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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1800.
* The nonto of Inv Childhood.
B n: run atoOM
Dear borne of my childhood, years
since 1 loft you.
Tour ehimney is mouldered and sunk in
the clay,
The nature, the beatify of childhood has:
left you, ot,
Awl time tong lute given. you walls to
amity.
Tb.ough rude were your walls, from the
green forest hewn,
Tour roof was of hark, with moss cover.
ed o'er,
In spring time what garlands around
you were strewn,
Dear home ot ray cnildhood, I'll view
You no More. J.
Once brothers and sisters aia round your
hearth gather,
And jesting and laughter did in you re
sound,
'W hen taught by fond parents to love one
another,
• Could aught but awfait joy in yottr con-
• duce abound?
Tice Xaitland, brightviver, swift past you
was gliding,
When the sun was descending, flashed
back the bright ray,
The song gay birds ou the strong tempest
. riding,
And the whip -poor -will welled tin the
coming of day.
To the hill's towering Gamma, when fancy
did cheer me,
I wandered to gaze on the scenes far
below,
Hew gladly I sought you, e'er faulty bereft
me, 0 -
Though the bright ;seeming star iu the
welkin did show,
Dear home of my child; 'tis years since I
left you,
Ciald the fond hope of manhood past
s thepiese: drunkard liits child -
rate The, eirounesteentlaa ere different.
hut are the Meal But 1 Wive lashed
iy deatination.
You alueil not go in 1 her Mort
cried, and taking the jug from her
hand, he strode into the not al crime
AO demanded a jugful of whiskey.
A. had night this. stranger. 00 the
har-tencler. Rave something • hot 1
eh
No—gruilly, and taking the jug he
threw the money to the man and
hastened to where he bad left Eugenia.
.0, Mr. Lawrence 1 she exelaimed,
how can't ever thank you foe this.
I have done nothing worthy of
thanks, he replied ; inde d I would
have been a brute if 1 had done other-
wise so please take my arm and let
ine tell you something. I have loved
you since a long time, Eugenia ; the
first sight of eou roused a tender feel-
ing in my heart ; every time I have
met you since, that feeling has grown
stronger and more deeply rooted.,
We ere not accidentally thrown to,
gether to -night; fate has overruled the
matter ; 1 know it ; to -night you will
seal that fate. I love you with ttll
my heart. Engenitte-my darling ! tell
me, shall our lives be one
It was a strangeIy.eircumstaneed
wooing ; the damp drapery of the
clouds above thAn, the fitful glare of
the lightning across their pathway ;
the solemn thunder marking time to
their footstep, the wild winds bearing
the words of love away in anger, and
the distant sobbing of the ocean (like
the pathetic undertone which pervades
love.)
The thunder a the heavens rolling
above our heads mocks your questiuu,
replied Eugenia after a pause. You,
the only son of `Jolouel Lawrence,
mart, a drunk:era's daughter I shot!
Yotir sureaundinge cannot affect my Almost flying, they reached the
drunkard's home. Wile can deserihe
it.
I am willing te anything that will ness. For a Moment, the ellence bora
o d
f e eel ned aria t
then wane one said, One year a
4,43 1 dear
gam your love and trust, geld Provo t° ° ft'W * g *
ieonce had a mother The remaindethat terrilllel "T°011:11re
you the depth andeeinaerity
Mr. Lwrence, I of mine. eoleennlyt She is dead!
good and beautiful as yours, elle night passed like a dream to Eugenie 'hope to heat ti
was; she left me no iortune, but the He heart seemed turned to ice. Sind **Never ir bid
memory of her pure and gentle life. heard the coroner's verdict and be that oaa wit, 1 ,
1 have a quaint
ring that once belonged to her ; for, old.fashioaed ,pearl ,1 many voiles around hr; the etew thel in the back yar
1away—but everything fell t iiii =mile; teed I've
, • "—Yonkers
iatiad t lien
years I have kept it concealed—other- Imeaningless upon her salutes, tier , the cunt' Mgt
A iS% it would have been sold ot yen . •0 been a dark
I tied it on a ribbon and wear it
neck it has soiaetimes
ohn,
,,pet out
beaten
wara. dewu
Gazecte:'
one ; the dead slater lied been thene OBon DITEDETTE m
was a phi op r,
enice many . •
ray of light, for Fannie's had been a Christian and afriend of the down
ositloos' trodden Oen he mid•—"Uol wasted
arouud rn
seemed to be a taliantan to me ; when 1 one of those rare, geitte
I look at it, my mother's memory • that always carry sunshine with them - ;mud when lie trade a man se mean as
arisee before me, and my stormy Now, that light bad gone out in dark., I to tell the poetwilder to reenru his
promise me o you want to see hi
nature is releueed, I will give this ness.
Eugeula ? two or three years subeeription,"
1paper marked 'Refused' when he owed
ring to you, and you will lem,
on it 'lvet to doge aught again that asked a friend who had stayed all
can intoxicate; whenever your eyes rest night and helped to prepare the dead lord Salisbury has intimated his
upon it, you will remember your pro. for burial: he's all laid out now.!acceptance of the U. li.. Senate's
i
wise, If your love grows cold, or Eugenia, followed her
mechallicanYlutlillugn"astliinintgilieloEtvIstIt'auraidltsl°iIn) ttlriTwtYtily, SOtle
you violate your pleclefe, you will to the room where lay her father.
return me the ring. If, at the eon'. His face was no longer repleive• the its ratilioation, it will be of benetie te•
ation of two years yon still remain besotted expression which had 00 1all concerned and will tend to the re•
true, them—her voice sank to a t ized it seemed to have • nression of embezzlement eepeciallx,
whisper—then you may repeat to me
what you have, said to.night ; until
then you must not seek me. Eugenia
took the ribbon from her neck, and
unfastening thl ring, placed it in his
hands.
I solemnly promise all that you
have asked of me ; the years will be
long ones, my dear Eugenie, hut I
will live them to your entire satisfae,
tion. See ! the storm is over ;
through the riven clouds the stars
Shine forth. 'May the storm.cluuds of
your life all clear away, my dear one.
We are almost home, and I must
say good -nye ; a thousands thanks for
your timely protection : try to forget
the bitter things I have said and—oh,
it is Fanay's voice! hasten, oh, hasten!
he may kill her! 0 Heaven, a pistol
frozen out in the chill atmosphere of
long G
death. A sob struggled to free
self from the girl's heart.
He looked so like the kind father
who had once loved her tenderly that
the fat -intent of her heart wee melted
and, with tears, and simid
le, ile slung
herself beside the cold ela,y, sobbitig
coo vulsi v ely.
How everything that could conduce
to her comfort wile done and how
every arrangement relative to the
funeral was unitle,, Eugenia seemly
knew, The day dragged wearily
away, and night attain cama The
poor girl was persuaded to • retire
early, and, overpowered by mental
fatigue, she soon fell ,asleep.
pleasures restore,
Unsullied btime in memory I laail you., .
fe-eliugs towards you ; I love you
Eugenia I. the scene that met their eyes ! Fannie
Though home of my chilhood, I'll view y
• You no more, MY surrounding would affect others. it Rirl of fourteen years was lying
seuselks on the floor; Willie was try•
ing to raise, her while the drunkard
himself was lying prostrate on the
ocher side of the room, his face blanch.
6d and distorted; a Stream of blood
oozed from bis side; and his hand
(which had fallen lifeless) still grasped.
tha pistol. Over the whole scene,°, tal-
low candle cast a •sickly, flickering
light. For a mnment Eugenia and
Mr, Lawreneta- seemed chained with
horror. .
sh
• Oh, oh, Genie 1 is e dead? Is,
Fannie dead? sobbed Willie.
.1 .4o note believe, she is dead,
Eugenie., Ventured Mi. Lavirence•
TEE PEARL PLEDGE.
Through a lone street a young girl
hurried with a firm step. Her' care.
worn features were colorless as
Marble ; upon her head rested,
sbabby black hat, and her slender 1 erotic father.
form was enteloped in a faded . 1 am independent of them all. My
beautiful sainted mother left me her
private fortune. She too cs down
from Heaven to night, through the
tempest she nes her wayward boy
of the storm. Nearer and nearer ap- and. approves his choice; she can read
preachea the contending forces of I your uure and noble heart.
nettire. For 14 moment the opposing i You are mistaken ; my heart: is not
armies paused. to reconnoitre, then the pore—it is filled ,with wicked, bitter
1
signal flahh leaped from the 'darkness ; tbouglits. • I speak bitterly, even ao
the answering report shook s the , you, and you are so kied, and the
ground,ronsing the slumbering echoes, {clear, firm voice faltered. No, no !
and—the artillery of heaven deseend-lshe cried, your path in life is upward,
d upon the earth. .mune downward. When our journey
The girl, Bugenia Bolton, quicken- is finished. we will enter the same gate
,ed her PaCe, drawing the int shawl
snore closely around her.
She had fallen into a gloomy
treverie, but was ronsed by a pleasant
voice behind her.
Eugenia ! Miss Bolton! Can
this be yon—out alone ilt such a
night as this? Accept the shelter of
eny umbrella, and permit me to carry
your burdeu.
No, thauk you, Mr 1.awrenne—
drawing away—l—the remainder of
the sentence was dr •wnea by a crash
•pf thunder. '
What a storm it is I exclaimed Mr
Lawrence. Do, Mess Bolton, permit
we to escort you home.
No, I thank yon; I leave you here,
Mr Lawrence good evening, and she
abruptly turned a eorner.
I cannot permit you to wander
Woite to night, Eugenia. 1 have
something to say, to you, too,—
though under different circumstances
I would not force my company upon
you.
O'Toole's runt hole is my destipti;
tioil, slid a whiskeyleg is what you
tented my burden.1,, Wilt Mr Maus.
field Lawrence go m company with
the drunkard's daughter to purchase
the nectar of devilsshe asked bitter -
Yon, Dagonia, you go alliong those
.drunken fools!
yes, T, Willie ,was away, my
lather Wanted More tilitskei arta or.
tiered iny sister Fannie to go; she
/Jared not refuee; t t,Id her to hide
nd 1 would get it; it is better than
to have her come,
O Eugenia, that yrini, so beautiful,
,so high.mintled, so noble, should have
patch a father
look at home, sir 1 she exclaimed
vehemently. Compare your father
'Atli mine. yourft i$ rich—A0 was
ninft once; .he is pone now. 'Yours
tronises Timothy lllakthi large es.
blishment .— mine Pat O'Toole's
i bib shanty. Colonel Lay...roue
What do I care for others
would dare to say anything to my
wife.
The World, the society in which you
move, your proud step -mother. and
1 s ornful daughters; your, aristo-
elmwl. •
It was twilight, but its grey shades
were, deepened by dark cloud**. and
its sacred hush violated by the yoke
and unless we both change, it will not
be the gate of Heaven. What concord ;there must be, I suppose, au Inquest.
has light with darkness, what unity I Row did it happn, Willie /
wealth and poverty1 1 Father saw Fannie, and said awful
It is useless to reason thus,Bugenia.1 things to her becalm she hadn't gone
Does not your heart tell you so,1 to O'Toole's for him. She was nwful
dearest 1 I cannot endure it longer :seered and said that Genie'd gone and
cannot you loYe and trust nee? he stamped his foot and swore at her
Do you think that, even though 1 and said that he hadn't told Genie to
did love I could trust my life to go, he'd told iter; then he hit lipr and
she fell and knocked. her head against
the stove. I thought be was going to
kill her and 1 ran and tried to seep
him. I pushed him away and that
made•him madder; end he caught the
pistol frotn the shelf, until guess he
meant to shoot me, but he tripped up
against a chair and the pistol went
*off and shot him: He didn't say a
The saloon i an evil which can be.
abolished, and thus the vies whieli tt
nourishes can largely be cleereesed
at once, and be utterly exterminated
'eventually. 1 t i not a valid argue
went to a‘ky, beanse some men are
vicious.; and persist ilt vies spite
of law, that it is 080 era to. enact laws
that are aimed at vice, Such logic •
would wipe out till laws to prohibit ,
theft, to prohibit murder, to prohibit
ouuuterfeiting, to prohibit the vele
evil. These can, all, he reduced to a
minimum by proper legistation; and
the unnumbered evils', that flow from.
intemperance eau be diminished and
be eventually wiped out by prohibitory
laws aimed to destroy the saloon. —
Toledo (Ohio) Blade,
it was the day of the funeral. A
crowd was assembled at the house.
The minister read, prayed, and ad k year of the Canada Methodist Churoi4
shows the amounts oontributed by the
dressed those before him ; thou the
coffins were carried away and several congregations a that denome
„e43 laid side by sIde. Eogenis ination in this county f.n* inisitiortary
and purposes to be as follows: Goderich,
beard the clads rattle upon them,
iNorth street, $389; Goderiott, Victoria
then turned homeward to take up the
street,$78. 0 inton, liatterbury street,
$451 ; Clinton, Ontario street, $230 ;
Seaford', $282 ; llohnesville Circuit,
$205 ; Bayfield Circuit, $79 ; Varna
Circuit, $100 ; Hensall Circuit, $77 ;
Hensell North Circuit, $141 ; Dun-
gannon, $225 ; Nile, $11.7 ; Benmiller, 4
$182 ; Wingham, $144 ; Wruxeter
Circuit, $120 ; Brussels, $92 ; Wal-
ton Cirenit, $131 ; Londesboro Cir-
cuit, $168 ; lite th Circuit, $149 ;
Auburn Circuits $19a ; Belgrave Cir-
cuit $72 • Bluevale, $76; Exeter,
The missionary report for the past
-4t
0
as
he lifted the slight form to the old
lounge. ,
Let us lift Aim, ton, said Eugenia
in a hollow whisper as she pointed to
the ghastly form, . •
No, we had better not attempt to
Do 1.ot touch auythiug about hint;
burden of life egam.
Slip was a ni.ueic teacher ; she had
very few pupils, and the pittance she
earned had been barely sufficient to
keep the family in the plainest kind
of food and clothes. The piano had
been sold two years before. One of
her former pupils was a step -sister of
Mansfield Lawrence, and it was ia
this way that she had iirst met Mr.
Lawrence, But when the unisic
teacher's clothes had begun to look
dismissed her under the pretenee that Ja13043, street, $868 ; Elieterf Main
shabby and old. Mrs, Lawrence had
you ? My father was once as hopeful,
young and handsome as you are; he
was a loving husbaud and a kind
father ; he was only a moderate drink-
er, taking histsocial glass tike a gentle-
man, but gradually, his love of strong
drink increased ; he passed all the
stages from moderate drinker to con-
firmed drunkard, and he will fill a
..
drunkard's grave eventually. lie has word, but just fell over
cursed sand ruined himself, slowly but While Willie was giving this ex -
surely, killed tuy pour mother, and. planation, Eugenia was bathine her
expoeed his children to the contempt sister's face and head. But Fannie
of society, whose burning scorn brands showed no•signs of life. •
1
them a drunkard's children! 13y what 1 will go and send 'a •doctor, said
am I to judge that you will not do Lawrence; and you, Willie had
likewise? And heeides, I will never better run for one of the neighbors.
forsake the children and my poor Are yon certain that be is dead1
father while they need my care. asked Eugenia.
I am willing to wait for years, Yes, the ball undoubtedly entered
Eugeilia, if it banucessary., and pledge his heat, killing him instantly. I
you rely word of honor never to be- will wait until Willie returns.
,.corne a drunkard. I never drink more No, no. Go right away,
than one glass at a time and . some. I cannot leave you *done; some
times do not drink at all' for several one will be here in a moment.
days. Can you not place confidence Please go. instantly I Don't delay
in me ? a moment,
Not until you pledge yotir word He obeyed silently, wondering at
never to taste another drop. her calmness. Neighbors Boon arrived
My dear Eugenia, the customs of and tried to assist 4agettitt, in rester.
society require that 1. should softie- ing, her sister to imeniesioustaess.
times take a glass of wine; bat 1 have The news of the tragedywepread fast
more strength of mind than to allow in the village, Scene bad 'heard the
• myself to become intexieated. pistol allot, and in a short tithe (pito
Then, for the sake of society, you
Adorn the crust I might have plaeed
ia rel.
Not so, Eugenia ; I will mite yeti lit
your word ; 1 will defy the enstoms of
society for your sake. $;.nee you
StSemirs* it, t will promise nova to
vilmtt he suppOses to be pure wine WW1 another drop.
lirst.alass whiskey ; my father to you mean what you sey I can
I
did the wines, The ri,e4 Oolonel yeti /*mime it solemnlyI
It PYPSWAS )4! MS111 WO 4egra. 1 wilt ta10181 Will if /OD deairre it,
her deughter's progress was not satis-
factory.
}Ter step -sou had expressed his in-
dignation strongly and plainly, but she
had only replied complacently that she
world not have people see so .shabbily
dressed a person coming twice a week
to her house.
(cONcLuDED NEXT wEEE.)
street, $211.
THE Monetary Timet, one (4 the
leading mercantile journal in Canaille ..
joins in the general chorus dissatisfau-
tion with the high tariff, as follows:,
—The Canadian farmers ought' not to.
be called upon, in their present condi-
tion, to bear unueceesary burdens for .
the Ilenent of any class. Their profits
aro down to the minimum, below those
of many other industries' The pro-
tected interests are enable to get addi-
eional duties put on for the asking; no
independent enquiry is made, no evi-
dence. from the other side is soughte
aod legislation proceed e on one sided,
statements made by peopki who ars
personally interested. Nothing couldt
be moreunreasonableor unsatisfactory.
The increased revenue arising, from
augmented duties is welcome to the,
Governnent, which is enabled to raise.
an enormous revenue. that could not
be gat in any other 'way without
grumbling. Some clay the cord will.
be drawn too tight, and the farmer.
will revolt against et practice of which:
he is made the chief victim.
That Canadines, have no grievance,
twainst the mother ceuntry, that their'
Ho Bad a Littlelsin.
1 Used to make baloon assentions
in commotion with Warner's circus,
said an old and retired acrobat tlie
other day, and one day I went up
from Pekin, Ill The baloon was new
light,
and and I got a much longer
ride than I eepected.I finally descend-
ed in a farmhouse yard about ten
miles away, my anchor having caught
in a chin ry tree. . The farmer was an
old fellow, abont sixty years of age,
and he sat reading on his doorstep as
I came down He removed his glasses,
but them in their case, put the case
in his pocket and then mune forward
ancreerelessly observed :
That a baloon? .
Yes. Help me pull it down.
Are you a hatooner 1
Yes, Pull hard. prevailing sentimept is one of respect
We got the air ship down, and II
for the Queen's neon and, prerogative,
wanted hint to take me to town in his
of admiration for the ranch that isgrand
wagon. He had noue, and I had kir.
and noble in Britian, history, institu-
ed a rig of a neighbor and was abont
tions and tradition,s, atel of desire to,
to depart, when the old fellow stepped
remain in some Way aseociatect with.
forward with : and sharesin the teethes of Britannia,'s
I have a little bill here, sir.
future as a ell ae, of her pese,few will,
Bill? What for 1 we believe, be plena to. gainsay or
Damage to cherry tree, 2s • skeet..
But the Canadian people as a
ing my poultry, 50 dents ; cheering avittblet,and especiellythat large and in -
my old woman the same ; services of
creasing population. of
myself, $1. Total, $2.25, which is oatiadiandronal, Iwhoooit hmittivoel
been born on
mighty cheap, considerin'• the tittles.
oomplaeency upon. their present sub-
Oh,But I won't pay it, 1 protested.
ordinate position as oolonists, and are.
you won't 1 Well, I'm a justice
content to regard it as pertnamintneill
of the peace and I'll issue a warrant,
vse ventuee to say, be affirmed by few
My naybnr is a constable, and he kiri
cool and competent observers. It.
serve it. The old woman is out of
is in not the native of things, certain.
her fit by thia time, and 811E111 At ly tot the Anelo.Saxott nature, that it,
witnees and 1 sort o' reckon I'll
shotild be so. It wouta not, be to tine
credit of the Oamidian character if no
higher national aspirations were eller-
netted. The people of Great Britaio
themselves would think the les rather
than the Morita est if,with tilt our im-
mense reser008 'and opportunities, we
the you about $25 for disturbine the peace
a crowd WAS assembled aroun tile
two inanimate forms. At lehgth
aucl contempt of this coert,
doctor arrived, And 1 was made to realize that the
Is it possible for her to recover?
best way ont of it was to Cottle down
Haedlhe replied. Le all
nUgeitia asked, prohs, with the amount of his hill, and luck-
y,
mu Seel ily I had. it, with a quarter to lipare.
he.
bility swill haver trea t ag
she moves no -
.A. change passed over the sweet
We face; the slender form Mitred
slightlh and tilen eettled intti iigid
Thti &at impulse of a 00Y with a Wtitti tovemain tn POI'Mttial
new woad' isle asellre himself , state of coloo„N
pone at ta pttrti oya tuittlut Cult° 1Voit4
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interest
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