Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17

CHICAGO. ILL.,. June 6. 1875.

CHICAGO, ILL.,. June b, 1919.
To the Editor:
A few days since we happened in a =
the western branch of the great school
book publishing house of IvisOn, Blake
man, Taylor & Co. We found Edward
Cook, the popular and efficient mana
ger of this department, as busy as ever.
Within few years the western depot
has grown from deSk-rO0m business
in one of our city book stores, to the
capacity of Whole floor at 1873 and l35
State street. In conversation with MIR.
Cook, as in duty bound, we asked what
the house had that was new. In reply
he placed in our hands copy of 1.-The
Geological Story Simply Told" by
Dana. who ranks with the best writer's
on that science now before the public.
1t is book of some $50 pages, put up
in the best style of topographic art, for
which all the issues of this house are
particularly noteworthy. Paper heavy,
print and engraving clearly executed,
and thoroughly bound in cloth, hand
somely gilt. The outside has no cause
to be ashamed of the contents. We
had purposed to make an extract or
two, but really it is all so in Dana's
best manner, THAT we should feel oblig-
ed to extract the whole book. 1t fills
at once the place of a class book and a
volume for the general reader. As a
hand book for all, young or old, who
desire to know something accurately OF
this ever changing globe of ours, it can
not be surpassed.
The event of the past week has been
the gathering of the temperance clans
i'm council. 1t does not seem to have
been brilliant success. WeOpine that
too much diversity OF ideas, as to OBJ
iective points, exists. There is too
much desire for leadership, and dis
like for the hard work that every cam
paign entails on the rank and file. 1t
seems that the failure of prOhibitOry
laws does not dampen the ardor of the
champions of that idea. 1t occurs to
us that an evil that has existed almost
from the beginning of the historical
era. and is common to man in all stages
of progress, has hold which can only
be loosened by radical change of the
physical organization. We belieye that
laws might be passed, and made to
- stick" which should make the adul-
teration Of liquor by pOisOns a penal Of
fence. We fear that in spite of prayers
and tears and stringent laws when the
"last trump" shall sound, it will star
tie some topper who is on his way for an
early dram. We also fail to see how
woman suffrage will help the matter in
the least. We know that women use
liquor moderately to far greater eX-
| tent than men, and the temperance
people say the moderate drinkers are
the great stumbling blocks in the way
of progress.
Our coal beavers insist upon $500 a
day, while their employers can find ten
men for every vacancy at $500. IgnOr-
ant and unskilled labor is always the
last to comprehend the necessity for a
falling scale of prices, and the first to
grumble at high prices based on cOStli-
ness of labor. Itseems that the present
affords but gloomy prospect for strik-
erS.
The grain and provision markets are
feverish and restless. Operators are
moved by the weird fancieS of their own
inventive brains rather than by any
real substantial causes.
Property in South Chicago is prepar-
ing for a spring. Preparations are I'M
der Roadway for the largest rolling
mills in the United States. Contracts
are closed for machinery and buildings,
to be filled as early as September. 1t is
evident that there are parties who do
not believe in a permanent depression
of the iron industry.
Count another for Gen. Sheridan ana
his fair wife, who dare brave the social
| world and celebrate their nuptials with
out blow of trumpets and shoddy gilt
ter. Modesty is a characteristic of a
brave man, and Mrs. Sheridan is the
true daughter of a brave soldier May
the laurels of the gallant Phil. never
/
| fade.
The ladies of the graduating class of
the High school have voted to attire
themselves for the closing show in at
least a hundred dollars, of Elusive fab
RIGS. When we remember that some of
these young ladies have been permitted
to complete their course only at a sac
rilice of family comfort and even neces-
saries, even in the best of times, it seems
little remarkable that this course
should be pursued. Have not our edu-
Gators forgotten two cardinal Republi-
can points, one that all honest labor is
honorable; the other that plain, neat
dress is not diShOnOrable?
The well-known Mrs. Emma Molloy
speaks on temperance at Farwell Hall
to-day. She is making a reputation.
| Truly Yours, M. E. N.