Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1880, Page 12

fz . ELE CINCAGO VRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1880—TWELVE PAG. oe, THE HOME An Able Paper in Defense of Un- married Females. Polly Phemus Porforma ao Little War- Dance for Fan, A Not Orer-Fifective Reply to Eta Bota Pi by Forty, Years. Some More Desoriptions of Maryland Scen- ery by a Traveling Ohicago Lady, Mabel Gray Furnished with Any Amount of Good Adrlee by Mignone,‘ Life’s Aims Discussed by Maud Moredith— Miscellancous Contrlbutlons, Eto. SLEEP. Clothe mo In dreams, O sweet, sad wraith of Sleopt Wrap mo from head to fect tn garinents white Of mystic dreams: with stars of radiant light Gemmetl hero nnd there In there pale clouds that weep! For tired heart and weary bratn doth leap With ono gront throb toward the dim unknown That holds long rest for carth-born sigh and inoan. ~ Bhroud me tn paltid drenms, O ghost of Bleep! Lay your wan fingers on my aching eyes, And bid Lifo's othor fantoms fleo away, Into tho solemn shades that bave no day, Where, broodingly, eternal atlence les! ‘Thon whleper, soft ag moon on frost-wreathes pony, “Dream, irgrn-out ono, dream hero, forever- moro!" ‘ 1880. FAnny Drtsconm THE LHYTTER-BOX. ‘Thero aro letters, papers, and postil-enrds at this omMice for the pérsant whose names appear below. ‘hose living outof tho city should send their address nnd nt three-cent stamp, upon re celptot which thelr math will be forwarded. Neridents of Chiengo ean obtain thelr mail by ealling at Room 86Trimust Building: Eta Bota 1H, Dolly Phemus. OLD MATDS. AWOMD IN THETIC DEFENSES To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cuicago, Sept. L—Witl noone try to resco tho old maids from the merciless grasp of Eugene J. Hall? : 1 nave heen walting for some of the fair writers of The Home to come to the defense of tho werk ogajnst the mighty, but. thelr silence | Beoms to Indicate them equally xevere in thal { consire of {his much-abused portion ef tho gentle sex, Beewuse Mr. Hall was not as fore tunate In his boyhood as David Coppertietd or Ne Marvel ido not see that that should maka ‘him down on all tho elderly un aunts, Lot uslook at tho so-entied “old malda” and scolf thore is really anything about them tde- serving ail tho scorn and rutigule that Mr, Tinll heaps pon thon, and tho title of reproach tint” every one Is rendy to hurt tb thom, * Tn comparison with othor women | thing thoy will contrast Gtvarably when Judged without prejudice, Can it be tecause thoy “minded enough to refuse to marry where they cannoteven respect? | Ts marrhuce, then, the e3- eentitl thing? Hus it nroved such a heavenly » hoon tomosi women? When we stop te cone eider that there are mere women In the world | than men, we mitet see that Foie mist perforce renin unmurrie Why those who, from eholce ‘ ce of eireumstinees, do not marcy shoutd be remanded fn other thin the highest Llsht Cam unntle to determing. ,, When wo think of sieh women as the Carey, sisters, Miss Proctor, Uarriet: Martineau and Charlotte Cushman, we ennpot withhold pur roe Bpeet fer a moment, Tho tess Mistriots onus, too, will net auiter by comparison, How many fandlles allover the fund Inve been blessodt and sustained by tho faithful devetion of soni woe married anat or elder eleter, fwill the many anawer who have had the good fortune to pox- milnisterhug fuel, ye ane ‘eneon ho are slipning He (ho Bonar perhaps brother, to greuter ¢ ertions: aud who manuges the honsehold aitairs when tho mother fs Loo weak, or purkaps tua ie exporieneed, to contrive nid phim to amuke both ends meet? Who sits np night atier night touching the younger boy Nts lessons? Who [a It that is tiways rendy to counsel, ndvise, and help wvery momber of the family? And when baby {s taken sick, who murses ber do gently anil eare= ally? Attust when the pale messenger comes and takes the little one tu his fey clasp, whe bs It then that sustalusand comforts tho nittleted ones? Whose hands are always busy Inltting atlochings, niaking silppers, or doing sume Kindly deed for those ehe loves? And Loum afraid My. Hl nover stopped to consider the herolsm of such a lite. When the world f3 so full of greed and colfishness It scoms Mrange that such exmnples of self-aacrifica thould pans before ua dilly ind Ko unrecog= nizod. Wo cu chant the praises of brave men and novor tire Of reuding of lovely women, but those plait ones why serve us In silence aro Wc- nenth our notice, Wo aro looking wbove tha rommmon walks of life, engorly watebhug tho forms thnt tower above ns, Untoking thom irind, but never stcoping to sce the nobility walking at yursido. ‘Pake cure tht we do ot miss tho ultogther, for vt tho last they shall be aes ured among the goad and fithful gervants, {ll bonor to tho “old mufds.” GAWK, A COUNTRY PICNIC, A NOMPITE'S EXPERIENCE AT ONE, ‘To the Editor of The Chtcago Tribune, Vintons, I. Aug, 25.—Tho sun rose hot and bright on the morning of the Ith of August, and, ag It lnpped with its flery tongue tho dew= drops from the dying flowers and breathed Its pitiless brenth on the fulnting trees, It shone on aavel aud palace with impartial glow, gheing Sho anne tlttle footstool— mora atom In the mighty whole—it has Mybted for countless nges. Ite red rays foll on tho same routine, the in- numeruble ant-hills of olviilzation, cities, towns, individuals, all pregnant with tho germ of py fection, but nuny, last marred by contend: ing forees of physical matter, On the morning in question the gray old world waa waging at ita usual pace, but nedeual glance would hive disclosed one minute, but not the loss limportant, Dilock In 4 state of commotion, “This is thug” in that district because the plente of the Benson fs on tho boom. Go buck w span, gentle reader; letusstand atthe Junction of roads Jonding to the grounds, and witness the pngennt, Harkt “Is ft tho sound of a tiny boll ne it winda on tha beaett sa metlaw and eleart* No, but sound more common, it less poetical, =a pale of chain harness ‘hung aero the: Bloplag and emuncinted backs of two iniscrable equine cundidutes for the honcyard. ‘Through the gray gloom of tho banging elowtllike dust it sharp eyo, well squinted, can dlyeorn the gtostly OUtiines oC iL AAUON-LOX Attached to thony gente ant steeds, sald ventele bolug ex wiped with wo. nurrow pine hoards, on which tho bllesfial oan panied st bearing with autledpation, One of tho Teatlve part mth-akt bibe—does not ave partien ney overconie WIth vestisy ut the prod pect of a hoi y's tnd from the ehricky wid shutters that fxstie from ite detinot [ttle mouth At richly deserved to be labeled wmanstor of Ine gratitude, iat what hus the world come to When parents sucrifico thotselyes lo the plone wre of thelr olfepriug this, to be palit only by Diack ingrauitude? the’ cureful mathor, know: ing from tradition that her child fa destined to comping a peck of dit.” wrasps her golden opportunalty for tulltiiiing the contract without extra churge, and with a big qalin leat drives the necessitry cosentlitl Into the rebollious orice Bt the rite of aw aublo inch per secoud, * Dust todust."” Yes, truly, dust to dust overys Yody Also duet to cut, dust to breutho, and “tu Wet dist hough for all practical purposed, No: doubt, Hf there hud been as mich rw material when Adam was tunufactured, Eve would hiya Deen set upon ber “awn hook," and what deal ot trouble that would have snved. Ehanddy tink sho would have had such an appl stenting pro- pensity iit bada't been for tht mseultny rib a hor Make-up, becuuse apple pilfering, water- inclon rating, and chicken-tabtng aro the earttest developed traits of tha dntant mit. Hence, ldery ee af my contemporarics to prove int it was not that ono rib that waa so apie bungry. Non ir eas uel) Giewolate enya: ely OF gUMedrops the nectisation would have bean undeniabie ane absolute, my yt there's & bigwer, more luiportant:- lookin clutid thin usual, Waltull 1 pollan imy-optied, aud eee if I know ita ambitious author, “Jt looks Wioeyer, it fa, Mr. Augustana’ Cudtleh and “Miss Btarvestyic. The Cadiishes aud Bturvestylea are quite (na wumerous the Binttha and Browns. They usually Oxiet, In gmall tawns, sometinies ty big cl soucthines In the country; Unt they huve be known to reside in towns of about Fait fuhabit. tanta, ‘These particular ones Ilyo iin town of nbout that size. Ag young Cadtiah hishes tla Jivery steed, and drives around every une golug bis Way, invariably gets bn the mlddls of the ( rond, whore the dust is deepest, to keep those Behind from yolng hungry; no doubt, tho inime +, Sable expression of us ‘choker, the juuuty -* grace with which hfs iittio hat rides ble lett cur, *. gwema to gay," ET all ye conntry Jum picing an plcbelan elodboppers, ‘now you ‘bebold a city 3 nout—and for style, quulity, aud tuisb, na or pothing equnl enn be trotted ont short of Par! Byerything on wheels Is out. Lodk at that comfortable ta load of aetay plensuresse The brawny bands of paterfamttlas gulde tho lazy horees, while anion he serapes With bie whip wt green-head ity from thelr wet fat vides, ound ocalinly expeetos rates ont regular fitervals, © “Westde hii fits his Tat xpouse, filed with complacency, alheitaumewhit. veiled by divers particolored apring-wagon with Kora strewing coursing dowi her rounds ved face, On tha Inick seat Kite n voankd gel Her the most astonisuing of redetlowered, green-rile boned hate, the effect of whieh Is ventered sotnewhat unique by lavage a bandanin hand Kerviter pa touned over It fe it prot from the tying mirticles, Her her tonnedist oir nre twesmall Boys, tt tuilseratity: elothes two yerra too small for them, tele and all its appendazer, even tho stun tailed yellow dos, who trots contentedly Uniler the rig where thy iost dirt is obtainable tho shortest distance), apenk the fostivity: uf the ovension. "a the Uundewagon frou tt neighboring town, This will be a good pines to fall ond io to the grounds, How thelr pretty, any uniforing {ko tho femluluc eye, “Oh, nyt T do believe that handsome one with fo nitich gilt (perhaps it's brias theigrh) it erating a feheep’s vy wo. Psbawt it'a that awky ‘behind, were her t itin dead for bts Impudenco.—tho horrid, uziy wretehl" Notwitl- standing the performance of that objectionable Judividual, that band blows and beats pretty good aitisle gut of those horns and: drinis, about tho best plone tmnsle around. Stas the Dnoly-exeeuted strains sink devp inte the saul of the oleh Pee listener, he looks nt the distended optics and perspiring, red cheeks puffed outlike nelniature balloons, and is hatit- ed by a horrid dread of a explosion from gpone Tancoils combustion, when all tho tir will be thick with traginents of trumpets, dram-hends, bool-soles, cork-serews, broken gine, clare stumps, aid burnt matches, Ves, that arched gateway, With a tne patriotically unfurled to the breeze, is the entrance to’ the gromnds, Tenly a beautiful places A migguitices sie denee, around whi flustered 0 the Inge, kinooth fawn fey simMMUr-houses, and fountains, and oil the appendages have nn alr of compact nentness whieh proclaim: the taste and tage nuity of tho proprictor, Well, here we are at the grove at List. Tt ts not from gener) appenrances, that arco and soup high. Plenty of re= inent-stands, 1 MO TLS fb Cnet, thie wens qitite A the tvertne young mutt to promenade ten steps with a itt being at Hila sido without collldiiug with on series of eatastrophes of this kind frequently prodtce ie udeseribablo strange, Vacumbeltke feet, a1 “gone kind of a sensation in the soveril re= gions of the henrt, stomach, gud pocket twl should bo writte pital fy of tho guile Jess youth whe is the on y victim.—tho female element and stundkvoper eustaining thelr ine Juries with remarkable fortitude, Up and down the long shy path couples, trios, cuartate pus, chniglag, mingling, ike the colors thn katefdoscope, IE tho lives of nll those people ware coaipiled: in one big volume, how very Jong It would take to read it: bow often wotild the sid story of qluanale, dlsnppointment, and poverty repent. felt. Tow oftor.ns we read, wold hot ‘tears of sympathy for the sorrows aud woes of othors fall from: or eyes low niids nway's ery budlyddual Hfg fs sid Let the author close his own took,— ten by the pen of Fate, dipped in reunistances,—nor try ta peer bes sed lida of any otlior pour [tte he great ibrary of the Universe wSihushanks! [in merally eer- rw bead” on mo, for ho is it this way. YAR, Mesllnatinks! is t? - Yes, thank yous Pd prefer to nude nfittle firat—thon Pil have a better appetite for lee-eream,—might bo ble to cat two dishes, along with semo tentonade, nod i n few nuts and some candy. 1 ndore sehtom would hid smiles clay tho Als! the history of ev ennugth, It There's Yu wy *roin the nid expression in Mr. 8's handsoino orbs, | tear ho was not sullcient! griuetul py" iy tho sacrifice, . ut that’s Just the was Tho better you trent a min the worse ho treats" you—if you're a woman, t Wo fallin tine, ind as one vye and ear aro des voted to his entertaining remarks about tho “aoostd dist,” thelr mates are busy with tee couples ahend.—a pleusint-tieed, dishing youth anda coquetish ones, ooking up at him with, pale of wide eyes, gleamog beneath a thicket af bangs, wonderful bat tor a background. Ise} She opes her raby Ups. Ant lift: your bends and dviak ber words, yo miodest flowers, Tor durely they Mast be sweet and pure wa he breath ef new-nown hay: “Now, fC he aln’t mashed on yours truly ti foss than a week, Ud nile -that fs, [ soniebody don tequen) on tt here! the ilusion vanished when her moult wentoll. Bhe was only dotag the “baby 8t (wonder what the other couple it ike, terrible dusty, brenk the awful eilenee whic then for ten fearful ninate vers quiotly; then the on i's he bins aut baa mad ettort ia, has engatited tix bud eho Mbjeet on which arp posted 43 seh ani thelr ny powers exit 80 ron dn blink ond mgs Sishinks tht sy apporite roving. } wonder hiaily whethor 1b ive Doth to any wud be content- wheat avin noting ta: Hay try to say some tit d one ule on the rent haine thing to tell all inquivers the speakers. Fon naturally tens onrted nadcoutan’ then to witness thisinartyrdom, leader, Just finey youre gelt endarhig tho monles of bh-lteeled colin, “bleed shirt, wad wieetin’ sult, the thermometer 1018 the shade, striving to be'pracotul and ¢ quont, With tho persptention dripping olf the « OF your oso Init Blendy Ktream, and buoyed Up by the knowledge that—suve tho spenkenton thy stand, who fsten on the, prinelplo of © Wo'll serateh your bitte 1f you'll xeraten ones "—n0, ono Ia Hetening but a few oll people too decrepit ogee away, who stand thelt best ear up at you tnd swallow your remarks with a eountenines nbouL a4 oxpressive usa cellar-doors no) mutter how exeriettingly tunny, or how heart. dngly sid, nota smite, not n tear fs vouchsater Linkght ‘cantina. ondtesly, bit with a sense of deep reverenes for editors and a holy horror of woute-baskcts, I desist. BineNce Wonrvswortn, . POLLY PIUMUS. TUN LITTLE WAR DANCE To the Edltor of ‘The Chicago Tribune, Cnrosao, Sept. L—T have hoon awfully tutors ested in tho answers that buye appeired to the two pleces of mine that you huye been goail- natured cnongh to publish, ‘There seams to be wdifference of conjecture asta what IInd of a crenture Lam, some declaring that my olforts to ‘bo funny have tlhekled thom terribly, und others airodng that Tam no better than tho old bach: olor who bothered ing; thus, you will jobserve that there fs always a diversity of opinion even about tho minutest objects, Tam what Fam; a ttle vain, perhaps, but no tore so than almost any other girl would be in my situation, Jam sorry that Lam not better, aiid glad that’? am not’ wore, Tam thankcul for kindly pra hurt of geleved by advorse critic! WV it to be bestowed in an honest and sincers split. Pant blunt and outspoken. Teall a spude a spade. 101 like anybody awfully well T tell thom so frankly, If abhor them abominably 1 imagine. that thoy are pretty certuln to Nad thout without gorting: mre opinton ‘of them second-hunded from othora, Nowe, thera ft Morty Yourd, who lag lestawed mo atid lot of “tatty” on almost everybody In The oma. but mes Chunginy that he unders stindé nhont what tho viliation ta that { put upon that kind of inateriit, and thorefore titnks to hurt my fcollue by contemptuous siicnes. Perhups f don't know ag inueh about protoplusing and the metompsychosss a he dood, bit 1do appreciate a pening touch of humm nature, and ET enn't help laughing with ally might at the periectly. oxquisit caricature Mr. Pr drew of hlin ti his incompurable sketch of Van Kirk,—Van Kirk tho cyule and inisanthrope, who sneered and snarled nt everybody who tne dertook to ndyauce any Intelligent fen in tho old Bouth Side bourding-howew, ‘heen had always Deon ndreadtully strong boarding- house Mavar sit ost alt the pretoentiuus productions of Forty Yours, und I could seo tho Vian Kirk sardonic smite widen aeross hls evnical counte- mance ng ho detiburately rend My. 1's piece, untlt it netully seemed ta me Providence coulda't Intve made his mouth any widor withont setting BIC CHE Dis. an sa Mr. Pi, you have poppored the philosopher awtully,and in boul of ho Ttudls of tt Ione 1 te ety 1 He LO tlirts and to hulld somo- [want to thins you for ite revtatlty that | epoak the true sentiments of them ali IF vot, let those that do not think as fo speak ated not for thomeelyes. Why, thoro isn't cnoush lore of the sutilmely wupordelal ange for a re spectable funeral it Grand Raptd Uhate to hear an Individual always growling ab everything that ls good in humanity, Lill ike beyond expression to Keo a person sintle: gurdonically at all that is pure and beautiful in womanhood, Lilotest roading tho emuanutions of one wae aneord at womnn’s devotion and ridlowles tho reality of true felundship, Some of the communications of Forty Yenra have mde ine feel that his mother most havo Aurned bits over to wot-ntirse in bls intaney, gent bit mwas 10 bodrding-school in: hia youth, aid get bln ndrift wpon the work iy earls mine hood without hor blessing or her benvdletion, Vouny Pieaus, FORTY YRARS, WN UAPLY TO TH CHITICS. To the Litltor of The Chicagn Vribune, Guanp Ravivs, Meh, Aug. 3,—What a fine and noble thing It fa be nh ingniuster—to wenr varnished Wellingtons, bull suiall-cluthes, adress cout, anda trilled sllrt, and to earry 0 tong whip and ernek {tamartly abont tho culyes of Mr. Morrymay. every timo he calls the atten Uon of the undlence to the hollowncss of your proud assumption, ch, Str, Kooziin ? And when the wild, untutored paderiding Mtr, Lo dischargos a mnlld arrow Into the lofty ennvas | about the centre-poje, and onaof the carpet rolluré tosscst aluifed skin Into the ring, and Merryman boxing to bat it ubout Justlily, what proud conservator of the publlo moras fs the Unguuster, if tha vtutted fraud bo labeled “sentence, Iantihed all guotatheas In ‘Puritanism, te crtiek bbs whip loudly and ery Ine Sne deep volea “What are ye doin’ with ‘that aninial, vier . If you seo a Sunday ‘Taisuny now and then, Mr. Kooglin, cust your eye over the list of theatres which give pluys on Bundsy, the aus nauneements of plenios and excursions by: steam and rail, aud then sufer your vivid Imnginatian to stray backward through the Yearsof the Amerlean Uepubtte to the lusty days of virorons New England Poritanian, and observe the Sabbath of tbe Pilerins, And th oneo more In the present. cline the chaste ear of your, faney the dlaputes of Mr. Boveber, and Talmage, and Moody, and all tho rest of thom, aa to whit this Ufeless ein of Purttantsn really ts stuited with, and tell me if your tine filth: In the pers mmunonee of Plein pripelply be not palpably Mmiunettired, Why, my dear Mr, Kooglin, do you not know that oly twenty Httle venrs sine ne paper whien permitted sueh freedom Of Ry on religions topied in is coluinns 0s Pie Gado Teimuxe now does could have lived in Atmertent Turltanisn, save in some ecquestered hamlets of New Rnuland, bas ceased to exist. ‘The motl- ern chitreh |: simply a avelal nitair, more nearly resembling a club thay anything else, ‘Phere stil reniain a few Puritan Ringmastors, with whipewhieh reach nothiue, tolerated by roclety merely ad folls to the merriment of tho jaan tn mabey We should Forget what a laugh meant were there not rome dvath's-hends gris viotay produced hy nature, whose oltive is to pullavlony fice, and ery down cakes and ate, to the end Unt the wicked themselves, He pompons, K Hip. ft your ease deportment i What fa a Ringmaster without dix- nity! There is neortain disposition on the pact of Rta Meta PE to mistutce emotion for reason, and invective for argument, which ted me to fancy: that te Beta Hh was quite possibly of the gen- tler sex, and hence | touched inildty mpon the obytous diverepaincies of bls or her proyions ejaculations anent thy unselfieh soul, Mord, Perhaps, from n gentleness of diction, 1 tone at Sort rebukes fn bicssings enied, ns Mr. Longfellow writes In one of his fow fine Mnes, thannnythingelse. | felt very sure that Rta Tote Piwas one of those delightful oreatures: who nak allot the trouble and most of tho pleaare in this vain and transitory existence: jettoral to-day itis the ovident In-+ tention of Eta. by a denial of hero frocshi, an nbaudinee of slang. rnd an absolute wealth of uuconiplimentary adjectives, to prove his cinim to muscullne conalderation, i vebing. Very weil, Firat of all, Bta, in an argument avold naser- tlons of any eort savo such ns you follow by proof. i 1 shalt only‘mention those things whieh yort have fortified by proof of some sort; hance my notiee of your latter will be short, You gay you did not praiso Mr, Proctars "on forget yourself, Wextihited Mr, Proctor ns dovoting his iife ta the benetit of future peneritions of met. liy the whole drittof your lotter this is the hi chest praise you enn bestow, wait] bell n certalt machine wos ns much alive ns Mr. Proctor ever was. und n8 bee nevolent, ‘That was merely Matemenkor 4 q son! belief, in. support of which J olfered roof. Since: you notico it, however, I will say hat It is extromely prea tie hent, light, mo= Uon, cleetrielty, andl life are fdentical. Hence whatever has movon possthly has Ufo. Tho precise degree of fife porsessedl by inv thing Is quite beyond aur determiuntion, Thetlove that thorn “ts no degree in Ife. and: that, whatover moves lives, 1 donot jisist that any onw ¢l4o siall bellove this because 1 do. You deny her Reware of nect) ‘They are your bane You write, Godilke deditetions of Kepler, Thulley, and) Newton. Thit_ wh! In atrperler to the prow If the: ‘godlike dedactlons” thoy were rt aselve: more than godiike, and, hence, if God §3 wor- slipeul so nre these mom, You Imply that Tama skeptic. T amso vory fur froma skeptic og to be a mystic, holding ta a mumber of beltefa quite us greatly exceeding: tho common theology In dcheato tenuily ns the few ot the Christin God execods in Oneness the gross matertilism of a South Sea Island seen 1 ido Inn nota ekeptioin any sense whutever, Taaked you if you would change persons with any nie you ever ent You euy you would, What settles: Thad so oft that we wo our [dentit rs 10 1D, rand henrd tho statement Cus voluntay alr extinguish tat [ helloved the statement true. | Pinsedt the question on (he desire of all man ta preserve themeelves, It. fs commonly received ruth, Tbeliove, that, self-preservation ts tho Mrstinwof Nature. You appear by your awn statement to be tn exception to this rile, Yotr baye, howover, dechired 1 suietdal tendency [0 yoursert which is execptional, and bad) atven his dechiration of yours due wolght tmight have anticipated soir reply, But that which rests tipo the fecturatian of a auielde cnnnot he held a general tenth, Ina past mnsority of enaes 1 shantd lnve been answered ns Lexpected, had { been nnswered truly. Ag you offer ne explanation of your contras ictory asstimptions that it is right to kill one use. Joga antinut and wrong to kil another vsetess: futon, 1 tuko it that you admit the contrailice on. Dk you over geo Faith" hold vn aholl to her ony, sive ng who intl a hummin: hand fo hold ft tow hiomen ear? Todo not believe in denontology to tho extent of seelng the abstrat quatities walk atiant in 9! fren 1b Gants ino thing. Porsihly you seosnen things, Usa, tiiper ot. Tm speaking for your good, fn remind to gravitation, your menning wie exnetiy that Nawton discovered yravitution, 1b Was probably your thought: it is the common thought: rin not Furprised at your keaton the polnt. Want of exnetnoss ina written argu ment [s unpardonable, You say Uhave th usandd moro luxuries that ono great wa who lived n few hundred years since, Many dreds af years before Chnrle- Magne ixnrions elvillzation in didi revehod very Nigh point. And in nuy ease T hive no nore powers with which to onloy luxuries tien had Charlemagne; and agin since Charlemagne hud uniinited sway, ho hit every thing ho wanted that he knew of,—uniers, of cours, ho was foolish enough to want come one woman to Jove hit In that ease be may hive pined fo desolation, mighty though he wax, You clit, in conchigion, that tho lnst two couturies hive reduced wrongs ninety-nine one. Aemdredths, ue will turn to page elght of toedag?s "ParasuNk vou will Mad the xtateaout ut (nh Chileno, which fa an epitome ‘of Western progress,” It 18 cheuper to give nian what he owes you than to try to collect your Juat dues uf att. You can also find in Chlengo very, vory many eases OF Wrotus of every conceive nutiire, itis true thut our fabor is more productive now than it was ance. It is alsa true that wo work yery much barder thin any rice ever proviousiy. 1 do not belleve a very high econdnelve to. huinan happiness, jor wenlth nor cnlture found strong Hes of it, Tbelleve that wo tn American elties slrendy: passed the polnt of most profitable front eae llfo, both In religion ary. ‘Time slone can dcelde, Jlow rendy'wo all re to heed the whip and whistly of tho minster of the houndst ais in tho soclil circle, so here in The Tame, it $s quite enough that some one shill, with owllah worker gravity, condemn an innocent thing, and a Dleasuenvio thing, which hina began common to those who write here, to put thiat thing away fore over, "Thus T myself, by a single Eathiae Uinaturod forelgn tongues from The Home for nearly ayears But Vaineeroly truat that the malicion’ words of Mr. Kooglin und others In regard to nimatle specel touching exch other's letters hore mity not bo normitted to put uway tho kindly nuttin notice which has bean wi agreeable to myself, Tun sure, RAO HY thor Writer here. ‘Tho remark of Mr. Roogiin that my awit compliments were to be Vlewod ns bread cust upon the waters by tho thrifty huahandmian, which fs to be returned: many fold in atier days, 14 ono which, leaving ite ibenature entirely asic, is inelted by a very mistaken and unfortinnte conception of the vilue and use of compliment, and the extent to which It fs well to court tho fiyor of thore with whom we assoclite, Many tives Janznibh in luck of nffeetlon which would be joyfully given wero not tha lonely ones too proud to muko even thy alightest advances tawarit favor. It ‘is the Triend whose smile nud ontatretehed hand in vite our own warin response whom we romembur with most pleasure, und it (x orlous error to. avold uy compliment whieh ean possibly be Justified by the sponter's consolonce,—and easy consolence In this mutter Is uot to bu plored. YoutY YEans, HIGH Nock, ACTIN TO IT, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Haaunstown, Ma., Aug. 14,—Our Inst oxcure lun waste Pen Mar and High Rock. This 13 ented tho Marytand rival of Mount Washington, ond 152,000 feet nbove tidewater, commanding 2 Maxuillcent panorama of the glorious Cumber> Jond and Shonandonh Valleys, Our purty, consisting of alx of tho gayest of lage Blew, loft Hayxerstown on tho afternoon train of tho Western Muryland. Rallroud, Tho entire Journey $s on the ascending grade, the rond climbing (he mountain, clinging closely to the silo with many tortuous curves ko some monae tor werpent, “The decenury on eithor hind is worth Viowing, On the right cléea abruptly the wooded snountilaesidsy on the tele it” dee acends precipitously with grand curving Ines, ‘Thor wus widu wanduring for the greuiteat vya ‘ta pour about upon varity!” Fur round tte horisun’s vryatal ale to wl, Atul truce tho dwindlliuredsna uf fis beta. After passing through hilt a dozen charming HIQa: stutious, we rene our destination, on Shir, When we lett the canis feeling of awa crept over the entice party, for wo stood upon famous ground. Yonder i watte signboard boro tho mime ? Maryhuid” and tt companion a few feet distant signition that it stood In Ponne aylvauia, Wearero upon the "Stason and Dixons ine stat fax elztity long vers vocttpleal the attention af the authorities of Pome vaniy and Maryland, and led to tmueb bud fects ber Qveon the eltizests Of the cantlenons Btites—to riots, and even to bloodshed but was mnieably wetted Jinly 4, 1d, A dhort diatanee fron tho sintion we discovered ono of tha noted miles tanted by tho surveyors in 1707, and W the Opposit sides the lettors " P,” kh Rock is nearly three miles from tho rally rand atution, a eo inounted Into a conveyince almilar to our So uirk phactona ta bo takun The rend was huely constructed broud, (puded, und equal toa Chicuge boulevard Our drlver wis a young darky in one of bls happiest moods, and’ bis mercinient wus of so arentimn extent that it waa with difticulty he kept bls poor bint horses in the roud. It" wus Dis Hest exporlunce with a Chicago party. + ‘Tho asovnt was 60 grudual that we Were sure prised when a halt was given nnd the announce~ ment that we hid venched "de tap.” roid us extended a peony ot straige, uns enrthly aspect. ‘The place was once t rocks bed, now ned with thickets of evergreen and ear peter With) mosa and forms. Laced aud fe sreew fi confusion tronnd tho privat rocks, Bott ening thelr riiggedtnese inte beauty. ‘Throuuh the trees we ri tho observatory, fancy paviion bullt of wood with a Comndation of stone ott solld rock. Wo climed the, atutrs to the toy, nid white view burst upon ts: 2 Itenvens! what a goodly prospect ayn around, OF bills nnd dites, of Houds, nad In cd ance, Atl ullttecing towns and glider strentis, tl al Aha atratetiing landseape Into RinUoke One hundred antics at a wlan Btates and more thi ft a dozen countles the southwest, fn the distance, are Maryland Heights and Jefferson Hock, nt whose feet the Shenandoah wiites with the Potomac, and near hy Is listerie Harper's Ferry. Dit the north weat Carnell Kitob boldly Jfts Its hoary head “eloud-gindiéd ou hls purple throne.” Directly atour fect, shel town below the observit- fory nre rocks fill of grand expressions, caves that might be the abiding places of rude Boreis: nnd solbrenthing Notus, ut forests so dense that ono ugh live nod dte in thelr recesses, “tho wort’ forgetting, by the world forzot.” Ascore of yithnges and towns are before Us, nestling Hko imisty Joweld in. tho wldesprend Yandecupe, worgenus In the richest of enrly nus thimmal tints, Two of these villages ure noted a4 the birthplaces af prominent mei,—the Cove heur Mercersburg for President Michanan, aud Loudon for tho Hallroad King, Col, Thorns A. is on Heott, ‘Through tho yaltey for a distance of twenty Ave niles from Hoonesthoro to the gap at Clear purine, winds the famous National turnpike Henry Clay's great highway between the East oud West. Once as busy as or Chicnya streets of to-day, now lonely, almost deserted, sity the nelgtiboring furiiers In tholr weekly visits oO tows While wo wore gazing a little cloud, not larger than a man's hand, pushel Itself up from Le hind tho inisty, violetehuad mountain-ratieg that bi ate tho horizon. It grew lirger ane largqr, followed by companlons of ominaus cal- or that scomed to bolt as they went Jorth mute terings of torrible thunder. Acrost tho conntey came tho storm, rolling up great clouds of dist before it. Nenree and nearer tt enue, und we cod ace the pouring rin, nccompanied with hail, a8 tt deluged one village nfter another in Me path, Our territied debu, better neyuninted with tho nature of mountiln storms, vealed to uy, and inn fow minutes we were driving dows tint mountant roud at on friehtful speed. The excursion- cars aul stood on a sited nt thro ati tlom, and we had scarcely gained tholr shelter bes fore the storm Durst 11 Mar in ntl its fury. Tho force of the wind was ro grout that it rocked tho cars to ani fre, and wo Kirls cline to eneh other than itgony of fear testa brake should be loge and wo yo siding down tho aice} mountain grado, It insted but an hour, butaueh a drenching mun, terrible thunder, and vivid lightning { never before nor eines witnessed, A short distnneo from tho station is tho plenic rromd, with a landeome dancing pavition, nud other accommodations, ‘That diay, besides tho excursion from Hagurstown, thore was also it ry largo excursion from Balumore, and tha condition of thoso pleastire seekers after the storm was truly pithible, It hud come so sud~ denly upon thom that Init very few had noticed Its approach, and been able to galu shelter, ‘Thore wast comical side to the picture ns well asin sid ono, and mi artist could have drawn no Tittle amusement From tho reenen, Tho reguinr train soon camo around tho morntiin and, our curs couplh theroto, wa went flying down grade to Hagerstown, SIstEnt ARACINE, MABEL GRAY. ROME ADVIOn FOR HEIL ‘To the Edttor of The Chicago Tribune, Font Atkiysox, Wis. Aug. W—If the Con ductor will tot me in again, T would Ike to say a word lo Mabol Gray. I wonder If abo will got as nineh adyice as poor Katle did Inst winter whon she was In trouble rhowt her husband? Twoutd sny fo Mabel, don’t murry the rich ignoramus, on necount of his ngo and bls fenorance. There nro somo things money will not pay for, and that{s one. Don't marry him to plense your nother, or Anyhody else, Ant! tho poor tint woll, my nuvico 1s. don't marry him elther, for you ‘know, Mubel, the old fay When pove erty comes In at the door, love tiles out of the wiudow.") Tabould say tho best thing you cn do. 18, sto stay home and det thom both wo You sayy have nn. dadulgent mother, und why not tet well enough atons, Ag. for the young min, Ff don't bellove he will die if youdo not marty him. 1 once heard a wise and dear friend say that thoso lovers who were threatening to destroy tham- selves. uid atl that, made the meanest husbands in tho world If thoy dinatty succended it obtains ing tho object of thair choles. Cwould say stay: athome, nuke yourself useful, tet novels alone, and [think your arrogant but’ cruol mother, 18. you call her, will be content, I sho is not, you Wit have tho satisfuction of knowing you havo done your duty ta parents who ought to have A elujavon you, © tthink by your marrying a poor: mun you might soo more lnisery than you could nosatbly do by romuinhug elngle if you should liven hundred years, I eck “you will tot the Homies write what thoy plenso, and will, ko aoy a foolish girl, anarry tho poor mmanin spite of opposition. You cortaluly secut to be fn quite ndesperate statoof mind just now, Thy remark of your rish 60 years bout the “posted? reminds mo of a similar one mado by an ignoruntimiiiionntre, who, [t spoak- Ing.of tho dangers attending un ocean voyage, anid “he should think the steamers migiit keop round the edo near shore. pare allel fo your mummn's cholce for you, the posoy man? Tam glad to fad that our favorit pancr, THe Cincsdo Trinuxe, Nudes its way to Vermont, 1 an eerbaunty interested tn your ense, Sabely 08 Tam fraw tha Emplre State, and know of what Klint of motal you Vermont girls are made, ws Most of tha teachers in our Soma on tho Dunks of the henutiful Lintgon were from Now Bogtand. Indeed, they nro matter of fact.to 0 fault. U think you must be of 1 more romantic turn of inini than ntost of thon, Dy tho way, wouldn't It’ ba interest jug ta know where all the writers in The Home wero raised,” Southorn purkanee? What has imate our friend Cuat so gloumy? Ono would think sho sis cone tlemphulng suiche, matrimony, or some other disngreeable thing, from the doleful tone of a recent lotter, U think Polly Phomus’ lottors wlil ho an effectual antidote todyspepsin, Polly, you must tell us whon that batehelor wets sulll- Clently "punched ” to be kent off to Aridgeport, and, you will have to. prepare a dirge far tho oes canfon in your usual stytc, 1 ike Jullet’s fdeas of friendship, Lihink this, from her letter, [4 sounds" t have now come to belfove that H font mutter of euiture, ns much 80 us music, art, ar Mterature tx.” Like ‘Topsoy ‘Pinklo and Itaven alr, and ever so many more, Ithinka great muny subjects hnye been dis: oussed Ju Phy Homo—widows and widowers, old inalds und buchvlora, frlondshins and Bob comes agali with bls favorit theme, fobacaw. f would Hke to hour from hin on some other subject, and 1 for ono will grea to lot hin alone ns to tho good or ill oifecta of that narcotic, 1 hopo he willehoose 4 subject moro deserving of his talent, Luzztas written a letter that will, 1. think, digpol any cloud: that may be hovering: over Chat or any uthor ono that Is looking on tho dark aldo ‘of ite, “The world is fullot beauty, if we only look for It." [f we look for tho gloomy things we fall to seo tho brizht ones; aud auch tt state of nin makes us disstiafied with all wo find in tho world, Ono cannot read steh t cheerful letter without being made hap- pler by It,—without having more henlihy views of Life. MiGNonn, LIFE’S CARES, Ye MtAUD'S NOTIONS ADOQUT THR. + ‘Th the dditor of The CAlcago ‘ritune, Winttanstown Srumnds, Vt. Aug. 17-0 thou, Chat, my beloved, how conkt you thus be- Mevo and terch mon so? How conkl you pnt such words before our eyes, knowing, as you must, that by our vory feet forover and foroyer owed the * Father of Waters," euch a inngnitl- ent chance for “rush of waters," 80 wo Bude dently plunge down Into tte muddy dopths? * Thou you say “we nro all slavox,” ‘Vo what? Only to'tho requiromonts of tho cu rious mech: Aniam of our own bodies (Dr. Tanner excepted), sud only thon 1 wo wists for the best youd of those bodies, for wo muy conquer ull thuse dus mands simply by fenoring thom, aire wo sluives tothe nerves of sensation (1 our hands because they will not allow 18 to hold hot irony Rather they are sluves to us, iias. much a8 they stund guard over the intervsts and welfnre of our lives. Why should all about us to set these outposts to warn ns of danger, as all tho five senses most asauredly are, 1¢ ito ts only 0 bundage, a fallure de all clio Sut death? Chit, deur, wo are gure of more than ona thing, Aid that death. Wo wre sure of overs hour and minute as it passes over us, sure of ove hoof pleasure, evel Ihrob of pain. nd stgh, and strive fur all things Bure, Atleast, OF Cho strivhurs Bure of if wo strive, if not all wo desire, then ru Naty: ess, buts OF Kain. No moment wii over wt tous If iit we slghod or strove fur same Agaln, wo da not dread and nk from rer ad Tt ld only that we detund all of life, all that tears and lughter, tows and grita, and steady, silcero endeavor ean do forts betore we are ready for tho rest" that may or may not bo anntatladon, ot believe tat becuse our cold bands are folded and tho anarynth softly tnld whove auc dreamlcsa bodics wo) will bo any the mors silent and still, Why should wo question: “ Is.there a God?" AB La as any persoiullly Is concerned, Wu kilow nothing of it te thia Nfo, and only with the prese cat have we tadeal. tt le one of tho whys" that T have hild one sido, content tu Ive life as 1 find Stand let inanswerable questions atone, We ure in the habit of crying out our prayers to sony dmoyvinary Suprony Helug. and go to the stirs or roses with our questions that uo known Jnteltigence can answer, both practices being vq We senseless und absurd. © Lifo tith no viotory tike Death, thateonquers inleery wad hunges, crime’ and sin, cruel love, treacherous friendship, tie duvit of ‘umbition, aud tho lelt of memory." yes, but wedo nut know thut, Thoro 1s a earthly proof that death fe obilvion, on tho ather band, thore are many proofs of life as reales full of love, and Joy, and striving ua Is thls. Edison's electric Hyht is not tho only light that shlucs on thia our blessed ulnetcenth century, Again you says; “lis w burial place where, . weeping vatuly, two lay all things aweet and pre: clons," aud © "Tisa glean of light between ¢ mysterious Dinckness of before and after How will Udispose of this now? Did you mean ute one Hives were happy; Joyaus ao glean of tight,” white othors are nt b Borrow? No Ifo weeps always; foww I yot or $ Inies dirkened by arenllof joy, thor own recont- for living, wa pro: he fact that we it voluntarily give up tfe, And wo ours sarcour awn enemies, Our ives will nat ears and mens if wo do not mtke: bo whole not tive: Utes atipy H Ufe se mueb ns death that has hurt us, as for tho love that faded ortho friondehip that wod false, it was never love or friendship, If fifa loft us tho time and opportimlty: to test tho Insencss of tho metal, why complain? Could 1 “show out a ty and sigh of love" it should be as Yale” betiveen you aud me, Ett Bota Pi, for “thom’s iny sentiments exactly. Your dew of friendship and ming are so atioftar that 1 only know TF dld not write your letter in Tur Trinusxn by the faet that Teould not so well express inyself. 4 Farly’ Yenrs, what a lecture you give 2 news comer! T think yountre right in theory ns ree gards one-half of mauiind, but T pray to fall among the idont souls of whum Brlesn-Brae speaks. Ry the why, T halt betlovo that" awect com- plement of your fragmentary solf” to be aw ina, andwhile Cant in love with hs areuny, dent mature f um wishing you had made your pretty speech to ome of 18 who como out boldly and iulinit our sex, Conceited Little Fool ant myself, for inatanes, But Odearl sueh fs life, and tho river ruts awfully near, MAUDE MENH DITI. MISCELLANEOUS, A YANKEE G1tl DOWN SOUTH. ‘To the Editor of The Uhlcago ‘tribune New Onveass, Ln, Aug. 2-1 am a render of ‘Tho Some, and h beon particularly inter- ested I Chat's letters; but after reading tho last I think sho fs Just splendid. UChat's letter tells plainty that she fsa Republican, which niukes ine love her anyhow. 1 ive inn part of the Huuth where, os everybody knows, the sec- tional fecling ts very great. 1 being a stanch Northerner and Iepublican, have In conses quence many a tuesle arising from this subject with the people here. Even in tha Iyh Schuat (whieh Lnttend and where there rra nut more than three Northern girts) 1 have many a verbal pnasngo-nt-urme. Hut Linust atop, for f do not tink tho Homultes will Ike a political teste Togres with Jennlo 8. tn her*snyings both t Potly Phemus and Mabel Gray, Forty Yenrs Isa little sovero in sumo of histetters, “As Twn a new-comer I will not make my letter Mas longer. TO ALL PORTA. ‘To the Lditor of The Chicago Tribune. Cricauo, Aug. 24.—Tho sands of my life being low fn tho gliss,—In nel. having nearly rin out, I take this perhaps ast opportunity to address: my children of rhyming prociivities. ‘They will, I know, listen to tho words of wisdom and tho sotnut advice of this letter, ; * Ilow cume you over to yet the maggot In your heads, my denrs, that you could write puotry? Nothing can be more preposterous! Have yott over measured yourselves besite Byron, Burns, Tennyson, or Mryant? No! Of course not; for it few hud done so you would have been ap- pulled nt your temerity. Ah, t know you, yo wet or twenty years L baye Jortled yeu tthe poet's corner of Tha county pape: have beet tir vis-a-vis in tho lucent press, and Got us it) not Infrequenthy Wasteshisket—that Brent mausoleum of ude Ie Verse Now, toy dears (excuse thik familiarity, forthe eands of hy life, ete), nothing is more certain Abin that this manta for rhyming, fot ith little ge, springs mainly from empiy heads. You will write something, perhaps, when you know xomethings but betore that pont, whieh you Tuy remately gize wt Uhrough Che viate af yours, is reached, afl your efforts will be pucrile. Yost should know, my ears, that your stilted tropes: aro fast bringing the diving grtof pocsy Into contempt. ‘Lhe editor nasiits us with aaticleat gives untit it would scem that In self-respect wo Might assert. the dignity or silence, Poetry is good in its place, but fat too common nowadays, When you have tho inspiration to dash off it National hyinn like the “Star-Spangled Banner,” like * Bonny Doon,” or“ Oft in tho ht,” onan tds ike * Maud Mutler, or oom ke" The Puritan's Guest,” bo thno enough to write. But, Oy forbexr the stupll commonpinces of the po taster? 3 (.wnd somo power tho gittio gio us ‘Ta pee oursols as (iors eeu us, And that you mny Ranroxitontoly do so, Taps pend somo Vorses Which you wmny entitle hash* Lego nmong the julie of Axe Streaks o' lghinin’ fo mile longt tho rugged Nils of tite Arola tho biuebird’s song, Tieng, and still my faney trles— Your maaius wilen bva rend kotor, In the fading twitight hows, ent how Aro worthy of aJutia Moore. Dine’ and brown ts his gownt Alston, whats sudden rustlot ‘Mhat country girl bay trod upon A pollysrog, and Nunco the tussto, ‘A Batt ov No Necanp, Mit. DATLEY'R CONTRIBUTION, Th the Hdttor of The Chicago Trihune. Citicaao, Il, Aug, £2.—L am moro than over convinced that Chicnyo !s tho grentest olty in tho world, All its people sny so, and thoy can- not bo mistaken, Everything about it speaks of greatness, it has tho fluost looking class of business-mon [ have over seen. 1 have ob- served and have hoard stringers romark that tho most prominent businessmen ure, ns a class, younger and freshor-looking than in any other city on tho globe. Everybody scema to be busy, and wvoryhody rusher dong the street 18 if he were going tea tire, Said a Southern man tome Inet night at Waukesha: “It is wonders ful; Lhd no iden there was such wcity in all tho world, for i haye seen most of thom. Why. they eall this (Waukesha) no clty, with Its begynrly” Ittlo crowd af horel-walters and enloonkocpers. T don't eco how they have the auilnetty,—and they only 100:milus from that oity of piluces,”* With that ho shrupged his shouldors 1 cone tempt and drow 8 chalr clos to the glowing cont grate, into which ho glared for na hour in moody silence, = while I wrote at. table near by, could 8 not shure bis opinion of “henutiful Wau Kesha,” but L begun to think wherein Chicago's great glory consists, It isthe beat and trucst type of Aimorican Hfo in tho Nation, Evory Yon who have phase fs here, inply: ropresentod, Dhways tived hory have grown nccttstamed to (ts mughifleonce, and seldom. thluk Jt so very strange; but itis the grandest achtovement of modern enterprise, and the wonder of foreln travelors, ‘Whit paride last weok Tuvaday drew together the Nnest collection of mon that over aasombled in the world, Everything moves raplily,—albelt the’ procession ‘did not,—and peonla forqut tho heat, wander, cold, and’ even time itself In tho xeneral commotion, No other clty on the continont ta so truly American, Now York bas one or tivo busy streets, where penpie oxhibi¢ puroxysins of buste, and Philadelphia hasnone, TE wonder how ft will be Ewonte yours henee, w hicago has a round milliin of [omelet ‘Tho thought recalls our discussion of dist week concerntig friendship, Tt itustrates tho thouxht Ladvanced, that an wotive, Inventive Bronte have no tho for friendship (sa called). Jhitigo necds no fricnds; she ta abundantly ublo to take care of herself. Aud why is the samo not treo of tho Individual? Frionds are useluss unteas thoy exn bo made noful, and thomomont ou entortnin such a thoweht of gain your tical i$ KONG aNd 3 AER, Moukery takes: ita pluses Now, Vopsey Tinkte, your rdfeula is childish, good-natured, of oourad, but KUM amiverthy -of yourclear bead and facile pou. Anpthor Indy hinka that some thing E may bo without friontdy, and then E will teur ont the fow remalning shreds of my once riven tovks. I should lke to say to hor that f£ hava been with- out friends for & yout nuny years, and haYo never had timo or occaslon to oven regret it. Ta extremo old age we mny want somebody: with whom to compiro experiences, but surcly not in the bloom uf life, Lam still convinced that 1 was not inistaken jn saying thoreis no sich thing nowadays its true friendship, fon glad to seo The Home writora talting back Into thelr own funiliur plaves, Woe miss shoin when away, , Tho tourlst seusun has been yory pleasant, and 1 hayo no doubt was enjoyed by many who did vot eo round the ta . With ull tho ruatic deltghts ot tha crowded watoring-places [think L reaped more real one doyment from my sojourn in Chicago than in alt tho othora cainbined, Valo ot Miauidite, ALLEY, ADYIOH TO A YoUNASTRH, To the Fatitor of ‘The Chicago Tribune. Exxuoun, Wis, Aug, 2%—Thore aro porsons who cannot. distinguish diference fn piteh of eound, There aro porsons who enn perceive ditterence in the pitch of sounds, and among thom are gomo who cannot ber sounds above n certain pitch, and some, whocan, Hence tt ta Inforrod that there nr sounds audible to some cara that the human ear Ja insenelblo to, And it uimy ho fiferped, further, that If these persona who so ditfer fi hearing should pach, frum his own Inner conscfousness, come to gottled cans clusions as to the existence, difference, ani ex- tent ofthe piteh of sound, thelr conclusions would not agrees, One would assert that this ts the highest sound) posalble, unothor (bat thoro tire sounds still bigher, and avothor, scofling at both aasertiony, would matntuin that alt aounds comlug Irom ono Orlilce nee on the sume level, Anta deat dun would doulare that ull three wero talking of somvibiug which they never beard of, Shall the dunt say there ia ne sound? Shull tho unwusical aay thore Is no inuslo? Bball ny sity ‘bo hag heard tho highest uote? Neither of then shoutd say vlther of those thingy; but some will, Nov about sounds pechaps, but about some other thity. Wo daily bear rensonlug frou just such proinlses nbout something, ‘Thore ta F, G. deterioining tho ton-cxistenve of disinterested benevolonce by the same. prog ds. Ho hus turged to bis inner self, aud rum. maging uruund anony the uvcumutudond of thirtyening or nora years (Henvon help iim! Just UOK what a mess there must be In ene so gifted In pleking ty odds and ends), and, Nacing: only selfishness, comes forth and ‘deetares the estatence of disinterested honevolence Impasse blog that [isn’t tn hit, and that thore Is noth Ing higher than bis body, Now, in the rat place, ho dedn't half look. For Tam positive, fram nfonzer expertenes than ho has hod, that if he wilt go down enrefully, Thrangh the drift of his many yenrs, to tho prin itive formations fn hia natiece, he will tnd Teast some foxsil ritdimentary renains of disine terested benevolence, Rit, granting his facts, bis conclusions do not follow. [fhe cannot know of distr sted bes novolenee, does iat prove tint no other porson can? If sellishnoes 6 tho bigt motive he has felt, docs 1 follow that no one hing felt a higher? The short of isif he hinst’t exercied tains terested bonovotence It ly his nefeforttine, and he dns missed a great pleasure. he ernnot cons cofve of dlaiiterested: ber furthor misfortune, aud right to speak on tho subject. Ind that a ton, digenasiog a subject of wh: no conception, would be better employed in keeping ati, - Now, MG. your Pesta Isnot tenable, You see, there is something which "tho best speak- ers and writers of tho nj benevolence; therefore used, And you sec, further, that disinterested beneyolence fs tal of and thought of; there- fore it isn thing that somo enn concelvo of. Now, then, fansinuch as you don't know anys thing aout it, Sitst take Sour seat and reflect Spat thik advice from an oldor man: Shun all discussions that Invelve subjects tat you know nothing of It ld not your forte to Gak of things of which you bave Hoeoucention. LE must admit that mu do pretty Welle—tlint you get Wp conside erable of a hizo, which may look Ike smoke to somo who will aay “Where there is ao much aninke,” ote.g bit itis only fog, and calling: it smoke docsu't make itsmoke. IXTY. * call disinterested ha tern is properly MONE GAS THAN SENBE. To the Halton of The Chicugy Tribune, Fontos, Ill, Ai. 24.—1, too, am ae new comer, but, a8 a render of The Home, nevertheless saily disnppoiuted anu thoroughly diagusted at many things which appenr there!n, and with the much-nbused and etule themeat love In pare Heular, An empty wagon nukes the most noise, nid agit scemsto make but little difference with the grent majority of tha cooing doves that contribute ta The Home whut the subject mat- termay be, they are eternally prating about love, It would doubtless Le. ultoyctier enfo to predict that ninetecn-twentleths of these sick- ening genthoentalists do not even know Webs ster defiultion of the word, much less appre: chite or exereise it, except In fulsome adulation and fond earesses of panales. oc Umaginary’ nytuphs. As evitence of thelr Inability to aps preeinte toxic and tholr tendency toward akeptl- clam and frivolity, they dip their trenchant (2) pen [nh human gore, and fauneh forth intent Upon the pen-murder of Forty Yeurs,. but fu him or her they entet a Tartur, a foeman worthy of their “steel, | Buty lest fosuch nwitl, blood-curdling things 280 for foeman, nnd expeainily steel, shock thoir fine sonaibitiiies—tholr — ainationat wuttires.<T would bortur desist trom sich ware like deelarationg, and say yomothing about tho poole, sot-Jnspiring thames of moonshine, muste, love, and flowers, * Love,” arcording to vt fy “excitement by bunuty,” atid wanes: ng beauty fades. Why worry over and struggle liters Wanting, fleeing shidow, when there 26 st itech renlity in life tor which to wage lnttle? Mony li their btind tntatuatlon come shurt of beauty, evens or, enn it be Uhat some are sich conrimnnite idiots, and therefore xo blind, a3 b> suppure Car ane imeotent that thelr ‘asa compinlon” iseven pretty? According to the Utteranees of teas worshipers wt. the string of Verna It must bo 60, whorens in realty thoy era shockingly ugly, nnd perhaps destitute of ull merits Dut these overzealous, ble sirens who flid such edtlou ty amd 2 poudaty. captly which to mike havos e acotlons more often nerd things than persons of merit or montal and moral attalninents, Yee, thoy oftet choose ny soit tinpler, or doll baby in preferences to, some tntolligent, industrious yout person offeconamical, ober hablts. if. you fnquere the renson of such amazing conddet, on thoir ihey say. he or shots "so handsome and Nich,” wherens inalt promibiity thoy re neither, Rut they will tnsise that Vall cud't seo atike.” ‘Chis is (ruc, and Lain very thankful fur lt. Yet, If beauty ts wantiug, Nike anything else, our bo- ef to tho contrary will not supply the des Nefoney. Ask such persons why they love cren- dures Withuut oreelt, and they declare thoy “enn't help It." Soins ono said fn ast week's Ttomo that every plant fs made for a purpose, Su Is every mineral anc and what a pity Cor hummnlty ane t sone of the ‘writers for The Home do not tnd tholir Bphens of netion, and, Instead of making for ¢ thomeotves unenvinble reputations by sayings 5 srent many very silly, commonpluce thugs, cep in the “backsgrontd, and, Ike the atans o slant that they arc, serfarm thelr wonderful functions In sitence.: Tho Insane ; desperation with which these soft creaturce elop over and ellng to Cupli’s “fated” anes fs ira inarg die gusting thin the platitudinous elasticity of tho winenta emiplosed In ite defense, Th thehy uilaston of love aud Ife's mission stich things 1s wing nnd tobucce are lred souther “vomforters of (he pout Whereas, 3 ine formed person knows that they hive done tore to dixturb and destroy tho sweets of home and conrelence, to keep and mike people prupers and erlininals, than tra and the sworn And with thone mock teachers of uock philosophy, It makes 8 great difference who docs these tings, Th tho “gentleman "the Awebl—dt is rheuts while with the “rough —doubtiess incaniny porsons who have rosth hands from honest toll tis ahockingly horrible’! LC a person of oot breeding smokes, docs that fact destroy: mitigate the morg important fact Ut tob co in a" Hithy weed,” ani Ita tae a tity habit? Or, vico verst, militate more igninst the man of bad manners than the young anim who parts his halraud mine inthe middto? Chat Is not tho only contributor to The Tome who has coon for the Leper of her mind. ‘opsey 'Tinkly save sho ehould not be surprised If she were to take a olgnret. Neither shoutd |, or, at almost. nny thing’ else sho might clo or ways for a porson thit wil make sport of poople while trying to Macharge 8 relliious duty ont be cradited with a reckiesnogs sulficiont for Almost any meron cy. Forty Yours certainly. errs ho Kay's “We have no conception of a highe Hig thet our own bodies.” Yot, upor the wholo, hls let~ tor {s for supartar ta tha athorg, Tho workd is notbettor, and tho millenalitmn fs yet boyond hue man yislon, Frientship is tho mengure of peo- plo’s abliity to deceive, and love to hinabiyg. Cavrious Ons7r1c, SEPTEMBER RAIN. For The Chteaga Tribune, Fall on tho sodidon hill-akde, O sink Seprember rons Dronch with your bitter teardrops: iy lattieed window-panot Woop o'er tho vantehed glory Of the Sunmer-timy so sweat! Wenn o'er tho thiished story Whose ending camp too Hoot! : Fall In the tonely yalicy, O drenr September nilnt Sob o’or tho fallen beauty: ‘Of mondow, and ied, and lanot Bob In tho sllent woodland, Where the binds sing wild and loud) Bob o'er the wreek mud ruin OF the Suiminer in her shroud! Fall on my low-eayed cottage, O weird Septomber ralnt Hlot out tho Summor-visions id brakon, and vain! the molt With the fallen (ow'r and loat— ‘Tho hopes and dreains of the Summor-tide— ‘Tho rapiure of tove and yrict) Fanny Dirscatt. 2 POWDER, TELE CONTRAST! While other Baking Ponders are largely ADUL TERATED with ALUM aud other hurtful drugy, ¢ a of its original eat aviilones of Ponty, thas been Kept UNCHANGED In all uirity and whulesom [ f ENS, yond TRORAFETY, HEALTHVOLN EFFECTIVENESS, te THE FACT of its belug used to-day, from North to Suuth, trom Euxt (0 Weaty In the owns oe: Ube EEN Bial yoary whero it bas beon A PURE FRUIT ACID BAKING POWDER, NEVER SOLD IN BULK, Made by STEELE & PRICE, pr rl , 5 Fisturing Extracts, ces thus nud Sie aukes RADWAWS READY RELIEF, DR. RADWAY’S NARSAPARTLLTAN RESOLVENT, THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, Changes as Seen and Felt, ag they Daily Occur, Aft- er Using 2 Few Doses. 1, Good spirits, disappearance of weakn latuguor, mel nelly, {nercnse and hardiness Hush and muscles, ete, neinot 2 Btrongih increases, appetito improves, rete {sh for foot, no iors sour eructations of water brash, good digestion, calin and undisturbed sleep, awakon fresh and viguraue, 3. Dsappenranen of spots, blotches, pimptosy the nkin lvoks elenr and healthy; ‘the uring changed from its turbld and cloudy appearance tuaclear cherry or ninher color: water purses freely from the hinder through tho urethra without pain or senlding; fittle or no sediment; iq ball o woukness, : : » Marked diminution of quantity and fh quienes of tuvoluttary. weakening ‘Wiecharrey (Qf nMicted ta that way), with certainty of pore nutnent cure. Increase strength exulbited in the scereting glands, and function bacimons re stored to the several orguns, 5, Yelluw tingo on the white of the eyes, and the awarthy, sufron appearance of tho skin shied ton clear, ively, and healthy color, 6, Those suffering from weak or ulcerated lungs or tibercles reat benetlt Io expeetorating freoly the touxh phlegm or mucua from the lungs, alr cells, bronett ar windplpe, thront or head; diminishing the frequency of cough; general inerense of strength throughout the system; stoppage of night-swenta and pring and feelings of woukness wround the ankle. legs, shoulders, evasation of cotd ‘and chills, gense of sufocation, hard breathing and paroxysm of sate on dytue down of arising jo. the moralng. All these distressing symptone rradtutlly and surely disappent. 7. As diy after day the SARBAPAIULLIAN ig, taken now siens of returuin beatles will appears an tha blood finpro: fh purity and strength disease will dininh, and all foreign and impure. deposits, nodes, tumors, eanenrs, hitd lumps, ete,, he resolved away, and the unsound made sotind and healtuy: wWeors, fever sures, chronle akin dixeares, radunliy disappear. 8. In uses where the system bas been sale vated, and Merenry, Quickeilver, Corrostvesubs lmate have accumulated and became deposited in the bones, joints, ete. enusing caries of the vones, rickets, splint curvatures, contortion, white swellings, Varicoro volns, ete, the SARs BAVARILLIAN will resolve away theso depostts ny eatursitante) the virus of tho disease from ho system. 9, [f those who are taking those medicines for the eure of Chronte, Serofutous, or Syphilitle Olenses, however slow may he the cure, “feel better” and find their goneral health improving, thoi flesh and welght increasing, or even keeps Ing its own, it ia n Bure alan that the care Is pro ins. intheag tlisenscs tho pationt either gels better or worse,—the virus of the di: not Inactive; if. not arrested and in tho blood, It will sprend and continue to unde; Wine the constitution. As soon ns the SARS, PAMILLIAN makes tho patient “feet better, every hour yout will row botter and Increase in health, strength. and flesh. i The xrent power of this remedy is in disensca that threaten death, asin CONSUMPTION of the Lungs and Tubercutous Phthists, Scrotie if phitokt Disenses, Wasting, Degeneration, and Ulceration of the Kidneys, Dinhetes, Stap= pige of Water (instantaneous rellef afforde: where entheters have been used, thus dolng awny with tho painful operation of using these instruments, dissolving Stone in the Bladder, and In all cases of i inflammation of the Blad= der and Kidneys. In chronic cnacs of Leucorrheca and Uterine diseusee, One bottle contains more of tho activa priucl- pies of Medicines than any other Preparation, ‘Trkeon In ‘Vensponntil doses, while othors require ive or six times 16 much. a DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. RADWAY’S READY RELIEF CURES AND PUEVENTS R a Hox 44, Kalamazoo, Bich, for Ciroular, Wu bave + fordotten his ‘ ER vam We Mauneshend the Bpeciio | Dysontery, Isurshen, Chotern Mortis, Fever and Avoe Kneunatiam, Neneh, Diphe theris Miftuenza, Sore ‘Throat, Ditenwle Wreathing, Bowe: Complaints, Loosmnexs, Dintrhen, 3 pr pannfat dise charues [row the bow or 20m utes by toking Maden Ready clot, No songess on of Inflammation. no weakness or lassitude, will follow the use of tho It, It, Neliet. ‘4 WAS TRE FIRST AND 18 THE ONLY PAIN REMEDY that Instantly stops the mast excruciating pains, allays Intlammations, and cures Congestions, whether of the Lunge, Stomach, Howels, oF other ginnds or organ 01 polenta FIOM ONE LO LWENTV MINUTES, No matter how violent or excruciating pain the Rhuemiatle, Hed-ridden, Iniirm, Crippled. 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