Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1880, Page 12

forms of angerett Nat- white Rloves, lis former Als tritmphant au- era-box, rnd, 2s the erlagting gradually resolve hout exposing the by It to-day, as £ Write, Wille Brother Bolt tries ther mo with scornful and malignant ‘ons to the condition of the buttons on heretical sontluients tu cast on the waters o woult take my honeyed quill jan fingers unt sweotly tell my & female woman who had tho indelieney to sport at THE HOME Five .Thoughts Evolved trom the Mind of Eta Beta Pi, any length of tine w nt from the om toward the dlapa solemn eternity, Ne than crics out inn spirit. of revelniion, Vhhat a worm ant 1)? lcous tragedy to the un- urs of bubbling death and titel Z thought of James A, his hearth, atul q ier uniter the ki uzznrds of pn thickly about his Mar hhingell night tremble test. tlon at that pdorman’s ilarmed by the the legerdelanzus terrace, and e; codMg one. 1 “a drop too m How tho Deacon’s Courtship of Silence Wordsworth Was Interrupted, Seta Thy mente pudence atid Gariield, sitting ing dike n mangled the hosnltaly with nitical totony perched $0 home that even from her Hege's or Jover’s code, by her own mental eallbte,—tho offspring of earnest research and careful Investigatios blot on barba—or—o: I enn't wall of sand or adobe clay, water, and is approprintuly des fio term * porfeetly awfu),” a latly you go down with tho the hack—who says there Is no t tho final plu eyes and pray. 4 tho But Amity just as it Jondon, but somehow mutes stide down the “ragged edge,” the driver leans bath fect thé brake and swears aultly te hin eh) rocks. and plunges—yott fool pping down, down, down liken ehttal nightmare: board the bont, head in, hopes you ar Mr, Dailey Rolates Some of the Inoi- dents of Staging in Texas, eS = scented corrnp iMustration; so ita n losin hinke an Impression on the bachelors, wide ' who: rend this by that ine ey for £ contd never keop Wy deformity long enough to je: Ste last This ts the “ grievous lesson,” cte, 80 delle iy nays of iny youth a good Irtuons ‘Individunt—one Squire aMniwe—Hlyed Adfeeent tomy Iils spouse, after affece presenting him with two pairs of asollinire, all boys and nll in flyo ng ns tu shuitte off this er distressed Jord to flight ne relentless world, multaneously, ng tt will nls aud then you shut your ver expect to se erdemain of th turn from this duntis Brutus turned from ‘ed son, and reft 1 n there was neal at Mentor. ‘Tho tnx-colleet visit, atul a hotelkeuy of oxvense called ti Atiothor Batch of Views on the Absorbs {ng Subject of Noyel-Rending, ers hoeent Hille rs nso hin thelr sip. dy gloomy autumn ‘or matte a Cred! per With a campaign bi Ath yao if Gavia noraula man, anel woul Hitle “bil for rent of ‘the O: auarters] And then I saw HT abouts anc a man with Uo dn convention, and he sid jore mistakes! est wane? and th Tho Momories of Ohildhood Recalled by Orlona in a Simplo ‘and Touch- the four years 8 long head got Ue Let ns make Let us nominate an hone he Convention from the lows iw A to the topmost seat in. tzzarid Yow! of satlsfaction, lemtied James A. Gare Penltentiary as an ont. f, who had also ruined Then F came back ta ht tint few mien would an Rppaliltig bal- all the honors hy had apportioned to. the ki udtaken frightful vompe U-gainbling hazard to wi she lad exposed him for, had the el kone peatust James A. Garield, eneral runof humanity is probity and gre: plenty mean enoug! says “HO ecents’—or, If fh You fan it out mn never thinking to ask bo bewildered ‘ont would have hat you had ese Hough. Ite turns a crank, the the boat awit; gorge, and reel mirental domleile, A Number of SoutSongs by Our Own and Only Pe arg 2 Bards—Misrelinneons Letters on Va- ho said “Vive dollars years, Way so unferl sort pald its readily, and felt mortal coll, leaving I his own battles with and administer soothing ten to those five chernbs si Tho contract. was a targe one, 1 iit, so no blame could be attached to his after a suitable time had is eye adrift Foran eligible dn, tho course oi RAVE One continions whieh morally cond Jaw and a horse-thie! tho Republican party I880. again, and thou! care to be weigh five minutes y THM BABY, red clay bank For The Chteagn Tribune, °Owhnt will {¢ bo—tho baby? » Or heiress, or brave little holr?. ‘Will blue of the neavens find home In its ores, Or shadows of night in Sts halr? "0 what will-tt bo—our baby — Tho anxlously-tooked-for mite The tniked-of through each daytime hour, The drenmed-of through each night?" “O what will ft be?” {s tho heart-song . That one fair young bride doth sing, As sho sintlingly drenms of the future, And the awakening tt will bring; And renohes her arms ani presses A burden unto her hrensts And warms [ts Ups with klssca, And lulls tts eyes to rest; And cronns ns.u mother can ont; Whoso pulses are throbbty, With love that the Angels im Love for her first-born chil And sho wonders, In this her dreaming, “O what will its futrre bo? v tho trodden paths a ‘ou find yoursol fttrthor shore, The motion has ecased." driver shouts, swears, Jashe: stopped, and refuseste move, curtaing aud says: It have to get out. mumt —~ —— oli senre-crow buazurd's carrion eat tackle tite bluit, dash em)? “Mud’s purty bad! any rubbers? No? § you my sleker ifye'll putiton, Kinder keep (Delvers are always kind, to Jadies here.) The feul, conduct, when, elapsed, le east hi partner for the ttn. jnvanderings that orbeame in contact with the riter of this narrative, wit, cuiture, and divers virbues too nutnerous 40 —but of which excessive modesty 13 paramount—he honored her with his attentlons, with a conditional vi ainony, the conditions being If of course ft was naturally ult me, on the prt eres should not ba choos. na tt may, [took the liberty to g ter well in iin, care Thy all the pros and cons Incident t Consplenousty I planted the five chernbs at the head of the'pro list, fur not ont lonate lover of children, but peelal adoration, dreamed of founding Mentor, shu ha tion in the sor other graces ni which now acelatins aitaess world have bee hh todinve putt bly beeause he un, ho bill-board of 1 theatro, litwated a personal rl parlor men in one-buttort vests sed as peeulin Perhaps tho ine. its own, for Just J aulted him — | the leak off, pelt a 3. Lwalked pa and on that bon encomnter between seve awallow-talled cunts and Which scone wos advert tional and attractive, ychosis elalme at inatient it sedmed “sloxzger,” who had ona woolen shir fn Usat binterfered with am was left at ’ome—and a eompl Vatids to the grent anisfor disaster of any assallant, maze upon that kieetoved “anyith? showlng a contenp we very alariin rd with one of his vered through the medium J vassetl on, wrapped tit f all eavy itters aud the hings in rent lite, With a learned man. Io and sald they would nusing a ray of light aro sllpplng _h olng down. “You reallze what thal ou serenin and faint If not you The driver whips hb coach st doubt, that hy weigh the mat his Jaded “carrion!” ‘TI You leap nimbly. out. you ant holis you,” You are safe, at hi¥n the fin “begins, farm up the awful blutt, anions follow and bring up all the mud His very kind, follows you—it prevents you {t goes with you ‘hen you stop T reflections, ‘ell us your fae ays It seldom ratns'in Texas, alt {never saw prettior rain In Such mud! Prepared yucilage beside it. y haction, and f sort of a Home for ond here was a start not to be de- Nicholas Nickteby” from aud the leaves whorein the econom- udicious mami genien splsed; so L took "N like Iith, and stops with yo =auite out of breath and” mora XY fect ore red as w tof Dotheboy's ivaneed., The beney- Spoitse, and the tlaily food of re- seene whieh “W cared as the courtship iid siuash the bill-bow olent Squeers, his motherly ainlable Fanny were my J even wentao far us to Inquire the brimstone and treacle? ‘I were slight and unobtrusive, and sily disposed of by ai od ingnagement, wns all mace up,and I wes fate that hing minidand exist- Lined to cause me to “wither mirent stem’? of si Induced ine to necept the Invitati our Literary Society ealled it the tttary mi on “Soriat Freedom.” And storins come o Ant I, my pree! Muy bo fost forever to thee." she whispers—"Thoshadowa | Moody aduiration o} reul fitness of real th Liell to talking spoke of the tele eertalnly stteceed soon in to conditet the way Andatill droumin Ihave placed the ryebt hand of In Ils, tho Dear Suytor's own Fy 8 bank table to move. water falllng pun your sprin, rents of It rolling from waves, rivers, oceans 0: Your onty solace is that companions cannot Inug! river discharges a nes all neatly bound for the occasion with Tho lashing and hold Its breath In as ment, At lest up he comes,—tho Red Sen is L you resume your place. ‘Choe passengprs enough to do hewlng off tho mud‘ thom till the next somehow the conve: encouragement. ‘Then reaches her arma eo empty And, awakiny, eazes on me, ‘Walle sho biushingly fultors and utters “You have caught mo aupping I see." ‘Thus, ofton I've enught be But she, like n aly ittic el Verdict denies; hutaho necdn't, Was once u young mothor myzelt. en tho cruel haunted me throughout my 1 enee, and 1s thes! away on the p: reflector, bathed In some certain turned the rays of Upon some far-off reflector perhaps six niles uway, sponse to the line of liglit establi your own reflectors the reficetor six miles Ing traveled along the ray Here is the gross bext the use of ight as a highwe: we ¢an certal and all his fires 3 to our syllables! And, bi yond this clumsy 1! one world fia Sault whiten Srilsny i vat dream of the saine kind icc ¥ (the ?Squire always een’) with a paper polut. tho effort prover a com- and estublisned my reputation rator of the first water; but Ineffably sad,and, ps of crowning my erary and dramatic heart repIneth over Boy loundry cause the rain toh vHOUGHTS. of light. Now for THEA MANY LESSONS, To the Hulitor of The Chteago Troune. Chicago, Noy, 4.—Fair. ladies Sitence, Mance, nnd Bittersweet, I nm devoted to you. My proper wo nt my poor brother's fate has, kept mo stilled with sorrow, and When L have gazed upon tls ensanguinedt heud stuck onthe pike of the omnipotent Conductor, then, like Cesar nt the sight of Pompey’s hend, I have wept for grief, and, Tike Claudius on seeing the head ot Caligula, “Lhave run dni hidden Ina tornor of the pal- ace from feur, . But 1 love tho large‘companionshtp The Tlome gives me. Sy brothers and sisters are . all ideal. I am. chnrined with thelr oxcel- lences. I know not thelr fautts, Where, by word of month, with that sad cynte the eye in the offing, could I get such plensant iin- pressions? ‘Therefore, my cordial admission into aclrelo Tenvicd has somewhat bright- ened ny meagre Hfe, and neither fear nor grief shall keep me entirely forth. There Is in these columns thought,—for a sort of plente of ideas. Hero Wo may abandon ourselyes to our own the rules amt for wore practical but less osition, ‘The world loves ns tot. Kustery ? unto the Philistines, Hin Mogieatly entered Tho Home VO UN A correct yleww, red, the practical, slide ret while we are’ fret- 0 slings Of such wisps 23 Ko cl not forget that good se! eaches us-—nnd 1 expression of the thought than Ur Xx lend whose sinite and te or Own warm re- Semember with most. cannot he the slightest tpitiiation fdentifies 1 has some set rites, infringes them, breath, nor howed While T revel In the. ho: brow with laurels in tholl world, T grieve nnd iny the unthnely death of ‘Sutttre Squetehor w hold, there fa, he ight which travels’ but to secon, another fore grand, Invisible thain which holds th together—Cravitation, the turnpike of aur to: speak toall the orba In behold! shall we believe these w not, too, sat at Nature's feet have often spoken ns, ing lis sister In the water: a word of greeting? ons of superstition—traditions tho sky—have ino gle calnekience o This chaln shall bo Withd the crowd, gust hands In congratil quence, tid heartily wasn't tho shi elutehing my au- ition of iny elo- Assuring me that there daw of a tloube but that I thie to glory in wildly out the “bee-gim,”? and ke with a bottle ip, an infants h After that Hl- across n riyer., 2° May not they ‘spaces, sends forth doomed In Texas. ‘The fron-horse ig pretuy able territory. Raitroad able than horse stock, Ans reached us, dozens of other p: less than a week, he rushed door, leaving his cherished madly strowing | his. w Winslow's soothing. st huprobability save the sin- f thy tongue spoken be- [gible to terrestrial cars! 5, Leaught n metaphur_ tl Behold, in the midd resting the hot w: nbsenea for inany a weary dt Iny restless pillaw was baile of bitter sorrow ay, and nightly wed with tears because tie camo not At nnd at niéht tho cloud low- over tho famlly roof-tree, ton was fast clainin, ‘astly vietln—our Inrdor. It lald pork and beans, ant they no mittst of this groat and “ he, the doubled. vilhain, enme, and, after for nquarter of an hour for wn ( hout legs), he b, who is’ dis- siys, and requested ine to Feturn tho trinkets he had given mo in hls You see,” he sald, still fils hend-gear with Nimrod, Sint Pant enk fn meetiy, uy, yours had a tech Kites asoundin’ ying through my. ‘Aves, Titties W, WIth A gray cutnway Ho js imprisoned he Is of slight importance jo utntost importance, nan Who ever Ip Ite has waster away. h as Almost melted his tar-sconted and hastened hts death, the roar of the great storm o: belleves tho enemy has opened nlece of Its artillery, Me orders tho rates of hell, enemy ts in a panic, write his bulletin: Laborers for South per day nnd board, ered more darkly nv coat, with a peculiar) for fell consumpt Nay, he fs of th the greatest in Lhe temptation home {a too grest to wi Money on the rallrond and invest it whieh Is almost certain to double in valu 0 Fenson why so niany men lines are being try, and new ones New towns and the sure foun- in the fairest * The starof empire” rive, healthy, genor- isin up tu wel- ‘Lwo years hence tho arent tron ity West. ’s pretty compliment Lregret never hav sttlt her taste | co! have made thom © Claypole tsa frauds Ie 4 to suffer at the hands of a red-hend: ating stich ealummlesagalnst it general and ‘Toexus in particular, ' TT. A, Datney, y hand on the © plico for nually. ‘Chat Is tin are wanted contin pushed further up the coun! if izing everywhere, counties are formin: datlons of a intght: Jand benenth the aun, is with us now, and a. ous, Intelligent people come It with opan arms, Wwe shail bo In tho’e belt which enelretes the migh Sllenes Wordsworth Js appreciated. an opportunity to con to my Lutter: ‘3, or I betiér. Christophe: :Rustingly slaney; guns are tunied, tho and he sits town to “ Heal of the Army —" pirit passes in the midss dl of putty men ven rellef A man is dead oso heart sont tie rest Ringtloms of this world, ty thls Satng Te past haliuelnation. Teqarding the denths of the eye of 0 practleed says wonren shoutdirs s besides, that. specch o} As Whininen’s tolnsultus, but he gi as seen from tho butte breathes tn Gotd-g: the beatings of w terrors through the On this little earth spree, there is fimured the bénten by the storms hes elreunserl " ting under the i pe you won't take it tew slilfted niinsalf from one foot and regarded me with comiisera- souwll manage to find somo hat don't mint female suffer- i dbo wqueer sort of a man & womnn that wants and the earefnl Squire fet from my tear- hard? aud to Mind of Man, . brostratod by the pas- bt by the freq hat hand fovii i sort of a man th that would dar to speak in meetin’ » shook the dust off iis hathed presence, and went off and we woran who would go at the mention of * spe: Inton dead falnt at ’s Rites”: but this we eney (7) doves nut prevent her i ent i the family cof. and haunting milli- 8 stores, while her 3 the eradle tn button- py iy the delusion thet “ honpecked "by a mic Tn meth’. eness, nud Nich- slumbereth plaeldiy under ndligenous! Nay, himself: to say that Mats, 1s noteo- of God which ail who, too, shail net, the earth, ugly yet n precious pasibility that this and we undoubtedly Dot flattered its rank 80 patlent knee, thi well we Jook within and anon OUTARUHEIE 18 WI Keep is seuk- mg Oty Own satisfaction, ‘oar such Btu as dre and this doth make me rat Dalley took n- sunimes ent. Quoth he to Mistress hut prieticnl, invent. ship, anyhow, re, this Mind of eternal with the other works sy the universes, say that this tondlike pli and venomous, wears 1 Jewel In its head 2 AN INTERRUPTED counRtT- P, Into strong hyaterles akin’ In meetin,” or tha vaguest hint of to Its iMolutriv: nS RA Mints On, her love manicind, shops nud dry-rood and master rou! Jess garments,—hip hus eseaped bel S woman who wants Istill tive tn single-misera olaa Nickleby three Inches of di Sinence Wornsworrn, STAGING IN TEXAS, BOM: LIVELY ESPEMIENCES, To the Rdttor of Tho Chteago Tribune, Gotan, Tex, Nov, 14. blowing as ff It would bi Weeping Its eyes out; so I shall have no visit- ora to-night (Deo gratias!), and may devote un hotir to my favorlt correspondance, 'Tison a night like this thata follow far away thinks of home, and, perchance, lonzs Atritie for tie compantons of hig youth. ‘Those yagrant thoughts of home oluster round the tenderest and purest spot in tho HOW THE DEACON RELINQUISHED SILENCE, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Vinnex, Ih, Nov. i%—1 rend Bob's ac- count of the Grumpy Club, and stralehtway uenchable hankering to become Of that aulable organization téole possession of my souls but was, and alast my unhappy gender ostracizes me, and I ean only sta off and diet epithets at tho ernel fate that mace men womnn, while those un- tranmncted Gramps strut around and flaunt the glories of thelr estate «like veritable Montrehs of the barnyard, Alt well, women a8 aelnsy are regarded asa playful flock of pring chickens, and if an oveastonat one bo tur forgots her pinfeathers ng to open her frivolous beak excupt to eacklo (ond oven that source of relief ts Gllping “Ldan't s ive people want wi talns! lis holtay sped xot between the mitlstes boor Mr, Dalley el Tam no orator, as Brutus Is, how me itll, a plain blunt man Then you and I, allour hearts wi nes of life, and then and all of us fell down, and ent but to dir. Dalley, a8 louuly, aud ho was: wise In’his hunulity, foollsh In his pride and WY you haven clear mind, —It Is ralning and jow its head off for and sainetimes y Meover very Brent iilens,* ihily have hit upon no more nation oF the phenome nh that Sympathy and ant on our lives, It Wa Of Jolin Milton: Bebotl tho throne Of Chaos, nnd hie dark pavi Wide on tho wistefal deep: Bat sablo-vestet Nitty o ‘Tho consort of his reign. I bellevo that this rath- ishness, with whom It is it soon bo hurted from hrone, and that the risa of Jes and the attritioof that in called soc! uuslble expini Uinan neLion thi ness together sb calls to us tho stindow Unallowable in early it always follows as w rebuke to brococity, or struggling ambition, + with him enthroned elnss of people who w deat of things, this world In total hent. Edo not say this 6 tho o: but it 1s one of then, ane depends upon the pri AS tpon the book ttre one class of novel first chapter to th allude to as ““imasenlini bird gets divested ‘of he: prudish of her awil sex, wil Jealous of his awn superb glo Tul of losing ils own tn: to share the bull of seratehes her*oyes out, and D the buze wad worms sho hag lo sullen carthewhile he strut- proclalning hhiuself mouareh of Mindful of the solemn enibracet In the Uneworn saw re- girls and crowlng hens,” tu keep those U-omened covers but oceasion- attacks me, ant I Din sash enough to unpretentions fence, My colBnequences, ity thnorous Ittle 8 length assigned by cone agin Just punishment for always get knoe lave time to ave Venturesome wings. But, no! pst grievous expertunce, he, face of Providence us to ft to the Grumpy Clu falsa und fale may bo al- neelyes of tho granted by that suelety to lta men very evident that the Club with chivalry; what It li something of the b tha Seerotary of that ius anildly instniate that had mber the yuculty wat 88 vnoticeable, that the puor innnge by the tu tha opposit, vrlas, Rnd fears less uruciin of Be! Bulcldal to reign, w! welrd night ft is! Electricity, . Ils portion of tha th eats of wind surcharge, per sphere mud darken the face of the earth, If 13 o'clock, and yot tt ts not -dark. From my window, outa few minutes ago, youd the town the row raln, and temp yade (he atmo: marvelous organs: the bright futtire just In sizhto Ing to seu Mt, offer to thi into the world a lifa the misfortunes wile! Present 80 Mberally b which we so Ingenuously return my wari than lay, Keweenaw, the contributions of eral to remind us thut alt each of thuso writers cai with the nerve of a surgeon, Ji ood thing in declarl ought that because <died for him all other wom ing for the sane privilegu, it oy your wit and gay rhotorick natbath Bowell been Tauyene herdazzitn but see to It that with y Jour own wed ns I stood looking Lcould see away be- eh, groan bérders of endl vidual then born early unmixed with hy punt perversity ut ns Upon uA, an Attribute to fate, and Jennio 8, . Laplus and Ephem- Hesh 1s grass, nnd roll fntorminably boundless pratrle, and yet surrounded One Is struck more these Southwestern else in the United States? Where else one vould Keo so (and such 9 night), lito the vast busom of tho Strange! I am Jin town, by unbroken solitude, forelbly by thla fact In n towns then try very faithfully: propensities well, ind % rebellions spul Brleva to chronlete that jounta very humble, ant, reeklvss of lawless neek 9} { doube if any- far tu the night: yot see an Httle, ‘hore ts nothing to seo but tho unbroken sameness of duep, undulnting groon shrubbery, Tho wiud moans here distress, It subs and sighs and walls ali ng that the wid. one womsn had en were hanker- ventionallty, but cludéd to mennder th and whoover rpus & with o view to fidin rles in the end will fal the great truths and saber lessons author has taken so much palns to witlshed jurist In this State once ere wore two events that Nob forotells one was who and -the other what urs, ke a erenturo in window-panes mg the enves iike iP ats colebrating the election ro turns, ‘Phero is something awfully unroal I cannot holp listen. my young lady the ordinary luc! demonatrate b widower was right, tive Sirargling, vagrant fancles led until Thad bundled them int ase read them In charity: right young ian ig the back of a ludy’s chai die saya? Cou! leks they have Just tho effect a Hes the elements of Nature 27 And the youn bwithstandlag 4 dreary mon and shaplig them i ost dash agalnst th recutions. | Lalined: '3 hoarse rour, and sidaways, ok against the Providence could 1 we wommn would marry, wWwoult be the verdict of is to tha subject under dl Must Not bo supri dane and Edna st. Whole bouk as Injurio If iad my way, 1 would Ehno to somebody like Topsy tou, when he was rearin: through the world Into eres un: nds Buavely over and talks music o not follaw every thou, hat symphony? (why . And wis not when the saturn reache titution, L would Y. untered 13 IL have boun fun well aware of the and xlirtek out an; der Hike a creature afral curtuing to slit out the Anon the rain dashes do bushing with w clash and sho walls, pouring fi deluging, siturating all the Ike those storms! F hoy never cease, Rlyora own the narrow val- the soft earth, of ho strouts, ancl filling the aire: top of tholr Mimestone blutts, vO" streain, and seldom wie nergeney. ‘Lhe: water free sligle night, but ust it rushed h asliful Ingtltution, and T Inorsol of w doubt with falling hopes but what el $o stubbori emurely gives conserves all her intere: Npon he backs off in triumph, the concert, is worth his week's wage: this young, man, thres days nt atime tl yhich to_ bravo p of water fall, rushin 46 Grand Haven, na. The Alpenn »—Inta the valley wond, while they web KONO other arent misara. depart in high du edt her paternal and fuel, and hy wanton extra equal to tho en oats out into her last ni is vessel and his th ke a captive ‘wildb aoe py. Anouthis trembili ul, Ginal, fatal purexy: a rom the shack i Y, und he recognizes, fi postage stainp: ¥ allowable on ofadorming her and: furnishing tullias anothor inouti Lin a sufferin, the kind allude frou sheer Inability vee the banks for my cd $100,000 worth of corn, Buch a cahuulty nv Hay iy a tlteting. With ev oa remorsuless cognomen with a AL ng Krows int the Y elt abused paterfa- Of ‘bitter lesson of aud wero It uot jader false colorg MY Not occur ety heavy ran u twanty ta titty ing of bridges thine there are ‘Texas, which and read It through, this rendors the build! termining how many his extremely hazardous, At this vary tow bridges in Western wet weather somo nt well ings ato eitected, in high water, by or ferrtes, inet tnd ‘Th degeent ls not Viral describes, into Avernis—" facilis ¥ but, on tho contrary, quite the reverse, ‘Tho bluif drops off from the first, second or third ich drop is worse than the p he Inst ig anally conside: Tt just lifts nerpe Weled b iry weal ike that inl ab lenath you ne Tho boatman puts his enot frightened, and Is un natlye, echanienlly, What the ehnre ‘s—the thing has . The feline puts Sorry, mum! Ti ft the There are sheeis of bonnet,—tor- est clothes,— it beneath your feet, your disgustel and ew voltinia of station is reached, aint rention flags for want of Killetl ys, few sorlously In- plenty sever . They Invariably get out_ and When asked if they apprehend “Noy but tt tg satery? it “nitl-coaeh ‘Tholr raco Is nei ping all thelr valu. stock Is more valu- The age of progress ‘Tho Saturday Tumune ad Apers contain such ads. ns orn rallronds, Way Faro yery low (or freo). ‘ge mnjority of those men coma here. hin brings thom, and they never re= to aequire n. cheap THE NOVEL QUESTION. WHAT AJAX THINKS, To the Editor of The Chicago, Tribune, Srutsorrec, Ill., Nov. 31.—Now that Gar- flelt.and Arthur have been elected beyond all question and tho political pot tins ceased to boll, wo can all take comfortable seats within The Home clrele during the long and eruel winter, and hold sweet converse with one nnothor, Iam gind to seo that the season has opened with a vigorous discussion of the all-important question of the novel in Itera- ture, I read with groat interest the forcible communications of ‘Top: torsweot upon the subject. T am persuaded that thore are two sides to this question, and It deponds to a considera. blo extent upon how a person hins been talsed as to whethor a novel will be benellelal or ins Jurtous. A gront many people fail to umiler- stand or comprehend the object of novels In Mterature, and consequently do not discern wuts of truth of which tho tale tu tho more conveyances. ‘Che main 10 novel Is to convey In attractive Iules of right and honesty ton ‘ould otherwise wander Jxuoranen of nly sy ‘Llnkla and Bit- ag this mueh- ought abont or This class of novel-readers and ares popularly sup. the religion and read all Ine thatetho best be of very little ors, I ganietinies ff sud If Rochester marries Ehno, and denounee the hurtiul to woul. have married and char; Beoking whon } Ah, then we should ‘Thu front of Hoi havo seen aven filled with fle Earth shake and ¢ 5 ‘ Thaventways adinuited St. Eling and other Augusta Evans, not but for the rofound argument on and mental phitos resertches Into histor: Questions of ophy, and her deep gest to Littersweet and Topsy uk up ons of Augusta Evans! i open tou chapter nnywhere In the with a view of de torical references keep an sccountot those wit are uot fouililars then go tw cussions wtpon and geo with witat, aires and dificnt inder its siadows. by n reckless o but rather with fulness in the future bear believing that Gout than wo ean boar An strong contrast with, -Elno ia set aut the heistian graces of lily. former nally receives lihn biek ngain to teach him Anew ie lessons of purity and righteous: \ carefttl perusal of St, Elmo cannot hurt onybody, but 1 fitmly hat, Hewlil do go L share Bittersw to tha redders of ‘The I tlons of tho “ Diselptine, Wholesome doctrine, and For lustrnetive and entertaining renting in Line £ would suggest “Lothar? “A Princess of here are some very fine deseriptlons. Also * The Last nell” and “ Rienzi,” by Bulwet “heroes” (bald) St. is hard to understand, woman with suche « should have eve: her character, in whieh sho finally decid leaves n good innn fo fly to the arms of a nan, is too miserably absurd, rT she has a dream, ora sort of What horrible reais ‘and vistons she must have had efter she got back to iter prt bear ‘That Charldtte Bronté exercises a wonder- ders noone will ques- nus ig att the mare won- derfid when we rememberther dearth of ai her seeluded Hfe there be- wevard und moors that her writhnygs aro moral 't prove that Byron wns an ox fact, the life of Charlotte Brontéis much better’ and much healthier reading-than anything she ever wrote, i recommending a cou solect novels at nll? ‘Th more than bad fy You remember ful powor over her re: tons and that her gen yantages, nnd emplary man, eaves and began childhood the por, i ig. ‘Thy -rendens who front the yi @ last are inn perfect ax of, er ifthe horo of th elfsps the heroina to his manly bosom ina transport of happiness and sends fe preacher to make It binding for life, sidors the novel guud or bid desired state of atfatrs Is bre stgnally falls, ara very numerous, aod to “skip all novels in the world woul benefit to that class of rend: people real “Jano Ey; In the framd of mind 1 Ittle consequence who Jane Kimo and Edun con. rough this vale of ters "St. Elmo’? out Who the hero mur. i utterly to we tind in our reading aro sone who, Hk ade we pass. otherwise | tho; are not books that tho ovils of sucioty, that feet, suy, on carrion,—nor yet th elpal attraction fa an ndven Sharpe, : Yoby after all, 80 much critic! Even Qulda has written books, with all of hor talent at words, and will for.the thine, hilmuglt, It is very ousy to recommend books fo! structive reuding,—these always remain the siine,—but to recommend leagtiro onv should know ind character of the WO most assured]; deavors, Some and read about then, ane knowledge haa ne Or read: tho Interesting dis- inefaphysteal toples found in nad the researches [nanelent tore pated problems abounding fn ql. ~ Hamish from your mad mo is to be married vt all, Vivldness tho author pore trays the execllonces of virtue and discloses state of mint and body of ono ‘Che career of “St. Elmo ig ono from which f powerful fesson enn be drawn, Ights and shadows fless that whl Ave titist not tose faith In humanity and sock to Helter oir burden areer of dabauchery and crime, pation and triste tha’ fia we have, will not tempt us greater tho witd lite af St, beautiCul character and Uelluve, on the other Vs admiration for Little and would cordhilty recommend it Ik@ some por- ? tteontaing most a till of comfort. Days of Pom rs 8 Witit ToPsY, TM the Tatitor of The Chicago Tribune, Cicano, Nov. 20.—C want to shake hands wity 'Topsy-Tinkle and Beth Button on the “sloppy-novel? question, with thebonk “Jane Eyre” 1s exactly the samo ns Bath Button’s. I was advised to read tt long before I lind an opportunity, and after reading it felt a strange: depression of spirits. Tam glad tosee that Bath Button classes “Jang Eyre” and “St, Elmo” with “Oulda’s” novels, for, although weltten by purer women ant more gifted writers, they are equally immoral, Ihave been watting— almost longing—to henr again from Ditters sweet, and now that she speaks again I am (shall Tsay it) very much disnappotnted to up the pen in defense Hteraturo, is worthy of 1 better entse, silently to- seo the way In which the book “St, Elno” Is ignored in her article, Does that not show (hat [tts only the genius of the author that tor admiration? Of the two Ulino {s the lenstdesple- Wud comes somewhat nearer the type of vin every-(lay life, had no conception of a true man but that such a strong lollcate, retined nature T given us ng weak, vacillat- hor insipid chatacter as that ane Kyra is beyond comprehension, L ean only agree with Bitlorswoet in one re. ark she made about the much-talked-of Jane, and that fs that sho was not in the soul- saving business, ‘I'hint she or oven desired to saye him, isbeyond the power of even Char iftedt pen ta show. listening to Ins story My exporience saved Rochester, or ‘The course she that would havo man blush) “will never save any hen wo recall Jano’s wavering when sed to har, we sve tio rent Then the way her fate, and irse of reading, why wey re unsafo as A and give distorted viuws of life. If ally Ant isso nfratt of “heavy fet her take I the standard “noyellsts, W. tthe, Dickens, tnd Victor If fo on to Tk Marvels “Dream-Life,’ and from them to Arthur Helps and Jolin Forster, through Ruskin, Carlyle, will prefer the heavier i clap-trathas Augusth 5 18 too short to waste font of the ladder, climbing on the lower -roun derive benefit from books, we must read the best,—at least the best. wo ean get hold of, Ar. Daily seams tu bo favored with letters from “yo tuir ones? Antonto and weito up the Alamo and the old destlt churches for us? and Ephemeral I sent gre degrev ugo, and then “Rovertes uid When one has gona td Macaulay, he stories to nny: such WANS can offer, in playtng around the a Will he not vist ‘To Rayen Halr, F9 oling. CALIFORNIA'S VIEWS, To the Editor of The Uhicaga Tribune, Wasitnaroy, D, C., Noy, 33.—And so you miss me, Bittersweet? Shall I come to tho defense of Jane Eyro? Ah, she docs not need adofender, Tho small, quiet, arny-clait heroine can defend hersolf. ‘Che author, Charlotte Bron té, needs no defense for her eharming creations, Her name will stand when ours are forgotten,—her books be read with pleasure and profit when our have passed from all memories. * Years ago, when it was first published, 1 rent “Inne Eyre.” You soe I am not now, though £ was young then. band was away “atthe war” (the Moxtcan), and my father-in-law, thon long past his tHreescoro years and ton, sent me the book, with the words, “Public opinton Is divided on the subject of this new. ven {t yor have, 1 think, a troaé fn ‘Tell ino what you think of it? ‘Thore was nothing fo provent, and I cut the ho renting, Very soon It Even in her uihappy, desolate re was a charm, and th torest deepened ng It proceeded. 1 tivt, eray-clad heroine had a atran uselation for me, nb times bawil she seemed inyself, book, and did what hovel, ant never sluco, ng and read ita second Itseems strango to me avon now tu find Any one condemn it. I could see nothing wne loun seo nothing’ tne itscans to me that, what we seck. 8 the bes, tuka' onl: others who, like the spider, seuk but tha venom, and find It. Some bi Nearly all yonam. ‘Thoy are to be avolded dd condemned. ro muy vory charming novels think, ard open to the way of morals, and. whi guod to tholr readers,—these noy and Allss Phelps for instance,—yal Tounnce writers the very princa of was Nathaniet jgwthorne, When Remombur, alt you kind and these are but my options. ling his favorita, ofte but often also thoy change with hen thoy are entirely cons romain ‘our own al ade from our m Ieave no trace. ‘Thera are some have not seen for twenty-tlve years 0 yet which are us fi ad read them yestori book, but I€ I read on, tinished had never before done no criticisin, in ich ean do only of Mra, 1 the sume th si In my ining as it they aru not books that rest tholr tpon snort Jokes about widows and r women In general, tdlepend upon show! el, 13 ONG TAY osu Whose prin- turcss,—a Becky tho authors who have been tholr good slides, some. gharming f Unone of her “Sliema,” and some & novol the author ts often chr- 1s characters,—they- dominate o themselves, speak thelr own be gainsald. They are, for amusement reader; otherwise in ou 643 0! of nok from the reviows; others Judgo for One of tho best abused writers was Ceorga yeb what admirable things ahe has passed. “Among then all Eat books Teconmenited, be finer than * Adam Bede,” "fhe MHL on 7 anid Mddtemaren,!? pink, not quite eqttal to Ann, Tam gind you do not al- Ising to hurt yon. elnyg erlticised,—more when It 1s —for then wo are the mora will look within and see if wo. are wi harabiness only dtlyes us tn the other lor BU Bittersweet, you aro right. ‘Thera are inauy who can help you to untangle your worsted who cannot ald yon in the tangles that come into your Ife, or who cannot salva for, you tho problems tint covery day urge a _ Aly best wishes to allthe Home friends. Jlow fone, it is alnce somo of them have hartly ba sur lo not aco George | positive of thelr fultithn oth usually does, ef that Livould be a gr rile a nation, and when {lle there waulel follow. a gy The wortd wouktloole Upon great calamity, and the jast oft i the bank, Int Upward course, and wate! hen When It eub the wa rom view my aged frie veraation and said: © stone cut tte’ the wat slngle ripple to mark th Just so guletly WHI move on in ti fore. My passti CIILDUOOD MEMORIES. To the Editor of The Chieaga Tribune, CincaAdo, Nov, 24.—I haya beon wandering of Into among the stindows uf the prat—the din, mystioshndows that envelop childhood, girlhood, and even tho roseate Unts of early welded life that seemed crowned wet a halo of undying glory that could nayer, never be changed Into the quiet common- Place of everyday oxistence, Bolten scencs havo been unearthed, and memories that haye beon silently sleeping for yeurs aroused to full action by the most trivial clrcumstance—that cf rummaging through the stored relies of what was once Piles of old Jettors,— drawings and ng Away after os by fult tere be noted, after the sun of Piolaiure from the lit future, my boy, w! 4s far more benutiful thinn ¢ OUR OWN BAnps, DAYS GONE ny, For The Chicago ‘ri Do I over think of tho days gone } Pray, what aro th When L certainly Aré ts far Apart Ilasts of for- ey to you or to mo; know that you andr fd Wo well can bo? And what If the mightingalo does call On Ita absent mate, , or the muon look dow; Upon us to-night, iy fram Its home on high Or that you woul givo Mle—hope~fortunge| all, . For a single hour ot t Whon you know thas And moro—that thofr And thoir leaves ure my chitdhood home, new to me now,—heaps of and printed effusions of my youth- constituted th brain daring a primer gr well-worn toy, ho days gone hy, employment of hands am portlon of the thio spentin lite rambles in t Sought for the old copper-ensed eon handed down through encration, und done such inekeeper white | rand old maple that wateh that had of tho loving kiss, generation after vast service as a tl against the trunie of the stood gunrd over tha bolling-place in the old- time snp-bush that held such a chagm for mo In Infancy, ‘Che sugar-bush hig go the shadows, and the overgrown th yalueless save usa relic, ins bean by tha ruthtess hands of “gmail boy,” famous only for his destructlve procllvities and degenerate tastes. of flint atrow-heads, the red men of the fu! kulves, with their lon, and monstrous silver broo and rusty tomahawks eame tp before me agin days baby fggers lind toyed with n the hearthstone, tho restless hands DoT ovér think A Yos! Whenever I boar a se: AST walk through Ilfe’s tan, And wy thoughts, pein Bat nover a sigh, What decett haa ‘ou wish ta turn biel ry Out, with n throbh ¥or tho vauteh’d drowm, Of a love as dend as tt was | But it novermoro can by thine gaint " * ‘THOMAS UL Monnusox, * “FOUND prownED!” Yor The Chieaga Triiune, 1 éiatched from tho waye Within whose cruel, cold embrace bo sought and found u speedy gray, Only a woman all ataine Sin-furrows deep on ch Her garmonts wet with Her hoart—but abt 'tis slient now, Only a woman driven from home ‘Without one friend in God's wile world; , dono condemned to roam, lo Virtue swift hor arrows hurled, ‘omnn.—but once a chitd, it, spoticss, loved, caressed, On ber a inother fond has smiled Wille olosu aho pressed hier to her breast, y an outeast,—so wa In pride f Virtuo pure and undollled Draw our white robus trom her aside Pags in scorn this earth-stalned child, A.womnn of sint but Christ has anid: froin Heaven to save, for I ao not miss at me to disdain, the Inevitable crudely fashioned by and rusty hunting- ungalnly sheaths, ches and quivering Only 2 wortnn agone, for m:; where they were placed by of the older clilldren, who had gathered them from amid the tall grass of the wild, desolate ‘They were only, visiotis mintned that tho “ inevitab! ‘The letters held no charm for him,—though the autographs of friends long quiu! Ing were there,—tlta buoyant lang unge giving tort Luttire in store fur them, pilferers to leave even hough it ts ensy to be- ight was’ entirely wnin- ” could utilize. those choico relics, t! Hevo that the overs! tentional,—the kindness unpremeditated, Outof the shadews came the form and voice of a beloved sister, whose Ife was de- yoted to her struggling countr Jsband and father” bore the war fn the Union ranks she bray compleimingly tolled for and watched over her threo helpless babes, and when the War Was over and her soldier boy returned to her, she atietly Inld down her burd over the river of Death, patriotic souls sha had done what sho could. How little she drenmed of the lifo In store Beside me in. my er eldest datgliter, whose life has ¥'ou these I cama For thom tho wnt! For thom He slopt within tho grave, Ie Hu forgive them, ean not we? Can we not give a helping hand ‘To lead thom back to purity And thus oboy Christ's own commandt, For whnatsoo'er yo would that men Bhould cver do to you, ‘hat inust yo also do to them— ‘Thus to thyuelf be true. lens and passed Like thousands of for those little ones, search for relles was h how grown to ‘wonnnhvod, been one continual round o curries the marks of the tender caresses of the woman she was forced to submit to on her poor shoulders,—inyi tale sears that were cause of broken steel} through tho entlro hand, the score of o1 aA more erniel eat-o! tinds of white, tell- d by the sharp ends oops,—crinolings broken length, doubled at the nds left flying in the air, -uine-talls than was ever tho brawny arnis of tho Southern rT, Of whose flendish cruel umes have been written, And ‘er reached us from the Western which they wero mmured, whon the tron horse her mother’s friends, dit * @OOD-NIGNT, 4 From ths German of Thea, Korner, for Tha Chae Tribune, - Good-night! Good-night! ‘To all Lifo's weary onos, Guod-nightl ‘Tho day draws slowly to an end; All quiet lies cach busy hand, ‘Uutil the dny dawn ctear and bright, Good-night! Good-night! 8 ‘Take now thy rest, And close thy weary, aching eyes, , In allonco deep, the durk roud Iles, watchman troqds his ways to us—we must obey And Beck sweot rest. within the Inst month, bore the child to wa have tho least 81 of the stepmother to whom we had dilndly given credit, ute this one ernel stepmot Istence, nnd those three Poor girls the only But the chan from Indulgences to cruelty was n sore tr to them, certatnly, ‘THE GRUMPY CLUB. To the Editor of The Chteago Tribunes Dixon, Lil, Nov. 17%—Mr. Conduator, al- low’ me to oxpress my congratulations to yoursolf as wellas tho many readers, and particularly the contributors, of ‘Tho Home on tho reception of such a jolly sot of young enthusiasts as the Grumpy Club represents. and sprend before us, too, ns it {3, by such a proficient, yet modest, Secretary as that hon- good fortune to possess, too, Why, to read tho proceedings as chtonicled by his skillful pen even makes me fecl young again. ‘Were It not for fear of being made n butt of, per- haps recelving s goodly array of tho epithets usually applied toa gouty old bachelor —— tutl tut! Hero! Whatum Taaylng? ono knows It,” every ono will i commenting and any nothing In raf- inoctuaty will then fin- And dream of Eden ‘The land of pure nud heaven! May all whotn love has sore distre: Ta dreains find quict, peavoful rest. slumber sweet, Oswego, N. ¥. Crue LEAP IN TIE NooK. From the German of Anustastus Grun . Thavo an aged aunt, ‘Who has a small, old book; Between its anclent pages A withered loaf is stuck. As withered, porhaps, aro tho hands ‘That pluaked it for hor ono ‘Waat ailoth the pid atts ent ‘hioe 10 looks on q Anriun CoLatn DAWE0% MISOELLANEOUS. POEM DIECOVERED, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune * GAtEsnuna, Ill, Nov. 18—1n your isp ot Sept. 6 Mrs. C. W. P., of Grand Raplds, Mich., wishes to ba informed where she can get n copy of the pocm of “ Goody Blake and Harry Gil.” I have a book, "The National Precentor,” seta Prey tte poet ay ordsworth; and If Mrs. CW. P Rind ina her address I will copy It and send er. orable Club has ‘Then he ts 80 wi know that 1 ni erence to myself. press some one, as } going tu add, If elreamstunces wor Imlght perhaps petition the Gram adtlsslon to membershi [will content myself with auch 18 8 the kind Secretary dd to honor us with from would Ike to OMNISTMAS-GIFTS. Tb the Editur af The Unieago Tridunt. Cntcaao, Noy, 24—Christinas 1s comings and It is timo to think of the gifts wo are to make to those who are ours by ties of blood, friendship, or love, Giving Is a delicate ma ter, and somo may say they cannot do juste to it, or that their gifts may not be satlsfao- tory; If so, tho fault may be more in tha selves and In thelr want of thought than the nattire of things. t It has beon my lot to spend a large pa of my time among a mixot population con talning a small proportion of Americans and I have observed that they pay less ater ton to Christmas than any other party Many of thom take ft as it comes, harily. knowing what todo with it or with ews selves, Tho Germans seem to enjoy It ne than any other people, ‘Those of them ae have very tittle monoy to spynd during soem to have a surprising Abundance at that time, Then they fin off thelr poverty and Indlgenee and aro es tords and ladies for tho thine, uot rich mlons In money, but rich in happiness, frend ship, and tovye, ‘Tho linppln the to time, I Hob favor us with the wittleism: lishments of Whimbe incre skeleton of n novel, reproduced by the Seeret: novels, whon 1 read an, mented fn subs! consider the su request, I shou! of i committee to roll hi stow hlin away in his vain until he is wanted needs skolvtonizing, Iwonder if may oxpross tn tor Guic Worest's agreeable lett venture anyway, what peoullar, io tents off with @ Jolly and Ie, only to burst forth a Hilant iosoriptions ‘To inuch like her o: evening by the v's NEW novel.‘ acinitting its bel y ab all, orna- tantint manner, Lt he will estlou, and comply with the it Inwpy to uct As ong nh flannel and although she nppenrs some- 5 ill allow tho term, & gquist, mournth gain ino bright, me, she ls evor ao wit reeltal of a quiet musionl fireside, ‘That, ia the ‘The very wind which w ts varloty of tones down tho old: chininey Is suggastlye to ma of ever musical, yot nover unploasan tlety of tones, foregoing suggestions, nymph of Green Lake, sheet of water in its eme: constn’s woods, and so unroman ag" Punky Ann? mer visitors. ‘This coy and charniln; suddenly dosorled on the edge of a think it was “Sh rest of the ye as well ns by the she reminds mo of a that beautiful little among ininy of fe ny, throughout tho whole year. before Christmas they “coum thelr money and to stud wanta, and tastes of thelr fc1 choose the most appro; months of saving and them, for conten glamour ver tag litt row oir every-day life. ds shiguld be tokens of estan, ship, or love, and it may sof diAlcult to dispense them itccording feellnys without causing Jealuns it not always entertain tha same fv i" having chal yi Us, ainining the cause we often d they are grounded in projudire, 8 good qualities ol favored ones or pltying them fi fortunes we may change our fee ia and thus make our gifts hone ae art of ottrsclyes and ate RS herweod.” She was Ing from a row on the Jake, and nei Hust the atitfentn with a ruddy blended most ht .tints of hor cloth. lofving all restraints, TUUZe, WAS tosse, the frolicsome waves. thinking are happy breeze had thged her law which contrasted and nutifully with the I ing, Mor flaxon hint, ¢ enuught up by the playful about her shoulders, and th Co her waist in natural waves of Only afew momen’ ph by the sidé of w real joming aware of ny y glance in my direc- long the path among nories & single name, n little esurrect; thauhte that huve laty, a, suddenly re- Ines they return 48 mocking ru- ribute our mite ‘all, and each thore, a living nyu boat, with netual si at hee fect; then, be gaz0, she threw ah and disappeared frealt our memory.’ Somet! ag pleasant recolléctions, memberances; but we all inmaking up this work | Wi re only units of one great wholes Wo are valued only We hold relative to h we all must fallow, off, and which’ ever recall. what, was desl 12a fl ta apair. a 8 sav ng and self-denial it will be appr d if they can do no more they give thelr best thoughts au waking others happy, cost nothing but imaney by with that wiiteh fy the resul alven latter gi Of themselves, and In #0 dolng have dxss A ese Vory Zeros, according to the position ¥ that great Figure while! elther closely or afar stands before us. I of: said ( no by the sido of a te mean compa Lot patient labor,