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DELINQUENTS. 
We had hoped that the above word would never have 
appeared in our columns, but many of our subscribers and 
advertisers seem to think that their patronage is all-sufficient, 
and forget that it takes money to run a journal. We give 
fifty-two issues per annum, illustrated mostly with original 
engravings, and as much reading matter, from the best con- 
tributors in the country, in each issue as most of the monthlies, 
for which we only charge double the price of the month- 
lies. We are not to blame if fanciers cannot see the 
advantage of advertising in a lively weekly at ten cents 
for a twelve-word line—which is about one-fourth the price 
of other journals. If our subscribers and advertisers who 
are in arrears wish to see the Journal continued as a weekly, 
they must promptly remit. Our circulation is much larger 
than many of the monthlies; but, to support it, and make 
it what we think it ought to be, it will need a much larger 
circulation than it now has. 
We cannot close our remarks without returning our sin- 
cere thanks to the many, very many, generous friends 
and supporters of the Journal, who well know that we have 
lost much financially, by daring to attack and unmask what 
we knew would injure the fancy, and honest fanciers. 
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Ir is a mistake which many parents make, that of trying 
to make premature men out of boys, and of holding them- 
selves aloof from all the emotions, sympathies, pleasures, 
and pursuits of youngsters. It is not natural for boys to be 
so staid, reserved, nor always well-mannered, and the dis- 
cipline that makes them so before their time will probably 

distort or cripple some of their finest qualities. The roots 
of a young tree must have room to spread, and if they are 
inexorably crammed into a hole big enough for only half of 
them, some are sure to be grievously hurt, and the tree pre- 
maturely damaged. As for education, it must always be 
remembered that what a boy learns from books is but a 
small portion of his education. That which he gathers from 
his surroundings, and from his home, pleasant or repulsive, 
from his associations, from nature, from everything he sees 
and hears, go equally to form his mind and character. 

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WE desire to furnish in the Jowrnal a publication so neces 
sary and interesting, that every fancier, young or old, whosees 
a copy, will not only feel anxious to secure it for himself and 
family, but will have a personal pride in its successful career ; 
and will, therefore, take pleasure in calling the attention of 
all his friends and acquaintances to its merits, thus holding 
up our hands in its improvement, and reaping, with others, 
the general benefit. Fanciers, this weekly is devoted 
to your interests. Its ultimate success depends mainly on 
your generous support—and a very little individual effort 
will insure it. There are very few who could not easily 
obtain two or three subscribers, who will, sooner or later, 
be glad to each avail themselves of this cheap weekly adver- 
tising medium. 
We shall spare no pains to increase the practical value of 
this representative of the interests to which it is devoted, and 
intend that it shall lead the van in the education of the taste 
of fanciers, both young and old. ° 


CorresponveNnce, 

BRIEFLY TO LEWIS WRIGHT. 
FRIEND WADE. 
I po not intend to follow Lewis Wright in his new vaga- 
ries, based upon what he now charges upon me as having 
been written in the ‘‘ History of the Hen Fever,’’ twenty 
years ago! This is altogether too troublesome. But, as he 
is intent upon dodging the original issues, I wish to make 
the points-clear, as to what I charged upon Wright, at first, 
in my criticisms of his two books, viz.: that he misquoted 
me, garbled my language in his books, interpolated the 
writings of others, in his pretended quotations from them, 
made use of terms and names of fowls which they and I did 
not use (as he printed them), insidiously accredited me with 
the authorship of articles and sentences I never wrote, but 
which in my books I duly credited to the writers of them, 
clearly by name, and that he used Cornish’s two published 
letters to my detriment, voluntarily; when, in neither of 
those two documents, upon which Mr. Wright confesses he 
bases his theory of the “origin of the Brahma fowl,”’ my 
name or my stock is not once alluded to, first or last! 
And one word upon my “private’’ letter addressed to 
Wright, from which he makes a single extract, and says, 
‘Which I shall not quote entire, though its character would 
thoroughly justify my doing so. I will respect Mr. 
Burnham’s ‘private’ mark so far as to content myself with 
this sample of the bulk,’’ &e. 
To which I reply that Mr. Wright dare not publish that 
private letter ‘‘entire!’’ Irelease him from any ‘“ respect 
to my private mark,” and call upon him to give the whole 
of that letter, especially the two closing paragraphs thereof, 
