $,000 acres owned by Mr. John Wentworth in Cook County, and yesterday went across the line into Indiana to look at the 6,000 acres inthe Forsyth farm on Wolf Lake. Those interested assert that it is possible the whole enterprise may yet be settled else- where than at Chicago, though this is not really likely. The magnitude of the real- estate interests involved may be readily comprehended from the statement that the works, as planned, will support a popula- tion of i : NOT LESS THAN 10,000 PERSONS, with all. the tributary accompaniments of stores, and subsidiary industries, schools, and churches. The plans for the work have long since been matured, and have recently been made public. The structures will beall ot brick and stone. They will consist first of two parallel structures for erecting-shops, 690 feet long and 87 feet wide. The central section, containing the offices and store- rooms, will be 100% feet long and 100 feet deep, three stories high, with an imposing tower rising to the hight of 136 fect. Backof these is a series of four buildings covering an aggregate frontage of 1,047 feet, witha general depth of 200 feet, forming the wood- machine shops, blacksmith-shop, varnish- room, repair-shops, and two erecting-shops. Still back of these is another erectiug-shop,/ 474 by 86 feet, a dry kiln 150 by 90, anda foundry 180 feet front and 200 feet deep. It will be observed that these buildings are compactly located as regards each other, making them very convenient of access. ‘THE ERECTING-SHOPS will have stalls. for forty passenger cars and fifty freight cars at one time, and it is need- less to say that the works will be fitted up with themost improved’ machinery and will turn out only first-class work. Tracks run- ning between the various shops will be pro- vided with numerous turntables so that cars can be run in and.out without switches. The plans for these great.works have now been fully elaborated, down to the location of every piece of machinery, and work will be commenced as soon as the FINAL SELECTION OF LOCATION from several eligible sites offered in the vicin- ity of Chicago is determined. It is expected that the Pullman shops and the car-wheel works which will be located adjacent will employ about 2,000 men, which would mean the speedy planting of a colony of ten thou- sand people thereabouts. Plans have been fully completed for the erection of extensive works, ADJOINING THE PULLMAN SHOPS, by the Allen Paper Car-Wheel Company. They will consist of two brick and stone buildings, each having a frontage of 364 feet, and each covering a depth of 150 feet, the central portion being of two stories, witha handsome tower, and measuring 100 feet front by 150 feet. The plans and specifications are now in the hands of builders, the machinery has been purchased, to be delivered between the Ist of August and the 1st of October, and if the location is decided uponin timeground will be broken by the 20th of April. The consummation of both these important schemes © ‘ DEPENDS UPON TWO THINGS: where the best location can be found, and which railroad will give the best terms for ‘the transportation of materials and the like. On neither of these points has a definit de- cision yet been reached. Real estate generally was quiet, witha firm undertone. Inquiries are fair, and a new feature of the market is the arrival of remittances from England and the prospect of more for investment in Chicago property. MICHIGAN AVENUE AND THE GRAND BOULE- v. have been the scene of the most interesting transfers of the past week. Jacob Weil & Co. have sold, in connection with F. B, Peabody & Co., for Abraham Bige- low, of Boston, to George A. Seaverns, ten acres of land fronting on Grand boulevard, 254 feet, with two fronts on Vincennes ave- nue of 254 feet each front, about 500 feet on Bowen avenue, fronting south, and about 700 feet front on Forty-first street, fronting north; consideration, $69,000. This is one of the best-located pieces of vacant property on the South Side. Mr. Matthew Laflin has bought five acres on the southeast corner of Forty-second street and Grand boulevard, for $40,000 cash. On Michigan avenue, Messrs. Higginbotham, Field, Leiter & Co., and Woodard, of E. G. Keith & Co., have purchased a lot 100 feet wide, with a west front, between Thirty- fourth and Thirty-fifth streets, -for $25,000 cash. They will build residences for_them- selves on this property this season. In the same block, east front, Owen Newman. has sold for Henry C. Walker to Joseph Hirsh, of Hirsh, Mayer & Co., alot 50x17 feet on Michigan avenue, between Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth streets, for $254 per foot, all cash, Ald. Grannis has sold his house and lot on Indiana avenue, south of Twenty- sixth street, east front, to Mr. Bradley, of the West Side, for 317,000 cash. For property on Michigan avenue, near the corner of Twenty-second street, $320.4 foot has been_offered and refused. §. H. Kerfoot & Co. report the sale of sev- enty-three small building lots in the block bounded by Archer avenue, Eighteenth, Throop, Nineteenth, and Loomis streets, within the past few weeks. Pretty brick cottages are being built on the ground. The purchasers are Bohemians. & Jacob Weil & Co. have sold 25xi91 on Wabash avenue, near ‘Twenty-fifth street, to Dr. Weaver for $2,750, all cash. Thomas & Bragg report the following sales: 42.89 acres on the Calumet River, in Sec. 31, 37, 15, for $4,982.55; 50150 feet, . east frent, on Washington avenue, between F ty-second and Fitty-third streets, for ‘$2,500: No. 1434 Indiana avenue, east front, between Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets, brick basement, frame cottage, and lot S0xi61 feet, for $5,800; No. 265 Thirtieth street, north front, between Michigan and Wabash ave- nues. frame house, with bri ement, and lot 24x173} feet, for $5,500; 850 Michigan avenue, west front, between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, frame house, with brick basement, and lot 27}¢x170 feet, for $7,000; No. 2353 Indiana avenue, west front, between - Twenty-third and streets, thi ry frame house on a brick foundation, and lot 22}¢x65 feet, for $3,000; and No. 163 South Hoyne avenue, corner ot Pratt place, frame cottage, and lot 22xlil | Charles fe fe 000. *Ghatles 2. Singer sold a lot on State stree near Thirty- neat inty-fitth, to D, Harry Hammer, for OTHER SALES OF THE WEEK were 20x97 fect on Thirty-second street, east of Wabash avenue, improved, $4,000; 108x100 feet on Walton place, with 26xi17 on Dela- ware place, $11,054; 50x123, improved, on ‘West Huron street, northeast corner of land avenue, $3,691; 25 feet to alley, im- proved, on North Clark street, south of Wis- consin, $3,100; 450x125 on Morgan _ street, south of West Washington, $4,500; 2234x119, improved, on Lan| gley avenue, southeast cor- ner of Thirty-eighth street, $4,500; seven acres, excepting the: southern 11834 feet, on Western avenue, south “ot Edbrook place, $18,000; -undivided third of 228x193 feet on Madison street, west of Franklin, $9,500; 25x110 on South Dearborn street, north of Twenty-ninth, $3,2003 3946 x102 on Erie, west of North State, $5,135; 95x 100, improved, on Brown, south of West 'Tay- lor, $4,000; 338x201 on Division, west of North ‘Wells, $4,125; 966 and 968 North Clark stree $4,200; 27x148, improved, on Division, east 01 Larrabee, 1,000; 30x122 on Lake avenue, south of Thirty-fifth street, $4,050; 505204, improved, on Wellington street, west of Hal- sted, $3,000; 263¢x100 on Robey street, south of ‘McGrath, $4,000; 20x83, improved, on Park avenue, east of Oalley street, $8,500; 19 and 21 Throopstreet, $12,200; 41x110, improved, on West Twelfth street, west of Clinton, $5,000; 267x125 on West Madison, south west corner o! Seeley, $31,816; 819 West Van Buren straeh, $3,800; 493¢x170 on Wabash avenue, north 0! Sixticth street, $3,700; 72x150_on Fifty-third street, southwest corner of Frederick place, improved, $7,029; 125x212 on West Van Bu- ren street, southwest corner of Spaulding, $5,000; 25x158, improved, on Michigan ave- nue, north of Twentieth street, $13,500; 22x 126, improved, on Robey street, south of BMad- ison, $9,000; 41x240 on Ellis avenue, between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets,$7,500; five acres, southeast corner of Archer avenue and Thirty-fifth street, $7,500; 1217-10 to Hoyne avenue, on Seeley street, $9,700;. 65x 150 on Dearborn avenue, southwest corner of Division street, $23,650; 109x59 on West Har- rison, southeast corner of Canal, $17,500; 30x 124 on West Washington street, west of Ro- Dey, $5,500. LEASES. The Board of Education have leased the School Fund property on the corner of Mad- ison and Halsted streets to Crilly & Blair for thirty years from May 8, 1880, at an an- nual rental of $9,027 for the first five years, upon condition that they erect buildings not Jess than three stories in bight, to cost $100,000, and give a bond of $20,000 to insure their doing so. The price obtained is $5,171 a year more than the present rental, $2,455 a year better than the offer of Carson, Pirie & 0., and $1,627 a year more than the bid of the present lessees. ‘The new building on the northeast CORNER OF MADISON street and Fifth avenue, which, with the land, cost $85,000, has been rented for $13,000, —areturn of nearly 16 per cent per annum to the sagacious owners, Messrs. D. A. Jones and Mark Kimball. BUSINESS LEASES: J.C. Sampson & Co., 171 La Salle street, report the following leases: The six-story and basement brown stone front building, No. 84 Wabash avenue, to Hamburgher Bros. for two years, at $4,000 perannum; five-story and basement building, formerly occupied by Stettauer Bros., to Leopld Bros., at a rental of $20,000 per annum, to be occupied for the wholesale clothing trade; upper floors of new brown stone front building Nos. 147 and 149 Lake street, to Kalman & Co., to- bacco manufacturers, at $2,000; lofts on Lake street, near La Salle, for J. Moses Wentworth, to Austin & Co., for $1,000 per year; about ninety feet front on Franklin street, of the Stettauer building, to Price, Strauss & Kohn, for $8,500 per annum; store No. 133 South Clark street, to Sidney C. East- man, for stationery business, for $2,000 per Feary store and basement ‘206 State street, to ‘esstier & Co., for two years at $4,000, for tobacco trade; lofts Nos, 142 and 144 ‘Wabash avenue, for manufacturing, to J Lieberman; store and basement 254 Madison street, Laz Silverman to Goldman & Co., boot and shoe store, $2,400 per year; store No.173 Ran- dolph street, to Alpena & Co., $2,000 per an- num; store State street, for Mark Kim- ball, to Long & Co., for shirring machines, at $1,500 per annum; and.a large number of others similar to these reported. ianere were permits last week for seventy-. eigl * Ms NEW BUILDINGS. : ‘The cost of these will be about $125,000. Fol- lowing are the only ones of any importance: Paulina, near Blue Island avenue, two two- story office and dwelling for M. Lowenthal, to cost $4,000. Kinzie and Wells streets, two and one-half- story depot and one-story express building, | 150x200, for the Northwestern Railway Com- pany, to-cost $100,000, Third avenue, No. 183, two-story dwelling for R. Weber, to cost $4,000. 3 West Chicago avenue, No. 425, three-stor: dwelling for H. Schruerdfeyer, to cost $3,500. Archer avenue and Keeley street, two-story dwelling for A. Frink, to cost $6,000. Among the building permits issued yester- day was one to Thomas Mackin to erect five two-story dwellings, corner of Indiana and Cass streets, to cost 520,000. APRIL BUILDING. During the month of April the Department issued 325 permits, covering the erection of $59 buildings, of which 89 will be permanent brick or stone) buildings. They will have a ontage of 1,600 feet, and cost $485,000, The Department granted 107 permits in the same month for moving dwellings. The old Methodist Church at the north- west corner of Harrison street and Wabash avenue has been condemned as unsafe, and is to be torn down. Work has begun on the tearing down of the Scammon School, opposit the Madi- son Street Police Station. This old struct- ure, once considered an imposing and im- mense building, was put up in 1854. BOULEVARDS. How to pave the Washington street boule- vard was the question discussed last Wednes- day evening at the West Side Opera-House by another joint meeting of the West Side Park Commissioners and the property-hold- ers of West Washington street. The full Board was present, and, besides soine fifty property-holders, there were a number of gentlemen interested in various patent road- ways who had attended by invitation, in or- der that they might present the claiins of their inventions. The usual conflicting ex- pressions of opinion were then elicited, and ablind sort of voting yielded the following results: Cedar block, agen a stone or other equally solid foundation, 23 votes. ‘Macadam, with granit top-dressing, 6 votes. Best kind of asphalt, no vote. The South Park Commissioners have again discussed the question of the povemens of the Michigan avenue boulevards, and again failed to come to any decision. THE WEST,PARK BOARD have authorized the construction ofa number of station-houses at Humboldt and Douglas Parks, and empowered the President to com- plete the contract for setting out trees in umboldt Park made with S, Nelson. Most of the six bids opened Jast week in Commissioner Waller’s office for filling sun- dry streets for the protection of sewers overreach the 60-cent assessment levied for this work, and so the award can be only par- tially made at present. ss Proposals have been advertised for 3,000 tons of cast-iron water-pipé from four to thirty-six inches in diameter. The bids will be opened the 2ist of this month, Touseholders in the South Division are re- minded by Superintendent Meyer, of the Map Department, that it is not only their duty to get their new numbers, but to have them put upon their houses at once. Over half the numbers have been given out, but only a few of them have been put up. Ald. Ballard has matured a plan to give the Western Indiana and other RAILROADS ACCESS INTO THE CITY north of Sixteenth strect: without interfer- ing with the streets. His idea is to change’ the bed of the South Branch of the river be- tween Twelfth and Sixteenth streets, moving It to the west about 200 feet, and making room for the Western Indiana and other railroadsto lay tracks into the city along the east bank of the river. He claims that this will be a great advantage to all purties, as the river makes a great bend to the east between these two streets, and the territory on the west bank is one of the worst divisions in the ity, and, by straightening the river, the city at receive more for the old river-bed than the condemnations for the new will cost. There is but one building in the way,—the City Elevator, just south of Twelfth street, If the tracks are then allowed to be laid along the east bank of the river fey ean run under the bridge approaches at all the street crossings. SUBURBAN REAL ESTATE. To the Editor of The Ohicago Tribune, Curcaco, April 10.—With. the revival of business, and, consequent thereto, of the real estate interests of Chicago and vicinity, the suburban villages which dot the line of the Wisconsin ‘Division of the Northwestern Railroad are deservedly beginning to attract the attention of ‘investors. This region possesses: in a higher degree than any other in the county many of the elements: and ad- vantages usually sought for in desirable country homes. ‘The land is for the most part high and rolling, affording excellent facilities for drainage. - Ib is so far in the interior as to be seldom visited by the bleak, raw winds which are a source of almost constant annoy- ance and discomfort to those who reside on the lake shore. Untila person has made actual trial, he would scarcely believe that so short a distance Would make an’ yery great difference in this regard put. if is an. undeniable fact ‘that many of the present residents, especially those predisposed to bronchial complaints, have been compelled to leave the lake shore, and are enabled to live in’ this region with comparative comfort. Another desirable feature of this section is its pure atmosphere, caused not only by the higher elevation, but also. because it is so far removed from all contaminating sources. It is at too greata distance from the Stock-Yards and rendering establishments to be at all affected by them, and there are no large factories or breweries in the vicinity. The air is therefore at all mes pure and healthful. Excellent water is obtained at a depth of: thirty or forty feet, and the wells ‘are never-failing. Besides these, artesian wells have been sunk at sev- eral points, which have maintained a steady flow for years, with np apparent signs of diminution. These are not only 2 great:con- water shows that itis possessed of medical ualities fully equal to any of the celebrated Wisconsin springs. } 3 All these elements combine to make this section unexcelled for health by any other in the county, and, in consequence, especially desirable for residence ‘purposes, while in deauty of location and pleasant surroundings itis excelled By few. In accessibility to ‘the city it is little behind its most favored neigh- bors, and, indeed, in this respect is all that could be wished \by those who desire to live inthe country and do business in the city. An excellent gravel road, an extension of Mil- waukee avenue, runs near to and paralled with the railroad, for a jdistance of fifteen miles, affording @ smopth and delightful driveway, while seven daily passenger-trains each way on the rallrodd, with reasonable rates of fare, furnish abundant facilities to the business and workingman for reaching and leaving the city at convenient hours of the day. i This line of railroad ig the one taken to reach Geneva Lake, which is so rapidly com- ing to the front as a leading Western sum- mer resort, and where ‘so Ta wealthy Chicago citizens have elegant villas. ‘This also, as is well known, is: one of the oldest roads out of Chicago, :and many of the villages which have sprung up around the stations have not that distinguishable air of newness which characterizes most of the settlements in this country of rapid growth. At an early date much tattention was paid to planting shade .trees, which, together with the many natural grown, adds much to their attractiveness. Soon: after leaving Irving Park and} Montrose, which, though among the youngest, are still among the most pleasant’ of this line of suburbs, and by their proximity to the city are are al most apart of Chicago itself, the railroad strikes what has been known from the ear- liest history of the country 4s Union Ridge, and thence by easy grade until the highest point is reached at Park Ridge, which is situated at an elevation of about 115 feet above the level of the lake. On this high, dry, gravel- ly ridge are located Norw Park and Park Ridge at distances of.eleven and thirteen miles respectively from} the city. Each of these places claim peculiar advantages, and people who are set quiet, shady, healthful country homes, ;witl id. society and unexceptionable educational ‘and relig- ious advantages, can sca ay go amiss in either of them. trving Patk, Norwood Park, and Park Ridge have each an artesian well. The one at Park Ridge is sunk to‘the depth sample of the water, submitted to Dr. Blaney, the eminent chem- ist, was declared by him, after analysis, to be possessed of valuable meficinal properties, and those residents there who habitually use it_ speak in the highest tefms of its curative effects. There is no reson why 8 water- cure establishment at this place, making a specialty of its use, would not be extensively patronized.’ Park Ridge is really one of the most attractive places on the line, and is beginning to show marked signs of. awakening and improvement. The large brick hotel, for'a long time vacant, has ‘been charmingly fitted up the past winter, and will soon be thrown open to the public. While few new buildings are as yet being put ‘up, the vacant, ones are fast filling up, and the demand:promises to fall far short of the supply, Further on, Desplaines, Arling- ton Heights, Barringtow, Crystal Lake, and Woodstock are charming villages, and invite the attention of home-seekers and capitalists. A crowning feature, and one which partic- ularly commends this section to peo- ple of moderate means, is the cheapness with which both improved and unimproved property here can be purchased. ‘Though equally as desirable as many others, and in some respects and for some purposes in fact More 0, yet it has never been unreasonably speculated in, and can be had -at prices within the reach of people of moderate means. Good and well-located building lots in these pleasant villages can be obtained at the most reasonable rates, while acre prop- erty near railroad and station, with churches, schools, and stores near at hand, can be bought at prices little if any greater than its actual yalue for farming purposes. Rents have always been and are still very mod- erate, and residences can be purchased at exceedingly low figures. Taking all these things into consideration, its beauty of loca- tion, its advantages for health, cheapness, and easy and convenient access to the city, there is no reason why this region has not a bright future before it, and become shortly densely populated. At the present, to those seeking suburban homes, and to investors, it offers unexampled inducements. Within sixty days the pnssenger-trains on this divis- ion will run to Wells street, where the mag- nificent new Gepot of the Northwestern Road is being erected, to be completed during the summer. This is in the heart of the city, and as convenient to business as any other, in Chicago. * A.C. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS, The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, April 10: CITY PROPERTY. ‘Walnut st, 120 ft ¢ of Western av, 8 f, 0x 1% ft, dated April 10 (A. E. and C. M. Hemler to John 'T. Shannon)... a ‘West Superior st, 49 4-10 tte of Lincoln, n f, %5x128 ft, dated.April 10 (B. F. Crosby to O. B. Olson).....+++++2sssessee 600 Cleaver st. 25 ft sof Bradley, w f, 37} ‘x125 ft, dated April 8 (Mat Schillo ot al. 2 to M. Kufel et al.). 0 ‘West Madison st, 423 8 f, undivided % of 24x126 ft, dated api 6 Qlary J. Seymour to C. L. Wost Madison st, undivided 44 of the above, dated March 30 (M. 8. Potwin to same)... se . 1,200 court, of, inion Mutual Michigan av, 160 tin of 30x180 ft, dated March 90 (U1 Life-Insurance-Co. to H. F. Bucklen).. ‘West Thirteenth place, 249 ft w of Centre av, sf,2orl4ft dated April 8 (A. 3. and J.'H. Tyler to Ezekiel Morrison)... West Ohio st, 100 ftw of Bickerdike, sf, 25x125 ft dited April 9 (George Bicker- e to John Murphy).... ereeeeres Mohawk st, 06 ft n of Buge » © £, 418x122 ft, improved, dated April 8 (Peter Biner to Mathias Breigenser)..... s West Huron st. 24% ft ¢ of Lincoln, s f, 95x12 ft, dated April 10(C. P. Nicolson to Jacob Grann)..........-: esece ‘West Thirteenth pince, 120 ft w of Wooa st, § f, Ax1%5 ft, dated April 3 (V. Ulrich toJ. Luckinan}.........2- State ‘st, 237 ft_n of Thirt: fy 24x123 Ht, dated April 9(F. M. and C. J Ginger to D. H. Hammor)............-.+ Hermitage av, ne cor of West Polk st, w f, 51 3-10x19514 ft, dated March 8 (An- drew Crawford to H. C. Goodrich)...... Centre ay, 39 ttn of Eighteenth st, w f, 25x10 ft, improved, dated April 9 (Anna Bartos to M. and M. Sikyta) = West Nineteenth st, 43 ft & iss 6 f, 48x12 ft, duted Feb. 4 (J. A. Stewart to August Wickler).....--s+sgesecez--e0+ North Market st, 337-10 ft 8 of Division, © f, 25x100 ft, dated March 27 (W. 8. Johnston to Thomas Ritchic)............ The premises Nos. 62 and 6 Throop s dated March 29 (Charles Benjamin to ‘William Thompson), ...-++ecr2r--e00e0u2 ‘West Indiana st, 58 3-10 ft w of Green, sf, ‘8-10x40 ft, dated April 1(Carl Nilson to Ole JobNON).......sesseeenneret ones South Park av, sw cor of Twenty-ninth at,e f, 49x10 ft, dated April 10 a J. O'Neil to Patrick Cleary). North Clark st, 247 ft n of Sophin, 67, 4éx 19) ft, dated April 5 (Estate ot Frank Newton to Louisa Troyer)........ fe ete eae Indiuna av, 129 ft nof Thirtieth st, w f, 216x178 st, dated Dec. 17, 1878 (H. P. Monroe to Nelson Monree).....-..-..-40 Indiana av, 129 ft n of Thirtic(a st, w f, dated April 8 tw &. Stocksmeier).... see Bush st, 50 ftn of Pearson, W_ 200 fty dated April 30 (C. and to F. Henrotin)....... Ashland av,n e cor of Henry. nd ho 248-10x125 ft, dated April 1(C. H. Wil- {ams to John Merkel)......- ao sene. eee Sof aeeeieo fe dated “Apri 7 (H&, Kohn et ab to £76. Hack Maite IDPADY) «22+ voeesceasrepeseeseseees B:3 Bieonth et, undivided 6-18 ofthe above Be dated April 8 (the First National Bank t0 SAME)... aa. anne a: £35 10x N.Dieden 9,200 5.769 venience, but, in one case, an analysis of the. Blue Island av, 72 fts se f, 24x100 ft, dated ‘March Eres i en" porte Cc. elle) sence: : Arn 5 W cor of ro “Bis te renty-fourth, e f, Arnold st, 150 ft. of Twenty- 8 8, BOL th dated April 10 GL aad. Steude to Adam Dittmar)........-r.<s00 Ashley st, 250 ft e of Leavitt, nf, 25x00 ft, dated Siarch 90 (Martha Mathews to W. Michigan av, 133 ft n of “Bighteenth at, w #218163 £6: improved, dated April 0 1. B. and A. J, Averell to Mary C. Rayner) Superior at, 174 ft 0 of Lincoln, n f, 25x123 Zh, dated April 10(0. B. Olson t6 “B.F. The premises No. 7 North Pauilna st, dated April 10 Gf. ae item) cand i He Banyan fe urn Bt, 155 ft n of Thirty-fif! 2 xin ft dated April 30 (x Mune to". 1,000 - 4750 1,40 450 A RADI Met SEVEN MILES OF THE COURE-AOUER. of, elrose st. 483 ft e of ‘Dummy road, nf, 40M x150 tt, improved. dated April8 GF, _ L. Baldwin to Annie 1. Conoy ne '§ 4,100 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Atianticst, near Fitty-cighth, w f, Lots , dates 9 «Py pe Thomas, Wall. ea ent ie ce incan Par! ve, 275 ft wof nf, 25 it to alley, dated Feb. 2 OL ES Buckingham to P. Bagiey... Wentworth vet fa te a of Forty thi st, x12: lat H.'Palmer to 0. A. Shawn ond W- SUMMARY FOR WEEK, The following.is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for rec- ord during the week ending panuraay, April Ree Sales, iss Sonelderabon. & 316, x of city limits—Sal 3 consideration, $11,500, South of city limits Sales, 18; con sideration. = pe or sta te city limits— ;, consideration, $19,150. Total sal 165, Total consideration, $616,540. ° IN NEW YORE, the Tribune reports that the advance in the prices of real estate for the past year, but especially within the last few months, has extend inroughout Manhattan Ysland, the Annexed District, and Brooklyn, but has been unequal in different places. Some property has increased in value 100 per cent, ut the general advance has been much be- low this. Rents have been raised every- where in the city, but notin proportion to the rise in the price of property. Tenants are said, for the most part, to submit cheer- fully to the increased demands of the land- lords, in view.of the improved state of busi- ness. One of the generally accepted signs that the revivalin business is substantial is the fact that unusual activity prevails in real estate. Many new buildings are projected, property is. exchanging hands frequently ab advancing prices, and, as a consequence, rents have been raised, and in most cases the advances have been accepted without much demur. Careful investigation made by a Tribune reporter into the sales of real estate, and inquiry made of real-estate dealers, prove that real estate has advanced in cer- tain parts of the city since last June nearly 100 per cent. The largest advances have oc- curred _on the westside of the uptown dis- trict. Rents have also increased from 10 to 40 per cent, according to location. MORE HORSE-CARS, TM the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cxicaco, April 10.—There is a_first-class residence region lying between Grand and Drexel boulevards that is susceptible of rapid development and reat enhancement. values by an extension of horse-car facilities toit. Itis remarkable that the real-estate owners of that territory do not get together and devise some plan to make this beautiful tract of Hyde Park accessible. The few houses that are occupied there now are good, and many of them elegant brick residences; and the people are generally first-class in in- telligence and respectability. With a horse- car line running through it, and Scent fares to the business part of the city, the whole territory would soon be covered with houses. A line of cars might branch from the Cottage Grove avenue line and run down on Vincennes avenue to, say, Forty- seventh street. Ora Cottage Grove car or Indiana avenue car might run along the Thirty-ninth street track.to Langley avenue, and tum down Langley or St Lawrence avenue to Forty-seventh street. Either of these routes would work a transformation in this region. It would ey property-owners ten times over even if they should build the road themselves, give it to the hg Railway Company, and pay for running .the cars if necessary. - Let Forestville owners wake up. ROSA BONHEUR AT HOME. Her Life and Work at Thomery—The ‘Tratning and Methods of a Great Ani- mal-Painter—Her Models—An Impor- tant Picture in Progress. London World. Thomery is a country retreat, and the re- treat of one wlfo has tried the first of cities and found it wanting. Though born at Bor- deaux, Rosa Bonheur is almost Parisian by origin. She was brought up in the Capital from her 7th year. She left it voluntarily in the maturity of her fame for this pleasant rural exile near Fontaine- bleau, where her genius finds what it loves above all things,—repose and the contemplation of nature. Thomery is next door to nature, instead of being a two hours’ ride from it by rail. There is a tradition that when the artist lived in Paris, in her student days, she kept a sheep, her orly model, ona fifth floor, and made her brother take him outevery night fora run on the ramparts Jest he should forget the color of the grass. She has lived at Thomery over twenty years. Sheisas shy as a wild bird there. You must haye, the best of introductions or the status of old intimacy to obtain a sight of Rosa Bonheur at home. Tourists will per- sist in treating her as one of the views of the district. Her time is worth about £20 a day, yet they see no presumption in de- manding an hour of it. When she dwelt Paris, long after the student days, it was hard to say'whether her atelier swas her boudoir, or her boudoir her atelier, so tastefully was the furniture of her work- room compounded of feminine frippery and the apparatus of her art. Hereit is hardly the same thing. You pass up a spiral stair- way hung with the antlered crowns of dead monarchs of the herd, and you stand in a large studio that wants but a touch or two to make it like a banqueting-room of an old chateau. Where the fifteenth-century gen- tleman would have feasted, Rosa. Bonheur paints; and she is now painting on a scale which, in its amplitude, reminds one of his dinners. Her scene of horses trampling out wheat in the South of France occupies one whole side of the room, and is beyond all_question the largest thing she has done. It shonld, however, be spoken of rather in the future than in the resent tense, As yetitis only to be seen in its beginnings, though a French paper— perhaps finding prophecy catching in the almanac season—announced it last winter as a finished work. Thi picture is about three times as large as the famous ‘‘Horse Fair,” and there are_many signs that it is in- tended to be the artist’s magnum opus in the figurative as in the literal sense. Every form and figure in it, every detail of the jandscape, willbe studied from the natural object. This isthe painter's way, and we may have a proof of it if we leave the studio and extend .our walk through the house and grounds. The_latter are like a section of the Zoo. Here are cages for the birds used as models, | ken- nels for the dogs, and a spacious paddock for the cattle, Well stored as her memory ust be in regard to all the details of animal form, Rosa Bonheur never by any chance trusts to it.in the composition of a picture. She first ascertains what she wants, and then es ont to look for it, or has it brought to fier. ‘There is a constant change of occupan- cy at this grand hotel of the brute creation. When an animal has served its purpose it is tacked off too make room for another, after leaving something better than its photograph in the portfolio, which is the ‘Visitors’ Book ” of the place. In the large studio, or in the smaller one up-stairs, are animal portraits in oil by the thousand,—sheep of most of the bi known in Europe in every imaginable pose, oxen from far and near. But we are neglecting the painter for the sitters, and that would be a grave mistake on every ground. In all contempor art there is no personality half so interesting. Foss Bonheur’s home life has the simplicity her genius. She is one of the happy women who have ho history, She began i paint, a5: a young girl to help support he father Tom whom ane received her first band only lessons; she. nowas aw a ttle advanced beyond the middle period of life. She has never married; she has lived in and for her art. Her devotion. is hardly to be praised, for it has cost her mo effort. Everything has been governed by this sole dominant idea. There came a time when Paris with its manifold pleasures threaten to distract her from her great pursuit,— she left Paris, A-large hospitality in the country would have the same effect: 80. leay- ing out of account her close intimacy with relations, she leads the life of a recluse. She ‘has created a new type,—the typeof the coun- try lady, the analog and equal bf the coun- try gentleman, though not his mate. She looks eminently healthy; the red on her cheek is no ‘momentary glow of excitement, but a fast color that tells of good appetite, sound digestion, abundant exercise 8 life, in short, lived under the best physical con- ditions. She rather short and very squarely built and her looks do not belie her in respect of her vigor and endurance. Her gray hair is cut and parted like a man’s; bu as it nearly touches her shoulders, Truefit would no doubt call it long for the fashion of the day. Her dress, even when she is re- ceiving visitors, carries out this suggestion of manliness. She wears a short, loose vel- vet jacket, buttoned up nearly to the throat, where it opens to show just a speck of linen, and a shortish skirt absolutely innocent of train, polonaise, and every other contrivance for impeding freedom of feminine movement. The face restores a perfect womanliness to the whole figure,—small, regular features, soft hazel eyes, and a dignined Senignity of ex- pression. The manner matches the face. She has alow, pleasant voice, and a direct sincerity of speech most agreeably. free from the artifices of compliment. ‘Everything sug- gests the healthful and beautiful stren; of mind that results from the. devotion of a life toa at and worthy end,—e stren; necessarily tempered by feeling and high im- aginative sympathy where the end is art. is devotion to one pursuit may be taken as the mot d’explication to Rosa Bon- heur’s career. It accounts perfectly for her one apparent eccentricity, her custom of wearing masculine dress, an eccentricity, as we have just shown, not to be noted to its full extent at times when strangers are in the way. When she visits Paris or expects visitors at home, Rosa Bonheur appears in the uniform of her own sex; in her painting- room and in her walks in the forest in uni- form of the other, This practice dates from the time of her girlhood. As an animal painter she had to go wholly out of the eaten track to find her subjects, sometimes to the great stables of Paris, sometimes to the abattoirs, The exceedingly well _ behaved; superior beings in charge of them, the slaughtermen and horseboys, did not al- A imitate their example. ‘The youn irl, while she was dressed as a girl, fount ierself exposed to frequent, if not very se- rious, annoyance. There was besides the Positive hindrance of public curiosity, the crowd of st ig idlers formed round her the moment she took her sketch-book in hard. She soon saw that there was but one “way to avoid all these inconveniences, by ap- pearing, as a youth; so she shortened her air, exchanged the bodice for the blouse, and, perhaps for the first time in feminine history, wore the breeches for culture, and not for control. Her work went on in peace and quietness from that time forth. From studying out-of- doors in this style she took to studying in- doors. The dress gave her greater freedom of movement for: modeling and painting. Sarah Bernhardt, in herquality of anamateur of plastic art, has discovered the same thing. ‘The like considerations dictate the present use of it at Fontainebleau. It would be idie to set out in flowing skirts f for a tramp in the forest after deer. @ country people who recognize her in these excursions know the motive of her disguise, and take no notice; the tourists never once suspect that the strong, well-knit figure, costumed in a shoot- ing suit of velveteen cords, is one of the most distinguished, and, it may be added, one of the most womanly, women of the age. Hosa Bonheur is no masquerader; her man’s attire is not for the public eye, but strictly for her own convenience. Sometimes she is abroad in this guise for pleasure, and sometimes for business; and she as often has the gun on her shoulder as the sketch-book by her side. It is only because she is so great an artist that it does not seem worth while to celebrate her as a food. shot. She is out early and in all seasons, but especially insummer-time. “The fly does not worry the cattle in the morning, so you can get them to stand quietfora sketch.” Her first and last reason is always derived from the practice of her art. Art is, indeed, allinallto her. Jt is her recreation as well as her pursuit. When itis too dark to paint, she is sketching and com- posing—thinking out; and she is capable of passing weeks and months in this way with- outennui. She is not absolutely alone, but she lives only in the companionship of those who share her tastes. She is the eldest of a family—one might almost ‘say of a race—of _artists. Of her _broth- ste works on canvas Tellers in marble; and. her sister Juliette (Mme. Peyrol) would be about the first of contem- porary animal-painters if there was no Rosa onheur. These are often at ‘Thomery; and when they leave there are generally some of Mme. Peyrol’s children, who share the family gift, to take their places. Apart from these, sa Bonheur has an unfailing re- source 2gaing it solitude in the society of a lady who has lived with her for many years as 4 sister, and as a substitute in all matters touching the care of the house. Thanks to her, the artis; knows no domestic hin- drance to her work. She produces much, and if she has exhibited but little of late it is chiefly because she contemplates forming a. collective show of her works. The exhibi- tion will necessarily include some pieces of statuary, as Rosa Bonheur models with only less facility than she paints, She has, how- ever, won fo successes in this branch of art. Her modeling renders the forms of animals with accuracy, but it cannot give the senti- ment of the scene in which they are placed, nor even the perfect expression of the ani- mals themselves. Without coior, a brute in effigy has the sightless want of animation of a portrait bust. The modeling tool, there- fore, is now chiefly used at Thomery as an aid fo the pencil. ———___ FASHION NOTES. . ‘New York Sun. English surtouts are much worn at the mo- ment. Light and colored wraps are again very fash- fonable. Black Spanish lace scarfs are again used for mufflers. Heliotrope and cream are favorit color com- bination. ‘New laces are seen in Turkey red and cash- mere colors. Kyba crape is the latest imported novelty in dress goods. Shades of heliotrope are very fashionable for spring millinery. y Satin appears to be as fashionable as ever for dress trimmings. Chins. crape scarf capes, covered with em- | broidery, will be worn. ‘There is a flood of Asiatic ideas in the designs of new dress materials. ‘The back draperies of spring walking or street suits are generally tlat.. x Surtouts, houppelandes, and redingotes are all one and the same thing. Kybacrape is the favorit fabric for kettle- arum or 5 o'clock tea-toilets. Three long ostrich feathers introduced into fans make an extreme novelty. ‘Twelve ribs and paragon frames painted red are the order for new parasols. Light colors and undefined tints are again in vogue for dresses, as well as for bonnets. Go!d braid, gold gallcons, golden onamenta, and gold brocade are all used in new millinery. Short skirts are shorter than ever this spring, when worn by the most fashionable women. Basques, in almost every: instance, are short inthe front and long in the back this spring. Dolmans, mantles, pelerines, and shoulder- capes will be fashionable for summer wraps. ‘The new fancy buttons for dresses look like jewels, and are gems in point of workmanship. Lilac, pale gray, mauve, shades of hell + beige, and gray blue are favorit tints for spr! dresses. Spring turbans are elthor round hats or bon- nets, according as they have strings or are stringless. Printed delaines, printed satins, printed silks, and printed goods of all kinds flood the dry goods market. Persian vt of black net, edged with Per- sian colors and designs or with cashmere beads, is to be introduced. und hats and bonnets, scarfs, mantles, and tone of white muslin, trimmed with lace, will be worn in midsummer. Some of the new satin brocaded stuffs are brightened with gold threads, and these goods, take the name of cloth-of-gold. Back di ries of dressy suits are frequently lined with | right silk, and permite to bang in such & manner as to show the lining. g Spring waistcoats are of every conceivable design, the. most unique being the triple gilet, composed of two waistcoats and a jacket. Agolden bird’s eae, cracked open at one end, showing the head of a young bird peeping ont, makes @ fine ornament for an Easter bonnet. Pagodas, Cupids, birds in cages, flowe: pellaare all Poy in indefinit Cras neneeeee itterns of the brocades lately ted from France. ‘i The most elegant flower bonnets are very small, and have a small puff of silk around the brim matching the flowers that form the bonnet, while the rest af the bonnet 15 covered with one kind of flower only, but in two shades of that flower, as for instance, two sbades of heliotrope, two of violets, and two of forget-me-nots. Draperies for the front of dressy spring suits are shirred to form cither single or double pan- niers, or they are placed to fall down over the hips with clusters of shirrings. Kyba crape comes in all delicate shades of blue, rose, mauve heliotrope. almond, and cream, with stamped borders-in strongly ‘contrasting Oriental colors and with Oriental designs. * Black satin de Lyons and black camel's hair continue to be the favorit materials for spring mantles, although many beautiful pale ecru, beige, and pongee colored mantles are seen. Imported costumes of silk and novelty mixt- ure are brightened up by French tulle witha narrow knife pleating of dark red satin around the bottom of the skirt, this gay finish being as often seen as white lace or muslin balayeuses were last year. Some of the combinations of color seen in the richest satin brocades are pale rose and brown on an ecru ground, gold color and pale rose ou pearl gray. Magenta and pale blue or beige, dark olive green and salmon on pale. olive, old gold and Solferino, gray, brown and red on pale blue, bronze green and pale blue on rose color. ‘The designs in the satin brocaded stuffs of this spring's importations show not only medieval and Oriental art ideas, but also the fanciesof the more modern schools of art. Frequently in con- structing color on a field of red, blue, rose, pearl mauve, or cream color are patterns involv! the introduction of roses and buds, blades o! maize, heads of oats and barley in one piece while Stems with radiating rays, flowers, wheels, bees, and butterflies are seen together in an- other pattern. THE RANGER’S REVENGE ; Or, the Way He Socked it to a Sioux Savage—A Tale of the Prairie. o Brooklyn Eagle. OHAPTER I. As the party swept up out of the cafiontothe brow of the hill, they came face toface with an elegant brown stone mansion. “Injuns,” ejaculated the guide, as the in- trepid party of rangers hid bebind the fence. ‘The window opened, and Ta Toncha Sappee, the dreaded Sioux and heriditary foe of the pale faces, stepped upon the balcony, followed by his lovely daughter, the graceful Shung-wau-cau. The servant brought some chairs and the parent and child sat down. “ And you really object to having me marry Claude Lavelette?” murmured the young girl. Aflerce wave of passion tore like his native blizzard across the old Chief's face. * “Ido,” said-he, in a suppressed tone. “He ‘drinks, and no drunkard shall profane the fam- ily of Ta Toncha Suppee."” ‘The fall of the young girl as she fainted drowned the fierce oath of Claude Lavelette. who was one of the rangers behind the fence and who heard the sentence passed upon him. ‘Ta Toncha Sappee rang for restoratives, and, taking his umbrella and gun as protection against the rain and coyotes, he strolled off ta the opera. CHAPTER 11. Claude Lavelette wasthe son of rich but re- Spectable parents, and, having been educated at arvard, had early developed a taste for savacc life. His father had fi him out with a few companions, to whom he had given the name of the Jack-Rabbit rangers, and, thus equi} . he had made his way tothe Far West, and wound up onthe prairies of Northern Montana. (e had met the beautiful Shung-weu-can ata church sociatle in the village where she lived, - and her beauty had fasinated him. Nor was the young girl indifferent to the manly charms des- tined to effect such an impression on her after life. But Ta Toncha Sappee would not allow the ops, man to call, and he and the Jack-Rabbits d sworn to take her. As the old Chief passed up the street, Claude swung himself upon the balcony and clasped the ai heard ie all he whi “But fe 1 “ T hei ” he whispered. “ ‘ear no} yet ible threat he escaped as the T'll scoop the old gu: ‘And with this te servants approached. CHAPTER III. Ta Tontha Sappee leaned forward ont of box, and scalped. adler. Be semper soprano,” he sai the scalp to the heroine of the fae who bashes, smiled, and put it in her ma, the house as rang with applause at the act. ‘The chief laughed slightly and bowed_ his ac- knowledgements, while the sweet aria, Di mi nea castio @ Giovanna bello di terri arose like the per- fume and came down like the stick. ‘Entranced by the music, Ta Toncha Sappea did not sec the glaring eyes of 8 younzman bent upon him from the top tier. : ‘were better for him that he had. CHAPTER Iy. : For days the ie girl Igy at the point ot death, but capa a strong constitution re- stored her, and in a few months sho was able to set up in an easy-chair and receive presents. ° During this time the Chief had spent days, and éven nights, at his drug-store, looking over ac- counts with his clerk, and at last he discovered that he was ruined. He had speculated largely in Rochelle salta and dissipated his fortune. He could look for no assistance from the rest of his tribe, whe were at war with the whites and pretty gener ally hard up. it the old man was proud. The blood o, many generations of Sioux ran in his veins, and it was hard for him to give up. Influenced by his wife, he had consented ta give a grand party, in honor of his daughtor’¢ _ evening crash of music and the hum of conversation mingled with the breath of prairie-flowers through the halls of the stately mansion. CHAPTER V. Claude Lavelette, for it was he who had looked down from the top tier that night. had fled to his cave in the mountains, and, bu: himself in the volumes of his well-selec! i- brary, had taught himeelf to write. Carefuily filling out the lines in a blank, he o concealed it within his hunting-shirt, and mounting his champing charger, sped for the ball. His rangers followed him in a hack, en- gaged for the purpose, armed to the teeth. ‘ntering the drawing-room with a martial tread that attracted the attention of all, he handed the blank to Ta Toncha Sappee. haughty Chief adjusted his glasses, and, as he read it, his face turned a ghastly hue. “T can't pay it to-night,” he whispered. + ea ‘Then I.must turn it off,” said the youngman ys “ But my guests ——" “* Must dance in the dark.”” “There was a death-like silence in the room. “Pildrop around in the morning and settle it,” said the Chicf quickly. %* Won't do; company’s orders,” and theyoung man turned toward the cellar door. “ Stay!” said a silvery voice behind him. The young man turned and faced the lovely Shung-wau-cau, the pride of the gratrie. “ What would you?’ she asked, in a voice that thrilled him. “It is the gas-bill,” he replied, ‘and it must be paid to-night, or I take away the meter.” neivilized though he was, Ta Toncha Sappee kenew he was nq match for a. gas company. “ And what will tempt you to let this thing stand over until morning?” he asked while the perspiration stood on his brow. “Your daughter,” was the scntentious re- onse. *PovTake her,” said the Chief, and Claude Law alette clasped her in his arms. : CHAPTER VI. Claude Lavalette went into the drug business with his father-in-law. He. found an immense quantity of salts on hand, but he was equal to the emergency. Having intluence at Washing- ton, he gota contract to furnish Rochelle salta to the Amerfean army in the field. Wealth be- gan to pour in upon him, and in about an hour ‘and a half he had restored his father’s shat- tered fortune. ‘The fate of the army was never Ignown. ‘One night the Chief and Clande were convers- ing upon theiraltered affairs, when Ta Toncha Sappee asked about the gas-bill. coe Tt wos a forgery,” said Claude, with a smile; and his father blessed him and took him to his ‘bosom, for he recognized a prize in a son-in-law who could get a government contract and forge a signature. A WAIF. B3( tf my he d eart of my heart, and sworn wife of my Sworn to be faithful thro’ better, thro’ worse— Out on the silence I cast this poor blossom: uke tsi pray theos cis fragrant with feellog— ee; tis fragrant ee. Red with the blood of my passionate heart; Take it, and know that the sender {s kneeling, Crying aloud for thee, cold tho’ thou art. O thou hast promised to love and tocherish— ~ om God joins together, let no man divide: Send but a line—but a word—or I perish; Let the voice of love silence the promptings of pride. Fortune has frowned, and the skies have beer clouded; Fate has been cruel—nay, heartless—to me; All the best hopes of my life she has shrouded; But Ihave been true a8 stars unto Uiee— . ® ‘True to the trusts of a husband and father. God! for a sight of my beautiful boy! O for one moment again but to gather .. Both to my heart in a passion of joy! . Life is too brief to be wasted in sorrow; * Love is too sweet to be slain at a blow. Shine like a star thro’ the darkness to-morrow; Send but a line, Just to soften my wo. Heart ot my heart, acd sworn wife of my m- ore Sworn to be faithfnl thro’ better, thro’ worto— Out on the silence I cast this poor blossom: |, ‘wilt thou read it—this blossom of verse? (CAGO. LD.G. - a, Pains and Aches in the Back, For Ni Kidneys, or bs,—Hop Bitters