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THE TIM.ES, NEW BL00MFIEL1), TA.t MAY 8, 1877.
THE WIDOW'S STRATAGEM.
" Huraebodr's coming to mtrry bm,
Nomebnlr'a Coming to woo."
TIE above words were trilled by a
young and beautiful widow with a
very sweet voice indeed.
" Happy fellow whoever he may be,"
said her pretty cousin. ' " Flow about
i'rcd Wright, Nannie V" ' ,
" Nonsense, Zoe. Fred is cured of his
love for me since well, slnre 1 threw
hlru over and married Tom Hastings for
tils money there, It's all out now. I
shall never marry, not but that there's
plenty to take me as soon as they 11 nd
out just what I'm worth in dollars and
cents. Ginger I I wonder if it's any.
body's business if I do live in style and
wear diamonds. Father's business, for
sooth! And I'm called shoddy on ac
count of it. Pshaw ! I am bored to
death among this turned-up nove set of
rossips."
"I have lenrued that I'm! "Wright
lias relumed to New York, and 1 a
bachelor still," replied her cousin.
" Moreover, lie has heard of Mr. Huh t
fc's death; and now that he knows
yon re a gay and saucy widow, I sup
pose lie will be hunting you up."
Nannie laughed, much as a brown
linnet sings.
" Come here, Zoe, and sit on this foot
stool at my feet," she said. Then when
Zoe was ready to listen, she put her
cherry lips close to her ear, and thus
they whispered together for some time;
then Zoe, jumping up,clnpped her hands
and laughed so that one might have
tvaapd her half a mile off.
" Now that I have showed you my
trump card," said the widow, "can I
depend upon your fidelity y"
" Do I look like a person who stands
in shoes made of crocodile Y You may
trust Zoe."
A few weeks after this conversation
tlook place,Mrs. Hastings and her cousin
vere living in an elegantly-furnished
hous-.e in the upper part of the city of
New York her widow's weeds were
cast aside, and she looked bewitching in
fancy toilets.
, Heart and soul she loved Fred Wright ;
luit lie was only aclerk, with a moderate
salary, at Stewart's. Rich clothes and
elegance seemed so desirable to Nannie,
so that when the wealthy Tom Hast
ings, captivated by her hazel eyes and
herry lips, proposed, he was accepted.
In exchange for the loving heart of a
true man, she accepted a little iusigifi
rant one for whom she did not care a fig,
(i fine mansion, a carriage with high
stepping bays, and plenty of money to
support extravagant habits and tastes.
Now, that Tom Hastings was cold in
his grave, would her former lover re
turn to her V Hhe hardly hoped for so
much happiness aud if he should,
would not her wealth be the chief at
traction r bo judging Fred by herself,
she concluded that he would be like all
the rest, " ou the make."
Nevertheless, what a delicious bit of
comfort it would be to find that he loved
her after all.
Meantime, Fred learned that his old
sweetheart was In the city. He had not
forgotten her by any means, although
-live long years had passed, and now he
yearned for a glimpse of the fair widow.
Not that he would marry one who had
proved herself so mercenary and heart
less. Oh, no ! but he would like to
show her that he was cured of his folly.
Ho he searched everywhere, and at last
his perseverance was rewarded, for one
day he saw her sitting at an upper win
dow. Fwgetting his previous resolutions,
ho vry sight of his lady-love more
beautiful than ever, caused his heart to
heat violently ; his feet no less nimble,
carried him across the street; and up the
broad stone steps, and in another mo
jnent he was sitting in the parlor,
waiting to see Mrs. Hastings.
But when looking around, he saw the
maguiflcence and elegance of the house,
his heart sank like lead he remembered
that he was only a poor clerk. If Nan
nie had not loved him when she was a
IHjnniless girl, what could he expect
now, that she was a rich widow ?
While he was indulging In these
gloomy reflections, she entered, and
greeted him, all smiles and blushes.
" My old friend Nannie!" he exclaim;
ed, joyfully ; " but what is the meaning
of this V" he said, pointing to the crutch
upon which she was leaning.
"Oh! Mr. Wright haven't you
heard of my misfortune i I was thrown
from my carriage about three years ago,
and injured one of my limbs."
" And you are lame still Yn
' Now, I am obliged to wear a cork
leg," she sahl, blushing deeply.
There was an awkward silence for a
moment which Fred broke hy exclaim
ing. " Oh, I pity you, Nanale; you must
have suffered terribly; but you are un
changed, in fact more lovely than ever."
After this interview, they met almost
every evening, and the widow soon
found that it was all up with Fred, but
she was as timid as a chipping bird, and
could not believe that his love was of
the disinterested sort.. ,
As for Fred, he couldn't keep away,he
loved her so ; but lie thought that a lame
Wife was not as desirable as one who
could dance and frollo ; nevertheless he
told her Just how it was one day.
"Nannie," he said, " do you remem
ber the afternoon I saw you at the win
dow, and how frantically I ran up the
steps y Well, you came down, I looked
at you, and somehow it was done, all
the hid love revived ; and now won't
you love me Just a littler"'
"I will If you wish it."
"Oh, my darling, you know that I
wish It ; but do you indeed love me V"
"Yes, I do."
" Then will you be mine?"
" Fred, remember how mortifying it
would be for you to hear your friends
say, ' there goes Fred Wright and his
limping wife.' You are fond of amuse
ment and balls too, and I can't dance
now," she said, her eyes filling with
tears.
" 8o much the more need of some one
to love and care for you," he said ten
derly. "And you can really put up with my
crutch y" she Inquired.
" Yes, for I love you, Nannie."
" There's another matter, I must
speak of," she continued; "lam now,
as you are aware, a rich woman, with
means sufficient to gratify every reason
able wish ; but my late husband was of
a very jealous disposition, and when
leaving me the bulk of his fortune, he
added a singular condition. If I marry
again, the whole property will revert to
his own family, so then I shall come to
you not lame only but penniless. How
will you like that V
" I asked you a question, Nannie, rich
or poor, lame or not. I want an answer,
for it is to you to the woman I speak.
Is it to be yes or no V
" It is to be yes," she replied.
" Then you love me well enough to
give upall these luxuries?" he inquired,
glancing around the elegant rooms.
" Yes. And do you, Fred, love me
for myself alone y"
" Yes," was the loving reply.
" Then, oh, my darling, how happy I
am," she exclaimed, crying for very
joy.
It was a whim of the widow's that the
wedding should take place at her own
mansion in the country.
" I intend to have a grand ' let out,'
and spend lots of money. The Hastings
shall lose that much anyhow for calling
me Bhoddy," she said, spitefully.
Of course Fred allowed her to have
own way, us was her privilege for the
last time. .
When the bridegroom arrived at the
splendid mansion, illuminated so bril
liantly for the occasion, Cousin Zoe, who
was to be bridesmaid, met him, saying
that the fascinating widow was "Just
lovely," and that she wished to see him
before the ceremony, and learn his opin
ion of her bridal costume.
Then, smiling, Fred followed her up
the 8tairs,and there he found his bride,
looking like a queen, iu white satin and
diamonds.
Could he believe his eyes yes she was
advancing to greet him without (he
crutch!"
Fred was speechless with astonish
ment. He had seen her limping pain
fully for months, and now here she was
as frisky as a kitten. f
" You are surprised at my miraculous
recovery, dearest Fred ; but I suppose
you will be glad to find that you are not
to have a cripple for your wife."
" I can't understand it," he replied ,ln
a bewildered way. " I thought I under
stood that you had a cork leg."
"Sol have," she replied, blushing
scarlet, " two good, sound cork legs ;'
but seeing him look a little oonfused,ehe
added: "I forgot to tell you that Cork
was my native city. Won't you for
give me, dearest, for the fraud y Zoe and
I concluded that you could not possibly
love me for myself alone,after my heart
less conduct In giving you the mitten,
so I resolved to test your love."
It is needless to say that the young
man was overjoyed at such a pleasant
change of aflalrs,and wasn't a bit angry
for being "sold ;" in fact he felt M Jolly
that he caught his bride around the
waist, and waltzed with her about the
room, just to see how gracefully a Cork
lady could do it ; and if the guests gath
ered in the parlors below could have
seen this merry pair Just then.how they
would have stared.
When they were both tired out, Nan
nie said, as soon as she recovered breath
enough: "Now, Fred, we are acting
like children ; come, sit down ; I have
something of Importance to tell you
listen. You remember I told you that
if I married the second time, I should
then be as poor as a church mouse, did
not I y Well that was a big lie, made
out of whole cloth.' I wanted to try
what your love was made cut of, and I
think I have fully proved your foolish
fondness for Nannie Hastings. Aa you
were willing to marry a crippled beggar,
and take care of her for life, on a small
salary. I think you deserve to know that
when you return to New York it will be
as a millionaire. My darling Fred," she
added, smiling sweetly upon hlra, " I
fear, however, that you will bo obliged
to give up your position at Stewart's.
What do you think about lty"
Dut " darling Fred" couldn't say one
word, he was so surprised ( but he had
only presence of mind enough to put
his arms around the charming widow
and kiss her sweet, rosy lips, until In
terrupted by Cousin Zoe's exclaiming:
" Are you ready ?" the parson's wait
ing." A STRANGE DREAM.
IN HARPER'S MAGAZINE for May,
Dr. Drofer says : As illustrating the
manner in which impressions of the
past may emerge from the brain, I shall
here furnish an Instance bordering close
ly on the supernatural, and fairly repre
senting the most marvelous of these
psychological phenomena. It occurred
to a physician, who related it, in my
hearing, to a circle whose conversation
had turned on the subject of personal
fear.
" What you are saying," he remarked,
" may be very truet but I can assure
you that the sentiment of fear, in its ut
most degree, is much less common than
you suppose; and though you may be
surprised to hear me say lt,I know from
personal experience that this is certain
ly so. When I was five or six years old,
I dreamed that I was passing by a large
pond of water in a very solitary place.
On the opposite side of it there stood a
great tree that looked as if it had been
struck by lightning, and in the pond at
another part an old fallen trunk, on one
of the prone limbs of which there was a
turtle sunning himself. On a sudden a
wind arose, which forced me into the
pond, and in my dying struggles to ex
tricate myBelf from its green and slimy
waters I awoke, trembling with terror.
"About eight years subsequently,
while recovering from a nearly fatal at
tack of scarlet fever, this dream pre
sented itself to me, identical in all re
spects, again.; Even to this time I think
I had never seen a. living tortoise or
turtle, but I indistinctly remember that
there was a picture of one in the first
spelling-book that had been given me.
Perhaps on account of my critical con
dition, this second dream impressed me
more dreadfully than the first.
"A dozen years more elapsed. I had
become a physician, and was now active
ly pursuing my professional duties in
one of the Southern States. It so fell
out that one July afternoon I had to take
a long and wearisome ride on horseback.'
It was Sunday, and extremely hot ; the
path was solitary, there was not a house
for miles. The forest had that intense
silence so characteristic of this time of
the day ; all the wild animals and birds
had gone to their retreats to be rid of the
beat of the sun. Suddenly at one point
of the road I came upon a great stag
nant water pool, and casting my eyes
across it, there stood a pine-tree blasted
by lightning, and on a log that was
nearly even with the surface a turtle was
basking in the sun. The dream of my
infancy was upon me; the bridle fell
from my hands, an unutterable fear
overshadowed me, and I slunk away
from the accursed place.
" Though business occasionally after
ward would have drawn me that way,
I could not summon resolution to go,
and actually have taken roundabout
paths. It seemed to me profoundly
amazing that the dream that I had had
should after twenty years be realised,
without respect to difference of scene, or
climate, or age. A good clergyman of
my acquaintance took the opportunity
of improving the circumstance to my
spiritual advantage, and in his kind en
thusiasmfor he knew that I had been
more than once brought to the point of
death by such fevers interpreted my
dream that I should die of marsh
miasma.
" Most persons have doubtless ob
served that they suddenly encounter
events of a trivial nature, in their course
of life, of which they have an indistinct
recollection that they have dreamed be
fore. For a long time it seemed to me
that this was a case of that kind, and
that it might be set down among the
mysterious and unaccountable. ' How
wonderful It is that we so often fail to
see this simple explanation ' of things,
when that explanation Is actually in
truding itself before us ! And so In this
case; it was long before the truth gleam
ed in upon me, before my reasoning pow
ers shook off the delusive impressions of
my senses. But it occurred at last ; for
I said to myself, Is it more probable that
such a mystery if true, or that I have
dreamed for the third time that which I
had already dreamed of twice before Y
Have I really seen the blasted tree and
the sunning turtle t Are a weary ride
of fifty miles, the noontide heat, the si
lence that could almost be felt.no provo
cation to the dream T I have, ridden
under such circumstances many a mile
fast asleep, and have awoke and known
It ; and so I resolved that If ever clr
cumsiancea carried me to those part
again, I would satisfy myself as to the
matter. ' . .
" Accordingly, after a few years.when
an Incident led me to travel there, I re
visited the well-remembered scene.
There was still the stagnant poof, but
the blasted pine-tree was gone; and
after I bad pushed my horse through
the marshy thicket as far as I could force
him, and then dismounted and pursued
a close investigation on foot in every di
rection around the spot, I was clearly
convinced that no pine-tree had ever
grown there ; not a stump norany token
of its remains could be seen ; and so now
I have concluded that at the glimpse of
the water, with the readiness of those
who are falling asleep, I had adopted an
external fact into a dream: that it had
aroused the trains of thought which in
former years had occupied me, and that,
in fine, the mystery was all a delusion,
and that I have been frightened with
less than a shadow."
The Instructive story of this physician
teaches us how readily and yet how im
pressively the remains of old ideas may
lie recalled ; how they may, as it were,
lie projected into the space beyond us,and
take a position among existing realities.
For this all that is necessary is that there
should be an equalization of old impres
sions with new sensatlons.and that may
be accomplished either by diminishing
the force of present sensations, or by in
creasing the activity of those parts of
the brain in which the old impressions
are stored up.
Thus, when we are falling asleep, the
organs of sense no longer convey their
special Impressions with the clearness
and force that they did in our waking
hours, and this to the traces that are
stored up in the brain the power of
drawing upon themselves the attention
of the mind.
A Snake In the Stomach.
On Wednesday a week the wife of a
prominent citizen of Jackson discharged
a snake that, for some time previous,
had made its abode in her stomach. Tho
reptile was ten inches long and as large
around as the third finger of a man's
hand of ordinary size. It was in a de
caying condition when expelled, and
appeared as If decomposition had been
going on for some time., It was un
questionably a genuine snake, well de
fined as to head, eyes, mouth, in fact, a
sure enough snake out and out.
The lady is fifty-seven years old, and
for nearly half that period has been the
victim of dyspepsia, the disease fluctua
ting, at times leaving her comparatively
well, then again entirely prostrated.
Since Chrlsmas she has been confined to
her room', most of the tlnje in bed.
For-six months previous to the ex
pulsion of the reptile shecontended with
her physician and the members of her
family that there was a snake iu her
stomach. She could feel It crawling
about, could detect a spiral motion at
times, as if coiling and uncoiling itself.
The reptile was always more lively in
its movements a short time after food
bad passed into the stomach, at these
times changing its position rapidly,
and causing the victim the most un
pleasant sensation of both mind and
body producing nausea, hearthurn, and
a slight distension of the stomach.
Jackson (Tfcnn.,) Sun.
The Frightened Pickpocket.
Pickpockets to avoid prosecution will
compromise on almost any terms. Not
long ago a lady in Philadelphia had her
pocket picked of a portmonaie. She was
able to describe the thief and he was ar
rested. She claimed to have lost a soli
taire diamond ring in the stolen pocket
book, but on searching among her valu
ables a day or two afterwards discovered
the diamond. The time for the examin
ation of the thief in court was fixed,and
the day previous the lady was astonish
ed to receive her purse with its contents
intact, including a diamond ring, which
the newspapers had stated was in it, but
which the thief supposed he must have
lost in the hurry of the robbery. To re
ceive as a present from a thief a dia
mond which she had never lost so
pleated the lady that she refused to ap
pear against hlm,and he was discharged.
C2T Great excitement was created in
Titusville on Sunday aweek by th e at
tempt of a white girl aged 18 to have
herself married to a colored man. A
minister was found willing to tie the
knot, and be did tie it But the parents
of the girl and the mob prevented him
from writing the certificate and forced
the girl back to her home. Here is actu
al sentiment as opposed to theoretical
sentiment. The girl and her sable lover
mistook what they beard people say for
what they supposed people believed.
fW A Yankee, ha vlng patented a
device for making the tops of fouoes im
passable by cats, advertises as follows :
"Practical tests of the invention have shown
that it U discouraging to oate it i high
degree. Tom oats of exceptional intelli
gence, who have long treated with contempt
such trivial obstaoles as spikes, and broken
glass, have retreated ' baffled before tbs
teaser." ( n .... ' ,i .1
TO ALL 1'AETICCLIBLT IKTAL1DS,
print la s trying vvn. Indications of slefcnee
Should t once 1m Hxiidid fc,. Fatal disease
limy loentd brnUimlnft the bowels to become
constipated sod Mm jvtm to remain In a dlsor
dant rendition, until the disorder bas time to do.
velop Itself. Anourteof prevention Is worth a
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disordered liver, want ot appetite, nausea, or
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clause the liver of surrounding l lle, and will
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He Saya it is True.
.. . Beneca Falls, Not. 9, J7.
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CANKER HUMOR.
Rockport, March 31, 1876.
H. R.8tbtbnr:
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Mr. IT. R. Stbvbnh :
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