The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-25
ciprocated, and where it will exist for

ciprocated, and where it will exist for
ever"
My young friend took her hand and
bathed it with his tears; but no impress
sion was to be made upon the diseased
mind of this unhappy girl. There were
| occasional incoherencies in her speech,
which made me greatly fear that her in
tellect were giving way. Perceiving, at
length, that our presence became painful
to her, we withdrew Poor Charles was
sadly distressed at the issue of our visit
for he loved this fair, stricken creature
with an attachment so ardent, that be-
lieve he would have willingly sacrificed
his life to restore her lost peace of mind.
What was to be done could not imagine.
Several physicians were consulted, who
treated her disease-for such it evidently
was-as a mere temporary deluslon
which would eventually give way; but to
me this appeared by no means certain.
The uncle, who loved his niece with the
| affection of parent took her to a water
ing place, hoping that change of scene
would produce o favorable effect upon her
alienated mind. She returned without
any abatement of her mental malady.
Nothing could wean her from the sadness
to which she clung, as if it were the vital
principal that sustained her.
beholding a change, when the physician
who attended her suggested that the per-
son whose predictions had produced
those morbid impressions, should be
sought after, and prevailed upon to utter
counter prophecy. The woman was
easily found, as her place of abode hap
pened to be known to one of the servants.
She answered the summons l was pres
ent when she came On being told the
effect of her pretended inspirations, a
sardonic smile passed over her homely,
withered features She expressed no
regret; but upon Julia's uncle putting a
sovereign into her dark horny palm, she
clenched it with the eagerness of a kite
clutching the foul carrion upon which it
feeds and said, with that husky voice,
half whisper and half screech, peculiar to
throats which have long had their natu-
raj secretions dried up by the approach
ing influence of ardent spirits, I'll soon
manage the young gentlewoman; leave
her to me; she won't die this bout. We
old women, you see, know thing or
two When doctors halt we wise ones
are called to set EN- right
When she entered the room, Julia
shrieked the moment she beheld her,
and fell senselesss upon the sofa. The
hag, nothing moved at witnessing the
ruin she had wrought upon that once
sprightly girl, stood over her with the
malignant scowl OF demon, as if she
gloried in the sad effects of her fictitious
prophecies.
She'll soon come to. and then twill be
quick work She pretened to scout me !;
but look here, and see the consequences
of scouting fortune-teller She might
have had better luck, if she had shown
better manners
After con siderable interval, the
wretched girl revived; but so soon as her
ewes fell upon the object who had been
the cause of her misery, delirium instantly
followed. The physician ordered the
woman to be removed. She quilted the
room, n'uttering, 1t was several hours
before . ulia was restored to perfect con-
sciousness, and then it became evident
that she was past hope. 1T was a melan-
choly sight to see one, in the lovely
morning of her youth, thus prostrated.
Alas l can never forget this sad hour.
The young man to whom she had been
betrothed, how can l depict his agonized
feelings
saw poor Julia but once after this
time. and then it was to behold her at
tenuated corpse upon the narrow bed of
a madhouse