, 1870-07-24

AU " @e<l0 A4I1kE7 tUAI 4G Oq4G cQQld T1D@
out.cand then wish that 1 could weep, With
ont The po9cr Deep, indeed, is the sorrov
that dr1a9 tear-sps1ngu up; thora is danger in
sneh gzse4-dznser 70 the body md tho soul.
few moments found ma tneeling As my
brothers side. Dissipation and passiua haa
changed him much since I Isxu him, seren years
before but be Wan still my brothar, nod II he
hid killed my 1oungest brother I had ulled
him, and theroWas extreme misery al ruund.
10 vas bleeding p.otusely and suHeriug much
."Wae IT," be asia family, ''ous younstr
bowed nay head. -
IT knew il" said he, ''Hhen I rc-osniasi
yea; beeauEe you we're 50 ben: on El'ias ma
Arc you hurt much :"
Not n,uch."
"rus -FOUR musket to nv head, brother, aaa
blow il on. Tho pain OF my wounds IL grea. !;
natuce, but the most wicked x1etch never secs
the approach Of death, without thinking Of
The sonething that comes hereafter. No one
Waa Less fl tim to give reliEous advice, yet
! IN Mkea "a NJ dying brother il he bclierea 10
.nything7 -
...Ihe7e is no me1cs fer me-" said he-
,rs9es.s @e % them say there Is mercy for IL,
.so they do. brother hs zr,1;ea II ,,i.e
my head little. am bleeding l,ka a plg I
a1a splitting blood IL ehall. eoou knoT IN
about it. Peshaps there Is marcy for
Us IL; perhape II We had been always
taught 60, thesa things would not
tanshs us 20. They aluavs Fpote Of predest-
nation-of the elect; OF bal for the many: Of
heaven 70, the few faVosites.. Tbs Lord knows
tette1--bette1-"
He stopped speaking; be turned paler; 10
ter al perhaps the Lord dfi know better what
| wsa best than hs or the doctors Of divinity.
At Ill events, was glad to bear him say 80, L,
these times, whau tho Lord is hardly thought
smart enough to minsle in eatthy affairs
hardly up to he standard Of the steau,-ensine
| and the patent elpthes-vzipgsr.
Five minutes after this my eldest brother
Wss dead.
don't know Why it vas that al this time
AID through al thiA firing We hsa attracted 20
attention. Tommy aud i had pushed out some
distance beyond the lesigns.ed line; pe1hapa
| my brother Charies had done the same, anti
| thst Nc met, ~ it were, on neutral ground.
However this may be, never did feel more in
] need Of assistance than Just then; but no ss-
distance camo. Weak as Wiz, undertook
to Ding my brother to tho bush where my
younEtf brother l.y. tagged away With
bow confused and quear Ifelt-ehat = strange
| feeling there was IN the back OF my head, "a
though all my aotEovs ware gathering there,
1 and struggling md fighting for the best posi-
l ton recollect very distinctly that, At last,
1ftes much tnsg'ng. md toiting, and essainiag,
| got N! dead pruthers' corp.es togother. and
| tried 10 ]xy them side by side, bot could not
I for the lie Of mo; tbey would como wrong
hour after hour it seemed to me tried TO Set
them right, shifting them this way and that,
turning them round about till I WIS weary,
and still they were always oppreAaively, puz.
4lngly wrong and still tho strange squirua-
ing sensation continued IN the back Of nv
bead, varied now by sharp. shooting pains, and
feeling Of faintDesa. All Ut once the idea
came upon me that theirs were hundred
eotPees IN front OF me, instead Of two. ana
that vas trying to play game OF cheequert
Hhb them. How struggled to move then
hitber and thitter, and how utterly abortivt
and painful NIL my efforts uera! Suddenly tn
oo1psee begin to danee aud my head began Il
dance, anu theto came 4 confused idea thst
Nas lying on ny back md could not get up
and all At once the Light went ont, and konihl
darkness Came
/ When the fe7er left me, and the light
mckeling, uncertain, unsteady and blinding
| came back, found myself In the hospital =
Ale1andna. Little b! little, as my s1rcnstl
body had been sent home 10 New Hampehi,e
the bhotkhad Killed my mother, had no on
tut q eistar lett The rebel had been buzte
I On tho fold.
But had Won neutrality-suspicious. t
compensate me for al this I had achieve
/ NAUlS A4u uECu AL EG1u EUB WAI ESfTEt
pondenee Of dozen papers. Perhaps 20
| know, sir, "how weary, stale, dat md unpfo,
TABLE 10 the praise OF men. when th
heart 10 scared md numhed with e1t11o,
dina1y griess. You can imagine u,
indifference, and their .urprise 1t my indinel
ence, when they showed ne the glowing e,
tracts which spoke Of my iotrep,dity. fnts,
pitllty! had displayed none. Only roycng,
ful disposition hsd msde me despcrate.
But. believing then, as believe nov, tn,
4 reputation is oftener the result OF accaden
chance, circumstance, than Of ability or cuul
me, and kept 1t till T lost my leg, when, N
| sister hAs1nE died OF consumption, aud bcin
left entirely alone In the world, I came OF
here to these Sunnesotian vida and took tt
Vav @sSes @sS Ice eIo% s; ia 4 sp bsy ssE,
call me hermit. Some day they will miss mi
} kna perhaps some OF them will put mo undt
I the sod for the sake Of what hare got