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SELECT STORlliS.
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
A OEHMA.V ROMANCE.
1 have a talo to tell, with a true Ger
nmn flavor, of a huntsman of the olden
time, and of the ringing of a shot in the
recesses of a forest. It is a tale taken
from the lips of the people, and it may be
true. I have its kernel from a German
writer, Kdmund Hoefer.
From village to town, And back from
town to village—no matter where—the
narrow footpath runs at one end through
smooth nvadows, then descends into a
wide hollow, of which the whole sweep is
filled with a glorious old wood but at
the other end the path runs through the
standing corn. From village to town, or
back from town to village, men, women,
and children hurry through the wood.—
No trodden grass betrays feet that have an iron
forest lawn of grass and flowers in the
little open glade there is no sign of wav
ering in any wayfarer—-no turning aside
to be detected. There was assuredly
plot
IOWA.
tfir.i
JR.
II*,
were dancing
i
IOWA.
MMO*UE,
By JULIUS BOFHTHER,
MAIX STREET,
E O I O W A
JPJPJBJK
O U S E
By J. McMULLEN,
tain Street,
McGregor, Iowa.
JFfJLjT MM E Ml & MI O .11 E
.« By A.
WANSEY,
'Ha
in #Urec t,
McGregor, .- -Iowa.
MMEmYR 1* €. Jf.UT,
Dealer in
dumber, Vjatli,
Lovco,
e o I o w a
m*m:.mrs.mlMj sp vmmm rvmm
Livery Statole,
MAJ-N STREET,
,, McCfcr, low*
another path here once, for here there was near it a half-knitted stocking. Out of
set up a guide-post, unless for such pui»- this room a
almost a century untouched by man. It next St. Bridget's. My happiuess is com-
re &oox mul ce
ni„,r
a\^
us
it
seemed, to the best of pic-nic dining
rooms.
Only their own servants'went with the
holiday makers, who had dined well, and
ed. The wood, he said, is never safe for
Christian men, aud evil things lie yonder.
His hand waved hurriedly towards the shall be called Gertruth
ancient avenue, and he stepped on apace,
for he had been venturesome in making
aCy half at alL
Why, there is a full moon to-night,"
said Clara Hough, one of the party "the
best of the pic-nic is to come
walking
to see one
days What says the calendar "It
is the Feast of St. Egidius," said Eus
tace Wenn,
who hoped
in due time to con­
cert Miss Hough into Mfs. Wenn. "St.
Egidius' day is nothing in. particular. Of
course we shall go home by moonlight,
but I vote for an adventure. Let us break
open the path-way, and find out the de
mon of the wood. Something, of course,
lies yonder. Who joins the exploring
party Women, and men too, grow su
perstitious in the twilight, wise as they
may be. There were no volunteers.—
My dear fellow," said the host, "join
our next dance. ,The path, you see, is
impervious."
Mr. Wenu leapt among tho trees, and
shouted back intelligence that it was easy
The green loaves, the gleams of sunset
coloring, the twiltering of birds above,
the moss and flowers uudcr-foot, the picas
Wit exercise of lighting down such obsta
cles as thorns and tendrils offered, the
young gentlemen smoothing the way for
the young lady, as he hoped to smooth
her way 011 other paths, when she was an
older lady, and they traveled over years
of lite, that seemed to be before them—all
—all such things made the little expedi
tion as agreeable as might havo been de
sired. There was another small break in
the wood, and a broader avenue of smooth
turf pierced the trees beyond it. Upon a
hillock
of large mossy stones, that seem
ed at one time to have been assembled
there together by an idle man, the lovers
gat to rest and talk, for five minutes or
longer, of their own affairs. The gentle
man
spoke
with one pair of hands to cutaway there, companion. Tho door led to a narrow
even for a lady. "Then," said Miss! stair perhaps the trail was there, but
Hough, following his lead, by all means there was no light by which it could be
let us go." Let them alone," said the I seen. The stair led to a room that had
host they are lovers, and they would been prettily furnished, and of which the
not thank us for our company." The
dance, therefore, was formed, and the
young people wont .alone into the wood.
most the lady looked much
downward, and trifled with her little foot
among the moss upon one stone larger
than the oth.-rs. Why, there is a great
cross, and there are three unreadable let
ters scratched upon thii st-n buidsthc.
Tho first, 1 tbiuk, is 4k
wm "am
WE MARCH WITH THE FLAG, AND KEEP STEP TO THE MUSIC OF THE UNION.
M'GREGOR, FRIDAY, OCT. 24, 1856.
on i let us on This heap is siia|"-ur
1 think, like a grave. Or shall w go
back I have a dread upon me." But
the way forward was easy, and the sky
was light, and to goon was to remain qui
etly together.
The young people went on, with their
hearts open to each other, impressible
enough, and quite as serious as they were
happy. One or two fallen trees were the
otilv difficulties in the way by which they
reached a third and larger open space.—
Passing by a carved stone fouutaiu, full of the guide post,
a dry growth of moss,
they
collar,
been truant from the beaten path. Not tached the skeleton of a dog. All was si
far from the bottom of tin1 hollow there is lent, for the twilight had set in the birds
an open space in the dense forest, and the were in their nests and in the old house
trees on one side stand apart, as if at the
entrance to a narrow avenue but the av
euue is no path now, if it ever were one.
It is choked up with underwood, matted
with brambles and wild vines, and the
narrow footway strikes directly across the
room, of which the window was darken
ed by the foliage of an untrimmed vine,
had two soiled cups upon its table and a
rusty coffee-pot
door
merrily when first the shad-j bless him. He shall bo called after my Nothing—at least foolish. I was
ows on the turf began perceptibly to brother Peter Michael." A cross fol- thinking only of this stocking that I am
lengthen. The few rustics who came to {lows, and the note Died on St. Walpur- about, because it is so difficult to match
and fro upon the path, had all day long gis, 1757." jmv colors well, and I am tired of rod and
looked more or less aghast at their pro- 1725. St. Hubert's Day. Won the i green."
ceedings. The last who had passed by silver cup with a master shot. The lord Tho old man suddenly rose and said—
even presumed to stop and urge that they I count praised my shooting before all the The count will b« here to-day or to mor
would return home before twilight elos- gentlemen."
saw a deca\ wood, and we
ed house with its out-baildings. The them, it will be a pretty midsummer's
house was of grey stone, and seemed I night dream." Shrill whistling and loud
lean against a slender round tower, bound shouting presently grew to be the whole
with ivy to the topmost turret. There was amusement of the company, and were kept
a terrace before it with grass, and there up until the missing pair appeared. "But
were vestiges of flower beds. Over the you do look as if you had been seeing
arched entrance-gate were set up three ghosts," somebody said to them. "What
pairs of decayed antlers into the wall at are they like?"
the side of it was fixed a rustv chain with
to which there was yet at-
it was evident that no man lived. The
door stood half open. The two entered.
Though uninhabited, the house was not
unfurnished. Rusty guns and hunting
knives hung on the walls mouldering
benches were in the outer hall an inner
led into a smaller eham-
pose now, and overgrown with ivy. One jber, full of hunter's tools, in which there
of its three directing boards being de-1 was a bed still tumbled and there was,
atroyeif," or having rotted off, it looks like amoilgr.ll the man's furniture in thrtt room,
a mdo cr^s set up in the forest and the a chest containing a woman's clothing and
peasants of the district—though they are tho clothes of little children. In the re
by this time all Protestants—look up at cess of the window a silver cup was set looking man "your thoughts are as
it with a prayerful ejaculation as they hur- up, as in the place of honor and on a ta- tray. You have been re uling those detes
ry by. jble by the bedside la v an old hunter's cap,!table red books. ^You mu&t get married
A party of English travellers dwelt for i a hymn book,and a bible. The books" be a housewife, girl
a few days in the adjacent town, and soon 'said the young Englishman, will tell us
discovered that the grand old forest oaks who lived in this house." Opening the
were good to dine under. They knew bible, he read to his companion the house
generally that the place was accursed and hold chronicle set down on its first leaf:
Was believed to harbor spectres, if not "1744. St. Bartholomew's Day. My
worse things. Before this generation father, Hans Christoph, died. The lord
was born, a lord of the castle had gone couut, who was present,
suddenly abroad, and his lady-mather, successor as head forester.
who remained at home, had cursed the Ducker." I One may breathe the more freely in
forest, and permitted no wood to be felled 1752. St. Favian's D*y. I married the open land, girl though for that I!
no labor to be done in it. This curse the Gertrude Marin, peasant Seinfttrt's daugk wouldn't leave the forest. Let it pass.—
family kept up, and except the use of the Iter. Was, on the above day, thirty-one Marry Gottfried Schluck, who lives close
nac-.'ssary paths, the forest had been for years old, and my wife will be nineteen
was the more luxuriant for that and th? plete. May Heaven bless our union 1" He has been marriod twice, father
smooth
of grass in which the guide-! 1754. On the twelfth of July our first and no man loves a second wife."
post stood, with broad boughs and blue i child born. He shall be called Hans "Bah!" said the huntsman, scowling'
Christoph." Across follows^and the re- suddenly upon his daughter's face. "As
mark—" Died at midnight on the first of! you live, tell mo the truth, Gertrude
Anne's Day. A dau
1756. St. Anne's Day. A daughter
born to me. Heaven bless her. She
Joanna."
"1756.
St.
Gertrude
Egidius' Day. My wife
Maria
died
huntino-
of a shot in the
wood. I will not curse her. God be a
merciful judge to us both."'
1771. Mv lord the old count died on
The youiiif Lord
If any St. Valentine's Day. The young Lord I have mado his bed,'the girl said,
fairies should appear, we'll join ourdance Leonard Joseph Francis takes his place." and lighted his fire. Arnold helped me.
to theirs, and as for ghosts, I should like I There was no more to read. One en- But Arnold does not treat me as a little
Is this one of their
still in the window, looked at it, and re
turned into the other chamber. Another
door seemed to lead from it into other
rooms. They walked in that direction,
and the young man saw that they were
following a trail of dark stairs ou tho
floor.
window opened at once upon a broad ter
race that swept back towards the wood.
The moon had by that time risen, and
shone through the window. Ono pane
had been broken. Splinters of glass lay
close under it. The table was overthrown
a broken lamp was on the floor also a
book, handsomely bound, which seemed
to have been ground under the heel, rath
er than trod upon, by a strong man. The
English lady stooped to pick it up, but as
she did so she saw, by the moon-light,
stains upon the oaken floor, which made
her suddenly recoil and lean, trembling,
011 her lover for support. They looked
towards tho sofa, an old piece of furni
ture covered with blue damask upon
that, too, there was a huge dark stain,
and over it the bright 1110011 cast the shad
ows of the two young people. The shad
ow of a young man erect—the shadow of
a young girl clinging to it, violently trem
bling.
Look
look
try in the list excited tho same thoughts girl, now, father, and you'—
Again the old man stopped with a stern
face before her to ask—' What were your
thoughts, then, Gertrude
in both the lovers. This man, it was ev
ident, had killed his wife 011 St. Egidi
us' day and they had 011 the same day
whispered their heart's love over the
murdered woman's gravo. Then, again,
why did the old huntsman register his
sons as born into his household, but his are too hard to me..
nv .-nut poiiu
supernatural.
i lie y ii ng in i,i ji n i v
eil out that this was n 11in
Besides an impressed bed in one corner
of the room, there were some more hand
somely bound books upon a table, all in
gilded and morocco covers. One of them
lay open, and the evening breeze that en
tered through the broken panes of glass
had touched some of its leaves.
The lovers are a long time absent,"
whispered partners to each other, as they
danced their 1,-ftt dance on the grass about
"The nearest thing to a ghost that we
have seen," said Mr. Wenn, "I seized
and brought away with me. Here it is."
He took a little book out of his pocket—
a book bound in red morocco, and beset
with tarnished gilding—which he offered
for the inspections of the company.
"Why, what fruit is this to bring out
of an oak-woodI" cried mine host "a
corrupt French romance!"
The account brought home of the for
ester's deserted house, that had been at
last actually seen by an English gentle
man and lady, was in a day two town news,
There lay on a chair and the story to which it belonged, had
by that time been duly fitted to it. This
is the story
Conrad Ducker and his daughter ono
morning sat at breakfast, many years
o
You are spoiling my coffee, Ger
trude," said the forested, a stern 'dark*
"I, father
•'Yes, you. Peter from beyond the
mountain came to ask for you this morn
ing. A husband like that would be good
luck for a princess."
"But I cannot leave you, father, and
made me his i my heart is in the forest. I should not
Hans Conrad like marrying into the open land."
1
January anno 1755." What made you spoil my coffee
1755. Annunication Day. Our sec-j "Father?"
ond son born. 1 am very triad. God! What were your thoughts
by, and has gone down on his knees to you
fiVo
times over."
row, Gertrude."
The girl's cheeks flushed as shd replied,
I know it."
How, girl, how
Francis, father, brought me word he
was to come on St. Egidius' day.'
Ah, does he so murmured the for-1
ester, pacing the room thoughtfully lie
E_ridiu8' day
comos on St
When, father
When you spoilt my cofi|e.*
Oh father,' she replied soVbing
daughter as born only to himself? These is Egidius' day, and nineteen years ago
things the lovers noticed as they read the my mother died, as you havo set down in
little chronicle but they spoke only of the Bible. And I thought how it was
the
cup, the marksman's prize, that she should die of a Shot, and you nevr
er speak of it, and you even forbid me 9
speak of it to others.'
e did not point them out to his drew her towards him, and said, in a
hoarse voice—' Hear me, child I will be
licvo you, and it is well. Do not be eager
for that story it is not good for your cars
or for my ears. Why return to that
Eustace," cried the
girl.
"Th*esc are not our shadows!"
Indeed, lovo,they are."
Did you not toll me this was St. Eg
idius' day
Both started for there was a sudden
U us f»{ flutter distinctly'litsml.
man's
siiowii1
r.
You
You know that this
The fixed glow of the old man's eyes
upon her checked the girl's utterance.—
Silently he turned to take from the wall
his cap and gun then returning to her,
There might come up with it stuff that
would sting you—that would take away
your sight and hearing. Only mind this,
You think too much of—somebody who
should be as far from you as sun from
moon, from whom you should fly as the
hare from the wild cat. I tell you, girl,
he is false. He would betray you as sure
ly as to-morrow comes after to-day If
you have done already more than think of
him, God pity you, for'—the man's utter
ance was choked his bony hand was cold
and damp—' you would be better with a
millstone round your neck, under ten feet
of water.' He turned suddenly away,
whistled to his dog, aud left her.
Gertrude had never seen her father's
gloom so terrible but she soon found a
girl's rclidf in tears. The forester went
out into the wood, and sat for a long time
motionless upon a grave-like mound of
stones under an oak-tree, his gun resting
on his shoulder, his dog's nose thrust in-1
quiringly beneath his arm. He sat there
till twilight, and went slowly homeward
1
when the moon was rising, rom the ter-1
race behind the house he by chance raised
his eyes towards a lighted window in the
corner of the tower. There was alight]
burning in the room, a tire crackling, aud
$ir! WW* weeping on tt'$iNig!
yyw
At last in my arms again, my fore.st
flower
Lord Count, Lord Count!' said Ger
trude, let hopo fte at an end between us.'
But I am still your Leonard, and you
are to be my little wife.'
My father frightens me jrcmr mother
will oppose you.'
4
If they be lost in the
have to go a hunting for
My mother yes. To avoid lief anger
we must wait. But your lather V
Lying on his shoulder, she began to tell
hint all her fears, which he endeavored to
allay with knees. A flash and a loud re
port. Glass breaks, and the young no
bleman is sprinkled with tho blood of
Gertrude. She can utter but a single cry
before she lies upon the sofa, dead.
A few minutes afterwards, the old
huntsman entered slowly to the door.
in agony, here is murder done Your
beautiful Gertrude shot!'
Ay, to be sure she will not stir again'
said Ducker. 'It was a shot well aimed
—through the centre of the heart.'
The count was bewildered at his cold
ness.
This is your Gertrude, father—-my
Gertrude!'
Your highness's Gertrude! I thought
she was only mine
•He is mad!' the count cried. Ger
trude Beloved Gertrede! from whatever
quarter the shot cam*, my vengeance on
the assassin
We were betrothed.
ed her."
The old man pointed to tho body, and
laughed aloud.
"Her? You should have said that to
her lady mother at the castle yonder."
"To my mother ?—the countess
The young count, with ashen face, re-
he had told, and what had been the end
it, her limbs became stiff as with death
she spoke, only to pronounce her curse
upon whatever foot supped in that hunts
man's den of crime—upon whatever man
entered that wood to touch a stoue of it.—
And then she died.
the mountains, never was seen more.
The howlings of a dog wero heard for a
few days in the wood they became weak
er aud weaker, until all was still. And
from that hour the stillness was unbro
ken.
We request as a particular favor, that
every man who takes up this paper,
should read carefully and thoughtfully,
the article following.
It is not taken from partisan sheet,
and therefore its position can not be call
ed Democratic or Republican. It is sound
ly Xational throughout, and we hope ar
guments in advocacy of tho Union of tho
States, are not only in order but that
they are tho political food demanded by
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Whence the shot came,* said Ducker,
I will show you.' And he led him to ment, it is plain, that, as each is a repre
the window. It came from beside yon- tentative government, neither will trans
dor pine-tree. A maa sat there who sus
pected mischief'—
W retch Madman Take your hand
your highness, if need be, in the other bar
rel. Wait—with your hand off—while I
tell vou an old story
from me !, You have murdered your own that these ideas should be sanctioned by
daughter 1' the popular voice, that injustice should
Take your hand also from me said be attempted by a temporary majority,And
Ducker. I have powder and shot for th:it disunion should result.
There was a forester who loved a!s^lou^ b® continually expounded. For
countess. That he did secretly, and with- ollice the independent press is pecu
out speaking, for he thought much of the liarly constituted. Partisian journals aro
difficulties in his way. However, he was often tempted to misrepresent eonstitu.
prudent, and all ended well, and no man tioual questions, forgetting that a tempo
was the wiser. But there was a count1 rary success is dearly purchased, if at tho
who loved the wife of a forester and that cost of the truth. The independent press,
ended not well. For when the forester however, has no inducement to garble or
discovered it, ho took that which belonged conceal but, on the contrary, as its per
to him, And the count had a son, and manent popularity depends on its inttex
the foix'ster a daughter. The old man |ble impartiality, every inducement to bo
preached her many a lesson about rank, ju»t- It is on the independent press that
aud frivolity, and betrayers but she loved the correct understanding ot tho consti
that son, and he pretended equal love for tution must principally depend. The in*
her. So, thus—I took that which belong-: dependent press can never be too earnest
ed to me." in recalling the true landmarks which
"Miserable assassin!" cried the count. divide the reserved powers of the States
•'She was mine, mine, mine! You tell from the powers delegated to the federal
me of sin and passion, but our hearts were government—in reminding tho people that
before God, and our love was unspotted, doubtful powers must be construed against
coiled, and hurrying out, called tohisser- 'course." But if false principles of con
vants, and spurred his horse home to the stitutional interpretation are to prevail,
castle. His mother, the countess,
heard
all from him. When she knew what the ments permanently transgress on tho
fierce huntsman had said, how dark a storv rights ot the other, then indeed disasters
of
Hans Ducker carried his daughter
down, and buried her among the flowers
of his garden. The shouldering his gun,
he went out of his house and, except
when he spoke a word to Peter beyond ground should have been furnished for
every Patriotic man whether he hails from ^°l!
Saeoor Galveston, St. Paul or N. Orleans,
Massachusetts or 2|jssouri
Front the Feu Ijsdget.
HAVE WE RUN OUR CAREER.
A Canadian Journal says:—"The Uni
ted States has about run its race as a re
public. Its democracy is ripening into
anarchy, the fruits of which will inevit
ably be despotism of some sort or other."
It is not improbable that this opinion
is sincere. But it is also certain that it
nentof Eur
coinin
is false. We say it is not improbable and liquors. For burns and scalds, keep
that it is sincere, because hasty thinkers,
NO. 3.
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them
as
moments'r\
abbe ra­
tions, the suit of transitory circumstan
ces of the short-lived triumph of bad
men, or of temporary misapprehensions
of right. The great body of the people
remain uncontaminated, and not only re*
main uncontaminated, but improve in tho
vigor of their political life yearly, so that
America is very far from having run
her race."
There is hut one serious peril, indeed,
which threatens
our experiment of self gov*
ernment, and it comes from an entirely dif
ferent quarter fr«»m that hinted at by tho
Canad ia n ed i!
or. The real danger o A me
rii'a lies in disunion. The danger of dis^
union lies in the attempts, which may
arise, as indeed, they have arisen, on the
part of the Federal or State governments
to transgress on the powers of the other.
Dueker Ducker "the count shouted jOur Federal government is a peculiar one,
because possessed of certain absolute pow
ers delegated by the States, aud being
sovereign only in regard to those powers,
while, as to other powers, it has no sover*
eignty at all. Our State governments
are also peculiar, because part r.f their
original powers they have parted with to
the Federal government, so that they are
as deficient as to those powers as the Fed
eral government is to the rest. A citizen,
in these United States, owes a twofold,
but not a divided allegiance. Both tho
Federal and State governments make to
gether, as to him, only one complete gov
ernment. As long as every citizen un
derstands the province of each govern-
gress on the rights of the other bttfe tho
danger is, lest false ideas of the powers
of either srovertnne^t should Q-et afloat,
To avert this peril, it is necessary 'that
the true character of our governments,
and especially our federal government.
I would have marri- general government—in enforcing tho
vital point, that new questions must be
settled according to the spirit of the origi
nal compact.
If the independent press does its «'uty,
if the people stick to the spirit of that
great compromiee, tho Constitution, tho
republic is very far from having "run its
,ftud either the State or Federal govern-
will come, for then the balance of the
Constitution will be destroyed.
Washington on Geographical Parties.
llero is a passage of the great Fare
well that rebukes the terrible appugi I#
local passion nnd prejudice:—•
"In contemplating the causes which
may distract our Union, it occurs, as a
matter of serious concern, that any
characterizing parties by geographical
discriminations northern and southern—
Atlantic and western— whence design-
:ng
men may endeavor to excite the belief
that there is a real difference of local in
terests and views. One of the expedients
of party to acquire influence within par
ticular districts, is to misrepresent the
opinions and aims of other districts.—
ou cannot shield yourselves too much
against the jealousies and heartburnings
which spring from these misrepresenta
tions They tend to render alien to each
other those who ought to be bound to
gether by fraternal affection."
HiW oung men, who are toiling up
on the comparatively sterile farms^of the
East, tor a mere pittance, should come to
the young and growing West. Here,
can Ct
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REMEDIES
a
unaccustomed to tho working of our in- health, work hard, avoid the gin-bottle
stitutious, are apt to confound temporary and card table, and spend the leisure
agitations with personal diseases of the hours in making your wife and children
body politic. Such observers see revolu- comfortable and happy.
lion in every riot, and anarchy in every Jail, be a Man, pay your debts and be
spasmodic popular excitement. The late honest. To euro ti e blues, driuk less,
events in Kansas and California are sure work harder, eat regularly, and "be early
proofs to such persons of the approaching to bed and early to rise." To make mon
disintcgiation ol our political sv stem, be- ioy, advertise your business liberally, in
cause similar transactions, on the conti- the North Iowa Times. Mind your own
good wages in ready
a s o o n i e i o o K
cash, good diet, good health and hosts of
true friends. Come to the fair and fertile
prairies of Iowa, come now, aud if you
are upright, persevering and industrious
you will acquire wealth, aud a position
in life better than you can ever attain un
aided, in the older states. Any person
who will wort, can find plenty of employ
ment and first rate wages now, in Mc
GltEGOR.
THAT NEVER FATU
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the
cholera, avoid vegetables, fruit meats
proper distance from the fire. For
Europe, would luuc been sigus ot business and pay the printer, aud vou will
anarchy. But those who know 11,0 loved l»\ every body and have a clcj
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keep out of