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VOLUME XVI.

-4- -•■ CAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1871.

v WHOLE NUMBER >27 — •■r.gj-

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E£p|br izss&zrz-ssiz* SXHSiiSr llSrfis&r8 TW MUaiaae^OaklstiUBSs, A Sonq tbr spring. "t^Kfsr^ssr^ xift£r£*2£: «Turss!'«4 «• , nJ?n>c KMX « im •««. I esses SSjsuT • 'biuHiuo lw?li »i«, ^^^Rfega>o«» ; I AHprSU nin ■! nTdln Ihtm ' Otrm Srottr. \ THE BLOOD SEEDLING. I t la » hit ef green pasture that rose, 1 1 gradually narrowing, to tlia labia land thai sndsd Inpralrte, and widenedout t descending to the wet and willowy t ■and* that bordered tlie Grrot Rim. a , log an apple tree one tunny .Spring , morning whan Tyler waa 1 'resident. t Ths young man waa dig sing with a s

certain victorious energy, forcing the •pod* Into the black. crumbling loam with a movement full of rigor and malice. Hie straight, black, browa were knitted till I hey formed on. dark Una over hit deep art eyes. Hie beard waa not yet nM t-ooogh to bide the massive uutUue ofbls Arm, aqua re Jaw. In the art teeth, in the clouded I ice, In the half articulate exclamation that ahol lipa, it waa sassy to sec that Uia thoughts of the young hortlculturUt woe far from his wort A bright young girl aamv down the IMlh through the hand thicket that ■klrted the lulbddc and patting a plump be own band on tbe topmost rail aftbe fence, vaulted lightly over, and lit on the srtl springy turf with a thud that announced it wholesome nnd liberal ureMUctorr. Not being a port or In lure, we muet admit that tl*re wai no rventrectlon tor the tartepuraand panalee upon which the Hub boots of Miss Soab Barringer landed. Yet ahe w»n.« of the mono paaeent type, thongli . b-r cheeks wen ao roscy ae to iuk , lirr greet hnarlnraa of heart on Sonday raorolnje, and bar blue lawu dras* . waa aa toll aa U could a (ford from . vbunlden In nalet. She ea a neat. , hearty, and eery pretty co miry girl, with a •lightly, heckled fate, and rip- , pled brown hair, and astonished blue | cyta. but perfectly aclf poeaeaeed, and , graceful aa a young quail. A young man's can are quick to > uitch to* ro-IUof of a woman* dress. , The flight of tfala ptorap fatal lu It* But- , luring bine plumage over the rail-fence caused our rang man to It ok up from , hla apadring; the aoowl waa routed from hla brow by a endden incursion tifblnahea, and hla month wiia attacked > by an awkward amllr. , The yowtp lady ooddad, and waa hurrying past Tbe arowl came back , in force, and tbe untie was reputed (. from the beeedfd mouth with greet , Iota. ««a Tudie, an you in a ( hurry J" „ ami said. in a voire that »«* half pert > tiot to cull on thatridlculw.a uarlTv" " "*by> Todie, I hain't never called r you iMthln, rtar aeeicr you waa a Kt- n th 000 ao high. Y'an uet to know yer (, 1 imn call yeas Mlaa Suei.— whea I „ Tbe frank aruande sertasd to aatiafy j teoKtoreteoI nm Interrupted r Al Qrrtytr; yon can call mc what yoe ^ arc a mted la." Then, aa ii conaeaocs p of Bra teniae inronilali ui^A't-cbangrd B the awSJart by aaMng. Jfoal an yen f » that growed up In Ontmd Bbodta « ,-rt-re. nobody know h„w, Mike _ mmxUdy waa tabu' an uppto ,t»l h i< 7t "! HRk ^I^d •' m Spriwr. tat Ibc Cobocl and me, w* £ recto- .1 tbi. uou 'tal be toe old by

tweU 1 git my soak. IS? walk dawn a . fkal with you. lbnre got aomcthlng "" to eay to you." Hlaa Huaic turned e little red end a little pahs. Thaaa ocoaaiona wen not entirely unknown In her abort expertrace of life- When young men In the country la tfaafprtmatlve period had aomcthlng to any It waa aomcthlng very aorlou* and caraml. AUan Celyer waa a good looking, stalwart young farmer, well to do, booast, abb to provide for a family. There waa nothing presumptuous In hlaaapiring to the band of the prettied girl on Cheney Creek. - In childhood, be tottered her to Banbury Croaa and buck a hundred times, beguiling the tedium of the Journey with Hum and tbe muric or bella. When the Utile girl waa old enough to go to acbool, tbe big boy carried her books and gave her tbe rosiest apple out of bis dinner basket. He fought all her faatltos end wrote all her compositioee; which latter oy use way, never gataeu ncr auy great credit. When else was fifteen and he twenty, he had his great reward In taking her twice a week daring one happy Winter to ringing-school. This was -the bloom of lifc-notlilng before or after could compare with It Tbe blacking of shore and brushing of still; electric, bristling hair, all on end with Iroat and hope the struggling Into the plate-armor of his starched shirt, the lying of the iwrteotous and uncootrolable cravat before tbe glass, which was hopelessly dimmed every moment by bis eager breath,— these trivial and vulgar details were made beauilfol i and unreal by tbe magic of youth and Then cams the walk through the crisp dry snow, to tbe Widow Iiarringer's, the sheepish talk with tbs old lady while Susie "got her things on,'' and the long, enchanting tramp to tlie "drestrlck school bonse." If Alton Golyer had have been lees bsshAii or mim enlw|o Islmt. this history would never hare been written; for Susie would hare probably said Yea for want of anything better to aav; and when tbe went to visit her aunt Abigail in Jacksonville, she would gone engaged, her finger bound with gold, aod her maiden meditations fettered by promises. But she went, as U was fancy free, and there is no Under so Inflammable as tbe Imagination of a pretty country girl of sixteen. One day she went out with her | easy-going aunt Abigail to buy ribbons, the Chaney Creek Invoices not , supplying tbe requirements of Jacksonville society. As they traversed the court house square ou their way | Deacon lYttybooc's place, Uisa i vagrant glances rested on an ' s busts'! vagraul glances rssttal an

• Iris of ribbons displayed In an opposlB tion window. "Let's go lu here," she sold, with an impetuous decision of • her age and sax. • "We will go where you like dear," • said easy going Aunt Abigail. "It • makes no difference." 0 Aunt Abigail was wrong. It nude • the greatest difference to sorerel per1 mis whether Susie Derringer bought 1 ber ribbons at Simmon's or IVUybooe'a • that day. If she had but known ! r But, 'all unconscious of the fete that beckoned Invisibly on the threshold. > Miss Sosle trippled into "Simmon's I Emporium," and asked for ribbons. ? Two young men stood at tbe long ■ counter. Doe was Mr Simmons, the ' proprietor of the emporium, who adI vaneed with his meat conscientious I smile: "Illbbons, rua'aiu,? Yea, ma'am i —all aorta, ma'am. Jaal got a splendid ' lot from St. I/mis this morning. ■ ma'am. This way ma'am." • The ladies were soon lost In tbe d»- ' light of the eyes Tho voice of Mr. 1 Simmons aeeom|ienlcd tlie feast of col- ' ore. Insinuating, bat unheeded. Tbe other young man approached: "Here la what you want miss— rich anil elegant. Just salts your sty to. Sets off your hair and eyes beautiful." The ladles looked up. A more decided voice than Br. Simmons; whiterthan Mr Simmons handled the 1 silken bauds; bolder tyre than the weak, pluk-hnnlered orbs of Mr. ' looked unabashed admtra- ' tlou Into the prtUy bee of nasi. - Herri ngcr. "Look here, Simmons, old boy. Introduce a fellow."' Mr. Simmons meekly obeyed. "Mn ' Derringer, let me Introduce you to Leon, of St. Louis, of the boose ' of Draper and Mercer." "Bertte Ixum; al your service, " said ' the brisk young fellow, nixing Miss Busk's band with energy. His band was ao tench Bolter and whiter than ' lirre, that the feh quite bet and angry J about it. When they had mode their purchases " Leon Insisted on walking home 1 with them, and waa very witty and J agreeable all the way. He bad aD the wit of the newepapste, of the concert ' rooms, of the steamboat ban, at his ' fingers' ends. In bis wandering life be met all kinds of people; he had sokl ribbons through a dozen States ! He never bed a moment's doubt of ^ Simple Book, who bad seen nothing * of yoaag aasn besides the awkward and blushing clodhoppne of Chancy c Creak, was somewhat daxxled by the ' aod tasy speech and manner ol 11 ■be bard checked bagman. Yet there c was something in his airy talk and 1 point bknk compliments that arouwsi bint fceling of reeentmrnt wh'.cViRic * enuU scarcely aeeeunt foe. /'Aunt r Abigail w« delighted with him, anil 1 whoa ho bowed his adieus al the gate , in the mou recent I'tontor . Baas. ' d slyto, she eonihJly Invited him toasH * —"to drop in key tame; he n«l be " Me said he be wouldn't neglecl~sueh 1 bow. I1 h 'Wfaat a nk-.- young man!" mid f' unt Abigail. *

sibla and ttg MUH Ifes yks^ one crttlng deed blm, until R waa plain to be seen that A ant Abigail waa glowing tired , of him aad pretty Susan dangerously at ; interested. Ifeit Just at this point, bis ri- inexorable carpet bag dragged him off, be I to a neighboring town, and Susie soon , id i afterward went back to Cheney Creek. >* I Allen Golyer was, after all, n man of . mi nerve and dodaion. He wasted only a | d- day or two in double and fears, and . i. Sunday afternoon, with a beaUng, but y. raeolute heart, be toil bis Sunday school io dams to walk down to Crystal Glen and at salve his questions and toata bis doom, d. When be came In sight of tbe widow's . Id mod eel house, be taw a buggy hitched i ie by tbe gate. id "Dow Padgett's chestnut sorrel by I to Jlug! What is Dow alter out here?" I I. But It was not bis friend nnd cronv I » Dow Padgett, the liveryman, who I 'r came out of the widow's door, leading I d by the hand the blushing and bridling I fe Susie. It was a apparition n lad— light hair dreocbod wltli bear's s ail, bine eyes and Jet black moustache ; i 8 an enormous paste brooch in hit bosom. I •• a waistcoat and trousers that thrlck.<d I 8 In discordant tones, and very small I '- and elegant varnished boots, 'f Golyer' s heart-sank within bitu as i d this k|dendld IwlUg •horn- upon him. - I ° But with hit rustle directness be walked I • to meet tlie laughing couple at the gate I - and said. "Tudie, I canto to see you. > 1 Shall I go In and talk to your inellit r > 1 twsll you come bock?" c I "No, that won't pay,1' promptly r. - - 1 piled the brisk stranger. "Wo will be 1 ' gooe the half of the afternoon, I rock- 1 1 on. This boos It awtol slowly," be ' added, with a wink of preternatural I 1 rajsu-ry to UQi Susie. f 1 "Mr. Golyer, ' said the young laily, v > "tot me introduce you to my friend, u Mr. Leon." 1 Golyer put out his hand mechanical- '1 - ly, sftsr lis *o.,ll*l foshlnn of the n > West. Bat Leon nodded and said, "I t) ' hope to see you again." Ii r He lifted Miss Busk into the buggy, J sprang lightly in, aud went off with y ' laughter and the cracking of the whip s: after Dow Padgett's chestnut sorrel. » 1 It was the next morning that Miss b Susie vaulted over tho fence when ' Allan Golyer was digging, the hole for ii Cutout! Blood's apple tree. c< "Something mlddllo' particular," p continued Golyer. resolutely. tl "There's is no uk leaving your »l work." said Miss Derringer pluck I ly. it ' "1 will stay and listen. " A Poor Allen began as badly as.poeal- tl blc: "Who was that fellow with yon re yesterday 1 • ai "Thank vou. Mr. Golver — mv — 1 you, my •

friends ain't fellers! What's that to ° you. who bo was?" I "Stale Barringer, we have been I . keeping company now a matter uf a I 1 I would have given ray life to save you I any little care or trouble. I never I ' dreamed of nobody but you— not that " I was half good enough for -you. but ' U cause 1 did net know any better man i " around here. Kf Hain't too late, Susm i I aak you to be mv wife. I will love I you and care tor you. good and true.' i Before this solemn little speech wz» 1 ' ilnltb«l, Susie was crying and biting I ' ber bonnet string* lu a moat nndigni- I | fled manner. "Hash. Al Golyer!" she i burst naL "You mustn't talk so.- ' Yon are tna goud forme. 1 am kind i * of promised l« that fellow. I most ( J with 1 had never teen him." I Alton sprang to her and took ber in I his strong anus: she struggled five c from Idm. In a moment, the rlbntlirn which bi» jiassioaata speech had < produced in her passed a Way. She V dried ber eyes and said firmly enough. > "It's no Os>. Al. wo wouldn't to ha|>- I py together. liood-br! I •hnflldn't ! womlcr if 1 went away tram Uhauey I Crwk before heig. " t When Suaan reached her home, she | found Loon at Ibc gale. r "Ah, my little rosebud! I came t ; near missing you. I am going to I Keokuk this morning, to be gone a few a days. I stopped here a minute In give a you voatslhiug to keep for me till I * come bark." 1 "What is It*" c He took her chubby cheeks between 1 his hands and kid ou her cherry ripe a lips a keepsake which lie never reclaimed. k An hour or ao later, as abr aal and c sewed in the airy little entry, a shadow t fell upon her work, and aasbc looked np Ii her start led eyes met the piercing glance a of ber discarded lover. ^ A momentary g ripple of remorse passed over her cheerful In-art as the saw Alton's pale and r agitated face, lie was paler than she had ever seen him, with that ghastly I pallor nr weather-bra ten feces. His c litack hair, wet with perspiration, y clung chunmHy to his trmptos He looked beaten, discouraged, utterly h fatigued with the conflict of emotion, a But one who looked closely In Ms eyes d would have seen a carious, stealthy, t! half shaded light In them, at of one h who though working against hope, was « still not without resolute will. I I tamo Barringer. who . had seen him coining up tho widto totalled in: "Good- » morning, Alton. How bant out yon v do look! Now, I like a sttdriy young tl bat don't yon think you run tr this thing of workln' Into the groundf e "Wall, maybe ao," aald Golyerwlth (1 wsaty soilto-leastwaya, I've been a o running this spade Into tbe ground *H a the morning. |, 1 The good autumn Irothd off to the a | dairy, and Basic M-wrd demurely, a •raiting with some trepidation for what . | In mine neat. n "Susie Barnngyr," table low, husky re , voice which she could scarcely recg- a nlxo as Golver' s, "I've cotw n uk r ami irevrr' could do yotl I* Ui"y'm '^V P B.,1 Itos b-d Id. claws into my heart tl for a sped. N"' If* Ml m-er. a.d 1 wcU. Jfasovyosoritiataaavtronhto v.

1- right. It's tho last fxvorlask afyoo. n Susceptible Sole cried a KlOsVuratod .Ulan, watching her wltb hkaarimsbed y cyta. Mild. "Don't take It te heart, t Tudto. Perhaps there isbatkr-dayn IT, in store toe mo jot." > , This did not appear to comfort Mlaa . Barringer In the toast. She wasgrooto fily grieved when she tboogkt aboifert 1 broken a young man's heart; sbe waff ] still more dismal at the sllghtaat innt ! motion that she bad noc. 1 ! It was the darling wish of Mother I Barringer* heart to see ber daughter . married and sstftod vrith "s ttiddy ■ young man that you knowed all about I and his folks before blm." Sbe had observed with great disquietude the ■ avatar of Mr. Bertie loou aad ' the evident prido of the daughter hi the bright plumagrd captive ahe had , brought to Cheney Creek, the spoil of ; maiden share. "I don't morefo : like that little fellow." (It k a i Western habit to call a weK-draascd man a 11 US, Mtow." The epithet I would light ou Hercules Parnsso if ho , should go to Illinois dressed at > i Coctslcs.) "No honest folks wears i ar. onto their upper lips. I w<ailtin't .mprtoedlfhc wasn't a gamtoiltor." A 1 1 in Gotyei",al>p«rently uneoosdous I in Ilia fatigue of tile cap wbidi Dame srns vicariously setting for ■ him. walked away with hit spade on shoulder, and the good woman went systematically to work in making j Basic miserable by sharp little country ' criticisms of ber heart's IdoL I to j after day wore on, and, to Damn delight and Susie* dismay Ixaa did not conic. "iletosucha business man," thought trusting Susan, "ho can't get away Keokuk. Bat be'll be sure to write." So Susie pat on ber sun beuuct and hurried up to the pott office. "Any toilers for us, Mr. Whaler?" Tbe artful and Indefinite plural was not disunite enough for Uiaa Bustc, so i added, "I waa exiecUflhi letter i (torn my Annt Abigail." WT ' "No totters here front you f sunt, nor i uncle, nor none of the tribe," : said old Whakr, who hail gone over I with Tyler, to keep Ills piece, and so I no fort her use for good manners < "I think old Tommy Whaler U an l old wretch," aald Susie that I evening, "and I won't go near his old ' pot [-office again.' But Butio forgot her I threat of vengeance the next day, and I went again, lured by family affec- < Ikon, to inquire for that totter which | Abblc must bare written. The • third time the went, rummy old Whaler t roared very Improperly, ' Bother your 1 aunt! You vo got a beau somewhere < - 1 list's what* the matter. ' -that*

> I'oor Susan was to dsxzled by this flash of Mairvovanoe that she hurried that dreadful pnat-oflSon, scarcely . bCariug the terrible words thai the old , forgot yon!— that's what* the Satan Barringer («/«, foynifer):— "TTiree weeks yesterday. Yes. I s'poea i so. What a little fool I was! lie i goes everywhere — says tlie same i tilings to everybody, like bo was tellribbons. Mean little scamp !— Mother seen through him In a minute. : I'm mighty glad I didn't tell hernothabout it." (Fin, Susie! your prin- ' i clpbw are ware* than your grammar. J "ilc'll marry some rich girl— 1 don't tot, but 1 hate ber— and I am at good as she is. Vuy-be lie will com* — no, and I hope he won't;— and with I waa dead !"» (Pocket handkerchief.: Y <* in the tu!d>! of her grief there -mc comforting thought, - nobody knew of |L She hod no confidante— lm had not even opened her heart to 1 mother ;— these Western maidens lutve a fine gUhVf ti tnvuec. A few of ' country-aide friends and rivals bad 1 frxu with envy and admiration the 1 pretty couple on the day of Leon* or- ' rival. But all their potaooous corapli- ' iiK-nti and qnratluns had never elicited the prudent Smile more than the 1 safe statement that the handsome 1 elraugw was a friend of Aunt Abbto*, ' whom the had met at Jacksonville.— 1 could not taugli nt her; they ■ could net soeor at gay doceivert aad 1 damsels when she went to the ' sewing circle. 1 It was positively not until a week ' when the met Alton Golyer nt 1 choir meeting, that ahe remembered ' that this man knew the secret of her ' hopes. She blushed scarlet, 1 lie approached her. "Have you ■ got company home. Miss Untie?" ' "Yce— that la, Sally Withers and nw 3 aims together, and— ' "No, that* hardly fair to Tom ' Throe ain't the ptoeu.cn lest 1 company. I will go home, with ' you." Susie look the strung arm that eras ' held out to her, aod leaned upon it with mingled feeling or confidence and • as they walked home through r the balmy night, under the clear starry ■ of the early Spring. The air c was foil of the quietening breath of ■ May. 1 I am almost ashamed to my how f aram they were married— so soon that • when Miss Suaan want with her mo- 1 ther to feakuk to bay a wedding gar- e ment. abe half expected to find, in " shop abe entered, the elegant of Mr. Leon Waning over tbe * counter. Bui the drees was bought I '' and made, and wore at wedding aod ' 0 fair, and in a round of family visits J 1 the Barringer aad Golyer kin, ! 1 and carefully laid away In tasender. j ' when the pair come bark from their I ^ modes* boM-lny aod settled down to I real life oo Alton* prosperous form; i ■ and no word >>r Bcrtls Iron ever ' to Mrs. Golyer, In trouble her ■ Joy- j c-uoty. and few finer tan»«. The r»d «- owl industry ol Itodyer, and tbe r I prnetmnl belpfotaros of hi. wife, found ' when' and hi. appto, were known In [

O. '.pice wf reoance which Is bidden a. | away in every wosnan's heart, had ed - tatekia special fancy to the seedling ft. f a^firtiee. at wboea planting the had fm sotlNmalsty assisted. Alton shared in Ah. ae ta all ber whlma, and tended m aad onreed It like a child. la time be t- gave apfihaaareof hla ereiuud to other ■rfftw Me own especial ecddliog. He J. spaded and mulched aod pruned It, and guarded It In the Winter from i tr rodent rabbits and in Summer from i tr tetebrant grubs- f t waanot ungrateful. , y It grow a oobts tree, producing a rich | it and luscious fruit, wltb a deep scarlet : d satin coot, and a flesh tinged u delie eatelr na a pink ma shell. The first ( d peck of appks waa given to Susie with ( a great ceremony, and the next year the J first bushel was carried to Mr. Blood, i if the Congressman. He waa loud In ■ n bis admiration, aa tbe Autumn etoc- 1 a tions were-oimlng on: "Great Scott, j Golyer! I'd rather give my name to a , 4 borttoidSsoral triumph like that there I 0 than be Senator." a "You've got ysnr wish, then, col- ■ v otiel," saltl liolyw. "Me and my wife ] t bare caller! that tee The Blood Scod- ' " ling eenoe the daf It was transplanted t a from your postui'' c HI have Ungetsd too leug over this I r colorless and conttonplxro picture of ■ a rural Western fit, It is because I hare c a felt an Insthietlv* reluctance to recount , 1 the atartliog and saoet improbable In- t f eldest which fen fflc night u;ien this , quiet odghborhoo!, lite a tbnnderbolt i a aal of a tone sky. The story I most c t tall will be Itally denied and easily re- • fotcd. It is absnid and fantastic, but \ t uiik-ss human evidence is to go for I uotliing when U testifies of thifi^e i unusual, tlie story ts true. . j At the licad of the rocky hullow g througtiwhldiUbanry Crock ran to the n ' river; lived the dually who gave the c i brook ita name. They were amoag tlie ■ early pioneers of tho country. In the t r equally yetloW atouc bouse the present a Cluincy occupk-l, bis grandfather had . - stnuil a siege tram Black Hawk all one t ' Summer day aud ulgbt, until relieved | - the garrison of Fort Edward. The „ i family bad not grown with the growth „ of tliu land. Like many others of the j i pioneers, thry had shown no talent for ; abreast of the civilization » ! whose guide* and ekrimtahen they had - bum. In tbe progress of a half century e tliey had told, bit by bit, their section - . of Ural, which kept intact would hare I i proved a fortuue. They lived very i quietly, working enough to secure • - their own pork end bominy, and re- c > ganllng with a sort of impatient scorn n i every schcinc of public or private p cnterjirise that paused under llirir i. that

1 The elder Chancy had married. r tome yean before, at tbe Mormon 1 town of Nanvoo, the feir-haired lUught acfisn (he sen beguiled by dreams ol a perfect theocracy, and who on arriv- . ing at the city o( tho Latter Day I Saints bad died, broken -hearted from , his lost illusions. Tbs only dowry that Seraphim . Ncllsim brought her hmbandg lieaidc . her delicate beauty and her wide blue , ores, waa a full sat of Swedcoborg's . later writing! in English. These be- . came Ibc daily food of the solitary | household Saul Chancy would read I tbe exalted rhapaadto* of the X ortheni , seer for houra together, without the i Orel glimmer* of Ibelr meaning crusring | his brain. I.IUIe Genhnm. hi. only . child, silliug at his fort, woakl listen in childish wonder to tho strange . things his silent, morose, aod gloomy , father f-iund hi ths wall-worn volumes. . until his tired eyelids would fell at last , over Ids pale, bulging eye*. , Aa be grew mp, htaagpts hulgvd more - and more: lih bead seemed too targe for his ridu-iy body. Oe pored over , the marn-l-'U - volumes nulil be knew . loug passages by heart, and uoderatood . of thorn than bis fcther-whlch ; waaueoessary . • lie looked a HUle like , mother, tort wblta (he in her youth , bad snraethlng of tlie feint aad flickering beauty of the florosl Lights, poor Genhnm never could have suggested . anything more heavenly than a foggy moonlight. When he was fifteen, he , went U> the neighboring town of Warto tchooL lit had rather heavy j weather among the well knit, grubby knuckled urchins of the town, and , would have been thoroughly dislieari; j curd, lint for one happy chance. At , the house where he hoarded an amove- , I rolled the • Sperret Bapp'rn* " milch in fogtie. A group of . young folks, surcharged with all sorts of animal magnetism, with some cap- , aclty for belief, and mucji more for fon. , used to gather abuut a Ught pine table , every evening, nod pat It through a - complicated course of mystical gym- j nasties. , Gervtiom Clanrr took all tbli in , •otamn earnest, lie was from ths first moment deeply impvnwsd. He lay awake whole nights, with his eyes feat closed, In the wildest dream* His , school hewn were passed In tranceroatsaptatian. II. .nredno more , paabhim-nl than the fekecr for his ( selMaflicted lortmv*. He longed for , tbe coming of ths day wheff-'o conld , In solitude with the nnflrob- , cd aad immortal. Bat, to his greater mortification, he , saw nothing, beard nothing, exper- , en cod nothing, bat In the company of ■ I others H« most brave the rid lento of j ! the profane, to lostri (lis raptures , which his soul html. Hit simple. , ; trusting fclth made him in-ritaMy the , | of ths mtochtarwu. eirek. | lie was d»'ui.«*n at tast from the , i academy, for ntrer aod incorrigible , Ik sovpM IP- disgraa: ! proudly hum-.- 1- Ms -vinimililv.ug |wrcnts. Here, with K-,- criticism aud more . ; psrfeet faith, h* resa-sosl lis- exercise I of what ha coasidcrvd h.. niy.Unoro < , PaM*of hodU^** "* '

n were tokeo mam and mom aa evi- ' 1 deocm of his lofty mission. Ills father g and mother regarded him aa an oracle, I 1 for the simple reason that te always < 1 answered Just as they expected. A I 1 curious or superstitious neighbor was 1 t added from time to time to the circle, < r and their reports heightened thh half I I uncanny interest with which lbs ' > Chancy kooae was regarded. It sras oo a moist aadfeleainy even- t I ing of Spring that Alton Golyer. ' i standing by bhfgate, saw Seal Chancy t - slouching along In the twilight, and ' i him: "What newt from the « ( Sperrita, Saul?" « "Nothing for you, Al Golyer," aald ' > gloomily. "The god of this world ■' takes care of the lite o"you." a Golyer smiled, aa a prosperous man i always dors when hla poorer neighbors ' i abuse him for his luck, and rejoined, c - ain't so sa you think for, > Chancy. I loot a Barteber pig i yesterday; I "reckon I must come up "Come along, if yon like. It* town a long time since you crossed my till. ' But I'm getting to be quite the style. « oung Lawyer Marshall it a coming '• this evening to a.« my Gerahom." t Before Mr. Golyor started, he filled " basket, "to make himaelf welcome J and pay for the show," with the red- ' dest and finest fruit of his favorite i apple tree. Ills wife followed him to ' the gate and kissed him —a rather un- ' usual attention among Western tar- c mcr people. Her fece, still rosy and comely, was flushed and smiling. — ' "Al, do you knovr wliat day o' Ita I "Nineteenth of April?" "Yes; and twenty years ago to-day ' you planted the Blood Socdlin', and I gave yon the mitten!" She turned C: and went into the house, laughing • comfortably. '' Allen walked slowly up the hollow I the Chancy house, and gave the 1 apples to Scraphlla and told her tlnir ' story. A HUle company was ossein- c bled— two or three Chaney Crock pco- I pic, small market gardeners, with 1 ryes tho color of their gooseberries, " and bands tlie color of their currants. ' Marshall, a briefless young faarrit- ' tcr from Warsaw, wiUi a tawny friend, * who spoke like a .Spaniard. "Take seats, friends, and from a •' circle o' harmony," said Saul Chancy. f< "The me'jum is in a good condition. ' had Iwo tils this afternoon. '• Gcnhom looted shockingly 111 and I weak. lie reclined In a hickory arm c chair, with hit. eyes o|ien hit lips f moving noiselessly. All the persons f present formed a circle aud Joined hands.

The moment the circle was com- 1 • pie led by Nasi aud Bcnphita, who 1 t were on either aide of their sons, I - touching l>ta bauds, an expression of ' » pale face, and he began to writhe and ■ mutter. ' f "no* aeeiu' visions," said Saul. > "Yes. too many of em," said Qgrshom, querulously. "A boy in a ' boat, a man ou a shelf, and a mau ' with a spade— all al once— too many. 5 Get me n pencil. One at a time, I » tell you— one at a-time!" The circle broke up, and a tabic ' r was brought, with writing materials. 1 ' Gcnhom grasped dkcneil, nnd aald, 1 > with feverish impJJ^. "Co-ne oo, 1 ' now, and doa't mule the time of tbe ' ■ shining sun." An old woman took hit right hand. ' 1 lie wrote with his left very rapidly an > : Instant, and threw ber the paper, al- I ' way* with his eyes shot close. '' . Old Mrs. Scriicher read with dlfil- • 1 cull. "A boy in a boo t — over he goes:" ' and burst out in a piteous wail, "Oh, 1 : my poor little Ephrnim! I always ' ! knowed It" ' r "Silence, woman!*' told the relent- ■ ' list medium. ' 1 "Mr Marshall," aald Kanl, "woald • 1 yon like a trot?" 1 1 "No, thank yon," said the young r 1 gentleman. "I brought my young c ' friend, Mr. Baktaaaano, who, as a * r traveler, is Intrmbd In tbeso things." I 1 "Will yon take the medium* hand, ' ' Mr. What* your name?" Tbe young foreigner took tho Iron 9 ' and feverish hand of Gerahom, and ' again the pencil flew rapidly over the e paper. He poshed the manuscript ' 1 from him, and snatched his hand ! away from Balbaasano. Aa the tat- ' ; tcr looted at what was wri'.ten, his 1 ' tawny cheek grew deadly pale. — ' "I tiro mlo!" he exclaimed to Marshall 9 ' "This is written in Oastiltan!" ' The two young men retired I p. the ^ other rod of the room and read by the " tallow candle the noon scrawled on J 1 the paper. Baktaaaano translated: a "A mau on a shelf— table covered with ° beside him, man* Cue yellow ■ gold, bottle tumbled over without c touched." •' "What nonsense it that?" sakl ■ Marshall. " "My brother died with yellow fever c at tea last yror." 11 Both sf the young men grew very n thoughtful, and observed with great 1 the result of Golyer* "troL" ' He tat by Genbom, holding bis hgnd ® tightly, tort gaxlng absently Into the ° dying btale of the wide chimney. lie 1 seemed to have forgot torn where be was, " a train of serious thought appeared to c him completely uoder iU control. " Ills browa were knit with an expres- j c tion of severe, almost fierce dctermin- : 1 a tion. At one moment hla breathing 1 hard and thick— a moment after, ! n 1 hurried and broken. All this whlto, tho linger* of Gershorn twore flying rapidly over the j p 1 • paper. Independently of his eyes, j, 'which were sometime* clow-d, and „ sometime* rolling as If in trouble. „ A wind which had been gathering v all the evening, now came moaning I nP the hollow, rattling the window I I blinds, and twisting int" dull mn1 ptainta the bought of the toafieot tree*. 'Suddenly a rrohing gust hlaw tbfe ^ 1 ! dnor aids open. ' ' Gulyrr started to his hot, irentblinff I in every Hmh. and looktag fortivqly „ over Ms shookfe* inl" Ihc nlghfT— r

- (Juickly reoovoring himself; he Utrnral ' ■ to resume his ptao . But the morocn! , dropped Gerahom't hand. Die me-. i dium dropped his pencil, and hod sank in bit chair in a deep and dead slumber. Goiysr seized the slwot of paper, and with Ihc first line that ' read, a strange and horrible transsras wrought in lbs man. Hit eye* protruded, hi. teeth chattered, he passed his hand over his head mechanically, and hi. hair stood lite brittle oo the hack of a swine in rage. His lace was blotched while and purple. . lie looked pitcously about him for a moment, (hen crumbthe paper in his hands, cried oat in a hoarse, choking voice, "Yet, it's fact— I done 1L It* no use denyoo*. Here it is in black and white. Everybody knows it; ghosts come spooking around to tattle abuut it. What* the use lying? I done He paused, as if struck by n sudden thru burst into tears, and shook Uke a trewin u high wind. a moment be dropped on bis kners, and in that posture crawled over to Manhull. "Here, Mr. Marshall— tbe whole story. For God* sake, «l«re my wife and children all yon can. Fix my little property all right for torn, and God bless you for It!" Even while he was speaking, with a quick revulsion of feeling, hi rose to his feel, with a certain return of hit natural dignity, nnd said, "But they shan't take tire! Nouc ol my kin ever died lluit way; I've got much mnd in my gizzard to he took that way. Good-by, friends all!" Ifc walked itotibcratctv out into lb* wild windy night. Marshall glanced hurriedl} at the fetal paper in his hand. It was foil ef that capricious detail with which reverie we review scenes that are past. But a line here and there clearenough told tbemtory— how he went out to plant the apple tree, Ik>w Susie by and rejected him; how be luuscd into the power of the devil for the time; how Bertie Leon came by and spoke to him, and pelted him en tlie shoulder, ami talked about city and bis good clothe?, and how they came to word, and blows, and struck him with hit ?|«ule, aud Ininto Ihc trench, and lie buried there at the roots of the trees. Marshall, following his first impulse, thrust Ihc paper in the doll, red flew with a sound Uke a ~>h np lh< They hunted lot Golyer all night, hut in tlie morniug found him lying but

if asleep, with the prrtcv of expiation on hit jjale fece, bis pruning knife hi* heart, and the red current of hit — O..* nM, ,.r ,1.- Till. Ml (Vod. ling. <¥/SC£'/'L.-f,Yr. The Effects of Alcohol on the Human .Sylcui. Alcohol forms no part of the living body, and when taken into the stomach rapidly absorbed, or rather permeates the membranes and the coats el ths blood-vessels, and finds lis way the blood, with which it forms no homogeneous mixture, but, alien-like, is hurried along in the circulation, to eliminated, In great part, as speedily as possible, that which is retained producing very equivocal effect, and in many instances painful anil fetal dis It escapes by the way of the . as shown in tho breath of thnar who hare been drinking ardrut spirits or strong wines, and also by the skin and kidneys. That portion of tire alcohol which 1> retained in the body accumulate* most readily In the brain and liver, and it lias been found in its state after death In throe orgtnt, especially in the brain. Tlie first manifest effects of on alcoholic liquor are on tbe twain ami nervous system generally, on which it acts, In a small dose, as an exeltant, and in a larger 1 one as a narcotic. Other parts are affected in a corresponding manner, al first atlrentaled, not strengthened and afterward retarded and : weakened in their action. For example, Ihc heart, that woodcrfol and, daring life, ucn-r-raastng when its inner surface it reached by the tide of blood containing alcohol, works away to much the fester tojst rid of tbe intruder; In so "doTng^-ua machinery it needlessly strained, and if this be continued from ' to day la more apt to be deranged and sooner worn oak Under tbe 1 operation ol tbe prolonged use of 1 alcoholic liquors the heart often be- 1 comet hypertrophfed or morbidly ' rood, and st other time* dilated 1 and thinner in ita substance, or a still 1 condition supervenes— Its raua- ' cntar texture It converted In blty mar c and it fell* to contract with the ' requisite force and regularity, and is ' liable at any moment to cease besting. 1 In this sudden cessation of the heart* • action is found au explanation of tome 1 of tbe tnddro deaths of which we read. ' teas destructive effects of the ute ef 1 alcoholic liqaurs ire not by any meant 1 confined to drunkards; they are seen j in ;>rrtoai who had never been intoxi- 1 [ rated during their Uvea, but who had j I regular drinkers of these liquors. 1 The liver is diseased in a simitar man- ■ i from tlie lite cause — lipinmVt ' j MajeAne. "A Uaurani-BO, III., fermcr. wlium j I pew-rent was raised to twenty-five Uoi- j exclaimed, "great Crsar, here* a 1 nice state of affklra— Hie gospel going / and pork coming down. What's become of na ?" c A WlMuftBl.i stbuuUwy having ' wry guoduatoredly helped another in t a difficult lesson, wa. angrily qosn- ; Honed by the tractor, "Why did yon work him bta lesson ? "To I- in Ms ( work," replied Ibc youofsUr. • Tortoise shell, cater to much In do J mand, lias nearly casscd to be an aril- ' .-to iifowimefo-.

d 1 A Debtor f enWRi I. d ; Very adroit was the march that I . " Llje I/smiis stole un the "Statute ri j . Limitations'' lJje was tlie fectotum 1 t of Guy* Neck. He did a inuccltan- • ( sous business as carpenter, cow-doctor, coffin-maker— adding to his functions that of undertaker to the county poorhouse. 11c was withal, au cosy, g--od-uatured fellow, free to trust, and a . j mast indulgent creditor. Among others whom Ijjc had ^ trusted to his cost, was Greg Grimes, , without exception the giro test promise i ' maker and breaker in Guy* Xeck. I ' vrrily believe he would, if possible, have put a creditor off until the Judgment, aud then, ou the score of being a busy day, have begged him to wait until to-morrow. Greg had wheedle] l.ijc with prutn- , ism till the tatter* claim was "outlawed." I/Miing his pattoucu al last j 1 Squire's, when to his small dlacoin- ' fluu* he Icm.ucO that unless Ik could j gel » new promise from Ids debtor, ' ' with a witness he might whistle for hit ! ' hilt Such fellows as Greg always ' know a good Ural of law, . iq«-ciallj the ' ' sharp point* of ». ( ; rrg Would lata as freely and was as full ofpromisrs as ever when lie and Lljc wren- alone, tail before others, would evade tho subject, ' or else remain provokiuglt inuin. 1 One day IJJe drove up l<> Greg's door with his old gray mare ami -pring j ' wagon, u plain coffin (one of those :tat-top|nsl affairs, deemed good enough _ for poor folks) U-iug behind I Ik seal. "Moniin-, m-ighlior," -;ild l.ij. . ' to plant u (stupor, 1 swx" ( den leave tast night, and went to try the clarity of another world. Would ' you iniud gvtllu' in and cotuiu uhmg leiglihor?" said Li.ie; "it's mighty j ' m.iuuU-il by Ujc's Side. Tile two ' chatted away, after a sort, to prove how cheerfol good company can render "I s'proe you luiveli'l Ihrgol that' little hill of mine?" Ujc nM i-t took ! 1 "Not by no m-wn.." said Greg.- ' I "Let's •eo.uuw h»» much did you "Even sixty-Dine dollar?, Iraiiln | seven inlcrist." I "fjulte right,,' Greg nssrnlul; "I j it, don't you put yourself uut ou una. - ' ' couut." said l-IJc. ' "I've tos-n threnbning U> pay It for j

a month hack: hut limes liev been ! tight, an'— aa' how would Monday 1 week do?" said Greg 1 "To a dot." answered UK'"I'll send It round," aald Greg. A curious sound came from the coffin —tho ghost of a chuckle, Durdles would have called it- Greg gave a jump and landed inau ndj si-mil cow |iasturr. ILooking lan-k, lie saw Lije* 'preotlee; the most mischievous imp In Guy's ' (awful age to be a witness, sluing up In the coffin and Uughlng like mad. Greg took In the situation at a gtauc He had been duped Into committing himself before a wituess "It's a dirty, nasty, mrou trick." lie ' "What is It?" said Lljc | "Why, trifling with a body's feci- . ing* about old BdVc, making believe he* dead." "And to lie Is; ouly I was going the bud v. instid of fetching It ' •«"3k" | Greg tnruudoffiii disgust, Lije bawling after blm : "Don't forgot Monday wuc-k — p'r'ap* ' Greg didn't forget, but ha? never 1 more than half enjoyed Mm?. If at :i 1 funeral since. One's friends. I Money can bay many things, good . and evil. All tbe wealth of the world , could not buy you a friend, nor payyon for tbe loss uf ooc. "I have . wanted only one tiling to mako me •rttPPJi'' liaxlill writes; "but, wanting that, have wanted everything." And . again: "My heart, shnt np In the , prison-house of this rude clay, hat i never (bund, nor will it ever find, a , heart to speak In." Wc are Ibc weakest ol spendthrifts , if wo kt one friend drop off through inattention, or tot one push away another, or If we hold aloef from ooe for petty Jealousy or heedless alight or , roughness. Would you throw away - diamond because it pricked yon?— ooe good friend It not to bo weighed .against the Jeweb of all the earth. If t there Is cool neat or unkiudiKas beus, let us come fece to fecc and it out. Quick, before love grows oold! "I-ifc Is loo short to quarrel In," ' to carry black thoughts of friends, j If I waa wrong, 1 am sorry; if you, i then I sin sorrier yet, for should I not i grieve for my Mend's misfortune? and ] the mcDdiog of your bull doe* not Ue with me. But the forgiving It does, | > and that Is the happier office. Give i your hand and call Beycu. There! It to gone; Ad I thank a kind Heaven I keep my friend still! A Mend Is too | precious a thing to lie llghtiy held, but it must be a little heart that can- 1 not find room for <mo or two The 1 klndnrts I feel for you warms ins towant aM the rest, makes mc lung to do i something to make you all happy. Il 1 easy to loss- a friend, but a new one ] will not cianc for calling, nor make np , A Ni9r.iiiM.iu fidrly posed us the ] oilier night by uldog u* tbe simplest question, hen is a (toll craxy ?"und . s.ouml us it was only when the afore- . said ft-h was imssise. We Immdiatrly f A Wxxltuv Ulchelur mairlrd, off- < a bcautilhl \ oung htdv wliombe I sought iaspsrting <«ok atoms st tbs ; fair. 8incr then you can* get within i forty rods of the .tort deportment for . I the crowd of pretty girt-. | ,

I Pireref Harden Was*. It The ont-dnur grape-vinsa may now i I lo UU up to tbe trellto; the raepbcnr n 1 and blackberry ran, ? should fa* stated >- and lied, hat not tied too dearly to the r, state, as it prevent* free room for IS natural growth. Asparagus had* ■ should have tbs coarser porttso of tho I- , manure rated off the rest totted- to. a and In about tan day* tbs hods should receive a good dressing of raH; forth!1 purpose tbe cheapest sad cdlntanoccl . . will answer, bat it should nsvsr beayc i |ilied to new beds until tbe plants are I old enough to cut. The rhafaotd U-ds should lie put in order, and now UU* - planted if ncsdetL The currant busKc should hare all the droit and unprut dilutive wood removed. Currants ' make tlw best hushes If planted from * tho cottlugs. Tote tast year's wood i- 1 from eight to twelve inches long, au-J t { if you drain; a hush, plant It aa It it 9 , cut, and insert il in the ground where i- yon wish It to stand, some five or six d inches, aud press the toil with the foot J llrnily around It. and ynu will have * i currants the second year. If yon-ptc- > l.-r a prrtly little tree, cut uul (be ci e ; from tin- wood that goes beneath tlie * ■ Mirfucv . Tlie bush is tho most pror dutHlvr aud will rarely ever die out. « ; attar up from every quarter all tlie , rubbish almtil the garden, put in ticape ' Ujllflervnl tads, liura and scatter tto- * asbrs ,ki ?ueh Ixd- n« are kasl pro- ! i ductivv: c Imn no time now in plaining ou, (l jour fiiiil-trect, vines aud I'ruit-taui- - Ing cam?. Tlie sooner it is done tlai l- ttur, and Jhc uiorv time vdu will * Imtr for <-Uur tlmig? uol s.i (uciu. " imlil tin- end of April or" to tto- ii-1 J ' f cud or May if tcu-eury. '' I'niniug the flowcr-v iiKr, shrubtary : ...id roM'-landm should K dou nitlir j uul dotal, if md already done. IV*. » j should ta in Ibc grouud as s»»ni xpussihto. If not alreadv there. Tlw T Kxira Enrli Frame arc Ita ou,. In ® | start with. c An early beginning lu lire garden r I Ims » goosl cllicl lie- wlioto scason.I The present spring., up lo I Ins writlug I I (March 31). It forwnnl, and should II..- ' ( mild weattar iwuliuuc, Ita fruit-crop I - »u.-h a» (baches. |*ar». chcrrii - Ac.', will run gnat" risk from carta 1 fa! unilHg l/X.SI TSS Tllt'B W nniWUHISl. liuoil uliitcuosh, well applied lo 1 a hits, rough sidiug, nnd the walls aud .? Kings of buildings, has a highly sal: _ f llary iiillurncc, n» well a? taiug in tinIilgtaat d-grvv preservative iu ita sfj feels. To ta dumbh-, whitewash r : I " dunildr, whitewash

should he pn-piiivtl In tlie following " mau is. i : Take ibc very be-il tionlliii", inid ?la.-kitlu aclute tuh,cov cred wlifa o cloth to preserve the strom. Bait— us much as can ta dissolved iu * Ita water used for stacking and rod a, t lug the lime should ta applied, aud the whole m.v»a can-folly strained aud thit-kniod with a small quantity of aind, the purer nnd fiuer the tatlci. ' A few |Hiunds of whmt ihiur mixed I a? paste may ta added, and wlB give ) greater durability to the maas, especially when applied to the exterior surfzee of huiklings With pure lime, properly stacked and mixed wllh Isricc ' I Is weight of fine sand and sifted wood o ashes, ill equal proportions, alniust auy color may ta made by the addition of pigments. Grant!/-, stale, freestone and other shades may be Imitated, and without auy detriment to the 0 durability of Uio wash. This covering is often applied ard with good eltt-ct. t to undi-rpiiming, stone fences, -roofand the walla of barns and other outbuildings. l'rohaldy tbs pure srhltewash It more Iwslthy than the colored as Its alkakdflMtonbpsrtlc* are anpr- * nor, and when used lifac tiara, kitchen? and stoeplnr-apartineuto, produce? _ salutary mutts. . No person* who re-gards the health " 1 of hit femily, should Isegkct to opplv a osit of il every spriug. Couutry - places, et|Kciolly tarni out houses, feucra, Ac., are greatly Improved iu appearance by au annual coal of good il whitewash, and will odd to their per1 msncqcy much more than many would .. imagine. It U cheap and easily ap- - plied, so that neither expsoso nor tahor 0 can lie pleaded against it. c - - • • * - — g A Correspondent of the ImbKmu'i . llagatine, tells Ihcslory of George IV. when ho waa I'rince of Wales:— I 8 heard II only the other day, and It ha? * never yeL 1 believe, been innrint. At a a small dinner-party at Carlton House. Colonel Haalyu, one of tho boon com - puulou? of the I'rince, udd a slow. * which, like most ol the stories of the 19 regency, waa more distinguished by i- its point than Iu propriety. When r Colonel llsrnlyu had Unisted it, the First Gentleman in Europe filled hi? glass and threw lu contents lain libr gneat* fece. saying, "IUmlyn, you - are a blackguard-" What was tb. 1 colonel to db? To chaUcuge the f regent was treason; and lu return tin insult in kind was to tote a course ' which must have compelled the prinn ■ as a gentleman to chafiange the cnk>i nrl, or to ask soma one to uke up ita , quarrel for bim. Yet to ait (Uu was iui|K»sildc. Colonel ILuulyn solvui the difficulty by lUllug his glass and i throwing the wine iut ■ the tacv of hi* 1 ni-xt corajsuilon. ' His llayal Uigb- | nrss'toasl: (inislt an!'' This was wit , in action. It mtodCotooal Hamly n'e friendship with George IV. "Ham? > lis said, with a slap on tin ; shoulder, -'you're a capital fellow. ! Here* a toast to you." 1 Ths scene described below is said to > taken place in tbs Knttnrkt iKgistaturr in the winter of 18B7: A metnher of ooc of the mountain counties was a penlstent reader ef the LstistOU J-urnal, and each morning, as the House opened, would coamtew i reading hla fevorile paper. About tin -sine muractit some iffltet(f woald . in- lo dispense with tto- reading of ' tlie journal, and our nnmnf(1( —BUlit 1 would lay down hla paper. Ue stood ' tills for some time, but one morning, rising frmfi hit seat efter tlie —*' motion, be exclaimed, at the top of ' hi- vulev: "Mr. ffproksr. I've sot bert : for morbi a week and (uhrtRttetethc ] tj tauov of this House. HamttMy the reading of the iaun^SS I've, wrek I? R £3 Z> '•far " i u." dispcaoe with' the Dansamt or . fW ise\ and Mr. Bpeater. I won't >: stand it any hmger. Mr. Bpsater— "