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VY.

PORTR

THE PLEDGE OF LOVE,

This band, which bound thy yellow hair,
Is mine, sweet girl! thy pledge of love;
It claims my warmest, dearest care,
Like relies left of saints above.

Oh! I will wear it next my heart;
’Twill bind my soul in bonds to thee:
From me again ‘twill ne'er depart,
But mingle in the grave with me.

The dew I gather from thy lip

Is not so dear to me as this;
hat I but for a moment sip,

And banquet on a transient bliss:

This will recall each youthful scene,
E’en when our lives are on the wane;

The leaves of love will still be green,
When memory bids them bud again.

Oh! little lock of golden hue,
Tn gently waving ringlet curl'd,
By the dear head on which you grew,
T would not lose you for the world,

Not though 9 thousand more adorn
The polish'd brow where ence you shone,
Like rays which gild a cloudless morn,
Beneath Columbia's fervid zone,

Select Viterature.

“A GILOST

(TRANSLATED FROM THE YRENCH BY 3s,
ANNIE T. WOOD.)

In 1859, Thad hired at Verrieres,a charm-
ing village coquetti@lly situated midway
on one of the wooded slopes of the forest
which bears its name,a siinple cottage
where [ designed to spend the summer
with my wile and presumptive heir, a
pretty and plump bey of a year old, raised
in the country, and who, thanks to the
fresh air, exercise, and healthy life of the
fields, did, Lassnre you, credit to hisnurse.
My cottage consisted of a square pavilion
covered with tiles, composed of a base-
ment and one story, and situated at the
extremity of the village ina retired) lano
Icading to the country i me indi-
cated: “ Road lo the Vineyard.”

An oblong garden, of abont an acre,
inclosed by walls garnished with trellises,
and whose principal entrance was adorned
by an iron gato with pillars, the only am-
bitious decoration of this modest retreat,
lay before the cottage, which was built at
the extremity of the inelosure, and reached
by a gravelled walk, bordered on cach
side with fruit trees in full bearing. Be-
fore the house stood a group of Bengal
rose ind on the right and leit, fronting
side porches, each lighted by two windows
only, were grassy ]vwns of nearly four
yards square, which had first attracted me,
heeause T saw there a natural carpet very
well calculated for the sports of my newly
weaned baby, just beginning to learn to
use his teeth and limbs,

The whole, furnished comfortably, not
Juxuriously, but with everything necessary
in country life, had been let to me for
five hundred franes, by the praprietor, M.
Roux, ex-apothee Rue Montmiurt

the inventor of a celebrated dentif:

The young are not difficult; Twas young,
then, and had one conclusive reason for
seeing life through my colored spectacles.
United to a charming woman whom I
idolized and who rendered me happy, |
dreamed of perfect love, like an Arcadian
shepherd, and these five words, a collage
ond her heart, the eternal romance of youth,
would haye led me to the end of the
world,

When spring came, and the lilaes, of
which there were whole thickets in our
inclosure, blossomed, arrived a fortunate
couple to take pos on of our Tittle
domain, my wife having never yet seen
the house or garden; they pleased her,
perhaps for reasons similar to mine. She
was kind enough to find everything to her
taste, even the gardener, expressly in-
eluded in the inventory of fixtures, and
who was not, to tell the truth, the least
useful article of furniture.

Paid by the proprictor, all his duties
were comprised in taking care of the gar-
den, showing the cottage to visitors, and
airing the apartments by oceasionally
opening the windows, If the situation
was not very lucrative, it was not dificult
to fill. So M. Roux had contided it to the
tirst one who came’to hand, that is to say
to asimple peasant of the neighborhood,
the inhabitant of one of the only two
houses which now stood on the road to the
vineyard

Llondas St. Foy, with an air as clownish
as that witty singer, Gilkin, with his lone,
st t locks, his pug nose, his porcelain
blue eyes, and fat, projecting checks,
slightly ruddy, would have figured ad-
mirably as at oh the stage. A genu-
ine peasant of théepera, head both the
physique and the character ot the situation,
So when, in the intervals of liberty allowed
him by the culture of his fields, the pro-
duce of which he sent regularly to market,
according to the invariable custont of
farmers in the neighborhood of Paris, he
had time to come and put sticks fo our
peas, water our strawberry plints, hoe
our potatoes, and weed our earrots, which
happened two or three times a week, and
took about half a day each time; en those
days, Whoever had come to pay a visit to
my wile or to myself and looked for us in
the house, would certainly have lost his
trouble,

Arm in arm, and braving the hottest
sun, madam, with her parasol and her
pretty scarlet sun-bonnet, so becoming to
her twenty years, and I, with an immense
straw hat, worthy of a pure blooded Ain-
eriean planter, closely followed Gilbert,
The honest youth had scarcely arrived,
when, proud of having a gardener, we
went, like genuine Bosotians that we were,
to sit beside him while he worked, with
spadeor watering-pot in hand, and you
should see what a mischievous pleasure
we then took in overwhelming him with a
multitude of questions as absurd as his
replies; in hearing him reason gravely on
the rain and fine weather; discuss the in-
fluence of heat or cold; describe his hopes
or fears relative to the approaching har-
vost; curse the race of fexcs and weasels,

fs
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nocturnal marauders, not waiting for
license from the vintagers to ravage their
best vines; in fine, to study in all its
phases this honest villager, who, having:
arrived at the age of thirty, had aw

child, paid his taxes, figured on festiy

al

the citizen militia, and had never in his
life, except in one excursion to Versailles,
when he saw the great fountains play, lost
sight of the steeple of his commune,
What a curious type! what an excellent
nad kind nature! how many amusing sim-
plicities, how many charming stories he
had to tell! the foolish laughter which
snddenly seized us in the midst of these
stories, to the great astonishment of our
countryman, alway s retaining his im-
perturbable sang froid, and looking at us
with open mouth, unable to comprehend
explosions of gayety !

We had hardly been installed in our
rustic village « week, when, one fine
morning, as we were making a bouquet in
amagnilicent border of violets framing
one of the green Jawns beneath our win-
dows, and in the corner of which figured
a well half hidden by a thicket of laburn-
ums, my wile said to me :—

“Do you know, my love, what dis-
pleases me here, and what I would cer-
tainly have remoyed this very moment if
it depended only upon me ?”

Without being a fine lady, my wife is

her little superstitions. She believes in
the influence of Friday and of the number
thirteen; an overturned salt-cellar, two
knives crossed aifect her; a broken mirror
would make her sick; at evening, the
murmur of running water, the mysterious
whispering of the poplars, vivid lightning,
and the noise of the thunder produce an
effect which she cannot avoid; adorable
weakness, of which, in my opinion, I
should do very wrong to complain,

“Whatis it2? asked [of my wife.

“That disagreeable weeping willow,
which stands in the corner of the lawn on
the right of the well,” replied she:

“And why so?” returned I,

«You know very well,” said she tome,
“that I cannot endure those trees, even
in the painting; an ordinary willow can
be passed by in’ spite of the romance of
Othello, but these weeping willows—ch,
no! [ cannot bear them.”

“T understand you, dear friend; but we
have no occasion for grief, the child is
well, and we are both cheerful enough.”

Come, you jest when the gravest sub-
jects are concerned. You undoubtedly
have not forgotten the origin of my anti-
pathy for that hateful tree, which should
never be admitted into pleasure-grounds |

On passing the shop of Lemounier, that
famous artist in hair, and examining: the

fvames exposed in his window, have you
not seen that melincholy shrub figure,
heside yews and eypresses, and shading
with its tearful tresses these mournful
words: He wasa qood husband and father.
Yo our angel! Jiis av tree suited only to a
cometry, and iding here on this turf, it
annoys, it worries me.”

“What a foolish idea,” said IT; ‘ mean-
while I will promise to say a word on the
subject to Gilbert the gardener; we will
see when he comes whether he may not
be able to remove it.”

At evening, when Madame Gilbert re-
turned from the fields bringing on her
shoulder her cow's supper, I invited her
fo rest a moment as she was passing the
rarden gate, and informed her, that she
it mention it to her husband, of the
desire expressed by my wile.

‘+ Madame is in the right,” said she te
me, ‘and she is not mistaken in her sup-
positions. They took very good care not
to tell you when you hired the house; the
proprietor, M. Roux, forbade us to do so,
hut there is indeed some one buried there,
and, with her apprehensions, your wile is
nearer the truth than you thought for.
That turf aud weeping willow conceal a
tomb!”

You will easily imagine how astonished
[was at this unexpected revelation.

We had come into the country to avoid
the gloomy sights of the city, especially
to flee from the spectacle of all those hua-
man miseries so little caleuluted to divert
even the most philosophical, in that vast
ant-hill of which the great Parisian society
is composed,

And we had encountered precisely what
we wished to avoid; we were, without
having suspected it, the guests of Death;
our garden was but a cemetery, our villa
afoneral lodge standing in the midst of it,
like those inhabited by the hired guardi-
ans of our burying-grounds, When our
child, trying his new-born powers, was
rolling about this thick turf, so green, so
studded with white daisies, O horror! O
snerilegious prolanation! it was over a
sepulehre, over a cold corpse that, with
his rattle in his hand, this dear little eroa-
five was pla You will imagine that
nothing more was necessary, t to speak
of the water of the well from which we
drank, and for the suspicious taste of
which T thought T could not account, to
induce us to remove immediately

* But this ad fhith on the
part of the propri ‘ d Lto Madame
Gilbert. ‘16 is suffi to cancel the

of
Be

ent

hargain, for people will not endure such
im} ions. Whois buricd there?” ad-
ded Ts ‘a criminal, a suicide! a miser

ant who died without confession and could
not be buried in eonseerated eros

‘Not exactly,” replied ny interloeuter,
‘it is the former proprietress of the payil
ion, Madame V——, the aunt of amor
painter, | haye been told, whose fine battle
pieces Gilbert saw at the muascum at V
sailles one day when the grand fountains
were playing.”

Has this person been dead Jon

About five years, 1 think. s, five
years at the approaching plum season.”

“And why was she not buried, like
other people, in the village cemetery 2”

Madame Gilbert turned, and casting a
slight glance to the right and left as if to
see whether any one could hear what she
was about to say, replied :—

“Madame V was a strong-minded
woman, a philosopher, I have been told.
You know there are often such in- artists’
families. She died at the age of eighty-six.
In her youth, before the first revolution,
she had been acquainted with many cele-
brated writers whom she often quoted and
whose works she knew by heart; one M.
Voltaire, who was a native of the village
of Chatenay,neur here ; a certain Rousseau,
Messieurs Dident, de’Alembert, aud many

days in a Gaulish blouse in the ranks of

very impressible in her nature, and has|s

others whose names I do not remember,
although they were ineessantiy in her
mouth. An amiable little woman she was,
too, lively, witty, agreeable;; charitable
to the poor, and much beloved by our pea-
sants, Whom she never hesitated to assist
by her counsels or her purse, But) when
she died, seareely bent by age, still coquet-
tish, reading the newspaper daily without
spectacles, it was yondor, there, beneath
that arbor of honey-suckles, that she seat-
ed herself every morning; and 1 see her
still, with her white sun-bonnet and farth-
ingale of puce-colored silk, she wished to
remain faithful to her principles,and as she
did not believe in much ofanything, never
went to mass, entertained the curate only,
as she laughingly said, in hopes to convert
him, left a will in which, by a formal
clause, she requested to be buried in her
own garden, beside these eglantines which
she had herself set out and whose roses
she loved to cultivate. Her heirs fulfilled
her last wishes, and when Mr. Roux bought
the property the obligation was imposed on
him that he should respect this litle-nook
of land.

‘Well, it is a disagreeable condition,
and if the house and ‘den were to be
sold again [would not buy them at any
price.” Meanwhile, Lenjoin it upon you
not to say a word of all this tomy wife, 1
know her; if she should cver Jearn the
least thing which could contivrm her in her
picions, she would not remain at Ver-
riers one hour, As for me, Lam going to
Paris to have vtulk with the proprietor.’

As 1 was going without even returning
to the house to engage a place in the car-
ringe of Barbu, & with ten its
whieh then made reguka tips to the city,
chance willed ii that 1 should encounter
on the way Father Michal, our baker, the
deputy-mavor ofthe commune, Tnatursl-
ly repeated to him iy dissatisfietion and
the step L was about to t:

Father Michal was an excelent man; he
held me in great esteem, because that be-
fore having estublished myselfat Verviers,
Lhad often made him a present of the
game I had killed in that vicinity.

‘It is useless for you to go to Paris,’ suid
he to ine; fon Saturday hast, at the request
M. Roux himself, the maneipal council de-
cided to exhume Madame VY——, and trans-
fer her remains to the neighboring cene-
tery. You will imagine that the interests
of the proprietor would prevail over the
posthumous request of an old woman,
‘Phe ceremony will take place at noon to-
morrow. You will therelore do well to
take your wile to Paris this very evening,
and not wn till the day alter,

Jimmediately returned to, Gilbert and
gave him my instructions, Caleuluing
thatan absence of twenty-four hours would
be very short, Lresolyed (th® wis Mon-
day) not to return till the following Satur
day. It was agreed betwecr the zartten-
er and myself that he should remoye, with
the greatest care, wl the turf coyeting the

rave, replace it as earefally, léveiliag it
so that his iubor should not appear,

Vive minutes afterwards Thad invented
a plausible excuse for the necessity of an

immediate departure, which y nothing
less than a serious indisposition of my

mother, and at four o'clock we left the
house, taking with us ong entire §unily.

After passing a few days if the capital,
we returned to our Jitthe villa, In the
mean time Thad been officially intormed
that the removal of the body had taken
place, and the turf so ingeniously replaced
o leave no trace of the operation. The
letter, Which came from Father Michael,
announced to me at the same time, by way
of postscript, that my presence on the fol-
lowing Saturday was indispensable at Ver-
riers, us the moon would then be st the full,
and a whole family of weasels had been
discovered, whose urgent destruction im-
periously called for my devotions, that is
to say, some hours watching in the forest
at night,

Atnine o'clock, therefore, on the even-
ing of my return, T set out in seareh of my
weasels, ‘Phe weather was magnighcent
and the moon at the tull. No night could
haye been more propitous, nevertieless
ny vigils were vain, for no sight of a
weasel appeared, and after waiting til
daylight I returned home.

I was but twenty paces from the house,
whose white walls, illuminated by the rays
of the moon, stood out from the dark
ground of the thickets behind it, and was
about to turn around the group of Bengal
roses decorating its facade, when, casting
my eyes mechanically toward the six feet
of turf which, three days beiore, still cov.
ered the sepulehre of Maduue V——, I
remained petrilied, immoyable, dumb with
fear and horror,

Beneath the weeping willow which for-
merly shaded the tomb, stood, Wrapped in
its shroud, the spectre of the departed. — Tt
was not an optical Hiusion, nor a hy i-
nation of my disturbed mind. ‘Phe pian-
tom seemed to be awaiting me, wa. ing its
ans as if trying to disengage them: from
iis white shroud; and while its head reach-
ed to the uppermost branches of the tree,
its feet, nimubly itating, hovered over,
miher than touched the ground. ‘They
seemed to be making ineficetual efforts to
detateh themselves cutively and advance
lo ect me,

A shudder of indeseribable terror ran
ever ine, and though not cow ardiy by na
ture, a cold sweat stood ou tay forehead.
[tried to speak, but could notutter a word ;
fivied to walk, but my limbs refused to
obey my will, At last, imagining mysell
to be the vietim of some trick, 1 adjured
the spirit to speak, threatening to Hire upon
itun it answered my chiulk

Lhad scarcely uttered this threat wher
a fash of lightening, the first indication of
an approacaing storm, filuminated the
whole garden, aid amid a gust ot wind,
which cuveloped me in a whirlwind ot
dost, the phantom disappeared. ‘This time
i could vet doubt that it was the shade of
Madame V » suddenly hing be-
tore my eyes, in order to save Wie a second
profunation wore sacriligvous than the
first.

Shall I confess it? T crossed myself, and
cleaving in a few leaps without daring to
turn my eyes in the direction of the well,
the distance which still seperated me from
the pavillion, L .ushed, more dead than
alive, into cle bedchamber where my wile
was quictly reposing.

IT was very cueful not to awaken her,
and especially not to tell her ot any noc.
turnal adventure; but a violent clap of
thunder rendered useless the precautions
'which I had taken to make as little noise
las possible on ontering.

‘Ah! it is you my love,’ said she to me,
* You did well to return; I have been op-

pressed by a bad dream; light the candle,

beg, and see if all is right about the
house.’

The night was terrible, and [never knew
amore frightful storm, The disorder of
the elements impressed me the more vivid«
ly that, in my state of mind, it seemed to
he in consequence of my vision ; and when
day appeared and the tempest abated, I
had not even then succeeded in closing my
eyes,

“T arose and dressed to take a turn in the
garden; but at the moment of crossing
the threshold of the door, I was so over-
come that I retraced my steps, resolved
not to visit the theatre of action until after
breakfast, my wife and myseif could go
together and see the ravages of the’storm,

As the cook came to pour out tea for
us in the dining-room, Rosulie, the child's
nurse, whose first duty every morning was
to fill the fountain, eutered. She held in
her hand a bundle of wet linen,

*Ah, madame, I have been fortunate,’
said she to my wile. ‘Look, I brought
these from the well in drawing my first
bucket of water.’

‘What are they? asked my wife.

‘The clothes of the little one which I

hung out to dry last night on the weepin
willow at the edge of the well; the and
blew so in the night that they fell in; for-
tunately they caught on the handle of the
lower bucket.’
In spite of myself I burst into a fit of mad
laughter, to the great amazement of my
wife, who vainly questioned me on the
subject of iny unaccountable hilarity,

Thad the secret of the enigma, But I
will confess, and anore than one strong
mind would doubtless have shared my
weakness, I believed for an instant in
ghosts,

SABLATH OBSERVANCE,

The nations of the earth which now most
respect the Sabbath, and most discourage
inLor, pastimes, and mere amusements,
during its sacred hours, are the freest, the
happiest. the most prosperous, and the
furthest advanced in progress of art, mans
wheture and inyention; and that city,
town, village or community, of any Sab-
bath-respecting nation, which best keeps
the Sabbath as a day of rest for body and
mind, is the most noted for all that is
orderly, lawabiding and substantial, and

that fimily, of any Sabbath-loving corn-
munity, which bést observes hy quiet, by

religious worship, and the performance of
Bible duties, is most substantial and re-
spected and inble in that community,
while any individual member of a Sabbath-
keeping family who most spends the hours
of that sacred day in m tion, in wor-
ship, and prayerful re: f the Scrip.
ture, will uniformly be found to follow a
blimcless life, to possess the respect and
contidence of the whole community; and
all men will know where to look for him,
however evil m be the times—to wit;
on the side of justice and right, and liberty
and law, and Sterling principle.

No man ein be so blind as not to know
that the Sabbath is least respected where
there is most of all that is vulgar and pro-
tune, and abandoned; and those who are
the least for it are literally thieves and
murderers, drunkards, _ prize-fighters,
horse-raccrs, and the utterly depraved of
all classes; and that these, the wicked,
“do not live half their days." As a
means, then, of longevity, of worldly pro-
sperity, of individual elevation of charac-
ter, every citizen will not only do what is
possible in himsell to secure a religious
observance of the Sabbath day, will net
only countenance and encourage others
to do the same, but will volunteer his pe-
euniary aid to further these things in the
community around him,—J/all’s Journal,

are about making their purchases will
yomeniber that the wide-awake
ress men of their community are the
ones of whom they can make the best pur-
chases, and secure the best goods, and the
i le rule by which to discover this
of men, is to look into the columns
of your newspaper. Liye business men
know the value of advertising, and always
protit by it, while the antiquated fossils,
who are content to see the same goods
upon their shelves for half a century, and
to see no new customers in the course of
their existence, put the few dollars. they
should spend in advertising in their pock-
ts, keep their goods over from year to
id lose the reward of a lively busi
uv anid a rapid renewal of stock which
is the invariable result of advertising.
Business men) who advertise are always
up with the times, They have the pret-
tiest goods and latest patterns, and in con-
sequence of the beavy trade which adver-
tisements bring them, ean sell ata lower
niirgin than those who depend upon
chance er avecident to inform customers
where they do business, or what they haye
to sell.—aAlways deal with Advertisers,

Usprncrapeatre IG — From
an article hy a London Vines reviewer we
make the following extract:—There is a
peculiar flavor to a Uni Y Man about
undergraduates ignorance, Judicious se-
lections from Little-go-papers are a favor-
ile source of laughter. Mr. Don mentions
the published addition to the parable of
the Good Sumaritin, After repeating the
Sumuritan’s saying to the innkeeper.
“When Leome again, I will repay thee,”
the unlucky examinee added. ‘This he
said, knowing that he should seo his face
po more.” Our author gives usa candi-
date for his degree stating the substance of
St. Paul's sermon at Athens, to be eryirg
out for the space of two hours. Great
is Diana of the Ephesians,” and another
when called upon to trace a connexion be-
the Old and New Testament referred to
the circumstance that Peter vith his sword
cut off the ear of the prophet Malachi.
But of those which we have heard tell
ourselves one of the neatest for its con-
ception in the plain style of unhesitatin
fuiihis the description of the ascent o
ilija into heaven :—** And then came two
she-bears out of the wood and said unto
Elijat Go up. thou bald-head, and he went
up.” The tnllest development of the com.
bination of a good memory with an iu ferior
sense of the traditional order is t] e account
of the death of Jezebel, The examines
tecling sure of his ground, periaced the
account with the statement, “Itis moms

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