North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-05-24
PA, WEDNESDAY,, MAY "a, 1866.
follow my prescriptions"

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rust entirely to hia better judgment.
"Then, my dear Madam, my frat prescrip
tion is for you to give up this gloomy house
keep all your furniture, and store it at mine
and remain there with your children, nak in,
my house your home, at least uutil you
health shall be completely restored. Yo'
will find that my Eousekeeper, Mrs. Jane
Winsbrow, is kind and worthy woman.
The schoolhouse and church are 40 near ther
a. here; and the pleasanier place will ait
your recovery.
There was q prescription which the down.
cast and now astonished woman did not fnc
difficult to take and the speedy result was
that by the aid of the faithful man servant
Thomas Winsbrow, the goods were all care
fully removed and stored, and Mrs. Lane and
her children were placed in possession of two
handsome adjoining rooms. from the windows
of which she could daily be RECALLED by brac-
leg air and charming landscape; and here,
in her new home, how long to last she knew
not, she was enjoined to read, walk, ride, and
keep her mind as calm as possible. She found
the medicine he ordered out trfllng, and hi.
conversation solace and one day she allu-
ded to this, and stated her opinion that the
place, rather than medicine, had greatly in
cr eased be strength and cheerfulness.
''You are right" he replied.
"The harmless stuff Ihave recommended has
been more to inspire faith and hope, than to
act otherwise on the system. This scenery
Gods painting-and His breath, this pure
air, are operating very favorably for you
The mind corrodes the body often; and when
can minister to mind diseased il some
times claims almost exclusive attention"
"This beautiful place is as cheerful "a 1t is
romantic, she replied; though have been
accurtomed to couple romance with what is
melancholy, for my own early history had
much Of romance in it, joined with as much
Of sorrow" @
This vague allusion, led her, mt his desire,
to an explanation, the subject being that, in
her native city, from which her fathers fAmi
ly were moving when she was but four years
ofage, she strayed away from the house,
while they were busy with the confusion, and
became lost. She had contrived to stroll on
board vessel, where the little wanderer vas
discovered fast rsleep after the vessel had
put to sea. 4 .s.4 . -..
On his return, the captain made fruitless
inquiries as to the whereabouts of the chlld's
parents, and concluded to adopt her as his
own. #
At the age Of fourteen, the captain's wife
who had long been unkind to her, turned her
adrift, while he was absent from home
Ma king her way 10 factory she had
earned her livelihood for a number of years,
till her marriage and removal to the West,
never having heard further of her Parents
but the dress which she had worn when she
was lost, had been carefully preserved, and
still in her possession. .......f .. .-..
DIR. Herman had listened gravely and with
fixed interest to this brief narrative, and q,
it's conclusion he oddly remarked:
''Do you believe in second sight2"
She answered in the negative.
81 do; I am possessed oft, and will prove
it," And he now described, minutely, the
child's dress Of which she had spoken.
"It is correct but you do no surpriss
me, for my children must have shown it to
you" .... -..fI r..#. ns..
"No," was his reply; land can tell you
more about this dress. The city of which
you speak Is my native city and have good
reason to remember the details of this little
dress, for am the elder brother of the child
whowore it,and advertised for the recovery at
the time, when we were moving to o distant
city. Were you to young to remember your
name2" r -.. ..aa -r a.11h
"Oh no ~ replied Mrs. Lane, pale and
tremulous at this disclosure. 81 remember
very cleary. 1t was Maud--Maud Herman )"
THAT is the name Oh, Maud my dear
sister, what marvel of Providence is this
which has SO wonderfully brought US toge,h-
er, in this distant place, and after so many
years of separation / was man then, and
You but little more than au infant. IL makes
me think that the interest have taken in
You. was inspired, not by any common sym
patby for distress, but by some mysterious
law ofiDstinct, which moved me, brother,
to show brothers. love-" sss z.sgf7v f.s.a
SIT seems so. But, perhaps it was second
sight, he answered, smiling through her
tears RetgQaa wa go -T'H2-ar ss3
. 81 have certainly had q second sight at
you,' replied he "and now that you are old
enough to 90 alone, am sure it will not be
the last" .E.n E.s -r.f .stt .HE
It is only necessary to add, of DR.. Herman
and his late found sister. that as her troubles
had come in troops, SO, too. did her blessings;
the return of her husband from n Southern
prison, filling the arms of fond wife instead