Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1880, Page 12

12 THE HO) A Rather Gloomy View of Life Taken by Chat, Forty Years Discourses Learnedly Con- corning Unselfishness. One Young Lady Who Hos Oorrect Idens Regarding Amatonr Poots, The Story of a Summer Jqunt tn Virginia as Told by One of the Participants. Friendshlp Phitosophtcally Disenssed by Bta Deta Pi and Cawk—Other Communications. UNANSWERED. DY Bde Me Por The Chicago Tribune, Isat upon tho terraco sndly thinking, A little bluc-eyed chill upon my knoe, + And somchow, whiletho distant stars were blinks ing, Ithink she aald tome: - “Papa, will wo have playthings up in Hoaven, And will our toys bo made of shining gold?” Aailiy question—sho wns only seven, And Iwas wise and ofd. “Who Ughts tho moon, and keops italways burns ing? T don't bollevo {t's only mndo of cheeso; Porhaps it is—but thon who docs the churning? Do tell me, papa, please, + “Aro stars the little tacks just peeping under "Tho lovely earpot of God's parlor floor? Would angels... iko toplay . « « with mo, I wonder?"* Bho slept—I heard ‘no moro. And soon sho dicd—sbo passed from mo for- ‘That littio girt who sat upon my kno Now I havo allly qnostions 1 would a }) Will sho answer me? RATHER GLOOMY. CHATS LETTEHI. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Bosconet, Wis, Aug. 2—And what is the mysterious thing wo call life? Haro you not read of a chamber of torture of old where the unfortunate prigoner was placed and left to dic? Can you not rec tho trembling Victim with ashen lips and dilated cya gazing ‘upon tho massive walls tbat slowly but surely advance to meet each othor,—so slowly that thelr movement is imperceptible, and yot tho poor wretch knows by thu narrowing space that tticy do move? . How ho screams for help! Tow in the agony of desperation ho throws hia help- Jess hands ngninst tho great dirk walls, wildly Rhouts In tho awful stillness, Go bnok, O watts, Ro back!” Ifow pitconsly ho begs the nid of his Jatlers, ond with w fulth that closing walls, or. digony, or death cannot weaken he implores tho merey of his Goi,—a Goll who never yet ‘snatched one martyr frum tho flames, unburred = tho | dungeon of starvation, or turned ostdo tho glittering — axy— hut neithor God nor captor lenrs or heeds him, and slowly tho walls ndvauee, nearer her; und nearer they draw; thay toueh}thelr shudder- + dng, crouching’ victim; thoy press him closer; they clasp him intholr cold, binck arma, and amid the meeting crash of wills we hear a dy jng sob: then tho sides of that bloody chamber roll cally back, leaving uo Hfo in the darkness, aun in the world above the moonshine spurkies, thd laughing flowera toss thelr tragranee to the: breeze, and the starry aplendorof the night fs updimmed, Life is awaiting for tho walls of death and obtivionto close upon and crush us, und tho jays and hours are the sapes and pulleys whieh furco them together. And when will the crash como? Bhall we meet ft to-night, or will it come inthe morrow’s sunshine, or Is it faraway udown the pathway of the.advaneing yeora? No mit cin tell, and we know, whothar it comes with tho moments, tho weeks, or yours, come it must. to’ the rosy Infant, ‘tho Joyous girl, the brilliant youth, and to tho only tachongeable thing on earth 1 mother'e heart. Yes, [t 1s coming even now to childhood and age, to hope nud doubt, to love, to friend alilp, nnd to Ife,—tor life ia but a plaything in the hands of death, and he toys with it, mutt- Intea It, thon carelesty ensts it away. Whon Elizabeth ascended the throne of Russin, fearing the little Prince Ivan, sho gent to hive him arrested, and when her sterawarrtora ene tered his chumber thoy found him sweetly siecping; and, unconscious of his danger and the snd fatality that bad made him a Prince, he slumbered on. Aud quietly thoso soldiers stead with clanging weapons, hushed to stillness until tho child awoke, and with wondering eyes and outstretched dimpled hands gave a baby wol- coma to his destroyers, They bore him to Elizabeth, who played with, fondled, kissed him; then, with tears on her checks, gave bim 10 ber olcers and 4 perpetual dungeon, And, bow like baby Ivan we all nre! Tow wo pags slumbering through tho qufet little vatley of babyhood, the radiance and the hush of youti, until, on tho great border-Jinw of man and wom unhood, wo suddenly: awake to tho realities of Ufo and took with wondering but undaunted nyes upon amuition, success, and failure, sore Pow and love, diszruce und duapalr, thy walilters fate hns sent'to bind us with chins of gold nnd phains of fron; atid, unconselons na tho awaken= ing Lvan we reeogniza no dunger, we feel no fear; wo touch with confdenca the shining roves af hope, wo make friends with love, and joy,und laughter, and with the ruitencay of ‘youth Justle aside satl-cyed = ¢xp and, unknowing: their power, silo cnrelesly at dlserice and des spatr; but Jn tho and by and by thos come 1 hidden, if not into our” own thon Into the lives nf our friends; und through itall fate. even ts Elizabeth did, sinites und frowns and weeps over ‘us,—then resigns us to Death, who eonsigns 15, to’ that etornil dungeon, tho grave. Would that wo me tell Ble awakol Lifo fs na two inighty calms.—a yom thrown up on. tho waves of fling tor u moment, then, slukiny, Hes undisturbed forever more, "Pls a tnugh, moun, H emilo, & tenr, showy Joy 10 one, 1 Milter curse to another, a transitory gift to all, "is & buliny meadow or drenry desert, dirkencd over by the shadow of death that Hko n yuituro hovers ubove us; "tla a burial plnce where, weeplug vainly, we Iny all things sweet. and Precious; "tis ‘awaiting on the ehores Of death Tor tho sliding sands to sink us In the chill, Ktrangoe waters: ‘tis g gleam of ight between tho mysterious binekness of Before and Attor, and u Hittle tumult before 1 continuons silence. In life wo weep, and sigh, and strive for all things, and uro:sure of only one,—and tit is deuth. And whyehould wo dren and shrink from. the whly7thing that can give us what wo have nlwiys. striven and prayed for— Peace and rest? What could compensate us forthe paiiof tiving If itwasnot for tho knowlodgy that somo timo wo shull dio; for, after all, death ir friend and Ufo our enciny, in dying we trl . anid Wo ean sinile detance: ‘upon fute, for thore is victory und oxultation § the thought that wo shall die, Life huth no y tory Hka Deuth, that conqu migery and hun yer, crime and sin, eruel love, treuchormis clendship, the dovil of nmbition, and the bellot memory, and bestows with generous bund wilence and oblivion, Wo all nro bondimen, and yot wo huve tho power to freo ouracives, und, when temptation and sin, want, wo, and despair with oyerwbelnie Ing numbers press upon wy, we can dle conquers ing, for ‘tis buta step to the river, and, onco ‘there, it {s only a epring, 4 plunge, a rush of wa- ter, ono iittlo struggic, und eternal rest, We aro all slaves; und yotu yiitter of steels Nash of fre, u gus Of Lioud, aud We ure masters, tho wenry heart it f¥ sweet to renlize that somo tino wo shut io right d cold, that our folded bands shall never again be clasped in joy or despair, tn besceching or triumph; our ves. never weep any more, our cheek tush ur pa and our lips navor speuk or ours bear again the Ditter words wo can never reeall ar forget, ‘To know the Jove tht rorsook us In tte will weep ever tts when dend, and thon whon forgivences 1 4 mockery Itahall be freely. bestowed, and when wo no more long for or ned it the world will give us its pity, ‘Ya gio and be forgotten fs all we need desireor ank, and it fs ail] we will ever recelyet And yot, longing for und still shrinking from death, wo Uftour ares to tha morning star wad oak, "18 there a Godt” and vali but silently tho star shines on. We turn questioning toe thu glorious sunset that unreplylag changes to durk> hess: Wo whisper the piteous question to tho roses, And na they Haten tho leaves fado and fal; wo seck the yenveand aay, "Oh tomb, whero ts thy God?* and the clods fatting on tho. collin-Hd 18. the only reaponses and at last with: ptlifentug Hps wo tel tt of Death lmself, and all in valu, for tho night vometh, the death dew falleth, our eyes grow dim, our banda chi, and we div as wo have lyed—unanswered, © Guar, THIS UNSELFISIL SOUL, + CAN TANSWER TQ: DRIC-A-1ILAG, ‘Te the Editor of Tie Chicago Troune, GRAaNy Raving, Mich, July tL—If somo per- son OF Iiterury tastes, and prone to eweur by tho English writers of the clghteonth century, to tires u wholesomg surpriee, I think It might bo Sound fn puges nino, cleven, and twelve of to- day’s Tnrpuny, Firet—bow willing wo all aro to put her ut tho Seat of tho lsti—ls Fanny Driecoll’s exquisit poem, “An Enylo's Wing," which Is tne and strong cnough to honor uny stylus; then wu dolle vate, Treo-baud sketch by Lulu M.W,; 0 pas- wlon-rhymu by Kila Wheeler; a dash of dark destiny in Annette Kelsio’s * Futcd"; and ono mogt fellcitius stanza at tho head of “At Kyen- tidg"" in Tho Hoino; and all of them, mind you, are Were idlg-huuy, “given-away” articles, , Howers of pocey cast upon tho passing tide of ‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1880—TWELVE PAGS Newspaper print rolely because whence thoy canig were too full] Treally think the adinirer of middle English would be forced to ndmit that the elegant uso Inuguaye isn tar mare common nebievement now than it was a century rince. ‘ Ant The Home, that Nazareth of [Iterature, Onco inoro Mhiatrates tha wisdom of tho 2-yenr- on (gue fa the letter of Bittersweet, whieh would have been faultless had not the tender Heart of the poor child forcert hor to forego a cliinax for tho sake of kindly montion of her fellow-mortals, Fauldess? That fs na word for Be it bright and delightful a letter as Bit- Us Friondship,” ts it? And Silence Wordaworth, of Virden, treats us to a whimelenl. screed of contradiction, and Fern Leaf pours out ler soul in prates of tlow- ers and greenery, while my. youd evening Fy ar Mr. Hall, and Tinkle keep the beam oven ‘with Beund orthodox articles against tobacco, and in duvor of old maids and wonn's rights. Bless tholr dear erosr-cyed souls, all theeo!—Wher tho kind Hoatower of All Good mnsonied halt tho woes of life with tho gentle Virginian herb, and ‘tis the enddest thing of unuse and ill use thata maid should ever grow old a iuald, and a woman should over know a wrong! figh to think of sweet nnd gentle things abueed, and penalvely indéed [gaze upon the lve wrenth which floats trom my cigar, while t retlect that thera ure wamen whose sad lives havo been so nll astray that tho poor erentures hive turned against thetr Fates at Inst,and have raised thelr wenk hands and tholr piteous voices: in thelr own defenso, When Love {sno longer shick! and protection 100 woman, not towers nor moata, nor Ril the enginery of war, or subtlety of hw can over bring hippiness ta dwell with her again! Ant who shall chido the mean and cry of pain int comes fram a desolute womnn'’s heart? But itis to Brion Brac, that miyatle sybil, born of the profoundest depths of Gehenna aud loft! est pinnnele of Elysium, that I would speelally address myself inthis letter, Teould not for bear brief mention of those excellencies which 1 haye apeetticd, #0 well writ and wise wore thoy, but it fs with Hric-n-Hrne, sweet complement o! my fragmentary self, that I would fain havo Speech, itis i aweet and lovely tthe in woman to humbly ask Instruction and utdance, and doar Indeed 'to tho heart of inanis tho tnsk of enlight- ening tho secluded feminine intelligence which receptively awalts the effulgent rays of his own abounding wiedowt. Hrle-n-Hrac asks a lot of questions, and T stall anawer one or two of thein with great pleasure, Now, nowmat ean answor all of x woran's questions without drawing Inegoly sept image Jnuvion, especially Hf that woman he one of those Fouint Inquisitives who combing tortnre with ine terrogation in a manner to: make rack and thumbscrew mere trifles by comparison; hence, ag T have nover written a word in these coluinns which L ald not know ob my. own knowledge to bo. true, sure, and ‘certain. Tam foreed to pass ull of those preparatory Interrogative slaps-lnie theemouth which Brie-n-2rné so dellentely ad- tninisters to those of ‘The lume writers who are enptlons, narrow, and given to measuring social oceans 3) tho Hie pint enps of their own amall souls, and deal only with Dricen+Broo’s tings at Selfishness Brlo-n-Brao evidently consider selfishness an evil. . Jt fa not certain that human existenco is a pom and valuable thing. Adnutting the nobleness and worth of man, we i Ata Assume the noblencss and valuo of shines, Every dabbler in social science admits this, nul auailticn the, admission in proportion to his own vanity. Wehowledice and vanity abldo not: together; T have no vanity, and heice sce very clearly tint all soclety fs elmply tho creature and the fact of Bultishniess, Drondty, an uneelfiah deed ts impossibl c. ‘Hinposslblo to mun, and Imporaible to any God. within mn’s creation and knowledye. The Hebrew Elohim ja n model of fatnons Foltish ness and vanity, him wag ah curly creation, strong, rule, and uniinished. The Goi now forming in the creeds of Enrope and Amer- fen ts a misty and uncertaln creation, of vast. outline—Cuncy the outlines of Gor!—beenure tha Deity must Include AY, aot very uncertain contour, because oven the very boat of tho god. sass are not quite sure of what “The AN” really 18. A ‘And we smile in pity, at tho woolen gods of He pouty Sea Telonaces ied tho bruss deities of the Chinese—positively in pity’ Yes we fad wo sponle fae tha “Infinit grasp ‘of the Human Intellect,” and “The Boundiess Sympathier of the Iuman Heart,” metines these things yex ime, and somo- tines they muke me turn sick: more tines they make me curl my dolleately-chiseled Ips ina how of Ineffahlo scorn, Rut to selfishness, * The word is nota very old one. Our Saxon fathers did. very woll without 2 yood many we which nro often in tho mouths of thelr mutiny to-day, and “Selfish” and *Gener- o were two worls for which our sturdy fathers had no need. Wo owo “ecitish" to those fur-taa-zood Puritans, who considered it yery wrong for the Paplsts to burn tho suid Vurltans, and at the same time held it quite tho correct thing for Puritans to Imrn Quakera and witehes,— stigyeative coupling, Rico sure hover was nny sorceress quite KO mortally be- witching a8 2 pretty Quakeress, 17 or 18, all pink, White, and doye-cotor,—nh, me, the anures and Leguilements that: beset philoyophera such as Jnyself in this vain world! ‘And, white wo cantiot quite hold that tho idea expressed ve the mnixtern word “ geltishness"* 15 new to minkind, we can #eafely eny that itis anly recently that selfishness cnme to be held a very sin. I the day of Innvo and fortatlco and intlled right hand, tho gentle Knight took what. and held what he could, and there were words' rbout the rights of ad Christiut ohnrity, either, shins tho precise nintire of the Robber-Buronay bit the Puritan ban has ted 08 to A vurioty of polite fictlons, which pass eurrentamong the surface skiminers of social tho bands jot fact. Nut Tdld not Intend to plow od ground aftor thiy sort. BriceaeDrac. T wanted to tell you Just exactly why acif always war, Is, and must be the Jinst consideration with eneli of us, and why our own good must be our first desire, | Fivat aud just of all, wo have no idea ot any- thing beyond, ubove, or superlor to these curl ous und admiruble bodics of ours, Whether our ‘bodies belong to us, or wo belong to our bodies, and whether there 18 anything beside our bodics pf ns, fire questions whieh go for nothing. One broad fet remulnis—that the highest Hight of genius in art, rellgfon, or. invention has never reached beyond tho bly of man, Keliglol, demanded a Baylor, ‘The iusplration of tho Prophots could reach no higher Uatn (han a perfect man, who was tho Bon of God. And when was tho Son uniike tho Father?. 8o God is merely a man, more or Jegs humanly youd and wise, as the mind of the ial who thinks of Godda moro or less good and wiso, ‘Tho artist pictures an hoaventy angel, ‘That angel is aman oF a womnn, with a pale of wings 80 hirge thut an hundred times tho avernge human dorsal muscle would be needed to spread thems and this anatomical ahaurdity ja the highest reach of man’a Invention toward a su- perlor erento! ? was @ human thought which There never reached beyond the human bay. How, shall wo be wneclish, .when eelf §a tho inativye, the Imit, and tho judge uf all our decda? : ‘That some of us find our chiofest pleasures in the pleasures of others isu fret.” That somo of us find our ehiefest pleasures inthe sorrows of others is a fuet. Very many of us flog our chlet Plensures In the woes of those weaker than golf, and in the Joys of those stronger than self. ‘Those are the ‘truly suecesstul ones, who rob Wherp they ute strong onough, and pay .tributo wher battle is not prudent. However we may view any deed, we must. own: that Patetinate We have sought our own plone ‘uso; In favorable etees we have tuken tho high: ext goods in unfavorable cares the lesser oyil; fut we can never find that forone moment wo forgot our own desires and our awn pleasure, Shull we then torment ourselves with avcusas thous of Muful selllshness? Orshull wo drop this odfous Puritanism as wo Baye dropped so muny others of that ik, and, ad wo presently shall drop the whole bundle, walk forth lighter and stronger on our way, now: pilagrtinas cued content ty, follow the light whieh very huian heart? One inoment, Bitters » before you turn Bhoatty pale and, funny murmuring “slop a Sane Ancient Outs” swoon before mine altrighted ayes. ‘There ta i puro ‘amo which burns in ever hinnan beart, No man lived. from Adam untll how who did not love some one ot his kind, and delight tn the aifection of nnother human beast. This the sulfisiness which rejolees in the love ‘of anothor herrt, and’ glows to love fq return for the shining glory which It receives, Once more, thon, Bluve Wo ire held within our own anull delves; since-oven thought has no wider bound for hee acy Gitone than the nice row donty of onr own akulls, aad love muy Hout on ne wlier strenm than those slonder erimsan currents which Haw from onr own bourts, let us ho amnil, selfish, content, and fond forever and, foroyer, : Fonry Yeaus, A SUMMER EXCURSION, + THE MOUNTAINS OF MARYLAND, ‘ To the Hultor of ‘The CAtcago Tribune, HAsaenstows, Ind, July dL—Another Satur day bas come pround and still we are here, OF all the lovely places that [ haye visite! the Cumberland Valley is certainly tho most charm ing. Hugerstown Improves upon acquaintance, Tt hos an alr of quaintaces, u layor of antiquity, and historlo in interest and just enough of Boutheru clement to muke Jt of wth Maryland. towns thu most tascinating. Bituated as It is in the richest of furming re+ glons—hulf way down tho -valley, between the inpst ploturesjuo of tho ino Wide ranges, with four railroads and seven turnpikes radiat- Ing from it—it has become an important point of interest in the State. Thy population by tho Just congas is over 8000, and Tt can beast a re- fined und cultured tipper socloty, sich us ts hot often mot with. tS ye olden thie' tt wus weeity of tho Maryland Welatucries, Boma of tha mero old gentlonion of courtly breading, Who distinguished thonselves in tho diys of tho, Republteny Court, hero exureiwd royal hospl- tality, But tho “aristocracy fives no flanger, ex eapt in names though many races pf its fonace glory inuy yet ba ween ju the etately dwellings on Quality Hl, é ‘Hero aren number Of inanufactories and ton churches, ‘The Vreabyteriuny Church, built of ruby-cut blue limestone, 14 a model of beauty in its way and St. John's Ypiseapal, ala of Diue Hucatoue, 13 a Auely-proportioned editlve and commands tha finest view In town. ‘The grenter number of houses are of brick, built tlush with tho street; bit in the rene are gardensnad yards rfulin neutness at flowers and every virlety of frail. This is truly a valley of ros livery kind known will blossom and thrive without appar- ture, ‘The Safrano, La ", effort nt eul in Marte, Gloire de Dijon, Reine des ail the Bourbon, Bengal, 1 Helges: Marshal Neil Uanksia, und Noisette varieties, are met with if everywhere, and from curly spring until fall MM the oir with tholr intoxteating awoetners. Peaches nre also chlef fentire of the county. Last year the crop was enormous, nnd this year it. {6 equally great. Tho climate Is ng near prrfection as ent bo found in tho States; ant all the rare and delicate fruits aro plentiful, posecseing a rich and delicious Havor that Caltforninn fruits never have. Baltimore and Washington ary but eighty miles distnnt, and Philndelphin and New York oro within a day's journey. — Excursions to Cape May, Atlantic City, and other son: Shore resorts nre weokly In occurrence, beriies being Kgelfin favorit haunt of Daitimoreans, ond having Deer Park and Oakland on tho Hul- Unmtore & Ohio Railroad only a few hours distant. Yesterdiy 0 party of us went to Biack Roce, 0, celebrated paint of viow in tho mountain. | Ina vebiclo peciiinr to the countrys enlled on" jng- rT," four of usteok the lead, The regulation Much of fried chicken, bent biscult—niso a nn- tive production—potted meats, and bottled cof= feo, not to omit various fruits, cakes, an sweot- ineats, was to foliow in tho caro of a faithful African named Uncle Sammy. a, warin high spirits and begailed the way with various popular airs, After leaving tho town wodrove foreome miles on tho turnpike, the most delightful of roads, through a ine. farming country of undulating bills, fruit- ful orchards, “and penceful homesteuds, Several miles beyond the quaint title Village of Funkstown we turned Into the Beaver Creck district, also knawn from its beauty and rich: negs is “God's Footstool.” Many places clatm the name, but this ts positively asserted ta bo the original. Reaver Creck Ian graceful Httlo stream, and wluds between the meadows and cultivated flelds until at last it islost in nwikters° ness of hills, Tho road, atter leaving the pike, heeame rough and rougher, with short. steep hills that were nlmost beyond tho strength of Or sturdy gray horses to surmount, As we np- proached tho mountain the farm-houses becane ewer anit further between, until wo finally reuched the Just house, It was a low Jog cabin on the edge of a blackberry. patch, and surrounded by 9 garden gay with marigolds and) flaming ‘hollytiocks. Hera wo left the horses and prepare to uccomplish the ascent, ndlstuncoot nearly threo miles, on foot, Tho read was good, though ver} steep, People frequently drive to tho summit. Just at noon wo gained tho pliteatt on which the Mountain Houso—now a ruin—stands. Here was the famous spring bubtling aut oe tho aldo oftho mountain as efear nas erystat, ns cold ag fee, and ns invigorating os chanipagne. Bonenth rome grand old trees wo sat down to rest. Tho wir, tresh and fragrant from tho pines: around ts, * nimbly and sweetly recommended Steelf unto our gentle senses,” Ontho arrival of thy rest of the pnrty funch was. Propared, a, built a fire, and soon our pot of coffee, hung Gypsy fashion, wns bolling over tho blazing fire of pine-conea.’ Tho sim glinced and giimmered dawn between the hich arebing branches, and Mousands of gavly-hued inseote — bntzzed hither and thither, while around’ us on the ground, darted dozens of Iittle senrlat Uzords, winking at us with thelr funny litte oyes and Sleappoaeiie undera stone with a siucy awitch of the tall, Dinner doing over, wo began again to climb upwards, Tho path now was through tracts of Woulland, where recently the forest fires hold high carnival. A more desolate region enunot befinngined, The glints of the forest btack- ened and broken, ome fallen and” twisted, stretched all_aroimd as far ay tho cya coutd reach, Tho ground burnt and parched, and the aroppressive and still as death,—no song of bird, no hum of bee. Allwas silent. ‘Tho affect wns very depressing, and all morriment wns hushed, until wo gained tho upper land where tho tire hind not conte. Tn umony tho trees led tho paths; 10 view on ofther hand, until nt fast a audden turn, and wo Were upontho rock, There, hundreds of feot below us, strotching fur away to where tho dis- tant, purple mountains marked the horlzon, ny tho beautiful country smittng and golden in tha fullradinnes of the July sunshine. A tiny col-* Jection of spires and stcepies, nestled amongst tho groves and protecting hills, marked tho busy” we had so Inte}y Inft. Far nwny to tha nding and gleaming like a silver thread, lowed the historic Potomie, and to tha north tho lofty mountains guarded the pencofnl yal- Joy ike'‘grim and haughty sentinels, One hundred fect below the Black Rock 1s n vast Jnelined bed of broken bowlders, murked and ernshed asif hurled from.the summit by #ome mighty hand of the Titan jn o great and furloun battte of the frods. Upon extnination these rocka show marks of Yoleante origin, and doubtless in centuries past. this waa {he scene of somo powerful conyulsion of nature. z The pluce is very barron. scarcely qny vegota- tlon at ol! npnearluy save ner the edges, whero ‘fn few burdy'chestnut-trees and somo blossom= ing columbino mannged to gam foothold. The descent to the rock-hed was compara: tively ensys but tho nscent was dliticult and so Yery perilous that a ainglo misstep would havo fnsdred our helng dashed to pieces on tho dJuxxed racks below. In ‘tho nscont, growin Tram a ckevice In tho rock with hardly enoug’ roll to hott it, [found « Httle violet plant with Howersns delfeate and dainty as if sheltered In an English garden, its’ colur was tho rarest shido. of —‘ylolet, its oyes vermilion, — with a frlnt * tino of Yellow, und the leayes of tho plant wero Strawberry In BhNpe. so Tolussed it nmong tho Alpine tlowors, and recognized its relutlonship fo the hodadendrons, and sfored im memory the lesson it taught, After sovoral hours of suryoy and chattor wo etnrted downwards, taking our ten ut tho spring toan amusing audience of bumblebees and lz ards, It was sunset when we reached the house whero wo hind left our horses. ‘Tho mistress hid dust returned from her blackherrying exetraton, And Welcomed us heartily, She gerved us with heaped howls of splundid blackberries, and en- tertained us with a history of herself, and varl- ous fyely stories of her encounters with tho rattlesnakes that aro rather numerous thorea- 118, Whon wo told hor we wore trom Chicago hor {nterest ins doubled, and sho ylewed us with somewhat tho simo oxpression thnt,wo would assume Upon beholding a Cannibal “from tho South Sen Iatnuds. 1 suw her hastily glance toward the rifle that hung in the corner. When we left her entiln it was nenrly dark, wn J the Reaver Creek the froxs held vespor Service, aud tho crickets sung merrily from out tho long xeusscs. The dow was falling, and Joy anxious to roturn to town by tho shortest wity, tured into a lane of bowllderiug curves and twists [1 hopes that ft was i cross-cut to the turnpike. Yuet nlaat tho lane leq into tho woods, on and on, until ft could hardly bo dis- Mnguished from a cow-path, ‘This, became. ‘worso- and worsoy over stumps and’ down in kulloya; over creaking, crackling branchesthint wounded na if the, okt Indians were, turatug in thelr graves, aud hag heaps af fox-tiro whoso brilliancy was of a tinge that scemed rot earthly. Finally J, in despair suggested turns fur buckward, for ‘twas his positive covvietion Uhnt this cow-path terminated Inn “squirrole track and rain wp 0 tree.” Pays ‘The town clock sounded midnight ns we drove into town, SISTER ANACINE. | FRIENDSHIP, A MAN WHO I1A8 1T DOWN FINE, ‘To the Eultur of The Chteago Tribune, Cnrt0Aco, Aug. %.—The question of matrimony: has proven dump weathor for too muny peopto’a corns, and the contributors ta Tho Homo have bevn asked to tung to tho Key of friendship, and atrike a fult chord, . So far tho porformera upon this difloutt motif have strageted Into your col- ‘uinns much os the inusiclana como up fron Under tho stage ut an opera, always leading tho inquirer nftor $3 scats undu hack to belloyo thut tho beers in the tlloy outelde have ranged from 4 schnitt pinin to three schoonors: with pretzols. Now, thia question of friendsiJp involyes a heup more thinking than does the question of murriuge. Wedlock is natural, possible; friond- shiv fs ideal, noble, tinposulble, area The human mind ty faulty to a digycouraging Megres, und man perhaps frat discovered thls fact through the compurative excess of fault: ness fu the thinking faculties of woman. L bes Move thut his very: superiority over wonn sranitally has ted him to discover. the enormous ubyss which still separates himacle fram tho ideal of trug manhood 80 caslly formulated, We are all the thie reaching for things wo do notuiderstand and could not asalimilate with If thoy ware piiced at our disposal. dn thls wage ae weary, well-roud novel reader, binsd Intnl Milos of ight letters, enter a elrouluting Wvrary und. Auermiouily naka: Haye you uny pow books 1? ho expecta a negative nnswor, und in that edso would suffer. keen adhappointment. ‘ho man says * Yes," and brings out several new boul Every one of thosa fs new iu every sense, muy “be the worst» lush yet ‘printed thik era of hopwash, “or, yet, dt anny De Ws reat n wook a8 tho » Rool’s Errand." Noboily can tell. Then, Mogleally, she ake: "is. this good?” or dy that wood? and, upon bys ing remtuded that she wanted something new or nothing, she wske four domething by May Aques Fleming or Mury dane Holiios, aad goes off hap- py, (0 Fo-rund those: ‘expreasions whton have wo well pleased her in Oto past, Ttbink Tespy in this exhibition of the working of tho mind tite rude and unsitisfuctory stato wyoneral principle, Just ae potent also ‘in the mighty brain of Bir tuuc-Nowtan or howls Aguile. dan ldealizes tho -attair of friendship, div forgets whether ho really wants It or not, and thou puraistently Inquires for it. 1t fs not tn tho Worury of poasibillties, fle therefore goes ott y and danguarniad, Could be got a gliinpse atit, Lam afraid he would walk away sutisted With something which fy more et ripport with, bis nattire aud hls habits. Lotus view this golden word (friendaip) as nun idealizes Ite Being uchangeuble thins, he views friendship (or which bo knows nothing) entirely by comparison with something of which future hy knows Hitle, ‘This something 18 al waysu mother's love for her son. Te, thores fore, doubles up this marvelous fact of a moth= ers love, und creates a reciprocatory ayene) ro-respondent to this mother's love. Now, will This maguiticont product of Invention bo goes. forth Into the world sccking for some tnan upon whom he may bestow u mothor'’s love {Rf which be ly ontirely fovapabte), aud who will iu pay> more ike you and leas! ment respond with a mothor's love (of which that man would of course bo also fneaprble). tn tho Jargon of electricity, n positive nudi negative aro absolutely necessicy to electrle netion, 4 mother's love fs a deplorably. one-atded action, Wut it ls the highest and noblest of the fueultlos of alfection. Any thtny it (91 Up of to positives, anda thy ofits. In it any wonder thata univ arises, and that Shakspedre, tho greatest of mors tal muilnds, broaeht fi those awful verdicts sala, mankind, Ltar’ and “Timon of Athone" Tet us analyze tho test of friendship, and geo. how surely this houso fe builded upon sand 1 suppose Liat Lovoyou with thatgrand, IneMable, unselfish aifection’ which will tend to your ad vuncement tn all things. LT aecount forthis feol- ing by the beller that you have prealscly those foulloge for mo, Y must spiro you every allies tot foilien xen sean spare mo,—that [s, posi« ively everything In my power. - Siynina y—'T'vat of frioniship, Aug, 2, 1880, two entries, Modus nygondtint: “1, Adame, hnvo heon indisereet and am em- barrassed—positively, cruvily. I love Brown. Te loves me. Ho will nid ime. Ho has saved, by a. frugality which: admire, 8700. wil aak hin for $100, I fear T ennnot pay it soon.” “T, Brown, have been ‘struck’ tor £100 by Adams, Itaucprises me. Me loves himsclf bet- ter than be loves me, Twill tend ft to him. fenr ho ennnot poy itsomn. Livould hnve given $500 not te have hind him ask me for it, Tdi not know he had been so improvident," Seltiahncrs.... 4. + 41 Truo riondship 32 ical Limi 2 jiMes. The “trio friendsinp" botweon Brown and Adams is ntend. Brown has discovored that ha isdoing tho mother's love, Ho docsn’t want uny more of that, Now, what is posable? Epot friendship is posstufo. and delightful, "To-morrow do thy Worst, for [have lived to-day.” Man js 2 social anttunl. He tes," he flocks, Of nothing am ifonder than ‘the sparkle in'n friend's eye and the gabble of ball an hour, or three houra. Tut Lam getting so Laon't build on any future rabbles,—for to-morrow, lol my friend may lave discovered my ignoble renllty, whereas ha has been shaking hands wich By nobio identity", Dut sonie othor wave will break on tho shores of my life,—I will be equally plensen. Tomy mind tho problem of friendship pre- Fonte itacll un tho anddest of commentarics upon tho weukitess of our higher faculties, Separate inan from his wife and family, ynd view him in his relutions to other persons sltullarly placed, andthe result i# not only unsatisfuetory, mitt, distresaing to a mind anxfots to hold toa good oplnton of humanity. Pat to tho right test, the ainlity of human friendship fs found to bo highly’ strained—to be luble to eurdie in tho first thundershower—to rour upon the sensitive stomach. We at once behold mankind forced to flea to the Institution of (h@ family and the home toesenpe the desolation of fruitless nt- tempts to kindlo n blaze ontof the damp drift- wood of life's zencral ngsocinuons, Thave read Tho Home ever since its start, and. desire to thank many of the contributors who have mndo it (iu my shelicf) one Zof the most original and able departments of Qonte arent par per, There is no disparagement to: other ides partments in supposing yoluutury effort from nexhnustible inateritl to he capatiia of results In the highest degree cammendable, Some of tho writers, [ suppose. are printing essays which fio to appear in futuro books, «f enn’t sny £ Aiko tint iden, for {U makes those letters 1 triffo Btiltod, but the survival of the fittest will leave thom behind with the ness of matter which has Inade no impress on ae Yenrs ngo tho tur-sater iden mado great sport in Tho Hone, I have used tur-water ever since, never putting hard water on iny' scalp, T have kept iny bale from breaking of, and have ns inueh as in 185, Whore fs tho Secretary of the Valdbends? He was a wit, and a right gand one, And tho forerunner of Tho Home—that great discussion of the marriiyzd question, in 1874, [ think—brought out a good writer—Harry I. Free, Seems to me he ought to come into ‘The Home, or, if hero, to take hig old name. Tit wager’ he's marricd and out of sorts with his nom de plume, Lowe to Bittersweet, Raven Halr, Fy Maude Meredith, Chat, Buchclor,. Sitanco Wordsworth, California, Guaniku. Bob, Aunt Lucy, Grandma Oldways, Conceited Little Fook and’ all who deserve to rank with thoso jood writers—I owo to tham, 1 say, muny days of Plonewne thoughts. With Forty Years 1 have neld special seances, because his habits of thought seemed go nearly tike those in which I Nave been drilled by the clreumatanecs of my Jife. Tcoutd stm my affection for Forty Yenra all up fn tho bolief that he thinks the “'Thana- topsis ” the grontest pleco of pootry over writ- ten. Ifhe does not, thon i must show out a flag and sigh of love . Which fs but siga, ‘ Pac, Era Beta Pr, GAWK AGAIN. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cimtoaao, Aug, 2.—I eco I havo called down tho vials of Pythins' wrath on my devoted head for haying {intimated adisbellef in tho friond- slifp ho fsanid tohave had forone Damon, It strikes me, howover, that Pythias, in his tirade, against n cynic, has’ gotton way from tho stib- ject of friendship, and witl have ta bo ro- minded that nbuso of tin opponent {3 not argue mont. Thavo no dosiro to sefend tho cynto ho dae Foribes, but Pythins mtist admit that even his oynie {s right in many Views he deecribes him asholding. For instance, bis observation of how many mon attain thelr positions in bust- ness, Some of his other ylows I will leave Fort! Years and Raven Hate to defend. . 1 simply wist to show that looting the facta of life nad tha. presont condition of gnulety fairly tn tho faco und eynialamn are two different things, T think overy obsarvant person will ndmtt that hore Ave niany things tn life sadly at varinneo with our ideas of Justico, that tho race is not to the swift nor tho battloto the strong.” and that to many the dally struggio is un unequal one, It bythins or any other tender of Tho Homo wanta examples, let bin look nt our ensy lvores Ins, at our barbaraus custom of sults for. brench of promise of murriige, and tho hun= Ured evils that meot ug dally in buglness. Nhat thoro ara but two ways of romedying an evil, wlore nyreed, If it ciumot be tegislured against. and eradicated by force, thon tho only mvnns left fs wgltating questions tn which tho ovil ig most conspicuous, ‘That such agitators or grumnblers neeomplish a great dent, L think thora canbe no duubt. Will Pythins deny the greate ness of Lhomns Carlyle or bellttlo the fame of Stecle or Swift? It i tho mon who feol most keenly the bitterness and in- completeness of this avury-duy fifo thnt tall most tgtinst it, and In their way try. to botter it, They may not bo able to show very Front results, thoy may not even "imagine Uhomaclyes reformers,” but thoy wilt at least have entered thoir protest aguinst tho exlating ovils whieh surround ud, And ko to come hacks to our question; no one will dony that thore should be such a sentiment 28 real, true friend- ship, but thatit oxlets to any grout dogreo ts questionable, ‘That poeta rave about ft and it novels are full of it 1s only proof thut it is puro identlan, It is vory, vory seldom that wo bear of such trito disinterestedness oven us that displayed by tho hero Woodland. Woukl Pythins have us shut our oyes to tho frets and Imagine we live {ua world whero alt Is love and Harmony? Shall wo deecive ourselves by thinking we possess tho truo fricndship of any. ‘Ono person when we have only the droum of it? If wo dld go, would not. in awukentng come that would be bitterer thant tho ndmission of tho truth? Wo are all ready enough to Imoyino that the world Is well cnough, especially when we thine wo cannot mond nntters if we try. Tut fa It not sulfleh when wo sit down in otir contented way and tet things Jog along without making an effort to reform ourselves oven? If we cannot do anything more, wo can, with Bayard Luylor, ; "Indulge Jin tho doubt, For this {4 tho token of froedom, ‘This ts all that Is safo from hands That would fain interuseddte, ‘Thrusting thelr worn phylacteries Over oyes that aro gockitur Truth ag it shines in the ekles, Not truth as It sinokes In tholr Iantern.t AW A PRETTY SMART GIRL, MEN VIEWS ABOUT Lorry, Tb the Editor of The Chicago ‘tribune, Curcaao, Aug. 6,—T think that wo mncinbora of ‘Tux Lnisuxe Homo Club aro usually a very happy fguilly, Onvo Inn whilo we got jato a paughty quarrol and cull cach other unfelondly tumes, for whieh We arg always sorry afterwards; but, generally, we occupy ouracives $n complimentlug exch othors in athor words, wo are agort of mutual admiration suctety; we go upon tho principle of “ You tlokle my ribs and I'll tickle yours,” 1 say we, 1 havo nayor before attempted to write anything for the public gazo, but TI have beon duch a otoso and constant render af tho delightful contributions in Tho Home that I focl quite woll uequainted with younll, Icon, aludor niygelf one of tho family. How delightful it is to oxchungo Ideas on mon, women, and things, Tam young tn yours, but still sweet and sunny §ndisposition, Lhayo blue oyes and yoltun balr, Ido not require any Bloom of Youth to beyutity my complexion, Vicuye accept this photograph Of mo for un introduction, <3 Thave wanted to talk? with you, my friends, for many weeks, T have wished to tell old Forty. Yours that he ought tobe awfully ashamed to keop continually welttig eruel worda woout pretty women, ad insisting Wat thore was noth ug di this world that wis beautiful and good shat money woul not buy. Ui bop a dollar that some protty woman has gut duwe on bid old, filed-up heart, aud crushed dt Matter thun a tlupsack, and that ho id so dread: fully cross und homely thut no wood wala be glud to inary would bave bliy for any- ae What business baa such an objoct us he to be ing wbout love wuywiy?t ‘Tho only use thut 3 nink of that a woman can have for an old buchylor 1s to shake him out tho back wialow occasionally, so that hile baw rattling bi his deied-up tld ebetl may scare away tue hens fro the garda. Raven Hair, Pike you over so much. ‘Thoro $s sometbing so youd und truo in all your letters that Lhover read then, without wohing Twas ‘Uke myself, u thought. tess and giddy fara who would bo 4 greut Teal better than elo 13 If suo Uuly know how tu bo, Aud you, Mr, Kugend Mull, of Lawndale: I a Hist of patents issued to tholnyentors of Ill think you ape perfectly awful to givo. tho widows and old malas stich at dose OU nV tia bad cnough to fondic some of without befiue mighty enough to tell of of your tricks an moe, Pd wind fied box bie enough, Hina yet, my dear Engene, horribly ntrid that f stall boone somes VT think it wiso to begin early to nct on tho defensive, And you, Owen Wilson: [ Juet dote on your Jove-songs; thoy are all ro soft, and sweot, and mishy, and gontecsoothing. ne enstorsoll And incllow ns a rotten apple, You ee have toved A great many women nwfully well since you Were Hittle, wnt some of thom must havo mide you sulfor dreadfully, [wonder sometimes tow i the world you ‘van alt dewn under “Tho Maples" audeut thom all doves, darlings, and Migels, when thoy are so naughty and cruch. Thave erled a geeat many times when TL linve read your pieces, because have felt 40 sorry for you. Cwould have been almoat willing to kiss t $f J had thought it would hnve comforted you any. “Wipo away your tears, my Httto man, and stop sighing s0 fearfully, aud Iam suro you will feel better by and by, And there was Ehoen Rexford, who sed to write such aweet ani pretty nleces about zophyrs and aunsets, Lheard tho othor day that he had ond to writing poems on groceries and provis- ina for a trade Journ. for which ho was to {ake his pay inelgara, O my! isn't It too drend- ully snd and lnstly you, Mr. Conductor, T have n grent favor toutsi, and if you will only grant it 1 will ‘be x0 grateful to you, always. Twant to do something for fame. It may stir prea you whon LT say that Tdo not wish for money, but {do not.- 1 only want to bo some bady cforo L ale. T fect in my very soul the omotions of gentus. T belleve that if you will ouly givo men tlttlo encourigoment that Lean in tline win ns grent a pliee in Mterature as: Luin Wheaton and Lydian Hinman, Of course, T know It would take. yeurs to do this, but you know the yrentest fo Inulo poeta thit ever lved bad a hurd struggle before they became famous, T bave written a plece of poetry whieh T want you to print at tho end of this lotter, Tf do wunt tose my nine in Tay CuMUNe 60 muvb, like editors, [think they aro s0 nleo. Tused to havo n big brothar who was an editor. Whon T was a lttle gir). in pantatets, T uaed to sto into hig office sometimes, It was not a very nent-looking pines efther, To bad at big desk full of pigeon-holes, and nll of theso pigcon-holes wero full of pieces, and when T asked him one ay what he was going to do with nll thoso benutifal peers, he sutd that he was going to throw thom Into tho waste-bns- ket, unless stamps wore sont to pay return poste age, Wasn't it Just std? Tembmber ony pleco that I found among tho othors, Alla Wheeler, It was an awful long tinte Tt was something about the benutl ful wenthor, and fer heart ns Iightas a feather, becnuse her Sloan daritnuy had just told her such fi aweet seerct that she hind promised to tell no other, not oven her mother. O, how T wish I could remember it nll, Iwas do sweet nnd nivel I thought thon that it 1 only could write poctry Ike that that [should feet perfectly lovely {thought of {t when 1 read Ella's now piece of poctry in lust Saturday's Trintxn, I kept Trintelme aboutit, and T thoumht at last how very muck she must havesuffercd If sho had kept her scerot until now, ‘ : Lthouht I would like ta toll her how nico T sbeuubt her poctry all was, and Chavo written his reply. : eng, ton't throw !t Into tha waste-basket, 18 my DI¥ brother would have done, Tati it “Anchored.” Ishalt wait for its appearance with a beating enrt. Ponm omitted.—Ep.] think Fannta Driscoll’s pleces aro just heny- enly, Thuve thought cyer so many times how much Twoull Ike to meat hor, Sho fs perfectly splendid. Plensodon’t throw this into the waste. basket. Te will hurt my feelings drondfully if youdo, and Forty Years will never know how Inuch f think of bim. Pouny Purvs, WANTS A HUSBAND. BUT DOKSN'T LIKE TO BAY 80. Th the Eduor of The Chicago Tribune. Font Arxrnson, Wis., Aug, 2,—Iaye youroom formo? If not, put it in tho waste-basket, whero thore always ia room, ‘Tho letter from Silonco Wordsworth In ‘Tne Tunes of July OL Amused me so much T can eny, * Thom'simy sen- timents.”* 1 think Silence hns_alloneed. Eugono Halt suflictontly without my adding word, But 1 will hnvon word to say, even if it fs or is not the Inst. Only to think of the martyrdom of i wWoinan tled to n man for life, espeolally when wo: know that out of about twenty marringes only one proves to lio a happy one. T would say to Bugeno Tall, ff you have any pity for any human being, do pity the onea who pre waiting en some tyrannical man who ia forever tading fault with ovorything that his patient wifo has prepared for his comfort, [thas been my fort- Une to board in a great many familics in my Nflo, and I can’ trnthfolly ray that only one kr twenty seemed to bo happy In thomnarringostate, ante tho woman who has an unkind husband, and hog not the courage to get divorce. ‘Then to think of tho bandage a woman {shi ff she happena to want alittic money! husband for it, he fs very apt to sn: that dollar I give you tho other day?"—ns tt sho must give snaccotntof overy pin abo buys! Ohl it's too much of 4 dog's Hife for mo. Thad much .Tather enrn my own dimes than to be a slave to Ithink Tam safo in saying that hanpy ies tra the. oxcoption ‘and not tho Across man. (and ‘who over siw ono who wns no! if his food wha not Prepared, Jyst aoA—who, ean enduro him?) I belfeve:tho*majority of mon enjoy scolding when at-home, hoy scold without provocation, As Fanny Forn saitof tho inan who came homo drunk at midnight, and stam- mered out,.on reaching hls own door; Now, If my wito is altting up for me, Lit lick hers and if sho ain't elttiog up, IU lek her; and Pil lick her onyhow. It's fust so -with the min who scolds.’ Ho acolds anyhow. There ure eo many men, plensant and “nifablo abroad, who yo home to scold a bluo streak simply becuuse thoy onloy it. | To tse an extravaganza, [quote from Biizabeth Cady Stanton: “‘Thero {s a word sweoter than mothor, Heaven, or home, and thut fs Liborty.” Miaxons, TEXAS POETICALLY DESCRIBED, Reautiful Toxnas! What do you think? Plonty of grapes, and no wine to drink; Ptenty of creeks, but no water nt hand; No onts for your horses, but Plenty: ‘of lands Plenty of horses, but one fit to rldo; Plenty of poverty, and sume little pride; Bonty of cows, no butter or inilics No dress for the dairy, but plenty of sitk; Plenty af hides, but no leathor that’s tanned, ‘Though serubby mesquite incumbers tho land; Plenty of rain when it comes down at all,’ Enough and to spare would It como at your call; Plonty of wind—thero'’a no drawback on that— and, pat tulking of stock, there's plenty of chats 7 Plenty of rock tho olsterns to wall, But they cunnot tind time to do that at all; Plonty of bots d'are, not hardly # hedge; Plenty of hogs, as thin asa wedgo; Plenty of badot your before list, Plonty again when thero comes a good mast; Dienty wire, be all sy low That to cat you must hang on your awn olbor Henty of “grup,” such va poor beet und bacon, Which reminds you of. the home you've sudly forsaken, O Jont of great promise not yet fulfiled, Whut a country you tnight beit people sa willed! All tcoming with beauty, plenty, und health— Kvory requisit bero for comfort and wealth— But ‘with sora broad and bacon mon havo enough, =~: i : And women get happy over 9 bottlo of snuff, —Uluchell Coltinavilic, Lex, ——————_ - NEW PATENTS, Speciat Diapateh to The Chicago Tribune, Wasitnaton, D.C, Aug, 6.—Following Is imag. » Yer vols, Wisconsin, Mehignn, Munesota, Jewa, Indinna, and Nebruska, for the pust week, re- portal by.telegraph for ‘Pine Tang by A. 1, vans & Co, American aunt foreign patent solicitors, Washington, DG: ILLINOIS, F, A, Allon, Monmouth, decoystramo, * 1. W, Arnald, Chicago, leuf-catier, A. Barnes, Bloomington, intertocking-eyo mae ching. e C.F, Makoly, Chicago, printer's orm, ©. 31. Brawn, Chicago, power-Lammor. HM. Hurt, Harvard, gute G, C, Hutter, Pacis, oy Mader printing-muchino, Muttorfleld, Chicago, atunp-mifll, ise, Chicas, trolling-recl and cabinet, thouwen, Chleago, rallwiy-rall splice: . D. Fox, oscoo, combined plow und seeder, fy Goodwin, Mattoon, aninul-trap, 4h W. Helnonmnn, Chico, suspensory, ¥. 1. Howe, Chicago, trunk. F, Ido, Springilati, buluyvo-wheel adjuster, oe Ulwtrated Pamphict, Free, ©. HE. Chapman, Joptin, th a nit, ¥K AL Blove! A. Pootlner, Miwa! D. VaughungBangor, milstone-dreaser, \ MICHIAAN, T. M. Armstrong, Roxana, bath: ; FM ihirkor, Detrolt, double-neting pump, M n aM € J. Walker, Indianapolls, jd donkins, Warren, pipe-xrappto for oll vol 3 Rrenmore, fountain-pen. jeatte), . Ainogue Chienga, suap-hook. ie Lf W.R. Watton, Freeport, hands HE, Weaner, Princoville, combine wringer. . Reeve AUrOr, Cor-repineers chafer, Muroa, tnteh-hox, hear & Toomey, Arcola, welt WISCONBIN. ne 8. C Bhawan, Hotta, Chippawa 33. Perce. In Crosse, ringeburr, Rost, Miwaukeo, clothes-mangle. q Nevnaty ered ine lls ee, PUD. oth, Colburn, @rcenvillo, straw-cutter, -jumper, Thornville, fence. MINNEBOTA. G.3, Boynton, Hastings, drill-tooth. a We Edward, Stillwater, thrashing-machine, aciils, OWA, Paes Doeschor, Humestond, automatio fro- htor. : D. Drummond, Dubuque, shoo-clnsp. Aud, Millard, Slotx City, box-fuster W. Warron, Suc City, rainewater cut-off. INDIANA, ae Curtice, Fort Wayne, car-bruke shoo (ro- eC). f iP. Da for stuns, : C. A dlren, Tatayntte, reaper and binder. . MeCann, erry, entr-car pling. Udell, Indinnapalls, ropo-reel. hitkt-coupl ing. NEBILANKA, 7, Crate, Schuyter, trend-milt, J, IL. Reed, Cowles, pentnanship-chart. J. 1 Walt, Iuftato County ct al, soc mechantent operator. i THE DYING SHOEMAKER, | “(Dene wif, I'm wnxing near my end," ” ‘Tho dying cobbler anit; “Soon to. an upper world tiny solo Its tonely way must thread, “1 fear, indeed, T'm pegaing. outs Dut 'thon, what boots it, love?’ lero we've heen a well-litted patr, And 80 wo'll be above, “Sty ills I know no drugs may heel, Bo It's wolt to prepares We ean't rn eaunter to‘our fato— Just put a peg in thorol “Tho future need not give you care— T'ye left ny awl to yous For, deep withit uy inter solo, Iknow that you've been trie. “Tye always given you your rights, But now ga intist Lo loft: Howover, do not grieve tuo much Whon of mo you're bereft. “A lust farowell T now will take.” Ne smiled, and milsed his head. “B-iInst the cruel matady ‘Thut Jatd you low!" dho sald, ry “Tho strifo will soon bo past. His head fell buck. bu sweotly smiled, and then he breathed bis hist. —Somervilie Journal. fazonr, Chicago et nl, gus-beater (ro ithor- renovator. Falls, fint-lron heaters Davis, Ypsilanti, clover and grass-sccd. Y. f Fisher, South Snyinaw, car-coupling. GR, Kidder, Armitdn, door-hanger, Ci. Tand, Detroit. bi J. Morton, » Nowell & Lucasse, Kulamnzoo, fot-valyo senting (rofesue), A L. Schofield, Grand Haven ot al, sceding~ incehanian pmerntors i, E. Straight, Gulusburg, pump (reissue). AL. Buttings, Knalumazov, stock-enr, 4 Penney, Minneapolis, grinding twist- is z sect, Indianapolis, safety attachment, » Myers, Perit, pay-tio and tag-hotder. orn, Richmond, washlng-macnine, Phillips, Thornton, washing-niuchine. Sloper veny tn peace.” he sighed; fooday, from Nort! CHICAG BAKING POWDER, TELE CONTRAST! While other Making Pordern are tareely ADUL- TERATED with ALUM and other hurtful drugy, = Leas been kept UNCHANGED Sn all of Its original panty and wholexomeness. APETY, HUALTHEOL FECTIVENESS NEVER SOLD 1N DULK, SCALE: NO ADVANGE IN PRIGKS, O SCALE CO., 151 South Jetersoncat., Chicago, Manufactures, moro than 20) diferent variot! Bent pte of businos fl hose, und ‘a hey cmpoy tie agen ntly sell fram 0te Wier cant low ea tiry kept nt thote w der Uy nell Kealos witlen cost ¥ mors manufacture ut prices three und four thus hi . Nlatfurm Gx1? foot, seitles, platform Hxit Bett feat. Afurnt BxtH font, HE “DR. RADWAV'S SARSAPARTLLIAN RESOLVENT b THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, Changes as Scen and Felt ag they Daily Oceur, Att.’ er Using a Few Doses, 1. Good spirits, disappearance of languar,, wwelanettalye Inerense und barge fle un auseles, cte, ; bardinessg TenRt Ineeises, appetite tri i fae Food. no mary sour veeuetntione thes ish, good digustion, cnt and eeawaken fresh and vigorous, Usturbed 3, Disappearance of spots, blotul the akin looks clear and hentth han eet an its darbut nd uton iy clene cherry or miter color: Ww: reoly from tho baler throu tito arse * ut pit or sealdings ttle or ni no a weak ‘, e 3 9 aesliments . Marked dhulnution of quantity and queney of Involuntary weakening ¢ ~ dtatticted in that way), wits Conta ree manent cure. Incronsed strength exhibited the secreting glands, wud function barn stored to the several organs, & Yellow tings an the white of the eyes, ang tho swirthy, axtfron appearinee of tho ‘skin changed to'n elenr, Hvoly, and healthy color 6, Those sulteriing from weal or uleerateg lungs or tubercles will rentizo great benedit ig ‘expectornting freely the tongh phtegm or mueng from tho luna, alr cells, bronch! or windy) throxt or heads diminishing tho Crovuenty ot cough: weneral inorease of steength throughout ‘tho system: Bionpi OOF Hight-sweuts and pains and Teellngs of weakness around the ankl lew, shoulders, ote: cessation of nid ae chills, conso of suffocation, ned breathing 4 paroxysm of coughon Iytie down or avieng iy ho niorning, All those distressing symptom gradually and Burcly disuppear, —* ‘eeAa day after diy tho SARSAPARICLIAN tg taken new signs of returning health will appears! asthe blood inpraves In puelty and stem disease will diminish, and all forofgn and tnipere deposits, nodes, tumors, canecrs, hard lumpa, ete. bo resolved nuwity, and tha unsound made sound and healthy; uleers, fever sores, chroni skin riscases, gradually disappear. - 8. In unses Where tho system has been sate vated, and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosivesut. Iinata lave acenmutated and become depos in the bones, Joints, ete. Hane Fickots. Spinal ; ; whit swellings, varicose velus, ete, tha Balt BDH TAR REG will revolve nway theso Tara and exterminate the virne of tho discuse from eARTE those who are taking th . Lf those who are taking those medicines f tho cure of Chronie, Serofilous, or Sypollity Ulscases, however slow mny be the eure "feel hotter” and fd thelr generul health hapraoving, tholr flesh and weight Increasing, or even keep ing Its own, {tis 1 autre sign that the cure Is Breseiny. In these diseases tho patient elther, wots butte: y not fnuetlve; ff not arrested and driven from, tho blood, it will spread and continue to under mite the constitution, As soon ns tho SANSA. PAIILLIAN makes tho patient “feet better” every hotir you witl grow better and Increase fy thy Arent nn ee 1 wis at to rent power of this remedy 18 In discasey thut threaten death, as in CONSUMPTION of tho Lungs and ‘Tuborentous Phtbisis, Scrofus In-Syphilold Diseases, Wasting, Degeneration, tad Uleorntion of the Kidneys, Dinbetes, Stop: Daga of Water (instantancous relief afforded where catheters have been useth, thus doing sway with the painful operation of usin these instrnments), dissolving Stone (n tho Wladder, and In ull eases of inflammation of the Blad= der and Kidneys. Tn chronfe cases of Leucorrho:a and Utering diseases. One bottlo contains moro of tho activo princt- piles of eines than any other Preparation, Taken in Senspoonful doses, while others require five or ix times a8 much. ONDE DOLLAR PEN NOTTLE. RR... Ee. RADWAY’S READY .. RELIEF CURES AND PREVENTS Dyrentery, Diarrhea, Choleru Morhus, Fever and Ague, Hhenmatisam, Neuralgia, Diphe theria, Influenza, Sore ‘Throat, 05, limp ‘ilo Wein TR. est, evidenco of INES, PORTH, anc in THE FACT of its belng aeed h to South, from East to West, In the hones of the rieh amt poor, whero it has been uaed for the Inst 15 years, A PURE FRUIT ACID BAKING POWDER. Made by STEELE & PRICE, Manufacturers of Vupulin Yeast Gems, §} Flavoring Extracts, cte,, Chleago aud St. Lou! our, Nouratyle, or wont neque ethan Otley, Pilperiur quality und extroniely law prices maka thess* tho most popular Keates in use, and fwanta of ofhor compan ond to Invent atorlog MEATS und bi Cc, W. DU. Oppu “i by 1. %. Leller, Larned, W.W, Hoyingta: ory I Lom re i Cromby. FM AL, Dts ae By SttolNy, VURBNAC HARE DERI WROTE ROY Wana ‘Tho Nox! POWEN I N. A E FUL, DURANLE, aad HRALENEUL, i PPARATUS In'tho innrket, T He vot, Nota for lustrated paraphiae ee RHAM, 154 Michigan-av., woite Hxpoaltion Hulldinn. fri pane bard, N. Mataun, thee, We 8, fon Sirooks, elo, AYS’ TRI peedy cures guarantesd. /£ €O,, Maraball, Mich, nn DR. DYE'S CELEBRATED ELECTRO-VOLTAIO DELTS, BANDS, BUSPENSORIES, TRUSSES, BUPFORTERS, a Other Appliances, Lo any person (young or old) suffering from Nervous Discascs, Premature Deeay, Losa of Vitality, efe., of to those afflicted with Mheunutisns, Newralgin, Puts alyais, Dyapepela, Liver or Hidaey Troubles, Spinal Atfcctious, Rupiures, Dincasee ofa Delicato Nature, of EITHER SSX, sad maay other Diseases. Address “ VOLTAIC Ditcult Rreathing, Bowel Complaints, Loosonoss, Diarrhea, Cholora. Morbus, of patnful die ebargos [rom thy bowols, ara. stopped ‘Ii Ikor2 mine men by,taking Radway's Hendy Weil flon oF tnfiattimntion, no wou tude, wil follow iho-uso of thy tte tee Howton, Or IT WAS THE FIRST AND 18 THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY that Instantly stops tho mnost excructatingpalng, allays Intlammuations, and cures Congestion’, whether of the Jaings, Stomachy Howels, oF other glands ur organs, by ono sapplieatinn. IN FROM ONE tO. ENTY MINUTES. No inutter how violent or exerucluting pain the Uhdematic, Ked-ridden, Infirin, Crippled, Nerv= rosirated with digense may READY RELIEF wiil afford instant ense, INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS, oar AN ELAMALMEION OF EINE, LADDER, INFLAMMATION OF THR BOW! é ‘ CON MON OF UTIL LUNGS, SORE THROAT, DIFFICULT BREATHING. : PALPITATION OF HYSTERICS, CHOUP, DIPHTHE suffer, RADWAY' TE HEART, RTA, OATTARRH, INFLUENZA MEBADACKE, TOOTHACH Bec s NERVOUSNESS, SLEPLESSNESS, RALGLA, RHEUMATISM, ih COLD CHILLS, AGUE CHILIS, CHILBLAINS, AND FHOST BI ‘Tho application of tho Itendy Relfet to the part or parts whore tho pain or diiticulty extsul will utford ease and comfort, Thirty to eixty drops fv hale a tumbler of water Will ju a few minutes cure Crimpy Sprains, Sour Btomach, Heartburn, Blok } ache, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind in the and al Internal Pains, + avelers should always curry a bottle of Rade Way's Reudy Relief with them, A fow dropsia witor wifl pravent sickuoss or pains fromehang? of water, It fx bettor than French Brandy of Hitters as wattmulant, FEVER and AGUE FEVER AND AGUE cured for fifty centh Thora fs not 4 remedial agent in this world tt will cure Fever and Aguo and all othor Salar furs, Wifous, Scarlet, Ty Follow, and ote Severs (aided by RADW 3) 50 yulekly’, RADWAY'S READY, FIFTY CE as RADY RADWAY’S ‘Regulating Pills! . PERVECT PURGATIVES, SOOTHING APERF BNTS, ACT WITHOUT PAIN, ALWAYS © RELIARLE, AND NATURAL IN THEM OPERATION, A Vegetable Substitute for Calomel. Perfectly tusteloss, ctegautty coated with sweet gum, Purge, rewulatey mislty, eleausey a stronathen. Rudway's Pills for tho enroor Msorders of the Btomach, Liver, Towels Ke neys, Bladder, Nervous Divenses, [eulache, in mulpation, Costiveness, Indigestion. Dsepcrel Uillousndss, Foyer, Inilammation of the Boxe Piles, asfe olf derutigements of thi tatertall OF Warranted to ettect a positive exetuble, contalnttig. no mercnrys BN eri, or deloterions dritias. £27 Obsorvo the follewing: sympt 1 Didorders of the Digestive Ory Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness “nace loud fr tho “Head, Acidity: of the Stoners Nausea, Heartburn. Dhsygust of Foods Fullret weight 11 tho Stomach, Sour Eructubire Slutchigs or Fluttorings ty tie Pitot tbo Shy ach, Swinmntiurot the Toad, thurried aud Pine ¢ Hrouthing, Fluttering of the Heart, Coos fr Sutfocuting’ Sensations whon ti a lying fog {ur Dats. or Wobs Lofuro tho slight, Paver tis Dull Pain in the Mead, Deticiency of ver ria Hon, yoltowness of tho Bkin und Byes ty qe Bite, cha, Diente and suiden Fius) cul, Burning in the Flea A'Tow doses of Hudway's Dilis wit (reo system from all tho ubave-nnmed disorders PIICH 25 CENTS PER BOX: SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. mn Rend “FALSE AND TUE, Send 2 lotter stamp w IRADWAY, & NOs WAMMEN-ST., COR. A Se Net FORK. ‘ * 20 information worth thousands will bo seat you. a . TO THE PUBLIC. y Thore can be no better guaranteo of (4 of Dr, Rudway's old established R. 2 ie ae leg thau tho ‘base and worthless iunltationt f them, “Ax thore are Falso Resotveuts Pilla, bo suro und us for Hadway's, AA un | that the tame * Hadway" is on what you PPearincs Urethra, IWONY Te oy worse,—tho virus of tha disease ig! Wot, No congees