Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1880, Page 12

12 tc TIE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY THE HOME. - A Pair of Interesting Letters on the Subject of Friend~ ship. Chat Relates 2 Story Concerning the Grief of a Widow and “Widower. Woman’s Work Sensibly Constdered by Two Sensible Corres spondents. Forty Years Rushes to tho Dofense of the Muoh-Maligned Young Girl. Some Rather Trito Observations In Regard to Cynics and Their Pecullaritics. CREDULA RES AMOR EST. Parting in love on tho henther-down, Toying unchided hor nut-brown balr, * And kissing away the bappy frown vss woke on her face so falr— ly ho sald, and half in jostt eduln res Amor cst," As home she sped through the twilight gray, ‘A lonely crow, Inu gloomy onk, ‘Cast a welrd shadow across her way, Omentnyg ber fears with his ancient croak, ‘She constant. heard In tho night's unreatt “ Creduln res amor est." ‘The morning-light, with its sunbeams red, Vunished ns dew her night-druwn tenrat Siy love shall L trust," she almply anid, Stalling oft over her'footish fears, And east from her heart, ag words unblests “ Credula res ntnor est,” In after-lays, when her muddy orbs Biindly stared at unwoven spice, She know, swaylng ‘neath the sex’s vast. sob: ‘Yald the hyrror white of her shametul face, Bald the dead babe on her voldless brent, “Credila res simor est," 0. Mantnen J, Kent. Curcado, June, 3 ——_— THE LETTER-BOX. ‘There are tetters, pupers, and postal-carids at ‘this ollice for the persons whose names appear lelow. ‘Those ving outof tho city should send their uddress and a three-cent stamp, upon ree ceiptof whiten thelr imifl will be forwarded. Rusitunts of Chicago ean obtain tholr mail by calling at Roout id Tamsuxk Building: Bky Bhie Cardinal Maud Meredith, Ariingtou, Cured aiterer, A Stender, UG, MeGresor, FRIENDSHIP. KITTIR'S IDEAS, To the Fattur of The Chicago Tribune, Cmeaco, July 2.—Friendship fs an almost Bucred subject to me, and L hardly dare bandio it, yet'feel ke saying something. ‘The word “ philosopher" come from twoGreek words, the first mounlny friend, the sceond wise. Tinndreds of years ago one of theso wise frionds raid: “The friendship that cou come to an ond hever really began.” . Mince these words haye become familiar to my mind 1 have looked inte the past, and have felt that with’ some (only a very few) so-called Triendships they deserved not tho name, for they are at an end. ‘Often thue and circumstance seem to have put im end to friendship, but [ believe that the yenulne article will Hye forever, iow delight- ful is the communion of friend with friend alter along separationt Who bas not lost a friend? Tho friendship with many of my conmpuuiuns was severed bo sause tha Keaper cme and ent therm down In iheir youth; but why should | not belfove that n tho Herenfter the Hulk in the chain wilt be seunited, and that our youthful frlendship, 80 dure und trng, will lye again? Will we take it up just where wo left it of? Jouw one intely tidvaneed suvh a tieory, as £ ain tol the repiurks, I will repent thom: “ Death ts only au interruption of these friend- ships; this interruption may” be compared to a oenutiful strata of imusies tis wo Haten wo hear tho melody, but some outer Infuence brentcs tho sour; Mio retmdn is but for a moment, thon Again We bear {t, und to the end,” J ehot an arrow into the ln It fell to cnrth, 1 know Hub horas Hor so sity elu, the dghe Could not follow st in Its tact, Lbrenthed u song into the ale, AL tell to carth, Ckgvw not wheres For who has sight se keen in jut It ea follow the tiigh Jong, long aftorward Jaan oni UTund dhe arrow silt antrok Abd the soln, trom beginning th end, Tiownd again in the heartet ow trend, Leonld not forbear repeating the above: poom sf Longtellow's, for it seemed 60 apt Just here, att was written lomge tyro fn tpy alii by a haan ‘iu fs ull, Will we tike up the song mguin in ‘he heavenly land? Friendship is one of God'a chateost gifts, and Je aboul he careful how wo Ree It, Nat Co LUO 2.” Perhaps It will seen: eqot{stleal for me to say Ant 1 have iuny friends, and have often urked — thut ¥ Keep the 3 persons * VY have so few of tho seereta iy to “show yourself friend 2" at the sging tine be careful how you ehooae A friend) Overlook thelr little fut, remem bevlnyg tht you have a like nature, and are just as tiible to Not long since [heard a lady remark that she yever suid nnything against my one site loved, ‘or she wanted every ony to love her friends, vud, ff she told of thls fuuit and that one, thoy’. DiEHt present a very different appearnned to 0 bird purty, who night become prejudiced on irgt aequalotanee, For past A tew days ngo, 1 read some ex- tg on friendship from © Vupper's Proverviul Pullosophy,” and, ay some of the thoughts. on tho subject wore 80 pleasing to mo, J quote then Tor the benellt of those who baye not reid the Bume: “Absence atrongthenoth friendship, where the Jnat recoeetlons were kindly, But it must be ood wine at the Inst, Gr atsence shall weaken wadaily, A rare thlig is faith, and friendship is aAmurvel unong men, “ Yet strange faces call thoy: fronds, and say: they believe when thoy doubt. ‘Those hours sro not lost that are spent-in cenonting affection; tor a friend ls wboye gold, preeious is tho stores: of the mind, “ He spiring of advice by words, but tench thy lesson by exumple; for the vanity of man inay 8 woutded, and retort wnkindly upon thee. ‘There bo soine that never hid a friend, bos piuse they were gross und soltlsh, Worldlincss, and apathy, and pride leuve not many that are worthy. [ut one who merits esteein will neyor lack # friend, ‘ “ For, us thistledown tiloth abroad and cnsteth Its unchor in the soil, 80 phltauthrupy yenrnoth {er 4 heart where It muy take ruotund: Mioawous.t, MULTI. WHAT MRR. HAMIIS THINKH, To the Edttor of The Chicago Tribune, ELkuonn, Wis, July 1%—Mauy thanks, kind Forty Yeurs, for jucluding an humble Cornorite du your invitntion to your frignde, I thought at irstto express my fcelings eryptogruphically, or in a tringposition or charade, or ti rhomboid 8, “Across—Pleuso; accept; Murria’; nths of siuecre; heurty; thanks, Down 0; FB. ¥; tory yours lovely (spelled fonetlo- ully); invite,” ete, But these methods proved fiupractieable, beennse of thelr tendonuy to Huraer the free uxpreasion of heartfelt gratl- tude, In fact, Fam go duttered and Huttered by your notice Unit tt was only on second or third thought that t concluded to dectine with thanks. You see, Lhd forgotten Tommy (that darting whose Jafautile legs Mr. Hurrla #o aptly come pared to Canterbury brawn; Mra, Gamp will tcl you, 1f you have forgotton), ‘Tommy te a jurt of cateb-all for any stray spuro moments 1 may chance tw baye; and bas a habit of comog Jn at unexpected hours with spolle ar the bitterly chase, yews from the sand-pilo, young batrachiuns, chelontuns, ehel- Topterd, aod so forthynil to boudinired and djas Cussed, Soot this vacation ecason 1 buvo Scarcely more thay tling to reat The Home, and Writing Is roully OUL Of the question. Besides, how (s & Woda, by nature a creative Dt ubplilosephiziug intuitions, to write of fricnd- stop in thy abstract? Bho muy write ot her daz indeed, she must, Le shy welts of frivnd> toy she can do nothing without illustrating er meaning by exuinpla, Of course any wold knows all that ts to be known regarding tumining friendship in all its btuges. At iWgne bua written on the fy-leat of fer echoulunate’s reuder—thut deur seatfellow whost Littles sho igbts, the reelpivnt of all the secrets Which ittst never Ue told vo long us you Jive and breathe, oyahint whom tu cuvier of tinthnucy can ike ber belleve a word of * Kemember woll aud Dare inmiad a falth~ end Is Hurd te tud aud when you've found Hein aud ‘Lrue chanze not the tie new. At 1b ke, y * Vera unicitin semipiterna und presses tho dof the one ul n duurest and wost Unchunging trends who happens to wit by her bidy, with thrill of heart oo sweet uud trea old one For Latin, reuds, that it rently acema ng if sho heraclf find discov~ t « ored the sentiment. At 4: but. those fronds have somehow drifted a one side, but that one fe loved At hy va ik found to and she he fervor which belongs to 13 even that femining tdus Achnt Possess somo merely huni trait comes 0 confirmed oynte, meditntes, wiih georiy- ful nose, pon“ aunimer friends, fies of estate: and sunehine,” fille a diney with bitter inorallz= ing, taking as its inotto this or somothing ali! urs * years, * Lhavo metro niuch of scorn From thosg to whoin my thonghs wore kind, Ha faucled there was never born, On onrth, for me, one kindred mind.” At 25 sho hns found horself often Un- dle to human errors, and couaes to expect pers feetion tn hor friends; that surviving “ friend of her youth” proved indisurect, and sympathy: takes tt plice in her heart, w! henceforth, no one cin MN: but. she {8 surprised at tho nein= ber of summer friends she continually makes, aud what. pleasant I riendships they ure while they Inst. At 30, her new friendships consist niutily in ‘neighborly Intimnetes with those of her own sort, with whom she inter- changes household recipes and notes on in tine digensan; she Jooka with friendly kindness upon the young maidens whose growth she has seen from chilidhond to youth, Atss, her friend+ ship cllngs to tho family friends whom she his loved for ber wholo life; at40 and nt 45, ber now frlenda nre her ehikdron's friends; and that swoman 18 blessed whose children nro among her nenrest frionds, to grow closer aud cloacr 43 ngo dria on. As T anid in the beginning, every woman khows all about these things, but it’ would be mpoxstbility, for her to ylye any ab ci friendship. stencices mingled with its alstency: and L acknowledye myself hardly so well prepared to tell whut is really friendship ag In the days of * composition writing,” when I wus 60 sure of all things, Bins, Hanns. , WIDOWS. A GOOD aTORY NY CITAT, To the Kditor of The Chtengu Tribune, Boscourn, Wis., July 2.—1 had been, reading aloud Eugene Hall's lettier on widows and widowers to my brother-in-law, and having finished it Tsatd to bim: “ Well! what do you think of that?" . “ Eugene ie correct," hoe repited, and after an {Interval of silence continued, “Chat, I ama poor fellow, ag muck as Moses, but Ihave had a good deul of experienve with women, baying wen a young man, 2 bachelor, g widower, and married aguing and," he added with a sigh, “a brother-in-law; and I think 1 know something of ‘tho ways thut aro dark and the tricks that aro vain’ thatarg pecullar te women, and It ul- waya avoms particularly silly tomo who hus had so much experlence to hear men argulng that women shoukl bo obedient, Woman and obedience! Why, the two are incongruous, and the ludies have no more idea of obedience end submission than a pig has of tublo etiquet; ut least thogo tha Lord bas afllicted mo with didn’t have,” 2 You will seu by that remark that my brother. in-law isa very.plous inno, and always lays all sorts of menn things—such xs bad wives, “poor crops, famine, witr, swall-pox, and tho Iike—to the Lord, Instead of to legitimate causes, such as inck of Judgment. Cure, ability, energy, and ambition. Yes,” he continued, runniug bie fingers through the few remaining $s tue and matrimony have left him, “if widows will marry, widowers must, and for that reason my wife, who isa nuituril- born matchmaker,—not a very successful one, or she would have disposed of “vou years ngo," he auld, speaking to me with thé delightful frankness of a relative,’ but a matehinnker nuvertholess,—hag invited the widow Avery rnd. Unele John up to tea to-morrow night, for, sald sho to me na business-like way, *We'lt them ne uainted and baye a wedding before tho roses jucle Iwas so shocked at my sister's ungencrous thonghts and remarks sand her husband's un- fevling acquieseence that Lxut In incredulous silence, not deiguing to oven _uttempt to _yindleate elthor my friend) Mra, aA. or Tnele John, feeling suro thut time would do: that we aufectually than 1 could, for] wag convinced that If over two pooplo existed whose hearta were buried in te grave, whose only ambition was to die, and whose dally prayer was Show long, O Lord,” thoy were Uncle J. nud rs A. Yos,"" continued my_ brother-in-law, un- conscious of my silent couteapt for his oplalons, “your Unclo John ts in a dangerous cuiiition, for there are two widows, four old tmafds, nid six schootegiris dead got after bim, und I feel (ts only: 1 question of thine, und that soonor or kiter—probably sooner—he will have to suceimb, Ie te a min of greatstrength of character, and f believe he could withstand the sehool-girts und muldens, bat I feet in my ine mist soul Chat the widows—Henyon help hinl— will prove too much tor him,”--for my brothor= Inelaw reasong in, the usual logient way, that a mani is weal becuuse ho 18 strong, aud ¥ wownn use she 1A wenk, "| ‘surld he, a8 If endeavoring to juatits ils aetions, * nequlesced In my wife's diabolical design tu have them up to tea, becattse L. who haye hud go tnuch experience with women, know that they will rule, and, 13] have *been there,” aud *know how ftis myself," he continued in his alangy way. “1 beliave It 1s inuch better to wed u widow u did, who knows how to rule, than to be experimented on by a raw recrult. After all, matrimony and driving horses aren food dea) mlke, und the whlow. will gather up tho Mnes gently. hold thom well in hand, and drive your Unele John on an enyy trot over the rout of wedlucks but, it ho murries ono of tho girls who does not understand the art of drivin, Hie will pick up the rolns with 1 xpramodie jor rear him back lnty a mill-race ar in abyss, yanie him this way and that, rin into every rut, bound ‘er eneh stone, nud strike every stwinp, drive off the read on one side to see if thore isa bird's nest in a certain tree, and — throngh tLinud puddle on tho other to discover what kind of n Hower that Is anyhow, She'll rin him down bith and faullop him np, whiphim when he duvsit noed It, and jet bin when he dues necd it, keep him ina hithorof perspiration, and all the ume weeping and yelling tut Kho never sw such a vicious old brute in her life, whon in reallty the nomial is all right and only thedriver fs'ut fait,” aud here my brother-in-law picked ‘up his tat and went out to get shaved, The whove conversation oevurred on Sunday morning, and tt atterneun L pan over to seo. amy trivnd, Mrs, AY, She tk a very’ plons woman, aud ber only consolation Is her Hlble and her re- Uyion. I found In an elegantly furnished roam sented tp an ensy chair with har No. 2 foot resting on aim otubroidersd footstool, Lying on. tho tublo was n copy of Moody and Sankey's hymn-book; on un oddly protiy brieket bor fore her stood a picture-of dloudy with an ex- quisit, Bouquet of roses ‘on. ong side and aeweetly fragrant ono of Engilah pansies on tha othor, und in ber hand she held a sketch of Moody's life, In which she was deuply intorested, and I just wondered ua T looked ut her if sho would not be n better Christlan $f sho'd run after tho Lord more and Moody lesa, Sho hus beon twloo widowed, and Providence has been very kind to ber by removing oxoh of her husbands Just utter ho had fallen helr ton lurge estate or had his Mo honvily inaured, She waa feeling particularly puluppy that day, naltwas tho unulversury of hor iinet wedding and second husband's donth, Her deep sadness wus very dopressiig, and when sho sald, with tears in hor eyes and yolee, “Ant Chat, never again will tho rages blow Jor mo as tho roses [ uded to know,” T folt a lump rise in my throut, aud toft hor, fearing Fo had been intruding, ant Ought not to have visited her upon tht asorrow- ful anniversury. . That ovening 1 went with John to’ visit id Wife's grave, or, L should) suy, wives’, ug, strange colnel- dence, he his loved and lost tho same numbor of wives us Sra, oA. hrs lushunds, Tnmedintely after bit list wife's death, whieh pecurred lust full, ho loft for Washington, bes Meving, te he told me, poor fellow, “that tha society, winuxement, and Ittle mild exeltement, he would fad thore way the one thing that would tako bis mind froin his troubles and give Irlin *surcense froin sorrow’; otherwise bis deep grok would prove fatnl, hot only, to hanplnows ut to life feet.” When wo renched the quiet colty Mngered a little behind, my innute delleas Re forbidding me to accompany bin and withers Is deep einotion and wicontrojlable sorrow I felt suro he would exhibit ou this his fest visit to hla last wife's oternal eruale of 6) pep, When an hour and a half bud passed, thinking ho had bad sutticiont timo to reguln his com. posure nud would be able to control binwelf partially, at leaxt, and hilt fearing tis excessive grief hud rendered bhn inscnslble, T hurried long the grind-grown streets, chiding mysolt for leaving hin xo long along, and pondering Upon his duop ntud tonder atfectfon, and almost dreading to approach lest Tehoutd tnd bitn lay- ing prostrate on her. grvo preading bis white, fuploring, teur-stalied fucomas they do tit novel¥—upon the sod above her pulseless heart, and imploring God to let him dle, Instead of ‘Ubat, Law him sitting on a rustic seat—with his arnt iboind the Widow Avery, whose lot in the cemetery adjaiis bis, He looked cool, happy, und equaltoe the sltuation in his alegant hulf- mourning, and sho bewltching in her deep auble, with Just enough wolte about ber to auggest the iden that she night posslily be ‘consoled utter ub. T suw at 0 glanve thut they wera so charmed Aa to be utterly oblivious to the fact that thoy had been allting on a oust-leon sofa for ninety mine utes by my watch; and that again for the thous aanele Une I was tho vietin of ufeplaced sym- patiaten, 5 Palahntl nover forget that seonel ‘The restless leaves, the vay bre the aweephig grauses, tad glitter of two cold nut costly monuinents, and those blick-robed, bappy, lovers vltting In the clear, cool moonlight, T looked, gasped. and rushed home to tell my sister und her nushand what tad svon, and tid my foeltugs further lucerated aud all tho tdeag L had guined of Art love frum post and novelist unmifbilated by his suylugs “Well, Chat, the human heart t@ Hikes rin and Jove Hke tho ivy that clings around tt, and Ue older ‘und more dilupiduted the ruin tho inyer-and more luxurlanily the lyy geuws."” Morals Never wasto your tears on widows or widowers, but wave thei for a Presidential cane didute, of wutue other poor but deserving: ggiboct, CHAT, WOMAN'S WORK. A SENSIULM VIEW. ‘To the Editor of Ths Chicuga Tribune, Lawswoon, Ji, July 1—You will abservo from iy slgnatire thas Eom ogu of your West- tun gy concelt, you will infer nleo that Tam awk- wit. Prreris jauye tue a protiy: and graces ful nume at the tine of the holy rite of baptism, but during a recent viKit tn the Bast Lwas ree Dapthed Inthe beautiful, classical stream of Criticlam, that tows Jn cool, crystalline waves from these Couritalns of puro wisdom abounding {nthnt land of Oriental grandeur of intellect. Tho ceremony, which was very impressive, was performed by an Eastern critic with chnracter- iatlo grico and iignity. As they deomed it proper J shonkl have a name moro consistent with thelr conceptions of Western character, 1 was reebristened “An Awkward Westerner.” Unfortunately for the dissemination of correct opinions in regard to Western people, our Kast- ern neighbors are laboring under the erroncous Impression that “awkward” aud “ Western"’ are synonynious torms. T have given this amplo explanation of tho orien af my nue to explain any future awkwardness whieh I may unconscliusly de- yelup In, the course of ity lottera to The How n the event of such a outistrophe 1 trust tho Western renders will awaken ty a bes coming recognition of tho writer's necd of con solation, A fow gentle tearsof sympathy would bo of lmmense value in fertilizing tho fleld of fnugination, and a sweet sinile of encourages nient watted over pratrle, grove, and hill would provo « wonderful solttce of ‘comfort to the awkward culpelt while meekly writhing under the scorebiny eritioisn of tho Eastern readers, Suppostug you have naw aeknowledged tho ine troduction, P will proceed to tho sulject that in- duced me to write thie morning, hie 2 1 sce that Chat bos about: runaway brides, in a way that—to say the lenst of It—mutst be pothings to the mugeuliug mind i wouernl, uuily diverting to the feminine mid. Ag her puthotie pronuuclamento my hoart ved within me in sympathy for my poor ‘ortunite brothers, Who—necording to Chit— vein to be tn sich-iinminent danger of being loft grass-widowors atthe altar, But T cannot. indorse her method of shipping the poor little brides (prospective) to Ching in company with the womens rights women, Put that poor, timld little bride nlongstde of Sisan B. Anthony! Woy, the poor eliild would withur under the glanco of that dignitary., No, indeed, that poor, cecentrio bride—whatever may have Leen hor Taulte—wag, no convert to woman's rights, I As sure you, No advocate of woman's rights would have had the tintdity to run away from tho altar, . Women—ns well na inen—bave thelr faults, but tor goodness sitke, Chut, don’t impute to nll of thom the aln of woman’s rights? ‘Ono cun scarcely take up a newspuper of late i there is suinn ting at woman, dently been wcause for this, and it will eertaluly nave its consequences. ‘there isnodoubt thit the truce women of our and have adeep und bumillating sense of the justice of the adiuia bestowed npon those women of the present no Who are inking thomselves 80 dlsgustingl: prapnt in the political fleld un- der tho atandurd of Woman's Rights, But. to tho hovor of nobly womanhood be ft sald, this eluss of worn ts in the ininority, ‘This minor- ity inny bo divided {ite three clagacs: 1. Thos who prefer umbitiou to duty, 2. ‘hosowho Inck eithor the ambition or the enpacity. to properly use and enjoy the God-given rights alrondy con- ceded to them by man. 8. A few werk, lgno- rant, vicious, aud eeltiah minds who have julned the ranks from weak and rlelous motives, ‘These are the women who have been the cause of this wholesale tlradeayauinst worn, Wrong- dolny 1s nover contined in Its effects togho docr; it ntfects alt birmanity ina greater or teas der gree, Henee the consequence of this mlatnkon zeal of a fow misguided women is Lele henped upon mankind In general and woman {n partio- whit. ‘an we not learn somo important lesson from this inevitable luw of consequences? Wendell Phililys suys: “Common sense bows to the ine evitable and inakes useof it.” While womeckly submit to whut we entnot avert, ougbt wo nut— jen and women—to strive to provent the operas ‘ons of Buch cntises in the future? The future of our grent country Js in tho hands of the younger mien nnd women of to-day, Let us not look forward to lt shunply a8 f con thnuation of the present; but, ¢irding ourselves in tho benutiful strength of true nutnhood sud nobie womanhood, let un tuke up tho respeotive duties of lite with a viow tu dischneging them to the highest Interests and honor of humanity, Thou, and not till then, wouran will find ber trag position; und you nny rest assured (and T think [um speaking the sentiments of that vast mnijority of nuble-intuded womon) it abe con Mnes herself to legitinate duty, sbo witl never bo found in the politien! Neld climoring for tho ballow. If, ws It hus been predicted. it ever .be- vomes the duty of woman to cast the ballot, the right or duty fo do so must be established fn some other way before tho purest-minded woinen of our land ean perform the duty with- out retiotance. don't belleve tho groat God, who wus capable of renting trie wortanhood in all {ts beanty and. purity, would perimnit.at great work to be nccomplished’ at the expose of womunty dlgnity—o tho aiwout= est uttrituites of worn, But nelther can [con- celyo of [t ever becoming the duty of woninn to enter the politicnt teld. A woman need not con alder herself a nonentity, without conwedq or motive to excellence, becatse she 18 not, gplenous, [Eling buen gallantly satd by an Ame Jorn writer that “itis the greatness. of womu thatahe is like tho. great powers of nature; & allent. but offcotwe, fareo teniperiny all thines with hor aweot and holy Intluence; greatest in her bunoiicence becuuse remote from jubition, most forgetful of herself aud faine, and. refuse ing to be known sive In’ tho success of others whom sbe mukes conspicuous.” But 1 would not nive any one think: that because womsy works silently se must necessarily work Iyio- rantly. Farfrom it, {would have them ide- velop, first, to the phalioat dietinction posalbie, tho aweet graces of thelr womuuhood; having those divine attributes thoy would not then be he Incentives nud eneraies necessary unl cultnry that. would Ut thom for tho compuntanship of nolly-devcloped manhood, —womun's divjnely-appumten destiny. Buch w course fof disulpliie would speedily davelop 0 foree ot churnctur before which the world would bow in respectful adoration. Man would become nobler; worn wore lovable; the next genora- Uon would creato n morairevolition through- ott Christendums and tho whole worl would De better and hanplers while the vexed ques- Hon of Woman's Rights would become super- wns, 8o many of the Joya and sorrows of existence are under the controlling power of wonmnn's in- Huence, that J feel as if the subject ought to bo brought direetly hone to them: In some way to mike thom reniize thelr obiljaitions, T shall feo) that I have not lived entirely In vuln If sume word of inine will Jaduce some sweet girl or womun to. rentize, develop, aud devote her Power of inthiwaco to the -necomplishinent of some high and worthy purpose, Instend of unudug it subservient to her pride and yanit, Pardon the length of this article, on 1 aod! alvendy worn threadbare; but it {4 specially teresting to me, nud Tim foth to lenve it. Per haps some of tho Enstorn roudors will have something tosay. AN AWKWARD WESTELNER, ORLENA'R VIEWS, ‘To the Editor of The Chicayo Tribune, Curcano, July 2l.—T often find myself wonder- jog how women. cau wish to mingle tn polities after watching tho opposing factions In thelr mad war of words while the chosen lenders of each party are wading through tho uns of slander that aro being heaped ubout thom and thrown upon them until al tho good qualities: they possess are entirely hidden, avery yirtnons decd in thetr lives turned to bo tho viclous or Amtmoral act of a degraded soul, Men of noble minds and. lofty principles aro changed from tholr high estate to the lowest grade of dealgning villians, Mistakes that have been made In tho hent of ambition, though long ago repented of, are dragged to light and hauted =mullelously through tho highways and pyways, und the moro dirt’ and filth that adheres fn tho rapid transit the moro pleasure ts derlyed from the exposure, Nothing escapes tho eager oye of tho devouring: mob... Byory look and not is turned tuto some romarsoful “monster thit Is golugto awallaw up the Government, politivluny aud all, Mverys whore in the pulitienl world ft is the same, Mon who ure cugerly clusped in the army of soolcty while out of the Held of strife aro suddenty transformed nto venomous reptiles If once so Unfortunate 28 to be plied on the ticket tor an olico of high rink, All ut once thoy are found, to have been comected with all manner of low wines, Wd the whole wortd forma tteelf into a conelive of Jurymen, and each mun attempts to preside ns dudge, and hla horetufere unter Dished raputation beconied ae btuck ae wiht and thu years nover give bin buck the happy suclusion ot hls ife tfore the demon ambition with its polluting touch: came to drag hin on toruine, He may protest, bis frionds may throw back tho slander aa false, but the terrible stlyma his gone ont to the world through tho press, and boon tasked ucrosa the wires until it haw become ws a truth to milllona of retentive moniorics that with nuver eeu to parade tt befere the public whenever a Taneled motive ooeuis, ‘There, winid tho hosts of periodicals that aro kept on fle for tho purpose of reference, and through which one can turn Rid beluy un from the long forgotton yours the record of a life, one muty yo for thu prodte of the man's villainy whon some tender friend dentes the fmputation, itie thera, in blnek and white, aud who ean hope to roruto a statement that the printer's Ink bas nde 80 conyplenous on the face of the unerring record,<the tifallably political organ? And yot, fu the feo of wll this conteution and strife—in the fico of all this villlfytog, thid blander, this tearing Into shreda all de fer sensibilities of onetd mituro,—womon wre found who are wiillng and avon inixtous to gaily a dat ln the hulbt of legislation, though the wae iy hedged In by the clomonts of douth more subtle than the riniest polwor. Vuut touder heart, loving the companionship of Howers and birds, and the tender strahe thit melts to tear thy ‘soul of ivivian, could tunder tho venom that even faction feels ite ting ant aver the opposing candihato leot Whut wonmn could elt cataly down utd herr bersele anathomntigod und vrandyd with the connnission of deeds of which sha ty hot guitty, bor reputation tampered with, her “tule famemot whieh whe bus Deen de proud=suliied und perhaps Ulasted by tho toneiy of caluiany that dures to delve into, the deptha of lauder when the truth will nut = answer the purpose sought? AVhat worn but would ruthor alt quietly at her own 1) und Jet the storms of te beat ern readers; and, whut will be more auiulllating | down upon tho heads of the sternur sux, why, 24, 1880—TWELVE PAGIS, unless they are willing to be eee by political hailetonesthemecives, aloutd nat be so euger to throw ther at thete elvis when cave the oppor tunity veonrs, Tt fe nn old custom, this quarreling over oMlce by men, bit it would seem Hike new depitrt= Ure" to xen the tle of political mbuse yvere whelming tho mtothors, wives, and daughters of Lou land. Ef the right’ of sultragé will close tho dramshops and leseon the tumber of fnebrintes, then T pray forit. Iftho only result will be a seramble for ofliee, and the Keaudal and woronr incident thereto, may it Hnger long in Its at rival, ONLENA, THE PRETCY DEALS, FORTY YRANS IN THPIR DEFENSE, ‘Bo the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Gnranp Rartps, Mich., July 17.—In one thin the very young and profoundly conventional Eugene J, Hall is truly wise, Ho appropriates tho favorable moment, He svlzes the “now "—when all tho girls are Awny having 9 jolly good time, and laying, let ua hope, secure foundations for future homes of their own, and horscscouldn't make any one of them write alotterto our thin and of Inte somewhat bonrding-housey ‘Home—here in ‘Ts Tiipune, he takes a anfe and auspicious mo- ment to laud fomate tglincss, Sce here, Eugono, what is physical beauty, any way? s Have you a ghost of nn idea of what {t means, ‘whut protiucea It, whnt It coats, and whut it will buy in this commureinl United States of ours? ear in mind, my dear boy, tho faet that social economy and political economy are governed by tho same principles, and thine cost of production, yolue of product, and selling price are three things which boar alwaya unnltorablo relations to tach other, But this ts beyond the place in tho work you hayo studicd,—Iet us go over your letter of July UG togethor, 4 You make tho following statements: “ Beauty ta impossible withuut goodness, An ugly woman inay: bo good. A beautiful woman isoften vain. Benuty fs often a personel mis- tortune and a siarc for the feet of itsowner. A roilned and cultivated mind Ja more desirable than a perfect and benutlful body. The goud- ners of an ugly woman makes us forget hor want of beauty. An ugly womun ts us God made hor, ‘ You say: “Like n cold and senseless fmaye of marble tho beutty of thouyht nover beame from bereyes or eparkles in cheerful conversa. tion,” and I presume you meant something when. you sald that, though Lam not quite suro what ‘that something was, You quote Ruskin as saying, A womnn can- not be made lovely without she 1s made happy.” You say: “None can be happy who bear gront. burdens, . . . for human happiness {mplies, in a certain sense, a totul release from care and responsibilty.” So old! Haye you never bad the goud fortune toaco the huppy mother of a Jnrgu family of children? And how cau a mothor, even “in a cortuin sonse,” be “totally relleved ” from care and responsibility? And you eny n benutiful and wealthy woman's: Ifo presonta ‘her with “many attractions,” and that 8 womun’s influenes is great, and thut “no good deed is done in vali In plain words, then, Eugene, you sny a ben. tiful person is possible witbout fin amliblo tem- pete and a plait woman may have a kind heart, ig not that tho whole of your lotter? As to your rah ussertion that n woman cane not be Deuutiful and bud, aud your equilly un- sustained impliention that a plulu woman fa more tkely than a pretty one to be good, [ shall guy nothing, sluven very briof review of your acqunlitances mong the fulr sox will convince you of your error, Aud now Iet us Jnquiro into the nature and fact of beauty, Ig thore astandard of beauty? Tho Circas- slan who is benutifulin Constantinople is ntso voautiful in Purity, London, and New York. We miny assume, | think, that there 1s a costuopoli- tan suundurd of beauty, which is unjform in the cultivated races of minkind. Js beauty of recogulzed valuo? ‘We constantly sce the wiaest and most suc- cossful of men oxchunging all they can produce for the presence and use of beauty, “This is on Padenlable proof of tho universal value of enuty. tt 13 erfectly certain that m woman of ex- traordinury beauty, with modernte tuct and dis- cretion, ity exchitige hor own suuluty for so- cin! position and wealth of any degree sho chooses, aAsto feminine “goodness,” {9 therofa flxed standard? And na to value, Iet the poor, pliin, mood women who awarnt in cities, and Nght the wear: and picitut struyuto of extstence with a womun's weak binds, give the answer, Saclety values simple goodness in woman just to the extentof permitting the worn who Js pinply, good to live white sho fa willlo to muko herself generally usctut, and ne fonger, Society Is ng society desires to bo, Wore soole- & urborwiae, itwould be un Impossible contri- ction, 5 For some reason, thon, beauty must bo of real valne, Mi . Why? Hore are two women, one beautiful, one plain, Tho plain womnn has the better mind, le the mnore grateful, and tho more churitable, and tho mare Industrious, Yer tho plain woman 1 not In the eyes of so- olety the more desirable ns a wito; and wifehood implies motherhood, and slice the strongest and wisest meu nro Invarlubly the men who obtuln the objects af thelr desttes most ofton, the beautiful women imirry tho most successiul nen, while. the plain women of intellect nirry the noxt, cliss, the plain good women tho third cluas, and the plain and umunlable wornen take such husbands its ure Toft to them, and fgbt ft out on that Ine, ‘Tug value and reynant position of beauty aro why? 4ny, Buscene, that God made ugly women. Jdon't bulleve tho statement. Unfortu ly, no man knows God's designs or His ds with cartulnty; and it ia vory foullgh for any man to write, "God did this or thut.” . It 13 pos= sible, for instance, that the huinun race is a mers mneldental bilppening, un unconsidered wad villivless rosult of the working out of some de- alyn of God go vast that this whole universe is no more to It than the dust from tho wheels of 0 Jocomotive is to tho Intention of tho President to steal the wholu roud. Jn this wiew you willat olce discover thit you know a great doul if you are sire of whut God menus, or dues, or. wakes In any case, But mankind bus learned somethings from ob- servation. - Among others, that beauty [a tho chit of love. Hence, jmmediately, since children iuhorlt t ehuricterlistics of their pirents, we discover that love [a tho heritage of beuuty, and heuco my bo beatowed by beauty, And love, Eugene, rules the whole world, and {4 the motive of all hunin actions, and tho sim of alt eurthly good, and no possibic price Is tov sreut to pay Tor love, Were wu to discuss the whole of esoteric so- elvlogy aud anthropology, and all the mysteries of Genesis, wo should come buck at Inst” to the slinple atatement that beauty is the sign, thy chiki, and thy giver of love. ‘Tho yoleo ai satay usierta most dlatinotly that beauty fy the child, and inboritor, and dls- penser of love. Ly this view beauty and divinity assume tho most intimaty relations possible und are equally worsnipful, Aguln, Gugeno, you speak of love, and iffco- ne-voluntary: olforinis apd ou tlon, and constin freo gifts. LF myself doubt tho possiblity of volition. But, luaving this oxtrome viow out ide, thoranro no gifts, no froo-will offerings, nothing whatever without money and without pric Every hitman good must be bought and putd for by komebody, Notin atl cases by the re- ciplent of the good, but usuntly cach individual pays for what that Individunl receives, And os beauty can give tho must, beauty should and does reevive the most. ‘The plain wont asserts by ber pluinness that she {4 bot tho vbild of love, but rethor the child of constancy, of ecomplalaance, of falthtul service, of wbneqution and endurance, 4 Dut to the pie i Wommn no less thin to tho fuvored duughter of love, love fs the une du alrable thlug of life. * Henee tho palit woman vives her tover faith, service, consohition, selfdental, and att the Virtuow and gouds of nesation, Bince she cannot be loved as tho quoon of love she tukes her pluce av tho dispenser of com fort, na the helper and eonsuler, ‘The duy comes nu doubt whon al mien and ull P women will bo beautiturs Uuitll that happy the, Eugene, let thogo of us whe cannot pay the price which Genuty brings he content with what wo canaequire hy pure chaxo or burter, and avald the sln of detraction and tho assertion that the Ounipatent Creator dealans diuperfectiuns, Fonty Yzxaus, TIM CYNIC, RCTIONS CONCENNING MIM. Extltor of ‘The Cuteago ribune, Cricsay, July W—All roudurs of The Tome have at somo time, f suppose, known a cynlo, one whose only atm in Hfo seems te bo to dla cuss somo thiw in uverything, and to attribute woe selish motive us prompting every yood deod which others do. ‘The moro appurent it may be to othore that 0 gonvrous‘or self-dunying uction ta a porfoctly disinterested one aud prompted by a yonuine frlondshlp or loys of bumuuity, the mure vers tatn ovidonco Is it to the vyniv that there Is suimno slulater design or ‘biddun motive behind: It, which thao will develop, Hio will wil you tbat woman marries to secure Ghome or position In soviety, and man from purely selfish motives of personal comfort, the vory den of fove belng one which be huighs tw scorn anid considers bunesth the notes of sen albly ten. Lecunee other people enjoy a certain kind of fife, appreciate corti umtusduments, tuke pleus- ure in certain thingd, however Inuocent, which he does not, be will tell you it bb an evidence of bad taste or bad breediag, and with @ contempt: ‘uous wave of the band will consign them to bis catalog sparked “Fools” and Pburtialcully: thunk God that bo {a not as other mon are, whi observation we can all supplement witha hoarty “nmen.” Ne is yeneraily. disposed to sneer nt othor people's stecess, And, while he inay not mpenty hupute dishonesty as’ the menoa through whlch {twas attained, he will assert that all nre net~ Mated by purely selfish inotives, and will attaln: the end or objcet they arvatrlying for {f possible, reyuirdiess of th wror tholr auceess inny Inillet on others, or tho elaling of those they leave behind them inthe mee. Of those who have won suceess ho will any it 1s tho result, of Inck or inttnonce, or both, but seldom or noter morit or competency, ‘Therv aro different kinds of cynicsand various degreoa of cyntuism. Some liave one hobby upon whtoh thoy are cynical, while others are eupablo ot derlying imisery ‘from overything underall clroumatances. I nm somottines at a to know whether the Intter clase 1s tho out. growth of circumstances or whethor thoy woro born exnics, but am rather inelined to the latter opinion from the fact that tholr deriving such nn astonishing amount of misery from such ap- parently Innocent subjects would Indloate a untural talent df 1 may eo call it) In that dirco- tion, Thon there is tho eccentric cynic, who inugines that cvcentricity is synonymous with Renlua, and that sotting at naught and defying those fens, manners. and customs upon whtehall are agreed ns tending tothe welfare and Happlness of thosn with whom we are dally thrown in contnet iy but an evidence of advance in thought nbove the common herd, as bo would probably terin ordinary humanity, Because politeness Is universally acknowledged as being due to others in our dally intercourse with them, he glories in boing impolite, Teuatso others vio In rendatiag the gontler Rex, ho takes pleasure homage to || in rionoss, considers hulies’ society a “hore,” aud spares no paling when in tholr presence to acquaint thom with his opinions, Hie delights in telling them that ho holds the Jove of woman in fight csteom: that {tts ensily transferable; and, when won, of little value; thut he considers their only ambition fs to marry; and that thelr eblef delight {8 to grossly. After all of whieh refreshing information ho hus the nudacity to wonder tut thoy do not all bow athisshrine. Aa thoy do not, he considers itun evidoneo that thelr imtnds are not compres hensive cnongh to welgh bis yast superiority over others of his sex. Ho delights to stand alone in his opinions, and that everybody ts raitist him 4s, to bia mind, the strongest proof that hoe is she He de- plores the imaginary evils which oxlst among nll elussea and conditions of men, and tmagines r. As his efforts to convince uit everybody else are fools nre not y aupport, he whines nbout unappre- eluted genius, and congoles himsetf with the thought that the genius hus never been appre- lated, nor the viiuo of tho rent reformer been recognized, until nyos after they have lived. Whooyer saws happy cynic, or one who made the world in whieh he mioyed any bappler for his having lived in it? Indeed, bis propon- sity for looking at the faults ond not tho virtues of others is such ns to estrango him froin their fridniship, however much ho: may desire It, People ire not disposed to insist on bestowing their friendship on one who doubts tho mnutive which prompta Its bestowal, and who isntwnys rendy to suspect some sinister purposo behind very notion, however friendly, Confidence in the sincerity of our friends and follow luborers constitutes the basis upon whieh the world both in its business nnd socint reti- tons stands, and he must be poor, indeed, and a inost conlirined misnnthrope, who bas not ono truo friend, or to whom trio triendship ts but 2 barron identity, “Man {9 tho architect of his own fortune,” has been well and truly sald, ‘That be isthe author of bis own happiness or yalsory, according ne he accepts the friendship of 8 fellow mortals with confidence. or looks upon it with suspicion, {8 oqually true, Verily, , the lot ,uf him who builds up his own unhappiness: by want of confidence In those around bit must, be misery Judeed, What wonder ig it that ho doubts that such a thing os friendship oxtets, attor huvlug, by bile intolerance of op inion, bis utter disregurd of the wounds he fntileta upon tho feellngs of others, and bls susploion of tho sincerity of those who extend a friendly hund, estranged those who might have proved a Datnon oraJonnthan in tholr friondship, Can we wonder that all tho shafts of ridietlo are hurled ut tho head of one who, hy his egotisin, ‘want of. charity for tho fuults of hls fellows, nn discegurd for thelr foullugs, has lost the right to be sensitive? ‘Let ua say unto the eynte tn hia atriotures upon the faulty of othors, “Judge not thit ye be not judget. For, with what judgment yo Judgo, yo shall be judged, and with what mexsure yo jncet, itshnll be mensured to you uzun, And why beholdest thou tho mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that {gin thine own oye?" Pyriitas. THE PUZZLERS’ CORNER. [Original contributions will be published in this department. Correspondents will please send tholr real names with tholr nums de pluins addressed to Puzzlers’ Corner." Avoid obso- lete words ns fur ns possible. Answers will bo published the following week,} ANSWEUHS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES. 8, No, 1.221, Guavhind. Scintilin, No. 1,223. “Whoin tirat we lovo wo seldom wed.” No. 1,224. cd Providence, Mthode Tsl- AS and; Churlestoy, South R1C {Carothiag Glodeestor, A M 1 8/Muszuchusetts, NIB ei La No, 1,225, 8 Tnsurnuce agent, Jum- ber-shover, policeman, aol pothvcary, DDS ‘i DRERB DEAL BELL BTAR—NO. 1,220, 4 1 * * # 5 PO a er | * * e # * * * +# * # De a Se ? eo * * Oy] From 1 to2, a composor; 1 to.8, 0 large, heavy knit; ¢ to 4 curly springs 4 ti 6,8 medielnul compound of varlois ingredionts; 4 to 6, largo cones of retlucd sugar; 5 tod, glaziers’ diamonds, Cuicaga, BK DIAMOND—NO. 1,227, rey yn substitute; 1 vohiclos a clty three-fifths of learn; In Houther, Motkzs, Iowa, Hawkeye, * SQUARE WOMD=NO. 1,23, > Aregion snid te border on he! Mun's name; A swamp; to cudgel; u variety of tine cluy. Newson, Ill. NELSONIAN, HQUARE WORD—NO, 1,229, A Tunslan woight; an animal plants @ Spanish musical Instrument; a wooden brick, GALENA, IIL. Dnowios, NUMERIOAT, ENIGMA—NO, 1,230, Tam composed of six letters and nm art of 10 bay, My 1, 5, 9, 4, is to tlont on tho wator, My 2, 6,189 sharp Iuscrumont, Uituana, Il, unos, NUMERICAL ENIGMA—NO, 1,231, . 1am composer of twenty-two tottors, and am A question nsked of the Cuptain of the ship io which Paul sailed na a prisoner, My 1, 23, 4, 6, 6, isn beuthen duty, My 10, 14, 22, 1, Is a feminine name, My H, 16, 15, 12, i8 phiverived grain, My 18, 1%, 21, 20, 22; fs to enter by usanult. Fuutoy, lil, . Towuran, TWISTED MAXIME—NO. 1,23 () BF, K, lives ona pone, (2) Why ten folks? 43). Punch and boy sam, Nerson, Jit, Hau Mra, A REVERSIBLE STORY—NO. 1,235, Trarly In [a tuber] lust, my frlend Bir. [a tramp} visited [nn Austrinn General defented by Bonu parte). Ie rode his fuvorit {a fowl). On bis are WE SEND O nee ELEOTO-VOLTAIO BELT. N 30 DAYS’ TRIAL, DB. DYES CELEBRATED ELECTRO-VOLTAIO BELTS, BANDS, SUSPENSORIES, TRUGKES, GUPPORTERS, aud Other Appliances, to any perwon (young oF vip) sulfering from Nervous Diseases, Vremature Lose of Vitality, ete. or to those aificted with Rheumutiens, 2 tival ho put his atecd In (a kind of cart] some [oxerexeences], and. thon went inte the hotel. There ho suw'n barmafd ag aweet ng [a Tallin city enrtafted) andas aniart as in Greclan elty beheaded]. Xo onchnnted was ho with hae gricofil [oll Qreek storyteller] ng she wntehed the [roval) [1 whet benat}, that he ordered [acon erete Juice] and drained ft at [a stopple}. Te then tonk [a shallow vestol), after whiel, iIndin that tho back of hla [n scale} was [n god of love! he determined to return home by [a prevarlen- or] Munstnaton, Wis, Cuocitiz. ——_— ‘ CORRESPONDENCE, ‘Tho star.in this number ig dedicated to tho Dromios by Mr. E. I. K. ‘Tyro, olty, can only keep atep to tho muste of fout,—tho octagon, square, and transpositions, Badger, Wisconsin, was tho, only carreapond- ent who caught the “Seintilin" of Forty Years, ‘Tho tady Ict slip the octagon, tho “ Garland,” and the occupations. Dick Shunnry, ofty, doesn't meddle with tho gectigon, proverb, or the charade of Forty Yours. ‘Ho royrets that the five ho sonds wore all ho could guthor in. ‘Towhoad, Fulton, Ill, wishes to bo od bund at tho roil-oall, and so answers the charade of Farty Yenra with "A Fellte follub.” Jt was anothor kind of a spark, Towhend. The Dromios, Galena, Ii. were caught with tho Holntilta * of Forty Yenra and tho * Gur- Innd" of Nelsoninn. “Tho Corner" was tho answor that falled to apvoar In Inst'weok's let. Hal Megs, Nelson, Ilt, can’t make anything outof tho vharade about Adam, the hiddon Proverb, or the transposed veuupntions, ‘ha Fest aro'auswered corructly, and u cumpiinient given the dininond, Rosy Maylic, Evanston, Tl., gives up four with the yroatest of ease, and [a vontont to walt 1 week to geo whnt the answers are, oven If sho grows ns thin.as Tanner, ‘Tho two charudes, tho diamond, and octagon ure what eho's waiting for. ‘rho following Is the answer sent by Forty Yeura with his *Seintilia": Suro "Bto" forced Adam soll to "tit ‘And “titing ? made him oft alah Ah And he, © A spark,” sparked Eve at wiil, ‘Ant * spark" is'pun on “scintilla,” Coochlo, Burlington, Wis. has hud but little thng lately to devote to Tho Corner, Bho thus bapplly nnswors Towhoad’'s proverb: * ‘Mr. Towhoud wrote and auc, © Whom tirat we love wo.tever wed" fre. ‘Towhend road and crits “Morey un ina! low he led|” Poplar, Oshkush, Wis. thus commences hor OF: ~ fed him ” Te Oh} when the pussted puszloris a-puzaling— 8 puaElinit— And declnwing ue bis enput in hie quest, tu really foets thoxo fellows neod a-murzling— Noed a musing Who cunjure tp such hard things for tho rest. In that frame of mind sho directs her wrath agniust, 'Towhead, Forty Yeurs, and Punch, te- cause of their occult twists. Those tl i temun prevented nn otherwise full list. a A CAPE-JASMINE. For The Chicago Tribune, Ono heavy blossom Ike a allvor star— White, waxen, porfumed; perfect aaa dream. Ono folded ereamy bud, ‘mld dusk-greon fenyes, Polished and thick—a bloom to whitely gican In Southern gardons under moonllyht rare— his starry blossom and this mutublosa bud; * A bloom to trembie at a foyer's vow: ABon igo and beauty stirred bis swift hot ood. A portumo ns of frult, and flower, and wino, Subtly combined, tlonts from ita etyer lips; Ooiorous Atubatan starlit bloom, ‘What imuak, and spleo, and balm didst thou eclipse: And males thine own—tho Incense of thy heart? What giades of moon and: song didst hold theo Bweet? What midnight tresses didst thou droop among? What lovers didst thou seo at Maud’s falr feet? Rea ips havo pressed theo, passionate and WHET, A pale and throbbing bosom waa thy throtie; ‘A small white hand coresed thee tendorly— All this an hour before thou wert mine own, Q odorous flowor, die hero boforg my eyes! Fado, sliver atur! droop, folded waxen bud! No morg thy perfume, or Mnua's slumbrous oyes Can wake « tromor in my Northern blood! 2 FANNY DIUeCOLL. Horsford's Acti Phosphate for dyapepsin and nervousness. Tho lity Winslow Low, Bf. Dey tho disthagulsted puystolin of Boston, sald? “Having In my own person experience thoso is for which the Acid Phosphate Js proscribed, I, haying found grovt relief and alloviation by Its uae, inmost cheerfully attest my appreciation of ita excellonce,” BAKING POWDER. THE CONTRAST! ‘While other Baking Powders sro largely ADUL- TERATED with ALUM and othor hurtful drugs, Dr. PRICE'S rat has heen kept UNCHANGED In. atl af Its griginal pugity aud mtiolexomences, | Th evidence o! TS NAPETY, HEALTHFOLNESS, PURITY, and EFFECTIVENESS, in TIE FACT of Ite Uelng une to-day, from North to Kouth, from Fast to West, In the bomen ofthe rie ond poor, where It bas been used for tho Inst 15 years. A PURE FRUIT ACID BAKING POWDER, NEVER SOLD IN BULK. Made by STEELE & PRICE, Manufaeturora of Luputln Yenat Gems, Spcela) Flavoring Extracts. Ete., Chicago and St: Louis, 10 ADVANGH IN PRIGES. CHICAGO SCALE CoO., 261 Routh Jemerso! Chteagzo, Manufactures moro than AU dideront vurtetios o gender, udaptod to evory kind of business, and equal to ttia'very boxe nue. Poy ouiploy 1 th cunts woquently nell from aU to Wi por cent lower U hors. Ruporior quailty und oxtrewmuly low prices make these ho iwost popular scales in use, und agents of othor companied ura kopt ut their wite! end to invent stories: Totult Mn order to welt scaloa whieh coxt oO mare to munufuoture at prices throg and four tines bighor. PRIGES THAT SPRAK FOR THENSELNES, 4-ton farm scale, platform 6x13 fect. 3 4-tan hay or stock ecules, platform 6-tun hay or stock scales, plat fora 4x18 feots, n hay oF wtuck woulys, plutforin 8x22 foul. The * Little Detactlye," 3 ounce te 25 Family wid counter reales, ull wizus, Pluttarm wcalog iM tu 24 pounda,, ‘Tueker Ataru es be ‘Rilvcalon warranted. Full pricaclist tro. ne SADWAY'S READY RE! unr, “DR. RADWAY's~ SARSAPARILLTAN RESOLVENT, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, Changes as Seen and Felt, ag they Daily Occur, Af. ter Using 2 Few Doses. 1, Good spirits, dienppenrance of went Jnnguur, imcluncholy, f en fad thule us ucrense and bnrdiness oj . Strength inerenass, appetite 1 ian Sor ton, ny miere suure rictntions Of water you ation, cal sleoyy awaken fresh and Viguratte, undisturbed 3. Disnppenranes of ein mn urine Of spots, blotches, imples: looks colour and houtthy; 't chunged from its turbid and cloudy Appearance toaclorrchorry or amber color; water ‘PASSO freely from the bladder through the ‘Urethra without pain or sonlding: pitboue pal ac vole ing; little or no sediment; 4. Marked diminution of quantity and oy of invojuntary ‘woakenthug dischunece ta Nieted in that way), en eueaity of permanent Sia RIE gar A ane a function 0) tothe sovoralormins een amore 5, Yollow tinwe on the white of tho eyes, ang tho swarthy, anffron appearance of the akin chinged to a oluar, lively, and bealthy color, 7 Lhoso sutforlng from wenk aor uicerntea Jungs or tubereloa will realize erent benotit {a expectorating freoly the tough phlegm or mucus from the lungs, alr cells, bronehl or windpip throat or beady diminishing the frequene comyhs general incronso of strength throughout tho syatom; stoppige of night-sweats and Daing and feclings of woakuess around the anki Wont shoulders, ete,; cossution of: cold chitls, senso of sulfocation, hard breathing and Rarazysm of oguey on lying down or arising fn. ho morning, All these distressing symptoms eraidually and surely disappear, 7. Aa day after day the HALSAPARILLIAN jg takon now signs of returning health will appear; ha tho blood<Improvea in purity and strengtt, disouge will diminish, and all foreign and tmpure deposits, nodes, tumors, ennvers, fnrd lumps, ofe.,| ie eusnivou away: te tte ungound made 3 Wcors, fever & skin disenses, ridually disappear. roe, Chronle O10) cases whore the syatetn hns beon salle vated, and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosive Sub. mato have accuniulated and becomo dopoaitet in the bones, joints, ote., causing cnrics of the bonus, ick Mal epinat curvatures, contortions, &, Varicose veins, ote. the §, SAPARILLIAN will resolve away those dopests and exterint pads mori nate the virus of tho discaso from 0. [¢ those who are taking thoso medicines f the oure of Chronic, Scrofulous, or Syplllitis, Alscases, however slow may be the curs, * feel better” and find thelr gongral health improving, thelr flesh and wolght Increasing or even keep: ing its own, Jt 19 a sure sign that the ours fs pro. gressing. Intheso disonsor tho pationt clther Rots better or worse,—tho virtis of tho diseuso{s not inaotive; if not arreated and driven from the Llood it will sprond nnd continue to under. mine tho constitution. As soon as tho BARSA+ PARILLIAN mukes the patient “feo! better" ~ every hour you will grow bottor and Incroaso in proves, rel. yratgia, Pore alyelia, Dyepepsla, Liver or Kidney Troubles, Splual Afteciions, Ruptires, Discases ofn Deltcate Nuture, of EITHER EBX, aud many other Diseases, Gpecdy cures guarantecd, Gand for Ilustrated Pamphist, Free, Addr " VOLYAIC BELT 0., Marshall, 2tloh, health, strength, and flesh, ‘Tho great powor of thia remedy ts in dl taut trenton dentiy asin no 18 senses CONSUMPTION . of the Lungs and Tuberculous Phthists, Scro! In-Syphiloid Disensos, Wasting, Degonernion and Uleoration of tho Kidneys, Diabetes, Stop: pugo of Water (instantaneous relief «forded whore cathetors have been used, thu aueay with the painful operation of usin Instruments), dissolving Stono in tho and in all cases of inflammation of the Blad- der and Kidneys. In chron acasesof Leucorrhara and Uterine discuses, One bott e contaihs more of the active princt- Pp leg of Medicines than any other Preparation, Laken in Texepoontil doses, while others require five or six tlines ng much, ONE DOLLAR PER ROTTLE. ER. eR. ER RADWAY'S | ° ; READY — |; RELIEF | : Cures the Worst Pains in trom One to Twenty Minutes, NOT ONE [our After Reading this Advertisement, Need Any One Suffer with Pain? Radway’s Ready Relief is A CURE for EVERY PAIN 12 WAS THE FINST AND IS THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY that instantly stops the most excruciating palns, allaya+Inflammations, aud ‘cures Congestions, whether of tho Lungu, Stomach, Nowels, of othor glands or organs, by ono uppllention, IN FROM ONE TO TWENTY MINUTES. No mattor how violout or excruciating pain the Rhucmuuy, Bod-ritden, Inte, Crippled, Nerve ous, Neurilgie,or prostrated with disease muy sulfor, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF will atfon INELAMMATION OF THe I1DNEYS, NFLAMMATION OF THI? BLADDER, INFLAMMATION OF ‘THE WOWELS, CONGESTION OF ‘TIE LUNGS, SORE THROAT, DIFFICULT BREATHING, PALPLEATION OF THE HBART, HYBYERICS OLOUP, DIPHTHERIA, ay NEURALGIA, RRO ATISS, é if CHILBLAINS, AND FRO! Tho xpplication of the Reudy Molief to the Part or parts whero the pain, or dilliculty exis ‘will atford caso aud souturt, ‘Thirty to aixty drops iu’ half a. tumbler of water Will inn fow minutus cure Crimph Sprains, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Heal he, Diarrhoea, Dyauhtory, Colte, Wind in the jowols, aid all internal Palas, ‘Travelers should niwave enrry a bottle of Had way's Reudy Rollot with thom, A few drops 1a wator will provent alcknoss or pains from cbunge of water, It ix bettor than Freuch Brandy or Uitturs asa stimulant, FEVER and AGUE FEVER AND AGUR oured for fitty, centh ‘There is not a romedial agent in this world that will cure Fever and Aguo and_all other Stalurl: ous, Billows, Seurlet, Bye id, Yellow, and other fevers qulded by RADWAY'S PILLS) so quicklf ds RADWAY'S READY RELIEF, BIPTY CENTS PER BOTTLE, RADWAY’'S 2 2 i” Regulating Pills! PERFECT PURGATIVES, BOOTHING APE EN'S, ACT WITHOUT PAIN, ALWAYS RELIABLE, AND NATURAL LN THEIR OPERATION, A Vegetable Substitute for Calomeh Porfeotly tasteless, elegantly, ousted ai Sweet guni, purgo, regulate, purt lus Strougtien, Tadway's Pills for to cure stall disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Ui Ki neya, Hinddor, Nervous ‘Disease: Constipation, Costlvenesa, Indigeatlon, Dyspuy, alt, Billousness, Fever, Intlammuton 0 4 jowels, 1" ‘all dorangementa of the re ‘ternal Viscora, Warranted to etfoot a positls eure, Puroly vegetable. containing no mercury: juinerat, or doloteriqus drugs. seuitton tebe Sarno tha Maurie Org from Divordet reativg O Soe aero ee isioe utinoss of tit i in_tho Hoad, Acidity of tho Biouinchy Ni tout" Heartburta’ Dlegust of Food, Fuliaesl cl Sy of welgbt fn tha Stom ‘Sour Bructatios Sinkingyor “Fluttoriuge in the Pit of tho stout teh, Swimming of the Hoad, Hurried a choke out Broathluy, Fluttering utthe Heart, mae’ ing or Butloouting Sensations where ‘bo dyna ture, Dats or Woba v} Pers plru! a eos, Pain lu tue Hav, Choat, Limbs, and sudded Fhushés of Meat, Muraing lu'the Flo. ang A fey Siaee ct aways Te ae fee system from nil the above. ot i PRICE 23 CENTS PER BOX. SOLD BY DRUGUISIN. Read “FALSE AND TRUE.” tor stamp to RADWAY & CO. yoru Wea telth suede Blac, NEN? (aS ivformation worth thousands will bo #236 ‘OU. TO THE PUBLIC. ue Thore can be no better guarantee of the Ver of De. Itudway'a old ustablistert 1 B, M Remes dfes thun the buse and wortbles tala ror thou, a there ure Fulse Hosalven te, Helles Pills,’ Mo wury und sk sor Hadwiy es aby that the nome * Hudway” le ou what you