Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-04-02

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forgotten" and crossed the waste of
waters.
Oh how my heart beat when the
cottage of the Niconis came in sight.
Is she married Is she dead? Or
has she forgotten me? were the ques-
tions that forced themselves upper
most In my mind. 'Wri p
! hurried on, my heart fraught with
threshold where / had SO often stood
before. The sweet face Of Pauletta
did not meet my wandering gaze !;
but / saw old mother Niconi prepar-
ing some broth. .ls !.
Istepped forward and touched her
arm. -
Where Is Pauletta ?' aaii
She turned, and as she saw my face
the bowl fell from her grasp and she
uttered shrek.
I" Paulo Gascoloni at lastY' .r
:" Yes, mother, at last. Where Is
thy daughter ?v
Come, and I will show thee
She caught my arm and led me
into la darkened room. / was left
standing by bed, and mother gent
| ~ drew the curtains. Hpqo
0 God the light of that lovely
Italian morning feliupon the features
OF my Paulette, SO pale, SO pale. She
slept,
"She waited and sighed for thee,
month after month, year after year,
until her frame could endure no more.
She ybetook herself to this bed, and
here, for one year, she has IAN
guished." -
But she will recover, now that I
have come" 1 cried, assuringly. n
T. "Yea please God.p l[ W (
Oh, the awakening, the enclosing
Of those lovely eyes; the parting OF
those pale lips, into which, at the
sight of me, the blood returned. IN
ElI' cannot describe the embrace
the kiss; nor how rapidly she recov.
erred. .--
Pauletta WAS q woman now ;sour
j years had passed over her raven
i ringlets, and made. them fafrer.
/ When the blOom returned to the
cheeks had Kissed on Monte Como
j IND l saw in the woman q beauty
had not seen in the girl, the cure
united psin indissoluble bonds.
Lam still n painter; but my studio
Is In my private residence, and Pau.
i letta, my wife, always sits besid,
my. easel, lighting up my canva.
with her sweet face 7si't " Ff.j
4 And, In conclusion, let me inform
| all those who wish to purchase tn,
, portrait Of the little peasant, tina,
millions would not buy 1t. XII
INSTINCT. IN .--Th,
root constitutes the plants mouth
1t Terminates in q little sponge.l .Th,
sponge drinks up the moisture from
the surrounding earth. A simple ex
pertinent proves that whatever al
amputated branch may do for al
hour, the mouth of the plant is ne
cessary. TO its permanent vitality
Two plants are placed for this pur
) pose, side by side, in contiguous YES
sells. The roots Of the one are in wa
, ter or moist and fruitful earth, Will,
a layer of dry sand above surround
The stem. 1t furnishes. The root
OF the second are In dry sand, Will
/: the water or fruitful earth surround
= its stem. 1t dies. Indeed one nee,
not try such experiments. Natur
: has demonstrations quite as striking
Every boy has seen In the wood tx
roots of some tree, planted by til,
birds or the winds IN the crevices of
rock, wandering down the sides q
the great holder In search of nourish
, ment. DIR. Davy tells of case il
: which horse-chestnut, growing OF
! a flat stone, sent out its roots thus b
forage for food: They passed sever
feet up a contiguous wall, turned a
the top, and passing down seven fee
/, on the other side, found the neede
nourlshment there which their owl
barren home denied them.
Thus closely does the instinct q
vegetation initiate the wisdom of tn
animal creation. In another in
stance, narrated by Malherbe, al
acacia threw its roots across hOllOy
of siXty-six feet, to find its labors re
warded by the discovery of a well G
water in which they plunged, an
e from which they drew the food it S
much needed. What strange sens
!, drew them toward the water rattle
than toward thd rock or the sand?
A yet more singular instance &
this search for food Is narrated b
Wallace in his Malay Arohipel
, ago"
= A seed had been dropped by one O
4 natures husbandmen, a bird, i'm til
decaying trunk of an old tree.
sprouted, put forth roots, branches,
little stem. But its root i'm val
; sought nourishment at the breast q
, its dying foster mother. At length
7 abandoning all hope of support fror
a her, they pushed out from their HON
: the ground, a distance of sixty q
a seventy feet, aud fastening there
succeeded In securing an independ
, lent livelihood. As time passed o
= the old trunk died, decayed, disaI
q peared. The new tree remained sus
: pended, as 1t were, In mid-air, tn
: roots proceeding downward and tn
i branches upward from a point abou
. equidistant between the two.
4 1t Is not thus alone that the roc
4 exhibits intelligence. 1t display
equal sagacity in selecting from th
soil only those elements which IL
q own plant requires. Sometimes
q errs, and drinks in q deadly poison
But its native instinct Is mere rarel
at fault than the supposed superio
= wisdom of man. Trees rarely ca
! unwisely. They are never guilty /,
= gluttony.
!. Yet if the root be the principa
I feeder of the plant, the chief sourc
OF supply for its marvellous circula
7 ton, 1t does not alone fulfill th is O
t fS om ne the ,ea sr s'fD a aSs Sr p
i daysof summer" says NJ. P0uche
n 81 have found carpets Of EGGPLANT
on the, most arid rock in Greece
e Although II had not rained for
q month, these plants displayed =,
= markable freshness, and their lea
: age was none the less covered With