The New Era, 1884-01-25, Page 8Waxruary 251884.
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• ',1`8e Old Ville ge *Pepin!.
There stands the old station-lsouee out M th
rain,
A stone's throw away from the door,
With- he wind-boaten wall and its weather
racked Pane+
And its ickety rat -haunted floor ;t
Its sashes are seamed and its lintels are gashed
With the jack-knives of twenty long years,
And the eleven where the wings of the swallow
.• once data:led
Are touched with the kinehip of tears.
Old home I it-loores up like a ghost in the gale,
And gibbers and groatis in the blast,
And speaks, with a weird and a weariless wail,
. Of the dim, irrepealable past,
On the old, dingy Platform that girdles it round,
The yveadth o the. prairie once poured;
And daily the carriage of commerce came down
With the wares of the inefchant aboard.
PRUDENCE. HART.,
ne ozotemeat M. them
" Well, she its a demure little pout," ma
Keith Verner, "and not much of A bea,ut
o certabily,"
Upon which Mee, Verner replied wit
dectston: "She ie quite as thigh of %beauty
iny dear, aa there • ie any need for her t
bett Arid the yepng Man. at that respoits
laughed.
• They were speaking of 8008 one who had
just left the Mom -Miss Prudence Hart,
..young person who had entered the Vernere
family only two days before to All the pos
of companion, to. Mee. Vernerai only deign
ter, Mabel: ille,bel Verner was 19, and Waain
hot very: rebuilt health. She waci. a little
• landaut t4804.' and hod or late developed it
• certain fretfulness, with which her mother
• who was an aotive-andoheerfalwomme had
not much sympathy.- •
66 The child WO the exceedingly," she
had often said to her husband. " Sbe hag
everything to make her happy, and yet ehe.
is not happy. I vet:Olden" ehe had suggested
one day, lately "bow it would sower to
give her some oompenion of her own age 2'
"What, another girl 2" asked Mr. Verner.
". Well, that is not a bad idea." •
"1 have had it in my mind for some
time," continued Mrs. Verner thoughtfully;
"The only objection is that•there might be
-tormrdifentiltrwith the hOye." •
"Oh, not the least fear of that 14: ex.
olitimed her 'husband in a tone of ornate.
ment. "The boys, you may be sure, would
• like it."'
"I have littledoubt OW they wouIdlike it,"
Illis.•Vernee answered shortly. "'What I
Jearas that they Might like it too
it were not that they are so little herea-e"
6.4 Ah; yes, that Makes all the .differenoe,"
he assented,
. "If they were living aM home I should
•not think of such an arrangement for a
noomenti.bot "seeing how much they are
away. I .ean disposed to think abet .the
plan Might be tried; especiallyif we could
fine some nice, quiet girl, net eery geed.
looking," said Pare Verner.. • •. • •
•.And then something in the nature of a
protest rose to. her husband's lipe ; big, on
refleotion, he did not.utter it. • •• .
• Soon 'after this, Mrs: 'Verner, hailing eon.
:tutted with shim daughter, '• and received
Mabelts assentao hersobeme,begaio to make
'known amongst her acqUeintances that she'
wished • to reoeiee into her heath .eonie
SOUngPersoh of a, modest andstaiddeneetinor
ie eoneequence ot which numerous young,
pereone. were premed to her, and from
amongst these various eindid Meg tate finally
• Mimed' one .Who seemed in a, happydegree
to combine . the .eeveral qualifications that -
she' meardesired, to Omura. For, by the
lady who reognatnended••her, Prudence Hart
was certified' to be. theeeful, clever,, domes.
tie, of a:sweet temper, and-viith regard to
pthpriety.and modesty of depcirtment, alt
that thezraoiti- anxious -mother •de.
And then, 'to: sum up. all, • she ins not •
hapdsome. 'Mrs. Verner se.wher with her
Own nye:1;4 and could testify: to the teak
• PA. pleasant face; yes, P should ciall it
decide/4y plemant„ healthy .and.fresh, but
no peetentions to :geed looks " she stated
With deoision to her husband, speaking' of:
Mips Hart before the young lady took no,.
her abode with them. it A nice,,plain, retie-.
•ing, lady -like :tootling girla-iust the sextef.
person had in my, mind. M. Prescott
speaks Of her in, tba warmest way, She
•says Shell:find she Will be a oomfort,to•
"Well,.that is', I mippose, assuming. We
thalt ben] need ocimfort I" suggested Mr.
Wetter t• but' hie; aeito 'did not respond to
this'uncialied.for•reniark,' • . • .
It wee turning dark on a Spring evening
when the fly:that bad biought •Mise Hatt,
and•her luggage :from the Widen drew, iia
before Vernees.hill doer. ' •
you take my two pettinentehus itt/'
it yeti please? • The are is. three-and.six-
pezieVriid: the young lady;and paid, the
-Money and entered the home,. . • - • '
. The neitanotright she saiy Mabel Coming
'across the hell to. nu/ether, eiid she put out
herhatict with a little/mile:a . •
• " Eto.W.do you- do r Mabel- paid. '"Iorn.
• afraid you are Cold. , We had hoped you
would cotioe.by an,emtier train, you knew."
-76-TharBairbeen • a • very .• Moe train,"
.a.n.swered . Prudence,"aid I like ,arriving
'at places•in the -•
• tand' then ktehel took her.te her mother;
'who Was waitihe te 'receive her inthe deaW-
'ing-reom. ..: • •
Him Hari: was a Voting woman •Or spa
parentlytwo. or three. and twenty, with a
placid, rounded face,' and glossy hair,
disided in the. middle -Mid 'put '.smoothly
beak from tie broad, low • forehead. The
Joithead_andleadaverio..good,-and-the-eyee
fairly •handsome, but tbe rest of the •ferie.
tares were homely enough.' ••
mill her plain, decidedly," Nebel said,
after she had been in her company for an
• •
hour.. '
Yee,iny dear," r,f)plied her /mother, "1
told you. she Was plain, but I doti't consider
the,t-them4eany-driettback
then Mabel said,, "Perhaps net,"
but thought at the se,me time in her hertrt
that teas a diem:back, 'for' Mabel was
pretty bereelf,aend oared enough: for her
beauty to . fancy that. life would not be
Worth muth without it: - • • • .
- The day: atter Miss Hart's artivel. the
girls spent a good deal .01 time, together,.
and Mabel found her new corepaniOn. plea-
sant °hough. "She talks it 'good deal when
the beelone with me," she told her Mother,
" and the can be amusing too. I rather
like her, 1:dere say,. you know, she feele
lets shy -with me than she &me, With. pap
and you." . , •••• • •
"Very probably," Anowered PitreeVerner
suavely.. " Thoth! only:natural." -And she
went presently to her desk, and wrote O
• grateful note to arra. Prescott, telling her
that Pgise Hart had arrived,..atel that so far
she pee -entire Malefaction. •
"And •nettainly I have every reason
yet to be pleased With ille result of our ex.
• periment," she said complacently to her
411mb:tad ni.ght,
•'TO. which Ur. Vernet replied, "
she *an odd little Demon: 13he W0111 eon.
tribute vety natah, I supeot, to the general
livelineee of the house." • '
• , She Will onitribute pethablY.quite as
inuoli to it am it hi Mall desirable she should
do," replied Mrs: Verner with. emPhaele.
'" A ProMinent, ehnevy: Ott of girl would
not, I winsider, have beeh at all the kind Of
pereth to knit tie." • •
"Well, no -no, I dare say not," aneented
Mr. Verner. "1 only meant to gay that
she wag net .partienlarly attemitive." •
' "And is there any necessity," in:pared
hie Wife, "why the should be particularly
attractive ?• It smite to me that theta is
every reseal,* on the tientraryi why she
should be r itber the reverse: There ie
Keith, remember, coining out tO.itheroW
night
-6' Well, my dear, yan need. give Ythrtielf
130 &indent about Keith. Ile Won't be emit.
ten with het,".replied 1,1r. fether,Multyent
bit way laughing. •
And in fact, when ItitithVerner came Out,
the folimeing evening, he WM aertainlY net
intittell With her. . • .
Ileitla'•tivas the eldethof )1/fr..Verherte two
theiii; the' other was bathed Godfrey, mid
they Were hOth at thie time Walking the
heepitele in, Loadon. But though they with rne for a very ehort, time, will you
. lived in London, they Paine tIOWn nearly allOW me to say that 1 thiuk you assume
• alwaysoi2oe Q Week to their father's home yoneeelf ricaVeir-eflialeing tot) that
at Tunbridge Wells, AK sometimee even I am obliged to requeet the liberty to dte.
• More freqe.ently. pute ?"
• Oa this/ occasion Keith had come out by What makes you supposethat I manta
d hienself„ and before he took hie leave next any power of judging yeti 2" she reeied te
morniog he said to hie sister Mabel,'" this address, composedly, but hringiagler
don't think much cat your new friend," eyee as ohe spoke with rather a midden
h 64 I believe she returne the compliment," movement down to )218 facm from tbe stark.
t replied 70001, for to judge by what the "You did it just now," he said quieltlY
Q has said, I should not. imagine that title and then be added, not perhaps qtute
e thought much of von," .. • - wisely, "and you have done it before.'
"What do you mean that she hem paid?' • ."Indeed ?" she returned inquiringly.
inquired Keith, prithing up his ears at this, "1 think you .0en hardly deny it ?" he
a mai rather taken aback, for the young man' attid.
-Bet some store on himself. "It you will tell mei to what you refer"
0 And then Mabel laughed, ahd.informed -she spoke (pito _pleasantly -66 then per.
hfui by degrees that Miss Hart had Baked heats 1 than be able to uoderstapd you,"
it he was not conceited, and rather idle, 6'1 refer to the. opinion which you did
and had also implied euspioion in regard • Me the honor to express, about me to my
to the death of his acquirentents-which, sister a few dap/ ago."
, with sisterly frankness, Mabel. remarked,. "And which she has 'repeated to year:
that she did hot consider ilafouhded by any.. " Yea,. Btle tag repeated it to me:"
means. .. As the has also to me repeated yours
-"Well, upon my wordl" exclaimed keith, Oboitt myself, Mr. Keith, I AM very happy
vrith what was, perhaps, in the oiroutoatan. to be able to .meet your Mugge with a
ces, not attinatural, warmth. eounteroharge." And then Wm Hart
Oh, he is very acute," said MabeL eoftly ehafed herhand, and laughed in hie
"You would not think it, but she notices a facie.
gdod :many things." •
Keith, Who did not relish being made
"And apperently the imaginee, a geed ridiculous, felt very. hot :while Miss Metal
many more," retorted Keith; and then, ;necking little' laugh rang on the air, and
having no more tune to ewe, he curtly bade 'if he could have said something to silence
geed -bye to bis sieter, and -hurried to his her he, would ,unquestionably have said it
train. Bat as he walked haytily cloven the • with a will; but ahem edged words unhap.
road he did not forget Miss Hart. "The pity, will not alwaye eome at need; and so
impertinent little miex 1" he eaid to him. in the sudden pause whilehe remained
mar. "Whet is the worm Otthese halt -bred disoomfitted,Mies Ef art first amused herself
people ;• they mistake flippancy for wit; with her mookingiaughter, and then, being
and, now -that Mabelhas got itinto her for.her own part quite 001 and mistress of •
' head that this girl is elevate:I forme thereherself, proceeded qutetly to make another
will be no end: to.the way in which the will speech. • . • • •
enceureee her. But wait tid I Me her "1 always 'find that it iswiseet to have
again!" And. with -this • vague mehme, very clean • heed* before f indulge in soma
• which conveyed a Certain Renee of eotiefac. Amiens," • ehe aid. .6' But, . perhaps, Um.
tion to him, Keith bent hie steps back to Keith, you are, too young to have learnt
town. ' • .
• that. leesen yet.? HO, you ought to be
. •
Aoopple of dayehtterivarde, at the e • nd grateful tome for teething Hie You. ,-And•-
. of the week,the two brOtbers came down nOWgo in end leave you to smoke
, . „
to Tunbridge Welleadgether.
-your eigar in peace." . , •
"X don't thiek Muoh ef •thot • girl plyt Abd emeoreingly, quite unmeveal.
mother has bronektinto the home." Keith by the elitmey. Ohteme 1. I eV 1" whit&
• had already •said to Godfrey. "1 don't were the onlY,ejeculationsthet the exigency
know how. othere. 414 feel, but to .meeloeof the moreent bad: petvet to fermi • from
seem, no. lady." • • „ • •-Keith's.:hureadY lips.. • •
" half thegovernesees ping are hot He said to himself .presently, I'll be
.ladies, you know,',returned Godfrey. "•Thie 'Men with her yet 1" But, for the remain -
'
girl is eot a govern/tee ekaotly; 1 suppose; ;der of thieevening, • at any rate, she gave
tiut itte all the." . : • .him:. no thence of being even- Willi her.
I think they .thohld • .have".beep Nero' When he saw her next, she' Was kneeling at.
. nartioular' in their choice," said •:Keitle.. hie mcither'e feet; picking' up a stitch that.
.6-6'There bre plenty of nice girls they might Mrs Verner bed dropped in her knitting;
have got. Miss Hart, begin •withoe as. with ouch an exp'resaiop of sweet abdorp-
• ugly as:silk"- ' . • • .. • • , ' tionin her face that she looked swim:Arne,
" That is a bad businees any Way," -tion of all the domestic virtues, andhever
replied Godfre,y. •tintil she bailioian ood.night either_pur.
And bripreseabrthirittote-whenBatiir. poselriibidetit,--did-the a at- 4•-iliersell
. day °ewe he went down to his father's, not to come 'within speaking distance oe him
expecting to experience muoh delight from again.
his gitroduction to his sisters•Inend. , He, en • 'hie park•howevereavao pursued a
. Butileithon hie part, felt a„ dedided good deally. the thought of her; and found
curiosity to see the young ledY again: It hinieelf watohiog her almost against hie
had beconie .quite clear to his Mind that Will. • Also, whion was ehrious, when Mabel.
a girl who W88' capable of epeaking about spoke tolim.next about, Mies Hart, as she
him to Mabel In the way which. Mabel did upon the folteowing morning,etipetiet-
had asserted she'. ha spoken,; was a girl big on her ohmmeterwith mut% franknese
who required to be taken down, and he as she Walked by .his side to Church, he
was 'eager, with- the neturat,eagerhess Ota made n� return of cionfidencerahnd Mabel
virtuous mind; to set him/telt about this: remained in eoineete ignorance of the little
necessary work. BO he begaii..lay greeting. passage at ands that he eta' Prodence had
her When they Met in 'the .most chilling hitd together the previous
• way, and. then kept his attention' oh the he made nO mention at allot that emoun.
alert, that he •might be 'ready, when'ever ter in the garden:. •
.the firet.oppertunity .offered, to put her - "'You have :men eo little...of her, yet,"
down as thedesereed. .
. . Kobel saidto him: '4.6 hitt in • sPite. of her
:.•
But the ..hours :passed, • and Mies Hare plainness, I do. -mark think ,you will .
Was 'Inquiet thaathe opportunityfor whitith• lee intime, for I, ein 8gre -theirs 'Meyer.
he watched warelow to ooMe.' She sat at You have no ictea how observant she is! I
I the dtioner table, and in the.dre,wieg room; . am afraid t� tell mamma, feel aninot, bure
the most'. unobtrusive • Of •. women, hardly if she would like. ; but she is ..such a
'epealtipg unletts she was addressed, and raimict.that she soteetimea makesme die
• theakieg them only in the.most mode:Away: of laughing,--Ite is pity she Is not prat: -
She Was )right and alerb,•,but her alertness tier, is it not 7., I think sometime:I that i1.
showed itself in aets, not words, she was she were :nice lookitia she might he. very
quick to_perform little /Set/aloes; to'bring.a :effective. You consider her quite phati, I
footstool to his mother's feet,•to place his' supPose 1" mad Mabel, looking 09 ingaie
• father' t netvepaper beside 'him', to piety .ingly to Keith's face, and perhaps not -long,
Brabel'e moompaniinente when :she tang, ing very ardentlyh
. toear. her suggestion
'and set in' order•thethioge Mabel left &Wry:. ' ' , . •
but all this Was 'dons in the quietest way, . But -Keith heeitated . 11*
and abroinpanied.for the most partamly by •44 Oh; well, don't know, : 1 thought her
• little .- deprecating, inquiring; geatetul, or plehritt first," hid Babd. . "Ant she has grit
'kindly tmile, that it wmild 'have beenorext: 'good points, you'khOw.":. •
to impossible for anyone to tele offenee at. ." Sbeloas .good eyes,"-, said -Mabel daba.
•.• "Shia:Memo to get on very,well with them
.certainly," Keith thought to hirneelf,:
eti be very amiable 'and •vrelf-nieaniog.'
whet tr at Mabel la a girt who telbs
-the h--e.e." • ' • - • •
.Biit, limn Mabel e50entlally-wee..a7 ;girt
who told the truth, and so Keith Witepee-
plexe& .. • • • • :.
• •• • •
.Litte in the 'evening he 'ciamesuddenly on
Mies Hart standing alone .Out of doors by "Yon don't Mesh hi a coquettish way?'
stheeleindvearatnodhaihod
, .loodok.infogr 4
atethe etard. That asked Mabel severely. , "11 you think them
mtio not roman„ you are: wrong Altogether.. _Oh no," and
tie, andameer amo stsr.gasing himself; in 'oho /Shook 'her, head with decision; "the itt.
facit,ler-Moupation-appeared-'-to-him-ea: no..coquette.Aahealdesamk.oeme.abOutanen.
.queer o the that he peeped et. herinquir. a bit" ' ' • •
and Hallo . bid bong Out to".
"-Has she, told You en?" naked Keith
ingly When he 'dame upou her in the dark,
stare, : • • • . "But I should know it even without her
"'les, a- course,„' she has,"' said Mabel:
smoke tacsigar, and was not thinking of the
exclaimed the text moment. - • " saying at tanything. She is always laughing
hem, She dem hot ' .eare inthe liatet
64 Why -at say, aren't you cold here:2" .he
"'Cold mn
thirrevreet•ratit27--she-aske&- shoat --getting - married. Perhepe. to' be
.dows • • . • •
ei train •ffirtre,"; added. _Mies 'Verner refleotiVel3's
"kat May. be partly ,because . sho. does. not
thitik she is likely to have any invere,"
She looked at him and laughed.
been fainting indoors with youroloeed 012.-
4. replied bluntly. •. , . • Hari 'daring the Morning of this day, btit'
Keith did not Italie any talk' with Men
" yeti have lOoked'Iike it then',"
"Von are baying. AM at hazard:. You 'eatherlette in the afternoon, as he happened
don' t knot? how I have totalled," the rating at one timato be creasing the hall,ke heard
.lady rejoined. • , a sounded tit:ging coining Iota the draetieg.
"Why should 1 not henee ../43,01,/ thing-. room, and, putting hirthead imutimielY in'at
And then 'She laughed,: agaitt; Very, -softly the half.opendoor, he perceived Isrtldentle'e
thaye hot eyek rt, Imo asked. • '
Mid with. e peculiar. tone-, audited/a ha other small figure' seated on the nnisio•steol. On
whir:14,h° debated': with himeelffer two or
reeponse. . three moments, and at the end of that time
She was 'rather a emelt woman, with a entered, aud hateeed till the ming ociaded. •
firm rounded figure, note-elyph.like; .but He had cOnie in, as ,he thought, in the
pietty iu Sta Way,tand.4the,-drefased well. most noiseless Way, but yet the yOunglady.'
Sue had been standing in the ahadowhau by the tithe the pi/donne:nee elided, Beereed
first spoke to her, bat the oeme out a to be quite coilsoioue of hie weenie:), for,
titan or two beyond the verandah after his Without *plane her head,'ithe said,as she
limit question, and, an the. .night was not e etruok the final altiord-e- . • •
dark one, he othld See sonneching of her . That is Bendel. But.' don't sing well.
Lace their. . : • - • You might not to listen to Me."
:Ile waitedfor a few rapine:1th atm she . Thenyou ethuld not 'Mug in a room
had laughed, looking At her as he waited With the done open," he' eePlied.' •
with some &Wigton, and then- •• • ' • "64 lett • the door °pail in order to item
"T doit't see the fun," he abruptly said., .people away," the dal&
"Very likely not," ehe ansivered: " Well, you see " he answered, "it has
not expect that you • had. tho opposite ffeet.". And then, as be
" Welk upon. my Word I" said.Keith. moved a little nearer to her, he laughed',
Perhaps as Prudence Hart had ohogeh to and added, "Whit& perhaps dote not sur.
say, Keith:Verner was noneeited, but there Pelee you very Mitch."
Were enough` good gtielitige in bite, in get° • But it he had had any hope that this;
Of his eaniett, to make him likeable. Heretort would embarrasti her, loe was disap-
WM tall and welblookihgt he *seta general pointed. • Sbe merely looked ete him for a
kindly and spleasant. It was, to tell the Inobtent,WIth, •apparently, an entire Want
truth, something rather new. to him ta.find of comprehension In her eyes, and, then,
himself 800bbod, and ahtiVe all it wad new vouchsafing no reply, rose up and began to
to find hinielt thithbed by a girl whose nett* survey her hands. *
mal edited(' towarriliba aught, as ho conflict,. "1 'shall rioter play well, I °an% you
ered; to be one of deference, and reaped. gee," she said "They are too straill." •
Ho loohod oil her for a ailment, and then ,..1‘ They, aro • very smelt, certainly," he
he made up his mind that the- thing. niutit And then lie :looked at, there
be put a stop to. 'She Mt/30°k her Pima, , WO. "Very small, and -very pretty."
He was a gentletnen OS he With &Ma- "They are like, my mother's," she sad
dantly aware, and She was -nob quite a pensively. ' ' •
lady ; he Must therefore give a letmen to " Have you got a mother ?" he aliked.
her.
She shook her head and sighed.
So he ' id. the better part of tiointite "Oh, tio; 1 was unhappy enough to ION
page, and then, having taken 'that tithe to her long ago," she rephed. "She died
arra/Whin Weide, he clattered lumen of a when 1 was quite a ohlla. And I have lost
grave one, AS lie flattered • hitheelf, a rather my father MO. 1 am both fatherless and
dignified specoh. motherless."
" I don't know froth' what yeti draw your "Oh, clear," excileirned Keith syMpathet.
&inclusions,. Miss Hart," he paid, "but, ically. , ,
seeing that you have Only been aecitialiited He aid really for the Moineht,feel florry tny feeliLge,
'Twee herewhere (Mr brothers went off to the
wars;
We blessed them and bade them adieu;
And we weleumed them here, Meath a banner of
stars,
When the terrible conflict was through;
And here where the bare-footed boys are at play
The war trumpets+tbundered of yore;
And here CaL110 the coffins in ghabtly arrey,
Of the dear soldier dead to our door. - •
'TWA hear the yohng bride, in her beauty and
bloom, •
To her cheek felt the,parting kiss prest;
And here beat With rapture the heart of the
groom, • - •
As he crowed her form on his breast.
And here in his squalor the mendicant crept,
To shelter himself ;rent th e mast,
In the merciless midnight, and dreamed as he
slept
Of the happier days sI the past.
• And here came the messageonore fleet than the
dove, .
. O'er the wandering; wavering wire,
That filled Us with grief, or thrilled us with love,
' As we I eacefully sat round the ere.
Ah 1 the old statton-house it will soon tumPle
down;
• Its timbers are crumbling away,
But Mt record is writ on the heart of the town, *
And its glory abidetb for aye. • .
.7 N. ,21tatthene8 in Toledo .731ode.
• °nip Going to the Gate.
• Like a bell of eioneoni rinsing, • .
Clear and childish, shrill and sweet,
• Floating to the porch's shadow,
With the fainter fall of feet,
Conses the answer softly backward, '
Bidding tender watcher wait,
While the baby -queen outruns her,
"Only going to the gate."
Through themoonlight, warm and scented,
Love to beauty breathes a sigh,
• Always to depart reluctant, - •
Loath to speak the words good -by ;
Thenthe.eame low echo anewers,
Waiting love of older date,'• '
And the maiden whispers eoftly,
"Only going to the gate." .' •
• Ob, these gates along our pathway,
What they oar outside and
What to vague outlook beyond them,
• Over Waves we have not been. -
Bow they stand before, behind us!
-Tolbgates some, with price to pe,Y;
• Spring -gates some, that shut forever;
Oloud-gates some, thatmelt away. '
Bowe pass them goitig upward .
On our journey one by one,
• To the distant shining wicket
Where each traveller goes alone-
• Where the friends who journey with us
Strangely falter, atop and wait ;
• Father, motherfchild-ordove ;
"Only going to thegate."
The Poor Old Tramp.
The poor old tramp,
Re paddles in the damp,. •
• The frost and the. wiriter's snow, •
-
age a harmless etd.o13ap,
-But he isn't worth a rap,
FOr he hasn't gathe nerve, you know.
. • •
•
. In the parka he'll camp,
• This p••+or old tramp,
Hugging his rags and his woe.
Wny is this thus- •
With the poor (Moues ?
• Why, he hasn't got the nerve, you know. • .
The dregs of the kegs,
• And the rust ho bege, •
Can t mate life /Maven below,
•Now if he-cofildbox,• •
Or operate in stoeks--
• But he ain t got the 1212,11,13, you know.
• The poor old tramp •.
•
WMridlike to be a searep,
-Anil rob both high end low
• But he haen't got the wit, ,
• And helaasn't got the grit,
And he hasn't goethe nerve, you know:
• thinkelte'd be a scamp,•
This poor old tramp, . •
I•f he only had a thdv? ; •
But he hasn't got the wit,•
Aud.ktalittenligoishegrit,
And he hasn't got the nerve you know.
• • .
. When out goes the lamp, ,
Of tbe used -tip tramp, • •
And down he drop s below, • • , •
The verdict comes .
From chums, in the slums, -
" Why. he hadn't got the nerve, You know.'?•.
' --Tams
• Is Is Worth White? • • •
• le it worth while to jest's a brother, '
• 4 Bearing hie load on the+rough road of life?
Is it worth while that we Jeer at each other,
In blackness of art'tht-geW,Lr-ttbekn1bo
God pity us all in our pitiful plight. •
Gcid pains all as we jostle' eakh other ; • *
000 pardon us all for the triumph we feel
When'a fellow goal{ down 'neath his load on the
• heather, ?-• •• . '
Pierced to the heart; words ava. keener than
• steal, . • •
And mightier far'for woe than for weal.
m• we it not well in 'this brie/ life Journey,
m over the isthmuth-down intci the tide,
• 11%. I give him a fish inetett i of a serpent,
•' ire folding the hands to be and abide
u'orever and 570 10 dust at his side?
+olt at the roses saluting each other;
Look stale herds all in peace on the •plaine ;
Man, and man only; makes war on his brother,
And langhs in his heart at hieneriltnd pain,
13hamod by the beasts that go demi on• the.
plain 1
it worth while that we battle to humblit.
Some poor follow doWir in the dust? •
ied pity us all! This° too soon will tumble.
All of us together, like leavee itin•gtist,
Aumbled, Indeed, down into tins duet.
Little Feet.
• •
• tvo little feet so smell .that both may nestle
In one caressing h ttsd, • •
wo tender feet upon the untriedbOrder
of lifee mysterious Mud.' ,
•
Dim_pledmaieletiodpinieas peach tem •blos-
•
00013
•
•
In Apridp fragrant days;
How nan they wait amth
ong e bilerytp, glee,
Edging the woriderough ways?
These white 'rose feet along the doubtful future
Admit bear ts woolen's load;
las slacto wsrnan has the heaviest btirdett,.
" And -walks the hardest road. • .
ve for a while will make the path 'before
theta
11 dainty, smooth end:her-.
111 oull away the bramble, lotting 0017
The rases blessont there ; • • .
• nut v?.hen the ivatebtul atothoes eyes are
shrouded
Away from •tbe sight of Men, •
And these doer feet areleftWithOut her guiding,
Who shall direct them then ? .
Will they go stumbileg blindly leto darknom •
Of sorrow's tearful shades, .
Or find thouplandelopee of peace, and beatity1
Whose sublight never fades ? ,
. Bete shall it hit with her, the tender stranger.
Fair face and -gentle -eyed,• '44
Before whose tinet&ined..feet the World's tude
• highway
• •aretehes so :Mange and wide?
.10 mo,Y read Gm /abate ? or our darling,
hie dfinga sweet,
at He 'who feeds the ortehg raveue
4de baby's feet, .
write thenit
' ladieff •
te. Secretary, Mrs:
-dour" ote.rin tm41
the moiety re.
Polk/Wing ibo
• "Yee, and she • knows it,", exert/lined
•Keith, with enough fervog,„„Inmakeeltel-
open her own fine orbs.
b4 What makes yOu • think 'that ?"• she
14'ather-quickly. • •• •
Ohe I meant nothing. I thought she
played them off a little -that is all," he
for her. It Was 80 Clear that she needed
.eomebody to look aftee her, he thought.
She had folded her hands and was Mend.
lug gazing thoughtfully on the ground.
.They were both ilent for a few moments,
during which he ocoupted bin:emit in regard-
• ing her, • aud then, 'beginning -to find the
ailence a little Awkward- a
" W011,1 hope you will be comfortable
here," he said, abruptly and goed.neturedly
"It won't be nay mother's fault, 1 think, if
you don't soon feel at hong."
"Oh, no, I don't think it will t I believe
that thoroughly," she replie.d, with earnest.
• nese. "ring family have been very kind
to me, Mr. Keith. Your mother, and your
father, and Mabel have all been kipdnese
itself. Even •your brother Godfrey was
good enough to. talk to for atquarter of
an hoar last night quite. affably.'
Poor Keith's blood mounted to hie face,
If the soft little Poore had slapped his
theek he could hardly have felt more hot,
"Now—I Bay 1" he broke out, Stammer
bog, 64 uponmy word that's too hall! land
so you mean to say that. Tam the. onlyanie
-that / treat, you differently from all the
mat?" • .
"Ob, noa-I aro saying nothing about you
at all," she -replied, lifting up her eyes
euddenly with a smile in them that teemed
to bilges cold asa steel blade, ."That
would be a pieoe of presumption,lafter your
rebuke last night, that I should be sorry. to
be guityof." .
"Mies Hart,.yoti are an awfullyse-Treatitio,
woman!" he exclaimed. "How is one ever
to know how to Italie you? To say shah a
thiug as, that to•a fellewis enough to knock
him down," .
There .ie not 'the least fear of your
being knocked: down," she, replied, with a
little -sudden, soorsibil tough. 4' Solite
people's. words, I dare say, might have an
effect of OM kind upon • you, but not
mine."
But all at once, em she made this answer,
she smiled, and the mile had a curious,
-unexpeoted-sweetnee0 in it that, struck the
young.mareWith surprise. For a Moment,
the face that he had been calling plain
looked, to hie .eyee, almost beautiful. And
then, before he had More than half reaov.
ered from this Arta' change in her, there
came o 'second, whioh completed hie 'Milne-
ment. •
"Von Mein to look upon hie se at very
designing peison.,!". she said abruptly, with
her -eyes full of 'their new•expression, fixed
MO hid hale, "mid ifisteadefteat•I QM only
a tonely girl, who has been. left 50 herself, a
great deal, and who has no. home extiapt
what your „peoplitzive me, and no friend
except--! And then the stopped; and
the psalm and the unfinished eentenee were
very eloquent. But before he could'reply
she had euddeoly_rmeecf-bVilm,.and-slipa.
pea thleftigh-the krone& window, mid was
Mat to vievr.-72-- 7••'' . •, • •
'After this Keith Spent_a.quiet • evening.
The girls went to church again; but hit did.'
not go any mor to 'church. They.did not,
however, lack an attendant ' on their way
back, for GodfreY„when the seivice was over,
•appearectat the 'thureh doer, and esthrted.
them: home. • "1 thought you ,were going
over to Mr. Mershalre, Godfrey?' Meld
said. to- hinc•-when he inet them, but the:
Yciung Manonly laughed, and answered that
he had erhauged hie mind. :..and then he
set himeeff at Prudemie's side, and . talked
tet her,.. and Mabel took herwalk hang,
listening, and, perharip; in some surprise.' .
• The next inorning, as the' two Young men
went back to..town, Godfrey said abruptly
to his Brother, witha laugh-
." Well, 1 auk thy . mother, hoe oanght a
.Tartar. Of Atl the .1g/compromising flirts
I Mier came, iterose,lhaye never known one
to beat that girl!". •• . ' • • . ,. •
•' "Oh -whet -you .think that :too,' de
you l't said Keith. .44 Why? hen •the beth
talkirig,to you ; ' • • . • • "
" -to 'lie! I should just -think'
she had," answered, Godfrey. ., • .
"But I don't know: When. you were
'together," said •." I never,
• saw "you withlier.". ., • •, -;"
" Wbat 'dots that prove ? I never saw
you with her.".retorted, Godfrey. 7 .
And; theta:Keith, knovibig that ;tildouht-
edly; ae.fter an he wae•. ocineeined, that -fent.
preyed amtniog, held hie peinaa . • .
"1• thinl . certainlyshe hi a flirt," he
• !greed; 's,fier dew:moments' eilenceVeatid-
it is a pity, for the ..others.. don't seem t�
.
have a notion OM" ; : • ' • •
• ". Well, dothem no .harmnot ta.
know: . Oen-I:you say anything to thew,"
•oxotaitioece Godfrey, for she ie "splendid
• fon.. • What a pretty little. Minx ehe is, thol
I thought Withyou at first that the was
plain, but, by Jove, the knows howto make
'the Most of herse1fZ2 '
it very odd girl," said Keith
gravely. • "1 em dreier she is net a very
good conipatlion for , .
"6 Oh, Mabel:, egth takecare of 'herself,"
answered the youmter brother ettieleesly.
Itemdee, she wants ehakieg up,. and Miss
Hartle just the sort Of personto in
her a.
fillip... There be no . reel hunt :: n her -at
least, I don't think there is. • She la a; then
ough• paced. flirt, that's
-" Well, but that, '50. bad eriough,•-1 sup.
.
pose,". said Keith.. • ,•
Keith wee a little Unealiy as he went to
Work that • day. He had a strong sus -
(non that he oughtto give his mother
some Writ of.the specie:I proolivities that'he
and Godfrey had diem/vet/ea In Miss Hera
and yet he oduld niot beat to hurt thie,girt
by dole 0it • Mks. ::Verner .woulll. have her .
out of *the house at thee if she knew', he.
thblIght. ' And then he renienabered• how
Prudence had, said to, him that .she bee no
other home ihitn „this one, and how she had
mad that the Wee tomb:And friendless,Und.
he felt that he could not do 11.
So he, made utthis mind that he, Would
:nay notitta71,7itiod thattill the end Of the
week, at iipy rote, he would put the matter
outeot his' thought/3; and eitoordiugly, -to
the beat of htepower, he did this; but yet
before the *eek ended he found himeelf
be:Mooing • very =rennet° learn hotv the'
would conduct herself to him when he saw
her next. •• '
With is oertain Undeniable ihterest he
-Waited for Saturday to come, and- to tell
the truth, *Wait arrived, and 'when, -as he
entered in at tee gate Of his fathers, reel.
-deneerhe aecognieed at some. fiftytpacee
Awn him .aemail grey figure flitting
'amongst the Ewe, the firsiimpplee unques-
tionably was to bend lite •steps in ite
dem, for the Ritual grey figure was Mise
Prudenee Herb taking solitary exec:Asa in
She sunny afteruoim. But, after a little
patted, heeMitinued his MI:eight walk to the
house. Godfrey, in hie plane, Would liette
done differently; bat Keith . had seruplee
thate-Vere ignored -by -his -younger -brother.
• (To be continual)
EASILY Prietrax.-,IE is easily proventhat
ev;tis, constipation, torpidity ef the
liver and kitlueye, genaral debility, nervousness,
,and neuralgia ailmentsily. yield readto .thie
great diseate conqueror, Hop Bitter!. It repairs
the ravageb. of disease, by oonverting the food
into rich blood and it gives new life and vigor
tO • e aged andinflri21 alwarl
Mies: Hannah Lewis, i'resident of the
Land League in Anglesbdrough,, died
recently,
Tho your* man who was kicked Out by -
bis sweetheatee father Move " I had no
Obletitiou to the Old woname0 ehoe beteg
thtown aftet us when the Wedding wi 0
over, but totielog the old inanal beot hetet°
the eveet i otlite another affair, and it butt
•
.4.
Er01:1:71 WE474:70::::14141741:0
ineeeriapt setneject et mreat
. Every Reader.
• The day for pretendere has palmed
are judged by 'what they eau do,
what they gay they on,ta do: Tba.
publio of to -day le too diecritoinati
long deceived by the epurious. If a
have merit if will become popular;
nuworthy it wilt sink iisto Mallet
Yeare the people of Eogletet and
. have put tolhe fieverest teats a co
-regarding which most 'ambitio
have been made. Under Mich or
hag been subjeoted to,- nearly ever
, preparation, would have failed, but:
did not. In. Et/gland and the
Statee to.daLit is the moot widel
and popular of all public preparitt
verification of which hotethe folio
• IP September last, one or the
foreetem. of Ioako xotorood: to
Eng., utterly broken down. and d
from furtherservice byreason Of w
examining physioianopronouneed in
kidney di:Jordon/ and dropsy. Hew
paratively a young man, and felt de
over the eituation. .Inoidentally I
however, of :the power of Warne
Cure, which has atteaoted BO' 221110
tion of late, he began ito use. WIth
onitoInntohiea the was thoroughly ;rest
health, passed medical exempt/Ai
sound Man and Os to -day dieoharg
dutiee as well as ever in the. trying
•
• a', D. Henry, En:, anear neighbo
late Thomas Clarlyie. Chelsearata:W
don; Eng., became very much em
from long contiau•ed kidney and li
:orders, the treatraent he had sough
.the vast medical autheirities worki
temporary' results. He then began
of Warner's Safe _Ohre, and in M
lest declared "I am now feeling ph
a new Meature. A friend of Mine to
aeopairiencled the •Safe Cure for
liver and various diseame, also:epee
hi the highest tenni)."
-*R. O. Sowerby, Helensburg, N.B
Jabliged to relinquish his.profeseional
became of a severe kidney and liver
plaint. After using a dozen.bottles of
Jeer's Safe (lure be says: 6' rean to
better than..I have been far twenty.
and I cheerfully recommend the Safe
to all who are suffering from thee
-epee." •
• Mr. William Jones, 16 Wellington e
Oamborne, Eng., gays that heaves' thoro
ly treated .in St. Bextholonnw's hotp
London, Eng., 4for urinary disorders.
weakness. He . used Warner's Safe 0
and he seal: "1 am like a new Man.",
„oared him of indigestion, troubles of
elowelareteeeateer7urillation-and nor
prostration., He adds ;I was ta
vartoue medicines forover two yearetfr
the beet deetore„and all in vain,- but -
taking Warner's Safe- Pure for °MY
weeks, I Was brought freimaleatti to life.
:Mre:E. Gang, 126Broad street, Lond
•W. Eng., "suffered .foe years Ir
'female weakness, skin 'eruptions and, i
.ptirelloeci, but, after using, Warner's Be
Cure, she says.: "My health is better no
than it has been.lor years" •
• H. .F.• West, Esq.,. 16 Burton Creseen
W. C., Loodonfrom his. own Meperien
" stronglY' moommends Warner's •• Safe
Cure to ollpigethe • suffering. from kidney
,and liver. priMplaints„. as. the beat remedy
known." . • • . • • • . • . • •
Mr, Henry Molded, 1'Pennsbury.Privati3
Road, Wadi/Worth Rbad, London; Eng., was
.eured by Warner's Safn.Cure of,' eniarged
liver which produeed 'numbness: i9, his
left leg, with dead heeivy feeling and
dizziness the right side,.of his head.' :61 I
have • recoinmehded • it," he *nye "to
• several of •thy frietide; most Of- Where have'
derived Meat benefit freno it." • • •
W. glarkson, Haitington
Setae Chesterfield, Eng., Used Warner'
Sap Cure:for liver compliant, dytgoepsia,
flatulence, • vaulting of • bile and mental •
depression: a-anti:try:16th; 1883; he writes
66 After using the eighth bottle I feel better .•
than foe many years: It.,ie an: invaluable
et-itiohMister, •T'aff Val
Railway; Navigation station, • waseoneed- Of:
.abseese of the kidney, laalealite or stone-, dise-: --
oharge.of pus, ete, by thirteen bottleof
' :'Worner's Safe Ohre. 66 I 'had long and
faithfully tried'eotne of 'the ithleet medicia ••
ineri ih.South Wales in Vain, . the' of • theriiL
• remarking that mediae! Mem- hew failed
'to find.' a :retried's.. for confirmed -kidney' -7 '
disease. : The' Safe • Cute allsielved and '
brooght•away about two ounge of stone. •
I oanaeverpraise the Safe third toe highly."
*Mr. Hobert Patten, New Delaval; gng.,
• Was muchoverbeine by,severelpflammation
led the bladder: I had tit 'ultimo about
every five or ten minutes with great pain,
and fingering. My Water wee:full of matter .
and blood. Bothltdneyl and:liver, were ,
affected', and:in. iiddition 1 had a bad Cough
end. heart trouble (all preeumehly the sm. •
.onditry • effiaots of . the kidney -Mid bleddet.
disorder). 150 toys that after miring his
bladder, kidney. and liver trouble by ,
-Warnere Safe Cure, his 6' dough and.palpi. .
Etta/ware quite gone," , • • •
• Williard Simpson, 'Esq„ Daughty Mill;
Kirkcaldy, t.B., etifferedtfor years from
Bright's disease tlie kidneys and.conse. •
gaunt: dropsy, Hie body Was dreadfully.
swollen: ! His -appetite was &title,: he *aft • ,
luit of rheumatic pains,lis urine burned in
passing and was full of mucous and brick .
thin iSeditUent 'hie pulse was weak, hie
heart was irregular in its action, hie breath.
eing, was. Very much impaired, in abort h,
hid till the painful syMptorne Of
dreadful disorder. He spent 17 v.vneks.in t
Royal Infirmary, of gainburgh, luider-the
skill of the best physicians who, having'
exhausted all agenoiee at their amintnandi
disohaeged hit"as incurable." • Re says :•
"1 passed Water every hour; day and .
night, having great pain. while doing gee
It yas nearly white as milk, with. albu.
men, and when , It • stood for an hour, -
the deposit was a quarter of an. .
inch thiok in. the bottom of the vessel.
W.lien in this desperate donditionle began
50 Warner'e Safe Cure -the only I
known speoific fOr Bright's ,disease Of the • .
Itidn.eyik,-A,Lhave,usecttweive-bottlesp420;-....-,vH
says, and his health le se Metered that lie • '
adds: ." I bless the .day when I read. that
Bright's • disease was curable .for so little .
Wet." . • • •
•
The toilet/44 persons Of quality in Lon.
don and other parte:tit England erehtleyt_...,„_.,...„„,
of the thou:MO Who' lime heed Onetime
ooinniended Warner's Safe Cure, the great
speoiflo for kidney, ,liver, ‘urititry, female-
aud.Bright'a diseame:
Hon. FreeMan 154 ItZoree 8 Park
eagavpitlihthAl •
• ncil Norton, di
eanttgalli.V1119,,
Lee Bose!, 13Iathheath, Kent.
Bon. S. B. Pitokaed, 14 Alexandra Drive,:
LiEn.
veokP'61..DtfihoW. IT
., tilted StateeCoileul.. -
MaTTetiegtVer$C.. SqUittel, Stretton.un
lte,dor.
Fosse, Itugby.
• St1012 teAtithonfitfit frent suchanqUestion.
able scnirees prove the *Mu° of this remedy,
Which is sold in every drug store, beyond
the shadow of a doubt. They prove that
15 18 the greatest of all Modern medielites
for these terrible kidney atid liver diseasee.
What it has done for one it will tinqueo.
tionably do for others, and as Shah it oono.
mends itself Moat warmly to pubho ceng,
deuce,
. ASV.