Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1880, Page 12

A. a BMcUregor, Ww . THE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1880—TWELVE. PAGES. . £ THE HOME. A Miss from Virden Who Has Views About the Hor- rid Men. Bittersweet Says Some Pretty Things Relative to Human + Friendship. Useful Ideas and Hints on Florl- culture from the Pen of . Fern Leat, y Old Maids Considered in Various Lights by a Man Who Hails from Lawndalo. Topsey Tinkle Contributes a Readable Lotter Concerning Woman—Miscollancous Ar- ~ {icles from Varlous Points. TNE LELTLER-BOX, . ‘There are letters, pnpers, and postal-carda nt this office for the peraung whoav namics appeur below. ‘Thore lving out of tho city should send their uddress and a three-cent stump, upon re- veipt of which thelr mufl ‘will be forwanied, Residents of Chicago can obtain thelr mull by calling ut Room 38 Tunune Bulldhgs W, M, ‘Lomtingon, Maud Meredith, , ‘j Cured, bulferer. A Renders AT. EVENTIDE. For The Chttago Tribune. Here, in the twilight, Blunen, 5 Sadly I think of thes. ‘With the funtoms, Pain and Sorrow, For mute, dark company. All through the day's dull routing, Vaguely something was inissed, . "TH now T know ‘twas thy presence bright For which I fonuly wished, And, nov that tho day Is finished Hoty much ‘twas tike those past} 11 formed but a drop in life's eup Ere draining tho bitter lust. | many along di stool with a quizzical glance and tho abritpt question: . “ Do you truly bellove that?” “Indeod Ido. Don't you?” , “Forhnps. But you know it{s becoming quite fashionnble to put it even strongor,—to say that friendship itself js a sham, 1 delusfon anda Biareg—n myth—a willo'-the-wisp,—n5 changes filvand ovanescent, und unreal as the faint, oxquisit music of n dream.” What saydat thou? Art likewiso cynten!?" But Tose was erive; oO wo raw serious too, while she told usof the gitt-frlend she bud trust+ ew absolutely, giving her heart'schoicest trens- ures Into the keeping of that loved ono, with n full confidence that the keeper was worthy; and thnt nfter many yenrs the friend was proven faleo'from the begining, having merely sinus lated nregurd for Rose for tho purpose of wine ning away her lover. And ull this so cloverly done thateach believed her true. Are thero tiny sincere triends?. Our interest in the little romance had ted us quite away from_ tho main question (and before returning to it T assured Rosa as posittvely, 2s contitentially, that she would De ngredt goose to nilow any bad fraud of « glrl to steal nway ber owls Romeo, Just because she was toy proud to beekon back the bewildered youth), here ure filve friends, Who cat doubt it? There are cutnterfelt Lilla, and courterfelt complextons, and counterfelt ‘anints, and even terfelt bachelors,—ch, Kaven Mate? Mademoiselle, just ecause you were ceived thit, onee, are you going to doubt the whole world forevermore? fs It not tendering your siren too high n gompliment to gitige the: er false self?” unjust. Yes, when one’s denrest fall, him, he hus Httle heart to experlinont further," 1s {t not ever thus When sy cruelly wronged tho sensitive heart recoils with tho bitter cry: “There ts no sinecre affeetion.” While many’ a soul, standing afar off, sighs helplesiy; “Had you but trusted me, your trust could hot have initered.” i And atter wil, when one comes to think of It, the mere fuet of the wronged ono's ungulsh proves his own heart slicere, Henco tha fucon- slatency of allirming all ty false, ‘Su, Gawk, whc.is x0 dead-suiro the whole eub- Jeet isn humbug, must bh opinion of his own ability tobe a friend, POU Kay, "Tis Letter to confide and be decelved a thou- watid Utes ° 4 + Thun once acvise the Innocent." And f fancy Leould severdeny the existence of frlendstip till Tinted tested every Heart in all the world, offering my very best self for their love and trust; and, brving found them all unworthy, hd probed my own gould findings It, tuo, wenk; then, and only then, would L feel {ree to call true friendship fdeatlgn. | What wus It Byron, that oracle in all afatres du cwur, onco wrote? Linnittie est amour sang alles.”” (Fricudship is love without Iile wings.) Docan’t that truko it quite a foregone conclu- sion that felci uy aball ablde with us for e gome persons aro £0 chary of making Aye; ever comes morning, then night: vo wake nnd then to sleep— Perehaney to dream, and in dreaming feel ‘The soul its vigil must keep. For whethor sunshine or shadow Falls on the waiting cnrth, A day is wafted aie ly away) ‘To give another Birth, Tho heart, though crushed, may atill throbon "Neath Its burden of wo, But v'en the moment tt suffers Shortens Jifé's ebb.and flow. But should our life's day be sunshine Or overcast, dear friend, May the smile of a clenrer awak'ning Shed glory o'er the end, + Laura Lynx, . A CONSIDERATE GIRL. NEM LENITY TUWAUDS MAN, To the Editor uf The Chicago Tribune, Minpen, Hh, July 79,—1 buve not let the Nght of my benign countenanco ahino on The Home> ites for some tine, but, notwithstunding that, T; Ike atl amateur eeribblers, am quite consumed with anxtety to seo my eognomen, with the lugel- ous fruits of my pen above tt, in print. Tapply, As a panncen to my Homesickness, the consoling reflection that although T loyally mourn my abeence to the benrthstone, the remnants of that deserted past eeem wonderfully resigned at this digpensntion of Providence. Mutthe good things of Hfeure transient, and tho world at large is Med with bores ay energetic and tnd. dening us red antaon n plenic pie, and asT sit bere this lovely morning and allow these ideas, without which {feel assured that tho uniyerso _ would return to cliuos, to ooze from the tipsot my: urubitious qulll while mother mendsimy hogo Uke f# well-trained parent should, and Urother Bob regnrdé the last buttén on bis cont agit dangles by one forlorn thread, with a countenance tht would draw teurs from tha vye of a potato, 1 feel that I need not replio, and that Dame Nat- ure hia endowed mo with all tho necessary requ lalts to enable mo to contribute largely to- wards making the workd miserable. ‘This is by no menns w work to be despised; bn the con trory, it isa noble mission, regarded from on philosophic! standpulut, and none are wore tupeble of perforintug ft than worn, She his the capaelty to sink those around her in the deepest, direst depths of despair, or to porch them on tho Very topmost nallkead of tho top- tunet shingle onthe roof of aublimity. his last ig xinost cruel and: inhuman thing to do, for nen ore muturally self-sutisied, aud Ive ob + perved that. if they hu abeaven on earth they: are so weuk thoy never slzh for It ywhero else, Under thera’ clreumstances, they dote an the creature comiorts of tha world, tho flesh, and the devil, too much. ‘Yosuch you ines tale of golden harps, crystal strenins, celestinl flowers, and everything’ ¢lsa in the orthodox entalog, but with no effeat. ‘Vo the nian who bits a wife, on whom he ent avenge the foul indignities heaped on bin by amen who ate bigger thin be, sich second-rto charms ag the nbove are stale and insipid. Whit cures be for harps? Cun't he male ‘sweeter jnuate by benting on Johnny's back with a barrel- stave, while that gitted Juvenile melodiously wurbles in secompaniinent? What are crystal streams to him? Wouldn't be rither seo one drop ft bis wife's foolish oye, because the pudding wie burned, or his collar refused to sot riht, than whole oceans of crystal strenins in Paras 0? What do velestin! flowers amount to? Husn’t he bud inore solid comfort and keen enjoyment in the propagation of the solitary blossom thut bo yorgeously adorns bis nose thun be could ever hope to realize were ho sule propri- ctor of # worldfof the rarest flowers that cyor Dloomed? Alus, beaver hath no charms for that Pore, inuit. He can econcelve of nothing moro Hesful than bls earthly existence. is wito fullod in ber duty, She should nave used her Intluence to uke him resigned to dio when bis Ume comes, How fortunate 1s he whoso better bulf falth- fully does ber duty, ‘That enviable fudividial * Taye down the burden af life with a eheerful wlucrity that bs be he fur pltebforks, brimstone? Husen’t a lovely spouse eenkoned lutin for wih auch slight inconvenlenecs I tho world tucome, by the Feesuent application of bolting water, eberpetlenlly rubbed ta avith a broamstick, in this ner When that happy mar ponders on the fenperatury of tho ‘inokphere In which he has dwett for tho last tHE or forty yeors of hia Hfe, ho thinka with ecstusy Tait the ciate to which ho fs gol will coul lin off, and hindast care fe to tak his fur cap and ulster wlong with Bim to keun rou takiug cold. Ab! that moan quits the world Joy fully. wleetully, and feels that It fs worth two or three great big lifettines of wretehedness to dle so gloriously; while the other pour, shive ing Wretel feels that he is payti a dvar pyle’ for due poor ites Hfotime of egotistical blisa, when, even though he lived like n King, he must wutiful to witnoss. What caren die jike aglnve. Keasoutng thug, | foul that Fite ha een Ajuder to me thaud had giveu ber gredit tor, Ir. ‘Aull forthe bost, for I'm awfully afraid T hiven't sullelent cournge to make suyie wan as miseruble ag} ought tor forty, on tty years, ob “haven't a doubt: but that if the term wero shorter To might suceved, Rut thirty or forty yeurs, Obl its too much of a contract, Vm utruld {€2 undertook to keop up a coutinual Dre ns 1 ought, 1 should ri out of ans munition at the ond of a year or two. Then all wy Chriatian elforts ta muke hitu die resigned andnapny: woutdbe ingloriously wasted, when 1, with all the’ crnulty and wnfcel> Inguess to whieh my sex 1s prone Weabts warm _ in uy lege lord's ‘slippers, cooking bly favorit dishes, and wearing the colons he most: wdinired, Ab] yes, (Us better ug it is, 80, as sour HA tho Iec-creum season is over, and TD buve extracted the lust nlekel from the munifleait purses af Fred and. the Professor, ll open the scoret drawer where I keep the trophies of ie chase, drop ua scalding teur on the locks of hide, with: ered Hower, ote., and close it forever. ‘Then Vib clusp a cat, 8 purrot, und a poodle-dog to my Jouely bosom, tee to some hermitige in tho depts of a Turcst. and there lve iy life out with no fenr of bringing my dinub pets to a bad end by gintul nintability, “Bat a0 mim—Ohl ho, 1 wouldn't hayeit on my conscience that 1 hud: wrecked go Hobie un iuetitudon. Vd ruthor sacrifice myself und bu an old maid, Thope the unfeollug world realizes the uxtont of my mire tyrdoui In even hinting at the eealbliy OE ch a ontastru pty ido, Thunks, all who bave 10° teed my ubsenoe, It ts pleasant ta bo missed, When f started to writo this L intended to tell you about my visit to, Beyusville und Btring- Town, but will have, to postpone that till some other tine, f hope this rash statement. won't cause more than bulf the subscribers to sature duy'a TRIBUNE to slop tho, paper before the next: issue, BILENCK WonDawoirrit, BITTERSWEET, A CHARMING LETTE ON YIUENDBIIP, + Ty the Editor of Tha Calcagu Tribune, Br. Josuen, Mich, Jaly 20.—" True, sincere friends ure very sare In thls world of ours.” We were aitting in Rose's pretty little parlor on the West Hide of the Garden City a week ayo, end the stress that Mademolacilo put upon the . Word “ yer" whlsled me asound on the pluuo- F; fricnds, ‘they it to know you nbout fi centuries before venturing to whisper that the love you, lest they might et hurt! They sa: * Ite" enutions, be conventional, be prudent.’ Amt Thave known the very most prudent to get must wofully decelved. . ‘The wise ones aay: “ oware of forming hasty friendships; they are sure to die” And Lam frank to confess that my very closest friend- ships were formed in un hour, Just as suon as my Zet LToved her, and L told her so next and neither of us hag tired of being dear to the other in ull the days since then, . But we may be intimately ussoelated with pers sons for years nd still tid ourselves unabio to ork up any wifeetfon whatever, In faet, ti roles in reference ta this subjec ure sv patafully inapplivabla ut times thi Z apout as well after all to throw ap All wi and care, Just trusting: our own insthn Kulde us to thiit inuncence which, aa Coleridge auys. is Nature's wisdom, For: urer than Su: ‘hundred eyes Is tat tine sense which, tu the pire in heart, of thelr own gocduess, of evil.” And what If friendship be not eternal? It ts deliehttul for nu hour,—our friend {s extremely reenable to us und we oxtremely ugrecable to hints our tastes are stinilay, and we tondly hope to love forever. If the weeks or yours persuade us thut furever {s quite long, and we wish it well over that we muy couse to leve, are we then nore fickle thin'the Nowers, than the sunset, than the soft breeze? Aro votuli beautiful thingsovancseent? And do wo censure thom for that? Agsuredly not. - We love them and pralso them and delight In them while we tiny,.and whon they vanish we p Abit, and wish the eternul Inwe woro tess relenticss—aind, seek anothor blossom, for whut ia Wwiver thin the Hlndog mixin: “ Nothing is eternal, save tha law of cause and effect and change.” ihuve been wondering how true frlondehips ever dle. ; Perhaps they'are too closely annlyzcd. Analyze thé purest snow-tlake and you find ‘Dut a bit of water and dirt; pull to pleces nu ex- quisit blossom, und only a sott, pulpy mush Hes in your hand; oximine tho loveliest ratubow, and you observe but drops of water acting a* ordliary prisiis, And the most of us are stitch wretchedly gcliish oreatures thet 9 superiicial view is about ull that ig prident. « Perhaps wo demand tuo much of our friends, quile Corqetting thit— “ Lave, oxneting nothing biel, Nev is to dy’ Possibly wo confuse the two words,—busincss and friendship. ‘here's a vast. dliference be- tween the two in reality, Aud tots of folk# grow so abomlunbly pro. sumptions and exacting, aud inciived to count ts ehvap, Decause wo east our pearls before thom, that thoy have to be dropped, dor very surely the oss of respect is death to ay frigndstlp. Mut Tthink imlsunderstandings are the cause of nlmost wll quarrele,—n strango hesitancy In enying, © You were not goud to me to-diy,—Just. please toll mo why.” Itwould Bayo a ynst dent of trouble if abont one-half the pride were taken out of humin hearts, and in fta placo wore Dut DIE OF trust In those go deur to 08, And, last of ull, perhaps we forget that in tho ution of the verb ™ to love” thero aru two valeck—p passive ns well us aetive; thit while some Justdoty on tho latter, others’ are equilly purthil to love in the passive, So, In Ife, hot these two volces meet and ininglo, euell cor tent with ttsawn purt, til thelr hurmony shall reverdurate through wll the waves of time? Tut supposing friendship is dead—supposo tho waters of Letho haye aweptovor her, und only thy falnt scent of foxglove brings her to our remembrance, What shall we do with the warm hand-pressure: that weleames us in tho morning? What shitl we do with the iunek of flowers thut camo to us when our hearts seemed utterly desotnte,—with tbe thourand tiny notes telllng us the writers grieved that we wore sorrowlly And with the ittle Mao who drlyes up to take us out riding lest wo wight bo lonely? And Dell Invites us to ten, and Jack writes to us dally, to divert our thoughts ono Uitte nioments and all beonuse a havo. come to us, dahip, surely the couns UB, How dolightful it seems to bo at home once moro! . And the wenther i6 so warm—O, fo warm—ono can think of nothing sayo a menmutd’s cave of penrl, and coral, and ainber, with cool, blue waters obbing above, and one great star peering: down at ber from a purple sky." Of slippery pebbics undernenth one's feet, and the slippery nich of a fish's fin coyly caressing one's cheek! One sighs fur x grotto on tho moon; 1 ciye all bung with feleles, with glistentng snow for walls, and tor, und erisp frosty ule eltting in frou and telds and felds of Impenetrable fee on which tho palo blue ligt forever falls, Franec, thou bonny gen, art never cum!n; back agin? Peete sere + thy “ Ant Entfornia, from out the darkness‘of thy grent desolation return to us once more, To Forty Yours, our strange, strange spyhinx, greeting, ‘Atut 10 Chat, most witening entgma in all Tho Homie, my reverence, 160, Havon Tfair, Just walt and wateh tho south- east breezes,—they're sure to brug you sume> thingatlee ere long, And surely all The Homo will want to know how Timer that dear mother of Fraik Cushing's tho ottor dag’? Buch weluirmng itty woman with tho widow's cap, aud Knitting, and spec- tucles. snd sunny siniic,—some ting 1 must tell you all about tt. as ty dear F, whore aro you, quite melted? wi And Kittie, overearnest and sincores and Brink, und Marton, and my now Jean Mr., rele aud Alp, und that Lowa Machetor—Maude and Pris cif, and oven our Fool-come buck nici, often and always, Urrrensweer. —— FLORICULTLTUNE, FERN LEAR LETTE, ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribyne. Orrawa, Il, July 2.—Tlow tho universal hoart of mimy blesses Hower! The Porsian in tho far fast delghte in thele perfume, and writes his Jove In noseguys; while the Indian child of tho for West claps bls hands with glee ae he gathers the abundant b1gsons,—thy Huminuted seript- res of the prairies, “ho Cupld of the anclunt Mndtoos Hpped- hla urraws with. lowers, and ormiyge flowers are @ bridalerown with usj—a Natlon of yesterday, Just wow tho carth seoms crowned wih) gurgcots blossoms, queen of brilliant treiaurgs uestling here, therd, and everywhere mid tho emerald yerdure, like the moés-olud violet, tragrunt and convenled like hidden chority, Itmay bo owlug in part. to the frequent ruing which buve showers! go laylehly on us thut we haye this yeur. such a bounteous profusion of flowers and. follige, The farmers complain of the weeds, and surely thoy grow more rapidly thun tho plunts, and we mightal- ways find some cause for complaint, but thore ia i too yrpat pleusure In bebulding tho luxurianceot Dicom to think fur a momentof complaint, ‘Thia sonson brings used usual muy new aud wonderful vurietlea, and the question most dittioult ta doefde 14,4" Witch Js the most beautl ful’ It would often be wiser if. one selected those Whose nutury Waa not unknown to thet, and which they ure certain of bringing tu pere Tectiou, Unless this ty tho case, Suilure is iukely ve an extremely small | + mseqnentiy: t Aleconrnge mout. Man ra when Viniting a green nidutlfo some rive plant, new to thom, and de {toned to possess (f, Bomctimes a tow 4 Hons nto asked of the person ft charge, and No may Know ho more of tts nature than tho inters rowator, Dut Aiesses at it, And tho result is mors tifention and disnppointment. to follow, We all glean ov item on Horiculture eagerly, and sigh be- cise there is no more. You who five in Chicago had 1 rieh feast in June, when the annual mect+ ing of the National Associitlon of Nurserymen nnd Florists convened; and it was, of course, largely attended, not anly by. those In trade, but. by those who wikhed for Instruction, und only poor health kept tne from being present, Ladies, Ashen you listened to that able and instructive eseny of Mr, Peter Henderson's on “ Hambugs in fforticulture,” did you not wis (hose gaino hiumburs might meet their Just deserts? Tayo you not heer told by thesy humbtys that thelr roses were warginted to boon continilly, and tht their bulbs were surely double, and tho finest tynciath over cultivated; that thoirs was tha only tiem which posacssed h yellow verbena, ote, ote, til yon turned tho silver in your hind and queried within yourself, Shait for shall £ not? Ah? those buibugs are, cumming, and ImNHY won) has sald te tig Indy Who hesttites, “You had better taku this plant or this bulb, nindam,—it (8 allt have left, and will ba theonly one In yourcity, and at the hotleda mecu will bho tho envy of all your neighbors,” “The: uals uppeal to laties ns they aromoreensily deceived, If you purchase, you tind later that he old overy plant after the santa story, aud fostend of being envied by all on Christuins; you are only ono to ayinpathize w many others over a worthless phint that dees not bloom till midsum- mer, and then is worthless, Same Jadies depend horeoly: upon fertilizers whieh thoy pay dearly for, aud enn then observe: no improvement in tholr plants, ‘There are some ood fertilizers, but. Indies, you can pre- pare your own, and thon you know you are ante, nnd need have no fear of tostog your plunt: behooves us to deal eautionsly with peddiers, und would it not be etill more wise to dea) only: with those whont wo know, or wt lenat those who have a repututlun forhonesty? Theroare plenty of thom bust and Wost, ad itis botterta know what you ure purchasing than to run the risk of belitg decelved. “There are tricks in alk trides"” the old sav tells ug, and munya oman knows he oni deceive tho Indies fn this way when be enn in fo uthor. rhaps Yau hnvo no a -xrowing exumple before you as 1 have Mino tre purporting td beat Very largo bapple A suecimen of | tho fruit was enrried nbout inn can to exhibits and, Just moving int new home, of course it wns deemed wisest to invest. only in tho best and Intest improvements, The tree grows, and 1s Taro, but tho fruit ty ko inferior that It ie nover used; the tree is used now ns nt shnile tree, and 1 reminder of humbuys. 1 fear th nis Of jee ple uever had weitten in theirea) ook, * Hon- cexty Is the best policy.” Bur tls work witlyoon verse If we will it x0; we support them, and are In # mensure to blame, Some plauts nre so beautiful that wo euitlyate them for tholr foltuge, but) willnat this time apeak only of Deeer’s hybrid colens, and which, whilu nuinerous, ure few compared with the enormons qiuntity of phints grown to produco them. Fashton seems to chango In plants us in all things clse, and now, in place of tho old Verschajelattit,, which wo once thought so beaut!- ul, we “have the radiant” Fascination, Mullicolor pieta, slow, sunbeain, ~ ticetly, surprise, queonstand, and a host of oth- tres, with which ominy of you ary familiar; and worg we to gather tho names of wit here yor your Inspection, you would fail to geo tholr nitractivencas uniess nequainted with thor benuty.. They cannot be deacrived, words are inndequate, but the’ vulors of tho rainbow sean to have been blended with thy northern Doronlls, and enough of the dark puree of tho flerco témpest-luden storm-cloud to give It a baekground, while tho vivid Ughtiing tiastes around tho edge, 48 Keen on summer evenings. while others ure one vist Shenton Latte and others Scarlet ns the aky at sunset, and ribbed aud fringed, thited and puffed as it wero, made futo robes by fniry's fingers to adorn tho ulry aprites ut some xula fentival, or in honor’ of some rare coronation,. Just nnw intel utten tion ig pald to this variety of plant, and our parks and gardens ara mide charming by thelr #rent variety and elegance. ‘Choy ure easily cared for, and in the fall if you wish to preserve them, take a fow cuttings and root thom and you will have thom for another season. Bu ‘cautious of frost for it soon Inys thon low, _Vens Lear, SOME PLATITUDES. Now TO We WAPPY. To the Editor of ‘The Chicayo Tribune., Ar Sua, July 1,—Mny { make my bow to Tho Tome circle, and say to them how much I have been interested in that department of ‘Tun Tarnony, a few numbers of which were kindly fonned me for recrention during 8 vacation voyage? : May [nlso sny how much of beauty and Intor- est, 1 cun sco an opportunity for in the fletd there presented for thut kindly interchange of sotl-languaye—tho thinking aloud—In the sweet coniidence ot appreciation, forbeurauce, and a charitablo megnantinity? © May L eay how much I feol that tho tone of society, of senthnont, aud opinion may he con- aclously and unconselously | molded by such nh weekly oxebn _ uf ideas where tun earnest, —clovating,’ enlarging purpose pervades the spirit ot tho writers? How much the hearts of silent and exrnestly toiling thou- sands will bo cheered, strengthened, and cn- cournged to now vor? . “And nay Lalso isk some serious questions, 1m pelled somewhat by my womanly eurfoalty, and more by the instinctive Salli ‘of w hope which loves hupinity and longs: to discover that love na tho undercurrent of inspiration, tho sweet, silent power of ull Intetleatual effort? May 1, without mentioning the pseudonyms of tho particular writers of Tho Home ‘whose thoughts have entlyened and awakened my fect- ings, ask of them If ncurefully-considcred pro- grin or platform has been adopted, or a settied, well-consiiered purpose or object been placed in view, pointing toward the uceomplishment of certain desirable resulta in this interchange of opinion? ‘ Jn thore, somewhere bebjnd The Home cur-. tain, a wiee prompter, a mentor, a erltic, orn ae of curjous, resticus mule-up, alwuy's sour uy to 2 {That wild, wolrd ellmo, ONE OF splice, ont or tine, after tho Indefinit aud undelned, and bringing down vew views of heaven; or diving’ Whore unseen and unteard he soul ag sient waters swell, : after the unfathomable and stirriug unknown, Dut surely-cexisting eleetriy sparks of, the occu of the human soul? Ig thers a never-yot-conled voleanie power dowa undornenth ‘The Home stuge which raises enrthquikes, uncovering new continents: of s0- elul, Interest, and Sabmerstng worn-out ones when the galls ure exhausted, barren, and buve done tholr world of kervico, ‘and thelr paths of poor humanity have become too dovply payed with puryutorial flooring? ‘ Storms clear the ekies, Is thore g storm cen- tro fram which the hurricines blow, and from whoso serene hights tho whirtwinds aweep and curry destruction to old pupuralitions: ohl- mers, und fotlles, aud give birth to now visions and eléarer priuelptes to the lowlands and plating Of stugnating tumaitys Does not, muy [ ask, the world of intellect iol to grovel, and ttre not our Hyves and om u ons apt to Fun ina humdrum groove of vat forgetting tho dilating fine: 3 to ai the keen, just individuality ina v love of ense and sonsueus plensurd of seltishnces? Do mnnkind yunerally recognize tho Justness of aecording ts cach aid overy: tember of the #reat human brotherhood thosuine mectof Inters ests and delights cinimed tor thomsclyes? Doca man feel that Hfting hisnelghbor up litte hiingell as woll? ‘Uhnt seeking a buoy ova foothakd port which to rext & brother's, foot necessitates 4 firmer foundation for his own? May not iw dozen, or a hundred, or thottsand othora come to know’and enjoy tho othureal atmosphere, the rezultof our long communings, strivings, and Benrchings, with no loss toour own Jeulous souls? Do wo loxo by ne ehuritable muaguininity of Jeaving oblivion to Kindly spread) her imuntie over the mistakes and follies of those who wre prontiuue by the aarneat rotlection uf ench day's willght hour, praying tho night to elface tho past and the dawn may wwaken a nobler purpose? ~ Isour own fight any lees beequeo ft Uighta ane other's pathway? aro our Joys lesa becuse tho: world ts full of eweelnuss, our lives leas beenuae the work! is more? Shall wo despair of elimbing hecauge wo may not reach the stars? Ja thers ve proud eitistiotion that our beurta nro worthy: the ethereal world of our highest visions, though no deserving soul bo ever found to alire it with usl Ja thore in tho ward * fraternity" lesa than In. Unt of * trlondshin"? Mny Lay that I haye very tttle confidence in what this world calta trlonitship, and that) have hover Found any Hstrationsd of tho love Platons Jot Friondalip sous butagort of mutial attompt: ite UrvtLallley while tho love Platonie be jy becomes Mt hypocritical decup tonya seltivh tyranny. ‘wo principles L nadiit, und,in so fanug the world ‘8 wholo-souled, noble, and unsclttsh, these principles are found exiting, he first human principle is the magnetiem of the hn Patines of parental natyres; tho socond i Eeamnltion of the unlyersal brotherhood of mnie, . H Beyond theso two principles, fa thore very much of renity, much whieh is tangjble or of Value ta the workl? in tho frat wo recognize the Host joyous relation of earth; in the sece ond, tho thred bourt may feels 1 ‘That over the Btyatte . co eae eee eee own sem, I hone the aunud of a whispers +” My loved ong Is cultitus to ine, ‘yer tho suusot Ylite, . a To a lowlth in vowing, comiay tatheor ns ‘Therg are tives which caro for us, not from mora sensuous delight, but in tho fraternity of souls Nf has a new awcotness und deeper repose. ‘Tho world holds many wn Unsutisiod bear,’ which oxcluiins with thy poets : Thuto the lightof de sun. phruubltte pase onatd pal ‘ Minty + Unaaitaiied, bitter desiru, and whoso full, nutured natures and atrong Ine Uehiootual powors would prompt thom to a deep. er communion did they know that the world held warm bearté und bauds for Qhuin. But, stang tomnduess by tho deluaion of humuulty, oy retire tou world of thelr own, i lbs ata etude teh pierre. or judicia) banymun, to bring wl the head of our 3 Hi i eruoity ourderuses, and bury our friends when gellishness becomes our Gad. — BRIGsA-DItAC. BACK AGAIN. A LETTER FROM OE ‘To the Editor of The Chteago Tribune. Musxrcon, Mich. duly 27.—Roturning from n visit In the country, I found sovernl numbers of Tho Mome waiting my perusal. T wns gind to Jind that so many of tho old contribntars hid ro= turned to tholr allegiance. Kspectaily wos I kind to ind no lettor from Fern Lent, who bas ‘been absent 0 long. 1 noticed, tod, severni now comers, whose lottors ndd greatly to The Home, Iwas apprehensive at ono timo that tho pro- fected trip around tho Inkes was n veritable aTair, and that the pleasure-ecokers bad been wreeked on some deaolnte ahore whero thoy could: find no‘ means of communicating with those thoy had left behind, or else that thoy wero having such» delightful time and wero s0 intent on sightseeing they could not ilnd time for.n thought of thoso nnfortunates Wt home, Kittle, Lan glad you adintre Tupper, Orlenn, de you not believe it possible for men or women to bo as ut and pure as hunian veings cun be. and yet be maligned by the world about thom? Js {6 necessary to enter pubite Ifo to bo censured or Binnie dered? “Do wo not get a littto taste of this however quict our fives may be? And should we hesitate nvout doing our duty for fear that unkind. and perchance untrue things: will be said of us? fF think not, The greatest reformers the world has eyer produced bive luid to face the seorn and ridicule of both frivnd and foo, Ashoulg hate to think that onr best men would shrink from political life merely be- cise of scandal, and so leave our Nation to the tender mercies of tho unprineipled, No, let us. seek the good of our -comniry even thovgh it. bring ta heartaches and bitter tears. Teannot beleve thut our women desire the ballot beens of my pleasure its use muy bring or to gratify wmbition, 1 bellove they desire it because of the good thoy hopo to necompliah by ita uae, and that not alone for thomscives, but for thelr -entry and those yet to come, Rob, of Deentur, where art thou? I hnyo somewhat to say unto thee. LT Intended to ray Jong go, but dkl not have tine, Do you rony Der saving some time age in one Gf your letters that Working Bee and [were too revere (on tho: tobacco question? i deny the impeach ment. ‘ow, Stoo. you seem tu be os sensible ' a fellow ns your — elgar will ullow you to bo; therefore, listen to my defense. You canscleet judge and jury. from aunong the Homelte ween “is no goal to youy fe will only injure you. Whon JT say you, L Mean all tobucco-ttsers. Tt mekes you selfish; ut that would not matter so much If L wera not selfish too, but unfortunately I am, 1 prefer my,own comfort sometinica to that of others, and to. the extent that [ wouldn't care If every munto Forvup the use of tobiceo, now und for- over, and nil because f prefer pure alr to tobace cosmoke, The vir in cities ié bad onough at any,tine, but it is terrible when adulterated with tobucco smoke. It. Is imposalble for a tobneco-smoker and your humble servant to re~ niin very long together In one vieluity without ono or thy other of us belug made iniserablo, Either he must forego smoking or 1 must forego puro ur. - Which ts it likely to be? L noticed ut the station’ where I changed enrs on my way homo, «curd hung up ina consplevous pluco in thodonat wkh these words printed thereon: “Smoking fs prohibited. here.” hit. tep taken in tho wa; of reform. ry ought to bo placed in ev i _ notice ublie place. I thought thore wis need of ute in the passenger-couch that day, for one hullyldunal tilted himself back und smoked aways regardless of tho comfort or happiness of any one but ,ilmself. Tho car was crowded, the day gloomy, with now and thon i. dush of ral, and the wind blowing sich a guile. that tho consumptlve-looking young man in tho seat baek of mo could not ber to have the win dow. open, so 1 put it down, and ondured the smoke na best I could, thankful that thore fa nn end to all things; ut Lt did not entertain very envinblo thoughts of that smoker the while. know tt is wrony tobe seltish, but 1 nm, and, moreover, 1 aim afraid T always shiult be. Hut the smoke was not all we were treated to thi! day, though UL coutd have been satisticd with less thun that. 1 surmise that there was no smok+ Ing-cnr fn-the tral, and that. all the smokers were turned loose to look out for thomselves, At one stntion two men got on, from whose actions L judged they had been fakingsometting, stronger ta drink than coffee. ‘They enters tulned (4) vs with somo firat-clasa swoaringe and stalo Jokes. They wero woll-drested and nails several times since the so-enlled * happy ocension” ocaurred. \ Its delicious, now and thon, for wonen and hons tu tind a tempting epat to Kerateh. Who will attirm that thore fs no onthusiagm In oye? 5 ‘Or that lovo ia satinted or cloyed Ina day, a week, oF a fear ‘ r that love isn passing pnasion, transitory and uniraitful ? ¥ It reaches iurond tho stars into tho otornal spree, where thore use nelthgr bald beads nor crying Dables. have mot many okl maids in my enorgotio but unfortinate carecr. havo, playfully fondled some of them, not that { loved them, but Ueenuse I pitiod them, Tam hunest, if Iam somowhnt conceited, and modedt, if Tam not grout nnd good. - among the many T have found a. few who scomed sweet and interesting, und who appeared to be modols of nentness and propriety, 1s well as worthy examples of Christian ploty and pn Uont realgnation. . They Intvs como tome with catnip ten and words of gentle consolation when L was sick and sorrowful |= Thoy have brightened and Dlossed ty hubltation ike ministering nngels. They havo strengthened and sustained my wae Verlng faith in humanity by exbibitions of hierole relf-sncriiice, Thoy* have ‘muito ine almost ad- mire then in-spite of my prejudices,” 1 havo thought what excellent wives and oot mothers they would have. made, tader favorable ciream: stuiices, and how iuch inore lovely they would havo looked with*n Joyous elrclo of children about thom thn thoy tinve appenred when cn rossi tholr sickly chta and Kissing thofr dirty dots, ? ‘There are many old tnatds in overy commun: s~chips and fragments of what were once file and lovely, thrown up and left by tho ree ceding waves to shrivel und dry upon tho sen shore of life. It mukes a fellow feel gorry, to think of the deprivations of an old mald of 40 yenrs, How completely forsaken sho must fool ‘without tho delights of domestic love and aifec- ton, with no strong arnt to lean upon, Or monly breast Whervon to rest, hor wonry hend, when ale wishes to softly, sweetly, aud allently snuggic down to repose, * Eugene J. HALL TOPSLY TINK, ’ A Q00b gUTsRCT. TO DOD. ‘To the Luttor of ‘The Chteago Tritune. DAvENvort, ln, July 23-1 quote: from a let> ter of “Awkward Westerner,” recently pub- Uehed In THe Trine: “There Ip no doubt that the true woinen of our lund haye a deep and bumlllating senso of tho Justico of tho odlum bestowed on the women of the present figo who are making thomsclves so disgustingly prominent.in tho political fled under tha stand- ard of ‘Woman's Rights.!") Who aro the "true women of our Innd"? Who shall separate the sheep from the gonts? Bhall nuy one presume toway that becauso a majority of women take no Interest in the social avience of the day, anda nilnority ro Interestod In It, other things being equal, tho dignity of boing conslderod “tru women” {a vested solely in the grout and ylo- rlous majority, and that nothing of the title bo- longs to tho dinbolloal and disgustingly prom= inent" minority?“ Disgustingly prominent” Is yool, vigorous Buxon, Nothing ambiguous th “To tho honor of noble womanhood this class Js Inthe minorlty."—Awkward Weaternor. It grieves ine to bo compelled to aoknowledgo that we of tho Woman's-Rights party aro tho loast in nuimbors .as yot, but dally,-as the justivo of our principles forces itsulf on thinking: minds, are our minke being swollon,—not only by ladies elther; tho gentlemen aro coming over tooursile, Statesinon, Inwyors, bushicss-inen, who, from thelr public life mid knowledge of our Icgal stnuding, can sce whereln tire wormnn’s: rights und whero her wrongs. Tho funny part oflUis that the women who ‘are so sivectly feminine that [t would bu a well nigh fatul wrench to thelr feelings should. thoy ever be brought fuco to faco with a womian-suitrnglst, are perfeetly willing to take advantage of any privileges which tholr .imore stropy-minded sister hus faced ridicule dud opposition to ob- tain for hor sex. 1 tinve an oequuintance who niways sys, when IL broach tho subjec “Oh, Topsey, 1 don't wint any rights. ive ig good) for ome T evidently considercd themeclves of much tin- portance to the world, Ieside theso, there was neorpulantold man who treated x young mun near bin towdrink outof a bottle. “Ho did not olfér any to thu restof us, ko £ couldn't say what tho boverngo was. It might haye been cold tea, It wagnbout tho wnme-color, + Lhave enjoyed tho letters on friendship very much, nud hope we shatt haye more on tho sumo thome. I wonder why no ono responded to tho eutlot Callforntt whon shu asked the THomoltes whut constituted n gentleman. thought it an interesting subject tor discussion, and was suro it would bring forth mony readable letters, but Tyyalted und watched for them In vuln, BR —_—_ OLD MAIDS. FURTHER FACTS AUOUT TITES, ‘To the Editor of The Uhteaga Tribune. LAWNDALE, IIL, July 26,—The ordinary old “mald fs an object of universes] céminiseration,— in fuet, we are fully persunded that It is cug- tomyry for herto get n great.deal moro pity "from mankind than she {¢ willing to acknowl- edge sho cures for. 1n her conversation sho fs apt to bo rather severe fi her strictures upon tho stronger sox; ‘but It is a pecutlarity of her somewhat whiinsical Nature, particularly at tho ago of 40 youry, When “silver threads appear among tho gold, to bo continually saying exactly what she doce not. mien. Whenever we hear an old maid, with ilushed face and flaehing eyes, digcoursiug eloquently upon * the rights of woman” or de- claiining yehemently and vigorously against tho rolliea and failings of the “lurds of creation,” wo can understand at a glance that sho Js act- ually Butfering for an offer, We honestly doubt {f thore ove? was an old mald who romned In that aggravating situn- ‘don froin choice or purely perequat inclinations, Why, thon, does this world contaln so muny old Pinlae sitiy starving souls aid aulfering consti- utlons? ee When 1 woman Js young and pretty, when her oyes are bright nud her comploxion elear, when her form is pluntpand gricotul, when ber band. some hands are dimpled and her pink tingers soft and plearunt te tho touch, sho wistics to inarry somebody who fs a great deal better thun any particular ane of tho wmoroaus youths with uy hearts who ure, to use fh female oxpres- wed her, Whon the froin her face, whon he begins to. graw stay, When Kue commences to limp with the rheumatlem and to complain of “orleks" in her baok and corns on her toos, no ona that she would condeseend ta wed would consent to janery: her for.any considerntion, * ‘Chis, thon, is the reuson why old maids are 60 palntully eonmon, A Whut wonder is it that tholr sweot dispoaltions heenme soured und spoiled, and that atthe age of 40 they ure principally notorious for thelr snuppiahness and irritabillty. Avan curly ize L was conshmed to tho cara-of an unTnarcicd wut, an almost ninintle spinster, who, at that pirticulur period of my brief bis: tory, manifested much concern for my future career, Ino my infaney she was proud of my poygteal #rowth-and montal dovelopment, From hg fportant ufternoan in whiet Leg my fret tooth Tam reliably informed that "shu pi nounced mo a prodigy. Kho boasted of my earl est uttompts at converaation; sho taught me my letters and mado me sty list pair of puntuluons; she was, without doubt, the only woman who over fully approciated: me, and, further, gave mo full eeedif for tulonta f wasotco silly enough, to honestly believe I possessed. Rho watched me’ jealously ‘through all. tho years of my youth, and when tho faint promige of on migtucho began to uppedr upon iy. Ip and omy gulleluss heart, begun to be ‘stirred by tho first sensations (of the Saweet aud melancholy passion for n fabeand innas eulbranniy girl of my requalntance, When the poetic tlre began to Hawk and. sizzloin my soul, and when, In my enrllest transport, Lwas fo enough to take the old ludy Into my conthdet shethat woman of blessed: momory—caat mo out of her heart and obiiteratert iny’ mane from. her-will, becansy, ag who sald, b woul not study ology and turn’ my attention to tho enlight: nent of tha heathen Wi furenway cannibal slunda. .£ xuoriticad her uifection and my ine heritance for my tinst love, und, thotgh it wus Unsuccessful, the very memory of it, oven now, repays ane for all I castaway, Leherish tho recollection of my departed relative, Tam not wngraterul for all ner, tenderness and eure, 1 BY Hely avknowledge my obligations to her, an if in my gentle heart thore be any remaining af> fection for old muldy, you cat, to ise a comers olul Gxpression, “crodit It" principally ta hor account. . ‘There {6 4 tearful tragedy In many a spinstor's life, a mourntil memory that she reprotfully ro- calls when Ume and trouble have dried up the founts of nifection and suppressed (he powerlul paaston that oneeheld her heart in sweet control, She zoutously guards hor we but, if by any aveldent othr people discover [t, they lau outright and call ite * capital cou It dy and never to have had un} of Itis “dreadful to desire ® husband, and to bo ute terly unublo ta i one, When J think of tho “hearts that punwering through the world und never tind the love they Beck,” 1 cannot cherish nny serious regentinent agulit old mils, notwithstanding that thoy huve oftyn. alfruntod mo, and solnotiines ndded Ingutt to In Jury by openly oxprosstug In iny very presence hole ndintration for buld-henaed widowers i comfortably worldly elreuuistinces, fe oues undortwle to crush a matyrd, but still uttructivo, imaidon by uttomat ig to relate tu ber thut threadbare, bild-beaded story about her favorit widewer's head reminding inv ot Heaven byeauso thre wus -no parting there, Thad emillngly proceeded as tur ty oiny nin rative aa “the funniest thing | over bent” when vho almost unathilated me by the ‘brillant rotort that the slippery spat would be “euch a sweet und protty place ty Kise,” Uteticet, O epingters, and think of the wonder+ ful rupture and sulla ecstasy that it is possi- bly for you to enjoy) ~ wo his been inurried to blm five years, and notwithstanding the fuct thut sho already bus four children, Pam jnformed by good authority: ef Jou the Buplist oo # server; | that eho bag nearly scalped niu with ber finger hal voto, for anything, It, fan's woman's phe ” Lalways do u Httle etnile Just there, for L know iy energetic friend dees not go express herself 18 tho. result of retlection, thug entitling her opinions to my respect, even though Ltall to concur in them, but Just be- cause she. lds © vuyue Iden that If univers atiftrage should provall all the homes fn tholand would go to riin, und all the children be bi Josa, buttontegy, and unwhtpped. exprossion In tho E eee o which F hits more than another itis that onc of * wonml's gphore.” “Worun's sphere” ig duane ‘oxuctly where tho duties and exigencies af life catl hor; no more, nd less, If the Wotnan's Rights move- tment nover necomplishes more than fe has ve tho present thne it will have donoono grout work,—It bas taught men to think of the needs of women, and citused women to think of their wants for thomsclyes. There In another expression whioh it haa nl- wuys puzzied mo to understand as to why It should bo applied to uss a term of reprouch. Why fa It ridiculpus to be “strong-mindud" ? A grontloman. wat. long since showed ma some drawings with which ho intended Itlustrating 1 coming novel. Among them was the plature of a rather outlandish looking women, “And what does that represont?” sid t Oh," sald ho, with scornful luugh, “that ls meant for ONO, Of the *atrong-minded,' fyor know!" “+L don’t like to gee you Bueor so," J answored, “be- cenuse I'm afrald fam one of the unfortunite sisterhood.” “Oh no, ‘Lopsey, he reptied, wih tu eweetly condescending tr, Ob, no, Lopsey, You are not tstrong-minded’ “Amie LT not, in- decd? Then Thupo aud pray © san shortly be- cone 60, Strong enough ininded to bear tho heat und tho burden, to glva of my strength toothors, and to recognizs iy rights whon I seo thom, and. to got thom {f+ cin." * Awkward Wostorner says: “1f woman von- fines herself to legitimate duty ahe will nover be found in the potiticul Held clamoring for tha ballog » 4 6 Tho right or duty to do so must be established In somo other way before the purest-minded women of our Iaud can per- form tho duty without reluctance.” There ts aur old saying which, now that the age of. super- atitions fs receding from us, and wo aro grow io Into moro sensible Chi bellef, and it is the tm n that *God helps thoge who help thomecly - Why, then, should wonot “chuuor" for tho batlot or anything clua wo want? Certainly if we don't work for it Ourselves we stand an exceedingly anal chanco sof #uccess, Our Congressmen aud Senators not yet having urrived at that: polnt of etvillzation Which would indies thom to make us a present of the privilege—1 tnean tho right. “I don't belioyo tho great God . . Hormit wyrent work to be uccomplished nt the expense 0} woinunly. dignity.” | Lhaveno idea in whut ght the Almighty docs took upon thy womnn-sutrage movement, For my own pare Laon ans thut woniu'sdignity would bo eat Bectired by independence, allow! pe her to have eometh{ng to dq in the malsiug of laws un der whieh she is compelled to Ive, and a voice In the elettlon of those who ropresont the Interest ‘of the whole country. Not that I took upon tho ballot ag uw onro-attl for overy HL Nor do L think unt the day upon whlch women are free togoto tho polly and duposit thelr votes will usher In tho milleantium, 1 do bolleve that a grent Justico will Luve beon done, a great good secured. It fa att very fine to talk of tho allont intiyence of women, | suppose by thit ts goner- ally meant tho Influoncewo exert over our mas: culling frlends,—narrowed down,.over our hus Yands and lovers,--onr brothers genorully eee terrlug to be suyed by somebody clso’s sister than thofrown, Ah met eunsve who are oli, ugly, tho world by efreumatances, leuve on the miud of fastidious mun!—whilo 2 vote is a vote, no imatter who canta It, +18 it not tino somothing cleo wave the doctrine of solf-abnegution was proached at usntall tines? Weare ike tte Inurks on life’s alate, and inust we be perpetu- ally: rubbliuy ourselyea out? awkward Westerner sponks of an “intellectual life that would ft thom for tho compuntor ship of hobly developed , ashood—womnn's divinely appointed destiny.” Wo is mot low fur wo pour old mts hayo wandered from our “appojuted destiny"! WOvsRy LINKLE, ———__—_. Mow Garcelon Bought a Carriuge. § Hanger (ate) tt hig. Tho Inst Fusion Government seems to havo hada special taste for gouging the Btato at the Brats Prison, lt uppears by the records that Gov, Garcelon bought a carringe wt tho prigon on tho th of January (two days after hls term of oilicg bud explred) for 225. “Tho usual prico for auch a carriage is €16, On the veh of June wury Gurcelon bind avout $4,000 of the Btato's money in bls pockets, but, Instead of paying tor the enirrinwe, bo'paid 5 fn cash, and turned in anold second-hand carriage, for which he wos Is worthy of a eredited $110, ‘This sino carringe, after $10 worth of painting tald out on Ht, i¢ now olfered forsale at tho prison for $5), and [sa drug in tho market. A WARNING, For The Chicaga Tribune. Down ho has fluttored, quitodoad, on your intatd, nbte, Tho allrery dust all burnt from his delicate win; Do you uedoratand how It Is moths aro not able To keep from the danger of firv that must catch and singe? It ho hat stata in tho. dusk ‘pt your beautiful Bors wan Be ately ‘Tho thorn of a rososstol Ils velyaty sido; but ho could hide fn the gloum- His paint from the rose, uu matter how Hugering or fleree, ‘There ere stars to strive for in tho’ heayons above Calm shinins,, Night's sontinel-guands, Too fav for tha tte ii Of oa mothy” Yot he could dio with bis pne- slonato henrt-atrin a ‘Throbbing through all fe brlef {courge with his Jove, ‘That's soothing (n'cat ce pas?) botter than Jying to-night. Bineiconea and burnt by tho firo of sour waxen ‘Tho ritltess flnme that dazated and drew tll! he r : . Cr R Nigher and nigher, to stronython his mad desire We might have warned: You think, though, after all ‘twould haye boun the same? , Pg! V’vo blown out your candlo, and cravo for your pardon. Tconld not endure It Mlekering over the moth. Goodenight—ashall jo say it here? No, thoro in your garden Wherover, you chose, mny lips were unwilling and To Milne Enlse: youroyes, Idaronotgaze in thom niggers longers * 8o with -red-roso lenyes I'll coyor the moth. sn, Now, roodenicht “Come nguin"? When I'm sure whothor star- Ught or tapor Blines most in thoso oyes, in this deopening dim, balf-lixht, ' rT tnve watcha her ing ‘the gato closed eronking A trainp o’or tho folds will blow this deliriuin Ahi deathwhite moth, aro you nota timely re- To sven tuy wings wet too scorched to hear mo .Ponr Wasminaton, Wis. Luv M. W. NOT ANCHORED, : For The Chieago Tribune, By life fa ko 1 ship that finds no reat, ‘Tossed hero und there upon the sturmy brenst: Of loves of many beurts, too oft confessed. ‘Phy'lovo ta Ike tho harbor, safe and still, Into whose calin that ship my Fide at will, , ‘Undor tho slope of God's ctornul bill, 8o neur the porfect peace that has no word, © et with un awful, white emotion stirred, It folds its wings tke somo contonted bird, At rest, and yet not anchored: and some day, Out of the réstful pence of this enim bny, ‘Tho winds of Fato will drift tt far away. ELbA WHEELER, AND THE LEAVES WERE FOR THE HEAL~ ING OF THE NATIONS.” ‘This ts fully exomplihed In the demonstra- tlon that so comnion 1 pastttre weed as smart: weed, or water-pepder, possesses medicinal properties which, when combined with es- sence of Jamnica ginger and other ef clous vegetable extracts, as In Dr. Pteree’s Compound Extract of Sminrt-Weei, It eon stitutes a most potent. remedy for bowel af- feetions as diarrhwn, dysentery, flux, ete, It Is algo nn efllcuclous medicine tor colds, and to break up fevers and Inflasnmatory attacks, and for the alleviation uf palit Lyory family should keep a supply of it. Fifty conts by druggists. . * Shaker sarsapariiin, dandellon, yellow dock, mandrake, gargot, black cohost, Indian hemp, prince's plic, and tho ‘berries of juniper and cubeb tnited with iodide of potassiuin mide by tho Society, are the Ingredionts of tha Shakers’ Sargapariitn, t FLAVORING EX'TIRACTKS, Natural Fruit Flavors, Dr. Price’s plat SPEGIAL EXTRACTS. Prepared from the choleest Fralts, without col- Grlasy polsononn alls, seldy, or artlifcin} Hetencey. WARS UNIFORM IN STRENGTH, WITHOUT ‘ ULTERATIONS OR IMPURITIES. Haro gained tholr reputation from thelr perfect purity Auporloratrength and quality. Admitted by all, wlio have ured them an thin moat delleate, yratefal d natural: flavore for cakos, puddings, creams, F} Makers of Tapalla Yeast Gomy Croam Baking Powder, Ete., Chleago and St. Louls, NO ADVANGE IW PRICES CHICAGO SCALE CO., 151 South Jeffersoust., Chiedga, Manufactures moro than 100 differant variotles of Mon, tialnovs, und equal f Superior quatily and extromoly low prices make these tho must populurveatan In use, and aunts of othor compantos ure kopt nt thole wits' ond to invent stories tu toll in ardor fo geil scalos which coat no more to manufacture st pricus thrve,aud four Wines Lighor. PRICES THAT SPEAK, Mm THRYSELVES f-ton form sculo, platform 0x13 feet, 2 nT atOck selon, platforms eit foul ny k patos, plat fives Bxtd foot ivy hi Sculus, platform wt foo un actives i uunoe Le as pounia:s.'. Furnlty und oountur seatos, ull slzus,., iti 0 ‘Mlatturin wentow, Su to 3.40 pounda silos 4 ‘Tuckor Alarm Sonoy-draw Mas Ii sealus waeruntud, Full prico-iist trop. . DR. DYE'S CELEBRATED RLZOTRO-VOLTAIO DELTS, BANDS, GUEPLNAORIES, TRUSALS, RUPFORTERS, anil Other Appllaaces, to auy person (young or old) sufluring frou Nervous Diseases, Premature Decay, Loss of Vitality, ete. OF 10 those ailiicted with Rheumatism, Neayalgin, Par alysis, Dyspepsia, Liver or Miducy Troubles, Spluul Affeciions, Nuptures, Diseascs + ofp Delicate Nature, of EITHER AEX, and many other Diseases, Apesdy cures guaranteed. God for Lihustrated Faspblet, Free, address =YOMFAIC DELT CO., Marshall, Mich, oN SARS APARTLLI RESOLVENT, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, Changes as Seen and Folt, as they Daily Occur, Af. sad ter Using «a Few Doses, 1, Good spirits, disappenraneo of Inniguor, melancholy, ineten Sank egh and muster, etd, mse and hantiness y 2. Strongth inereuaes, uppotite { re felt for foud hus more RUE ceuctatlony nem tele ual, good «Uirention, ‘oaion and inant algey, mivakcert fresh and Vigorali, urbe Penenice of epots, blote tho skin Hooks clenr und bowing? speeeety ohuuged from its turbid and cloudy ‘appa toncleareherry or amber color; water eee Sevoly from the Ulidder throng the ett ‘ar senidlugs meen br seal it : ttle or no sediments) } Mirked diminution of quantit: oy of snvoluntury weukening dlechatrwer Tf Moted in that wij), with cereuintyyar Reontt te gure: _Increnged strony OxnbARSd te Tansy . und funet on to.tho soverntorgnne wo BtEMONY restorg: 5, Xettow tinguon the white of tho eyes, the swarthy, snffron appearance of the ak changed to n olear, lively, and henithy cotor, . Those sufforing from werk or ulcera lungs or tubervies will realize wront ‘Uenent expectoruting freoly tho tough phlegm orimies, from tho lungs, air eels, bronchi or windp) jfaront or hend? diminishing tho frequena ‘cough: general fnercuay of strength tho xyatem; stopunge of night of weakness around. the any anid fooling ; Ty shottiders. ete; cessation Y iitle sonso of sulfocations hard” brentielt 424 parezyann of cough on lvitie down oF arian oH he morning. “AIL these disteensing symg a gradunily and snrely disappenr. hin 7, Ag day ufter day the SANSAPARITLTAN {y, taken now signs of returning health wit appears, ua tho blood improves in purity and strength! disease will diminish, and all foreign and ieee deposits, nodes, tumors, cancers, bard lum pos mmesaleed | nwways and othe unsontid mals + uleora, fovor akin dllsonson, radians disuppoar. eee , i ss where tho system has in vated, and Mercury, Quicksllvar, Corrosive ge Hate have uccuniilated and become deposi -In tho bones, joints, ote., causing curles uf the Pai tia spinel ia contort , Varicose vains, otc. th BSAPARLLLIAN will resotva nny these lepaty and exte: . oe ae ocminnts, tho virus of the disense frog » 0. If those who aro taking those medic ine curo of Chronio, Sorntulous, oF srenite diseases, howover slow tinny bo tho ‘our, “feel better” and flnd thoir geueral health improving, thor flesh and welght Jnereasing or even keep ing its own te is 0 Bure eign that tho cure Js prow gressing. In these diseases tho Patient either, gets better or worse,-—tho virus of the discase ig not inactive; if not arrested und driven from tho blood it will spread and continue to under. mine tho constitution, ,.As soon ag tho SABA. a males the Batlent “ feel better® every hour you will grow better and a hentth, strobgth, and flesh Tossease ia ‘Tho gront Nower of this remedy is in di that thretten dente agin sd CONSUMPTION, of tho Lunga and Tibercutous Phthisly, lu-Syphllold Diseases, Wasting, ‘Degeiernee, and Ulcoration of tho Kidneys, Diabetes, Stop. pute of Water (instantaneous roliet atforded, whero cathotors- have been used, thus doing avay with the painful operation of using those is nents), c ving Stono in th and in all ewes of ts Basti. Inflammation of the Blad- der and Kidneys. ¢- In j oro ceases of Leucorrheea:and Uterine ‘Onw bott 6 contains moro of tho ncttre ples of Medicinos than any” other Dropnratlon Penspuariful doses, while oth five or wix tlines‘as much, serene ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. _ BR. RADWAY’S READY RELIEF Cures the Worst Pains in from One to Twenty Minutes. NOT ONE IfOUR After Reading this Advertisement, Need Any One Suffer with: Pain? Radway’s Ready Relief . A CURE for EVERY PAIN 12 WAS THE FIRST AND [$ THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY that Instantly stons tho most excruciating pany allays Inflamimations, and curea Copgesttony, Whether af tho Jans, “Stomach, Lowels, of othor glands or organs, by one application, IN FROM ONE 10 EWENY MINUTES. ¢ No matter how violent or_excrucfating pain the Rinenatie, Hod-riddon, Intivin, Crippled, Nert= ong, Neuralyle, or prostrated with disease may suffer, RADWAY'S READY RELUGE will afont Instant enso, NRE ELASDIALION OF TUE HLADDE SRLAMSEAT MLE LAD! INFLAMMATION OF THE ‘BOWELS, sf : “CONGESTION On THE LUNGS, SORE THROAT, DIFFICULT? BREATHING, PALPITATION OF ‘CHIE HEART. HIYSTERICS, COUP, DIPHTHERIA, ogy. HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE NEE it NERVOUSNESS, SLEEPLESSNESS NEURALGIA, RUEUSATISN, COLD CHILLS, AGUE CHILLS, CHILBLAINS, AND FROST 111 The application of tho Heady ftulief to the pirt or parts whore the pain ‘oF dilliculty exit? will ytford cago and comfort, hirty to wixty drops in bhatt a tumbler of water will in ow few minutes cure Cramps, Sprains, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Heol-| ache, Blurrkaa, Dysontory, Colic, Wind Ja owols, and all Internal Pains. ‘ ‘Travators should always carry a bottle of Had | woy's Rondy Retlof with them. A few drops|ay water will provent slokness or pains from eine? Of water, Tela better thun Prone Jsrady oP Bitters as a etinulant. FEVER. and AGUE FEVER AND AGUE cured for fifty cents ‘Thore 18 not a remoilal ayent In this world thal will oure Fover and Agno and ill ofher Matarle uy, illous, Sourlot Typhoid, Yellow, and otbel fovirs (aided by RADWAY'S' PILLS) go quick ts RADWAY'S READY HELIER, FIPTY CENTS PER BOTTLE. = RADWAY'S . Regulating Pills! PERFECT PUNGATIVES, BOOTILING APERS ENS, ACE WITHOUT PALN, ALWAYS RELIABLE, AND NATURAL LN ¥ : HEIR OPERATION, A Vegetable Substitute for Calomél. Porfeutly tuateless, vleyuntly * conted sweet gui, plirge, requiute, purify, cleunse, strongthem "s ry of a noys, Bladder, a Constipation, Costiveneas, Indigestion, lu, Hiltousness, Fever, Intlammution 0! Ia, throughout ents and palns: Lowols, Piles, abd wil dorangementa of the 1, turnal Vieers. Warranted t eifect 1 poaltl? cure. wotublo, containtug wo mercury NS nar delet rious drugs. oral, or deleterious drug: “. * “Ghserve tay Following avinntonies resultlog ‘rom Disorders of the Digestive iA Glunstiqution, Fe Ee? Buliness of £38 pn of Gaon THeartburns Disgust of Food. Fullned! a 3 = BFE i Z = oult thing, Fluttering ut the Heart, Choke jug ioe Bulfooatiug Henentions when i a a th the tea, t] ty of Perspiration, .yellowness of tho Skit Mf Sea, Pui ln tuo ldv, Chenty Lambs, aid audde Flushes of Heat, Hnrning in'tho FISH 9 4p0. A tow doev of dtadwy'a is, wil rt system from all the above-named nt ‘ PRICE 235 CENTS PER NOX. SOLD WY DRUGGISTS. eS Read “FALSE AND TRUE: tampta IBADIWAY & (Oy yor PATHS ERED BR ES NEW RREN-82, £97 information worth thousunils will be gunk you, : “TO THE PUBLIC. value ‘Thore can be no bettor xuuranteo of tho Ni of De. Rudway-s old ostubitubod It It, 1k Renee dies than the Susy und worthleds “tmituron oy ther, us thuru are Falso losolven ty, Hellen Pilla,’ Be aro and wyk for Budway'e doy, tthe none * Hudway” ison what youl —_