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“Schools for the culture of the beautiful 
Shall yet abound in cities; every stone 
Be curved and moulded by an ethic law; 
And every marble in its outline tell 
That now that Beauty works through man, which once 
Worked independent of him, and evolved 
The sculptures of the mountains and the stars.” 
And remembering that the true poet is also a prophet, I 
look with confidence to the time when, not in cities only, but 
in every town, and village and hamlet all over our great and 
prosperous land, every school-house shall be environed by a 
Temple of Nature for the culture of the beautiful—a Beauty 
which, in the development of every rosy limb of the body, 
each faculty of the mind, and all the emotions of the heart, 
shall be the work of education, each according to its own 
sacred laws. 
THE SAPSUCKER. 
BY DR. P. R. 1TOY, OF RACINE. 
Dr. Hoyt : I respond to your call by furnishing the following 
article, the substance of which was communicated to the Wis¬ 
consin Nat. History Society. It is at your service, with the 
belief that it embodies facts that add something to the stock of 
useful knowledge: 
There is a singular want of agreement in the statements of 
writers, especially in the Agricultural Journals, in respect to 
the Sapsucker. One says the Sapsucker molests trees only 
that are infested by worms—that the worms are what it is 
after, and nothing more. Another, that the Sapsuckers are not 
