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THE PIRATE.

By Sir Walter Scott.

CHAPTER XXVIII. (Continued. )

The melted lead, spattering as it fell into

the water, formed, of course, the usual com bi- nation of irregular forms which is familiar to ull who in childhood have made the experi- ment, and from which, according to our childish fancy, we may have selected portions bearing some resemblance to domestic articles —the tools of mechanics, or the like. Norna seemed to busy herself in some such research- es, for she examined the mass of Jead with scrupulous attention, and detached it into different portions, without apparently being able to find a fragment in the form which she desired. At length she again muttered, rather as speaking to herself than to her guests: ‘* He, the Viewless, will not be omitted—he will have his tribute even in the work to which he gives nothing. Stern compeller of the clouds, thou shalt also hear the vwice of the Reim- kennar.”’

Thus speaking, Norna once more threw the lead into the crucible, where, hissing and spattering as the wet metal touched the sides of the red-hot vessel, it was soon again re- duced into a state of fusion. The sibyl mean- time turned to a corner of the apartment, and opening suddenly a window which looked to the north-west, letin the fitful radiance of the sun, now lying almost level upon a great mass of red clouds, which, boding future tem- pest, occupied the edge of the horizon, and seemed to brood over the billows of the bound- less sea. Turning to this quarter, from which alow, hollow, moaning breeze then blew, Norna addressed the Spirit of the Winds, in tones which seemed to resemble his own ;—

“Thou, thaé over billows dark

Safely send’st the fisher’s bark,

Giving him a path and motion

‘Through the wilderness of ocean ;

Thou, that when the billows brave ye,

O’er the shelves canst drive the navy,—

Did’st thou chafe as one neglected,

While thy brethren were respected?

To appease thee, see, I tear |

This full grasp of grizzled hair ;

Oft thy breath hath through it sung,

Softening to my magic tongue,—

Now, ‘tis thine to bid it fly

Through the wide expanse of sky,

’Mid the countless swarms to sail

O wild-fowl wheeling on thy gale ;

Take thy portion and rejoice,—

Spirit, thou hast heard my voice !” Norna accompanied these words with the action which they described, tearing a hand- ful of hair with vehemence from her head, and strewing it upon the wind as she continued her recitation. She then shut the casement, and again involved the chamber in the dubious twilight, which best suited her character and oceupation. The melted lead was once more emptied into the water, and the various whim- sical conformations which it received from the operation were examined with great care by the sibyl, who at length seemed to intimate, by voice and gesture, that her spell had been successful. Sheselected from the fused metal a piece about the size of a small nut, bearing in shape a close resemblance to that of the human heart, and approaching Minna, again spoke in song,— “She who sits by haunted well Is subject to the Nixies spell; She who walks on lonely beach, To the Mermaid’s charmed apeech; She who walks round ring of green, Offends the peevish fairy Queen; And she who takes rest in the Dwarfie’s cave, A weary weird of woe shall have,

** By ring, by spring, by cave, by shore,

Mivoa Troil has braved all this and more;

And yet hath the root of her sorrew and ill

A re that’s more deep and more mystical

still.” Minna, whose attention had been latterly something disturbed by reflections on her own secret sorrow, noW suddenly recalled it, and looked eagerly on Norva as if she expected to learn from her rhymes something of deep interest. The northern sibil, meanwhile, pro- ceeded to pierce the piece of lead, which bore the form of a heart, and to fix in it a piece of gold wire, bp which it might be attached to a chain or necklace. She then proceeded in her rhyme, — ‘Thou art within a demon’s hold,

More wise than Haims,more strong than Troild,

No siren sings so sweet as he,—

No fay springs lighter on the lea;

No elfin power hath half the art

‘To sooth, to move, to wring the heart, —

Life blood from the cheek to drain,

Drench the eye, and drv the vein.

Maiden, ere we farther go,

Dost thou note me, ay, or no?”

Minna replied in the same rhythmical manner, which,; in jest and earnest, was frequently used by the ancient Scandin- avians,—

*‘ I mark thee, my mother, Loth word, look and sign; Speak on with the riddle—to read it be mine.”

‘** Nov7, Heaven and every saint be praised!” said Magnus; “they are the first words to the purpose which she hath spoken these many days.”

“And they are the last which she shall speak for many a month,” said Norna, in- censed at the interruption, ‘‘if you, again break the progress of my spell. Turn your faces to the wall, and look not hitherward again, under penalty of my severe displeasure. You, Magnus Troil, from hard-hearted auda- city of spirit, and you, Brenda,.from wanton and idle disbelief in that which is beyond your bounded comprehension, are unworthy to look on this mystic work; and the glance of your eyes mingles with, and weakens the spell; for the powers cannot brook distrust.”

Unaccustomed to be addressed in a tone so peremptory Magnus, would have made an angry reply ; but reflecting that the health of Minna wasat stake, and considering that she who spoke was a woman of many sorrows, he suppressed. his anger, bowed his head, shrugged his shoulders, assumed the prescri- bed posture, averting his head from the table and turning towards the wall. Brenda did the same, on receiving a sign from her father, and both remained profoundly silent.

Norna then addressed Minna once more,— ‘*Mark me! for the word I speak Shall bring the colour to thy cheek,

This leaden heart, so light of cost,

The symbol of a treasure lost,

Thou shalt wear in hope and in peace,

That the cause of your sickness and sorrow may

cease,

When crimson foot meets crimson hand

In the Martyr's Aisle, aad on Orkney-land.” Minna coloured deeply atthe last couplet,

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| initimated, as she failed not to interpret it, | that Norna was completely acquainted with the secret cause of her sorrow. The same

conviction led the maiden to hope in the favorable issue, which the sibyl seemed to prophesy ; and not venturing to express her feelings in any manuer more intelligible, she pressed Norna’s withered hand with all the warmth of affection, first to her breast and then to her bosom, bedewing it at the same time with her tears.

(To be Continued. )

‘LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Spirtenaiicns Again De- fied.

Confuted

Sir,—I have been absent from the city, and hence I could not pay my respects to ** Aratara ” sooner.

According to absurd Spiritualism, disem- bodied spirits cannot communicate their ideas to us without material instruments. A board has to be prepared, lying flat, with two grooves in its upper surface from end to end. Another board lying on its edge is nailed to the first. Along the upper edge of this board are pasted the letters of the alphabet. A small table is got up, each two of the four feet of which stand and move in each of these grooves. From the top of the table is a stick fastened, the point of which is on a level with, and in close prox- imity to the lme of letters. As the table, charged with animal electro-magnetism from people’s hands, moves along the grooves, the pointer passes along the alphabet, and by this means answers are spelt from Spirit-land.

Spiritualists teach that communications are given in three ways: (1) That a called up Spirit alone moves the table and pvinter, and spells out the answers. (2) That Spirits use a person as a medium or instrument to speak in their own language and tone of voice as when living, for themselves. (3) That a Spirit uses the medium’s hand with a firm grasp and writes in its own language and style of penmanship, its communications from the unseen world.

Now, as I before contended, there are no Spirits whatever in any of the perform- ances, but only the operations of the dis- eased and disordered nervoussystemsof the living parties performing. Departed Spirits surely have as much knowledge as when in the body. Well,

1, Put two altogether illiterate persons at the table while they call up Drs. Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster, the lexicograph- ers, who certainly still know how to spell. Not one syllable of an answer will be spelt, because no spirit will be present but those who are performing, who don’t know the letters of the alphabet and won't know what letters to move the table-pointer to, proving that it is they who move the table, and not the Spirits of the learned dead. Or get two idiots to lay hands on and charge the table, and call up Solomon who, of course, will answer wisely and in the Hebrew language. Not one word will come, because no Solomon is there, no Hebrew, no wisdom, only the idiots,

2. Let the talking medium be a stam- merer; and call up Cicero, Pitt, Sheridan or O'Connell, and let us have an oration through Spiritualism. It can not do it, ex- cept what in this casethestuttering medium herself can produce.

3. Let the medium who holds the pen be a weak simpleton, and call Sir Isaac New- ton ; prosy, and ca)l Skakespeare ; proud, and call up Moses ; or impatient, and con- jure up Job, and the answers will be like her, and not like them. Or, she speaking only English let Mahomet be called who will speak (because he spoke) Arabic ; Dante, Italian; Ossion, Geelic ; Voltaire, French ; Cervantes, Spanish ; Tycho, Dan- ish ; Confucious, Chinese; A. Brahmin,

Sanscrit ; Tecumseh, Indian; Cleo- patra, hieroglyphies ; or ‘Tiglath- pileser, the cuniform writing and language. I give the Spiritualists of

Charlottetown all these chances or any one of them. ‘Trot out your spirits to write these or any one of the languages, and clearly personate all or any one of these individual spirits under the above con- dition. Spiritualism can’t do this. I hurl a logical bombshell of destructive defiance into their system of error and delusion ; let its devotees defend themselves against my thunderbolt or skeedaddle from their stronghold of hallucination. ‘‘ Aratara,” if you

ancient learned heathen Hindoo called up; but the gab is . not really his; it is Ret’s gab: Because, 1. It is not learned, being faulty in English orthography and syntax, and in Greek grammar as to the plural of Ego. 2. It

please, is an

and not heathen. 3. }t has some quocta- tions of Scripture from the mind of the Medium and not from the spirit who lived and died without a knowledge of the exist- ence of the Bible or the Savior. 4. If really from *‘ Avatara’”’ why not in sans- crit !

In the style of the writer it is an inccherent conglomeration of unconcaten- ated balderdash evolved from a morbid nervous system and disordered carabellum under temporary monomania. Take a few extracts :—-‘‘ As the breath of man which

visual organs) is unseen.”—Expect a dead

eyes with its dead eyes! to rise above the condition of its fleshly habitation.” Why then! do{spirits long to get back down again into fleshly bodies, according to your delusion !—‘* As a man thinks, so is he, he thinks he knows when” he doesn’t, and here is the unseen con- cradiction,—‘‘he only knows he thinks.”

something else.,’ ‘‘ Light is an entity.” How then can we see it!

air.” ‘*Humanity is form in righteousness and holiness.

wisdom and folly.”

contains a smattering of Christian doctrine, | |} next, A. U., 1888, then to take place atthe hour

goeth upward (though it passes before his}

‘* Everything in nature is what it is, always and ever, but is or is not, orjis’something or invisible i ‘‘ The | my stock of New and Second-hand Sileighs, Rock of Ages speaks to the circumambient' divine likeness.” —God has no form. The likeness | is not corporeal but spiritual—in knowledge, ‘** Humanity is the individualizing breath of the Eternal | Spirit, rough crookedness, tares, wheat, Here then does he! blasphemously make God the author of sin, | Dee. 13, 1887—eod& wy tl feb]

God says differently in Deut. 32:4.5. Again, the necromautic lunatic impiously gives to archangels, angels and mankind the name that God in Exodus 3:14 takes to Himself—‘‘I am rHat I am’’—to denote what He is in Himself — absolute- ly, _ self-existent, self-sufficinet, all- sufficient, the inexhaustible fountain of being and of bliss, and that He is eternal and unchangeable, incomprehen- sible, faithful and true. Father, forgive him, forgive for he knew not what he was doing when scribbling under his hallucina-

tion. Just inthis way have Spiritualists in the United States _ become Sweden- borgians, Universalists, Unitarians and

Free thinking Infidels. So are Spiritualists in Charlottetown, according as they are injuring their nervous systems, preparing themselves for the Lunatic Asylum as is the writer of imaginary ‘* Aratara’s” incoherent dissertations. Already some of them cannot sleep at night, so harrassed are they with imagined spirits troubling them as those becoming insane almost invariably do. Others cannot meet together lest they explode at each other like lunatics, Thousands of Spiritualists have become insane in other countries. If this craze continue, our Asylum will have to be enlarged. Yours, &e., S. G. Lawson. Charlottetown, Jan. 20, 1888.

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Mortgage Sale

TO be Sold by Public Auction, on THURSDAY the third day of November, A. D, 1887, at Twelve o'clock, noon, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, under a Power of Sale, contained in an Indenture of Mortgage, dated the third day of July, A. D., 1877, and made between ‘Thomas Henry Keating, of the one part,and Henry Skeftington Poole, of the other part.

ALL that piece of land, in Charlottetown, in

* Queen’s County, in Prince Kdward Island, being part of Town Lot number forty-two (42), in the first hundred of Town Lots, in Char'otte- town, commencing on the westward gid; of

Queen Street, at the southeast angle of we pro-

perty of William R. Watson, thence by a line at

right angles to said street west wardly on or about eighty-six feet. or until it meets the division line vetween Town Lot number forty-one and said

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feet, or until it meets the northward edge of

King Street, thence along King Street east

twenty-two feet, or until it meets the west

boundary of the property of the Bank of Prince

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Queen Street forty-four feet, or to the northward

boundary of said Yank property, thence follow-

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Queen Street northwardly for the distance of

twenty-eight feet, more or less,to the place of

commencement,

For further particulars apply to Edward J.

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Dated this 3lst August, 1887.

EDWARD J. HODGSON,

Assignee of Mortgage.

Sept. 1, 1887—eod tl sale

The above sale is hereby postponed until WEDNESDAY, the Fourth day of January,

sabove mentioned, EDWARD J. HODGSON,

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Nov. 2, 1887.

The above sale is hereby further postponed until WEUNESDAY, the Ist day of February, A. D., 1833, tien to take place at the hour and place above mentioned.

EDWARD J. HODGSON, | Jan. 4. 1888,

C. C. CARLTON, \A UCTION EER,

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