Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1875, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SUN AY AUGUST 8, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. ¢ 3r. Seelre awell-knowp lawver, an old reei- dent of Chicago, 2nd » man of high standing. }ir. . L. Sherman is one of the oldest res:dents of Tuivenside. and s iesisent of Chicago for maoy vears formely. Mr. Chambers s of ihe 'of Mern, Chambers & McBeao, the well- b MABOD CODLIaCLors of this city. and is B manof means. Mr. Jobn C. Cochrage is the Yell cpown architect. Alr. Carol Gatea is an asuveut lawyer, & geial gentlowan, nud & man of soutd jodgmeot. It is che purpose of tuese Fnuem:u 10 pat Riversie opoo 8 sound fout- fig. 10 catablish law and order, sud to make it I of tho moet desirable suburbs of Chicago. MOUNT FOREST. . The residents of this charming burg seem de- tarmined to enjoy life swhile it lasts, for they are simost evers, eveniog eitber all off for & graud Jow, sail. or race ou the little lake, » faung-par- ty, & croquet-party, & mooulight drive through the forest-hidden roads, or a social gatheiing-at one or more of the residences bere, at all of Shich everybodr is made to teel quite at home. The coming week two new boawm ate fo be jsuoched, wheo Dnew contestan.s for aquatic s will be in the field. Oneof the guestsat the botel, s promineot yeal estate man {from Chicago, thinkng that hia chances of catching eome of tnose handrome ickerel which abouud in the lako were better Zuap those of eeliiog s corner lot at Washiugion Heghta. concluded to try bis luck. Tue resuls s that be canght s crab, aud fouud bimself measaring the de;th of the water, which he deo- elares 50 oue ueed tell nm 18 loss than 50 fect Soep or warmer thau 30 degrees. He sava he S tho fisn aro there, sud that he will iry e WINNETRA. Messrs. Graves and Andrews heve nearly com- s pier at this place, and in futare it is to e hoped lamber. woud, and coal can be far- pished st ci:y pricss. It will also farnish s uew Jsndmg for excureious from the citv, a3 well an {hs foare line of steamers which will ruu be- {ween the citv sod the northern snburbs. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy gave s large party Fri- dar. evening, Ther spacious parlors wers “led with the besuts avd elite of the Flace ss wellas of the city. A list of the guesis woald e enuurely too long. Lbe cake and ice-cresm Sero sxcalient, s0d good music was provided for dancing. M. Darphy is promioent on ‘Change ; and what matters the expenso when one has lately been “-Jong™ on wheat 2 Mr.and dirs. Graves and danghter sail for Furope on thie 14th iost., contemplating an ab- 26008 Of L9O VeRIB. Quite » number of residences have lately chasged bauds, indicating an improvement in yeal-edLate malters. EOGERS PARE. (Ground has been troken for openingan exten- give brick-vard, which will give employment to slarge number of laborers. Already contracta for 200,000 brick have bcen made, at a much smalier piics then than they can ba procured elsewhere aod delivered here. The M. E. Church Sunday-school had a basket icnic in the woods nearthe lake Thureday. About 70 children and grown persous rariicipated. The weather waa all that could be derired. The chief atiraction, and the one the children en- " joyed the most, was tbe baskets. The Liberal and Literars Aesociation held s meeting Friday evening 1 their club-room, and completed arrangements for & moonlight party tobe given oo the lake-ghore picnic giounds Thursday. The residents have looked in vain fosee the tron roliers smooth down the turnpike. HORBORS OF A TEXAS PRISON. Capt. Emory’s Report—The Punish. ments of the Middle Ages & teds New York Tribune. Waszmorox, D.C., Aug. 4 —About & vear ago s peremptors order waa issaed by Cluef-Clerk Crosby, Acting Eecrotary of War, for the imme- diate removal of 116 military prisooers from the Biate Penitentiary at Huntaville, Tex., to Fort Lesvenworth. Exposures of the management of {be Texas Penitentiarv gave rise to a report that this removal was caused by cruel and bar- barous trestment of convicts at that piace. Toquiry et the War Depart- ment has confirmed that report. Lost year, in April, an 1nspection of the Pevitentiary was made by Capt. C. D. Emory, Acting Judge Advocate on _Gen. Augur's staff. He found the Yyentilstion of the cells very bad, and the food josuficrent in quannity and deficient in variety. 1he most stiking pars of his report relates to the mbments resorted to for enforcing obedience. 1hies of them sre described at length,—the dark cell, the *‘stocks,” and the “harse.” 1hs dark oell is a low, dark, oven-like inclosure, barely high enongh 0 allow the convict to et ereci on the foor, and with po opening for light or mir except the grated door. Tle ** stooks " ate mado by cutiog three boles in 2 board, standing oo its edge, and fasiened between $wo stakes. The central hole receives the neck of the convict, and those on exoh side his wrists. After the man has beeo placed 1o the stdcks, it is cus- tomary to rause the board 5o as to Lring the con- vict upon his toes, leaviog it so. In raisingit it would often be jerked up with such force as to end, the prisoner's peck. Convicts were often Jaft in the stocks unul they became fo- sensible. The *-horre™ surpassed the others, and was comparstively & Dew invention. It was introduced about pine months before Capt. Emory's visit. It consists of a post 6 or 8feet bigh. About 4 feet from he grouna there was driven iuto it a peg of iron or wood an inch 1o diameter and a foot or two lonz. Re- fract.ry conicis were placed astride of this peg with their backs toward the post. Their hands were tied bebiud them to the post and their reet the same, 0 that they conld Dot change their Ppocition or obtam ‘anv relief whatever. Toe ©offecta of this puuishwent were horrible, Capt. Emory examined oue man who bad been perma- mently ruptured while **2id.og tue horse,” and others who were suffering from eacute disease produced by the eame canse.: Mure than 600 of tne couvicts were employed by ralroad contractors and on_plantations be- loozlog to the lessees of the Penitevtiarv and others at the time of Capt. Emory's risit. Their treatment was generally cruel. They nere over- worked, and. if they either died within a few months or broke down, their places had to be filled by fresh ganga. Thev were iusafficiently clad, and were obliged to work st snovelng in the winter, sometimes with only one a0, some- times with no stoes st all. Their food was cooked in Houston, aud transported to fhem in open cars, and much of it was spoiled before it ‘reached them. Finally, they were punisbed by mesus of the **ho:se” and by whipping. Coavicts who had returned from two or three mouths of #ervice on the railroad were examined v Capt. Emory, and their conditton found to ba borrible. It is not fit to be described. But auy doubt as to the inbumanity of their treatment ‘would be dispelled by an examinatiou of themor- tality records. These show that twenty-eight deaths ocrurred i the inetitution wil nine mooths prior to Capt. Emory's visit. ln twenty- thres cases the diseass of which they died was contracted whule they were at work on the rai! toads, No record of those who died in the rali- soad esmps was accessible. The lessees of’ the inetitution were Ward, D""i & Co. aud they wers 1eepousible for this horrible cruelty. The Penitentiary was leasad before the present Stats Admiuistration came into power, and oue of the lessees was Lhe Collector of Customs of the port of Galveston. When the order for the removal of the mulitary Pprisouers was issued, William T. Clark. of Con- Decticat, once nomipally representing the Gal- Yesion trict in Cougress. and subsequently Postmaster of that city, sppearsd as counsel Tor the lessees and attempted to induce the War Department to countermand its orders. The Untted States military prisoners wers, howover. % once removed to & placs where they sre treated with some degree of humaoity. In vite ©f the rebuke thus given to the lessees, there 1 Teason to believe that the management of the Penitentiary bss not yet been refurmed, and at Irasta tnousand convicts there are etill babit- Tually sabjected to the crueities described. —_—— 4An Arkausas FEishermnn Finds the Dead Body of His Littie Daaghter Fastened 1o Ilis Line. Memohis Advocate., Alittle distance from the ferry landing on the 348 shore, opposite this city, is moored s boat owped by Dave Bobmnson. a firherman, on which he and bis family live. About 8 o’clock Wednesday evening his little danghter Ada, agea aboat 10 years, fell from the boatinto the river 824 was drowned. Every effort possible was made o recover her bodr, but without success, 22d it was given up for Jost in the belief that the carrent had carried 1t down the stieam beyoud rec very. 4iAbosi darlight vesterday the fieherman mads ie dauly visit to bis trot lines. mhich were laid in the river about 100 yards below his boaz, w ont the grappling bouk, caught the lives and proceeded to baul io ; but before many feet of the line bad beeu recovered, he drew to the ;mhu the cesd body of his little daughter, astened by the dress to one of the fish-houks. The cbild's body had been carrisd- down by the Swrent uptil ung:;by the trat line, whereit w33 held fast and fished up next morniog by tie THE FINE ARTS. A Visit to the Corcoran Art Gallery at Wash. ington. Objects of the Founder—Its HMarbles and Bronzes. A New Field for Ideal and Heroic Art---The Mythology of Scandinavias 0din, Thor, and Nauna, Versus Sat- urn, Jupiter, and Flora, Rosa Bonheur-—The Child, the Woman, and the Artist. A Pct Sheep, an Artist’s Brash, the Cross of the Legion of Hohor. Local Art Notes---Bogk on Japamese Pottery—Anecdote of Lincoln. THE CORCORAN ART GALLERY, IT$ NOTABLE CONTENTS. Svecial Correspondence of The Chicago Tridune. WasEiNeToN, D. C., Ang.4.—About sixteen years ago was lzid at the Capital of the United Siates the coraer-stone of a puilding ** Dedicat- ed to Art," by William W. Corcoran, a rich and honored citizen of Washiogton. When the War began, privato enterprises wers subordinated to public need, and this spacious edifice, just com- pleted, was rented by the Government for the Quartermaster’s Department. For eight years the noble dedication stood in mournfal contrast to boef contracts, bide for shoddy blankets, pro- posals for army bacon, or bills of condemned malee. However, by 1870 the false gods were de- throned, when Mr, Corcoran fulfilled his origi- ral design, and presented the building, with his private collection of statusry and paintings, freely and perpetuslly to the City of Wasbing- ton. Edifice and grounds cost £250,003, Ar. Cor- coran’s collection was valued at $100,000, sad the endowment fund £900,000,—making in the agaregate a gift of 81,250,000, In January, 1674, baviog been bandsomely fitted up, it was opened to the public under the anspices of the Trustees, two of whom, Mr. Walters aod Mr. MecGuire, are noted connoiseeurs and patrons ol art. Since thas time the original collection has doubled and trepled, an excellent catalogue has been compiled, and for 25 cents three daya in the week, or for nothing three other days. may be enjoyed what the fonnder modestiy anticipat- ed when he boped that at 0o distant day thers wonld be provided *‘not only & pure and refined pleasare for resdents and visitors, but some- thing usefal socomplished in the development of American genius.” The munificence of the endowment promises speedily to make the Corcoran Art Gallery the finest in America, and already it boasts the finest and extensive collectian of CASTS FROX ANTIQUE BCULFTURE, {ncluding copies of abont one-half the frieze of the Parthenon, which forms an importaot part of the famoua **Elgin Marblea ” in the British Moseum. Passing under the portal * Dedicated to Art,” we enter a marble vestibule 27x24, in which the most striaing object 18 the " COLOSBAL EEAD OF CANOVA'S RAPOLEON as Mars, in marble. By & piece of poetic justice or wwjustce, the Duke of Wellington fell heir to the uriginal after Waterloo, and one can imagine the almost liviug image feeling keenly the degra- dstion, Moved by & pretty fancy, Canova chiseled Pauline Bouaparie a8 Veuus out of the block thay came from under the outsiretched arm of this Mars, That meekly besutiful head of s Roman woman calied Clytie, trom the sunflower leaves sround the bosom, is there, too. How can those downcast eves be the eses of the mistress who tarns to ber love when be sets **the same look that ehe turned whew herose " ? An arched snte-room sbelters, in crimson niches, the supeib though mutisted figures of the ** Two Fates” (from the Parthenon), a tive “ Ariadne Deserted ™ lying 80 that the cast of pertidious Theseus is ever before her half-closed eyes, and a graceful Disua, whom the cata- iogue w.sely saggestad shouid be called ‘* Ata- lanta Adjusting Her Robe,” as she lacks all in- signia of the chnse, and reminds one 1 drapery sud pose of Melauion’s love. THE SCULPTURE HALL, 95 ty 25, has st one eud the Lsocoon, snd at the other an excellent cast of the fsmous Florentine brouze-doors of Ghiberti, which Michael Angelo declared to ba *-nt for the Gates of Puraaise.” Here are the men and gods of oid, betugs iangible and intangible, yet so set in poetic Pagan legeud that the worshipers fade joto myths and the woishiped grow inio reali- ties. nervs stands bv Abundance. 8o should Wisdom sud Prospenty go band iu hand ; there are the two,_* Quoit-Throwers,” one modelsd by Mgyron ; yonder 18 the stern old warrior Germani- cus betweeu loving Antinous and _the sensuous figure of the *Gemus of Eteroal Reat.” «Gemus of Eternal Rest!” Bo the Greeks spoke of Deathi! e make him a ghastly ekelo- ton. Within sight of each otber are Venus and Nero and the Gladiator,—8 picture from Bwin- buroe's glowiog page. Oppusite 18 stalwart Acliilles, and by him Mercwry, Lthe aud agile; fuither slong a prettv Ltile figure of a chid pisying the game of Fali, or dice, Io one cor- er a statelv Caryatid immortalizes her serfdom ; 1n anorber is Silenus, before he degenerated into Falstaflian old age, and a little baby Bacchus, who is bewitching. Then in snother chzmber in the Apolio Belvidete. ** Canovas Habe," says 3ra. Jameson, *looks 88 if she would fan atep off her pedestal—if she could ; the Apollo Belvi- dere a8 1f be could step off bis pedastal—f he Llo's shrine, onatello, and would.” Praxiteles’ Faun sbares A; and wo tarn half ex; ecting to see Miriam, snd Hilds at our elbow. o A noticeable feature of the collection ia THE VENUSES, seven aotique and three modern. Of course the Venus do Milo leads the rest, if she is & Venus, Surely she lacks the abandoa and joyousness of that goddess, and assumes a majesty ‘Venus rarely aspires to. Possiblyshe is Veaus Urauis, the austere and chasto deity whom the Greeis lomhified belors the Asiatic myth of the Moth- er of Love floated acrues the seas Lo them. Next is the Venns de Medici, the model for fe- male Seanty. Apart from the Milo she has the most individualicy ; she 18 a goddess, the rest are bat women. The puse of ber head is partic- ularly fine, and her bandmaidens, the Houre, by brsiding ber golden tresses closely, have pre- served 1ts noble outlines. The surpassing beau- tv of the Medicean Venus is eaid to be due to the fact that Cleomenes copied her from the Coidiar: Vepus. whom Prasiteles in hus turn modeled from the famous Phryne. To fitly por- tray ber lovelinesa Lo dared to make bis statue entirely nude, the irst sculptor who had been o bola, aod s countrsmen forgave him becsuse of the beauty of his work Yenus (Callipygos) is less familiar than the rest. Two Greek girls, having quatreled abont the per- fection of their forms, calied two Lravelers to de- cide. Ope traveler thought one, the other the other, to be the handsomer, and each married the gir! he admired ; and, baving ended their al- tercation 80 happily, they botokened their grati- tude by this statue, m which the Queen of Beauty is undressing berself. Thorwaldeen's is by far the best moudern Venus, sod there is an airy life about her that is rare in statues. Ehe is the only Venus in the collection whose ears show, and the experiment proves that a pretty ear is & valuable addition to & pretty face. Gib- son's, like Thorwaldseo’s, is & Veous Victrd, but not 80 plessivg. Gibeon was the English- man who s:uued s marble o imitatico of flesh-tints. The third and weakess is from Csuovs, who would bave been far more juetly represented by Lis recumbent Venus of the Pal- ace Borgnese. THE WALL OF BRONZES (61x19) bas fine electrotypes of the Hildescheim treasures, which teach us that civilizstion bas advanced very little in sancupans aad gone back decidealy in cups. Among manv others, three silver bowls, with gold figures of Hercules, Deus Lenacus, and Cybele, aro samples of beau- tiful workmanship, Thongh more mode'n t! waa at first supposed. these vessels bave a very bovorablo autiqmity ; what their nationality was the catalozne does not say,—German probably, from the couception of the moon 88 & mule, which exists 1 tho German language to-day. Among the fac eimiles of old armor i3 the flaming heimet of Francis I, wbich, with his suield, is dented with many & blow, purried. erhaps, on the fie'd where the gallaot young King lvst all but honor. There are also huge and hideons majolica jars, such as the old Moors designed, and duinty Sevres vases of pale aud jveffable tinta, aud plaques of stone porcelain that might poriray sometbing more alluriog than market-baskets, consideriog how rare they are; aud amid nil these relics of barbarism and avili- zation,peace and war, stands a lictle starneof Echo by Larkin Meade, listening for the huateman’s call that she may answer with her elfin born. The bronzes ara seventv-six statusttes of mon and beasts—chiefly beasis—by Bar.e, of Paris. Although he is a very famous artist, a greater variety would be accepiable to the average viait- or. Then we pass through s second corridor, by the serene faces of Demosthenes, Sophocles, Aristides, and Homer, under the shadow of Au- gustus' Iaoreled brows, and the last object we 560 as wo nscend the wide stairs is an example of what is known in country nsvspapeis 28 ¢ native genius,"—** Bappho,” by Miss Ream. THE QCTAGON BOOJL, p ‘up-stairs, 24 by 24. is devoted to marbles. Itis Lined vu:lx crimson, aud in the ceutre standa the Groek Slave. 1doubtif anyof the sonne:s and paragraphs devoted to this exquisite creation de- scribe it 8o truly as tbe simple wordsof the ari] A besutiful woman in & position of Lumiliation and sorrow, but elevated above it by courctous faith . . . Add to all this aflicrion, fortitude, aod resignation, snd there i8 no room for shame.” Itis a signincant fact that the ex- presaion of thia sentiment was left to an Anglo- Sazon sud & Chnstisu, Praxiteles dreamed of Olympus ; Powers remembered Paradise. . CoxcEiTA. —_— SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. A NEW FIELD FOB ABT. Modern art has ransacked tne world for sub- jects for canvas and marble. Every form of do- mestic hife, every aspect of natural sceners, ev- ery opoch of history, has its painters, and some ariists, more learned in classical antiquities taan the rest,—lize Alma Tadems and Gerome, —have found a special field in the repreaenta- tion of the daily life of tho Greeks and Romans. An open field for the exercise of artistio skill, whether 1t be of Lhe poet, palater, or sculptor, & field as yot hutle worked, is pointed out by Prof. R. B.Anderson in & recent book on - Norse Mythology.” Prof. Anderson is Professor pf Scandinavian Languages in the University of Wisconsin, and bis book (creditably to the liter- ary progress of the Northwest) is published in Chicago. The author calls anew the atteution of the artistio world to the material for literary or pictorial woikmanship in > THE MYTHS AND FOLE-LORE OF THE NORTH. He very judiciously devotes a chapter of his book to this subject, and urges his favorite studios as matenal for artistio uses with such enthusiasm and knowledge as make 1t well worth the reading of artists who lack matter. It ap- indeed, 8s1f a strong-minded artist who ehouid take up this field in earnest might al- most found s school. It is & curious fact that our modern education is 80 exclustvely cisssical that, while every toler- ably well educated person is expected to be acquainted with tho general outline of Greek and Romaa mythology, and to hold clearly in mind the person and performances of the principal ancient heathen Qivinities, Jupiter and Juno, Venus, Hercules, and the rest, we are so igno- raut of the myths and fables which by ngbtfnl descent would naturally be our own that a dis- closure of an acquaintance with tho mythology of the Norsemeu, or a casusl allusiou to ‘Thor, or Loke, or Odin, would be reyarded either as an jndication of great and uuusual learming or of pedsntic affectation. Yet our classical learning is only = graft upon a Northern stem, aud no doubt the characteristics out of which the Northern mythology grew, and which it in turn fostered aud promoted, underlie the babtuts of mind of the Northern nations to this day, huwever obscured and changed by modern fashionsa sud faiths. Nur is there anything mors duicuit or hard to understand in tue Norse re- ligion than io the Greek and Romun; only the customs of classical education aund ~hterature have familianized us with the one to the total neg.ect of the other. Tnere is 8ense in Professor Anderson’s suggestion that the aitists may well turn from THE WORNOUT SUBJECTS OF ANOIENT MYTHOLOGY to the fresh and oot less picturesque material of the fables of our fathers. Jupiter, Venus, Bao- cous, Aleroury, Vulcan, have long sgo been served up in every siyle, aud wersatthe beginning quea- tionable subjccts for Christian pens or pencils, bacause of real moral qualities they had noue. Who would oot lauth at the idea of sekiug Jupi- ter or Venus to do a self-eacrificing thing? Power and besuty alone are symbolizea by them ; but, clotued with the bright atmosphere of Italy or Gieece, aud endowed by post and artist with every attribute of phvyaical 0, they bave becows in our minds besatifal pict- uies of pure imsgination. ‘L'nere are poiuts of contrast betweeu Lhe classical and the Norihern wythology. Many of the divinies of the one may be offzet wWith those of the otber, Zeas by Tuos, the Titans by the Jotuus, Adouis by Balaer, etc., the result of both mrtholugies being founded upon the forces ot Nature. Butin all' the accessories and im- agery, 10 all the satbropomorpnic development of the operations aud otlices of these divities, there are the sirongest differences, greaily in favor, morally epeaking, of the gods of the North. THOMAS CARLYLE says this: *“To me tbete is in the Norss sys- tem eomething very genuiue, vers great, and maolhixe, A broad smplicity, rusticity, so very different from the light gracefuiness of the old Greek Paganism, distingwshes this Scandivavian system. 1t is Thought, the genwne Thought of deep, rude, earuest minds, fairly opeued to the things about them; s face-to-faca sud heart- vo-heart inspection of thiugs,—the first characteristic of sll good thougat in all times. Not graceful lightness, half sport, as in tbe Greek Paganiem ; a certamn homely truthfuloess and rustic strenyth, a Jgreat, rude sincerity, dis- closes 1self here.” As s matter of course, the imagery attending the gods of Nature in the North and South dif- fer endirely from each other, that of the South being marked by soituess and grace, thal of the Notta by vigor and robusiness. Both bave their advantages for artisuc uses, sccording to the genina of a commupity or the gifts of ao art- ist. We may imagine what statnes Michael Angelo would have turoed out had it come in bis way to idustrate the Nores m,rthulng. Such an embodiment of etrength as the War-God Thor would have suited well the temper of the stern old Flerentine. THOR is one of tbe mast pictureaque figures among the Northern divinities, always mighty, always bold, always on some strange sdventare. In sharp and picturesque contrast with lum is hus wife, the faur-bared Bif, tho goddess of the sanc- tity of tue family aod of wedlock. Thor waa the god of thunder, the friend of manokind, the slayer of evil spirits, the defender of the eacth and the Leaveus. Sif botokens mother earth with her bught greea grass? Other fne figures are the epotless and noble Balder, who ruler 1n the realms of light: Frey, who presides over the rain and sunshice and all the fruits of the earth; Nauos, the flower goddess, who spreads a fragant carpet over the eacth. Bat to gise any idea of ther adaptation to the uses of painting and sculpture would re- quire a relation of the legends which form a large part of Prof. Anderson's book. Certainly, iu the bands of s strong and original artist, they would furnish fine and worthy suojects; and, in » time when everything is s theme for the artist’s skill, so promising a field a8 the Norse mvthology ought oot to be overlooked. Perhups our Chicago artist, Mr. Gookins, whoee brush is already scquamted with fairy Iand, might find bere some matter for his skli, when be again turns to ideal subjects. One de- cided difference between the Nocthern and the Southern mythologies is pointed out in these words: ‘We [the Goths and their descendants] were & chasta people even before our fathers came under the influ- enceof Christianity. Ths * Elder Edds,” which s the chief depository of the Norse mythoiogy, may be searched throngh snd through and thers will not be feund s single nude myth, not an impersonstion of any kind that can be considered an outrage upon vir- tae or a violation of the laws of propriety ; and this feature of the Odinic religion deserves to be urged as an {mportant resson why our painters and sculptors should Jook at home for something wherewith 10 em~ ploy thelr talent before going to anclent Greece. Without subscribiog fully to the author’s ab- borrence of the nude, which be elsewhere al- ludes to 88 *‘the loathsome pudity of Greek art,” and, remewmbering that the number of clothes people wear is depeudeot largely on cli- mata, snd that what will do in Itaty will not do in Toeland, it is still satisfactory to make the ao- quaintance of some pagan divinities who so far with us in their ideas of decornm that we do not have to divorce them altogether from all earthly relations te regard them mth comnosure. - an ** Art Studeots™ To the pods of Parnsesus p ‘was 80 prest & barden that those who represented it coutd sas- tain few other virtues. To the gods who dwelt in Aseaid this was the foundation of character, and a matter of courss, 88 t0 virtuous mortals. Uf the literary quslities of Diof. Anderson's books this is not the place to speak. It is to be hoped that bis clsim will 80ou be made good : that *The time must come when Noise mythol ogy will bo copionsly reflected in our elegant lit- erature and in our fine ares.” — . ROSA BONHEUR. HER LIVE, BY RENE MENADD IN * THE PORTFOLIO.” Rosalie Bonheur was born at Bordezux on the 294 of March, 1822. Her father was a skillfal artist, but bis children were numerous, aod his utmost exertions were necessary to maintain them. He gave drawing-lessons, and nu wife gave lessons upon the piago. But the excellent wife died early, and ' Bordeaux became intolera- ble to the nnhappy paioter, who moved with his i was 7 four children to Faris. Roea years old st this time. A long sea- son of poverty followed. The children were placed with an honest woman “La Mere Cathorme,” in the Champs Elysees, but their education was entirely neglected. Rosa was presently sent to & dressmaker's, but when the time came to put a peedle in the hands of thia restless little girl, accustomed to pertect liberty, the attempt met With an amount of resistance that nothing could conquer. Raymond Bonheur next placed his daughter in 20 elegant boarding-school, where he had ar- ranged that sbe was to bo educated in exchange for bis drawlng-lessoos. But the cbild did oot even know how to write, and showed neither taste nor capacity for study, while as to manuers it was still worse; her vivacity, fun, the cerelessy- ness of her toilette, werc all antagouistio to the babits of the echool. Her thin print gown, digorderly bair, and total uucoucern about dress, horrified the other pupils, who shunoed her. and called her the *litile beggar.” It was known stie did Dot pay. She was not slow to feel the peculiarity of her position. and found ber revenge in reproducing the feataies of her aristocratic companions 1 cancatures, taking good care not to fatter them. Nor did the teachers escape; and it was noc hard to identify the artist, for Rosa Bonbeur took the regular rize 1n drawing, the only study about which sbe {mnbled herself. So she was taken away from the boarding-school. & Back at Lome she found occupation in copy- ing her fatber's siataettes, priuts, aud studies, and soon became as laborions as she had been idle at school. Under ber father's tmtion sue pecame able to copy the great masters aithe Louvre. An incident gave her talen: itaspecial direction. The Bonbeur family lived in tae Bixth story with a littlo terrace on the roof, such a8 18 used for drying clothes. On this terrace Rosa brought up a ttie pet sheep, and when- ever she was free for a moment she weut to her sheep and drew it in every possibls attitude. As this study bad a peculiar attraction for Ler, she declared to her father that she would devote herself to animal-painting, aod he was too much of au artist to oppose her taste. The necessitics of study from Nature about Paris, in stables and butohers’ yards, led the young artist Lo ihe ex- traordinary expedieut of cuiting her Lair short, and often adopting male attire. Her features, energetic rather thao delicate, aided the dis- guise. In 1841 she made her debut at the Balon with two pictares, ‘*Rabbits” and '‘Guats and Sheep.” Her grest success dates from 1847, when she sent to the Salon ner < Altelage Nive- mais." Her pictures have alwayns sold readily, and ber ioflueuce in the family scon became preuonder- ating, snd_her brothersand sister all became artsts, and all in the liue of npataral history— Auguste and Juliette painters, and Isidore a acuiptor. Rosssucceeded her father a8 director of a school of dramiag for young ladies, and has inturn been succeeded by her sister Julictte. A movement oo the part of the pupils to imi- tate the close-cut bair aud vther pecaliarities of Mlle. Boobeur did not meet with her favor. When her fortanes improved she asttled in the neighborhood of the Luxembourg, and the gar- den of her house was immediately transformed into a pasture for her models. Once 89 she was retnrving from the conntry in her male attire, she heard that one of her fiiends was ill, sod barned to her sick-room, She seated herself on the bed and was holding the band of the patient when the doctor euter- ed, aud, seeing & young man in so fumiliar s po- sition, hastily shut the door aud discreatly re- tired. The patient sugested to Itosa that her costume was the causo, and she pursued and cangbt bim on the stairs and surprised him greatly mtb the revolation of berself a8 & dis- tinguished womsn. On other occasions the jockeys bLave sonoyed her greatly by their pressing finvitstions to take & drink. She now lives in a chatean st Fontaine- bleaw. and owns paatares and auimals, and has her own servants to hold her subjects while she paints. Bue no longer exhibits 10 Paris, but her ictures go duectly from her studio to the gal- eriea of Ler patrons. Rosa Bonheur has won all the prizes at the Salon that are accessible to an artist of her sex. At the Universal Extubition the jury awarded her a firat-class medal, eaying in thieir report that it was because tho artist **could not receive the decorstion.” The Empress Eugeaie dec:ded otberwise ; one day abe cslled apon ille. Bon- benr and left a jewel-casket upon the table. It coutained the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Kosa Ppubeur is the only woman who ever re. ceived it i France for intellectual achievements- “I'he pictures of Koss Bonlieur are remarkable for their skillful comporition aud wncomvarable knoswledge of;drawiog and modeling, ratuer than for the quality of the coloring. The greater part of ber works go to Engiand. Tuere 18 srarcely a parallel among women to her success in ber art, accompanted a3 it 18 with a complete absence of all the seutimenta and waats which usually characterize her sex. Of tue Bonheur family every membor is su artist, and, what is wuch more extraordinary, every oue of them is taleuted. Juliette (now Madame Pesrolle) bas gent 1 pictare of sheep to the Salon this year, which attracts a great deal of attention. 0ODDS AND ENDS. HOME NOTES. Mr. Gollman is in 8t. Paul, busy upon crayon portraits. A. J. Rupert, s young ariistand student at the Academy of Design, has several pictures in progress for the Exposition. Mr. Murphy has closed bis studio, but has oot yet left the city. A small landscape of his appears at Jaosen & McClurg's. J. R. Robertson is painting a large, strong picture for the Exposition. The subject, s milkmaid, is the mos: pleasing he has recently paioted. ) There is some probability of & pictare elaim- ing to be a Van Dycke—full-length portraits, in armor, under life-size, of the Princes Maurice and Rupert—appearing in the Exposition. A. J. Pickering is in the countrv. A recent portrait of his of a lady, m a somewhat grand stvle, with elaborate drapery, is carefully paini- ed and much above our ordinary portraiture. Mies A. C. Shaw s busy paintiug landscapes, aod bas several new pictures in her etudio, which, it is hoped, will be exhibited in the Ex- poeition. They are ali good, and one extraordi- narily so. . Bome quiet little drawings of natural scenery in Indian iok, by F. R.Green, at Stanton & Mitchell's, are worth poticing. One of them, & 8cene in B shedy lane with bright light upon the little figures, is especially admirable, and worth (if it is an original composition) ten times the price set upon it ($2.50). Highwood's pleasant gallery on Wabaah ave- pue, corner of Monroe street, has been enriched by several new landscapes from Muoich, in the careful, skillful manner of the good Continental artists. Tnis gallery, which has tbe advantage Mmbet!ng‘!ree aud always open, offers tne best opportunity we have for studying the Munich and Dusseldorf achools, oe L. C. Earlo has some good pictures In bis studio. His game-birds ars aiready well knowo. A coupls of soipe on the wing, just started and fiyiog away, seem as good as they well conld be, the feathers like nature iteelf, the action :&ml“’ :nml d!ztu“ most faithfal. /) 0portan| -pictars, not yet far enongh ad- vanced to make it desirable to describe uli. b much more room for seotiment in it, and indi cates that the artist is not limited to the mere transcript of feathers. Unfortunatelv this will not be done for the Exposition. as Mr. Earle ia about o join Gollman in 8t. Paul. A pictare on his easel, a stady of figures in Germany,—8s kmife-grinder, etc.,—is very pleasing in color. i ELSEWHERE. Babin & 5'0115. New York, have republished x(}‘l’mlx.nhn:.l( ‘s Sketch-Book, which had become are. An the New York Academy of Desien has post- poued the openiog of ita schools uotil December. o gt el Leagae ™ has boen formed to stady , composition, perapective, etC., under Prof. Wium.rm, on the priciple of the gfl-fi:x;a ateliers. Active operations to begin D! A bst of Waahingion Irvicg by the sculvtor acdonald is proposed for Cen Park, New York. The head is toba twice the &ize of the tead of Irving erected in Prosrect Park, Brookln, or four times the size of life, and the edestal richly orusmeoted with gravite of different colors and bronze figures of prominent charac- :z“‘h 10 Irving’s writings, the whole to be 21 feet 1gh. Animportant work upon Japanese art is in course of publication in Englsud Tae antbors | are oir. James Bowes and G. A, Audeley, both auathorities in this department of art, the worth and interest of which are more and more recog- nized every year. It will coumist of two volumes folio, and w1l contain & comjprehensive intro- ductory essay upon Japauese art, and a concise dissertation on the Keramic produec- tions of Japan, with fifcy elaborate col- ored plates produced “from Jananese works of the greatest besaty. It 18 entitled, * Keramic Art of Japan,”and is dedi- cated to the Duke of Edinburg. The description :ndé'flle‘n 'ahlt ’lf-"\flll be an excellent introduction 0 the studv of Japaneee art. The first has already been issued. mumbe ook S A NATION'S TEST. BY JOHN BOYLE O'BEILLY. Read at the O'Conneil Centennial in Bostoms Ao §, A Kation's greatness lies in Men, not acres; One Master-Mind is worth a million hands, No Kiugly robes have marked the planet-shaXers, But Samson-strength to burst the ages’ bauds. The might of empire gives 00 Crown AUpernAl— ‘Athens {8 here—bnt where {a Macedon ? A dozen lives muke Greece and lom eternal, And England’s fame might safely rest on One, Her test and text are drawn from Nature's preachings “Afrio and Asta—alf the rounded earth— In teeming lives the solemn truth are teaching, That inssct-millions may have human birth. Bun-kissed and fruitful, every clod is breeding A petts life, 100 small to reach the eye : 80 must it be, witb no Man thinking, leading— Tne ganerations creep their conrse and die, Harleas the lands, and doomed amid the races, That give no answer to this royal test : Therr tofifng tribes will droop ignoble facos, Till earth in pity takes them back to resk. A vust monotony may nol be evil, . But God's light telis us it cannot be good ; Valley and biil have besuts—but the lovel ‘Blust bear a sliadeless and a staguant brood. 1 bring the touchetone, Motherland, to thes, And ifl‘luthee trembling, feuring thou shouldst fail, If fruitiesa, sonlews, thon wert proved to Ah ! what would love and mmry lhi?"l’ Brave Iand 1 God has blest thee! ‘Thy strong heart I feel, As 1 tooch thee and test thea, Doar land! As the ateel To the maguet flies upward, 20 rises thy broast, ‘With a motherly pride to the touch of the test. Bce! she smiles beneath the touchstone, looking on ber distant youtl, Looxing down her line of Leaders and of Workers for Ero the “Teuto, Northman, Briton, laft primal e Teuton, an, the ‘woo land gpriug, ? When their rile waa might and rapine, and their lawa ‘painted king; When'the Sun of Art and Learning still was in ths Orfent; When tho 15ide of Babylonis under Cyrus’ hand was ent 3 When, the Sphyng’s introvertad ejo was freah with gypt's gallt; ‘When the Persian bowed to Athens; when the Parthe- ‘non was built; When the Macedonfsn climax closed the Common- ‘wealtha of Greecs ; When the wrath of Roman manhood burst on Tarquin for Lucrece,— Then waa Erin rich in Enowledge—thence from out her Ollamb's store— Kenned to-day by students omly,~grew her ancient Senchus More ;* Then were reared her mighty buflders, who made temples to the sun,— Thero they stand—the ‘old Bound Towers—showing how thelr work was done : Torlos s thousand years upon them—ehaming allour art— Warning fingers raised to tell ua wo must build with rev'rent heart. AR we call thes Motber Erin | Mother thou fn right of years ; Mother in the large fruition—mother in the joysand tears, Al thy life has been a symbol—we can only resd s part: God will flood thee yst with sunshins for the woes that drench the heart. Al thy life has been symbolis of & humin mother's life: Youth, with all ita dreams, hss vanished, and the tra- vall and the strife Are upon thee in the present; but thy work untll to- day SHIl bas been for Truth and Manhood—and 1t shall not pass awny: Justice lives, though Judgment Hngers,—angel's foot ‘aro heavy shod,— Bat s planel’s jeacs are ‘moments {n th’ eternal day of Out from the valley of death and tears, From the war and want of & thousand yesrs, From the mark of sword and the rust of chatn, From the smoke and blood of the penal laws, The Irisk Men and the Irish Cayise Coma out in the front of the Suld agatnl Wit says the straager to such a viality ? What says the statesman to this nationality ¥ F]un? on the shore of a sea of defeat, Huedly the swimmers have spruag 10 thelr feot, When the nations are thrilled by & clarion-word, And Burke, the philosopher-statesman, is heard. When, shall his equal bot Down from the stellsr ght, tees be the planet and all on ita girth— Indis, Columbia, and Earope : his eagle-sight Sweeps at a glance all the wrong upon exrth, Baces or sects were L0 him 8 protuuity : Hindoo and Negro and Celt were s8 one; Large a8 Maukind was his spleudid humanity, ‘Largo in its record the work be Lias done. What need to mention men of minor note, When there be minds that all the heights atiata? Wit schoolboy knoweth not the band that wrote “wSwcel Auburn, lovellest villug of the plain *? What man that speakety English eer can lift ‘His voice 'mid scholars, who hath miesed the lore And wit of Curran, Steridan, and Swift, . The art of Foley sud the songs of Moors? Grattan and Flood and Emmet—wbere is he That hath not learnad respect for such as thess? Who loveth humor and hath yet Lo sea Lover, sud Prout, and Lever, and Maclisa? Great men grow greater by the lapse of time: e Kow thous least whom we have acen {he latest. And they, ‘mongut those whose names have grown sub- lime, Wha wosked for Hoaax LIRERTY, are groatest. And now for one who allled will to wark, "And thought to act, and buruing sgeech to thought; Who gafned the prizes that were 2en by Burke,— ‘Burke felt the wrong—0'Connell felt, and fought, Ever the same—from boyhood up to death : ‘His race was crushed—his peopls wero defamed ; He found e spork and {snaed It with his Lreath, ‘And fed the fire, till al the Nation famed I He roused the farme—he made the serf & yeoman; He drilled bis milijons aud ho faced the foa; But not with lead or steal he struck the foeman : ‘Beason the sword—and Homan Bight the blow! ‘He fought for Home—but no land-limit bonnded 0'Connell’s faith, Dot curbed his sympathies; All wrong to Liberty must be confounded, “THil men were chainless as the winds and seas, Ho fought for Faith—bnt with no narrow spirit, ‘With ceaseless hand the bigot lawa he smote ; Ons chart, be said, sil Aunkind should fubarit,— "I'he gt Lo worship ana the 7ight to cote, Always the same—but e a glinting priem : In wit, law, statecraft, still s maste-hand ; An “uncrowned king,” whoss people’s chrism; ‘His titls—LipERATOR OF Hrs Laxp! Iin heart's 1o Rome, bls eplrit 18 o boaven, " So runs the old song that his peaple siug ; A tall Round Tower they builded iu Glstnevin— Fit Lrish headstona for an Lrish king! 0 Botherland ! there is o causs to doubt thee. “Tiiy mark i left on every shore to-day. Though grie and wrong may cling liks robes sbout thee, Thy motherhood will keep thee Queen alway, In faith aud patience working, and believing Not Pl)wfl' alone can make » nobls State: Whateler the land, though all thingr else concsiving, Unless it breed Great Meu, i in not great. Go on, dear land ! and midst the generations Send ont strong Men to cry tne Word aloud. Tuy niche 1t empty still apuidst the Nations— > on in faith, and Gop MusT Raisz Tax 0LOUD, love was ore." o¢ Great Law, the fitle of the translated by O'Donovan aad O'Curry. B, C., organized & bards, L laws fnto & h Puslter fl?a'l's‘r?- 53\-.‘-?; Fols .rg:'&:g achoola of m;umf a2 o I s remaskeblo maanar. A Coantry Full of Foxese Lebanon (Ky.) Standard. ‘Mr. George W. Gabebart, who lives near Brad- fordsville. bas a pack of hounds with which he has canght eighty-odd red foxes in ten monshs. George believ2a in thinning out the foxes in- stead of the dogs, tosave his sheep, which wa think is a very good idea; fortbe foxes are far more destructive to the younger tlocks of sheep than dogs, especially in this mountaiuous coun- try, Red fosea sre very nnmerousin this part of the country, and they do not prev upon the lamba altogether ; they have been known to eat and kill pigs over one mooth old. besides comiog io broad daylight to the doors of dwellinga to catch chickena, The fact is, we could oot do well withont a few good dogs in thia neighbor- hood, for if it was not for them the good moth- ers wonld hava to put their babies 1 tne closst snd lock them up, to keep the fozes from Bteal: iog them. “ i PANSIES FOR THOUGHTS. A happy young family—father, mother, and baby—came tfo live in & great city ons May, ‘Tbeir home was one of many houses in a line, all alike, with a little ornamental balcony at one side, & bay window at the other. and s tiny giass- ploc in tront. Which grandiloquently called iiself “the garden!” Opposits wasa row of houses very similar, and the dwellers on both nides came to take a Lively interest in this family. Very scon their refined taste evinced itself. Vines pesped through the fleecy curtains of the bay window, and a canary'a-cage bung from the ceutie. The piazza becama gay with baskets und stands of flowers. Passers-by bad glimpses of books apd pictares, and a piano, whers, every evening, when Rob Roy came home, the clear tonch and tuneful voice of Helen, his wife, was heard. Thus they commended themselves to the culti- vated of the street, who cast favorable eyes upon them:as fit partakers of @sthetisches thee. Bot a greater company by far, the mothers, approved them for their adulation of the baby. And the baby was surely as lovely a one a8 heart could wish. A wee, round, delicately fashioned creatare, pretty from the top of the head, crowned with little rings of sunny hair, to the rose-pink eoles of her feet: with great, amiling biue eyes, & dsinty little nose, and an actual sweet, cherry moutlk;, not the imbecile aper- ture for the reception of lacteals which goes by that name in the average baby face. Yom will obaerve I use the feminine pronoun. If & baby is pretty, vivacious, sud acute, is it not surs to beagirl? Ifitiss Dutchcherab, with a splen- did physique sud a lumpish demeanor, which the little impostor tries to palm off as dignity (de- ceiniog only bis next of kin thereby), is it not,— bear me ont, O mothers of the herd,—always & boy? When the baby went to drive in her perambu- lator her course through the street was a roval progress. Que loralist after another staved her chariot todo her homage. Thev kssed her, of cours? ; they rejoiced to find her tendrls would #0on become curls ; they peered into her mouth aud gave each othov intelligence conceruing her latest tooth; tbe; pointed out the dimpies in her cheek, the two that indented her ehouldess, the many thac dwelt at her elbow and round ber wrist and in ber bands. Her most entbusinstic Bubjscts counced her toes, examining each shin- ing pail, scrntinized her fairy ears, and besought ber to show them ber tongue. When she con- descendingly stratched it forth they whispered breathlessly, *‘Ste knows!" Baby was a friendly creature, sweet-tempered as well a8 merry, and she patiently aired ber #fts and graces before her people; bat she was artfal too, and kept her sweetest wilea for homs. Wuat a famoos day it was when she took her first steps! \We saw the exhibition, and it was as good s & Christmas pantomime. At Rob Roy's riog Helen opened tle dor, aud, the greet- ing kiss given, led him to the balcouy and plunged st onca into & description, quite intelli- gible to us from ber gesiures, how she had set baby azainst the wall and knelt befoca her with open arms to lure her to come to her, and how baby, after some nesitaucy, suddenly flew to _her, and phe had tried her- two or ‘tbree times to make sure she could do it, and how thers was no mistake. ‘Thea Rob shook his head and put on the most incredulous, teasing expression, and Helen, per- sisting, looked very pretty with her bloom heightened and a rippling trown lock straying into her earnest eyes. Asseveration proving vain, she went off for the cusmpion walier of tne universe. Baby came, fitly arrayed for the solemuity in & short white frock raicn betrilled and & blue sash tied in a big buttertly bow Lenind. Shs greeted her father with effusion, but when be derizively requested ber company for a promenade in the Park she gre# calm. DBeiog pnt ia position tue knealivg pair—for Rob the ukeptio straightway became a devotee—enticed ber to them by all their arts. But nooe of these blandishments moved baby until she chose to set out. Clouely press- ing berself agsinst the wall. che watched her pa- reuts for a minute with a tranquil sod cunoiog smile. Then catching her dress, dansense-wige, at each side, she advaoced, not a3 hitherto with the skimming - motion of the sparrow, but with stately little steys, until just in frout of them, where she paused in the prettiest attitude of co- quetry and irresolution in the world, and sigoal- ized her victory by casting herself into her futh- er's arms. Them shouting arose, in which we blash to say the overwrought spv_jomned, thus biinging condigo punishmant upon her eyes. for, discovering the publicity. the actors withdrew. Baby, throned on her father's shoulder, beat & tattoo against it with her wee blue-kid feet, and H:lc:, clasping bhis arm, laughed in sweet tri- umoh. Oplva week after we heard that baby waa ill. Very1ll, the report was as tue dsy wore on, and more thau one pair of eyes filled when it grew lsin that there was small bope of her recovery. by lay on tho bed with the clutch of dipbthe- ria 8t ber darling throat,—her soft, milk-white throat, which we had so often kissed, lifting the coral the better to see its fairnesa and plump- nees. Bhe suffered, moaning constantly}; some- times catching at her throat with both hands, turning entreating eyes on ber motber. Her mother! who po:ed_over Ler with death- lees love 1n ber face, who was fain to suffer tor- tare for Lier child and could vot, sho was smit- ten with the sense that in ber physical ease she ‘was nnjust to ber. 0 God,"” ehe ned, *“take her to Thysalf, if it ba Thy will, but give me ber pain, 1 pray.” She would stand for hours caressing babv with Lips avd hands, soothiug ber mith all ber store of fond words, lookiug at her with a smile—such a amilg!—in her eves. @ ?ou must take rest,” kind friends said. « Jrest!" she would avswer, pointing to the restless little child. God was good. The duy that baby lay a-dying she bad po pamn. She knew her father and mother, and conatantly smiled s weak little emile npon them. and often betd up her month to be kiesed, At sanset she turned her great pathetic eyes upon her mothier snd beld ont her arms, and” when Helen raised ber head from that embrace and looked in her face sue found baby bad bade ber good-bye. For a littie while'she lay io pale, lovely alesp, within the snowy draperies of hercrib, all among flowers, and then there came the day when her parents shut the ligbt of their eyes from their tight, when they left their dearest tn her lonely ped. Helen asked 8o piteously to go none could resist. She stood like a statue until the mound was heaped. Then every mother’s inetinct scemed to draw her down, and sbe fell on it in a deep swoon. . Io a few days Rob carried ber to ber own mother, iu whose hounsehold curonicles such loss had more than once been written, and together they mingled their toars. thTh“ sutomn Miss ay came to spend a week in e city. Mies Ray was 40. Her aitire was in good taste, bat it hung sharply off ‘her angles, asis the treschierous wont of old mxids’ clothes ; and it had the other fanit zecribed to that order— extreme nestness. She was thn, ber hair was tonreaded with pray, aod. her features were not beautiful ; but oo ber brow dwelt peace and love shope from Ler eyes. ~ Miss Ray was one of the few mortals who know all the three chords of the Angels’ Song. We are willing to ascribe glory to God in the bighest, and coutent that thero shoald ba ** peace on earth ;" but who practices ** good-will towards men?" She did. Bne bad notthe love of the philanthropist for man in the mass. but an indi- vidual love for excl ons as for & bruther, asister. The outgrowth was qaaint eoough, but if you laugbed firct the tears of a genwine admiration hestened after. Sbe always mended torn bills because she wever forgot the distressin a poor womsu's eyes when her tattered money was refused in the shop, and her own modest meaus, promptlz tendered, were insufficient. Her course througi the village street was a devious ope. because of the peelings, the broken glass. the rusty nails she gathered and put into the gutter. The child we have all met crying because he has lost the money for bresd, or broken tho milk- pitcher, was _ always consoled 2 bor, and gazed after the dear, slim figre, wi relict shining through his tears, the assgagiog coin clatched tightly io his Sagera. 0!d men fouud their empty_tobscco-cauister mysteriously ra- plenished. O1d women found the shawl they Bad covered with the_**desirs of the moth for the atar” waiting in the drawer to be worn on Christmas morniog. Tired wssherwomen wers cheered by the packago of tea st ap- peared on their talle when they lit their famp after s hard day out, and as ;mm'ngwb}'o'vdlnih felt re- B cation steal through their velns they gave ;‘;‘::hwnundmm. Who brought it? in placid autisfaction, The lank-cheeked boy gazing into tne coufectioper's windaw, the forlorn girl fixiog wistiul eyes oo tbe dotl in Lbe toy-shop, had the treasure suddeuly put into their taods. Her eves *grow tender over druwniug flies,” and she duly fiehed them out aod laid them in the sun to dry. How she has stopped dog-fights, tending the lame warriors cu both sides; bow zhe has ematched kittens from the very jawa of the W&p;, cannot betold. If you sarprised her in these deeds she blushed hke 2 girl caught writing a love-letter. Her steps were 88 noiseless ndbenuflcen!u-nmzell. Her friend took ber driving to the cemstery one mornting, when they got there they wandered ummx!n she tranquil gardeo of the dead. Stately dowagers rolled by in velvet mantle ana double chin: g3y girls took their noonday airing sud made plans for festal days and nights ; two lovers read eter- nity in each other's eyes—all ware aomindful of this Heating, tragic hfe whoes memorial stonas gleamed thick sod pale around them. They came upon a tiny red mound. ** Poor Mrs. Royv'a Littie girl," said ber friend. °**She was buried a week 820, and [ bear tne mother's priel was ter- sitle, " the went ou to speak of i ing! Poor youog thing!™ Miss Ray, with the sympathetic tears nising. *- I wish L could dosometoing for her 1™ Then she con- sidered. Presently her face brightened ; she put ber hand in her pocket, took oat her ports- monnaie, aud extracted therefrom s tiny pack- age marked Viola Tricolor. She borrowed s trawel :;og;fian at work near Ly, aud soon . i % Eo o thits grave with seed and deftly 1" she suid with a tong breath of satis- RWl’m'. lonn!‘mnmor!" passed s lamely, angiot 3 Helen was taken with diohthecia. Sbe :‘.fh;:‘ veryill, but the doctor urged care and watch- ing, 80 ob Roy left her with her mother. He spent every Snaday with her, and several dsva at Christmas-tide, when, I coubt pot, they kept the burth-might of the holy child with smiles and tears. We pitied bim in his soltary hfs. We looged at the one light st might and the dar'- ened nursery-window, and sighed as we remem- bered six months ago. But opeday in eaily spring, when gentle airs were blowing the vapor abont the soft sky, aud Howers were thrusting their gay young heads above the black earth, Rob stopped under our balcony end lifted his glad face to ssy he was going for Helen to-morrow. So she came back even sweeter than befors for the montning dress and for ber seltless bear- ing of her cross. She took up the thread of her home life where it had falien black and tear- stained, and wove it slining as before. When she had beeo at home several” days sha 8a1d one morniug, * Can’t you come home saily tuis l?nanmon, Rob, sod " take me to bavy's grave?® »Oh, yes,” answered Bob, drawing her tender- Iy to um. She, leaning on his shoulder, asked: + Have you had anything plaoted thers, Rob? I sbalt not see it bars, sball 12" entreatingiy. Rob hung his kind, foolish head. The day she came he had ordered an elaborats ainuer, he Lad the house adorned with costly flowers, he had given ber an exqusils trinket, but the thing she wanted most in the world he had left undone. Then this wise woman, divining bis trouble, said from her resting-place—** Never mind, we sball gee about it togetber. I will look for you sarly.” Bo kissed bim good-by. - Bat when he was gone the tears flowed over her face. 1t was alovely afternoon when they entered the great cemetery gates. A little <hill lingered in the air, but it was sunny aod calm. Helen held a cluster of white tlowers, the jpurest, s:vectest yet above the mouid ; her arm was in’ ber hus- h‘md‘nB u:d ha': volce h:dlmlomwlhn of its oid riog, Butas they near 0 angle which, passed, would reveal little grave, Rob (A?lt her tremble, and, lookiogdown, saw a pale, quvericg face, which hid itself against him, lblzsn with snbe. *I can't Lielp it, Rob] ” she gasped. ** I have tried. But when I think of my baby and the dread{unl clay heap over ber, why my beart bleeds again! " ~ And she made & gesture as fo show how the thought tore her. ** My dearest,” said Rob, grieved throggn all bis honest heart, * yoo shall mever eee it %0 again, neter, I promise you ! ™ Thus speaking they moved on, her head bowed low, 8o that she only knew by their stop” ping that they had reached her baby's bed. Ruo started as if to utter an exclamation, then chzc_l‘(ed himself, and they stood in sleuce for anhile. < “ Look up, Helen,” he said at last, very gent- ly. Andlo! s marvel. Ths little mound ugnlsd allover with pansies. They made a canopy above the barsh clav to bude it from the sight of love. With their root in death they opened fear- less, innocent eyes, sod spread abroad their store of purple and gold without stiat to cheez the sad heart. *Oh, Rob! " cried Helen kneeling down.and laying her wet, bright face aganst the fowers, “'who could have done it? Oh, thank God! God bless herl " ‘Wken the evening of that day closed in & quiet home, said one who loved {138 Ray Did you notioe her face to-night ? It was as bright as if she had seen a vision of aogels.” But [ think it was Helen's bleasing.—Mary Carroll in the New York Graphic. HUMOR. Je-ames, did ye ever saw a mooss killed?® “No, Augnstos, but I've saw a buok shot.” 1t is not 8o extraordinary that Nebuchadnezzar lived on graes. We know of hundreds upon hundreds who live oa the tarf. A Colnmbus tombatone says: ‘They've buried me 7 Longside of she, And togeter in Liesvem * Isherand me. A lady Bvinge near Troy hasa plece of soap supposed to bea hundred years old. Isn't i astonishing how long people cau keep soap in the houss and never feel the sligitest temptation touse1t? It is an old saying that **It is naver too Iate to mend”; and tho man who mskes his wife sit ap in a hot night to tix his old closbes, whils he snores under the mosquito bar, is the sort of person 1o eay it. « Ah, yes; the West is not entirely useless in the vast economy of nature,” remsrked a Bos- toman. * It fornishes the pork to flavor onr beans with, you know,” Thenhe resumed the study of bis * Principis.” : A father, fearing an earthquaks in the region of h.s home, sent his twosons to s distant friend’s noul the peril should be over. A few weeks atter, the father received this letter from his friecd: ** Pleass take Jourboyl home aud seud down the earthquake.’ There is & man of sound judement in Wash. iogeon who is willing to bat $10,000 to #1 that withio the next fifty years no monument will ever be completed to anybody in the United States, nnless the person in whose honor tbe mooument is erected happens to be living to push. the enterprise along. Eeep your name and address abont duricg this season of sunstrokes.—New York Cummer- cial Advertiser, This is very cbeerful advice, to besure. On tte same principle, & fond wife might eay to her busband, as he leaves Ler for a fow howis, ** My dear, please leave s couple of bundred dollara to pay your faneral expenses with. Thete is no telung what may happen to you."—Alany Argus. —A middle-aged woman fell as she was de- scending a pair of stairs oo Jefferson avenus yes- terday, and the first man to help her reach ber feet was s banker who happened to be paseiog. “Did you fall, madam?” he inqured As bo eeized her arm. *“Falll Of course Ifell, you fool, you!.You don't suppose I'd st down here to rest, doyou?” she snsped. Hedida't way.—Detroit Free Press. ) The Famous Bone-Setter. Doston Aduertuser. The parretive fn the Daily Adrertiser of yot terdsy concerniog_Hegios del Cin_recalls “the case of the Rev. Dr. Tomple of Troy. N. Y. who is undoubtsdly the New York gentleman therein referred to. His bip was dislocated by an accident in_which he was thrown from & car- riage. He onduredexcruciating agony for vears, during which the best surgeoos of this conouy and of Europe fonnd themselves unable to re- store the displaced bono to iis sucket. The London surgeons sect bim to Pans, and the Paris surgeons declared that he coald not be cured; or, f at all, only by & quack,—plainly mesniog ba could not’be cured. Dr. Templa chanced to hesr of this woman, and, despainng of mid from the regular tacuity, went tc see her. His account of bis experience is most interest- ing. The woman made butlistle examination, and seemed to have an intnitive knowledge of what must be done. She directed him to apply » poultice over tle affected part for & few dava, for the purpose of softening the bope. Sba then, in the tenderest and eastest manner poesi- ble, put the boue back in ity rlu:l: the cure was effected and the pain instactly ceased. Dr. Temple preached in this city aod vicinity several times laat year. He is s man of hign culture and of most estimable and lovely charae- ter. He had just retnrned from Europe asd was entirely well. There wasno sorsness or Ismeness loft, snd but & little inequality fn his step owing to the long comstraint put up- on the muscles of bis Limbs, Ho statea thata son of the womas, who was 3 prniest, had the same power the mother has; but unfortunately he died a few years ago. For many years tls woman was much troubled by vexatious op- Bochinn from the regular faculty. Bbe now, owever, has s license from the Italisn Govern- mept direct. hayving been succesaful in ireating & member of the Royal family. A Big and Wise Fro: A frog eaid to be the size of acow’s hesd has made iis appearance near Montreal, aod bas & voice ns loud .58 a dog. Boveral unsuccessful efforta have been mads to cspture his {m% but when pursued be dives into deep watsr keeps guiet for soveral days .