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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1881
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ADAH ISAACS Ht.Vlit.V.
[ Where is the promise of my years
[ Ones written on my brow—
f Eire criors agonies and /- a is
Drought, wilh them all i hat speck it. tears
Lie i nad sunk beneath my peer-—
W here sleeps that piomi.u now?
Naught linger* toiedee.n those hours,
Sti.l, still to memoiy sweet;
The flowers thas bloom <1 in sunny bowers
Are wuheied a.l, and Evil towers
hup run- above her sister flowers
Ot Sorrow and Deceit.
1 look along the columned yea s.
And see Lue’* rivr a fane
Jus. where it fei.—amid the jeers
<J| sorniul ip-, whose moaning sneers
Forever iiiss w ihiu in/ ears
To b eak the sleep o: paiu.
1 can hut. own iny life is vain,
A desert void ot peice;
I misse t the goal 1 aougut to gain—
i missed the measure of the straiu
That lulls fame's lever in the brain,
Auil bids earth's luuiu.t cease.
Myself? Alas! lor theme so poor—
a theme hut rich m f.-ar;
I stand a wreck on Error’s shore,
A spectre not wi'hiu the door,
A homeless shadow evermore.
An exile lingering here.
COI.VTIII I1IUI.S.
Up early in the morning.
Just at Hie peep ol d .y,
Hlraming the milk in i he dairy,
Tu ning the cows away —
Sweeping the fl >--r in tile kitchen,
Making the beds up otters.
Washing trie hr ak a.l dis.ies
Dusting the parlor chairs.
Searching for 'fixings’ for Sunday
Chaining me snowy cream,
Ringing the pails an l strainer
Down m the running stream—
Fee ling trie geese aua lie keys
Making the pumpkin pies,
Jogging Hie ii; lie me s cradle,
Driving a .ay th dies.
Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone,
Be iutv in lorin and i. ature,
Tuou-ands might covei to own—
Ch ek. th it rivai spring roses,
Troth the wiiiie-i of p. ar.-s,
Oneoi those country maids is worth
A score of your city girls.
a wire’s tiTEtt.
Thou hast a sorrow,
Condde it, love, to me;
Let me help ihee bear it
v\ hatever It may be
Have not 1 been lai.hful?;
Have not 1 been liut?
Ministering to thy happiness
As only love can uo.
Then let me share thy burden
Whatever ttial may be,
Be it ol sia or sorrow,
Lay it in f art on me.
I will bo forgiving.
If vvioug tnou hast done by me,
If tlnm by o'h-r nasi been wronged,
I’:l share thy griefs with ihee.
I know thy heart is troubled,
I see thy brow o’ercast
And thou hast had some struggle.
Home cmilict scale ■ yet past,
Then suffer not iu silence.
To me tliy grief impart:
And learn how true lhedevo ion
Ol a loving, faithful nearL
THE MiMSTEKiS DREAM.
“Before beginning my story, I
wish to state it is perfectly true in
every particular.”
“We quite understand that,” said
the skeptic of our party, who was
wont, in the security of our friendly
intercourse, to characterize all such
prefaces as mere introduction tosome
tremendous blank, blank, blank*
which trio the reader can till up at
his own pleasure and leisure.
On the occasion in question, how
ever, we had donned our best beha
viour, a garment which did not sit
ungracefully on some of us; and our
host, who was about to draw out from
the stories of memory oue narrative
for our entertainment, was scarcely
the person before whom even Jack
Hill would have caret to express his
cynical and unbelieving views.
We were stated, an incongruous
company of ten persons, in the best
room of an old manse among the
Scottish hills. Accident had thrown
us together, and accident had driven
us under the minister’s hospitable
roof. Cold, wot, and hungry, drench
ed wilh rain, sorely beaten by the
wind, we had crowded througii the
door opened by a friendly hand, and
now, wet no longer, the pangs of
hunger assuaged with smoking rash
ers of ham, poached eggs and steam
ing potatoes, we sat around a blazing
lire drinking toddy out of tumblers,
while the two ladies who graced the
assemblage partook of a modicum of
the same beverage from wineglasses.
.Everything was eminently com
fortable, but hone on the most correct
principles. Jack could have no more
taken it upon him to shock the min
ister’s ear w'ith some of the opinions
he aired iu Fleet street than he could
have asked for more whiskey with
his water.
“ Yes, it’s perfectly true,” continu
ed the miuistbi', looking thoughtfully
at the ^tire. “I can’t explain it. I
can’t even try to txplaiu it. I will
tell the story exactly as it occurred,
and leave you to draw your own de
ductions from it.”
None of us answered. We fell in
to listening altitudes instantly, and
eighteen eyes fixed themselves by
one accord upon our host.
He was an old man but hale. The
weight of eighty winters had whue-
eued Ins head, but not bent it. He
seemed young as any of us—younger
than JacK Hill, who was a reviewer
and a newspaper hack, and whose
way througn life had not been alto
gether on easy lines.
“Thirty years ago, upon a certain
Friday morning m August,” began
in# minister, "1 was silting at break-
last in the room on the oiuer side of
tne passage, wUere you ate j’our sup
per, when me servant girl came in
with a letter she said a laddie, all out
of breath, had brought over from
Demieldy Manse. ‘He was bidden,
rm a’ the way,’ she went on, ‘and
lie’s fairly beaten.’
“1 told her to make the messenger
sit down, and put food before him;
and then, when she went to do my
bidding, I proceeded, I must co*-
less with some curiooiiy, to break the
seal of a missive forwarded in such
hot haste.
“J t was from the minister at Den-
deluy, who had been newly ciiusen
lo occupy the pulpit his father occu
pied lor a quarter of a century aud
more.
“The call from the congregation
originated rather out of respect to the
lather's memory tiian any extraordi
nary lining for the sou. He had been
reared ior the most part iu U igiaud,
and was somewhat distant aud for
mal in his manners; and, though full
of (Jreek, and .Lauu and Hebrew,
wanted the true' .Scotch accent that
goes straight to me Heart of those
accustomed to the broad, honest ten
der tScotcii tongue.
“H.s people were all proud of hint,
but they did not just like all his
ways. They could remember him a
Jail running about the whom country
side, and they could not understand,
and uid not approve of his lioldibg
them at arm’s length, and shutting
himscit up among his books aud re
fusing their hospitality, aud stnding
out word he was busy when maybe
some very decent man wanted speech
of him. I had taken upon myself
to point out that 1 thought he was
wrong, aud that he would alieuate
his flock from him. Berhaps it was
for mis very reason, because I was
blunL aud plain, he took to me kind
ly, aud never got on his high horse,
no mailer what I said to him.
“Well, to return to the letter. It
was written iu tne wildest haste aud
entreated me not to lose a moment
in coming to him as he was in the
very greatest distress aud anxiety.
‘Jjet nuthiug delay you,’ he proceed
ed. ‘If 1 cannot speeK to you soon,
i believe 1 shall go out of my senses.’
“ ‘What could be the matter?’ I
thought. ‘What in all the wide
earth could have happened?”
“i hud seen him bui a lew days be
fore, aud he was in good health aud
spirits, getting along better with his
people, leeiiug hopeiul of so altering
nis styie oi preaching as to touch
their hearts more seusioly.
“‘I must lay aside southern ideas
as well as accent, if I can,’ he went
on, smilingly. ‘Men who live such
lives ot hardship aud pirvaiiou, who
cast their seed into the ground under
such rigorous skies, and cut their
corn in tear and tiembling at the
end of late uncertain summers, who
lake the sheep out of the snowdrifts
and carry the lambs into shelter be
side their own bumble hearths, must
want a ditf'erent sort of seruiou from
him who sleeps soft and walks deli
cately.’
“i had implied something of all
this myself, unu it amused me to Hud
my thoughts come back clothed in
liHereui fashion aud presented to me
as strangers. Still, all I wanted was
his good, aud I felt glad he showed
such aputude to learn.
What could have happened, how-
ever, puzzled me sorely. As I made
my hurried preparations Ior setting
out I iairly perplexed myself with
speculation. 1 went into the kitch
en, where His messenger was eating
some breakfast, aud asked bun if Mr.
Cawley was ill.
I diuna ken,’ he answered. ‘He
made uo complaint, but he iuiked
twfu’ bad, just aufu’.’
‘In wlial way?’ I inquired.
‘As if he had seen a giiaist,’ was
the reply.
This made me uneasy, and I
jumped to the conclusion the trouble
was connected with money matters.
Young men will be young men;”
aud here the minister looked siguiti-
autly at the callow bird of our com
pany, a youth who had never owed a
ixpeuseiu his life or given away a
cent, while Jack Hill—no chicken,
by the way—was over head aud ears
n debt, aud could not keep a sover
eign iu his pocket, tnougb spending
or bestowing it involved going diu-
ueriessthe next day.
““ Young men will be young men,”
repeated the minister, in his best pul
pit manner. (“Just as though any
one expected them to be young wo
men!” grumbled Jack to me al’Ler-
waidsh "and I feared that now he was
settled aud comfortably off, some old
reditor he had been payiug as best
he could, might have become press-
1111. 1 knew nothing of his liabili
ties, or, beyond the amount of the
ttpeud paid him, the stale of his pe-
uniary affairs; hut having once in
my own life made myself responsi
ble for a debt, 1 was aware of all the
trouble putting your arm out further
than you can draw it back involves,
aud 1 considered it most probably
money, which is the root of ail evil”
(“and all good,” Jack’s eyes suggest
ed to me,) “was tne cause ot tuy
youug frieud’s agony of mind.
Blessed with a large family—every
one of whom is now alive aud doiug
well, I thank God, out iu the world—
you may imagiue I had not much op
portunity for laying by; still I had
put aside a little tor a ramy day, aud
that little 1 placed in my pocket-
book, hoping even a small sum
might prove of use in case of emer
gency.”
“Come, you area trump,” I saw
written plainly on Jack Hill’s face,
aud lie settled himself to listen to the
remainder of the minister’s story in
a manner which could not be consid
ered other than complimentary.
Duly and truly 1 knew quite well
he had already devoted the lirst five
guinea check he received to the poor
of that minister’s parish.
“Br the read,” proceeded our host,
“Dendeldy is distant from here ten
long miles, but by a shortcut across
the hills it can be reached in some
thing under six. Forme it was noth
ing of a walk, aud accordingly I ar
rived at the maase ere noon.”
He paused, aud though thirty
years had elapsed, drew a handker
chief across his forehead ere he con
tinued.
“1 had to climb a steep brae to
reach the front door, but ere I could
breast it my friend met me.
“ ‘Thauk God you are come,’ he
said, pressing my uand in his. ‘Oh,
I am so grateful.’
“He was trembling with excite
ment. His face was of a ghastly
pallor. His voice was that of a per-
sou suffering from some terrible
snock, laboring under some awful
fear.
“‘What has happened, Edward?’ I
asked. I had known him when he
was a little boy. ‘I am surprised to
see you iu such a state. Bouse your
self be a man; whatever may have
gone wrong can pooainiy be righted.
1 have come to Uo all tnat lies in my
power for you. If it is a matter of
money—’
“ ‘No, no, it is not money” he in
terrupted. ‘ Would that it were,’ and
he began to tremble again so vio
lently that really he communicated
some part of his nervousness to me,
aud put me iu a state of perfect ter
“ ‘Whatever it is, Cawley, out with
it,’ I said; have you murdered any
body?’
“ *2so, it is worse than that,’ he an
swered.
“ ‘But that’ia jnst'nonsense,’ I de
clared. ‘Are you in your right mind
do you think?’
“ I wish I were not,’ he returned.
I’d like to know I was stark, staring
mad; it would be happier for me—
far, far happier.’
“ ‘If you don’t tell me this minute
what is the matter; I shall turn on
my heel and tramp my way home
again,’ I said, half in a passion, for
wbat I thought his folly angered me.
“ ‘Come into the house,’ hs en
treated, ‘and try to have patience
with me; for indeed, Mr. Morrison, I
am sorely troubled. I have beeu
through my deep water*, aud they
have gone clean over my head.’
“We went into his little study and
sat down. For awhile he remained
silent, his head resting upon his
hand, struggling with some strong
emotion; but after about five minutes
‘he asked, m a low subdued voice:
“ ‘Ho you believe in dreams?”
“ ‘What has my belief to do with
the matter in hand?’ I inquired.
“ ‘It is a dream, an awful dream,
that is troubling me.’
“I rose from my chair.
“ ‘Da you mean to say,’ I asked,
‘you have brought me from my busi
ness and my parish, to tell me you
have had a bad dream?”
“‘That is just what I do meau to
say,’ he answered. ‘At least it was
not a dream—it was a vision; uo, I
don’t mean a vision. I can’t tell you
what it was; but nothing I ever went
through in actual life was half so
real, and I have bound myself to go
through it all agaiu. There is no
hope for me, Mr. Morison. I sit be
fore you a lost creature, the most mis
erable man on the face of the whole
earth.’
“‘What did you dream?’ I en
quired.
“A dreadful fit of trembling again
seized him, but at last he managed to
say:
“ ‘I have beea like this ever since,
and I shall be like this forevermore,
till—till—the end comes.’
“ ‘When did you have your bad
dream?’ I asked.
“ ‘Last night, or rather this morn
ing,’ be answered. ‘I’ll tell you aii
about it in a minute;’and he covered
his face with his hands again.
“ ‘I was as well when I went to
bed about 11 o’clock as ever I was iu
my life,’ he began, putting a great
restraint upon himself as I could see
by the nervous way in which he
kept knotting and uukuotuug his
fingers. ‘1 had been considering my
sermon, and felt satisfied I should he
able to deliver a good oue on {Sunday
morning. I had taken nothing after
my tea, and I lay down in my bed
feeling at peace with all mankind
satisfied with my lot, tfiaukfui tor
the many blessings vouchsafed me,
How long I siept, or what I dreauipt
about at first, if I dreampt at all,
don’t know; but alter a while the
mist seemed to clear up from before
my eyes, to roll away like clouds
from a mountain summit,and I lound
myself walking on a beautiful sum
mer’s evening beside the river Dei-
dy.’
“He paused for a moment, and an
irrepressioie shudder shook his
frame.
“ 'Go on,’ I said, for I felt afraid
of his breaking down again.
“He looked at me pitiiully with a
hungry entreaty in his weary eyes,
and continued:
“ ‘It was a lovely evening. I had
never thought the earth so beautiful
before; a gentle breeze just touched
my cheek, tne water flowed so clear
aud bright, the mountains iu tfie
distance looked bright and glowing,
covered with purple heather. I
walked on and on till I came to that
point where, as you may perhaps re
member, the path, growing very
narrow, winds round the base of a
great crag, and leads the wayfarer
suddenly into a little green amphi
theatre, bounded on one side by the
river and on the other by rocks that
rises in places sheer to a height of a
hundred feet or more.’
I remember it.’ I said; ‘a little
farther on three streams meet and
fall with a tremendous roar into the
Witches’ Cauldron—a fine sight in
the winter time, only that there is
scarce any reaching it from below, as
the path you mentiou and the little
green oasis are mostly covered with
water.’
I had not been there before since
I was a child,’ he went on, mourn
fully, ‘but I reeollected it as one of
the most solitary spots possible, and
my astonishment was great to see a
man standing iu the pathway with a
drawn sword in his hand. He did
not stir as I drew near, so I stepped
aside on the grass. Instantly he
barred my way.
“ *You cau’i pass here,’ he said.
“ ‘Why not?’ I asked.
“ Because I say so,’ he answered.
“ ‘And who are you that say so,’ I
inquired, lookiug full at him.
“ ‘He was like a god. Majesty and
power were written on every feature,
were expressed in every gesture; but
O, the awful scorn of his smile, the
contempt with which he regarded
me! The beams of the setting sun
fell upon him, and seemed to bring
out as in letters of fire the wicked
ness aud hale aud sin that underlay
the glorious and terrible beauty of
his face.
“ ‘I felt afraid, but I managed to
say:
“ ‘Stand out of my way; the river
bank is as free to me as to you.’
“Not this part of it,’ he answered;
‘this place belongs to me.’
“ ‘Very well,’ I agreed, for I did
not want to stand there bandying
words with him, and a sudden dark
ness seemed to be failing around. It
is getting late aud so I’ll e’en turn
back.’
“ ‘He gave a laugh, the like of
which never fell on human ear be
fore, and made reply:
“ ‘You caa’t turn back; of your
own free will you have come on my
grouad, aud from it there’s no re
turn. ’|
“ ‘I did not speak; I only just
turned round, and made as fast as I
could for the narrow path at the foot
of the crag. He did not pass me; yet
before I could reach the point I de
sired he stood barring the way, with
a scornful smile still on his lips, and
his gigantic form assuming tremen
dous proportions in the narrow way.
“ ‘Let-nie pass,’ I entreated, ‘and I
will never come here again, never
trespass more on your grouuU.’
“ ‘No, you shall not pass.’
“ ‘Who are you that takes such
power on yourseif?’ I asked.
“ ‘Come closer, aud I will tell
you,’ he said.
“ ‘I drew a step nearer, and he
spoke oue word. I had never heard
it before; but I knew what it meant,
by some extraordinary intuition. He
was the Evil One; the name seemed
to be taken up by the echoes and re
peated from rock to rock and crag to
crag; the whole air seemed full of
that one word; and then a great hor
ror of darkness came about us, only
the place where we stood remained
light. We occupied a small circle
walled round with the thick black
ness of night.
“ ‘You must come with me,’ he
said.
and wept; but at last I agreed to do
wbat he wished if he would promise
to let me return. Again he laughed
and said, Yes, I should return; and
the rocks and trees and mountains
ay, and the very rivers, seemed to
take up the answer, and bear it in
sobbing whispers away iuto the dark
ness.’
“He stopped and lay back in his
chair, shivering like one in an ague
fit.
“ ‘Go on,’ I repeated again; ’twas
but a dream you know.’
“ ‘Was it?’ he murmured mourn
fully. ‘Ah, you have not heard the
end of it yet.’
“ ‘Let me hear it, then,’ I said
‘What happened afterwards?’
“Tne darkness seemed in part to
clear away, and we walked side by
sideacross the sward in tender twi
light straight up to the bare black
wall of rock. With the hilt of his
sword he struck a heavy blow, and
the solid reck opened as though
were a door. We passed through
and it closed behind us with
tremendous clang; yes,
closed behind us: and at that
peint fie fairly broke down, crying
and sobbing as I bad never seen
man even in the most frightful grief
cry and sob before.’
Tne minister paused in bis n&rra
tive. At that moment there came
most tremendous blast of wind
which shook the wiudows of the
manse, and burst open the ball door,
aud caused the candles to flicker and
the fire to go roaring upthe chimney
It is not too much to say that, what
with the uncanny story, and what
with the howling storm, we every
one felt that creeping sort of uneasi
ness which so often seems like the
touch of something from the other
world—a hand stretched across the
boundary line of time and eternity
the coldness aud mystery of which
makes the stoutest heart tremble.
“I am telling you this tale,” said
Mr. Morison, resuming his seat after
a brief absence to see mat tbe fasten
iugs of tbe bouse were properly at
tended to, “exactly as I heard it. J
am not adding a word or comment of
my own; nor, so far as I kucw, am
I omitting any incident, however
trivial. You must draw your own
deductions from the facts I put be
fore you. I have no explanation to
give or theory to propound. Part of
that great and terrible region in
which he found himself, my friend
went on to tell me, he penetrated
compelled by a power he could not
resist to see the most awful specta
eles, the most frightful sufferings.
There was no form of vice that had
uol there its representative. As they
moved along his companion told him
the special sin for which such horri
file punishment was being inflicted
Shuddering, and iu mortal agony
he was yet uuable to withdraw bis
eyes from the dreadful spectacle; the
atmosphere grow more unendurable
the sights more aud more terrible
the cries, groans and blasphemies
more awful aud heartrending.
“ ‘I can bear no more!’ he gasped
at last. ‘Let me go!’
“With a mocking laugh the Pres
ence beside him answered this ap
peal; a laugh which was taken up
even by the lost and anguished spir
its around.
“ ‘There is bo return,’ said the pit
iless voice.
“ ‘But you promised!’ he cried;
‘you promised me faithfully.’
“ ‘What are promises here?’ and
the words were as the sound of
doom.
“ ‘Still he prayed and entreated;
he fell on his knees,and in his agony
spoke words that seemed to cause the
purjjoses of the Evil one to falter.
>> »V.\.i chilli 1rn ’ hn said, ‘oh
ed
‘I refused; and then he threaten-
me. I implored and entreated
You shall go,’ he said, ‘oh one
condition: that you agree to return to
me on Wednesday next, or send a
substitute.’
I could not Tio that,’ said my
friend. ‘I could not send my fellow-
creature here. Better stop myself
than do that.’
Then stop,’ said Satan, with the
bitterest contempt; and he was turn
ing away, when the poor distracted
soul asked for a minute more ere he
made his choice.
He wa9 in an awful strait; on the
one hand, how could he remain hlm-
seii? on the other, how doom another
to such fearful torments? Who could
he send? Who would come? And
then suddeniy there flashed through
his mind the thought of an old man
to whom it could not signify much
whether he took up his abode in this
place a few days sooner or a few days
iater He was traveling to it as fast
as he knew how; he was the repro
bate of the parish; the sinner with
out hope successive ministers had
striven in vain to reclaim from the
error of his ways; a man marked and
doomed; Sandy, the tinker. Sandy,
who was mostly drunk, and always
godless; Sandy, who, it was said, be
lieved in nothing, and glorified in
his infidelity; Sandy, whose soul did
not signify much. He would send
him. Lifting his eyes, ho saw those
of his tormentor ” surveying him
scornfully.
Well, have you made your
choice?” he asked.
“ ‘Yes; I think I can send a substi
tute,’ was the hesitating answer.
“ ‘See you do, then,’ was the re
ply; ‘for if you do not, and fail to re
turn yourself, I shall come for you.
Wednesday, remember, before mid
night;’ and with these words ring
ing in his ears he was flung violent
ly through the rock, and found him
self in the middle of his bedroom
floor, as if he had just beeu kicked
there.”
That is not the end of the story,
is it?” asked one of our party, as the
minister came to a full stop, and look
ed earnestly at the fire.
“No,” he answered, “it is not the
end; but before proceeding I must
ask you to bear carefully in mind tbe
circumstances already recounted.
Specially remember tbe date men
tioned—Wednesday next before mid
night.
Whatever I thought, and you
may think, about my friend’s dream,
it made the most remarkable impres
sion upon his mind. He could not
shake off its influence; he passed
from one state of nervousness to an
other. It was in vain I entreated
him to exert his common sense and
call all his strength of mind to his
assistance. I might as well have
spoken to the wind. He emplored
me not to leave him, and I agreed to
remain ; indeed to leave him in his
then frame of mind would have been
an act of the greatest cruelty. He
wanted me also to preach in his place
on the Suuday ensuing; but this I
flatly refused to do.
“ ‘If you do not make an effort
now,’ I said, ‘you will never make
it. Rouse yourself, get on with your
sermon, and if you buckle to work
you will soon forget ail about that
foolish dream.”
“Well, somehow, to cut a long
story short, the sermon was compos
ed, and Sunday came; and my friend
a little better, and getting somewhat
over his fret, got up into the pulpit
to preach. He looked dreadfully ill;
but I thought the worst was now
over and that he would go on mend
ing.
“Vain hope! He gave out the text
and then looked over tbe congrega
tion. The first person on whom his
eyes lighted was Sandy, the tinker—
Sandy, who bad never before been
known to enter a place of worship of
any sort; Sandy, whom he had men
tally chosen as his substitute, and
who was due on the following Wed
nesday—sitting just below him, quite
sober, and comparatively clean,
waiting with a great show of atten
tion for the opening words of the ser
mon.
“With a terrible cry, my friend
caught the front of the pulpit, then*
swayed back and fell down in a
fainting fit. He was carried home
and a doctor sent for. I said a few
words, addressed apparently to tbe
congregation, but really to Sandy, for
my heart somehow came into my
mouth at thought of him; and then,
after I dismissed the people, I walk
ed slowly back to the manse, almost
afraid of what might meet me there.
“Mr. Cawley was not dead; but he
was in the most dreadful state of
physical exhaustion and mental agi
tation. It was dreadful to bear him.
How could he go himself? How
could he send Sandy?—poor old San
dy, whose soul, in the sight of God,
was just as precious as his own.
“His whole cry was for us to deliv
er him from the Evil One; to save
him from committing a sin which
would render him a wretched man
for life. He counted the honrs and
the hours and minutes before he
must return to that horrible place.
“ ‘I can’t send Sandy,’ he would
moan. ‘I cannot, O, I cannot save
myself at such a price!’
“And then he would ’bover his
face with the bed clothes, only to
start up and wildly entreat me not
to leave him; to stand between the
enemy and himself; to save him, or,
if that were impossible to give hmi
courage to do wbat was right.
‘If this continues,’said the doc
tor, ‘Wednesday wiil find him either
dead ora raving lunatic.’
We talked the matter over, the
doctorand I, in the gloaming, as we
walked to aud fro in the meadow be
hind the manse; and we decided,
having to make our choice of two
evils, to risk giving him such an
opiate as should carry him over the
dreaded interval. We knew it was
a perilous thing to do with one in
bis condition, but, as I said before,
we could only take tbe least of two
evils.
What we dreaded most was his
awaking before the time expired. So
kept watch beside him. He
lay like one dead through the whole
of Tuesday night and Wednesday
and Wednesday evening. The hours
eame and passed 12 o'clock. ‘God be
thanked!’ I said, as I stooped over
him and heard he was breathing
quietly.
‘He will do now, I hope,’ said
the doctor, who had come in just be
fore midnight; ‘you will stay with
him till he wakes?’
“I promised that I would, and in
the beautiful dawn ot a summer’s
morning he opened his eyes aud
smiled. He had mo recollection then
of what had occurred; he was as weak
as an infant, and when I bade him
to try to go to sleep again, turned on
his pillow and sank to rest once
more.
“Worn out with watching, I step
ped softly from the room and passed
iuto the fresh sweet air. I walked
down to the garden gate, and stood
lookiug at the great mountains and
and the fair country, ami the Beldy
wandering like a silver thread
through the green fields below.
“All at once my attention was at
tracted by a group of people coming
lowly along the road leading from
tbe bills. I could notat first sec that
in their midst something was being
borne on men’s shoulders; but when
at last I made this out; I hurried to
meet them and learn what was the
m trier.
Has there been an accident ?’ I
asked as I drew near.
They stopped, aud one man came
towards me.
“ ‘Aye,’ he said, ‘the warst acci
dent that could befa’ hint, puir fella.
He’s deid.’
Who is it?’ I asked, pressing
forward; and lifting tbe cloth they
had fiuDgover his face, I saw Sandy,
the Tinker.
“ ‘He had been fou’ coming home,
take it,’ remarked one who stood
by, ‘puir Sandy, and gaed over the
cliff afore be could save hiuisel. We
found him just on the side of the
Witches’ Cauldron, where there’s a
bonny strip of green turf, aud bis
cuddy was feeding on the hill top
with the cart behind her.’ ”
bling fingers. Many a writer knows
the exact sensation of hope without
expectation so often experienced in
the firstlings of the brain. The sur
prise of finding his poem at the head
of the corner^was so bewildering that
he was dazed by it, and he says he
stood lookingat it a long time, and
is sure be did not read a word. At
length his uncle called him hack to
his senses by bidding him keep at
work. No success in future years
has ever stirred such a tumult of
emotion, as may well be believed.
Garrison was so impressed with his
new contributor’s work thatliesought
him out, coming up to Haverhill on
horseback to interview him. When
Garrison called, young Whittier was
at work in the field. He was told a
gentleman was at the house inquir
ing for him. Nobody had ever called
for him before, and be felt like run
ning away. But he got into the
house by the hack door, “slicked up,”
and soon stood in the presenoe of the
young editor, who encouraged him
to make good use of the talent he had
displayed. Whittier’s father came
in during the interview and begged
Garrison not to put such notions into
tbe bead of his son. But it was too
late; the damage was done! This
was the first meeting of the iwo men,
afterward so intimately associated in
anti-slaverv work.
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OF LY
There was silence for a minute!
then one of the ladies said softly.
Poor Sandy!”
‘And wbat became of Mr. Caw
ley?” asked the other.
He gave up his parish, and went
out as a missionary. He is still liv
ing.”
What a most extraordinary sto
ry!” I remarked.
Yes, I think so,” said the minis
ter. “If you like to go around by
Dendeldy to-morrow, my son, who
now occupies the manse, would show
you the scene of the occurrence.”
The next day we all stood looking
at the “bonny strip of green,” at the
frowning cliffs, and at the Deldy,
swollen by recent rains, rushing on
its way.
The youngest of the party went up
to the rock and knocked upon it
loudly with his caue.
“O, don’t do that, pray!” cried
both tbe ladies, nervously; tbe spirit
of the weird story still brooded
over us.
“What do you think of the coinci
dence, Jack?” I inquired of my
friend, as we walked apart from the
others.
“Ask me whon we get back to
Fleet street,” he answered.—London
bocie y.
OiKKISOS AMD WHITTIER.
Tb. Story of Whittier’. .Tint Poem.
We have before us, says the Port*
laud (Me.) Transcript, iu Mr. Whit
tier’s handwriting the first poem of
his that was ever published. In
1826, when he was in his nineteenth
year.be left it under theoffice door of
the Free Press, a weekly paper pub
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Newburyport. Garrison had just at
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was his first venture in jouralism. It
may interest young writers for the
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poet now crowned with years and
with honors. It was many weeks
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poet sank within him as he looked
in vain for his verses. One day he
was at work with his uncle Mosts
repairing the stone fence by the
highway, he going aloDg on the out
side replacing the stones knocked
from the wail by sheep that had
scrambled over it. While so engaged
the postman came along on horse
back, and to save going to the house
with the paper he tossed it to young
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