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?F?iaMy?-Get a Bottle from your Druggist and be Gonvineed. Tie Great Virginia Vegetable Alterative, Blood Pnrifier and Renovator of the Homan System lias teen nsed Snccessfnlly in Ine following Diseases, as Certificates will Attest: Liver Complaint,Jaundice and Bilious Derangements; In Mercurial Blood Poison, Scrofulous and Eruptive Diseases,?Costiveness Indigestion, Flatulence, Periodical Sick Headache, and Female Complaints. TESTIMONIALS s Derangement of the Live.". Richmond, Va., July, 1SS5. This is to certify that I have known of the superior qualities of JOHNS? TON'S VEGETABLE NOLANDINE for the past ten years, ami during that time, at intervals, have laid occasion t.> use it in person and in my family, and have always found it a sure cure for ile rangements of the liver and kidneys, in digestion, headache, &c, and a good tonic L. C. DAVIS, S04 north Fifth street Kidney Affections. robiow's Statiox, Chesterfield County, Va? Dear S::,?Having suffered for year, with a chronic affection of the kidneys, derangement of the liver, and my gene? ral system charged with malarial poisons I found no relief from treatment of medi? cine until I used Vegetable Nolandinc I a;^. now free from above complaints, i^su. to Nolandine am 1 indebted tor this restoratioa to health. I honestly recom? mend it to persons suffering from above diseases. WILLIAM DICKINSON, Superintendent of Coal Mines. Bilious Derangement, Richmond, Va., May 1SS5. I can cheerfully recommend JOHN? STON'S VEGETABLE NOLANDINE to any one suffering from Liver or Kid? ney complaints and bilious derange? ment of the system. Its prompt and permanent action in my case affords me pleasure torecommend it toothers siiui iarly affected. CHARLES P. SELDEN. Hardware Merchant, formerlv with Sin? ner Sowing Machine Co. A Great MedScL-se. Nolandine, California, 1 February ist j deer good kind lady: i take my pencil in my hand to write Sfr.J. W. Johnston: you a few linesto tell you how we is geteen along, yon know how bad of us all was when you gin uses that nolandine well mann my husbon tuck all theni I botles and got well and cte ail you fetch him, you knohe was most dead and you saved hisn lift: and them too childer yon mu them six bottles bf nolandine the is big and fat boys all then: sores is well, my old man is doiug smart, he dim gut a fine firm and makes a good livin and has good health, nolandine saved his life and them too children too. we calls oar home nolandine because it saved my old mau life and the childrens life too. we pray for you and good man who ; made nolandine every r.;:e and morn i:i and hope god will less you both and h.tpo we will meet iu heven, there a;::t none of us willing to be here without nolandine ati I a hcep ?f ; cj le here never herd of it afore we told them about 1 it. now they like it like we docs, and ttit.it by the dozen dear good madam y9ua3 made a well man of him and thci$&oo children a. I god bless you for that, "it takes me a week to write so much this is first h tter i have writ f r nigh oa tore year you is only one I would rite too it" you dont va iaa i it us few lines and thank that good man for giveaus that nolandine were savemy ol 1 man and them too boys who is ..11 well and harty, your devoted friei SARAH ANN* LAROCHE. Dyspepsia znd Catarrh. 4pj . * v Street, \ IvICUMj.,--, \ .v., April iy, iSSi i /. IV./qhizsie?., /'? ypridor KogggUnc: \ During the pa twelve i^t e had frequent opportunities of testing the curative properties of your Vegetal le Nolandine in the following i . and in not & single case did it fail to accomplish all that you claim for it: Dyspepsia and other Catarrhal affec? tions of the stomach and bowels, ca? tarrhal affections of the kidneys ar I bladder, uterine catarrh and irregulari-1 ties, malarial complications and hat itual ! constipation, and as a general tonic and alterative I have found it very effica? cious. Yours truly, JAS. ll.'GARLICk, SL D. ; * Malaria. Office Chesapeake and Ohio RAlt w av C o m pa n v, Richmond, Va.,March i, 1SS5. 1 lived ( n lower James river for eight years in tlic laalanal district My sys? tem was thoroughly charged with this deadly poison. 1 exhausted the usually prescribed and domestic remedies with? out any benefit. I was induced to try JOHNSTON'S VEGETABLE NOLAN DINE. Before using two bottles my liver was aroused from its long torpor, and am nowenjoying the best of health. My wife and children derived the same 1 eucfitsfrom "Nolandiue." J. A. WYATT. Chills and Fever. FtEET, KlXG AND QtJEEN Co.. Va., \ January 31, 1.SS7. / 1 was afflicted with chilis and fever dt :i:.g ?ie fall of hist year. I could >p them with quinine, but they v. ?uldn't stay stopped. They would re? turn the 7th, 14th, 21st, or 2S:h days. A fi tend gavetne part of a bottle of No landine. [used itaccording to dircc t ? - , and haven't had a chill since. Am in c,*hx1 health and weigh as much or more than I ever dal. E. S. WILSON. Biood Poisoning. Richmond, Va., July 13, 1ss7. /. H'. Johnston, Proprietor Kolandinc; P r Fir - [ hftvetalcenyonr "Nolan line" for ha itual constipation of eight years' standing, during which time I i vetricd many preparations, butldid not receive any relief until I used your I reparation, for which I have received utnediate and permanent benefits. \ as also suffering with malarial and blood poisoning. I am now free from : .1 such complications, and, am happy . ? v, enjoying exceptionally good health. Yours truly, J. B. DOWDEN, Propi ietor of Dowden's Dental Fluid. Delicate Females. id East r>Ro.\u St., Richmond, Va. ./. XV.Johnston: I feel it but just to recommend jour valuable mcdi ine, "Nolandine," for any trouble cai ui by torpid liver, or constipation produced by morphine or nay drug used to subdue pain. A* a tonic for females it is unsurpassed. The above you a:e heartily welcome to use in any way you deem best, and I will personally tell any one whatit will do, ou application. Respectfully, MRS. A. E. ANTHONY. Blood Purifier. Richmond, Va., October i, i'. '> To whom it may concet ?:: For twelvemonths 1 was a fearful nif ferer from chronic eczema, di ng which time I was in the hands of a m< t skilful physician, faithfully using his remedies, internal and externa!, with? out deriving any b< ucfit whatever. I suffered night and d: y v ith the most in? tolerable itching, coi tinuous hcadach ?, h.ss of sleep, appetite and strength. My kidneys and nervous system were fearfully deranged, and my bedy w; ; covered with innumerable boils. By taking three I 0 bottles < : [<iHNSTON S VEGETABLE NOLANDIXE I have I been restored to perfect health. I i ? gard Nolandine as the best blood puri? fier, and the most powerful tonic cwr compounded, and I am not alone in this belief. Veryrespe tfullvyours,&c, U. lt. GRUBBS. Consumptive Diarrhoea. T feel it my duty to make the fart known, for the benefit of those who may be suffering as I h ive done. The late Dr. Charles hell Gibson, and oth'-r physicians in the city, pronounced my diseaseconsumptivediarrhceai and after three (;0 years of treatment, during which time I derived no benefit what? ever, they said my complaint was in? curable. I was reduced to a more shadow by loss of appetite, cough diar rhcea, night sweats and sleeplessness. I had not strength to go up and down stairs without assistance. I had my nttention called to your "Vegetable Preparation, Nolandine," which I commenced taking as directed. In a few days my relations saw an improvement in my complexion. My strength and appetite increased. I be? gan to be hopeful, and I assure you I was not disappointed. In the space of twentymo) days I gained sixtccu (16) pounds in weight, and havesince come | up to my usual weight. I amnowen j i icing the best of health, thankstoyour most powerful "Nolandine." I have published this for the benefit of suffering humanity. I ammostgrate fullyyours, etc., T. W. CHALKLEY, ofO. H. Chalkley & Co., Leather Deal? ers, Richmond, Va. Liver Complaint. Office ofJ. W. Caldweix, l RiCHMOK d, Va. J d'-.ir Sir.?For the benefit of persons snfferiug from Chronic Liver Coin ] taint, I beg leave to call their atten? tion to your vegetable preparation, I "Nolandine.'' I regard itasa "chola f ogue," combining alsotonic and reno vating properties, and in this respect < (Tcrmg from any medicine I have ever taken. The effects of your " Nolandine" in my case, has been on the liver and se? cretions identical with calomel; at the same time, entirely free from nauseating and debilitating con sequences follow? ing the use of that mineral. I very cheerfully recommend your "Nolaudine" for the diseasesenume i t 1 on your circulars, and am convinc? ed from personal benefit derived from i.s use, that it must become a stand? ard family medicine. I am not alone in the very high esti? mate I place on "Nolandine," and trust it will be universally known and be, as it should be, the means of taking the place of mineral preparations for that class of diseases in which it has prov? ed so successful and already gained such a reputation. Hoping that "Nolandine" may reach all persons suffering from bil? ious derangement and prostration from chronic diseases, I am very respectfully yours, JOHN W. CARDWELL. A Family Medicine. Having suffered for several years with liver complaint, indigestion and an ob? stinate form of cutaneous disease, after unsuccessfully using other remedies, I was advised by several physicians to try your celebrated preparation, "Nolan? dine." Since thoroughly testing it, lean con? fidently recommend it as the best alte? rative blood purifier and liver invigora tor I have ever used; and it can also be taken with much efficacy by delicate females. I consider it a valuable family medicine, possessing the advantages of '' Mercury'' without its injuriouseflects, and with pleasure offer my unsolicited testimony in favor of " Nolandine." Very respectfully. Mrs. C. W. FRANCISCO, Richmond, Va. Torpid Liver. A Valuable medicine. ?Under this head the Petersburg Daily Index has the following: "We have received from Rev. Mr. Keiley the following testimonial in re? gard to the virtue of 'Nolandine,' wha h wc cheerfully publish U>r the benefit of those who may be in need of such a medicine." NOLANDINE.?Some time ago there was a notice of the above mentioned in the local columns of the Index, which attracted my attention. Altera conference with one of the proprietors I procured a bottle of "Nolandine," and received so much benefit from its use that I tried a second one, and am now using the third. Having suffered indescribable tortures for more than forty years from a torpid liverthis medi? cine has afforded me more relief, than anything I have ever used. A desire to benefit my fellow-creatures is my sole motive for publishing this state? ment JOHN D. KEIJfEY. Dyspepsia. I have for the last twelve years been afflicted with that terrible disease, dys? pepsia; all the remedies, anil I have taken many, only gave partial relief. About two years ago I took your "No? landine"; since then my health has been and is now as good asitcver was. Can eat in moderation now food that two years ago I dared uot touch. At the same time I was afflicted with a disease, I believe, of the skin; for the last fif? teen years it has been a plague to me. It invariably made its appearance in February and lasted until April. When I got warm in bed it would commence itching. There was no eruption until I was jpclled to scratch, then a litt'.e p:- not as large as a pin's head, v -I appear, and then my misery meuced. I have laid many a cold .;tcr's night without any covering un? til I cculd stand the cold no longer, and then would pull the cover over me and get snatches of sleep. I have not felt it since takiag your valuable "No? landine," which was taken for dyspep? sia, and I believe that it has cured me ofthat plague. I write th ?> to show you I have been cured by your valuable "Nolandine," invaluable to me. I owe you many thanks. I do not write this for publication, but if you think it may benefit any of our fellow-men similarly afflicted, you may use it as you think proper. Very respectfully, JAMES L. EGK. at j the house of John H. Tyler & Co. Heals Ulcers. Dear Sir,?'As a recipient of its heal? ing powers, it affords me pleasure to tes? tify to the efficacy of your remedy "No? landine." F^r two years I have been afflicted witl painful ulcers, followii g the slightest abrasion of the skin, r - aiding me from all labor and exen A single bottle of the "Nolandine "In s not only healed the ulcers, but r?;:: n 1 all predisposition to them, and II: ? e no longerauy fear of their return. Very truly yours, THOS. B. BOTT, Hanover county, Va. Liver Complaint, Diarrhoea and Dyspepsia. My attention was called to your "No? landine," by the certificate of Mr. J. L. Ege. I hal been suffering for two or three years with the Chronic Liver Com plaint, Diarrhoea and Dyspepsia, with total loss of strength, energy and appe? tite, accompanied by sleeplessness. A single bottlcof yoi ;? "Nolandine" has rt tored nie to health. To "Nolandine" I am indebted for t: is restoration. I v. raid a! ?State, in this connection, that <! g the several years of my sickness I tri l many r< medics, ail of which red to be entirely worthless in my c . e. Your "Nolandine" shouldbeum> rsally known. I am convinced, when i ied, it will become aSRindardremedy. A :y persons ?i -.. ? g further informs ( a will have it mcst cheerfully in/ -art etl by calling upon me. / Very truly aad patcfullv yori. j, O. P. HANKINS, Richmond, Va, Liver !.~vigorator. Richmond, Va. Dear Sir,?I very cheerfully testify to the unequalled effica? y, so far as my ex? perience extends, of "Nolandine" as an alterative aad liver iuvigorator. In iny o\.:i case it has] .-oven a mosteffi ci at remedy, and yet been free from t:.' injurious effei tsso ofteu following the use of other medicines. F. II. ALFRIEND. Varicose Wins. To the Nolandine Company: Permit me to add my testimony to the curative properta s of Nolandine. For many years I have suffered fKTJI* varicose veins. Twelve months ago I struck my leg against a chair, breaking one of the v L ?. The wound thus made could riot be healed exceptfora short time; th a 1 cak out afresh. At times I suffered untold misery from lo? cal fever and most im ufTcrable burning sensation. After using two (2) bottles of your "Vegetable Nolandine" the ulcerated places healed, the swelling disappeared, natural sleep w as restored, uud my nervous system composed. A4 a vermifuge, Nolandine acted spe illy on one of my children. As a I lood purifier and general tonic, your Nolandine Las no equal. Gratefully yours, D. B. PROSSER, t a: 130;, Main street, Richmond, Va. PRICE, ONE LOLLAR PER BOTTLE. SIX BOTTLES FOR FIVE DOLLARS. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. V*tUI' If 9 ima. TUE MIUliOREi) DEMON; Toward the i nd of a cloudy SU turner dar, having slowly climbed to the top of a hill thickly wooded with young pines. 1 saw at last the gables and towers of The Alders, an estate which occupies the fog? gy bottom of the vuiley, I was coming to take possess] n of this domain, aban? doned for f rty years past to the insuffi? cient care of a superannuated steward by the late proprietor, my father, who had recently died and whose heir I was. Urging my horse forward,I commenced to ascend the hill. The grade was steep, and the animal's iron shoes slipped peril? ously in the loose gravel of the road. Und. r the dark and heavy sky. the pines to right and left took on a gloomy hue: below me. blurred in the haze of the val? ley, rose the chateau, a dark and broken mass, which was altno-t hidden from sight by the great forest about it, broken here and there with open heaths and reed fringed pools of a sickly greenish hue. I remembered that my father had always evinced a great distaste for The Aiders: the very name made him shudder. A cold, drizzling rain was now falling, and I soon f it very uncomfortable, for i the morning had been fine and I had neg? lected to bring a top coat or traveling wrap. Arrived at the foot of the hill, I had to pass through a little village of 100 or 150 homes, the last cottages extending quite to the main cut ranee of the chateau.' The noise of my horse's hoofs brought to the doors eight or ten peasants, who stared at me curiously,but with no sign of a salutation. 1 attributed to my long con? templation of the young pines, through which I had been traveling, the singular coloration which certain objects assumed in my eyes: the arms and faces of the miserable villagers, who stared at me with a cowed and brutish persistence, seemed very sallow, almost green. A few women's heads and hands showed amid the group of men. It seemed to me that these heads and hands were also sallow and green. The chateau gates were closed. Through the bars, leper-blotched with rust, could' be seen the great seigneural court, grown ! over with rank weeds, and further the abandoned chateau. The rain, become sharper now, was chilling me to the bone. I descended from my horse, tied the poor beast?which hung its head through sheer fatigue?to a ring mortised into the stone wall, and presently found the handle of a bell half concealed in the intricate wrought iron work of the gate. I pulled it violently several times: but, in place of the expected cheerful peal, two slow, heavy, and solemn strokes of an alarum bell resounded ominously in the distant gloom?for it was already dusk. From a little lodge at the right of the chateau emerged an old woman, who held aloft a lamp. Very tall, very thin, and enveloped rather than dressed in a robe of coarse gray stuff, which looked like a grimy shroud, she came to the gate with the measured and noiseless tread of a specter. The lamp, which shone full on her lace, revealed to me beneath her gray locks her eyes, dim and haggard.; her cheeks were very sallow. '?Welcome to your estate, sir," said she, as a great key grated in the lock. She was the manager's wife. "Thanks, Yurie. Charticr," I responded; "but I come in evil weather." "In evil weather, indeed." She conducted me to the little house; the wet weeds reached to my knees. "Who will look to my horse?" I asked. "I will" she said. ? . . ? - ' -* "You have no servants^ ' & "No." '.l? ,J "Who. theo. iboKs/ I ami Kwps tile grounds in order? ' V?i til ?!'?? I ? i. vi:;.; I oll?. ?.'.?!;! ?':! way dim! i; h; ? i : .. ' poorly warmed by the lit/ul i>!::.:o ui a ; lire. There was, I doubtless, but one Lump hi the es; tblish iii.'at, that which Mtue. Chartier had taken dp v !:??!! . c une to meet me. ?'Chartier,"said ih-? worauf shaking the shoulder of an old man who seemed to be dozing in the chimney corner; '?Chartier, get up; here is the new mas? ter." The old man turned toward me; his face was Adlow', too, with the same dim ami haggard eyes. ?'Welcome to your estate, mi-," said lie, as he arose and offered me a chair; "warm yourself, sir. lest yon take cold.*' Mine. Chartier who had gone out, ? doubtle" to had my horse to the stable, returneo ""?n with *: ' s and glasses, and quiet. .aying the table, which she i>u. . -p from the side of the chimney. "These seem to he very sullen peo? ple." I thought, and I determined to send away this lugubrious couple as soon as possible. "Well, Chartier," I said, to break a silence which had become disagreeable to me, "do you get on well, and may I hope to see you here for many days to come:'' "You will not see me here for many day> to come." he replied. "How so? Do you then wish to leave The Aiders?" "Oh, I, sir?I shall never leave The Alders. Bat you will depart very soon." I smiled, for my intention was to in? stall myself definitely in my new prop? erty. "Ye.?, sir," said Mine. Chartier's voice behind me, "you will depart very toon." I was about to exclaim against this singular affirmation, when the old wom? an added, "Dinner is ready, sir." Wc> drew up about the table. "Do you expect some one?" 1 inquired, for four covers had been laid. "Yes, sir; we expect our daughter," said the manager, serving the soup. "So you have a daughter?" I had hopes that a yomi? face might bring some gayety to the scene. "We have no daughter," said Mine. Chartier. The dinner was not abundant; never? theless, 1 had the wherewithal to satisfy amply the appetite my long day's ride lgad given me, for my hosts ate scarcely at all. I aske-d Chartier if lie were sick. "Every one is tick here," ho replied, "because (if the pool." "indeed I had remarked that the in? habitants if the village are singularly pale." I "They have the fever; but they suffer less than we, for they are not so near." "True," I said with a slight j shiver; I had always particularly feared malarial fevers. After dinner, Mine. Chartier retired to prepare my chamber, not in thp chateau, which long abandonment hadl rendered uninhabitable, but in the lodge on the upper floor. The manager and I drew up to the fire. "Sir," said the old man, "excuse us if we receive you poorly. It is skd in this country; the fever takes the children from the very cradle, and only at the graveyard does it leave the men have resisted it. It is because of vjjsie pool, which should be drained," he acldejl, extending his hand toward tue windo^a "And then we, sir, wo are sridder than the others, for we lost our daughter a month ago." "Your daughter is dead, Chartier?" I asked. "God knows, sir. As for us, we do not know what has become of her.",. Presently ho .went on in a very, low to|je": ' ? Madeleine was very sad, very ill; she was as we are, iny good sir. Rut the birds still sing when they are ill, and Madi lehn; sang near us, who do not even talk. I thought she would resist the scourge, and 1 said to myself,'Some day, God willing. I shall take her to live in a city.' To see tiie roses in her cheeks we would have given our lives, my poor wife and I. But she was very pale: she went too often to the edge of the water. She loved?I do not know why?that ! water, which banned her so. Often, when her mother called her todinner, | she was seated in the wet grass at the' side of the pool. We scolded her, but it 1 did no good. It pleased her, she said, to listeu to the n<>ise of the wind in the reeds. She had nothing else to amuse her, the. dear child. In other countries the little girls of poor people can gather flowers, peep in the birds' nests and have doves and play with thera as in the pict? ures 1 have seen in the city shops; here, sir, there are no other flowers than the lilies of the pool, the little birds would be afraid to build their nests in our great, gloomy trees, and the only doves are ravens. My poor girl, then, loved the I iol. Sometimes, of an evening, I would hear her ojmjh the window of her cham? ber?the chamber where you will sleep to-night, sir. "Come in!' I would cry; 'go to bed, you will take coW.' 'No, no!" she would say; and when I asked her what she was looking at, 'There is a star in the pooh' she would answer. One morning at the breakfast hour Madeleine did not come down stairs. Her mother went up to her room. 'Madeleine is not here!' cried my wife. It was a month ago, one Sunday morning. Madeleine has not yet come back." Chartier had spoken slowly in a mo? notonous tone. Now he wept silently. The disappearance of their child more | than accounted for the gloom of my hosts. I repented having judged them harshly, and it was with sincere pity that I pressed the old man's hands as I re? tired. My chamber was a room covered with a moldy paper: in one corner an iron bed, two cane seated chairs at right and left of a walnut commode, a portrait of a young girl?Madeleiue, doubtless?facing the single window; that was all. I went to bed and to sleep, not without some difficulty, for the steward's tale bad predisposed my mind to lugubrious thoughts, and then I thought of the fever which I dreaded so. After an hour of restless sleep I awoke with a start. "Who's there?" I cried. The lamp which Iliad not extinguished enabled me to convince myself that I was alone?absolutely alone with the portrait. From my bed, where I could no longer sleep, I looked long at this picture. It was a young girl, very pale, dressed in white, in an attitude of meditation; she gazed at the window with a strange earnestness. As ono involuntarily fol? lows the glance of a person near, I di? rected my eyes parallel to those of the portrait. The window had no curtains; beyond the panes appeared vaguely the indistinct silhouettes of the forest, and in the shadow there was a single star. Turning back from Madeleine, I noticed that her gaze had become more intense, but it was easy to explain to myself why it seemed so: plunged for an instant into the night, my eyes should now see more clearly those of the portrait, on which the lamp shone full. What I could not explain, what I do not understand even yet, was an absurd idea?the result, no doubt, of my ner? vous p?itement?which led me to get up, open the sash, as if In obedience to the deshre of the portrait, and, IHe win? dow open, turn back to it to recei'd lta thankel A breath of .wind which ei^?J tered^/^pom. extinguished'' tl e iarn^J and t?e portrait disappeared. Without, the shadows j^ere profound; ! beneath the low and black sky vast trees i stood out, terrible against the night, about a great, pale space in which shiv-; ered furtive, steely lights and the dimmed i reflection of a single star?it was the i pool. Shuddering, I knew not why. I gazed i at the heavens, the trees, the pooL It 6lept, but it lived. I divined that a ceaseless agitation moved it, revealed on the surface by the trembling of the weeds; strange visions were in its inky depths, shadowy dreams of that slum? bering water whose respiration rustled dolorously among the reeds. Some? thing inquieting and fascinating lay prone in that sea. Near the side toward the house the reeds wero very thick; their heads, now bo weil, now lifted up by tho breeze, formed a moving black surface, which made still more somber the shadows of the neighboring trees. Was it possible that the thing I now saw balancing itself on tho tips of the reeds was but the reflection of a tree? I could distinguish perfectly a body and a gigantic head, ligluly stirred like those of a giant asleep, rocked on shadowy waves, and two terrible arms stretched forth toward my window. I stro\? in vain to draw myself from the casement; a greater power than mine, a mysterious desire, held me rooted to tho spot. I seemed to wait. For what? I did not know?for something which was to happen. I heard a slight noise beneath the win? dow and lowered my head. .Along the wall,soinething, I knew not what?white, furtive, swift, like a white cloth in the wind?moved toward the pool. It was a woman or her ghost. One instant this vague form stopped and turned back. By the pale ray of the single star I saw a face and recognized it. Had I gone mad? I recognized the face of the por? trait. That face was Madeleine's! While she approached the pool the wind must have shifted, for the reeds, ? which just now had leaned from the side ' of my window, bent clown now to meet the young girl, and toward her reached the long arms of the Shadow cradled on the reed tips. Madeleine seemed to hesi? tate, a prey to violen t emotion. Now she started toward the phantom of the pool; now she stood motionless and seemed about to retrace her steps; but soon she took up her interrupted course, and reached the. spot among the interlacing trees, tho obscure and indefinite line where land and water met. At the edge of the pool, almost within reach of the fantastic arms which strained toward her as if to enfold her, she stopped. In the heavens there was but a single star; there was a single star, too, in the pool. I was not dreaming, for I noted that. Long, long she stood undecided, and sometimes she seemed to wish to fly to the house; but oftener, lost, shiveijsSg in the breeze, in the garb of death or of a bride, she held out her arms to the shadow which silently called her. At la3t she threw herself into the ter? rible pool. The water must be up to her waist, for I saw only the whiteness of her breast. She advanced ever toward the Shadow, and the Shadow came to meet her. Then I saw only her head, appear? ing from time to time between the reeds ?then I saw nothing. But the rushes rattled more dolorously, twisted, bent, pushed aside; the phantom which followed the movement of their tips writhed so that his chest shrank away from one side, while his legs grew long on the other, and his arms, as if they enlaced in the depths some prey caught at last, disappeared all at once In & mighty partinJLof the reeds. Madeleine hadjprowned herself in this ^black, awful 'ptSo\ I had not jeen her, I but surety 1 would have heard her cry I j out if t!ie terrible water had not filled I her mouth, oh. horrible death!?hor feet sinking in the humid Mime of the j pool and her hands vainly clutching at I the elusive support of the rushes! Little by little the motion became more rare, more convulsive, less prolonged; Made? leine was dead beyond a doubt. Anew I the wind alone agitated the great, noisy j grasses, and I saw t ho constant phantom ; I slowly re-form itself on the surface of the j greenish blackness. The next day at breakfast I ate little j and spoke scarcely at all. The old stew ard asked when it would suit me to in? spect the estate. "Immediately," I replied, "for I leave this evening." As we started toward the pool, 1 noticed in the forest an old piece of ruined wall. "What is that?" I asked. "It is all that is left of an ancient chapel," replied Chartier; "your father greatly admired the stained glaas win? dow, which represents an apostle stretch? ing his arms toward heaven. When the moon rises behind the window, it casts the image of the apostle on the roeds of the pool. Sometimes, in the night, it if terrible." As Chartier said this, I felt my legs brushed by something furti%-e, soft and light, as if a cat had rubbed against me. It was a napkin, still damp, detached by the wind front a cord where linen hung to dry a few steps from us, be? tween two trees before the house. "Well," said I to myself, "I must confess that the fever and wakefulness have played the fool with me. I have taken for a woman in white some sheet or garment borne by the wind, and for a phantom the reflection of a stained window on the reeds." And I began to laugh, to reassure myself completely. But I returned to Paris that evening. Three years passed. I had sold The Alders to an industrial company which intended to drain the marshes. I had given no thought to my sojourn at the melancholy chateau, except now and again on a Bleepless night, when one morning, in a journal opened at hazard, I read the following: In the unhealthy district of-, whoso Inhabi? tants already begin to enjoy better health, thanks to the draining of the marshes by a celebrated philanthropic society, there still remains a rast pool which forms port of the estato known ai The Alders. This pool Is famous In the legends of the country. Each night, It Is said, a gig&nUc phantom is to be seen, sleeping lightly on the Ups of the reeds. Some enlightened persons having supposed that this phantom was nothing but the reflection of an ancient stained glass window in a wall near by, tho wall was demolished; but, by the report of the people of the place, the phantom has not ceased to appear every night. ? . ? ? "It has not ceased to appearl" I re? peated, with a shudder, and I read on with a feverish eye: However that may be, recently, while the work? men labored at the draining of Che pool, one of them, in rolling some stones from the bonk near? est M. Cbartier's house, discovered among the reeds, deeply Imbedded in the mud, a skeleton absolutely stripped of flesh; it is supposed tVf "? is the skeleton of a young woman whose fci>v? must have taken place three or four years ago. , Then it was not a piece of linen flying | In the wind, that pale and hesitating form I had seen from the window?it was Madeleine herself, drawn into the pool by the mirrored demonl Her death had taken place a full month before my arrival at the chateau. Some inscrutable will, then, had accorded me for a few hours the unpleasant power of retro? spective vision; or, perhaps, the dead come from their shadowy abode, some? times, at night, to visit again on earth the scene of their agony.?Translated for The Argonaut from the French of Catullo Mendes by L. S. Vassault. The onion and the lily are botanically of the same family, but their odors are not allied.?Hotel MaiL NORFOLK & WESTERN RIA1 Ll road. Schedule in efTect Nov. 25, 1SS9. WESTERN DIVISION. leavk roanoke. 9:00 a m. Daily: arrive Bristol 'LOO p m. Stops at all sta? tions, connecting at Rad ford with trains on New River Branch; arrivingPo cahontas at 2:40 p in. 5:20 p m. Daily, arrives Bristol 11:20 p m, connecting with E. T., V. &, G. R. R. for all points south and west; has Pullman Palace Sleep? er. Roanoke to New Or leans, via Caleraand Roa? noke to Memphis without change. 7:35 a m. 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