Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-03-10
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

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Insurance-Amusem ents.
CHICAGO, Feb. %, 1S70.-Our cold We ther
OF last week lasted but day or two, when il
became mild and spring like again, changing
| on Saturday to warm and copious April show
ers, from the southwest, changing toward
night to an easterly storm.
THE BLONDES,
or tie Lydia Thompson troupe, have been
the sepsation of the past week. When they
were here few weeks ago the Times puffed
them. But this time, they declined to adver-
tise IN the Times, and the Times pitched into
the blondes sayagely, calling them bawds and
| other uncovetabe names, and taunting them
and their friends for not resenting it's attacks.
The agent who visited the EDITORS 0ffice to
demonstrate with him on his course, AIr.
Storey drove from his presence by holding
revolver at his breast.
cowHIDING STOREY.
| On Thursday afternoon, Miss Lydia Thomp-
son and Hiss Markham, Of the troupe, ac-
cOmpanied by two male friends, Mr. Hender-
son to see fair play, and a Mr.. Gordon to
point out MIR. Storey to the girls, proceeded
| in a carriage to point near Mr.. Storey's res
wife, when Lydia sailed i'm and administered
some vigorous blows with a cowhide in Abe
face, head and hack OF the Editor after which
she retreated to her carriage and returned to
her hotel The company were arrested and
taken to the armory where they gave bail and
were released.
THE TRIAL.
Saturday morning the trial took place be-
fore Justice Summerfield, who fined ThOmp.
son, Markham and Henderson 500, and Cor
don and an Eldredge SO each. They paid
their fines under protest and left the court
room. Mr.. Storey Immediately procured
their
On charge of riot, which interfered with
their business so that thsy were obliged to
give up their Saturday afternoon matinee.
While there is general reprobation OF the
case OF brute force in. the redress of wrongs,
and of personal chastisement in this case as
brutal method of punishment, there is a
large class who think that as between the
editor of the Times ard the Lydia Thompson
troupe, the "henors are easy,'
BUSINESS
Begins to revive little. But the decline In
picious omens for those who have bought
goods before the decline. Still the low price
OF gold is healthy sign. Every one is bru.h
ing mp for the spring business.
OUTSIDE AND INSIDE.
1t is very common in this world of pretense
aud outside show, to find a gorgeous exterior
belied by the furnishing within. And this is
true bo,h in the mental and in the physical
world. On the other hand. it sometimes hap
pens that the soul of a man outgrows and
Outranks his body, or that the whole man is
superior TO his surroundings The true state
of man Is s'sdro mems in sdno coypore''-"a
sound mind IN sound body"-with sur
roundings suitable to his wants and aspira-
tions SO, IN the business world, the business
of the successful merchant often outgrows
its accommodations, and then the reforming
and improving hand comes in to readjust the
inequality and provide rooms adequa 10 the
enlarged business. Ihe growth of the North
west is measuI cd by the business, and the en-
largemest of the business houses of Chicago.
And the substantial snd elegsnt architecture
OF our cspacious stores not only reflects the
character OF our merchants, butts part of the
heritage of OF the whole Northwest aud H.
lnstrates most strlkingly the truth Of the
Scripturai apothegm, ''The liberal soui de-
yise,h liberal things, and by liberal things
! mere conspicuOusly shown than i'm the
MAMMOTH MILIISLRY HOUSE
OF ID. B. Fisk 4 Co., SO and 55 Lake street.
which is 80 eet front by 165 feet deep, six
stories high, thoroughly and elegantly fin
Isl ed and furnished, and tastefully and con-
veni emily arranged throughout, anShjs the
largest ans. most perfect store of it's Kind in
the world.
The house was first established in 1853. is
the Oldest wholesale millinery heuse IN the
west, and is the legitimate ontgrowth of seven
| teen years continuous blsipess i'm Chicago.
Sagacity Ia anticipats the public wants. and
promptness in supplying them, combined
with Industry, integrity and fair dealing, have
/ built up for them t,ade ot over million dol
Ia
valley to the Pacific.
| The main floor OF their store il occupied
| with siiks. ribbons. flowers aud general ma
terials. The ne ext floor displays ladies' finish
ing and fancy goods, straw goods, hats, bon
nets, dc. Above this is the Pattern Bonnet
Department where foreign patterns are copi-
ed and made to order, large corps of the
most skilful artists being employed for this
purpose. The whole store. from basement
to the sixth story, is filed with their goods
or occupied with their business. There is a
sense OF fitness, CONVENIENCE and comfort
| about the whole establishment, which gives
one feeling of ease, and the superb ladies'
parlor and toilet rooms will especially please
| their customer. They import their own
goods and always have the largest and rich-
est stock Of the latest styles, and are the first
in the market with everything fresh, new and
desirable at the lowest cash prices. Messrs
ID. Il. Fisk x Co., and their able assistants
| each OF whom takes a personal interest in
| the success of the house-have managed
| the business with consummate skill, and
their memorial is patent to oil who visit their
house. 1t Is not an empty honor to have the
prestige OF having built I'D the largest, COM
pletest and most successful wholesale mil
linery house i'm this country-an establish
ment which reflects credi. upon Chicago and
10 of essential benefit to the dealers in their
goods throughout the whole northwest: for
il no house OF the kind in New York, Boston
4 nr lad ~r,hI thax- Gx.1
assortment OF millinery goods as in the nam.
moth store OF d. b. Fisk & Co. 1t is enc Of
| those noteworthy cases in which a splendid
cssket is fitly represented by tho treasure
within.
| LIFE INSURANCE.
| The public mind has been startled the past
year, by the failure of several English life in-
surance companies, aud fears have been ex-
pressed, by some unacquairted with the
| facts, that American life insurance companies
| would meet a similar fate. It is right that
those who invest money in life policies for
the benefit OF their families should scrutinize
the character OF these companies, and assure
themselves that these policies will be paid at
maturity. The English companies had no
governmental provision requiring them t.
keep reserve fund sufficient to keep their
policies coed, or to make a sworn yearly
statement of their condition, and there were
no Legal safeguards against squanderiDg
| lhtr fuads, or against general mismaDage-
| ment.
| But the best life insurance companies Of
this country not only conform to the law re-
| quiring them to keep reserve fund amply
sufficient to reinsure al outstanding policies.
but they have, at all times, available funds
far Ia excess of such requirement. They
are as safe as hun an foresight can make
them.
The expedicncy and duty of life insurance
to all, save the very rich or the very poor, is
not q debateable question. The only ques-
tion Is: What company can give retidJe insu-
rance at the least cost OF the two plans OF
insurance stock and the mutuai-the
beet writer's ON insurance favor the stock
plan, because the rates are much lower On
the mutual plan the insured pay a
| higher rate, and receive dividends after three
or four years. That is, they lend the COM
pany these dividends three or four years
without interest. But the stock company
pays this dividend in advance by insuring at
| a cheaper rate. For no safe insurance COM