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I did not think the women could be such fools before. Whether it was because of the novelty, or beeause of the romance, or because of an inexplicable whim, it is hard to say; but they certainly treated him with flattering distinction. An ugly dog he was, too; short, thick-set and swarthy, with a half healed wound over one eye, which did not add to his beauty. lie was captured after Fair Oaks, being out on picket. And ill he had been, undeniably ill, ever since he came North. A complicated affection of the heart; they pronounced it, which wo'd not admit of bis removal; so he staid on with us, instead of going down to the fort with the rest ot the prisoners. Nominal ?s his captivity was, it was galling to him ; and he was sullen as the mischief, withal he got the lion's share of the jellies, flow ers, books, and other niceties which came to the hospital. It was ridiculous to see him with his lady -sympathizers. But it was provokiug as well. Wc poor fellows, on the broad of cur backs, stiix and sore with loyal wounds, bit our lips with vexation many a time when we saw the delicacies traveling past our Federal mouths, and dropping into the ujrly little traitor's. Not that we begrudged him the trifles ; but there is a medium in all things, and the women ought to have known better. In the next bed" to mine was my chum, Ike Kussell, the greatest limb, cud most thorough practical joker in the regiment, lie was an incorrigible fellow. rlhe doc tors had given him up twice since the fever had got hold of hiu; but his consti tution was of gutta-percha. It would stretch'to the fullest extent before it wo'd break. "They may give me up, like a bad rid dle, as often as they like," was his char acteristic remark, "but I don't think they will play the 'Dead .March' over me jet awhiie." And they didn't. It was a hand to-hand struggle, but Ike fought the fever as fieice ly as he had fought the foe, and conquer ed, lie was now convalescent, and most indignant, as was natuial, ut the partiality bliowu Sccesh. "b'ee here, llufus," he said to me one niglit, in a htat, "don't jou think this is pretty near played out?" ""What?" . - "This jelly and flower busine.cs." "I bhould iudre so, my son." "It is a burning shame." went oo Ike, wrathfully. "1 didn't think Northern irirls could be such iieete. 1 wonder what the mischief they see in him. The fellow is as uirlv us a gorilla." " Ciacum a wi youl," said I, thought- fullY. " "inat s so; uut a ve maue np uty unuu . , .,.. .t i it shall not last.- "llow can you help it ?" "Leave that to me; 1 ra no novice. IJefore the week is out I warrant you we shall have plenty of delicacies and light reading. ! There the conversation dropped. The next morning, on opening my eyes, 1 became aware of a change. The llebel's bed was opposite mine it was empty. Seccsh was non est. The ruan who was there yesterday, who had been there all these days, never able to Jiftor turn him self without help, was gone. "Halloo ! Ike," said I, poking . that geutleman with my crutch, "have you spirited him away ? What has become of the pet of the ladies?" Ike raised himself on his elbow, and stared at the vacant bed. "Ye gods! be is gone!" "Fact," said I. "Thou art gone from my gaze, like a beautiful dream 1" "Uosh !" cried Ike. laughing at the ad jective, "Horrible would have been more to the point. But, bless my soul, Hare, what can have become of hiin V "For further particulars inquire within said I, tapping him jocosely on the head with my crutch. ' Ike looked at me. "You think I have had something to do with it? You wero never more mistaken in your life. I only hope," added he, pleasantly, "that they have sent him to the Fort, and may keep him on bread and water for a month, llufus, my warrior, that Sccesh was the Mordecai in the gate." "He will not be likely to trouble you again," said the Surgeon, who was then passing. ' "What's the' reason he wont ?" we both chorussed. , "No levity, boys. He is dead." "Dead?" : - - - Ike's face was sobered at once. IIe.as i W11U eUOUgll, in Bll ci'iiewtuctj yui. wi from heartless. . .- . EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JULY "When, in the name of Lincoln, did he die ?" "About daybreak this morning." "I didn't dream of such a thing. Poor rascal! Very sudden, wasn't it?" "Not to me. I anticipated as much from his disease the heart, you know," said the Surgeon, with professional sang froiJ, moving away. Ike s mercurial nature was recovering from the shock. "Hold on a minute, Doc," he called out. "A word with you, if you please." The Surgeon turned back. He was a decided man, of utaunch Union principles; and I fancied he had not rel ished the sympathy with Secesh any more than ourselves. "lie quick, then," he said; "I have my hands full." Ike had a face of brass. "I only wanted to know where that Rebel's uniform was ?" The Doctor looked at him sharply. He knew his reputation. "What do you want of it ?" "That isn't a fair question," said Ike, boldly. "It is certainly of no use to its owner now, unless as a shroud. If you've no objections, I shall borrow it for a few days." The Surgeon shrugged his shoulders. "You are welcome to it. None of jour practical jokes, remember, Russell." And off he went. Ike spread out hi3 wrapper with both hands, as soon as his back was turned, and daueed a Spanish fandango, which nearly sent the boys into convulsions. " Yeni, vidi. via Hare," he whispered to me. "Now for some fun." . .That day we had a shoal of visitors. It was quite the rage hast spring, you may remember, to visit the hospitals. Thei 3 wa3 a good deal of genuine charity aud a good deal of idle curiosity, as well. People seemed to feel that there was something o good and so evangelical in walking through the wards and talking patronizingly to the sufferers. It was a form of philanthropy which was both cheap and towiuiable ; at least to those who were not overburdened with sensi tiveness. In the afternoon there came a bevy of young Judy teachers. They were all strangers, but had evidently heard of the caged lion.. "Wc have been told that there was a rebel here. Can ou point him out to us?" one of their number atked of the Ward-master. With an ill suppressed smile, the offi cial indicated a bed. "That is his bed," was the reply; true, as far as it went ; but poor Secesh would never sleep on it again. At the iittle table beside it, however, Ike was gotten up, like a tableau vivant. The rascal was as handsome as he should be, in the black and green unilbrm of the departed rebel. Interestingly pale, ns became a captain chieftan of the (J. S. A ., he was reading ircm a volume of blue and gold ; his elbow on the table, his head supported by his'hand. Ike had a nice hand ; blown enough, to be sure, but well shaped , and slender. The young ladies' eus lit upon it at once. The lout ensem ble was faultless. Put they seemed non plussed. There was some little debate with their pretty heads together. "An Apollo Pelvidere, upon ' my word, Lilly." "How queer ! And they say he was so ugly, and not a bit young." "Such a love of a hand, too ! and look at that proale, will you girls ? . If the rebels are all like him, I well ! (ahem !) I wouldn't mind living in the South, myself." . "For shame I Maybe he isn't the rebel after all." "Put then his. uniform ? there isnt another like it in the ward." "Wait; I'll ask him to make sure." Ike, the rogue, had heard every word as well as myself; but he read on, severely unconscious. A plunp little Miss ap proached and laid an orange on the table. Ike raised his head tor the first time, and bowed with grave, courteous surprise, quite refreshing to witness. II i great brilliant eyes, staggered her ; but she managed to lisp out TCTy timidly : "Are you the rebel, sir ?" "Who'told you I was ?" quoth Ike, with a sweet smile a tiifle pensive, how over. ' "Oh dear ! I don't known indeed. I think the man at the door said something about it ; and then your uniform, you know is different from all the rest ! Put," winding up pensively "but you aren't tho rebel, alter all, are you f "If rebellion, Madam," said Ike throw back i Lis head, aud coming the heavy thing, after Forrest "If rebellion consists in loyalty to the iToblest .Government that Vn. ever framed, then I. sua iiidced i a rebel!"' v" ' ' ' "How treasonable !" murmured a strong minded young lady. "Put how eloquent !" rejoined a weak minced one. "And you really think your Govern ment the noblest ever framed?" said a third. - "Uunquestionably." "And that we are all mistaken ? all upon the wrong track ?" "As far as regards your present views, at least," returned Ike with a twinkle of the eye. "Deluded man ! But you. wi!l learn better in time. How long have you been here?" put in the strong minded lady aiiain. "Some two or three weeks. I was taken after the battle of Fair Oaks" with billious fever, he might have added but he prudently forbore. "I hope they have treated you well," replied the plump little Miss, simper ing. "A true soldier never complains," said Ike with a look suggestive of secret mar tyidoni. 1 thought I should have exploded, I Avas forced to dive under the quilts, to recover myself. Vhen I came to the surfaee again, the conversation was in cheerful progress. One of the girls had secured the blue and gold volume, and was examining the fly leaf. On it was written in Ike's characteristic hand, "St. George Algernon Fairfield, Sumter, North Carolina." The rascal had prepared the ruse most carefully. "What a distinguished name," whis pered one. "I wonder if it is his own?" "Is this your book, sir ?" said another, looking over her shoulder. Ike bowed with the grace of a "''chivalry" and sighed profoundly. "I suppose it recalls your name, Mr. Fairfield," said the plump little Miss, sympathetically ; "and your Southern friends, and all their sweet recollections of by-gone days. ; Ah ! what a terrible thing is civil war !" "My home my friends," -murmured Ike brokenly, and making much of his handkerchief ; "Do not mention them ! It is more thau I can bear. This weakness may seem unmanly, but the Fairfields are a sensitive race, aud and " he buried his face in his hands, and added in a stage whisper, "my home alas ! it is mineno longer!" Which was a fact for he had been sold out by the sheriff just before he joined the army. "Why don't you take the oath of alle giance said the strong rather irrelevantly. minded "ill Ike drew himself up to his full height (five feet eleven in liis stocking soles) aud regarded her with intense scorn. "Such suggestions are unnecessary, Miss !" he returned, folding hi arms with dignity ; "and from any but a lady, would be insulting!" "Fie, Lilly !" replied the plump little Miss, who was evidently smitten; "you should not be 60 bluntj Consider his unpleasant circumstances. I have . no doubt, now," she added, in a tone intend ed for the "pseudo rebel, "you find your present society very uncongenial." "Mudsills I" cried Ike forcibly; "greasy mechanics ! shoemakers and carriers ? Shall it be said that the scion of the St. Georges, the Algernons, and the Fair fields stooped to such associates ? Nev er ! I spit upou them ; I despise them; "Time is up," said the Surgeon ap proaching with a glitter in his grave eye. "My friend, you are exciting yourself too much. Ladies, I regret to disturb you." And the girls made their adieu, leaving behind them most pleasant momentoes, in the shape of fruits and delicacies. "Ike 1" cried I, choking with laughter, "get your discharge, and go upon the stage. You'd make a fortune." "Softly, iny boy, soltly, replied that incorrigible. i "The comedy is not over yet. And neither it was. For a whole week he was beseiged by visitors, principally ladies ; and he played his role to perfec tion. Luxuries of all kinds poured in upon him, aud were distributed among the boys with a liberal hand forlke was uo glutton. Photographs and letters directed to 4St. George Algernon Fair field," became such a drug on tho Ward masters hands, that worthy began to vote it a bore. If Ike - had advertised for a wife, I think it could 6carely have been worse. Put one day 'a shell exploded in the magazine. Some enemy of Ike's made himself busy. A report was circulated, and the Provost Marshall came down upon Isaac Russell, Esq., like a wolf on a fold. There wss a laugh at first, (it was oil so ridiculous) but the official "couldn't sec it." The circumstantial evidence was strong jigaicfit poor Ike jvd: after the 9,-1863. first uproar he was too prcud and too indignant to say anything in his own defence. So they marched him ofl to the Fort. I saw him the day after his release. '"Hare,' said he, with the old sparkle: "You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling round it still I" "I don't joke." regret it. It is a famous "Rather an expensive one, I should say, my good St. George Algernon." "You are right, mon brave, you are right; but then the jellies were excel lent." THE SECOND fuARBlAGE. BY VIRGINIA F. TGWi-'SEJiD. "You don't mean so you don't really mean that Dora West is married again ?" cried Mrs. Mills, as she came dowu to the front gate, with both hands uplifted in surprise aud dismay at the fact which I had just communicated to her. " mu.t say I really had too good an opinion of the woman; but there's no knowing what folks will do in this world. And it's only two years since her husband met with that awful death. How 1 pitied her, and what a fuss she made at the time. I really thought she would never get over it ; but she's done herself up for me, now." I opened my lips to speak ; and then, on second thought, I closed them again. There would be no use in defending my dear friend, Dora West, to such a person; and vet, do not misunderstand me, reader; Mrs. Mills was a kind hearted, good sort of woman, and would have made almost anv sacrifice for a friend cr neighbor who was in trouble; but she was narroft-uuna-ed, aud, of course, she was guilty of all that vast burden of petty sins and little uncharitablenesscs which are the indige nous fruit of this quality ; so I merely re plied "Oh ! Mrs. Mills, you don't understand Dora as I do ; but I haven't time to discuss the matter now. Good morning." And, walking slowly down that little grassy road, my thoughts went back to a night two years before, that had burned itself into my memory. It was evening, in the early October, and the rain was falling slowly and lan guidly outside. The day, too, had been a languid one, witn a kind ot wistful, Llue- gray sky, aud a slight-chill iu the still air, which was a iar cli vrrusper el tue winter. Dora and I sat sewing in the little back parlor that evening, Vy the round mahog any table, and there was a sort of i hairy kept up between our tongues and our fingers I cannot tell which were the nimbler. How pretty she looked that night; she, the well beloved wife of five years, with the smiles darting among the dimples of her sweet lips, aud the light of a glad heart beaming out from her blue eyes. "To think, Alice," she murmured, "Harry's been gone a week, and I thought . ... i that mornin-r he 11 VtUUlU octm tin uli, kissed me good-bye. It would, too, if you hadn't been with me. Put he'll te home to-morrow. Oh I how glad I shall be to see him." At that moment the bell rang, suddeu and loud. "Oh dear! I hope nobody's come to bore us to night. We're so cozy and hap py together." "Here's a dispatch for 3-ou, Mrs. West,' said a small boy, whom the servant usher ei into the room. Dora sprang up quickly. "It's from Harry. I know." She brought it to the light and opened it with caaer finjrers. Her eyes those blue, beautiful eyes ran across the page. "Mv God! my God I Then Dora West clasped her hands, and laughed loud und wild. .Oh! how that laugh rings dowu now, thiough those two years, and curdles the blood in my veins, and lair'.y stops the beating 01 my nearc Then she came round to me with that wild, scared, pitiful look in her face, that was more terrible than the lace ot the dead. "What docs it mean, Alice?" she whis pered. "I can't read it, but it struck niv heart just now, and froze it." "Nothing has happened to Harry, has there?" "He'll come home to-morrow, and put his arms around me, and call me his dear little wife, won't he, Alice?" "Ycf, yes, ho will," I tried to say, but I hardly think I succeeded,' for my lips had grown dry and parched, and my voice died away in my heart,, where a terrible fear had come down. ' Then T drew Dora into my lap, and laid her head wi my shoulder; &ud then, bend- NUMBERS. ing down, I read the paper which she held tight in her hand. j There were but few words the great crises of life are generally acted and told briefly. There had been a fearful collision on the railway, somewhere between New' York and Boston. Several passenger were killed. Among them was yes, T locked twice, bending downiny eyes close to the paper it was his name ! . I hugged Dora to my heart. I do not remember anything that happened for the" next five minutes. "He will come back, Alice ! Harry will comeback!" These were the first words that aroused me. Dora was smiling, and playing with my hair. - Then the truth rushed oter too, nnd X could neither move nor speak. :. , ' At that moment Mr. Lee, a neighbor and friend of Harry's, burst into the room. "Has she heard of it ?" he cried ; and our faces answered him. Dora sprang to--ward the gentleman. . "Ohl Mr. Lee," she cried, "nothing's; happened to Harry, has there? You know he always thought so much of you.. Do tell me he's comiug back to morrow I" She stajrsrereu against hiuil but he caught her in his arms, aud the tears rau down the strong man's face as fast as they run down the face of a tired little ehild. He laid her on the sofa, and slowly tho truth broke over the darkened mind or Dora West. What a night that was ! God, in his great mercy, save me from such : another I After this, I thought, for many weeke, that Dora would soou walk with her hus- band through the rooms of the mansion prepared for them on high : but God" spared her, and at last her life began to 4 take up some ot its old sympathies und ! interests. I remember the first time she rode out. It was a bright day in the early spring, - aud JUr. .Lee and 1 accompanied her. He and Harry had always loved each other as brothers do, and it was not strange the 1 young man was moved with much pity for 1 the widow of his friend. - In the course of our ride, we camo; across a patch of early violets on the suacy i side of a bank, near a small stream;' "Ou! how 'beautiful they are." cried- Dora, clapping her hands with something , of her old animation : and then a chausie" came over her f-Jpzxrj loved vio-' let; and den't you remember, Alice, he' used to twine them in my hair ? Oh V to think uow he will never see them any ' wore." Amid her quick sobs, her head sank down on my shoulder; and I could only teli her there were fairer violets in the laud to which Harry had one. Mr. Lee did not speak ; but I saw the glance that he bent down upon her for moment, and I knew then his heart was stirred with something mora than pity for Dora West. She did not, I know, suspect this for -some time, and. thought it was only for" Harry's sake that he called 6 often,- , showed her a thousand little nameless attentions, and was so thoughtful of hut happiness. w Well, the truth came out at last.' Dota-; was still in her youth, and she had one of those clinging, vine like natures that need1 something to lean upon ; in shcrf,- love was with her a great necessity; sh could not walk through life alone. "He says he will take Harry's pface"te- ; me. Shall I give it to him, Alice. -whispered Dora. And L lifted up her face and looked. at . it. - - "Yes, darling. This new love' is sent of tho God that called Harry ta himself, ' and left you only his mercy. So- they were married ; and the unpliar- itable, the narrow minded and the ecvious talked, God help theai ! as they al ways have aud will talk, until death come3 and " lays its cold hands ou their lip, &ud hushes them "with its solema 'Pc still forever, and forever." Jefferson's Fiddle. The writer of the Declaration of Independence was pas siouatcly fond of fiddlia-g, and is said to. have excelled in playing on that instru ment. Iu 1770 hi3 family mansion wa burned." Mr. Jefferson used to tell" in. after years with great glee, an anecdote connected with, the fire. He was ab-ent from home whea it occurred, and a Blave arrived out of breath to inform lam ot the disaster. After 'learning of thj general destruction he inquired : "Put were none 01 my books saved? "INo, niasa, was the reply, "but tcc saved da fiddle." lSfc"What are you hiking after, my daughter?" said an old geutleman at Christmas party. - ' ' "Looking after soo-in-lan: fvr ycu, father, the reply. K" - ir t . t (1 i I
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