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dreadful issue Of her tempting words and
smile. Little did she dream that the han.
keIing love of wine, which had once re-
Iduced her victim to the verge Of confirmed
inebriacy, awoke again at the taste Of that
lglass, and ragged with more violence than
ever. Young, happy and thOughtless, she
Hooked only at the present triumph, without
lcoaaidesaag the result How then wasshs
surprised to hear, a few months after her
marriage, that Col. Warren was becoming
an inebriate-that he rarely retired to bed
unless 10 a state of intoxication-snd that
in consequence, his fine person was becom-
ing ~dishgured, and his large fortune vast
ing away. She shuddered, but still did not
think Of her own agency in the matter, and
when she next met him, with the privilege
of youth and beauty, she ventured to plead
with him on the subject.
"Madam," said he, in reply, and the mel
sncholy and somewhat stern tone in which
he spoke, never left her memory, sit Is too
late! | was once as I am now I rallied
and took q resolution never to drink again.
broke that resolution, you know how, and
when, and now I am a hopeless lnebriate."
He turned and left her presence. Her
eyes were opened. Oh! how bitterly did
sh" reproach herself for having spoken
those fatal words. For nights she could
not sleep. She sought again and again to
see her victim, but he avoided her presence.
They never met again but once. Resder,
would you know how?
Some years sfter, on a cold, black NOR.
ming in January, a travelling sleigh drawn
by two splendid horses, was dashing along
the turnpike between Norristown and Phil
adelphia. There had been 9 snow storm
during the night, and the fakes lay piled
against the fences and banks where they
had been driven BY the icy wind which
swept down from the hills beyond the
%Schuylkill. The sky was still overcast
the wind yet ragged violently, and it was
intensely cold. Few scene could be more
ldesola:e. Houses, barns, trees aud hay
tricks were covered with snow, and the
cattle, covering in the sheds, seemed ev
erywhere to beseech the sky in vain. As
the sleigh, with its merry bells, whirled
down the long hill that leads to the Ma
nyunk turnpike, the horses suddenly
SHE'D, nearly precipitating the vehicle into
an opposite snow bank. A lady slightly
screamed, and looked out in alarm from
the furs that enveloPed her, but seeing no
cause for danger, she was about to order
the driver to proceed, when her little boy,
pointing to the object which had startled
1.-THE horses, said
Smother, what can that be in the road3
ISurely it is a mans hat"
"Gracious Heavens!" she exclaimed,
scan it be that some poor wretch has fro
gen to death here, james," and she turned
to the footman, ego see."
With intense interest the lady watched
while the lady brushed away the snow
Ia a few moments it was apparent that a
corpse was indeed there, and it was not
longer before the cause of the mans death
vas evident in an empty jug beside him.
The spectators breathlessly awaited while
the icy fakes were being removed from
the face, for the lady was within a short
distance of her home, and thought that
perhaps she might recognize the being
She stepped outof the sleigh, and ap-
Iproached the corpse.
"Col. Warren !" she said, becoming
hastily pale and staggering: "Col. Warren
dying q common drunksrd! Oh! just
Heaven, this is too much"
And thus the victim and his destroyer
met for the last time. 1t wal the oncs
thoughtlsss bride who now stood above the
corpse.
General TayLor's eight Faees-The
Nashville (Tenn.) Union declares that
lssfhoro ron ho ehoun in that citv. a. piOhf