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e o P~ P e e e . Vg et TR WOMAN. (an Sho Accomplish Good by Visiting the Bar-Room and Drothel ? «How One Womean Kept Her Husband.” Wherein Knowledge Is Weakness, and Ignorance Strength. ocloty’s Responsibility for the Social Evil One of Prevention and Come pulsory Reformation. woman in Bar-Room and Brothel. There is 3 profound phulosophy in $axe Holm's Jttle story of “How One Woman Kept Her finspand ™ worthy ef consideration by every omen who hopes (and what good woman does oot 2) to reform or influence any man. Tre tale rurs thus: Mrs. Jobn Gray was a uithful, affectionate, but rather undemonstra-~ tivg wife. Jobn Gray was ap easy, good- pntured man, & kind busband, & fond fatber of gva chiloren. Into the contented, perhaps Jrosaic, atmosphere of this family-circle came oneof Mrs, Gray's early friends, Emma Long, noW 5 A BEAUTIFUL WIDOW, sbrilliant, ardent, ampulsive woman, the dirsoy posite of the quiet, self-contsined mother of the housebold, Tiae contact of her magnetic presence avoke in Joha Gray feelings of which toe had not hitherto dreamed. A new existenca opened before him,—a communion of heart in Poesry, Music, Art,which, by 1ta very novelty, en- {rsnced and intoxicated bim, Inshort, he became infatuated with Emma Long, and she with bim. ot clandestinely, because there was no need of seeres, slnce Mre. Gray shared, to all sppear- ance, her husband’s admiration for their com- mop friend, but nudisguisedly and coofessedly, Mrs. Gray not only put no barriers to their inti- macy, but even afforded facilitios for it wnder Ler own roof, repeatedly inviting Mra. Long to {ho Liouse, and, a8 if by accident, lesving her aad Mr. Grey to enjoy each other'a soclety un- distarbed. In fact, she behaved, in every re- spect, ea if this mutual interest wera perfeotly natarat and proper, iU DO Way compromising their reputation or affecting her position 85 & wife. People durst not hintto her a saspleicn of danger, 0 unconsclous did she seem. Not even her own eister ventured to broach the subject; and ali azreed that Mrs, Gray was stolid, if not beartless. DBut Mrs, Gray suddenly foll ill, ana, in a crisis of affaire, canfided to her old family- phrsicias and fo her rister the troth that she was wasting away with HIDDEY ANXIETY AND DISTRESS. £he bad known everything, but she had re- solved to betray to ber busband by no eign that 820 sugpocted him of & wrong to her. disoover her jealousy would be, she feii sure, to tran. form the frank, outspoken admiration into consuming clandestine passion. To atrack him “ with reproaches and tears wonld be to irritate, to exasperate, perhaps to alienate him forever ; to ruin him, her #ricod, and her family ; to make them all 8 Bcandal and & by-word. Mareoser, £ho believed in ber Lusband's love for herself. Bhe kmew ehe was a better wifo to him than the brilliast Emma Long would have boen ; and sha felt that he knew it, it ha could but be made to realize {t. She believed m his love for his chil- dren, also ; and she was confident her Lusband could stand tho test of the fiery ordeal if onl, ehe opld keep up & brave Leat, and suffer, an| pray, and smile on, in silence. = But nature was giving way. Sbe could pot trust herself mach onger. She 3 VST GO AWAY, Jeat she should be too sorely tewnpted. snd must Ieave ber busband for a time, aithough to do it costLeragony. She persuaded her physician—who could conscientiously enough sxy <it—to advise Alr. Gray that his wifs's health N%l:irflfi change of climate. Taking ber young children, sho left Aiice, the eldest, to be her father's companion *in Asmma'splace,” her aunt to keap the house, and the sister 10 whom 8he had confided to play ber oun former part in_society, by giving coun- tenancato Mr. Gray's intimacy with Mrs. Lone, end redeeming it from auy charge of seciecy, or suy appearance or dsoger of illicil companion- ip. But, though abseat ia body, separated by the breadth of the ocean, she was mare close to her hueband in spirit than she had ever come before. Letters, into which sbe breathed a tendarnesa for which she had never before found voice ; lit- tle potes within notes left behind and sent to be given by Alice * to Paps " on various cccasions, —now boside his plate at breakfast, then an his dressing-tablo g¢ night ; unexpected surprices, mementoce, journals, dlarics, without number, —all sesuring him of the coustant affection of iy wife, and his chilcren’s loving remembrances of their father,—eurrounded and enveloped himz inan ATMOEFHERE OF LOVE. Then, too, he found out and took pride in his wife's wonderful talent for_letter-writing,—so giacefnl, 80 piquaut, yet. withal, so tender and frue, He learned to look forward with eager langing for those precions lutters, and trembled with a sndden shudder when the doctdr, with wise craft, hunted ay tho possibility of a sad separacion’ whose solitude no mutual missives conld cheer,—not thinaing it necessary to spare {ie man any present pang which might biing fetarg jov, 8o, in the dawning reslization of the treasure which waa his, end in dread of losing it. Joho Grayceased to ¢ampare his wife pnfavorably with ndeed, he began to reverse the or- Ger of Lis meutal opezations, and to contrast the yewildering, dazzling intoxication of the bexutiful widow with the calm, heaven-breath- ing wpirit of s wife's sersnity. In some mys- terious way, he hardly know horw, he awoke to 8 2onscionsnese of what bad been his dsnger, and the brink on which he and Emma Long had been slauding. R WAS BAVED; ~hired from the dizzy depths into whick he night have dragged dowa an innoceat if indis- teet woman, Lack to_the safe, and sure, aud salisfying puths of steady, true, pure, home love and tigst. The skmag,ucamp‘ululug affection f Johs Gray's wife had kept her husband,” ‘The details may vory, but, I takeit, tho de- Weat is pretty much the same in all the dowa- Fepd courses of Lusbandg, fathers, eons, and brothers, from the Jight sud love of bappy liomes tothe dark and despair of sinful and forbidden leasures,—a dizgying, hewiidering course, ap- Trached imperceptibly, aud pursued haif-un- Consciously, or with a blind infatuation. And, forthe faw whoee fect are so blest as ever, by ralnful steps, to crecp back up the slope, the Tath lasmoothed by thissame loving ignorance,— same uter trust in ¥pito of appearances, 720 reslities, the darkest and tnost hopaless. Alsny couuselors are saring to women now, where your husbands, your sons, your rothers, your neiglibons go, Follow them fo {beir places of resort, Let them see that you Enow jue: how bad thoy” sre, and they will he- come ashamed. Sins and ainners brought to the Vight acn helf-rofarmed.” Buch reasoning I beliove o be CORTRARY TO NATUME AND EXPERIENCE Lappeal to the conscionsness of every mtalli- gent observer of the workiuga of his own mind, tosupport my position. Whobayobeen the people W have moat helped you in those erises of life Wiuen opposing forces were struggling for tho Iastery over you? Was it be or she who, you . had gauged your spiritual littleness, nd Scanned and measured yonr spiritusl poyerty and Sakedness? \Was it not, rather, tho noble soal, :' POreas not ta suspect & seil, or go wisely af- t!\;c.lmn\:a a8 0ot £o belray that suspicion? I8 if o Em&’loyer who dogs the every footstep that ::E fluinehs& hls ith not, rather, he hwhasu g:?n"k g abashes the riging thought of ¥ falsenesa? Dogs it uvexg Iu:!;;xs men to sus- then, or reform them to deepen fuspicion with certainty, and_set ita brand g?m them? If g0, why the instinct of a maw or Wpomanto get awny among Etrangers for & s nx? chanos to bhegin anew"? Why the im. Juleo of afoction Lo ahicld the fair name,—to vert the eyo from the tell-tale marks of dis- £race on loved features? it is aninstinot a3 old ';31-\- otesy of Coin agajnss the brand of his 5:0.;'_“' old a8 the impulee of filigl reverence (uhaion of Noah to turn from the eight of hig b er's shame. . It is pre-ominently the inatinot o e impulse af the good woman's intuitive del::fi:g)ogla (Lt no grosser’ or mors vllogicmu of tha spiritual machinery- “?%Rfluneehuwmiuz-ugmugx_vnr T way i the mother, or wifo, or sister, or dapghter, % %% & great pain when ehe has tracked her son, w&;m or brother, or father, to his hsunts, 45 onBdandly gssure him thah Eba Once to (w *‘knows” becauso she has heard the ribald ot and onaceno jests of his Tncbriated debomar cries7 Wil the fruit of this tree of knowledzo of thy bar-rooma and brothela scrve to swaeten, nd make wholesome and ifo-giviag, the homes to wlich it is carried? Women, if vou wish to preserva your homes, and make them holy and belpfal, SIITTY TO RNOW MANY TIINGS. Do not familiarize yourself with the detsils of vico and crime, or know any more about them than you inevitably most. Avoid them as they are forced upon you in the dsily newspaper, ig private gossin, in public lecture, I takeit that thoge persons who can give you the exact etatis- tics of the hauats of infamy in your nelghbor~ Liood, and call by name the men and women who frequent them, are not, 83 & rule, the pereons whoeo influenca is most tending to diminish the number avd power of such places of temptation, Do 1, therefore, dony that auy good can resuls from the action of thoso women who started the temperance-crusa:le, and who, putting aside their Fomanly weakness, went forth, clad in super- Luman strocgth, to battle with the whiskr- demon? Yar from it. But the exalted inspira- tion which dares siot at doflance for the nonce tho prudont suggestions of & time-honored con- ventionalism, and which riges. in the act, to the high plane of the moral gublime, before which every true heart bows with giateful reverance, is always attended with risk is possible but sal- dom; i8 not o bo proposed for second-hand ure; and least 'of all is its subtle esseroe to ba caught, bottled, snd dealt out to organize srmics in daily rations, Such departures from recogaizedstand- ards—moral apostrophes—are allowable end ef- fective only in intensities of feeling to whi.ch but Tow personsattan. Any attompt o malo them commonplaces will OEOBADE AND BRING THEM TO BIDICULE. The beautiful and chgste Ledy Godiva put off her princely robes, and, letting fall her goldea hinir around her shapely shoulders, rade forth naked, yet **clothed in her chastity,” that she might falfiil the hard condition on "which aloue, a8 propheoy had foretold, her city could avert threatening doom,—the seif-sbnegation of & virtuous woman. Men turned away their faces reverently from the vision, and sbe roda on, and Coventry was saved, Bul would even the chaste Godive have dared repeat the experiment, lost the one eraven, peeping Tom of Coventry might have become a thousand? Wes nol, transcend- eot faith's sure evidence of success all that medo it pardonable even for the once? I speak of the legend as truth, for truth it is to Nature. The beautcous Una walked forib in the majeaty of *simple trath and wronged inno- conce,” snd, as her *angal face shyaed bright and made a sunshine fn tha shedv place,” tho ramping liow, rushing to *devour her tender corse, forgot his furious forco,” and *instead thaereof, ho kissnd her wearie feet and licked her Lily bands with fanuing tongue. 0 how can beautie master the most atrong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong!™ But wou'd Speoser hava ventured to trespass on our credulity with s fate of AN ARMY OF BEADTEOUS UNAS, organized in marohing artay, going forth daily tomoet avd subdae ramping lions | Everybody knows the old tale of the weaver who sat weaving, weaving, day after day, 8 won- drous wob, aa_he declared. whoso texture was alone discernible by the pure snd perfect of beart. Fially ho completed iv and put it on the King, and the courtisré came to admire it. Each professed himeelf epraptured, and could not preisq it enough, —each one vieing with Lia fellow in extolling its exqnisite fabric. At last came o little child, who said, **The King is naked.” As to sov application of the allegary to the texture of soms of the crasade-banners, I have no com- ment to maka ; but I muat say it has seemed to ma thet some of the ‘‘religions organs” and many gaoc peoplo ore, like the courtiors, AFRAID TO UTTER THEIR SECRET MISOIVINGA in regard to sny phase of tha Crusade, lest their spiritual Lusifm and fireness Lo brought iuto suspicion. It is so difficuit to eay anything deprecatory, snd not say too much ; and it nught put one with “ bad company,” or make ** wicked mon rejoicc.” “Then, too, one might suffer det- riment by any exhibition of lack of zeal It isn’t quifo safe to ‘‘lot your moderation be known unto all men " in these times. when it is 80 much the fashion to hurl ‘‘railing acousa- tionn,"” in spite of the Archangel's exsmple of forbaarance even toward the Devil, his adver- sary, and to bandy the epithets, lukewnrm, baci- slider, iufidel, aud the retorts bigot, fanatic, et~ ceters,—the siaples of religivus controversy. Besides, one would not wish to stay the Ark of God with profana hand, . But if, instead of hiding under glittering_gon- eralities about ‘‘standing by the cause,” and “fgbting the fight,” and ** upholding the wom- en,” every true and thoughtful man ayd woman would speak out without fear or favor, soberly sod advisedly, his own and her own einvere sentiments, I bekieve much indiscreey and ill- timed sction might be bindered, and valuable energies directed into channols of usefainess and gludness. I canuot resist the conviction that women will prejudice and hinder their cause by tracking or huntiog their rolations and friends to places of temptation and forbidden plessure, Knowledge here is weskness; IONORANCE, STRENGTH. Saxe Holm's mothod i8 the anly safe method for women to ** keep " their husbands, brothers, and sons ; & method of loving faith in man an God ; & method which will require so mach praying to God jn secret places taat thore will be no tixe for praying at men in bar-room and brotbel. s X Y. Z. Miss Pickinson and the Social Evil. It is metter for regret that Miss Dickinaon, in her Iata ltoture, should have urged women to vigit houses of prostitution in the hope af re- claiming the inmates, and given her own experi- ence a8 an incentive to others. In the present stato of excitement among women, there is great dangor thst some may be induced to follow bor advico and examble, who would find it much casier to get into such a placo than out of it. The littlo that I know of such efforts is by no menos euncouraging, and they ere much more likely to be DANGEROTS TO THE INNOCENT than helpful to the gmlty. Thero are women who cap go on such missions, and Miss Dickin- gon may be one of them, although, from her ac- count, ono c2n Bee no good that can come of her going to Canterburv and asking for g glass of gin-and-water. The girl whostood in torn shoes, danling out that beverage, msy bave aroused her gympathy and farnished a paint for & lecture ; ‘but we leave her the samoperson, in the same place ; and the probability is, that thero is not moral suagion enough in the nniverse to induce her to leave. Any sympathy given to her is worge {han wasted if it, in any measure, Icesen aur abhorrenca of her crimes. and her surround. ings, . - Tha plan of reforming such peopla by inter- esting che public in the personal history of in- dividunls smong them, was pretty thoroughly tricd, in this country, when Miss Dickinson was 8 baby, ana under it, the publications of the Mioral Reform Bocietly became s greater nuigance thap tho Police Gazelte. It was mot difficult then, end would be just as easy mow, for a thoroughly-bad womaa ta play meartsr to that cruel tyrant, Society, and 80 gain 2 good deal of gratuitous advertiming. The charge that these peoplo are ent of from all Tions of reformation by the haughiy_airs cf superiority ascum Shcant worsen 15 about aa well fownded a8 would Do & doclaration that smell-pox patients are de- nied the hopo of recovery bocauso they ara sant to a pest-house. No one questions the right ar duty of Bociety to poison the general health by confining, as much a8 gogsihle. malignaut dig- enses to infected localities ; and if the moral health of & people is of £s much imponance 8s its physical,” it is mora & duty to exciuda these moiel lepers from onr families than to close our doors against confluent small-pox.. As for the assumed necessity which drives women to such places, I7 IS ALL A 3OYTH, . or, at most, it is_the necossity of vanity, and that indolence which shirks honest work, Tuere &rp canes 1n which women fsll into those traps unawares, and are kept thero by force or false ghame ; but the proposed plan of visitation is quite as likely to incresso their number as to cure tho evil. The Gocd Book warns usto avoid these places,—*‘to pass not by them, to turn from them and pass away ;" and this i protty. safe adyice, When we attempt sny special work, it is wise to use proper tools. It 18 upwise 10 try to clesn & guctor wish & feather duster or & cembric-handkerchief. When ono of these sinks is to be visited, send trustworihy officers of the law. Tranafer the inmates to a clesn, safe prison ; snd thea is time enough for pure-minded women fo_attempt their reforma- tion. The habit of charging their crimes upon the ingocent bas been quita fashionabla for 3 long series of years, and it ia difficult to see that any good has come of it. 1t is & reversal of God's plag, which holus every sinner individual- 1y responsible for his or her Own sis, 1 was once intimate with a womas who felt Secpls THE RESPONSIRILITY OF S0CIETY for these lost creatures, and always spoke of them ss the sinned aguinat. Once, a girl in her enloy, withos & grieyauce of ich to om- i, or sy special icitations from oy ‘THE CHICAGO DAJLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY; RCH: 29, quarter, packed her traok, wens off, and took board in one of these pleces. When her friend 2nd former mistress learned the life she was land.m% she sought her for davs, and at langth fonnd her; but all iho entreaties of the would- be savior were mot by ber own apolugies for the fallen. ‘The girl, who had found ber calling, in- sisted that it was Society, not she, who was re- sponsible for ber choice in remaining whete slie was. §ho being s woman, women never would far%}vn. etc., etc., ote. To all of this, her friend reF lied that she forgave her, that the door of return was open: when the girl toseed ber head, oxclaiming, didaiufally. “Oh yei! yon can come here to gee me; but you would not allow your daughters to come! Thev would not re- ceive me as their equal!” This fesling waa & Eerleclly_ Ieglhma' te result of the teaching she ad received. ‘That Bocietyhas a grave responsibility, ismost true; butitisoneof . PREVENTIVE AND COMPULSORY BEFOBMATION. Everything that can bo done_to rescae children from the earlier stages of crime si:onld be be~ gun and prosecutad with a vigor and thorough- ness not yot droamed of in our philpsophies. The State, the city, the community, the Church, owes to every child under its influence educa~ tion, & clean home, decent surroundings, free- dom from evil influences, and the bost opportu- pitiee for being avud doiog the best that is possible for them to be ordo; while, for every class of criminais, there should bo restraint. The community should save individual sinners from themselves and their sing by a forcible separation. Lot thoso women who would grap- ple with this great ovil sot about proouring the Fuango and enforcement of laws placing a vio- ation of the Seventh Commandment on & level with that of the Eighth. Solong as proetituiion is not legally wrong, it is folly to attempt its prevention, or even diminution. JAXT GREY SWIsSHELM. ——— LITERARY NOTES. The Popular Science Monthly for April (D. Appleton & Co., New York), has illustrated ar- ticles on *The Age of Ice,” coudensed from James Goikie's work on that subject; *‘Images and Shadows,” by Dr. W, J. Youmans; and “A Feather,” by W. K. Draoks. Otber prominent articles are “The Patnology of tho Passiona.” —III., by Ferdinand Papillon; * Vivisection,"” by Dr. Michacl Foster; % What the Chemistry of the Rocks Teaches,” by O. C. -Merriman; and * Evolution and the Grigin of Life," by I. Charlton Bastian. —Blackwood's Alagazine tor March (Leonard Scott Publishing Compauy, New York) gives ocontinuations of “ Valentino and His Brother,” aud * Disorder in Dresmiand”; ¢Thy Two Speransky ” is conclnded ; Alice Lorraiae is commanced; aud therc is an_intersating article on ** Lord Stauhope and the Historians of Queen Anpa's Reigo.” —Among the noteworthy contents of tho lasc twonumbers of Lillel?s Licing Age (Littell & Gay, Boston) are: * Henry . Thoreau, the Poel- Naturalist” ; * Winkelmaun"; and current parts of “The Frenoh Pross," * bendelasobn” (by Ferdinaud Hiller), “The Two Speransky,” and “YValentine snd His Brother.” —In Brownson's Quarterly Revimo—April (¥r. Pastel, New Yu.k)—~we bave ** Relutation of Atheism,” * Religion and Science,” * Copstitu- tional Guarantees,” * Ixtra Ecclesiam Nulla Balog," ete, —0id and New for April (Roberts Bros., Bos- ton) continues ‘The Way We Live Now,” by Authony Trollope, ana *‘Sorope,” by Frederick B. Perkins. Other promment articles are: +The Liquor-Trade Two Uundred Years Ago,” by Henry A. Mills; “The Church and Its Pre- tensions,” by James Martineau; and “The Rights of Tweed and Other Conviets,” ZOther periodicals recaived : Phrenological Journal for Apiil (Semuel R. Wells, Now York Sanitarien for April (A. N. Bell, New York, current numbers of Erery Salurday (H. O. Houghton & Co., Cambridge, Mass.), and sAppl- tons' Journal (D. Appleton & Co., Now York); National Bee Journat for March (iMrs. Ellen 8. Tapper, DesMoines, In.); Lumberman's - Ga- 2elle for March (H. S, Dow, Bay City, Miuhg. —Henr; ‘Holt & Co. will publish, earlvia April, a “Histoly of American Currency,” by William G. Bumoer, Professor of Political and Social Science 1n_Yale College. Lo the principal work will be added a chapter on the B_uk of Engzland restriction, a chapter on Austrian paper money, and ths full text, with somo annotations, of the celebrated ** Bullion Report " presented to Par- Lisment during the bank restricuicn, which event- ually led to resumption of spodie paymenta. Tom Taylor is the now edicor of Punoh, Another stoty by Mr. Black, the author of WA Princess of Thule,” will be began shortly in one of the English magazives, + —Afr, Gladstoue, relioved of the ceres of office, intends botaking himself to the Holy Land, and on his return wiil devote himaelf to literature, aud more particulariy to the transls- tlon of classical %ualr.v. —Don Justa Zaragoze, sho has baon for a long time at work upou his “ History of Latin America,” has beea accordsd permission to ex- amine the archbives ref~i~ing to the subjuct in the private librery of the o=-Quoen luabella, and wrl:inr- he hopes’ to unearih some valaabie rec- ords. —Blanchard Jorrold's ‘‘ Life of Napoleon " is being written chietly from papers sapplied by the Empress Eugenfe. The Empress Lerself carefully superintended the reading of the _pracfs. * —The Hon. Grantley Berkeley has jusi com- pleted & work entitled * Fact Aguinst” Fistion ; or, Tho Habits and Treatmont of Animals Prao- tically Considered.” It will treat of hydropho- bia and distemper; and. of courss, of o varicty of matters connected with sporung pursuits, There will aleo be ** Soms Romarks on Darwin ” —A book is 5004 to be published. entitlod “ A Diotionary af the Anonymous aad Pseudony- woag Literature of Great Britain, Including the Works of Foreigmers Wriiten in or Translated into tho English Langnage,” by the late Samuel Halkett, Eaq., keeper of tho Advocates’ Library, Edmburgl. —Raberts Brothers, Boston, will publish, this spriog, ** Avuug Domiui," in which Miss Chris- tina G Rossotti gives a toxt and prager for each day of the year; and o new volume of stories by Mre. Moulton, in whick she lays opea *Same Women’s Hearts.” —The Hon. Johu Bigelow has compiled a “‘Lifq of Franklin," to supplement his cdition of the philosopher’s autoblography. In tho ex- ecation of his plan, Mr. Bigelow has 60 arrauged the excerpts from Franklin's letters as to form & conneoted parrative in Frankliu's own laoguage, throwing such explanations 2s were requisite into foot notes. —Afeesrs, J. B, Ford & Co., New York, an- nounco for speedy publioation ** The Circuit Rider ; a Tale of the Heroic Age"—Ldward Eg- gleston’s fourth Hooslor Story, this time ‘of the early *“saddle-buge™ era of Met ; the two finel volumes (IX. and X.) of tho original octaro sories of * Beecler's Bermons,” comprising sermons preschied from Septomuer, 1878—a now series in 12mo form bnguminz at the Jatier time; also, & mew and ealarged scitton of 4 Fiunits, Flowera, and Farming,” o which Alr. Beecher discysses the fact and faacy, poctry and rose. of his experionce of farm and garden. g’lm game publishers have neacly ready Dr. Ed- ward Decchier's series of papers cn the * History of Opinions on the Scriptural Doctrine of Retri- bution ;" and “ The Moda of Man’s Immortality; or, the When, Where, snd How of the Fpore Life,” by the Rev. T. A. Goodwin, A. AL, author of #'Thg Perfect Man," etc. i —The famous Mudjo's Library, in London, was established in 1840 jn a littie shop a¢ Blooms- bury. It now occuples an ares equal to that of eight houses. In 1464 it passed into the bands of s etock company, its value being estumated at £100,000. About 18,000 volumes of current lites- aturs are always on its shelves, As goon sa & book ia publisied in & cheap or stulliog_edition, it coases to bo io much request at Mudie’s. To this there i8 an oxcoption in the case of Charles Dickens, No seta of works are #o rapidly worn out as his. = '—Ehzabeth P. Peabody writes to the Boston Commonuealth to contradict the story 8o fraely circulpted that the unfortunate Mrs. Badger was the originalof * Hilds,” in Hawthorne's * Marblo Faun.” Bhe says: I &mow, from personsl couversatian with my brothez-in-law on the sub- ject, that neither of the women in the ‘‘farble Foian " were portraits, end that Alr. Hawthorna neve drew portraits tn his nevels, not being in- tant on cbaracter-drawiu 7, but quly upon 1llus- tration of great spiritual Jaws, as both Mr. Ed- win Whipple and the Rov. Xr. Mayo have sug- ested in reviews of him, of which I heard Mr., 1awihorne speak,. saying that they had die- ocovered bis georot.” PDicrre Veron gives sn sccount of how somo Krench suthors worked.. Dumas the elder was wont to take up Lis pen without know, ing what he was going fa write, but the contact of psper aroused him, 8s otuer peopleofs d(m?mn temperament are excit:d by the noise of arise. Alfred do Musset never felt himaelf in the prapar humor to write uutil he hed cover- ed five or eix sheets of paper with faociful Qesigns, and hiad perhaps taken more absiothe than was goad for him. Prosper Merimes usyal- 17 commenced his stories at the end, and, atter having mada a collection of denoements, sketched in the beginning. Victor Hugo had an ariginal method. He.accomplished his true Work: while walking alang the streots of Paris or rambling about the rooks of Guarnsey.. After turning and returning & drams, & romance, or a poem ia his bsad, sometimes for & year, ho would saddenly set to work and finish 1t, as it were, at & mitting. All his dramas were written in less than a fortuight, snd at times he would writo an act in verse in a single dsy, but sn act which he hiad been revolving in Lis mind for six months. AN ENGLISH WATERIN The Land of Shakspearee-History and Minernl Waotersest*Tne Maids of Merry, Merry England.” Carrespondence of The Chicago Tridune. Lrasuseroy. England, March 9, 1874, I am stopping at this celebrated watering- place, known to most American toarists as their beadquarters when paying s pilgrimage to the birthplace, home, snd grave of Shakspeare, It takes its vame from the Leam, which flows lazily through the town, 2 miles further on, to Joln tho Avon, and, glidng under the walls of Warwick Castle, by world-famed Stratford and battle-plain of Tewkesbury, mingle its waters with the greatest of English rivers, the Ssvarn, and 80 an to theses. On ono eide of the rivaer, the ground riscs gently; on the other, it is level, and the open country stretches before the eye for miles. A country of magnificent mansions, standing 1n splendid parks stoddsd with great trees. A country of fertile flelds; of trim facTg-bouaes, sarrounded by fat ricks of wheat &nd barley ; of shady lanes and well-kept roaas. In the distance can be seen the blue line of the Fdge Hills, underneath which the famous battle was fought when the Ifronsides of Cromwell put to flight all the chivalry of England led by fierce Prir:ce Rupert. 3 Oue buadrad years ago thers was on'y ome farm-house on the bank of the river, aithough the mineral springa are mentioned by historians of tho sixteenth century, Bai, some seveuty yeara since, the virtue of the waters of Lesming- ton became known, and their celebrity has caused it to rise to & populous, well-built, and thriving Spa, second to none in Enzland. Tis watere, both saline and sulphur, are till Leld in the verv highest repate, and, externally and in- ternally, arc used as & cura for many diseases, and 85 a genoral tonic, Bat it is not only sa s i o that Loamington is famous ; sit- in the heart of the flucst fox-hunt- ing Qistrict in England, it 18 yearly tha resort of crowds of aristocratic Brilish sportsmen, who moke it their headquarters during the hunting senson. 1ts many atractions have also mada it the permanent residencs of many of the fash- iopible and wealthy. : Leamiogton is par exoellence, historis ground. World-famed Stratiord-on-Avon is tha Mecca of ‘many cultured reople of the Avglo-Saxcn race, Norwich is rencwaed, not only for its castle, bat for its anciont churcaes pnd institutions. Kon- ilwocth Castle, stately in ruiny, brings to the mind the days of Good Queen Bsss,” and shows how meon cou!d build i tue daya of old. Etone- leigh Abbey, where once the_Cistercians praved gnd fed). now the seat of Lord Leigh; Guy's liffe ; Offchwich, the burial-placa of the Saxon Kiog, Offa ; Charlecoto ; Coventry, woere Lady Godiva took that celebrated ride; Compton Verney ; the Edgo Hills,—all those, ana many ollier plsces fambas io Eoglish luory sud saoe, are within every walkiug and driving ' ilistance trom L-awington. ¢ Leamington owes a great_deal to tha public spinit of its inhabitantd. Like our Spa, of Saza~ toga, it s but a village ; for, althongh'contala- ing more than 20,000 inhabitants, it has oot yet claimed municipal rights. But the local author- ities and private citizens have done oversthing possiblo to mako the place attractive, snd 1t is pow about the cleanest, drisst, and bost-kept town in England. It has miles .of splendid streots and roads ; trees linathe sidawalls (a racity in this cauntry), giviog a pleasant shade; evervwhera there ate to bo secn magnificent villag, each standing in its own spacions grounds, To the very mida of ihe town thero are splendid groves of trees; the public gurdens, too, are most beantifal, and. in these, alfvesco amusements are coatinually provided. "On a summer's evening, the golden-haired daughters of England appesr inthe gardens in afl the glory of the latest fashions,—Nature agsistad to the utmost by Art. Hore thev skill- fally draw the bow, and one Tecogaizes what an atteactive pursuit archeryis to tio loo%er-on, who often rocsives a Capid's shaft as hia reward. Or clsa theso maidens coquet with croquet : who plars w:th them at such is loat. Or they sit pea- sivoly listoning to the atrains of the haud, which. from the Chinese Pagoda, discourses tho choice ‘morsels of Ofenbach. Thure are maidens fair tosee at Leamington as well asat Weimar. They also aroadepts at fooling, aud should Dot ba srusted. In unfavorable weather bere, thera are pramenade conearts ia the . Pamp-Rooms,"” the very name of which takas us back to the days of the Georges. And the balls! If one has flirted on snmmer evenings and escaped wich only 8 gear when the fall or winter comes, and at the Assembly-Rooms you sgain meef your en- chantress, then Music arises with its voluptuons swell,~— Soft eyes look lovo to eyes whizh spesk azain ; Then, wdeed, you ard s lost American, aud had better take the next White Star steamer back to the States, I &peak feslingly, in the wordsof s groat New York politician (3t present on the re- tired list), ¢ I know haw it is mwyell.” Leamington, it will be sean, i3 a place for ths rich, the cultared, thoid'a; trade thers is none, exoept what is carried on 8% tho roail stores, where everyshing that comfort and luxary re- quira may bo procured. The botel accommoda- tion is very good, sn-. at the private bparding- houses, atfentions and comforts will be found for 2 aum which appears fabulonsly small to a Naw- Yorker. It is not to be wondered that Leaming- ton, with it exceptional advantages of posiclon, mineral walers, &aluotity (in this week's obitu- ary thera is no death recorded nnder 80!), asso- ciation, aud society, should, not only as a place of tempornry resort, but as a permanent abode, ba one of tho most popular Spas in Furops. I write thess tribatary lines in recognition of the gr.ioymnnt[hnvu éxperienced during my visit aro. G-PLACE. — TAPESTRY. 1m enduring realms of beanty, Wzapt in sadntly peace, i Lids,— City of the Lrignt Hereafter,— Angei-guarded Paradisa. There Love's golden Tide ebbs never ; Thero glernal wators liva,— Shores of never-fading slory Mirror'd in aach pearly wava. In that eplrit-neople?. city, I/ ftiog bigh ita wally of whits, Pishing i perpetual eummer, Gleaming In an cadlaes light, Btands the Soul's prond temrls, thro’ whose Crystal casements, rich snd rare, Ever steals a hallow’d incense, From the censer-fount of prayer. Fufrer than the fairest vialon, . _ Drighter than Lright dreams may be, 1s that wond'rons spirit temple, * Eden of the Soul's Lo fe. Owey M, Wrusox, JR. e ORI B ITis Sweet for One’s Country to, Etc. Fram the New Orleans Piatyune. Happening one day in his travels to be belated, Senstor Collamer stopped at & substantial aud comfortablo farm-bouse, and was entertained =nd hospitably invited to make himeself comfort- anle for the night. He accepted the invitation, had 2 good supper and very luxurious lodgings. The next marning Mr. Collamer made 2 survey of the farm of his host, and was much sur- prised with the comfort and substeutial thrift and prosperity of everyrbing around. He sould pob but congratulste bim on his sppar- ently Lappy lot. His fields were well fenced, hib barne were filled, and hin cropa_most prom- iging. Besides, too, she farmer bad an industri- ous and amiable wife aad several bright and healthy children. *““A farmer's life," remarked Ar. Collamer, *ig certminly the happlest of all Luman lots, s0d I must sey, my friend, that you are as happily fixed as any farmer I ever koew." **Wall,” remarked his host, * that’s your no- tion, but 'tain’t mine, Iintend to sell oyt and m?v{avl‘:ex)t week.” iad ali * Whither are you going?" inquired the inquis- itive Yanken, Cad e . “Down into Texas!” What, into thas wild and disturbed conntry, menaced by the whole Moxicau army and by roving *bagda of Comanchbs, and marsudiay Greasers ; leave this peeceful and happy home for such asavage country, wlere youwould have to sleap every night on your irms, and carry our rifle strapped acroas Four shoulder whilst plowing in tho fald " 2 ‘“ Yazs, sit-reo,” was tha eagor reply, *who would 5ive a cuns to live in & country where he coldn't tight for his liberty 2" A Fall. *Eing Sarbro,” the Japanese rope-walker, ‘was ascending from the stage to the gallery in the Howard Athenmum, Boston, on Wadnesday night; buc when he hfi ot about two-thirds of the way up, and was 25’ feot above the heads of the peaple in the parquet, he slipped, and barely svoided_breaking his owa neck, sud probably somebody clscs, by “catchiug bold of the ropo with his hands. @ cause of the fail was that &A;:po had been Jaft where somebody had spit i FLOWERS. How and Where Best Grown--Chi- cago a Favorite Place. Annuals and Others that Grow Well in This Locality, The Verbena One of the Choicest of Flowers, and Grows Best in Sand. General Hints on the Cultivation of the Beautiful. o the Bdflor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: Bewg a lover of Natare’s besutlos, and thinking that, amongst your many readers (es- pocially the Jadios), thera are some who would like to hear the experience of others concerning the growing of flowers from seeds and bulos, I write the following. I wish al? our women, rich or poor, would take one-fifth—yes, one-tenth— the interest in the caltare of flowars that they do in fashion, Oh that onr women wers in- spired to cultivate them everywhere! Oh that we were inspired a8 THE POET WHEN UE WEOTE: Day-starsy that ope your frownless eves to twinkls From rainbow galuxies of earth's crestion, And dew-drops on Ler lonely alturs sprioklp As & [ibati Yo matin-worshipers ! who, bendinz lowly Defors the uprisen sun, God's Lidjeus eye, Throw from your cualice a sweet and holy Tacease on bigh. Yo bright mosates ! that, with storisd beaaty, The Hoor of Nature's temle teasellste, What numerous emblems of inatructive duty Your forms create. "Neath c;omered boughs, each floral bell that swing- 1 ey, And tolls its perfume on tho passing air, Makea 8abbath fn the fields, and ever riugath A call to prayer, Xotto the Gomes where crumbling arch snd colomn Attest the feeblences of mortal by, Bat to that fane, most catholic an solemn, Whith God has plannad; To that cathedral, boundless s otr wonder, Whowe quznchléss lampatho sun aud moon supply ; Its choir the winds 3nd waves, its organ thunder, 1ta dome ta eky, There,uain solitude and shado T wnder urough the green af or stretched u) 8 A A a vavercairy poaie T s, Tho ways of God, ‘Your volcoloss lips, O fowars | ara living preachars, Escl cup a paipit, every leaf a book, Bupplying to my fadoy nimerous teschers From lonellest nook. Floral Apostles ! that in dewy splendor * Weep without woe, and biush withouta crime,” 0, may I deeply learn, and ne'er nurrender, Your lore sublima { “Thon wert not, Solomon, in all thy glory, the ilies cry, **in robes like ours! ur grandeur | ab, how transitory Are human flowers1” 1In {he sweet-scented piotures, heavenly artist! With which thou paintest Nature's wide-spread hall, What a delightful lesson thou impartest Of love to aUl! Not nssteas ara ye, fowers | though made for preavure ; Blooming o'er A:=Id and wave, by diy ao-1 night, From every aource your sanction bids weftressurs Harmlcss delight, Ephemeral sages! what nstructors hoary I.’For wuch a world of thought could furnish scop 3t Fach fading calyx » memento morr, Yet fount of hope. Posthnmous glories! Augel-likp collection Upraised from sced or bulb interrad in earth, Yo ure to me a type of resurrection . - And iecond birth, ‘Were1in churchlass solitndes ramatning, ‘Far from all vaice of teschers and divines, My soul would find, in flowers of Go's ordaining, Prieats, sermons, shrinea | —Horace Smith. Now let ua proceed to BOSIXESS. Ihear the question saked, Where and what shall I plant? Plant anywnere where sun snd sir will meot your plants, in almost any soil, and of such seeds as by a little study yon will lcarn sre best adapted foryour purposes. If you want fragrant flowors, remember tho Carnation, Mignonstte, Sweat Pes, Sweel Rooket, Btocks, Verbens Montans, Erysimum, Tes-Roses, Tube- roses (delightful to pin_on your sweetheart's coat's fold), and Silium Auratam. If colors (to Dbloom the whols sesson) for beds, chooss the Dianthus (the seed we planted in April, 1873, came true; wa had flowers in sbundance the whole season; snd now—2March 20~the ald roofs are scoding ap mew shoots, as I eaw white admiring three Crocases that bloomed to- day in the garden), the Portulacs, double and single, tho Phlox Drammondil, Pansy, Verbaus, Balpigloseis, Stocks, and Zeoniss. If for ribbon. borders and beds, take tho Tall Oyango Mari~ gold, Ageratnm Mexicanum. and Tom Thumb, Tagetes Siguata Sumils, Celosia Huttonii, Alys~ sum, Whits Candytuft, ete., ete. If climbing plants are desired, take the Ipomes Beari, Ipomma Qaamoclit (Cepress-Vine,—one of the best; pour boiling water upon them before planting, aud let them stand in cup for ton minutes). Cobes, Convolvulus Major (Morning Gilory), Mauraudy, Tropeolym, not forgettiog Tropieolum Peregrinum (Caunry-Bird Fiower), ANNULLS. Aunnals are plants that gro raised from seed, flower, mature thoyr seeds, ard perish, the same season. Some can be bad to flower the second senson by preventing them flowering the first. They are divided into three classes, as also Bicunials and Perennials,—into hardy, half- hardy, and tender. Most bardy snnuals may be sown by the 1st of .\lnyéont of doars).—rerlmps this year by Aprit 20. “Half-bardy not till June. 1 1ind that the safest moda is to start half-nardy and tender in greenhouse or box (never using flower-pots) in warm room, remembering always to admit pleaty of alr (not cold), as better plants ere produced, When I ~commenced to piant peeds, used » oarthen flower- pots, aud,’ as s rule, saw tho tiny plant rise f6r & week, and then, all of & sndden, perish; which I thought waa the saedman's fanlt in not sendlog good seeds. 1 had violated Nature's law in citber letting them *diy " too much, or “watering” them to0 much, the ox- tremes that alvays happen in the house. Inow uso shallow bexes, about 4 inches deep, 12 wide, and from 19 to 30 long,—flling them wilh good, olack earths. Havo turee boxes slready started, containing _Mignonette in one, Verbeuss in anather, and Zennias, Hollyhocks, and Dajaras in the third, of eact about thiriy sceda. All sere planted on the 10th Inst., and are up and doing nicely. When the fourth or fifth leaf ap~ pears, T transplant the boxes one inch deeper, 1 have ordored and reccived the following BELECT LIST OF ANNUALS, which T kuow will provo true bluc, and give our friends grost plensuro in receiving them in the forw of bouquets. plsats, &c.: Abronis umbellata. ‘Ageratum Mexicanum, white and blue, Atirrhinum (snap-dragoa), all colors, Aster, TrufTant’s Peony-F.owered Parfootion, Balsatns (lady-slipper), doubie, best, mixed: Bronallta, hand wme. Cucalia (Paiat-Brush), mized, Calliopsis, Dwarf, marbled. Qompannia Rpsciium, mixed. Candytuft, all colors mixed, Canns, stately foliags, plants for Iswn. Celoala (Cockscomb) Cristata, tall, Colosia Cristata Kermesing, dwarf, Clarkis, single and doubte, pretty. Convolvulus Minor, tricolor. Datirs Humilie 8. P, and Wrighttl. . Diphinium (Larkspur), mixed. . e cm‘muu"flddmgu‘ single, ‘Diauthus Chinensis Lacintatus. Disnthus Gardnerisnue, fragrant. It will not barm togeta fow papers extra, as they are charming, re- sembiing samewhat the Pink, but being of diffarent colore.. um Arkanssnom. Fenzlia Dianthifiors, charming little annval, Gilia Nivalis, white and purple. Hollyboek, Gbiness Doatie, height 23 teet, Flaw- ers firat season, If seed are sawn exrly. Lobelia Gracilis, fine for hangzing baskot, Tupinus Subcarnoens (Hesh-color). Lupinur, dwarf, all eolors mized. Marigald, French daubls dw., striped. Mesembrianthemum, tri-color. i Mesambrianthemum, Cryatallinum (Ice plant), Mignonette, grandifiora, & Migunonetts, new dw., compact, Mimulas, superb, mizzd. Nasturtiam, d,, all colors, ¥ ug'h in'a Mivt), blue and white mized, ol Ve in @ nd whils s s SR An V8 m . V4 gron ouF Paniid n the nocth it of & toct | fence Jost year, snd they were well shaded and did spicadidly. Fetuata, doubls and single, mixed, Phiox D.ummondil, all colors mixsd are splendid. If you have room, plant ten papers, and yoa will enjoy the fowers, Popp, doale only, all colors. Ricinus (Castor-Oil-Bean) for lawn, Balpiglocss, Gnest mixed- 8:hizanthus, finest colors mized. ' Stock, ten weeks, ‘best Germaa varieties of any desird color. Verbens. Ons paper of the finest colors, mixed, will give probubly sixty diferent shades, Vervena Montans, almost as fragrant 58 the carna~ Hon; will flower late; but, if roots are unmolested during wintez, will flower early the next season. We planted some verbenas in pure #and, and such_growth wus sucprising, They are naties of Brazil, and love the hot sun. 1f pianted o sand, they must be watered ot least once in two days; in dry weather, daily ; and, if sou ean water them with soap-suds, sa much the Detier. Those Living on or mear the lakc-shore shonid ‘Plint many sseds of this beautiful family. Zennia Blegans, & pl. CLIMRING PLANTS. Calampalis Scabra, Cobea Hcandens. Start in house with care, Cousolvalus Major (Morning-Glory), in sl colots ; desirable to hide sn old uarn G snjiling that neads cozering, Dolicuos (Hyscin‘he Bean) Ssbish, Ipomsea Saund, blue and violet, Igomzs Quamoclit (Cypress-Vine), Boxsa Herverti, Maurandys, 8cest mized, Peas, flowering of all shades, Phaseolus (Ruuning Fiowerlng Bests). Tropeoium Sabbianum (Fire-Fiy). Tropeolum Peregrinum (Canary-Bird Flower). A EVEELASTING FLOWERS. No gardes is complsto withoul s few of thesa. ‘Tbey may be treated a8 annuais. Flowers tnat are desired to decorato the manetl-pieca or tha table should be cat before fully expanded. Some of the Everlastings make fine coutrast with orna~ mental grasses. Acrocduium Rosenm. ‘Auroclinium Album. Gomphrens Globosa Striata, Bellchrysum Monstrosum, donble purple. Helipternm Anthemoides, fine bloomer. Helipterum Sanfordi. Ruodanthe Mangiesi, for house cultura, Statice Incana Hybrida (nana), Serantbemum, double varieties, all colors, CRNAMENTAL GRASSES. Thesa are an interestingciasa of plants,—their foliags in appearnnce being very besutiful. They aro chielly used 1uthe construction of winter bougquats, and are indispeayable whese you have Everlastiogs : atis Nebnlosa, ST i Briza Compncta, Briza Minima. Erianthus Ravennz, Loanthus Sirictus, 8.ipa Pennata (Feather Grass), second season. + B.pa Tortilax, oLBS. B The caltivation of balus ia bocoming more generds esch year. Tuere are two kinds : tie Holland bulbs, comprising the Hyacinthe, Tulip, Crocas, ete.; and the Cape balbs, comprising the Gladlolua (the mast besutifal), Amaryllia, Nering, eic. ” THE GLADIOLUS. ‘This, to begin with, siauds at the head of the family. It produces long, brilant spikes of showy flowers, of nearly every shade. It is ope of the eamest culture. All bulbs over threg'querters of sa ipch will produce flowara; baot, the larger sho balb, the larger the spikea of flowers, Thay should be sturted about the middle of March, and & fow pisnted osch weck uill the latter part of June, to keop up o succession of bloom. If plauted in Februaty, they will, with suificient neat, flower in April’ in the house, They skould be plauted abcut 3 incbes deop, and 6 to 10 inches apart each way; and, winle grosing, have pienty of water (see that the ground has good drzinage). Their price varies from 4 to 4 cents spiece, the vrice being no criterion of their baauty; in fac:, thoss #0ld av from 70 cents to 82 = dozen giving the most eatisfaction. Last_summor wo had one thab cost §L23 growing alongside of one that only cost & cenis ; and, if you bad colled at oar place snd taken your chioice, nineteon chances out of twanty the spiae of the cheap one would bave been taken. This year wo seut for 100 of them, at & cosé in Rochester of 2£3. We sent 25 cents to pay for freight, and bave roceived a5 fino Bulbs a3 can bs found,—some measuring 4 inches in aiameter. DATLUS, Tho Dablias of to-day are far saperior to those of ten years ago, being more globular in shape, while the colors are more bright and beautifal. Where you bave a large lawn, and wish to ex- Inbit Howars for eect, do not forget iese. ‘Pney should bs planted oot a8 soon as all dan- ger from 1rost is past, 1 good soil, not too rich and wet, or you will bave notaing but leaves. If sou can stade them from the burniug sun be- tween 12 and 2 o'clock, their flowera witl Jast much longer. Plant about 6 inches doep . and 4 foat apart; and, when planting, put s neat siick _alongside the’ tuber, 80 that, When your plant i a foot or two high, it can be tied to it PEONIES. - Thes« should be planted in the fall, 43 you get better plauts by so doing. MADEIRA VINE. ‘The Madeira ¥ine is & valuable climbing plant, having fine, gioss foliags, and succeecs w aimost any soil (cspecially dry); and, if planted early enaugh, will lower profusely. It iy well adapt- ed for dwelling-houses, baskats, etc, Price,” 8 to 10 cents per bulb. TUBEROBES. ) “The tuberose produces a spike of beaatifut, sweet-scented, wax-like flowsss, of alabaster whitoness, on & stem 2 to 4 feet hieh, Sowering in the early fall, and is to be recommended as the most desirablo of all flowers for wreatbs, crosses, bouquets, otc.” Wo geverslly start them back of the kitchen-gtove in BS-inch pots, (rom the lst of Marci till the 15th of April, sa keep them in 8 night-temperaturo of Dot less thaa 60 degr2es. About the 15th of May to the 16t of Jue. we trms%laul them into the yard on the south side of the fence. We hava had as meny as thirty-eight flowerets on one stem. DICENTRA SPECTARILIS (OR BLEEDING HEART). A beautiful and desifable, hardy plant. pro- ducing long, drooping racemes of piuk and whito heart-chaped flowers. Plant singly, and leave it nunmolzsted for three to five years, by which tims it will attain a large slze and prosent & fine appearanca. LILIES. All the varieties of Lilies do well in almost any goil, and will recompense tho amateur a8 much as—yes, perhapi more than—any plent above named. Nearly all bulbs of the Lily fam- ify should bo planted to the depth of 4 to & inohes, singly o¢ 10 groups, aad nilowed to re- main nodisturbed for five vears, by which timo they will have increased both In quality sad quantity. WATERING. Alwways nse cold water; dv not put yourselves to the ioconventence of gotting **the water warm to the haud.” We hava used the lake water direct from the hydraut, and find that our plants do well. PLANTING BEEDH. All mall seeds cuver lightly, not over the thicknoss of the reed. If they'do not come np the first time you plant, trv again. WILERE TO DUY SREDS, ETC. At home, I find that Messre. Hevey & Co., on State near_Aadison strest; Mr. Hoffron, on State near Jack+on street ; and Mr. Ellinwaod, on Clark near Washington atrect, are reliable, and oan give useful information when desired. AMATEUB. ——— HOW COLD ART TiiOU? And Pharosh sald unto Jacab, * How old art thou?” and he ssid, “Fowand il have Leen the days of tha years of my pilgrimage."—Geneis. Count them o'er thy vanished years ; Number them by hopes anid fears ; Teil them out from soath t0 ¢go ; How long hathbeen thy pllgrimage? When thy marn of youth waa higa, Strong thine arm and bold thi When thy bouuding atep was fre And thinn heart best full with alee Pleasure held the sparkiiug cup, ‘And thou drank’st tho eweet draugbtnp; Every thought within thy soul Waa to reach Mirth's topmost goal. Waen maturer Wers Sears come, And thy check Ead manhood's bioom, Ten more thonghtful geew iby brow, And thy step went Arm and slow; Then thy soul felt aterner things. When it plumed Ambition’s wings, By thestadent's lonely 1ziap, In tho Senate, in the camp, That was then $ine object—aim? fan'a opinign—Glory—Fara: Bpring and Sammer pass Qomes thino age’s wintry dsy 3irth'a light. buoy=ns bour 12 o'er Aumbition st W ealth But thon Inathest the fckle name; Thou hss; felt Ita bollaws. Naught within ita touch to tk Now falls thy beap of gathezed guld. Waen the mournful talo is told, Tyon the words begin to belleve: #3fore blest to glve thaz to receire ™ A Sl Torset, there comes to thov- The thought of Hita of Calvary. Thus, while thy years are 7erging fast To the one that maxes their Lust, Whtle yet the silver cord’s unworn Tok Tondn thy spirit 8o it arsy ‘Thon l]ng: begil Hl: tonuv_e‘:. And thy days 6 Hoaven give; 50u seek'st a path before untrod, That pears thea o the Christian'a God, And feetst that lifa to fll&“lfix en For deeds of lo7e iks Go’a in Heaven, Then count them from tuy Httlo s, Tho years of folly iven tomans 7 ZTitna Taw koog i OUR BIRDS. The Song and Ohipping Sparrows, The Song-Sparrow (Melosize Melodic) ia piping cheerily down among the thickets on the lake-shore. along by tho brook-sidea and by the ‘water-courses, thronghout the entire breadth ot the Coatinent. It cume up from the South twe or threo weeks ago, reaching the grove-lands in and around Chicago about the 12th inst. Itis nlm::yn justin the rearof the Blue-Bird and Robin, only s dayor two behind; snd, imme- diately after their curt chirps of salutation, it it certain to be heard singing uway Instily near th borders of some stream or shest of water whick offers a eituation in harmony with its instincts 1t o8 not, like mauy other newly-arrived song: sters, lurk about for days in a donbtful, uncom. fortable maoner, wiiting for pleasant weather, or a wonted homa feeling, before it takes up the merry pealms of life. 1t-is sure from the very firse that it bas not come an hour too eoon, and that it iv in the very vlace in =2l the universe where i should ba; and confirms the fact by going directly =bont its business, and singing over ity at the top of it voice, in the JOLIEST DMAGINABLE FASHION. Tt {s a8 good a4 a germon to hesrit. No mst- ter whether it snows or shines, whether tho frost wips or the sir is bland, the Bong-Sparrow iz brave and hearty, doing its work and rhymicg its tbanxs, glad of iife, and bent upon maxing every momentss good and gratefol s possibla. Whatcan mean or bird domora? The little Song-Sparrow is abumble, homely bird, andits voice is not epe- cially Bweet, or its song highly Smished ; et thers: is not s liviog thing that more fully carries onf its Creator’s purpose, by making the best of the present and borrowiag no trouble for the future, Tae Sparrows are so macl alite, £9 we have ramarked before, it is & hard mattar to distia- guish them by theirplumaze. TheSong-Sparrow woars the charaotenstio dress of eray and brown, wich listlo difforeacs in the tints to mark old from young, or male from female. Its zong is ‘much like a single melody of thie Canary-Bir. which, by the way is a relative, & member of tha same family, the Frin@lndt—mpcaed in a cearsor voico and more burly manner. Itisas if u fine opara-sir wers caught by somo rustic waiden eud trilled out whilo washing up the mulk-pans and doiag the work of the farm-nouse. But plain and uapretending 88 the bird is 1a overy way, it is @ favorite with every one who knows it, becaase of ita eimple and hearty good- uature. Earlyia tie season, often bsfors {ho last snow-vqualls uro over, it 5 : BUILDS IT8 NEST on the ground, not tar from the water. I have found its Iittle domicile, made of hay and lined with bair, and holdiog five dark, thickly-speckled ecgs, on the very brink of a stream, whero it would seem inevitable that the dedulings must tumble out and be drowned. Duithe bird has strong squatic instiucts, and, wbon wounded, hos been koown to tske to the waterand sinim like a ducic. It usually raises three broods in a scason, and kas a busy time of it, for it is a doal of work to bring up a yoaag iamily to Labits of mdependence. A new house has o be built fcr onch brood; and, while the young sre growing, they are enormons eators. Another time I sball tell bow mach food 8 bird will corvime from this timo it chips ita'shelt until it is fedged. Bat, as already lunted, the Hong-Sparrcw id meithar a mape por & shirk, and sings and works with na- tiring courage, from end to end of the summer. Iu the fall, toward theclase of October, it unites in parties, after the babis of the Snatrows, and flita off Southward, wisero tho cli-nute 13 milder and seed-gleaning casier than it is in our parailals. Tho Fringiliide (Seed-Faters) is tho largest group of 1ts grade in Ormtholoxy. It compriscs 500 different species, which aro distribulod swotg 100 genera, They aro diffused ovor ald parts of tho wo:ld, save Australis, whero na rapresentatives of tha tribe are to ba found. Thay are most sbungans on the Ccutipout of North Anmerica, BEVENTY-ONE BPECIES being pative to the United Stutes. Itis estis mated that, in_aoy one average leeality in cur counry, thie bird-fauns wilf embrace npward of 200 speciea. Away from the sea-cosat, where water-foni are in the ascendant, above once q[fimal these species will belong tc the Frine The Finches, Sparrows, Baatings, Linaets, Grosbesks, and Crossbills are ail united in this gronp. Almost the entire numbor pososs malo« dious voices. and many of them s ng with grest skill and electivoness. The Yellow-Bird, Iu- digo-Bird, _Cardinal-Grosbeak, Rose-Dreasted Grosbesk, Bay-Wiaged Bunting, snd several of tho 8parrowa may be cited as atiractive vocalists, —soae of them, indecd, ranking among the best that iphabit our wild woods. The mjurity of the Fringillide are quetly clad. Yei to ihis thera are a few brilliant exceptlons; ke thy Yellow-Bird, arraved in lemoa and black; the Cardinal-Grosbeal, bedight in vermlion; tue Tndigo-Bird, ia shades of bine and green; end the Roso-Bresated Grosbeak, . hiack, white, and caraune. The varioas species of Seed-Eaters may be TANED AT ANY AGZ, . and the nature of thotr food renders it easy i@ susiaid them in costinement. A Cardinal-Gros- bezk Is oa record whica lived twonts-0no Yoars iz acage. The Cavary-Bird and Java-Spairow =rg notablo examples of the facdlity with which iba Fringillide adapt themselves to an existeaco witln prisou-walls, On avery one of these bright days in late March, however chilly the winds may blow. the Sparrows which bave spent ths winter vath us gather in mulutades among the bianches, aud 81t and sing by the hotcin e twittering ciorus. Their little gray coats are in color so lke the boughs agaidst which they rost, that it is impos- sible to discern them at a shiort distance; wud ona listeniag might easily imagiue that tho trecs had fouud longues, and were tellivg in rapiuse of tho coming spring-tide. Most of theso Spar- rows will go “North somo time in Aprit—it de- ands on tho weathor—to summer ia highar I itudes. ‘The Saow-Banting has departed slcesdy. Not & wing of one has bect secn sincs the snows melted in Fobruary. Bat, in tuo placoof the Sparraws which go, others will came, and sre even now on tho way. THE CIIPPING SPAEZOW (Spizelia Socialis) will Le hero soon. Bowe roft murning eacly in April, we shall hear its shriil rattle, which 18 scarcely moro mnsical than tis roll of castaqeis; sud still is enlivening, o ca- dence of love and joy that blends harmoniously with the symphony of the Season. TLis is ono of the most friendly of the feathered iace. 1t hops confidingly abont our gronnds and ciose up to onr dodrs, in reach of seeds and cramba. ‘With » wiuning trust in the kindly spurit of man, 1t willeven buld its nest in a shrub ucder the window, or by tha foot-path along which we paas 8 every hour of thu day. Al the boys knoz the bird, and call it the Chippy, or Groud-Bird. Butitisiu Do particulsr $cise a grouad-vird, Tor it fixes its ness of beis-lined grass ia s bush or low tree, and nover on the ground, as ¢o many of the Sparrons do. 118 2068 sre among the ioveliest objects that oye ever looked upon. They are very small, and poizted, bluish-green in color, and have a cluster, or sometimes 8 cirele, of brown dots st the larger end. Thessaro the jewels of she humble Chip- ping-Sparrow. It does not wear them in the Vulgar gaze of the word, Lut Lidea them io a rass-woven casket under a mother's brooding Fioge. In procesa of time, each * entira sud perfect chrysolite " is transformedinto a miraclo 1 Wfe. and breathes, snd moves, and foels, writ—why Dot ?—incarnate. i cmi-_npy is eugrossed with family cares moat of tha sammer ; but, when these are di- possd of, and the lase brood is weaned, it retirea To the fielda, aud ia a bird of lelsuro once more. Dut, mark sou, when work is dons, 4, 11 the fiekds and woous atter mid-summer. It is when the bird sbaree its with another, when 1t geely the ties that bind parent to off:pring, when 1t toils for the belpless, and laya dewn ity own comfort for the sake of others, thet it is seized with the dwvine ecatacy of song. Love it its corponsation for labor, happiness is its re- ward of self-sacrifice, avd muaic is the overtiow of ita passion and ex KONG 18 DONE 700, 2nd this is why thy there 1s comparative silence 1 ARCHITECT. F.B.HAMITTOHN, ARCHITECT, (FORMERLY OF DIXON & HAML:. 84 WASHINGTON-ST.,, ROOM D: ECALES. FAIRBAFKS BTANDARD SCALES 2 OF ALL SIZES. el 3 FATRBAN T B, NORSB &£ 00 e '.4 3 11 AND 135 LAZE-ET.