Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1880, Page 12

9 ~ 1 18s0—'TWIELV is PAGES THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE him. Manecript artlele on, © Political Keonomy and there nln't yo. ment In tho heise, Whiety he was destrous, ty eeu and Chutbock. ‘They went to the for In apecinl aude * cavenantenud lenges, Loctite ths a Our minister fs coming to dimer to-day, i THE HOME. A Fair Specimen of a Peculiar Marriage at Charidan, Ill. Advico tothe Girls Who Are Always Hunting for Beaux, Some Hints on Forming and Pro- serving True Friendship. Educate the Women to Provido for Themsolves and Bo Independent of Man, ¢ Notes and Queries—Information Want- ed and Furnishod. IN THE MOONLIGHT. Ah the mellow silver moonlight, Falling on her flushing face, Lighted eyes of witening beauly With the light of Love's own grace, Long we lingered In the ovening, And all life seumed free from care, While the star beams wove around us Somio aweet spoll of magle thore, On her cheek the roses blossomed Paler far than tn the diy, Loving light fell on her forehead, In the invon's soft, shinkug my, Like n tender drenin of beauty Every siuile that beunted on ines, Teoukt linger In the moonlight Through all Love's eternity. Softened rays upon her tresses, ® White nad ritken in thelr beam, Beemed like fairy culls, that from us pitas Cusine Mkt dream. ¥ hands so fairand waxeny fave toanine their thelr thrills of bitas, Waite her lips ae own in rapttre, Met in Love's iirst, sweetest kiss, Years have passed, Again T lager *Neuth tho moonbenms sud und lone, While tho breezes In the brinches: Like such restless spirits moun. Aw the fairies of the moontight: Wenve their dewy blossoms sweet In ihe rranee aster i ded yho lies sleeping at my feet. ¥ x Lypta F. HINNAN, THE LETTER-BOX., ‘Thore are letters, papers, and postal-cards at this office for the persons whuse names appear ‘below, ‘Those Hying out of tho efty vhowhd sent thelr address and a three-cent stamp, upon re+ ceiptof which their mail will be forwarded. Realdonts of Chicago can obtala their mall by _eulling nt Room 6 Lamune Buildings Arlington, Sutferer, AL hy Forty Years, Fern Deaf, Theo, Cured, Amber, Mrs, Lucy 8: Crosby, A Render, PECULIAR MARRIAGES, “DRCAURE Ht 12 80 Goon." To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, CHARIDAY, HL, Juno 1—Wa have bad a sent tlon Inovr community in the form of a mare ringe. People ean scarcely holleve it, whee they hear It, Mes. Dupe has married Sill Topert Fvery one asks, “ Why she did it?” Tt ts a come plete mystery. Let mo tell Just a few of tho purtlentars, and perhaps some of tho wise and sensible members of The Home cnn give swe information on the subject. Mra. D. ty a ludy about 45 years of age, -reflned. and Intel- Heent. She {8 a “ifrusa widow,” and is good-looking,—more se than the avorage lady. She has n great deal of self-esteem (or nt le! people hnye given her credit for baying ft), ap- w in soclety, and his always been in a 0 is a Christinn indy, and has nant netive part in church ‘matters, She has been nmbitlows to be one of the lenders dn all affairs where she ls concerned, Sho ts in- dependent of the support of rhusbund, She has 4 gan who is a young num, only two years youNR- er than hisstepfather. Now jook nt tuo busbahd. Ho fs not good: looking; ho Is homely, and almost repulsive. Ho cannot mike a shadow of an appearuice, and hns no ambition to appear, and looks dechiedy vnpoilsbed and rusty, Tie has no place Inevele= ty, and Is intemperate in tho use of Incoxicants and tobaceo, and ts yery profane, - te fs illlters ‘ate ahd Irreilgious. No one eat’ remember of ever having seen hin at church, He his no property, and, to cap tha- climax, ho Ja a full courdn to the won he nirried, + What such a wont us Mra. D.. or any othor womunof fika characteristics nnd abliity, enn see to adtnire in mon Uke Mr, ‘1. ig what puzzles: me, When one of ber lady friends told mich, undaisked her whut sho cenld baye been thinking af, she only replied, “You don't know how:-good he ty, Anna.” What ds there fu this Jnexpressible * goodness” that ‘causes women to forget tholr self-respect, thelr position, their aurroundiugs (whur they ire plaiaant), their ine orything, and yive up wil kenplng.of bieb aman? Is marriage wwomnn's higheeeambition, tut she will marry At the first opportunity singly for the snke of betng married? It fs vory seldom Unt we hear Of 4 mun Mnureying @ voman who fa not his equal Ln society, * They ure shrewd onouzh toknow better. ‘they condemn woman for the very fret nppenrance of ovll, and if wajnen ssould” do the same by: men, there would be, In the course of the next century, a great reforin In society and a grent Improvement on the present." Why donot single ladies, whethur thoy are widows, young gltls, or “old maida,” when they are independ> ont, remaln ko? [they are tot independent, then tho fruit is thelr own. Thoro is un abun= ance of work, and where thore fs a determina. don to make ane's own Ilving there is a way. Very many ladies are not obliged to labor for their support, ‘They haye fathers who are blo to mutniain ‘them, and they can enjoy them- sm lyes ue long as they choose, 1 do not condemn young girls for marrying amoltions young men Who are poor, But Tdo condemn ether old or young girls for marrylug men who ure little Inony than Acommon nuleance to the commu: nlty In whith thoy live, Isuauton. WMUNTING FOR BEAUX. A WoRD TO THE Gutta One AND A HEPLY TO = ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Aamoy, TL, Jude 4,—1 noticed in list week's Tome tho letter signed “ Telene,” and wish to Bay a word In references to lt. * *Tt{s tou bad Heleno cannot find a beau, as sho appears to want one so budly, ‘ Butte she will take my adyico she will take care of herself, us 1 have fot the oust doubt sho: can, and let alt tho foolish, nonsensical beaux tuke cure of thems and Lm willing to wager sho will be much happler and better off ‘$n the ond than If she hud all the beaux in the world, Tait nat far better to devote omu's life to som noble work or to helping some poor fellawe beings thin be thinking of nothing but "How am f to cuteh that young upstart?” who very Ukely hua not enouih to: pay bis honest debts With, Ietailone keep a wife; but such are aways the first fo marry. It f# Very much the samo with tho other sex, Mother inst drudge all day in tho kitehen, wear the commonest kind of Clothes, economize: In every possible way ko the daughters ean play the fine Indy In tho parlor to some young fellow, who muy perhips be captivated or samehow Li duced to take one of them fora belpmate, wh after sho fs all faat it ts notso easy being dl+ vorced as [tls berg married), earea nothing for her ouly as she adds to hts comfaert and pleasure. Look ut such women as Florence Nightingale or Anon Dickinson uid a host of others. dy it not for better tu miniater ta: those who everywhere need help and devate a life to doing good, or say perfecting onesalf and maktng wutudy of komo one thing, a8, for instances, elocution, that to bo under the thumb and thiger of and have to betandpamper a lon of creation in bls every wieh, who on the @llybtest provocation ties ina Tage, and venta his anger on you, and you by wnarrying have: Hivat hlin the privilege go ta de? it did not used to he an, thal the whole ulin, Thoughts, and ambitions of young people from the uges‘of sto 2h was mieriuge. New why thigchunget It tgaurely nota goad one, You searevly tind ay boys and girls nowadays, They nro nearly all nulbivture men and woment Never wind if ‘that sister wants the beaux, lot her bave thom and welcome, No great loss, £ warrant she will be tired vnongh of thoi fool- Ishness before longs but about her suying she thought It time every one was nbed, Lugree with her there, aud think t o'clock was blyh time every one waa urleep, Now, Helene,” don't feel hurt or angry ut woat | have sald, but go head and striko back with all your mint, AUNT SALLY ANN, TRUE FRIENDSIIIP, $OME TINTS ON VORMING AND PRERENVING IT, ‘To the Edditur of The Chicago Tribune, Vinton, la, June 14,—Sunday tn tho country, . Miniles frum that dour mothor of taine,—whit am J not Hable todo? Shall L writa you of this danday? % Seutuxl on tho bank of First Lake are a party af four gentlemen, While 1 busy myself with pencil and papor, the remainder of the party tro—flening, Wicked! 1 hoar Orlona, Aunty Lucy, Kitle, and others of The Home oxcluin, Not at all, wy dour Christian friends; wait intl Ttell you. Wo're tu the sume predicament. due boy waa whom tho uiloister sought hunting cur squirrels ong Sunday. ‘Pho mfiivter said? Dy boy, don’t you Kine it's wicked to hunton Juuitays und do you think you'll caten bit The “boy replled, Wicked! "taln't wickeds aetch bin? ‘Course I'l catch him. Got to eutch So with us, We've got to caten the fah in or- der tobavethem for supper. Wo're all- out of nient. Lread The Home of yesterday, and vf Kittle only knew all about Chat and myself sho youldn't worry ever n little bit; and It'T, A. Dally knew all abont us he would know T coutlin’t think of going on the proposed excur- slon untess Chat was one of tho purty. Could f, mh What has become of Forty Years and Bittor- aweet? Lhuve often wondered {f the Inttor was atin, Cin any one tell me? ain well satisfied that Maud Meredith fa one of tho very nicest widows In tho world, kind and gentle, loving and lovable, What diya of suffering she will pus “onuee J was swith a fish Ping party Siindugt Poor Maud! ‘The diy ts beautiful, and trom my scat unyler fn friendly tree J can wateb the others ofthe party na they land every now and then one of the finny tribe, Bome of tho party call Frank! ery thine they muke n very youd or very poor eh, and 1 rit to: not knowing Just when I'm going to be fooled The boys sceim to bi es; and T low joyous laughter and Jolly talk sounds good to my cara; and IC thoy are doing auy wrong T fail fo seo or know It. Sitting thus under the trees t fell to moralize Jag (have not felt ike fishing) on felenisnip, Whore our friends? How shall we know and how shill we treat them? The term—s frhond of mlne—is universally tsed, and abused about as often ws used, We speak of casual nvquaint- muces, people we have knewn an hour or aduy us Cried ey sich? Granting that taat~ Jog Prien ips are Oceasionally: formed on short EWU EE sit not tho exception and not ie rule: ‘True friendship means more than a epenking: nequaintunce; is of vastly too anueh Importauee tu rush inte unthinkinglys and while wo would Nave perfect freedom of thought and inter change of opinions among nequalntances, nid not bait Jho restrictions that now surround (ho entrance into good sueloty, we wonld not destre Dut a few friends, nnd the few, ‘wood an staneh ones. We take avast diatinetion be- {ween aequaintances und. friends, We are it+ tracted, oftentines unthinkingly and unknow- Ingly to ourselves, toward some congenial splr> It, whose exterior is pleasant (humanity ts pre- einlnently asoclitle unimnall, who on better ac+ qualntance, aud ng time unfolds his chiracter, show points we eunnot approve and morats we are decliedly opposed to. Of such It 1s wrong, an injustice to ourselves, to try and make a friend, while we muy stil treat hin in a polite able manner, electing our friends we should (and espo- the pone be careful to aviect tuuse who have zoo? mornis and decided character, who cannot beled into questionable society, or into dolng questionable nets, Seleot those you ean admire nnd respect for their good qualities of heart and head Dowt negieet the bead. A person constructed with a good henrt, without Dalunce-wheel In the head, isn dangerdus articio to place in thla every-day world, He will do much harm. He is as tinrelinble as 2 vessel withe outaridder loose in the Atlantic with a gale blowing. You never ean place nny dopendence Upon his actions, fe is continually on tho “lookout” for unknown breakers, and soon or Jate such a one meets an wave he eannot sur- mount or get around, and founders, carrying with him, In the wreck, friends. and toyed ones, who cnnnot protect or help themselves, Te eurefal of a good-hearted, whole-souled man, without a balanee-wheel In his head, Have character (the most necessury virtue) yourselves, and demand ft in your friends, You of ny readers who remain at bome (and L hope most of you do), surromded by father and mother, brothers and ‘sisters, and friends of yenns standing, through good! report ard evil report, through prosperity and adversity, little know, aud still less upprevinte, thelr value to you and your happiness. ‘To such who fall to Uppreciate 1 would gay, haven care. ‘Tho day amny be Heaton thi you know witen they will be absont,—poasidly deud. Thon you will tind to your gorraw how dear they were to you. Prize and treat your friends while’ with you Bo you wil have nv valn regrets toutter when they | fre gone and your regrets are vulucless, Give to thom, while with you, that Jove and uttention tholr character deserves, and thesubsent friend will not haunt you Teproactifullyy nsking for thar Jove which you have CPi eae or falled to xhow, ag u amujority of Tho Tome ura women, 1 would agk thom, have you nny friend you ars willing to bev pubs opinion (the bugbear of roctety) for? or, do you the moment a breath of senndal or suspicion touches thelr name (started ofttimes by an enemy, and without a shadow of truth for a foundation) retail the rumor, ylvhy it the semblance of truth, you being considered and looked upon ns thelr friend? Out upon such friendship; tor shume to call tt by such vw hamel, An avowed enemy could do no worse, We ex- peet from our friends hely in tine of need. and should be rundly to give, ind give freely, when they need ovr help, Friends should stand, shoul- der to shoulder, presenting a full front ta tino of adversity or peril, that the one neediug 1s- alatgncu may feel that unolher self t-support- ne bim, We fear in thia work. ag world, where all nro eager fur tho “ mighty dollar,” thore is too littleattention given to our friends. We are all overunxtous ufter persdnal matters and our own aggrandizement. We lose In the beat of tho battle for daily bread much of our finer sensl- bilities, Our corners are sharp and angular, preeenting an unlnviting approach to our bettor Bulvex, Can wo not round olf tho cornors, make an inviteg approach, and at the same thnegiv "0 4 more truthful view,to our real and tinor selves? Let usiill have'and hold rent friends gud real friendships. 7 know we woutd all bo botter, feel better, and act better did we do xo, FRANK Cusntxa, FEMALE FEFRAGE, IT RNOULY WE BASED ON RNUCATION. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, MIEWAUKEE, June 14.—We buve had # Woman Bulleaye Convention here. 1 attended all tho meetings. Lennnot understand myself, my own feellngs, whothor ft {8 my early education, pub- lie opluton, or if it really does Jar on imy sense of. what shoul! be, Some way, f do not foul much satisfaction in regard to the méetings. I do not think jt unwomunly for women to speak in public, [agree mostly in all they sald, stillit seems to me thoy buve not got hold of tho right end of the thread to untangle the knots, I can. Not geo any yood they buve accomplished, but £ suppose thoy Lave, ts rood ulways comes from earnest, true bearts, oven If It cannot boscen Aummediately, . ? g If womon could vate I would want to, but L fall to aco how voting {s going to help mattors, wuch. Tho leaders of Womnn Suffrage say it wil hulp the cange of temperance, the fallen, and nll othors In distress, Ihave not such grent falth in women, Lurnest women ure pot a handful to the multitude of thonghticas, ignorant, - curciess, or afrail oof Mra. Grundy kind, Then there ary many more good Women, who would your but would not dare ‘ar would not care to feel the censure thoir une band’s would heap port thom, capelully abould tholr Iqeua differ in regard to tho one to bo voted for, 2 hope t soe the time when votin, willonly be tolerated whure intelligence an sobriety aro. In no other way can we huve an Intellectual, grand Government. 1 think a per fon should by sober, never wider the iniluenco of liquor, and able to fully understand, whut, why, aud for whom be votes. When you see, a8 MCG, WI gO drink, 60 Hite ol wu imean Ag to havo bis teket changed three times before be cnst bis vote, [think it Is time for good ten. ta take ft into thelr hands to have u chunge, » My Iden is, that wainan should, first, hetp her- Bert more, And Hot walt for kone iman to come ulong and do the little things that eho van do derself, Woman makes herself helpless and tn efcient ty the eyes of men, oven If she fs not fo By helping thomselyes To not mean the doing of those things that had botter hy done mun Sevond, women should educate wys tow truw . appreeli- womunkind, * young aul old, Third, let girl bu educated todo somothing: It, whereby shy can make an bonest Hving for herelf. With such a foundation to build upon, in u fow generitions there, will bo u higher, tener, nobler Government than the: ver shone upon, and there will be na need fur wou wo-sullrige meotings, Bultrge would come ag aed and justice would be done. Th L knew any way that 1 could support myself and children, should it bevome necessary, L would bu inost hippy. At tli the thought thukea mo very anxious, Tea se: WHY ain not educated enough for some branches for others Luin not, strong enough: and for what 1 could do it would be fnpowible te carn any Kind of a comfortable lving. Lhofa my dangh> ter will never have the unbappy boura | hive bad, J have alwiys pressed it upon bor that she wilt huve to qualify horself for ‘something, anid she fully wuderstands lt, Bho thinks Khe would Uk to bevome a teacher, Peball tot her make der own cholcg, and then eho must excel nwhut sho undertukes, Sho must have that sure, ir Ah I her own, abilities, conscious always that, whatevor botides, sho {4 compytent to mire for Berweif, and I shall be Content, DANIUL WKANTANN, EEMININCENCES OF TIM ICHANDRON THAGE DY, To the Editor of The Cteagu ‘tribune, Gowran, Tex., Juno 10.~Underneath every. joat ts a goblin, and hidden from vlow some- where senid tho tangied ekelnof an oyenttul Ufo are pictures of many strange experionces which a word, u lne, a laugh, or u dream may suddenty uwaken. Ie it not so? Old memories that were completely forgotton return with all tho suddenness aud forge of an elvatric tnsh ee, encireled tho earth, Where havo Unde OM thoughts heen stored away during all the intervening years? What becouies of the soulin thofaterreguum, when sleep or coma has shrouded the body? Dhave goon nigny pour ple reauscltuted ufter thoy wero said to bo drowned, Were they really reatored to Ife? ava, if 40, did tho spirit purtuke of tho body'a sluop? or did it palo a brief Might to tho ‘eclestiul regions only to be summgned buck to curthY In it cise whut became of ite newly-sequired wien reo for wil text wrdon me for usking so msn} plex in i i Tho nin Kath the idole parti of counndrun (2s feta, cto.) for @ name nuggested thou, His allusion to Duulel SMukFurland reentled to: my mind tho thst tue T over suw that unhappy Inn. Tt waa ouly n few yeurs ayo, in un ladiuna, town. 1 was bund ut work on gouty proof-sheuts one evoulog when he cume lute the olllce with 4 In print, One tninute’s heaty reading furnished sufficient evidence that the Coominieation was tho work of a superfor mind and a trained hand, Anothor rapid glance at the shrunken, faltering Torn and worn-out clothing prompted tho ques- tlon, * Who sent you here with this? Trogretted tho question instantly, for ho ro piled with tho quiet ahrntty of a Prince: Noone rent me, alr; the manuscript t¢ my own,” “ | beg your parton,” T reptiles, * but you are A strunger, and | was, of course, mistitken,” He fling a half-ededint look around the room ani Bu ide “You need not apologize to mes the world bas always twen mistaken, nlways willbe. What ter? My name fs intel McFarlind.’ Tnatinetively F recognized fin, ta tho scenes in Anat nearly+forgotten tragedy came trot nek. door it in. sing pnd Interest which his ching to For several at the massive, hitelleetual emounted by 8 profusion of gray, curl Ing hair; tho ploretng, Testles ores and courtly: bearing which had tong stice become famour, and rendered hin one of the mast noted charag> ters in Atuerican erininal Jurisprudence, Teeareely heeded the man befure me, for my mind was busy with the many acta ot that fours ful tragedy inwhich he took such a prominent farts tho passion, the anguish, the awful dese ation that plowed those deep wrinkles tn hia sensitive face and wreeked his brillant earcer! Can one ungenerms woman do all this without regret? . Cun sho forget entirely tho vow registered at tho altar to love, to honor, and obey this ini? Does not the shudow of this man, wandering wbout the wortd with tho awfil brand of Cain upon his brow, or tho mute, white face of murdered Richardson, rise up to haunt hor dreams in the lonely vixils of the night? Can she reallze thut the iron wheels of her victorious Jugernuut has crushed the life-blood from two warm hearts? Poor ehardson's fate was the bappler of tho two, L thourht. ‘To see her on tho stage anecaunnot bes Hove that sbe fs penetrated with any very active remorse; and yet how ean we know? The hu- mint: heart. 18.1 Heated book, and action often bes Ilva reality, Still, fam forced to botleve that the average Womnn of this progressive nge $e {nent pable of nny Intense regret. ns aho © guzes on tho ruin ahe has wrought" tn the realm of thom ‘There nro only a few women fa tho world w given thine who are magnetic. enough to exercise this Citul charm, und they are never content and happy. Aduiation and lis resultant absorption in self crowd out and extinguigh ‘tho Rteady glow of tender affection and leave thelr possessor to the cold {aolation of self-complete: ness, McFarland drifted away und was lifted wy Dy that great Bleeymosynary Asylum for wreeked and ruined | hutmenity,-n temperance — an- clety, und it. placed “him onve more upon his” fect, but T doutt if he could stand. From ereeplig so long he had forgotten how to walk. ‘The society sent him out asa temperance Tectnrer, and he did some eflicient work (he has nnoble minh, but * the curse wag on bin,” and he faited, not from Inek of ability, but beenuse be wanted an incentive. Thavescen tt stated In various papers that ho went to sco his former wife tnatheutre nt Lend ville, and waa ko overpowered with emotion thit he fainted and had to be earried out. The story fa probably wanting in truth, Taccompanted him, on ong oecasion, to a lecture given by his former wife, und sat next to him during tho whole entertninment, Ho displayed no partici lar feeling, but. pialsca tho polnts that were well taken, an polited out tho places whero tho lecture might be improved with the exact fmpur- tality of au honest critic, Still, there cin be no donot he loves that woman with undying afection, He botrays | tt in overy movement and gesture, He arsured mo that he has been in the audience on a great many occasions when she spoke, but he never sought to communicate with her. If allve ho fs an ald man no in yours, perhaps, but wogn out by ai pation, passion, and remorse, His ex-wife is one of the hest preserved women onthe tecture stage. [seek no moral to adom thistale. It is a cise a anid not a Jenf froin unybody's thooretlcnl philosophy, Ax the thie draws uear for extended simmer trips, Lam forced once more to inquire, * What {a'Me Home golng to do about tty) Let Raven Halranewer, — * T. A. Dawey. MISCELLANEOUS. CANNING RAPER, To the Editor of The Chicago Trine. Rockronry, Juno 15.—1 would ita to know through the medium of ‘Tho Hone how to van grapes so that thoy will bo a pleasure Instend of an aggravation. a FL, WANTS TO KNOW, Th the Ratitor of The Chitago Tribune. At. Crtaunes, TH,, June 10.—Where and how 15 TMambung edging nude? ts It machine or hand- made? Plense somebudy who Knows, not one who guesses, uuswor. Mrs. HS. Fuxeman, * BOPERFLUOUS HAT, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cmcaao, June 16.1 write to necertain tf you have vot “valuable -information” to impart. ‘relative to any article to remove supertiious hair from tho face without injury to the wen nM Please noswer in next Issue of The Home, much oblige “Tou Mucu Harn.’ TANY BONG WANTED. To the Editor of The Chleaga Tribune, Kanamazoo, Mich, Juve 4.—In The Home of Juno 124 asks for the words of tho “ Fly Song," whieh TInctose. [lt ean bo bad by applying to the conductor of Tho Home) can koma one send me tho song" Baby Siedes aro AMumuna’s Eyes"? “ALYADET, . ‘Th the Eilitor af The Chieago Tribune, Cniicoriy, Mo. dune V.—" A Meader,” hton Park, aks wi! at re sho can int a copy Baby by, hero's a fly.” nd on Baye meh Lryant’s Song.” Yours, “RHALL [HAVE MY TRETIT FILLED?" To the Fltor of The Chicago Tribune. Bioosttxaton, ML, June 7.—L aut auiforing to A linited extent with nn afiletion, and, ike hune dreds of others under similar elreumstanees, feel constrained to resort to The Home for ad. vice, Ono of my front upper teeth kas com monced deenying. Ido not wish to Ree It go to entre Healt Euetlomy vee Tart afrald to have it Aled by adentist. Vhave Known n great many: who hid a dentist Ml their teoth, but which de~ cayot no’ holess. Will somebody let loose on, this subject? And incase“ ling” is advised, lot tha inoxt proper muterial by named, Yours rospoctfully, DOvor VENTIUM. * Library of Poetry a1 . 4 TEXAS CACTI. To the Editor of The Chicago PLANO, Ib, ers of the Home—or Tribune, Tdesira todo tho read~ pga Interested fn flowers an kindnoss, 1 hove spont wart of soveril sins mers In ‘Texas, and bave become rently infatue ated with tho beatity of the cs growling there, About Austin, in that tate, are Keven species, wiLof whieh are splendid bloomers. Of eching: exetus, 1 hive found two speules; of echluo cerens, two; und of opuntin, thre, 1 resolvent that should haye the opportunity of getting these Denutiful bloomers, and so poraunded a lady thoreto yxather,thom for Tho Home readers, which she promised to do at the cost of collect= tng and postnge,—siy from 25 cents to 40 conta, according to welght, for cach speelnen. The address of this Indy—who ls hersolt « rewdor of ‘Tho Home—is Mollie Dawson, Austh, ‘Tox, Cactus. —__. THE SUMMER-TIME, ' O tho Summer-timo to-dhy Makes my words 2 Jes lp upland ty away Like the birdst “Paint no use to try ta sing With yer Innguage on tho wing, des’ 160 vlad for anything Hut ty atray * Where Itmay, ‘Thru tho sunny Suumer-weither of the day! Lordy} what a Summor-time For to sing! : But ny words top out of rhymo, . And they wing Furder yit beyont tho view Than tho awallers ever sows Era mortal wanted to— ‘Less his eye ~ Struck the sky, Ez he kindo' sorto’ thought he'd Ike to Hy! ELI could sing aweet and low cok Ie LanU ou te Zz ould twltter—gon't you know Est ad Of the Burmmoretime, by dingat ‘Alt tho words, ant! birds, aud things That kin warble, mid hes wings, Would Jea eweur ‘That thoy never heerd sich singtu’ anyuherot i} oy never hicerd sich wingin’ anywhere John | Walker in Kokoma True ————— Who Murdered Morgan t—Thurlow Weed Kelle All About 1, «., Correrponitence Nt. Paul PlaneerePn New Youn, Muy “i—"1 know bow: Morgan was killed,” said Sir. Weed, “and where and whan hu was killed, abd who killed bin, St wis adroudful murdec. 2 “How de [ kuow?" he asked, rapeating my question. “I know because the ertminuls thom yd confessad Jt to md before they |. Tait pasties” Teall, “Will you tell tha publto nbout ite". “You; I have told it partially before, It was Ja 181, udoUt five Yours alter tha sudden disap peaninee of: Morgan, that, on iny trial for Vvel- uy tho Savona, two inen yolunteered to be my Withessya, Ono of these men was Joby Whit nine Mr, Woed ald {hector was tho man who had cl i ola fort where Mo) uy Was conunta 3 plone, ” Ho went ont pera Linylted them to oat some oysters with me er thu trish wid while wo were at the table John Waltney, consented. in ruply, te our wre a to mukenelean prenat of it about the ua of Morin, He decked tho terrible aecrut hud beon a barden on bim day und night, and thon bo told who tho men were who left tho ludgo one dark Night to put Morgan out of the way, lest bo might revenl tho secruts of the Ore der.’ Novuld by 4s one of tue amon. Tho oie crs wore Col, Willan Klug Garuda. How, tho readers of Tho Homo’ the prisoner and and foot, bd Ale al, curried bin tonbont the tmlidle partof the Nit agara River, where [twas two miles to clthor shore, Mid there, tying welghts to his head and heels, they Hung him overboant, When he tad told tho story, Whltney Auld he felt. relloved, Tho other witness turned to hin, and said, ‘John, Weed ean hang you pow.’ + Yes," sali Whitney, Shut he wan't. T thought much about my duty to the public. but tt was ob- viously tmpoasibla to convict. him unless he would say solemnly In court what hoe had sald to me. Tt was nearly thirty years afterward when [ met John Whitney in Chicago, when 1 was thora atthe Convention in 18. ie camo tome and sak he wanted to make it careful confession for moto write down, to be paliiaued after his denth, There was nobody else ho daved to trust {tto, he sald. Eagreed to commit his dreadful secret to piper as xoon as tha Convention inl- journed. ‘The hour ft adjourned he was walthne Tor moat my hotel. Twas inthe depths of dis- appolntinent, nnd wad busy with a hundred (hings. and E told Whitney that [should como buck to Chicago shortly, dud would thon attend tol. We exchanged fod middenly and T never saw him again.” “'Tho Chicago papers,” Isnt, * ought to look up his relatives or Friends thero, and seo if he left any document or toll his sceret.”” "Yes," be replied, “itwould bo well. It is strange, by the way, thatevery one of thogo tive inerderen ts dead, and all but one died violent deaths, Col. King committed sulelde, and Gare aldo was kicked tu denth by a horse,’ ———————— FREE TRADE WITH CANADA, Enormous Valuo of a Commercial Union with the United States-A Strong Statement of the Advantnugens to Caniadns MonterraL, duno 18.—Tothe Editor of the Toronto @obe: Having catablished, inn general was, that our national interests would necessarily be improved by free trade with the United Stutes, I now beg to answer your statement that com- moreinl unton would not ralse the price of our areat staple commodities, the produce of the furm, tho mines, tho forests, und the fisheries, ‘One would have supposed that tho grout bene- fits conferred on Canada by tho late Reelproclty’ ‘Treaty could not posalily havo'lert tho shadow of ndoubt on tho great gnportanes fur tho Do- minton of securing the ngst intimute cormmmer- chil Intercourse with our prosperous nelgh- ters after that, but he bors, Ever gloce the ropenl of that treaty Canad has been steadily toring grvund, and it haa heen the undoubted policy of covery successive Government to obtain Ita renewal at any cost. And why should thoy have desired, above all, the free entrance of the grout Ainerlcun market, with its 60,000,000 of consumers, if ft could not ralse tho price of our staple commodities? 3 Let us first take tho produce of the’ forests, and we will find that during tho Inst fiscal year, endiug June 3, 187, we exported to the Unite States S4248t worth of lumber, on which our lutmbermon kad to pay an duty of $2 a thousand feet, represéuting a very lirge proportion of thelr net profits, Tho Hon. Senutor Skead, Pres. lent of tHe Ottawn Board of ‘Trade, has stated officially that 2 comimercttl unton with the United plates would be of the greatest possible ndyantdge to the jumber Interest of Canadas and wll conld he make that important state. inent(when ho himscl€ haa menufactured at his own mills 14,000,000 feet of sawn bumber, on which u duty of $21, thousund represents tho very large umount of $27,000 duty to bo pald to the United States, under present elreumstances, for Senator Skead’s privilege of supplying the aAmerlean market. Every man of tusitiexs con- nected with tho lumber trade knows full well that our enterprislug und prosperous nelitibors are the best customers for our ping timber, ‘They know and appreciate ite qualities and yulue to thelr fulloxtent, and purchuse {t readily, On the othor side of the Atiuntic, on the contrary, there fs yet x strong prefudlee ngainst our pli Austrian, Sivedish, und Norway timber, 13 well ag the American plteh pine, nro ta be found In every huuber-yart on the Continent, but very Aittle, if any, Crumdian pine is in demand. Ouk and hard woods are generally employed In house: buildigy In preference to our light, soft woos, whiebfire so popular on the American Con- tluent. Henee the overwhelming importance of tho United States market to our present ine exhaustitie aupply of pine timber. Uniler those well-known elroumstances, thare {8 not 2 alogte Kemberman in tho fund who will deny that the free entrance in tho American murket of the produce of our forests would ralse the price of thitt reat staple commodity, to the extent of the duty now paid on its delivery on the othar: sidy of tho Ine, If wo tnke tho produce of tho fisheries, we find ttt our exports to the United States have heen at your $1,800, on which no duty has been paid, in consequence of the treaty existing bo- tween tho two countries, ' But tt Is woll known that a jolnt resolution ts being now submitted to Congress, authorizing tho President of tho United Stutes to retmpose tho duttes on Cunt: dha Ugh aud fish olson necount of the Fortune Bay dilen|ty, and then will not our fshermen Jose a lurge proportion of thofr earnings in pay- iny the Amerienn duty on overy trunsaction with tholr bost customer? Our exportation of tho produce of the mines to the United Stites has been $2,0306634 out of at total of S0%,000, thug showing what an im- mense oxtenslon of business would bo the rue er of closer trido relations between both coun- tH tho most {mportant Interest involved In a minereind union is the agricuitural interest. New England Stites, with “a dense mini. uring population, not only consume all the food products of their own locality but Import from the ugricultural States of tho Far Wost four-iittha of thelr surplus tleld productions. ‘hus only 2) per cent ot the surplus yleld of t! Western States are available for exportation to , Burope, tho home consumption boing by far tho moat important market for tho American ngri- eulturiss, iro tho Immediate nelghbora of We, also, w" tho New Engi States, are in the best possible position to supply, at tho highest market price, the iintiense demand of thelr manufneturing Ronuisdon Por ureietlear products, . We hive i our favor all tho difference of 1 voatly Iiland freight froin tho Far West to Boston, New York, or Palldelphin, Although our farmers now have to pay 10 cents on outs, cents on barley, 10. conts on pens, 2) por cont on horses, cattle, sbeep, nas, iid Inalt, 4 vents 0 pound on cheuso' and batter, Heents per pound on woot, still a large propor- tlon of them have tosubmilt to these excessive dhitles to tnd purchasers for thelr products. It danot eurpriaiig, unidor tho clreumstances, thut thousunds of Canadian farms should be loft une tMled wt this” very moment, the proprivtora themselves ‘having given up farming as an une praduetive omploymont for thelr fibor, it ennnot bo denied that under tho operation of tho tute Heciprocity Treaty Cannda has been lost proyperaws, ‘ery article produced by: our farmers, from an Rt to nu ox, found ready market iu the nulghboring Republic at tho Highest murket price. No ceenn freight, in= Biurance, or duties were deducted from tho prof- ite of tho farming community: und the neces- Kary consequence was that American dolhirs and cents were to be found in the pockets of © workingiuin tn Canada, At ono time wo ‘ted 11,000,000 of bushels of burley to tho United States, at $1 and $1.00, Outs, hny, cattle, amet poultry were exported in the same propor on, {very farmer knows that, with the repeal of the Reciprocity Trenty, we havoteon practically exeluded from best murket, In looking ver our exportations ta tho Uulted States, tn 1870 they nmounted toover $51,000,000 In produce of (he frm atone, ont of which an average duty of 24 per cent bas been pald, amounting to over $1,000,000, which Is adead loss to our farming community. Perhupa tho Qiohe will maintain that these dittios aire paid by the Amertean buyors, as 10 the comparatively Insigniticant quantity of our expartitions could im woy way Intuencs the value of the Inimensg productions of the United States. Ontho Jstafdauuary 167%, the agri cultural proditots of the He a ites public mmounted to SAS N0Lbe for fourteen articlus — onty, Now, can our comparatively oxiall — exportations affect the price of these hamense agricultural peaducts? it ta evident that whenever we Bell pushed of car or ahead of cattle on the other side of the ne tho Cunadiun farmer hus to pay the duty to gobhils xoads thors, und be fs now the loser of some $4,000,000 tually on hig ox portadions annually to the United siutes, ‘Tho moment we vonetude « rommereinl wnlon with our neighbors, this wiping ont the Custom: House fine, we, the tarmurs of Cumula, are the milion for tho whole amount, and [rauably: tor ten Hines more, for there wil then ben demand for our products, hitherto Impossible on account of tho present prohibitive duttes, How, thon, cun the Globe maintain that a coms merelal union with: the United States wilh not. raise the’prico ef our xeeat wtuplo commodities, the prixlica of the farin, the mined, the forests, und the fisherles? J. 3t, Peeltaunt, Edltor of the Cumadtan Knuinetpatton Review, ; A LOVE-SONG, Iwill not reason why I love, Or what I love in thee} ‘Thero breathos some secret from above In oyory flower we see, Buddenly as wo pass wo own Some gihnpse or scent divinot Bueh soorut, to nou thors Known, y heart has in we. onda’: Spectat Bhiuarck’s Big Dog. London ‘Telegraph, Onoot tho most Important and jenerally re« eted members of Prinvs Bismurck's houses hold fe a huge hound, popularly designated * the Tealine Dc ‘This animal, his wilgbty mustor’s Tose nara 2 companion, Ib stern Of aspect and wrathtiad in Sleposttlon. He inspires fear, rather than love, dn allinen save cne, and bas wequlred 4 somowhut formidable reiown tor having “collared” several cmincnt personaged— among, then Prince Gortechakof,—whoss up. peurmien inspired him with distrust, or in whou id fustinets reveuled toblin tho ontertulmnont. of hoatilo purpose toward bis lord, For his exe traordinury intelligence tn thts respect ho ts Dghly prized by tho Chuncellor, who ly known toentortaln cousiduenblo faith fi the weuracy of thy Realms Dog's Judgment of buuian chiar ter. The othor day, two delegates from Altona, charged with the presentation of 4 petition from that town to bis Highness, were received gomtortitle mek ing: Tatectohed on tho enrpet by his aide, whilo tho. delegates, Mexsra, Nothnagel and Semple, took tholr sents ono leathern- couch facing bis Flighnoss, | Mr, Nothnael held arollof paper in bls right hand, and, being an energetic apenker, aceustomed to emphasize his argunient by gestictilation, bo waved his seroll bout while teldrending tho Chancellor, darn: gardfil of the fact that hix movements elicited govern! dleapproving ulteranees frum the witch: ful hound, Uresently tha dog rose with a flerce growl, whereupon Prince Bismarck, hastily in- torrupting his interlocutor’s remarks, ex- cleedane ee But down tint scroll, F bey you. My dow Ui weelf, entertains «profound aversion to every kindof paper. He bellever tt to ben weapons Tt ta necdtosa to add that Mr, Nothnage! promptly campited with the request, obviowdy te tho satistietlon of the Realm-Dog, who forthwith subsided into bis former poacus ful attitude, ———— BRITISIE VS. AMERICAN WHEAT. Rnglish Wheat-Growing Doomed to Mxtermination=The Ovorw TYE Amerlenn Competition=Pinyfair_and Caird Are Job's Comforters, mas London Tiines, Fune 3, 2 Dr. Lyon Pluyfair, fn tho Juno number of Proser’x Magazine, coutirms from the chemlat's point of view the selentitie agricultural conclu- sions tated by Mr. Caird In our colunmns-n fow weeks ago. American produce of various kinds wheat, and beer, and bacon, and cheese—has been for several yenrs benting down in price ordriving out of tho market [ritish produce. Dut the same years brave been years when tho weather fought against the farmer on this sido of the Atlantic. The farmer's friends have nce cordingly comforted him’ with nssurances that with the ceasutlon of bad acasons would also cense the Intensity of American competition, Mr. ‘Caled has given his reasons for a eontrary belieg, and Dr. Playfair, writing before he hud seen Mrs Culrd’s ter, repents them independently. The past. oid have been sue as ne farmer could st pave stood agalnst, cept, however, that the extraoritinury seurcity of home crops sugges! fo merchinte the profitableness of Importation from the other side of tho oceun, the loss of the auminer out of the English yenr and tho sudden inroud: of Aincrican food are, in the view of both Ye. Playfair and Mr. Caird, to sume extent mere colucidence, The rond ones marked out etween the Western States of the Union and the United Kingdom {s sure, thoyure convinced, 1 be freqtiented more und more, whatever En- lish Bensons may be, avel, so will whent, United States contain of arable land, exclusive of land only for grazing. Of this spaco tie more thin 500,000 square miles ire estimated to be Jand brought. Into a condition for cultivation, Tho rest of the hugo expanse fa enlling out for furmers, who ure cortuin to neeept the invita. tion, Agrenter aod greuter nureuge will yourly be brought under the plow, and a large propor- tion of the results will enter British markets, Land ike tho soll of Dakota and Minnesota, and the nelubboring Territories, is wealth which cannot be realized until it bo conveyed to Rus rope In the form of grain, English farmers hive besn solaced with tho promise that tho fust-growlng populution on the othor side shall’ soon absorb its own flour, Dr. Play- that Ainericans might num. inillions without making impresaion on tha oyur- stores of nourishment which At preyont only the gleanings are In sight, ‘Tho ‘hind if nllowed to yuld Just what it will, a baro thir teen bushels nn nore. With moro carefuleand enorous tittage unothor third may casily be dded to Inundate Europoan Corn Exchanges. Qunerien, moreover, [4 %& comprehensive wi When fatm produca is talked of the Amert Xepublle aloue is understood, America, how- ever, 88 nt granary, cmbruces more thin tho Unlon. In threo yenra tho rallway from Toun- der Bay to the Red River muy be oxpected to be in full operation, and the Welland Canal to be completed. A few months since ono of ottr cor- ponents, after duzziing British cnagrants and terrifying Hritish farmers with bls dexerip- tlons of the wheaten Principalities und Grand Duehies whieh thoy call turns in Dakota, re- viewed also tho destinies of Muuitoba, Dr. Playfale agrees with him in fe lng that wheat, which. may be grown in the Canadinn Northwest for 15 -sbillings oa quarter, will nut be long in finding Its bine to murkets in which the uverage price for thirty yours has been 52 shillings alt but a penny, Wherever tho eyo. tooks to tho west and northwest of the American Continent it beholds agea of golden wheat riponing for tho food of hungry Englishmen. It idasplendid prospect, yet to one class of Engllehmen anything but Joyous and Inspirit- jou. A Manchester cotton-spinner fs not de- lighted at nows that his neighbor has erected a mill able to turn ont prints ut halt his prices, though the weurers of cotton goods will bonellt, Farmers cannot be blamed for regarding as un unmixed calamity tho discovery of n vast wheat ming aeross the Atluntic which dispenses thoir own neighborhood from bnylng its bread of thom, ‘Thut{s whnt the pletures drawn by our correspondent last nutunin of the commence: ment ireutly mado towneds feeding Europe out of the Amerlean Northwest, and Mr, Cated’s and Dr, Lyon Pliyfalt's selentitie predictions of the Irrealstible future tendenetes, In truth mmeunt to. The change will not come ina moment. Cheap food dovs not at once displace deur food any more thin the genius of an unknown paint er shines out Instantly from tho walls of 1 pub- le gallery to eritieal eyes not proviously ine steucted by tho car. Inreapect of some British soll it will nover come. The capnelty of British Riven for the growth of whent varies Intinitly. Chore are districts of a fertility which will defy. all tho’resources of Minnesota and Manitoba to undersell their harvesta. In a fow othor districts nm rare .combinution of - cnpi- tal und skill may bainnco the advantage of land to be ind for litle moro thin the usking. <A certuin quantity of whent must needs he grown, were It only for tho atraw which {san atrticte of priine necessity, and too bulky to bear the cost of n long ‘transport, Barloz and onts are tess dependent on the cuprices of a British climate, and are imported utless protlt froma distance, They mny con+ tlie to bessown fn spite of transitluntle ex- uberice of nutural fertility, Mut Dr. Playfair: and Mr, Caird re performing tho kindest of nets, thongh thoy will sccm to the Uritish farmer like Job's comforters, when thoy tell him that British wheutticlds nro doomed rredeemubly to the fate at vincynrds in Holborn. Wheat is not a fancy: Sroxiuctlon. kes pleture ora bonuet, Tho Londoner does not cure, nnd bas no tampta- tlon to cure, whether tho loaf ho ents be of flour tron Dikota or fram Essex. Ho 1s curiously in- diferent na to the ehemlen! value Itself of his atutl of lite; ft is motto bo supposed be would in anxiety for the farming interest seek to fden- tify tho nationality of tho grains which compose it.) Canndinn and United States wheat will unter in larger quantitles every recurring autumn, and cach yenr'a agricultural statistics will ox- hibit smuller breadth of British geil devoted to whuat produation, Eneh your tho British acre- age on which wheat ae stl bo raised with a joes Will have thut profit continually diminish: ng through tho Incrensed competition of low- priced grain from acrogs the water, If tho Sritiab Rofl thus tiled to no profit ora dwindling prott could be turned to no Lotter nurpasa, the how wealth of tha Amoricun Northwest would ‘et bo far from a joss to these lalands, je the richer for every hundred equaro miles of Minnesota wlicat land = which cheapons the bread Engilshmon cat, Tho falllug of sterile English soll ont of tinge through the breaking up of fortile American iriiries ja not an injury, but a guln, to the nited Kingdom. Bint it fe indisputable that the guin ts partly, though by na means alto- fother. heutratized’ by the closing of farme , houses in Great Heitum throuh the opening of now farms in Ainerten. Britiah resources aro cularged by any cause which makes the food of the people coat less; on the Other hand, thoy uo attenuated, though in less degree, by land which was worked Sormerty to. a: profit. const to be remunerative, The hinds whleb cultivate that lund might bo transferred to America, ‘The eaplid invested tn thole tillage might be invested in othor trades, Such processes are gradual; and imuch intsery and a yood deal of loss would be Incurred before {hoy wore uccom= plished. Yet accomplished In tine thoy would bo, a8 labor and capital were in tine transferred from hand-weuviug to muchine- work, 'Tho toga, however, to the eountry ut lurge from the MMlenvssfot the purt of. the nae Honnl cnpital which is represented: by Ita urable woll would, so tong as cheap American wheat provented Fnglish tand from belng cultivated, remit a perpetinl drawbnek trom the benettt derived by Engilshmen from paying less than hofore for wquartern loaf. Thus often been sald, and with truth, that Uritleh agriculture 18, after ath the most considerable of afl thu considerable Hirltay industries, OF British ayrieulture the rowth of wheat has been hitherto Hi aA Not Uritlsh Curmers alone, but the whole nation, uilyht well have its entiifaction at the provpee! of an Mlnitable wheat proditetion in the United States and the Dominion clouded over did the announcement luply at once 9 temporary stage mation of the British plowman's labor and the Uritteh farmer's cupltal, and, worse still, a pers Muanent annihilation of the worth of Jritish urable soi) itself, 2 Dr, Lyon Playfatr, tn bis very interesting ar Helo, oxpliing that nosuch terrifle consequences ure to be feared, that {6 necessary ta that Heltiah furmors should, uot ina panty, but pru- dently and sugnclously, adapt thonielves to tho how onder of things. Wheat," remurka’ Dr, Viayfulr foretbly, “is not the highest repre- sentative of cultivation. Itty really the pioneer of ugrloulure.” | itis very proper erop for the peasants of Contral Ril, or the Dunublan Priuelpulities, or tho settiers tu Dakota and on tho Red Hlver to grow, Reglonain which caple (ul {g more profuse us well ua population, and in whioh ugriculture wight have a higher quality of Intelligence algo at command, are capable af something more yarlous and more come plex. Fricnis of the agricultural. interest often talk as if America woru preolpltating her whole cnoruious area of arnble soll upon ig. ‘ermutehed Hritiah farmers alone, Tho fot is, us Mr. Calrd and Dr, Playfair show, that Amerie can farmers hy the Kustorn States huve had to face tho sane didiculty Urithsh agricalture ts begluning to feel, New York and Now England furmera huyo left of trying to row wheat uyguinst tho Northwest. Hut New York und Now Hngland farms are still cultivated at a profit. Tho uggregate value of ugricultural praguce In Sussncbuselta, for example, hud even indreased by 20 per cont between 1865 und 1875, Enwt American farmers, or ruthor yeomon, being: fottorod, Dr. Pleyfair obsorvea tucidentally, ais water finds Its own not to say beet. The 1.500.000 square miles substantial whelining Aimerican soll concents, ¢ rotation,” have token to dairy farmbse; they have taken to raining “all sorta of veuretables, frais, aud Sowers, to meet. the dematda of tho: citica,” As the unten plot of nity Gotta er who is competing for a prizo for vegetables will show, thore fa nothing im Eeygtish soll or oven ellmate which ineapacitates it for anech produce fon, What it chictly needs is the constant yersa- ility and readiness to tike nlvantage of. now openings, in which Engllet farmers have usually bean conspietously deflelent. Writish and trish dulry farming fs still in its tefaney, ieltlet and: Irish butter is commonly as inferlor as Dr, Play falr ecoms to think It, though we ennnot ngreo with his ehomieal predilection for “good olvomargatine at half tho eost" anf more agreeable substance than better in- difforently mi “Pure and skilifal native butter need, however, dread no campetl- on of "butter from the great prairie lands,” much Joss of thin -ngroenble oleomargarine. Again, theré are scores of vegetables untnown, to English kitchens, not from absence of taste in the consumer, bit becnuze they ure not te be bought, which Bugilsh farmers might piant. Thore dre _othors now tmpurted which native Aelds could equally well supply. With British: ecxpltal and tho onergy the British farmer d Mays in Mintnesora elicited at home In Easex and omersoteahire, Baglish Curming has as ample a future patos It as farming, fn New York and 0 ja Wy . Nothing is more certain thin that ile land will never long go begeing eithor for enpltallsts to own or for farmura to. miake @ livellhood off it, A LOCAL REMINISCENCE. The Waite Forgeries at Brattichboro Cailto Mind the Fato of the Old West- orn Marino & Firo Insuranse Come pany, ‘The voluminous recount in Wednesday's Tain ‘Une of tho fallure of tho First National Rank of Bratticboro, Vt., enused by tho alleged forgerica of Its President, 8. M. Walto, to the extent of a quarter of 2 million, haa brought to light nan indirect way nacrap of local financial history Jong since forgotten, and many of the netors In which have long since gone to that undiscovered country from whonce no traveler returns, The ample telegrains atated that Walte's “cornipe tion dated back more than ten yeurs, when It is alleged bis brother got Into financial Irregulnri- ties ina Chicago bynk or insurance company, whioh, it ia sald, wero straightened out by the pnymont of $70,000, the funds coming from the Iirattieboro bank.” ‘Tho serap of forgotton bis- tory Is us follow: For many years previous to 1803 there was in Operation in this city a banking corporation known as the WESTRIN MAHINE & FIRE INSURANCE CO. which, by its charter, modeled after somo of those granted by the Georgin andothorSouthorn, Legistatures, was permitted to transact both an Insurance aud binking business. ‘fho formor it had abandoned; the latter it retained, and ns Ita stockholders and Direutors were well-known. citizens and busincss-men ft did nu large business, and had ft onjoyed the services of nu honest Cushior would no duubt hive con tinued In’ business until the present hour, W, HL, Waite, a brothor of the 3. M. Walto, of Brat- tleboro, wis tho Cashicr, and hid tho unre- strained and tntimited management of tho bauk. His dircotors and stockholders hid per- fect contidenco in his Integrity and ability, and tho bank did a good business. One of his pe- cullaritics in tho office management was the unbending rigidity with which he kept “tib" on the New York account. The statements ro= ceived monthly from tha Metropolitan Bank, in New York, with which it kept tts Eastern ac- count, he nover would allow the bookkecpers or tellers to see, andl thoy know nuthing of tho Btatus of the accottnt except ag it appenred on the books in thoir immedinte charge. Me. 1 ‘Tuttle, 4 well-known merchant of this elty, hud ut ong tme been President, and in 18st, the yerr referred to, was nt Director, ‘Tho’ nominal President was oa Mr. dimes HH. Wood- ex-school-teachor, who has worth, an ex been dead for several July or August of 1861, Mr. Walts, the Cashier, realgned, and Mr, Woodworth agsined the uctive mangement of the pink, lie was comparative. ly unknown to the customers of tho bank, and his acquaintance outside was still less, About tho Inst day of September, 184, a telegram was recolved from the Metropolitan, Bank of Now. York stating that tho Western Marine & Fire Insurance ld overdrawn ity decottnt some §40,- OW, ‘This Inteltigence was ke n thunder-clap from a clear oe for tho olticinis of the bunk were under tho impression that. the bal- ance to their credit In New York was fully $60,- 000, a8 shown by tho books, With the hope of ting through the difliculty, Mr. Woodworth shinned around among tho othor banks with tho years. Some time In pope of securing © temporary loan of £25,000, This he was unable to” obtain, and on the morning of Oct. 180, the banc 1 closed its doors. Meantime Mr. Walte, who, it was subsoquentiy sifd, had been largoly fiter> ested in Btock Spectntions and lost heavily. theroby, remained in town, and when tho fril- ure became known kept himself retired from the yuze of any but his personal friends, ‘Tho announcement of the stispension crented. jense excitement all over the Twelfth Ward, tho present: Fourteonth, wus in tho most trylng hour of the War, Presl+ dent Lincoln’a proclamation ordering a dratt had been fesued, and the people were raising money and subjecting thomsatves to ull sorts of Nnancial strains to procure tho requialt mumber of men to incet the omergencios of the battle- Held, Tho Twelfth Wurd Comimittey (as is picoare from ‘Tie Tarun of that date) which ud taken charge of tho arrangements for filling: its quota of drafted men, and had raised a hurge sumof money, hid theday previous to the fallure deposited with that tustitution thelr draft find amounting to $7400, being the whole of whit lund been collected to procuro substitutes for tholr drafted men. A crowd of ‘Twelfth Ward people of formidable proportions —guthored ground tho buililing, and ac half-pust 3 o'et ‘clock THEIR PENT-UP WRATH FOUND ‘A VEST. Mr, Fred ‘futtlo, the tute Prealdent, and at tho timo one of the Dirvetors of the bank, who wis inside the buikHng with some of the othor ollicurs, becaite lured at the demonstration, and endenvored to muke a quiet exit through a back window. He, however, was dutected, und this wna the signal for x personal ussunit. The crowd, whieh ‘enclreted him dw an tgstunt, pounced upon blur, nud while somo struck in with tholr fists, otters ndiministered Kicks and cuffs, und one of the mob struck hin with a loaded whip. But for the exertions of soine clyilinns, aided by Maj. Wile jams, of the Eighth Veteran Reserva Corps, and. some soldiers, Mr. Tuttle would probably have been killed by the infuriated arowd, Whllo the oxcitoment wus at its bight the Provost Guurd, under command of Cupts, Borg and Sweet, ar rived upon the ground, and ina slort tla Buie~ eceded in rennin order, Mr. Casselinun, tho ‘Treasurer of the fund, In company with Col. Hough, then mounted tho steps of the bani und announced to the mob that: they would go inquest of the oilleers of the bank and seo It intent could not bo dong for them. In about an hour thoy returned with tho gratify- ing intelligence thit thoy hud In thelr possession securities for tho payment of the money on Monday morning, tho urity being cheeks on individuals who owed money to the bank, Durlng the mélée Capt. Bjery was stabhed tn tho wrist, No police were visiblo during the disturbance, and but for tho presence of the inilitary a rlot of no mean importance would have beon tho result. Quite a number of ur resta were made by the Provost Guurds, Tho failure of the Western Marine & Fire Insur- anco Company caused wn protty general rin allthe bunks in thls city, but. while It Inco woninnunt gomo of thoin, no fullures were occa lone - Shortly after the failure of the bank it waa whispered through tho streats thut W. HL Walte, the Cashler, bud ‘boen guilty of peouintion, and that to those tha suspension of the institution. winduo. Mr. Waite publishod a card In tho elty: popes ppoouniinn that if ho wns indebted to he bank he wotld like to know It, as ho stood ready to pay every cent be might be Indebted, AMONG THE DRPOSITONS , in tho concern was James IL MeVicker,to whoso credit thoro was some $12,000, Ho read between the Ines wf Wailto’s card, und camo to the con clusion thut the ox-Cashlor was tho thief. 2 scheme was Bet up to huve him visit the bank, whore he waa mot by Mr. MoVieker und dtr, Hudduek, who, on behulf. of thum#elves and othor depositors, were on a keen hunt for assets, After u brief Interchange of clyilities, Mr. Mos Vivkor suddenly informed Cashier Walte that stolen, say ‘stote,’” sald Mr. MoVicker, “beenuee It ts tho moat direct and phithewe way? of putting it. Yaite responded with becoming alacrity that the man who said he stolo from the bate told a Dinakod ile, Ilo, It ke ue Lig or no Ho, makes no difference,” a tho chal MoVicker, “yan dons leave tite rose ON 30 WE SEND ON 30 PRICES TINT SPRAK FOR THENSEL 2-ton farm acale, platform Ox14 foatesse+..042. 4-ton huy 01 nny wr stocks geal ‘rhe " Little Detective," 34 ounce W Kumily nnd counter Platform scales. ‘uckur Alara Munoy ELECEUO-VOLTAIO BELT, DAYS’ TRIAL!! {I yon exptiin what you have done. w unity and jive uv Aeeielty for what te come 0s, After a ong parley, Walto's partner lumber business and one of his hondainelt $ Cvorge I. Roberta, since decensed, wan sent pe Legal talent was brstlly summoned, and tha res sult of tho intorviow was that Waite tum] overallof his property in trust for the benen of the creditors of the bunk, There wna miitter Aight over tho amount that Waite actually ‘omed to tho bank, Finding it chonpor to aphents arbitration than appen! 0. Courts, i? 1 tot Into John B. Rloo was ontled ~upay 22 act Aaa referee. His Juatico and ‘imnal? tiniity on thin trying ‘Ocension ‘paver hat: AVE the way for his subsequent election ns Say, Intve ag Meunier 6 Congrens from tho First ine telet, In the final nat of closing up the defaica. ion A. M. WAITE, TIA NOW BRATTLENONO DeFAuy; Appeared on the scene. What ho contntuted tg his brothor’s relief was not thon tor isnoe known hero, and {{ {a fair to presumo that the sintement In yesterday's dispatches is witht Penson, becnusd it wae understood shortly after tho fallure at the Western Marine thacw: Watte, its Cashier, had lost. heavily jn specutat: ing in raitroad stocks on Wail Tho deporitora of ‘estern received 6 por cont in cash pile of usseta of various Kinds ant qualities, with which thoy organized the Treas. ury Bank, of which Mr. MeVicker sulted Meritly becaine President. Eu sold out the fnstitution some time before tho fire to Ira Holmes, then President of tha Manufacturers’ National Rank, tn this way and after fottr or ive years" walting tho depositors received nbout the’ face of wine Wes owing to thom ut the time Walte broke the Western Marine & Fire Insurance Co, Waite shortly after affecting his settlement with his humblest creditors retired trom tho elty. When lust heard of he was enzaged in the cuul business in a ainall way in Clovoland, —$——— WHAT IS THE USE? ‘What fs the use of nil this enger strifo For place and power, sinice 80 soon wo must Resign our holit on all things—yea, on life, And Ile forgotten in the devouring dust? ‘What Is the use, dear love? ‘What 1s tho use of this unceasing quoat For fame and eletes, ance we all must dte And leave our gold?) And glory, at tho Lest, 1s but. red tune in the sunset sity, Dear love, what is the use?. ‘What Ja tho use of hurrying eo ench day? What goodlier thing {3 thore In Hf than rest? And cure 14 walting further on tha way; Full goon enough we'll reach tho shadowed West, ‘What is tho use, dear love? What Ja tho tise of reaching past 1 bilss For unknown blessings from a world above? In such a little. fleeting life as this ‘What Js the use of anything but Love? Dear love, thers fs no use! ELLA WHEELER, GOD'S VOICE. God entd, “Tam tired of kingst Tsulfer them no more; ‘Up to my exr the morning brings The outrage of the poor, Think you I mado this ball A fleld of havoo and war, Where cprania, xrent and tyrants small Might harry the wenk and poor; oO} E uncover tho Jand Which T hid of old timo tn the west, As tho sunlptor uncovers hig statue When he bas preach his beat, Iwill divide my goodat Cull in the wreteh and slaves None shall rule but the humble, and none but toll shall haye, T will hove never a noble; No lineage counted grents Fishers and choppers and plowmoc Shinll constitute n Stata!” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, i <a —___ Taking tho Consus. New York Tribune, oer _ Interviews with some of the enumerators, ag they came tn with their final reports, broughtta Might a mtimber of amusing Incideats. A large, red-faced Irish worn was found inn tenement house surrounded by « brood of children, “Can you read and writo?”{nquired the enume erator, = ss “ Tuditdo Tan,” she replied, © Thon writa your name here, ploage," sald tho young mun, offering a penell. “Oh, but [don’t feel tolke it, sir,’ was the re+ ply; a “Thon witl you tollmo what your husband's ocuupation 19%" “Ho's an nacindor and a descinder.” “A what? “Och! thin, ho's a hod-carrior!" with a great denl of dlasitst. the BAKING POWDER, THE CONTRAST!: Wito other Raking Ponders ara largely, ADLI- TERATED with ALUM and other hurtful drugs, Dr. PRICE'S ban been kept UNCHANGED fn all of Its original rity and wholexomencay. The bent erldence of TS SAFETY. 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