ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 
ter fully into all the details of the scheme. 
The stranger then went over the whole plan 
in the purest and most elegant Italian. As 
he was taking his leave, Favour said to him: 
“ You talk politics like Maccuiavel, and 
Italian like Manzoni. If I had a country¬ 
man like yourself, I would gladly give up to 
him my place as President of the ministry. 
Pray tell me what I can do for you.” “ If 
One people in our early prime, 
One in our stormy youth ; 
Drinking one stream of human thought, 
One spring of heavenly truth , 
One language at our mother's knee. 
One in our Saviour's prayer— 
One glorious heritage Is ours; 
One future let us share. 
PLANT LIFE IN TOWNS 
DEATH OF PROF. S. F. B. MORSE. 
The world will learn with regret of the - 
death of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, the je( 
father of telegraphy, although he died full j n 
of years aud honors. He died at his resi¬ 
dence in New York City, of paralysis of 
the brain, on April 2d, in the 81st year of 
his age. lie was born in Charlestown, Mass., 
April 27th, 1791, and was t he eldest son of 
Rev. Dr. Jedediah Morse. Ho went to 
school at Andover, and at It years of age 
entered Yale College, where he graduated in 
1810. In 1811, he sailed for Europe with 
Washington Allston. to study painting. 
He was abroad four years, when he i etui uod 
home, and practised his profession for four¬ 
teen years, when he. again went abroad, in 
1829, to prosecute his studies, returning in , 
1832. In 182ii. he founded, with others, the 
National Academy of Design, becoming its 
first President. He was also elected Pro¬ 
fessor of Art in the New York University. 
IIis success as an artist was assured, but in • 
1832, while coming home from Europe for | 
the second time, he had his attention called 
to the subject, of electro-magnetism, and 
conceived the idea that intelligence might, 
be transmitted instantaneously by electric¬ 
ity. He at, once became absorbed with this 
idea, and before the voyage was over, had 
completed the general plan of bis invention. 
After much study and difficulty, he satis¬ 
fied himself, in 1835, of the merits of his in¬ 
vention, and, in 1837. demonstrated it to t he 
public in the University of New York. He 
brought his invention before Congress, in 
1837 -38, but met with opposition and ridi¬ 
cule, and no help. He again visited Eng¬ 
land and France, but to no purpose. At. 
this time he met in France. Daguerre, and 
shortly after his return to America, received 
from him his process for taking sun pic¬ 
tures. Prof. Morse, in 1839, look the first 
daguerreotype in America, it being a view of 
the Unitarian Church on Broadway, oppo¬ 
se the Now York Hotel. In 1813, Congress 
passed his telegraph bill, and in 1HH the 
first line was put up between Baltimore and 
Washington. To-day, they stretoh all over 
theAvorld. ,. 
No American haa boon so honored by the 
crowned heads of the Old World as Prof. 
Morse, from whom he has received numer¬ 
ous decorations. At an early day Prof. 
Morse suggested that the telegraph should 
be united with the Post-office Department. 
It looks now as if liis suggestion would soon 
be acted upon. On the 29th of December, 
1868, a grand banquet was given to Prof. 
Morse at Delmonjoo’s, in New ork, at 
which Chief Justice Chase presided and 
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minis¬ 
ter, made a speech. On June 10th, 13*1, a 
bronze statue to Prof. Mouse, costing 
$11,000, was erected in Central Park, it be¬ 
ing’ contributed chiefly by dollar subscrip¬ 
tions from the telegraph operators in the 
country. A grand reception at the Academy 
of Music followed the inauguration of the 
statue, upon which occasion Prof. Morse 
sent dispatches to all parts of the world. 
His last appearance in public was upon the 
uncovering of the Franklin statue, in 
Printing House Square, on the 17th of 
January, 1872. He was feeble at the time, 
and left a sick bed to take part in the cere¬ 
mony. He has always been held in great 
esteem by his fellow citizens as a Christian 
gentleman, as well as a benefactor to his 
race. His death will cause universal mourn¬ 
ing, for one greater than a king has fallen. 
The portrait of Prof. Morse, h eve with 
given, was engraved from a photograph ta¬ 
ken last year, and will be readily recognized 
by all who have of late years seen the emi¬ 
nent deceased. 
— The funeral of Prof. Morse was held at 
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church 
(Dr. Adams’s) on Friday, the 5th insfc., 
whence the mortal remains of the great 
electrician were borne to their last resting 
place—Greenwood Cemetery. 
The health of towns is a hackneyed sub¬ 
let. We seldom hear about health of plants 
i towns. Yet the two are not only nearly 
The heroes ol' our days of old 
Are yours, not ours alone ! 
Your Christian heroes of to-day, 
We lovo them as our own. 
There are too many homeless lands, 
Far in tho wild free West. 
To ho subdued for God and man. 
Replenished and possessed 
There are too many fallen men, 
Far in the ancient East, 
To he won hack t,o truth and God, 
From craxnpinn bonds released 
There is too mneh pood work to do. 
And wrnn*f to be undone: 
Too many strongholds Trom the foe 
That must be forced and w<>n- 
That we whom God hath set to be 
The vanguard of the fight. 
To bear the standard of his truth, 
And to defend the right, 
Should leave the mission of our race. 
So high, and wide, and great. 
On worldly points of policy 
To wrangle and debate. 
Nay, side by side, in East and West, 
In wild or heathen lands, 
One prayer upon our hearts and lips, 
One IMblo In our hands,— 
One in our earliest homo on earth, 
< )no in our heavenly home. 
We’ll light the battles of our Lord 
Until Ills kingdom come. 
AVPIA-T OINTKj WOMAN did 
BY DE FORREST I*. GfJMMERSON 
[Concluded from pago 284.] 
CHAPTER 111. 
The days had slipped away so rapidly 
that it was June ere Nettie was aware of 
it. She had been so busy with her numer¬ 
ous duties that she bad not felt as yet how 
isolated was tho life she was living. AVith 
the exception of the doctor and his wife 
and tho minister, no one had been to see 
them since they had come into the place. 
Mr. STERLING had felt this somewhat keen¬ 
ly; but knowing that his wife had not given 
it, a thought, did not choose to pain her by 
calling her attention to it. I think there 
were some honest hearts in the place that 
yearned to go to this woman and welcome 
her in their midst; but fashion, like a ciuel 
tyrant, held undisputed sway here-and 
fashion did not go, so how darccl they ? 
Fashion was represented here by one Miss 
B. A10K.SK. 
such a man as l were your countryman,” 
was the reply, “yon would sentence him to 
death. If you wish to show your apprecia¬ 
tion of my advice, carry it out, and liberate 
Italy. So far, at least, the protect ion of Sir 
James Hudson will suffice for me.” The 
stranger then left the room, first handing 
his card to Favour, who read on it with 
amazement the name of Mazzini. 
PROF. S. F\ 
correlated, but well-nigh identical. Were 
plants healthy, the inhabitants would prob¬ 
ably be so likewise, and the obverse is true. 
Towns in or near to which plants refuse to 
thrive are also those most fatal to man. The 
primary foundations of health in both are 
heat, light, food, cleanliness, pure air and 
suitable water. With the single exception 
of heat, which in the open air may be assum¬ 
ed to be uearly equal in town and country, 
it must be admitted that large towns imper¬ 
il the purity, lessen the quantity, and inter¬ 
rupt the constancy of most if not all the 
other essentials of health. In many large 
towns the lurht of the sun is obscured for 
MASTER AND MAN IN JAPAN 
woman wno naa ditu nu».v, 
nouuced the little French she did know 
horriblv, dressed with exquisite taste, and 
declared that, “ to be a true lady, one must 
avoid associating with all women who 
worked for a living —such as Mrs. Ster¬ 
ling.” This she said openly one evening, 
at one of the tea-drinkings of the M. E. 
Society of Woodvale, aud, after that, who 
dared say otherwise, if they would belong 
to the creme de In ore me of society ? 
After this it was not long in reaching Mrs. 
Sterling’s ears. One of Birdie s girl 
friends got angry with her one afternoon, 
and out it came—how that hernia had said, 
that Miss J elf had said, etc. To say that 
it did not cause any pain to Mrs. Sterling 
would not be true. She was a woman of 
fine instincts, cultivated and refined; and 
in the days she had spent at her father s 
home ha<l not been accustomed to work. In 
curious than the relations oetweu masi.m- 
and man. The master admits his servant 
(provided, of course, that he be of the mili¬ 
tary class) to his intimate society; but the 
servant never assumes a liberty. Tie takes 
his place at dinner with the utmost, humili¬ 
ty, and having done so, bears his share of 
the conversation, addressing freely not only 
his master, but even guests of the highest 
rank. The master will pass his own wine- 
cup to his man, as if he were an honored 
guest, and for a while they woul<J appear to 
any one not acquainted with a language 
most fertile in subtle distinctions to be 
upon perfectly equal terms. Yet, the mo¬ 
ment the feast is over, the man retires with 
the same profound obeisances and marks of 
deference with which he entered, and im¬ 
mediately relapses into the servitor; nor 
will he in any way presume upon tho famil¬ 
iarity, which, having lasted its hour, disap¬ 
pears until occasion calls it forth again. 
Feudalism strips service of servility, and 
although the feudal system is a thing of the 
past, its traces must long remain. — The 
Cornli W M a qazine. 
CHARLES SUMNER. 
Senator Sumner (says a Washington let¬ 
ter writer) is a prodigy of physical endur¬ 
ance. 1 have it from his own lips, that for 
many years, indeed for nearly his whole life, 
he has worked fourteen hours a day. He 
has never been a smoker. He lives “gen¬ 
erously," and, in a very temperate fashion, 
is a wine-drinker. In his younger days he 
was a famous pedestrian, striking oft forms 
dozen miles without the least difficulty. He 
has given all that up. He literally takes no 
exercise. Living so heartily, working so 
laboriously, shut up to his pen and his books 
for so many hours, it is astonishing that he 
keeps so well. But he is a man that will go 
suddenly, when he does go. 
appears in a new book just puonsnea m 
Paris under the title of “ Le Dernier des 
Napoleons.” Sir James Hudson, then Brit¬ 
ish Ambassador at Turin, once requested 
Favour to give an audience to an English 
traveler who had j'nst arrived. The Minister 
received his visitor very early in the morn¬ 
ing, as was his custom. After the usual cour¬ 
tesies had been exchanged, the “ English¬ 
man” described to Favour a deep-laid plan 
which he had conceived for the restoration 
of Italian independence. Favour was as¬ 
tonished at the. boldness and thoughtful 
foresight shown by his interlocutor, and ex¬ 
pressed his regret at not being sufficiently 
conversant with the English language to en- 
