New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-05

SLEPT in the light OF the evening pear'I Si w"So
women seemed TO be laying up stock OF linen for
the life to come There were no lips 10 haveioe from
which VOID could fall that would stir Sias Mar
ner bennmbtd faith TO a sense OF peie: III .ho ear
ages of the world, we know, was oeno'eo wa.
territory was INHABITED and ruled by It's own uvnt
ties 20 that man could the bordering hiynts
and be out of the reach Of his native gods wDoee pres
enc. was confined to the streams ana ,no t;..h
the hills among which be had hVea ron ns oi.n.
And Moor Slas Was vaguely conscious OF something
not unlike tie feeling Of primitive men, when they
fed tbps Ia fear or in sueDness. from the Lace OF M
uppropitious deity II seemed TO him that tue Ione,
in which he had vainy trusted among the stses a9u
in the prayermeetings was very iar away MN o iSsd
in careless abundance, knowing and needifg notln
OF that trust. which, for him, bad been turned 70 D
terness The little light be Possessed spread s peas
narrowly, that frustrated btiei wa "ro"u
en-, uph 10 create for him the backnees OF night.
His first movement after The shock had been 10
work on bis loom; apd he went on with tins ubreuhf-
tibRy never asking bimsef Why, now be has come 70
Rsyeo~ he worked far 90 Into Tire nint 70 hnish zoe
tale of Mrs OrRoods tabe-lnen sooner than she OK
peftd-wiihout contempt sipg beforehand The money
sbe wonld pu into biz hand for the work. de seemed
to weave ike the spider, from pure impure, ~nnoat
reflection Every mans work, purs1sd s,osnhy Ies1
ia this way become end in ise sno 20 To Or dge
over the loveess chssms Of his life Shs hand sails
fed sef with throwing the shuttle und is eye with
seeing the little squares III the cloIh cani leIe ten
8. Ives under bis Effort Then there were the cais OF
i
own breakfast, dinner. and supper, to fetch bis own
water from the well, and put his own kettle on The
fire. and Ill tbcse immediate Ptomptnes heiPea, acos
with The weaving, TO reduce Lbs lie 10 the nq question:
Ing activity Of sinning Insect. tie hated the Thought
of de ast thee xas nothing that called out bis love
and fellowship toward The strapgeis 10 had come
among; and tie future wac all DARK Tor there was DO
Unseen Love that cared for him. Thought was ar
re.ted by utter bewilderment, now its odd narrow
halfway was closed and affection seemed ~ lave Sied
under he buse that Lad fallen Oh It's keenest nerves
His first earnings 10 Rageloe aroused q NEW
passion m bis heart-the hove of gold For the
only time in his life, he had five bright guineas
put into his hand aud from that moment the
icye of accumulation became q menomnDia with
the melancholy weaver. lie was well paid for
hs labor money caue in apace the guneas,
tho crowns, and the balfcOwns gradually grew
to a heap. His highest delight was to see the
heaps of tin grow ilto q square, and then into o
larger square; every added guinea, while it gave
new satisfaction, bred new desires he
handed them, be counted them, he gazed on
them, till their form and color produced an emo
ton of ecstacy. la order TO guard bis treasure,
although be had no distinct fear of being
robbed, no had taken UP some bricks ia bis floor.
underneath his loom, and here be made hole,
in which he set the iron pot that contained his
guneas and his silver coins, covering the bricks
with sapd whenever be replaced them.
This is the bistory of Silas Marer until the fifteenth
year after be came to Rayeloe. The hseIong day DO
s in his ON bis ear filed with it, monotony In eyes
bent Close down tie slow grow ID VI ssees Ia the
brownish web, bis muscles moving with sueh even
repetition that their paure stemed almost ~ much
conrtrnnt as the boiling Of bic breath. But night
elrx. at he
made fast his doom, aud drew out his gid. Long ago
the heap OF had become too Large for the Non PIT
10 hold them, aud he bad made for them two thick
leather bsgs which wasted 10 room In their resting
place, but lent Themselves fexibly TO every corner.
How the gnDeas sbone they pouring out OF the
dark leather mouhs The silver bore no large proper
TO. In the GOLD bccauscs tie long pieces OF
linen which formed hs chief work always partly
paid for 10 gold and Of the silver he supplied bis
own bodily wants, choosing aways the sbilliDgs and
ixten 90 spend In this way. lie loved tho guiness
and halfero that were bis own earrings, begoten
by bis labor he loved them all. He spread them out
in heaps and batbed BIZ hands 10 them then he counted
them and set them mp in regular pir and felt their
rounded outline bet his thumb and fingers, aud
though fondly of,h guneas thai only h-sarned
by the work In bis loom, as II they had been unborn
cldren-thought Of the guineas thai were coming
81 WHY through the coming Year,. through all bis hfe
which spread away before him. the end quite hidden
by couGtc-s dsyso weaving. No wonder bic thoughts
were still with bis loom and bis money when be msdo
bis Journeys through the Hclds ana Teton
and carry home his work, 90 that bis steps
dsred the hede-banks and the bDeside in search Of
the familiar herbs theee too belonged TO the past
om which HE life had shrunk away, ike u rivulet
that has sunk far down from The grassy fringe OF its
old breadth into little shiverng thread, that cute
groove for itself in the barren sand.
The head villain Of the story is now introduced
in glowing cOlors, and it 10 not long before the
train il laid which clearly see is to terminate
a. &c 80,
treasure. II IL not necessary to explain the de-
tails Of the plot by which this is accomplished,
but tho picture Of woe and despair, on tho dis
covery of the weaver that his hoard had been rled
Ia too striking 10 be omitted.
When Dnnssxn CAss turned his book on the cottage,
Sihs Marer not than HUNDRED yards
away from it, ploddhg along from the village with
sack thrown round his shoulders Overcoat, and
With horn lantern Ia his hand. His legs we're weary,
but his mind sase, free from the preseuiinents
Of change The seass Of security more frequently
springs from habit than from conviction and for this
IL often subssss sftsr sueb change IN The
dtions might have been expected to suggest alarm.
The hpse Of time during which given event has not
hsppeScd IT, in this logic Of habi, constantly alleged
when the ap~e Of tine h precisely The added conoi-
tion which makes the event imminent. man will
tell you that be has worked In mine for forty years
u0but by an accident, as reason why be should
6pireneno no usnEer tbOuBh TIE roO ~ OebihpinB 10
sink: and it is ofea observable, that the older
uan gets, the difficult 1t IL TO him 10 retain
believing conception Of bis own death. This infu-
ence Of habit was necessarily strong ID man whose
life was 40 monotonous as Msrners-who saw no new
people and heard Of no new events 10 keep alive IN
bim the idea Of the unexpected and the change.
fL ; and il explsins, simply enough, why his mind
could BE- at ease though be had le his house and bis
treasure more defenssIess than usual Sas was think
ing with double complacency on bis supper first, be-
cause would be hot aud savory; and, secondly, be.