Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1881, Page 11

THE STAGE. qhe Prominent Events on the Books of Our Local Theatres. dt’s Engagement—Dis- * eomfiture of the Specu- ; lator. ef ‘Indignation from Circus-Men How! f Over the Prospective Tax. Notes and Miscellaneous Gossip Concerning the Stage. pocaL THEATRES. ‘The last two weeks of the year so far as matic affairs are concerned in this city singularly uneventful. Nothing new Lie resented and nothing was revived that : bie for serious, consideration. The first ‘of the theatrical year, as the reader of Tar TRIBUNE musi have noted, has been ex- qeetingly profitable to the managers and to the public. ‘The next three months are fult of promise, for pesides the production here ai fing that time of several. new plays we Bernhardt, with her coflin, her ve ie oe nee her busts, and her general magnifi- = vini, the greatest tragedian this cae seen; Ada ‘Cavendish, perhaps Generiere Ward, and Tom Keene. The ap- nce of Salvini will undoubtedly be the most ‘valuable event during the year, al- thongh he can searcely be expected to draw ough wdsas Sarah Bernhardt will, ‘The Smerican actor, Tom Keene, who has at- tracted ‘a preat deal of attention since he made his début as 4) star here, bas been secured for two weeks inF ‘ebruary atthe Grand instead of for one as originally upon. Mr. Keene’s engagement will jn about the middle of February, and it Will be looked forward to with much inter- est by the better class of theatrical patrons. if agement asastay in this city, Us Bet Detober, while it was the most rolitable of the season at the Grand Opera- House, was Th some respects not entirely ‘satisfactory to the critics. Of course the star layed under disadvantages. He found him- air ‘with a new company, assuming, to him, nev parts, and placed at once in comparison with MeCullough and Barrett. Every con- ideration was Shown him by thenewspapers, be alladmitted that his work gave strong evidence of future greatness, which would pe realized if the actor had the capacity to study and refine. Just how far he has pro- gressed toward perfection will be interesting Yo see, Since he left we may say that the ex- eh: ‘pave given him lavish praise. It is tobe hoped that Afr. John Hamlin, during + “this forthcoming Shaksvearean revival, will pay much more ‘attention to the fitness of his seenery than hedid during the former en- gagevient ot Keene. ‘Another event of inter- ést will be the appearance of Robson and Crane, protebly in a new play. They are ked at Hooley”s. . agro evening the year will beopencd bythe production of A. C. Gunter’s new a Lay, “v0 Nights in Rome.” “The main Tiread of the narrative,” said. the New York “Times, “isspun in the sad experiences of Gerald Masscy, an artist in the first two acts anda Baronet in the last, who finds himself married and unmarried to each of tet women. several times during the progress ot the drama.” The incidents are said to be.excit- ig and the ititerest well sustained. Miss ude Granger will play the chief role, and her support is said to be good. Next to “My ~~ Partner” “The Galley Slave” has been the 3 most popular of Mr. Bartley Campbell’s B works. Perhaps ithas made more money for the prolific author than any two of his : plays. It wHl be again represented to-mor- row evening at Haverly’s witha cast includ- ing Mi Gussie De . Forrest, Mr. Frank Evans, Mr. E. T. Knowles, Miss Nellie | Barbour, Miss Eda isso, Nr.. Charles Webster, Mr.. J. M. Buell, Mine. Majeroni, Mr. Junius Bratus Booth, Mr. Thomas H. Boris, ae Clara Stoneall, Little Daisy, Mr.C. B. Waite, Mr. E. Morgan, * Nat Goodwin will present his “ Hobbies” at Hooley’s during the week with the sarfe’cast as formerly, except in the addition of Daisy Ramsden. ‘The Corinne “ Merrymakers” is + the name of a troupe engaged in the produc- tion of a version of “Cinderella.” They will appearat the Grand during the week. The cast will include Miss Leila Farrell, Miss Bessie Louise King, Joseph Coughlan, Frank : Deshon, B: F. Lodge, Charles Osborn, J. 1. Drconat Herert Crowe v lise Lizzie Hunt, ASS | rie Minor, Miss Iaa Glenn, E. Bebils “ihe minature Pat Om / BERNHARDT’S ENGAGEMENT. ‘The most important affair in theatrical cir- tles during the past week has been the sale df seats forthe forthcoming engazement of Mile, Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, at MeVicker’s Theatre. This engagement will begin, as we have already statea, on the Joth inst., and will last two weeks, During that time Bernhardt will appear twelve thnes, and the repertoire, will in all probs- bility only comprise “Adrienne Lecouvreur,” «FtovFrou,” “The Sphinx,” “Camille.” Phedre,” “Hernaii.” These performances Will be given every evening except Saturday, mente tae willonly act at the matinée. rs sale has been going on for five days, and h that time some $10,000 has been taken in, $7,000 of which is for season tickets, the re- ae $3,000 being for single seats, the leh ae a are for the first three the engagement, - when ‘Adri- enne Uesoureunn Fiuclrou,” aend given. his: sum, 1 Rill is far exeessof any advance sale of Be pon in this city, is much below that for tine na oF New York. ‘There is a reason " completers Speculation has been as Specht; woot aspossible.- In othercities purchase Were allowed the privilege of SS the pt ora et for $30 instead of + geftsad lar price. Manager. McVicker tors aay cuipbatically to grant the specula- ho ech concession, and adhered strict- vidual, 74 to spli only four seats to onein- ot pieehacs that individual was suspected Was, Pefused ae speculative purposes he ful has the privilegeof buying. So care- + agitate: Management been to guard the y “corner ”-in thetickets that after > tive mente or two of the sale the specu! Roliman Gwen retired diseusted, fred Manage declared that “Charley Redfieldand intos ae ieker should be stuffed, put seum gi case, and sent tothe British Mu- woul dat bair of extraordinary men who < BU su make an, honest dollar-when they * THAT $500 CIRCUS PROIIBITION. os > the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. mihi Pa, Dec. 29.—Although urged to ft rdinat express my views with regard to the -hibito proposing the imposition of a pro- aa rae upon circuses, I have de- . £ 80; nor should I now refer to pebeet did I not see inyself erroneously : mesting Your issue of the 26th inst. as. the on behalf of the Messrs. Sells. On * ether then’ Ido not believe in humbling nat fe ortyself in the dust of supplica- a iéet of the narrow and greedy in- ‘ich has inspired this attempt to thus End of Preposterous taxation another F tnd ee Teaiument, more generally popu- ho petaplecred as beneficent. {am one . tiene that circuses can live full as s h shout Chicago as Chicago can live \ Couneit circuses; wherefore, if her Common une unworthily influenced to do ‘hieago-like a thing as iscontemplated of oan ed ordinance, Why, in the naine atu rea and leg drama, let them do it; S . dieatte ¢ it would be more manly to come 2 fo the puint. aimed at by simply or- ali, © “8 circuses should not visit the city Tn vi : : to to Of Chicaro’s well-founded claims tolerance, liberality, and equity, an_ordi- : Tpechistic to all of these attributes, x Ketter, 01 Y a Violation of the spirit, if not the a ler charter, would look well the Don her records, when contrasted. her pron lightened policy of every one of chai Roser cities, even including Puri- Shia, wee ston and Quaker-bred Philadel- Poe ee h, as a matter of sound business Such eae circuses to cone. ‘Cuses as can aiford to visit Chicago re F ref THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES. at all are very large cash “patrons of her in- -dustries, and the ordinance in question aims a misdirected and sordidly blind plow, from which the Jatter will severely and solely suffer. ‘Thestale ery that ‘circuses take all the money out of town” is either the empty how! of stupidity or “the lie direct” of in- terested selfishness. There is no- profit in disputing the question with ignorance on the one side and falsehood on the. other, but if it can be possible that your City Fathers are intiuénced by such a plea; L beg to respectfully inquire by what authority they assume to act as 25 and 50 cent financial guardians of.every soul in Cook County to prevent them by enactment from attending the most popular of all ex- hibitions, and the one which will return them a good deal the most for .their money? and, furthermore, if this sort of restraining civic protection is required in arenic instances, why it would not be at least equally salutary “in the ease of 2 certain French ‘Thespian dev- otee, whose nmianagement demands, by ad- yertisementin Tu Trrbuny, the price of 600 adult admissions tv a circus for one pri- - vate pox. It may be fairly and -patriotically argued, too, that the money carted from poor Chicago py the cireus will, at least, remain in the country, while that paid to the actress will be transported tar away to further feed the prurient pride of pampered Paris. ‘The wisest of men has said: “Argue not with a fool according to his folly, lest thou be madé as foolish as he.” What, then, can be said to convert and convince the fools who are aiways and forever babbling about the fabulous sums made by. circuses of their ox- ror? Sensible men will at once appreciate the fact that if these golden-tongued idiots were right there would be very many more circuses and very many less bankrupt man- agers. Indeed, you can almost count upon the fingers of one hand all the solvent circus - managers in America, and while both enor- mous capital and business ability of the highest order are required to insure a fair re- turn upon the investment, this combination does not serve to maintain an equipoise be- tween success and failure, or to insure the best management against overwhelming dis- aster. . This proposed scheme of extortion and proseriptio is not even original with Chi- engo. It has frequently been tried else- where, and as frequently failed; for public opinion and business exigencies have com- pelled the adeption of a more Jibera! and im- partial policy. Local history will thus repeat itself in Cilicago; for, assuredly, should your Council adopt the ordinance under eonsider- ation, it will eventually be compelled to re- peal it Meanwhile, no prophetic reputation is risked in the diction that all circuses and menageries will shun your city. For one, I wish it distinctly understood, sir, that I.do not propose to join in humbly petitioning or mildly protesting, by means of labored. arRUMent against the ordinance in question. I denounce it as an act of grossest intolerance and injustice, a tyrannical ustrp- ation of authority under color of law, orig- inating in a sordid conspiracy, at war with every established Chicago business and pop- ular precedent, and as an unmitigated. out- rage, to the consummation of which no hon- orable and intelligent city representative will lend his voice and vote. Very respectfully yours, Cras. Stow, Gencral Agent Sclis Bros. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cricaco, Dec. 28.—I ‘riotice in this day’ Tumune an editorial about the pro- posed ordinance for the licensing of circuses, and I want to say that the statement that cireus parties come into large cities to make up for losses made in small ‘places has no foundation in fact, and betraysan utter want of familiarity with the business. ‘it is well known among amnsement managers that the conduct of a circus to a profitable point is at- tended with great difliculty. . It requires the very best managerial and business tact. I contend that there is nothing Jow about a circus performance per se, and I fay believe that if there was an expression from the public upon the subject no such outrageous sum as $500 per day would ever be charged for the ‘purpose of giving circus exhibitions. It amounts to at least 15 per cent of the gross receipts of a cireus and to at least 50 per cent of the profits of any circus, and there is noth- ing just or-equitable in such an outrageous aX, ‘Managers frequently’say that their receipts are enormous for advertising purposes, but I know for a certainty that circus companies seek large cities more for the rest their per- formers and ring stock néeds than for any surplus of profit they expect over a smilar number of entertainments given in the country towns. As to the matter of receip! in cities as compared to receipts at country stands, there is no circus inanazer in Aimer- ica whose books will not prove that‘country stands yield greater gross and net returns. Here is the reason: ‘The afternoon perform- auces in cities are never well patronized, while in the country they are fully as remu- nerative as are the night performances, and in the smaller towns more so. A theatrein Chicago pays 3300 a year license, and the gross receipts of some of them will. reach $175,000 in a season. A cireus comes here and plays to. $3,000 a.day on an average for six days and must pay $3,000 for the privi- lege. ‘Its sideshows must pay $600, and its concerts $300. If this is not extortion, please invent a name for it. Ido not think, however, that Mr, Adam Forepaugh, of Puiladelphia, is justified In attributing this proposed action on the part of the Council ‘to the influence of jealous theatrical managers in this city. I not think they are possessed of such mean spirits. In conclusion, let me record my belief that if no cireus canvas is spread to the breeze here aiext summer the fathers and mothers will have a serious time with the cbildren, and that a pang of regret will’ now and then in- vest the older and sterner hearts. 1f we dis- card the circus we become un-American. A SuowMan. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cmcaco, Dee. 31.—In Tux Trreuxe of the 28th inst. I notice an article favoring the passage of the ordinance now before the City Council, which fixes the license of all theatres at $200 2 year, and of any circus and menagerie ‘at $250 for each performance. Now, if the ordinance referred to passes the Council and becomes a. law, a circus and menagerie that should locate and give one performance per day during one year in this city would be obliged to pay a3 license the enormous sum of °$90,000 for tne privilege, while any. theatre or opera- house can give. as many performances per day as they choose for a period of one year upon the payment of a license of $200. he question naturally suggests itself, Why should one class of popular amusements be taxed so far in excess of others? Popular amusements are anecessity in all large cities, and it is the duty of our y Fathers to so adjust the license question as to adinit all re- spectable amusements upon their paying a reasonable sum of money for the privilege. That the theatre and opera are popular with a large portion of our people, there is no doubt, and any policy, that places jan arbi- trary and prohibitory license upon these amusements will be unpopular and unjust. On the other band, that there are many thou- sands of our citizens that do not attend a theatre or opera once in five years, whose fa- yorit amusement is the cireusand menagerie, and who invariably attend once or twice a year, there can be no question. Now, these people that prefer the latter elass of amuse- ments should not be deprived of. their. privilege of seeing them any more thai those that desire the theatre and opera. | Under the old ordinance, a cireus aud menagerie is re- quired to pay a license for the privilege, of exhibiting here of.$50 per week. Besides this sum, they pay the city $100 per day rent for the portion of the Lake-Front which they occupy, making a net revenue of $650 per week that is paid to the. city by each circus that comes here. The article -reterred to says that the amount of money that a circus expends in a city like- Chicago for supplies and repairs is trifling. when compared with the amount they carry away. Perhaps this | is true, but the same statement. will apply to two-thirds of the operatic or dramatic coin- Dinations that come here. ‘They “are migra- tory as wellas the circus. They arrive here and rent a. theatre for a, week, or what amounis to the same. They take from to 8 per cent of the gross receipts, and the owner of the hotise takes the balance. T have presented the facts as I know them to be, and have confidence in the good sense of the citizens of the metropolis of the West They will never allow the proposed ordinance to become a law, and the Alderman who votes for such. an ordinance will have to answer to his constituents at the spring elec- ‘tion. Very respectfully yours, Burr Roxsrss. DRAMATIC NOTES. At the National “Alladin” ‘wili be the coming feature.. b ‘The Rentz-Santley novelty troupe at the Olympic to-morrow evening. Miss Jennie Hughes. of Jarrett’s “Ci derella” troupe, will, itis said, retire from the stage. She is xoing to get married. Miss Amelia Watts will Take her place. In a week ‘The Pirates of the Penzance” will appear at Iaverly’s. * Helen Potter’s “Pleiades” is among the coming attractions at the Central Music-Hall. Herrmann closed his engagement at Mc- Wicker's last night to-a house packed to the oor. q It is stated that a monthly magazine. de- "yore to) the drama is about to be started in nis city. ‘ Miss Marion Fiske will retire from * The Fun on the Bristol” party at the end of the present engagement. * Joseph Brooks has signed a lease for the Grand Opera-llouse (Varieties Theatre), New Orleans, for next season, : It is said that Gilbert and Sullivan have decided to postpone their threatened visit to this country until August next. > ‘The Leonzo Brothers, with their dogs, will will appear in “The Dog Spy ” at Fox’s The- atre during the coming week. A variety bill will also be spread out. The new burlesque on the “Corsican Brothers,” entitled “The Corsican Brothers & Co. (Limited),” by Burnand and Stephen, has made a decided hit in London. Jaunediately on ‘the heels of Tennyson’s new play Mr, ay Irving contemplates the production of ‘ Romeo and Juliet,” with piiecll and Miss Terry as the hero and hero- On Friday evening the members of the new Evangeline company presented the man- ager with a handsome locket, studded with diamonds. The presentation was made by ‘Mr..Grogs in a neat little speech full of com- pliment to Mr. Rice. The. performanges of “The Galley Slave” at Haverly’s ‘Thest®e’ during the week will be for the benefit of the Sixth Illinois In- fantry. ‘Tickets will be sold by members of the Regiment, also. at Lyon & Healy’s, Buck & Raynor’s, and at the usual ticket offices. Miss Genevieve Ward, who arrived in New York from London on Dec’ 22, witnessed “Vorget-ine-not” at Wallack’s on the 25th. SheAvas unable to prevent by legal measures its production at Wallack’s, and she now wisely reasons that the playing of it there will be a benefit to her by popularizing it, The last performances will occur this even- ing of “Cinderella”? at the Grand, Rice’s new “ Evangeline? troupe_ at’. Haverly’s, “Fun on the Bristol”. at Tooley’s, Milton Noblesin “The Phanix’” at_the Olympic, and Barry will perform in “ Escaped from Sing Sing” at the Academy. “California Through Death Valley” is the name of anew play to be produced at the Academy of Music to-morrow evening. ‘The features of the variety program will in- clude Miss Maggie Le Clair, Russell Bratn- ers, Haley'and Boyd, Howard Dorr and Son, ered Levantine, Miss Polly Daily, in special- Mme. Leontine Arnot Cohn will on Thurs- day evening, at Fairbank Mall, give a dra- matic exhibition. Ter pieces will bein English, German, and French, and will com- prise selections from T. S. Collier, Béranger, Shakspeare, Goethe, Anon, Sarasate, Cor- neille, Uhland; Shakspeare, Lever, Wagner- Wilielnj, Shakspeare, Racine, Peleg Ark- wright. Anon. + W. C. Mitchell will shortly begin the erec- tion of a people’s theatre on the site of the lately burned Comique, St. Louis, Mo. It will have seating capacity for over 2,000 per- gons, and is to be completed in March ne: W. HL Smith will be manager and Harry Noxon Treasurer, Only sensational dramas will be played, with an occasional yariety or minstrel troupe. ; The celebrated soubrette Josephine Pagay will appear with Collmer & Isenstein's Ger- man Dramatic Company at.MeVicker’s Sun- day evenitig ina new singing farce entitled “Durchgegangene Weiber ® (Runaway Wom- en). Miss Pagay made a great hit at her first appearance with this company a week ago last Sunday, and, as she is said to be particu- ‘larly fine in this play, a fine performancemay be anticipated, especially as Miss Hedwig Beringer, the able leading lady of the Mil- waukee company, takes one of the principal parts. The London ‘Theatre sensibly remarks that American actresses at present. waste a great deal of money in material of the richest quality when something cheaper would do just as well. .In_ describing the costly garments worn by Fanny Davenportin “An of the second act as being * priuted foulard,” it being like foulard. He had seen just such bonquets stamped in brilliant colors on foulard silks, and as “figured foulard” he ut it down. Now that dress turns out to have been expensive erape,‘ and the flowers upomit hand-painted, yet it had all the effect ofa ffigured foulard,” and cost about one hundred times as much. The educated horses which Mr, Carpenter introduced to the public in the Central Musie-1all auditorium Jast week have ex- cited so much interest by their remarkable feats and intelligent performance of the in- tricate and difficult things Prof. Bartholo- mew, their teacher, called upon them: to exe- cute, that they will remain ‘until ‘Thursday night, and give-four more evening en- tertainments and one iatinée on Wednesday. Now that the © animals have, become familiar’ with their. surroundings, and are no longer allured by the dazzling beauties of the organ pipes, they enter ipto the sport and spirit of the program with alacrity, and manifest interest, intelligence. In the performance of other horses that have hitherto been exhibited in the arena it has been manifest by the formal and precise way in which they did the things they were called upon to do that.they were “trained.? but this group of eleven horses follow no prescribed routine, and instead of having been trained have received an education which seems to enable them to reason from cause to effect, and to! obey because they understand. Whatever question might haye-been raised about introducing such an entertainment into the sacred piesinets of the Central Music- Hall sceins to have received a sutisfactory answer in delighted audiences composed of the best oelely eople, who find pleasure in the military: drill and the leaping of the horses. Speaking of Mary Anderson’s perform- ances in New York, the Spirit says: .“ We have never seen, and we never expect to see, a more perfect Purthenia than Mary Ander- She Jooks like-a Greck statue; she sand talks, when her lines . will allow it, like a Grecian maiden. With: her upon the stage, the whole story seems not only probable, but real and true. “The house was crowded; Salvini was'in the stalls; Belmont had bought our box; so, haying seen two acts fromthe back rows, and nlarked the originality of Aiilnes Levick’s comic Ingo- mar, we went into the green room, and found. Miss Anderson as complete a Parthenta off as on the stage. Dr. Griffin, however, is a wealthy and happy Myron now, out of all his troubles, with an account- book showing average weekly receipts of over 39,000. In the face of such figures we decline to criticise Miss Anderson’s Countess in “Love,” a pumpy old play, better known as Huron, the Serf. Evadne and Purthe- nia suit her :exactly. Nobody else can ap- proach her in these characters. \When the time arrives for her to xo to London—that is to say, when she is rich’ enough. to play a season for the sake of an English reputation —she will create as great a sensation in these roles as Booth has done in Richelieu, and ‘Modjeska ini Camille, and as McCullough will do in ‘Yirginius. More, perhaps; for London has had a Richeliewand a Virgintus before in Macready, but it has never seen such an-Ei vadae and Parthentia.” After a striking “performance ‘of Richard IL. by Edmund Kean at Norwich, England, he was lodged in “The Clink” for being very dtunk) in’ the market-place in his Richard’s costume, brandishing two, brass candlesticks! and shouting, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” “Next morning; when with two Dlack-eyes he appeared before the Magistrate, he was dis- niissed with a slight reprimand and a word of advice to keep suber during the rest of the engagement. Ou the afternoon of that day he had an appointment with the good old Bishop of Norwich—Dr. Bathurst—to read at “the palace some porti of the scenes in which he most excelled. The report of his last night’s whereabouts ‘in mean- while running like wildtire through the length and breadth of the. town,’ the Bishop’s amiable Secretary at once yan and ‘protested against Kean’s_read- ing. The reply of the dear old Bishop was so sensible, says the writer’ of the story in the current. number of the Theatre, and read so stern-a lesson on the sense of the duty of the exercise of chari- ty respecting a brother's or a sister’s errors, that it deserves much more than a mere record. it was to thiseffect: “It is noth- ing tome where or how Mr. Kean passed last night, nor that damage has been done to’ his eyes. Lam precluded -by public preju- dice from witnessing any of his perform- ances at the theatre, and can only ascertain what is bis talent by his reading to me, and American Girl,” a critic spoke of the costume | and last night gave unusual exhibitions of. for which I pay hi With his private life, also, of which I hear report does not speak well, { have also nothing todo, I enzage hi for this “service, and shall not give up the pleasure I expect from hearing him.” $< LACONICS, Much Wisdom in Small Space. ~ We follow the world in approving others, but we go before it in approving ourselves. —Men will wrangle for religion; write for it: fight for it; die for it; anything but—live | for it. i —Virtue with, 5 talentis a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend. —wNone are so fond of ' secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such nersons covet secrets, as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. —Times of general calamity and confusion have ever-been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest. furnance, and the brightest Huundarhole is elicited from the darkest storm. . —The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive frecly,-but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; bitt I will remember, and this T’owe to myself. 2 F —Seerecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that uided Israel in the desert, becomes a guard- in pillar of light and fire to’ our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. _,-7in all societies it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest: that the highest are always the best, but because, if diseusted there, we can at any time descend ; but_if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is difficult. In the grand theatre of human life a box-ticket takesus through the house. Public events of moment, when deeply and fully considered, are the fertile womb of political maxims, which ought to contain the very soul of the moral of history; and then they are imperishable and indestructible, worthy of being resorted: to as a tower of strength in the storm, and spreading their effulgence over the tide of time, as a beacon in the night. i —Hypocrits act by virtue, like Numa by his shield.’ They frame many counterfeits ot her, with which they make an ostentatious parado in al) public assemblies and pro- cessions; but the original of what they coun- terfeit, and which may: indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom that it is cankered by the rust of sloth and useless from, non-application. . —It is an observation. of the -late Lord Bishop of Landaff, that: there are but two kinds of men who succeed as public charac- ters: men of no principle but of great talent, and men of no talent but of one principle, — that of obedience to their-superiors, .In fact, there will never bea deficiency of this second class,—persons who, like Doddington, have no higher ambition than that of sailing in the wake of a man of first-rate abilities. —Antbition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon: it blinds .us first, and then com- pels us to tower, by reason of our blindness. ut alas, when ‘we ‘are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also atthe depth of real misery. We are plaéed where time can- not improve, but must ‘inwair us; where chance and change cannot befriend, butina’ betray us,—in short, by attaining all we wish. and gaining all we want, we have only reached & pinnacle where we have nothing to hope But everything to fear. —We should justly ridicule a General who, just before an action, should suddenly dis- arm his men, and, putting-into the hands of all of them ‘a Bible, should order them, thus equipped, to marchlagainst the phen: Here we plainly see the folly of calling in the Bible to support thé Sword; but is it not as great a folly to call; inthe sword to sup- port the Bible? Our Savior divided force from reason, and Jet no man presume to join what God hath put asunder. ‘When we com:- baterror with any others weapon than argu- ment, we err more than'those whom we at- tack. “halt : re Power, like the diamond, dazzles the be- holder and also the wearer; it dignifies mean- ness; it magnifies littlehess; to what is con- temptible it gives authdrity; to what is low, exaltation. ‘To acquire,it appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acmtired, since 1t enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits ‘to himself: But. the miracle ot Josing it yanishes when we reflect that we are <as liable to fall as to tise, by the treachery of ‘others; and that td: say “I am” is lan- guage that has been appropriated exclusively to Goud! —Modern reformers a¥e not fully aware of the difficulty they will find to make converts when that period which;they so fondly antic- ipateshall arrive: an era of universal illu- niination. They will then experience a simi- lar rebuff with those who now attempt to make proselytes amorig the Jews. These cunning descendants of: Laban shrewdly re- ply, Pray would it not be better for you Christians, first of all, to'decide among your- selves. what Christianity is? and when that important. point is fully settled, then we think it will be time enough to begin your attempts of converting others. —Ile that has never Suffered extreme ad- versity knows not the full extent of his own deprivation; and he that has never enjoyed the summit of prosperlty is equally ignorant how far the iniquity of others can go. For our adversity will excite temptations in our- selves, our prosperity in‘ others. Sir Robert ‘Walpole‘observed; it wis fortunate few men could be Prime Ministers, because it was fortunate that few men could know the abandoned proftigacy, of the human mind. Therefore a beautiful’ woman, if, poor, : should use a double cireumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. —The wealthy and thenoble,when they ex- pend large sums in decorating their houses with the rare and costly efforts of genius with busts from the chisel of a Canova, an with cartoons from the pencil of a Raphael, areto be commended if they do not stand still here, but ~o on td bestow some pains and cost, that the master himself be not in- ferior to the mansion, and that the owner be not the only’ thing -that ‘is little amid every- thing else that is great. “The house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. We cross. the Alps, and after a short interval we are glad to re- turn; we go to sée Italy, not the Italians. —Defendit numerus”. is the maxim of the foolish, ** Deperdit numerus” of the wise. The fact is that an honest man will continue to be so, though surrounded on all sides by rogues. The whole world is turned upside down once in every twenty-four hours; yet no one thinks of standing upon his head rather than on his heels. Ue that can be honest only because every one else is honest, or good only. because all around hii are good, might have continued an angelif ho fad been born one; but being a man, he will -only add to that numbernumberiess who go to hell for the bad things they have done and toe the good things which they intended to 0. : .. All poets pretend to write for immortal- ity, but the whole tribe have no ob; jection to present pay and present praise. But Lord Burleigh is not the only ‘statesman who has thought £100 too muely“fora song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid. ‘The réward -in this arena is noi to the swift, nor the prize to the strong. Editors have gained more pounds by publishing Milton’s works. than he ever gained pence by writing then; and Garrick fas reaped a richer harvest in a single night, by.acting in one play of, Shakspeare’s, than that poet himself obtained by the genius which inspired the whole of them, . /—“Feliz quen.faciunt aliena pericula cautiem,” this is well trauslated by someone who observes that it ts far better to borrow experience: than to Duy it. He that sympa- S S. ain himself enjoys the safest happiness, and he that is warned by-all the.folly of others has perhaps attafned the soundest wisdom. But such is the purblind egotism and the suicidal selfishness of mankind that things so desira- ble are seldém pursued. things so accesible seldom attained. “That is indeed a twofold knowledge which profits alike by the folly of the foolish:and the wisdom of the wise; it is both a shield and a sword; it borrows its se- curity from the darkness and its confidence from the light. —That knowledge which a man may ac- quire onlj- by traveling is. often too dearly bought, ‘Ihe traveler indeed may be said to fetch the knowledge, as.the merchant the wares, to ‘be enjoyed and: applied by those “who stay at home.’ A man inay sit by his own fireside; be conversant with many domestic arts and general sciences, and yet have very correct ideas of the. manners, habits, and customs of other nations. While, on the contrary, he that has spent his whole life in traveling, who, like Scriblerus,. has made his ‘legs his compaseca rather than ; barney, of his ‘wealth. purse. , ixes in all the happiness of others, perhaps, lezmen' thorough novice all the most im- portant concerns of life; like Anson, he may have been round the world and over the world pvithout having been in the world; and die an iznoramus, even after having per- formed the seyen_journeys between the holy hills, swept the Kaaba with a silver besom, drank of the holy waters of the Zemzem, and traced the source of the Nile and the end of the Niger. = :—The drafts which truagenius draws upon posterity, although they may not ulways be onored as soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in theend. Milton’s: expressions on his right to_ this Temuneration constitute some of the finest efforts of his-mind. Te never alludes to these high pretensions, but heappears to be animated by an eloquence which is at once both the plea and the proof of their justice— an eloquence so much above all present and all perishable things: that, like the beam of the sun, it warms while ft enlightens, and as it descends from-heaven to earth raises our thoughts from earth to heaven. When the eat Kepler had at length discovered the jarmonic Jaws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: “Wheth- er my discoyeries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that con- cerns them more than me. Imay well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God himself, during so many thou- sand years, has waited for an observer like muyself.”” | _ —Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, aud, like Priam, survives them all. ‘Itstarves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose Heaven than the martyr undergoes to ‘gain. Avarice is w passion fuil of pardon, a madness full of method; -for, alfhough the miser is the most mercenary of all beings, yet he serves the worst master more faithfully than some Christians do the best, and will take nothing for it. He falls down and worships. the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities, nor its pleasures for his trouble. Hebegins to accumulate treasure ‘as a mean to happiness, and by acommon but inorbid association_he continues to accumu- late it as an end. . He lives poor to die rich, and is the mere jailer of his house and the ul Impoverished by his, gold he slaves harder to imprison it in his chest than his brother slave to liberate it from the mine. The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchre of all his other passions, as they successively decay. But,cunlike other tombs, it. is enlarged by re- pletion and strengthened by age. This latter paradox so peculiar to this passion must be ascribed to that love of power so inseparable from the human mind. There. are three Kinds of power—wealth, strength, and tal- ent: but as old age always weakens, often destroys the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the for- mer. And -the attachment of the aged to wealth must be a growing and a progr attachment, since such are not slow in dis- covering that those same ruthless years which detract So sensibly from the strength of their bodies and of their.minds serve only to aug- ment and to consolidate the strength of the! may —Honor is uristable, and seldom: the sam for she. fedds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foandation of the esteem of those: who are of all beings the. most subject to change. But virtue is uniform and fixed, be- cause she looks for approbation only from Him who is the. same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Honor is most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house to build our monument. She is contracted in her views, inasmuch as her hopes are rooted in earth, bounded by time, terminated by death, - But ‘yirtue is enlarged and infinit in er hopes, inasmuch as they extend -beyond present things, even to eternal; this is ‘their proper sphere, and:they will cease: only inthe real- ity of deathless. enjoyment. Inthe storms and in the tempests of life, honor is not'to be depended.on, because she herself partakes of the tumult; she also. is buffeted by the wave, and borne along “by the whirlwind. But virtue is'above the storm, and has an anchor sure and steadfast, because it is cast into heaven. The-noble Brutus worshiped honor, and in his zeal mistook her for virtue. In the day. of his trial he found her a shadow andaname, ‘But no man can pur- chase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted yrith our all tokecp it. ‘Che Pagans (says Bayle),from the obscurity. wherein they: lived as to another life, reasoned very incon- sequentially on the reality of virtue. It be- longs to Christians alone to arque woon it aright; and if those geod things to come which ‘the Scripture promises the faithful ‘were not joined to_the desire of. virtue, that and innocency of life might be placed in the number of those things on which Solomon pronounced his definitive decree, “vanity of vanities, alt is vanity??? —tHle that aspires to be the head of a arty will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because, he dares not avow the trye reasons which are strong... It will be his ict to be forced op some occasions to give his consideration to the wealthy or the titled, although they may be in the wrong, and to Withhold it from the energetic but necessitous, although they may be in the right. There are moments when he must appear to sympathize not only with the fears of the brave, but also with the follies of the wise. Ile must see some appearances that.do not exist, and be. blind to some that do..."To be above others, he must condescend at times to be beneath himself, as the loftiest trees have the lowest roots. But without the keenest cireumspection, his very rise will be his ruin. For a masked battery is more de- structive than one that is visible, and he will have more to dread from the secret envy of his adherents than the open, hate of his ad- versaries: ‘This envy will be ever near, him, but he must not appear to suspect it; it will narrowly watch him, but he must not appear. to perceive it; even when he is anticipating all its effects, he must give no note of preparation; and jn defending him- self against it he must. conceal both his sword and his shield. Let him pursue suc- eess as his truest friend, and apply to confi- dence as his ablest_ counselor, Subtractfrom a great man all that he owes to opportunity and all that: he owes to chance, all that he has gained by the wisdom of his friends and by the folly of his enemies, and our Brobding- nag will often become a Liliputian. 1 thin’ jt. is Voltaire who observes that it was ver: fortunate for Cromwell that he appeared upon the stage at the precise moment when the peopie were tired of Kings, and as unfor- tunate for his son Richard’ that he had to make: good -his pretensions at a moment when the people were equally tired of pro- eo FOR SERGEANT-AT-ARMS, CAPT. J. W. FOSTER. Yo the Editor of The Chicago ‘tribune. Curcaco, Jan. 1.—I notice that Capt. J. W. Foster, of ve Kalb County, is » candidate for Sorgeant-at~Arms of the Illinois Senate. Asone who has known him for over thirty years, I want to give you a chapter of his military history: - When . the’ Forty-second Illinois Regiment was organized, in the summer of’ 1961, at Camp Douglas, Foster was cammissioned First Lieu- tenant, and performed faithful service with his regiment up to the battle of Stone River, where, for conspicuous gallantry during that battle, he s promoted to Captain. Wife held this, rank up to the battle of Chicka- = “mauga. But; during the summer of 1863, he passed a meritorious and creditable examina- tion, and was recommended by Gen. Rosecrans for promotion to Lieutenant-Colonelot 4 Ten- nessee regiment. - flowever, before his commission came on, the disastrous ‘battle of Chickamauga took place, and Capt. Foster led hig men into the thickest of the fight, where, on the third duy, he'was spot down, and fell the turthest within the Rebel lines’ of any Union officer. ‘A iebel officer, two years gfter the War, told ine that, If every Yankce scidier bad acted the part that Capt. Foster aidon that day, that bat- tle woutd have had a diferent ending. - ‘A bullet struck the Cuptain on therightcheek, and Passed. under the artery at the temple, aud tore o: ‘the neck’ within an eighth of an inch of the jug- ular vein. . “At that moment our forces were driven back, and the’ Cuptain was left on the field, and re- ported dead.. Taz, Cricaco Txmune had nis name among the killed, and I muiled the paper to his wife, who a few days afterwards received letters from the survivors of the company, tell- “ing her of her busband's death. The faithful ‘guined corsciousness when the cold, chill wl; pe came oe er 1 wound was supposed fatal, and the. Rebel surgeons refused to dress it,—so that it was not until nineteen, days after- wards. in a Rebel stockade at Atlanta, that our own surgeon gave the Captain the attention his wound'so much uecded. | : The long neglect in. dressing it rendered it alow and difficult to heal,—so that,in the month of May, 1863, when ne was sent to ‘Danville, more than seven months after being wounded, he was still on the sick list. ‘From Danville the Captain was sent with about 900 other officers to Macon, Ga.. mained two months, and was then sent live and. die a | Charlestor 8.c. his way.to Charleston he jumped Of the cars whille thoy were runuing ot ey speed, and was severciy injured. Capt. Grafton, of the Sixty-fourth Obio Infantry. jumped at the sama moment; and, after Foster wis able to travel, the two started through the SRemipS for Beaufort, where our own forces It was about 10 o'clock at night when tho: escaped, and they wandered through the Swanpe until daylight, When thoy found themselves within less than half a mile of a Rebel camp. Here they concealed themselves in a clump of bushes until night. -But da the day they could distinctly see the Rebel soidiers, and heard their roll-call, and were visited by eome dogs that licked thoir-hauds, but offered them no tio- Jence. When ‘night came on thoy retreated pee ete position, but could not get out of the “The second day, early.in the morning, the: undertook to flank the Rebel camp: but; ther tracks being discovered, z pick of bloodhounds wero put after them that soon ran them down. While in the swamps they had nothing to eat except somo dry corn-bread that was in their pockets when they jumped from the cars. When the Rebel guard came up they leveled their guns at Foster, who was nearest them, and asked him if ha surrendered. The Captain re- plied that, * Et looked like it, as he was totally unarmed,” They were then merched to the Rebel camp, and thenext duy sent to Charleston and putin a cell in jail, under the fire of our one eto ly ¢ ths, Cs (ere, for nearly two mont apt. Foster and more than 1,000 other officers of our army were under fire. Shot and shell frequently tore through the buliding in which these officers were incarcerated. -But a worse enemy than even the Rebels then made its appearance. The yel- low-fever broke out, and the health of the city being endangered, the prisoners were -sent to ‘Galumbie, oon) . lere were 2,000 officers ina cam: arded b: Rebel soldiers, with a dead ine arked by stakes, fifteen feet inside of the guard-line. If, by accident or otherwise, one of these impris- oned officers stepped beyond the dead line, the penalty, ag dent. 1884, was in September, just one year from the battle of Chickamaugu, and after a year of great sufferings and privation, that Capt. Foster was imprisoned at Columbiz. Once during this year, the Rebel surgeons, believing the Captain's case hopeless, hud ordered him carried into the hospital of the incurables. « A third of that year he was bare-headed and bare-footed. True, clothes had been sent him under a flag of truce; but the gnawings of hunger had compelled the exchange of these for something to eqt. The chivalry of the South was appeusing its “honah” by starving their preener or ee The prison-camp at Colum- ia Was merely a camp in the is; _and, the trees withiu camp being soon burned up, the prisoners after that were marched in details, under a guard, without the camp, where they cut logs for rude cabins, and carried them with- in the dead-linec. One day, about a month after reaching Colum- bia, a detail was made to-go intathe timber to gather tireword. Several of the officers resolved to escape. Some of them dug holes in the ground, and covered their comrades with leaves aud brush; ard these remained in their hiding- places until durk, when they crawled on their hands and knees long distances before daring to rise. Whilo the detail was out, Capt. Foster marched’ up to the guard, and boldly told him he was pa- roled to yo for firewood. The guard leveled his gun, as the Cuptain had passed the dead-line; but Foster looked him steadily in the eye for a moment, and then turned his back and walked. into the woods. He straight on for nearly aquarter of # mile, thon secreted himself in some bushes until dark, when he started for our lines in Tennessec. * His faithful friend, Capt. Grafton, of Ohio, was with hinragain in this escape. For sixteen nights these four-sore, haggard men wandered towards tho North Star. No friend was more fricndly than a dark night and a black fuce. But fate was against thém; for, when only sevehteen miles from our lines in East Tennes- see, and after going full 200 miles, they were | again captured, and sent back to their old quar- the lower part of the right car, and cut. ‘where he re- | down by robbers, who took to { But he confessed'under cross-oxamination. ters at Columbia. 7. Here Capt. Foster remained until within one month of the final scene at Appomattox, when bo was paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md. It is hardly necessary to say that eed Foster, -after all his bitter experience with the Rebels, ig not a lover of their Northern allies, butisa stalwart Republican. L. H. Watney, 106 Fifth avenue, —<—<————= HOLD THE HARVEST. BY MISS FANNY PARNELL. Oh! dy the God that made us all, * ‘The Seixnior and the Serf, Rise up, and swear this day to hold Your own green Irish turf! Rise up and plant your feet as men ‘Where now ye crawl as slaves, And make your harvest-fields your camps, Or make of thém your graves. ‘The birds of prey are hovering 'round— ‘The vultures wheel and swoop; : They come, the coroncted ghouls, With drum-beat and with troop; They come to fatten on your flesh, Your children, and your wives. Ye die but once; hold fust your lands, . ‘And, if yo can, your lives. Three hundred years your crops have sprung By murdered corpses fed— Your butchered sires, your famished sires, For ghastly compost sprend;. Their bones have fertjlized your fields, Their biood has fallen like rain— "They died that ye might eat and live: God, have they died in vain? But God is on the peasant’s side— ‘The God that loves the poor; stand with flaming swords very mount and moor; ‘They watch the poor man’s flocks and herds, ‘They guard bis ripening grain; The robber sinks beneath their curse, Beside his ill-got gain. ‘But your own hands, upraised to smite, Sbull draw the answer down, And bold and stern the deeds must be ‘That oxth and prayer shull crown. God will defend you,io the fight— ‘ Now hush the useless moan; All set your faces as of flint, And swear to '* Hold your own.” Heaven bless you, Fanny Parnell! ‘You have seized the Banner of Light, Leading Lrelana’s marck in the van, ‘To meet the Old World in the fight. ~ Sublimely—a Joan of Arc, . Who pitied poor rent-ridden France— ‘Turned its guns on the Bully of Nations, And led him a terrible dance. You have taken tke green flag of Erin, zi And called her brave sons to rely On the spirit that prompts your devotion, - Which Britain cun never defy. You have fired every heart with new courarc— Each hero will now do or die; Your tocsin has summoned the Nations; ‘Treland’s torch flames bright through the sky. The sparks from your soul-stirring spirit Have kindled the glory of God: You've awakened the Fountain of Justice Drawing blessings upon the “* Oid Sod.”” Rocw#e ty, Ul JuNIUS JUNIOR. ——— $$ Eevenge Is Sweet—The Thrilling Ad- ventures of an Ambitious Amateur Actor and Playwright. Bouton Post. Gallagher is satistied. The facts are these: Gullugher was the President of a dramutic elub, and wrote # piece for thom. It called for nine ersons, and everybody in the cast except Gal- Tagher considered that he orshe had the worst part, nnd that it was made go on purpose. At jirst they didn’t propose to play, but finally de- cided to do so, and concocted u plan to punish Gallagher. He piven tho hero, and in the first act said farewell to his mother and went off to sca, and when She parse with him shecontrived to wrench his nea: fixed In the shoulder of -her dress for that pur ose. That eased her mind and disturbed his. uthe submitted. Iu the next uct be appeared on shipbourd and had to be knocked down by the cruel Captain, who bit him so earnestly with a belaying-pin that itnoarly killed him. “And then when he headed tne mutiny and cried to the mutineers, * Follow me!” somebody opened a trap, and he ignominiously fell through is and got terribly guyed by the nudience.. lc was ‘awful mad, but determined to conquer jn spite of the disuster, and go came up and. went on with the play. In the third act. he was to have a terrible combat with the villain of tho play and whip him. ‘Mr. Hencoop Smythe played tho part. He. was satisfied that he had the worst part in the piece, and that Gullagher made it so to spite him. Gallagher, as be clincned him, cried: “Villain, Plt beat your life out in two seconds.” But he didn’t. The villdin was the strongest man, and tho way bo Iathered Galla- gher about the stage wars awful. When it came fo that pont where tho villain was to cry:.“ Let meup! P’nrcrushea!” be bad Gallagher jammed under the tabie and wns beating him with 2 chiir-leg, and, of course, his speech and Guila- ‘gher's reply: "I will not spare your lire!” sounded absurd. Before the villain consented to bo had got the ‘audience to shricking with laughter und ‘had beaten Gulla- hor black and blue al! over. Gallagher went home terribly enraged and tho rest of tho com- ‘pany were delighted. Tne piece was to be played the next night und:Galligher reported himself. tooill to appear. But he sent a substitute. That substitute was a prize-tighter, under an ussunied name. He hugged the mother’so, in the parting scone, that he nearly killed ber and pulled her false hair off, accidentally. He threw the cruel Captuin down the ttzp. He burt all the other actors, and, in the fight with the villain, mopped the whole stage with him and hurled him clear through the back flat. The company and scener: were completely wrecked, confusion reigned,’ god Galingher sit in front and laughed till be nearly dicd. Revenge is sivect! ———— St. Louis Dodge. © A St. Louis young man ‘promised his sweet- heart a sealskin sack: as-a. Christmas present, ‘but bad no money to buy it. In thut dilema he slipped into a dark alley, fastened a in bis own mouth, bluckened his own eye, and told those who found him that he had been knocked away the sack. und seratch his nose on a pin - Evidence - Accumulates Every Day From Prominent Citizens Acknowk edging Their Inestimable Benefits from ‘ Dr. 0. Dodge Phelps’ Treat- ment. Permanent Relief from Serious Ailments. ‘Testimonials ‘rom the grateful patients of Dr. O. Dodge Phelp: continue to be made, many of which emanate from such distinguished citizens inacknowl-" edxment of tueir permanent cure from sorious and obstinate diseases through bis treatment that ther are worth the consideration of all sufferers, if not, ‘n= deed, by the medieat profession Itself. A Remarkable Cure of Neuralgia of the Heart—I hereby certify that Lhave suffered from what phy- siclans have pronounced neuralgia of the heart. I applied to Dr. 0. Dodge Phelps on the first day of bis arrival In our city and received ono treatment, and was ntonce relleved of aif pain and”shortness of breath. Itbelng. four weeks since 1 was treated, I feel that the cure {s radical. Will answer any in= quiries. ~ MARIETTA REED, @s West Adams-st ,,. ‘Twenty Years Deaf. Could Not Hear Common Conversation. | Called on Dr. 0. Dodge Phelps, at 243 State, On the 30th day of November; was.treated by the Doctor;. called again Dec. 4; now, my henring ls almost restored. So says Mrs. W. B.amson, of St. Joseph, Mich. Five weeks on his back with seiatien and Inmbago, under the treatment of n prominent physician with- ont relief. With the ald of two mon reached Dr. 0. Dodge Phelps’ parlors, 243 State-st, With ten minutes’ treatment could walk down-stairs without the help of any one, and in three days went home to Peru. The gentleman’s namo is Warren Sweety. Mr. Wm. P. Lockwood, of 133 Honry-st., was present, and will, certify to the trath of the above statement 2 NO MEDICINE GIVEN Except in those'cases where on examination It may be found necessary to prescribe certain blood reme- dies, which, combined with my peculiar Maxnetic Op eratlon, accelerate a Perfect and Radical Cure. DR. 0. DODGE PHELPS, Of New York, Practical Physician for Chronic Diss ~ eases, Inte of Philadelphia, New Orleans, St. Louis, Cincinnatt, Hartford, Sprinxtield, Boston, and Balti ‘M., bus taken Parlors in the Singer Buildin, z ixty days, where those who are able and willing to pay may come from 10a. in, toGp.m, each day. No Surgical operations performed. Chrunic Diseases cured, Acute pains instantly relieved. ‘Tho lame walk. ‘The bitnd see. The deaf hear. ‘Twenty years’ experience in treating old Chronic Cases ‘The Doctor's practice is mostly diseases of a chronic nature,and cases civen upas incurable. Although graduate of a medical university, his method. of treatment is pecullar to himself, though there havo Deen men in ullages who have had the same Magnetic Fower over the diseases of the body and mind. 5ome call it the * GIFT OF HEALLNG," yet few have p7-z- sessed it to such an extent over nearly all diseases ity, passed from a Testores the lost orunequal of nervous fluid. So powerful Is this influence that persons who have for many yeurs suffered from diseases which have been pronounced incurabie, and to whom med~ {cine hus been administered with no ood effect, have been restored to health inan Incredible short space Jt will not restore a Jost member of the body or perform other impousibilities, but it will al= ways relieve patn from whatever cause. The prac: tice Is based upon the most strict principles of xci~ ence; there 1s nothing miraculous or supernatural abaut it: itis in harmony with all natural laws, By this trontment it takes but a few minutes for in~ ‘yeturate cases of almost any curable chronic disea".2: and so sure is the effect that but few dixenses require a secand trentment, except Deafness, Broken Bones, ‘visiocation, Bad Curvature of the Spine, and Suppar- ating Tumors. zt tho diseaxes which yleld most readily to the cura~ tive axency of this method, as practiced by me, are: ‘Dyspepsia, Constipation, Asthma, Anzina Pectoris, Ghiorosis, "Loss of Voice, Rhoumatism, Rheumutic Gout, Liver Disease, all kinds of Sexual Weakness, betes, Headache, Nervous Irritauon of the Brain. 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