VM PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
* ;rs day Morning, November 11, 1858. j
.Stltdcb soetni.
AUTUMN.
gv WILLI** I 1 LLKN BUY ANT.
• \ J lb Ihv Uurrjiun uti,
.., nf. carlwr to biit re.-t.
(vu* with glcmuiug sold, the want—
,l hriß- a l'i* rj * K " rua
-■ colored leave*
, 01 the lieath with ominous sound,
i rtui'tv aud deserted nests are found
f | Hsaeath the c* vs.
p. frwj'tv" l Lla-t
,r tU Und. and moans in la-Ling -en.—
.-a, (had and leaves the ritlcd trrca
, ik'iu of the past.
Ttf wind* that nnuui,
_. tUat iilwr. aud the liinhs that fall—
-4 ,j,t „i bird.-, hut dying years recall
I \V :h uian> a groan,
j TV*, life doth typify :
i j thchla.-t. and treasured joys the leaves,
ti die birds thai Hy the wintry eaves
tVbra ONK* adversity.
jjllisttllaittons.
[From the Atlantic Monthly.]
THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME.
- -.he whirligig ol time htiug- in his rvreiigcs."
;iuni XioUT.
\jv friend Jameson, the lawyer, has fre
v whi led away an evening iu relating in-;
.> w.iicli occured in his practice during
j .r.-ihnce in a Western State. On one oc-
U- gave a sketch of a criminal trial in
j was employed as counsel ; the story,
r t • oil iu court and completed by one
jmrtivs subsequently, made so indelible
re.-siou ou my miud that 1 niu const raiu
•arite d 'wu its leading features. At the
ae: me, 1 unist say, that, if I Lad heard it
.. it a voucher for its authenticity, I should
. regarded it as the most improbable of 15c
. But the observing reader will reuieui
- it nmarkable coincidences, aud the >ig
„ ::.. it jh of the right, called poetical justice,
- _t'.;aies >ceu iu actual life as well a* iu
. >
Pat tale must bt-giu in Saxony. Carl l'roeh
v.- tn iionest farmer, who tilled a small truet
: su Mm! and thereby supported his sged
1 ■ Faithful to his duties, he had never
1 tight of di.-eonteut, but was williug to
a in the way his father had gone liefore
F ial affection, however, did not so far
i..ui as to prevent his casting admiritnr
.. • . the lovely Katrine, daughter of old
■n. t ie 1111 Her ; au 1 u J wonder, for she
u- a- oscillating a damsel as ever dazzled
crp.exeil a bashful lover. She bud ad
iV.ion enough, for to see her was to love
many of the village youngsters hud look
it'erwble things as tla-v met iu-r at the
Gy-fca-ts aini holidays, but up to this time
...: re vived no jax-tical epistles nor direct
• -jis. aud was as cheerful hu.l heart-free
e L-that -ar.g around her windows
-..,er was the traditional guardian of
- v -urly as the ma.-tiff that watched hs
v- f flour and hi* hoard of ibalers; ami
Lc doted on his darling Katrine, his
- . to ... the world beside seemed to be only
*>: j frcru one of hi* old miil-stouts. Wheu
u- :nought of the severe gray eyes that shot
a. giaucv* at all lingering youths, the d;ffi
• y ; u.lining the pretty heiress seemed to
1*41..te enough cveu with a tie.J clear of ri
• But tw other suitors tiow made advances
-re or !•- s 0.-enly, and |oor Carl thought
-- f ent.rely overshadowed. One wasSchon
ti e 1.0-t considerable fanner in the ut-igh
• <i. a widower, with hair beginning to
• threads of silver, aad a fierce man withal
•as jw-ed once to have slain a rival.
" r thereafter a seam iu h : s cheek a< a
■- T < r of the encounter. Tlie other was
-"-St* !:cn. a carj>enter.past thirty.a shrewd,
to-uo fellow, with nearly a thousand tha
t's -ared from his earniugs Car! had never
i'. a due!—and he had not savesl so inucli
-• * : : isaud groscheu. to say nothing of tha
: be had only a tuauiy figure, a cheery,
* the freshness of ooe-and-twenty, and
■ irt incapable of gaiie. Katrine was not
d scoveriug these excellraces, and. if
:l had equalled his passion, she would
- *:i him how little she esteemed the
- ons of the proud landholder, or the tni
fari>-uter. But he tov>k it for granted
e aa- a fool to contend agaoist such
*-• i: . buttoning his jacket tightly over
J '.-robbing heart, toiled away iu his littie
- in. k.ug that the world never evntaiucd
* -nerable a niaa.
Jsiolzeu was the first to propose. He
"-'j : -t paying ius court to the jealous
en Li.ust-il, set forth his property aud
aad asked to liecoaie bis son-in law.
er heard, him, {wiffed long whiff-, ami
''"et-i civiDv. but without co "umit ting hitn
*" He was tn 00 hurry to part with the on-
P e had, and, as Katrine was liarely
- fa. he uaturaliy thought there would be
euo to consider of her marriage here
tr lia > haruly expected anything more
and, as he uad uot been flatly refus<*d,
"nr- ient j to the house and chatted with
while his eyes followed the viva-
Kttrtue as she trip[>ed about her bouse-
duties. But lions was kvqt perpeluallj
-Lstance: the humming-b<rd wouid never
1 "U 0 ® the oatstretched haud He bod
f '-he wit to see that their uatons had no
-8 common, aithoach be did uot know
Rtlriue wa> utterly indifferent towards
- a:tr some umoths of hopeicss jmrsuit
■ to grow suiK-uiy angry. He was
■'•Lout an object ou which to vent his
' -e eitzlw* as Katrine was rctaming hijee-
euancvi to pa.-a Carl's cottage. Carl
: ---c —---fa tree Lard by. ..itea.cg
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
to the quick footsteps to which his heart kept !
time. It was the coming of Fato to him, for '
he had made up his mind to tell her of the lore
that had bceu consuming him. Two days be
fore, with tears ou hi* bashful face, he had
confided all to his mother; and, at her sugges
tion, he had now piovided a little present bv
way of introduction. Katrine smiled sweetly
as she approached, for, with a woman's quick
eye, she had read his glances long before. His
lips at first rebelled, but he struggled out a
salutation, and, the ice once broken, he found
himself strangely uneiubarrased. lie breathed
freely. It seemed to him that their relations
must have been fixed in some previous state of
existence, so natural was it to be iu familiar
and almost affectionate communication with
the woman whom before lie hud loved afar off,
as a page might sigh for a queen.
"Stay, Katrine," he said, —I had nearly
forgotten." lie ran hastily into the cottage,
und soon returned with a covered basket.—
"See Katrine, these white rabbits!—arc they
not pretty ?"
" Oil, the little pets!" exclaimed Katrine.
" Are they yours ?"
" No, Katriuchen—that is, they were mine;
now they are yours "
" Thank you, Carl. I shall love them dear
ly."
" For my sake ?"
" For their own, Carl, certainly; for yours
also, —a little."
" Good-bye, Bunny," said he, patting the
head of one of the rabbits. " Love vcur mis
tress; and, mind, little whiter, don't keep those
long ears of yours for nothing; tell me if you
ever hear anything about me."
•' lh rhaps Carl had letter come and hear for
himself—don't you think so Buuuy ?" said Kat
rinp, tukiug the ba.-kct.
The tone and maimer said more than the
words. Carl's pulses bounded; he seized her
nnresistiug hand and covered it with kisses.—
" So! this is the ba-liful yonng man!" thought
Katrine. I shall not ueed to encourage him
any more, surely."
The night was coming on ; Katrine remem
bered her father, and started towards the mill
whose broad arms could scarcely be seen thro'
the twilight. Carl accompanied her to the gate,
and, after a furtive glance upward to the
house-windows, bade her farewell, with a kiss,
and turned homeward, feeling himself a man
for the first time in Ids life.
Frau I'roch had seen the pantomime through
the flowers that stood ou the window-sill, uot
ill-pleased, and was waiting her son's return
Au hour passed and he did not come. Another
hour, and she begau to grow anxious. \\ hen
it was near midnight, she roused her nearest
neighbor and asked him to go towards the mill
and look for Carl. Au hour of horrible sus
|H*tise eusned. It was worse than she had even
feared. Carl lay by the roadside, not far from
the mill, insensible, covered with blood, moan
ing feebly at first, and afterwards silent, if not
breathless. Ghastly wounds covered his head
and his arms and shoulders were livid with
bruises. The neighboring ;>easaiits surrounded
the apparently lifeless body, and listened with
awe to the frenzied imprecatious of Frau I'roch
upon the murelerer of her son. " May he die
in a foreign land." said she, lifting her wither
ed battels to heaven, " without wife to nurse
him or priest to speak peace to his soui! May
his body he unbnried, a prcv for wolves and
vultures! May his inheritance pass into the
hands of strangers, and his name perish from
the earth!" They muttered their prayers, as
thev encountered her bloodshot, but tearless
eyes, and they left her with her >Oll.
For a whole day and night he did not speak:
then a violeut brain-fever set in, and lie raved
eoiitinuallv He fancied himself pursued by
Hans Stoizen and recoiled as frota the blows
,of his staff When this was reared, suspic
ion was directed at once toStoizeu as the criut
iual ; but before an arrest could be made, it
was found that he had fled. His disappear
ance confirmed the behef of his gudt. Iu truth
it was the rejected suitor, who, iu a fit of jeal
ous rage, had waylaid Ids riva* iu the dark,
beat him, and left him for dead.
Katrine, who had always disliked Stoizeu,
especially after he had pursued her with his
coarse and awkward gallantry, now naturally
felt a warmer affection for the victim of his
brutalitv Sfie threw off all disguise, and went
frequently to Frau Prodi's cottage, to aid in
nursing the iuvaiid during his slow and paiuful
recovery, had, one d-y, the unspeakable
pleasure of catching tne first gleam of return
ing sauitv in lur hapless lover, as she lieut
over him and with geutic fingers smoothed his
knotted forehead and temples. An indissolu
ble tie now bound them together; their mutual
jove wa- cousecrated by .suffering and sacrifice;
and they vowed to be faithful iu life aad iu
death.
When Carl at length became strong and
commenced labor, he hojied speedily to claim
his betrothed, and was waiting a favorable op
portunity to obtain her father's consent to their
marriage. The scars were the only evideuce
'of the suffering lie had endured. No bones had
been broken, and be was erect aud as vigorous
as before the assaalt. But Car!, most unfor
tunate of uien. was not destined so soon to en
; jov the happiness for which be hoped,—the
lore that had ealied him back to life. A* the
robber eagle sits on l is cliff, waiting tiil the
hawk has seized the ring-dove, then darts down
! and beats off the captor, that he may secure
! for himself the prize,—so Seboufield. not auin
! formed of what was going on, stood readv to
pounce npou the suitor who should gaiu Kat
rine's favor, and sweep the last rival oat of the
way An officer in the king's service appeared
iu t ! -e village to draw the conscripts for the
army, aad Uie yoacg ineo trembled like penned
up slieep at the entrance of the blood-stained
batcher, not knowing who would be seized lor
the shambles. The officer had apparently been
a friend aud companion of jjciiou field's ia for
mer day*, aud passed some Lrue at his bom*,
i It was perhaps only a cotocideuce, but it struck
the neighbors as very odd at least, that Lsrl
Prodi was It-e first mac drawu for the army.
He had i.o mousy to hire a substitute, aud
. there NL as uo alternative ; be *r>e ais
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his ]*> or mother. Woru down by her constant j
assiduity in nursing him, and overcome by the
sense of utter desolation, she sunk into her
trrave, and was buried on the very day that
Carl, with the other recruits, was marched off
What new torture the betrothed Katrine
felt is not to be told. Three years were to her
au eternity ; and her imagination called up
such visious of danger from wounds, privations
uud disea*e, that she parted from her lover as
though it were forever. The miller fouud that
the light and the melody of his hon<e were
gone. Katrine was silent and sorrowful ; her
frame wasted and her step grew feeble. To all
his off-.-rs of condolence she made no reply, ex
cept to remind him how with tears she had be
sought his interference in Carl's behalf. She
would not be comforted. The father little
knew the feeling she possessed ; he had thought
that her attachment to her rustic lover was
only a girlish fancy, and that she would sjced
ilv forget hitn : but now her despairing look
frightened him. To the neighbors, who looked
inquisitively as he sat by the mill door, smok
ing, he complained of the quality of his tobac
co, vowing that it made his eyes so tender that
they watered upon tlie slightest whiff.
For six mouths Sehoulield wisely kept away:
that |>eriod he thought, would be long enough
to efface any recollection of the absent soldier.
Then he presented himself, and, in his usual
imperious way, offered hi* hand to Katrine.—
The miller was inclined to favor his suit. In
wealth and position Sehoulield was the first in
the village ; he would be a powerful, ally, and
a very disagreeable enemy. 111 fact, Ilauchen
really feared to refuse the demand ; and he
plied his daughter with such argument as he
could command, hoping to move her to accept
the offer Katrine, however, was convinced
of the truth of her former suspicion, that Carl
was a victim of Schonfield's craft ; and her re
jection of his proposal was pointed with an in
diguation she took no pains to conceal. The
old scar showed strangely white in his purple
face, as he left the mill, vowing vengeance for
the affront.
Ilauchen and his daughter were now more
solitary than ever. The father had forgotten
the roaring stories lie used to tell to the neigh
boring peasants, over foaming flagons of ale,at
the little inn ; he sat at his mill-door and
smoked incessantly. Katriue shuuued the fes
tivities iu which site was once queen, and her
manner, though kindly, was silent aud reserv J
ed : she went to church, it is true, but she
wore a look of settled sorrow that awed curi
osity and even repelled sympathy. But scan
dal is a plant that needs no root tu the earth ;
like the nouseleek, it can thrive upou air ; and
those who sej>arate themselves the most entire
ly from the world are apt, for that very reason,
to receive the larger share of its attention
The village girls looked first with pity, then
with wonder, and at length with aversion, u;on
the gentle aud unfortunate Katrine. Careless
as she was with regard to public opiniou, she
saw not without pain the altered iook> of her
old as**jcintcs, and l>cfore long -lm came to
know the cause. A cruel suspicion had been
whispered a!>ouf. touching her in a most ten
der jjuiiit. It was uot wiuiout reason, so the
gossip ran, that she had refused so eligible an
offer of marriage as Schonfeld's. The story
reached the ears of Ilauchen. at hist. With a
fierce energy, such as he had never exhibited
before, lie tracked it from the cottage, until he
came to Schonfeld's- housekeeper, who refused
to give her authority. The next market-day
Ilauchen encountered the former suitor and
publicly charged him with the slander, in such
terms as his baseness deserved. Schoufeld,
thrown off his guard by the suddeu attack,
struck his adversary a heavy blow ; but the
miller rushed UJIOII him, ami left iiiui to be car
ried home, a bundle of aches an- bruises. At-
U-r this the tongues of the gossips were quiet ;
no one was willing to answer for en -sses or
ruin rs at tue end of Ilauchen - staff : and the
father and daughter resumed their monoto
nous mode of life.
Three vears at length parsed, and Car!
Proch returned home—a trifle more sedate,
tierhaps. but the same noble, manly fellow.—
How warmly he was received by the constant
Katriue it is net necessary to relate. Ilauchen
was not diSjHised to thwart hi.- loug-suff-riiig
daughter any further : aad with his consent
the young couple were speedily married, aud
livel in his house. The gaycty of former
vears came back : cheerful songs and perry
laughter were heard in the lately silent rooms.
R iochen himself grew younger, esjiecially after
the birth of a grandson, and often resumed his
old place in the iun, telling the old stones w ;iii
the old susio over the ever welcome ale. But
one morning, uot long after, he was found dead
iu his bed. a smile was on his face, and his
lim'is stretched out as in jicaeeful rejose.
There was uo longer any tie to bind Carl to
his native village. All hi- kin, as well as Ka
trine's were in the grave He was not a bred
miller, and did not feel competeut to manage
the mill. Besides, his miud had received uew
ideas while he was iu the army. He had heard
of coaa'.rks where rneu were equal before the
laws, where tue peasant owed no allegiance
but to society. The gerui of liberty had been
planted iu his breast, and he could no longer
live confuted with the rank iu which he had
beeu bom. At IfAdt he wishrii that hii chil
dreu might grow up free , free from the chilling
influence* that had fallen upou him. At Li
earnest persuasion, Katrine couseuted that the
mill should be sold, aud soon after, with his
wife aud child, lie went to Bremen aud em
: barked for America.
We rau-t now follow the absconding Stolzen,
who,with his bag of thalers, had made good
his escape to EngJaud. He l.ved in Lor.doo,
where he fouud socie'y among hi* countrymen.
Ills habitual shrewdness never deserted h:m,
aad from small begiuuiugs he gradually amass
!ed a moderate fortune. His first experiment
iu proposing for a w.fe satisfied hiui, but to a
great city Lis seacoa! nature was fully devel
oped. Uis brutal passions w* rc unchecked
conscience seemed to have left h:m utterly.—
'At ler-gth he began to think about quitting
Lejcdoa. He was 2'raid to return to Genax
tv for a* he '.ad CM to a!! anpea-au.e
' d'.ad he thought the 05.-.rs of the law wcuhi
seize hiiu. He determined to go to Australia, f
and secured a l>erth in a clipper ship bouud for
Melbourne, but some accident prevented his
reaching the pier in season ; the vessel sailed
without him,and was never heard of afterwards.
Then he proposed to buy an estate iuCauada ;
but the owner failed to make his ap|*-aruiice
at the time appointed for the negotiation, and
the bargain was not completed. At last he ;
took passage for New York, whither a He- :
brew acquaintance of his had gone, a year or ;
two before, and was established a broker. Up- 1
011 arriving in that city, Stolzen purchased of
an agent a tract of land iu a Western State,
situate on the shore of Lake, Michigan ; and
after reserving a sum of money for immediate
purposes, he deposited his money with his
friend, the broker, and starteJ westward. He
traveled the usual route by rail, then a short
distance in a mail-coach, which carried him
withiu six miles of his farm. Leaving his lug
gage to be sent for, lie started to walk the re
maining distanee. It was a sultry day, and
the prairie road was anything but pleasant to ■
a pedestrian unaccustomed to heat and dust.
After walking less than an hour, he determin
ed to stop at u small house near the road, for
rest, aud some water to quench his thirst ; but
as he approached, the bayiug hounds, no less :
than the squalid children about the door, re
[K-lled him, and he went on to the next house
He now turned down a greeu lane, between
rows of thrifty trees, to a neat log<-abiu t whose
nicely-plastered walls and the regular fence en
closing it testified to the thrift and good taste
of the owner. He knocked : all was *ti!l
Again, and as thirsty as lie was, he was on the
point of leaving, when he heard a step within.
He waited ; the door opened, aad before him
stood Katrine.
She did not know hitn ; hot he had not for
gotten that voluptuous figure nor those melting
blue eyes. He preferred his requests, looking
through the doorway ut the same time to make
sure that she had uo protector. Katrine
brought the stranger a gourd of water, and of
fered him a chair. She did not see the bale
ful eyes he threw after her as she went about
her household duties. Stoizeu had dropped
fromt he firmament like a fallen star. Secure
iu her uususpectiug inuoeeuee, she chir[>ed to
her baby and resumed her sewing.
That evening, when Carl I'roch returned
from his field, after his usual hard day's labor,
he found his wife 00 the floor, sobbing, and
the child, unnoticed, lying iu the cradle. His
dog sat by the hearth with a look of almost
intelligent sympathy, and whined as his master
entered the room. He raised Katrine and
held her in his arms like a child, covered her
face with kisses, and implored her to S|>eak
She seemed to be iu a fearful dream, and
shrunk from some imagined danger in the ex
tremest terror. Gradually her .-obs became less
frequent, her tremors ceased, and she smiled
upon tiie manly face that met hers, as though
-he had only suffered from an imaginary fright.
But when she felt her hair floating upon her
shoulders, saw the almost speaking face of the
ioir. Bruno, and became cou-cious of the cries
of the neglected child, the wave of agouy swept
: over her acain, and she could utter only broken
ejaculations. As word after word came from
her lips, the unhappy husband's flesh tingled ;
his hair stiffened with horror : every nerve
seemed to be -trung with a new and madden
ed tension. There was for liiui no such thing
as fatigue, no di-tance, 110 danger—no law, uo
hereafter, no God. All thought and feeling
w ere drowned in one wild de-ire for vengeance
—vengeance swift, terrible, and final.
He first caressed the dog as though lie had
bceu a brother ; he put his arm- about the
shaggy ueck. and shook each faithful paw : he
made his wife caress him a!>o "God l>c prais
ed. dear Katriue, for your protector, the dog 1"
said he. " Come, now, Bruno 1"
Katrine saw him u part with hi* dog and
gnu ; but if .-he guessed his errand, sie did
not d-irc r- mon-trate lie walked I rapidiy
—the dog in advance, now and then baying a*
though he were ou a trail.
In the night he returned, and -tailed grimly
as lie .-et dow u the rifle iu the accustomed cor
ner. His wife wa*: waiting for him with in
tense anxiety. It was marvelous to her that
he was so cheerful. He trotted her upon his
knee, pressed her a hundred times to his IKMOUJ,
ki--ed htr for head, lip-, and cheek- ealicd
her his pretty Kate, hi* dear wife, and every
endearing name he knew. So they -at, .'ike
lovers in their teens, till the |>urple cost loid
of a new day.
The luggage of one Stolzen. a stage-coach
jias.-cngt-r, remained at the laveru uncalled for.
lor nearly a year. No one knew t.e man,aud
his disappearance, though a profound mystery,
was not an uncommon thing in a new country
The Hebrew broker in New York received no
auswtT* to bis it tiers, though lie had preserved
the post-office address which Stolzea had given
him. He began to fear lest he should be
obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the pro
perty deposited with him. To quiet his natu
ral apprehensions iu view of this eveut, he de
termined to foliuvr Stolzen'- track, a- much of
it as lay ia this world, at lea-r, and find out
what had become of him.* Upon arriving in
the neighborhood, the Jew had a thorough
search made Tie countty was scoured, and
00 the third day there was a discovery. A man
w&ikiug ou the saudy margin of a river, about
two or three miles from Carl's huii-e, saw a
skull before him. As the >teep blr.ff nearly
overhung the spot where be stood, he conjec
' tured that the body to which the skuii belong
ed was to be found above oa its verge. He
climbed up, aad there saw a headless skeleton.
It was the body of Stolzen, as his memorau
" duos-book aud other articles showed. His p : s
tol was in his pocket, and stiff loaded ; that
fact precluded the idea of suicide. Moreover,
upon exam*tiiag more closely, a l>oiiei-hole was
foand iu his breast-bone, around which the
parts were broken outv&rJlf, showing that the
baii mast have eutered from behind. It was
clear that Stolzen had beeu murdered.
Tiie curse of Frau Prucb bad teen uioct
ttmbly fulfilled.
Ciacwmstaaoes -000 pouted to Ctrl Proch
lao tat perpetrator. A *:aagr. •.orreojvcd.ug
■to iLe deceased M s~e aid drcs* bad bevu
seen, about the time of his disapj wit ranee, bv
the neighboring family,walking towards Proch's
house ; and on the evening of the same
day an Irishman met Car! going nt n rnpid
rate, with a gun 011 his shoulder, us though in
furious pursuit of some one. A warrant for
his arrest was issued, and he was lodged in jail
to await his trial. If now ihe Hebrew had
followed the Uz talionis, after the manner of
his race in ancient times, it might have fared
badly with poor Carl But a9 soon 11s the bro
ker was satisfied beyond a peradventure that
the depositer was actually dead, he hastened
back to New York, joyful as a crow over a
newly-found carcass, to administer upon the
estate, leaving the law to take its own course
with regard to the murder.
Beyond the two facts just mentioned as iin
plicating Carl, nothing was proved at the tri
al. Jameson, the lawyer, who 1 mentioned at
the beginning of this story, was engaged for
the defence. He fouud Carl siugularly un
communicative : and though the government
failed to make out a shadow of u case against
his client, he was yet puzzled iu his own miud
by Carl's silence, und his real or assumed indif -
ference. Katrine was in court with her child
in her arm, watching the proceedings with the
closest attention : though .she, as well as Carl,
was unable to understand any but the mo-t fa
miliar and colloquial English. The case was
speedily decided ; the few facts presented to
the jury appeared to have no necessary con
nection, and there was no known motive for
the deed. The jury unanimously acquitted
Carl, and with his wife and boy he left the
court-room. The vtrd.ct was appro red by the
sj>eetator*, for uo laau in the neighborhood
was more universally loved and respected than
Carl I'roch.
Haviug paid Jameson his fee for hi-services,
Curi wu* about to depart, when the lawyer's
curiosity could be restrained no longer, and he
called his client back to the private room of
his office.
" Carl," said he, " you look like a good fel
low, above anything uieun or wicked ; but yet
I don't know what to make of you. Now you
are entirely through with this *ora|ie ; you ate
are acquitted ; ami I want to know what i*
the meaning of it all. I wiD keep it secret
from ail your neighbors. Bid you kill ritolzen,
or not ?"
" Well, if I did,' he answered, " can they
do aayth ug with me ?"
"No," said Jameson.
" Not, if I acknowledge ?"
" No, you have lieeu acquitted by a jury ;
and by our iaw a man can uever be tried but
once for the same offence. You are sale, even
if YOU should go into court aud coufess the
deed "
"Well tbeu, I killed him—and I would
again !"
For the moment, a fierce light gleamed u|on
the calru and kindly face. Then, feeling that
hi* answer would give a false view of the case,
without the previous history of the jmrties,
Carl sat down and iu his broken English told
to his lawyer the story I hare here attempted
to record. It wa.- impossible to doubt a word
of it ; for the simplicity and pathos of the nnr
rative were above all art. Ikre wa* a simple
ease, which the boldest inveutor of schemes to
puuish villiany would have been afraid to use.
Its truth is the most that .-turtles the mind ac
customed to deal with fictions.
We leave Carl to return to his farm with
his wife, for whom he had suffered so much,
and with the hope that no further temptation
may come to him iu such guise as almost to
make murder a virtue.
THE FKM A I.E TEMPER.— No trait ofcharacter
i* more valuable iu a female, thaii the jKjsses
-ion of a -weet temper. Home can never be
made happv without it . it is like the flower
that spring up in our jiathway. reviving and
adhering u. Let a man go home, wetried
and worn out by the toils of the day, and how
soothing is a vronl dictated by a good disposi
tion ! It is suushiue falling upou the heart.—
He is happy and the care-of life are forgotten.
A sweet teiujier has a soothing influence over
the minds of the whole family. When it i*
found in the wife and uiottier, you observe
kindness aud love predominating over the
natural leelings of a bad heart. Smiles, kind
words and iook- characterize the children, and
jieace aud love have their dwelling there. Study
then to acquire a sweet tenijer. it is more
valuable than gold, and captivates more than
beauty, and to the close of life retains ail its
power.
THE FORENSIC •' WE." —Barristers have a
ludicrous way of identifying themselves with
their clients, by *;>eaki!ig iu the plural number.
" Gentlemen of the jury," said a luminary of
awe-tern circuit, "at the moment the police
man says he saw us in the tap, I will prove
laat we were locked up in the staUoii-house,
ill a slate of intoxication."
T<> KEEP POTATOES. — I'otatne- atnd root
crops wilt keep well if buried a bote ground.—
We know tiie) are oftcu lost put up iu thi
way—so they ate iu the cellar, and in bo h
case- for the *ati:e cause—want of proper Oa; k
ing or covering to keep out the fro*t We
have found, to our sorrow, that a slight em
bankment around the dwelling, or a few iuche*
of earth covering iu the fieUi, ia very unsafe
against such winters a* the iast two. Cellars
are g or rally marie twu-..a110w—x feet being
considered deep enough, whereas tiie depth
should uot be les* than serch feet, and seven
( feet and a half is still better. When roots
are bur ei iu the field, place the pile where
| surface-water will not stand ia case of heavy
rxiu-. Cover it with dry straw, well packed,
four or fire inches thick, upon which a cover
, iag of dry earth, six or eight incites, more or
, '.ess, according to exposure. The drier the
material—straw aad earth—u-ed for covering
tle better. The straw a* a i>ea-ceudactor
of cold and frcut. Cannot some of our readers
Ml fometiiii g nc* about lima matter
JYarlWesfera Fzrtur.
£Arr-. grow ices every t:ait thty era tali,
; u*t like the age nt a iCu*o.
VOL. XLX. NO. r.i.
farmer's grjartmcut.
Pl;mt Halls.
The success which lIH.S attended the cultiva
tion of seedling potatoes lesitls us to auticipnte
better (lavs for this indispensable crop. Seed
lings, orignating from whatever stock, are al
most always stronger and less liable to rot
than their parents. They rarely equal them
in their irood qualities. For some reason
which we are not able to define, every variety
of potato scents to increase its proportion of
starch, the longer it is cultivated. The black
Mercer, which lift ecu years ago was rained
mainly for stock, is uow an excellent lute keep
ing variety, and by some is preferred to all
others for Spring use. A seedling that is prodnc-
Iturdy, ami every way desirable, except in
quality, should he kept a few years before it i->
discarded, it only one in a huudred provos
desirable, it will amply pay tlie amateur for all
the time he spends. iu propagating new var
ieties.
T!ie process is so simple that any man of
ordinary intelligence can raise seedling*. We
have sometimes found Nature attending to this
business herself, without hutaan agency.—
Where the vines have been thrown in a heap,
in the fall, the seed is sometime washed out of
balls, and falls into the soft moid beneath, ami
survives the winter. The baiis may be gathered
any time after the vines are mature, and tbo
I seed be washed and dried, and laid away for
spring planting. A gentle hot-lied, covered
three or four inches deep with a very fine soft
mold, is much the iest to start them in though
they can be planted in the open soil, without
difficulty. Hut the lorcing gives you tne plaits
I early, and you can frequently get potatoes of
the size of a ben's egg the first Summer ; you
' can determine the character of some of theru
the first season. Select the most promising
and hardy for seed and keep siftiug them down
: for four or five years, and you will probably
find one or mure varieties that will be worth
disseminating.
This crop is so essential in every household
thai it has claims upon every intelligent cnltiva
: tor for these experiment*. Save u few bulls,
' and raise seedlings.
f
KEEPING CABBAGES. —There are a variety of
gocd methods of keeping them for family ue.
Storing them in the house cellar is the worst.
; It is always too warm for thein, the outer
leaves drop o(T, they ore. k open and rot, niak
i ing un unpleasant odori roui cellar to garret.
Hotter throw litter over them and let them
stand in the garden, than to do this.
Where you waut to keep them only a few
weeks the heads may be cut off and put in a
common flour barrel, sunk half way iu the
earth. The top of the barrel should be kept
. a.- closely covered as j*o.>ibie to preventchange *
liu the leiiqientture inside. Ttie head* will
l*ar a very hard freezing, if the froat U drawn
out gradually.
They tnay be kept in a trench laying the
heads u|>on a board in the bottom, aud cover
i ing with earth a foot deep or more. The ob
jection to this method is, that they are iuac
: cessible, w hen the ground is fruzen hard.
The best method, on the whole, is heel tig
them in, ou the north side of a fence or build
ing. where they will hare as little sun as pos
sible.
Pig a trench a foot deep by the fence, the
length proportioned to the number of-cabbage*
you desire to store. Put in the cabbages, aud
j cover roots and stumps with earth, making a
set olid trench for a second row of heads, ami
so on, nntil the whole is finished. The nearer
square they are left, the less it will take to
cover them. Place rails or small j>oles over
tin in, so thai liiey shall not rest on the heads,
and cover with any oio straw or litter, a foot
de> p. In uiihi wt at her ventilate. Hy remov
ing the litter you can alway* get at the heads,
ar.d remo\e few or many as suits your con
venience. roae market gardeners keep their
, cabbages in this way until April.
STOKING I\ mrs.—The beets should go m
first. The crowns are more sensitive to frost
than other roots, and tiie sooner they are in
after the lirst of the month the better. If
oi.ee frozen, they will soon decay. Mangel
w urtzci should a>o be stored early, and put hi
the bottom of the bin where they not be want
ed t efore January or February They keep
well, slid do not scour the cattle, when fed oat
laic. The white carrots, growing out of the
rround, should be gathered before ground
fm zt-s. The yellow varieties inav be left until
the middle or ia>t of the mot.lb. Turnips come
in last —any time before iViuter sets in. If the
weather is mil J ' hey wJI add a good deal to
tlmir weight m the first liulf of November.
In our climate, a root room, nr,der the hum
or adjoining it w t ll protected against frwst, ar-l
wel! ventilated, is the he*t storehouse. It wit!
l*ay as wiii as a bam for the protection of
hay.
A r>t r W r. rs Notwithstanding our advice
oft repeated during liic Sn nra r. we see th-t a I
the wteti- in tii- country were not exterminat
ed during the growing ! llos's of then
stdl -tami proudlv. in )a>utn juiciies and
corn fiehls. and br tiie side of fences everv
whiTe. F ue of th*m have not shed then
seed*. and mar yet be cut down. Others art
biennial plants, or jatreumais, propagated by
the root*, and wiii nave to te pnded or dug
up Now. before the the lround freezes hard,
let one more gran i assault Se ui.de upuutheoi
If left untooA-noi. they will reproduce their
k::ul iy thou-omis next year, ami add tea fold
to the care and labor, Let. then, every lesinre
hear ieilnotoi. this month, to a war ujou
weeds, digging and burning thera.
The rooremeuts of illlbuktcr Walktr are
regarded with great interest at Wul iagtmi.
lie I* said to be well su; plied with men and
nom r Imt it "J autk qc*Tr>. *!.* tre Hr
A.' : a , r:'t •' ' x fro, agd.rg x NlCii
I ~ ,* if Lt should -Ueiup'. :t.