East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-04-27

Well upon my word you hav,
been driving hardg' exclaimed DIR
Lyons, when l met him at the station
"I have not indeed" was my re-
ply; I" but something frightened Tafy
but what that something was is NOR,
than i can tell"
"Oh, ah !" said the doctor, wha
q certain degree Of interest in his face
$50 you met it, did you? ?"
"Met what?"
"Oh, nothing; only ] have hearc
Of horses being frightened along this
road after the arrival Of the $3.50 up
train. Flies never leave the momen
the train comes in, OF the horse be
comes restive-a wonderful thing fol
a fly horse to become restive, isn't it p
"But what caused this alarm
saw nothingp' s
"You ask me more than I can an, .;
as yourself. / take things as they
stand, and make no inquiries. When
the fyman tells me he can't start foi
minute OF two after tho train has
arrived, or urges his horses to reach
the station before the arrival of the
train-giving as his reason that his
brutes become wild if he does not do
so-then merely say, Do as you
think best, cabby,' and bother my
head no more about tho matter"
"I shall search this matter out, +"
said 1 resolutely. "What has taken
place so strangely corroborates the
superstition, that / shall not leave il
uninvestigated."
"Take my advice and Danish it from
your thoughts. When you have come
to the end you will be sadly dsar-
pointed, and will find that all the mys-
terry evaporates, and leaves dull
common place rosiduum. 1t is best
that the few mysteries that remain un-
explained should remain mysteries, or
we shall disbelieve in su pernatural
agencies altogether. We have search
cd out tho arcana Of Nature, and ex-
posed her secrets to the garish eye of
day, and we find in despair, that the
poetry and romance Of life are gone.
Are we the happier for knowing that
there are no ghosts, no fairies, no
witches, no mermaids, no wood-spir-
its ? were not our forefathers happier
in thinking every lake to be the abode
of fairy, every forest to be the bow
er of yellow-hsired sylphs, everv
moorland sweep to be tipped over by
elf and pixie 2 found my little boy
one day lying on his face in fairy
ring, crying, You dear, dear little
fairies, / will believe in you, though
papa says you are all nonsense l
used, in my childish days, to think
when silence fell upon company,
that an angel was passing through
the room. Alas! i now know that it
results only from the subject of the
Sas Ssathsr la having Hs gsaasssat, aasssat tnikeadg dTeh
started. Believe me science has done
good to mankind, but it has done mis-
chief too. If we wish to be poetical
or romantic, we must shut our eyes to
facts. The head and the heart wage
mutual war now. A lover preserves
a lock of his mistress hair as holy
relic, vet he must know perfectly well
that for all practical purposes bit OF
rhinoceros hide would do as we'll
the chemical constituents are identical.
If | adore fair lady, and feel thrill
through all my veins, when touch
her hand, q moments consideration
tells me that phosphate of lime No.
is touching phosphate of lime No. z
nothing more. If for a moment !
forget myself SO far us to wave my
cap and cheer for King, or Queen or
Prince, laugh at my folly next mo-
ment for having paid reverence to one
digesting machine above another"
] cut tho doctor short as he was
lapsing into his favorite topic of dis
cussion, and asked him whether he
would lend the pony chaise on the fol-
lowing evening that / might drive to
the station again aud try to unrayel
tho mystery.
81 will lend you the pony" said
he, "but not the chaiso, as / am
afraid of its being injured should
Tafiy take fright and run up into the
hedge again. / have got saddle"
Next evening / was on my way to
the station considerably before the
time at which tho train was due.
I stopped at the turnpike and chat.
ted with the old man who kept it. ]
asked him whether he could throw
any light on tho matter which l was
investigating. He shrugged hi:
shoulders, saying that che knowed
nothing about it."
"Whatl nothing at all ?"
"I don't trouble my head with mat.
ters Of this sort" was tho reply
" People do say that something out
of the common sort passes along the
road and turns down the other road
leading to Clayton and Brighton, bu
/ pays no attention to what the people
says"
ado you ever hear any thing?"
! "After the arrival Of the 9:30 trnir
I does some times hear tho rat
tie as Of mail car, and tho trot of {
horse along tho road and the SOUND
is as though one of tho wheels wa'
loose. I've been out many time t
take the toll-but Lor bless'y then
spirits-if spirits them be-don't e
for to pay toll"
",Have you never inquired into th'
matter ?"
"Why should /? Any thing a
don't go to pay toll don't concern me
Do you think as l knows 'ow man.
people and dogs goes thro' this hec
geatt in day? Not Them don
| pay toll, so them's no odds TO me-"
"Look here, my man said /. ID
you object to my putting bar acros
the road Immediately on the arriva