Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1874, Page 10

16 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. SEPTLHMBER 2), 1874 TENEMENT-HOUSES. What Chicago Can Furnish in ‘that Line. A Visit to a Few Filthy Cara- vanserais. Inspection of the OId St James E Kotel on Clark Streets The Ttalian Lodging-House on Four- * teenth Street. Fiith, Foul Aif, Vermin, and 2ll Un- cleanliness Reign Supreme. The Nests of IMuture’ Pestilence. It has been a very common bosst among cil zens of Chicago that the peculiar human res denco known 28 a *‘tenement house ' did not flourish in their -midst. In the great cities of the Atlzutic seaboard the * tenement ™ igarecog- nized institution, chiefly noted for vile construc- tion, muserable veatilation, aud uuspeakable filth. From it have sprung more diseases than from any other sgency. 1t bas been the pucleus of contegion, and the recruiting-sergeant of death, Who that is familiar with the great city of New York, does not remember those dreary, dirty, lofiy, narrow buildings extendiug in long, gloomy rows zlong Mott and Mulberry streets, and many other localitles inhabited chiefly by tho poorer classes? They were, indoed. a crying evil; filled from batement to roof wich diseaso and misery; crowded with wretches who conid vover hope to breathe Lealthy air in an aimos- phere o vile; overran with vermin, and rank Witk tie foul odors of slops and foul ordure. For many years the tenoment nuisance stunk in the nostrils of the American metropolis, until, finally, AN OEDINANCE WAS PASSED placing the establishments under the control of the Board of Healih, and granting to thsi body | the whole force of the Aunicipal Government to mitigate the evil. The ordinance made it legal for the Board of Health to condemn and cause to Do vacated auy fiiiby or pest-ridden tencment after, in the first place, notifying the landlord or agent of the same that sach & conrse was about to be pursued. Notice could be served that the premises must be vacated within forty- cight hours,—if tho case was particularly urgent, —aud, ghould the landlord or tensnts refuse to comply with Lo orcer, the Heaith Officer was priviieged to call upon the Chief of Yolice for a, rqusd of men_ to compel tho vacation, Then, tull under the direction of tie Board of Health, the place 1s thoronglly cleansed, whitewashed, and disinfected, aud the tenzats are allowed to Teturn to their rooms, if they feel g0 dirposed, after the Health Ofticer Las prouounced thst the plzce is ready for reoccupation. T'his wige municipal Iaw bas entireiy modified tho aspect of atfairs in most of the tenement lo- calitiea of New York. There is still, of course, congiderable crowding, and the ventilation 18 very littlo_improved, but there is an atsence of the utter filth that formerly a2lmost universally characterized tenement-houses, - Whiio poverty cxists, and while great cities exisi,—both travei- inghand in band 8s it were,—thcre must be ctieap lodgings for families who have no homo- &teads of their own and who are too poor o pay rent in geod boarding-houses. In old cities the evil is recognized and inevitable; but in our_comparatively new \Western cities it i | Lurdly pecessary, &nd it is ceriainly rot desirable, tbat such places should be en- | couraged. * But Chicago hus no tenemeut- | V houses,™ THE SANGTINE AND ESOTISTICAL CTTIZEN wko has not studied the matter, will obeerve. Hold, good citizen, and do not rashly assert that which may oring yon confusion. It may. per- haps. astonish ninc-tenths of our respectabie in- halitants to learn that we are cureed with a tenement eystem which, nithough not s gen- eral, is infinitely more offen: than that of New York. Several thousand inbabitants of Chicago are COOPED TP IN DENS bardly fit to be inhalited by mere brates, and, mdeed, in some of them, dogs would disdain to sleep for a night. Theso pluces are nct confined 10 one gection of the city, but are scattered through its wholo system, even ss leprosy is dispersed through the human frame. Some of the tenements are respectubie places cuongh,—the pew ones more_especially, though cheaply constructed and badly supplied with the indispensable accommodations of ad- vanced civilization. Aunother class is just Lor- dering on vile, but does not go quite thag far; but there is a Jower class, the lile of which can- not be imugined outside the realms of the damped,—places in which the human body fes- ters, and in which tho soul cannot fail of being corrupted,—placed that to visit would destroy tho_appetite of dclicate stomache, and tender, timid peoplo liable to malignant discaso. Thoy are under no control, except. the ordinary guur- diznship of the Board- of Health, whick is en- tirely insuflicient, although some good has been effected. There is no low compelling vacation, for Banifary purposcd, as in New York; and, in tho event of an epidemic appearing, thedens al- luded to wonld SPREAD DEATE AMONG TAL MASSES ©oven 28 tho sparks and cinders from saw-mills 2nd lumber-vards epread devastation among the buildings during our memorable firce. The fene- ments “referred to aro grotesquely hideous,— places that might defy - emalation amoug the horrors of old St. Giles' or among the rag-pickiug district of Paris, In- deed they are go utterly beyond ordipars com- Prehension—that is, Ainerican comprelsnsion— that, ns the novelista say. = special chapter of the article must be devoted to them, A reporter of Tus I'RIBTNE was Getziled a few days ago to make 2 tour of the Chicago tene- smeut-houses, or such of them 2s might ecrve a8 specimens of their class, and give an sccount of hig experience. Accompanied by & member of the Chicago Board of Heslth, tha reporter pro- cecded on his miszion, and went at once to THE BT. JAMES HOTEL. so-called, No. 410 South Clark strect, which bas obtained the unenviable notoriety of being the most pestilential abode of mankind known to that section of tho city. Tha structure is » five- Etory building, composed of brick snd wood, pamted brown estemnally, and presenting no Yery bad appearauce to tho careless obserser, Within, however, ail this is changed. A nparrow flight of stairs conducts the visitor to the upper tloors—the ground story being chiefly ocenpied by Jews aud Gentiles of the very lowest o eogaged in an endlees number ‘0f © pursuits, io explorers wers met on the second toor by a pale, sickly-looking, bLut rather intellizent youili, who_ stated ~that ho was the janitor of the ostablishment. Tho place, Lo informed the visitors, was owned and ronted. by 3 well-knosn citizen of Chicago. Perbaps tho dreariness of Luman _cxistenco, among ‘e poor, caunot be better illustrated than by J esploning this very peculiar “ Hotel.” Any cit) zen not suffering from catarrh, ora bad” cold, sannot il to be overshelmed Ly an ) ISTOLERABLE STENCI on reaching tho topmost tloors of the * St Jumes.” 1t'is a combination of many odors—ali of them bad Tec odor of caoking i8 there, the udor of sickuess, and the abominations of or- dure. This cannot well be avoided. Tho corri- dors are long, narrow, and dark. There is nob ruflicient Lght, aod there is mo approach’ whatever to veutilation. Cockroaches carcer in serried columns along the tloors, and the walls are garrisoned with wood-lice aud bed- bugs. The people inbabiticg the place are, for the most part, ARJEOTLY TooR, 2 although many of them eill retain traces of former respectability. Children a:e numerous, swinging on tho decayed baupisicrs and raising & dust in the foul-smelling Lalls. The rooms &re extremely emall, and warm enongh to roast 8 vigorons Hottelitot. All pationnlities aro represented in tlis place,—English, Irish, Bcoteh, Americans, Germans, Scandinavians, and negroes. 1t would be diflicult to say which is the preponderating ‘‘elemernt,” but the tongues spoken are liko those of Babet. The young generation is very generously represented, Dearly every family of the thirty, or thereaboat, that inhabit the place averaging Give children. It may well be wondered at wiy death isnct busy among the wretched colony. And yet, bad a8 this state of thingsis, itis Paradice compared with what the insticution was one year ago. Since that time the Doard of » Health has done all that lay in its power to ren- 1 der the den Jess offensive ; but all its efforts, tn- der exisling municipal regulations, aro aro in- suflicient to make tho women respectable. Water-cloncts aze provided for every floor, and most of them are now in pretty fair condition 3 but, in somo cases, the inmstes of tho * Hotel entirely disrcgard' ranitary arrangements, and deposit refuso wherever ihey iind it most cone veuient to do £0 . TIE JANITOR informed_the visitors that ho was compelled to destroy all the buckets iu the house, or else contagion wonld surely have been bred. It was the Labis of tho inmates, until recently, to leavo their *night ol ” in those buckets, outside thotr doors, and €0 add to the horrors of this in- ferual hostlery. Thereis hardly a redecming feature about this St. James Hotcl. A rag tent, grosy-like, on tho prairie, would bo infinitely yrcferable to the living deathr imposed upon the deizens of No. 410 South Clerk strect. It is a wonder that any person would pormit such o thing to be owned by him. It is 3 monument of diegrace to the ovner. : THE AVERAGE RENTS paid by {he teuants range from £3 to &8 per ooth, bardly ever over that. Of courve they chango very often. for very fow poople Lavi stomach for tho * St. James” aftor a month's immurement within ita stnking walls. Tie Pplaco ought to be ““vacated,” remodeled, or elze entirely destroyed. It is s plaguc-spot to Chi- cago, sud the attontion of the Common_Couneil should be given to it without delay. No teue- ment-houso in Now York can compare with tho strocture in thorough vilencss. Tle next place visited was NO. 543 SOUTH CLARK STEXET, a frame tencment owned and rented by a Mr. Martin. Tt, too, hes many objectionsble feai- uroa, but it is not one-eiglith yart os bad as ths dreadtul hotel. Tho rentals range from &5 to £9 per month. Abovo and below it are a num- Ler of rookerics filled with tho very dregs of prostitution, the jumales brazenly displuving their grimy, Lioated features at doors and win- dows without tho shadow of remonstranco from the police patrol. Tho condition of the strest, from Ilnirison to Twelltb, is abominable—noth- ing Lke it auywhere in tho West. Verily that section of (L city is given over unto Belial. Tho Board-of-Health man said to the roporter : “In \ 1k City all this would be_ remedied. Suppese cholers, or fever, broke out in this fo- cainty, what could etop it 3 The lundlords ought to bp lreld responsible, and other municipal rog- ulations should bo cdopted. Thoso shentics whero allen women are crowded aro thronged ith vli Linds of vermin, The beds and bed- ding erawl with them. Discase iy rife among taemm, end thero is no remedy. It it really sick- Now wa'll go and aea & specimerr o UK ITALIAN TENEMENT —a bad one, but far from being the vers worst.” Tho explorers then drove fo a place in rear of the * Holly Tree Inn” restaurant, No. 183 Itant Monroc street, aud thero discovered a nest 1s,—nearly all from Savoy.—oighteen amlics, with plenty of clildren, com- building. of moderato pro- is owned by a2 Italian cit ug. of for or tweuty ed into a br 1o all these families there 15 allowed ouly a sinule water-closet, and that on the ground floor. Even tho baseraent is garri- soned by the corps of rag-pickors. aro all gcaut in epeaking, ceived The rooms , uncarpeted, and, generally dlthy. Tho viators were re- by a crowd of swarthy, rag- adish-looking men, and somo stout, oaten, culy-hared, good-humored women, not one of whom could speak English. Some of the children, Lowever, could, aud chatted away quite freely. They explained that their fathers were upple-venders, rag-pickers, or ians, and that their resources did not ennblo themw to pay for better quarters, They were, therefore, compelied to uso what they could afford. payicr. ca an average, §5 rer wmonth for the apsriments they occuvied. On being asked if they felt no ill-health from the stitling atmoephere aronnd them. they roplied that they were uscd to it. Nearly all the men weie late crrivals from Italy, sud a more degraded sample of the once all-potent Launrace could not be imagined. Some of them reteined the classic features of old Rome, Lut that wes all. Yet tho denizens of Mr. Cuny’s Larracis aro not by any means the worst types of their class in Chicago. 1ho Board of Health were next observed. ‘* Now we have geen some of the worst features of tho tenament system, let us, luok at one of thio best of tha elaes.” sitors then went to ¥o. 134 FRIE STREET, w of bwo-story brick buildings, rented Lya Lester, of New York. This structure found to Le occcupied by a very repatable clsss of people, generally me- chautes and their femlies. 'Iho rooms were sound to be well-arranged, lacking in only oue particuier : transoms over the doors to farnish natural ventilution It is etrange that in this age of Loasied advancement any housc-owner can be found to construct bouses destitute of iemc principlo of good air, it used to be a habit years ago, both in Americaand in Earope. to build honses with a totsl disregard of venulation. In fact tn air-corrent nsed (o be comnidered as a deadly foo fo beaitl, lodern il:zation has discuvered that fresh air is the t friend of bamanity; that is, fresh air roperly regulated, Thereforo it is singular that any person can oo found ignorant or eeliish emfugi: to construct places of human abode in whicli this principle is wholly neglected. Apart from this defect, tho tenement-bouse No. 134 Lrio street is no: much removed from an ordina- 1y boarding-howe in point of comfort. In poiat of fact, it is far alead of somo of ihose con- cerns,—genteel Dlaces of semi-starvation, and the coucentrated borrors of Lash. o next place visited was THE EWEDISH TE x No. 132 Sangamon street, near the cornmer of Veet Judiata. It is reuted by a person numed Forchiaus, ‘This place 18 clean and decent cnough, only for the absenco of a proper air current. ‘The atmosphero is cloao and ap- proaches the stifling. The children look ghastly, —a_certain judication of bLad air,—aud, in sll respeets, it might be much improved. This remark applies to several other buildings of the rame character in the Eleventh Ward, all tituated in or about the region referred to. FOURTFENTH ETLREET. *Nor,” said the Luard of Health oficer to tha reporter, * you Lievo scen something of a bad class of tenemeuts. Ihave, however, reserved an uneurpasgable place of human misery for your farther experience. We shall drive to the paten in rear of M strect, where the Italian _ was wurdered ondav night. "It called Indians svenu, although its pretensions to that dis- tinction aro very slim.’ “The visitors proceeded to that point, and found ihst tho region iudicated began st the head of Fourtoenth street, near tho lako, where it joins Indiana avenue, Tlere are two diapidated wooden houses, Nos. 1, 2, 3, end 4, once inlab- ited by deccut people, but now abzudoned to Italian lazzaroni, who would do inficite disgraco to the alleys and quaysof Naplee. From the underground burrow, called tho basement, to the topmost garret, tho houses are filled ywith talizus—men, women, and children—of iho lowest order. Their chief vocation i THE SOBLE ART OF RAG-PICKING, and the entire charuel-house emells of tainted reiment, steeped in swill beer and stale alcobol. The mon who hang around the place are the lowest types of human society—almost black—a cross between Polish Jews aud the very worst class of plavtation darkics. 1t is imposetblo to supposo that these beings have 1 iheir veins the blood of tho conquerors of the ancient world. Thoy must have descended from 4o camp-followers of Hannibal, who sojourned many years in the suuny plains of Ilaly. The explorers wero raceived not over-gracions- Iy by & drunken woman, clothed in garments redolent of dreadful smells. SUE SMELT OF GIN AND TODACCO, and spoiie a kind of bestard English, Thiacrea- turo ehowed ber visitors hor room,—a divo about 8 feet long by G wide,—in wkich thero was ono bed. about the width of an average lounge. Tho ‘‘chamber” gmelt ko dead rats, and was ut- teriy unbearable to persons aceustomed to any kind of cleanliness. 'The **hed” was filled with rasites, and otber things thes need not be de- kcuibed. This state of utfairs was bad cuough, Lut bardly approached in horror the basement and upper floore, where a wholo erowd of wretches, of all scxes, were congregated. Ver- mia geemed to pervade cveryihing, and the efluvinm wes beyond zny human comparison. This is the den iu which the young Italien lost Lis fe on Sunday evening. 1t was & Lappy re- leaze to him. 1IN ONE OF THE R0O¥NS— 8 feet by 12—occupied by Laif a dozen men, lay a sick man—~not a bLreath of air o reliove his fever or give him a chance for recovery. In the wretehed kitchon a couple of dun-colored crones were at work overa stew of hell-broth, comprised of rotten vegetables and carrion flesh, This was Dad enough, but the acme of despair was reached when. tho Visitors observed a lot of maca- roni lnid out to dry ou a filthy coverles over which insects well known to the army were cramling. A ciaugo o somo other room was congidered necessary after this oxperience, aud tho explorers were compelled to smoke & stroug cigar by way of combating the stenches to which thay had been receatly exposcd. STVEEAL OTHER FLACES were inspacted, but tiose ulready written of aro epeermens of their kind, and go to indicate that ichizen nvenne, on Fonrteenth young :uic,.,;u is uotiree from the curss of filthy enenient-i 5 The following places 150 come under the head- ing of “tcoements,” although many of them aro not up to the average of discomiort Mendell Block, northeast corner of Pacifie avenue and Van Buren street; Pacific Diock, sontheast corner of Clark and Van Buren streets : Dlock at the eouthwest corner of Fifth zve- nug sud Van Buron streot; Nos. 128 2nd 130 West Randolph street; Davy Bleek, cor- ner of Green and Madison streots; Nos. 143, 145, 147, and 151 West Indisna street; Horton Llock, corner of Madison aud Sangamon streots; block opposite the foregoing, ou Indiana street ; also block on Sangamon_street, opposite tho school; Noa. 123 and 130 Reuben' street, in the Eightll Ward; Nos. 136 Fouwth avenua; 332, 3875, 412, and 414 South Clark street, in the Third Ward; Nos. 22 and 24 Shartleff avenue; algo between Thirticth avd Thirty-first streets, on the same thoroughfare; corner of alley on Twenty-tecond_strect, botweon Wentworth av- enue and Buddan street, Sixth Ward; corper Milwaukee and North avenues, Fificenth Ward, aud many others. : “Thus 1t will be seen that the self-satisfied peo- ple, who supposa that the New York tenoment- system cannot grow npon us here, are sadly de- ceived. Perhaps tho evil cannot be checked ; but, at least, its bad results can be mitigated, and this mitigation can only come by bestowing on our Board of llealth tho samo powor ac- corded to the New York Board by tho municipal- ity of that city. - KAN'S HEART. YRANSLATED FROM TOE GERMAN .OF HODERT PRUTZ BY WILLIAM OTIO HOUBRON, Tutos loncly roow, of late, I passed, Where liny, for many a year, Do human foob Had trod, i Thick was the air, Like oiigh blinded window-panes, The ¥, with pallid dimness, shone ; While wotley riugs it painted ou the wall, Whose rich gilt tapestry had faded long. Thick mold and dust, the refuse of past, * Like 2shes Ly ou table, ficor, and chair. A ploom was apread o'er (hat dreerted place, Which yet recalled o me somo lalny bro Of suniy May, when youthful roscs bloow § Yoor once, into'iliis somlire, quiot moz, ¥rom the loud i of buny ife, 1 fled T find here rest iz faithful arma of love : Oa 1 all the that were here exchanged,— The lov, swee eriegs ponred in stiilness forth, Like song of nightingale, that, softly breathed, Doth lose itwelf i peaceful, slumb'rous night § An, yes! thieso are the very pillows ntill T'lhat ouco the furm of ber Lloved did press, Wien ‘round wy nuck ber soft, white arms wese clasped ! The mirror, too, with dust now clondd o'er, Fuat once ber dear, bright image did reflect, With all the golden spivndor of Ler curle, Aud Liere—on, Gud I—lhere s thv same old clock, I perehied upon its fragile etang of brouze, "Wisat pointed 0t 10 1o th Lours of Lapyine Now, draving near to that ol clock, ‘With the iuteut to view rust-worn hands, And whilst wy foot hizs with unceriain puce Disturbed ti:a untrod tloor, up to tie cciling Whirling dusi— There, sudden!s, within that dead clock moves The peadinium, with slight vibration ! A deep, low rumble passes through its frame— The whieels are groaning '—ob, 50 worn ! sy worn — Ttezetubliug tighs that come from dying bresst; Ana sottly, sofily, it begiua to tick—ouce—twice— Yea! thricd !—and then—ageia siands still. Theu I bethouglat me of £ome human heart 1u whick the Spring of Life hath bloowed, And then, for yeara, in sileus sozrow rests Vnmoved, e'ea liks that clock, so still! Bty wiien 1ho meniry of old fimes draws near Wath fultering foot, uncovers all the graves Ot bygone blinses—then onco more it bests In writhing paiv—ouce—twice—yes, thrice l—and thou— Siznds siill forever, e s HUMOR. Msny 8 men bes discovered that a good square meat is not always round. —'Lalking of “oarsmen, John Paul aays it is s great thing nowadays to be ** a gentleman and a scaller.” —Tlio success of Joxh Billings is exceptional. There arc thousands of young meu who do not kuow Low to spell, and Yet they are not worth ,000. darkey's instructions for putting on o coat were, ‘ First de right arin, den de left, snd den give oue general conwuhsion.” —A common suer—a lawyer. ely to be a drain to lus client. ‘The best way for o maa Lo acquire a fine flow of lnguage ia tostub Lis to0 ugainsi & raised rick -—There are many who can't read who know A bee weey. —A corn-doctor in Europe begins bis an- Touncement with the statment thut Le ** had the Lonor to operate o several crowsed feet.” —Horse-thieves in Texas are sorenaded by strinz bands. Guess your eycs are bad,” replied o Green Bay traveler wiscn Loid that Lis coilar was soiied ; *why. bless you, r, 1 haven't worn that callar Lut two we —Seein'less pants—Those that shrink upon washing. —**OI course we couldn’t have him roaming around here and putung on Cougressional airs,” says & Nevada paver in explaiuing how a horse- thief came to lis end. —An urehin, being rebuked for wearing out his stockings at bis toes, roplied that 1 couldu's bo Lelped—** toes wriggled 2nd hoels dida’t.” —A small boy forgot, aud asked bis father for a *chaw uv tubsccer,” tho other day; sod is very reticent o the subject now. A stump-speaker, who * carried four Rebel bullets " as proufs of his patriotiem, was found to havo them in his breechex-pockot. ~The New York Commercial Adverl P.8.—1e is iser pays | Miss Josephine Connor got lcetat o picnic tho otuer day, and ever swee then her fricads have been getting & Joe Conzor. —A’Western Justico of the Peace is said to have Lind 130 out of his 135 decisions reveraed on appeal. In tho otiicr five cages the parties died beroro they could avpeal. —DPosucal justics somutimes hanpena in most uuexpected ways, A baggazo-smasher was re- contly fooling around an’ elephant, and the in- telligent beast instinctively recognized his oceu- pution, sud kuocked the fellow 20 foet with Lis trunk. —Daring the falr yesterdsy afternoon a young knight of tho “brukh " approuciied tho Scere- tary, saying: “Haven shime? Istole in hero #ix timen tc-day, and will ehino your boots for uothing."—Potghkeepsic Lagle. —A party of young men wero out gerenading a few nights since. They sat on the pavemen, which had been recently peved with a tar-solu- tion, Next mormng tho rear of six pair of pante dotted tho walk, nud music is beard no-more around that coltage. —A Western wman_eets firo to the preirio for fun, but after Lo had run 7 milca and climbed o tree, with his pants about all burued off, Le con- cluded the snort was a little too violent exercice to b indulged in oftener than once in a hfe- time, —The refusal of the Indianzpolis Common Council to Kroude the firomen of that city with Lid-gloves Las weakened their anciont faith in the stability of Republicza Government. —Small boy No. I to small boy No. 2: **George, Mrs. Brown wants you to como home, this min- ute!” Mre. Drown ; ** Why don't you ey his mother wants bim? I don't wasi my name shrioxed iu the strect likethat.” No.1: * Well, ma'am, I thonght it might huri bis foelings to Lave the fellows kunow that he had to run or- rands.” —Sorae of the old Shoalers iive at the Isles, and one of them, cycing with critical eyes a protty littlo yacht that was moored at Star, one day last Year, epied its name, Paycho, Spelt the old man ‘slowly, P-s-y-c-h-c. ** Wall, if that ain’t the durndest way [ ‘ever did sea to epell tish ! eaid jie. —Happy thonght—Tlat of tha fashionablo 1 cher, who, when asked by a pupil, is the present Iingof Swiizerland " Tlis is ot the bour, you know, whon is permitted, Askmeat the next ges- sion 2nd I will tell ycu,”—and then rusned for tho bookease, —A whort time since a little commercial ‘‘drammer " chanced to get into the same rail- wuy carrisge, in England, in which tho Dukes of Argvle and Northumberland wore traveling. The three chatted fawiliariy until tho train stopped at Ainwick Junction, where tho Duke of Northumberland got out, and was met by s train of flunkeys and servants. +¢That must be = great swell," said the drummer to Lis remain- ing compauion. **Yes,” responded the Duke of Argsle, “hois the Duke of Northumberland.” Lless my eyes!” exclaimed the drummer, *‘and ta think that he should have been 8o con- dexcendiug to twolittlo snobs like ns!" —A paper out in Dakots Territory, the Elic Horn Gleancr, relates the following storv of a follaw who solemuly pledged himself ot to drink. adrop of liquor, either 1nside or outside of a Liouse, for to years. Soon afterward he passed & saloon whero threo of his former buon-com- panions wero taking their drop 1n comfort, and ho could not help’ stopping snd casting one wonruful look of longing within. One of them #pied Lum and invited him to join them. * Ob, n0o,” kaid he; * I wish I conid, but I've sworn not to take a drop, either inside or outside of a house, for two vears." “Oh,” says one, * von can have oue drink for all that; we'll litt You off she threshold. and you can drink balf inside the Louse and half out™ S0 one took hold of each lex, and thus they raised him np, while the thi fitled snd passed tho bottle. He took ous long rink and was just drawing breath for another, whea ove of hia supporters’ ghif:ed a little, and be shouted, *Oh! hold me evea, bo; soul's in your hands " SR gl sorprises should be changed and CRAZYCROFT. “No” said Cromer, apostropiizing Lis friond and former classmato at college, Hig- soy, with whom ke had been holding a heated discussion, ‘‘no, I canmot Lo brought to believe that it's impossible for a man to lift himeelf to the altitudo of a demigod. by tho foree of fino physical development, in theso doys s well as in the time of tho Greek horoes.” “Then I must leave you,” retorted Higeoy, # to work out your own destiuy. I've got too much else to doto go training for s deityship myself, 80 I can ascend into the heavens with you. As for Miss Gladdingale, I ehould think it unlikely that eho wonld bt prepared to join you in araco for that kind of rmmortality—though you know her best, of course.” To this Archibald Cromer did not respond. Ho gat absorbed in reverie. As Higaey looked at bim, a strong fecling of agmiration took pos- session of his mind, despite tho folly and im- praBticability of tho views that Cromer had just been advancing. Now that his companion kept gilence, ho was inclined to almost entirely dis- sociate from those fantastio schemes the solid and gervicoable body which he beheld sested op- posite tokim. TFrom the strong, forward-slop- ing chost-lino, the backward pose and restful power of his shoulders, and the purs toxturc of Lis ekin, it would have been easy for any ono to infer that Cromer was an athloto. He Liad taken up boating ot college, and hzd pursued Eimi- lar sports ever sinco,—being, nlthough a grad- usto of two years' standivg, still without otler profeasion than that of gymnastics,—un- less, Dy a play of words, we can inciuda under the term profession his engagement to marry a young luly resident in his native village, a Miss Lillan G laddingale. The want of technical kuowledge might, of course, be easily supplied atany time; and, whatever ehoull happen, ha wag the inheritor of a fortune. Provided in this wey with health aud wealth, and with his Life pat in poise by tho fact of Lis cngsgement, tuere might have seemod no obstacle in the way of his success. Dut Cromer wus & pzey toa ringalur, oven slerwing, Ireek. 1t had been naticed at collego that, instead of exerciring any deteriorating iulluence noon hun of the kind usunl whero deterioration follows at all, Lis d n to physical developmeut had Liftod Lim to a strikingly ideal point of view. I{e came 10 be known ay the uplolder of certdin . uovel opinions in regard to reforming ond cuno- bling the character of bod:ly culture. *Why sbould wo not produce a set of men,” o had been beard to ¢ay, *who should malie themselves such. a v2mo for corporel powers ond beauty as to tzke an eutirely excep- tonal #land in ociety, placing ticmsclves ruduslly in s position of helfacrtiie same siority, €0 that peopls should look back upoa them witha rensé of worehip almowt,—at auy 1ate, with a feeling of revereut cmulati ‘¢ But what uso would atl thut be,” ed Hi £ey, avd othors, ** even if it wero posaible# Wo bave bad nothiug of the kind for ovor so mauy hundred years, aad sro yery well off, notwith- standing.™ ** Vory woll off I" echoad Cromer indignantly, “Don't you sea what I proposs is just what o need to rescua the race from that ~physical de— y which is acknowledged to bs taking Liold of it, aud perhaps buirying it neeclessly to- ward extinction *" b4 At first theso expressions were received by Cromer’s obum, and his college-companions ger. cralty, with a laugh, or an gasumption of mock- despair, causing tho discussion to end iu 2 senso of amuted complacency ou_their part, and of misapprehension on Cromer’s, coupled with par- tial doubts as to tho sourduess of Lis own tencts, Dut, 2s time went on, theso rola- tions changed 60 far o8 to make tho ar. tiude of his listeucrs ouva almost of contempt, whilo tha young enthusiast brcame moro than ever firmly convinced of bis wise dom. After this, lus position waa rather solitary. 1o spent much time in reverie, aud a peculiar expicssion, becama observable in hig wyes, a3 of one who'has looked toofixedly and oo vacautly ot rome triding obiect, until the pupils have Lecome unuaturally dilated, losing, for the time, their ability to mtellizently survey immediato surroundivgs. 1do noz mean to say that this was Cromer's’ most stniking personal characteristic ; on tho contrary, o was chietly distingwshed ' for o fiue, dignitied frankness, a stately checrfulness,—28 if ho felt his own power nd the responsibility of posscesiug a su- perior physical orgauization, bnt was wiilug to euter into hearty external relaticns with any one, #olong o3 these attributes of phyeical forco should be respected und uucoutunated Ly them. Uns little circumstance which orcurred while Lo was at_college showid be menticned bere, as having exerted a specizl intlaence npon him. o lhad taken hLis place in the college-crew, and gono to Bpringfiold to row the anuuul r gatia. Whilo there, previous to the rzes, Lio be- came thie subject, alovg with Lis partuers in the struggle. of an industrious reporter’s commenta, 1t wes quite in sccordauce with his feoling that Lis muscular dovelopment should be muade n mattor for public attenticn, but the tone of the report did not pleaso hini. : *Itis too much like an account of prize- oxen,” he remarked to one ¢f his companions in the six-oar. Not more than two days aiter the publication of this, and as be was passing out of the door from his traiuing-quarters with the rest of the crew to their exerciso_on the river, the same re- porter, hiappening to”stand near the thresheld, in a state of morbid professional euriosity, made sold to stretch out his band, and pat Cromer's deltoid (his arm being bare) approvingly. **By Georgo, sir,” said he, *that muscle of yours cught £o wia you the racal” Cromer shook off the impertinont fingers as if thioy hud been uo many flies. e was thoroughly offended, snd vowed that he would never row nnother raco until the whole spirit of ruch en- urified. And e never did. The contest proved unfavorablo 10 lis collego, and ho was scolded by his aavo- ciates for s share in it. *If iz hadn't been for your confound about the true relations of gymnas! suid, “your mind would have Leea eusy, you | would bave pulled twico aa well, and wo shouid have won the race.” Cromer rotorted, with an_equal aspenty, {hat it was not tho fzult of his notions, but of theirs uud tho reporter's. “ Thera 18 no jovous- ness in theso athlotic sports,” Lo averred, ** and 10 poetry in the admitation of the crowd for them. 1t is all o matter of pounds and prizes,” But the result was that he received no invita- tion to tahe a piace in the Loat the next year. ‘[hat year was his lust at college.” The affair weut deeply into his mind, and set him broodiug mora than evor. The conversation already alinded to with Hig- sey took placo during tho summor, two years after their departare from college. ‘They wero in the country, Higeey having come to visit his oid cbum at tho village, where the latter had ro- mained, in his mother's house, since graduating. The interval bad been very differently employed by the two young men. Iligsey Lad gonc to New York, and tuers established Limself in a mercantile hougo, whero his prospects of coming into o partnerslip were unusually good. Cromer, on the other haud, bad continued to feed his imn- agination with material that only fostered his peculiar notions, and ho bad row arrived azn poiut whero these amounted almoat to mania. His mother, indeed, had spokon to Higsey. i modiately, on bis comisg, in regard to her kon's vagaries. **He even talks,” ehe said, “of going up to the old hill-house, as wa call it, where he can exalt limeelf into the proper state of mind for becoming a hero.” Tho hill-louze was a dwelling situated near tho summit of & high but gradual upland, aad distaut about u wile and a balf frow the village, overlooking the vallay in winch the latter la; “Theland beionged to tho Cromor estat bad been for a long time leased out to furmers ; Lat of late, the soil being nearly exhausted, tho place had not Leen in demand, and the old farm-~ housc had fallen out of nse. It was 3 square, uopainted dwelling, well blackened by timo sod tewmpest, with & stout chimney rising from the centre, in the feshion of the last century; anda barn, at a short remove, nearly ludden by a de~ pression in the -ground and gome intervening tress. Tho entranco to it was on the fide look~ ing away from the valley. A heavy clump of liac-ehrubs grew on eitlier side of the grass~ Srown agpronch, znd close besido tho threshold- stone there flonrizhod a low, dense bush of an- tique damask-rose. Ou tho side facing tho far- off village, the long, almost unbroken’ descent fields seemed to iuvite the steps of dwellers in the house valley-ward. These fields extended for about a mile; then the ground beczme more nearly level ; small, scattered grovesintervened, with some ‘cornfields; aud & slender atreata carled along through the lowland, hitherside tha village. After their argument, Iigsey, sccing that Archibald was not in a mood for further com- verse, went up and wonderingly surveyed this house and its surroundings. He decided that it would not be & bad place to live in; at all events, for the summer. Ho foresaw that, in lus life of spplication at a desk, ho shomd need ‘to resart frequeatly to same auch Epot in the hot scason. Tecling something of tho capitalist in him already, ho found it plessant to epeculate upon the possibllities of a pur- chase here, and the futurefittiog up of tbe Louse a3 & country bome. Ono thing Was waniing to his plan ; Lo had 10 prospect of marrying. . Ho was noteven in love, and had not becn since leasing college! & “Strange,” he thought, as he stoodbg the Lill- house and looked down at the populons mook from which he pad walked hither ; “strange, that Fate ehipuld so long postpoue bringing me to the woman, wherover sbo is, who is to perfect my Life and give it some botter purposo thah it haa! Now, there's Cromer, who might 23 well not be engaged at all, 80 for s his waking up to tho real proplem of Lifo is concerned. 1f I had ocly niet Migs —" Yo allowed his train of reflection to make & broken onding, and set off walking again. Com- ing to & thicket of saplinga, ho cut one, of & suit- able sizo for a waliing-stick, and turced Lis steps toward tho distant hollow_again, trimming_ sud whitthng the stick as he went, aud thinking eorly and strangely. A day or two later Cromer cerried ont his in- teution of installing himself ac the ull-bouse. Ho found & room there in good enough repair to shelter him, and moved thither with a Lem- priora’a ** Dictionary,” Bell’s * Pantheon,” one or two small plaster-casts, and some engravings of antique statues, Theére was another im- portant article in Lis repertory, which I hesitate, for o _moment, to specifs. When the young man plainly sunounced his intention of resort- ing to the farm-house, for the purpose of put- ting himself in the road to a gradunl apotheosis, his mother and his old clacsmate were forced to admit to themselves that Cromer’s conduct was that of a monomaniac. Most of the village-folk, for their part, bad already stamped the young man as ingane. There would bave been littla doubt loft in tho minds of oven the most Eanguine supporters of a contrary view bad they nown that the athlotic enthusiast had earried ith him to his retreat a complote suit of tights. \is freak was the logical issue of his fautasy. To eachieva the reputation of & dami-god he must surely, to begin with. have the outward appearance of one, 0 far as atteinoble. Ac- cordicgly, modeling upon 8 representation of Trojan Paris, which lie had discovered in ous of Lis books, snd whick pleased his fancy more than any efligy of less blameworthy beroes, Lo had procured the_silk costume aforczald as’ bo- ing tho ouly possibie approzch to boraic_nudity. "he Phrygfan cap on Paris’ head had given him ome auuoyance ; but he manazed the point by purchasing nt a fancy dress dealer's in the city 2. cap-and-bells, which bad served 18 turn as part of tho costumo of a clown at masked balls, and Lied even figured in the get-upof a Shakspearean clowu (the costumer eaid) at one of the templos of thedrama. To uny one less possessed by his idea thau Cromer this combinatiou of circus- ridor’s drees aud = fool's cap-and-bells wmight have eccuned discordant with ihe aspiration it was iutended to assist. Tor, in fact, when tha voung candidato for lero-vworship had arrayed bimself in this cast-off apparel. he bore a much more suiling resemblance to a fool than to asy god or demi-god of the Greek mythologs. Dut be did nos perceive this; was no whit discouraged by Lis cpuearance ; aud even formed the Tesoive of making this his uznal clothing 80 goon as ke could accustom hig own and the public ind to such a measare. It may be casily imazined that Miss Gladdin- galo found bersel? in nv pleasing position mean- time. Dopular opmion in the vicwity was bLe- coming excited ou the topic of Crorier's eztras- agances. Strollers in the neighboruood of the lull-house Liad caught oceasional glimpees of tha figure in tiguts, aud bad g the alam. Somo timple folks cue day cncountered tho gymmoet s ciliercal garb, making a taal of Lis speed slong 2 lonely road among the woods. They tled pro- riiscuouely as he approseied, and tho result was # rumor—epeedily formuiated in 2 nowspaper raregraph, which went throngh many States— that 3 ** wild man ” had been soen he locali- tr. It was even proposed, in tho village, that Crowmer onght to be contined in 2n asyluin; and some of the voters informaily appointed a dele- gation to wait upou Mrs. Crémer, with the pmr- ponc of pointing oat Ler duty in this direction. ‘the deputics, Lowever, gave cut at tho last moment. By a coincidenco that called forth & good deal of comment, all but one woro eummoned by business to o distacca en the eve of thoday eet for their oflicial visit. The only one remaining in town was the leader of tho movement, 3 Wackswith, named Uaukford, a surly fellow, whoso best friend waas lus bull- dog. 1o fumed avout for a whilo in search of the delinquent delegates, but finally, declaring that lie wasn't going alone, pus Lis bull-dog back into the kennel. and allowed Peaco her sway again. _Still the little storm left a_gloom in_ tho ar, which penctraied evea the 3uiez atmospliera of the young woman's oweet aud hitherto happy Leart. 1u hor extremity, and Lnowing that Higscy was Lis mont intimiate frend, aud Laving been thrown, of lat, into frequent contact with tho voung ‘mictropolitan merchant, Mies Lilua be- took herself for counsel and comfort to Cromer's old chum. r “What is to be the end of it all, 3ir. Higsey 2" she one day asked bim. : *I'm wure I cannot tell,” respouded be, with small ign of panguincuess. It tecms 83 if Cromer were Jkely to put to fault the adags of tho accients ilewealves.—'In corpore #ano, sana mens.' ™ When a college-graduate of still vernal years beging to quote Latm to a young lady wio does not understand tho lnnguzrge, it 18 like- 15 to Lo with gume other object than that of exciting her interest in claswcal learniag. Mirs_Gladdingale, probably not aware of th, s impresscd by Higsey's scholastic gravity. She listened to Lim now with a new roverauce, “Their talk progressed through the entire subjcet of hero-worship, which Higsoy preseoted in ita various repects, histarie, pactic. and philosoph- ical. For somo balf-hour Cromer was actuuily forgotten—or very nearly forgotten. Miss Glad- dingale blusbied when Higsey himself rocalled tie conversation to its starting-point—blushed to think how interested she had” become in this dis- sertztion. DBut, after all, was nos hero-worship mnch moro closely conuectod with Cromer than with Higsoy? and ought gho not to understand tho subjeet thoroughly, with a view to rescuing her betrothed—if such & thing might Le—from Lis mental malady ? Lilian certainty uzed Ler friend -to good pur- pose in the devising of a plan for the restoration of young Cromer to his eelf-possession. Their debates on tho topic were frequont; and they finally, witn the concurrence of 3rs. Cromer, hit upon an expedient which it was hoped might e effectual. Their scheme was as follows : Dunng pome absence or absences of Cro- et front tho bill-house demesne, a force of men (to ba lodged in the barn) was to be se: at work renovating the defective part of the dwolling, so as to prepare it zs soon oy possible for occu- pancy. The youthful recluse nover visited cither the barn or any other part of the dwelling than that in which be bad domiciled himself, boing chiefly engnged in the open sir, £o that this part of tho plan seemed practicablo enough. As goon a8 the house had been put in readiness, arracgements were 10 bo made suddenly on some occasion as if for the wedding of Lilian and Archibald. This, indeed, had shocked Mies Gladdingalo becausa of jts geeming forward- ness; but it was urged that the wedding preparation was only a device, and good psycho- logical suthority had been given to mamtsin that the effect of such a mental surprise would be benoficial to tho patient. Lilian waa too sincere in her dovotion to res decisively. And, bes oung vixonary's mother expresiod horself relictant to entail upon Miss Gladdingale = union with one who might prove permanctly unsettled in his mind, sho felt that it would be untrue to her engagement to hesitato at this stratagem, pain- ful 2s it was. “Ought I not to do tlus,” sho [ “oreven sacrifice my future peace and pleasuroe, if it can conduce to his recovers " Lut, while all this was maturing, Higsey found himself drilting into a distressing di- lomma. His vague desires with rofereace to his own future acting with the interest he had come to feel m Miss Gladdiogale's situation, ended in attaching his afections to her fimly and beyoud recovery. L cannot tell how much he bad mado ber feel of this new passion. He may bavo suid much in an indirect way, though it1s not probablo that she could clearly havo understood his allusions. The progress in re- pairs at the hill-house was good; but, s the plan thus progreasod toward completion, Hig- eey—illogically onough, one might have thonght, not knowing bis heart—became lees and jess buoyaut in his hopes for its success. * Thera is only one way in which to end this trouble,” ho even allowed himeelf to say to Misa Gaddinzade on one occasion; *and we havo not yet resoived to take that way.” ““What can it be?” she inquired anxiously. - ‘“*An,if Icould only tell you!” * But you can: why not? You must tell me before it is too late. Iam stalung everything upon our plan as it is now.” “ Perheps, then, I will tell yon—beforo it is t00 Iate,” replied Higsey, in a fone of repressed signiticance. Miss (G1addingale only looked troubled. not in auy wav anace of the intenso meaning IHigsey's words had carried to himself, After two or thveo weeks at the hill-house, Cromer mzde ready to enter upon his first excur- gion among the haunts of men in his character of Greco-American_hero. Accordingly. one after- noon, baving clad himseif in his tights, with a pair of rather gaudy, short-trunk hose, and the fool's cap to supplement them, ‘he left his’ room znd began to descend tho long declivity toward tho village. As we have seon, the public mind was not umpre- pared for such an interruption. Who firat da- tected his approsch it would be difiicalt to say; but ho Lad not gone far down the hill when the slarm wes spread in the village that the young crazy man was coming. and withont the proper complement of clothing upon him. Many per- sons closed their windows and shuftersasit a battlo were ,bout to take place. Otbers sought advice of their neighbors, aud small groups of nomly-debating womon wera s00n assembled in various kilchen-precincts. A troop of idle boys got wind of the adventure, and*prepared 10 sct upon the heels of tha disordered wanderer with appropriate hootings, Above all, Hank- ford found himself triumphant, elevated to the digmigy of a prophct. e left bis xnvil, and declared that nothing should now deter him from bunting the young athlete, with his dog, as bho would a savage creataro of the forest. Poor Archibald, meanwhile, approacked with lusty and springing step, pressing the grasey fleldy bencath bis thin elippers, or plant- ing a firm foot on an occasional slab of rock, moving proudly always, and always toward tho rivor and the village. Crossing the bridge, ho drew within the scope of some among tho nearer houses, All at once he was cturtled by shrill ery « ** Go back!” t was the voice of & spinster lady, gesident in ahouse by tho road, who had dotermined to suerifice her convenience to the fublic good in this one endeavor to turn the por from hLis path. She bad kept hind a shetter, until be cams within reach of yoice, when ghe'at ouce shricked, and withdrey into an ionzr room. Cromer paused, looked, listened, 2nd then, with a smile, moved on. He met no one oa thoe street, and wont forward unmolested. DBut, when Le came to the corner of tho public equare—Liberty I'lace—hs suddenly beard the growlof a vi- cious bull-dog, and tha next momeat boheld Hankford's brute rushing furiously upon him. Allbis presence of mind was required to meat tho emergency. He was clothed iu aimost noth- ing, had no implement of cuy Lind with which 10 get the better of his brutish adversary, and know that, if once the animal’s tusks should bo fixed in his fiesh, ho would be powericss from pain to apply bis greas muscular forco in Lis own defense.” 1o tixed lus oyes keenly, tiescely upon the dog—it was but a few yards disteat— 2nd resolye:d npon bLis pian of nelion. Ile waited where Le wza until tho bull- dog bad come within sprizging distance, his eycs till keaping count of eyéry movement ‘Then, when arother leap would enabie the mal to clutch him with his tecth,—just, in fact, 24 the dog was making that leup—ho darted eside, and sholiered himself for an instant be- hind the post of 1 wooden awning projecting in front of the building befors wich the encounter took place. The impetus of the oxcited brute’s career carried him forward beyond the posz. He gave agrowl of rage, simultaveous with tho fierco snap of Lis dissppointed ja With searcely & second’s delay, Cromer whisked ouc again from his shelter. | 1t was useloss to run in eiiber direction. The dog wouid havo caught kim in an instant. Cro- mer s2w approacling, from tle other sido of tha equare, a party of bors and youug men, with Hankford a$ therr hezd, and armed with sticke and stoues. But, if their intention waa ro assist hiitm, thoy were not alert enough, he saw at once. As Lie ewept his eyes about over 2! surrounding objects, hie obeerved within two feet of him a stone Just large enough to give it power as a weapon, but wmall enough to parmit o good Lold upon it, and providentially pointed at ons end. So quicke Iy were theso observations made that tha dog had pot vet had time to turn himself, and was but a fow feet away. Cromers plan had been to grazp tho dog from bebind, and, with ull the forca of which ha was capable, to gripa him by the throat, and 50 cioko him, or else, if Lo couid, tear bim to pieces, rathor than allow himsell to be bitten. Io now moditied it by possessing himsclf of the sione. With one bouud hebad seized it and seized the dog. Then began a sbarp and bitter atragslo between tho brute and tho man. With bis left havd Cromer fastened the bull-dog by the throat, £o thzt hie cozld mot tarn his head, ner move kLis jaws; with the other, ho wielded the sharf-rointed stone. The dog d 2nd toro to get free, Lut Cromer notrelax s hotd for un instanz. Within three minutes tho animal, what with this re- straint and the offect of tha charp stone, was re- duced to e state of inability for furtber combat. ‘Then the young athleto released him, lifted him- folf to & standing posture, and turned the brato over with his fuot. e was ready for tie plaudits of the crowd. Lat, instead of epplanse, he becane of threats and curscs in closa proximity him. Hankford, farions at the fate of his four-footed ally, was almost upon him, vitu- Jerating, asd calling npon the troop of loafer boys to join in punishing the offender. At this -juncture, 1he incougraity of the whole scene avd circamstances with bis own ideal plazo of feeling smcto in upon Cromer's mind abrapt- 1y, and _tilled him wi Tor the firat time, his schomo pres if to biminan absurd light, and its folly was overwhelming to him. A single impetuous impulsa seized him— the impulse to escape at once from his hu- milizting posizion. His mythological costume would favor tlis, ot auv rate, It was liznt and tigrit, sud would assist Lim ip runming. e | did rot lose any time, bat, throwing himseif forward, shot uway like an arrow before lis pursuers in the direction Le bad como from. Lrought to a stand-still by a mere bundio of canine muscl 9, sud now hunted by 2 rabble of hooting villuge boys, Cromer's flight was ignominious enoug Lut, to the ignominy, budily dsngsr was added. Haniford, 1reshly ihe censed to see the youug man escapiug, fent his stick through 2ir after the runner. It whizzed over his Lead, narrowly m hiz, and feli on the ground in advance of m. A Ligat volley of stones then hurtled azronnd the scarcying bero. - One of them grazed Lus thigh, znd gpurred him on. - “Iry for Lis legs!—bis legs!” shouted tho blackswiil. Bat by tbis timo Cromer had reacked the bridge oves tire river. 1le preferred to avoid tho chanca of # laming by pluaging into the water. | As he did 80, a pair of round stoncs, well aimed, flew throash the srace where his body bad been a momews beforo. 1o kmew tho river well, aud felt imself in the arms of o friend. A8 tho littlo crowd came panting up to the bridge, ho dived again, and swam away under the surface, ‘They stood ou the bridgo wondering, and had |- timo to cool the mad ardor of their attack on the wealthy young Gruco-maniac; o that when he rose to the suriace, some rods down- stream, and within czsy reach of the farther bank, they did pot givo chase. A few stmuck abead ezain, in the Lope of Hm[fl;iug him off somewhicie, bat, secing Archibald at & distance, ranning evenly aud apparently in good wind {oward a cornticld, they desisted. At about tho centre of the cornfield was a reare-crow, aud toward this tho young demi-god was making his way. An extraordinary sight now offered itself to TMznkford sud his posse. They eaw Cromer ad- vance to the scar-scrow, snd disappear behind it. Preaently, totheir utter astoaishment, the scaro-croww scomed to move, and in another momeut it pegan, beyond mistake, to recedo from its place. Thea tho wholo traas- action Lecame clear to tho gazers, 'They raiged a derisive, jeering chorus, and, turning away, too! direction of the village, seeming- Iy well eatisficd. The young aspirant for super- Lumau Louors bad, in full view of bis valzar opponents, trausformed himself from tho divine person of bis visiona iato a common scarecrow | While this episcdo was passing, Higzey, hav- ing found that Cromcr would leave the. house, had gono with =6 Gladdingale thither, to imspeet and completa tho uecessary changwcs. They mado their survey of the finishéd portions, and came into Cromer's room (which opened upon the bhill-slope aod the valley) to romovo the paraphernalia of his eraze, ud 1 replace tho statuettes and engravings in the festal decorations. As they worked, tho young woman was twice startled Ly what seemed distant shouting, in the direc- tion of ths village. *What is that?" ghe exclaimed. ‘I am ex- ceptionally nervous to-day. I foclasif some- thing might happen to poor Ascuibzld at any moment.” * Do not think of that, ’ said Higsoy, * but of our work here, aud the preity home you are mukiog.” Something which she could not defive inthe young merchazd’s voice startled Aiss Glad- dingaio. *~'Ab, a pretty home,” sho eaid. *Y¥es; but shail we ever be happy in it 2 Higeey looked eagerly at Ler., ‘We 2" hesaid, as if hedid not clearly un- eerstard bor. *Youand he? " = “Hark! I thought I heard that shout again,” Interrupted bis companion. Higsey listencd for o 120ment, but nothing moro was audble to ertherof them. They bad arranged the decorations, and both now drew near to the windows. To each of them, as they looked out upon the valloy-scene, came & strog sepse of impending events of great moment. They appeared to be gazing down into somo fertile recion of the fature, and awaiting decision of destiny. For the first timo, for & moment only, there 2roso in Miss Giaddingale's benrt s bewildering regret and dis- gatisfaction. Did she begin to dount the excal- lence of being mated to a man who was & haro only 12 his own entimatio: > spoke, -+ Tt e g T wish, " ho s2id, tint my lify g Fentage-ground us chis. 1t nyens Sl that Tubould avo becn worsfes a2 sezuro another man's bafpiness, -0 *Do you rogret it 2 aho assed 3 fecling of utter purposelesmer: 1A% 2dng 41 bardly know,” Lo roturang, sa g *Da you think,” sie continueq, + g} ;. - had becn working for sonr onp hatih i 5y would bave beon coptost PPinesy gy “Formy own bLeppiness!™ cried atfoto sa¥ moro. T cried Higey o, “You seo Low littls pleasurg it o £aid Miss Gleddingalo, © ko Liava Ty 3 28 o happiucss. Lappiness, L sce, iy m,& ha 05y 5 ien Gladdingale—" Legap & . * Lok, looi " called she, muddepe "5 2R is that coming up toward the hopges v & So pointed out of tho windoy. trilight mado “tho scena obscare, pntt could deserva form dressed in s g s ley of old, tatterad cloLitcs, with a pris® Dipe bat on it head. SO E, ‘“Some vagabond,” ha eaid zcamtcgu\r."r * “1tis getting dark,” said Lilisy, 2gif erries bl suddeuly Peture Hixe mkgme vackz o o ored tober g igaoy offered bis arm, bat e was motion toward the front-door, ang el A3 they stepped uat on tho thresbor et sey bent down to pick s damuk—m.«,eri’n“ pratty companion. A figare ndvanced, tefrysd ad risgn, rom behind Ehe Jilac shistgps RN Gladdingale staried in aifright, 5y _““Vrell, what do you wany 7" dnm:m!edm;,, 3nized S “Huloohu“ g witl the Tosoin bis fingors. Moi shabiby person who had stariled por viudow. ihed e I want 3iss Gladdingalo o3 mus thin, 1 [ B ¥ h a1y, said Uromar, quietly, tuklog of biy gy exclaimed Higao, Ceoner cuo, up to Lilisa. “Don't Lo Trightened,” ho ea N “T'vo dono with myrhologr, and | e enday, sou “clohed and fu my righe muge sgblily eloisod, T admic.” - They” all threo went back lats the Migaey still holding on to the plucked s stupeliod wo. ¥ Dokl *What have von been doing herss” s the disguised ber i35 the changes tho o suised hero, seeing tha changesinjy 1 bave been helping to prop: wedding,” said Ins el;nxr,n, nicii oy e find ring couscionsness of truih und fal f liug in bis words, S e s **Good! " exelaimed the other, Io drew Liliau within his acm. Tt e, for b to recognizo Ler Loro now, ‘thonsh uie 0so tatters. There was no i resyet in hoe mjod 2ore sl ** Ab, Lilian,” gaid Cromer, 1 se: ouly apotheosis is to be. Your hesst ?xfi:] me luilmr than any ol"vnxo Greok heroes hip evor been raised. What a wi gror b wild fool T by *-No, 10! " oxeleimed Lilian, with tro e7es. " You must not call yourvolf that! Taj Jou liava thought, aud {elf, and done willams 0 lost. I am snro vou will Teform the wa: great deal, nud teach men the nobloness aadny. - eezsity of beautiful physical development, Cromzer felt that she as mninly right, sl © ber koow it by s pressure of tho hand; ‘bt tinued, in afacetions struin, that proved 53 thorough caro: *Wo will cail the place tnm. craft, at any rate, in commemoration. Remey - ber, Higsey, you Lbavo a standing invitatior ts mil: Cr n—;‘rut;i‘ a3 fouad naceseary to lot the fresh s lands of Iigses's placing wither, -fi? i weeks pass, before tho real wedding coald ey the place of ita forecast shadow. Higses, hevde less of remonstrance, would not wait for the ceromony, but returied to town the pent . carrymg in bis pocker-book o freshiy-oldy damask-rose, and, strapped up with b greeat and nmbrella, o stick cat from tho woods. Tee 42 Tos0 became 'a record o bim; tho stick 3 sous S5 of fruitless schemings. * Happinces iy v B8 tain,” he mused, as ho traveled away. . Somo fortitwds was reqiired of Cromer fokh 57 1D alife of sense and suboreess a Crazyent; Lut Le did it. and is happy tiors, Iam told, & strong reaction soon et in against Haokied J3 oud Lis participators in tho memerablens & chase. Tucre wero even hints of a pomsy prosocation. And tho blacksmith, ignorsid tho sorvico bis brutish opposizion had rendsd in restoring Cromor, and wholly unrequited & Lis lost Lull-dog, bastily decamped fzom (4 . 2nd never reappearsd th [ ppletans’ Journal. RgeRTy; lipht tiere i in its ring ! ¢ Llecsure its r wing, And sweet as tue twitter of Lirds is Springy Freo as o child's from the impress of Art, And bright vé 3 gem wids suust + ripples with m 3 fiiled with me: with Lol A =oul where malice und hate have Taroff in tie Nortd, on a Ik, anc night, Tue crescent-sizaped movn b eled jus zoft izt The¢ wtark were marrored i the crysial dezp, And the wozid reposed 10 6 quis aleo, “Cize poud-Lily 1oy uid the decyess ceals Then 5 burst of langhter, vntmmmeiod and ety | Wiid aa the chausou of a mountainver,— Tealed out througls thoe site i And lasped o'er tae wat 1t reng oerisland, ‘round Through forest tad glen 1t bounded wway, “Lill the eartl awoke from its stiilners and resh And ro-eclioed tho oy £ho felt in Ler braast] ACA T thought thea, as 1 drifted slonz, Heard tuo lasi note of her raplurous w: the charms e'er icut oa thes eacthy e wiida rojoiced in Ler zairth ] OB ! then let sout langh ring ont, Tittiy midl Gadden the World with your rippling roulsda] Like tue Mmpid spritg o8 iz scaward lows, 1t transports deiight wiseraver is gocs | Let no churlish critizs stifle the ply Of yaur gen’rous nutes by sught Like 30 girdlo of Veaus, In story It enbiances Four charms o thousand-fold § As men Iy a3ide all folly and strife When thunderboits roar and wuiriwinds arazifs A3 the poct’s jen, with Prometise.n light, Lifts the minds of men to a grezter haghy= So with your lacghter,—whea free from allof, Men foret all aud partake of your joy ; And. ko the zugels in Heavea one mord, Tuey are glad for the world that you wecs b3, & 2 kiate. 2t From the Eransrilie (Tnd.) Courier. Whilo the late Cul. Smich Shiler, of GBS Couuty. represcnted this disirict in Comsi g Lo purchasod & magniticont eilver service, W siuca thoso Lright dags has adorned his hosg blo board. At bis deatha few years 8§, mada 2 will and left this heirloom of 8 servico to his famity, but to becoms the ! of the son Who should first taxe L}i‘»on T B the burdens of matrumonial life. Thole onel's two sons bave been rivaia for the loum, and cach have declared their pflm‘fm securing the treasure. Yesterday mUrNZs- 3 P. J.7J. Miller, the cldest eon of ‘C‘vfl i Congressinan, aad Cashier of th3 dibson Y Natiogal Dank 2t Princaton, came down 0 train, and at half-past 1 o'clock yeslpnhA,rh e noon’ wea united in marriago to Miss AEY tin, daughter of Edward 5. Martin, & e Marshal of this city. Ths ccremony Wel. formed in_tho presence of s fow flw”‘ i and relatives ac the residonce fiby Martin, on Sixth street, near U]l_es}nfl‘«m Lev. Dr. J. J. Uight, pasior of Trinily (5 Aiter hicartily congratulating tho vorli ey the friends 100k leave of them, and Jlr. 3895, Millor lef: for their new homa in Pnnuh% thought of being possessors of tho BEGY being a sacondary happy considerstio y, they were doomed to dni:pwmtm!nf,wu. § Miller’s younger brother (llugh), 3¢ J hearing of the wntention of his brother, lmfi; ately weut before Justico Jeszo T. was married yesierday moruing b residonco, to his engaged bride, 3liss son, just Leforo the arrival of the E. & on which they went to Princeton, 7 tuo eilver service, which they won, t00 £ eice in the time of tho coromanies beig Ty three hours. Notwithstznding tho bes gl the weddings, thes aro hsppy eventd Sy {afe both conple, Lopiag that S = e = d & Matrimoaizl ,:ugnzgmeflf' - A Philadciphia paper wava : --xm-n%"“. that E. L. Stautou, a promiuent sttomesie of Washingtua City, a sonof thelate B 3 7y 3 ton, Secretary of War, is engaged to b3 to Mias Toneio Carr, daushtar of Comes X Oveiton Carr, of tha United States Na%r . granddaughter of Judge William Wilihs, merly Secrotary of War, and Minister t0 0 uoder President Polk, and grandniece oni w & Vice-President George AL Dallas, who Wuy B Ministor to Rusai. Mies Casr is quisé and reaidos in Philedelphise 4 1 i 1 c S v £ t. £ v [3 € E W