Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-03-04

promised to compensate him very literally
If he would act as requested, and never ac-
knowledge to it. Swearing secresy, ne copied
the miniature so perfectly, it could not have
been told from the original. From his studio
I visited a jeweler, bribing him not to men
ton what he did. The picture that l had
produced he encased precisely like the one
from which it was taken, and I returned it
slyly to your drawer-the real one l sent to
Arlie Zerrilon, with a letter purporting to
be from you. I had long. in privacy, prac-
ticed your writing, the illusion was perfect,
telling him the reason you did not care to
mention to forget you-to write you no
longer. as you had no affection for him.
/ tell you this. for l yearn for you to
know who caused you such agony. Had
that vile physician not written to you, you'd
not have known how Arlie had been dqped,
and you'd have died, believing him untrue.
Wouldi it had been sol
DO not seek me, Lorelia Wilde! l 60 to
try my wiles upon other lovers.
Bercic Zadrian stood like one stupefed,
like one struggling to comprehend something
so terrible it has m%omentarily numbed the
senses. Gently drawing her toward him,
Arlie read the paper she was staring upon,
exclaiming, 'Forgive her, Oh. Redeemer,
and aid you to do so We thank thee that
this sorrow may endure for a season-joy
comethp
SLEEP AND DEATH.-s'To love without
fe airing DEATH" said Hufeland, is the only
means Of living happy and dying at a good
old age. People who dread death seldom
attain longevity If death presents itself to
us under a repulsive and terrifying aspect it
is solely owing to our habits and predjudi-
ces having perverted our feelings. Montai-
que Justly said that it is the d~arkening the
room, the faces full Of grief and desolation,
the moaning and crying, that make death
terrific. Civilization, by investing death
with the most lugubrious associations that it
can conjure up, has also contributed to rem
der it a hideous spectre. 1t is the reverse
with the patient. In nine cases out Of ten
it is not only a relief, but almost a sense of
righteousness. Sleep daily teaches us the
reality Of death. "Sleep and death are
twins said the poets Of antiquity. Why.
then, should we fear death, when we daily
invoke its brother as a friend and a consol-
alton? "Life." said Button, "begins to
fail long before it is utterly gone" Why,
then, should we, dread the last moment,
when we are prepared for its advent by SO
many other moments of a similar character?
Death is as natural as life. Both come to
US in the same way. without our conscious
ness, without our being able to determine
the advent of either. No one knows the
exact moment when he goes to sleep, none
will know the exact moment of his death
It is certain that death is generally a pleas
urable feeling. Lucan used to say that life
would be unsupportable to mai if the gods
had not hidden from him the happiness he
would experience in dying. Julius Mar
c%cllinus, Francis Suarez, and the philoso-
pher La Metric. all spoke of the voluptu-
BUSINESS of their last moments. Such are
the consultations which philosophy presents
to timid minds. that dread death. We need
not say what much higher and loftier consol-
atoms await the Christian who is firm and
steadfast in his faith, and has before him
the prospect Of eternal life