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GETTY;9BURG---JULY 4, 1865
Thoughts on the Place and Time
BY CBARLIZS O. ITALPINE
Aspen beneath some pang of grief,
Or sudden Joy NVIII Mutably stand,
Finding no words to give relief—
Clear, passion•warm, precise and brief—
To thoughts with which their souls e xpand
So hero to day-414;0e trophies nigh—
Our trembling lips no utterance reach ;
The hills around,the graves—the sky—
The silent poom-of the eye
Surpasses'all -the arts of speech
'l'o -tiny a nation meets to build
A nation's trophy to the dead,
Who, living, formed her sword and shield
The arms she sadly learned to wield,
When other hope of peace had tied.
And not alone for those who Ito
To honored graves before us bleat,
shall our proud column, broad and high,
Climb upward to the smiling sky,
But be for nll is monument.
An emblem of our grief, as well
For others, as for those, we raise
For those beneath our feet who dwell
And all who In the good cause fell,
On other fields, in other frays.
alt the self-same love we bear
%i herefor marble memory ri
No soldier for a wreath wonhi rare
Which all - tree comrades might not uharr
- Brothers in death no in their !
On Solltilern n111,1.` , 1 and ',NMI.
In tangled 14411111111, on verdant ridgt,
Where jiiues and broadening finks look down,
And insuthn• weaves Its yellow crown,
Anil trumpeb-creepers cloth , the hedge.
Along the shores of endlesa sand,
Beneath the pat i na of Southern plain.,
rilnrp everywhere, hand looked iu hand,
Vhe hrothors of the gallant band
Who here poured life through throbbing vei
Around the closing eyes of nil
The game red glories glared and new—
The tossing flags, the tingle
The whigthe of the passing lentil,
The elbow-tonal of 001111111 - 10 A
The shirmitilt-fire—a spattering spray;
The long. sharp growl of fire by file,
•I•he thickening furs' oI t 1 , ,• rrny
When op e ning batterie.4 g- , 4 in 1 , 19'i -
Atta the tin., 'brill o'er funny ft mile
The fOelllllll . S yell, onr answering cheer,
lied flashes through the gathering smoke
Swift orders, resonant anti clear,
Blithe cries from coinnuln ,, tried and dear,
'the shell-scream mid the sabre-stroke
The roiling tiro from loft to right, -
From right to loft, we bear it swell:
Thy headlong charges, swift and bright,
The thielconing tumult of thu fight
And bursting thunders of tho
Now denser, deadlier gyuws tho.ight,
And here we yield, MO that:o 7 *e gain;
The air with hurtling missiles ilk',
Volley for volley, life for
No time to heed the cries of pain!
Panting, as ep the hills we yliargo,
Or down them as we broken roll,
Life never full so high, no large,
And never o'er so wide a merge
In triumph swept the kindling soul!
New r. - .l.tures waken in the breast
'„Amid this hell of scene and sound ;
The barking botteri es never rest,
And broken •oot, by horsemen pressed,
Bull stubbornly contest their ground.
Fresh waves of battle roitnig in
To take the place of shattered waves;
Torn lines each moment grow more thin—
A blinding cloud, a maddening din—
'Twas thus wore till t the to very gr.tvesl
Night fiats at length with pitying veil—
A moonlit silence deep and fresh ;
These features, blood-besprent and pale
Vainly the chill night clews assail—
For colder than the dews thiir flesh!
And flickering far through brush and wood
Go searching-parties, torch in hand—
" Seize if you can some rest and food,
At dawn the fight will be reilewed t
Sleep on your arms I" the hushed command
They talk in whispers as they Ile
In line—these rough nod weary men;
"Dead or but wounded?" then a sigh;
"No coffee either!" "GUCHS we'll try
To get [bete two guns back again:"
"We've flee flags to their onol oho I"
"That bridge—'twos hot, there as we passedl"
"The colonel dead It can't be do;
Wounded and badly—that I know ;
But he kept saddle to the last."
"Be sure to sena It If I full—"
"Any tobacco? Dill, have you?"
" A brown-hair cd, blue-eyed, laughing doll--"
"Goad !Aga, boys, and God keep you all I"
" What I sound asleep? Guess, I'll sleep too."
" Yes, just about this hour they pray
For Dad—." "Stop talking I pass the word I"
And soon no quiet as the clay'
Which thousands ivlll but be next day
The long-drawn Highs of sloop are beard.
Oh, noon! to whom this sketch, though rude,
Calls-back some scene of pain and pride ;
I)l4'whlOw 1 hugging close your brood,
Oh, wiW 1 'with happiness renewed,
Since he again is at your side:
This trophy that to-day wo raise
/34puld be a monument for alt ;
And on its sides no niggard phrase
•
Confine tizenerous nation's praise
To'those who hero have chanced to fall.
But let no all today combine
,Still other Monuments to raise;
]fern for the dead we build a shrine;
And now to those who, crippled, pine,
Let us give ]tope of happier days I
bet Wanes for Mess sod wrecks of wan•
Through all the land with speed arise;
Tongues cry from every gaping sear,
Lot not our brother's tomb debar
Tho wounded living from.our oyes."
A' noble city, a deed as good,
A noble seeno in which 'tie done,
The Birthday of one Nationhood
And bore again the Nation
. 11004
On Oita wane day—its life rowan I
A. bloom of bannere to tlici
A double calm of sltyand sold
Triumphal clihnt ttiid bugle blare, •,,
And green fields, spreading beight . ,and fair,
White ImMvonvvard *rATosi%hunw i6ll
negeriniaofor the land redeemed, 1;,.
The bayonet sheathed, the Cannon dumb)
'assed, as some hOrror wo have droamed,,
The liciy metoore flint horq streatned, .
' Threat - inking homee to come] - !'.
Again' our banner boats abroad, -
.oono the one stain that on it fell—
And, bettered by 1110 chastening rod,
Alth'streamindayea
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V ionamityn.
THE LUCKY LEG
What unaccountable things people
do in the way of marrying l" I said to
four or five of the ladies belonging to our
chapel, who had met at the minister's
house, to form a sort of supplementary
Dorcas meeting; and, as there were so
few of us, we considered it unnecessary
to attend to the rule of appointing a rea.
der, and forbidding ossip ; a rule which
considerably lessened the interest and
popularity of our meetings.
The only single lady among us looked
up upon hearing my remark\ and drop
ping her work, as if fin a long speech,
began :
" What you said is very true; I do
think the conduct of people at other times
really sensible, during their engagements,
and in their choice of husbands or wives,
to be the most incomprehensible and con•
tradictory of all human beings. If a
woman has a decided prejudice, she is
certain to act in direct opposition to it.
Last spring I was at a wedding of one of
my cousins—you remember her, Mrs
Turner, she was over here two or three
ant limns ago—and, being a high Church-
woman. she would . , not so much as put
her foot inside .1(11. chapel. She is a fine,
majestic-10(4611g, girl, and has taken les
sons in Deportment, 80 that it. is quite
imposing to see her enter a room, or sail
down the street ; she used to vow that
she would never marry a little man, a
draper. or a dissenter ; and now she has
just married :1 very small. abject-looking
draper. who is such 'a rabid Methodist,
that he will preach, though he has to
stand on two bosses to raise his head suf
ficiently above the panels of the pulpit "
•'Marriage--; are quite beyond our own
management and contrivance," said Mrs
Turner, musingly ; "my motile r'S was
very romantic. In travelling from her
fa tlrer's house to her grandmother's.
where she was going to live with the old
lady, she had to stay a night in 'dere
ford—it was in the time of coaches, you
,know----and her father wrote to a glover
there, to meet her at the coach-office, and
recommend her to an inn. Ile invited
her to stay with his sister instead ; and
she was so sniff ten with his manners and
appearance, that she said to herself, If
ever I marry, I hope it, may be to Mc
Harper.' She' went on the next mord:
ing to her grandmother's, and lived with
her fburteen years, never seeing or hear
ing ny thing of 11l r. Harper of Horeford ;
and she actually refused several good of
fens during that time. At last lier grand
mother died ; and Mr. Harper. being
connected with her family, he was invit
ed to the funeral; and an acquaintance
followed, which ended in their mar- '
OEM
" I am afraid," chimed in Mrs. Hyde,
a lady who was a comparative stranger
to all of us, "that if I confess the singu
lar circumstances of my marriage„ you
will none of you think so well of me as I
sh6iild wish you ; but as we are talking
of extraordinary matches, I am sure you
will be amused at mine. When I was
five and-thirty, I had not had a single
offer ; partly, I fancy, because I had a
twin sister so like Inc. that no one was
sure which he was in love with. Well,
I was one of the few women who give up
the idea of being married alter they have
turned thirty, and I settled myself down
into a comfortable old-maidism. One af
ternoon, 1 was out upon seine errand or
'other, when a tradesman, whom I had
known all my life, a confirmed bachelor,
over forty years of age, overtook me in
the street. Before we reached the end
.of it, he had said, Miss Mary, I've bad
you. in my eye a long time; do you think
You could be happy as my wife ?' and I .
had answered, Yes, I really thitik.l
should." Well, then,' he added., 'let us
be married without any futis and if you
want lots of clothes and things as women
do, let them come out of my pocket, in
stead of' your poor mother's.' And we
were married in three weeks, though, I
assure you, I had not the remotest notion
of such a thing before that afternoon."
"I will tell you the most marvellous
occurrence that ever came under my ob.
servation," said our minister's wife, who
is a little, merry-, talkative woman. "My
husband and I were, next to the parties•
.themselves, chief actors in it; so I know
all the circumstances well. It . was in
the town where my husband first entered
upon - the 'v'fillnistry, and _where we had
wliat is called -a very united ;people,
which often means," She said, shrewdly,
"that everybody knows and deplores
everybody else's 'failings and inconsis
tencies. Some years after our call there,
a yoUng, lady 'eamowith her mfither to
'establish; if they a millinery 'busi
ness. They belonged to us, and before
they arrived, a . sister:Of the elder lady
called upon us, to announce their inten
.tion, and to prepare us for the.reeeption
of new members. ,' She:told:us quite a
ruelanchtily story of .lossee and ritisfor , f;•
'times; and, among other things, that Of
'the amputation of .Miss
You• know, mxlinsband is not an nnf ee i:.
:hnt:lte had a Vary fatiguing
Sabbath the day before, and his spirits
*66in:that state of reactiOn-Whieh made
;.hunt incline, `d "Ititiih . :td:44f4ing; and .
, iSitt,oon4letely puzzlo pookAipi:4**eE!
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with allusions to Miss Kilmansegg and
the merchant of Rotterdam, that the
worthy old lady began seriously to recap
itulate their pedigree, to prove there was
no connection between their families, un
less it were on Mr. Wigley's' side. For
a long time he called Mary Wigley Miss
Kilmansegg, when talking to each other.
She was a pretty, sweet-looking girl, and
so long as she sat still she looked Unu
sually attractive; but when she walked,
and you saw—her obvious limp, or heard
the stump' of h'er wooden leg, you no
longer wondered that she was unmarried,
for she was poor as well, and very far
above her present station. She was al
together .unsuited for the business they
had commenced, for she had lived in a
kind of elegant seclusion ;frail her fa
ther's deitth ; indeed luTlMpoverished
himself to surround her with recreations
and luxuries, to prevent her feeling her
deprivation. Excepting that she had
quite an artistic appreciation of thz.har
monies and contrasts of color, whi*en
abled her to arrange the windows and
.showrooms with great skill, she had hot
a single'qualiftcation for her work. I
have noticed her face flush painfully at
the too openly expressed pity of their
customers; and their whims and caprices
in dress used to surprise and annoy her
Mrs. Wigley, however, was a thorough,
clever business woman She had been
a tradesman's daughter, and the fluctua
tions and anxieties of business were like j
a game of chance to her. She soon es
tablished herselfin the good graces of the
ladies of our town; and, though my bus
band preaehod a very powerful sermon
on dress which I made him put off for
some months, lest it should injure the
rangers,) it bad no chance against Mrs.
Wigley's taste, and the pews in our
chapel looked like the gorgeous flower
hod in a summer garden.
" Mary Wigley soon became title of my
dourest Iriends ; she knew a great deal
more than II did, and was very accom
plished in music and painting; it really
was an incongruity to think of her sitting
behind a counter all her life. I. remein:
ber her coining to sit with me 'one even
ing after my little Mary was born, when
my husband had an appointment at
missionary meeting. I suppose we were
in an unusually happy frame of mind
that evening, for my husband was , glad
to'see 'Me up ugairt,"'Und lio ` paid ' iiie sonic
of those quiet tender attentions which
we who are married understand so well,
and being few and far between, prize so
highly. We wade no stranger of Mary,
and she sat smiling, at our affectionate
expressions to one another. But when
he was gone, and I returned to the study
after seeing the children in bed, I found
h, r burying her face in her hands, and
crying. Of course I insisted on' know
ing the cause, and among other things
she said, I distinctly remember this.
" If any human influence would make
nie great or as good as a woman, it would
be the guardianship ofd child of my
own— a woman's nature is only half de
veloped till she is a mother.'
" What a beautiful remark, and so
true," interrupted Mrs. Turner, with
tears in her eyes. (She was notorious
for neglecting her children.)
" I said it was true,' resumed our min
ister's wife, "and I told her that all my
powers of mind and body were doubled
by it. My husband's love,' I said, 'and
my children's dependence make me
precious to myself.'
"' And .you asked me why I cry,' she
answered, when I felt how I could re
joice in these domestic ties, and know
I shall never have them 1 Life is very
monotonous and wearisome when one has
no interest in the future!'"
" She should have more independence
and self-respoot," murmured our spinster
friend
Without noticing her, the minister's
4ife continued :
" She looked dreamily into the / fire,
and with a pretty tremulous motion shook
the tears from her dark eyelashes. I
could not tell her I thought she would
over be married, because men marry to be
helped, or to be amused, or to have some
One to be proud of; and she was a cripple
with no money. - Even my husband 'said
a wooden leg would be a serious obstacle
to any one falling in love.
"The morning after this conversation,
Mary went with . her mother to Alai:lobes-,
ter to purchase goods for the spring fash
ions ; it was quite a painful ordeal to
Mrry; for she could not endure travers
ing warehouse after warehouse, and as
cending and descending the innumera
ble flights of stairs, with the stump of
her wooden leg upon the bare hoards
everywhere announcing her approach; it
annoyed her - to see people look round to'
'see who was .ganittg, and it really seem.L
ed as if - she.never could reconcile her
self
,to the duties imposed upon her. •
" holast , day had passed; and she was
walking wearily hoseewards, eongratulat.
ing herself, in having finished the busi
ness that brought tbein'trorn their quiet
country town; she, lingered for .a minute
to look et an engraving; which bad caught
her artistic eye, gentleman; stand
ing behind her, placed a letter in her band,
said , hurriedly,. Let• nui , beg of you , to
grant my requelit f.=,and.beforeshe could
l'eoever,her selegessession;'WitdioNt hi the
1
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 186 -::'"!.
crowd, passing and repassing in the
thronged.' street ;
" Mary hastened on her way to the
lodgings where She expected to find her
mother, and briefly recounting her ad
venture, opened the letter with curiosi
ty. It contaned the following lines•
"If the young lady-that receives this
note will kindly send her address in the
enclosed envelope, that which may have
appeared an obstacle to her settling in
life, may eventually prove to be an ad
vantage.'
" The astonishment .of both Mrs
Wigley and . ;
_Mgy were • Indescribable ,
Mrs. Wigley 'ipoured forth a torrent of
questons which Mary was unable to an
swer ; she bad not seen the stranger, and
all she knew was, that he had a pleasant
voice. Of course_ with ,the becoming
bashfulness and sense of propriety of a
young lady, she wished the matter to be
passed over in silent contempt : but to
this her mother, who was a widow, would
by no means consent.
" You 'do not know what it may lead
to,' she said ; however, hoax or no hoax,
I shall follow it up; I hate a thing drop
ping through, and hearing no more of it.'
" Accordingly, soon after they returned'
home Mrs Wigley sent her address and
1 her daughter's name in the directed en
velope, and the next pest brought a let
ter written to the mother. It. was not long
and I remember the substance of it:
" DEAR MADAM,—Let me apologize
for tuy presumption in seeking to form
your acquaintance and that, of your
daughter, whose appearance arrested my
'my attemion the first moment I saw her.
If a e would honor me by a correspon
dence, under your sanction, we should
learn something of each other's character.
Do not imagine me to be trifling, ; I desire
to be a sincere friend to her ; farther ac
quaintance may greatly conduce to our
mutual happiness. Believe me to be, with
the most profound respect, dear Madam.
" Yours, very truly,
FREDERICK WILLIAMS:
"Of course, Mrs. Wigley persisted in
making Mary write; and, though it was
no easy matter to compose a fitting an
swer,in such a letter, she wrote with a
charming measure of good sense and te.
,erve. Mr. Williams prosecuted the
correspondence with great earnestness,
and his letters manifested a well educa
ted and intellectual mind.
"So long as Mary was acting against
her own inclination and judgement, she
did not choose to •mention the matter to
me; but as her interest in her unknown
correspondent increased, she could not
conceal from me her frequent pre-occu
pation of mind, and in the course of a
month she fuly confided in me.—My
husband regarded it in a very different
light to what we did, and lie urged Mary
uct to be entangled in any affair so in
definite and uncertain. s,
"‘ Let me write to Mr. Williams,' he
said, 'and he will see you have a friend
able and willing to protect you. I will
tell him I shall advise you not to contin
ue correspondence so calculated to unset•
tle you.
" 'Don yo think this stranger is try
ing to impose on Mary?' I asked, when
she was gone; and my husband was wri
ting his letter.
" I think he may have been misled
by her appearance, he answered In these
days there is no judging a person's pos'i
•tion by her dress; and Mary might be a
countess. ft is an unaccountable affair
altogether: but this letter will effoot
something, for I have made it very strong.'
"Mr. Williams promptly answered my
husband's letter, and requested some in
formation repeating Miss Wigley's fam
ily, position, and character. My hus
band replied something to this effect::
"'Miss Wigley is the daughterior-.
surgeon, who left her and her mother in
very reduced circumstances; they have
maintained theuiaelves by a respectable
millinery business. Her education was
that of a lady, and her character is such
as to make her the chosen and intimate
friend of my wife. So strong is the in•
terest I feel in her welfare, that I should
carefully investigate the principles .and
. eireumstauces of any one paying his ad
dresses, to her. You may not be aware
that the limp, observible in her gaiti is
owing to the total loss of a limb; this
circumstance has materially militated a
gainst her. settlement in life.'
"The - nexf - Sundayl`Sary grid "I; had
-
scarcely . taken' our usual seats,. (she sat
with me, as our pew_ was near the door,
and she ,avoided attracting the 'notice of.
the congregation), whemthe chapel-keep
er shoWed a stranger into .our pevir He.
was a tall military looking man with dark
hair atid . moustachp, which marked him:
of a different stamp to the usual frequeni•
ers . of a chapel, for who can associate the
ideas of unworldliness ,and moustaohesl:
A 'beard is more, patriarchal', and even .
Scriptural The .stranger bowed to
and then composed himself into an titrb;
tude of.profound attention: Etepreqlit
ed hhiiiielf, again at the eVoning'irerviC'e;
,and my hatiband retnarkedirto'Mp,',fts;; . '
walked,horee imagine lie its , ii`liQlieh ; ;
or Hungarian refugee,'audio MorrWiil
.
will 0) with a petition;"
earlythere.caMe
note,, inviting my, bus s to. dine With:
that
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principal hotel in our -town., He threw
the 'note-to me - witn - a comical 'Mixture of
conaternation and fun.'
This is really getting a serious af
fair,.4:l4said, 'I will go'out and see if I
earl. , meet this,stranger somewhere, and
take-„my merOire of him." .
cq remained at home on'thorns of cu
riosity and suspense till my husband re
turned; ho was already dgighted with
Mr:7 Williams's intelligence, information,
tir.o.;and 'said so much about them, that I
thatiiYht they had forgotten Mary.
' - By no means,' he said, I have in
vitod Air. Williams to meet. her hero to
morrow evening, and we must invite a few
friends, who are , not in the secret, to take
off tile it'wkwardness:
‘rWith the ea dawn of nrcrningl was
up,_ t und_ before Mary had left her bed,.
rot*, I. was there, announcing to her and
her !Mother the actual impending inter
view' with their unknown correspondent.
Mary's agitation was extreme, quite hys
terical in fact, but Mrs. Wigley most ju
dithously entered into a discussion upon
her-,dress, and I left her tolerably compo-
sod.
"It was a busy and anxious morning
to us all; my husband passed it with his
new friend, and, at the appointed hour,
when. I had engaged to be ready to re
ceive him, and- wonderful to say not be
foreLhe brought him, and introdnoed him
to roe. Nothing could surpass the suav
ity and easy politeness Obis manner, and
in a.few minutes I felt as if I had known
him all my life. I watched him when we
beard Mary's step in the passage, and his
eyes lighted up with a pleasant smile; she
looked really " beautifnl after the - first;
awkWardness of meeting Elm; her drt — ir3l - 3.
was the most elegant and bcomningler
motheils taste could 'advise, while her
heightened (10194 and eyes cast down till
the long; dashes'Tes .. o4, ; , , otr• her 4,, , 10wing
cheeks, sufficiently ki6frttlyd'a het' agitation.
The evening, passed algiai,fy
ancoastraine
stiange'r.took
m 7.9.4 3 .10011 ha ',asked i perrtl,kAda to esi ;
-cort,Atery:-and-her- ; iinl4her4ettie,--I-ra‘
up stairs and :Watched• the in "With.intense
intofest till'iliey'tur4d the corner of the ..
street;
' ."11A : tjt•to lengthen my story, I will tell
-- ry - till - Ttbioncolb at he scion . propCiiCiv-iTs
accielz.A.
"Mary and Mr:* Williams were very
happy for a few lovely suwinci days, and
then it became necessary for him to re
turn to Manchester; when this necessity
Was forced upon him he came to us to beg
that I would aid him in persuading Mary
to accou piny her mother and me on a
visit to his house, .where, he said, we
might find some alterations to propose;
he had waited to obtain ottr sanction and
acceptance of his invitation before he had
named it to Mary. My husband was
highly pleased with the plan, and we had
little difficulty iu inducing Mary to ac
quiesce in it.
"Yr. Williams preceded us by a few
days, and then he met us at ihe Bank Top
Station. To our astonishment our huni
ble luggage—and how humble it did look
I cannot describe—was consigned to the
care of two livery servants, while he con
ducted us, with great etnpressetnent to an
elegant carriage which was waiting in the
scation•yard. In silence and astonish
wont we were conveyed rapidly through
the thronged streets to one of ,the pleas
ant suburbs about four miles from town,
whore we alighted at a magnificent . resi
dence surrounded with pleasure-grounds
and numerous tokens of wealth. Within
everything was on a fitting scale, and I
who had noticed Mary's increasing pale
ness, as she had leaned back in the car
riage silent and wondering, was not sur
prised to see her burst into a flood of tears
whien Mr. WilliaMlNFOletiored her to her
future home. How he soothed her and
manifested lover-like concern and atten
tion, of course T'need not desl2tribe; but,
at lust; she grew calm enough to bear with
equanimity,the sight of a charming little
room fitted up es.pressly for herself.
"One soon accustoms one's•sclf to pleas
ant things ; in a few hours the elegancies
surrounded us instead of oppresSing, ele
vated our spirits: , Mrs. Wigloy and I. en
joyed them thoroughly; thestately.house
keeper, the obsequious servants, the con
servatories, the elegant equipages belong
ed to . us,.and were part of our pomp and
state -whileYary ' was engtossed with
Mr. - Williatna - as to be alinost - obliVious of
her grandeur. I like to, See lovers, and
those two wore lover-like enough to satis
fy me, • •
"Welted been three or four days- in
Manchester, when Mr: Williams'proposed
to drive us to Dunham Park; Mrs. Wig
ley eared little for rural pleasures, and
preferred the
,enjoyment of.- the conse
quence about, her; -so Maly and I went
alone With ikir. Williams. If ever mortal
enjoyed perfect worldly happiness, it was
Mrs. Wigley when she watched bet daugh
ter, driving ont'in the carriage, of the man
she w,as iiii),3„to marry. She reentered
the henie with a fullrblown. delight. In
greal.benignity,of,spirit; oho entered iate,
cOnversation• . , : witli•the stately housekeep
er; , and introduced Mr. Wil-
Patus'a:nium- •
; s''l' do not know 'any Mr. Williams,
said the:lieusOkeePer;
if :'Goodness gracious I' cried Mrs.
1
i.t. 11 silt [mit .
MEM
ley, 'who then is the owner of these o•
mains—of this - mansion, these 'carriages,
this grandeur? Who is the gentle Man
who is driving out my daughter and her
friend ?'
"'That is Mr. Gordon,' replied the
housekeeper ; 'the servants have noticed,
ma'am, that you all called him by anoth•
er name, and some said it was Mr. Wil.
Hums, but I did not think so ; hie name
is Frederic William Gordon, and if he is
deceiving you, ma'am, I think it is only
just to put you on your guard. To be
sure he is the owner of, this property, but
there is neVer - any good in hiding' one's
proper name:'
"In this Mrs..Wigley so heartily. a
greed, that sl - e imtuediately wrote to my
husband in much perplexity and tribula
tion; and after a long deliberation ; she
decided upon not disturbing us with the
discovery till she received his answer.
"We had a delightful ;iny at Dunham.
I' do not make a bad third, and so often .
found objects of interest to engage my at:
tention, that the others really grew
.un
conscious of my presence. We returned
late in the afternoon and found Mrs. Wig
ley moody rand taciturn. Mr. Williams
and Alary sat apart and conversed in low
tones throughout the evening, , While I
lounged luxuriously in an easy-chair, and
mentally reviewed the events which bad.
domiciled us amidst so much magnifi-
ITEM
"The next morning Mr. Williams met
us with a grave and pre-occupied alt, and ,
addressed Mary with a kind of lendei
melancholy; Mrs. Wigley was constrain
ed and rather fretful, and we others fail
ing into their mood, the breakfast was a
, dull and brief meal. Then, with the un
.Consciourreeremorly that one Uses. when ill
at-eitse, Mr. Williams invited us into the
library, and opening a drawer, took out;
nuineruus bunches. of'. keys. ;
"
qt , e
hil,4:oht.-:E4lgitTic, with the .fAt*
%
10,ro - tiona'muttfirfiti n os% ccl asiab
lishthetit:as" may seem desirable-to you.
Tr - efiliiilr — oferTeVerflOcr in the
lidtise;'ritid you will oblige me by dev2.
, ting this day to mitring such.- inspection
'as yeti plea Se. •-• There is no key you may
not use, and no papers which you, Mary,
may not reati; but you will make diseov
eriesthat will surprise Jouonsl perhaps.
1
influence you 'against me I shall leave
home for the day, to give you an oppor
tunity for an investigation, but I shall
most impatiently wait your decision on
my return.'
"Ho was gone before any of us could
answer, and we were'left gazing at one
another in profound astonishment. The
atmosphere of mystery in which we had
been living was thickening to a dense
fog, and we were half afraid to grope to
the light 'that was offered to Its. Mary
positively refused to avail herself of Mr.
Williatns's absence.
" 'Let us do nothing,' she said, 'and
leave it to him to explain himself when
he comes home. It is so noble and- hon
orable in him to act so, that I could not
bear to abuse his generosity.'
"But an intense curiosity was devour
ing Mrs. Wigley and me, and human na
ture could not endure suoh a disappoint
ment.
"'lt is your duty to yourself, my child/
said the mother, 'to take every justifiable
means for learning Mr. Williams's char
acter and circumstances. He has put the
means in your power, and it is unjust ,to
your own common sense and to mine, not
to use them.'
‘"My dear Mary,' I urged, 'you cer
tainly should reflect that little more than
a month since none of us knew this gen
tleman; and it is evidently his wish that
you ,should discover for yourself some se
cret, and spare him the pain of a verbal
explanation!
'"Do us you please,' replied Mary,
weeping, 'but let me, at least,,trust to his
honor and affection. 'There can be noth
ing to conceal where there is, such open
frankness '
"'We certainly shall do nothing against
your wish,' said Mrs. Wigley, crossly,
'but I must say you are very foolish,
Mary, and , you quite forget you have no
father to act for4Ou iii these affairs. It
will be a very long, tiresome day with
nothing in the world,io do. You arc too
scrupulous, or sentimental.'
" 'Oh, mother,r- Mary 'answered, 'I
Itnow you Ought to be allowed,to do what
your judgment dictates; so pray take the
keys and use 4hem on my account,; only
do not ask me to join you.' _
.6 Mrs. Wigley and .1 rose with alacri
ty, and proceeded to get the aid of the
housekeeper; how . we tried keys and
wearied over refractory locks; how we
turned over drawers and long-unopened
boxes which were filled with , dresses and
articles of , feminine adornment; how we
ransacked ..the china closets and plato , ,
'Chest, and nrurnaged' through the motet ( '
1-of linen; how we went back Co the Libra
tq frtnn time 'totitne to report progress.
All the fatigues and labor, andexpitetuent
,l'Otthat morning t (satinet desdribe to you.
At luncheon refreshed and strengthened;
my spirit ' s rose to my circumstances.
'Ole is guile a Olite Beard affair,
I remarked, to my languid friead.
gMr. Williams . has always Irad S'emething
of a ,ouipioloue • audleroaioucaspeat,
TERMS:--$2,00 in Advance, or $2,50 within the year
„,.
haunting mys - tery7-i-Ahe , Solving;dif.i , tre'
problem on which MarY's future. life - e- •
pended.,
..
•'” Nothing could have stayed .
us not,
Mary rapidly detached 'tine of the keys:..
for me, and 'we knelt - down to fit them', ...
into the minute locks of the mahogany
cases. We raised' the lids simultaneous- ,
ly, and our eager, earnest eyes - fell ;upon :_.•
7.4.L"- - -' two wooden lege. - ',:• \.. '- ,
~_
shall not be surprised if we come upon a :11 1 scarcely kn'ow, whte.itin.,felt, the
closet of skeletons, or bodies of deceased first few minutes. It wia'-''net: I OW;
wives preserved in large bottles of spirits for, though our
,suspense Was . :tiver, Our
of wine.'
astonishment was norlessened. , We had ,
" ' Horrible,' she ,interrupted; 'you not the dignity of being horror.striolten,,,
forget, too, that he has left us all his nor the indignation 'of being .hoaxed:
~
keys, and not forbidden us the use,of we were passively astonished.' Wary
, ..
any.'
silently reloeked the casesid
a . the closet
. .
"' There is something to, he concealed, an d we adjourned queily to the library. .
however,' said her mother. - ‘ Hehas paid A spirit of deep musing had fallen upon ;,...
'his addresses to you under an assumed us all. Out of the profound abyss of
'name, and that has a suspicious look' contemplation, suggestion- after sugges- ,
" `Are you, sure of it, mother ? exclaim- tion - was summoned ; but noneeoald sat- -
ed Mary, her face
,coloring with excite- isfy us or 'explain all 'the cireurristances"
went 'How did you find it out ?' of the case.
Mrs. yirigley then recounted to us the " "rvv e felt great excitement when the
discovery of the preceding day, which she return of the 'waiter of the house was •
bad intended to keep secret till she heard heard. Mary threw ,
herself back into,
, from my husband; instead of' the weeping her chair, and my husband and , .MVIS.
and hysterics I expectdd, Mary displayed Wigley rose to' meet him as he 'entered,
great energy of character.
the room. Glancing keenly round on
" ' Nay, then, mother,' she cried, it is our attitudes of expectation, and the,
time for me to open my eyes ; I will work
. . littered room, he advanced and_ placed
with you now.'
himself behind Mary's chair. . '
"So the search -recommenced with ar- "'Permit me,' he Said, 'to give you an
dor, it was no longer in linen-cheats and intelligible explanation of my conduct - her- -
ehiniv-elosets. We rifled desks and cabi- fore you reproach me,for my secrecy. - My
nets, and curiously constructed drawers, father made a match for me when I was
of' their contenti, and poured bundles upon very young with a relative who possessed
bundles of letters and papers into Mary's much wealth, but who had suffered an
lap; we found banking accounts and cheek amputation. She died:about two yeati
hooks, and other indications of wealth; after our marriage; and' bequeathed 'her
deeds and wills, and rolls of' yellow parch- property to me, on condition' that if .I '-
merit tied up with red tape , but still married again it should be a woman sitrii.
nothing to satisfy our curiosity. Our la- tarty afflicted. A few years-after, I nut
bor continued uninterititting, for the with a lady possessing the necessary qual
evening was drawing on, and we be g an iftcation, and gifted with so much sweet
to regret the wasted minutes of the morn- 'sus and amiability of temper, that I loved
ing. The mystery, like an ignis fatuue,_ her truly. It suited me to watch over
appeared to fly before us.
and, protect her, and we were very happy, ,
" t last all seemed to have been pass- but for a few months only. T1:m%7414Ap., , , _
ed under our s crutiny , and nothing„ ; waft pened Abet,. while quite a yoirg man I
,-
discovered., Then Mrs, YiTlT4l*, * i . ~.,' -, A,.. oyes a widower for the second time. My„: :
left Mary,tereplace-theiliio:4,kr7,i.l'i•.:i iisf4ife, with a caprice at variance with s4 , 7 j ,
", 1 - 1 'lt; "' " d'd... - ei ilti i ii",t4`'character , had mado , a similtivr; . '
,t3pti*.ill_riv, , , ,ptocce ti,, m ,,.... i . ,
~ 1.0 , 1 _ _
. 1 .,_ •
'arriviStgieterlilgoratitinsi--wl illiiiV:it l'.. • ~,,srig_. first wiy,,s,,& . and _though 'I .
4 ?
' - ''
' '-'-'
'''' '' ' ' '''-'- ir... nited fort es -
Vepjf...for a'Piciiief's o 4 ~:;;_-,0,,„.4e.,,, tfo:,,i_l_ci .
„ liti,Vegi , ven upt n .. 0
nay iiiiiii'' lihii?l''Conidelove;,
'.lli,tevi nitnlitkik .lltl'coi l 'b.eka. 4 ,*,- , -I* .2; ‘ ' tLltl l i ' a .!ev.ge tßi 1 ' "fill'
, . .
my :eriousielaktolghie7ttliefie Ittir'Gor . I , llego otnou 'Ci;r..ztanc t , e 1.0 iv 8 a
do/I'S ilitA%:iiiiina`,A , - • cripple with peculiar interest in my eyes,
"' I have never seen that open,' said and I have made it a rule to seek , the ae
the-housekeeper ; pit is tw`o years since I quaintance of those I met. As my posi
was engaged by Mr. Gordon to officiate as lion eel presumed object became known,
the superintendeht of' his household, but I was made the victim of several unworthy
no one has ever passed through that dour artifices, so that I determined to make all
except himself. Ido not think yoti will future advances -trader an assumed name,
find any key for it, ladies.' —as I did to you, Mary. At first I was
"We tried every key on the bunch, pleased with the notion that you loved
but the door yielded to ne`no. I flew- tne for myself; but when I came to know
down stairs to Mary. your excellencies, your cultivated Intel-
We have found Blue Beard's closet,'
I cried, and there is no key for it; corn/ ,
come, we must not waste a moment.'
"Every nerve 1 bad quivered with im
patience while Mary slowly ascended the
stairs. How slow and sluggish all the
movements were 1 But, in time, she
stood with us before the low, narrow door,
and with heads trembling from eager-
ness, she shook it till the handle rattled
noisily, but yielded nothing to her grasp.
," Here, then,' she said, turning and
facing us with a ghastly smile, here is
the secret we setk.'
"At this moment we heard the loud
ringing of a bell, and the sound of a man's
step and voice in the entrance hall.
" Blue Beard is come back V I cried,
with a vague feelihg of apprehension,
mingled with a keen sense of the ab-
surdity of our position. I stole quietly
into the gallOry, and with jealous oaution,
peered into the lobby, below. There
stood my husband. With an exolarna-
tion of relief, I again flew down stairs
and threw my arms around him, crying,
Oh, I am glad you are come 1' His face
was stern and grave, and he looked pre
pared for storms. I drew him into the
library, and hastily explained our posi
tion. As I spoke, his eye rested upon
a heap of papers on the sofa, and instant
ly detected a ring containing three keys.
1 seized them joyfully, and ran upstairs,
closely followed by my husband Mary
was leaning against the locked door, in
the quietness of sheer exhaustion, and
large tears were falling slowly from her
eyes upon the, door. "With irrepressible
eagerness she snatched the keys from me,
and at once fitted the largest into the
look; but, before she could turn it, lay
husbond's restraining hand was laid upon
ber arm
1 , 'Nary,' ho; said, advise you as
your friend not to open this olffdt, but
wait and ask. ; ,lr. Gordon for an explana-
tion of his very mysterious conduct. What
there may be to effect your fature,happi,
flees we can none of us conjecture, but
at present it is Ws'seoret. . Let it remain
" ' It is too late to wait new,' answered
Mrs Wigley, impatiently, 4 they -.llstrii
roused our curiosity, and it shall be sat
isfied at any cost. - I wish to know the
worst.'
To own the truth, I was heartily
glad of. the old lady's deosion, though
it was opposed to my husband's judgment.
I;too, was consumed:by an inostinguisha
ble curiosity to fathom our 'enigma.
Behind that door lay the mysteries that
had been all day, arranging theta Selves
into .numberless forMs Within ; ottr..,busy .
brairts, and now to` wait.for Gordon's
return, and then, perhapq to be :denied
an explanationovas amoral impoSsibility:'
Mary 'slowly' but resolutely 'tinned'
the door, and wq all, - evett my, husband . ,
looked, into the unlighted closet;
blteuso gaza ; but thaw. was uniuires,,,
no 'scene ot,korier'oi,
tura_ puiT•OFes.. In; the tkirritieepAlinip
she a
pe 'outonly' two eivall thsli oga ny.'
601it?13, ' , something 'like violin.easeUltie , re,
then, lay the verroore aud.liernel of
, .
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NO. 30.
lect, your delicate sense of honor, and
your modest reserve, I did not dare to
confess I had deceive!) you, until I had
called to my aid the adventitious influ
ences of position and fortune, and by them
won over your friends to my side. Yet
when you were here, I bad not courage to
tell you personally, and I suffered you to
find it out for yourself.'
" interrupted Mary, rising, '1
am ashamed to say that I have been guil
ty of contemptible curiosity this day ; but
L have not read your paper. Forgive me;
this the last time I shall ever doubt you.'
"'But what caused your nary belliger
ent aspect?" said Mr. Gordomito my hus
band, after be and Mary had quite settled
the question of forgiveness. ,"10ought
you and Mrs. Wigley were both going to
attack me; and if you did not know I
bad been twice a widower, what occasion
ed your .solemn manner of reception.?'
"'The two wooden legs 1' I replied.
"In four months after their' first meet-
ing, we had the grandest wedding that
was ever seen in our chapel ; which was
registered fbr the celebration of marriages.
Mary and Mr. Gordon left the town in
great glory.
" Since then we have often visited
them ; and my one little Mary is now
being educated with their children.
" I believe the two wooden legs still re
main the dark little closet; birt there is
no apparent probability of a third
_de
funct limb at present."
" We ought to be more patient under
deprivations," added (Ai:minister's wife ;
"for who knows all the advantages of dis
advantages?"
MEN or TASTE.—There are some men
who stand on the debatable ground be
tween talent and genius, without belong
ing to either; they have a strong love for
all that is beautiful and groat, without
the power 'of 'producing them; instead
of all the radi . af their mind tending,
n.
as in me of genius, to single .point,
they stand in the penfre, ,and.send forth
rays in every direction; but these anta
gonistic forces ,destroy.each other.. '
gar At a recent meeting of a parish,.a
solemn, straight-bodied and pokoSt exem,
plary deacon submitted a rOport, in writ
ing, of the destitute widows and others
standing in need of assistance in the
parish. `?Ake You'snie, deacon," asked
another solemn brother,:"that you.have
ortbra6ed nil the widowS ?" Said he
had s. 'done so;'‘' but if any had
been omitted, the omission could be eas
ily corrected: • . •
ComToni„----A good deacon, at a eon
ferenee.meetlng in the.town Of D-------,
about thirty miles Worth of Emden, ad
dressed his,auditors one Sabbath evening
as, follows .f 4 My friends, there is a new
,11,xeing about' now-aAlays. We
'all mankind tare going, to
tyt?tri:riZF:Bitt, my brethren and•sisters,
'foor better thing's 1"
J. ~yf.
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