The Beautiful Island Of Ischia

There is hardly a moro lovely spot to be found in Europe tlian Ischia. Perhaps tho most beautiful view of all that i-i to be had of it is that which is to be got trom the Cape of Miseno, to which tourists at Naples are commonly taken. It meets the eye as the ürst break to tho long line of the sunny Italiancoast, and toi;tiioV.oTnlota emhprldo.ti in the vallen s which descend f rom the chief mountain of the island, givo a sense of human life to the picture. Ischia is in faot, a busy and prosperóos island. The greater part of what the soil produces is suited for export as much as for home consumption, and an active trade is carried on between the island and the maiuland in the commodities whioh the one produces and the other needs. Agrieultural produce of every sort is shipped irom Ischia to Naples, and the wines of the island are among the best that are to be found in that city. When the vine failed in Capri those in Ischia still held out, and for years, while all the wine sold as red or white Capri was in faot manufacturad ou the mainland, a genuine and wholesoihb Isclnan wine was always procurable in Naples. Almost every thing ilourUhes on the island. The soil is deeper than that of the neighboring island of Capri, and the producís much more varied. As in Capri the pure blood of the inhabitants shows ïtself in a strikingly handsome type of male and female beauty, and the contrast botvveen the population of the two islands anl that f the mainland is one whioh can not üsnape notioe. It is a contrast, too, tvhiuti displays itseit as muoh in their more dignified bearing as in their mere outvvard appearance. The blue and the gkay.- In the spring of 1863, uvo gn-at armies were mcamped on either side of the Rappahannock, one dreised in blue the oiher rray. As twüight feil, the band on the Ünion side plaed 'The Star Spangled Banner," and "Rally Round the Flag," ind that challenge of musio was taken up on the otherside, and they responded with "The Bonnie BIn1 Flag," a,nü ■Away Down South in Dixie." It wag orn iu the soul of a single soldier, n me of those bands of music. to begin a weet and more tender air. and slowly as he played, there joined íd a sort of chorus tho instrumente on tho Union side, until finally a great and mighty churus sivelledup and down tlio army -"Home, 6 weet Home." When thoy had finished there was no challenge yonder,for every band upon the fanher shore had taken up the lovely air, so attuned to all that is holiest and dearest, and one great chorus of the two hosts went up to God, and whcn they had finished, from the boys in gray came the challenge: ' Three chters for home," and they went up, resoundino through tho skies from both sides of" the river. Something upon the soldier's cbeek washed off stains of powder. Are Tñe Ne, spapers to Blame? N. Y. Tribune. This is the view that some pcople are taking of the prevalence of suicide and otlier forms of violent crime- that the newspapers are partly responsible. They give inore or less spaco, aooording to their charaoterJto nows of this kind. Persons of the lovver grades of intelligence espeeially ren.d the criminal mnnnia rnivnpnt,inns of murder and murder beeome familiar to tlicm, and when some crisis comes the. mind turn more swiftly to the thought that ends witli a blow or a pistol-shot tlian il would if it wera not already saturat witta. such ideas. And tbis is only part of the ganeral indietment which is of teu made - that publicity is one of the cry iug evils of the age. These critica say that notLing is sacred against the inquisitiveness of the newspapers. Private life is invaded, and the flerce light of the press beats into every home. There are newspapers and new3papers, of course, and some of them liave a good deal to answer for. Those that make a trade of s nsationalism are not scrupulous as to éitüer their matter or their menner of presentina: it. But a little retiection will show any one that these form comparatively a small class among the journalsottlie country. Charles üudlcy Warner, in speaking on the subject of the press two or tbree years ago, said that the moral tone of a nevrspaper was usually kigher than that of the community in which it wa printed. There was no little truth in this observation. Even the most sou satoaal newspaper hardly ñirnisho.crime and scandal enough to satisfy its readers, and the respectable newspaper has to make up its mind to do without tae custom of a large portion of the eomrnnnity becuuse it will not pander 10 a diseased appctite for a details ol revolting crimes or unclean gossip. There is anotber point on which the uewspapers are liable to be misunderstood by the public, through lauk of information The public does not see. and therefore cannot appreciate, the vigilance whioh is exereised in every respectable newspapcr offiee to keep such news out of its columns. More caro and discretion aro needed in this matter th&n tbc average reader roalizes. The system of news eoDeeiion beeomes more complete overyyear, and the tteld is swept more tnorouhly each rime than the time before. The wheaL and cuatt'come in together, andit is tlie province of the clean newspaper to see that as little of the latter is used as possible. Probably the average reader would be surprised if he could see the quantity of news that is thrown asido each day becauso it is not of a kind that oughtto come before the eyes of his irirls and boys. At the same time, th1) papers must print the news. The widespread pubÜcation of a niurder arouses a whole community, and often briugs a thousaud eyes and ears to the help of justice. L'ben, too, there is a natural and pardonable curiosity with regard to some sensational occurrence that musí be satisfted. When men hear of a friend's deatli, they are eager to know the details of his sickness, or the accident that beiell him, or if lie has gone astray, to understand how and why. ïhis is :i human instinct, to which few of u.s art superior. It is the delicate duty of the newspaper to satisfy it without goiogso far as to make its nevvs demoralizinji. If the extreme publicity of the present day is an evil - and there are timewheR it seems so - what shall be said 01 the love of notoriety? This is tho othei side of the 8 hield. The newspapers areaceused of prying into the aö'airs of tinhome, iilling their columns f uil of oiFen sive personalities, etc, and some ot them are not without sin in tha matter. But do tuc public ever think of the striving and labor on the part of a larg class iu the commumty to get thfiaiselve. into the newspapers - yes, and even thuir home aff;tirs? This hunger for notoriety Í3 seen in all classes - rieh and poor, learned and ignorant, business men, professional men, writers, soldierand poets. This tendeucy, too, has to be held in check. If the growth of the iwwsnmwr has devrioued the vice ol publieity, it has itself boen developtd and impelled by a kindnjd vico -the love of publioity.