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; Wpije- get the wine ? My sweetheart sent it, he reek* reekoned—my sweetheart, the humpback. That was a poor, dwarfed lad who was the only bin I had on earth, and who had come to see me beoanse his dying mother told him I was his eonsin and rich, and might help him to get t. plaoe. I answered that I had bought the wine with money paid me for lace I had knit. ‘And fool-like yon pour it ont and let it set and lose its strength,’ he returned, and the n<xt instant I saw him in the mirror oyer the man tle put bis band upon theg ass and raise it trom the table. 1 was about to utter a warning cry, but a quick, fierce temptation seized me and stifled the sound in my throat. Stifled it for a moment only, but the next moment it was too late. He had swallowed the wine and the poi son, and I was- what yon called me just now— a murderess. You know all the rest. It has been blazrnod in police gazettes, and women bare shuddered at the thought of the ungrate ful wretch who murdered the husband and ben efactor who had lifted her from poverty to ease The | oor, deformed lad figured as the lover io the case, for there must always be a lover, else it would lack the strongest spice of sensational ism . I fled from the law, because I knew circum stantial evidence was against me and that 1 would have no ohance against the money and influence Roger Bradford’s relations would 1 ring against me. The miser had left many thousands, these would pass to bis nearest of kin if bis wife oould be proved a murderess and hung or im mured in a penitentiary for life. I escaped in a disguise and through the kindness of a ser vant She hid me for day Bin the city; then 1 oame here disguised as you have seen me with the black hair and brown wash upon my skin and glasses which I have since laid aside. I had returned Mrs. De Hal e’s call onoe as a bridt betoie my tyrant bad begun to shut me up from all society but his own. Your step mother was present with her little girl. 1 heard her allude to the schorl-friend whose daughter I have pre tended to be;I htard her any where she lived, it came suddenly to me and with it the strong im pulse to go to her and < ff tr myself as a govern ess I bad a scrap of Mrs. De Hatter’s hand writ ing. It was easy to forge tin recommendation tha deceived her; one sin,yon see, leads to another. ‘Therefore, it was easy to add to the list by de ceiving a true, honest-hearted boy,’ Harry said, Bternly, though he had heard the woman s story with kern pity and a deep conviction in its truth. He had studied the faces of criminals too often to be deceived. For the first time her mouth quivered, her stony, hopeless face was crossed by a spasm oi emotion. •Oh! poor, loving, true heart,’ she moaned, wtiugingher hands together, ‘that was indeed a bitter sin—to deceive you. Bat I did not mean to. God knowB I did not. I thought my heart was too seared and blighted for love. Bat Love is God's messenger, and comes—’ ‘Love,* Harry interrupted, bluntly. ‘Don‘t play the hypocrite, don’t say that you love the boy.’ Her eyes fl shed. •You have called me murderess. I accept that as a i art oi my punishment. Imposter—I de serve that too, but you shall not tell me that tvtn I could be so vile as o marry your brother without love—marry him as a refuge, that I may escape from the country and from punishment. No, 1 love him, love him with every throb of a heart that never knew love before. Tell him ths. I cannot bear that be should think me all a wretch when 1 am dead,or gone away where 1 can never see him again. No, do not tell him. He 1. ves me, God bless him! and he will suffer less, he, will get ever it sooner if he thinks 1 am wholly despicable. So let him believe £haC i only wanted him as a sLield for my crime —as a means to put nr self beyond the arm of the law. Tell him tha:; it will not matter, life is nothing any more—there only remains punish ment, and endurance, or death. Well, sir, are yen empowered to arreBi me? I am here,’ •Mrs Bradford,’ Harry said, struggling against conflicting feelings, ‘I do net know what to do, — wi at to say I can’t nelp believing yonr sto ry and pitying more than blaming you; but I'm in a manner cn my honor in this business. It’s my duty, I know, to—’ ‘have me taken iu custody. I know it. Let no leeling of pity for me stand in the way of your duty, sir,’she interposed, a smile, bitter, haughty, sad, flitting over her beautiful face. ‘1 wiil not act at all to-night,’ Harry s»id de cisively. ‘It is nigh on to morning. Fray go to bed, Mrs Bradfjrd; you need rest badly,’ he addbd, lookiug with keen pity at her death-white face. ‘Rest!’ She echoed the word mockingly. Har ry turned from her and quitted the room, tak ing one backward glance at the slender figure leuning against the mantle, in such ao attitude oi dreary dtspair. He needed the open air to calm him after this interview. He went out on the piazza. There, near a window that opened into the parlor, he saw his brother standing, his tall, broad-shouldered figure immovable as a statue. A look showed him that the window was partly open. He went up to the motionless figure. •Preston, you here? Then you must have heard- ?’ •Every word she said. I came out here. I heard you taikiDg inside and listened at the window. I know all—’ •I am g’ai of it then. Saves me the pain of telliug yon. It is a dreadtul bad business. It cut me up awfully. And its hard on you, ol I fellow, but better know it now than later. Of course there will be no marriage now. It would be the madd'.st folly.’ He spoke the lost clause half interrogatively, and after a short pause, he repeated it in the same tone, and Preston re sponded quietly: •Yis, the maddest folly.’ Of course it’s a disappointment, and you're young and take such things hard. When you’re older, you 11 get used to having fate turn the game on j on upon a sudden this way. But this is all for the best, I think. It was a queer match anyway, Bbe was ol ier than yoa, some years, I should say, and then I’ve s^en handsomer wo men. Minnie M. pies for imtance, sopuuip and rosy. She would be called a tiuer woman, eh?’ •Yes,’ assented Preston, ‘I think it likely she would.’ lie spoke quite calmly and coolly. H-rry was a little taken beck. He had Ini i * i out to play the part of comforter, i*uh >hi Uli. tacin rn brother of his didn’t seem woudenuity in need of comfort, flarrj’s surprise was mix ed w.th a little indignation. He had felt more for the women than he had cared to show, and with tier pasfeionate assertion of love for his brother yet fresh in his ears, he could not help fetlir g that Preston was bearing his disappoint ment w *11— almost too well. Harry knew the ‘Jedge’ to he a cool, undemonstrative, matter-of- fact fellow, bnt he had never thought him hesriless. He had even believed there were warm depths under that cool exterior. More than once he bad seen tokens oi it, aud ho had had proofs of the boy’s devotedness to him. He waited now f or some further demonstration, but Pres’on only asked a little anxiously: ‘What are you going to do?’ •I'm going to sleep on it,’ Harry answered, ‘rather, I'm going to think it over aflerlam in bed. It’s then I put on my studying cap. Let alone wl at she's done yonder, she’s imposed on rs all here, and the e Id man and the madam w 11 have to know about it and she will have to leave of course. Bnt I shan’t report on her, duty or no duty, not foi fifty times the pay they offer >o have her found, that they may put her s. fely outoftne question, so she’ll not turn up any more and sue »or her share of the property. No, I’ll not betray her. That bnsband of bers was a brnte and sbe bad provocation enough, God knows. Then she has loved you, Pres., that’s enough to ensure her from any harm through me ’ For all answer, the young man s«ized his brother s hand and gave it a grip that nearly brought tears into Hal s eyes. He released his fingers from the vice, and said: ‘Go to bed old fellow, We’ll talk it all over quietly to-morrow; it’s getting deuced ohilly out here.’ Ten minutes afterwards, Harry had his bead on the pillow and bis studying cap on. He lay awake thinking over the woman's story, and her voice aud look when she said: ‘And so you hunt ed me down,' and the desolation in her face as she stood w ith her head leaned upon the mantle piece, with al! that golden stream of hair flowing around her. It was an excellent thing for Pres, that he had not loved her more passionately, bnt it was a great marvel that he bad'not. The night was clear bnt slightly windy. Har ry fancied he heard noises in the night—voices and'footfalls, bnt as Preston’s numerous ghard of dogs made no demonstration, he concluded it must be the wihd and did not stir, though his door was unlocked. He slept at last, but his sleep was disturbed with dreams. One of them was especially vivid. He dreamed some one stooped over him and kissed him twice, and said: ‘God bless yon; good bye.’ He thought that the voice was Pres ton’s and that he stretched his aims to clasp him and touched his face and silky mustache. But immediately he awoke with a start, aud found the room empty and the door shut The bud was shining in his window when he awoke. His first glance fell on an envelope lying on the table bj him. He seized it, opened it and read: _ _ ,, •Good-bye dear brother, and God bless you; I am gone—with her. Youdidn t think I was going to desert her in her distress, because the world turned its back on her, aDd the law hunted her down. If she had killed that wretch, the ver dict ought to haye been served him right. But she didn’t kill him. It was God’s band reached down to lift the burden from her life. He sealed her lips that one fatal minnte. I could not talk to you last night. My heart was too full. But my mind was made up. I knew she would go away that night, and I meant to go with her. I knew she would slip off to keep from meeting me. In the first place, she ielt she couldn t meet me after I had learned all; and then she knew I’d stand by her and she didu t want the saciitice as she'd think it was. I rous ed np little Zdke and we hitched np the grays and waited a little way down the avenue. Buie enough, as soon as all was still, here Bhe came in her black dress and face as white as a ghost s, and a bundle in her poor little hand. I pounced upon her, and we had a strong argument that 1 oat short by lifting her into the buggy and driv ing over to the depot half an hour belore the three o’clock train. I scribble this in the wait ing room aud Zeke wiil take it to you. I will write to mother and father. Break this to them gently as yon can. Tell them not to mind. I could not be happy and my Helen lost to me. Bhe is dearer tbau ever now that I know all her sorrow. 1 will try to make amends. We are going to , bui I won't tell you now. I will ON HER METTLE. Mrs. Felton Vs. Gen. Gordon. IN eOlfORlssSAX FK , /r«W KEAI.I.ir I.\UK»TE» TO HIf* WIFE FOB HIS SUCCESS. leave you in ignorance for ycur conscience’s sake. " You shall hear from me.’ Years • ave passed; Harry Btockton, Chief of Police in the city oi and popular and jolly as ever, frequently gets by tne Pacific Express a prestnt ol mammoth pears, or gnat bunches of pale grapes, like malachite j.wels, with ‘the loving regards of P. and H. Aud oQce re paid to the Golden Land, aud there, on the finest farm a< j iceut to a lioursh- ii!g young city, he found ‘the Jedge a judge de facto now, happy aud prosperous, and his wile, a low-vo.Ced, giaceiul lady, with a touch of sadness in her lair lace, but known through out the neighborhood lor her gentle chanties, and lor her til cuon lor children, and htr halt worshipping love for her husband. Items of Interest. Quebec is snowed up again. Influenza is prevalent in Boston. London has 1000 miles of sewers. Gold still increases in tlie Treasury. Green peas are in Boston lrom Bermuda. Scarlet fever abounds iu New York. In England rod-fishing begins Feb. 1. There are 107,000 Jews in New York. There’s a good promise of Spring trade. Ice boats on the Hudson River have made seventy miles in an hour. The Indiana farmers report the wheat crop to be in splendid condition. Whipping is the punishment for tramps in Wis consin, a d they don t like it at all. There are seventy-three glass factories in Pitts burg. •Three deaths in Cincinnati by hydrophobia in one day last Week. It is estimated that Great Britain produces one billion gallons of milk annually. New York city has fifty-four Catholic churches. The annual salary of the Mayor of Loudon is $50,000. Esquimaux sleds are made of the jawbones of the whale. Connecticut proposes to. adopt the \ irginia.bell j Punch in her bar-rooms. The ordinary pen of the ancients was a reed cut | aud split as in the modern practice Venice has 339 bridges. She will soon be rivalled in tiiis respect by the city ol Boston. The population of London is 4,531,000, and os i Vienna a liitleover 1,000,000. The mormons aie said to be increasing at the rate of 10,000 a year. Noah's ark was 25,720 tons capacity; the Great Eastern 13,000 tons. The bank of England has a capital oi $72,765,ao: A Detroit girl wa louud dead, kneeling beside ner bed in the attitude of pray er. A Connecticut man shot what he thought to be a big black bear, but w hich turned out to be a large Newfoundland dog. A bill granting women the right of suffrage lias been introduced iuto the legislature ol Dakota. The New York legislature has passed a law which inliicts five years’ penalty lor body snatching. Large numbers ol fish are lrozen into tne ice on Lake Ontario—a very uncommon occuntuce. Two more deaths, last wtek.in Fall River from hy drophobia. Multiply the dogs, by all means! The great canal of China is 325 miles long, 200 feet broad, anu deep enough .or vessels oi laige cargo. Every loaf of bread sold iu Cincinnati must have its weight stamped it; on it tosatisiy the Jaw. Two thousand sleighs were manufactured in Westborough. Mass, Has cason,and nearly all sold. Dr. Janes, the stale commissioner of agriculture, has returned fiorn the National agricultural con gress at Nashville. He was re-elected president of the body. The seventy-second anniversary of the birth of Ilviiry W. Longfellow wasobserved by the presenta tion to him on Hie part ol the children; ol Cambridge of a handsome chair carved from the horse-chestnut tree celebrated iu the “Village Blacksmith.’ We publish the letter of Mrs. Dr. Felton sim ply because we have not before seen such a po litical manifesto from a woman. It comes like a scorching blast from aD i‘ jured and angry politician and reveals the fac. that the Doctor certainly has a power behind his throne; and the question is whither or not this power is greater than the throne itself. Mr. A. W. Reese, in an editorial correspond ence with the Macon Telegraph and Messenger, charges that during the recent canvass, in the seventh district, a letter was written to Senator Ferry (rep.), of Michigan, ‘imploring, in the most piteously pathetio terms, material aid from the radical congressional campaign committee for Dr. Felton, in his canvass against the dem ocratic nominee and party.’ Mr. Reese says Senator Ferry sent the letter to Hon. J. A. Hob- bell, a republican member cf the house from the same state, and also a member of the above named campaign committee. It was afterward turned over to Mr. Gorham, stcretary of the committee, and also secretary of the senate. ‘All the persons named agree as to the nature and tixt of the letter, and how eloquently the writer plead for radical money to enable tin- so-called independent leader to carry the elec’ioo,’ Mr. Reese does not giv9 the name of the author of the letter, bnt bis language conveys the im pression that Mrs. Felton was the writer. In a matter of this kiDd there should not be any hints or intimations. Mr. Reese says he does not publish it, but known the name well. He should give it by all means. Although A. W. Reese, of the Macon Tele graph and Messenger, is the person known as my assailant (his name being signed to he ar ticle on which von comment), General Gordon is recognized by me as the author of the assault. Since A ‘A. W. R.’ did not give the name for which’ you call, I cannot ats rt that lam the person pointed at, but as yourselves and others are similarly impressed that it was intended for me, I shall reply to it. I have become in some measure accustomed to the abuse showered so liberally upon niy husband and myselt in the late congressionaFcampaign, but I am gl.id to say do provee'tion has ever induced ti her of us to retaliate upon the families of our oppo nents. Chivalry seems to be at discount v. i h the so-called ‘organiz--d’ in Georgia. All good citiz ds, who respect and protect their o*n hearthstones, w II give the independents credit for better conduct. ‘I understand the charge to be that I ‘plead in piteously pathetic terms for radical money’ to help my husband’s election, Had I done so the allegation would come with bad grace freon an owner of the Macon Telegraph and Messer - ger, which paper was subsidized by Governor Brown in the matter of the state road lease for the snm of two thousand dollars. I only recognize the master in this attack— not the servitor who does General Gordon’s puffing as well as his dirty work in his news paper. If A. W. Reese in his strenuous efforts to secure a place under the senate organization ' finds it necessary to show this subservience to j General Girdon, I cannot stoop to notice a man working for such selfish ends and such I substantial rewards. The senator, I find, his \ been very active in this matter—his position entitles him to some attention. 7, T -kcn a , .‘^.^.BRnator ran run a con vict camd, which ‘is a disgrace to civilization, ’ for money—when he can manipulate,’ a south ern insurance company and a southern univer sity publishing company, not to speak of other circumlocution enterprises, where the money of the subscribe rs disappeared forever— where he could borrow .he money of a southern bishop — and the bishop sold the collaterals for only one dollar in me hundred, you need not be surprised that he should attack the wife (if a political opponent. When his name in con nection with me m ney r f Jay Gould and Hunt ingdon was m. street talk of WishiDgton City, which astoni-e ed th 3 tattle i < a s of Judge Uc - derwood an.i Colonel D. B. Priutup last spring, commented on by strangers at a dinner table cf one of the principal hotels in W. shington, can you w<,irler that he should sae money at the bottom of any enterprise ? If he and A. W. Reese d<s ie to establish the pri cedent of fight ing ladies to iijure their husbands, they may find it uncomfortable it well carried out. Pre cedents o out astonishingly sometimes. Theclmrge that Lwrote to BeDator Ferry, or anybody • ise, asking tor radical money,’ or any other no i oy, to help.my husband's election, I firmly d ny. If ‘A. W. It.’ will furnish a gen uine i< er of mine, I shall need no further proof. That I dia w rite a friendly letter to Sen ator F- . rv, with whom I Lad acquaintance for seven.’ years, asking him to use his influence to hr i; up the combination with Bryant in the H<> /.el..w movement I frankly admit. J. E- Bryant informed a gentleman of Rome, Geo’^ia, a distinguished democrat, that ‘he was on h>s way to Dalton’ (the day before he brought out Holtzolaw) ‘to organ, zs the repub lic ns in the interest of Judge Lister.’ Do you d-.-ne his name? The faot that Bryant was fn i mshed money by the national exeemive com mit ee of the democratic party was published i mil in the Indianapolis Journal of October *21 1«78. That Bryant was seeking to get money from t> e republican naiicral committee, I was also pliably informed. That I did r< quest Senator Ferry to use bis indaence to circumvent this nefarious plot, I h ive no disposition to deny. I should likely do so again under sinilar ci cam s'ancts. My husband was away ironi home iu the upper counties and my wifely anxiety in duced me to write without delay, which I did on my own responsibility and over my own signature- What his cooler judgment would have advised, I did not knew. He certainly ap preciated my heartfelt interest in his success against the strong combinations to which the history oi Georgia furnishes no parallel. It was a bitter fight made by unscrupulous men, and I have no apo'ogy to make for my efforts in be half of my husband. It is a sad day for Georgia when ‘sensational newspaper mendicants’ can assail the wife when her husband stands in the path of a public man from whom the scriobler derives his < filcial existence and whose patron age ho ei joys- If I am thus to be made the target of ‘organ ized’ abuse, the independents of the state may understand that do man’s home is sacred from attack if he dares to resist the encroachments of the ‘public plunderers' on the old common wealth of Georgia. I think I understand and appri ciate the feelings of the good and honest men in both part es, and they will rebuke any party or clique ll.at spares no six or condition in their insane desire to keep themselves in office. The very fact that sitifty politicians attack everv body who interferes witn tin ir combina tion for public plunder has done mor6to injure the democratic organization in Georgia than everything tlse. To this they add the resolve to attack women, because guilty cowardice re fuses to meet more responsible parties. Drive the money-changers from the democratic temple, and set up iffioi Is whose honor and reputation aro dearer to them than convict camps or the money of Jay Gould or Hunting don. Respeotfnlly, mbs. w. h. fei.ton. Dots by Dell Dare. One of the fnnniest things I oan sometimes see,is a full blown member of snobocracy strain ing a point to admire operatio squalling, just because it is fashionable in the so-called ‘first circles' to preteDd to go into exstaoies over this sonl-barrowing performance. No one can Jove mnsic that he or she does not feel, and I have never yet known one heart to be touched by a cyclone of vocalism. There is abont as much melody in it as in Bridges Smith’s string band of cals, with their tails fastened in the unique machine his fancy invented for the purpose, and I would greatly prefer to hear the latter mnsic, provided it was no-in fnlljblast when I was trying to woo nature's sweet restorer,balmy sleep. The world wags, and it ‘wags merrily, laugh we or sorrow.’ If life to you is but a jester in fool’s cap and bells, the earth will not make one revolution the less, or you may sit bowed by the dead sea of your grief, yet the sun will Bbine goldenly all the same, and ‘The birds will have for you No sorrow iu their songs.’ That ODce enigmatical personage, Junius,said that instinct was trntb; consequently, there is much trnti a ont dogs, women and ohildren, and every other animal, unless we except man and his anthropoid prototype that Mr. Darwin and his scientific flunkies have assigned him. As man has bnt little instinct, I presume this is the reasen he gets ‘bit’ so often, whether as re gards h:s wealthy creditor in whom be confid ed, or the wife of his bosom, in whom he confi ded a little more. The scientists say there is much oz ne in healthful air. Ozone is, therefore,a very whole some edible, and it is dirt oheap. No need of nickles and postage-stamps for exchange, and poor folks can subsist upon it for an inde finite length of time, while it takts no fuel to make the pot boil. I have often heard that the hour of death was an honest one, bat the last sentence in the en suing paragraph is the best illustration of the fact I have ever seen. The will of Governor Blatchett, of Plymouth, Mass., proved in 1783, contains the following singular clause: ‘i desire that my body may be kept so long as it may not be offensive, and that one of my fingers or toes may be cut off to se cure a certainty of beiDg dead. I farther re quest my dear wife, that as she has been trou bled with one old fool, she will net thiDk of mar rying a s< cond.’ The Tnrco Russian war brought Servia into mnch public notice, and here is what a poor Servian girl saDg in a ballad in the long, long ago: ‘Our Lard hi s of every thing His fill; but of poor people He stems to have a greater plen ty than aDy thing else.’ Nov much poetry abont it, unless in its truth and quaint pathos, aud I think it wonld do to chant in this age also, and in most any country, This distinguished individual was a very rice- man, and wore an aspiring col'ar and silk hat. de was an independant w.iter and thinker,and a ‘blue-ribbon’ leader of the press. But the best and nicn-t of us will sometime listen to the tempter’s seductive sweetness; and ODe day this him-ribbon leader told a rich man who didn’t have much of a ‘hi ad piece,’ but aspired to a few v. hoops of the vox popnli, that if he—the rich man—wcnld let him nave a fifty dollar bill on time ad infinitum, he, the blue-iibbon leader and independent thinker, would write the rich mao up so high in brain and the virtues, his own a ife wouldn’t know him. it there is such a thing as incomplete satis faction, it is felt by tLe woman of small means v 55 known she looks fen times j>_weeter, and handsomer in a nickle calico than some'other v oman in shimmering silks and heavenly laces. O.i the other hand, while a well-dressed 'female is a beautilully complacent fact, it cannot equal the intense gratification of the woman who has jis deliveied hirself of a pit ce of her mind. One of the most s'riking indications of a d?- pn.-sed finance just now, isamuDin tight pants ami a short-tailed coat, trying to make headway around a corner against a stiff nor’ easier. a nd the bright sunshine of heaven are essential to the health and happiness of infancy. Some mothers seem to appreciate to some extent this trnth, bnt then they are so fearful that the 'lit tle things’ will take cold that they often suffer for the want of pure air, even when carried out, and wheD the nursery-room is not wanting in it. This is brought abont by having the cribs or cradles of children enclosed with curtains or their faces covered while sleeping, so that they are subjected to the necessity of breathing over and ovet again an impure air, impregnated with the exhi lations from their bodies, and ex hausted of its vitality, thus depriving them of the advantages of ventilation, however complete and unobjectionable the arrangements for se curing this may be. In a similar way, the ben efits of out-door airing are often lost by smoth ering np the face of the child in blankets or by tacking its head under the cape or shawl of the mother or nurse. This fear of oold is unfounded, and there is no danger in exposing the face of a child to the open air, if accustomed to air indoors, if prop er weather is chosen for outdoor airing, and if due attention is given to the olothing and par ticularly to the covering for the feet, arms and legs. manual Exercise for Children—It is hardly necessary to give any special direc tions as to the exercise of children who are able to crawl or walk, as they will be sure to take enough in spite of all the restraints that can be put on them. But there is a kind of passive exercise to which very young ohildren may be subjected, that is highly beneficial. This is gen tle rubbing with the hands of mother or nurse. For the first four weeks of their existence,infants should be allowed to indulge their natural in clinations for repose to the fullest extent, and they should be handled aslittleas possible. But after the first month or two. they should be gen tly rubbed all over with the hand at least once a day. The best time tor this is after the daily wash or bath, which shonld never be omitted. Tois passive exercise or manipulation is very pleasant to the child, as manifested by its move ments, and it is highly conducive to health by promoting a vigorous capillary circulation of the skin, thus removing internal congestion and quickening all the vital processes of nutri tion and development. This, with a daily bath and pure air, will do more for their he 1 h than all the drugs and doctors in the universe. PARLOR PASTIMES. (jinnies For Winter Eveninss. Health Department. By J. Staiiibiu’k Wilson, M. D. Air and Exercise For Children.— The fir.ii * ant oi an miant is an abuuoaut sup ply of pure air, and jet many people seem to think that a little babe is a kind of hibernating animal that can live almost withont air. It is a fact well known to physicians that the fearful mortality among children is largely due to the want of pure,fresh air in the nuisery room. Dr. Clarke informs us that in the Dublin hospital, neaGy haif the children were cut ofl within the first two weeks of their existence; but so soon as measures were takeu ‘to insure a tree circu lation of pure air throughout the wards oi the hospital, the dreadful mortality that ha i previ ously occurred among the infants inhabiting them was aimost immediately suspended. ‘Even wheD deprivation of pure air does not produce any immediate and fatal train of symptoms the powers of life are gradually impaired; the prop er development of the body is prevented by the suspension of the chemical and vital chan ges in wLicu the oxygen of the air plays such au imporiant part, and thus the foundation is laid tor diseases that are incurable by medicines and curable only, if at all, by natures great resto rative, pure air. Tne first effects of confinement and the want of air are seen in the paleness of the f: ce, fl .bbiness ot the muscles, dullness ol the ey es,shortness of breath,smalloi ss ol growth, want of the vivacity natural to children, and that general vital deterioration which is the precursor and foundation of such grave and fa tal disorders as ricKets, indigestion, bowel com plaints, consumption, scrofula or king's evil, and indeed almost all the diseases which are generally regarded as the natural inheritance ot childhood, but which, ottener than otherwise, result from improper eating, insufficient or ill- adapted clothing, impure air and want of exer cise. Children really stand more in need of an abundance of pure air than grown persons, for, as intimated above, a free supply of the air is absolu ely essential to those gr. at chemical aud vital processes by which the growth of the body is st cured. If the nursery-room is ciosely ceil ed, it should be well aired every d -y by open ing all the doors and windows, while, if the weather be cold, the children can be transferred to another room. And an airhole should always be left opeD, day and night, hot and cold, by having one or more windows partially or entire ly open, according to the temperature of tht- weather. Rut, while pure air ib freely diffused through the loom, the inmates shonld not bleep immediately under a wiudow or be < xposed to a s rong current between doors or windows. A good plan is to have the iq>p< r and lower sash so put np that air u ay eut-.=i b< tw en them with out making a dir( cl current ii i- the room,or,in other worcs, to have.-, misfitting sati. ut course there should be no smoking lamps or chtuinej s, tobacco bUioke or anything tending to vitiate the air of the nursery-room. After the fiist mont , infants should be car ried out into the open air when the weather is pleasant. They enjoy this wonderfully, even at an early age, as is manifest from their effirts to approach an open door, and from their ‘crowing’ and other unmistakable evidences of p eisurt. These are the nnerriDg indications of a natural instinct which shonld teach ns teat tht free air The game of proverbs is excellent for drawing out thought and wit. When it is played, one member ot the company leaves the room, and the ri st fix upon a well-known proverb. The banished guest returns and asks each person a question, who in reply is bound to briDg in one wo ;« of the proverb in its proper order, and the questioner tries to find out from these an swers what the question is. A very amusing variety of this game is called ‘shooting proverbs,’ The guests inch appropriate one word of the proverb as before. The one who is trying to guess the proverb comes in, steps into the middle of the room and calls in a commanding voice: ‘Make ready! Present! Fire!' At the word -fire’ all the company shout their words at ODce, and the proverb is to be guessed from the sound, which is a very confusing one. ‘Nouns’ is another amusing game, aDd can be played by the old as well as the young. In this, one of the company thinks of one ('articular person or thing, and the others ply him with questiors, and endeavor to find ont hissicret from the an swers. It is nstonishinp how judicious ques tioning C:*n draw the most cut-oi'-the v^y oi’jttofc out of myi-tery iuto the light of day. ‘Trades 1 is also amusing. In this game, each person chooses a certain trade, and cue member of the company, who is named by the r st, makts up a story, in the course of which be introduces an account of his shopping excursions,and calls bap-hezard upon the reprt s ‘Otativ6 of each bu siness to name some noun which belongs to L's trade, Tbcs, a batcher is to name a certain joint of meat, a grocer some article of groceries, and so on. No item is to be mentioned twice; and if there is any hesitation in naming something suitable, a forfeit must be paid. Another good game is called ‘dumb crambo. 1 When playiDg it, half the party lei ve the room, and those who remain choose a verb which the others are to guess. When the absent onr s return, they are told ( f a word which will rhyme with the word fixed upon, and they cor sr lt together to find out what it is. instead of speaking their guess they RCt it. If they guess right,they are applaud ed, if they fail they are hissed. A word spoken on either side, excepting by the actors for the purpose of private consultation, entails a for feit. None of these garni s are particularly new, but they are amusing, nevertheless. At Mrs. Hayes’ last Saturday reception she wore a white silk, with drapings of white-strip ed gauze. A white camelia and ivory comb were worn in her hair. The celebrated Welsh harpist, AptoD.as. was present with Mr. Widdow«, or the Metropol itan Church cbimep, celebrated by Don Fiatt, of the Capital. Mrs. Cameron wore a rich garnet velvet dress with vest and petticoat of palest blue biocade, 8Dd many other exquisite cos tumes were noticed. One Day Only,! 9. THE GREAT SENSATIONAL EVENT will be produced at at enormous expense The NATIONAL SUCCESS! The first appearence in this city of the gilted American Artists MR. MoKEE RAA KIN, —AND MISS- KITTY BLANCHARD, In their Beautiful and Cliarniipglj - Pure Americas Drama of THE DAN1TES, By Joaquin Hiller, J he Poet of the Sierras. Supported by LOUIS ALDRICH, C. T. TARSLOE, And a Wonderfully Strong Phenomenal Caft. This attract on i» under ttie management of Mr. J. II. HaVERLY. Manager of Haverly's Theaire. Chicago, who pays Mr McKee Rankin and Mi j s Kitiy Blau,hard a certain y of $40,000 lor Forty Weeks. THE D ANI i Es, wherever produced has been applaud, ed to the echo by cultured and enthusiastic audiences" and at many Fa-binnable Theatres numb rs were nightly tinned awsy, ui able to gain even standing room. And the management confidently expect that the critical and i telligeiu public wiil endorse the verdict, th-it THE DANl’IEHis he American Play bo long sought after at ast found ! Popular prices- $1.00 at d EOc. Reserved seats at Phil lips & Crew's wnhouuxtra charge. ti X i a Vl Off per day at home. Samples worth IU tree. AddressStinsc n &Co., Portland, Mai ne.