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THE COLUMBIA SPY.AND LANCASTER AND YORK COUNTY RECORD.New Series, Vol. I, No. S.]COLUMBIA, Pa. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1847.[Wnoi.;CHAKR1CK WESTBROOK,KDITOH AND PROPRIETOR.*Printing Office—Fmnl Street. Apposite Barr’** Hotel Publication Office—Suret. opposite the P. O. Tennn. — The Colcmbi* Srv i* im 1l is hod every Saturday tno'ointf at the low price of ON 13 DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE, or one dollar a «td fifty cent*, if : paid Within one month of the lltne of subscribing.Sinetp copies. THREE CENTS.Terms of Advi-iitisi so—Advertisements In* a square three lime* for SI. and 25 cents tor ealt; additional insertion. Th«»e of a creator lenstli in prlt; pi.rtinn. #A liberal discount made to yearly adve■ed-Cards. LabelsOirc ilLirs.etc..w...and on renennahtetemis.•re, iiianKB oi every nescriiuion utcd with ncaincssand despatchI COULD NEVER SEE A GOOD REASON. I could never find a good reason.Why sorrow unbidden should stay.And all the bright joys of life' season.Be driven unheeded away.Our care would wake no more emotion.Were we tlt;» owe lot but resign’d.Than pebbles flung into the ocean,That leaves scarce a ripple behind.The world has a spirit of lieauly, Which look* upon all for the best And while it dhnAiarces Us duty.To Providence leaves all the res That spirit's the beaut of devotion, Which liehta its through life to itMore beautiful far than it rose.From Blackwood's MagazineTRANCE-SLEEP.The deepest grade of trancc-slccp extinguishes all the ordinary signs of animation. It forms the condition in which many arc buried alive. It is the so-called vampire stale in the vampire snpcrstitiTiic middle guide presents the appearance of profound unconsciousness; but a gentle breathing and the circulation arc distinguishable. The body is flexible, relaxed, perfectly impassive to ordinary stimuli. The pupils of the eye arc not contracted, but yet are fixed. This stale is witnessed o sionnllv in hysteria, after violcnl fits of hysteric excitement.In the lightest degree of trancc-slccp, the person can sustain itself sitting; the pupils arc in the same state as above,or natural; the apparent un-con siousncss profound.Two feu lures characterize trancc-slccp in all its grades. One, an insensibility to all common stimulants, however violently applied; the other, an inward flow of ideas, a dream or vision. It is well to provide all words with a precise meaning. The word vision had belter be restricted to mean a dream during the trancc-slccp.The behavior of Gr.indo, who had been buried in the vampire state, when they were clumsily cutting his head off, makes no exceptions to the first of the above positions. He had just then emerged out of his trancc-slccp, either through the lapse of time, or from the admission of fresh uir, or whatIt will not be doubted that the tnind may have visions in all the grades of trance-sleep, if it can be proved capable of them in the deepest; therefore, one example will suffice for three cut-cs.Henry Englcbrcclit, as ivc learn in a pamphlet published by himself in ihc 1G3D, after a most ascetic life, during which he had experienced sensorial illusions, was thrown fora brief period into the deepest form of trancc-slcep, which event be thus describe*:—In the year 1623, exhausted by intense mental excitement of a religious kind, and by abstinence from food, after hearing a sermon which strongly affected him, lie felt as if he could combat no more, so he gave up and took to his bed. There he lay' a week without tasting anything but the bread and wine of the sacrament. On Ihc eighth day, he thought he fell into a death-struggle ; death seemed to Invade him from below upwards; his body became frigid, his bands and feel insensible; his tongue and lips incapable of motion: gradually his sight failed him, hut lie 6ti11 heard the laments and consultations of those around him. This gradual demise lasted from midday til! eleven at night, when he heard tlic watchmen; then he lost consciousness of outward impressions. But an elaborate vision of immense detail begin; the theme of which was, lhat ho was first carried down to hell, and looked into the place of torment; from thence quicker than an arrow, was he borne to paradise. In these abodes of suffering and happiness, he saw and heard und smelt things unspeakable. These scenes, though in apprehension, were short in time, for he came enough to himself, by twelve o'clock, again to hear the watchmen. It took him another twelve hours tcf come round entirely. His hearing was first restored; then his sight, feeling, and motion followed; as soon as he could move his limbs, he rose. He felt stronger than before the trance.Trance-walking presents a great variety of phases; but it is sufficient for a general outline of the subject to make or specify but two grades—half-watung and full-waking.In trance bulf-waking, the person rises, moves About with facility, will converse even, but is almost wholly occupied with a dream, which lie may £)c said to acl, and his perceptions and apprehensions arc with difficulty drawu to anything out of the circle ot that dream.Somnambulism is a form of half waking trance, which usually comes on during the nighl, in ordinary sleep. When it occurs in the day-time, the attack of trance is Btill ordinarily preceded by short period of common sleep.The somnumbulist then, in a half waking trance, is disposed to rise and move abonL Sometimes his object sectns a mere excursion, and then it is marked that he shows a dtsposion to ascend heights. So he climbs, perhaps, to the roof of the house, and makes his way along it with agility and certainty: sometimes ho it observed, where the tiles arc loose, to try if they are secure before lie advances. Generally tiicso feats arc porformed in safety. Butoccasionally a somnambulist has missed his footing, fallen, and perished. His greatest danger is from ill-judged attempts to wake and warn him of his perilous situation. Luckily, it is not easy to wake him. He then rcturns,goes to bed, sleeps, and the next morning has no recollection ol what he has done. In other cases, the somnambulist, on rising frcm hi* bed, bclakcs himself to his customary occupations, either to some handiwork, or to composition, or what not.These three points are cisily verified respecting his condition. He is in a dream, which he, us it were, actsafter his thoughts; occasionally he remembers on the following day some of the incidents of the night before, as a part of the dream.But his common sensibility to ordinary impression is suspended. He docs not feel; his eyes arc either shut, or open and fixed ; he does not sec; lie has tio taste or smell; the loudest noise makes no impression on him.In the mcalimc, to accomplish the feats he performs, the most accurate perception of sensible objects is required. Of wl.at nature is that of, which he so marvelously evinces the possession? ; You may adopt the simple hypothesis—lltat the mind, being disengaged from its ordinary relation to the sense*, docs without them, and perceives thing* directly. Or you may suppose, if you prefer it, that the mind Mill employs sensoli on, using only impressions that in ordinary waking arc not consciously attended to, for its more wonderful foots; and otherwise common sensation, which, however generally suspended, may be awakened by the dreaming attention to its objects.The following case of somnambulism, in which the seizure supervened, in a girl affected with St. Vitus' dance, and combined itself with that disorder, is given by Lord Munboddo :—The patient, about sixteen years of age, used to be commonly taken in the morning a few hours after rising. The approach of the seizure was an-nounccd by a sense of weight in the head, a drowsiness, which quickly terminated in sleep, while her eyes were fast shut. She described a Iceling beginning in the feet, creeping like a gradual chill higher and higher, till it readied the heart, when consciousness or recollection lcli her. Being in this state, she sprang from her scut about the room, over tables and chuirs, with the astonishing agility belonging to St. Vitus* dance. Then, if she succeeded in getting out of Ihc house, she ran ut a pace with which her elder brother could hardly keep up. lo a particular spot in the neighborhood,' taking the directcsl but the roughest path. If she could not manage otherwice, she got over the gardcu-wnll with surprising rapidity mid prccisnn of movement. Her eyes were all the time fust closed. The impulse to visit this cpot she was often conscious of during the opprouch of the paroxysm, and afterwards, she sometimes thought she h.iil dreamed o! going thither. Towards the termination of her indisposition, she dreamed that the water of a neighboring spring would do her good, and she drank much of it. One time, they tried to cheat her by by giving her water from another spring, but she immediately delected the difference. Towards the end, she foretold that he she would have three paroxysms more and then lie well—and so u proved.The following case is from a communication by M. Pigutti, published in the July number of the Journal Encyclopcdiquc of the year 1762. The subject was a servant uf the name of Ncgrclti, in the household of the Marquis Sale.In the evening, Negrctte would scat himself in chair in the unte-room, when he commonly fell asleep, And would sleep quietly for a quarter of an hour. He then righted himself in hi* chair, so as lo sit up. [This was the moment of transition from ordinary sleep into trance.] Then lie sat some time without motion, as if he saw something. Then lie rose and walked about the room. On occasion, he drew uut his snuff-box und would have taken a pinch, but there was little in it; whereupon he walked up to an empty chair, and addressing by name a cavalier whom he supposed to be sitting in it, asked him for a pinch. One of those who were watching the scene, here held •ards Lain an open box, from which he took snuff. Afterwards he fell into the posture of a person who listens; he seemed to think that he heard an order, .nd thereupon hastened with a wax candle in his hand, to a spot where a light usually stood. As he imagined he had lit the candle, he walk-it in a proper manner, through the sof/e, down the steps, turning and waiting from time to if lie hud been lighting some one down. Arrived nt the door, he placed himself sideways, so to let tin. imaginary persons pass, and he bowed he let them out.He then extinguished the light, returned up Blairs, and sat himself down again in his place, to play the same farce over again once or twice the same evening. When in this condition, he would lay the tablecloth, place the chairs, which he sometimes brought from a distant room, and oprning , md shutting the doors as he went, with exactness . would take decanters from the lr.aufjet% fill them , with water at the spring, put them on a waiter, and , so on. All the object* that were concerned in those operations, he distinguished where they were be- | fore him with the same precision and certainty as » if he had been in the full use of hi* senses. Oilier, wise lie seemed to observe nothing—50, on one oc. i casion, passing a table, he upset a waiter with two decanters upon it, which fell and broke, without I exciting his attention. The dominant idea had ; entire possession of him. lie would prepare a salad with correctness, and sit down and cat it.— Then if they changed it, the trick passed without his notice. In this manner he would go on eating cabbngc, or even piece* of cakes, seemingly without observing the difference. Tlic taste he enjoyed was imaginary; the sense was shut. On nuolhcr occasion, when he asked lor wine, they g.»vc him water, which he drank for wine, and remarked that Uis stjmach felt better for it Oa a followservant touching his legs with a stick, the idea arose in his mind that it was a dog, and he scolded to drive it away; but the servant continued the game. Ncgretli took a whip lo beat tlic dog.— The servant drew off, when Ncgretli began whistling and coaxing lo get the dog near him, so they threw a muff against his legs, which be belabored soundly.M. Pigatti watched these proceedings with greetto be other than ordinarily awake. But her friends observe that she doe* everything with more spirit, and better—sings better, plays better, has more readiness, moves even more gracefully, than in her natural state. She has an innocent boldness and disregard of conventionalisms, which imparts a peculiar charm to her behaviuur.In the meantime, she has two complete exis. ttnccs separate and apart, which alternate butattention, and convinced himself by many trials , never mingle. On the day of her firt fit, her lifehat Negretti did not use his senses. The suspen-sion of taste was shown by his not distinguishing between salad and cakes. He did not hear the loudest sound, when it lay out of the circle of his dreaming ideas. If a light was held close to his eyes, near enough to singe his eyebrows, he did not appear to be aware of it. He seemed to feel nothing when they inserted a feather into his nos-trils. The ordinury sensibility of his organs seemed withdrawn.Altogether, the most interesting case of som. namhlulism on record, i* that of a young ecclesiastic, Hie narrative of which, from the immediate communication of un Archbishop of Bordeaux, is given under the head of somnambulism in the French Encyclopaedia.This young ecclesiastic, when the archbisop w at the same seminary, used to rise every night, and write out either sermons or music. To study his condition, the archbishop betook himself several nights consecutively lo the chamber of the young man, where he made the following observation.The young man u«ed to rise, to take paper, and write. Before he wrote music be would take a stick and rule the lines with it. He wrolc the notes, together with the words corresponding with them, with pofcct correctness. Or when he had written the word* too wide, he altered them. The notes that were lo be Mack, he filled in a Her lie had written the whole. After completing a sermon, he read it aloud from boginning to end. If any passage displeased him, he erased it,and wrote the amended passage correctly over the other; on one occasion, lie had to substitute the word “a dorr/. bfe for diein but he did not omit to niter the proceeding “ ec into “ cef,” by adding the letter “f,” with exact precision to ihc word first written. To ascertain whether he used Lis eyes, the archbishop interposed a sheet of pasteboard between the writing and his f*ce. lie took noi the least notice, but went on writing as before. The limitation of his preccpiion to what he was thinking about, was very curious. A bit of aniseed cake, that he had sought for, he cut approvingly; but vhen, on another occasion, a piece of the same cake wos put in his mouth, he spit it out wilhout observation. The following instance of the dependence of his prcccptions upon, or rather their subordination to, his preconceived ideas, is truly wonderful. It is to he observed, that he a1 ways knew when fits pen had ink in it. Likewise, if they adroitly changed his papers, when he writing, he knew it, if the sheet substituted of a different size from the former. But if the fresh sheet of paper which was substituted for that written oil, was exactly of the same size with the former, he appeared not awn re of the change.— And he would continue to read off his composition trorn the blank sheet of paper, a9 fluently as when the manuscript il«clf iiy before him; nay, mnrof he would continue his corrections and introduce the amended passage, writing it upon exactly the place on the blank sheet, which it would have occupied on the writing page.The form of trance which has been thus cxeni-plified may be therefore well called half*walking, inasmuch as the performer, whatever his powers of preccpliun may be in respect to the object lie is thinking ofJ is nevertheless lost in a dream, and blind and deaf lo everything without its scope.The following ease may serve as a suitable transition of instances of full-walking in trance.— The subject ol it alternated evidently between that state and half waking. Or she could he at once roused from the latter into the former by the con-versa linn of her friends. The case is recorded in the Acta Vratisl. aim. 1722, Feb. class iv., art. 2.A girl seventeen years ol age was used to tall into a kind of sleep in the afternoon, in which it vvus supposed, from her expression of cuutitcmince and her gestures, that she was engaged in dreams which interested her. Then, if those present ad-dressed remarks to her, elm replied very sensibly; but then fell back into her dream discourse, which turned principally upon religious ur«d moral topics, and directed to warn her friends how a female should live, Christianity, well governed, and so as incur no reproach. When she sang, which ollcn happened, she heard herself accompanied by an imaginary violin or piano, and would take up and continue the accompaniment upon an instrument herself. She sewed, did knitting and the like.— But on the other hand, she imagined on one occa.that she wrote a letter upon a napkin, which she folded with the intention of sending it to the post. Upon walking, she had not the least recollection of her dreams, or of what she had been doing. After a few month she recovered.I come now to the exemplification of {all-walking in uance, as it i* very perfectly manifested In the eases which have been termed double consciousness. These arc in their principle very simple» but it is not easy in few words lo convey a distinct idea of the condition of the patient. The case consists of series of fits of trance, in which the step from ordinary waking to full-waking is sudden and immediate, or nearly so, and either was so original-ly, or t'trough uve has become so. Generally for days tugethejf the patient continue* in ihc state of trance; then suddenly reverts to lhat of ordinary w iking. In the pcrfocucst instances of douli’e rawness, there is nothing in the hearingsplits into a double series of thoughts and recollections. She remembers in her ordinary state nothing of Iicr trance existence. In her trances, she remembers nothing of the ir.»crvening hours of ordinary waking. Her recollection of what she had experienced or learned before the fit began, is singularly capricious, differing extraordinarily in its extent in different cases. In general, the positive recollection of prior events is annulled ; but her prior affections and habit* cither remain, and with her general acquirements, they arc quickly by association rekindled or brought into the circle of her trance ideas. Generally she names all her friends , anew, often her lone of voice is a little altered; sometimes she introduces with particular comliinations of letters some old inflection, which she maintains vigorously and cannot unlearn.Keeping before him this conception, the reader wilt comprehend the following sketch of a case o double consciousness, communicated by Dr. George B.irlow. To one reading them without preparation, the details, which arc very graphic and instructive, would appear mere confusion:—“ This young lady has two slates of existence. During 1 he tune that the fit is on her, which varies from a few hours to three days, she is occasionally merry and in spirits; occasionally she appears in pain and roll* about in uneasiness; but in general she seems so much herself, that a stranger entering the room would not remark anything extraordinary; she amuses herself with reading or working, sometimes plays on the piano, and belter than at other times, knows every body, and converses rationally, and makes very accurate observations on what she has seen or read. The fit leaves her suddenly, and she then forgets everything that has passed during it, and imagines that she hns been asleep, and sometimes that she has dreamed of any circumstance that has made a vivid impression upon her. During one of these fits she wus reading Miss Edgeworth's talcs, and had in the morning been reading a part of one of them to her mother, when hhc went for a few minutes lo the window, and suddenly exclaimed—* Matnmn, I ani quite well, my headache is gone.* Returning to the table, she took up the open volume, which she had been reading five minutes before, and said, * What book is this V she turned over the leaves, looked nt tlic frontispiece, and replaced it on the table. Seven eight hours afterwards, when the fit returned, she asked for tlic book, went on at the \cry paragrap where she had left off, and remembered every ciinstance of the narrative. And so it always it as she re ids one set of books during one state, and another during the other. She seems to be scious of her state; for she said one day, * Mamma, ihis is a novel, but I may safely read it; it will not hurt my morals, for when lam well I shall not rcmcmbci a word of it.”*This state of double consciousness forms the basis of the physical phenomena observed in the extraordinary cases which Irive been occasionally described undt r the general name of catalepsy.— The accounts of the most interesting of these that I have met with were given by M. Petatin, in 1787; M. Del pet, 1307 ; Dr. Despine, 1620. The wonderful powers of perception evinced by the patients when in this state of trance*waking, would exceed belief, hut for tlic rospcetablc mimes of the observers, and the internal evidence of good faith and accuracy in the narratives themselves. The patients did not see with their eyes nor hear with their cars. But they heard at the pit of their stomach, and perceived the approach of persons when at some distance from their residence, and read the thoughts of those around.I am, my dear Archy, no wonder monger; so I am not tempted to m ike a parade to you of these extraordinary phenomena. Nor in truth do they interest me further than as they occur with the numerous other facts I have brought forward to show and positively prove, that under some conditions the mind cnlcrs into new relations, spiritual und material. 1 will, however, in conclusion, give the outline of u case of the sort which occurred a few years ago in England, and the details of which were communicated to me by the late Mr. Bulled, lie had himself repeatedly seen the patient, and upulously verified what I now relate to you:The patient was towards twenty years of age.— Her condition was the state of double consciousness, thus aggravated, that when she was not in the trance she suffered from spasmodic contraction of the limbs. In her alternate state ot trance.waking composed and apparently well; but the expression of her countenance was slightly altered, and there was some peculiarity in the mode of her speaking. She would mispronounce certain letters, or introduce consonants into words upon a regular *ystem; and to each of her friends she had given a new name, which she only employed in her trance. As usual, she knew nothing an either state of what passed in the other. Then in her trance she exhibited three marvellous powers; she could read by the touch alone; if she pressed her hand against the whole surface of a written or printed page, she acquired a perfect knowledge of its contents, not of the substance only, but of the words, snd would criticise the type or handwriting. A line of a folded note pressed against her neck, she read cqunlly well; she called this sense-feeling. Contact was necessary for it. Bier sense of smell waswhom she knew, she could tell were approaching the house, when yet at some distance. When persons were playing chess at a table behind her, and intentionally made impassable moves, she would smile and ask them why they did it.Cases of this description arc no doubt of rare occurrence. Yet not a year passes in London without something transpiring of- the existence of one or more of them in the huge metropolis. Medical men view them with unpardonable indifference.— Thus one doctor told me of a lady, whom he had been attending with other physicians, who, it appeared, always announced lhat they were coming some minutes before they drove lo the door. It was very odd, lie thought, and there was an of it.CAPSICUM HOUSE;FOR YOUXG LADIES.A Letter from India—A Turtle,—A3 Miss Griffin came down the walk, Mr. Corks appeared ii back ground. His face seemed we thought, ripe with satisfaction. Ilis eyes—las lover’s eyes— drooped tenderly upon Miss Griffin, and she swept along the path. As she advanced upon the holly-bush that screened us, we sauntered round it, as though lackadaisically strolling from another walk.“ I come to seek you,** said Miss Griffin, all of a glow.“ Ladies,—and she turned lo her pupils suddenly huddled together, Fluke, however standing out from the crowd in very bold relief—“Ladies to yot tasks. In five minutes I shall bo prepared to c: amine the Turlle*Soup class.“ If it’s real turtle, ma’am, said Fluke, “ I*m nc yet in it. You know, when you examined 1 hadn’t got beyond calf’s head.Miss Griffin now really felt th-il the moment \v arrived when, with a tremendous repartee, she ought relentlessly to crush that daring girl, 0 and forever. Miss Griffin’s mind was made up— she would do it. And then frowning she looked above her—then below her—but, somehow, the withering retort would not cornc; then she looked j my taste, my cconoir lo the left, into the very middle of a bush of worm- lost. Think how prcic, Ispring, the drawers shall say what ycllc And such’'—said C plummet—“such is Miss Griffin sight less, I think I can little bits—what I c: M That will do,” s of Diana, we may j statue.”“Now, this is so and she read, “ Y dear, dear governess You know’ that I oh show of jewels. A choice—a rose-bud I “ And there natur —“ is such kind lt;shop.”“ Therefore, as yo Miss Griffin—“I di appeared in my whit cd ; nevertheless, ho you think ? Inside hundred fire-flics, ul You can’t imagine mcnt. Women—w forty years in the co with flics day and ni of such a thing—am spile—the wicked ere it. Sir Alexander h husband, said Miss we almost felt inclint Griffih, after a pause has since told me lha slightly touched his ] die a bachelor—he wt less, as he confessed, muslin did fash him. Alexander is from tl of the Tweed. Prov the very flourishing ing it as his birlhplurbcliuviout of the entranced per-on which would at the same Lime siugnltrly acute; when outriding lead a. stranger to suppose her (lor it is an affection j one day, she said, “ There’s a violet,” and cantered far commoner in young women that in boys or men) ■ hor horso fifty yards to whcro it grew. Personawood—then lo the right, 011 a bed of capsicum; still, neither sharp nor bitter syllabic would present itself. Deep was the vexation of Miss Griffin. She felt majestic pains, akin, no doubt, lo those of Jupiter, when ho would coerce rebellion, but hns somewhere mislaid his thunderbolt. And then Miss Griffin smiled, and said, “Nevertheless, Mt«s Fluke, you will attend the class. Go in, child.— When you «»rc able to write a letter like this,’’ —and Miss Griffin bid her hand as reverently upon the sheet as though it had been a hundred pound bank note—“then, for all this care, all this indulgcnqc, how you will lilessMiss Fluke, wilhout condescending to award the least hope of any such benediction on her part, just jerked a courtesy, and, like a fan tailed pidgcon, minced her way lo the house, followed by her companions, whose sides—had Miss Grilfin turned to view them—were shaking with laughter in its softest sounds.“I suppose I shall he rewarded for my (rouble with that little minx—pardon the expression ;** cried Miss Gri/fiii, shrinking from the epithet with all the delicacy of a woman.“No doubt, madam,” said we comfortingly.— “No doubt, your mission is indeed a trial—■”“Sir, but for consolation, for encouragement like this—and Miss Griffin shook the letter—“it would destroy the marble s»atuc of a saint. But this con-vcys with it a real solace.”•‘The most dclicous I ever looked upon,” cried Mr. Corks, coming up at the word, and rubbing his hands, we at first thought, in affcctionutc sympathy will) the governess. “I wonder how much it weighs! You could see the turtle on its back! A disc, sir—a disc lhat would hove covered Achilles. I cannot account for it—and Corks suddenly intonated in his oiliest falsetto—“but I feel a sort of—of—sympathy—of tenderness, when I see a turtle thrown upon its back. In a moment, my imagination transports me to those waters of ecru-lean blue—lo those shores of golden sand—to the impcnrlcd caverns of the deep—where the crculurc wont to swim, and bask, and dive; and then— re It on its back—greatness overthrown, await-ing the knife. 1 do feel For the creature! I always feel for it.”Miss Griffin’s eyes—us tbc professor of intonation n up and down his voice—dilated with sensibility. Hurriedly she cried. “But this, and things like lis—to say nothing of the turtle—-arc my best rc--ard. It is, sir,”—and Miss Griffin turned to us— it is from a dear pupil of mine, the late Caroline Rufflcr, now Lady M’Thistlc, of the Madras Bench. She went out in The Forlorn Hope, with goods for the India market.”1 And has married well 7 we venture to observe She has married, sir, the man of her choice.— She was over a girl of energy, sir; always would have her own will. And such arc the girls, sit, to scud to tlic Colonics. They make us respected at home and abroad.”“ And, as ‘you say, Miss Rufflcr—landed from The Forlorn. Hope—married the man she loved?’* “I meant to say, sir—that at the very first ball; she made her mind up to the man slio proposed to make happy; and if marriage can insure happiness—”“Can !** echoed Corks,spreading his hand across his waistcoat.“ Caroline has done it. Here is her own sweet letter. I wish I could read it to you every line— said Miss Griffin—“ but that's impossible. The female heart has so many secret places—unthought of—unrcspcctcd—u tiv a 1 ucd”—For all the world, like a writing.desk**—said the figurative Corks—“ a. writing desk with secret t*rs. To the common eye—the unthinking -there looks nothing: all seems plain and above board—and then, you touch the hiddenflics captive in while “ I don’t know,” sa some meaning in tha ** No—nothing ! c mirth; ‘how should t! The dear girl then si dearest governess, a triumph of the kitchc dear friends who prol of his love for his naliv ing to it. How often bones in the kirk.yart linucd to sit upon the under was to dine wit moment was come, the sole direction of o Need I say it was gra val that I felt the strc imbided in your panlr nssurcd me of conqtic sa3’ desperately calm “ Beautiful!” cried Miss Griffin smiled, a Thistle’s letter!The dinner hour had been so settled—1 course disappeared: t more than his usual : dish was placed befor his lips quivered—he saw his native haggis “ What is haggis?” Miss Griffin waved Alexander looked at soul—instantly said, ai Sir Alexander, sits hcs d know his char 'itliin him. lie he would first taste tbc and ate—and his face I could see it, ! w his blue hills— his foot was upon thlt; otic tear—trickled fri have kissed it from hi but respected his cnu twenty years had they the most tremendous never seen the strong he dropped a tear upoi unlocked lhat tear, a sacred source! W’hj In three days Sir Ale eyes supervened ;is—in three days “YourP. S. I send yot girls,”« Beautifulrepeat “Very beautiful—1 •ricd Miss Griffin; v pocket-handkerchief, a Very odd, air,” we n should be caughl If cookery’s to do it, forged cut of black pu I can’t say, sir, 1 is, I think, plain—thu heart, it may now anc his stomach.—LandiThe 26 letters of tblt; lions, of comhinatioua nd 12 would make 3’Recreation is s seco hath almost snuiMla breathing of the soul, stifled with continual 1
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