ended the six months' struggle toward your pro- | his forehead to his very eyebrows, I should not fession.

can see encircling him externally also like a globe of adamant, is still penetrable, vanquishable by the Good of another stronger soul still further outside. In fine, must be forced to see the incredible truth that, in this Universe with whose horrible realities he has become intimately acquainted, the Good is still the only allpowerful, all-whelming Principle; that it alone, but it certainly, shall bring his and every other Evil under. In such a case was George Solero. And therefore I repeated firmly, as expecting to be obeyed,

"Sit! who talks of sitting to me? I have been walking-walking for hours and days and "You must sit down upon this chair." months and years and Eternities! Walking At first he looked at me with a searching when four of them were straining their utmost, gaze, half-suspicious, half-scornful. I returned and thought they held me on my back-walk-it with a steady look, kind, to meet the first ing when they believed I slept-walking when I feeling, calm and unflinching, to cope with the did sleep. Walking through waste places- second. He drew nearer and nearer, and finally through great wildernesses of sand-through a dropped down at my side. I took his hand desert universe full of a red-hot iron light, where with a gentle unostentation, and never moved mountain shapes grew out of the air, and whis- my eyes from him. pered and hissed and cursed. Walking always -every where. Never stopping to rest or breathe or drink. There is a wandering Ahasuerus who walks till God shall come, and I am he."

"You have been having a hard time, George, but from this moment you will grow better. You are coming out of the bad company you have been in; you will hereafter get into less turbulent society. They are all as bad as you

"But you must sit now; take this chair by say they are-worse than the worst who still the side of my bed."

"Do you think that can hold me when eight stout men's arms could not? You knew my will in those days far back-centuries back it looks now-when we were together: that will is in me yet, and it has grown a devil! Were I bolted to that chair it would take my soul out of me and make that walk still."

"Nevertheless, sit down on this chair."

As I told John Heathburn, I had seen and dealt with many such cases before. They are anomalies in human suffering. Mere medical treatment will not do for them in their worst stages. They react against all sedatives, anodynes, counter-stimulants whatsoever, until the spiritual fiend within them is cast out. I have seen three drachms, nearly a half-ounce-think of it-of pulverized opium administered to a man in this state who had never taken it in any form before; and that force which held the citadel within him so utterly mastered it that it had no more effect upon him than as much liquorice powder. Yet opium is a giant. It controls men for damnable evil-sometimes for temporary good, long, yes years, after the nerv- | ous system, which narcotics require as their basis for operation, has been utterly destroyed for all other purposes. Yet eventually there comes an hour when even opium is powerless, whether it or other indulgences have wrought the disorganization which baffles it. The all-powerful spirit, frenzied into Promethean stubbornness, stands between it and the nerve-says, "Opium! even you shall not touch the body: I am your wall!" Then the business of the physician is to conquer that soul if he can; and if he can not, he had better leave it to some one else and devote himself to measles. His patient must feel that the Evil within him, and so far as he

call themselves men, and the suffering you are in now is only their effort to get you back with them. The tiger's teeth shut tightest when the prey is taken from him.”

"What?" exclaimed George Solero. "How did you know that it was a tiger which followed me? I did not tell you of the tiger." "I have seen him."

"You? Were you ever in hell?"

"Yes, many times. I have been there to bring other men out."

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'But did you? Did you ever bring them out?"

"Over and over again. And I have witnessed their bringing out by other hands still oftener. I do not mean that you shall ever go back there after this time. When you feel the pain that you are bearing now, you must not hereafter say, "This is my aching brain, or burning throat, or shivering spine.' I can teach you something about yourself which even you do not know with all your experience. When you are at the worst, your eyes are so opened that you see clearly who it is that really is tormenting you. But when you become a little easier the pain is not great enough to quicken your sight, and you trace your sufferings falsely to the body. That has always been your mistake. Your pangs, as I told you, are nothing else but the enemies your eyes are not sharp enough at that time to see, trying to scourge you back to their wildernesses. And this is what you must say to them, You are liars: you may come as my head, my. throat, my spine; but you are not these. are only felons breaking into them, making a burglarious hell of them for the time being, but just as real and personal as you were a week ago. I feel you I know you-though I can't see you. You are the tiger-and you the ice

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me.

"Then," said I, "take this pill, and immediately afterward we will go back to your room; you will lie down, and I will relieve Cato for an hour, sitting at your side."

He seemed completely in the possession of my will, and without an objection swallowed the dose mechanically. I took him back to his room, and, throwing a wrapper around me, sat at his side. In fifteen minutes he was sleeping like a child. No spasm, no stertorous breathing; and a profuse sweat covered his face, so lately glazed and feverish. Cato was gone from the room. I quietly rose from my chair, and, kneeling down by the side of that sad possessed one, who had suffered as he had sinned, prayed the Almighty Father and Healer that, even as he had sinned, so might he also be forgivenprayed as in my too careless, worldly life I had never done before, with an earnestness which nearly forced itself through my lips in words to awake the sleeper—that I might be the means of saving this dismasted, rudderless soul from the black ocean where he was drifting without a star, bringing him back to a quiet harbor, while He who wielded me, and the skill which was His gift, took to His Holy Name all the glory. And particularly that he would so invigorate and work through that human Will which must be my chief enginery, that the greatest exigency should never make me swerve; that the monster Evil within my patient should feel it, cower under it, and be cast out. "For he hath a devil, and hath been brought unto Thy other disciples of the Divine Wisdom of Healing, and they could not cast him out. I believe help my un

fiend-you are the grisly, gibbering ape-and you are the boa-constrictor. You can not get me. Altogether you are to be conquered at last -and because you know it you are making this uproar. You are children-fools-idiots showing your pique; not strong, unconquerable foes, with victory before you, and therefore patience to wait for it. Bite hard! claw and tear! you are having your last chance, make your best of it. I am holding by the hand an old schoolfellow of mine who loves me as hard as you hate God, who loves me better than all, gave him a vigorous, thorough course of training in battle with just such mean rascals as you-taught him your whole secret-mapped out for him every winding of your course-showed him all your tactics, your marching and countermarching, your truces, your ambuscades, your espials, your breaches of faith-plainly acquainted him with the fact of your real weakness and final defeat then put a sword into his hand that can never be broken-and told him of a sudden, one morning when he least expected it, to go down all the long way to Norfolk and take me away from you. And he is going to take me away.' That is what you must say to them--and that last, particularly, you may say with full truth, for I am going to." While I said this George Solero's manner became less excited--his attention more and more fixed. Still I held his hand and kept my eyes steadily upon him. At my last word he took my other hand into his and burst into tears, uttering brokenly, that I was the first man who ever knew what he had seen and where he had been. I felt that the very first step of my course was a success. The ice-bound floods within him had broken up. For nearly an hour longer The eastern sky was shedding a silvery twiI continued conversing with him, always man- light from its regions of dewy quiet when I arose aging to have him feel my grasp and my eye with a better refreshment than sleep. I looked somewhere-making it evident to him that I out of the open window; the carol of the first treated his torments as they were, as realities, birds trickled in from the far cedars, and the not phantasms, and gradually drawing him off cool wind that foreruns oncoming day seemed into the field of quieter subjects than the pres-blowing straight from the morning-star. Sitting ent. We spoke of good old Agamemnon-the clear in its tranquil gray field of sky, it looked boys at Dresser-our sports and studies there- like an island of the Blessed on that waveless our mishaps, our excursions, our practical jokes sea of light, which is so far off to our weary, even. And before we were through with these world-hampered hearts that we call it only reminiscences I was astonished by hearing from Dawn. And to me in that moment it was an him that most encouraging sign of returning earnest of still grander beatitudes; it rested sanity, physical and mental, a natural laugh. once more, as in the far first year of man's longAfter this I arose and took my medicine-chest ing fulfilled-God's meaning made intelligible from my trunk. In it lay a box of the solid ex- -over the spot where Hope was born. Then tract of Cannabis Indica—the Indian Hemp or Bethlehem, the perfect certainty of sublimest Hasheesh of the East-then little known to the Good to every home-coming creature, seemed practice, and now too little known in its highest not only below it, but above it, around it, every office of controlling bad mental symptoms, but where. Yes, every where through the highest which I had already used with great success in heights where its Maker is sung-through the cases of the most terrible delirium among those lowest depths where man's short-sighted unfaith feeless patients whom I had treated in New thinks Him forever conquered. Hope! Hope! York. Of this I made up a ten-grain pill, mixed The Evil, after all its oscillations from least to it with a little myrrh to prevent the taste afford-greatest, from greatest to least, forever extinct ing any clew to my patient should he seek it out as an indulgence, and then asked him how long it was since he had tasted rum. Five days, he told me, and I thought this probable from comparison with the data given me by John.

belief!"

through all times and spaces. The Good on the throne of the whole universe!

I drew back the curtain. "Blessed Star, shine on the soul of the sleeper, who thinks thee set!"

The servant returned, and I left George quiet- | feet wide, and made a circuit two and a half ly. Throwing myself down upon my bed, I was miles in extent. These were strengthened with soon restored to a better sleep than that from fortifications at every point where an enemy which I had been wakened. On coming down could approach. There was one portion, howto breakfast at nine o'clock John's beaming face ever, on the sea-side where there was no wall. met me at the foot of the stairs, and he took my A simple ditch with pickets protected this, as hands warmly in his own. the water there was so shallow that no vessel could approach the shore. At the entrance of the harbor lay a little island, scarce a quarter of a mile across, on which the French erected a battery of thirty 28-pounders, which they called the Island Battery. The light-house stood on an eminence in the northeast part, and near it the magazine, and houses containing naval stores,

"I have spoken to father," said he, "and he gives his consent to your seeing George; in fact, to undertaking the entire care of his case. God bless you in it!"

"My dear John, I have already done that; and I believe that God has answered your prayer beforehand." Then I told him the events of the night.

etc.

The town of Louisburg was regularly laid out in squares with broad streets. Around the west entrance where there was a draw-bridge, the French erected a circular battery of thirteen

in its fire. At the bottom of the harbor stood the grand Royal Battery, frowning with its twenty-eight 42-pounders and two 18-pounders. France had been twenty-five years at a cost of $6,000,000 in building this almost invulnerable position, and it was still unfinished when war broke out in 1775 between her and England.

THE SIEGE OF LOUISBURG. T is well known that in the early history of discovery, all the Canadas, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the great lakes; while England, on the same ground, claimed the entire country, extending from Nova Scotia to Georgia. France held also the Mississippi River, which she declared gave her a right to its tributaries. Although the first attempt to connect this river with the lakes was foiled by the Chickasaws, France declared war March 15th, and England who killed in battle or tortured to death the en-two weeks later. England had but two forts in tire party who made it, a second proved suc- Nova Scotia-one on the island of Canso in the cessful. Still the route by the Mississippi to mouth of the Strait, another on the Bay of Funthe head waters of the lakes was too circuitous dy, named Annapolis. to be of practical use to her Canadian provinces; hence the possession of the Gulf of St. Lawrence became of paramount importance to her.

Cape Breton, an island from thirty to sixty miles across, and separated from Nova Scotia only by a narrow channel, called Canso, stood sentinel on the south side of the gulf; while Newfoundland, thirty leagues distant, was its companion in keeping a perpetual guard over its entrance. But Cape Breton, so necessary to France if she wished to hold the navigation of the St. Lawrence, was only four hours' sail from the great Fishing Banks, and in case of war ships under the protection of fortifications erected there could easily destroy the English fisheries. It stood, moreover, right in the track of trading vessels passing between the Provinces and the mother country, and hence was of vital importance to England, as in case of war the commerce would at once be cut off.

The French at Louisburg, taking advantage of the two weeks' interval between her declaration of war and that of her enemy, attacked Nova Scotia at once. Canso, wholly unprepared for such a movement, surrendered without attempting any resistance, and the garrison was captured. Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts, immediately sent reinforcements to the latter place, in time to save it from sharing the same fate. Soon after the formal declaration of war by England was received in the provinces and produced the greatest excitement. All was immediately in commotion, and the bustle of preparation was heard on every side. The French on one hand and the Indians on the other caused a great deal of alarm, and called forth the most vigorous efforts for self-protection.

All through the autumn there was much talk in Boston among the colonists about the necessity of taking Louisburg if they wished to have The result was that these places, or rather navigation secure between them and the mother Cape Breton, was from the first settlement of the country. About this time an exchange of pris country a bone of contention between the two oners was made between the belligerents, and Governments, and passed backward and forward, those at Louisburg returned to Boston. These according to the chances and changes of war, gave such an account of the strength of the foruntil by the treaty of Utrecht, in 1713, Cape tifications there that Governor Shirley, to whom Breton was ceded to France and Nova Scotia to the capture of this place had become a settled Great Britain. France immediately commenced resolution and the absorbing idea of his life, fortifying the former in the most formidable decided that it could not be reduced by regular manner. She built a walled town on the south-siege, but must be taken by surprise. Vaughan, east part, with gates and ditch and draw-bridge of New Hampshire, was also busy in collecting as in feudal times. The ramparts were of massive stone, and from thirty to thirty-six feet high. The walls were surrounded by a ditch eighty

all the information he could, and having ascertained from some men who had been prisoners in Louisburg that in winter-time, on one side,

where no cannon were mounted, and where there it was finally carried by a majority of one.

were no embrasures for them, the snow drifted to a height nearly on a level with the wall, and was packed so hard and close by the fierce north winds that it would bear a man, conceived the original idea of taking Louisburg by snow, which would thus obviate the necessity of scaling-ladders. But there were many objections to this plan. Among others, it was not so easy to effect a landing in mid-winter on an ice-bound shore; besides, snow-drifts were not always to be depended upon, and if they were not on hand at the right time and in the proper spot were not things that troops could create or shift from place to place as circumstances or the nature of the case might require. A thaw at a certain juncture would be particularly embarrassing.

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eral members who were known to be opposed to it absented themselves, whether necessarily or by persuasion is not known. The friends of the measure took advantage of it, however, and the question was pushed to a vote, and carried, as said before, by one majority.

Although its opponents fought it stoutly, as soon as it was decided the greatest unanimity prevailed in carrying out the measure, while the people were wild with enthusiasm in its favor. Fishermen being thrown out of employment by the war, were willing to enlist as soldiers; while the abundant crops of the past year, and the unusually mild winter that kept the waters open and the Indians away, seemed to conspire together to favor the enterprise.

It was thought that 4000 men, with such naval force as the Colonies could raise, would be sufficient. At all events they could retake Canso and capture merchantmen, if they failed in the attack on Louisburg.

Circulars were at once sent to the different Colonies, and it was soon found that more volunteers would offer themselves than were needed. The chief difficulty was to find a man com

In the mean time Shirley wrote letters home asking that orders might be dispatched to Commodore Warren, commanding the fleet on the West India station, directing him to co-operate with the Colonies in the contemplated attack on Louisburg. He then called the General Court together, and, as a preliminary proceeding, required the astounded members to take an oath of secrecy before he would lay before them his communication. They yielded to the unprece-petent to command so large an army, and condented request, when the Governor revealed to duct the siege of so formidable a place as Louisthem his purpose and plan of taking Louisburg. burg; for there was not a man in the Colonies The secret, however, was too weighty for one of who had ever witnessed a regular siege, or been those to whom it was intrusted to bear alone. in a pitched battle. The choice finally fell on He became so filled with the solemnity and mo- Colonel William Pepperell, a wealthy merchant, mentousness of the project that one day, in his heavily engaged in the fisheries, and withal exfamily devotions, he burst forth with a fervent ceedingly popular among all classes. He at first invocation that the blessing of Heaven might hesitated to accept so great a trust, and asked attend the enterprise. Whether the good old the advice of the celebrated preacher Whitfield, deacon thought that telling the Lord was no vi- who was then staying at his house. The minisolation of trust or breach of confidence, or feel- ter told him that the prospect was not very flating that he must tell somebody, and the Lord tering. All eyes would be upon him: and if was the safest one to confide it to, or whether it he failed, the widows and orphans of those who burst forth in the sudden overflow of his feelings, fell in battle would upbraid him; and if he sucdoes not appear; but the news soon spread like | ceeded, he would be the object of envy and jealwild-fire that the deacon had prayed for the ousy. Still, if he would go with a single eye blessing of Heaven on Governor Shirley's pro- to God's glory, and intent only on doing his ject for taking Louisburg. The deacon was at duty, strength would be given him according to once closely interrogated, and the whole thing his necessities. He afterward, by request, furcame out. The Legislature, which was in ses-nished the following motto for the flag: "Nil sion at the time, was thunder-struck and alarmed desperandum Christo duce." at the boldness of the undertaking, and immediately appointed a committee to investigate and report on the subject.

The report was wholly and strongly against it. The Governor, though somewhat chagrined at this dead-lock with the Legislature, was determined not to be so easily driven from his favorite project, and he adroitly caused a petition asking a reconsideration of the question to be signed by the principal merchants in the city and Salem, and presented to the Legislature. This was referred to another committee, which reported in its favor. On this a very animated and stormy discussion arose in the House, which lasted for two days. It was plain that there was a majority against the scheme. But by one of those political tricks which we are apt to believe are the offspring of these degenerate days

This declaration that Christ was their leader gave a religious character to the enterprise, and many of Whitfield's followers enlisted. The fact too that the French were Catholics, holding the hated religion of their persecutors, caused the people to look upon it as a holy crusade; and it became an absorbing part of all religious services. From the pulpit, in the public prayermeeting, and at the family altar, it called forth the most impassioned appeals to Heaven for its favor. Many chaplains volunteered to serve, one of whom carried a hatchet with which to demolish the images he expected to find in the French churches. Religious men from every part of the province wrote to Pepperell, bidding him God-speed. One Deacon John Gray, of Biddeford, wrote: "Oh that I could be with you and dear Parson Moody, to destroy the im