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An .insurufi'co (-xi'bange speaks thusly of one of on} citizens: Mr. C. F. Mullinflf General Mnungefibf tlm Commercial Union Assurancc Company so conducted the affairs of his Company during the past year as (.0 again add to its neg gain. Cun‘ lidering the past your 1883 was one ofthe most disastrous to insurance company's. Mr. Mullins may wrll feel proud of the record.” All We can mld is, In just us we expected. The JOur‘naU INSURANCE. REAL ESTATE AND LOAN AGENT D. M. ERSKINEZ,-Jr., . |D0u't let her feel that you’ve no more The olty election (his year Willi , neesi probably be pttendud with more thuul Of her love and counsel 'wisaâ€" l the usual activity on the part of vot- 1 For the heart gmwn strangely sensiâ€" ers. Many believe, or profess to “V" . believe, that the high pressure elét? When age has dimmed the eyes. .1 ment, so called, ufe running things l It nnght be well to let her beheve .. , _ ‘ N * - ’ You never {organ Meta-31w; Lwr’ub‘” “’0 ex?’“"“6“““s ’ 21ml . That you deem it a. pleasure when far that more conservntwe men must be‘, away, elected to gene in their stead. We 1 Long letters home to write. like to sectsuch an interest maul-1 ‘ - ‘DJn't think that the mi and 'dd fasted; not .,thut all which n.my_bur ‘ yo 8 g) y l friends, Stud on this point is true, hut'fur the 1 ‘ Who make your pastime gay, . very good reason thpttl'it is the duty}flwe half the anxious thoughts for ‘of 'each andgvery man «to proclaim! you - " his viewuon this allâ€"important matter. I 1 batthy ”mm?" 1“th t'l‘d‘W' , nu : A firm in Chicago known as Riley1 Co., induced the Board of C011», - missioners ' -Cook County to employ themo 1:) unearth as it were, 4 investments made by capitalists and others, “upon which no tax was paid." It would seem perhaps atj first sight, that such. a' course of pro- cee’dure was not at all improper or: could possibly be accompanied by' results of a disastrous nature, but, .upon seoond thought, it will be] clearly seen that such 11 measure if: earried into effect would prove one of the worst" “jobs” possible In. the first Place this money is taxed, if notes money, it is taxed as realty, and-to be'taxed us money, would. be double taxation. We cannot figure it out in say other ways, ll" much of the oapitali now loaned um; realty should be .treated in this manner, there would very shortly be a; great reduction of loanable funds, rates of interest would advance to corres- pond, snd tbeborrower would be‘ ‘the one to‘sufl'er in the end." .‘f But "i says one “ why should capitulfsts be thus exempt from taxation?" They are not. Its true many escape pay-I ing their just dues, but we are not endeavoring to argue this question. The point which we desire to make ‘ elear is that if money is taxed at all the borrower pays it To illustrate: if the tax on money was abolished? its supply would materiaUy increase, sud rows of interest would of neâ€" acuity be even lower than now. The Bond are now hiking oi reminding digit nation and no doubt In". 1881'” DY D. M‘: ERSKINE, «Info INSURANCE AND ‘REAL ESTATE; JOURNAL. ‘ lDon't think that the young and giddy l. friends, 17 Who make your pastime gay, rHuve half the anxious thoughts for l V you _ :- ’l‘bat thy mother hath toâ€"day. 7 y’l‘heduty of writing do not put off-â€" l Let sleep or pleasure wait. . :Lest the letter for which she looked l and longed 4' Be a day or an hourfoo late, Don't guy) [he (ht-ave. club or ball But {lay in your room loâ€"nlgm, Deny yourself or me‘mend. um call, And a good. long letter writ»â€" erte lo the and old mother at home. \Vho 3115 when the day is done, With folded. hupdu aucj_ d was! 9X“ Aud thinks of the ubaeut one. Dou' tselflslfly aqubble “ Excuse my haste ‘ I’ve scarcely the time to write," Lou! mar brooding lhoughm go wnuder- mg back - To many a by-goue night; When she lost her needed sleep and rest And every breath was a prayer 'l‘hat God would leave the delicate babe To her Lender love and «arm For thy sad old mother at home, 'wnu locks fast turning white; 13 longing to hear from her absent Oneâ€"'- Write her a letter toâ€"night. Write Her a Letter To-Night. Did you 'ever hear ov a. mall’s re.- nonncing Christianity on hiz 'deaflxi bed, and turning infidel? .f, Gamblers, nor: fr'ee thinkers, havep't faith engfi‘ in their prOfeésiou .to teach it to theirphivlgren ’ No atheist with all {his bppsted bravery 11:12, ever yet dared to adver- tize his unbelief bu his tuine 55:111." * I never but ‘met a free ,thinker yet: who didujt beleave a. hundredtimes mure nunesense‘ than 'he kiln-find in the Bible eunywheré. It is alwuss safe to follbw the reâ€" ligioua beleaf that our mothels taught usâ€"there never Wuz a mother yet who taught her child to be an infidel. ' ‘A man may letirn infidelity from books and from his associates, but, he kaut learn it fmm’hjz mother, nor the works of Gnd that surrounJ him. The infidel in bi. nip; oo_ yum u Unbulmvm‘s are 310mm 80 reddy and anxiuus to prove their luxbeieaf, that I hav thought they mite be just. a 198th doubtful about it thaws. josh Blilymggs on Infidélity. in impudenfi will l Whon 1 Laura noizy infidel proâ€" !kluiinmg biz unbclwf, I wonder if lit: i will send for nun‘A brother infidel to iculu and see him die, I guess not. E He will be more likely to send for the othordox man who engineers the glittle brick church just around the ! corner. . occur, when the poor idiot himmlf kam. even prove tu saw his life, what makes one apple sweet and one sour, or (4:11 whi u Lion's egg iz white, and a duk's egg blue. by he new» upersthut the vinitof the lord chief justice has revived in t .e United States the (-uneiderution of the respective merits of English and A111- erican systenisof the organization ‘)f the legal 1:r0fessi0u.’l‘he mutter Well aeserVes to be weiguea‘, but those who on your e1de suppuse than Lord ( ‘nleâ€" ridge or any other single person how- evei influential, could bringabout any change in uur E nglish arrangements are mistaken for the e arrangements are deeply muted in the custoins of M19 c<>u11try.l uni hot assuming that Lord Coleridge has been convinced of th -nu4periurity of the American plan; but even ifhe were and Hall the em- inentjudgee and barristers who have this year visited the United States agreed in such an opln ~,on we shuum stillbe a long way from altering :1 8y 5- item which has no intertwined itself with the habits and thoughts of our people. ' 51 Vt‘ If an infidel could only kompre- bend that he kun prove more bi hiz fifithmihau hr Eu bi hi2 ieaabn, biz impudoucu would be much less ofleu- An English lawyer writes from London to The New York Evening feet: We are Inn-{eaten} Lo _p-erc‘el_ve Your readers probably know that in England the barrister has the sole‘ right of audience in all the superior courtsâ€"that is to say in the high court‘ of justice, the court of appeal the house of lords, and the p1ivy counci il â€"as well as in the old local eouits of r,ecord some ot .which stiil ~u1vive His services are suppiiieil to be pulely honorary, and ¢l1eref0re he can 1101 be sued for negligence in the conduct or" legal business however serioUs the loss which his negligence may cause to his client, while for the same reason he cannot recover his fees! by p1i)cess 1 of law, not even if. he has made an ex- “ press bargain regarding the remuner- ation to be g1ven him. He is not per- 1 mitted to enterinto partnership eithâ€" or with an attorney 01 with another ‘ bmrisber, nor does he receive business direct from a Client but only( with certain not very important exceptions) through theintervention of an attor- 1 may His position is therefore both worse and better than that of an A111- erican lawyer~WOrse, in that he de pends entirely up’on the favorof the; attorneys, and can not get on exceptl by being known to them; better in that he is supposed to haveasome- what‘t higher social status is not liable to puydauiuges foralny mlsmkes he may commit and Us relieved lrom some ofthe more lroubimuuw part.» of a lawyer a duties. Alumig tl’u-se last must 0 reckoned the getting up of a (use for trial examining accounts in- upecuug document» wileuting ml- dence, and seeing the witnesses. They fanvy that he must find it diffi- cult to examine “you: properly, nnmt omit HUIIK‘ material points and stray «m In dangerous ground by putting q'umflona which hm better have hwn letnlo'ne. The conkeive that there must be mundaruble 1088 M time. rate of payer And gener'sl risk of In- mumdaa uni minke: when the collect!” “(1‘me of o .. '1. A. 1‘ -, 1.. .L, American lawyer.d find it hard $ undersmud how a can» u \n he prupcr- ly conducted in {mm} ‘h' g t'lHJllHfil who Heefl‘lhe witnesses gar the first time whvu they Hle illtu_ the lmx. Bmiulcr and Anorney These dimvulth-a are much luau felt in , English prut‘tit‘c than any ()nv unfam- E “hr with it would nuppone; partly be- ; cause they] ply equally to new aides lln a contested wane, partly hrcauae lour counsel acqnlre a plat-Ural drx- 1 terlty in handllng wituem-a Wlllt'll en~ 1ableathe1n to guess pretty uurmctly .1th it in safe and what“. humus to ask a wltneuu. Smnetnnm, no doubt‘ ‘thvre is u uliacarrl ge of jwtnw, but ‘there ale also advantages in having ‘the muse presenten. hy-va person who ‘ hrlngu a {rmh‘lnind to it, and who has i not be onw too much identified with :the clirnt and [llr client’s ideas and feelings, as a zealnuu atmrney in apt to . be. Even supposing, however. that the American plan is ht'ttert-alculated to bring the? whule matter fairJv berm-t- the court, and admitting that ft ought ‘ to be more Haunmnlcal of monéy and (fun: than tlw Engliuh, it by no ‘ means follows that it is likely to au- persede that whlvh has been so long established anmng uat ml: of persona ,“ firm of Antonie). and I seuiur und juumr «tbullarl. The palatial 11-51(1e111w 111' W. W._ Bo11ngton,uttl1c haul of 1’1ng ( lin- ton Aux, 1111111ml) escaped tla- snuc- 111111 by fire on the‘Brd. inst. The flames whén first discoveljed'11u1-u «at; ing their way up through tlu muddle 0f the building, evidently o1'1g1natmg; from an ovex heated flue-(31111111119141. at wurk upon the new ‘buildings 9;}- 11113116 we1e hastily summoned as m‘ also Col. '1'u1nle) the nearest new 110131111111 efforts prompt and well di- rected sei‘ved to .efl'ectualb subdue the fiery element, but, not until 111085 of $200 was sustained, fully 120v11'ed by 1nsuranceDu1'ing the {"031‘88‘8 of the fire and for some little time afterw at d nun: h < xcitement 13111111111611 in the town Exaggerated leports §,Were circulated on every hand and it is said women with water pails ba- lsins, and washâ€" 111111013 filled with hot _;wate1_runni_ng with all e enevgy they could command w quite‘ a l common s1ght1 x'Again We 11y an or- ganized 1111: company 111 needed. ' 'The way a murderous attack in now dcfllwd is: “Assault with intent to plead insanity." “How umny more times do you wish me Lu cull {or this money?" Debtorâ€" “\Vch, if you lwvcr call agmu Laban not be offended. " “We had such a dé’iig htful tfine at the bemh," exclaimed the first, as the} {00k sods m the our. “Did you gain any in health ?" asked the other “No [can't say as I did " "Do the children [he] better ?" “Perhaps not." “D‘idwyour husband get _H'd of his c'legh “Oh, no." ‘. “Then, to sum the ‘whole thing up, did vou really gain anything by going?" “(Terminly u dul My hus‘bnud made friends “M1 a. man. from Java. Jfld got him to sign u, Ith \\ 11h I rm fur H.000. I Ihould nu) “u (“(1 gum I" Another Narrow Escape. I)" She Thouglit It D13]. OHIGAGO 'EAST“ POWDER!