2 Ijc imcs, New Bloomficlir, $n. quite lato before we adjourned to our re spective chambcra. I leaned a moment out of the window to inhnlo the cool air after extinguishing my candlo, and noticod a tall figure stalking across tho yard with out giving it any thought, more than pre suming it to be ouo of tho field hands on some errand at tho houso. I had fallen into a heavy slumber, and boon asleep somo, an hour or two at tho least, when suddenly I sprang from my bod os if a cannon had exploded at uiy pillow. A shriek tho most thrilling, unearthly, blood-freezing scrcnm that ever chilled the ear of human listener rang out on the quiot stillness of that midnight hour, simultaneously with the report of firearms. With staring eyes and chatter ing teeth, 'Ned and I sprang to our feet and grasped each other's hands not in fear or tremor, but with tho awful pro sentiment of some heart-rending calamity. By this timo wo heard a wailing noiso, another report, and renewed screams of a woman's voice. I groped my way to tho candle, found a match, and struck a light. Then hurrying on our clothes, Ned and I hastened out in tho direction of tho screams. It led us on to the bed room of Komcz. Heavens, what a sight met our gaze! There, stretched out upon the floor in a pool of blood, with protruding eyes and face drawn away by the fearful death struggle, lay the hospitable host who had 4tid good-night to us with such merry voice and beaming face. His wifo was leaning over him in wild-eyed horror, calling his name and frantically wringing her hands. Just beyond her, knelt Car lota in her pure (white robes, supporting in her arms tho head of a young man but a few years olflor than herself. The stranger's thick black locks wcro gory with the blood gushing from a terrible wound on tho head, and his closed lids and pallid lips, and laboring breath, showed life was failing fast. Ned flew to her side and raised tho stalwart form in his own arms to releivo her delicato shoulder, while I caught off a cloth from the tabic and commenced tearing it into bandages. As I bent over them to staunch tho blood, Carlota looked up into my face with wild shivering glance, and her palo lips quivered pitifully as sho asked : " What have we done that this horror has come upon us ? Do you know what it means 1"' I saw the poor girl was scarcely sane after the shock and terror, and replied, soothingly : " I know nothing about it yet, but wo will find out after we have takon caro of him." " Then ho is not dead yet ? ho will live '(" she cried, more, wildly still. " Mother, mother, do you hear '( Juan is not dead j we have one left us yet. But my father 1 O my father ?" And with a sob that shook her slender form liko a reed in a gale, she bent above the rigid form. A large mantlo was lying on tho bed. I wrapped it around Carlota without, I am confident, her boing at all awaro of it and then hurried out to find tho servants who slept in a rcmoto L of tho houso. Tho report of tho pistol had aroused them, and I met them hurrying through the passage way. I could give no intelligible answers to their excited inquiries as to what had happened. I only knew what I had seen the cause of the terrible tragedy was was still a mystery. When I returned to the chamber I found the mother more collected. She had wiped away the blood from her hus band's face and laid a cloth over it, and was mechanically assisting Nud in his ef forts to revive the young man. A ser vant was despatched immediately to a neighbor who was supposed to possess considerable surgical skill. I removed tho body of tho unfurtunato ltomcz to another room, and drew Carlota away from her trance-like watch above it. I led her into the sitting-room we had left so joyfully, and stroking softly her cold, clammy fingers, said ; " Now, dear Carlota, tell your friend what is tho cause of all this." She lifted those sorrowful gazcllo-like eyes to my fucc, and then, with a sudden movementjdropped her head on my shoul ders and burst into tears. Iwas thankful to see her weep, for I knew it would save her brain from paralysis and her heart from breaking; so I only stroked gently the beautiful head, wishing it was still to be on my shoulder and not Ned's where her future tears should be shed. "Who is the stranger?" Said I at length. She wiped away tho torrent of tears from hor drenched face, and essayed twice to make her dry feverish lips reply to the question. Then I caught the words : " It is my brother, sir. Heaven have mercy on him. He has killed his own father." Little by little, amid heart-rending sobs and tears, I gathered the story. Juan llomez, tho only son and brother, wbb a wild, reckless fellow, of roving dis position and dissipated habits, but, as poor Carlota pleaded, alway of a kind heart ana generous hand. As he advanced towards mauhood ho grew impatient and rebellious under his father's coutrol, and fell uuder the wicked influence of a bold villian, who exerted the worst pos sible power over him. His son's conduct had at last exasperated Koine to such a degree, that he had exiled him from homo, and forbidden nny of tho family to mention his namo or associate with him in the slightest way. This accounted for our being ignorant of his existence. But Carlota had eluded her father's vigilance and watched over her brother, supply ing him with all tho pocket money her indulgcut parents granted her, and faith fully keeping all tho appointments of which her brother notified her through one of the field hands devotedly attached to him. Anxiety for Juan,was tho first inducement for her visit to San Francisco. Ho had been a long timo away without any news of his whereabouts rcachinghcr, and she had proposed the journey to her father in tho hope of meeting him somewhere in that city. Just before they were ready to set out, however, ho had appear ed again with the same carpet-bag about which I had questioned her, requesting her to keep its contents securely for him till ho should call for thcni. She looked up in my face wistfully as she told this saying meekly; " I don't understand about that bag. I know thcro was some sad mystery con nected with it. I havo always been afraid of what Juan might do. I never examined the package in it, but put it away as Juan directed. Tho bag was just what I needed, and I took it inno cently, when wo left lor San rrancisco, but the moment you inquired for it, I knew there was sonic wrong deed, and I recalled the look on Juan's face wheu ho bado me keep it secret, and I was frightened lest 1 had done something to criminate my own brother. And I was so afraid I should bring him into trouble that I burned tho bag. Don't blamo mo too much. If you knew how good and kind Juan was before ho was led away, you wouldn't wonder I cling to him still." I'oor child ! how I longed to kiss tho sweet pleading lips, and dry tho wet cui ploring eyes. Well, after our circlo had broken up that merry evening, so quickly followed by tho night of horror, Juan, who had been lingering about for several days to find his sister, came to the window and called her name softly. Carlota heard him, and taking the fatal package in her hand, was stealing cautiously down tho stairs, after giving him uotico that she was coming. But llomez had heard tho creaking of tho upraised window, and looking out from his own room, recognized his sou in the bright starlight of tho cloudless night. Indignant at this clandestine meeting and disobedience of his orders, ho railed Carlota away and commanded his son to enter the houso and account for his presence there. Juan obeyed and listen ed in sullen silenco to his father's angry reproaches. Becoming more and more exasperated, llomez accused him of dis gracing tho family namo by deeds of shame and crime, and pointing to the glittering barrel of a revolver protruding from his coat pocket, inquired if ho had turned highwayman or bandit yet. This aroused Juan's fiery spirit, and drawing out tho pistol, ho raised it threateningly, replying that ho had grown bold and able enough to prevent insult from any ouo. With a contemptuous sneer, llomez raised his arm to strike down tho weapon, when Juan, shrinking back, somehow his fingers caught the lock, tho pistol went off, and with that fearful cry his father foil dead at his feet. Tho shrieks of his mother and sister aroused him from his trance of astonish ment and dismay, and as the reality of tho dreadful deed rushed upon him, with a remorseful entreaty for pardon ho turn ed tho pistol to his own forehead and fired again. This was tho sad explana tion of tho scene. Tho unfortunate sou did not speak or seem in any way conscious throughout the night, but just before sunset on the day succeeding the woful tradedy, ho opened his eyes and whispered with his ghastly lips to tho trembling woman by his side : " Mother Carlota, I am going. I've been a wicked son and an ungrateful brother. Forgive me if you can, for I havo loved you through it all, and began to feci a remorseful consciousness of my own guilt.. Send for a witness and write down what I am going to tell you. It is the only such affair I have ever been in, and it has haunted mo like a ghost. The package in the carpet-bag is gold, Carlota. Thank heaven, I dared not touch the ac cursed stuff beforo. It is all there. We robbod a passenger on board one of tho San Francisco steumers. Manuel tracked two of them from tho mines and inveig led me to help him, and this ouo wus my share of the booty. We sent a poor ne gro on board after it. I got tho negro out of the city by sending him with a messago to Carlota. It was tho only crime I ever joined Manuel in. The sweet saints forgivo mo. And you will forgive mo too, wont you, mother t You know I never meant to hurt father. Say you forgive mo, for I am dying. The words had been disjointedly und minfully said, and panting and ex musted, he sank bock into a drowsy Blumbcr tho moment his mother's lips hud spoken tho comforting words of pur don. I had heard it all. The uoxt time he opened his eyes, I was ready with pen and paper to tuko his deposi tion, while Ned Wilkins, tho tears actu ally pouring down his cheeks, stood by and listened to tho recital that removed all cloud and stain from his character, and Carlotta, white and cold as a marble stutuo, leaned abovo tho sick man's pil low. But he did not dio. lie lived to prove his penitenco sincere and heartfelt, to bo tho comfort and support of tho widowed mother, whoso staff in lifo had been so violently but innocently removed through his means. Wo remained at tho rancho a week af ter the funeral of our lamented host, and by that timo wcro well assured of Juan's ultimato recovery. On tho morning fix ed for our departure, I said to Ned, whoso joy nt his providentially restored reputation was only calmed into quiet by tho mclaucholy events that had trans pired : " Poor Carlota needs now all the com fort and consolation you can give. I sup pose, of course, Ned, you havo made known your sentiments and given her tho assurance of having still a protector for her gentleness." " I have been waiting this long time the opportunity," ho nnswercd earnestly. " Dear girl I I scarcely dared speak of it after this terrible shock. " But there sho is in the garden. I will go this very moment." And away he dashed from my sight. I roso from my chair, closed my lips grimly, and folding my arms across my palpitating licart, walked to and fro with a sickly, dreary wish that I had never been born, never left tho dear New Eng land hills, never scon California or Car lota, or, most of all, Ned Wilkins. I walked thus to and fro, what seemed nn interminable time, almost fearing I should go mad with the whirling tumult of my brain. At length I heard his returning step at the door. 1 caught up the noto book on my dressing case. 1 would havo an excuse for not beholding his radiant face, his smiling, lover lips, fresh from the first pure kiss of betrothal. Ho camo in slowly, and sat down without a single word. ' l; Too happy for speech, lost in blissful dreams!" thought I, still without raising my eyes. A deep-drawn sigh startled mo. I looked up instantly. " Why, Ned Wilkins, what bus hap pened ?" " Nothing, nothing," groaned he clench ing his hand madly in his curly brown hair, " only she is an angel, and I am a fool 1 She docs not love mo sho has re jected me !" "But, Ned," stammered I, "I don't understand it. I thought" " Yes, so did I. And I belicvo it was you first mado mo so presumptuous. But wo were both wrong. Sho don't love me, and worse yet, she acknowledges that she loves another. Sho would not tell mo who, but" I did not wait for tho completion of his sentence. Thrco minutes moro und I stood beside Carlota who was weeping bitterly, iu tho garden. " Carlota," whispered I, softly, " you havo refused Ned. Will you havo no pity on me '" Tho wet, shadowy, lustrous -eyes glanc ed up shyly into my face. A drift of roso leaves whirled across tho pallid check and O, reader, havo you seen a drown ing wretch, just as tho last despairing snatch at safety failed him, suddenly lift ed up in security upon tho stout deck of a friendly wrecking craft? Have you ever beheld a starving beggar, after tho angry refusal of a miserly proprietor clutch the white loaf slipped in his hand by the gentle-hearted wife? Havo you watched feverishly for morning, and in moaning anguish believed only deeper darkness upon you, when suddenly tho black banner which veiled Aurora's face was cast aside and tho rosy flushes of dawn kindled about you? Then do you know something of the ecstatic joy which filled my heart just when, with tho bitterest renunciation, I had put away forever, as I believed, sweet love's holy joys and ministering blessings, for Carlotta loved mo! Yes, but when 1 returned to tho house, what would I not havo given to havo es caped poor Ned's reproachful eyes? His good namo was restored, his law-case at rest, since I had forwarded to Aldcn, by Sam, Juan's confession and tho undimin ished gold, but what would tho whole world avail for tho loss of Carlota? So I reasoned, though Carlota laughed lightly, promising tho wound would soon heal with one of his volatile, clastic tem perament. ' And sure enough, only a year after oui marriage ho cumo to our house in San Francisco with a weo blue eyed, f'air-huired New England importa tion on his arm to introduce to Curlutta as Mrs. Wilkins. Had Her Rcveniro. A young lady named Toylor, meet ing a former acquaintance iiumod Mason, at a party, where the latter was assuming any quantity of importunca for her wealth, and who did not deign to notice her, re venged herself by stepping into the group surrounding the huughty bellu nud thus uddrcBHiug her with tho most winning smile : " 1 havo been thinking my dear Miss Mason, that wo ought to exchange names." Why, indeed 1" Becuuso my name is Taylor, und my father was a mason ; and yours Was a tailor and his name was Mason." There wus a sccno then j but there was no help for it. SCIENTIFIC READING. Facts Concerning riiospliorus. IT is now just two hundrod years since phosphorous was first obtained by Brand, of Hamburg. So wonderful was tho discovery then considered, that Kraft, an eminent philosopher of the day, gave Brand three hundred dollars for tho se cret of its preparation. Krnft then trav eled, and visited nearly all the courts of Europe, exhibiting phosphorus to kings and nobles. In appearance, phospho rus rcsemblos bees' wax; but it is more transparent, approaching to tho color of amber. Its namo, which is derived from tho Greek, signifies " light-bearer," and is indicative of its most distinguishing quality, being self-luminous. Phospho rus, when exposed to tho nir, shines liko a star, giving out a beautiful lambent greenish light. Phosphorous dissolves in warm sweet oil. If this phosphorized oil be rubbed over the faco in the dark, the features assume a ghastly appearance, and tho experimentalist looks liko a veri table living Will-o'-the-Wisp. Tho ori gin of phosphorus is tho most singular fact concerning it. Every other sub stance with which wo are acquainted, can bo traced to cither earth or air ; but phosphorus seems to bo of animal origin. Of all animals, man contains tho most; and of the various parts of tho body, tho brain yields, by analysis, more phos phorus than any other. This fact is of no little moment. Every thought has, perhaps, a phosphoric source. It is cer tain that tho most intellectual beings con tain tho most phosphorus. It generally happens that when a singular discovery is made, lTlany years clapso beforo any application of it is mado to tho welfare and happiness of man. This remark ap plies to phosphorus. Art Among tho Ancients. riIIE edges of tho statues of the obe I lisks of Egypt, and of tho ancient walls ot Homo are sharp as if but hewn yesterday, and tho stones still remain so closely fitted that their seams, laid with mortar, cannot bo penetrated with the edgoofa penknifo. Their surfaces are exceedingly hard, so that when tho French artists engraved two lines upon tho obe lisk brought from Egypt, they destroyed, in tho tedious task, uiauy of the best tools which can bo manufactured. And yet these nucicut monuments uro traced all over with inscriptions placed upon them in olden timo. This, with other facts of a striking character, prove that they were far more skillful in metals than we uro. Quite recently it is recoidod that when an American vessel was on tho shores of Africa, a son of that benighted region, mado from uu iron hoop a knife superior to any on board tho vessel, and auothcr mado a sword of Damascus excellence from a pieco of iron. Fiction is very old; Scott had his counterpart two thousand years ago. A story is told of a warrior who had uo timo to wait for tho proper forging of his weapon, but seized it red hot, and found to his surprise that tho cool air had tem pered his iron into an excellent steel weapon. The tempering of steel, there fore, which was new to us a century since was old two thousand years ago. Ventilation is deemed a very modern art. But this is not tho fact, for apertures, unquestionably mado for tho purpose of ventilation are found in the pyrumid tombs of Egypt. Yet thou sands of years ago tho barbarous pa gans wont so fur as to ventilate their tombs, while wo yet scarcely know how to ventilate our houses. What Cloves Arc. Cloves aro tho unopened flower of a small evergreen trees that rcsemblo in appearance the laurel or the bay. It is a native of the Molucca or spice Islands, but has been carried to ull tlio warmer parts of tho world, and is now cultiva ted in tho tropical region of America. The flowers are small in size, and grow in large numbers iu clusters to tho very ends of tho branches. Tho cloves wo uso aro tho flowors gathored beforo they are opened and whilst they aro still green After being gathered, they aro smoked by a wood fire, and then dried in tho suu. Each clove consists of two parts, a round head, which is the four petals or leaves of tho flower rolled up enclosing a number of small stalks, or filianient ; tho other part of tho clove is terminated with four points, and is, in fact, tho flow er cup und the unripo seed vessel. All these purts muy ho distinctly seen if a few cloves aro souked for a short timo iu hot water, when tho loaves of tho flower soften, and readily unroll. Both the tasto nnd smell of cloves depend on tho quantity of oil they coutain. Sometimes tho oil is separated from tho cloves before they aro sold, and the odor nnd Uisto is much weakened by such unfair procecd- Bftfc, Tho curious fact thut a needlo or other steel wire inserted in a living body will immediately bocoino oxidized, while if tho body be dead no oxidation will tuke place, was recently brought to light by Dr. Luborde, of Purls. BSk. A Binile may bo bright while the heart is sad. 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