Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1880, Page 12

re : ITI CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1880—TWELVE PAGES. THE HOME. Eta Beta Pi Refutes the Theo- ries Advanced -by Forty Years. Another Correspondent Also. Finds Fault with the Phi. losopher. i Polly Phemus Tells About an Old Bachelor and His At- tentions, Tho Subject of Tobacco-Using Again _ Brought Forward for Dis- : oussion, : ‘ . Hiseellaneons Coutributtons on Various Interesting Topies—The Letter-Box, Ete. A BRIDGE. _ Lor The Chieago Tribune, Ortddte strangal O mystory.deop! ‘Tho sun is ritdianco only; 2 . Yet in its brightnoss shadows erdep; Day inakes tho night more lonely; ‘Upon joy's steps close trendath pains Having too oft means losing; ‘'Titweary hoart, with sad complaint, Faints quite ‘neath such sore brulalng. Neatted mid bloam-clouds pink and white, ‘The wee bird greots tho dawn, Or softly peeps, this silent night, Unheeding sonsons srone, Tho wild rose Hings the baim of epring, And twilights softly glimmer; Whilst carth and alr,exultant slog: Atid fire-files glow and shimmer, Yet these but mock, nor can control, The grief at strong ties broken, For naught can stifle inn soul The human ery for human— ‘The datly longing, all Invein, For kindly volue and face. ‘These sinite tho heart-with cruel palo, Leaving for joy no place. And fo, perehance, thro’ loss and need, Grown over bokl to-day, Misgivings 1 forget to heed, But bridid the doubttul was. Athwart tho eurth and sky least A cloud-nrch unto thee, And o'er its pathway bene at last, Atruo and honest plea, “Halt ehte,” O Friend, may much mislead And biille biinan vislon; Cauro fincies that nro strange indeed, And need complete revision! ‘What secms, indeed, n proof most plain ‘OF that which we would doubt Aasimple word muy oft explain, Blot “hulf-lHght” pictures out, Believe what seemed was only seeming, While that which Js seemed not, Let Friendship's joom, in allits weaving, Untangle overy knot. Thus wor'n, the web and woof appears A fabric firm and ine, ‘Without 0 flaw in nfteryoars, ° ‘That may bo thine and mine. Ani now, what shall I will for theo Jn closing benediouon? What tmmortolies from heavenly trea ‘To soothe IIfo's contrudietions: And purest pearls of perfect pence, Sincere and faithful greeting, True symbols of that country where ‘No parting follows grecting. VALc or CAsuurur, May 3, 1380, THE LETTER-BOX. ‘There are letters, papers, and postal-cards at this oflico for tho persons whose names uppeur Delow. Thoso living out of tho city shauld send thelr address nuda three-cent stamp, upon re- celpt of which thelr mail will be forwared. Residents of Chicago can obtain tholr mull by calling at Room 0 TrmuNne Buildings Fern Leut, Tall ‘Phemus, A Reader. A x itn Beto 4. Chat. THINKS U4 IS WRONG. _ A REPLY TO FORTY YEARS. *, ‘To the Buditor of ‘The Chicago Tribune, Crrcaco, Aug. 7.—I have noticed that when a Demoorntie editor recolves dispatches contuine ing news of a sweeping Nop ublican victory he is frequently oxpertenough in the gullo pertain; ing to his profession to put a displnyed head on those samo dispatches which clonrly saves tho day for the Democrats. And I have also noticed that it tnkes considerable truo mental pluck to rightly sean, first, that rooster of roosters (Invented ,during tho last fow yours), thon tuo ten Hues of Nemocratio Jo Pouns which follow, and, lustly, the small typo containing tho real facts. Manis so much like a pike that certain bait fs sure to catch him. Tho most astute Republican in the country trembles bo- fore tho terrors of nten-linc Democratic dla- played heading. The bull may bo educated into tolerable indifference with regard to erlinson tolors, but bls horns nevorthelcss go down In- voluntarily when ho soos u red rag. Now, my friend Forty Years bas a way of lay- ing down fullacies which often terrifies mo Into involuntarily belioving that those fallacies nro facts, until] stop to think that he is buts man after all, and that thero 1s an appeal from his Anidings. It is, thereforo, in tho defense of hue munity that Tagain advance against him, hoplug: to hit him because ho tuo big, and trusting to escape his blaws becunse Lam so sinall, Whit suough the day be lost, ull is not lost.” Though nian havo Ploring Yuulta, ho Jy still 9 problem, far beyond the Nat of Forty Yours or any other tidividuat, dn this chungiug world, whore oven the little Dalance-wheel ot a watch hag to be compen: sated,” it {9 clourly ng imposible for any mun to lay down an undovinting dogina qa St wis fortho Cretan to suy Usnt atl Crotans wore Har. “Trondly, thou, an wnseltisy deed ts Imposst- ble.” “There never was a human thought nich reached beyond the human body.” ke those sentences of Forty Yeurs, for ine tance. Lotus give them a Democratic heading: <Away back on the plains of Chaldean, in tho youth of tho world, thoro Hved mon who witebed their flocks by day and tho hosts ot heaven vy night. Lhoir study of the heavens Vitted thom out of thomucives, in iy belief, nod tholr observations of celostial phenomena led thom to the disvovery of tho fict tht velipses of Gur great heavenly lights bappenced in u regular rotation of elghteon yours and ten days, ‘This discovery hag been very useful in knocking tho religion out of celipses,—ts, had it not been for the Chulderus, perhaps the mother of Forty Yours might huve offered him ng itn oblation, du the iirst total celipse after bid Ror, BT rth, Asmiln, Proctor has been for ten years map: pines stata for tho use of humanity esas yours wuice—that fx, that porlod will irish the test Thorough opportunity for the utilization of a ‘raly luboriuits tasks, Now, it # hurd for mo to connect the {don of soltt#bness with this view of the uspirations of Dumantt, Proctor ecne ! knows that he willbe forgotten so far out fn oncomlug thuv, but works in the bellef thut man city oily ac ire knowledgu ns the coral revf wttalny cons ‘Uncntul propurtions—that 4s, by the fnilnitest> mul contributions of vountios¢ unsollish dl. Viduulitles,, fife Is dealroun that ian should some day discover tho truths of Nuturc, la there any seltishucas in tho Inspiration? Lypoto agains © Firet aud list of all, we have no fden of any thigg beyond, above, or superior to those carl+ ous and aduiirable bodies of ours.” Ono broad fact remaing—thut, tho highest Hight of wen Inart, religion, or invention hus never Tonched beyond thy body of mui.” Ado not hesitate far one moment to pronounce hove sentences untunlitiedly erroncons. 4 should not be accepted vy anybody us tr they tond to u lowur grado of oxistence. ‘They tern she pardoned convict buck to his bumbout, ennusophy of this kind forgets tho still minal volee,’ ‘e “Tt behooveth ina" ringa in overs The noble intelligent mind, Lhave not done tit whieh Jought todo; 1 therefore wn disturbed anil hie Unrest.” Where has this thanght come trom? Wuydo 1 alt in judaaiuns, on mysclt? Forty ‘Years says it fa selityhness. A pecullar selllub- nigss ta that volco of duty whieh crivs to tho whom we rightly gall good togo furth to the bed Bide of tho distressed, Is it not? Lust spring, at the corner of Lake and Paulina strocts, ian, his wifo,, and his child were neuvk ted) to deuth. Pho child died, and perhupatucy ublilted. Whey were tuken to the hospital, Thy next duy thelr few bousehold cffcets were tumbled down upon the sldowalk, and the young burburjunis ull uf pluy tore thot is the fadilehed ther toss hid Prey. What wae dt fn iny coul which uid unto que? “0, ignoblut You do not Hitt your tinger to. succor this poor mnt Uuye shay upon you!" Why ty ft that that voleo still sounds bn ty eure? Surely a wus not scliishuess, , Listen to i short Huy ‘ Tmuunnet Kunt—Duty! wondrous thought, thut workest neltbor by fond fusiuuation, nor Mattory. nor by any threut, byt murely by-hold- Jog up thy nuked law to tho anda Oxtort- dng for thydelf ulways reverence, If not obedl- ence; before whom ull uppetites are dumls, how= ever secretly they rebel; whence thy origluul? ' ‘orty Yeurs—I um glad to inform yuu that peltishness Ia the orivinal you suek, athe ial terest of aD adyaucing bumanity I = “) ein 187), call attention to still farther fallacies in the samo epistic of Forty Years to Bricea-Hraos “And, while we eannot quite hokt that the Wea exprossed by the modern word ‘gelfieh= noss * is new to mankind, we can safely eny that itis only recently that seliishness catne to bo held avery eit. In tho day of lance, and for. falice, and mailed right hand, the xontlo Knight took what ho could, and held what ho could, and. there were no mealy-mouthed words about tho rights of others and b broad Christian charity, either, To-dny, wll of society has tho precise motiys of tho old Robber-Nardns.” Let ua glance dawn Brondway somo Saturday forenoon. = Myrinda of vehicles confuse the coiminon mind with thelr din and thelr moves ment. A horse comes long walking ona hoot that fs no longer n hoof, What stops every team for tivo blocks for twenty ininutes? Why, nn officer hns rusced Into that torrent of trail has grasped that poor henst by tho bridle, and hhns gent a bulict on n mission of meroy througt jis brain, How fs it that tho abjurgations of tho host fall go lightly on that oMeer? | Why docan't he get killed himself? Meenugo ho 13 in the second Intgeet aggregation of human helms tt the world, and the tmudstakable yolco of the community upholds him and cries, “Well done!" It couldn't bo done in Leadville! It couldn't be Chicaxo even. Not cnough educntion; not ouough | tle- Yelopment? not. onouyh of tho volce of dutyt Let not Forty Years sny that thoro [4a child in the back alloy sturying. So there fa, but roclety will get thore in time. Let not Forty Yeuws criticise sovicty; it Is too bie an uftair. Anais of 1,000 yours ‘It will be necessary to kind to humnnity as wellns to tho brute cron tion; it will bo wt necessity of society. ‘Chore fore eoelety will attend to it. When a vietin fell before Achilles or Diomedes, he begged for mercy. ‘Tho spear then went through his towels, Tho times demunded it, They knew no merey,” Thora 1s no meroy in the "Hind," nor oven in" Puradige Lost.” But when Jeit kon Davis tled from venguance this people 100,000 to entch him, ani than set hlin phys ically free, “stil shackled on” with. the oxe- crutlons of millions of his fellow-men. His punishment for an attempted moreelicment of thla Hepublic Is plenty heavy enough, ‘Thore inust We buna thoughts which roach beyond the human body. I remember well day of serious mental depression which I suitors Followlug this depression, of course, enme n period of sublime exaltation, Points in our memory loge thelr coloring rapidly, and yet Uno feelings of that night still occasion a theilt of pleasure in my mind. Thad been for days convinced nearly to certainty that there wero no rent Joya in Hife,—that suleido way titerdiated not by wisdom but by cowardice, That afters neon T began daboriansiy to pick out some chorig ona plano from the opern of * Liere- tn Borgin,”=the Mnuto of.tho second act. My \ubor wos rewarded by tho most pleusing sounds [liad over mado with my own fugors, and thero was a gener ebullition of pleasure and expectation of future harmonies through my whole body for muny hours afterward. That night I went to hear Lroctor lecttiire on nee tronomy. ‘Tho subilmity of hfs s@bject, the flea of ‘a universe of stars ns xot Yobounded, the higher {den of an fnfinitude of, such unl- verses, cach butn handful of mist in the grent- est telescope, ritsed inc to a polnt of feeling which innde Hfe an inedfable delight... I went to my bed and thanked Creator ont af 2 bound- less thankfulness. I have thought that the twenty-third Psalm (beginning, “Toe Lord is any shepherd") ia a hymn uf thankegiving ine sul red with tha same high quality of satisfac fon. 1 : é if my feelings were not above my poor body that night, it Is strange that C should vainly walt seven yeurs for thelr recurrence. Surely min .ié not, the viclous lump of clay that Forty Years would have him, when he is ublo to command this speech: T have seen, A curious chiid, who dwelt upon n tract Of inland ground, applying to bis ear ‘tho conyolttions of a smooth-lNpped helt; ‘To which, in stience hushed, his very aout Tigtence intensely, and bis counteniuce soon Brlghtened with joy—for murmurlogs from within Wore heard, sonorous cadences! whereby, ‘To his bellef, the monitor exprueac Mysterious union with its native sei. Even such nr ehott the muivero itself Js to tho ear of Falth; and thore aro times, J doubt not, when to you it doth tinpurt Authentie thdings of invisible things. —Wordawerth, f No! not To found the problem or the actions An On ANY one agent—on selfishness, or love, or anything else—is pueritot af mun necessitated tha 4! tlon, and it is to-diy ‘The rexson scovery of gravita- y tho Lest established fact before our view, The rengonof nan establishes a Creator, to endow us with motives above our own development, and to-morrow, perbaps, His existenco may be ne well-established as that of gravitation, Cho Rurons were a hard crowd. To-day in New York, or London, or Parts, they wwontd cach eb twenty years on general principles, Wo havo no thugs or siuggers who ure not thelr su. perlors. Forty Yours ought-to know jt, and oes, ‘The world moves, ‘The ‘letter of Polly Phomus mado mo hugh. Whoop ‘om up, Folly! Wo can rend all you en write, You'll have Owen M, Wilson iu fovewl yO though if you don't look out, ‘Then he have you dead under Tho Maples, for it is his system to kil off all his “sweethearts, and thut, WHI men another venr of his woes far us, Owen’ hegun in Hoschitl, Lbellove about twelve years ngo. He thon did Graceland, and {s now bury- ing his dead under The Mupies, us uforesnld, Mo st has Calvary before him—God help usl huva read his *pocms"—by tho week. 1t was hard work though, oven*for high wages. ix- postulations from: indignant: subserivers havo ralned upon bim, but age Gocsn't svom to withor him, nor custom stato bis inDnit vuriety. Era Beta Ps, acute: DOWN ON THH OLD MA: To the Eduor af The Chicago Tribune, Kansas Crry, Mo, Aug. Hero thoy aro oguin, tho sume old sevens and sixes. To bo gono six months orn year with never so much nan glimpse at the sturdy old ‘fuimunr and open ut Tho Home and sec Chat and tho anciont young brond-gnugo clerieal party, who flaunts Forty ¥ cars froin his guidon sti} at it, tempts us tonsmall grin, on Chat used to eaper-in the guise of a maiden | on whom the dows of youth still yllsteneg, Now td 13 Jooking down ber nose and uceds a Myer pie, . old, I suppose, haa Chat, been disap pointed in love, or turned ously green with onvy that sho eunuot go Dr. Fanner ono better and dotitch her stomach, boll it, rinse it out hlue- water, and Jan it in the sno todry uny other ofd ylizzard. Pshaw, Chut! eheet Tiut it's fun for the boys to see Forty Yours his cap and bells posturing aver ‘Tho Home eaws} dust. He hasbeen accused.ot being wn tmpes. ountous lind of the Inw who lis cruwled under tho tent, before now-to hear Bob Tygersoll} “ preach,’ und who remombers the fine things atoton “by Ingersoll well cnough to got up ot diluted plaginrisi of the thricu-plifored trish on an * imposalblo God." ‘Tho grandiloquont alr this superb creature puts on when senttering hig, orumbs of amall Hottery to Cho susceptible Homo chickens, that this bread so cast muy re- turn to him after not many days in the shape of Adontten! bits of dott donp, bis, Pinust own, fied the souls of tho cniinently intelligent but alent: readory of the Saturduy’s Lursune with excecd> ing wondor, ‘ What our hero hus antd on tobacco 8 n food, and his oxquisit tusto Bispluart by tho public Tontulng nndscorn ot his tenderly: sensitive. and glantlé soul of the Puritans and the Puritan Sabbath are. ensty recalled by thosy who havo hecome soniewhut nsed toscoing this fellow beat the alr with his ears, Ttell you, gracious reader, that a very grent uncasine: is felt throughout this broad land texrity at the Pilgrim Fathers since ary CATO AMON Us, atid don’t you fore dJeeMes KOOZEIN, ‘POLLY PITEMUS, TH VACHELOR THAT LOTIEYD Men, 40 the Ldltor of The Chicago ‘Ivtbune, Cnrcado, Aug, 12.—You don’t know how proud. it makes me feel to Aud my name, at last, print- ed in your paper, You cannot imngine what a Sutter thero wis about my thald ttle heart when T turned ta The Homo in Tin ‘tainuse Just Saturday morulng aud found myself famous, Tian 18 happy us 0 inal speckled pullet in ay poultry-yurd when eackling over tho aceon Dishmont of laying her itrat ¢ JU great writers Nike Mr, Lungfollow, Mr. ‘Tupper, und Forty Years get as much genuine enjoyment out of thetr pleces aa I did out of mine, thoy anust be tho most dolightfully dispositioued folks ving. - It does not tuke much, anyway, 0 Ske a little girl happy, You bayo mudo_ me feol ex- quisitly detlolous, 4 A thank you ever so much for calling mo smart aud pretty, Itiea grent ‘compliment for o big editor to bestow on a Litto mulden ike me, I ont told that editor, a8 n general thing, do not cull yous poots und. prose writers Buch sweet and Jovely names. 1L- think you are just too houventy for unything, ~ Lhuve often been called pretty before, I am almoyt ashamed to any that I hnye flirted a Hitle, und L have suffered, ws Ella Wheeler suys sho hus, 10 her beautiful poem, * sro loves of many: heurts too oft confessed.” Jt mukva a good- hearted girl feel awfully ead sometimes to have. su Many young ncn that shy don’t want to avo coming tosoo her two- or three thnes a week, aul staying tii ber pa begins to sam the doors und sbako down the tire fy tho furnace, and, bee slides, {t fv so sud to hear then: aly, One after ane other, how much bho mukes: them suller, how they want to go aud drown themscives in Lake Michiqun, or wo tu drinking whisky and xot tho delirium tremens,—just av if tho poor girls were to blumo because they loved us, How can we help {t, I should Hke to knowy: Poll me, deur geod Chat; your advice ls ulwuys 60 sound sad eplemdid, L think it 1s just ono of tho meanest things fu tho world for u porson with # apark of manhood fv hin, because ho cannot make some particular ee dove bin to distraction, fo cull all worn Jud false, foolish, ineonstant, aid decoptlots. Dont you think so, triend Fern Leal?” Lwould Uke to hear frum you on thy subice ty Thave bud a great many olferd already, I 51 powy thas Jy nothing that ry zh suiould get it, is sitting In the partor togethar, nshni both dof. Ihave had somo heaux that havo Jmodrenuifully. Phave never liked to hurt anybody's Ceclings, and my good nature has often fed me into many troubles that hive made Ino ery A great many tinnecersury teare, Jum golig to tell you about an oll bachelor who once wanted to be my beat, aml who exas- pernted me horribly. Iv told tne onco that T was smart, but coms pletely spolled the eoraplimont by adding that £ was not so sinart but what J might bo smarter. Lam going to tell tho honest truth. Ident think i{ 1s over wrong to do that,—when one bag aduty to perform that sto owes to svcluty. Thardly know how or pxnoliy yen { beeame Acquainted with him. Ho tsed to etrutup and down Michigan avenue past pa'a plice almost evory afternoon, squinting his two cold eyes at tho ‘window where I was sitting. He never seemed to have anything useful to do, aid ho cortainly did not have even tho merit of belng ornamental. His smile was ghastly, his come. pioxion horrible, and his countenance soon camo exeruelatingly familiar, One Sunday aft ernoon while Twas walking home front BT oe school, Lucefdentally dropped my bib upon tho sidewalk, He stepped promptly forward and picked it upund walked a block or two by my side, tating about the wenthor. Of course f hnd to bow ta him after that, aud tho first thing that [ knew, onv evening when Lb was sitting nlone on the front steps be came along, stopped siddenty, and began to tall: tome, Preity soon pa came to the door, and thinklug £ might oateh vold if Tstatd ot in the eventing: flr, asked us pleasantly to cote ito the partor, 1 immediately went ‘into the: bouse, and, of course, the uld bachelor followed mie. T teed to seo him afterwards ut the matin Bomo of the girls nsed to vnll him a *musher.” £ don’t know oxaotly what the word menns. It 1s not in my dictionary. Tdon't think it fs nico nuyhow, do you, Lulu Wheadon? fometinies Leaw him standing on tho curbs stone in frontot MeVicker's, staring through his little gold ginses at tho Indics 18 thoy cane outof the thentre, 1f any of tho Indy readers of Tho ome happen to ece hin stunditg there to-day 1 wish they wauld shove him olf the slde~ walk and punch Alin with thelr parceols until ho is metlow enough to be curted to Bridgeport by’ tho Chicngo Fertiltzing Company. Lwantto say right here that If those persons who adorn the outer edues of the sidewalks on Saturday afternoons only had good, shuple, common sense enough to realize want an awtuls ly pitiful: and horribly humiliating oxbibition thoy worv making of thomselves, thoy wauld Rt y fearfully fora big int-iron to fall on thelr hollow heads and completely crush them into tho overinsting out of sight. Thave Jaughed ever go many ties about that funny notlon of Mr, Darwin's that men came trom monkeys, but. it makes me feel dreadfully sorlons aometines when Leo so many connect= ing Hinks between monkey and manidind gaping: and gazing atime from tho curbstoncs on State street ns Lye by. Look at thom, dear Indy read- ers of ‘The Home, this very August afternoon; Js not tho show tooexeruchatingly exasperating? But [aun telling a story about an old bachelur who bothorcd me. Is name was Alexander, though there wits nothing about him tomnke anyboily think of great conquestd, exeept lis pervoveranes in pereveuting me, Ife was a tite to bit of nh mun; he hardly cnno up tomy shonider, Ite lind 1 sleree, yellow mus+ tuche, that was ‘n preat dent too big for Ig body, and a seanty head of gandy hair that he . parted pretty nearly in’ the middie, He wore an nwftl lovof cheap Jewelry, whieh ho kept continually changing.” 1 used to wonder sometines if he hidy't once been a ped= lar, and having retired frum business fond fumsole with a targe stock of goods loft on his anda, Ho was avery fluent taker, I never met nn; poay who catlil talk so much, rtd aity so Ltt! He had been abrond and could converse consid~ erably about Pa-reo and all the old ruins and things. Musuld ghe thought. ho was just captl- vyatlny : Icould not go down town shopping ‘but he ‘wig suro to follow me.@ He hud 4 perfectly won- dorful way of appenring at unthought of times, and jn unexpected places, in us unaccountable nmannerns tho dreadful demon pops up trom the staye in a apecincular play. Iwoudor if any at Hig’ huly readers of The Home over encoun: nn? ‘alk nbout old bachelors being bashful, and moilest. My! thore fa moro brass about ong of them than fn all the pay tired, cannon the grout Nupoloon put Jnto the Colunm Vendomel Tnever invited him to come and s¢o ime, but ho cme to otr bottse awfully otton, and ma gave him apptes, nuts, ind lemonade, and sald sho thought ho was splendid, but my big brother Joo suid If he didn't step coming to the house ho would heave him out of tho window, Brother Jou wns nn editor, aud understood human nature pretty well, . . i . I missed two of my photographs out of tho al- bums on the parlor table. Lnever knew where they, went to, bué I have always had my suspl+ clons, One day Twent ton aes at Riverside with my cousin John, Lwas hoping to huve an wwf. ly lovely time, but wo hud hardly, gut to tho grounds when who shortld appenr but Mr. Ale: ander. He followed ine around lke Mury"s Hittlo lamb almost all da : holst him into tho river, but © thought it too dreudtully Gad to do such a terrible thing a3 that, and ao he lot hitn ulone, Lute In the nfternoun whily we wero standing on the little bit of a bridge that rung ucross the river from tho inululand tu tho faland, L dropped ono of wy slippers futo the water. Avity It went dancing down upon the surtica of the strenm with Mr. Alexander runaing rlony tha bunk after It like a little boy chasing a buttertly, Tio tried, ut last, to ronch wy allpber with i stick, but tho stick was too shortor tho glippor too fur from the shore. In his dreadful one deavors, be slipped ou tho clay und fell hendforo- most into the water. Ho scrambled out of tho tiver with the ble drops of water dropping from tho ends of hig mustache, and the legs of his puntaloons look. ing liko damp diah-cloths clinglig to 1 pair of mop-handies. Ho wns tho most frightful looke {ng object Lover had the pleasure of seelng. diis hat went sailing down tho strenm uftermy slipper, I don't know whether it over suceeud+ ed in Hinding it or not; neither, wore ever seen afterwirds, He enme back with tho water gurgling in his outs, aid the alekest-louking smile on his free Tey aw. Ltuld but L hoped he would not take adreadful cold. Ito sail ifwas nothing, 1 trifle, amere nothiig; it would only-ntake him grow. I heard tat ho was afterwards latd up three months with tho duilammuatory rhouma- tism. Wasn't it sud? JT had to borrow ati old shoo from one of tho Borvant-giris at tho hotel to wearhome. It bilstercd my foot drvadfully: but 1 didn’t mind itn bit, J bud to stulf my handkerchief into ny mouth to keep from sereuming with Joy. From that duy* my exagperating tormontor eemed to think that he hud pasticular clalms pon my attention. Ifo enme to sce mo tres pendously often, ‘Tho oxquialt Sony tant T titered. fn those days 18 dreadful to remem Ts 3 Ono ovoning pa went up-stalrs to bed aa Jott r. Alexane der put his hand into his: pocket and tovlc out some carninels gad told me to tale ull I wanted i Heosuld thoro wasn't anything moan about im. a zs 1 ike caramels.. Whenever anybody comes to feo ne f hope that they will bring mo soine. think thoy are uwful nico, | 1 took whole hand- at. Then’ Mr, Alexander ent down nt one end of tho sofa beside me. J didn't think it was nico to hive bi go wer, und 6a L myved along a litte, dio kept coming Closer to me, and] kept moving: nway Lromi him. Tsay that [should protty goo, ‘be ut the othor end of tho sofa at tho rate we were going, J mudo up my mind to try and stop, him at onee, “OMr. Atexander,”” Teatd, * you are too aw- fu y axueperntin : Call me Chawles," he replied, squinting lis. coll grey cyea ut me and griuning o horrible rr 1 ny jist clapped a carainel] down on the sofu- eushlon. He wns looking tuto my face and did not notleo it. Pretty soon bo moved squarely on tolt, Tet him yet protty near mo. 1 wanted the curatmel to melt enotigh to muko It sticky. Refore J knew what ho was about be reached forward and got hokl of my hand, His fingers felt go cold and clummy Ubut it nude the goose~ pimples break but all over my body, and my skin felt ay ough asa russet spies J sat thora ag long a4 1 could, then hopped up with aw little ed ran Heros the root. ine, Int ho stick tothe gofa Iike ofly to nehect of sticky paper. His free was full of “awful white eniotion,” us Ella Wheeler says, Mow 2 wish the readers of The lowe could bive goon Liin vt that exolting moment, Something at Inst gave way. It was not tho enrumed, T'retty soon he backed uracorutly out of the rouin and went away without hardly walting to gay good night, To never saw o mun uct go any’. Muand Thad an awful timo cleanin, up tho votu the next Jnorning. Bho never Hked Mr, Alexander so well after that, Wo fuund a saul Ut of caasinore sticking to the caramel, and wo wondered dreadfully Where 41 cume from, Tdlda't sco him agin for a great while, Pa inet bit on the street one day, and ho told hint that he had been uway munitag deer, Tho woxt tine Deaw bin he tollowed mo homo front tho swimnming-sebook He popped around tho corner of tho Gurdaer Houso ne if he hud been haying In wall for me. He walked down Michigan uvenus with me, Tdidn't know how i ket a Lit, and go bo follawed mo all. tho way home, « Juut befora wo arrived there, t noticed that ho suddenly stooped dawn and (eked up, somes thing frou tho sidewnlk, whion ho quickly thrumt (nto hfs vestepockbt, Laeked bln whut it-wnat ho antd te was a bit of paper. Pretty soon Leould feel ane of iny stouklugs fy slipping down, You can Muginy how pertoe horribte felt. T whirled ans steps tatu tee honse. J rushed into the parlor wun pecper out through thu shutters of tho buy- wiudow, My Inte tormentor was Just turnin) around the conor Deluw. As ho went aut © Esa bli tuke sometbing from bls yeat~ ‘and press i¢ aguinat bls dreadfuldooking, otlow tuustuche. it wasa bit of Liuo silk elastlo with w little silver chusp on ft, Tewas miinot : Iwas so hopping tad that I sprang about breo fest into the uly and cua duwn upon the heels of my boot with auch force thut 4 think yoo would have buen driven cleuy through bbe Mitlo drledeup body 1¢ 4 hud beon beneath thous, Then 1 clenched” both of wy huuds, run up. etutra, throw myself upouimy bed, and bawled ull tho reat of tho afternoon, Nobody can Ovgr finagine how awfully auifered. ws run wp the. front When bruthor Joo cane home Ttold him how Thad been insulted. He hiuyhed and shouted at mae Wntll Twas go nngry Uae L thought I never would speak tu blin again. Too next morulng bo met Mr, Alozandes in Coualn John offered to. tho ronding-room at tho Palmer Mouse. He walked up to tht table whore tho Ittie ot bach- color was altting, and Lene his feet down with aterrible thump, and katd: “You've got sometiung in your pocket that volongs to my Httle sister, Give it to me, alr, or, by fice Vi brenk every boue in your miserable Hrothor Joo saya the old bachelor stat jerked itout of his pocket, throw it. dawn on tho table, and run gue of the room ms if ho expected to bo murdered. My dreadful tormentor novor bothered me but: onco afterwards. Ouc day when Iwas coming outof Hooloy’s ho squinted at mo from tho stone, aud hiesed In my enr as L wont oye You qln’t so amuart but what you might bo smarter.” ‘Wisn't ho too drendfully exasperating for any use? PoLLY Pienos. TNE AQH OF PROGRESS, Mit, DAILUY'S NEELECTIONS. ‘ Te the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. TIMLSvALH, pick. Aug. 10.—1 sat on n box for two hours this morning watching a steam thrash- ing muchino which, ke a hungry monster, toro tho gotden shenves npart and sitted tho ablning kernets of grain {nto automatic measures, How tho wheels flew! and bow terribly earnest the Perfect machine appanred! Outalde, the noley Nttle engino puffed away, hmparting its force to pelts, nnd wheels, nnd pulleys. Tho workmen were very busy feeding tho maw of this tn- satinto glutton who could uot get food fart enough, but i Sr iat his ompty tecth in silent raya. nluy betokenud rapid mo- tion and headices force. ‘Tho world is gaining both in forco and timo, I | mM thought. Evorything is moving forwat novelties nro tha rilu, not the exception, tmachine docs not much resemble the ones of 1 tlozen years ugo, when horacs were tha motive powor, to say uothing of tho contrivances used for a atinilar purpose by Abraham and Jacub on tho plaing of Judon, ‘They tell me that reapors superior to thoso now fn so wero run by tho Eyyptlins and Algerians 3,000 yours go, profound respeat for the ancients, I do nat bee love ft. ‘They know no more nbout such things than wo do ubout the inseriptions on the Sphinx, * Inventions cluster wround ovo another, and. tholrs was not an inventive ngo, Nothmg cin bo done without provlous education and prepara- tion for that spceific object. ‘Chose old use bandmen, wore poor farmers, I fears vertainiy thoy dd not cultivate tho soft with chilied iT or hrrrows mado of steel springs, ‘They b attend thelr welghvor's auctions tit basket-phactons drawn by white Arabian ponies, They did not glide from city to city in paiace- cars, with diiing-room. attachmants,—only 73 cents a ineal, claret and feed-chiunpagne oxtra, sand a return'tieket in thofr vest-pocket, good for only thirty day's, 20 per cent discount from regular fure, They did not go “round tho lnkes" Inn grent steamer,~—1,400 miles to visit thelr mother-in-law, who is old-fushioned enough to Ilye in Detroit. They did Not ran old Unbylon, or Calro, or yo, or Carthnye in debt, to the: tune of aixteen or twenty millions of dollars and issuo bonds payable in 10 nt 7 per cent to build court-howses, tunnels, rallronda, nnd wrter-works, Lastly, thelr farmers did uot mortmuge their homesteads to buy pianos for tholr duughters and fast horses for thelr sons. £ donbt if they even knew how to count a string of bililards or’ could tell the difference between o Julop and a tou and sorry Certalny they hid no Home in tho old Roman Lribune, and it is doubtful if thelr philusophers on the forum, or in the sBuored yrroves ot Iyis, diseussed tho fncipleut Platunte system so raves ly or wisely ng our modern Forty Years, Hitters sweet, Chat, or that relic of ancient achulustic- Jam, Eta Betn PE. The former should “reserve Wi rights" on his productions and have thom entered at tho Post-Ollice ng “second-cinss mit- ter,"’ or goino literary pirate will shortly be pure Joluing them, and getting them spread on the Congressional Record ns part of tho Constitution (or by-luws) of one great Nation, Oura is an inventiveage. We live, wo cat, wo plun, wo produce, we dio, with Jightning-llke rapluity. Hyery action inust have a specitic ob- deet, and “ Pastor, faster,”. is the SOUBANE Cry Ones the honest farmer was content to spend nll pviitershenuhte onthisgrainwith a flatly now it must be dono in a few hours with a steam ma- chine. Horses were once the great motivo power, now it le stenm; but that has become too slow to mect the nwftl demand for anced, and goon It will be oteet rieity;—ani thon?—tho man's: fortuno i4 made who will dlgcover 801 thing fnstor aud more perilous, Journeys to tho moon, and oven to Neptuno, will shortly bo advertised in alt our hotel oltices, and picnics by the elevated railway, * on tho rod planet Mara,” round trip only 60 cents, forthe benellt of Church, will supersede tho fevecream and straw- borry-fostival swindte which sntisiics the stow mortals of the presunt day. What ting have wo tor “friondship” when such giguntls enterprises aro convulsing the ublic mind! There isho such thing regnint dust now ns trao friendship. It Iau rolio af the must. Wo havo left it behind, und can no more hope to catch {t again than we cin overtake 9 atreet-carn blool off. I don'tsee what prictical fnyentive people want with friendship, anyhow. Who would enrotoridein a "bus when a cur passes hia door every tive minutes? Wo want no incumbrunces to tmpeda our progress. Wo THust travel fustor than anybody else If wo want towln. Friends deluy us, Wo must entertain them and help them. Hoth ennnot win theaume ruco, Wo niust socritice them or ourselves. Ought we to hesitatd a moment Jn our choice? Whero nll sturt equal tho best effort. ought to wins; gencrogity on our part may glvo tho prize to an sufertor, und oyvery instiuct of our nature rises In rebellion at tho thought. . It igamusing to hear Tho Homo writers discuss this subject ag if it wero n lving reality, when, Jn fact, [tis amistnke In term Friendship died prior to tho “age of invention.” Its present counterfolts aro specious deceptions, bidden, [tke tho ustrich’s hend, In the sand—and no het~ ster. With us it is self firat, and our *“donrest nilinity’’ next, then some ono ose, nnd ko down tho eenlo to positive repulsion and hatred. The Conductor. must haye hada grand bon- fire lately, and permitted only the fittest to sure vive, Judging from tho great improvement in The Home. Tho articles by Fern-Lent, Hers shel, Topsy Lhuikle, Made Meredith, Callfornia, Bittersweet, F., Mayen Hair, Orleana, Forty Yours, Eta 3. P., and Kugeno Halt hive no ane porlors In current Hteratuve. And ‘there are imany now writers who, like Pally Phomus, fish athwart our Hterary zenith and disappear for. ever, whose sketches display tulent and wit; but 1 like the old writers best. ‘hot which 1s tried and can abide, Is that whlch will longest enduro. A, Dainey, CAMPING OUT. BISTER ANNH'S BXVERIENCE, ° To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Osmp Carrer, Aug. 11.—' Rossean says o man cnn best describe tho sweetsot liberty from. tho Insido of n prison, 60 Isupposo you, bolug shut up in a tte camp in Indiana sandhills, can find no Indk of thom," sald a friond sontentious- ly, as ho holped.ine aboard the train which in. two hours’ rido would Jand mo within a mito's walle-of tho sadly abused sandbilis, near the ‘banks of the placid Calumet, OF courso to ono addicted to ffrtation and mooullght strolls, this would bo rathor monot- onoud, to me,—to quote from that dear, old writer, Charies Cotton: “ God God! how sweet aro all things hero! How beautiful the felds nppuart Ilow clennly do we foed aud lol Lord! what good hours do we keep! low quiely we steyp1. Whut piace, whut sini hinlte How innocent from the lewd fashion, 14 ult our business, ail ovr recreation!" By Logom friend Arachne cannot bo ior cn- thuslustio over her Maryland rocks than I over my, Andlana sand-hilla, Perhups ere this ho Homo hus forgotton tho quid pullogopher Sistor Anne, © It imuttors not,” wo say with aainiling fico,—thorgh our Bpectacles are susplelously din," for who to dumb forgetfulness a “proy would bo forgot- ten ‘While Forty Years turns tho kalelitascopo of hfs theorjeg ‘und fancles, ant Chat discau most gloumily, I gnze through ny “punched eller" ut my twenty yerrs old philosophy, as I sit on a log with my fablug-rod angling for bull heads and bags In tho oltesis Caluinet, ‘Shi de we live. At duwn we rigy, and in such costume ne sults both time nnd place, walk two ailles until the river, bunks, thick with runkest Krauss and “sedges, are before ug, Choro trom ently morn tit even cool wo angle tn peaceful solitude. Followhur in the footsteps of the rinco of anglers, Lzavk® Walton, we. pasa’ the OUTS AWatY UHEIT AL PAVOHOUE KeNsAtion Warns Us of tho approuch of moal-tine, r From tho depths of @ capuctons stone Jar wo fish tho lusty gruen eronkers, wd soon the aps petaing odor of frying froys’ legs grevts our aturul nustrila. Tn an iron pot, seething and soHng, ares portion af the remains at yester- duy’s trallesane turtle, that so yayly paced tho siidy shore, and go viclously gave ovidence Of hig napping proponalty Upon tho first Mager of X's right bund. A- Ings, nicely brolled, with roast potatoes and plenty of veh ink froma, meditative deriay in the nowrest pusture, com- plotes one ropaat. ‘Tho tent J pitehod on the summit of 4 saud~ HU, fn tho inidst of 4 grove of Berubby ouks and ple ‘Tho hillaide be covered yith tiutekigberry= nivhes and dawborsyevinod, At tho foot buble ont several springy of coolust water, wherein avo deposited our ftogejur, tho buttue-key, ete, Beyond the epriogs extouds x pateh of mam-' moth puinicling A short distuuce to the weat fy W farmhouse. Amilo north $3 tho rallwaysstite ton and Luke Michizan, to tho oust the river, oud ae ed south ad tho eye con reach roll the vand-hiflls, OF courve this lif has its Meadvantages. First and forumust comes the ehegre, or, bn the aes Juucy of the community, the *figaer” This fs Au Angeyt in. bublts similur to tho wood- tick, It's the color of blood, tho size of a pit point, and when once It works its way bene (bu skin your nuneyance becomes Intense. An application of camphor and water to tho eifected hie utlords relief and kills tho “jigger’* (Cumping purtica take notice.) 3 ‘The et rere stands second onthe fist of peula. Inthe snud-bills thie tantalizing inseot woquiros a cixe aunt yoruvity not equated tnany other region. His belligerant trumpet sounds from sunset ull synrise, und no bur ty proof pguinst bis energetis mothud of warfure, But an gpelteation of Do purtd of awevt-oll to one. of ol of tar to your face und hands will rid you of his endeavors. ‘Tho mixture referred tohis a singular effect upon the complexion, only tomparary, of course, but 1 about not advivo the girls tq apply it without ve conglderation, mid K..who has heen altting by mo nursing his Ine {irell Mower, sturte up with tho remurie thit, bo leaves for tho elty fn tiventy minutes and miles any letter is Mnrhed this werk, it wi not get In ‘Tho Home by At owl ong tree nee the tent haots ut the world yenerally inn highly expressive @anner, but Koevitently thinks ‘his remurks Parasia }for ho nasumes a sadly injured ap- ‘pearnnes. Twillht has already fallon, and the crescent: of tho new moon Langs bright and silvery inthe sky. Tho golden pumpkins nt the bill's foot gicam with a fniry-tike mdlance,—great ingots of gold from the inines of the gnomes, ain the quaint, irregilar stauzns from Cot- toe Sane ‘before mo, and with ono verse I aay ‘What an overhappy one: - Should f think myself to bo Might I, In this desert: place, » Which most men In discourse Alegrace, Live but undleturb'd and freet lore in this doxpla’d recess i Tinnugro winter's cold, Ant the suminer's worst oxcess, Try to llvo out to sixty full yeura old} Ant all tho whilo Without nn envious eyo On any thriving tinder fortuno’s smile, Contented livo, and then—contented die. BISTER ANNE. TOBACCO. ROB TO THN FRONT AGAIN, ‘% the Editor of Tha Chicago Tribune, . Decartun, Ill, Aug. 4.--Anothor long-range ehot from J, but tho shaft wasrathor light, The arguinent was not strong cnough to doany dumnge, a0, instead of being a death-shot, It ouly Uvkicd mo and fell harmléss at my feat. Sho has Just returned from a long visit to the countty, and, haying sntisilend hereelf with rural pleasures, sho Js prompled—by a little incident: that took pince during hor return trip—to glvo ‘us miserable tobaccoites anothor overhauling. Shoeamo homo th the curs, and tho scont of new-mown hay which stlll ingored around her wasscnt Into obi{vion by the action of some hoor who used vile language and puffed tobacco smoke. ‘ : Her bappIneas was atill further curtalled when she caught sight of a corpulent gentlemnn drinking something from n bottle, which to KF. appeared to be cold ten. You wero greatly mise taken, Fez itwas anitl-fat. ‘Thus sho returned home in tie aimlable mood, and, recalling my Inet letter tu The Home, sho once more returns to tho work of attciupting to provo that tobacco fa very bud. She calis upon mo to select o judge, and jury. trom among tho Homaltes to hear her ‘defense, That is difficult todo, Lean only ask syinoof thom to give thelr ylews on tho subject for you, with the Conduct- or’a kind permission, F. says * Lobacco fs no good to you, and when Iray youT meun all tobncco-users, It makes you séltish, but that wouldn't matter so much, ‘or Litm selfish too, and to suck an extent that f would liko to seo every ono Hive, itup so that I might breathe fresh alr, Itig terrible to adul- tornte the air with tobacco rinvke," sho co! tines, and thon closes by picturing how imiser~ able she is whon compelled tu suffer from It. I nm surprised to learn that tho use of the weed minkes ine selfish, but as B. don’t use it, and 16 selfish, tho buttom fulls ou€ of that arguinent. It is difficult for ine to discover the injury re sulting from 1 mod¢rate use of the article, Til adnilt that it does me no good physicaliy, but on the other band itdoca ine no turm, Thero area hundred things a person can do without, but using or enjoying thom docs bim no harm when taken in moderation, Wherein to tho users and non-users differ? Isitin health, capabilities, strangth, capacity for work, pollioness, or intelligence? Je ho fess chivairous? Is ho less generous? Can he ot bo at gentleman and smoke? Is it swelling the death rite? Do insurance compnnies make it condl- tlonal on tho poticyholdors that they shall not uyg tobucco? . * Tho above questions, {£ truthfully anawored, might uford us somo Hight on tho subseot, and iy opinion ts thut thoy nre all susceptible of a favornblo augwor in-behnlf of the weed, In ree fond to myself, 1 may say that Ihave used to- acevo for fourteou yours. I huye been a mod erate user of it, and during u)l that timo [have had good health, and at the present timoI do not wish for better, It hig had no deleterious effect upon. ma #0. far;, but, it may be asked, What Is moderation? Teannot speak forall. 1 eonsider moderation to be two or three clears per day, and occusionally four or five, averaging froin ten to fifteen per week, with tho addition Of two ounces of smoking tobacco por week. 1 vory seldom yro beyoud that amount. In every respeot I consider it n moderate dose, I cunnot anticipate nll the questions that might be usked, for thoy ure legion, The only injury that is visiblo to mais tho cash thut is paid out of pocksts und that would bo nally ar- gument against the use of the weed, T muy bo asked, Havo Ln good appetite? A clear Vision? A: sound momory? An -elnatio atop?. Ordo £ enjoy undisturbed slumber? To ull these T auswor yus, Still, Iain not so foolish, ag to think that I'am indebted to tobacco for good hoilth, nelthor will 1 admit that Ihave suffered from the tse of it © fut,” hear gomo one sty, “it polsons tho blood” If ko, whnt resitlts if th ry blood Is polsoned?- Dixense certainiy, But it ono hus good heulth, and tho poison fs coining through lls blood pt the sumo thine, then good health and polsoned blood are consistent; somes what puradoxical, isn’t it? Mowever, [ don't want tho Tomeites to think mon paradox. The aint Ldesire to mako and impress upon F. and or tlk is, that, o8 farts Visiblo proofs ean be shown whereby wo cin judge, tobacco has done meno birm, 2 Anrogurd toF.'sargument,—that of anaduiter- ated atinosphere,—I think ‘sho is making o mountain of a mole-hill, Emptying a carboy of aulphurie acid into Lake Michigan would not turn Its wators Into vineqar, neltier would all tho tobacco smoke in Muskegon, where F. lives, affect the atmosphore thero to tlie extent which her imagination leads ber to think {twould. agreo with F, in somo things, Binoking should not bo tolerated in any public piace where every ono {s allowed to congregute. ‘The mujority of mon uso the weed, und it is not an cngy inatter to know just when wo are the object of some one’s disgust, In amoking a cigar on the street it would be ridiculous to stop overs ono Wo pnga of meot, who waa not sniokiug, and ost them if thoy objected. ‘fobaceo {sas great n luxury to mo.as per- fumory isto indy, Thoro are delicate creat- ures who ulmost stifle themselves in an atinog- phere of porfuncry who never stop to think whethor it fa disagreeable to othors, while nt tho suiio tine they would fool insulted If come ono wero to cone within a rod of them with a clg- oret in his mouth. Z. While Ldo pe ins tho usd of tobacco be- yond certnin fiinits, it 1s, nevertholess, moro of afriend than an enomy toman, 1t ie a luxury which the poor can indulyo in with vory little srorifice of money, aud I donbt whother any one thing ean repluce {t or equal it in its comforting and soothing qualitics, Lhope none of the Homeltes wilt ask me to swear of, for { have not the heart to do tt, Con- sidor for un momunt tho peacoful moments [have enjoyed in close proximity to the fragrant cloud, —tho exquisit, undatiiublo plousure thore isinan after-supper smoke. Forty Yours aud my fellow Bucholor In Iowa know how ft 1s themselves, 16 it possible that among tho fair contributors to The Homo thero niay bo sono who will sympathize with us, [ know Work- ing Beo's sentiments. Like wil the rust of tho working bees, she docs not Nke to be smoked ' out, or smoked into unconsclousness, Fern Leaf will surely show us some fuyor, for she must depend on somo of her gentlomon trionds to fumigate hor Planta. Will not Bittersweet smile upon our Bide, for iy not tobacco bitter, and at tho rama time sweot? Pardon mo for saying that, Bitter~ sweet, but days sho to Haven Hale: “Just wait and wateh tho southausat breoxes; thoy're sura to bring you something nice oro long.” Sy Raven Tulr, it will be blinself, and the fragrauco of hig -Havann will put in an uppearance a fow moments cre ho docs, . Bon. RATHER LIKES LIFE. AND TIMNKS ALL SHOULD ENJOY 17,” ‘To the Editor of The CAlcago Tribune, Citoaga, Aug. &.—"* It is not certain that hu- man existonce is a good'and valuable thing.” ‘That one cupublo of. onjoying -lfo inso fulla degree ag our Sphynx should bave sald that) Existenco moans tho use of tho sonsea,—tho. power to feel, to think, to seo, to henr, to act. Non-oxlatence. means the blotting outof all thoso things, Ts that dosirable? : Ask ony, who loves form and color, as ho watches n sunset, ng ho secs a plolure, neatatue, aitowor, whose beauty thrills him to the utters most, If existence Is n good thing, y And is beauty rire Ia this world? Ask ono who loves music, ns he ietena ton graud symphony, or tho le Vespor hymn, fnd pain, and. sorrow, wad care are forgatten At je enjoyment of tho swoot sounds, If uxisteace 8 gUOd. Aut tho wortd fg full of musiot Ask tho lover of Nature, to whom the sight of the ocean, penceful, imajostic, still, or storm Ss WE SEND ON 30 DAYS’ TRIAL, aay tossed ton mighty exhibition of power—to whom the aightof tho deep, cool woos, tho grand mountiin-peaks, and nil the heanty of tower and treo is weonicce of keon delight—nak bin tf existence Is a valuable thing, Amit to how many fs tho siht of all those things dentod? Ask the young wife in the full knowledge and Joy of hor husband's love: the mother, bending over tha ernie at her slecplig bubo; the chile dron in thotr happy plhys tha father, watching his boy growing inte a noble munhood,—if life holds ‘nothing vatunblo or good, And are these hips tho exception? Ask tho mat to whom the accumulation ot monoy Is a pleasure, ns he feos tho growth of Nis sucecsaful business brivaing him the menns Of-gratifying bis tastes, of contributing to tho lonsiires of those lio loves, whother existence apt the ho I hoth i] i worth anything to hin. And what ts lifotoono who knows ho has Mphtonedt his brother's burden, who ie consolous of having soothod the pain or brightened the pathway of a follow-travolor In this wrongly named ® yalo of tenrs,”” Fiiman existence not valuablo! For boanty of expression, for exquisit *word- Painting, Chat's Inst letter was, [ think, (ho fincat ining Tho Home has over given us; but Thope our usually merry Chat will write to us oftencr in her bright moots than In such ones neinduced bor to give us that Just contribution; for nro such lotters healthful? Are thoy truco? Wo cnn, if wo will, Hl our life eo full of other things ne to crowd out nll gloomy thoughts. Thero ta plenty of work for ull of tts in this wortd. Can Wwondt onter Into it with so much Jest and on- thusiasm that sad thoughts will be forgotten? Phere isn good deal of play for most of us in tho world, Can wo not play so hard and so mer- rily that memory's phosta and imaination’s spcatres grim will vanish or else bo changed to Jaughing sprites? ‘Tho world Js full of benuty if we only look for it; many things to learn; many thoughts of others, prezerved, that wo can nmuise, Instruct, and comfort ourselves with; wide fictds in Hter= ature, in art, in’ music, in soiqnco to explore, and by doing so forgot ourselyes. With oppor- tunitfes so many cnn we give ourselves thie to indulge in sad momorles, in glaumy forebodlngs? Not let us crowd our lives so full of work, of pins of ministering to others, of scurch after nowledge, of enjoyment of the sights and sounds that Naturo and art have givon us, that wo sbatl have notbought of the dread wall of death til tho end comes uniwares; the end whi¢h may prove only a bernie of an oxlat- enco, to which tho joys and beauties of this ava but ns shadows to the full suntight, Buzz. A MAIDEN’S WO. WHO CAN HEL? WER? ‘To the Editor of The Chteago Tribune, Monroy, Vt., Aug. 7.—-O dear mo! Is thoro ohe sympnthetic heart in all this world round, one great, magnanimous soul, which will quietly turn from self away for an hour to Isten to tho sad complaining of a poor Iittlo soul afar off? Poor Iittio soul that: 1 am in this cold, bleak, sclf-loving world alone,—alone going out on tho tidalewaye of ‘Tine onto the great ocean of Life, thero to bo tossed and beaten fn the pitl- Jessstorm! Even now in the distant horizon I geo n dark cloud whirling on directly in my coureo, Can 1 sui! on benenth it alono? No, never. Therefore I stand with outstretched hand, beckoning, calling for ald,—for a friendly human voice to cheer, to sava mo from the mer- cltess fury of yonder tbony-winged monster. The aweot aroma of childhood's duys etill Hngers ground me, and Hope Folnts outward toward 8 benutiful cottuze, inndo. thrice lovely by the presence of a noble knight newt ng in tho dim distance for ine; but L eannot wnierstand the efrain. Tho seething, roaring sound of the up- rouching tempest drowns tho volco of the sweet siuor, and O, in agony of soul, 1 ory out, “Loat) Loatl" ‘This ts my first pront grief which forces mo to confide my troubles to some one, and 1 think if re ig a kind heart and true’, to be found in thia world {t will be within Tho Ifome cirele that meots once n week in ‘Tue Ciicago ‘Purnun: T have a kind, indulgent mamimn, but Oso cruoily proud; and—nnd—well, thore 15 tt young man vhoin Llove and who loves me. Ho Is overything and more than heart could desire, but mlasf he is poor, and imimmn has influenced papa to look upon hin coldly, and i think ho contomplates our separation. T heard him tell mamina but yesterday something about" abrond to complote her education.” I just wanted to seream out ut the top of my voice, “Educate a Poor soul for Madeat” Bue my heart wns too ‘ull, 80 _T snutehed nty hat and rin off ip tho street. The great round moon bad just ellimbed the mountains, and one Jone star looked down on mo go sadly thut L burst into tears, and tai moniont more was In Hurry’a arms, pouring out tho bittorness of 1 Drakon heart. io cried and felt su vory bud [dried iny tears and tried to ba cheerful. It made my honrt ache so to seo him look so handsome, 80 noble, and heur bim guy , such kind, * loving things, — how he ‘would work and, wait for mot Ufetimo if necessary, 1 dfd not, coutd not, toll hin mrmma had said T mist marry that horrid, rich old widowor of 60 yeurs, who comes from the olty every summer ftito tho country to rust. cute, Bho ¢ays ft would bo such n cuteh that all Linsdaie would onvy me, and eho anc Uttlo alster could spend’ tha winters with us and set into the best saciety, Isn't that’ dreadfully Nelfish? Harry and I are ro happy together, and he is thoughtful and kind; he never forgets to bring mo the choicest Nittle bouquets, and always renda mo a poem from ovary litte flower worthy of a Burns or a Whittier, One day that horrid old city chap called on mo, and mania said T must be olvil aud try to make myself ngreonble (Lantd to mywolf 1 would bo just us disngreeabla na L know how to be.) Just to draw hint out, [ showed him some of my cholceat troph ants,” He ginnced carelesly at them, sayin cared much about posies, but I suppose when FE gota wife I shall bavo to putup with tho trash.” Odenr ne, what amItodo? Will somo.one in The Homo bo kind to a poor littlo girk in trouble and advige ber what to du? * MAnRL Gury, FLAVORING EXTIRACES, NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS EXTRACTS. from the eholeeat Fruits ido, cv artietal Rese: WITNOGT ANY ADULT renath and anilty. sche hans io araleful and xaiural flavors for cakes, ame, 16, Over, Manufactured by STEELE & PRICE, Makers of Dupulin Yeast Ge Cream Ponder, ote,, Cilcago and St, Louls, was: NOTICH, Roply to Sali-Rheu Swforer ‘You can obtain all tho facte concerning the Senofutn Precio, you rofor to by recog, to BTHRUMATION,” Hox 28) Kulamazoo, Stich, ‘Wo hare forvotten thio name of tho proprietor. ‘The Bpovitia, we bellovo, Is Mover advertisod, and is not for mule at drug stores, Huttur send there ford circular Urat und got particu Ed SCALES, Rinne ~ FAIRBANKS’ STANDAND oF ALL KINDS, Ss FAIRBANKS, MORSE & 00. 111 & 118 Lake St,, Chicago, Becarefultobuy only the Genuino. DR. 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Marke ininiition of quantit quency. of Involuntary weakening Marner UE alliicted fa that way), with cortuinty of per manent cure. Incrensed strength exhibhelia tho secreting glands, and function barmony ro. stored to tho several organs, 5. Yelluw tinge on the whito of tho eyes, ang ‘tho swarthy, salfron appearance of the ‘skin changed ton clear, lively, and henlthy color, 6, Those suffering from wenk or ulcerated lings or tuboreles will reallzo great bonedtig expectorating freoly the tough phiegm or mucus from tho Inugs, alr ectls, branch! or windpipe, thront of hend} diminishing tho frequenoyot cough; genoral increase of strength throughout tho system; stoppage of night-sweate and pal and Tooltirs of woukness around tho anki lege, shouliters, ete.; ocssation of cold chills, senso of suffocation, burd breathin, paroxysm of oon on tying down or arising fn the morning, All these distressing symptoms gradually and surely: queappaar. %, As day after day tho SARSAPARILLIAN Ig taken new signs of returning henlt will nppe: asthe blood improves in Purity and strength disease will diminish, and all foreign and-Itupare deposits, nodes, tumors, cancers, hard lumps, ete., be rosalve away, find tho wnsound made sound and healthy; ulcers, fever sores, chronig akin diseases, gradually disappear, 8. In ensea whore the sysiom ‘has becn zal vated, ani Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosivesub. Iitnnte have accumulated und become deposited, in the bones, joints, ete., causing caries of the, bones, ricknis, spinal curvatures, contortion whito swollings, varicose velns, ote., the sa BAPARILLIAN will resolve away these Lleposita and oxterminato tho virus of tho disease from! tho oe lem. 0, {f those who are taking theso medicines fon the cure of Chronic, -Serofulous, or Syphilitia diseases, however sluw may bo tha cure, “feek better" and find tholr general beaith itnproving, their flesh and weight Increasing, or even keep. ing its own, It Ja A sure aign that the cure fs prow gressing. In these discnses the pntlent cither gets better or worso,—tho virus of tho discase ig not inactive; if not arrested and driven from »| the blood, it will spread and continue to under: mine thoconstitution, As roon na thy SARSAs PAI AAN sankee the Patten are! eal very hour you will grow botter and ine Ruth, wtronity and tet ei ta cue ¢ Kreat power of this rema in dise: that threaten death, pg in re ss CONSUMPTION * of tho fungs and Tuberentous Phtbisis, Scrofae Inf phtlotd Disenacs, Vgnstinw, Degencration and Ulceration of tho Idneys, Diabetes, Stop page of Water (Instantaneous relief alfordet where cathoters have been uecd, thus doing away with the painful operation of using thes. Instruments), dlssolying Stono in the Bladder and In all cases of Inflammation of the Blad= _ der and Kidneys. 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