Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1874, Page 10

Lo '.'I'HE CHICAGO " 'DAILY TRIBUNE: § ATURDAY, AUGUNST 1, 1/4, —— e e e ——ooooooronrn e AUNT nx,wifiumws MANAGEMENT, Miss Ponsonby had plenty of timo, and, aa shio ared to eay, that wan about all she did have, Sho Tived with her #lstor and hor sister’s husband, who, finding thelr own tussle with the world no easy mattor, wero eo much ocenpled with thom- selves as Lo havo vory littlo attention to bsstow o1 Miss DPonsonby's mattors ; aud, consequontly, Miss Pousonby, whoso Incomo wam tho vory wiwallest incomo that any one ever lnd, found it dificuwtt, not to sy fmpoesivle, to make both euds meot, Probiably lior sistor aud her brothee- fu-lnw folt thoy ¢id a great denl in giving s Ponsunby » homo, though ‘certaluly, 1 hor ation- tion to tho detalls of that home, hor onra of par- for, aud plants, aud tablo, aud childron, Miss Pousouby might have beon entitled to wagesy but her sistor's face would have beon & etudy if anybody had proposed such & thing. ~So, when ghoas woro Aliabby, nobody droamed of ronowing them ; aud, whon tho pipings of her dms‘u woro worn, it was undorutood that Barah *‘would mnungo somoliow ;" aud if sbe couldu't, as Sister Jano remarked i her conjugal confienco, sho would be only tue gconer induced te , at an ond {o hor difilenitios by merryiug old Mr. Ellenbrod and bringing THAT COOL MILLION Into the fan.* ~tho only million that had eve: como nenr «.. «agh to taat fumily to be sova. Somutimes Sister Jane gave Allss Pousonby a spray of flowers or a feathor that sho was Lired of, aud at Clristiunses sho gnve her & pocket- handkorchiof ; but for the rest, she had to turn, and twist, aud dye, aud mako over, ‘She las nothing oleo to do with Lier time,” aaid Sistor Jane, which was just so fur tru that whon Ss- Yer Jano, aiwnys an invalid di grasia, excopt when any pleasuzo was on the wind, Iny on her Bofa rending & novel, biss Posouby was washing bhe cluldren's faces, or heariug their lossons, or compositg thioir quarrels, or 11l the vusos, or attondiug to the casters, Bl dliss Pousouby hersolf bnid she bad ao ond of timo. “WNo end of time " enid litsle Aunt Magrudor, who had Intely como for her anhual visit of a Toonth at the houso—a vieit fu which atw scrupus Toaety paid her board. * My dear, that ‘lu Just grazing too edga of gmlnmz?—m: body'd Bup- D0 yuu nufor meand to dia.! 1 pover mean to say dio," anawered Mins Ponsonby; and sho tilted her old aunt's [uco haclc by tho cbin to hiss the mouth that had Kknown no swoster kissca—for many yeara, “WYou poor sbild [ eaid Aunt Magrudor, com= osing her csp, *if I lad 8 fortuno should avo (t. 1dou't eca how it happens the all the Ponzoubys, far aud near, are—woll—ara poor. A mnn wh i prosperous has only to marry into our family to have evorything go by sixes and ovens.” o know,” sui4 Miss Ponsonby, quietly. It {8 because 3 WP ARE A 6ET OF WIOTS," 4 Tlots? " eaid Aunt Augruder, bridling. “Yen, Indeed. Wo ute always mamtainiog our digally—instoad of letting our dignity mains taiu us,” the eaid, boldly. “ Wall, really, wy dear, T don't eoe that.” I'll show vou, Icould make o very nico ad- @ition to my yeatly to and throapence If 1 couid 0 ont to the music-scholars I could bave; bub §;mr Jaua bud a hystericat the iden of my belug geon by the nalghbors to go_out to a rogular oc- cupation every umruh\F Then I could carn far mysolf at least a couple of handsome now suits every year by dolug ombroidery for Madame de Btyleas but Sistar Jano was very angry whoo I propesed 1ty and snid, if such a necossity gob wind, 1t would ruin Jnnee' busioss. And, whoy 1 apokaf talaug in fina sewing, she enid 1 could ouly got it from our friends and acquaintances, aud u‘fm woald rather go without forever than have thiat; but the troublo ia, you sce, it isn't Bister Jaue that bos to go without.” * Not stial” $ Bt shosays that, salong as Tames §i\'us mes Thamo, I'va uoright to turn his houee into a work- £hop; Sister June talks very thly. I'm pure I dan't kuow what to do. L only kuow there's ono thing I won t do.” “Prdo is like rusty it eats up the iron that docs notbing, our old pastor used to say. Ire- wember he told mb once that the idler should Dlush at his uselessnoss In the world, and that the producer—that is, anybody who works—is thoonly one that basa nght to hold his head up; and I shouldu't bo o bit surprisea if ho wete squinting at tho Ponsonby pride," 4 Woll, I suppose 1t's in us, though want and trinl hnve Joft only the inextinguishablo spark in we, I supposo it's Ponsonby prido that makes me WANT A NEW DRESB for tho Brenner chustening party. ForImustgos but thon tho fact is, L can’t go anywhere if I don't havo une, for I huvei'e anything ltorslly 80 mice ws un alpaca, and It's going to bo @ dreexy thing." 4+ Dlers mo, I thought everybody bad n best dress olwuyn 1" 1 lven't, Everydress I have in the world is made by putting togethor the remnants of o conple of Sistor June's atter shie how takon avory bit ol wear nut of them that #bo cav get. My bert woulddo for a_traveling dross. poskibly, nothing more. And I nover take journeys.” “ Bur ean't you borrow one of Jane's for tho occasion ? My child, I'm a famous wansger.” “Qh, AuntMagruderl Can 1 borrow the hangivgw of tho tabernaclo? Which one would you bortow? ‘Che gruy silk she is goimg to wenr bessolf. Do you supooso she twould lond hor suered wedding-dress, that she had dyed blue ? Aud as for her brown sadn, wouldn't sbo say it was unsnitable for au unmartjed pereon ? though, goodness kuows, 1'm gotting ulu_nlg. Aud, if T epulo of borrewing her black sill, she would nevor have another day's peaco with it for fear I shonld sneak of borrowing it sgaiv. And, bos sides, sho would tell me everybody would recog- und 1t would hurt Jeniow’ business.” + 1t you bave somo monwy of your own 2" 4Ol yew, Just £50 o vear; and outof that I have to buy wider etotting, cuffs, oollars, whoes, ouisido-clothing, threud snd . and put o 10-cent piceo iulo the month- an lor the poor it would hurt Jumes' s to have tire plato waon t0 puss our pow, tor Jaue doesw’t ofton go to church, you 11, T doclaro} ™ eald Aunt Magruder, suap- ping her little black eyes, *And jurt now—1 dou't daro to toll Jane—I shail hove to piuch beyona all provious pinch- ing; for, you seo, the DBreuncrs would name then baoy for me,” * I'm glud they did” 0l I begged them not to do so. I told them Surah was a drovdful nume,™ ** Muyy thanks, g it's mine," * But, you undarstoud, 1 knew immediatoly whal it would iuvolve mo iu. DIut do it they woulg, and so I HAD TO GET A OUR," *Or conrne,” s “Jane pooli-poohied tho idos, and enid 1t was the greasest pleco of Rbourd Cxtraveganc sbe ever hened of, and ogectly like me, Dut 1 couldu’t Linve a dear litdo child pumed for me without gaving Iy u neme cun.” **Pausonby pride my deat,” said Aunt Magru- der, with o ¢huckle, * Well now, Auut Magrnder, conld vou ?" **No, indeed! I'd give itz cup if I bad to sell my gown,” ** Meroyl Nobody'd buv any yown of mine," gaid Dies Ponronby, laughing. *“So I weut down ta the Trustes for my hitle $50, and asked bim if he could lev mo have haif of it in ade vauco, and ho snle of courus ho could; snd so I wiinll equeczo through the year somchow, But T've sent tho prettioss litllo” cup to Mies Sarab Pousonby Lrouner—a Kiy i its stem, ull dow and glivter of frosted silver outside, and plt yel low gold insido—nud Jane mav holpit! " **1n glad you dig,* gaid i, nnYunL Aunt Ma. gruder. “We'll manage without it. And I dun't suppose 826 would binvo made you a suit- ublo gowt un\'wm}"." “ No, nor less than four timea na much," ““Well, you ean urgo a headachs or & cold,— you ke now I'm aicol manuger,—or ono of the chiidren will hava pricked o fingor or bumped & forehend, und Jane'll bo in o isvirum,” *‘Lut, to toll the truth, I waus to go, Aunt Maerder," “0a, you do, do you?" S Way, yes. It would bo Hamlol with the grh . it out for tho godmother not to bu hero,” © But godmothers ara frequontly ropresented by proxy. I was wheh you were christened." * But that's didarent.” Yo, thut wus [, und this is you,” said the ola aunt, with unothor gy chueklo, 2 Ol 1 meuu_-"l o ‘ou meun you want to go. You're young— that ik, you'reuut 80—and # ot YOU'BE PRETTY. Yes, vou'ro very proity, Saruh Fonsonby, with your nuft, tioh slun, #o dark and clenr, und your {}rm brown oses, wid vour orown of blaci hair, ©a, you're aw handa; ah any Hloman girl, and 1 supposo gmu kuow “ punt Hogrudes U *And if T could drors vou in a sllk the color of a dumygtn with the blaoiu on, with black lace aud carved oms x, I'd do i, * Oh. how you aro making mo blush, annt,” shie oried, laughing n(i:n!u. * 18 o Joug sluce anybody but old Mr, Bllenbrod has finttotod me, that I don't know bow to take st.” “1t'% » groat shume” exclabasd Avut Magru- dor. “And ¢ particle of sonso and: vt o e M5 ebod attond. €0 son [ p"“l"lc?" aud togottivg you woll settled in the world.” . " fdu’t, Yon know—you knatr— it B8 e it lioly Tahall ovor mar1y.” W ilolty-pity? Why not, 1 should like to Jtnow P 1o you golng (0 be & slaye to Jaue and hor ehiutron for nothiug, sad find yoursolt, all your ke 2" " |Vh'v, Aunt Magrador, X love the denr pgs | NPY0 what it you do? Ts that golng bo hindor you from loving anybody elso? " # Aunt Magruder,” bogay Miss Ponxonby ; and then the handsome colos rushed up and suf'used Lier cheek, ti1l she had to bido hor faco, “ Jon't you know—didn't anybody ever tell you—sbout Mr. Storabargh? " YINo," enid Aunt Magiuder, omphatically, “*Nobody over told me a word about it 5 and § nlways thought it was an_outrage, forl kuaw there wan somethlng to tell." 8o it wna nn outrago—on me. Do yon know, Jano was 80 doterminod that I should marty Mr, Eilonbrod, and so convhiced thav Mr. Stern. berel's prospocts were not brilliaut, that she waylald him—" “llim? Whom ?" “ Mr, Sternborgh, Waylald him fn the hal), aud ARRED WIM TO DISCONTINUE M8 VIsrTe," And did ho ?" 3o domanded to know If the request came from wio, and that wicked woman said,” ciied Alios_Pousouby, half choked—* ok, do you bo- lieve 7—that wicked womuan satd—alo said it aidl Aud ho turncd ahout and went out, and I'vp never scen bim imco. And oh, Aunt Magruder, Iloved him as I did mv Iifel” And the prow Miss Pousonby, with Lior burning fuce biddou In ior white hands, was erying bitterly, “Thora! thore!” sad Aunt Magruder, flutter- ing her work out of hor lap, and golng over to take bor uiceo's biend on ner motholy broast— “that's oethlng to ory for; thal’s eamily made atraight. Juat lat mo knotr whote he Is, and I'il manage it. D'l go-—"" “Tnat's juse shint I_coulin't do—till yeetor- day," sobbed Miss Pousuuvy, “for I didu't Jwot myeelf, Iio Lado the Breunsrs sud every hody good-by—he wns n great fricnd of Mr, Brounor's—and he wout awsy. Aud, of onarso, 1 never lot lis name pons mf' lips, and 1 didn't know anything about it all il two yoars aftor- ward, when Jane told me m n tif. “And then [t was oo lale to do auything but bear it,” enld poor Misx Pousonby, with more toars, for now tho tlood-gates were opeon, ¥ Aud Csupposo eho thonght gou wotld bo so Indipuant at his taxing ber at hor wopd that you would amilo on old Ellunbrod.” * Hol ke louks ag if ho had been rollod in hia own goid-dna: 1 \Vell, and Az, Bternbergh?” 1 guybody hns heard of him in five yaars, nobody bns darsd %o speak to mo about it, not oven the Breuncra, who are so fond of me. And yetmrdni—l seid 1'd nover scou him sinco, I menat till yestorday ; for thero ko was in ghuroh. Ididu't dare to look—I neatly died, I hurriod howo, and my heart has been boating like a tat- tou ovorsince, Ob, in that singlo ginnce I saw bim! ~ And lio Jooked 80 noblo and brave, and beautitul1” sho said, baving thtown hor old ro- Borve to the winds. “My love," said little Aunt Magrudor, with groat dignity, ' now LEAVE ALL TII8 TO MY-MANAGENENT, I'm a famous maungor, as I told yoa. _Some- timos I'm diplomatio and eometimoes stralghtfor- ward, but I always manage! Now 1 sball imme- diately go and seon Afr. Stornborgh,” 4 Oh, po! never, never " + Aud why not, pray?" 4 0h, he bad no business o doubt me,” esid Miss Popsonby, Jooking up with the tears spark- liva on ker burnivg faco. # flow could ho help it,” said the aunt, hotly, #when your own sister and guordian—n lady, supposed to bo a woman of honor—gave him tho mersage for you ? How was Lo to know Jane lisd out of whole oloth? That would have been an outrage on yon for bim to imngine} ” You know Jane meant it for my good.” **Jane's & hussyl ¥ *But I wouldn't for all the Kiogdoms of tha oarth bave him know my sister told & fulsehood | Ob, how could ahe do it? I ameuro she thought it would Lo better for me to bo rich, with Mr. Llieubrod "— *“What has become of Wim?* £ 0h, ho's about j it would take a cataclysm to disposs of himl 1 must have rofused to marey bim at least ten tmes! But ho and Jane (hin thoy'll tite me out. Idon't kuow; I'va sume- times thought that Jane keeps me shabby on purposo, 6o that in shcer desporation I may Youulbly g8y * yes,’ and so bring a mullion dollars uto the family, Aud that's what sho wahta." [ don't sec how its going to bo of especial advantage to her," “Why, My, Ellenbrod is genorous, and he'll enlargo Sawes bueiness; and now and then I fangy that thoro ia a distivet understanding ubout 1t, and that they think 1 am an unoatural Hister *+1 ghouldn't wonder. My dear, WE JUST GIRCOMVENT HER, Thore i¥ nothivg 1 sonld lke betier," sald the little Indy, with_doncing oyes. * We must got up a dreas for that christenlag partv. Isuppose 1 know wpow why you waat to go—he's to be therg 2™ * Oh yos, of course. The Bicuners think ev- orgllung of him. And I—T want hum 10 see his degorton didn't killme? " sho cried, poasionate- 1y, with the resurning tash. “ My dear," said Aunt Magrnder, ‘you want notbiug of the kind! You waut him £ sce you ; to sea you looking your bast ; to see thut voars have ouly eurtehed vour beanty; to sce that you atill wear bia sugagemont-ring on your fore- nger, And with that Miss onsonby fell to kisalng the 1ing on her forefipecr, and to hugglug her old Auut Magruder a8 if, the talk being of god- mothies, sho were really a fairy godmothor her. self, who was going to help her out of ull her dificrities. “pere, tioro, Sarah Ponsonby, that will do,” cried the eldor party to il this offusion, “ Now get out your materin}, and leb us see what cau bo dons.” “My materisl}™ exclnimed Mies Ponsonby. “ Why, I haven't such a thing, I've only a piece-ung with the romnants in it of tha TAGS AND RAGS AND VELVET GOWNA in which the hafi ars camo to town, you know,” ng. 8lio added, lang! - Well, let's havothat,” And hor nisce brought it out, **Morino," smd Aunt Magruder, *fall of moth-holes, Jane's saviug, 1 8uj.1050; cani- Lric, scraps loft frorm the children's tiras; vests —what in the world ere you doing with this army of old black velvet vouts ? " “I make all my bounots ont of them, Yon Inow Jnmes dogen’t wear any other aort of veat.” *'Hul let me sco. Haveu't youan old silk of any desoription *Of no deseription. Only somo old piccos that I've been keeping agsinst the limo when Lushion ohauges so Lhnt littls or uothing will muke o gown—my old, old pink that I had dyed olive groen Lo matol ihat old clouk-lining, al- wmort biack, you see, but not quite. I let it down and lot it 'down, till I couldn’s any more; and thers's A shirt, to be sure, but so short it would only como Lo the knoos.” ** And you expeat tite fashions evor to chango to dresses of that longth? We nught piece it up from the bottom," **And leayo o sonm across the kueea? " ** Hida.tho seam with trimming,” I“l uflmfld like to know where I'm to got trim- mings. * I’ationce, Thore's your old cloak lining— tle colors match? Lot's seo. Yo, vory woll, ‘Chat will plece it up, I guees, with managémont, I')h”?!,‘"l““"‘l Iougth, Full drose is this aifair to o “No; but brilliant sireot dress. It'sin the aftornaon, you see,” WAl iU THE THING 1§ DONT. Don't you sry & woid to Juno, We'll just work by oursolves overy moment wo can get, and wheon it # timo to go, go,” T should like to kuow what you mean, Aunt Mugrudor.” Just this, my doar, Ifere’s tha old olive Broen basquo that Iy worn at the binsos and at ali the oher sonins und edges, and the buitons are gono, and the button-holes frayed out, snd the thing ubandaned.” ::I‘uupt it lor u pattern. It fittod so." Lixaotly, Now wo'll take fn thae loast, least atom, the seams wo can't covor up; and wo'll cover yomo big button moulds with soraps of the 'v‘nlvn} vests, and work big now button-holeti, Lhat's practical, 180' it? Then we'll turn away tho basquo in tho neek, and tako the bost lap-s Lo ba found amoug thess velvet vosts and | v thom with thaso seraps of black sfik—lhoro L. y nro—and fuce the ncck ous with them. 'Ihac's practical, aud stylish too, And then wo'll qut out any quantity of loaves, Loccl leavos, of #raduated sizos, from the places n thoe veats that ure least worn, avd pipe them,'and carry thom all round the lmnquc. aftor we've piped that With sumo more seeapa, and osrry them over tho shouldors, hiing all tho'seama wo didu't atiteh ing and we'll sorve the sloeves the same- way, aud you'll have a—'"" du‘tm really suporb jacket! Oh, Aunt Magru- 1 = You'nE A witan |" " No, my love, I'm n wiss old woman, snd a preat matnger, Now for the auirt—very scant in tront and on tho sides. You can cut anough fora gneh, yop #oo, to drupe undor this little ?ull‘, aund L'll fringe tho cndw, for 1 know bow, Ploce Jbup wit the old alualishniug, well fucod | sut . in tho poarlsy it's an exguisita lswx\mm . to'what In the world she would woar, out and_plpe more foavos—these vosts would mako a foreat of {).om—thiree rows all round tho bottom of tho skirt, m'uwlng smallor ab tho back, but hiding tho joln, and branching s littlo wayln a point wp tho front. Do you Aoo :\:‘K‘x‘p;h.!ule open hior eyos ? Bho'll want it Lior- ** It will bo heavonly, Dut i - s oy e hantorly il tako an in *What oxtravagaut lsnguago! And didn't you juat say you had o end of timo? Woll, my timo {8 Erluuully 88 long. Millinor's stitoh it can sll bo dove with, Ican aes vorv woll; I'll cut out tho leaves, snd bolp you needls, for neodlo, aud soe you dresnod for that chirlatening a4 bocomen your nnmoaake,” *You are s talry %udmofllarl You only waro your wand over un old tng-bag, and off 100 IN BPLENDID DIsQUIsk [" orled Miss Pansonby, And nobody would have conjeoturod thin brilliant, buny, inughing girl, gally twiuting or odds aund ends about, 40 be the rathor worn and woary woman of Lwo lours ago, who was oxhaustiug every coutrivance i order to go as bofitted her to tho place where aho was uxPunted. t was loss than & week from that day that Misg Ponsouby stood before her glnse arrayad in what was to all appoaranco as aplondid s cos- time, ‘aftor its own style, a3 over camo out of Daris. ** A verr romarkeblo tollet, my love ™ eald Aunt Magruder, wtth satisfaction, * * And I'm so lad 1 nover gave away my old cut jots before; they're nothing, you hnow, but they Jond it & gort of dark, rich splendor. - Now, thoie's ono thing more—your grendfathor's little mininturo, for 60 tiny n thing, I dato say Jane will grurble, but is mive now, aud your right is as good au hers, and thoro it 18—uow it's yours: Ilaug it round your neck, aud Int 1t Ne Li the Dlusion. thers bo- tweon the In{m]n. There, that's porfoct!” snid the little old luds, wollivg on tiptos to kins the warm rod lips of ' the faco that bout to mooc hor. “And I'm really glad I consonted to go with you, for I want to _ges Lho hinprossion you make —and nobody minds & widow's bombazine,” sho added, “** Naw for Jane!” and she bristled to tho bastle as she wont down, But Miss Ponsonby was not so brave, for wion, ab tho broaklnst-talile, sbo had annousced her inteution of golug to the christening party that day, and, in roply to Jane's querulous query &s had Botd #ho had contrived a very {)nlly droes, aud would oxhibit it before she went, Jaue bad cut bor to tho quick srith o luok lite a paar of daggors, and hiad declnred that she was & Farwaed pleco to bo dresaing horself out to attinct admivation, and that snuo wna taking the bread out of her chil- drou's mouths to ACCOMFLISU MER OWN SLLFISIL WIRIES, 8o, tleir hearia ulukivy a hitle jn apite of them- solves, lhoy went down, oniy to find that Mru, Jaus had, fu a dudgoun, taken herself and her Lusbaud and tus elder childron saway to the christoning party belore them; whoreon thoy hurried off by the:naolyes as gayly aatwo girls on & fosbldden Jark, Coctainly if olda Aunt Magroder liad bees o Duchers sho conld not have eutered tho room, having disposad of ber wraps, wilh & prouder air thau she did with her wieaw by hor sido that day; hut then she was a Ponsouby, and thera is no doubt chat Aunt Nagrudor thoupht that quite an good a thing to bo as & Duchess, Aunt Ma- gruder was conducted by the cordial host to a seat of houor; batb asthe cbmlmny. who wore all old frinnds, wera just aseombling, Mies Pouson- Ly, by viriue of her godmothership, aud befora the grent gueat of tho doy—tbnt is, the baby— was brought iu, and befoio sha had Linie to seo who was there and who wasn't there, beckonod to Mrs, Broune:'s uide to nesist Iu recowving ; aud tho half-bour was o busy oue. Sho was a splondid noceselon to the group as she stued thore, {all aud atately, with the color on bor chcek hiko tust rich gunsct tint that you goo on the ‘side of a_sun-buraished poar, with tho smile, the haughtly fenturss, sud tho queen-like poite of the perfect head, crowned by braids massive as carvod rbony. "“And ber drees sneops away from hor right royally!” seil Aunt Megrudar, surveying the szono, and totully uuconsoious that she waa talk- ing aloud. *# A UGHT ROTAL LOATING WOMAXK," said the gentleman besido Lor, who evidently thought tho remmik addressod to bim. “ALI" snid Annt Dagrader, turning to look at him through hor gold ginsnes, which she al- ways wore st ceromouies, though they never would stay on hor vose, *‘Mr, Blernbergh, I belleve ? O, you woodn’t bo surprided, sirg 1 was luakmfi at your picturo loss than an honr 850, and that royal-lookivg woman was crying over it!" Ob, yon silly Littlo Aunt, MAEHII]BPI Was this our boastod mauagoment 7 What if his mind nd cisnged 7 What if be had anotber swoet- “Dax't mutter zny of your said Aunt Magruder to her con- selance, **I'm going to run the risk, 'The man's 48 palo a8 a sheet now, and Sarah Ponsonby don't know he's in the rooms. 1 can ace—he's quiver- ing with yrath at mp daring to touch his wound, T’ quict bim—that is, If Jaue doesn't coma across the room, Look at her there, the cplmi 9! # ourdl casting = gloum on tho ocos- sion !’ 1 bog your pardon, Madam,” Mr. Btorabergh way BayIng, in & suppreased voice, and with white }lpsjn“ but do you know of whon you sre speak- ing 7 . % 1 should imngineso. I am talking of my doar nicce, Barak' Pousonby—a true Ponsouby, too, which T never could eay of her sister June,” #nid Aunt Magruder, running all bor weeds to- gother 1n a panic let she should be intorrupted; ** for thore nover wss_a LPonwonby bafore Jane who would condoscond to tell such a falsehood a8 Jano told whon shio gave you conge in the ball, while up-glairs her poor sister's Leart was hu:uu;; a glad reveille at tho sound of your loot—" Madam " “You, air | And aftor all I've heard of you and now that I've soen yuu, I musl say that I'm astonished YOU BUOULDN'T IAVE SEEN THNOUGH JANE AT A GLANCE. L Olt, Tknow what you'rs thiuking, &ir, just an woll as if you told me!" Auut Magruder went ub Droathionsly, as her oyo-glassea tumblod off, nud the Lraer £o reltove hor mind cthat on the on- trance of the baby and her suito, a fow miauntes bofore evorybody had orowded' away them to- ward tho resplondout centre . of " attraction, “You'ro thinking 1'm & presumptuous old busy- body ana gerrulous old wowmau, but the truth s, 1t's boun my Intontion over sinco I know them —that's whero I'm dipomatic, thought this ab- surd little Aunt Mugrader to berself, not to toll him it isn't a weok since I know them—*it'y boon my intention over sluce 1 kuew them to toll you tho faots if I avor came across you, For I lovo my niece, and I koow that she loves—" ** Madnm—"" - # Mra, Magruder, if youpleaso.” #Mrs, Magruder, may I asic «f 3iss Ponsoaby was aware of your intention to speak iu this msuner to ma?* askod Mr. Storvborgh, with his eyen flashing bluo fire. ¢ Awaro of mf' intention! What do you take her for? I doolare I don't know but Jauo waa night!” exclaimed Aunt Mugender, undor hor broath, aud putling on hor rostless glasuos again tolook at tho wnn, *“No, eir! by mece 1 tho image of Smibert’s painting of lhor great-great- graudmother, who kapt the color on bLer check, and the laugh on her lip when tho Indinus thrust burning stcka into hor flosh, rathor than let hor oupncenled husband know that they were huri- ing her, No, sir]l ~Sarah Ponsonby would die sooner than lov you know that youlad all but broken ber hoart. — Yes, sooner thau let you Lnow It, I dow't know but sho would aven mariy old Eltenbrod with his nullion thut she haa re- fused ton tumoa [ And thore Aunt Magrudor paused, Aud prosoncly sl began to Lo very much frightened at hor own sudacity, and her hands tromulod 8o that she couldu’t pus hor glussos ou at all, For Mr, Sternborgh was standing so sllent, so silont and nigid, that Aunt Magruder foarod Jest | Lo waa navor fi“mfi to move again, lest Lor rov- elation had kiflod bun, lost he would smite bor whon ho did move, Lut she took honrt again dircotly, under tho nssuranco that he was but oxerting all hug atrength to save himself trom tha exortion of some violont emotion, *f Comse," she uald boidly, to break the spoll, “thoy are Just about to make a Christian of the youngost mombor of thig party, Are you nat goiug to take mo up 7" Mr. Btainbergh started ; thenhe turned toward her, smiling, aud be bont uud tooi Lor hand and touched it to his lips, thut porhaps thomsclycs tromblod tho least possiblo, with ull the dovotlon that youth way pay to age. 0 ALONG WITH YOU FOR A HAUCEDOX 1" murmured happy littlo Aunt Magruder, with a0 much weter ju bor oyos that shu couldu't sos whether sho was tapping Iitm with hor fau or only the empty air. And just ut thut minute Mra, Jane onme slipping duwn the room for hor aunt, and dircotly attorward there was uobody absent from tho group that wes gathered about the white-robed priest ut the othor end of the parlos, It wan probably some ten minutos after that that Mien Ponsunby, oxtbiting the prosumably phonomensl bezuties of hor namexake to & clus- ter of her frionds, turned about to give hor to the uurseand found hersolf ou the pojut of do- positing hor in Mr, Stornbergh's arma, while ov- ory vostige of color iled from Lier faco and lefs it ashion, YTt wasin maroy that she didn't drop the ahild!" thought that Aunt Mogruder, watching them from hor coigne of vantage, sud sseing the nurao ab that opportuoy moment latorveaoj whilo Mr. Btarnborgh drew Mins Pousanby's arm through his, aud with an auchority not o bo Pllh“u{ realstod, without obscrvation and re- mark, Jed ber down thoe long rovmn; and Aunt Mngrader saw no more, ** Guud managoment,” enid Auut Magruder trlumphantly—* good man~ agomont alvays wing,” And you nover could have cunvincod her that tolling the plaiu truth was no managemont at all. Alr, Braruborgh LED MBS PONSONDY AWAT, but nelther of them uttored o agllablo as thoy slowly throaded tho gronps, all wilvso mombors curned with n look of wonder after thom. He, to be suro, had a purposo, but sha went along, ignotant whither, and simply trying to rocover barself, Haconduoted hor through tho' lower door of ihe parlors—ho was. porfoctly st homo with the Breanars, though not a ward of the thing that gnawed his I:onrt had beon evor epoken of there—couducted bier acrose the dining-room, whiore the struature of the chiistentng-cake wi yat _unbroken, avd snto Mr. Bieunor's little pmolting-den, that wns alway safo from mtru- ton. Thon ho sentad bor in tho groas hollow of the arm-char, and waitod for thu color to Muttor back Into het face, while ho staod, death-atill, ith uno liaad un tho back of the clinir, his own (ace white as barg, and his hestt boatiug so that bo could hoarit, It was only Lwo or threo moments, though it scemed otoroities, that sbe snt thore, lovking stiaight bofora lier, uncortain whother ahe wishod she wero dond, or thought sho was in heavon ; and then ha atcoped aud lifted tar hand, and bad indioatod the ring om its fore- Bogor. *Why'do vou wenr it still ' ho said, honrgolv, And auddonly, ns sha looked up. with hor gont startlod oyes, Lo had ffang Lnmyolt be- eide hor, and TIAD TAREN NER IN I8 ARSI, and was holding her to s 1ips and to bis honre, as it they wers nover to part. * And I novor mean to part with yau," ho whispored, '*Way sliould you go back for more miaciuef to be mado botwoen ua? 1If I have not Ilonbrod’s mithicn, 1 have enough. The priest is 1n tho parlors, our friends ave wll with him, My datling, whon we iave waited tlyo yoars, you will not rsk mo to wait auother day?" * Do you mean—" she bogan, hiesitatingly, and all the boautitul cotor dosponing. “1 nionn o marry Jyou, Lo volente, before tho noxt quarter ohimps,” he whispored. *Iu this dross " she otled, with sudden ravul- sfon to the world, especially the fominine world, *In auything,” ba nuawoted. “The outulds nhiall not ‘mattor when our Loarts are clud in wodding-gatmonts.” Ile moved a:ay, but camo bacic and took hor in bis arms again i an om- Lracoe as if be werosatisfyiug the long hungor of fiva voarn. My durling, you havo niot, told me ot that 1t waa all arror,” Lio sald, * that you love m ** I—T will toll the minister,” said Miss Pon- sonby, An for the rest, It wau all A WHIRLISG DREAN to that young wowan. Bhe tnought Mr. and - Min, Brounor were in tha little room an inataut, tho ous laughlug atber, the othor kisaing hor ; that sister Juuo and her husband ware thore too —einter Jana, at auy rato, aghast in spoechloss angor ; that Aunt Magrudor had come buatling in, and was enyiuz, “Icnu soud rouud bor aatehel with all uho'fi ‘nood hafore tho train goos, aud how very Inoky that the obristoning-cake will ansxor for brido-eake, too I" And thon thero wan awhirl of facos, and sho was ouly balf awars that she atood in tho parlors boforo the clergyman, ouly balf awara of the solomn aud awful words she was ultering—whilo Sister Jous’s faco soomed to lang in tho alr bofore her, and she was surs the childron would be told sho had dones drondful thing— fully conscious of nothing but that sho wa3 qm\kinF from hesd to foot, and that o doar hand was bolding hara with a fivm grasp, aud a happy volce murmuring reassuring worda in her ear. And then somebody kissod hor, and she paw that Jane aud her husbaud woro making the bost of it, and Jaue was crylng, and Bho flung her arms around Jane's nock and criod too. After that thers was a rush of people and a storm of congeatulations, aud everybody way calling hor Mua. Storhbergh, and Auut Magrudor was hug- ging ber, and laughiuy like a hiysterical girl, and whispering, * Didn't I tell you you could trust to my managoment? But, oh, I naver would havo bolioved it it anybody bad snid the wedding- dresn of a Ponsonbyconldhase hoon made oni of a tng-bag! “—Zarriet Prescolt Spoford an Lar- per's Bazar, THE \WEDDING OF SHON MACLEAN. A DAGPIPE MELODY, ¥ROM THR GAXLIC, At the wedding of Shon MoLean, Trenty Pipers logether Came in the wind aud the ratn Playing ovor the heather; Backward their ribbons low, Dravely they strutted und blow, Each clad jn farton now, Tounet and blickzock'feathor+ And evary Piper was fu’, Twenty Pipers together, Ho's but a Bagsenach blind and vem Whio never hesrd of Sion Maclean— Tho Duke's own Pipor, called Shon the ¥ iry Feom bis freckled skt and his Nory hnir, Futher and son, sincs the world’s creatlon, +The Maclean had followed this occupation,. And played the pibroch 1o Gra the Clan Bluce thip Arst Duke came aud the Zartn began, Like (ho whistling uf bivds, ke the humming of boss, LiXe the sough of the south-wind in the trecs, Like tho afnging of angels, the playlng of aliawms, Like Ocean ftaclt with lta storms and its catm, ‘Were the pipea of Shon, when Lo stratted and blow— A cock whose crowing ctentiun know { ‘At Inat, T tho prime of his playing life, The eiirit moved Lim Lo tako & mio— A luavlo vith e of ighlaad Ulue, Wholoved the pipea and tho Iiper too, And doncod to thie sotnd, with & foot 'snd a 16z Whi Iily and smooth na an eggr, 80, all tha Pipers wera comiuy togelher Over the moor and across the heather, All in tho wind and the ratu ; Al the Pipora g0 bravely dreat ere Nocklng by trom e cuat and the weat, To blees tho hodding and blur their hest ‘At thie woddiug of Shon Maclean, At the wedding of Shon Maclean *Tyras wot and windy wostlier | Tet, through the wind and tho ratn Came Lwenty Pipers togothivr | Earach and Dougul Dhu, Saudy of 1ala too, Each ‘with the bonnet o' blue, Tartan, and blackvock feather And svery Piper was {u', ‘Twenty Pipers togethor! The knot was tled, the words were aatd, Blion was married, Lhe feast was spread ¢ At the Liead of 1he tablo sat, bugs and hoary Btrong Sandy of Isla, ogo fouracare, Whiskered, gray a6 & Haskoir seal, And elad §n erimaon from head to heel, enoath and round bim n their degres Qathered Lie mon of minatrelrlo, With kecpare, gillles, and lads aud tasses, 3ixiug voices, snd jingling glasncs, ‘At Boup and Lisggis, at roast sud boiled, Awhile the appy gatliering tolled, yWbile 8hon una Jean ot the table-snds 8hooi umds with a bundred of their friends, Then camo a hush, Through the open door A wea liright Forn flsabied on the foor,— This Duks bimnelf, In the kilt and plaid, With ulim soft kneos, like the kuecs of & matd, And be took n glass, sud he eried out plain, T drfuk to the health of Shou Maclean} v To Shon the Piper aud Jean hia wife, A clean firostde snd a merry lifa]" Tisen ant bo slfpt, and euclt mun aprang To bia feet, ond with “ Honch ¥ {ho chamber rang: #ioar the'tables 1" uhrieked ont ono— A Toap, & scramblo, the thing was donel Aud then tho Pipers all in u row Tuned tuelr piyed sl bogin tu How, Whilo ull to dance stoni fatu Sandy uf Iela and Earach More, Dougal D 1o Kilfsnuun sliore, Pluyed up the company on the Hour' At the wedillug of Bhoa Macleva, ‘At tho wedding of Rhon Muctesn, “Tienty Pipors togotlier Stood up, while sli thelr ratn ‘Coased 'thelr clattor uid blethar, Full of mouutaiv-dew, First on thelr pipes they blow, Miglily of boua and throw, Med-chocked, with lungs'of leather; And overy Mper was fw, - Twenty Ligers togotlicr | Who led the dauce? 1n pomp, and pride “Ulho Duke hlzmself led out the Lride, Groat wan the Joy of uach bulolier, For the weo Duke only reaclicd lior ahouldar: Aud thoy danced, and turnod, when the rool began, Likoa gluntesn and a falrlo min | It Itk wn earthquake was the din When Stion bimaelf led the Duckuss in1 And ulio took her nlace before hiw there, Like o while mouse danclug with« Leur. How the little Duchess, 0 sl and wircet, er blua eyou vatching Bluows gieat 0el, With » smillo tht could nut be rufsted, Jigged, sud jumped, and twitled, sud twisted tunlly of Tels led off thio reel, ‘Lo Duke bujgan 1t with toe niid beel, Then afl joined i fall fafn; ‘Twonty Pipers rauged i a row, Erom enufudiag Sutuie (o lnuls Kllorar, Tiaedr ehieeks liko erimeon, Legat: t blow, At the wedding of Shou Macloan, At the wedding of Shon Masloan Thoy blaw with lungs of leathier, Aud blithesome wat Ls sirain "hone P1ipors pluyed togviber] Molut with the mountuinalow, Mighty of bone and Hlfin Each with the bonuet o' ‘Tartan, suit blackeock jeat Aud overy Pper was fu',, Twouty Pipors together} ‘Oh for a magia tongue to tell Ol all thy wondors that Lefall! Of how this Ditke, when the tint stave dled, Raackiod up ou Hptos o Xlas tis Brids, Whilo u.nar. pipes, 2a thel Bkirled, sud set avery heart. "Tuen Bho ook Lo pipset or ¢ An nilently ho the bags did All, With flaming cliooks and rounid bflrm eyt Tl tho first fafut inusia bogat to riso, Liko & thiotinand lavorooks singiug in. tuns, Lins conutlens corn-aratis uuder tha mann, Like tha smnck of kiues, ke aweot bolls ringing, Liko & morinnid's harp, or a kalplo singing, Blow the pipes of Biou; and (i witohing atrain Was the gathering song of i Gian Maciean ! Thon alowly, geutly, at hin wide, All'tie Pipurs arounil raulied, And swolled tho glorlotia atrain 3 The hearta of all wera irond sna light, Tolisar the music, {0 son (e aight, Aud the Dutke's own eyes wero dim (hat night, ‘At the wedding of Skon Maclean, . 8o to hionor the Olan Mncless Htraight they began to gather, Blowing the witd refealn, 4 lne buteta acrons the heather | 7 They stamput, mi' atrutted, they blaw; "Cliey shivisVod ; ke cocks thuy craw Dlawiig the nates out true, ‘With wondseful lungs of Joathiers 2 And ovory Plpor was fu', . "wenly Plpers togethiert When tho Duke and Duchesn wont away The dauca geew mad und the fun grow goy$ Man aud maidon, fuce o face, Leapt aud footed and screamod apacol Ttonnd und round the duncsrs whirled, Bartllor, loudor, the Plpers skicled, L'l this soul soomad KWouniug into sonnd, Aud all creation was whirling ronud, Luen, tn v yause af the dutice wiid gite, “Tue Pipors, ceaning tol nstrelsie, Dratuing the glasa in gronps il atsud, ‘And puvand the snuff-hox irom haud to nand, Handy of 18la, with locke of anow, Bquinting Suamus, Liud Kilmaos, Timlay Bey, sud Eirach More, Dougil Dat, of KilGannan's shore— . Al toe Piputs, tlack, yellow, and green, All the olora that ever wore seen, Al tho Plpers of ull the Mace, Gathored togotbor anil taok tholr cracke, £*hen (00 mun knows how the thing befoll, Tor none was nober cnough to to.) Lucas teavouly Piyera from twauts places Began disputing with crlmson faces ;. Lach sswerting, {ike one demonivd, ‘T clatiun of ths Olau he raprosonted, 1In vain gray Bandy of Isla uirove "Fo suollis tielr atruggls with words of Jove, Asserting thure, liko a geutleman, ‘Paa suparior elains of ats owa gseat Glan “en, Nnding to rerson Is despar, 110 selzes his pipes aud lie pluys an alr— Tl gathoring-tane ol his Gluji,—and trics “I'n drown {n musle the ahrieks aud cries, Ilsaveus | Every Plpar, growa insd with ire, Bolzea hfa pipes With » fierce tiesire, And blowiug tnadly, with fluurlsh and squesk, Besting hia partienlsr tune to shriek ! Uy und down the guutit they go, T'wenty Pipors, all in & row, Eich with a difforent atratn, Fach (ries hard to drown tha frat, IEach blown loudar il 1ixe 1o birat, “Phus wero the tunea of tie Clany retioarst At the waddiog of Shon Maclean | At thio wodding of Shon Maclean, Tyenty Pipors together, Dlowiog with might ami mata . Through wonilerful fiinzs of leather, WHid wan the huliabaloo | Taoy atruticd, thoy scroamed, thoy craw s Twenty wild stralun they blow, Ifolling the boart In tuthor s And every Pijer waw T Twency Pipors together| A storm of muslo] Like wild slevth-hounds Contendling togetacr were (e sonuds, At Last 2 bevy of Ev's bright dsughters Poured oll—that's whisky—upon the waters ; And nfter auother glaas wont down pr ‘The Plpers chuckled and censed to frown, Imbraced liks broliiers and indred apirits, And fully sdmittod ezch alher’s merlts, All Llies munst oud] Tor now the Bride Was looklng weary and heavy-syed, Axdl a00n she stola front the drinki: ‘While the company settled to deo: ‘One hour—another—took {ts Aigh! “I'ne clock struek 13—~the dead of uightes Aud still the bride like n rosa so rod Lay toucly up in tho bridal bed, Athalf-past 3 the Bridegroom, Shon, Drapt on the table xs hesvy as atone, And four strong Pipers acrosx the floor Careied hiui up to the bridsl door, Pushied Lim {n at the opou portal, And left hun lnurln‘,fi serops and mortal, ‘I'he swmall stacs twinkled over the heather, Ax the Pipers wandered away togeiher, Hhut one by one on tho Joutney droot Glutching hia pipes, and thora he siope ! One by one on the dark hillside Lach falnt wail of the bagpipes died, Amid the wind and tue rain | And the twenty Pipers at broskof dsy Iu twenty different boglioles Lay, Surencly vicoping upan their way Tioim the waddiog of Shion Macloan | —Robert, Luchunan tnthe Gentleman's Magazine. *The parting klasy; llt., the cup at the doors -chorus, nedorua,? Sanguinary Eattle in Australln DBee tween Black and Red Ants. Btudouts of patural history- might havo wit- nensod a spectacle of no ordinacy ivterast bud thoy boon presout at Mosquito, & fow milos dis- tant from Klnrybomugh‘ on Haturd:r last, says the M. and D. Advertiser (Australin), of April 3, The sight was that of a Dattls botseen two opposiag familics of the aut spacies ; and, hav- 24 watched the conflict for a comsiderabls time, we can snfely say that it was one of the mont singulur distutbaoces of the kind on record in tha Colony, Our attention wss drawn to the spot by obuetving 2 small crowd of peraons as- #embled togetker, who were avidently very much interouted in What was going on. T'ho sceue of the battle was on the slope of a Lill nenr Penny & Olauson’s crushing-machine, and when we arrived it wan raging in all its fury, + Llio combatants on ono side were bluck ants of thae emallost size, aud o the other rod ants of ono of tho largest size, aud to compare the two the red oucs wore about threa times us Iarge and powerful a8 the black ones, But the blaok out- uumbered tha red by millions, and.at that stage wore rapidly gainmg the npper hand and bo- coming masters of the field. The ground for many vards nround was sirewn with the dend, yuall ,and great," of both nrmies; and on tracing the lne of battle to one portion of it rathor isolated from the contral scone of action we disgoverod comparatively hugo wausses of tho dead bodies lying together in promisouous confusion, It was evident thaf the fight bad commonced at this point, which wan near the stump of a treo, the stronghold of the red ants ; and it aléo appoared as if it had been carried on for some days, and that the rod hud repulsed the black [rom their holos, tor tha doad thiere showed every appearance of having been washed togothor, aud all traces of the con- liot, oxcopt the bodies, wers obhiternted by rain. “Phey wero then fighting at & pluco soveral yards removed from the ntuimp, the lino of ropuleo apparently beiug townrd the birrow of tha blnok ants—this was fully 100 yards ofl. Iowever sucgessful tho red tribo ‘may Lave hoon at the outset fn beating back their assailants, they woro being graduslly vauquished by thelr smatlor and” blackor faes, aud no wondsr, for feartul odds were asainst thom, Tho numboers of thered were limited, and oach of thom had to fight with ten or twonty black ants; sometimes, ivdood, oua would be rushed by a perfeot army of small ants, which would fasten to hia legs and sottla upon every part of lua body, rendering resistaucs holploss and cscape {mpomsiblo; yet ho wonld uot dio before iulicting fatul mjury to some of his victors, Now one rod ant would strugele hini- #olf froo from his assnilnats aud attewpt to re- trent, but only to ruah inco tho Jaws of douth 1n anothier part of tho baitle-tield, Then wuother would run to the assistancoof a red comrada in dintross, whon both shared the commion fato. Thus the conflict was waged; all tho time tor- rifio slaugNtor was goung oi ; carnnge as sorious inthe winld of ants as any rocorded in The Iifteen Decisive Batlles, snd in that war the lowor orders in thoe seale of naturo, which an unrefleoting mind ml{;hn look upoa without seo- Ing auything to wonder at, one could almont im. agino he saw the divplay of as much plack and heroisn as waa exhioited by the hosts of Greeco un the plaink of Lroy. It wan most inferesting to see the wovemouty aud countormovemeuts of the contondng forcou ; the wheeling, sdvanco, and retirement aud return of tholittlo bluclc squadrons, and the still more furions and des- porute chinrges of the red logious. The oxciie- mont, onergy, and activity ou both sides wero wondorful to behold, Dut the overpoworin; uumbors of the black auts complutuly-,-mcludufi the puswibility of a victory on tie purt of the rod ouos, Thousands wora in the field roady to step Intothe vacsut rauks, und millions more were on tho march from the burrow, The line of 100 yards betweou tho pluce of fighting and tholr Tortification waa bluck and tnick; und while some which had tuken part In the fray wero re- turning, still wore formidablo roinforcemonts were coming ut full specd, with ** all tho pomp and cirrumstanco of war, {t would tako too iong to dusetibe many othor foatures of Eliin ox- traordinary buttlo, whick would ot fail to striko tho attentivo obsorver ; sud this hurried acgount of & somawhat impottant opisodo in the natural history of tho district must bo concluded with the statoment that towurd ovemug tho rod ants werw utterly routod nod uul)yJ o fow stragglers esoaved to toll tho tale ; but for hours ufter- wards the blaok conquerors swarmed abowt, no doubt to celubiato the conquost in & mannor becowing to an ant-community, ¥ Migh Living in the Oulurdo Poni- tomuiry, A correspondant of the Chicflain, writing from Cauon City, says that the living {8 so good mthe prinou undor Warden Prossot that extra guards iuve to bo put on to provout tho Canoultes from breakiug futo that institution, Mr. Prossor 1s said to bave catlod for proposals for furnishing the privon with provisions, including 1,600 pounds of osuned trats, 100 pounds of raisins, (0 pounds of cutrauts, 3,700 pounds of dried apnles, » largo lot ot dricd penolios and tapiocu, and sbont sixty dozen bottlos of fiavoring ex- traota, THE FARM AND GARDEN, Modorn Gardoning—ifow Xot-Fods Aro Dispensed With, nnd Opens Ground Culture Adopted—Eatlure of Laying Tile by Machisory i Ane diana—The Enhnanced Valuo of Wets Lund by Dru g—lrrignilon for Markot-Gardens aud tho Small Erults—~Lne Birds and the Gravshop- Pers—"Tho Corn-Crops From Our Agricultural Correapondent. Quantrazos, Ik, July 30, 1874, Bofora tho days of railroads, if wa deslred vogotablos out of menson, wo had to resort to hot-bods and gloss-hounos,~not only for tho atariing of ptants carly, but, to a groat oxtont, to porfeot thom. But this was a coatly luxury, and made thoss early gardon-products possible only to therick, And thon such frults as the strawborry, the raspborry, snd tho blackborry, could not bacounted in tho list of thesn Inxuries, for thoy wero too costly ovou for the rich, Dut now TIE NAILROADS AND MODERN GANDENING bave mude all of those thibgs vossiblo to all claunes of our people. In the old time, the early- market-gardons wero, a8 aro thoso for later use, ranged around in the auburbs of our citles. “I'hase for Chicago wore mostly along the sandy »oil of tho Iako-shoro, and rosched ag far sonth a8 tho Calumeot, aud to Evavston, or, as it waa then oallod, Gross Pofnt, on thanorth. Over all this district, hot-beds nnd’ cold-frames covered with glass aboundod; but, as tho railronds ox- tonded mwouth, so extonded south tho early~ market-garden, ond the opon sunlight and warm moil took - the placo of tho glass-coverod cold-frame. The sunvy hill-sides at Cobdon, Anna, Dongols, and Villa Rlge, uearped tho place of the city hot- bods and cold-frainos, aud vastly cheapened the onrly vogotables; and, at the samo time, cheap- ened tho early small fruits, and thus revolution- ized the old aystem of producing the early voge- tablos and fruits, And yot farthor South pushod the railroads, and farther South followed tho gardeus, UNTIL TNE GULY WAS REAOHED ot Mobile. There, in the opon ground, without tho aid of glass, gorn, groon poas, beots, onfons, and tho wholo st of garden-vogotablos, could be grown, and sent to Chicago almost as oarly as thoy could bo plantod in the open ground, and at less than a quartor what thoy would coat grown undor glass, Before one thought of laying nsido his over- Gont, . and bofora tho first pulsations of spring appeared in the Chicago gardens, tho market was Dlled with green pess, strawborrles, and othor liko daintics, in full perfection, grown in tlse open air, on tho shores of Mobile Bay, and brougat to tho city, a thousand milos, by ratl. We might sey that this was interfering with local gardening. Not at all, for the local gar- dqeucr%nc«mo imtorested in this suburban gar- doning, that was_prosocuted a ihousand milea distat, And to-duy tho distant gardens aroan much & part of tho gardons of tha Northas though thoy were covored with gluss and located just outsido the husfl marts of trade, 0! Inte thero bas boon opened up a now line ot tallrond, by filling in wanling links, and the route f:om Cairo to Now Orleans has pre- wented a now fleld for tho enterprising gardener. Not that Now Orluaus, 88 a garden-sito for tho early yogetables, Los any particular charms, but thint the new line of road runs fulavd from the sicitly troams, and pussos over tho mora healthy table-lands, botter adapted to the homons of thoso resrod ab the North. WUEBE HIALL I LOCATS AT TRE SOUTI for the purposs of growing vegotables and the siall fruits for thhe North? has beon often re- ponced to us. Au we po south from Chioago, wo find Moneo, Kakalieo, Onarga, Champnigi, Mat- taon, Contralin, DuQuoin,Carbondale, Makuuda, Cobden, Auua, Dongols, and Villa Ridge,—all points of iuteroat in the growing of vogotablon and fruits for Chicago and other points north,— Chicago being the groat dwstiibuting point, Af- tor a long time, Momphis and Jackson were hoard from; und, for a fow years back, vogota- blea have come from ~ Mobilo. ~On the comploting of tho great through line to New Orloans, the inquiry has boon rouewod, +Whore sball 1 looato?” Not having boen farther south than Danville, in Mlsnmuipgl‘ wo caunot npeak from persoual experience ; but we should wish to get as near Now Orloans a8 pos- sible, providing the conatry was high, with a good noil, & central shipping point, cheap land, and good socioly. A friond b M'COMB CITY, 105 miles north of New Orleans, and 500 miles wouth of Caito, writes in rogard to a new town, aud, lrom Lis doscription, it must eventuslly be a promiuent point for market-gardens and the smalt fruit, such as the strawberry, the rasp- borry, the blackberry, melons, eto.” The goil'ia a ricts saudy loam, and the elovation s about 500 feot nbove tidewater, making it 200 foot higher than Oniro, and nlmost equal to the elova- tion of BMattoon and Champaign, Such o location for tho South must beo valuzble to the market-gardonor, for it _muat insuro heslth to himsolf aud family. While he will be o fow duya behind the Mobile gacdens na regards earliness, he will have tho advantago of cuenEpr froight aud somo hours in time,~both of which ars important itoms in this branch of rural ludnutr{. Tins point 18 about 870 miloa south of Chiongo, or about thirty-eight hours,—a tritls ovor & da; and a half. With proper packing and woll-ve tilated curs, ac that soason, vegatables will ar- rive in good order, while, a monih or two later, they would bo ‘spoiled by host. Divide this 870 wiles by 12, aud v have 70 days for the geasou to make its maroh from McCowb City to Clucago. To the gardener of Chiengo, those 70 duys, with hia hot-beds, are daye su nighty of watehtul cate, and withal exponsive ; aud his cucumbors that come from his hot-beds give him no botter profit at $3 ;per dozen than tha lato tlald-crap at 75 centa per 100, But the Southern gardener grows his cuocumbers as & fiold-crop in the open grouud, and 18 thus en- abled to put the SHrec gatherlng on the Chicago market at $1 a dozen, aud thus ruln the business of tho gardemer with his hot-beds. Potatocs in tha open ground at Chicago matare about July 20 1o the 25th ; but tue souson ot McUowmb City ie seventy days tn advance, with potatoes wvearly ripe whon tho Chioago_gardeuer is plauting. Last apring I planced Early Roso April 13, aud July 8 made tho tirws shipmont, aud on the 17th the last of that lot, tho vine then being. dead-rine, ‘That gave alghty-soven duys of growth. The Southern gar- denor ut that rato would bave beon roady to ship otutoos May 1, which. I think, was the cage. T'hou, as the senson murched north, the supplion come' fram Juclaon, Cairo, Cobden, Ceutrulin, Canmpaign, aud Ounrga; and to-diy the gar. deus i the latitude of Qhicago hava the potato- market to themsetves, 1t i plaiu that wo hove A PERMANENT CITANGE in the whole uysioa of gardening ; that thoe hot- Lods for the tarcing of cucly vegetables must by thrown aside, and those grown in tha opou air, by fold-cultuie, will tuke theis place,—be- ginning first a thousand miles away, and follow- fug tho line of march of the soason, until tho last surawberries como from the south shore of Lake Superiar, and rino onionsand ripo potatoos £l the maikets from tho 1st of May, Chicago gardeniers Linve located at all the Smlutu named, and mora will follow, not_oaly to [eComb Cuzy, but at u hundred points betweou tho two placod, Witnin & mile of me is a G0- m\-s] m‘rul devoted 10 vogotablos,for the Chicago markot. TBeforo the War, gardeners went South to bo employed by tho planiéts, but now thoy go South to malte hom: & aud to do bustucss on thoir own accouat. Thoro moy be good points *for murket-gardening sither north or south of Mo- Comb Clty, aud those going South for a location should niake a curaful iuvestigation bofore thoy locate, Thore is complaint in many loca- tious that the crops of curly melons, potatous, ota,, aro ptolon: and, in othors, of tho want of gaod socloty, Theso avo uvils, na doubt, aud should be {ukml into consideration, Onlm'z bLowevor, is belug restorad. Within the nox two or throe yoars, hundreds, if niot thousands, of Northorn peopla_will go Soutis, not for the Puiposo of ponoral farming, but to_ grow onrly vopatables aud fruits for the Nosth. All of this class of men are educated, are indus- trioug, aud will make & valuable addition to Bouthorn ancloty, And, as their business-reln- tlons will continue with the North, we may gradually look for others to follow, who mny tako up othor branches of rural Industry. A small intuslon of Northern onorgy, skill, and agrionltmal implomouts will do the Bouth good inutowd of harni, Bhe lins had cuongh of carpet- bagzgers 3 Tot us nov sond bor intolligont oultl- and that ts tun clay will stick to the enps, or 8 ‘l" nt lhh up the caril fo earry it on the srms gg‘tfi x el that aorven to oiovato 13 out of ins ditch, In lll.lul::I‘“lu ol thers 4n no troublo fn this res) Tt et ]x“-nnn 1o not often requiro dratning, I thin] Dattor, e gicaoribed fn Tuw Tanus wiil ancceed et I‘Il o conlter may bo drawn through the i ane epening mado compiclo at one apora= s, main drajn, whero Inrg the tile will ucod be Iaid g . lkux;:?uu-uu must connoct with the matn Longg, and_we put with G-inch tils, ta the proper depth o open ttis drsin i #ho araln of dindt oy ety FIAY HoxL it the point of tho Aral side drain, put h f thina drain on until the whole is complsted, A han beon lafd in thiscounty, iR trentoilin Do mont valuable £oF oniprere ™ Fpiaud thus But liere the work lian all boen don by hand this foe navo littlo help now and thon from G plow 15 ohon the top of the diteh, aud the Alling. W nng it G- ault K!:‘obhln flia tabior o lay ]t(llb:lfllnlb:nd it wa & machine to wa 4 tho ght diractton, ot (¢ Wilbyastep, in I live noan soveral of tho Indlana e aliudod o oxhibitad st the Stato Fair st Tuines apolin, and all of them had the defeot of not cloaring tho gups, or buckots, in olay soll, and; s a mattor of course, provad a failure. Sinoe 1t s boen proved that our slough-land, whon tlle-drained, in our beat land, for corn, grass, and many othor cropy, tho subjedt of draming hins new value, and farmors begin to look at then wanto lands from s now atandpoint. In most cnuun, 20 rods of {ile-drain to the nacre h sufllclent, aud 40 rods is ample, This, at 60 cout a rod, 18 812 to 324 por ncro; and, na this Z’ix‘.‘.é?,,?“zfi:l‘;’“"“ I-nb.x -{.u.mu, 1t ia 'not mure armors be, 1ion 18 this direstion gin to turn their stten 1mnteaTION, kolgarientuy at several points sb the South, but find one drawbuck, aud that 18 tha long poriods o droughts sud, aince roading your lotter of last yoar in regard to iFrination as you saw it 1n. Colorade snd Utahi and alaa tis letters of ALr, Modill, it as struck mo that the mauy atreams might be usod for that piu poso for market-gardeniug st the ¥outh, and thus at all timen Insure s crop, Wa often have 4 failura of th strawborry Just whon the crop is almost roady for wsrket, and 3WaY 60 our hopet Just for tho lack of & good sliower, Now, if we conld turn one of our witts running brooks through the rows of strawberries, it appeara o mo thut we could lnsute » good. oroy of thin fruft, and many other good things that Northora Deople would i1ke Lo pay 0 iboraiprises for. Wik such aaniatance, we might compots with Lorinuoa in the onlon teado, sud ueat the Mobils gardena in sarly vos otables, Ve could force them right along, and, as g ure nearer the consumors, wo could afford fo Shorler ine Ut ive e i o S 0 v ivo un the advan Vogotation, What do you tuiuk of the plot e Qanprim, A steady nnl:]ply of water, [n & rathor sandy soil, is of the first importauce to the growth of strawberrios and vegotables. In mauy parts of the South, and espoclally sbout Corinth, there are many small atreams that could bo used for this purposo with great advautago. Much de- peude on tho toxturo of the soil, and on the climato, as regards the quantity of wator re- quired. But, to one not acoustomod to irrign- tion, the Tuntlty is somowhat surprisivg. The old handa lot the water on without stint, givin, the land a thorough soaking, aud then waly until another wemnfi 18 required. A ssody soil, like much of the lands of tho South, would drinlc in an enormous qunutity, and one of the smull brooke would supply only a fow acros bo- fore it would run dry, The water must uob run on the plants go that tho plants will stand in the wator for oveu & short time, but must run be. tween thoe rows, and thou moak away to ths roots. A wood wotting-down onco in two woeks would probably bo suflicient in tho absenco of soits ; ud, in Homo seasuns, tho diteh might not bo required more than Lwo or throe timom. Btrawberrios nood n great doal of water,—in short, must havo it, or wo gob little fruis, Raspperrion come noxt, and blackberries will da with the least. Boots, oplons, and cucumbers do woll with a free irrigation; sud thoso are staplo articles among ecarly vegetables. Early potatoes, at the time of hlooming, need & lib. eral supply, for the tubiora grow in two weohs, and, if cut short at that tiwe, will mako but 2 light yield. One good wotting down at the righi time is suflicient. ‘The timo is not far distant when MAREET-GANDENERS WILL TUBN THEIE ATTEN. TION to this mubjeot of irrigation for vegotables angd tho small fruits, at loast south of the Obio River, +The most of our i of a moist, cool olimate, and matura in autumn, but we wish to chsuge thia condition, and bave thom all through the soasou. o do this, wa must resort to glass apd hot-beds, or go South and eal in the aid of the stroams when tho clonds refuso tho raqui. site molature; for, without a good Bsuppl, of thin element, the fierco heat of the Bou would fiiva thom too much of woody fibre to ploage the taste. Tough, woody, stringy vegota« bles are of little value in the market; and, to mako them sucoulont, we musk havo ot least two conditions: plenty of mapure, and pleuty of water, eitber from the clouda or from the streams. “We cannot expeot to lrrigats farm-crops to any great exteut, for tho irrigation of an aore will cost 82 to $12 & yoar whou the couditious ara favorable ; while, with wells, wind-pumps, snd Leamm, the thing i8 nearly or quite out of tha question. TIE DNINDS AND GRABSIOPPLRS. In tho thickly-soltlod payts of the country, whora small farms abound, thore is no great dangor from the gn:nhoiper-pwt, a8 tho birds and domestic fowls will keop down their num- bors, Woro it not tor this, Canads, Northorn Now York, aud the Eastorn Statos would b overrua, as in Minoosots, Nebrauka, Iowa, and Dakots. In the absence of water, tho birds leave the coun- trv, and the hoppers have fullsway, This is tha cnge on the prairia farms, dostitule of ruoning streams, For this cause, most of tho birds hayva loft my grounds, and tho wob-worms sro mak- ing thoir apponranco ; and, in the flolds, wo soo swarms of young hoppers, ‘They aro tbo late brood that have come out since tuo birds lultl but not sufiicient to do any great amount ol dsmage, Onthe great prairies -thoy do less damago along the rivers, whore the birds con- gregate, for these rapidly thin tholr ranks; bab tho birds cannot or will ot live on the prairio & long distance from water, The huaters look for the praivie-hens nour some poud of wator. In the canoux of the Rocky Monntaius the hoppors do but little damago, for the birds that live noar the streams keep down thotr number. Bottle- mont and culture will cbango the syitem to a groat extent, and we may look bo - PARASITES algo to aid in tho work. Wa sos this in the apple-bark Jouso and the Col- orado potato-beetle. All thoso things havo thoir checks, for all Nature is nlled with chacke and balances, that all things may bave an equal charm. ‘lake away tho bird “and tho canaibal inscots aud tho whole rice of man would #oon boswapt from tha oartli, 'Tho apple- tros bark-louss lavs its forky eggs undor its vwn shell, but a microscoplo tuacet crawls undor thia eholl and sucks tho eggs, and thus holds in oltock tho sproad of n pest, that would in tima dostroy every every spplo-irco in the northorn part of the fomperato zono. At oue timo my orehard was throatoncd in this manuer) bub the TSl searil cano to my aid, and to-day'a ninglo Dark-louso caunot ho round in the orobard. 1¢ is in this direction that wo must look for {lio and of the grasshopper plague, for fu timo tho birds and the cauuibalinsoota will cheok {hom, sud the countries now so sorely playmed with thoir prosonce wilt bo well aigh rid of thiem, For the past fow years thoy have vastly mereased 1 numbars, on sccount of more favor. able condivions, among which Lias been the crops of the ploncors; but their tinto must como, for guch has over been the history of tho inseot« tribos, Liko the heel of Achilles, thoy all bave a wonk spot in thoir armor that will at last bring thom to grief. . TIF CONN-CROP 1t 1a too early to specitlate freoly In regard fo the corn-crop, but wo may be gafe n saying that it will be a light one, leaving no large amount boyand the Lome-domand. “Iho immenso yield of 1873 in about disposed of, and wo shall hoar no more of & market-gtaguation in this grain for some yoars to como. ‘Thore i no reason thak the prico'should go much beyoud thdt of the resent, as whoat i a good crop, and osts, on ko whole, flue, and thesa in part will compon~ sato for & short corn-crop. Thon, azain, farmera will b careful of tho crop, and feod more judis olously. Tho housing of animals and grinding of focd are bosoming popular, sud found to save feod in tho maliug of boof aud pork, Just now thero is quite & panio n Togard to tho corn-crop, but o good, sonliing rain would soon chisuge the condition of thingd, Rukan, ——— lowa and Georzia Strilkingly Ovincle dent in ‘Their Stnvtics. To the Editor of ths Atlanta (G) Herald : When vou talk of * colucidonce," commend me to tho following: Inmy prying into soma statistios, whion I have come Lo rogard as tha truo eye-sight of the Ktato, I found this puzzlor ina table publishod by authority of INlinois, in 1870, ‘This paper says thab the population of good o 3 vators of thasoll, - p LAYING DRAIN-TILE, : Wauxy Qounry, Ind, Tuly 20, 1874, M “RuRALY—Hin: T thin State, mupy sitempts have beew mado to perfect » difohing:muching for tho Iayingof tle, or rutlior to niako thu ditoh, We have bwo kiudv,—que making theditcl ot onu atort, awd the olhier golugt throusth several times,—each thne taking n}nn yortion of sarth, aud dopositing b on the wide of tha dltsh, © Tiia fuat machlie udt o fwult in dry luud, oud one thut it appeara kupossible to ovarcomo; Goorgis is 1,185,000; that of Jowa, 1,182,033, ‘[he {nsane in Georgla wore wore 1,185 ; of lowa, 1,184, Goorgla had 790 Idiots; Towas, 789, deorgla's donf mutes numbored ' 677 ¢ Jomay 676, Qoorgla's blind, 474 ; Iowa's, 473, Total for Qoorgia, 8,120 ; for Iowa, 8,121, I'ho differs auco in tho population of the twa Staten 1w 3,047 in thelr insane, just two; in tholr idiots, luul oneg in thelc dual mutos, just onej i blind, only ono, arden-vogotables aro nativer .