Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-01-21


tilted, and in much doubt. In tremb-
ling voice, she said:
Carl, this all seems very strange to
me-
And TO me, likewise, my mother
Something he continued, has happen
ed to me, an hour since, so strange and
startling, that were | supersiitiOusly in
clined, should attribute it to super-
natural agency, unless you can offer some
more rationalexplanation of the phenom-
enon.'
Annie quivered in every fibre, but she
strove to appear calm, as she questioned.
TO what doyou allude, Carl"
As / was at the club-room, tonight,
while standing at the head of the table
(you know, doubtless, that the boys gave
supper in commemoration of the day
marking my success as an author,) as
raised the wine-cup to my lips (Carl
marked the agonized expression upon
his mothers face, but went on, his own
a shade paler,) heard a voice, as plain
ly and distinctly as now hear my own,
and it was yOur voice, mother, and it
shrieked:
My son my son! Oh, my God,
save himr
The youth paused moment, overcome
by emotion, while Annie Landen was
fearfully agitated. Recovering himself
in moment, Carl went on;
i dashed the tankard to the floor, and
rushed into the darkness. A dreadful
fear awoke, that my conduct had driver
you to insanity. | knew how well yol
loved me- he said, pressing his mother
tightly to his bosom, all the time | wa
following such mad career. / searched
through the shrubbery, calling your name
at every step, but received no answer
The boys followed me out, thinking M
victim of that direful malady, mania I
potu; but l ordered them back so deci
dedly, that they retreated, then l ran to
, ward home, and found you dead, q
first thought, upon the floor. Applying
restoratives freely, l succeeded, finally
= after long time,in resuscitating you,and
he continued, can you account for th
. voice.
Carl said his mother, have had
vision, and in it saw you in the sam
,r position that you mention | beheI
,e your companions-beheld you lift agai
is the fatal cup. whose dregs are bitlerne'
.r and woe, and then ] spoke the wore
,e you heard? Oh, Carl Carl such te
J. rible anguish as | then experienced !
At could not support it again, and Mrs. Lal
h. den buried her face in her hands.
r Mother said Carl, solemnly, l at
10 cept this wonderful incident as a warnin
ID and henceforth, | win be son worth
" of so true, so devoted a mother
g Carl Landen did not violate his prom
ise. The cottage, halIowed by so mar
" pleasant associations, became glorilied
y the genius of the reformed son, who,
= he reverently attends upon that parer
" now faltering with the weakness Of az
Go repeats, softly, what so many times be b
q uttered-eyen until it has become iii
III one of the most precious strains of
,' own melodies.
he A mothers influence mother
" " warning voice has saved me-
III So Calls life, grand and sublime
- its aspirations and conceptions, mingl
a. is broad current with the fast-failing, st
!" musical stream of the parent of his cart
a' being. A ripple or two, aud the mot
ne er will float into eternity, but her wo
will have been fully accomplished.
The POPULATION OF ROME
~ census Of the population Of Rome i
" lust completed, from which it appe'
" that the total OF the inhabitants is Ia
:, 357-a figure at which this petrified
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