VOL XXIII.
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veck, and all public days, to attend
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THE
SCARLET
LETTER
Bj HATHAHIEL HAWTHOBim
Pearl looked as beautiful as the day,
but was in one of those moods of per
verse merriment which, whenever they
occurred, seemed to remove her entirely
out of the sphere of sympathy or human
contact. She now skipped irreverently
from one grave to another, until, com
ing to the broad, flat, armorial tomb
stone of a departed worthy perhaps of
Isaac Johnson himself she began to
dance upon it. In reply to her mother's
command and entreaty that she would
behave more decorously, little Pearl
paused to gather the prickly burrs from
a tall burdock which grew beside the
tomb. Taking a handful of these, she
arranged them along the lines of the
scarlet letter that decorated the mater
nal bosom, to which the burrs, as their
nature was, tenaciously adhered. Hes
ter did not pluck them off.
Roger Chillingworth had by this time
approached the window, and smiled
grimly down.
"There is no law, nor reverence for
authority, no regard for human ordi
nances or opinions.right or wrong, mixed
up with that child's composition," re
marked he, as much to himself as to his
companion. "1 saw her the other day
bespatter the governor himself with
water at the cattle trough in Spring
lane. What, in heaven's nmno vo
Is the imp altogether evil? Hath she
affections? Hath she any discoverable
principle of being?"
"None save the freedom of a broken
law," answered Mr. Dimmesdale in a
quiet way, as if he had been discussing
the point within himself. "Whether
capable of good 1 know not."
The child probably overheard their
voices, for looking up to the window,
with a bright but naughty smile of
mirth and intelligence, she threw one
of the prickly burrs at the Reverend Mr.
Dimmesdale. The sensitive clergyman
shrunk with nervous dread from the
light missile. Detecting his emotion,
Pearl clapped her little hands in
the most extravagant ecstasy. Hester
Prynne likewise had involuntarily
looked up, and all these four persons,
old and young, regarded one another in
silence, till the child laughed aloud and
shouted: "Come away,' mother! Come
away, or yonder old black man will
catch you! He hath got hold of the
minister already. Come away, mother,
or he will catch you! But he cannot
catch little Pearl!"
So she drew her mother away, skip
ping, dancing and frisking fantastically
among the hillocks of the dead people,
like a creature that had nothing in com
lnon with a bygone and buried genera
tion, nor owned herself akin to. it Ir
was as if she had been made afresh, out
of new elements, and must perforce be
permitted to live her own life and be a
law unto herself, without her eccentrici
ties being reckoned to her for a crime.
"There goes a woman," resumed Rog
er Chillingworth after a pause, "who,
be her demerits what they may, hath
none of that mystery of hidden sinful
ness which you deem so grievous to be
borne, is Hester Prynne the less mis
ffable, think you, for that scarlet letter
on her breast?"
"1 do verily believe it," answered the
clergyman. "Nevertheless, I cannot an
swer for her. There was a look of pain
in her face which 1 would gladly have
been spared the sight of. But still, mo
thinks, it must neeuo . "urVn'o
sufferer to be free to show his pain, as
this poor woman Hester is, than to cover
it all up in his heart."
There was another pause, and the phy
sician began anew to examine and ar
range the plants which he had gathered.
"You inquired of me, a little time
agone," said he at length, "my judg
ment as touching your health."
"1 did," answered the clergyman,
"and would erladlv learn it. ttnejifc
frankly, I pray you, be it for life or
death?"
"Freely, then, and plainly," said the
physician, still busy with his plants, but
keeping a wary eye on Mr. Dimmesdale,
"the disorder is a strange one; not so
much in itself, nor as outwardly mani
festedin so far at least as the symp
toms have been laid open to my obser
vation. Looking daily at you, my good
sir, and watching the tokens of your as
pect now for months gone by, I should
deem you a man sore sick it may be,
yet not so sick but that an instructed
and watchful physician might well hope
to cure you. But I know not what to
say the disease is what I seem to know
yet know it not."
You speak in riddles, learned sir,"
said the pale minister, glancing aside
out of the window.
"Then, to speak more plainly," con
tinued the physician, "and 1 crave par
don, sir should it seem tn lwim'm to
don for this needful plainness of my
speech. Let me ask as your friend as
one having charge, under Providence, of
your life and physical well being hath
all the operation of this disorder been
fairly laid open and recounted to me?"
"How can you question it?" asked the
minister. "Surelv. it were child's r,lav
' - mtmJ
to call in a physician and then hide the
6ore:
"You would tell me'then that T lmnm
all?" said Roger Chillingworth deliber
ately, ana nxmg an eye, bright with in
tense ana concentrated intelligence, on
the minister's face. "Be it so! But
again! He to whom onlv the ontwarrl
,and physical evil is laid open knoweth
ortentitnes but half the evil which he is
called upon to cure. A bodily disease,
which we look noon as whole and P-nti
within itself, may after all be but a
symptom of some ailment in the spirit
ual part. Your pardon once again, good
sir, if my speech give the shadow of
offense. You, sir, of all men whom I
have known, are he whose bodv ia fh
closest conjoined and imbued and iden
tified, so to speak, with the snirit where
of it is the instrument."
"Then 1 need ask no fnrthe " Raid
the clergyman, somewhat hastily rising
from his chair. "You deal not. I take
it. in medicine for the so til?"
FR
ANK
Thus, a sickness," continued Roger
Chillingworth, going on in an unaltered
tone without heeding the interruption
but standing up and confronting the
emaciated and white cheeked minister
with his low, dark and misshapen figure
"a sickness, a sore place, if we may so
call it, in your spirit, hath immediately
its appropriate manifestation- in your
bodily frame. Would you. therefore
that your physician heal the bodily evil?
How may this be unless you first lay
open to him the wound or trouble in
your soul?"
"No! not to thee! not to an earthly
physician!" cried Mr. Dimmesdale pas
sionately, and turniDg his eyes, full and
bnght and with a kind of fierceness, on
old Roger Chillingworth. "Not to thee!
But if it bo the soul's disease, then do 1
commit myself to the one Physician of
the soul! He, if it stand with his good
pleasure, can cure, or he can kill! Let
him do with me as in his justice and
wisdom he shall see good. But who art
thou, that meddlest in this matter that
dares thrust himself between the sufferer
and his God?'
With a frantic gesture he rushed out
of the room.
"It is as well to have made this step "
said Roger Chill in s-wnrth to u.w
looking after the minister with a grave
smile. "There ia nntVn'
shall be friends again anon. But see
now, how passion takes hold upon this
man and hurrieth him out of himself!
As with one passion, so with another!
He hath done a wild thing ere now, this
pious Master Dimmesdale, in the hot
passion of his heart!"
It proved not difficult tore-establish
the intimacy of the two companions on
the same footing and in the same degree
as heretofore. The young clergyman,
after a few hours of privacy, was sensi
ble that the disorder of his nerves had
hurried him into an unseemly outbreak
of temper,1 which there had been noth
ing in the physician's words to excuse or
palliate. He marveled, indeed, at the
violence with which he had thrust back
the kind old man when merely proffer
ing the advice which it was his duty to
to bestow and which the minister him
self had expressly sought. With these
remorseful feelings, he lost no time in
mating the amplest apologies, and be
sought his friend to still continue the
care which, if not successful in restor
ing him to health, had in all probability
been the means of prolonging his feeble
existence to that hour. Roger Chilling
worth readily assented, and went on
with his medical supervision of the min
ister, doing his best for him in all good
faith, but always quitting the patient's
apartment at the close of a professional
interview with a mysterious and puzzled
smile upon his lijis. This expression was
invisible in Mr. Dinimesdale's presence,
but grew strongly evident as the physi
cian crossed the threshold.
"A rare case!" he muttered. "I must
needs look deejer into it. A strange
sympathy betwixt soul and bodv! Wor-.
it only for the art's sake I must search
this matter to the bottom!"
It came to pass not long after the scene
above recorded that the Reverend Mr.
Dimmesdale at noonday and entirely un
awares fell into a deep, deep slumber
sitting in his chair, with a large black
letter volume open before him on the
table. It must have been a work of
vast ability in the somniferous school of
literature. The profound depth of the
minister's repose was the more remark
able inasmuch as he was one of thoso
persons whoso sleep ordinarily is as light,
as fitful and as easily scared away as a
small bird hopping , 0 bUch
an unwonted remoteness, however, had
his spirit now withdrawn into itself,
that he stirred not in his chair when old
Roger Chillingworth, without any ex- !
traordinary precaution, came into the
room. The physician advanced directly
in front of his patient, laid his hand
upon his bosom and thrust aside the
vestment that hitherto had always cov
ered it even from the professional eye.
Then, indeed, Mr. Dimmesdale shud
dered and slightly stirred.
After a brief pause the physician
turned away.
But, with what a wild look of wonder,
joy and horror! With what a ghastly
rapture, as it were, too mighty to be ex
pressed only by the eye and features,
and therefore bursting forth through
the whole ugliness of his figure, and
making itself even riotously manifest
by the extrayagant gestures with which
he threw up his arms toward the ceiling
and stamped his foot upon the floor!
Had a man seen old Roger Chilling
worth at that moment of his ecstasy
he would have had no need to ask how
satan comports himself when a precious
human soul is lost to heaven and won
into his kingdom.
But what distinguished the physician's
ecstasy from satan'a was the trait of
wonder in it!
CHAPTER IX.
THE INTERIOR OF A HEART.
While thus suffering nnder
bodily disease, and gnawed and tortured
by some black trouble of the soul, and
given over to the machinations of his
deadliest enemy, the Reverend Mr.
Dimmesdale had achieved a brilliant
popularity in his sacred office. He won it,
in great part, by his sorrows.
To the high mountain peaks of faith
and sanctity he would have climbed had
not the tendency been thwarted by the
burden, whatever it might be, of crime
or anguish, beneath which it was his
doom to totter. It kept him down on a
level with the lowest; him, the man of
ethereal attributes, whose voice the an
gels might else have listened to and
answered! But this very burden it was
that gave him sympathies so intimate
with the sinful brotherhood of mankind;
so that his heart vibrated in unison with
theirs, and received their pain into itself,
and sent its own throb of pain through
a thousand other hearts in gushes of sad,
persuasive eloquence. Oftenest per
suasive, but sometimes terrible!
The people knew not the power that
moved them thus. They deemed the
young clergyman a miracle of holiness.
They fancied him the mouthpiece of
heaven's messages of wisdom and re-
vbuke and love. In their eves the very
JLIN
LOUISBURG, K. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
ground on which he trod was sanctified.
The virgins of his church grew pale
around him, victims of a passion so im
bued with religious sentiment that they
imagined it to be all religion and brought
it openly in their white bosoms as their
most acceptable sacrifice before the altar.
The aged members of his flock, beholding
Mr. Dimmesdale's frame so feeble while
they were themselves so rugged in their
infirmity, believed that ha would go
heavenward liefore them and enjoined it
upon their children that their old bones
should be buried, close to their young
pastor's holy grave. And all this time,
perchance, when poor Mr. Dimmesdale
was thinking of his grave, he questioned
with himself whether the grass would
ever grow on it, because an accursed
thing must there be buried!
It is inconceivable, the agony with
which this public veneration tortured
him! It was his genuine impulse to
adore the truth, and to reckon all things
shadowlike, i.?id utterly devoid of weight
or value, that had not its divino essence
as the life within their life. Then, what
was he? a substance? or the dimmest
of all shadows? He longed to epeak
out, from his own pulpit, at the full
height of bis voice, and tell the people
what he was. "I, whom you behold in
these black garments of the priesthood;
I, who ascend the sacred desk and turn
my pale face heavenward, taking upon
myself to hold communion, in your be
half , with the Most High Omniscience;
I, in whose daily life von diffT i tha
sanctity of Enoch; 1, whose footsteps,
as you suppose, leave a gleam along ray
earthly track, whereby the pilgrims that
shall come after me may be guided to
the regions of the bleit; I, who have
laid the hand of baptism upon your
children; 1, who have breathed the part
ing prayer over your dying friends, to
whom the amen sounded faintly from a
world which they had quitted; I, your
pastor, whom you so reverence and trust,
am utterly a pollution and a lief"
More than once Mr. Dimmesdale had
gone into the pulpit with a purpose
never to come down its steps until he
should have spoken words like the
above. More than once he had cleared
his throat and drawn in the long, deep
and tremulous breath which, when sent
forth agaiu. would come burdened with
the black secret of his soul. More than
once nay, more than a hundred times
he had actually spoken! Spoken! But
how? Ho had told his hearers that he
was altogether vile, a viler comianion
of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an
abomination, a thing of unimaginable in
iquity; and the only wonder was that
they did not see his wretched body
shriveled up beforo their eves by the
burning wrath of the Almighty! Coull
there be plainer speech than thi.-?
Would not the icople start up in their
seats, by a simultaneous impulse, and
tear him down out of the Duhiit which
he defiled? Not so, bideed! They heard
it all, and did .but reference him the
more. They littlo guessed what deadly
purport lnrkedin those self condemning
words. "The godly youth!" said they
among themselves. "The saint on
earth! Alas, if lie discern such sinful
ness in his oyii white soul, what horrid
spectacie wculd he behold in thine or
mine!"
The minister well knew subtle, bat
remorseful hypocrite that he was the
light in which hLs vague confession
would be viewed. Ho had striven to
put a cheat upon liimself by making ths
avowal of a guilty conscience, but had
gained only one other sin and a self ac
knowledged shame without the momen
tary relief of bo..,, . . ,c-.i. ile
had 6pokcn tuo very truth and trans
formed it into the veriest falsehood
And yet, by the constitution of his na
ture, he loved the truth and loathed
the lie as few men ever did. Therefore
above all things else ho loathed his mis
erable self!
His inward trouble drove him to prac
tices more in accordance with the old,
corrupted faith of Rome than with the
better light of the church in which he
had been born and bred. In Mr. Dim
mesdale's secret closet, under lock and
key, there was a bloody scourge. Often
times this Protestant and Puritan divine
had plied it on his own shoulders, laugh
ing bitterly at himself the while, and
smiting 6o much the more pitilessly be
cause of that bitter laugh, it was his
custom, too, as it has been that of many
other pious Puritans, to fast not, how
ever, like them, in order to purify the
body and render it the fitter medium of
celestial illumination, but rigorously,
and until his kuees trembled beneath
him, as an act of penance. He kept
vigils likewise night after night, some
times in utter darkness, sometimes with
a glimmering lamp, and sometimes,
viewing his own face in a looking glass
by the most powerful right which he
could throw upon it. He thus typified
the onstant introspection wherewith he
tortured, but could not pnrify, himself.
In these lengthened vigils his brain of
ten reeled, and visions seenred to flit be
fore him; perhaps seen doubtfully, and
by a faint light of their own. in th ro.
mote dimness of the chamber, or more J
vividly and close beside him, within the
looking glass. Now it was a herd of di
abolic shapes that grinned and mocked
at the palo minister and beckoned him
away with them; now a group of shin
ing angels, who flew upward heavily, as
sorrow laden, but grew more ethereal as
they rose. Now came th dond frinHa
of his youth, and his white bearded fa
ther, with a saintlike frown, and his
mother, turning her face away as she
passed by. Ghost of a mother thin
nest fantasy of a mother inethinks she
might yet have thrown a pityingglance
toward her son! And now, through the
chamber which these spectral thoughts
had made so ghastly, glided Hester
Prynne, leading along little Pearl, in
her scarlet garb, and pointing her fore
finger first at the scarlet letter on her
bosom and then at the clergyman's own
breast,
On one of those ugly nights, which we
have faintly hinted at, but forborne to
picture forth, the minister started from
his chair. A new thought had struck
him. There might be a moment's peace
m vs. Attiring himself with as much
care as if it had been for public worship,
and precisely in the same manner, he
10, lgft
stole softly down the staircase, undid
the door and issued forth.
CHAPTER X.
THE UIXISTKR'8 VIGIL.
Talking in the shadow of a dream, as
it were, and perhaps actually under the
influence of a species of somnjuububsm.
Mr. Dimmesdale reached the spot where,
now so long since, Hester Prynne had
lived through ber first hours of public
ignominy. The same platform or scaf
fold, black and weather stained with
the storm and sunshine of seven long
years, and footworn, too, with the tread
of many culprits who had since ancended
it, remained standing beneath the bal
cony of the meeting house. The minis
ter went up the steps.
It was an obscure night of early May.
An unvaried pall of cloud moilied the
whole expanse of sky from zenith to
horizon. If the Bamo mnltitndo tt-mm.
thad stood as eyewitnesses while Heater
trynne sustained her nunishmnnt mnM
now have been 6tnninoned forth tlv I
would have discerned no fac above the
T1 Q f fr 1 1 1 wsw. 1 . 11.. . I ...
t.u.iy i uui uaimY me outline or a
human shape, in the dark grav of the
midnight. But the town was il ale? p.
There was no peril of discovery. The
minister might stand there, if it eo
pleased him, until morning should red
den in the eat, without other risk than
that the dank and chill night air would
creep into las frame, and stiffen hia
joints with rheumatism, and clog his
throat with catarrh and cough, thereby
defrauding the expectant audience of
tomorrow's prayer and sermon. No eye
could see him, save that ever wakeful
one which had seen him in hia closet
wielding the bloody scourge. Why,
then, had he come hither? Was it but
the mocker' of penitence? A mockery,
indeed, but in which his soul trifled with
itself! A mockery at which ar.gela
blushed and wept, while fiends rejoiced
with jeering laughter.
Ho had been driven hither by the im
pulse of that, Remorse which dogged him
everywhere, and whose own Bister and
closely linked companion was that Cow
ardice which invariably drew him back,
with her tremulous gripe, just when the
other impulse had hurried him to the
verge of a disclosure. Poor, miserable
man! what right had infirmity like his
to burden itself with crime? Crime is
for the iron nerved, who have their
choice either to endure it, or, if it prtws
too hard, to eiert their fierce and savage
strength for a good purpose and fling it
off at once! This feeble and most sensi
tive of spirits could do neither, yet con
tinually did one thin or another, which
intertwined in the tcame inextricable
knot the agony of heaven defying guilt
and vain repentance.
And thus, while standing on the scaf
fold, in this vain show of expiation, Mr.
Dimmesdale wa overcome with a great
horror of mind, as if the universe were
gazing at a scarlet token on his naked
breast, right over his heart. On that
ei)t, in very truth, there w.xs and there
had long been the gnawing and poison
ous tooth of boidy p;iin. Without any
effort of his will or power to restrain
himself he shrieked aloud, an outcry
that went ialing throu-h tho night,
and was beaten back from one house to
another and reverberated from the lulls
in tho background as if a company of
devils, detecting so much misery and
terror in it. had made a plaything of t he
sound and Wf re bandying it to and fro.
"It is done!'' muttered the minister,
covering hid f it o . .
whole town will awake an 1 l;i;rr)
1'he
forth
and hnd nie here!"
But it was not so. The shriek had
perhaps sounded with a f.ir greater
power to his own startled e.ars than it
actually possessed. The town did not
awake, or if it did the dnv.Ky slumtx-r
ers mistook the cry either for "something
frightful in a dream or for the noise of
witches, whose v.:8 ut that period
were often heard to over the settle
ments or lonely cittng v.n thev rode
with sntan through the air. The clergy
man, therefore, hearing no symptoms of
disturbance, uncovered Lis eye and
looked about him.
His eyes, however, were soon Kreetod
by a little, glimmering light, which, at
first a long way o.T, was approaching' up
the street it threw a gleam of recogni
tion on here a jo?t and there a garden
fence, and here a latticed window pane
and there a pump with it full trough
of water, and here, again, an arched
door of oak, with an iron knocker and a
rough log for the doorstep. The Reverend
Mr. Dimmesdalo noted all these minute
particulars, even while firmly convinced
that the doom of his existence was steal
ing onward in the footsteps which ho now
heard, and that the gleam of the lantern
would fall upon him in a few momenta
more and reveal his long hidden secret.
As tho light drew nearer he beheld
within its illuminated circle his brother
clergyman or, to speak moreaccnrately
his professional father as well as highly
valued friend the Reverend Mr. Wil
son, who, as Mr. Dimmesdale now con
jectured, hod been praying at the tod
side of some dying man. And so he
had.
TO BB 0"TI5L"ED
A Woman's love is the perfume
of the heart. It rises to the great
est heights, it sinks to the lowest
depths, it forgives most cruel in
juries. It is pereniel to life, and
grows in every climate. Neither
coldness nor neglect, harshness or
cruelty, can extinguish it. That
is the real love that conquers the
world; the love that has wrought
all miracles of art, that gives as
music all the way from the cradle
6ong to the grand closing sym
phony that bears the soul away
on wings of fire. A love that
is greater than power, sweeter
Ithan life, and far stronger than
death.
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FOR MOTHERS.
As boys grow up make
panions of them, then thev
not eeek companiouah ;p
where.
Let the children make a
sometimes; their happineea
corn
will else
noise is as
important as your nerTes.
Respect their little eecreta. If
they hare concealments, worry
ing them will never mako them
, tell, and patience will probably
j do the work.
Allow them as tby grow older
I to hare opinions of their own;
, make individuals, and not mere
echoes.
Remember that without physi
' cal health mental attainment ar
! worthless; let them lead fre-.
happy lives, which will htrengtb
en both mind and bodv.
Bear in mind that you ar
largely responsible for your chil
dren's inherited character, and
have patience with their faults
and failings.
Talk hopefully to your rhil
1 dren of life and it possibilities;
you have no right to depress them
because you bare suffered.
! Teach boys and girls the actual
facts of life ns soon as they are
i old enough to understand them,
' and give them tho pense cf re
sponsibility w:thout saddei.ing
them.
Find out what their special
tastes are, and develop theni. in
; stead of spending time, money
and patience in forcing them into
studies which are repugnant to
them.
As long a it is possible kUs
them good-night after tby aro
in bed; th. y do like it so, ai.d i'
keeps them very ciose.
If you have lost a chiM, re
member that for the one that is
; gone there is nothing more to do;
for those remaining, every thi ;.g;
hide your grief for their sakes.
Impress upon theni from early
infancy that action have results,
; and they cannot escape conse
, quences e ven by being. -orry when
they have acted wrongly.
As your daughters grow uj
teach them at least the true mer
its of housekeeping and r.,yK'-rv;
they will thank you for it in ,:iVr
life a great deal more than for ac
complishments. Try and sympathize with -ir,
ieh flights of fancy, even if they j
; seem absurd to you; by so doi-,
1 voti will retain vour it.il uenc- 1
i
, over your daughters, and not j
teach them to eeek sympathy
elsew here,
j Remember that although th- v
are all your children, each on-
has an individual character, and
; tastes and qualities vary inde.'in
i itely.
j Cultivate them separately, and
not as if you were turning them
out by machinery.
I Encourage them to take good
walking exercise. Young ladies
in thiscountry are rarely walkers
Girls ought to be able to walk a
well as boys. Half of the nerv
ous diseases which afflict young
ladies would disappear if the hab
it of regular exercise were en
couraged. Keep up a right standard of
principles. Your children wi!l
be your keenest judges in the fu
ture. Do be honest with them in
small things as well as in greaV
If you cannot tell what they wish
to know, say so, rather than de
ceive them.
Reprove your children for tale
bearing; a child taught to carry
reports from the kitchen to the
parlor is detestable.
Remember that visitors praise
the children as much to please
yoa as they deserve it, and their
presence is oftener an affliction
lhan not. Selected.
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The body of a negro child was
found pressed in the middle of a
cotton bale at Ada, Ark., a few
days ago.
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