The Van Buren press., 1876-10-03
MISCELLANY.
Warned of a Warning
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BY ALBANY De FuNBLANQtE.
[From 1ennple Bari

If ihe reader who has this page before
his ewes lie one Of those who Will believe
only what The, unders aud, or who--be
Ca Sc some lnipoe tiers, pretending to deal
with the supernatural, have been exposed
treat with rldicule the idea that spirits
can. or will, inlcrpose in the affairs Of
mortals here below. let him skip the
whole article, and 60 on t. the next He
will have u v,ry good shiiling's worth
, without it. To the more toiera.-t ! wuuld
explain that | tell this tale rs it was told
TO me, suppresslng real names and alter
ing the scene. according to promise
have made viii not attempt to account
tor anything. The main facts were mar
rated ty person sane in mind aud strong
OF bod,--a man of singularly truthful
disposition The sequel witnessed
with IN, own eyes, SO you may be quite
sure that you will not come across the
old familiar " dodge OF making won.
ders turn out to be " lhe baseless fabric
OF II vision
In the year 1861 wlen first met Frank
Conroy. he was handsome. Grave, sim
pie minded boy. Eleven years later l
saw him again. He was great deal big
ger, but very little changed The same
dark brown cnrly hair with CLINT of red
in ii the same laughing blue eyes, the
same almost girlsh smile, the same con
tempt for all that was mean or cruel !;
only he didn't burst out crying now, when
touched by such things. He stood six
feet one IN his rowing shoes, aud would
Just us soon have lnult kick me as feel
the weight of his arm, A Z nt.e giant,
tins Frank Conroy, with fair abilities,
good prospects, a happy home, troops
ot friends, and the sweetest girl in Viz
ginia loving him with all her heart. This
VS. Anne Annesley, the only daughter
of a planter whose fortunes had survived
the ravages oft civil war and who liv.
ed in a grand old house ON the James
River, some fifty miles above Richmond
Her mother had died when she was Il
child Annie was petite, of course, or
she would not have had big Frank at her
| tiny feet and there was II roundness and
suflnees about the lower part of her face,
which appeared to he of the wax doll or
der unit. YOU had taken IN her eyes and
brow say taken iu,' because they
grew upon you. She was not reiguing
belle, however. Frank snapped her up
as soon us she came UP that was one
reason. s c did not CONSIDER daucing
the German as the end and object of ex
istence; and she carried TOO many guns
tor the beanX OF the period-that W an
| other. There were ups and downs, ins
and outs in the characters of this pair
which lavoured the forging of an excel
| lent weld when the great hammer man,
Love, should place Them. all a2low. on
his anvil At irst biz Frank was indu-
| lent hltle Annie ambitious he was real
| irtic, she romantic; he somewhat too
easy going TO Keep off foes, she some
what too gwen 80 cyhlcism To gam friends,
In short time they began To rub oil
each other deficiencies. He was tweu
| y.onr, aud she eighteen, aud they were
to he married as soon as he had taken
| his degree.
| In all sorts of athletic contests and ex
ercises he had already graduated with the
highest honors In public little Annie
rather discouraged these pursuits, but her
heart glowed with delight when the Har
ward boat dashed first under the string, and
| No 3, the captain, was carried out of il
| IN triumph. She tore her pretty lace
handkerchief into shreds during the first
lapse of the three mile ioot-race, as the
| runner who wore her culors on bis grea,
heaviug chrs, appeared only fifth in the
contest. She cuuldn't brar To see him
bra,en aud when at last he put on his
squirt and went through his men like O
rocket, her heart blat faster than his own
At the lime when this account commen-
ces he was in training for another great
j'boat race, and reading hard too, for in
America, as here, your rowing man can
be book worker, if Ia please
! Now staying on visit at the home oi