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The Ittiller's Maid.
A STORY OF FEMALE HEROISM
Nfar'ihc hamlet of Udorf, on the banks of
ihe Rhine, not far from Bonn, there yet siands
the mill, whichwas the scene of ihe following
adventure :
On Sunday morning ihe miller and his fam
ily set oui as usual to atlend divine service, at
the nearest church in ihe village of Heasel, lea
ving the mill to which ihe dwelling house was
atiached, in charge of his servant maid, Han
chen, a bold-hearled girl, who had been some
time in his service. The youngest child, who
was still too little 10 go to church, remained al
so under her care.
" As Hanchen was busily engaged in prepar
ing dinner for ihe family, she was interrupted
by a visit from her admirer, Heinrlch Botleler;
Ire -was an idle, graceless fellow, and her mas
ler, who knew his character well, had forbid
den him the house ; but. Hanchen could noi be
"lieve all the siorica she heard against.hcr lover,
and was sincerely attached to hira. On this
occasion j.he treated him kindly, and not only
not him something to eat at once, but found
time in the midst of her business to sit down
and have a gossip with him, -while he did jus
tice to ihe fare set before him. As he was eat
in" he let fall his knife which he asked her to
pick up for him ; she playfully remonstrated,
irlling htm she feared, from all she heard, he
did little enough work, and ought at least to
wait on himself; in the end however,- she
hionpcd down to pick up ihe knife, when the
treacherous villain drew a dager from under
lus coat and caught her by the flap of the neck,
griping her throat firmly with his fingers to
prevent her screaming ; then with an oa'h, he
desired her to tell him where her master kept
his money, threatening to kill her if she did not
cumplv with his demand. The surprised arid
terrified girl in vain attempted to parley with
him; he still held her tightly in his choking
grasp, leaving her no choice bnt to die or betray
her master. She saw there was no hope of
softening him or changing his purpose, arid, with
the full conviction of his treachery, all her na
tive courage awoke in her bosom. Affecting,
however, to yield to what was inevitable, she
answered him in a Tesighed tone, that what
must be, must ; only, if he carried ofTher'mas
ter's gold, he must take her with him, too ; for
hhe could never stay to hear thdir suspicions and
reproaches, eujreating him, at the same time to
relax his grasp of her throat, for she could hard
ly speak, much less do what, he bid her, while
he held her so tight. At length he was in
duced to quit his hold, on Jier reminding him
that he must lose no lime, or the family would
be returning from church. She then led the
way to her master's bed-room, and showed him
the coffer where ho kepthis money. "'Here she
paid, reaching to him an axe which lay in a cor
ner of the loom, 1 you can open it with this,
while I run up stairs to put all my things lo
ether, besides the money I have savedaihCe I
have been here.'
" Completely deceived by her apparent read
iness to .enter'into His plans, he allowed hei to
leave the room only exoning her 10 be quick
as possible,, and was immediately absorded in
his q.w.u operations ; first opening the box, and
hen disposing of the money abojJt his person
In the meanwhile,' Hanchen, instead of going up
stairs to her own rjoom,?.crepu's.oftly along hev
eral passages till sHe( again reached. her master's
chamber. s It was i)ie work of a moment to
shut and bolt the door upon bim;,arid:thisidone
nhe rushed out to the outer dorir of the mill to
give the alarm. The only being iri sight was
her master's boy, a child of five years old ; to
him she called with all her might, ' run, run to
meet your far her as he comes from church ; tell
him we shall all be murdered, if he does not
corneiback;' The, frightened child did ;as she
bid him, and set off running on the road she
pointed out.
Somewhat relieved by seeing that the child
aindcrsloodher, and would make her case known
she sank down for a moment oh ihe stone seat
before, the door, and full of conflicting emotions
of grief and thankfulness for her escape, she
hurst into tears. Out at this moment a shrill
w.istle aroused her attention ; it was from her
prisoner, Heiiirich, who opening the grated win
dow above her head, shouted out to some ac
complice without to catch the child that was
running away so fasti and to kill ihe girl.
Htnc.hen looked around in great alarm, but
saw no one. The child still continued to run
with alt his might, and she hoped that it was
but a false alarm to excite her fear and over
come her resolution ; when just as the child
reached a hollow in the next field, (the channel
of a natural dram) she saw a ruffian start up
from ike bed of the drain, and snatching up the
child in his arms hastened with him towards
the mill, in accordance with' the directions of
his accomplice.. In a moment she perceived
ihe full extent of her danger; and formed a plan
for escaping it.
" Retreating into the mill, she double-locked
and bolted the door, the only apparent entrance
into the building, every other means of obvious
access being prevented by strong iron gratings
fixed up against all ihe windows, and then took
her post at the upper casement determined to
await patiently her master's return, and ner
consequent delivery from that dangerous - posi
tion, or her own-death, if indeed inevitable, for
she was fully resolved p enter into no terms,
and that nothing should induce her to give up
her master's property into the robbers' hands.
She had barely time to secure herself in her
retreat, when the ruffian, holding the screaming
child in his arms, and brandishing a knife in
one hand came up and bid her open the door,
or he would break it down, adding many awful
oath's and threats ; to which her only answer
was, that sh'e put her trust in God. Heinrich
who from nis window Was witness of this col
loquy, now called out to cut trie child's throat
before her eyes if she still persisted in her re
fusal. Poor Hanchen's heart quailed at this
horrible threat for a moment her resolutions
failed, but onlv for a moment. The death of
the child' could be no gain to them,while her
own jdeaifr vva's positively certain if she admit'
t
ed ihe assailant',' and" her master, too, would be
robbed. She had' no reason either to suppose
that ner compliance wouiu save me ine oi me
. f ii ' .i.- i:r.i c . I,
CU1IU. H was lO n&h. uu a"uuisi uuuniig, auu
she resolved' to luifd out to the last, though the
villian from without renewed his threats saying
that if she would not open the door io" him he
would kill the child, and then set fire to the
mill5 over hdr head;. 4 t put my trust in God,'
was still the poor girl's answer
" Iir the mBanwhile.' the ruffian set down the
child for a moment, to look about for combusti
bles to carry out his threat. In this search, he
discovered a mode of entering the mill un
thought of by Hanchen. Ii wSs a large aper
ture in the" wall, communicating with" the great
wheel and other machinery of the mill," and it
was a point entirely unprotected, for it had
never been' contemplated thai any one would
seek to enter by svo dangerous an inlet. Tri
umphant at such a' discovery, he returned to
tie the hands and feet of the poor child,topre
vent its escape, and, then stole.back to'ths aper
ture by which he intended to affect an entrance
The situatiqrr of the building prevented Han
chert-seeing .anythitfg-of jhisbut a thought h
meanwhile struck her. It was Sunday, when
the mill was never at work ; if therefore, the
sails were set in motion, the whole neighbor
hooU would know ihatsomtf thing was the mat
ter, aria her rnasTeT especially would' hastei)
home to kuow ihe meaning- of any thing so
strange.
" Being all her lifeVccustomed to "ihe machi
nery of the mill, it was the wprk of a moment
to set it all in nioiion a,britk breeze, which
1 . -i
j sprang up at once, set .jhessils, flying.
The
arms of the huge engine whirled round with
fearful Rapidity; the great wheel slowly revol
ved on its axle. d, (he smaller gear turned,' and
'creaked, arid gro&ned,dccortling asthe machi
nery came into action ; the machinery was in
full operation. It was at this moment that the
ruffian intruder had succeeded in squeezing
himself through the aperture in the wall, a'nd
getting himself safely lodged, in the interior of
the great drum wheel. Hfs dismay, however
was indescribable, when he began tcf.be whirled
about with its rotation and -.found that a'll his
efforts to put a stop to the powerful machinery
that set it in motion, or to extricate'himself frcn
his perilous situation, were- fruitless. In his
terror, he uttered shrieks anil horrible imp'rexa
lions. Astonished at the hblse,- Hanchetf fan
to the spot, and saw him caught like a rat; in
his own trafjj from which it was no part of her
plan to liberate him. She knew that he would,
be more frightened, than, hurt, if he kept , 'within
this rotary prison, without any rash attempt to.
escape, and. that even if he became insensible
he could hot fall out. t - : ,
' "In the meantime the1 wheel went round and
round with its steady, unceasing motion : and
round, and round he went with it, while sense
remained besieging Hanchen, witht entreaties,
promises, and wild impotent threats, which
were all equally disregarded; till by degrees
feeling and perception failed bim, and he saw
and heard no one. He fell senseless at the
bottom of the engine, but even then his inani
mate body continued to be whirled round as be
fore ; for Hanchen did not dare to trust to ap
pearances in such a villain, and would not W
ture to suspend the working of ihe mill" or stop
the gear and tackle from running at their ' Tfifl
lesi s"peed. , , ..-.,!.
" At length she heard a loud knocking at
the door, and flew to open it. ti was her mas
ter and his family, accompanied by, several of
his neighbors,' all in the utmost excitement and
wondef, at seeing the mill sails in full swing
on Sunday,' and still rnofe so, when they found
the poor child lying bound upon the grass who,
however, was too terrified to give them any ac
count of what had happened. Hanchen, In a
ew words, told all ; and then her spirit, which
lad sustained her through such scenes of ter
ror, gave way under the sense of safety and re-
ief, and she fell fainting in their arms, and was
with much difficulty recovered. The machine
ry of the mill" was at once stopped, and ihe in
animate ruffian dragged from his dreadful prison.
Jtieinrich too, was brougni lortn irom ine mil
ler's' chamber, and both were Hi a sho'ri time
sent bound under a strong escort to Bonn, where
they soon after met the reward of their crimes."
The story of this extraordinary act of pres
ence oT mind concludes by telling lis thai Han
chen,' thus effectually cured of her penchant
for her unworthy suiter, became eyentually the
wife of the miller's eldest son,' and thus lived
all her life in the scene of her imminent d'an-
ger and happy deliveiance.
TJie Wervous System'.
There is no subject perhaps which is so of
ten mentioned, but so little1 understood by the
public in general, aa'that of tKe "nerve's." ITow
often do we hear all classes of the community
refer any unpleasant sensation or fanciful ail
ment to their being nervous,5 little understand
ing, however, when ifrey make use of this.ierm,
what' possible connection there can be between
their fe'elinp-s arid' their nervous system. Per-
a -
haps we shall surprise them when, we merition
that they can neither eal nor drink, walk' nor
talk, nor perform any adtion whaver, either
voluntary or involuntary, but through the medi
urn of the nervous system a "system, tne na
ture ahd'functions of Which' We shall here en
deavor id' explain'.
In man and othe'r vertebrate animals, the
great centre of the fuciious is the brain and
spinal marrow ; the latter a prolongation ofjhe
brain, as it were, down ihe spine. Now trie
great centre of nervous mattef'is'endowed with
two distinct functions... A. That'of being able to
convey motor power 16 the muscles, by wlibse
agency we are enahled lO"p6rform all the or
dinary actions of the bodyall thenrovements
of our limbs. 2. That ol sensation, wnrcn
of two kinds common, sensation, or that feeling
of pain which is .produced 'on the injury of ;any
pan of our bpdyj.ond speciaisensation,jnvW)ch
are. to be referred ,lhe nvs sensjes oi leenng
of sight, of hearing, of smelling, and of taste.
Fiona this mass of.mjatief, capable of endow
ing trie parts of bufb.b'Si.es with ihe power of
motion, and of feeling or sensation, numerous
trunlrs are sent to all farts.of the human frame
ramifying ov,er, its structure to such an: incon
ceivable state of .minuteness,' that we cannot
louch any part of ourbody wilh even the jpoint
of a needle without being. conscious of pain,
proving that, some part of this great nervous
centre has been injured, or exciter! into action.
The great nervous, trunk, which supplies the
lower extremity of man is.erjual in thickness to
his litile finger; divide.it. and he loses all bower
of moving his limb, all sense of feeling: the limb,
to all iutetits and purposes, is deadj i and;, de
prived oi its nervous influence, mortifies.. This
power : of endowing parts w.ith,moiion :and sen
saiion'is situated in two distinct structures, of
which the brain and spinal marrow are com
posed; and anatomists, from their color, are ac
customed to call the wfiitet Xnfrthe gray matter.
in Hie Drain, tue gray mauer, tor uie musi pari,
is external, ehclosTng ifi its folds the White mat
ter; whilst in ihe spinal rria'frow if is internal,'
being completely surrounded by the white.
iNow, as a general ruie, an mc hbhuus uuuna
of the body and their branches; with' the excep
tion of nerves of specialsehsaiion, are composed
o'f fibres derived from these two sources' that
is from ihe white and the gray matter ; and
these nervous trunks are conductors of that
change produced in the nervous centre by th
influence-of the mind, which gives rise either
te motion or sensation. But a most extraordin
ary fact;an(i one which is cepablb of being
proved by difect expeiimeh is, that ine change
which takes place, to give rise to the phenom
ena d( mottbn, has fts 6Vigtn at the great nerv
ous1, centre, tfre source from whichnhe trunks
arise; and further, thai this change takes place
n the white matter. On; the other hand, the
change which1 gfe rfse tb"ihe5ph"enomeha of
sensation takes place at ine extremities oi tne
I r i. . . ' r . ...... , . .
nervous trunks---that is, at their ultimate dis
tribution ; this change lakes place in the gray
matter.
The anatomist, In his dissections, is able to
prove satisfactorily the origin of these nervous
runlts; and he finds that all those arising from
the" spinal marrow,' and most of those which are
said to arise from the brain, do so by two roots
one of which is connected with the white mat
ter." and the other with ihe gray. He can, and
las still further' proved by experiments per
ormed on the living animal, that irritation by
pinching or pricking of the root which arises
roui the white mailer gives rise to no sensa-
ifori, as the a'nfrnal shows" no' signs of suffering
whatever; but ffrftate the root arising from the
gray matter," arid evident signs of suffering are
immediately induced. Again :' if in the dead
animal we excite muscular coritraction by rrieans
of g"alvanism,we riiust sentl the charge of elec-
iricity through the Iimo oy means oi ine roui
arising from white matter, as no effect' would
he produced if wc attempted to do it by means
of the roof arising from the gray. Allowing,
then,' tlie fact',' that' these nervous" trunks arc
composed of twb sets' of fibres, one conveying
sensitive, the' oiher' motor influence, let us ap-
ply it to practice.
Some part of the body meets wilh an injury
--a change i's immediately effected in the ex
tremities of the sentient fibres, sensation is de-v
velopetT, arid tlie change thus induced is con-
veyed oy tne cenueni nore io wior uiuiw. anu
through its .medium to the mind. Through the
mysterious agency of the mind, tlienthe motor
power of tlie great nervous centre is brought
into action, arirj'a change is inrJiiced;'this ch'angi
is conveyed -by the trunks to the mhscles suri
plying the injured parts, or to other muscles, oy
w hose' combined action ft is removed from fur
ther injury. But ii is riot nenessary that an in
jury siiouiu oe in nictea tnai moiur iiiuuouv.o
should be ge'nerated, as the mind has the power,
of inducing it at will. All the movements of our
bodies are effected'by muscular action, arid thro1
the agency oT the will. We" move not a hand
or foot nor lbbk' ai an object; without the mind
having IfirsY willed thai li'sKaiPbe done.
' But 'twere are ni'ffny actions in theh'umo'n
body whrcli are pefoirme'd independently of the
will, though evidently unoer' the influence of
ihe mind1, and. through ihe mediumaf .a rier.v-
fa svsierh;1 sTdihls svstem' is cslled'by the
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anatomist the sympathetic. It jonsists of a num
ber of little knot-like bodied called by the analog
mistffnZitj, which are eiiehded along' each' side
of the vertebral column the whole b? .iheaU
ganglia bejng connectedj by meaiis of fibres, to
gether. Now1 U appears that each of theo
ganglia is capabliof generating nervous influ-
encei independently of the brain j hence each!
may be considered as a distinct nervous centre.
The trunks arisfngfrbrri tKesetganglia are dts-
ribii'ed ip'riricipally tb all tKose-orgaris 'onwhichW.
he vitality of the, body depends; IvvhicK are.,
employed in secretion and its uuiriiion. It iV-i
the medium by which all parts of tlie body are
brought into relation with each other,'. so that
no brie part shall become diseased or injured.
without ihe rest sympathising wilh it, and iri'di-
rectly, therefore, becoming affected as well.
Familiar examples of this fact are of e very-ofay
occurrence.: a violent blow on the head wtlP
produce vofriiting, owing to the sympathy 'whichf
exists between the brain . and stomach ; and
vice versa, a blow on the stomach will produce
fainting and even cleat li , from tlie shock to the
nervous system; and the arrest of its influence'
iftrough the meBfurii of ih'e brain. '
nd now let us turn our attention once more5
to the influence of the mind over ihe functions
of the body, through the agency of ihi"T na'rt
i . ! ...... . .
the sym)athetic.oJlhe jlevou.syslem,. We
will here select a few familiar example's.
What js referred to when one's mouth Is saiut
io' be " watering' at the sight of s'orrie .favoriitr.
fruit or food, is dependent ori the iufluence of
the inintl acting through the medium of itiene.r
vous system supplying ihe organs secrethig the
saliva. Tearsj again, are abundantly secreted
under ihe moderate eiciung influence of ihe
emotions of joy,' grief, or lendemess. When,
however; the Exciting cause is violent; they
are suppressed.; hence, jn excessive griefs ihe.
a'riguisip'fjhe miud is lessened on the-flow of
tears. " "Fesrstops :ibe. flosv.of salia; a'nit'ffd.
a common practice frf India jo .detect a thief
among ihe native servants by putting rice into
their mouths,! arirl he whose mouth' is driest, af
ter a short time fs considered the culpriu tin
der mental artxieiy, persons become thin ; free
riom from' it favors deposit of fat. ft woulL
be an endless task,' however, to recapitulate iho
rriany examples that could be brought lorwardl
provfng this inffuence of the mind ; so 'that'iier
vous complaints must be looded upon as disor
ders of the mind,' and not of the body ; cure
the one and you will cure ihe other.
Mental influence having then this power over
the functions of the body, we: cannot be sur
prised at many diseases being a consequenoe
of it's depraved or abnormal condition. Nor
can we be surprised at many of the remarkable
phenomena displayed by mesmerists ; their pa
tients on whom they exhibit are generally high
ly sensitive, with minds naturally liabfe to be
come excited under the manipulations of the op
erator. For" this reason, alsoV. h'omceopaihy,
hydropathy, &c. have succeeded in curing
many patients of their fancied ailments, because
it only required some strong excitement-16 re
move the morbid merital impression. Hence
change of scene and diet, change of usual hab
its for all the followers of these systems make
it imperative oh their patients to follow implvc
iily certairi' rules', and lastly, but noi feast',' a'
full' determination,' desire, or will on thepaYi6f
ihe patient himseli ib get belter have succeed
ed, in a variety of complaints arising -Tr'om'mei''-tal
causes, in effecting a cure.
A country surgeon, who was bald, was oh a
visit at friend's house, whose servant wore tt
wig. Alter bantering" htm a considerable ihnb
the Doctor said', " you see how bald 1 am; ahd:
yet I don't wear a wig." To whieS'irte ser
vant replied, " True, sir, but an oYrijybaru re'-
quires" no thatch:" Ui "
A1 Doctor Feb; A' doctor in Cfncinnair,'
who had been attending a lady patieni who
died ofibe disease, was attacked anrT beaten
with a hoop-pole, by the husband; on h'ls' next
visit' to ih'e house.
A tiXVY in the case! It' was decid?eJ very'
properly in ttie Court of Gtfmraon PleadrBbv
Aon, on .Friday, that lying 'the hano'Jpon tba5
'shp.uld.ers" of a lidy, was an asauh; puriisla'ab'To
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