Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 31, 1874, Page 10

10 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDA i OCTOBER 3 " MICHIGAN FRUIT. The Fruit-Belt on tho Eastern Shore of Lako Michigan Penches, Grapes, Apples, Peams, and Plums, Strawberries, Blackberries, Rasp~ Dberries, and Cherries. Special Correspondence of T'he Chicago Trituns. GRAND HavEN, Mich,, Uct. 27, 1874, A promising fruit-section this may indeed bo ealled, —favored by Naturo in almost oyory mau~ nor for tho successful eultivation of tho fnest epocimens of pomological products, 'Tho soil i 1ight and sandy, onco covered by pine forests ; and though, at firat inspoction, offoring nouo but doubtful impresaions, furthor investigation shows that angthing can bo raisod hero in em:ml pectection to thnt attained on heavy soil. The soll contathn o lage porcontago of limo, o is found by microacopic examination, which roveals minute particlos, resembling nnoly:pnwdomd sholls. From the naturo of tho soil it ia ensily cultivated, and mquires ccmparativoly little at- tontion. Tho fat of this placo being especinlly favorablo for the raising of peaches and ginpes is fully oxemplfied in tho succossful cultivs- tion of these fralts on o farm eituatcd directly upon the mnd-bluffs that lino the Iake- noro. What ls andoubtedly most favorable is tho gentolity & tho climato, which is unpur- passed for equlity of temperaturs and freenoss from oxtrome« Though it is but a short timo sines oxterivo cultivation of fruit was com- moncod ip+is section, the fino quality of that frult he beon indeed acknowledged. Quite oreditalo ate tho showings madoe of shipmenta durim the past sonson, which nmounted to 210, 500 'ackages, of which thoro were, of peaches ao« grapes alonc, 160,000 baekets, with a valuo o 60,000, THE FRUIT-DELT. Ttis now a well-ostablisbed fact that thero is not# fruit-growing reglon in tho United States superior to tho belt which estends along the onfre osstorn shoro of Lako Michigan, from Borien County to Grand Traverse, Tho exact witthof this bolt is not well definable, for gworal roasons ; but those staloments tending b show that it is wider than Ja genoraily sup- yaed aro incorrect; for it is proved that tho +idth of this belt is gradually boing narrowad, i this will bo well establiehed ina short period 1f years, in tho course of nature, as the couniry socomos oleared of the furests, which factis estined to make it moro frosty as wo advanco iuland, From tho extremo points of tho belt, tho lake-shoro fa_bounded generally with a lino of bigh bluffs, whick offer & protecting shecltor for tho Jand back of them, and, by their beight, exempt the fruit grown on them from frost, Tho principal and most favorablo influcnce, as I bavo said, ia tho climate. The provalent snd coldest winds of winter sro thoso from & southiwesterly dircction, The effoct of the lake- influence i8 to equalize the land:tomporatures in summer or wintor, which Influenco is most dis- tinetly folt in oxtromo weather. Tho lako-tom- poraturo nover fatls below 80 degraes. For thin reason, the cold southwest winds of winter havo their tompernturo incroased in croseing tho lake, aud aro grenily amolioratod when reaching tho castorn whiore,—this offcct boiug moro noticon- ble a8 wo proceed north,—thus ahnlv‘lng that tho wholo castorn coast is freo from winter-killing frost, ‘The farther south the fruit-belt, the more liable it is to domago from frost. ~Tho abovo fact offers an ascertainable defined line of tho width of tho Lelt, as, tho farther we go m- land, tho wind loses in & certain ratio the warmth and nmelioration it obtained in croesing tho lake from being affected by its warming intluenco. CULTIVATION OF PEACHEH. Taking tho various fruits in iho order of thoir importauce, wo find tho peach flist. This fruit, from its popular aud cxtensive cullifulion, is dostined soon o give thin soction great promi- nence aa tho principal peach-growing oune in the fruit-belt. Ono reseon 18 its presont oxomption from that dostructive disosso known s the + yellows,” which will probably compel tho eu- tire destruction of the trces in tho St. Jo sce- tion, As romodics are being rapidly dovised to prevent aud control this discuso, this scction may luye tho good fortuna, derived from those benefits, to bo jeft oxempt from it. Another im- portant advantage is she poculiarly light, fertilo soil, whichi insures productiveness, and the free- noss from killing frosts, that reuders production safo, Tho trees havoalso a comparalively greater length of life than at othor ptaces. ‘Chough (if- teen years ix generally an extrome, this fact should bave no expecial Influonco, as compotent suthority claims that frees may ba made to last, with propor care, from thirty o fifty years, and ‘boar abundantly fruit of good quality. " \yith ref- eronco to the killing of trecs by frost, the great destroyer, it is found that tho treos are never injured aftor tho vap bas dried up and they Lave become dry and Jirdoned ; but, when a spell of mild, moist weathcr keeps the eap greon and atarta a vew growlb, it loaves them in danger trom killing by a ebiarp frost, Tho difforent varietios of peachos grown in this section are the lale’s and Crawford Early, Barnard, Bmock, Lill's Chili, old Mixou Frco, York, and Jacques Rureripe. The Eurly Cruw- ford is tho mont extensively grown, and hus beon aokuowledged tho finest pench,—its mam- moth proportions offeriug kuch delikht to the pomologist, aud its flavor giving such pleasure to the opicurean. But, becauss of its boing neithor » regular annual nor an early bonrer, sud be- eauso it is also s small yieldor, it will not bo grown much horenfter, aid scoms doomed t0.bo clasecd lowest in the amounts produced. The Barnard is uow dostined to tako its pluco nnd become a popular peach, a8, withcaroful caltiva~ tion and thinuing out, it ranks with and obtains tho samo pricos as the Crawford. Though not all those thinga which tho Crawford is, it cloims what is Leat, those tho Crawford is not, The most profitublo poach this year has been the SBmock; but this is duo to ox- coption fromx frost, which it is liuble to bo afleoted by, on account of Inte riponing., A more relinble, popular peach than tho York, and » hardier, better boarer than tho Jacques Rare- ripe, ia found to be needed for filling tho vacant marle: betwoen Hale's Early and Crawford, and Crawford and Hill's Chili. In tho cultivation of the pench, the nocessity of thinning out tho heavy-bearing varielics hay boon detnonstrated, in order that tho fruit riay not be rendered worthloss, and to obtain botter quality in sizo and flavor. The results have shown the bonefits to be thus obtaine successful experimont to provent the drifts Ay of tho soil from the trees on the suud-ridges, was tried, by placing about half-a-pound of potash around each treo, which, in the Halo’s Larly, iusured the best crop gathorad. Liarge numbers more of tracs of vi- rioun varieties, some for experiments, are bo plauted. GRATE-CUL:UNF. But ono other sectien in the Stato KIOWA B greater quantity of grapon than this, and thut is in Berrien County. Though raising s lurger quantity, it may be questioned whether they wro a5 succonsful thero 1t rugard to size and agality ®a wo aro hore. Grapes with us siways yiold o heavy, profitablo cron,—the bunchus Leini largo, and the fruit vory compact au them, This year thoy were somewhat dwarfed in nize, frum early drought: bot it is claimed (hat this was made up in tue rich, concentrated flavor of the fruit. All the common variotios are grown aud thrive. T'he Goncord is the most rrul\flo aud extensivoly growu,—it proving abuo- utely hardy, and freo from disonse and the rave agos of insocta. It still keu'pa ity roputation an “ihio grape for tho million,” wn oxprousod by Horaco Ureeley. It isstated that tho Delawaro is approaching the snine decadouce as exporione- ed in other localities. Dut this is only probably in part 8o ; for investization shows that the httlo 1y, called the * thrip,” whioh sucks the sap from thie louyes, and which is charged as tho principal cause, is only found in localitics in the vicinity of marshes, whicn thoy inhabit. As most of tho land whera'tha grape is grown I8 high, it experi. eucos 4 partial exomption from this plague, and ulso from frost, At best, tho Delaware s but delicate, and for that reason ueedn eepecial cultivatlon and attontion, which would Pmunbly free it both from the ravages of the * thrip," and tho blight that hay this year pro- vented nearly one-half the crop from ripening, #nd aleo has dentroyed its market-valuo, With o liopo of hastening the maturity of the crop by Lo weaks, it Is proposed br some to try tho English plan in hotliouso eulture, especlally with the Catawba, of pruning the vines while the lonves are on. It Ju found that the young vines seem to bear the best fruit, whilo vineyards in onrs becomo nearly ruined, A romedy for this {a now being sought for. Of lato the manufoe- _tare af wine hay beon enterad into, aud, as it is } footly frao. It but rarely ton Eromnblo, it promiscs to grow into an oxtonslve usincas, . TIE GROWING O TIIE APFLE, though being somowhat extonulvely nnloredlnta, 18 not so ganerally favorcd a8 in tho interior, tho frult having a foo rank growih, and slowor in coming into bearing, Tho main attontion 1s given to tho poach and grape, so that the cul~ ture of the apple ia but of secondnry importauco. Thero aro probably fitty vatiotios of applos in cultivation, Tho brincipal and mosl productive aro fimt, the summor appleg,—~Lnrly Harvest, Red Astrachan; fall,—Maidon'a Blush, Pippin; wintor,—Baldwin, Wagnor, Grooning, Bpltzen Porg, and Nod Oatinda, Tho great aud destriot Ivo enomy ot tho applo {8 tho * coddiing-moth, " ~—nn ingect which gives unbounded troublo fo the frult-growors, without a soeming remedy, A rcmexi in * anxiously looked forward to ngninst this onomy, and tho *thrip,” which has rained the hitherte unoxcolled Dola~ waro grapo, 'Lho boat plan which has yot boon found to clreumvont tho * coddiing” is to place, in tho spring, & band tightly drawn around the treo, with tho upper portion folded over, 8o tho insects can erawl under tho averlapping part, whero they can bo found and killod, Wath the oxception of tho damago dotie by this insectin thio Lonoycombing of tho frult, ths fruit is gen- orally chioico and of fino proportion. The aver- ngo amount of apples shipped from horo each senson {a about 60,000 barrels, which fiads & market in Chicago and Milwaukoe, PEARS AND PLUMH, TFrom & seoming genoral Iack of knowledgo and exporfonce, tho culture of tho poar has not 8a yot mot with tho success to which it s un- doubtediy destined, The great mistake in culti- vating this frnit horo is tho fact of too much onre and attontion Loing Destowed upon its cultivation, in resorting to tho same* treatment as that necesnary on woil requiring considorablo fortilizing. It Ia found that the fruit thrives best on being loft to ita own growth, instead of forcing or nnmulnun}z it with unnccos. sary fortilization. Tho following sre some of the privcipal varioties, of which over 10,000 trocs ara sot out: Bartlett, Flemish Benuty, Louiss Bon do Jorsoy, Duchosse d'An{oulama, Lavwrance, Howell, Swan's Orange, Bickle, Os- wego Beourre, aud Caunandaigus,—the latter closely resembling and being oqual to the Bart- lott, "Mr. Honry Pennoyor is tho larpest grower of pears, and’ his offorts have boon attonded wilh the bost and most uniform success, probably from his suporior knowlodge in rogard to tho best plan of cultivation. At various horticulturs! exhibitions our apples and pears have takon high rank for their heauty, proportions, and genoral pomological excollence, which has brought the fruit into popular favor, Reforring to the growing of plum treos, and the cultivalion of this dolicloua fruit, it is said that the plum is a failuro hero,—for what reason is not stated. Tho fruit, though not renching the samo dovelopment and beauty as at othor places, is of generally excoltant quality, with o tomowhat coucentratod richuness of flayor, THE BMALLER FRUITS, a8 strawberrios, blackborrios, rod and black rasp- Dborrics, aud _cherrics, though in sizo compara~ tively inpiguificant, in tho aggrogate form an im- ortant part in tho total fruit product. Theso ruits_grow almost rank,—the only attention noeded being to keop the soil suficiontly moist to insuro the full and perfect dovolopmont of the fruit, Fortilizers are unnecessary, and, with tho required cultivation of tho soil, prolific crops of tho most perfeot nnd luscious fruit are tho result, when from 3200 to 2800 per mers s realized. Now begin- ners in fruit-culture, of limited meane, ro- sort to tho cultivation of theso fruits as o necessity, — they being planted botween tho rows of fruli-trecs, Birawborries aro tho favorite, and produco heavy crops of berries, simost equal to hothouse culture, Over fl(&y variotios of this fruit arc at prescnt cultivated, of which tho Wileon is tho principal and most profitable, The voxt {n favor are the Triumph, Charles Downing, and Kentucky. Largo quun- titics of blackberrios and_ raspberries sro culti- vated, and return abundant crops, which ob- tain fzoud prices. Tho Lawton blackberry, though originally most grown, is, from its Dboing found eomowbat tendor, bo- ing suporseded by the Kittatinny, @ hardier and better fruit. Of raspberries, the Aliami for tho black, and tho Pliladelphin and Clark for tho red, bave proved most eatisfactory. Chonics are not oxtensively grown, though their cultivation is favored. Bost of the va- rioties grown are of tho finost, ugochflly for homo use, As rome of the varioties boar yonng and_ heavily, with conatant crops, and a roady, paying market, the cultivation of this fruit will soon reach large proportions. Over 100,000 packagen of there difforant small fruits woro shllmw(l to market tlus senson at remuuncrative prices. UENERAL AGRICULTURE. Having dwolt at length upon our frnit-clajme I will briug this letter toa closo with s shork roferenco to onr agricuttural claims and pros- pectd, Farming as & businose, in the raisivg of corcnls aud vegotables, has now but small pro- portions, being confined to small tracts of land, onco “marsh” in tho valleys. Whatever voge- tablos hiave been raived, howover, have becn of largo yiold, magnificent devolopmont, and good quilty. But a8 yot thero is scares cnough raixed for home-consumption, with tho excep- tionof potatoos, that aro unasually thrifty and prolific. Within this county thero aro thou- ennds of acres of marah-land, which, when drained and cultivated, will prove the bost farm- iy lands in tha State,’ Now raflway-cnterprises, coutering liers, will undoubtedly bring large tracts of this land into caltivation, when this section will reuch n position of enviable prom- nenco as regurda its agricultural productious. Trenon, _—_—— AQUARELLE. Placid and pearly, tho broad bey slesps, On {8 tawny sliors fulut fosmiing ; Fleoced with dafsies, the moadow sweops, Undor the suave Liue gloaming, Eastward the sheor btuffe, halght by helght, Lassen to violet hozes ; Over their nbadowy curves the night Mellows biur moon aud raives, Cieaving thio marsh that {3 plumed with grass, I Uoceally-rippled cluoters, Lapses the creck, with its glois of glasa Turpled 1a lovely lustroa, Tar away, westward, the cattlo go, Doitiug the land’s'dim cdges. Teatmed i tho roscato uflerglow. Durken the long cloud-ledges. Buming each moment with warmer besms, The muon, by her wweot, chasto powor, f Lull the world into lotus-droame, Aud Lanya likoa lotus-flower | —Edgar Fawectt in Locke's Nutionul Monthly. —_—— Endigestible Food. At a rocent mnnuu;’i of tho Socioto de Mede- cine of Paria, roported in tho Gazelle des Hospi- lauz: of Bopt. 15, somo curious records of casgs of foroign bodies 1n tho digestive passages were reluted.” M. Lunier cited the case of s younfi womun, & munise, who had sovoral timoes trio to commit suicide, On tho first occaslon sho took & decoction of two or threo packots of to- bLacco, whick she bad boiled for half an bhour. Another timo sho swallowed two quariers of & hundrod of pine, and buricd another quarter of o huudred in fier ealp, Finally sho procured two hectogrammes (nearly balf & ponud) of gun- t!uwdur, sat fize ta it, aud placed heruelt over it. owever, nono of thesoatiempts resulted in uny- thing but meking hor 1ll. She Fmod & great numbor of A per annum, sod it was ouly at tho ond of two or threo wmonths those in the seulp, wore diecovered, and thirty of them re- moved. At the end of thres months sho wag complotely cured. This fact tonds to confirm tho relative immnuvity from sufferiug which fs peculiar to the i.sune. M. Poter wroto a nork on the migration of foroign budies in the diges- tive passages, for which Lo collected a certain number of cases. Somo of them aro ns follows A Jugglos Iiviug svalloned s yabro waa brought inio the Clnrite Hoapital, Serious convquances fotlowed, Adhosive inflammation onsued, re- sulting; in an abscoss, ‘The sabre becumo divid- od into two parts, and tho extraction was por- formod in two operations. A sailor, for hulf a pint ot brandy, ewallawoed a knife, which ho uftorward pnunuv] oasily. Dut ono doy tho knifo would not pasy, serious result cawo ou, aud eaused his death iu three days. The nccropsy rovenled chronio wlcerous gastritis, Tho knife was found, but the horn-haudlo boon complotoly digested, sod thoro only romained vestiges of thoe five or six blades it had contained, Anothor caso was thal of au Lystorieal woman, who had awallowed s packet of noadlcs, of which 996 issuod from hor brensts, arms, eheat, ote, M. Leliquet rolated a cato of strangulated hornis, operated on u‘:{ M. Maison- neuve, in which it was agcertained during the operation that all tho effeots of strangulation hud boon braught on by the presence of a lavk's claw, which had been awnllowed by the ggtlunb and hiad lodged acros the Intestine, M. Forgotdrow attontion to the proparatione presonted by M, Qullard’s house-siirgeon, from the body of & waitor, who, having autered tho hosplial on ono occasion {u consequoncs of baving reecived some blowsa on tho chest, which bronght on somo gen- oral symptoms, lofs cured. Hoou aftar, Lowevor, bo again cmmo into tho hospital for an abdominal uffection, to which o succumbod, At the neeropay old adhosions botween the peri- cardium aud tho correspoading wall of tho ung wero found. ‘fhes two orgsns wore heid tue Rethor by u pin, of which the point issued into the interior of the pericardium, whera it was por- chod the heart, on tho nurfaco of which was found & sorion of con- contric ourves produco by the point of tho pin, which insoribod tho hoart's movements on iteolf, Just as tho stylet of a uphimoguph would hnvo done, Thin onse, beaides boing very intorasting from & phyelotogleal polnt of viow, provos that the swallowing of n singlo pin will sometimen eanoo donth, — M. Durozior sald that colns scomod to flnd onsy passago through tho digoat- ive tubo. 'Chus, a mon who camo to tho lotel Diou aftor having swallowed six 20-franc places, passcd thom all, and rocoverod without any bad symptons, — A BOAT-RAGC. Why Should Not Womon Swiml-A NReminiscence of Lako George. From the New York Times, T there any rcaeon why woman shiould not swim? Miys Bonnott, tho inotructross of tho {froo awimming baths, seema this vear to bavo had no ond of promising pupils, and at Newport and Long Bravch the nuwnbor of Indics abla to buffot with the waves was notably on tho in- oronas, Doston is prominont iu produciug Iadies who are admirable swimmora, Many of these Iadies, in case of an accident, could not only take tho bost earo of thomselves, but they bave gono s far aa Lo inatrues thomsolves how to save thoso ignorant of swimmiog, This spring » notable cnso occurred where a young woman from an n- terior town in Massnchusotts saved a lad of 17 from drowning, plunging iuto a swift-running river, *accontred as shio was,” and diving twico undor wator bofore accomplishing the rescuo, It 18 worth rocording that, the fact having beon re- orted to tho obloinls of the town whoro tho incl~ jont hnppencd, it was proposed to have o mnodal presentod to hor. Taking tho wholo thing in o mattor-of-faot way, the young lady rofuscd, not wishing to attract any notorioty to horself; but tho ladies of tha villago—hor woaker alsters, in = physical senso—in lion of amodost toilot, some- “hal damaged by tho immersion, gnvo tho brave girl a handsome dresa and an entiro new ward- robo, * Wo are Inolined to think that we coulddiaponeo with n Lrifle of botany, or physics, or chomistry, providing our daughtars could batlor bronst the wavos. One pleasant day this sumnier, standing among a group of ladios on tho boat-slip at Lako Goorge, thoe wind was blowing freshly, whon sud-~ donly s lace shawl wae whiskod off a pretty girl's shonlders, and carriod by the breoze into the Inke. Now, bad 1t boon & lily much desired by our lady-love, we might hiayo, twenty-five yoars ngo0, waded into the wator (first having assurod oursaclven of its dopth), or, b?r means of & long polo, obtained tho covotod flower, Thers was not & boat on the slip, and fecling provoked at the nccidont, and our.want of gallantry, wo watehed that drowning acarf, now drifting tully 60 yarda away from ug, *It's roally droadfut ;™ said the fair owner of the Iaco, ‘‘thore goes the horrid thing, It is endly oat of taste to montion whiat it cost, but that stiipid soarf asst—doar mo | all my savings of six montwe=+® Burchaso at Stowart's, Provokiog thing! Hom going to have s good ory ovor it Yumy. Rew,” and tho spoaker did indulge in A fow geiwue tears, It was $76," sho added, botweon hor sobs, 4 Was that all?” gaid snother lady in a most unsympathetic way, *‘I declare I thought it wag cotton 'l‘nos.“ *That is a romark quito nncalled for,” replicd the loser of tho shawl, “and is adding insult to fnjury. Thoro." *“Tonly did it, dear, to teach you to use a pin or nnmnlblu}f to hold tho gearf with, and not to wear oxpensive lace just after breakfaat. Bub it's all right.” *What ia all right, Madam?" rather nhnrpéy rotorted the aggrioved ono, considerably nottled. ATt io ol right, for 1am going to got your shawl for you, since nobody olse will,” and horo the spoakar looked at us. * Oh, you are excuaod ; men of o cortain u&? are not cxpocted to bo he- roic,” and sayiog this, before we could stop hor, &he had gone down thie slippery boat-steps, had waded up to her waist, and now was out of hor dopth, and was swimming as lustily as a Sand- ‘wich Island girl towardtho shawl, Presontly sho was up to it, when sho caught it, and with o ‘woman’s coquetry, swimming with one hand, with the other had converted tho lace into a turkan, which sho wound round kor Losd, “ Hera1sa practical nincteonth contury nereid for you," sha criod out, laughing, as ehe camo in hand over band, Innmomentsho stood dripping on tha slip, * Now, sir, will you bo good enough to go to the hotel and send me my mnid ? and hero is our searf, my door young lady ; it is not much iuxt: you will Agmud it out ovonly aud put it Dbatwoon folds of blotting paper, with a woight on it; and of courso you will Xloa mo—if you don't mind boing wet—for having boen your Neowfoundland, you kuow. It wnsa real frolial Catch cold ? not a bit of it. Loarned the noble art of natation whon I was 8 years old. Itis n protty shaw!, avd such a rich, flowing pattorn, and real laco; of courso I knoW that all the time, for if it had been cotton or imitation I give you my word I shouldn't have tried to rescuo it. You 800 "—this wns addressed to me—‘‘a woman wim at first, with all hor clothea on, lightor ihan a man, but after awbile it's rather boavy work. But I really think had I married s Turk, and my joalous Jord bad put mo ina eack into tho Bosphorus, he could not have drowned mo. Dy thie way, Indiea—I should not lke you to mention it—I am very unhappy. Iam married to & man, fato bas so ordained it, who caun't run or 8wim, or play cricket or shoot, excopt in n most languid way, - I am, then, bis natural pro- toctor, and ho knowa it. Butl am chattering Tioro. ' Pray now run to_tho house and send m. sorvant.” “On that wo hurried up to the Lotol, and that important functionary, the lady's maid, so0on aped on hor errand. : * My migeion on this cnrth,” said the lady to us thet avening, “is to induce women to im- vao thomeelves by moans of physical culture. \Why did not Canon Kingsley lecturo on it whon 1o waa horo, for no one has written 8o senaibly on the subjoct? Women's rights movementa fuil signally inthis particular. How are women who ara alwaya whining and ailing to take any highor position in the human family? I toll you, much a8 wo may dospise matorinlistic ideas, “and hold aloft the immatarial,—brain ovor body,—fiats ara too often trumpa, Now to tho case in point: I should by no means have i‘m“ overbonrd after that young-Jady's shawl if 1 had not been in my morning dross, That, you uny, 18 8 non scquitur, but onr actions ara mostly rolative, A precious acolding I rocoived in lieu of s roward from my lord and mnater, and perbaps I deserved it. But don't you think if moro of the young women could swim, or oven walk decontly, or shoot bows and arrows, or skate more, thoy would bo botter off 7 Don't you read now a great many books written by intelligont women whick bave sick- headachornd dyspopsie sticking out 1n every lino ? Of course, now it ig too late to curo them, But, supposo in early life, if only two enorgetic malo frionds, her brothers, had tucked that imntollectual girl undar thoir arms, and clapped on ber foot & pair of thick-soled shoes, and taken her s spin of three or four milos & day over tho fielde—don't you fancy that young porson would have heen ‘wonderfully improved physically aud mentally 2 *+ 0f courso wo do,” wo raphiod. * Aro you not rathier atrongor In the thoory than in the practico ?" tho lady rather maliciously iuquired. *You writo about these mattors oc- ensionally, 1 suppose; but do you onrry them out in rogard to your dnugthtcre‘?' AW can exiticlag a hroo-legged staol,” wo ro- plied, t, if our lifo depended on it, could not make onc. “1 will tell you what I will do. Te-morrow morning Lwill wager you just a pair of gloves that I can take my husband ln a Loat, and you may take nr'x‘y lady you pleaso, not wnder 110 })no]:\ngs. and I will row you Dalt & mile into tho . How could we declino tho wager? That even- ing, howover, wo tolographed to Now York for a puir of 61 gloves, We eamoin a glorioua woo- ond. We niight have won nd our young lady coxswain trimmad boat, but sho insieted on sooing the roflection of tho clouds in tho lake, nssuring us it was & nuance aho was anxious to fix in har mind, in caso a dross-pattern of similar huoe was ever put beforo hior. ~ Wo wero beaten n good many boat’s lengths, Our compotitor had overy advantage, Tho lady's dead weight—hor hud- band—sat motionless’in the stern roading w book, e had certainly boon well tramad, —_——— A PERSIAN LOVE-SONG. Al sad are thoy who know'not love, Iiut, farfrom yosalcn's teara aud inlles, Drift down a moonless uos, boyand “Ilio wllvery conats of fulfy iilcs, And auildor thoy whosa longing lipa Kias empty air, and novor touch “Tlhu dear Wari mouih of thoso they loye— Walling, wasting, suffering much, Bt cloar as amber, fius as musk, 16 Lifa to thowo wiio, pilgrim wine, 3love batd in haud fram dawn to dusk, Each morniug narer Furadiso, Oly, not for them s}l angols pray ; "Ihoy stuud in everlasting lght} “Choy walk o Allab's sl by day, A nostlo i his boart by niglte ~—Thomits Lailey Aldrich, A Ghustly Trades An old goldivr in Biclly gave his wife a sillc dross. 1is wife diod, and was buried iu the dross. Homo weoku aftar tho old soldior maw this drees on o wowman in the country, and, mak- ing Inquiry, was told slio lid prchiw ¢ from tho Capnebin monlig, who had tho oustody of tho villago cemotery. Jit) reported tho case to tha police, who investigatod, and made the dlkeov- ory that a rogular uado wag corrled on in effoety t:lyxa:k from doad bodies. Thero wad oven a trado in hair, "Sho introduced mo SUBSTANCE OR SHADOW ? From the Galaxy for November, ¢! Dr, 8am, you uro gotting norvous,” safd Mre. Orawdor, as she handed me my toa, T notleed as sho did ko what a grand manner and what fair white hands hiad Mro. Crowdor,— largo, ueful, Loautiful, oxpressive hands, with littlo moons in tho reay nalla. Ibad notleed thom often bofore, but now thoy struck wmo anot, Thoy could mmke a pudding, bathe n fovorish forchend, contml a norvous, frotful, in- 8ano patlent,—do anything woll, and still look Landeomo, “Thore wan & rumor in our asylum, over which Mra, Orowder prosided, that sho weighed 200 pounds ; yob how maguitlcontly sho carriod it with what g statoly, digulfied atep did sho moke hor dismal ronuda, ‘Bho wan tall and shapoly, a dark brunctte wih white toeth, and when sho smiled, which wag not often, sho was hand- some. I supposod Ars. Crowder to bo nbout 40 yoars of age, but I did notknow. In fact, whatdidI know of bor? Vorylittle. Bho wns tho matron nud I the young doctor of & private insame asy- lum, and she was very kind and good to me. We wero vory proud of Mra. Crowder. 8ho was n card for tho private asylum. 1 have seon tho peopla who eame to bring their dismal froight to us stop and look at her very curiously. It thoy did this too long, M. Crowdor turned tho ono contradiction of lierface, a pair of cold, cloar, groy oyes, upon {lem iu suchn contnionding maunor that they looked away quickiy. BShoe had enormons power over tho insano, This grand physiquo of hors,—tho cold, calm oyos, thoso strong, whito hands, that spivit which know no fear,—how thoy all im- prossed tbo poor, bewildorod Intellects for ‘whoso rostoration wo both tollod unra- mittivgly, Bho was o kiud and judicious nurse ‘}Ior tho iosano aro always invalids), but 1 could not mako out whother Mrs, Crowder had much heart or not. Bometimes I doubted if the softer part of tho feminine nature had not hoen loft out. The laat one, howover, to doubt her would have boon mysolf, for she showod a mothor's kindness to mo. “ Dr. Bam,” rosumod Mrs, Crowdor, * you are ovorworked ; you look badly ; you must go away. 1 shall writo to’ Dr. Isaacs, and ask him to give you a vacation of o mouth. I do not liko to seo your hands tromble. We have no vory hasvy work now, and, if Dr. Iasacs will ouly iv us a daily vistt, t can’get along withous yoi ‘*Mre. Crowder,” sud I, “if you catch old Tnancs dofng s genorous thing, and giving men holiday, just lot me kow it, will you? MDr, Sam,” spid Mra. Crowdor, repromsing a smile, but preserving dmclplinur *I do not sharo your bad opinion of Dr. Isnacs.” 1 finished my breakfast and wont my way, feoling beavy-hoarted and dull-headad, 3y painful aod ‘norve-wosring work was telling on me powerfully, Somotimes tho ghastly thought hnd troubled me, was L too goin mad 7 I did not sleop woll ; my daily walk di not bring its acoustomod rofrosiimont ; my arms, which hnd once grappled succossfully with tho enormous muacular forco of mad mou, now hung nervolossly by my side. I did notdare to go alone into tho' cell of thal murdorous English- man who had three timoes jumped st my throat, but took my muscular Beotch aesistant, who ha o national incentive to nid himin his attempt ot calming the Englishman. Every man who haa * nesitod at his own decay,” who has felt that ho himself is doserting him, can under- stand tho anguish 1 suffored a8 I realized my weaknogs. . Mrs. Crowdor's words hod given mo reliof. They always did. Sho simply sugggested what was probablo,—that I waa tirad out, and neoded n change. I might not bo sblo to guin that rolicf, ‘but tho idea was calming. . After my morning's work was dono I wasin the hiabit of throwing mysolt on my palles to galn a nap, and, if possible, a lttlo moro stroogth, Lwasin o troubled dream, grappling with the mad Euglishman, whon I folt a ovol hand ou my forohead, and woke up to find Mrs, Crowder looking at me with pity and anxioty. *“ Wake up, Dr. Bam, wako up,” eaid she, ** you aro howling like the ‘worst of them. Wake up and como into the parlor, for wo have two now uriivals,—an old govtleman, vory pompous and queer, and bis daughter, a beautiful girl," " Isupposo tho talismanio uttoranco at the end of Mra. Crowdor's sontonca brought mo to m logs sud to my looking-glass in double quick tiwo. T was amazod tgs00 what black rings en- circled my cycs,—what o miserable, pallid, and forlorn wrotch I looked! In my frantio olforts to brush my hair bocomingly I failed, and in desperation tiod on a bright rod cravat becauso it looked clicorful in the drawer. ‘When I ronched the parlor, I found Mrs. Orowdor doing tho honcrs, as sho vory well knew how to do, to sn elder- ly gontloman and to o young lady. o intr to the gentloman, Mr, Alligon, of Louisiana. “Aud m; ughter, doctor—my daughtor Anais—Auai French nome, doctor, not vom- mon at tho North,~Anais, with a dierosis oyer thoi," asid Mr, Allison, hurriedly. 1 bowed to tho young lady thus carofally intro- duced, and uttored my thanks for the otymolog- ical aid to my undorstanding, Tho gontloman pracceded to tell mo, a8 tho young lady chatted with Mrs, Crowdor, thnt ho had brought his daughtor to be treated for cortain montal poculiorities ; that she wans in foot ineane, slthough now eo calm and Ylnnhl; aud that bo bad seen my principal, Dr. gnacs, who had written him a lutlnr. ‘which he showed me, 1lo ud nlso & proper cortifloate from two phy- sicions of tha insanity of Miss Anais,—'* with the fiiuxium ovor the %" as ho coutinued to re- mark. I bowod as tho old man wont on, and venturod to sk what form tho youug lady's malady took, “* 8o wandors, doctor. Sho goes off, wo don’t know whore, and—and—naud sho Las strange ideas about mouey, doctor. Woman don't know anything about wonoy, doctor, What does n woman want of §10 7 We pay all thoir bills, and mighty big ones too. What can a woman want of monoy, doctor? Now, Amais (with o dierlsiz ovor the i) ia crazy on two points ; and thosa aro wandering sbout, aud money.” The truth bero flashod across mo, aa the old man looked at mo, that Lo was as madasa hattor, Ho had that uncontrollable imp In hia oyo which tho digoased brain infallibly sends thithor to besponk attontion from the initiated. Wora it not for that useful imp, aven wo doctora should not know tho mad from the sano. I re- read tho papors, quito sura that tho daughtor onght to bave committed tho papa to our charge; but thero wna no informahity. Annis Allison’ wng the porson who was named in the letter, and I Lnd no choico, With a lunatic's ouuning, the old man read ny, thoughts immedistely, ¢ You see it 18 ull right, doctor. Anals is mad, —quite mad. _ Your excollent principal bins scon lier, and bas deciddd. You aro to oboy his in- structions ; you are to keep Auais a closo pris- oner.” “Dut have you scon Dr, Kirkbride, er Dr, Brown, or any of tho freuc oxperti of our pro- foasion, Mr. Allison? 1 would rather thosogon- tlemon had scon this easo, which strikes mo as a very pesuliar ono, bafora I undertook it. You Lnow wo do uot want to mmko our private nsy- lum a prison, Your daughtor dooa not look in- #ano to mo,” “1don't understand that you have auything to say about it, doctor, I have tho insiractions and consont of Dr. Isaacs, your superior. Iun- dorstand that you aro byt a subordinate,” anid the orazy man, boginning to get furious, Truo! the mad man Lad the advantage of me. T was but a poorly paid “ subordinato,” aud had o power to intorfora with my luxurions prino- pal, who mansged bis asylum from his comfort able villa 5 miles off, MMrs, Crowdor'a clear, true voice came to my scne ¢ “Dr, Bam is all-powerful hero, Mr. Allison. TWa nll obey him, and Dr, Inancs, I nesuro you, L tho most parfoct confidence fn Lis opiuion: Wo do not call Lim a subordinato.” And the gray oyes faok up the poor,shiaky old man and ground bim to powder. A *1 beg pardou,—1 beg pardon. I used an im- proper oxpression, but tho facts remain the samo, Miss Anais Allison will remain here unti 1, her propor guardian, coma:to tako hor out. I wish her to bave overy comfort. I will pay vour highest pricos, but ehe must not bo_allowed to losve thoso walls, Romember that, Doctor,—ro- momber that." I hnd hoen Jooking at the girl out of tho cor- nor of my oye, through this interview. A moro henlthy, calin, und roagonablo facs I had never weon. Bhe waa tall and slonder, the figure of 18 yoars, and Mra, Orowdor hud nov exaggersted when ehe enld that she was bosutiful. Her drogs and belonginga bespoko luxury, refine. mont, and tnato, - Hhio waa #zd and anxlous, but aha was not 1msane, fho fnaly looked up and canght my oyo, T am afrald it botrayed a more thun profossional intoront, for eho blushed deaply, and apoko to mo for tho firat timo: I am quite \\'fllh)g‘ to otay, doctor, Ibog you will allow me to become yonr inmato for w Wwhile, Idomnot think I am mund, but that is » question wa can nover dovide for ourselves, thoy say.” Nothing that alio could bave seld would have confhimed wy sugpicions moro eutiroly, I way uow entirely convincod that for somo un- righteous purpose wo were to bo mado her jail- ! o 8, Howover, I accepted tho rospouaibility, I signod o papor that 1 would, to tho best of my alility, restrain Miss Annie Allison's proponsity to wander, and, baving shown Mr. Allison what wo could do for hot In thio way of room, ho took hus doparturo, Never did » mora ontiro Innntio entor our doors thau this ono whom Inow eaw de{\xfifi n?m I.hu{,n.nk " hen I cnmo baok she was tolling hor story to Mrf.r Crlowder. i E 4 *' Dorhnps you will hear whnt I havo to 8o too, dootor 7" aald o, 4 ‘' My fathor owes {o my slator and myself the fortunc which belonged to my mother, Dy the laws of Loulslans it bolongs to us, ho hoving fallod In businoes, nud my mothor bolvg dead. But ho Lias morried again, nud my stopmothor hng comploto eontrol. nty slater’ has married unfortunately, and hns moveral childron, Bho Imel}ll hor lgrmua, n‘nd 'my wandorings woro to #oo her, and my dosiro for money on that wa shotid obtain onr rightgr > 1 O * But havo you consulted a lawyor? Buroly 80 plain a caso would bo easily sottled,” ** Aly, plain enses are oxactly the ones which oannot b canily sottled. My etopmotherian very ‘xuwnrlul person. Thero are many difliculties fn lio way, and poor papa is,—Is very queor some- times, T was taking logal monsures, when I was fl\ldll?ply pronounced fnsaue, and theroforo I am ore. ** But, my dear young lady," enid I, impetuous- Iy, 1 il not conaokt to set ns your j‘:flm—. 1 shiall holp you against this villninous combinee tion, Tell'mo the name of your lawyor?" “ No, doctor, I prefer to remain liore. I pro- for to keop aufot for n time. All I nakk of ‘you and of this lady is kind treatment, and to” be lot alono. You will soon find that I am noitlior s dangerous or troublosome fumnte, I came, I assuro you, with many npprehionsions, but your faces reassuro me. Lot ovorything wait for a timo. I must be patient.” I I.u:f;ln to balioye gincoroly that I was mad, An old lunatic had drivon away, leaving his sane daughtor, abosutiful, fashionably-dressed young. woman, in our droary and romota privato asylum, and aho wished to stay | Well, Ihad not been flve Eeus {ho subor- dinato of Dr. Teaaca without finding some things atranger than fiction. I suspected that Miss Anals (tith a diorisis ovor tho 1) hnd not told i the wholo atory, Women nover do, or almost novor, toll the wholo truth. They hava boon alaves for a vory long timo; they have loarned to withhold somo parts of the truth, It is the instinct of appressed cronturcs nnd huntod ani- mals. Not all our bosstod omancination of women has yet achieved this froodom. Womon may always bs wronged by their melo relatives. Fathers, husbands, and brothers are not ro- sEonnlblu to anybody for the_manner in which thoy treat their women. Unjust suspicions, wrangs which womon do_not liko to mention, may, and ofton arc, koeping an apparont- ly freo woman 1n & stato of slavery, from which gho bns no deliverance,” Now con sho bo frank aud truthful under ciroumstanees of such burning injustice? In all my oxperionce of fomala pntfanlu I had never Dad tho whole truth from any of thom. ‘Thoy told mo what thoy liked,—I found out the rost. Bo Ibogan in my quict way to watch Miss Auaig, and, nfter four wooks, I could only make to mysclf ono confesslon : she was absolutely aano, and I was desperately in love with hor. From the very firat sho had taken Mrs, Crowd- er by storm. Sho had voted hersolf tho lieu- tenant of that lady, ond wna tircless in hor at- tentions to our unfortunnto people. Often nt dond of night, as I was called to tho bodoido of somo afllicted crosture, did I find Anais (with the most distract- ing bluo dressing-gown on) helping Mrs, Orowd- or in tho best atylo. I neaumed tho rola of & bear,—what clgo could Ido? IfIhad nllowed myself eno word of con~ vergation, ono word of pity, liad I aven pushed o ohair for bior to it down in, I should havo be- trayod mysolf. Our comradeship becamo a con- stnnt and o silont one. Sho would hold the can- dlo whilo I mixod tha medioins ; she would oboy my ordors ; she would serve aa . my apothecary. I oven gent hLier honrtlossly out of my sight to'n distant ward, to tako caro of somo pationt who did not roquiro my oversight, when X found that my groedy eyea wero toa ung«rlg following har shadow on the wall. During that month she proved horself not only & gaod woman, but a raro woman,—one of thoso who can mest tho gront f0aB of our raco without blushing. Bhe was scholarly in her habits, and liked to read nlono in her room. Often sho read aloud (and vory well? for tho amusement of our little circlo of convalesconts, Dr, Iaancs, of whom I bad an evergrowing distrust, had given mo ospecial charge in thig caso to provent hor lonving the M{lnm on any protonse. He threw out the inginuation that thoro waa a lover ia tho cans ; and there wve woro most suro to ba hor dupes, for what woman would not lio and schemo such a enuse? While my reason assontad to bis talk my hoart rovolted. Why should 1t not revolt? Iloved hormysalf, and dared not show it. Iwasnotsorry, although 1 was Erowlng woaker and more miserable than Ihad beon o month bofore, that Dr. Ilesacs re- fused my request for a holiday, and informed mo that bo was going to Europe for the winter, ond I must romain at tho head of the institution. 1t wae very near Christmas timo, I think, that T wag called to Miss Poyntz (ono of our worst and most paiuful cases), on olorly maiden lady, sufforing _from an unrequited attachment ot 50. Who can ourc & broken heart ot that ago? Itie like othor old bones; it will not reunito, . Miss Poyntz hnd gashod her arm with a pen- knife, and was blooding to deatt. With thiu loss of blood biad como back ber reason, aud she had callod loudly for help, Aunis hnd Leard her, and bod rushed to her roscuo. Bho bad tied hor neckerchiof round tho arm, and had foreod hor gold bracolet under it, thus forming an im- promptu tourniquet, which moved mo to,admira~ tion, both a8 & 10an aud & doctor. 1 could not conceal my admiration, isa Poyntz hnd fainted, but was comivg back to consciousncss as I seized the opportunity to kies tho hand that bad o doitly saved a life, and L found " timo to utter a vow which has novor boen broken. g Mrs, Crowder nrrived, and Anais disappeared. Like Goffe at the Indian maseacro, she camo forth to savo, then hor cave of a bod-room swal- lowed har up. 'Tho next day I romombered that I lind not soon Anaia for fwenty-four houra after, o busy day's work, Ispoke to Mra, Crowder about it, who snid Anaishad a headacho, and did not wisl) to bo disturbed. 8o wa taok our tea to- gether, tatkod business and politics o little, and soparated. As T took my rounds at 10 o’clock I determined 1o kuoek at the door of Anais, aud inquire for Lor headache. As I knockod, and kuocked, and Do roaponso eame, another door opened, aud Mrs, Oldershaw, one of our most disagreeablo paticnt, put her head out and shook it at mo. “Ah! ba!" goid gho; **fine young doctor! your bird hns flown. ~Anaig, proity youug laay! fine young doctor in Jove with her| ° Young lady Dins gono—won't sco lier again—ha! hal Yonng Indy went away hours ogo!” Aud Mra, Oldor- shaw withdrow to the indulgonco of a long, low eldritol lnugh. . I cannot romembor any more, except that I reacbed Mra, Crowder, and told hor of the fact, and that eho turned pele. I felldown in & faint, aod the fever which had long beou pur- suing mo caught me, aud Iaid me low for six ‘weoks, - { havo a dim romembrance of Mra, Crowdor's cool hauds, of her unremitting attention and kindnoss, but that is all, Unconsoiousness had intorvoned to eave mo from madness. Wheon I was able to speak, my first question was, ** Have you heard from Aunis 2" Mra. Orowdor shook lor herd mournfully. Bho looked tired and worn, and was uuwilling to tallk, 8lo lnid ouo of those handsomo nod ool bands on my hoad, and said: * My poor Dr. Bam, try to got woll first, and inquiro for Anais afterwards. You know Iloved h?z um'. and it Is too exciting a subjoct for eithor of us," Ay noxt inquiry was, like Dick Swivellor's, for my strength, my flesh, my hair, and my elothes, “Tha story of my six weoke' fover, my dolirium, and my recovory, was told mo by another attond- ant than Mra. Crowder. My friond Effingham appeared by my bedside ne M, Crowder disappearcd, ¥Io wus anothor young doctor, whom slie bad invoked during my illnesn; for a privato lunatde wevlum and a man {n typhold fovor wero too muoh for even the al. niost suporhuman povers of Mrs, Orowder. Lffingham wag the bost fellow in the world, Wo used to suy at collogo that ho was *“ns good g they mado thom,” and Lo ghded into my pres- ent mood as perfectly as o man could. 1losaw tho position of affalys better than A, Orowdor did, aud knew that v would do me moro hurt than good if Xwere bafilod fu my desiru to talk about Anaig. 1ie went to town forme, made iuquirios, found out all thut was to bo found out, and told mo of tho osenlxl of Anais,—how it wag oifeotod,nnd all tho partieulura of hor light, Mra. Crawder bad 5o far' yielded in her love for und boliof in Anais ns to cousont to tho ocon- stonal vieits of an eldorly servant-woman, who cumo to bring clothing and books {o Anuis, and who enid sho “was an old, valued attondant of tho family, I'bore scemed so littlo roasion for 10traluing ‘Anafy that sho wus al- lowed to wall In the grounds with this woman, and often to sttend her to the goto, 1t wus in thiy way that sho must bave cecaped, Just as our suspicions wore lullod, aud our hearts'were com- plately won by har, Etlingham Dod been toseo Alr, and Mre, Alll- non, TlIo could only find the latter, a Vory hard, cold woman, who said that tho shook of his daughtor's osonpo had bereft Mr. Alllson of his “renson, and ho wnm now under troat- mont, ' in an asgium whioh slio trustod was bt~ tor guarded than ours," sho kindly remarked; and as for Mias Anals, *it was a mattor of pro- found indifferonco to hor what hiad bacomo of hor; shio should nover evon Inquire;” and sho HnAVan(Ufl; Bt i o 8 1 zot botter and atrongor I hiad ono purpose fixod and cortain, which wgu thig: 1 would fol- low that (firl through fhio world; I would flnd out what hiad booamo of hor; I would sacortnin tho onsi of that myatory, Somothing told mo that this was no care of worthlossucns or ordinas ry decoplion; it wus n mystorioun cir- cumstonco which I was hound fo fathom; o etato of things whicl: nacdod clearing up, nnld out of which Anais would como with flying colory, But as T bogan to got well I becamo tho vie- tim of o diatressing montal hallucination. * I bo- gan Lo seo Anafs,—to imngino Tuaw hor: tothink Homo waving sbiawl, somo quickly-fithing gara mont was hors; if my cravat wero ted too tight, she would ariso boforo mo bodily, iy hor Liabit as sho lived,” and this, far from boing. Elonannt, wan uxvuudlugl{ painful, for the face Ao much loved was full of anguish and wog, nnd na Iatartod to_help ber she would vanish h:lto thin air, and I was loft alons with my mal- ady. Ihnd sanity enough loft to comprebiend and morsuro this delusion, but not saalty or strength onough to conquer it. I had many a long talk, with ~ Efingham about it, and with M, Crowder. ‘They had but one form of advice to givo, and that was, ‘'Loave the asylum and travol.” Mrs. COrowdor was emphatic on thiy point, and sho enforced it by pm.tluls: into Lif- fingbnm’s band a check for a goodiy sum of monoy, and aunounced to him that ho was to go with mo. ~ * You aro both young, and will be able to pny mo this little advanuco,” sald the kind woman, “Begides, if youdo not, I am not poor; Ilnve no ono danundlm; on mo. My ouly son, who would havo beon of your age, Dr. Sam, diod whon ho was 1. Ithink had he grown up ho wonld have looked like you"; aud I saw somothing like toars in BMrs. Crowdor's gray oyos as sho reforved for tho firat timo jn our ncgm ntance to hier past. ' o Effiingham aud I commoncod our travels. Ho Lis told mo sinco thay I was a troublesome companion, In a crowd, st church doors, as tho congrogation was coming out, I was always suro that [ eaw Anais, and would dash after her, to find mysell mistakon, In orowded thoatres wo moro than'onco had n scone with the polico, as 1 struggied to leave Effiugbam to follow my hal- lucination, On all other subjocta I wna parfect- ly sane, and as I got stronger I was moroablo to nop]o fl\\'lth aud govern this distrossing mental malndy. Wo travelod Bouth, from adetormination which 1 hind strongly fixed pon mo, thal I would go to Now Orloans, and find out, if possiblo, soma of tho friends of Mr. Allison,~some of tho roln- tions of Anais; but our quest wag in vain, Ile had long left that city, was but indifferontly ra- membored, sad no ono kuew of his daughters, or cared for them. Coming up the river wo stopped at St. Louis, ond went to tho theatro there. 1 had got by this timo to bo so much mastor of myself, that Efiing- ham allowed mo to go out alone oceasionally, and on this particular ovening ho proposed calling on o rolativo, who lived intho city. Agrocing to moot at 13 o'clock in my room, we separated. Tlo play was tho ** Merry Wives of Windsor,” and a8 sweot Anne Pago srepped on tho atage I Bow—dAnais. Yes, thoro she ws,—voico, gosturo, nnd faco. Mechnnically I looked round for Lf- fngham ; for tho timo I rememberod that I was & madman, and this a delusion, And also that I was withont my- keeper. The subtlo instinct which induces the disentod brain so escape and oludoe authority eamo and went away uncheokod. Iore was no nuthority to olude; I was my own master, and I dotermined to be my own kaepor; and from that moment’s experienco I learned an enormous lesson in the treatment of the Insane, Ilenrned that it is apowerful ald of cureto trust them, I watched myself as I would have done an- other; and through oll the scenes whoro Aunne Pago wittily, gracefully, and with maidon mod- osty went through ler oxquisito parl, I snw, or thought I eaw, Anais. Hod Efingham boon with mo, I should iave jumpoed upon tho stago, but & hand beld mo back. It was my own self-respoct. I dotermined to be strong; to showto Efingham that I was ablo to toke caro of mysoll. ‘And yot how powarful it was, Her voica,—yos, apother soueo than that of sight was bewilderod. It wos the voico of Auais, that swoet, resonant organ, with its sofc Southorn accent, that was at this momont penetrating my onrs, Once I could have sworn it wasaho, a8 the eyca of tho young actress foll directly on that part of tho theatre whoroI eat, and our eyes met, It scomed to me that hor oXprossion changed, and that sho looked startled. Yot with professional composuro she immediately mustoredit, and went on with her part. Then I roaganed with myself that my palo face and siaring eyes, undoubtedly disturbed in their oxpression, hnd' momentanly caught_the wan- doring oyo of tho actress, and had arrcsted Tier attontion ; g0 1 held mysolf at bay Atlor the play was over, I went to the box-office and ‘mado somo inquirics about tho youug actross. **Oh—Nolly Carmichnel,’’ said the ofilcial, **Bho—oh, yes, she has boen on the stago alweya —born on'if, a8 wo sny; daughter of our heavy fathor here,—old Carmichaol, who played Fal- stall ; good girl, too, aud oxcollent actrosa. Like to know hor, sir? _If you will give mo your enrd, Twill scoif I could mannge an introduc~ tion.” T apologized and declined, This dereription, and tho caso with which Miss Crimichnel could bo reached, deprivod mo of the lingerng hope, which in spito of myself I had clorished, that after all I might havo beon decoivoed, doubly do- coived, aud that it was Anais, When I wout homo I told Eflingham of my exporionce and my trinmph. Ho was very grave, aud blamod Lime solf very much for Thaviug sllowed me togo alone. After this my malady lucroased very much ; I saw Anais in overy woman I met— Found Helen’s Leauty in a brow of Lgypt, and saw her floating in tho air, We turned our stops Northward, T uad and discauraged. Wo ronchied Chiengo just in timo to bo nently burned up alive, Strong, active young moen that we wore, wo lind lingored on our journoy, and- 1 Lad mode some torrible blunders, speaking to soveral indies T did not kuow, aud being apolo- gized for by EfMingham, Wo got iuto tho doom- od city the night aftor the first firo, boforo tho second ond most disastrous conflagration took ovorything. Like thousandsof othors, we be- lloved the great hotel whero wo bumbly bestowod oursolves to be a8 safo as 1f no fire rnged within o thousand miles. We were barely roused in time to Havo ourselves, our trunks, and clothing from burning. Wo tried in our headlong flight to holp soversl women and children, Lookiug up the vast staircase, erowded with distracted people, 1 Baw 8 woman looking over & railing. It was e Dr. Bam,” sho cried, 4 8avo mo—save mo, Dr. Bam,” she eried, 1 dropped tho Jittlo girl T had taken up, and rushod back, OCluuds of smoke came Letweon me and tho faco and voico, I raninto the smolo, groped, stumbled, and fell. I lnow nothing moro until I found myself in tho streot, and ghnm standing over mo in his shirt: sleavos, his hair sivged, and his face purplowith exertion. The brave fellow had scen me dart back, and had returned and saved me, +wOh, Efinghom, did you save Anala?" I od. “ Another delusion, my dear boy,—only anath- ar dolusion," said Efingham. 8o, with n crowd of sufferers, we got away in timo from Chiengo ; Aunis’ yoice ringing iuwmy oars, * 8avo me,—save me, Dr. Bam! " Another month, and wo wors back in New York, 1 was bottor,—almost cured ; strange, my Intest and most complete delusion bad seomod to point towards health and restoration, Efing- Tam returned to tho privato asylum and to Mrs, Orowdor with very good acconuts of mo. I had cosed to seo Anais ; I was stronger and mor cheerful. Ihod been to churches and theatres without disgracing myeelf, and I bad begun my qnest for the living Anals in gzood rationnl earn- cot, aud with some Emlpent of succoss, A law- ver, whoso nnme I had fortunately remombarod, had told mo of Rr, Allison’s death znd the de- parturo of tho stepmothor for Europe ; but of the two danghtersho could or would suy noth- ing ; but I folt that I had a clow, One evening, sceing tho ** Merry Wives of Windsor " aunounced at the theatro, I determin- od to go, and to try my restored brain with the still frosh recolloction of Aunia. It was all right ; gioot Auno Page camo ou und played hor part, and was ueithor Anais mor hor couutorfoit preacntmont, Miss Nelllo Carmichuel. So I cauld call myself curod, go back to business in & weok, at this junclure Mrs, Crowder mo i1 I folt well onoughto go to Montreal und oicort an invalid gontloman, who had shown somo signs of mental malady, to our privato asylum,” I did feel woll onough, and started, having left with a young lawyer friond of mine all tho instructious for pursuing tho inguirios for Anats and hor siator which lind oceurred to mo, Whon I got to Montreal T found mly lmllunc too ilito bo romoved Immedintely, so I dotormined o romain, und to anuse mysolf us T bout could in the fine old French town, Ouo ovoning Y wallied fnto tho thoatro to get rid of an hour, nud suw tho * Morcy Wives or Windsor" for tho third tune. And who should walk out in tho pust of Auno lago but Ampis, os unmls. takably as it Jind meomed to be in Bt.‘ Louls. I looked nt the play-bill.—yea, Miss Nelllo Oarmichnel. I folt my pulso; it was rathor quick, and I was somewhat oxeiled, but T Yad conviucod that this could not bo a defusion, Tithor Mind Nollia Carmichuol was the double of 32’:% %Lmlln bnd Li\ken to the stage, and was g o “‘i’; """“l' ; % and succossful sctross, undor oro the droadful thonght came to va rought Luckthin dohusion by sonecmmies oo 1 did youtordny, an hour with » orazy man 7 ' Had my brain begomo mo fraught with “mania that it Lut needod a toicl: of contagion to Aot it olng? Noj I felt sano, which Is & difTorent. nmfing.h ity way, from that which accompanles insanity. went 1o tho box-oflics of the thome t:o, and lr:{lnlrm!l 1‘;»1 Mlfi Carmichaol. Bhe was ulaying, the oiticisl suid, ot pmal un]-fu ¢h Plilps Hysaro. & eunll haardiogs n n fow monionts I had roacher quired for Miss Carmichaol, aud fa'l{'::?fz“:;'g nnrAd. o2 lookd | vory good-looking young woman, solf-porsession nud almost gn(vnm, 'o}"::hnx:,::: which I linvo noticad often in women who dovote' themaolves to art as o business, enterod tho room n{lul bowed to mo. *Miss Osrmichaol,” eaid sho. . ¥ “Exouso mo,” sald L " You aro not tho pews. son who viayed Auno Pagro last ovening 2" p“’l *Am Inot 2" enid sho, laughing, *Bo every ono says at first sight. You mec, I playitin blonda, and thnt nlways disguises one so. How. did you liko it, nllow me to nak? Ay rondering of ft g boon much admired.” 'Then you aro not Anals?” I asked treme blinaly, docelygd, or did Miss Carmichaol Wan I co!;r? " g o laughed, howover, and mnld, * Aunis?® Cartninly mot; my magne s Nodlg " . Graclous powers| was Imad? On ono aube Jeot I waa sano ouvough, I hada roaponaibility tomy g-tiom. aud on that subjoct qull bs sano. L could write n long. chaptor on the duale igm?‘ the mind, from my experionces of tha ‘“Miss Carmichael,” eaid T, “exon e trusion, T am in soarch of n Trend ntrh:lnw‘ Migs Anais Allinon. 1 am algo in senrch of my :Yflx :vna, wll’;?li ll:lnvn unfortunatoly desortod na 0; and Ave appenrel “‘{{"fi"}",“};", p ppeared strangoly to y(m.‘ Yhat di hear ? A rustlo, & sf proacuco In tho Toom, and Atuls RO 3 ' nn&"’u :hcrn wag Migs Carmichaol in tho flesh, and ‘* Anwis,” gaid T, solomnly, *if thin by i como and throw your nms{x'raund my' nn:k.’:x:i promiso to marry me. If yonu aro n misorable du}ufiflnn, dopart. nudyou have come.” ‘Thoso very rotind, warm, and rath e et nof doluvigus. 2 i ey _** Ab, dear Doctor 8am,” said Anais ellur(éslu l;ver hulto li),";:\;;!hy did yo'xll du!u(r't“!xl:u“:: 10 burning botel nt Chicago, And ywh ot find pue aut at St, Toulygn o " 4 = + Then followed the long story of my dolusions T hind mistakon the subs mcu‘?nr '.ho’nlmdow, :‘a boforo I hnd often mistaken tho shadow for the substance, ** And why did vou run away, Anais? " “Bocanso Luaw you wero falling in lovo with mo, and I did not think a ponniless girl and @ nick dootor would make a very good match,” & But why this rotroas to the stago 2" ‘I hnvo to thank Mrs, Crowder for the idos. She 14 on old notross,—tho famous star actread Miss S—, whom you have hoard of., Itwas nbsolutoly necessary for mo to make money, and for tho stago I kuow I Liad talont. Mrs. Crowdes sontme to tho Carmichaels, old frionds of hers. Thoy have becn my teachers, protectors, and friends, and Nolly Carmichaol hins Lindly con= sented to porsonate mo off tho atngo, that X might avoid all that part of my professionsl life, which would have been intolorable to me, I could not boar the broken sound of your voico, Doctor Sam, and 8o I have rovealed my« self, ' It you will tako o wifo whols an actross, end hns got to work for soveral yenra yot, for an iuvalid sister and some young children, horo sha is ot your disposition, 8 tho Spanish aay.” 8o now I know why Mra, Crowder had walked aver corridors with sich & grand step. I lhad a bono to pick with her for soveral Littlo docop= tions, hut I accopted all with Aneis. Bho never flces from mo now. 8he nover changes into any~ body clgo, Wo havohad to work, and work hard, but we huve boon togother, and that is_to say that we have beon hanpy, M.E.W.8, —_— COLINETTE, Tho matden of the hostal Standa at tho st of wun The goldlers hult full gally, Bho lus but oy forones 0 drains tho cup ehe brin i Doamiog s are wors® LI # A klus, Bwootheart 1" he w “ Not' Noi” saya Colinotte, From out her green-leaved lattics Sho Ieans and looks below, As furthier, over farilicr, Away tho soldiers go. 1tis lngt few words reproachful Aro in hor nad onre yot, # Farowell may bo forovor 1] Ay me " sighs Colinotte, 'The eruel war ia over, Onco moro with her ig he * You'va learnt to lova eirice last we mos® 1o nuys, but nought aya she, “You'li wed the huppy Somebody,® And mo yow'll quste forpet ! Would I were he, my darliug I'* # You are " erled Colinette, + —Fred E. Weatherly in London Society, — e An Extraordinary Michigan Storys | : The Bay City (Mich.) Tvidune tells the follows ing story: *Ina family at Aronao groat prepe aratious for the marriigo of a dsughter have lntely beon gowg on. Tho happy dey was fixed, tho wodding dross and indisponsablo orange Llogsoms wera socured, tha verious other necos- guries for such an occasion hind been provided, and all was joyful, when, on tho day provious to that set for thio consummation of the happiness of two Individuals, an Indian, who lived w{th his tribo o fow miles distant, knockod at the door of tho dwelling roforred to and askod if the family hind Joot o dress. Ot course_there was only ono dross thought of ¢ that thne, aud, with twa stope and a bound, the damsel who opened tha, door tlow up tho gfaira to the room whero tho wedding garmonts bad boen loft, 'The door was opened, and lo and behold the room was bare. 'pon roturning to the Indinn it was ascertained that' s squasw of his tribo bad boon wearing an ologunt dress and other finory, and, knowing that abie had ot come by it rightfully, the In= dian bnd come to town to ascortsin it any ouo had lost any srticles. He went to tho varions houses, but 1o one had missed anything ; and, at tho dwelling from which the articles were taken, their absoncp had not oven baon noticed ; tho room in which the garments were left was a square bod-room, and, baving no cccasion to use it, no membor of 'tho family had ontercd it for two days, The bed was found 1n & condl« tion which evidenced that somo one had slopt in it, and it was subsoquently ascortained that tho squaw who had stolon the articles had ontored tho house uunoticed, slept in tho house one night, and tho, nost morning had arisen, and, donufng the wodding ouctlt, loft for her homo. On her way thithor sho pnssed through the woods, goiling and tearing tho drees very badly. The loss of tho wedding outilt necossitsted sus!pmmmunt of the marriage until another ross could be procured." ey Rusicin on RRallway Traveling, Of modorn machinery for locomotion, m readers, I suppose, thought me writlng in ill« tompor when I said, in ono of the lottors on the childhood of Scott, *infornal mosns of locomo« tion!” Indeod, I am always compolled to writo, s always compellod to live, in‘ill-tempor. But I novor sot down & sivglo word but with tho se- ronost purposo. I meant “infernal” in” the most porfect senso tho word will bear, Tor ine stanco, tho town of Ulverstone is 13 miles from mo, by 4 wiles of mountain road beside Coniston Lake, 8 through o pastoral vallay, b by tho soa- side. A beslthier or lovelior walik would bo diffie cult to flnd. Iu old times, 1f & Coniston peasant had any business at Ulverstone, ho walked ta Ulveratono, spent nothing but shoo-loathor on iho rond, drank at tho streams, aud, it ho spond a cauplo of batz whon he got to Ulvorstone, **if was tho end of the world,” But now ho woul never think of doing such a thing! o first 4 miles iu & contrary dirsotion to n railroad rroe tlon, and thon travels by railroad 24 milos to Ulverstone, paying 2 shillings fare, During the 24 mmiles transic he is idlo, dusty, stupid ; and oithor more hot o1 cold thuu iy plonssnt to bim, In cither cass he driuks beor it two or threo of the stutions, paug: o8 his imo, botwoon them, with anybody ho can fing, in talking without having snything to tall of ; und such talk always bocomes vieious, Hi arrivos ot_Ulverstons, jadod, balf drunk, an¢ othiorwiso demoralized, and thrse sbillings ol lonat pooror thau in the morning. Of that sum u ahilling has gone for beer, throopence to a railc wuy shacoholder, throopence in coaly, and eights oonponoo has boon spont in umployiui: Btrong mon in the vilo mechunical work of making an¢ driviug o machine, fustead of his own legs, to carry tho drunkon lout. ‘The rosults, absofute loss and demoralization to the poor, on nll sides, aud iniquitous gain to tho rich. Faucy, if yot saw tho railway oflicinla aotanlly employed incar ryg the unuulr{mun bodily ou their baoks ta Ivoratono, what you would think of tho hosy ness! Aud boosuse thoy wauto ovor so muok iron and fuol besides to doit, you think @& profitable oue I~Fors Cavigera,