Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1880, Page 10

‘THE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES, The School of Philosophy'sin the Home of Transcend-“ entalism. . b. A Review of Leading Characteristics; of Lectures Thus Far Dee “! livered. AMeott and Nysticim—Harris and Abstract Speco sould be paid, tor descriptions * | but there is much in the. Consular Cray well issued from the Foreign Office arrest attention. Tbe ' advocates oF ance Halim bave lust no- opportunity since ismail’s deposition of insisting that his son an se sor, Teviik, was a chip of the old block. an 78 as femail ruled, so in the end would TewNk rule, notwithstanding the protestations ‘which : ne made on his. uccessien, law the present Khed! A in the end remains, ee nae “here can no longer. be any doubt, after Sr, Mulet’s report, that he and his Prime Mioisteg, Hinz Eashs, Here, mnunced ‘some tn nine apo that the whip Would be discontinued that the whip aoe ee strument for rebo collection. of taxation “from the feilabeen, Eyyptian bondholders were 7 ed. It was feared that no taxes iP pe paid. aad contidentiy prophesied that 2 whip would soon have to be restored.” But it ppears that the fellabeen not only pay. without lati Hozwed, blr, boing gow assured of rogu- ee) jon—. o—Sai ; of taxation, are inning to make del ences nad, Bal er and | RY of sion for the periodical calls of the Shakspeard, faxggntharer. “There is a great deal still to be : Guar Mr. Malet says, ‘before it can be said that pt is well governed, but the ‘result of Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. the ast six months gives gooahope for the CONCORD, Mass., July 29.—The first half of | future.” : -the five wevks’ term of the School of Philos- ophy has expired, and a review of the lead- ing characteristics of lectures delivered is now in order. os * " GHE DISCOURSES OF MR. ALCOTT, the venerable head of.the faculty, best ex- emplify both the Transcendental tendency of the schoo!, and the conversational method ‘of instruction of which he has been for many years so earnest an advocate. lle says, in “Concord Days,” “May we not credit New England with giving the country these new instrumentalities of progress, viz.: Greeley, the Newspaper; Garrison, a Free Platform; Phillips, a Free Convention; Beecher, a Free Pulpit; Emerson, the'Lecture. Tho Conver- sation awaits being added to the list.” Pos- terity will undoubtedly fill the blank with the name of Alcott. - He is essentially a con- versationist, rather than a lecturer, as he ofven reminds us. He says, “I do uot briny my subject with me; lexpecttofind it here; ‘am to draw it out of you, and you aretodraw it out of me.” The environment of the new:|- chapel ‘seems to repress somewhat the. finency of jis speech, and he doesn’t talk as’}" well from the lecturer's platfurm as he did fast year from his ins chair in his own par- jor. He realized this fully, and said, the ther day, “1f Ionly were ina parlor, sur- +0 y, rounded by ladies and the mystical atmos- * whose spiritual, syut .. Snider’s method. a phere that pleasant parlors have, then I tould express myself more fittingly.” ‘MYSTICISM being the general subject of Mr. Alcott’s talks, he begins each conversation by read- ing extracts from tbe t_ mystics of the Re Jou the Evangelist, Plotinus, ehinen, and others,—prefacing his readings by brief biographical sketches, and following them by expositions of. the beauty and trum of Mysticism, which has its founda- tion deeper than the senses, deeper than the intellect, in the very core of man’s being. He makes Emerson a typical mystic, lig manner of speech is the true source of his power. In his view, the whole Transcendental movement is a phase of Mysticism. But his idea of Mysti- cism is “modified and . balanced " by constant insistance on Personality as the necessary starting-point in the search. for Truth, As he phrases it, ‘The true imrstie is not one who loses him- self in the Divine (that he ¢alis Pantheism), but one who finds himself there. He repre- sents the. “sickly dread of Anthropomgr- phism,” and seems to be returning in his old age Tron Unitarianisin to the Orthodox faith of his early years (he was bred an Episco- pahan). He says that no religion ever suc- ceeded with the mass of humanity hadn’t a Trinity in it. * Mr. Aleott’s lectures are usually brief, and are followed by interesting conversations, in which both students and faculty take part. The other lecturers are more formal in their delivery, and some of them take so lurge a portion of the two hours allotted to each ses- Stor that there is little time left for discus- jon. g PROF. HARRIS? LECTURES draw the largest audiences thus far. They are very fascinating to the lover of abstract speculations, but they areso abtruse that it is exceedingly dificult to give anything like acondensed suinmary. The lecturer is a inan of marvelous philosophic erudition, and at the same time he warms and colors his Jearning and his abstract thought by the fire of enthusiasm. ‘To a_ metaphysical reader his system might be defined as a com- pound of the Logical method of Aristotle, the Transcendentalism of Kant, the Psychol- gay of Fichte, and .the Dinlectic of Tlegel. eis utterly opposed to Spencer and Mill, and is fond of ‘calling then: “ Nominalists,” making the Idealist the true Kealist., His re- maining lectures are on the History of: Phil- osophy. - DR. JONES’ LECTURES: . are popular, even with those who adinit they cannot understand them. He appears to have completely won the hearts of the fair. sex. His subject is Plato, and he seems to have absorbed the ideas of the great Greek without the ustial modern modifications. He believes (with Mr. Alcott) in preéxistence, and holds there can be no intelligent hope of immortality if this dovirine of Plato be un- true: whathas a beginning in time must have an end in time.. The Doctor’s keynote is, that the Soul alone is true substance, and the Material Universe is merely ephem- eral and phenominal: the Soul is the true entity, Matter a “ non-entity.”* THE REV. W. 1, CHANNING, of London, has finished his course on “His- torical Mysticism.” He-is a profound Ori- enial scholar, and has 2 fine poetic tempera- ment anda pleasing end persuasive manner. His expositions of Buddhisin and Pessinism were particulariy able. Ile holds that Scho- pephauer and’ Von Wartmann, notwithstand- ing their professed Pessimism, are in many Tespects epiimistic in spite of themselves. rv. Channing is the father-h-law of Edwin Amold, the author of the “Light of Asia.” He is an Idealist, but shows more hospitality to other schools of thought than the other professors. Je criticises the management of the School for not inviting Prof. Join Fiske and other noted Realistic thinkers to dis- course here. He gives Hegel only a quali- fied support, and often speaks in terms of warm commendation of Spencer and Mill,— men whose names have been hitherté mainly to point an antithesis or adorn an anathema. - Mr, Emery (the member of the facuity who is known as the “ Director,” and acts as Chairman of the meetings) agrees with Mr. Channing that Matter should have a fair chance in the School of Philosophy, and inti- mates that a reform in that direction will be inaugurated nextsummer, THE LECTURES ON SHAKSPEARE, by Mr. D. J. Suider, have been completed. His method of studying Shakspeare has met with great success in the schools of St. Louis, according to Prof. Harris. However this may be, it 1s doubtful if the adult reader of Shakspeare will get much help from Mr. ™, Breat poet must also 2 great hilosopher, jand that Shakespeare wrote his’ best hays x yon a philosophically-conceived and ethical a) iy THE BEAUTIFOL AND SUBLIME are tobe discoursed of by Dr. J.'S. Kidney, who has already given an excellent opentii deorures Mrs John Ajbee has talked poetic- e ony rf ys rather than philosophically, of “The THE WESTERN ELEMENT In the School is perhaps not so marked as last year. More are coming from New York and New England as the School progresses. , In the ranks of the faculty, however, the star is still moving Westward. Harris and Snider come from St. Louis, Dr. Kidney from Minnesota, and Dr. Jones and Mr. Emery fom ailnbis (from Jacksonville and Quincy respectively). “Yesterday afternoon I felt a weariness of the Abstract and a longing for the Concrete, and knew no place to find {t more pictur- asquely displayed than at the POOR CHILDREN’S PICNIC at Lake Walden. arrival there I found the woods r with the happy voices of 1,250 children, brought here by 2 benevolent association in Boston. ‘These picnics occur avery week dut the hot. weather, and the sue lover of chi enjoys them almost as much as the juveniles themselves, Thev feed them well, and swing’ them, and give them paths and boat-rides to their hearts’ content. At jast they march to the train. in. double file io the music of the band, each little mite re- selving 3 pint of peanuts in a paper bag as a nemento. i The Chinese Professor of Harvard, Ko Kun Hua, was an interested spectator yesterday, uthough .it took several Pulicemen to keep dhe boys from twitching his pigtail, which tung down to his heels. He was gurgeously tttired in the finest of silks. I had the honor wf an -introduction, and found him talkin; pallee Sunes Melican man ue is cores 4 sed a great acquisition at Cambridge, though xe has only one pupil, and -he doesn’t belong w the college! 3 RB Y. ——— os ‘The New Kbedive. e peopie who have no pecuniary Perhaps most people w! no interest in Egypt are tired of hearmg about it, the year. being July and August. eighty-five of the documents were disposed of last week, but this number was fifteen more than were issued for the corresponding MARRLAGE-LICENSES. A Perceptiblo Falling Offin the Num- ber Issued—The List for Last Weck. The market for marriage-licenses is quict, there being but few sales, the dull season of Only week of 1879. Four candidates for matri- mony were 50 years of age and over, and four of the girls were under age. There were nine widows among the applicants, or about onein ten, The list is as follows: MONDAY. Residence. Desplaines. Canal. Sylvanus W. Moffatt £2. Mrs. Kitty Slarriott.$3 23. 38. 80, 28 Mrs. Mary Rappe.. Gaelt 4 } Joseph Higgins. 1 4 ipa L. Coultrop. . 6 t David Conger. Lillie Knapp. ‘Alfonse F. Lotz. | | Mary J. Lutehford. 7 Walnut, William H. Johnson.22., ke, UL {Mary McDermott...18....Lake, ll. + TUESDAY. {Bagel hn H. Dietz.. {qoret Punecebar. Leonora Chaenpa.. .20. § Osro J. Langworthy.21., 1 Flor. E. Archibald ..18. William P. Lundy. ‘Sarak Cotton... West onroe, mal. a 84 Cunal $Philio Schinitt.- 103 Market. 7 Sirs. C. Markwardt..20....Chicagu. ‘ F beling, 149 Milwaukee av. Matilda Lippe. 140 Milwaukee av. Philip Blum. 44 West Madison. Auna Maria Meng. . 623 West Madison, a WEDNESDAY. 23. Henry Kowfalt. Proviso, I. Dorothea Dow cero, TL” “he could not stop, “for'several. Bave been killed. % Indiana. .Litchteld, Wis. G Maria L. Oliver... Thomas F, Dvbert! 1S. M. Gooifeliow, Southwell S. Wutso Libbie Ferrusun. 23 Fredericka Pi John Wilken. Curolinu Dictrichs. THURSDAY, he. 2. Juban Tost. -Glencoe, NL Sophie Abren ‘Glencoo, UN. dames 8. Alan Chi Anna M, Williams... on i Helennz E, Carison ..22....! 4 Albert F. Lamphear.26...-Chicago. Katharine Pritchurt It Cl J Henry: A. Kelly. Luey P. Hogun. Jobn C, Bughes.. -fouth Chicago, Mary Rowland. “216 Aberdeen. Louis W. Stabl, ‘Chicago. Mary Hass... 46 Howe, HLH. Sundering Catharine Rustman. | c) tongue playing with lightning rapidity from its open senate: te was ee such speed that but, exerting blineelf, he made a tremendous pepe and jumped biva in the air, and landed about fourteen feot over the moccasin, and, running a little farthor on, stopped to.soe what the two reptiles would do, He then found himself good pole, advanced upon the moceasin and killed it. but could fiad nothing of the hooped, horned serpent that had chased him’ sontor ve pelleve, ie aia not ty very much to. fin t_ serpent, but learn they ure Very numerous in that neighborhood, OUR SOCIETY. . CHICAGO. : $ MATRIMONIAL, ‘The marriage of Miss Adelaide Crary Bos- tock, granddaughter of O. A. Crary, Esq., to. Dr. Harry Brown, wassolemnized Wednesday evening at the residence of the bride’s grand- father, No. 357 West Monroe street. The wedding was strictly private, being witnessed only by the family of the bride. Dr. and Mrs. Brown are “at home” to their friends at No, 405 West Washington street. A quiet wedding took place yesterday aft- ternoon at the residence of Mr. W. B. Howe, on Rosemerkle street, Englewood. The con- tractwg parties were Mr.J. W. Reed and Miss Alice Brownlee, The ceremony was per- formed by the Rev. Walter Forsythe, of the Presbyterian Church, of Englewood, in the presence of a few personal friends. The happy couple go immediately to housekeep- ing on North State street. The marriage of Miss Mary O’Conor and Mr, M. J. Geraghty was celebrated Thursday at the Church of the Holy Family. The Rev. Father Oakley officiated, assisted by Father Cughlin as deacon, and Mr. J. O'Conor, brother of the bride, as sub-deacon. After the ceremony and the subsequent reception ie bride and groom left on a Northern bri- al tour, A quiet but very pleasant wedding took place at the residence, of the bride’s brother, Mr. F..S. Oliver, No. 49 Twenty-secon: street, Wednesday evening. ‘The parties to the contract were Migs Maria L. Oliver and Mr. George 1LSouthard,both of Fond du Lac, Wis. The Rey. Brooke Herford officiated. After receiving the congratulations of the family and the few intimate friends present, fhe happy couple left Chicago for their new ome. The marriage of William Leeper, of Chi- cago, to Miss Maggie Biddle, of the same place, took places at ‘Trinity Episcopal Church, at Niles, Mich., at half-past 10 o’clock Thursday morning, in the preseice of a large number of frionds. The ceremony was performed by the Rev, Colin C. ‘Tate, Rector. -'The attendants were Miss Bueck- ling, of Michigan City, Ind.; Miss Harring- ton, of South Bend; Mr. Johnson, of Chica- go; and Mr, Warrington, of South Bend. ‘The happy pair left at 1 o’clock for an ex- tended tour through the West. Avery interesting matrimonial_event ce- curred last Tuesday evening at sl West Yan Buren, the residence of Airs. Geary, widow of the late Gustavus Geary, the well-known ssor in music, whose eldest daughter, Miss Mollie Elen, was married to Mr. E. B. Smith, of the dry-gouds department of O. R. Keith & Co. Bishop Fallows, of the Reforined Episcopal Church, performed the cere- mony. After the usual congratulations there was music, both. vocal and in- strumental, and the usual social inter- course. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Smith left on the Peerless tor a trip around the lakes, They will be absent about two weeks. The presents were numerous and elegant. Mr. and Mrs, Smith will reside at Englewood,and on their return will be pleased to weet their friends at their home, Among the guests present at the wedding were Mrs, and Miss Louise Geary, mother, and: sister to the bride, Bishop Fallows, Mr. and Mrs. Russell and sister, Mr. and Mrs. W.-C, Me- Clure, Mrs. and Master St. John, Mrs. Rea, Mrs. Mullen, Mr. Carrel Becker, Mr. Schnert- buni, and others. Miss Nettie F. Woodford, of Edgefield, Tenn., and Mr..C. N. Dietz, of this city, were wmarried July 2Lat Edgefield. ‘They returned to Chicago at once and will take up their residence here. Miss Jennie E. Dickinson, of the WestSide, and Mr. William Thompson were married Monday evening at Aurora by the Rey. Dr. Benvdict, of ‘Trinity Episcopal Church, The wedding of Miss Anna A. Johnson, daughter of Sirs. W. Johnson, and Mr. Wil-- son H. Stubbings, of this city, will take place ‘Thursday evening at 7 o’clock in the Ada Street Methodist Episcopal Church. A re- ceptions will follow at No. 402 West Randolph street = SOCIAL NOTES. The Rey. C. Perrin, pastor of the Western. Avenue Bapiiss Church, starts for the East on his vacation early next week, and Thurs- day evening a large niunber-of the members of his church met at his residence on West- ern ayenue to bid him goou-by, and to pre- sent him, as a token of their estcem, with a eau of money to help defray the expenses of e trip. Last Monday evening 2 party of North Side young people chartered the Palmer House stage and drove through South Park to Kenwoud, where they were gracefully en- tertained by Miss Chappell. A very large weddisy reception was given last Monday by Mrs. I. Barnard, of No. 284 ren ayenue, to Dr. and Mrs. Joseph ayen, née Barnard, A number of very handsome presents were given, Mr. and Mrs. Haven left at 10 p,m. for an extended tour, and will make Madison their home. Mr. P. J. Sexton and bride will arrive in this city. from Europe ‘on the 9th inst., and will be tendered a reception at the family residence on Michigan avenue on the 12th, PERSONAL. Mr, and Mrs, Menty Sed home from New York. > Mr. and Mrs. John E. MeWade, nGe Somers, have returned from their bridal trip. = ns haye returned 32,...Chicago, Ti Chicugo, -690 South Canat. -99 Fourteenth, Englewood, lll. Englewood, Tl, 60 South Wells. fipnegn C. Klich. Mrs. Juliana Kran § GunderO. Rynning. { Mrs. Annie Picree.. Mennekaunee, Wis, Patrick Callahan 47 North Murket. Birs. Melissa Meripo.26, ...247 North Market, Thomas Morun 26.:..Toledo, O. Mary Gillesb: ---Toledo, O, 25... 2230 Wentworth ay. Mary L. Schneider. .18...:Chicago, SATURDAY. “Waclay Kozak. 23....98 Fisk. Annie Kric. 27 West Nineteenth, Frank Riehl. .Chicago, Mary Heinold, Chicago. -Haommond, Ind, hicago. 883 Elston av. -249 Elston av. Mary Jepinsk § Adolph Paulson! { Mulinda Aske. Michael Corrigan. Anna Conno Bernhard Not Aurora, TIL Naperville, Dl, ‘Chased By a Snake. Americus (Ga.) Revublican, On Wednesday last as Wash Bradford, son of Mr. William Bradford, Overseer of tho County at Sumter, was returning..home from school, ‘he obse1 a horned snake, which, upon. seeing the young man, doubled itself, caught Its tail near the hora in its mouth, an gave chase to him. Having nothing to defend himself with, Bradford took to his heels, the snake route houp-fashion after him.’ He reached ‘a pine tree and dodged béebind it. ‘The snake coming. up Joused its mouth-hold and struck arounc the tree. Bradford, see- ing the snake understood the situation, started on the run aguin,-the snake proimpti; following. Arriving at another tree he doded behind that, but the snake tricd-to strike him around the tree a3’ soon as it wrrived. The young man, then thoroughiy alarmed, started off again at a tremendous pace, the snake in pursuit. Fearlentspeed to his feet, but on look- ing back he saw the rollmg reptile closing upon him. He ran this time nearly 200 yards, when, horror! right in his path was a coiled moccasin, with head erect, glistening, and its forked Mr. and Mrs. H. Cutler, née Goodridge, of Kansas City, have returned home after a short visit here. és Mr. John Ward, of Kalamazoo, Mich., has taken up his residence in this city. Alr. George S. Willits, of this city, left last evening for a trip around the lakes. He will stop at Detroit, and will visit his home in Monroe, Mich, Mr, and Alrs. Joseph Horner are at the Pis- eataqua House, Geneva Lake. ‘The Rev, Henry T. Miller, accompanied by the Rev. J. K. Fowler, of Roektord, will leave for Westminster Park, Thousand Aslands, to-morrow. Mr. and Mrs: J. M. Fort and Mr. and Mrs. E. G, Hardenbrook-will leave Tuesday morn- ing for Kilbouri@City and the Delis of Wis- consin, to be gone about two weeks. ‘The Misses Henrietta and Sarah’ Freeber- eer left for Highland Park, LL, last ‘tues- ay. . Mrs. C.L. Smith and daughters, accom- paxied: by Mrs. Louis Stern, left for Lake Bluif last week, where they will spend the summer in their cottage. 7 Mr. L. W. Millington, of Englewood, has gone on a business trip, and will be absent tour weeks, ‘ Mrs. Willian Kancher, of Englewood, will aeturn to her home in Oregon, Mo., Tuesday. Aly. Fred L. Kimine and family, of E: glewood, have returned from Neenah, Wis. Mr. F.'W. Jones and family, L. W. Hamill and faiily, and the Misses Nichols and Will- inns, all of Englewood, have returned from a “camping-out” of three weeks twelve miles from Traverse City, Mich. Mrs. L. D. Lateer started East Friday, ac- companied by her son, Lewis, and saugnber, Miss Ella Willden. She goes direst to Brook- dyn to visit her brother, from thence, in com- pany with his family, she will _visit ail the principal watering-places of the East. iss Mary Avery, of the North Side, has gone to Geneva Lake. Mr. Aibert Schultz starts for a trip through Wisconsin to-day. . Miss: Catherine M, Gubbage, of St. Louis, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. S. K, Wilson, 454 West Taylor street. Witla H. Peck, Esq. and dqughter left Friday evening for the Thousand Islands and White Mountains, They will return in Sep- tember. ge Witliam C:-Ives, Esq., and wife returned from a visit to tern friends yesterday morning. They have been absent about three weeks, |: ‘ Dr. C. W. Earle returned from a ten days’ { trip West Friday night. Ars. IL. C.. Riordan, Miss Anna_ Riordan Miss Gean Matteson, Miss Julia Ross, and Miss Maud E. Gray left on the City of Fre- aout lust Friday evening for the Upper kes, Aliss Gracie Miller, of Drexel boulevard, is spending the summer in the mountains near Altoona, Pa. 3 rand George W. Brandt and chil- dren left Wednesday for a six-weeks’ trip to Geriand, Deer Park, and the mountains of Mr. and Mrs, C. F. Gunther are vi-iting the Pacific Coast,. California, Oregon, and \Wash- Geyscts, Late Talos, Wise’ Chee and iss Columbla River. et 2 fc bae ue Mrs. J. M. Davis and her little daughter “ville, is visiting Sarah are spending the heated term with | Mrs. Davis’ sister, Mrs, William Black, at the home of Mrs, Black, in Harrisville, Pa. The Misses Sadie and Sue Afyers and Lizzie Filson are visiting Aliss Cheever at Ottawa. Miss Mary Murphy, of La Grange, left Wednesday for Colorado. She will be gone three months. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon B. Hutchinson and Miss Emma were among the passengers Tuesday evening on the steamer Fountain -City fora trip around the lakes and to East-_ ern points. . Mrs. D. Reardon and daughter, the Misses Kittle and Allie, of No. 213 Vernon avenue, and niece, Miss Dillie Gaskin, left Thursday for a trip to the East, _ ‘Miss Girard, of New-York, left for Geneva Lake Tuesday in company with Mr. Amos L, Avery and Mr. Baty, the artist. Miss May Rounds.and her brother, Char- Jie, lett Thursday for Wingara Falls. Mr, and Mrs, T. H. Sheppard and Miss Jennié Piper, of No. 3102 Forest avenue, Billo have een doing the lakes, returned last evening. ° ‘ Mrs. D. Harry Hammer and daughter are spending a few weeks at Geneva Lake. + Miss L. Wursberry left for Cincinnatl! Jast week, to remain a fortnight, Miss Ella McEvoy,.of Buffalo, is visiting her cousin, Miss Mary Boss, at 232 Irving lace. : Piss Sallie Birkenwald, of Milwaukee, Is stopping with Mr. L Heller, of No, 134 Ehn street! J.S. Page and family are summermg at Geneva Luke. Vic Page leaves this week for the West, Charles De Coy starts for Lake Zurich this eek, Miss Fannie Tisdall, of Cedar Rapids, is yisiting her sister, Mrs. F- J. Richardson, of his city. ‘ The ‘Misses Mary and Grace Butler have been sisiting at Hinsdale, ; Bind De latheway und grandchild are at ipon, Wis. 5 3irs. Louis Falk left last Thursday for Mil- waukee, where she is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Col. Butterfield, on Grand avenue, Mr. and Mrs. Falk will go from there to Ocono- mowoe, and later to St. Paul; Minn. They Wilt Bs absent from Chicago about four weeks. ‘Mr. and Mrs. A. B, Pullman, Miss Allie Pullman, and Mr. and Mrs. Kt. W. Rathborne, dr., will spend a portion of the summer at Thousand Islands, Mr. J. V. Farwell has gone to Colorado to meet bis son, who has been taking a year’s tip round the world, and is now in Call- ‘fornia. ; Mr, and Mrs, A, Reamer left last week for an extended trip to New York, Saratoza, and Long. Branch, and will be absené about a month. Mr. George E. Marshal! has returried from a six weeks’ Jaunt through the Far West, having spent time at the Yellowstone Na- we -Honal Park. Mr. and Mrs. George Wright, nee Peckham, ‘eft last week for Manitou, Colo., where they will remain during the month of August. Mr. Charles W. Clingman'and Mr. John Sweetland have been at Geneva Lake for some days, guests at the Whiting House. : Mrs. Charles Eldred and family, of 1239 Allighigan avenue, are spending the summer atthe Whiting House, Geneva Lake. Ars, R. M. Hooley the Alisses Hooley, and Miss Anna Alston left Wednesday for St. Paul to spend several weeks. Mrs. S. L. Horn, of Des Moines, Ia., is vis- iting her daughter, Mrs. A. F. Swander, No, SLs Indiana avenue.’ . Miss Annie Douglass January, of Mays- ‘i f the family of Mr. Thomuson, No, 583 Division streat. : Mr. M. Thome ‘left for New York yester- day, e absent one week. Mr. J. Henry Gregory, of the Alliance, sailed yesterduy on the Devonia for a Euro- vedn tour. Mrs. C. A. Street and the Misses Nellie and dersleeve are visiting friends near Grace Gilde ve Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss Eluzia C, Fairchild, of No, 1317.Oak- wood boulevard, who has_been on a six Weeks’ visit to New York, Philadelpla, and Atlantic City, will visit several places in Michigan on her way home. ‘The Hon. §. H. Mallory, of Chariton, Ia., is at the Tremont: House, having just re- turned from a two-months’ trip to Europe. ‘The Rev. Dr. Gage, of Hartford, Ct, is the Peterson, of Lake View. George, of Mobile, is visiting Miss Lillie Breed, ot La Grange. . Miss Nellie Hodges left: Wednesday for Mokena, Ul., where she will remain for sev- eral weeks. | ee ¢ e Ea Hattie B. Lombard is spending the ur at Mount Desert, Orchard Beach, and other summer, fesorts. ‘She will return home the middie of September. Mr. Ed and Miss Doily Barlow have gone to Michigan to spend afew weeks. Mr. J. L. Morgenroth and wife and Mr. Geores Morgenroth and sister have gone to naw, -. s Bertha Wolf, Miss Celia Nelson, and Miss Flora Numan have gone up the lakes, SOCIETY TOPICS. bake There are few occasions on which a man feels at once so helpless and yet so responsi- Die as when he sits at his own table watch- ing a bad dinner being given to his guests. It nas been noticed in cities where ladies are employed as ushers in churches that the worshipers with new bonnets are all com- pelled to take back seats. According to Donn Piatt, Adam and Eve made the longest bridal-tour on record, They never got home again. - A young lady wrote to us saying: ‘Iam 27, and never had an offer of wnarriage; what are the men afraid of 2? We answered the Jady’s letter, and informed her that the young men were afraid that she might possibly have adesire to learn to play on a drum, and, as the young men were partial to piano music, we Sugwested that if she would inform then that she preterred. piano music to any ther, she might be able to win the affection of one ofthem. She took the advice, and is now married. Her husband bought the piano of Pelton, Pomeroy & Cross, No. . 150° State street. She is now happy.—Carl Pretzels National Weekly. Many house corsages are worn open at the throat in either Pompadour or heart shape. Laces embroidered with metals of all kinds will be among the novelties of the autumn. “Charles, dear,”she munnured, as they strolled along the other evening, and gazed upward at the bejeweled firmament, “which is Venus and which is Adonis?” The adoption by the most proutinent hotels and restaurants of. this city of Grant’s con densed coffee is the best proof obtainable of the superior excellence of this popular and strictly pure condensed liquid coitce. By its use one never fails having a perfect cup of coffee, as each cup is made fresh when or- dered. ‘The close investigation of-all hotel and restaurant proprietors is solicited. Office 50 Randolph street. ~ Putting, it Neatly—Said the little pet of the household ou her last birthda; It’s a love- jy doll, grandpa and. grandma; but ve been hoping-it would be twins.” Ladies’ custom-made shoes at low prices can be purchased from an accumulation of misfits at_Keller’s, Monroe street, Palmer House. He makes to order at short notice, and pleases the most fastidious. *. Lady: “ Four of the chairs which I so late- ly purchased of you are broken.” . Uphol- sterer: “Indeed, madame! The only way in which I can account for that is that some one must have been sitting on them.” Gold lace is much used for trimming hand- some costumes. ay ‘The styles in millinery that Dame Fashion decrees for early fall wear can be found at Hagedon’s, 42 and 44° Madison street, who is the first to show thei here. E _The Czar escaped being blown up by being late to dinner. Brose married men meet with a different fate. ‘ A paper softly says of adefaulter: “He admits a gap of $100 between himself and creditors.”? ‘The proprietor of the Gardner House is making extensive preparations for. visitors coming to the city to sec the Knights Tem- lar. Those who appreciate:comfort by the lake should-secure accommodations in time, ‘The secret‘of beauty is health. Those who desire to be beautiful should do all they can to restore their health if they have lost it, or to keep it if they have it yet. “Honesty is the best policy”; but too many people, says. Brown, claim that they. cannot afford the best of onsshiake Pree ‘The grand procession will pass the furni- ture store of -Wirts & Scholle, 222 Wabash avenue, about 11 a, m. Tuesday, Aug. 17. ‘The Empress of austria carries her hunt- ing tastes even into the decoration of her table. She has ordered in London a magnifi- .cent china service for breakfast, dinner, and. dessert, which is to be ornamented with hunting scenes, after designs by the best En- glish animal painters: Shurly, 103 Randolph st., near Dearborn, Jeads in fine watch-repairing. Those having fine watches should begoverned ene “A general air ot raggedness and of things forgotten-to-be-finished”? is said by an En- ‘lish paper to characterize a room furnished fh a Bohemian taste. Here in America there is a school of-taste, or lack of taste, that -plumes itself on living in rooms that are only half furnished, and points with pride to. its one rug and table and lack of chairs. Two. Cinciuvati brides, whose weddings took place at the same house the other day, wore dresses of sea-foam, silk, covered with white illusion and draped. gatisnua of roses, elderberries, and lilies-of-the-valley. Before laying in your winter’s cual decide on a Western Empire furnace, made by Hatch & Breeze, No. 50 State street. An unhappy marriage is like an electric- jnsching-=le makes one: datice, but-you can’t let go. * Handsome evening and dinner dresses are ornamented with ostrich plumes. __ Burnham’s waves are made of natural eurly hair only, and, never fall to please. 71 State street, Central Music-Hall: =, The late Businces College Convention in this city was a greut success. - Awitty Doctor of Divinity, eian had ordered him to live fo’ purely vegetable diet demurred on the ground that he “should not be able to say grace before meat.” 4 Ladies arranging costumes for the Masonic celebration will find new stylgs at Mile. Morse’s, 125 State street. a Asa general rule, we believe that an ap- proaching dinner party fs more jueeable to the hostess than to the host, ‘Tova woman there fs something pleasant in the fuss which precedes her entertainments. Highland ranges with duplex grate, Vi- enna coffee pots, Maryland biscuit makers, Tetrigerators, at ‘Harbeson’s, 88 North Clark. A bass drum well played can cover up the poor notes of the cornet players quite suc- cessfully. ‘This is why. the poorest brass bands have the loudest bass drum. Waves to conceal thin partings, waves to cover high foreheads, waves which defy de- tection. at Fetherly’s, 189 Wabash ave. A village poet recently lost a lot of orig- inal verses while crossing a rye-field, and in ten minutes over a thousand army womns waited on a neighboring farmer ina body and asked where he kept his Paris-green, Dress linings cut and fitted free of charge one week, under Gardner House. | An ordinary woman’s waistls thirty inches around. An ordinary man’s arm is thirty inches long. How admirable are thy works, O Nature! Can’t beat Lovejoy’s figures for frames, framing, photos, views, etc. 88 State street, up-stairs. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. whose physi- ra time on Transplanting. + ‘To the Egitor of The Chicago Tribune. Cnicago, July 28.—Will you kindly inform your readers as to the result of tho * trans- planting” operation at the County Hospital which appeured in Tue Trimuxe of July 3, I think. bave been watching THe Tripuxe closely for a week for an uccount of it, but think Bolking has been gaid. You will oblige youre ruly, F z [it failed, as was stated a week or more ago.] Excessive Sleepiness. bo the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Catcago, July 29.—I am a young man having tauch to learn, but very little time In which to learn it, being engaged all day in business, and in the evening cannot study or read because I am quickly overpowered with sleepiness. This drowsiness is not from loss of sleep or rest at night, for besides that tuken in the evening I scarcely ever miss my regular eight hours nlght- ly. It is a constant source of regret to be wast- ing evening after evening in such an unprofit- able way. To be sure sleep itgelf is pleasant, and does no oue any harm, but #hen it occupies valuable time which should be devoted to culti- vating the mind jt is the means of preventing a great deal of good. I have no doubt there are thousands of your readers who are afflicted tn a similar manner and who would gladly overcome itif possible. Now, who can suggest a pleasant, convenient, and harmless remedy? Will some one express himself or herself on this subject through Tue TRipuNe? M. E. >, For Irishmen to Read. | To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cmeaco, July 29.—As an Irish-American I take the liberty of addressing you, knowing well the bold and manly course you and your valua- bie paper pursued last winter and spring during the dark days when famine, devastation, and tyranny threatened my native country. Then came the hour to try men’s hearts and souls. I would ask you, sir, who came to the assistance of | our starving people? Was it not the Hon. Andrew Shuman? Yes, be bud courage and manhood to preside at McCormick's Hall where thousands had gathered to lend a helping hand to these suffering people; when words of help and e& couragewent were needed. Who presided and received Mr, Purnell on bis arrival in this city to. attend our grand Exposition ovation? Was it nots. M. Cullom, the Governor of our great State of Uinois? These are what I call trueand noble Aincricans who are not afraid to displease the English Government by their presence on such an ‘occasion, These are-the ones relied upon when aid is needed. Acts like this should never be forgotten by. any lrish- American, and I sincerely bupe that it will never fali to the lot of an Irishman to be charged with ingratitude, or forget that chnracteristic of our ruce. This 4s mutter which will be closely watched by the entire American people, and more especially by Irishmen in their native country. I can speak for myself and a great many of my countrymen who can ktand and. speak their sentiments bold- ly, and who would laugh to scorn the displeasure of the English Government. We will show our pretended friends when they call on us, such men as Lyman Trunsbull and Carter A. Harri- gon, who sre afraid to incur the dicpleasure of the English Government, when they ueed the assist- ance of Irishmen, they will be left behind. Who will support them then? A few buzzards who pick the scanty crumbs around the rookery of the eagle, aud, like. the buzzards, be used as mere tools to destroy the garbage until election isover, Iremuin, sir, your humble servant, Jous W. CaRroLm Douglas Park. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Carcaco, July 31.—One of the finest sylvan spo%s in Chicago {3 Douglas Park, which isa re- sort much frequented by the residents of the West Side, who seek its shade, on Sundays espe- cially, in order to get one day’s rest from the din and bustle of the great city. Last Sunday the park was crowded with many of our- best citizens, who - were inclined thither for recreation and rest, They were grievously disappointed by reason of an existing nuisance—to-wit: the continual ding-dong of tho bell at the boat-house calling “time” on the pleasure-boats out on the miniuture Iake. This bell keeps up 2 continual racket for hours at a time, and is a source of much annoyance to the park visitors, who are startled into the belief that an alarm of fire is sounding, and instunuy haut out their fire-alurm cards. Others imagine they are bridged, and rush frantically forward togetoverthe obstruction, und are only re- minded of their errur when they have worn themselves out by their exertion. You know the average Chicagoan pricks up his ears at the tintinnabulations of a bell. So much has this been noticed, thut a New-Yorker once suid you could always tell a Chicagoan in a strange city because he jnvurlably started on a brisk run every time a milk-bell rang. Why could not this nulsnnce be dispensed with? Why not fire @ cannon to cull in tbe boat-riders? Or fire off signul-rockets, thus combin- ing pleasure und business, and give a pyro- technic display for the benelit of everybody? Or, why not huve cables attached toeach buat -from the wharf, so that they could be easily pulled in? Somebody should suggest some way “out of the ditiiculty befure the better class of visitors tothe park are driven -away to seek their needed rest. neur some doller-factory. I am giad tosee you advocate the extension of the Twelfth-strect carline to the Park entrance. This would be a great convenience, and one ap- preciated by the muny thousand’ people who visit Dougins Park, Why cannot we have park- concerts at Douglas Purir like those instituted. on the South Side? This I consideran absolute necessity iu view of the horrible discord pro- duced by the “ tuoters” at the grove adjacent, which causes those who are compelled to near it to wish they had never been born, ~ Now, Mr. Editor, if something can be done to- wards remedying the compluint above ulluded to, ali will yet be well. Please give space in the “ Growlers’ Columu” for this wail, and obligo “ONE OF Tags.” Consolidated Charities. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cricaco, July 30.—I read with some interest in last Sunday's TrrpusE the article headed “Consolidated Charities." The writer speaks of the consolidation of the orphans’ asylums, the Hospital for Women and Children, -and the Foundings’ Home, also the Workingwoman's Industrial Homes, one of each being all sufficient if well managed. Iagree with the writer in the above, and would say us ono of the oficial mem- bers of the Workingwoman’'s Industrial Home organization, focated at 216 Fulton street, Chi- cago, that we stand ready to consolidate with the others, providing their by-laws do not ex- clude servant-girls, poor mothers destitute and burdened by helpless little children, and women and cHildren of ull claszes, whether of the genule or not, who are utterly destitute of means to advance on What does the word charity convey? Does it not upply to all destitute objects rather than to those who can show good credentials, wear good clothes, and advance their board? Charity should be extended to the little waifs who live upon our streets, and in tocalities where crime and poverty form the rule, not the exception. and if we cannot get the children } with@at the mothers, take the mothers also. At the carly age of 17 yeard I engaged as a teacher in the Industrial founded at Rochester, N.Y.,in the year 189.. Lengaged in the work with nil the enthusiusm of a true philanthropist, ayoung and Christian heart. The children dic not lodge in the institution at.the time. 1, hav- ing a Subbath-school class. would visit the homes of many of my pupila Surday morning for the purpose of getting the children into Sunday- school, and it was during some of these visits that I got the first glimpse of the dark and gloomy side of life. It was at early age that I first conceived the idea of snatching these poor women and children 7rom the jaws of bru- tality, drunkenness, and the darkest of crimes, It was thore that I first sawcrime born and noprished in these so-called homes, or properly lens of vice. ‘There are some, nv doubt, who would be suf- ficiently exacting to expeot charity to establish an institution to meet their especial wants; but I believe that one charitable Institution in the way of e workingwoman’s home should ineet the needs of all charitable objects in the way of women ana children, und that those who are too gentle to mingle with other objects of charity, and adapt themselves to the accommo- dations which churity bas to offer them, should not throw themselves upun charity. AS. Does Cook County Need Any More Judges? To the Editor of Ths Chicago Tribune. Cmroaco, July 8.—Whoever think that the number of Judges in-Cook County should be enlarged ought to be able to give some good reason for it, otherwise it will be imposing a ‘useless burden of expense upon the people and an unnecessary loadof labor upon the lawyers. Under the provisions of the Constitution of 1570 a population of 600,000 in the county authurizes the addition of four mare’ Judxes in the Circuit and Supérior Courts, thus making twelve Judgea in those two Courts. But this is permissive, not imperative; and no such facrease of the Judicial force is naw demanded for the parpose of doing all the business required. There is now no pressure of business in the courts. The condi- vion of things in tl respect bas been materially changed within the inst few yeurs. buut 8,000 of the idols of fortune and victims of. misfortune in this Northern District of Wlinois, have found an asylum in the bunkrupt court, and more than nine-venths of these are from Vook County. The jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace hus also en extended to include claims of $200. The commercial and industrial interests of the coun~ try rests upon a more substantial basis, The fruits of resumption are manifest In the resto- ration of contidence and the diminished rates of interest ullowed. Credit is seldom granted to unworthy applicants. Titles have become more settled, ond ull classes of busiuess are now con- ducted upona sufe and more sutisfactory basis. ‘These are some of the cuuses that have operated to luce the change. But every attorney knows too well that there has been a very great decline in the amount of legul business within the lust few years. In proof of which, observe the following tigures:, ‘The whole number of new cases, including common-law and chancery, together with ap- Peals from Justices’ Courts entered in the Cir- cuit and Superior Courts of Cook County, were, for the years named, as follows: bo : 11453 ; ly G1... From these figuresit readily sppears has been o gradual and constant decrease in the Yolume of cases brought into the Courts since the year 1874, until during the past year the number of cases hus been only one-half of those brought for that year; and the uumber is rupid- jy diminishing. e Judges are. now well up with their dockets. The work in the Clerks’ of- fices is comparutively ight. And any increase in the number of Judges, under these circum- Stances, is not demanded, except for orna- mental purposes and a more general distribu- Uon of titles. The labor and difficulty of managing cases in court must be materially increased in propor- tion as the same work becomes distributed umong a greater number of Judges. An attor- ney having cases in these Courts now is linble to be reguired to attend, at the same hour or min- ute, in any two, or even ail, of the eight ditfer- ent rooms assigned to the several Judges; and the embarrassment consequent. is sometimes very great. Cases that are called for trial in the dilferent rooms are even now often passed, and the witnesses in attendance detained, with noth- ing to do, or else sent home to be again sum- moned, by reason of the ongagement of the counsel before another Judge. This trouble and interruption must necessarily be increased with tha increased number of Judges. . Iu addition to this,the expense of each new Judge for bis salary, with the pay of bis Builiffs, Clerks, and necessary attendants, together with furnishing and keeping the rooms in urder, can- not well be less than $15,W0 annuelly, or about £60,000 in all for the four Judges proposed. Let this further burden be avoided, unless the public service shall Seem to require it. And beforeany stepsaretaken toward bringing such an infic- tion upon Cook County, the scheme should be arrested in its inception. HT. STEELE, Horse-Railway Competition. To the Editor of Ths Chicago Tribune. Curcaco, July 31.—At the present writing the Chicago West Division Railway extends its lines from the busines portion of the South Division across the river at Randolph, Madison, and Van Burenstreets, al three of which itoccupies,wholly or in part, as wel as Twelfth, Clinton, Jefferson, Hulsted, and Indiana streets, and Milwaukee, Blue island, Chicago, North Western, and Canal~ port avenues. Thus it monopolizes nearly every availuble route between the two divisions of the city. Now it is seeking to secure another,—about: the only one remuining,—and gain acces to the South Side via Leke street, notwithstanding an- ‘| other corporation—the Metropolitan—holds the right-of-way on West Lake. To this énd it is employing its emissaries in ul directions who intrude themselves into every caucus and com- mittee-room, professing great lov for the peo- ways comes in the event is the nearest islets Weert tense curiosity on the Subject oz = flying straight into the tame. Butitg any means indifferent to other sub} as Ugaton. If, for instance, your to bein the line of Ughts gently on tho tip of ip U8 We intently, tickles Jt with iff ge fate thy ae by the “insects hee body, and curls its tail roung nostril with an air of curiosity equa “that of an original Yankeo at his peer Or it rests on the lobe of tie ear qe Stat, guisitively into the cavernous den’ Pee fice. Or it drops on the eyebrow soyoe He on your opfie quizzically, aa if decane ewan ay acquaintance, It none of ee meet habits of the mosquito. Tee noc wiggeestre ever atrikes back. . It sticks ta yiulietive: car, or eyebrow until objection 33 our is manifested. _ But hint that vn wove on” by nervously brushing tees ta Strulgbtway, taking a bee-line yom tidit let or another man’s nose. ‘The buen lnke-tly to Mgnt is on another man's pee? fore It has been objected to this remat that it is a tritle too familiar on shee ance: but the abjectar should. relies’ insect’s life is short, and that its cee fy atte nity, —t ; sun shines, aS it were. 0 UKe hay wells t it was reserved for the present season velop the esthetic qualities: ot the ~ By. Nobody imagined. until Sunagy? ce 83 Creature possessed: a pasion nee ie music, It buzzes nobody like the bumble. nor does it. whiz through. the air Uke the as nor sing In a bull tenor as it gues Ike ts dat ; ly mosquito, but, silently as the snow f, nestles 12 your band, of your hag Cust neck, and smiles and wrigyl les coquottianh Us adhesively sticks. It 13 a numerous {at guestal your “utes ah ba Fer. nok te ie open fir don’t hold them Ly Natu. are indebted to covery of this new trait.in ee tid ake-ty. Baum gavea sacred concest on te day night last, consisting of waltzes pay choice selections from Umtenbach, ‘The lowes sacred music gathered from all ‘quarters of tig city, paying a quarter cach for the Privile listening to nbecker’s excellent orehere. it was noted that Baum’s fuce wore a eur expression, waich was declared by ule one to be indicative of # surprise in store at The orchestra opened in - fog style; it was “ well balanced,” A Critic observe “and well in and,” he added. Beer tod freely,—that ig to say, tor five cents g glass — and the audience settled down comfortably the enjoyment of the solemn music. af 2 point the ‘ty made its appearance 10 the garden. Itcame silently, but. oumerousiy. “G Hoated about like a snowflake in the infiuivak” ral. It struck the mus-lght shades, and dropped | silently into the beer-muws. on ladies’ batgand | shawls, and ruffles. It lodged a EE the men like peanut-shells. It bu toons on all the -walls in the woigntee i gas-lights. It was evident that Raum had sh mitted the lake-tly free, since it gave no. to Bor hedy OF. anything. ie took suck entire possezsioh of the it the au Sembled sheaves .of. wheat. ee everybody's nose, and listeued, enraptured,’ the music. One indignant Dae ‘dewanier sce Buom, and when that distinguished mat appeared on the ground he was gravely requested ppt the lake- iy oor Beamiled, ana: shoulders, anc |, depreeatingly: « very fond of Rasenb i a tae brass instruments or the ponderous aoe or the grating double pass-viul It perched og the keys, the strings, and ventured itedeleam organisin under the descending drum-stick, sacriticing its hfe in its mad passion for the d- vine art. It enveloped the perfurniers untill 8 they were biddeu from view asin the foldsofs buge gauze vell; and when there was n0 longer a vacant spot left the insect hung itselfca the wall of the orchestra-stand like @ pies of rare tapestry. It seemed to ditine the leadership of Rosenbecker, for it settled ix gessamer-wings. Intent upon his score, the rit Twoso continued to saw. the alr with his batoo, ° ple and the warmest regard for their rights and wishes, while at the same time it snaps its, fingers in the facés of those who hay and make really just demands upon it. It would, by se- curing West Lake street from the bridg to Union Park, cut off al ehans for competition, and, octopus-like, hold the entire West Division of the city in its embrace. But this tf cannut do. It cannot obtain that right-of-way, and the citi- zens who ar endeavoring to assist in the effort ought to know it. Ata recent meeting of citizens on West Lake strect at Ben2’s Hallthe writer gave the first public information concerning the formation of a new and rival corporation for the building of horse-railways in’ the West Division. Some friends at that time exprest their doubts about the financial ability of the new corpora- tion, fea that it night be another of the mushroom concerns which hav been begun here for the sole purpose of “selling out.” 1 am able now to set their minds at rest upon this question. On inquiry at proper quarters, 1 find that the Peuple’s Company, as the cor- poration is styled, is ‘possest of the amplest pecuniary resources, able and willing not only to lay down its tracks upon its own Noes, but, if need be, to buy out the West Di- vision Railway Company: and all its franchise and uppurtenances, and pay cash down therefor. Among its stockhulders ar seyeral-of the weilthicst and most energetic -busines men of Chicago, backt up, if necessary, by immense resources from other cities. In other words, the People’s Company has come to stay. It asks nothiug of our citizens but the right of way in the streets,and, in return for that, wil givthem ample transportation facilities, as wel a5.a nec- essury and heltby competition. It carries the Metropolitan Company “under its wing,” as it wer, so that it may be able toobtain and hold the franchises which that Rormpany alredy holds; and thusit wil be the only Gompany which can hav or hold the right of way on Lake street from the bridg to Union Park. It proposes, I am assured, to Iny its tracks over that route to St. John’s place, and thenc on Fal- ton street to Central Park. Som of the members of the Central. Park Im- provement Club—of which institution I hav the honor to be one of the officers—ar endevoring, by a combination with the property-owners cast of Union Park, to induce or furce the West Divis- ion Railway Company to extend its track from Rockwell street to Centra! Park or the western. city-limits, Desirable a3 such an extension would be, nnd eminently just ag is the demand that itsnal be mude, ther is no hope, so far as Icun see, that it wil be obtained for severe) years to come. That corporation has amply demonstrated that it will do ubsolutely nothing for the accommodation of the people unles compelled todo so, or unics assured of enor- mous profits upon its investment. The Presi- dent, J. Russell Jones, has openly asserted that bis Company wil not, under any consideration, so extend its trucks; andno one wil doubt the sincerity of his declaration. In view of the fucts abov stated, it ought to be patent that the People’s Railway Company should receive every encouragement at the bands of the a pegple. It fs the only Compan: able to afford the necessary competition ‘vith the West Division Pompaby I hav not uot one dollar’s interest in the Peo- pe 's or any other railway company, and in this letter hav written only my sentiments as a clti- zen and taxpayer. H.R. B. _ Whe Lake-Fly and Music. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Carcaco, July 28.—Tho lake-fly is a hideous" looking insect which makes an annual sumwer visjt to Chicago, stays about a week, drops on the sidewalk under a gas-jet, and.dies.. The Jake-fly has a yellowish-white, neacfy transpar- ent, ribbed body, half to three-qnartersof an inch in length, and Jarge gossamer wings. When it iifes its wings make half revolutions at the rate of forty thousand’a minute, and when it strikes any object it sticks, wears a satisfied ex- pression of countenance, and wriggles its long, disgusting body with great apparent delight. The lake-fly has no business in Chicago. It eats nothing; it bites nobody; it bas uo sting; Having heard that this city is a famous summer resort it merely comes to see the place. and al- sucrificing numbers of the devoted Insect atesch. stroke, all unconscious of the special adoration of which be was the object until the close of the piece, when he put his hand to his heated brow and hastily removed it covered with the remains of his animated crown of glory. ate Late in the evening the point was made with Baum that the fly must be put out or the aude ence would leave. But the manager wus tr. He insisted, to use @ political expresston, that hs would curry his sovereignty under his own ia, that the extent of the “free list” at bis placa of entertainment was a matter exclusively ux | showers on his head. forming about its hiloet | | | der.his control, that be bud. admitted the lake dy free, and-that he would not—no. never—tis honor bimself by excluding it in the middle of + the performance. This euded all eZorts ats compromise, and the audience revensed itself by putting on its hat covered with the insecl leaving Buum and Rosenbecker to wrestle siz- gie-handed with so much of the insect a3 there was left, Lienert, ANALYZING SOS. - The Importance of Chemical Investie gations upon This Subject—Nutritive Properties, Ete. f Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Wasurxetox, D. C., July 9.—Prot. Col yer, the chemist of the Agricultural De- partment, says the recent Convention of agricultural chemists ‘held here’ completed its work in a satisfactory manner, and the result is one of greater importance tothe farmers than would be supposed from the statements thus far published. Owing toths various processes , pursued: by chemists in testing the nutritive properties of commercial fertilizers, no standard of excellence or, of market value which could be readily under stood -by, the farmers was known. Threé ingredients not usually found in ordinary lands are desirable as fertilizer—uamely? nitrogen, potash, and phosphoric acid. Yer tilizers placed upgi the market contld ~ these ingredients in varying quantities, som¢ which are highly recommended being eon paratively valuéless, and others being wort all and even more than the price ‘The Convention decided to use the method of analysis devised by Fredonius. and New bauer. For the determination of ee the chief iperphos- portion of phosphoric acid, which is element of value in the true su! phate fertilizer, they use the test, while forthe nitrogen either the gant metric er the volumetric test might be a> plied. A committee was appointed. to pre pare the details,of the agreement, and it was decided to propose at the next meeting of the American Association for the Advancemed of Science that a subscription of agricul! cheinistry be organized, in order that mate of this kind’ might receive more frequ consideration and the results be more widely diffused. Dr. Collyer believes that azz! ai ural chemists in all parts of the con es accept the test adopted by the Conven! the standard, ot REPENTANT. . For The Chteago Tribune, sea y Ihave sinned,and I bave auffered. Father. beat . my feeble ety! Long, ton; years my feet hare wandered whore story—I have ‘unholy’ pleasures lie. Thave sinned—Thou know’st my suffered fur that sin. ; At ‘Thy blessed altar bend I, praying, Make me pure within. God of Love, to Thee I humbly come, confessik Ev'ry eston al my blindness in the past—0 Gody ‘have dwelt mid scenes unhallowed, shannies Now T crave by seving meroy, Js inere—it there hope for me? Thave suffered by the mem'ry‘of mY ce I have suffered a in remembering ait toe. Loving eyes have wept—O. Father!—wept foF008 é Hope-w focke TP “gonl-wrecked.~ and forsalttte ed, ‘what is left me but to die? 3 Thave sinned, and t thaxe suffered; bat my sale : ‘u yo. will e: “ Life sath nowt more to offer—it denies 2* x fend. 5 Happiness 0b more shall bless me—Love's sm: flowers for die ne’er bloom. Fi , of” T ask only reat—sweet resi—, nen Cad the tomb. _ - OWEN MM. WiLs0%. 2 fi Whs: ‘ i?, ¢does @lenn’s Sulphur Soap sell so welll, Bovause it makes the akinclear. ‘Rvoid eounter, ater, | relts, —— HAIR Sore or tah ra CURLY =: gall shades. We never: The BERNHARDT WAVE is surpassed. {ail ofmatehiag. E. BURNHAM, TH Siace-sh (Ceucral Mas-lialh, A | A