Year: 1859

tetln Oi thOSe OeaIeSJ 10 Ms 10. De aOie 10
do something for them. DO not be uneasy
dear Alma, about Rudolph and me. H.
is Ike a poor plant which has grown up IN
the dark, aud which requires light to oh
tain its right color and form. Let me be
the light to him. We are almost brother
and sister, aud the poor fatheress and
motherless lad has no one in all the world
who cares or thinks about him There is
in him certain raw strength which. prop
y developed, may make u man Of him.-
And even If he did for time mistake my
feeling for him, the mistake cannot last
long am neither handsome nor agree
Oble enough to be dangerous to any mans
peace, and / become less and less so every
day.


You do not understand You may be
more dangerous than many more beauti-
thl woman to him, who sees you in your
daily hfe.'


so say you, who were, and indeed still
remain 10 be, my only beloved lover
But l will do as you say, Alma. will be
circumspect with Rudolph. Poor Ru-
dolph -


Thanks How beautiful your hair is
there are wonderfully lovely golden rays in
it when the light fulls upon it sideways as
now t


4 will take great of it, too, for your
dear eyes sake.'


My eyes thank you for doing SO it does
them good. What time is it p


1T is near twelve


Then may take my opium drops 9TH
erwise know that shall not Sleep


i will give you them. Thank God for
these friends, which make us forget life and
its misery This has been bitter day to
me now / will take a sleeping draught
with you, and with you wander into the
land of dreams. Perhaps we may there
obtain the knowledge of why we live, for
we caUnOt do so here.'


And Hertha took the same number of
drops us size had given to her sister, and
lay down by her side on the bed.
will you not undressp


No what is the use of continually
dressing and undressing for-no purpose
whatever. am weary with this eternally
| the same and the needless Besides, shall
perhaps in my dreams wake up his Majes.
| ty, and have TO make speech to the cap
tlves and then all at Ohre it might occur
to me that was undressed in caSe-I were
so. But now am ready for whatever ad-
venture beialls'


Yes dream now some really remarka-
, bic dream, which you can afterward tell TO
US and to the king. Good night but let
me lay the coverlid over you. So them


Do you feel yourself better now p


Yes, much better. | fancy that / shall
have good night


Thank God Kiss me. Good night
my Alma Alma mine ! Alma, thou my
Alma ! Pray God for me, aud for us all 7


The two sisters laid their arms round
each other, and soon were soundy asleep,
and Hertha dreamed remarkable dream.


HERTHA's DREAM.


1t seemed to her that she was soul newly
born to earth. She was reposing in the
granite mountain as in her cradle. She
saw herself, as though the body wus trans
parent ethereal form for the soul, aud il
the soul she saw the clear-heart, with It:
wonderful system of ventricles and arteries
through which the life throbhed along warn
crimson paths, and far within it burned d
flame, which now rose and now sank, now
seemed DINNER, now clearer, but evidently
striving upward, as if seeking for freel
space.


1t was morning, and the sun rose brill
anIIy upward She rejo iced in the light o
the sun, aud drank a greeting TO it from
small beaker-like leavs with purple edges
which stood around her cradle filled with
bright drops of dew Her heart beat with
longing for life and light. From her little
nook in the bosom of the granite mount ain
where she lay upon a soft bed of moss, she
Fsaw the heavens bright above her head,
and the hills aud valleys of the earth spread
ing far around. She saw a lofty, glorious,
Verdant tree, whose branches stretched over
the whole earth, and even up to heaven
they were laden with beautiful fruit, anC
she heard voices singing from the tree-toI
words of the old Finlandic proverb-


Listen to the tree-top's Whispering


At whose DOT thy home is planted


A clear fountain gushed murmuring up
ward, not far from the root of the Lofty
tree. She saw three beautiful grave wo
men fetch water from the fountain and wa
ter the tree, which upon this seemed tC
grow ever greener and fresher. Swans
with brilliantly white plnmage swan, sing
ing the while, on the waters of the fountain
Hertha saw men coming and going unde
the shade of the tree, pllcking its fruit
and then bringing back again with exnlta
lion beautiful creations which they called
their work. She saw glorious forms, prouC
erections, and the most exquisite ornament
proceed from their, hands she saw then
rejoice over their work, and again and a
gain derive power for fresh labor from tn
fruits of the magnificent tree.
With beating heart she inquired


Who are these 2


A voice answered These are the wor
shippers of the Sciences aud the free Arts
and they who, vote themselves TO the cal
. Jugs which ennobe and gladden. the hear
Of man. Many Of these people seemed L
pay an especial homage to women. The,
: aeliueated her form in manifold ways; thel
composed songs and made beautiful speech
es in her honor calling upon her to beau
tify the earth and to make il happy.
Helt tha felt the lire in her heart bur
, hitrhar aud hiUher and IL inSnired her I