Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 22, 1881, Page 10

10 CHICAGO TRIBUNE Cooke. Moston: James R. Osgood & Co. At Vaner sheets, NINETHAN CUNIRTIAN CENTURIES 18 OUTLINE, nn. Chicago: A, Craig & Hy Lewis O, Thom Lo. Price 1, NOTES OF Prantsr. Uy Louis Morent Liabtrohatk, Philaleiphiar J. Be Lippincott & Jo. SA AULINCOLN, THN TYPE OF AMTIICAN NIE —AN HisTontean Rosser. By Ruts Blanchard, Wheaton, Hi: 1. Blanehard & Co, ty Mary’ Dwinnel! Cheilts, Jann asn Bree. ww Yorks Nauonal ‘Temperance Society. Price Tin Laxp or Gonn: A TALE oF Mt By Gcorgo G, Spurr, Boston: A, Willlauns & Co, SCIENCE. SCIENTIFIC NO! a 'yhe German Emperor has recently cou- ferred the great Prussian gold medal for art and selenee on Mr. George Matthey, I in recognition of his services In the Interests of selenee, : The Litle Geographient Society Is nbout to send imother traveler Into the Interior of Africa, ‘This gentleman fs M. Leon Anerolx. who proposes fo follow the eourse of tha River Wellé, and: by so dolng to reach a por- tion of the country absolutely untrod by the Enurypenn adventurer, M. Maeagno In Les Monites states that he has been making esperiments on. the Inti ence of electrielty upon the growth of the vine, Aweteetric clreutt was formed by a copper wire between the estremity of 0 branel bearing frutt and dts orlgin near the soll, More wood was formed in tho branel, whfeh cantained legs potash than the other parts, md the grapes ripened: more renddly, VORA A UXcess Of SEAT. “La lunpe soleil" tsa new electrle Janip ol nelt origin, Tt consists of a small vlock of utarble, Into whieh two holes are bored tox the reception of carbons, whiett at thelr points are seprntted bya thin partition In the marble. ‘The eurrent passing throwzh the marble. renders Itincandescent, and pro. duces a soft and brilliant Hpht like that of the sun, whence the name. ‘Tho eost Is sald whe one py My per hour. ‘Phe hunp ts the Tnvention of MAL Clerac and Biirean, Colonies publishes an account by Mr, rot investigations fn the central part of South Australia, ‘here has been n cur rent belief that this was MHtte more than a dlesert owing ton liek of water, and also, quently, a -scireliy of vegetation, Mr. sivs that a erent purtor the country is Interseeted by. watercourses, Widening fn localitles Inte Inkes in the rainy season. Ab though these are at times nearly dried up. he iseonvineed Of AN Rbondagee of sribterra- nean water which could he obtained by ‘neans of wells, and that tts so-called desert oy ineans at selentitie Industry, ualgh aiade Infabitable nnd truitfal. Capt. Holden, whe has recently reniove CInelnnstl from Marietta, O.. las b anthusiistic colleetor of Kpliders aly enflege days. In the pursuit gular fadey “he has colleeted speck anbrnelig. $000 parts of the warld. Sarge ever Hl of this. sin: renrly 25,000 spe frou sl] They are arranged in collect: glass bottles, with fabel giving pane, vt, id locatity. Calffornia furnishes 4,000 F and New England as anny more, represental by 105 speeiiens all parts af tho United States, showing how much elfeet environment tins lin modify: ing form. ‘The calleetton is supplemented by afull and complete catalog of the Hterarare of the subject. commrlalgg about 70,000 refer- enevs on 10,000 cards, Phis valuable contr Dutlon to the study of tls, Uttle-knewn braneh of natural Instory he hopes te com: alote and publist at an early day.—Nallonat scientific Journed, Trou all y WESTERN PATENTS. List of Patents Ensuad to Wostern Ine ventorn Speetat Dienatch to ‘The Chicago Tribune. Wasnixaros, D, C,, Oct, 8h—-A. 1, Evans & Co, report ag follo WENO, A, Andervon, Duck Creel, wire-streteher, L. &. Berrin, Galesburg, pialting-machine, AL. Braumouiler and H, Magiler, Chicago, shows cage stand, G. W. Brown, Galesburg, corn-planter check- . Uraudall, Sterting, grindig-mil. Roekfard, corn-planting machine, ”. Fischer, Chicago, compound for renders ath wate prune | 3 . Fox, Atiruru, fences post, Ceurke, Loran, awinging-gate, M. Grisham Bent Coma earecoupllig. A, Gunderson, Shabbona, churn-cover. . & J. Hatnsworth, Clicugo, avparatus for Lisposing of easer, 3. flarrokd, Batavia, harrow, H. A. Hovenden, Trivoll, plpe attachment for irgane, A. W. Jerome, Paxton, dovice for teariy rapping pauper from rolls, 4.2. Juntson, Sechorn, check-row planter. (. Katienbach, Chicago, eaves-trough, M. Kennedys, Washington Heda, eu-bOX, JW. Snyder, Hockford, cut-dower suppo 1. R. Waltemun, Chicago, hurhed- wire fence £. 2. Wovdrutf, Aurora, operating device for odometer. WIKCONSIN, J. Ts. Donatdeon, Bay View, Incubator. 400 Bills, Dayton, corneplanting machine, H. Latterabutl, Reluft, windmill, MICINGAN. C. P, Danson, Edwardsbury, aced> planter, N.S, Ilurvey, Detralt, saw aut. }. McCourt, Grind Haven, fouse pulley, J M Heville, bob-sielst, lonia, churn, vl, Detroit, slelzh. wuckson, mechunism for trans. tultz, White Piseon, door: fastenlug. Whipp aton fitpily, harrow, nitnoy, Flint, dre-exeupe. A. Wider, Detrolt, anfuly attachment for devatora, MINNEROTA, J. Buxton, Owntonnea, eraln-blotor, » Edward, Stillwater, bare » Murra, 8t. Charles, went x -buant gages - Moodie, BELLWAtGr, windows retlectar, 1, Wright, Murshall, eraim-cicaning machine, to GM, Miltett, J. Tucker, IIL Mint, Mugentine, nunsical instrament. A. Jonogon, Ottumwa, tuck-murker for sow nuremnchined. é BV. Beevers, Oskaloosa, rallway-car heater. soute, Cedar Itupids, ranning-yeur for syles., W. L. Wert, Newton, pump-piston. INDIAN, Indlanxpoils, excavating and bolst+ jlerton, tonya. holder for bows for y A. Bruner, nig tanebine, “Y, Clore, Wiveland, roud-yate, 7. W, Detrees, South Bend, ateam-boller Cure J. Boyd, Lu Grange, curritge-top. tmide, Iehinund, molding-gear and ather whe a. Ha, Hutfovd, Hartford ¢ UN. Mattick, Luwren Wiling the pores of wood, . Miller, Hlymouth, puree. Ue, san patent fecuesran bt viker, hadinaapolts, molding machinery. J, Watker, Indianapolis, geuremolding mie yalnery. NEMIAS H. Mowland, Platismouth, tor vebicles, Zity, fence, rg, compound for suillating coupling — or SOUL-POSSESSION For The Chieugs Trttune. BMiy heart has 0 howe uh tha mountalns, and iy spirit knowoth tule itr The colunes of tho vllifs that crumble, ‘And the cruz nll bectling and bare, ‘Tho miss ot the morningeRumité, And evo's eathodrals of pold— QO tne eye of my Koul Leholis ther, . Like tt weone fanlilur and old, But my eyes have nover bebel| thom, é Aud iny uyes they niny never kuOW— Tha shatta of thy stormy Sierras, Nor Bhasta’s suaiuil of snows Moune Blane uray still be w atrungor, ‘the Alps they iniy never be mine, Jinay know not Pyrencean passed, Nor tho ways uf tho bio Apennine. ‘Tho wilds of the storn Caucasus, ‘The blue Carpathian lights, May geal their sbinlay snlendors, May bide tholr sturestrewo nights, And tho mighty Himalayas; ‘And the lone tofte of the Soon May never bless my vision With their xreudour, lute or soon, } But my heart is at home in tho mountains, Aud I feel tho strat and tho alresa OL thelr alti totty On iny Uelny steadily proas: And the gloom of the loftivst passes Sinks ever lata my souls Ant tho solemn awe of tho summits Halds nie with s stern control, And still they are mine, the mountalass (awn them and bold (hem 1a fee, And many 8 friendly message Have they sent in tholr Lime to nig, Frow Urals und Balan, and Gilead Comme breaths of a life divine: Auil, though | wuy never bebold them, Dy spirit bas drank of their wine, AITIZ LYNG GuiswOLD, Answor ‘This. 1s thero a persou living Who cver saw a caso ol aygue, Lillousnesd’, nervousnusy, or ueUralyin, OF woy diveass of the stonnicu, liver, or wlanoys | that Hup Bitters will not cures A WORD TO THE WIS Let the Mutual Co-operation Speculation Concerns Alone. They Promise Much, but Chere Is No Cortainty of Fulflll- mente Asubecriver to Tan Tutnuss, residing In Mis- sour, writes to this mnpor,.tnelpsing & propels fasted in this elty, Tho deeument ects forth that those persons ire the projectars of 0" Mu- tunt tnvertmont fund for enfoly specuinting, Imying, and selling xrain, stovks, aud provise fons, a3 operated i on the Chiengo Hoard of trade.” Inehientally, t might be noted that the atuck dent 1s unknown te the Chicago Nuaed of Trade. Arcporter catted nt tho place named fn tho elreular, and found there a person who gall ho represented tho firm, In reply to certain Inqul- ries tho repreaentutive of tho fund sald tat in September, 180, 0 similar organization wits ef- fectod, and had made money. This, however. was of an experimental chirictor, aid ttpon nt amull scitle, ‘Cho now. schome proposes the ration of a tund of $10,000, “UNDE THE MANAGEMENT OF oUrt FIRM! anedidlvided Into LOW shares of S10 each. Ont {irin will give the personal attention to opernt this capital for the th te.” Dividends, tho elreular sets fort pald tho frst day of ench month, and every ten days iin account of the find will be sent to ev ‘cholder, evenit he holt butone share, “If the share- botder 9 diseatistied, of for nny olber renson wished to sell out, he “cnn finda pure chaser in ourselves, and i remittance for whit ev his shnres are actin wert will be sent hime” fe would probably not bo necessary to Tegater tho letter containing tho remittance, Furtherujore, the prospectid seta forth that there "13 no Mability to shareholders In nny: event for more thin thoy hive invested,” which Js pqtivalent to stating that if you bet Sly to howling wad Jose your bet you eannot be held fore. ‘Nhe firm, or fund, or. corporacion, or whatever It Is, * reserves tho right to clo: the Dustness of the fund vtany Unie wi contr [thalr] Judgment, it 1 for tho bust interests of the shareholders to do go." Finally, lastly and te cone » tho Nem Seah bee for expunses incurred In forming the fund and for adver tying aud operating tho saint 25 PR CENT OF THE NEP PROFITS neering from every transaction or deal that 18 annde." ‘Nhe reporter asked the representative of the fund what speoht! advantages Itotfered, * Why." rad he, ne words of tha prospectus, * by money in our hands son get th gperitions tate ont 1 tad pee That isn very diferent ting to uta bushel miredin it the hands sg niaae OF 1 mnitrgl patting one broker." i480," sald the roporter;" but isn’t 24, af Whutuver Limay make after paying ges just at ieee eluey ii aig tho roply, “if nothing fs made we don't get nnything, ant bave hud oll our trouble for nothing.” nat is au,” sth the reporter; but Twerld Uke to know somuthlay mere about the wiy.the thing works, ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRADED? “No—that s, noLexuetly, We operate on tho Open Board and through othor brokers, There fa ne necessity for a taan to be aw membor of the Honrd of ‘Tride now to speculate y pork. It Is only throwhig away in that board. We do our work outside.’ f Mr, —.rep> tment Panik, play in slongalnst Itubly win big money, the atoresal reporter went oi and enihily cuit sidered tho matter pro and ¢ Ile thetired It out that ihe played bis bard-carded wealth in utthe faro-teble In nny square ” ganbling house the chinees wero about 1W to Es him, TH he bet on tho wheel of fortune the olds were 6 to 4 nents htt, ie he aut down with tho crowd anit put his 310 and his knowledwe of the value of “threes” ag cou dared with © two pale” agaiost gome other fellow's $10 and some other tellow's knowledge the chunces would be about equal, and toe only drain op tho orginal capital would: be the 4 pace-ott,” which ag the game Is ordinarily played would not amount to more tind per vent, And then he took bis money and with it Bight him a Drund-new, larze-clinek, bighe collar, double-baek-nctlon, — American-niude, sulf-folding ulster, with eleven pockets on the frant and forty-two big born buttons, and he belloves thut after all be mude tho best invest- ment of the duy, = , Don't DO IT, ‘Tho fact is that tho Northwest has been Hooded Tor mitny mouths with hese util vorporation efreulara, urylug pooplo to trust money to unknown firms, and) promising colos- aal protts in return. AL porsons whe feel tempced to Invest In these concerns should read what the Criminal Code of Hiinols ing to say on tho subject of sauaring. in grain nud stocks, aud govern thomselyes necordingly. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE, For Commissioner, D. K, Poarsonss To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cuicany, Cet. 2L—Thore fe ne doubt that the county requires mon of Intellicence and experl- ence inthe County Hourd, Thera ure twa eXx- Aldermen, who were both members of the re~ form Couneli, who bave been muntioned for County Commissioncers—D. K, Penrsona and J. IL Gilbert. Penrsons will ron, not as nu epubs Bean or Democrat, for he 4s woither, but as tho eholea of the tuxpuyers. If both conventions Will Indorso hla, He would make equally as ood Comuissloner as Alderman. ‘There $3 no ta for the Republicans to nominate elther of thy old Cainmiagionurs, 4 the people don't want than; nor do they want inexperienced men, but thuse who are [lve, netive, and experienced. If tho Lepublicuns aro wise thoy will put on tholy ilcket Peursons and sumed other experienced man, Finse Wann, sNonrer My God. ‘Th the Editor of Ths Chicage Tribune, NevapA, In, Oct, M.—There Is something sub- Mmely cluquent in tho fact that the Loautirul hymn “ Nearer, My God, to Thee” was used on 80 muny ocenalong In honor of our ded Presidunt. When tho romaing rexeved Washington and alt hearts were welghed down with geriet and sor- row, and tha stricken multitudes bowed thelr heuds In reverence for the dend, the solemn atill- nega was broken by tho swact strains of tts fur mila hymn, Le was tiast appropriate, und bet- pressed the thoughts and feelings of tho American people than anything cle. Where vyer memorial services wero bobd throughout the lougth aid breadth of our, tand this hymn wine generally sung. tds nv National favorit, und is heneviorth linmartalized in the hearts of tho people, ‘Tho tines wore werittun by Borat F. Adams. Dam slid they wore enmpased bya woman. Who ta Mrs, Sarah F Adaina? When, and where, aud ander whet cirownistaticus were they written? Miia, ASA, Dawa Bo Used to Know, kou Tho Monusy-What Is it to Vota aie Wants Know. ‘Lu the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cammupae, Ub, Oat. 2— Lust yeur It was ree ported that tho Stute'a indebtedness on ita bones: wav Tully aid, We, of course, expooted tho Statu axes would now be lyttor than before, Wo were not udyized of any uniauat expendl- ture for publig hnproyetents or service, Upon fooking over tho books in thu County Clerk's olive we tid that the levy for State purposes in 1878 was i} contaon $100; fn 1870 it was 27 counts; in EXOD It waa D8 centas and In 88d ft is 48 comnts (Uf newspaper report for tha year dy correct), Now, we ure in senreh utter useful knowledge. We want to know if the value of taxable prop orty ta Hitnola has sbrunten in the yeurs mune so id to require & hunscor por cont of tuxntion; also, whether the Income from tho Hllnuls Cons trad Ratlrond Los not materially incrensed each of thogy yeara. Wo woutd also bo glad to know whut oxtraurdinary oxponditures were voted by the teat Legislature to Justify an increase of onv-quirter over tha Blate lixed, levied when wo bad u pablo debt ta piy, fs there any Mahe to be had an this subleut? Levi Noutit. ‘The “HNilnd Altpinive’ an American, ‘Ta the Edltor af The Chicago Tribune, Bestox Hannon, Qet. 1%—Froin the article which appeared In your issue of toduy, taken from whe Landon Gluhc,on Mr, Campbuit, tho blind Alptniat’’ one would naturally infer that Mr. Campbell fs an EBngllaumun, Now, © a Willing that key shoutd clulm the Amorican rice horas that bave bon tatlig all of the’ prizoa this year ng having been bred from English stock, Wut Limust protest agulost tholr clabntny: Mr. Cinpboli ad aa Boylishman, Hols wnative of Kentucky, and was obliged tu lonve that Stute when about 3! yeurs of ye, because bo was t to *yote the Democratio Hekot or emirat Hig went to Hoaton and vatered 9 sebool fur tho bind, rem whiel be wont to London some ton yeurs azo; ho arely od there with but Metle more Than bis trank, atghtlvss eyes, uid a Vast NOt of Ameriean plu and energy. fiseatublished a school Tor the biiid whieh hus property valued ot $10J,00, and which 1s hear Crystal Palues and Duiwieb ‘College, It is the enty weno for the biad ia Burope in whtek allel thy students, utter graduating, ure nearly, orquite, alle to earn tholy awn living, Tho Pres and Princess of Wales attend the coins menoginent esercises nually, they bave aw cousti--w German Mrince—in the Institute, vho 13a very good aiusiclin, Me, Campbell told me about bly pedestrian trips through Boulund, Svottand, wad trelaad, Buying thst he wus Us fausdilar wit tho rouds, iridice abbey. and cathedrals us any one, and he was Touking forward tu bis tip te Evitseriand with much pleadureable anticipa: on, Twrlto this veeaso Jtnink our people should now that Mr. Campbell ts an Amoricall. Vor Doubting ‘Fhoninser, ‘Th the Lditor of The Chteaga Tribune. Broomxatos, Mi, ot. 1.—Under the hond ofA Doubting Thomas” there appeared in ‘tins Tamune of the 1th a criticism upon the language used by President Arthur in hls proce Lunittion, also, what ho (* Doubting Tbomnaa") consiters an incongruity betwoon Christian bor Hof and practice, and the fact of the Inte Presi- dunt Garfield's death, Quoting the President as snylug: © Whorens, it pletsad God to remove tha Mlustrious head of tho Nation,” ote, and fiske “if Gol was pleased with tho rostlt of Oultean's act, why ls it wrong?" Dous * Poubste ing ‘Thomas’ convener death as an agency of Huimin appolntment? If so, ta would aint it; or, If death euine by chance, tt might mise some. Mut it would seem fron its iniveraniity. to be of Divine appointinont, © For It Is appoliit- edt unto man ones todle.” Then tho language of tho President: js" but a reverential aes knowledgment of tho suUproTAnG yy) nud wise jo dom, und powor of in tha ApHofatinent and amploymont of His ngenctes, over whieh we can have no control, Was tho: te Lepaitent removed by death or by Guitenn’s nity ititenn’s act. from a human standpoint, was Aterrible erie, and, so far as wo re cone cerned, he is Amonnble to human ins and human penalties, and to what extent. the divine haw dg broken wo leave to tho Intalt, whose ndamonty aro right.” Man (that {4 honest) acts from. the best light ho bus, and what muy om tu bin inconsitent and eubject to erttl Hsin, Is ite the wisdom of God plait, The com- un'error of mtn is to bring the [nfiait dowe to human seales, whieh ars over changing tn tha progress of thought, as shown by the history of tho pust. And now * Doubting Thomas "Is worrled over tho universal prayer offered up in behalf of the stricken Preshtent. Perhaps itovar be- fore in the world’s history. was there sttch a tunlversally common desire for nny oue speelfic object ag hls reeuvery. Desire begets hope, and with game hope thay have ripened into ts fancled faith that God would mirnculousty interpose andralse bin up: while the sntelligent Chi thin’s prayer was in uccord with that of Chel: fn tho Garden—" Not My will, but ats Thou wilt! ‘The Christian heart has only Lo this as in othor Ames of trial, und darkness, and sorrow, cast its burdon upon Hin, who *ilimacl? wae a inn of durrow, and nequalnted with grief”? A, Weil ‘The Loulaville Dog Fight, To the Exitor of The Chicago Tribune, Tivanston, Oct. 21m ginnelng over The col ‘unnns of a recent Issue of your dally, was much surprised ag well ng eiegnated "with 19 article, on what purported to be a“ Dog fight” which tt announced Tubaye Taken plico at Loulsville, Ky. any Twas surprised, for, notwithstanding Jamuware of tho fuet Phat many, ' absolutely deserving the Reatittca of Doyen,” are in extet- ance, Yetauehan Exhibition of confirmed Cruelty, $n land Inbued wich The spirit of Christianity, incertadnty a Juet occuslon of Surprise. Itisa tht IMlustration ot fhe fact That man, though ereated with fico legs, frequently descends Bo- nenth The ptaue occup hy Fhoze ondowed with: four, 1f Horseracing met be tolerated, If rr quiiatn In tts various forms miust bo endured by iho Htespectable portion of Humanity, while ine Quleed tn by The iiteall. | Lf Man must place hls tert ax Amat, In Developing and Satiaty ing his curiosities With respect to poy: MUUTE CREATION, AT ALD ILAZ ADs must be pr treted Crom. atch Terowda (18 wut hibited by The Article) tt Tho Hunds of their © Inforlors,” In virtue, If hot in form, 1 wasgreatiy surprised nt ‘Tbe wleration of Such sport’ by the eltizens of Loutsvillo, aad at its Recognition by a paper malonuning such interests ns fho “ Chtengo Sribuno,” witheut tebuke, Certainly where those © things” adorned in modeen appacel, and pure porting ta be men, So fer furget, and fat ‘bee heath the dignity of Munhvod as to be eugaged in auch proceeding, 1 15 qicel and Just That not only Private ladividuals, but tse ‘Tho papers to whieh they appeal for notoriety, and whieh cast five theth fui beneit of an honest rebuke, inform tien and the World not of such craeity ag "Sport? but as a lamentable lnstunce of Tho dethronoment of manhood. It is to be hoped That The fHleh Civilization, to whieh The United Stites bus attained, tg not to be marred, or, if you please, “saned” by such exhibitions ug3 the one to waleh f have reterred, «1 ‘Th Citles of Laulgyille and Cinelnnatt, and The Lex- sot Ohlu und Kentucky does tolerate Aelita such, We may reynrd tt aa God-given boon that man ie x ait; fizher miuthority to whieh to appel, russ Gf =the Uy whieh hus re, [ botleva, of determining what fit Shalt nut he within ‘The tints ‘of her Jurisdiction, 1f that tall, in such an In stance E tete all would be lost for Tt would be folly to aftempl te restrain a [Brute with Loar whioh [3 elfective in a casa of Manhood, |. ey nChristing sense of honor. Ido not hesftite to atineh my name, EAE. Deut. ‘Tho Mineral Waters of Chicago. To the Editor of The Chtcugo Tribune, CinGaao, Oct, 21.—Tho presi have bud inveh tosny avout Chicago ng un attractive summor- resort, but tittle, comparatively, hina been sid or Know concerning tho valuable mineral wa- ters which come up through Its gall, ‘True, Wo have no mineral springs, eu culled, but we have that which ty better—moro thaw half a dozen. deep arteslan wells which bring to the surfice with ever renewed purity, freshuess, and force, mineral waters Whose propertics are ne benofl- clut as that of any eprius to be found In Vire glulnor Now York, Sulphur, tron, and many other fngredicnts are present, In varying and agreeable proportions in all of aur urteslag wall watery, Thesu tnineral properties are tricenblo, 1 think, to beds of fron ore teonguning sulphur, ete.) wile ly found untcrnenth the sand ridges akivting the ahures of Luke Michicin, and wits doubters brought here from the vorth during tho kreut dyite period. Or it nay be that our deep artesinnpwelly atritce or tap a subterranean body of water Howmg from er extonding th tho fran rewiou of Lake Saperior—tho former supposition, { hellevo ta be tho eet one, ad “tepecics of tron oro has buen found tn quantity by digging near this elty. Proximity ta Lake SMichizin suems to have aifected tho arteshin wells Wt Bluguln ood Washtngton Purks, whose waters oro lighter and freer tram fron and sulpher than thoge at Hum holdt, Central, und Douglaa Parks. ‘The wel watera at the lntter nave ulgo n aligbtly galing taste, AML of those strony qualities a0 luss noticeable after tho wator hus stood awhile exposed to thelr. Few frorvane in Chicnyo—not one in ten—nave any idea what virties those mineral witers possess; but the duy ta not far distant whoo thousands of our eitizons, und Dot merely Lundreds 18 now, will flock to these wolls to partake of the healing, iuvigoratiny: medicine which nature has prepured in store for those whose systema are debitiiated or deranged and need. elmple tone, Chicugo will yet bo cotebrated for hor mineral weils, and wuititudes will conv here for the express purpose of ine Libing thoso wholesome waters, Tho number of puonly who pitrouize these artesian wella, drinking on tho spot ur carrying bome tuolr wae ters for table use, fs rapluly inevensing, and tt is to Induce others to parinke und derive benoit thorefrum that thi urtele ta written, And TE would sugost, a4 each well ditferd In sous do- ree trom tho others, hut your roporter inter view ench park bowrd and iuduvo thon, if pov sthlo, Wo hive an nnalyds inade of thy water Trom even artesian well und have the reporta ublished in wld of auience, healt, and tho pubs ie youd. BL, Gladstone, ‘To the Editor of ‘The Chicago Tebune, Circado, Out, 2—tt fs the misfortune of Mr, Gladstone that ha ts compolied to lewl tho Bae gliah crueade agalnst the tborties of {righ sub Joets. Iu hus prised tho ullotted pariod of Mfe— tures soure yuira and lon—and must soon dé uppour trom the stiye of politics, Tia whole life bus been deveted to the auvocacy and spread of Hberulizing dootrines of pavernment; and that hu should now bo forced, on the very vorgo of his retirement from public life, te play the duspot, to bring tho Iron heul of arbitrary power down hard upon the nooks of an oppressed nnd longesuifuriug puople, must woroly grieve fiat, ‘Thut tho statesman who wpon the Noor of Patltamont sald “a writ of. ejeotimant, a welt of evtotion of tho tenant fy a suntanee of death to the Irlsh “pearant"—that he should bo placed tndor tho grin necessity of dirccting tho arrest and imprisonmentor Parnoll on lisus- fiviont grounds aud of ordering the disporvion In a tine of poace of an orgaulaation of citizons whose purpose Was to yonder evivtion iuncoud. sary atthe polnt of the bayonct—is a string {Inivtration of tha orucl irony of fute, It only showa, huwoyer, thy woakuoss of tho stronwest, ian and tho . wtronzust politionl purty in England, 18 compured with tha strength of tho Hritint feudal fand syaten:, Aly, Giudstone would have awopt way the systers long nyo had hy possessed the power, Lut it was stronger eth be, stranger than His party, deuce be triad to prune it of some of ite features ng in NTU. But featured hin jy the facu again upon his return to power, and this the more mei nly henes tho Land Dill of dust winter, and the long struggio with the Rudleats on the one hund und the Congersas tives on tho other. What a eruel sequel to a birugalo whieh vourly cost Mr, Gladstone bis life ‘The Lrigh poopie have no coolidence tn the Lund bil, none ia Mr, Ghiudyiane, wone in avy political purty) composed of wiishion; tho muusure I seouted, the imen who seenred Its Duasnye ore fecred, tho Hritish Government, une der the control of Liberals, fe defied, and revo- lution is not only threutened but accuully de- clired, on paper, Mr, Gladstone now fully realizes the peril of tuking aiice under a Uoveramest the muti feature of whusd constitution isa relle of tho feudal age. lye now doubtives feula that bis true place 1s hy the oppoxivion, that there only could he thalotali a caured conshtent with ble views of naturat Justice, It may be sald that not to have taken oftice wold baye been to forego the opportunity to work retoruns. 1b ta donbitul, however, It taking allies under a Gove ernment claiming’ tu be Cree, but whose tinaly featuce la practically a dat dyntul of one uf the “which the worl BSA! arest righta of tho cli quire a freoholt interes! Blo on moral grounds; and It is apa morn rounds that tistory Onally Judges public mon, Whon the Innd Jawa, not onfy of freland but of Bnuland, shalt have been remodeled, aa they will be, iy thoy must he, Me Glndstano 6 bills of 1870 and IHal for thelr amelioration will occupy, Avery amin place hy history, but the arbitrary acta of his prudent ndiministration will loon up Hs areal cruoitios, great cutragca Upon the Nborty of specen and politteal action of tho Trish eltizen, to whieh principle Mr. Gladatone ts no doubt honestly and deeply devoted. Inn urent cinergency Mr. Giidatone ts placed fin false position, for it cannot be doubted that wers he In the apposition ho would raise his volce i protest mugatiat the you nets he by now eominitted to by a grim necessity. The Adaitn fstration of whteh Mr. Gladstone Is the head fa doing what would be appropriate to n Conger vile tive or Tory Administration, and tt {s eminentty robable that tho complications Into whieh tho Liberais have been preelpitated will end In their overthrow and tho advent to power of the ‘Tortes. And when Mr. Cladstone gous out of ollico It will bo never toroturn. His great 10 and physient intitmitics will doubtless conmel his tinal retirement from active pull lite, ‘This retirement, wil wlmost necessarily bo nt a couch ary ‘of almitirs untertunate to bis fame, For if hi Asin quieting Ireland by harsh, repressive menstires, by force. by tho a enut Foowill bo remombered ns tio foo of thy fiberal idens to which he hus professed devotion through= out bls entire public career, On tho other hana, If there shall spring fgom tho neni conilict AB movement whieh ts Cventually vrowned with success, Mr. Oladstane will he charged with hiv~ ing sought to crush tho tsplrations of tho Trish people with "the maliod band. AMENICUS, WASHINGTON STREET BOU- LEVARD. Tho Park Commissioners Mave Dee Ordinance Grosaty Violated — Property-Owners und Kaxpayers Justly Indignant. ‘To the Editor of The Cheago Tribune. Cateado, Urt. BL—A fow months wo tho property-owners and residente on Washington street were made supremely happy by tho an nouncesnent that thoir street had been turned ovorto the Park Board to be by them trans: formed from an ordinary strect into a grand and mugnifeent boulevard, After long and caroftl- deliberations, and much time, talent, and labor having been need and expended, tho publi wero gratiicd by tho passuge of an ordinances by the board, setting forth tn mich dotall tho nature and Idud of an improvemont contemplated, Against this little or no ob- fection eoutd bo urged, and all wore satisiled, Hasou upon this ordinance an estiinate of the cost por foot was curefully made, upon which nu assessment upon the property fronting tho street was made and confirmed by tho Court. Tho property-owners and tho public generally had aright to expect that tho contracts for tha improvement woull bo let In accordance with the ordinance and upon tho ostimates and ne: acaament ns made, but which wo will show his not been done. ‘Wo were toll, and led to bee eve, that-tho work would be ‘nt oveo berun, and tho rondway completed during tho eummor and fall. But, lol the summer fs ended, tho molancholy days have come, ete, aud yot no boulevard ean bescon with the nuked oye. All falth In tha honeyed promlues of Parks Com- missioners fy now lost, and whero praise wis once heard one hears nothing but censure aud an ovensionit deep, low curso frou some une happy resident stuck having for the past three months Hsteued com: tho Dlasphomy of my wolghbors whan they hac to dle tielr family or sume beloved meniber thorvof .out of the strect, and living in mortal drovd of sume of my Cumily or thut of luy friends disuppearing from human sivheln tho awful b ‘ard, £ conclided tally to denen, I p whit (ho mittter was, and who, if wny one, W Seulluving that the Park Board was the source of ull our woes, and having n curiosity to see how tholre tordstips disnorted themeclves when di golern conclave assembled, [attended thelr scance Inst Mone day afternoon, From what ft chore siay, aud have Icurned from inyestizatlon sinco, 1 ain free to fy that tho Hark Comtutssloners avo to blue for the preaent uwitl condition of Washington wtreut and tho buat aud wnsystomatic way fu ¥ being done. Tn tho first plies, they ire not competont and practical street-bullders, but believe they are, and act on tne bellef, to tho great detriinent of tho work. Hy observing tho Commissioners tn counell and knowing tie methods, ono suon be gained hnpressed with the tden thut there are at Joast two or Lhrve nvountions In which a few of them would. shine with greater brillinnoy than in eonstragting boulevards. Messrs. MeCren, Woodurd, and Curter, it yecus, control the whole bisisess, ‘Thos glvo‘fistructions, coun termand orders; chunge plans, and contract sey~ aritely and fa7hulk, so that tho onuincer and vontructors are offen af a loss to know wrom Lo. obey or whut cody. Aga satipte ony of tilt wo offer the followitiys (Mr. Woodard instructs thy contrtotor to'phice he front of Mr. Avery's Jot Wis a comptimetit to Mr, Avery, no doubt) mich later stone tit 1spue elsewhere on tho siroet and tot enlled for in the contract. | When thts fs done, Carter coms wong and sees ft, and t3 ont who urdored if, and rushes olf to Mu- and ,those tivo apfeet call on Woodard and ‘state to him thelr grievance, and, after these three flock togethor awhile, thoy conclude: tu condone tho alfcnses quid, for tho gike of uniformity, which they ull three adiuire, they or- der the contractor to resume under the con~ tract, and thits the old saying that "too many cooks spoll the broth" ls here exenspiliied, and the work goes slovenly on, “ne Park Hourd tn, letting the contracts Ig- nored the ordinance they thomselyes passed, 1n this: that the ordinances called for elghteot {uehes of atone, and tho coutniets only call for fourteen tivbed. (emight with propriety here be asked by what right or authority thoy mnde this change? Lt might algo be asked of the fourtuan Inches of stone coat as much o3 tho elghteen inchod, und, tf not, where ts the dif. ferenues to zo? ‘Thy ordinance on whieb tho cs Umiite of the cost aud iho ussessment was mide calls for grant that would pass through an ineh ring, and to be cublenl, Yet the contract culls for rane that woutd pasa through an inal snd whale ring, und says nothing of cubes, Wo hero stibmilt that tho board bad no loyal right to winke thee changes, and that thoy may be Drought to a Knowledge of this in’ the near future, when they nitempt to force. collection Of tho taxes, ly not amonyx the improtabilti Tho contracts, wo buve shown, are not invce cordunce with tho ordininee, nor la the work the soll that {4% done. nccordiug to | contracts, aud not as good, and the Commizsion- or, notwitstanding tho protest of Sr, Liwrenee, knowlely permit it to go on, and thelr Intention to thus allow it was clourly shown by the treatnent tho following resalution ine srieat by Luwronvo lust Munday evening roe evlvous “Tn vidw of tho fact that granit bee iprcncatticd costa $1.4 por yurd, tharolore, reso-ved, ‘That tho ongineer bo {natructed when amoking up his estunntes tor amounts due tho contractor ta only jnelude in such esthinates the amount thureof that stricdy conforms with the torms of thu contpaat.” ‘The resolution ald not oven recelya tho courte esy of neevoud. Mr. Mevren thought that tho ort iypsoaucally. should be used instead of “atelotly.” Now ta whnt bus this construction thus far led? Althouyh tho tssessmient was for stone to pass (heotgh vn ine rho, in making up tho contract tho ordlbnco: was entirely iqnoredl, aud tho words "inet and oneennlt” sub: stituted. When tho contructor commenced dellvering the granit he | covered an che thra block with steno, three-fourths of which would not comply with the contract, Stones were put In the struct that wore nt, and near ArYO NSB cOMIMON suucer, und Les cause of the objuution of Mr, Liwrence some of tho lurgur ones wero romuyed; but stil those two blocks are covercd with stone, ongeluif of which ura too larga to comply with the cone tract, but Chrotiggh tho word substantially are to he pate for at F100 pee yard. : Mut to whut fs tho word substantially now Jouding? tn consequence of the earnest pro- testof Conmniasioner Lawrenee andy fargo nume Der of tuxpayors in tho streot, devoral cars louds of this atuif Wore rejected and put In piles upon tha slide strovts, ‘Tho contractors nuid thoy would weruon if, and only put on what would vomply with the contraot, but are wang an inch and threefourtos gorcen to Md ut ined ant one-balt ventraut. Wha holes in the eereen bes Hog square, stoued more than Uwvo inches teross pass through from corner to carner, and yet oven this sereenlog will not allow more thin Dull this relected stone to Ko on thestreet, Yet fn tho face of all this, Commutssionvrs are still pleading ‘with the: Proalidoot to use the word hmubstuatintly ’ inated at “atrictly.” Tr auich coarde stony was tt, why hadvnat tho Comminaioners advertived for web, und gor them chuaper, as they survly could tye lene? Phas tho prault is naw comlag some Chit at tirat is lurgely due to tho repented protests uf of Mr. Lawrence, who secuis to be the only Come wilssioner who stands up for having the work property dane, In viow, therofure, of what his yous on tho atrect alrendy, and the prevont way of soreening What wild rejuctudl, why wis tot Mee Lawrunce juatiied lu otferlug hla rexolution? ait because it did not favor Jho contructord aniliclunthy? Wo think thoy have already been treated with eultletout lenluney. Vt haw been “Poor Jalques” ail the fall, aid now It fs Likely to be Poo mbery" for yours to como, Wo are udviacd that only abot one-fourthot the yards ol stone required in the contruct Mave buen pub upon the street, and yet wo are within tau days of the tine for oumpleting thu boulevard. Amborg, who cons traviod to put on 7,000 yards of grant tup dress fy, hus put onty about Ou), aucts as tt ta. Then aguin, the contract for supplying the Umvetone, thouga vuwieely let to one cane truutor, was in two contracts, Unlon Park belyg the diviltng tue, ‘The justice of udvanging the work equally under both contracts way the reit~ son for this, yet the struat west of the park bus little deny ‘to it exvept to tear It up several months ayo alony ite entire jongth and made utterly finpasgablo, and nocwitustanding the pleadings or the residcuts aud the urging by Lawrence not any stone bas yet been put ih there, but enough slug baa been given thom to cover two blucka Ave lnehes dep, because the people cust ot the park objected to Mt, and for tho suke of uniformity all the slug is to be placed west of the park, Mr, Lawrence wt the dTonday meting asked to URDAY, OCTORER “Thon he ls Just going to say somothing, Y¥ 22, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES hay tw ri rena cording to intent. Mrs MoCren opposed the motion beciusa tho wireet in front of his residence, owing to tho loworlng of Mo water-pipes, Was not In a conition to res ecive the stone, and one it could not be put on in front of big lot it ought nutto go unywhero olso on tho streets Mr. Woodard objected beenuse tho larger property owners Ilve east of the park, and wanted thie pirtof tho atrect Aitehed tiest, and world obe ject to paying nny attention to the west part of the street, and stated that residonts on to wost part antght orlve down other streuts to the park and then come the balance of the way down to boulevard. ‘This wast genoraus of hin stircly, ht tho fnee of tho circumstances. Will thogy snuill property-owners of thd Twelfth Ward ut by Mr, Woodsrd te walk on iis vomp levard In tho region where hia favored large property-owners reside? |G. W. JLusistent. OHIO'S BOSWELL. Private Dalzcll Dixcournes of Lettor= Writing Among Politicians and Other Pablle Men of This Contury. + To the Lultor of The Chtcaga Tribune. OALDW O., Oct. 20,—With one impor- tant exception—Grant, who Is ns reticent of pen ng of tongue—the most sirceessful public men { have known for twenty-five years were those who were free with the epistolary p 1 have never yet addressed.n letter toa pub- Hie man who answered curtly or not at all, who has nndo any mark in this. century. ‘This may provoke nsinile, No, gentle reader, Tdo not mean whatyou are thinking of ab all, Tmean, however, that the man who is afratd of hls shadow on paper cannot and will nobsueceedin this day of paper, Ink, telegrams, latters, and newspapers, LT verily hellove that os aristoeratie and sedentary 1s Charles Sumner was supposed to be he never once permitted a correspondent to go inanswered. Gnriletd was freo with the peu, and In his twenty years of public Iife sent: tered his kind and friendly letters with no stinted hand through all classes of socicty, from coal-llggers and farmers to Senators and Presidents. Aman who hesitates to ine swer nletter, and to answer It Cully, fatrly, candidly, without reserve, when It comes from f respectable and friendly quarter, may ilo very well for a business manager, wt banker, or a broker, but he will fall utterly in our polities, Afrald to put his foot in it with his pen, the timid and selfish man de- lines to answer 9 friendly correspondent, and makes an cnemy where he might mato a friend. o Aman should alwaysehoose good station ery, write his best, but with all that his Iet- ter Is still a falluro unless he put life into ft. Now? [ cannot answer that question, ‘There Is a elusy of public men who would lint up the best stationery at their command and sit down for whole hours together spetl- ing oula Inbored anawer to a letter from a great General or a great statesman, who wonld reply to some plain, blunt correspoudd- ent whose name had never garnished tho daily press on a postal card, or ina evol, dis- tant northeaster of five Itnes and ahalf; or, more likely still, nine tines out of ten throw {taste contemptuously, unanswered, Such a person, neeidentally occupying a little brief nuthorlty officially for n brief season, will goon eloge his term and go home expecting to find friends ishing tp to hin and began him to stand fora higher office, but he will tind nobody who cures a straw for him or his aspirations, Io repels all—attracts none, ige ures for nobody, and “nobody” Lens thé compliment with compound Interest. Ong of the most genial of epistolary corre- spondents Is *, OUN OWN CHARLEY FOSTER. Ife was never stuck up. Any one can asic him a clyil question on paper and et, aelvil auswer, - ‘he same mmentties obtaln here as elsewhere, In social Intereourse, whore porsons mre face to face, courtesy from any quarter Is appreciated and returned in kind words and: graclons looks. So of let. ters. Among gentlemen of breeding und spirit tho rules run part pags ‘The heart isthe prime thing in a tctter, ‘These formal replies londed down with self eonselous vanity, dignity, and roserve always mukes wasnile, Your amateur statesman onnnot dnd tine to reply.” Ho [nso rushed with Lmimense muttitudes of enilors, two is 0. dozen with fii, tena iniilion or more; for nobody ever cama to sechin before, andafter ints atreale of political Tightuinss gets through with him he will never be troubied with wy mora; he leayes your letter unanswered fora month, ‘and thei in alnsty scrawl whose very outlines ave pletorial Ingints, and in bad Ene pis jolts out five Hes inthres unconsidered ines, hastily puts it in an uncouth envelope, spolls your meme wrong on the uel, leks 16 with hig ble, soft tongue, bestobbers it with tobaeco julee, makes three bly bliek tingor- marks on the wusightly thing, drops tt. | Yar ean hear tim mall {t tho moment you touch {tz you ean read contempt all throngh It, seo the trloks transparentand clumsy stleking out ot his awkward penmanship and parvenu atatesmanship—Lleaven save the mark and that'ls his Iden of corrospondence. ‘Che sano sinall calibra patriot would fill cleven pages legal eap writing of his own turgid con- tons of his greatness Ina letter to some small-hore pursonal adinirer or seedy dee ponientof his, Politlelans who have heard much thunder are not much annoyed about the future” of that clags of cattle, TUN CIUEF THING ANOUT A LETTER is that it bounstudicd, off-hand, to the point, swift, Toy, easily read, clearly understood ataglanes. But here is your cautious, con- selentlous old stager who appreciates in his dull, hick way the duty of making elvil an- swors to civil Inquirles addressed’ through the malis, [t faastudy to read lls letters. é atdoon Jearn to read all men by thelr tet- to know thom as well as if you had heen brought up fn the game household with them, Your powerful dull oldgfellow, once {n office always {1 olltce, cultivates his core respondents, He manages Lo write mueh anc nothing, Ho tsadrolt: in saying nothing In the largest. possible compass of yurbin, UL rend the rémeinder—it is nothing after all. You ennnot desplo his dullness, for he Is so eraclous and kind witha, Yet you can hard. y keen your favo straight as your eye glaness along fils woll-formed letters and clegant sentences, so full of barrenness as to leave no other ‘or different Impression thin you used to get by reading the master’s stl Kn- gilsh text hand in your old con yebooks tor- gotten ages azo, ‘Tut is your dignified corre spondent, and, If he persoveres, he will pass for w great man, go to the Synate, or more likely the Supreme Bench, the first yvacangy, Hs Hashes of profundity are not brilliant, Dut Impressive, and tho: pleaaing emptiness of hls letters eat never give offense, and will impress the average Sorrospondons with an awful iden of repressed and reserved power, Any man who gels upon asllits, dons stage dress, snd puts on bly gogetes ty prepare for letter will prove. an utter fallure in our politics. L don't like his class, No man was ever so Wwiso ns he tries to seem, He tan respectable humbug, and has more of the nss tian the human after all Abave WL things give me on intelligent correspond ont—ond who knows men and events; one who can read my lotters a foot, yea a mille, nader the Hnes, and between thom. ‘The he ean anawor my questions, antlelpste other auerlea, and satlsty mo fully. tle never gives faffy, It Is ogure sien of the arrint demagog, and you hate him the moment you sea tho first Ain of dlattery. Behind the hypocritical compliment, as belind the musis, you sve the fellow wink sol It ts harder to. issue a charneter not one's OWN On paper than on, the atrectar in tho clubroam, Lt cannot bho dona exeeps when tha cor respondents are fools all yound, ‘Thure ts a fonch anda stalt about a letter the moment fe lonves you that carries with itinuch mere than is “platnly: written Init, ‘Phere ty an unseon Interpreter that goes with tt to ity destination, and walks about its broken keal ant Into the heart of your corraspanidont, and tells hha all you tought when walthiy M—all you supprassed, all you could: hay said, aud much more, ‘Lhe only way to de- celye or. Intsluad an Intelligent cor. respondent fs to write vour letter wut Wen burn it to ashes the next moment, 1 can tell what o inan knows, beltoves, ia by his letters, and tho quniities af a sole dior ara nearly alwayy transparent balow his lutters, Not always vo. Sometiuies It takes whols sorles of letters to reveal a man—i number of sittings, 1 you please, to affor yous full length portralt of Nin Some men reveal but a little of themselves" on paver ata thes but if you will watch, indus Tine the whale man, gaol or bad, will come out clear and full ad-one of Thana. Two classes of wel, are hard to rend In thelr tet tore UH you have a long series, running: throuxh any years and man, vicissitudes of fortune, ‘Tho first gonekatt men never speak of ladies’ letters, they are nll alike, trunspurent ng daylight, as cusily read as signs on the streets, except when seen through the purple clouds of love, What was T saying? ff { get upon love lettors— and 1 have wlarge package of thom from my funges as tho ren’s mother who sits bealdy metonight {not have done for a column mo: The first of letter-wrilors whosucharae. for comes ont but by degrees, fs of your wily fellow who never hii a eincere thought in the world, but who knows all the polished arts of, concealment, so well that he will try to appenr candid and sincere, frank to fant; but yon avill not watel fone intl his true character will xppoar presently i some touch of xentting and unndilterated treach- ery or falsehoutl, GOOD BULDIENS GOOD CONRESTONDENTS, [Lhave fonnd that tho men who lad the courage to make good soldiers—as Garitelil, Lorin, Mayes, Banks, Gen. Shorman, and 2 fow others of my ald ‘correspondents—imoke the best correspondents, } Another class will keen you long in doubt, ‘They aro persons of discretion aud guod scrupulously regarding truth and te sense, holding overything subordinate to. It. will appear overzourteous for a th haps blunt and: uncourte not unlikely will they evel of ity by hinting nt sone word or net of yours which they disapprove, or disappoint you by flntly denying yottsomy favor which you had seb sour heart upan, but which they contd not’ grant in amanner and form ag you re. quested, ‘Phese ara your true friends at Inet. Slow. to make promises, once mado they will bo sacredly kept, Reluctant to dive you pain by adverse cr ticism of you or your Inbors, they hold your good ahove thelr pwn petsonal eonvenivnes and ase, ant will not hesttate to wound your vanity if thos: can only see that ib will benefit you. For confidence you willalways provided you are. worthy—receive , confidence — nauln in Scripture measures, “For kindness, kind. ness a thousand fold Inerensed. Instead of empty compliments, which menn nothing, you will get back the wari promises of friendship where you deserve It aud the frankness of reproof whenever needed, It takes thne—often years of correspond. ence—to dlsclose all these tralts of the bot- or cliss of correspondents, but once you find ona like these, hold him to you with hooks of Hayes wis & model, correspondent untit the White House parilyzed his pen, wnd still ho yet, hpon ovcnsions, Writes a good onouEl letter.” Gartield would never flatter or He In a letler, or affect a tiling where lic felt in- difference or dislike, Get ono of his letters, and sou faye the whole man in the fullness of frlendship, verneily, and robust frankness above ull men Lever got. letter from, As the sun {mages ityelf Just ng well, according fo some one’s slinile, in drop of water ng in the sen, so somehow overy one of Gartleld’s letters shows you TUE MAN IN ALD HIS CANDOR and wealth of human kindness, and often fn gneh OF hits. Intellectual qreatnens, Sune had much of that gift of throwing hinselt inte n dozen lines ina letter and deaving an Inprint of his own great nature thore—muclt ns boys leave a full-length Lmpression 0 themselvesin thy sorrow atone single pros- tration init, Lde not know" how such ‘men do it, but. they do. 1 have a thousand ovi- dences of Ittight-here in my desk, Your great Innti—your real great pun—is never 50 great as ho is {na letter ton friend eaacinlly the knows ft wlll prover be published until he dies, It is, a3 Gartictd was wont to sny, one’s Unconsclous things that are one's bust things, Get a letter from a great man for publication—and L have many atime for that express purpose—and It fy stlif, studled, and stripped of ull that makes a totter racy and Take tha history of ge, politics, and It is “tho prepared letter,” Elaborated to got Mir. Statesniuin “right before the people,” ete., that turned his heels skyward, 1 never heard of 1 private letter published at the right time, judiciously, by a friendly hand, domg otter than good to Its writer. tse Lincan in polities. L would not puta letter away and give tt desk room it 1 knew It was written for publication, or as 8 mero conventional reply to get rit of me, and Eean tell one. of them as quickly as my cook ean detect rotien eggs on sight! L burn them. Penmanship. is nothing—though ong se styles cnoueb, dear knows. Latin talk! ie time of letters trom public men eng In pollties, They write far better letters tian dilettanti do; better than scholars and bust 10s nen, becuse they know human nature better and on a Jarger seale. ‘The poorest letter-writers aru editors, Tes cannot Ret down and away from the ciltoriul style, whieh is much the same as talking to a hile denf man through a trumpet, J don’t know why ft Is, but C suppose it 1s because tholr letters are usually published, and as my let- ters ure (live published, the public may necept this ns the explanation of the barren- ness, stlifness, and waut of Interest whieh abound In tho letters of : Private DAwZe rt. MODERN DE QUINCEYS. Morphine “tho Clree of Drugn—Its Usors Transformed fron Mon Into Swine. To the Editor of The Chteaga Tribune, Dwiant, UL, Ot. 20—The literature of opiuin eating has, almost without exception, been proditced by opium eators. Ience thore is falsehood mingled with Its truth, for fn all that relutes to his hablt Ui oplum or morphine eater almost always becomes to ayxrenter or Jess extent unyeractuus, Ho feels that ho must justify or at least excuse himself to his audlenes for a prnetice which exeites In them both condemuntion and dis- gust, ‘hose who have glyon their exporl- enco to the world in books or maguzines, wiille they do not and cunnot exagerato the dréariness of the desort Into which the habit tends at tast, have haloed the entrance to that desert with an‘unrenl glory, It seonts asi€ some luring demon had inspired those records in order to wile innocent souls Into bondage and doom them to despair! They tell thelr readers In sub- stauce that through the Intoxteation of oplum and its preparations one may enter into a paradise of unspeakable loveliness, or muy recelyo such wonderful Intellectual stimulusas to become at once an orator, a poct, or a thinker, be lifted from discournge- nent and despalr to blah possibilities of Joy- ous and successful action, They sponk of Inspirations which, at ‘THY WAVING OF ITS WAND hy tho oplum-splrit, sweep through the mind like mighty winds awakening great and original kdcas, and arousing Into activity mental powers far surpassing those possible to the undrugged brain, They tell of poetic sensibilities aroused, through which tho soul seoms to walk fn high and equal feltow- ship with Shakspoare and Alliton, and all the glants of enrllor days. ‘They spouk of erqat schgmes for tho betterment of mankind, re- yoallng thomselyos to the reformer’s thought, when he iy wrapped in hia oplunvecstaay, making tho world’s future aplonuid with a glorious hope of perfection achieved, hey toll too—and - ahf how deadly sweat to thousands of aching hearts and, spirits cnst down—of the oplumewitcheratt agable to Iitup tho heart bowed down to Lights of Joyous calin, to curo the heart. ache, as able to "niinister tog mind diseased and tho trouble of thick-comlng . refreshing, a ara Hiveot, oblivious antidote, Cloqnsing the bosom of the porilaus Blut Which wolyhs upon tho hoart, causing thoughts which tarmentand feelings which distress to yanish, while the liberated sulerar dies, as fia fairy clrclo, ringed with pence ‘And at Jenst ona of these writers, est, and borhaps the one gonlusof then nl, sirkes a sull higher key, and diseounies in tones whieh, to many, are MORE FAROINATING THAN ALL THE BEST. Ilo tells of dreams of Indescribable splendor which came te him tn the opluurtorpor, Hghting up all the heavens of his sleep with xorgeous cotoring, revealing .the majestic brolutions of inighty armies, the blasts of slenallag trumpets, the thrilling rise and dying all of countless bands of mut tin! muslo nenr and far, the shanti of enptatns, the mudted thinder of gar ing feet—an Inflait grendeur—a vision of Ine deseribable maxnltiicence : ‘Are hot such representations full of Loup. tation? ‘They may be inspired, but surely the inspiration was not breathed by a heaven- ly spirit. “‘Vhose eorweas eloud-lands af al: inoat hysterical description of the eltuets of oplum ov morphing cating in thele eartler Stages upon the tacuities of thatght, imax. Inathm, atid oxpression—there ts falsehoutl as wollas mischief fn thew. ‘That thoy are inisehiovous, whe ean doubt? While It ta tru that the majority of the alaves of opin in its diferent forms began the use of the airug becanss of physteal paln, yet. tho mi bor fs by no means small of those who at firot took it fn order lo reproduce, If possl- ble, the mental phenomena of which they had read aueh marvelous things, ts f strange thatthe language of De Quincey, de- serlbing in wordy of stately ‘rythi and wontlrous melody, ake miajedtie orgie musle, the naguiticunt eas and tho varll- visions of ils oplum th the Inwer-keyed but at ah aseliaatinu y f tires of thy i Tutlirenes of the first faw doses at worphiny upon the intellect and faney, as portrayed it aveiters. En mewspapers nnd ina ul should tempt men and women to ines DANORNOUS, DEADLY EXPERIMEN TIyg with tha deny? tis asad feb that way student In eallege, porhapy the hrhgltety: telleet of all, many a young, woshitions it r erary Man or worth, after reading these hid eultfid aid, AULT books or artleles ‘pug the opium habit, lve hastened to bron the dray and test pon Uhemselves tts int leat powers. ‘They, toa, desire to dreg dren and seo visions. Thay, too, Would become abla to weave Into stately and sply dtd Innauage marvelous revelations from some region “enst of the sun, west of the moon” tnvisited: by any mortal bar then selves, Novi also, desire, to en) up he seeming angel, and feel the thrill of its kiss on thelt lips. ‘Thuy are tot wholly \znorang of what they ave doing—they linve knowled, of the fact that, beyond tho border ‘ian) of uilrage, thero Tes a baleful desert They linva been tolil—thesa themselves tell them—that Island 1s the abode of | Clree, By desire from within and temptation from wit, B out tiake thent heediess of Une warning. Th palace of the stren and is dellehts ore ¢ wonderfully seductive that Ue sizht of grunting herd of those who have been thy Tovers at the temptress and upon whom, iy post days, her kisses have Wrought swinig fl transformation, does not deter the flashes eager Heww-comer, fresh landed Upon the iy aul of Joynnce! Mo veces ns he tnsten, through shadowy aisles of -trees, only white pillars and the shining walls of thee. ehanted palaces ho hears only the tends endence of sweet, inviling voles: he ‘tee wily, the longings of passton and. the thrity of hope: Alns for hin iW even but Once y thune be kindled tn his blood by TUE FAVAL SWEETNESS OF ‘TIE sincyy A ites In the case of those who may be “natural oplim-caters ?—that be, those who the drug or {ts products awaken thy opiam eestiey—the ane first dose will, bitty vast muijority of eases, be fatally deelstyey He who for the first ine entls wp the opluy, spirit may see only a beautiful angel with shite {ny face and hovering wings, butIE he woul omy Jook through the bright apparition ty wottld see, cast upon backgrount of glomy, ashadow rising vast and awettl, threatenty, cetaln Judgment and unescapaule ‘loon This sorcery hag been suecesst{il; his Ineants tlon hing raised tho spirit and compelled it to weave its spells around him; but during thy short hours of glamour nud of dream he hay pound hiniselt to the service of a xatandy master whose rule fs pitiless and whose re & ward fs death,” : It is true, Indeed, that the sweeping con Hf demuntion Idulzed In by muny of the usect the various oplim sedatives by the medial BB profession is hot founded upon knowledz or reasun, but results from prejudice or tro FM rant sentimentality, Not for nothing dia Nature, our mother, nurse the pale popy fower and ripen ts julees with her Ry goll and her outpouring of rain and sunshine Like the Buddbist Satan the opium spirit is dust—nn angel of Haht ns well ny of date ness, Lt has for humanity blessing aswel as cursing. Itisditticnlt to express too vr fe lilly the penee, the perfect eal, the bile Bg fal quietude whieh opium and its prepare tions bring to the physlent nature. ‘They are asters of nearly every form of bodily pale phys Lanenish while eforo were unbearable, stliging to inadness, are suddenly repulsed and iept at bayay Russian wolves are driven back tte te outer darkness by the sudden upleapingol flames from the Inlghtened traveler's camp fire, Even the tlger-fangs of seuralgia art often suddenly wrenched apart by the stron: inn of the opium givnt, smut the torture sitferer hing hours of blessed vest. ‘The mote pling spirit touches tio tossiue victluot sleepless nights and days with Its soft white ant, and he beeumes ns quiet as a sleeplag eile, ‘he wise and careful physician uses ts drug to allay tho tortures of disense, for 4 knows that the torment of agontzed nena may often, be as exhaustive to. the vial forces ns is the malady whieh ennses te anguish, And as a rile the opium fist does not result directly from the extibioa of the drug by the phystelan, bat Indirect fréin the self-udministration of At hy the {lent after the doctor hins ceased to presets It. But the fret that opium and morphinesds exert such marvelous power in qulating oe Teal pain, and tho other fact, already referred to, that Writers on the oplum-tinbit depit thy sensations caused by the first moderte doses of the drug in sueli glowing temy make It necessary to Insist with great e phasis that in the mental exhilarntions sal enehantments produced by the polson of ta ponpy In the first stage of the opluu-habi, thore f4 AN ELEMENT OF DECEIT AXD FALSEHOG) ‘Tho strength whieh the drug seems to git fs notreal'strength, ‘Lhe narcotle cestacle do not bring genulne fruits, ‘Che thluking which one does white lulled ‘by morphine witchery Is not nearly go orlzinal or brilllast ag Itappeared when ft fasted through the dreamer’s seml-consclousness, It will no ondure tho test of trite eriticisin au the light of tho facts and principles of thts acto i a, Work-n-day world. attire hay recelved ttl ¢ any red enrichment from opium cathy. Granting that the "Ita of the Ancient Marines,” Ue © Raven,” and “Kubla Khon? wero largely ingpired by the hoppy jules, wit, thought ful critic would cliss those with tho strof houlthy poems which live on from, amt ago bucatise thoy ure full of “swett ness and ght? it is if these wolrd creations, ast whole, sre ett Wight esteamed by sound and, Dulaneed be telicets except for the musle of their rythis or as studles of the effects of a dlsoased he ngination. Lt is the finmature ov. the, wbnot mally developed mind tht rezards thea muaterpieces, ‘Cho “Itima of tha Anclett Mariner ® contains stanzas of genuine ad hoalthy poetry, but these may well be o Hteil (o those pertods when the grasy of th tyrant upon the mind of Coloridge wit sinokened nnd hls sul looked out tiirougt clonrer oyes Lpon nature, man, and b ‘The “Confessions ” of De Quinoy, hawest? original tn thought or grave in languart, fre tmhualthy in tone nnd fatluences ft not through morotlne-Insplration that wrlter eon lead us to the sweet spring waters tho olden fruits of Nuture, As soon ast? drwr begins to drony its Inilaby and te tha gunaos Inv waking dream the eyelids dro) tho puplls contract, the aye grows dull, | tha voll comes down butween the soul and@ things exterior to it, How can one In sue ‘ condition, seo ax they are “this goodlt frame, tho earth; this most exceller cAnODy, heir; thls anaes roof, fretted with ‘golden | fire’?! Hit ean an ophunized brain rightly perder jnotives nui fifiiences whitet get npol wel or oven sue neetrately the phenomena oo own action? ‘Tho oplun-enter 13 unable i" see things as they are, Clenr sunshine twillght to hha, His pereaptions and Gia thes are dutied, ‘Cho nist in whien here shrouds hiusele shuts out from bis sou! ist true light which Hghteth every mal 4 cometh into the world, It would cout vans an eternal lnw—that law whlel ‘at been, is, and over will be the onty bas i pe the nttainment of great suecess and hgh et ward, if merely swallowing 0 whilte por 0 or dark gti can mnko it posse nebloye great things in-any fle dot wo “Th the sweat of thy fey shalt thou ® bread that fs die Immutable, the uuescay able ordinance, Who over has, who ot can ovade it? ‘Genuine, golld, and Lea results ure reacheit only by honest an ‘ou yors labor-not by morphine stlunnlatons not by any falso or easy wit y wvhatsoee a And to attempt to set aside t tis perpe ed nuchauging hu of Nature and ot Gud, ov xortlug to aplum-magie Is to enter et life tinged at fta, beginning with we aid falsvhoud, and surely toning t0, fal sud despalr, — Lestik BE, KEELEY, —————— MY PICTURE, ~ For The Cheaan Tribune, My heart Is longing for tho day Whon thow'lt ba truly minc— When thy brows bend will coxly [4¥ Upon my anddened breast for aye And thy ripa dips, ike wine, Grow clohor for alt time. my sont Is secking thine tonight i mendows sweot ith aaa White ftry hunda, fn eons oF ght Aro weaving close tho chords of mid Half human, bait divine, ‘Vo bind thy love ta mine. Tho pangs of Tgazo on thy aweot-plotired acd Ant woleper low tby name, da revatio slowly truce Tho outtings of thy form of ETACe And fuel thy breath of blaie When words of love gruw ties O may thou no’er forget that Have beld thoo to my breast, the And breathed foveeno’os tou tue tu vif thou lorger, then shall 1 ty ‘To wiids udown the Wests And in my grave eck reve. Ganya il, a Most Iron preparations blacken the teeth give Beadache, Brown's fron bitters 6° we