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Cricket’s Christmas- gift, BY STEPHEN BRENT. It was three days before Christmas, and peo ple were making preparations for that grand event. In the MaTcbmont kitchen a big fire roared and crackled in the ample fire-place, and the stove in the corner was also heated up. Grandma Marcbmont sat by the fire knitting, her placid face wearing a contented smile. Mrs. Marchmont was mixing cake, Julia was rolling out pie crust, and Cricket was stoning raisins. ‘Julia what are you going to do with your ancle's Christmas present ?' ‘I am going to buy that dark blue silk at Mur ray's to wear to our Christmas ball.’ ‘Couldn’t you do with a cheaper dress, and give sou) e ot it to those poor people that have suffered so this winter. Dr. Carroll was telling wore her old dress and gave her money to the poor. She is a very queer girl though.’ •Yes, extremely queer, or she would never have done that,’ and Mrs. Germaine did not know, whether he was praising or condemning the girl for what she had done. Miss Gordon swept by in lustrous violet silk and diamonds, her fair face iaintly flushed, and her large, lovely blue eyes full of tire. She was beautiful, very beautiful, but Winthrope Carroll never saw her. He went straight to the window where Cricket was standing and abruptly said: ‘So you are the good fairy that my poor people are blessing?’ She looked up quickly. ‘How do you know ? ’ ‘Of course I know. Can such things be hid? I knew you was a brave girl Cricket, but I never thought you had the moral courage to wear an old dress, and give np your money.’ ‘I had forgotten all about it,’ said Cricket with a merry laugb, and an upward glance into the grave eyes so intently watching her. All through the evening, Dr. Carroll’s eves followed the slender figure, with a tender light me this morning, that a great many of them j j n their depths never seen there before, had bad the fever, and were unable to work yet, j Two o’clock in the morning Julia proposed j 1 Cricket was eating an ice and en- said and that they would have a sad Christmas, ‘Oh grandma! I really cannot do without my dre68. Miss Gordon, Susy Long and all the others will be out in new dresses,and I wouldn t go, and look like a nobody.’ •But think, my dear, how much good you would be doiDg, said Grandma, gently. Julia’s delicate brows met in a frowB. •Uncle Amos gave me the money to do as I pleased with, and I don’t see why I should not have the dress.’ , ‘Certainly dear, I stall not object. . The old lady looked thoughilully into the fire a minute, her shining knitting needles ly ing idle, then turning to Cricket, said: t ‘And what are you going to do with yours, Cricket?’ Cricket bent lower over her work, her small, dark face flushing. •I—1 don't know, Grandma. I have not thought much about it yet.’ ‘I would tell you what would be the best thing to do with it, Cricket,’ said Julia with an imation. ‘Get a rose colored silk, and trim it in black lace. It would become yon, then rose is Dr. Carroll’s favorite color. Don’t you think she ought to spend it that way, mamma ? , ‘My dear, Cricket must please herself,’ Mrs. Marchmont with a smile. ‘Well, I am going to get my dress, and have Mis. Wilson to make it, and papa must give me enough to buy a wreajh, and some gloves to wear with it.’ The work was done, and Cricket took ofl her cook apron, and ran up to her own room. Mr. MaTcbmont had given the odd, whimsical name of Cricket to his youngest daughter, be cause she was so brave and cheerful. A verita ble cricket singing on the hearth. Cricket was not a beauty. She was slim and dark, with velvety black eyes, and long, silky, black hair. A quaint girl, with the truest and tenderest of hearts. The one window faced the south, and was fiilled with plants. Geraniums, winter roses, chrysanthenums, and as many others, as she could get to live. An ivy yine wreathed the window, its dark green leaves, contrasting well with the crimson curtain. A low, white bed filled one oorner, and a took case stood against the wall. It was so pure, and dainty, this girl ish bower, with its simple furniture, and bloorn- tng flowers. Cricket opened a table drawer, and taking out a small silk purse, sat down on the hearth rug. *1 can wear my old black silk,’ she said to herself, resting her. chin in her small payja and gazing into the fire. ‘It is shabby I know, but if people don't like me without fine clothes, their liking is not worth having,’ nodding her little dark head. She counted over the fifty dollars slowly, wondering how many wants she could re»ieve with it, ‘and they do need it more than I.’ It was a cold dreary afternoon; but buttoning up her cloak, and drawing the rose-hued hood over her head, Cricket went out to visit some of the poor people. It was nearly dark when she started home. Opposite the drug store she met Dr. Carroll, looking haughty, and aristocratic, and showing the true gentleman in every line of the grave, marble face. ‘Where are you going Cricket ? ’ he asked. •Home,’ answered Cricket with a smile. •It is too late for you to be out in the cold,’ said the doctor almost severely, ‘and as I am go ing your way I will take you home.’ Cricket tried to object, but objections had lit tle force with Wintnrope Carroll, and she was wrapped in the warm carriage rugs, and whirled away home. ‘Where have you been this evening ? ’ inquired the Dr. •To see poor Mrs. Adams.’ •But I told you not to go there any more Cricket. The fever is contagious.’ •Yes, but 1 am not afraid,’ said Cricket ‘Mo 1 don t think you are, still it is not neces sary to endanger your life.’ A fearful lever had broken out among the lower class, and there was still a lew cases. Doctor Carroll devoted his time almost exclu sively to them, going down into the haunts of misery, without shrinking. The poor creatures almost adored the calm, brave man who helped them as much by encouraging words as medi cine. Christmas eve came with lowering grey clouds and a cold raw wind. Cricket went out early in the afternoon to make her purchases. She spent all her money, even to the last dime, which she gave for a big over-grown ginger cake for a little ragged newsboy. It was grey dusk when she reached home. She walked into the large cheerful kitchen, with crimson cheeks, sparkling eyes, and a song on her lips. ‘What makes you so merry, Cricket?’ asked grandma in her pleasant voice, a smile on her sweet old face. Cricket knelt down at the old lady’s knees. •I just feel happy grandma, that is all.’ •I expect I know what makes my little girl happy,’ said grandma, laying her withered hand on the dusk head. ‘It is the conciousness of well-doing. Cricket I know what you have been doing, and dear child, God will bless you for it.’ Cricket laid her head down on her grand mother's knee, and with tender dreaming eyes, watched the red coals drop down and turn to grey ashes, seeing beautiful pictures in their depths. The Christmas ball was a grand affair. The Marchmont girls were there, Julia in her hand some silk, with pearls on her neck aud arms, and a wreath of silver leaves in her hair. Crick et was in her old black silk, with soft white lace at the throat and wriBts, and with winter roses in her hair. •Just look Dr.!’ cried good natured Mrs. Germaine to Dr. Carroll, ‘there goes Julia Marchmont dressed as fine as you please, and Cricket in that old black silk.’ Doctor Carroll looked down the line of dancers, his eyes lingering on Miss Gordon with admiration, and on Cricket Marchmont in cool displeasure. •There is quite a romantic story attached to Cricket’s dress, Dr. continued Mrs. Germaine, fanning herself vigorously. 'Would you like to hear it?’ ‘Yes,’ said Dr. Carroll politely. ‘Well their uncle gave them fifty dollars apieee, to buy dresses for this ball, but Cricket j ‘Don’t go quite yet, goiug home. joying herself thoroughly. Julia, wait awhile.’ An hour after she ran up stairs and put on her wraps. Coming down through the hall she met doctor Carroll. ‘Have you seen Julia?' she enquired, ‘I can't find her.’ •Julia has gone home. I promised to take care of you.’ Cricket was surprised. When did doctor Car- roll ever take so much trouble before ? The first few minutes of their drive was passed in silence, then Winthrope said: ‘Don’t you think Miss Gordan is very beauti ful?' •Yes sir, I do.’ ‘Do you think she would suit me for a wife ?' The girl looked steadily into the keen,search ing eyes and replied: ‘I do think she would suit you perfectly.’ ‘My friends are advising me to marry and I have been thinking seriously of doing so for some time,but,’ with a sadden change in his voice, ‘it is not Miss Gordan, or any other fashionable la dy, that I want for my wife.’ For a few minutes there was utter silence, then quietly, gravely he asked the all important question: 'Cricket, will you be my wife?’ Cricket shrank back in her corner of the car riage, trembling with a mixture of fright and keen joy. ‘I have never loved any other woman except my mother, my darling, so you g6t the best and trurst love that 1 can give. Will you accept it ?’ A small, warm hand was slipped into the one waiting to receive it and that was Cricket's an swer. When Dr. Carroll lifted her out at the gate, he held her close for a minule, kissing the scarlet mouth and whispering tender words of love between his caresses. So the blessing grandma Marchmont predict ed had come, and Cricket looked up at the win ter stars with a new light in her eyes,that through all the after years would never leave them. Inherited Traits, Curious Facts About Lunatics, Crim inals ami Drunkards. We have not referred to insanity in speaking I of inherited mental qualities, because insanity must be regarded as a disease of the moral rath er then of the mental nature. Its origin may be in the mind, as the origin of mental diseases is in tjie brain, that is, in the body; but the prin- cible manifestations of insanity, thdie which must guide us in determining its true position, are unquestionably those relating to moral hab itudes. Insanity is not always, or at least, not demonstrably hereditary. Esquirol found among 1,375 lunatics 337 unquestionable cases of he reditary transmission. Guislain and others re gard hereditary lunacy as including, roughly, one-fourth of the cases of insanity. Moreau and others hold that the proportion is greater. It ap pears, however, that mental alienation is not the only form in which the insanity of an ances tor may manifest itself. Dr. Morel gives the following instructive illustration of the ‘varied and odd complications occurring in the heredi tary transmission of nervous diseases.’ He at tended four brothers belonging to one family. The grand-father of the children had died insane; their father had never been able to continue long at anything; their uncle, a man of great in tellect and a distinguished physician,was noted for his eccentricities. Now, these four children sprung from one stock, presented very different forms of physical disorder. One of them was a maniac, whose wild paroxysms occurred period ically. The disorder of the second was melan choly madness; he was reduced by his stupor to a merely automatic condition. The third was characterized by an extreme iracibility and suicidal disposition. The fourth manifested a strong liking for art, but he had a timorous ard suspicious nature. This story seems, in some degree, to give support to the theory that geni us and mental aberration are not altogether alien; that, in fact— ‘Great wit to madness nearly is allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.’ Of the hereditary transmission of idiocy, we naturally have not the same kind of evidence. The madness often, if not generally, comes on or shows itself late in life, whereas idiocy is not often developed in the adult. Insanity is the disease or weakened condition of a mind possesing all the ordinary thinking faculties; idiocy implies that some of these faculties are altogether wanting. It has been asserted, by the way, that idiocy is the product ot civiliza tion. The civilized ‘present, as people,’ says Dr. Duncan, ‘indications of defective vital force, which are not witnessed among those human beings that live in a state of nature. There must be something rotten in some parts of our boast ed civilization; and not only a something which has to do with our psychology, but a great deal more with our power of physical persistence. It is a fact that the type of the perfect minded, just above the highest idiots or the simpletons, is more distinguishable among the most civilized of the civilized, than among those who are the so-called children of Nature. Dolts, boobies, stupids, et hoc genus omne, abound in young Sax- ondom; but their representatives are rare among the tribes that are slowly disappearing before the whiteman.’ But it seems barely possible that the difference may be due to the care with which civilized communities interfere to pre vent the elimination of idiot infants by the sum mary process of destroying them. The writer from whom I have just quoted, refers to the fact that, even under the Roman Empire, as during the Republic, idiots were looked upon as ‘use less entities by the practical Roman.’ They had no sanctity in his eyes, and fence their proba ble rarity; doubtless the unfortunate children were neglected and there is much reason foi be lieving that they were ‘exposed.’ ‘A congenital idiot soon begins to give trouble,’ proceeds Dr. Duncan, 'and to excite unusual attention; and moreover, unless extra care is given to it, death is sure to ensue in early childhood.’ May not idiot children in savage communities have an even worse chance of survival than under the Roman Empire ? and may not dolts, boobies and stupids, et hoc genus omne, among savages, have such inferior chances in the infantine and, later in the adult struggle for existence, that we may explain thus the comparative rarity of these va rieties in savage communities ? It oertainly does not seem to have been proved, as yet, that civil ization, per se, is favorable to the development of insanity. The liking for strong drink, as is too well known, is often transmitted. It is remarked by Dr. Howe that ‘the children of drunkards are deficient in bodily and vital energy,and are pre disposed by their very organization to have cra vings for alcoholic stimulents. If they pursue the course of the J r fathers, which they have more temptation to follow and less power to avoid than the children of the temperate, they add to their hereditary weakness, and increase the ten dency to idiocy or insanity in their constitution; and this they leave to their children after them.’ Whatever opinion we may form on the general qaestion of responsibility for offences of com mission and of omission, on this special point all who ..re acquainted with the facts must agree, admitting that in some cases of inherited crav ing for alcoholio stimulents, the responsibility of those who have failed and fallen in the strug gle has been but small. ‘The fathers have eat en sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge.’ Robert Collyer, of Chicago, in his notable sermon, ‘The Thorn in the Flesh,’ has well said: ‘In the far-reaching influences that go to every life, and away backward as certain ly as forward, children are sometimes born with appetites fatally strong in their nature. As they grow up the appetite grows with them and speed ily becomes a master—the master, a tyrant; and by the time he arrives at manhood, the man is a slave. I heard a man say that for eight-and twenty years, the soul within him had to stand, like an unsleeping sentinel, guarding his appe tite for strong drink. To be a man at last, un der such a disadvantage—not to mention a saint — is as fine a piece of grace as can will be seen. There is no doctrine that demands a larger vi sion than this of the depravity of human nature. Old Dr. Mason used to say that ‘as much grace as would make John a saint would hardly keep Peter from knocking a man down.’ There are some curious stories of special vices transmitted from parent to child, which, if true, are exceedingly significant, to say the least. Ga ma Machado relates that a lady with whom he was acquainted, who possessed a large fortune, had a passion for gambling and passed whole nights at play. ‘She died young,’ he proceeds, ‘of a pulmonary complaint. Her eldest son, who was in appearance the image of his mother, had the same passion for play. He died of consump tion, like his mother, and at the same age. His daughter, who resembled him, inherited the some tastes, died young.’ Hereditary predispo sition to theft, murder and suicide, has been demonstrated in several cases. But the world, at large, is naturally indisposed to recognize congenital tendency to crime as largely dimin- isning responsibility for offences or attempted offences of this kind. So far as the general in terests of the community are concerned, the de monstrated fact that a thief or a murderer has inherited his unpleasant tendency should be a raison de plus for preventing the tendency from being transmitted any further. In stamping out the hereditary ruffian or rascal by life-im prisonment, we not only get rid of the ‘grown serpent,' but of the worm which ‘Hath nature that In time would venom breed.’ An illustration of the policy at least (we do not say the justice; of preventive measures, in such cases, is shown in the case of a woman ia Amer ica, of whom the world may fairly say what Fath er Paul remarked to gentle Alice Brown: he ‘never knew so criminal a family as hers.’ A young woman of remarkably depraved charac ter infested, some seventy years since, the dis trict of the Ppper Hudson. At one stage of her youth, she narrowly, and somewhat unfortu nately, escaped death. Surviving, however, she bore many children, who in turn had large fam ilies. insomuch tkftV^herg are nojg si^e eighty direct descendants, of whom one-fourth are con victed criminals, while the rest are drunkards, lunatics, paupers, and otherwise undesirable members of the community. Overtasking the Energies. 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VOCAL MUSIC In all its branches, from the most ELEMBNTARY PRINCIPLES to SIGHT-SINGING, as taught in European schools. -BPCS'-T OF REFERENCES. Julv 13th—12t Home Reminisences JOHN RANDOLPH of RoanoKe. BY POWHATAN BOULDIN. Published bt tub Author, Danville, Va. PRICE, BY MAIIa, $2. WHAT IS SAID OF IT: Hon. Alexander H. Stephens: It has entertained me highly. The style is good, whi'e the method of treat ment of the subject matter is admirable. Its greatest interest* however, to me consists in the bringing out those traits and habits which throw so much light upon many of the peculiar eccentricities of the wonderful genius, orator and statesman of ‘.‘Roanoke,” which have heretofore led many people to believe he was subject to spells of temporary mental aberration. The Literary World, Boston, Mass.: The undertaking was most praiseworthy, and the reaul is to cloth** one of the most remarkable figures of American history with a large variety of new details. The whole man is brought ou i° f *ke past with a wonderful freshness and wwity. The whole book is of that extremely quota ble sort that one scarcely knows where to begin with it or cease from it; and from the first page to the last it will be found a rare treat by all lovers of anecdotical biogra- P“J\ if’ Bou * (l111 admires, but he can also condemn; and in all respects he has performed a difficult task with excellent discretion and complete success. sep21-lm