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LINES

Written on the death of the late Exizanetu
Crate, of Middleton.

Weeks and months have flown away,
And days gone fleeting by, i
Since a fair one left her earthly home,

For a happy one on high.

Her mother cherished fondest hopes,
Upon her circle fair;

Had she not trusted in her God,
Who does the way prepare.

To relieve the sorrow stricken heart,
Bereft of dearest ties,

She would have fell beneath the load,
Of mortal agonies.

Aa Heaven is higher than the earth,
And fir beyond our gaze,

Tn illimitable unknown space ;
dis ways are not our ways.

Ile knows His own, He them does call,
(No earthly hand can stay,)

‘Their earthly pilgrimage is done,
They quit this mertal clay.

Her mother to her bedside came,
To hear those accents true,

“T now must leave my earthly home,
I cannot stay with you.”

**My Master's call I must obey,
He dwells in heaven aboye,

O dearest mother, I cannot stay,
I feel His dying loye!”

She called the circle to her side,
The family compact true,

She gave them kind endearing words,
To earth then bade adieu.

Bofore she closed her eyes in death,
They rested on one near,

That look,so meaning in itself,
Called forth a silent tear,

“This world is full of vanity, it
The unstable mind decoys,

I would you all could come with me,
Leave earth’s remorseless joys.

“ Many were the hours of pleasure, we
Did anxiously pursue,

They were hours of happiness,
‘They never pleasure knew .”

“OQ yain and transitory world!
Who can in thee delight?

When thou dost mock the sweetest hope,
The fairest prospects blight.

“ There is a home, a happy home,

tory from to-night, and epee fortune
will favor the most by granting her wish,
or who will come the nearest to having it
fultilled.”

* Oh, that will be eapital! But you must
wish first, Julia, as you proposed the
plan.”

* Very well” said Julia, giving her dark
curls a haughty toss, ‘1
wealth, that I yay liv
ease, attended servants who but wait
ito do my bidding. I shall want my dr:
HRerooms to be a perfect wilder
uty, fitted up in the grandest
e the most famous parties of the season,
to be the queen of fashion, aud to live in
a ceaseless whirl of gaiety and pleasure.
Now, Rose, we will listen to you;” and
the proud beauty leaned languidly back
among the velvet cushions.

Rose was a stately girl, with a high,
intellectual brow, and the fire of ambition
burning deeply in the liquid depths of her
beautiful eyes,

* Tshall not wish for wenlth,” said she,
“for that may take to itself wings and fly

yay. Task for something more sub-
stantial and abiding:
live when I cease tobe. I shall ask for
fume! Yes, [would have the proud god-
dess twine her Jaurelled ehaplet around
my a aa write my name high in her
tempWeThat it may live in the thoughts of
generations to come.”

Alice, the next in turn, was a young
girl perhaps sixteen years of age, Rip-

ina palace at my

vle, to

jpling waves of chesnut-colored hair tell

over a brow as perfect and fair as if chisel-
led from the purest marble. Her deep
hazel eyes, shaded with lashes of brown,
danced with mischief and glee; but the
beautiful carmine of her lips seemed to
lose half their glow in the trifling, heart-
less expression which sometimes lurked
about them,

A fig for wealth or fume
yeme just enough wit
live the life of a gay eoquette, and PI ask
no more. Oh, ‘twill be such fun to see
these haughty ‘lords of ereation’ bow ; to
watch them, pleading, begging at my
feet; and afteral have given them every
reason to belice that [love but thera al B
to see the@ look of surprise and despair
when I coldly dismiss them from my pre-
senee. Oh, yes, the power to trample en
hearts, the fascination to draw around my-
self a circle of devout worshippers, who
will daily bow the suppliant knee, is
enough for me.”

** Tow can you be so eruel and heartless,
Alice?” said Lilly, the younger of the
group. And ¢
wold which ed the snow of her pure
white brow, the limpid tears gathered in
her sunny blue eyes, and the coral lips
trembled with pain.

“ The conquest of one true heart is all
Task, and that T would not win to erush:

‘riod she.
ul gold to

=

trhe, I would spend my days in some little
cottage on the silvery strand of the, sea;

shall wish for

something that will}:

he put back the curls of

but. with it by my side, tender loving abd

the dust of the grave,

“And Alice, gay, thoughtless Alice
realized for a time her fondest wish,
path was strewn with
had wrecked,
that they did not eventually bow to her
fascinating charms, and she gaily laughec
at the scores of hearts she funge away
Bat at last she became entangled in’ the
»she had prepared for another; thei

the noble souls she

st emotions of the heart trifled with
trampled upon and spurned. For the

won her affections that he might boast o
the conquest of the one who had conquere

est and inost passionate love, wearied o
the ai
After that she slowly faded, day by day

his name quivering upon her lips, sho
floated ontinto the darkness upon the col
waters of death.”

stren

death, while the paintal

memory-surges rolled over each heart,

starting anew te tomiain of tears.
“But,” said she at length, «[ must

life, then [ shall be realy to Jisten,

“One yearfrom the night when last we
met, [was rejoicing in the tullillment of
my brightest hopes, for 1 was the bride ot
wealth, but not of love, [married a gay
nnd dis
liant fortine was bequeathed him by his
dying father, A few months [lived in all
the grandeur my faney had painted or
longed for,
vortex of gaicty and fashion, and drank
deep draughts from the cup of pleasure:
yet it did not appease my heart as LE had
anticipated. I seldom. saw my husband,
for his time was mostly spent at the
billiard-table or sipping the
eared little for me, as he had chosen me
only as he would choose a beautiful
statuete, without soul or fecling, to adorn
his beautiful parlor.

mist inevitably end in ruin,
ed far away in the tuture.

But it seem-
I put all

lite when T might,

and erushed out all the light of hope.

dabble
from a wound in hisside. He had become
intoxicated, and provoked a quarrel with
his dranke!
to the heart,

ed how deeply we were favolyed. The
dazzling fortune I wedded was
swallowed up in extravagance and th:

of life burned out, and she sank beneath

Hor

No one were so guarded

earned what itis to have the purest,
beautiful and gifted ftalian wooed and

so many; and when conscious of her deep-
isement, he coldly deserted her,

till at Jast with a sharp ery of pain and

As Julia paused a moment as if to gain
th to proceed with her own history,

hurry through the recital of my own sad

pated young man, whose bril-

[ plunged into the whirling

red wine. Ile

TI knew, L felt, the life we were living

thoughts of it away, and resolved to enjoy

“Bat the blow came at last, suddenly
and swittly as the descent of lightning,

One night, amid the wailing of the blast,
my husband was borne to his luxurious
home, stiff and cold, his garments be-
sdin crimson gore whieh had oozed
compinion, who stabbed him

* After he was laid in the grave I learn-

soon

No. 20.

ST, VALE

INE'S DAY,

,| ‘The following account of the origin and

customs of St. Valentine’s day in the olden
>| time is taken from an old author :—

‘It was the practice in ancient Rome,
during a great part of the month of Feb-
I raary to celebrate the Luperealia, which
-}were feasts in order of Pan and Juna,
>} whence the latter deity was named Frebu-
Mita, Pebraatis, and Februlla, On this oc-
casion, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the
sities of young women were put into a
box, from which they were drawn by the
menas chance directed. The pastors of
'T the early Christian chureh, who by every
1} possible means endeavored to cradicate
the vestiges of pagan superstitions, and
Womely by some commutations of their
forms,-substituted, in the preseat instance,
>| the names of purdicnlar saints instead of
those of the women; and as the festival of
the Luperealia had commenced about the
1} middle of Pebruary, they appear to have

chosen St. Valentine’s day tor celebrating
the new feast, because it occurred nearly
atthe same time. It should em, h

yer, that it was utterly impossible to ex-
tirpate altogether any ceremony to which
the common people had been much aceus-
tomed; a fact which it were easy to prove
in tracing the origin of various other pop-
And accordingly the
e of the ancient ceremonies Wis pre-
served, but moditied by some adaption to
the Christian system. It is reasonable to
suppose that the above practice of choos-
ing mates would gradually become. reci-
procal in the sexes; and that all persons so
chosen would be called Valentines, from
uy on which the ceremony took place.”
sson, a learned traveller, who died in
England about 1721, desevibes the amusing
practices of his time: * On the eve of the
Lith of February, St. Veelentine’s day, the
young fo in England and Scotland, by
ieut custom, celebrate a little
An egaal number of maids and

festival.
bachelors get together; they write their
true or some feigned name upon seperate

billets, which they rollup, and draw by
way of lots, the maids taking the men’s
billet, and the men the maids’; so that
each of the young men lights upon a girl
that he calls his Valentine, and each of the
girls upon a young man which she calls
hers. Ly this means each has two Valen-
tines; but the man sticks faster fo the Val-
tine that has fallen to him, than to the
Valentine to whom he is fallen, Fortune
having thus divided the company into so
many couples, the Valentines give balls
und treats Co their mistresses, wear their
billets several days upon their bosoms and
sleeves, and this little sport often ends in
‘love. This ceremony is practised differ.
ently in different counties, and according
to the freedom and severity of Madam
Valentite. There is another kind of Val-
‘Jentine, whichis the first young man or
woman that chanee throws in your way in
‘| the street, or elsewhere, on that day.?

; A there, where the cooling zephyrs flow up| sparkling wine; and IT saw my beantiful So also in the “Connoisseur” there is
Where reigns enjoyment true;

from the dimpled water, «ud ell the sweet | palace soldat public auction, and found] mention of the same usage preceded by
blossoms to repose in. the mellow light of |inyselfa begg uw. Then I learnedjhow much | certain mysterious ceremonies the night
dying day, with one dear arm to Jean up-| gold will buy, ,for those who had cluster-| before; one of these being almost. certain
on, L would dream the blissful years away, |ed avound me with the warmest expres- ¥, _

ST. JOHN, N. B.

Nov 1, 1865 ore

~ 6, L&. RICHARDS,

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‘That ever graced her friendly home,
Ere she the earth forsook.

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Unseen by mortal eye,
Thy mission is to break the bands
‘That bind sweet frienship’s tie.
Acacr.
Middleton, Feb. 11, 1867.

The Two New Year’s Eves.

‘ BY ETTI K NOWLTON,

Toll—toll—toll! Away up in the steeple,
tipped with gold, floated out on the stilly
midnight air the trembling chimes of the
old chureh-bell, a solemn requiem to the
dying year. ‘The pale moon sailed high

h the a-gemimed blue, and veiled
Im, sweet face behind a cloud of
silvery mist, as the gentle breezes caught
up the mournful echoes and bore them on
their fluttering pinions to the ears of the
fair young group who weré assembled in
a Hahietaeniatied driuving-voom to“ wateh
the old year out and the new year in;”
and. as the sad s saluted the ears a
momenty over their
smiling faces, and silence sealed their lips.

“T wonder where we shall all be ten
years from to-night,” at last whispered a
low, musical voice.

“Tdon't know, Lilly, 'm sure; but 1
wish we could lift the curtain between
now and then lung enough to see,” was
the response,

=“ Well, we know we can't, girls, so ‘tis

useless to wish, But | have a proposition
tomake; that all of this company promise,
if life and health are spared to them, to meet
again in this room ten years from to-night,
All who will agree to this, say I.”

“PT! 1! 1!" chimed in the eager yoices
of all the group,

“Then, asa pledge of our sincerity,
let’s all join hands, and, kneeling around
this centre-table, repeat these words.
Kneeling here in the sight of Heaven, 1
solemnly and sincerely promise, that il
God spares my life and strength, to: mect
my companions in this roum ten years
from to-night.”

Almost involuntarily the white hands
were clasped, the low group reverently
kneeling in the mellow light, and a chorus
of sweet voices went floating up to the
pearly portals in a solemn vow. It wasa
beautilul sight, these graceful forms bend-
ing there that happy New Year's eve, with
the crimson roses of Jlife’s fair morning
blushing through the pearly whiteness of
each beautifully moulded cheek ; and, me-
thinks, as angels gazed and listened, they
sadly turned away with tears of sorrow
stealing down their shining faces, when,
with spiritd®l gaze, they penetrated the
gloomy mist of coming yeurs, and beheld
the sad draggp of life awaiting them,

When they arose, Julia, a darvk-eyed
girl of eighteen suminers, again addressed
the group.

“Now, girls, let’s each wish for the
station in life which we would like to oc-
eupy through the’ intervening time; and
when we meet again let each tell her his-

sa
é

asking nought of the proud world but to
be left alone in my vision of joy.”

“Now, Nellie, you are the last, we will
listen to you;” and the eyes of all the circle
were turned toward a graceful young
form, whose sweet, trusting face shone
with the expression of a calm content, apd
a spiritual light gleamed in her dreamy’
eye

“

The hoon I ask,” she began, ‘is
wholly unlike any of yours, and is told
with few words. It is that L may live for
God and heaven, and a steadfast faith and
patienee which shall enable me to un-
riedly tread life’s thorny way till my
feet are permitted to press the golden
streets above,”

>
Carrer i,

? Poll—toll—toll! fro out of the steeple,
dipped with gold, quivered again, on the

wild winds of midnight, the funeval dirges
of the @eparted year, The golden sturs
and GOs moon hid theiv fees be-
hind a Meavy pall of blac the moaning
breezes Baught up the dying echoes
bore them again into the richly-farnis
drawing-room, Gone—gone—gone! they
seemed to wail, and the griclstricken
hearts of three forms, who sat around the
table with bended hands and tearful eyes,
echoed gone!

Yes, gone, not one year alone, but the
weary. tides of ten had ebbed and flowed
since last they met. And when the last
quiver of the solemn dirge died away, they
rtised their bowed heads, and the sott jets
of lighfhrew their trembling beams over
those tear-stained faees, on which the fad-
ing tints of youth and beauty still lingered
in dying’ sweetness.

Can & be that this» pale, sad woman,
clad in the sable garments of woe, is the
once proud and beautiful Julia? Ah, how
shehaschanged! Her dark hair no longer
falls in shining curls over her fair shoul-
le but even thus carly threaded with
silver, it is* brushed smoothly back from
her whole brow, and confined in a plain
knot behing. ‘The rich carmine has taded
in her lips, and the haughty curves about
them have softened into furrows of care
and sorrow, Close by her side sits Lilly;
she, too, is arrayed in the habiliments of
mourning. ‘The roses in her cheeks ave
of a paler hue, and the sunny blue of her
> shines with a sadder light, But
lie’s. ty the third and last of the
group, has changed but Rttle, save a deep
heetic flush which burns in either cheek,
and her eyes are of a brighter hue,

“Ah!” began Julia, in a yoice tremu-
lous with emotion, ‘1 fear it is a sad
lesson we have all learned in the ten years
which have so swiltly melted away into
the dawn of cternity, Could we have
lifted time’s curtain then, and have beheld

the view. But I must hasten through
with the painful task imposed on me—the
recital of my own history, and our com-
panions, Whosg places in this litle circle
are Vacant to-night.

“ Darling Rose | how we miss her! The
cold snows of winter now wreath their
white mantle over her tomb, She en-
gaged in literary pursuits, and toiled her
life away én search of fame; and its Jau-
reate wreath was indeed woven for her,
but only to be twined around the cold,
dead brow, For just as.she saw it ready

me with sneers of contenipt.
now, ‘The bitter lesson
only await the angel of death to hush the
throbbings of my weary heart.”

As she finished her tale the white he

But ‘tis oye.

tears trickled
fingers,

After a momentar
the silence by say -

“My history, compared with the others,
isa happy one, but [, too, have a tale of
sorrow to tell. The dreams of my beau-
tiful cottage home have been realized;
but just as the sunshine of joy illumined

between her

laid his icy fingers on my beautiful boy,
and they suddenly changed to the pale-
ness of marble; the little dimpled hands
became sti! and cold, and the music
yoice was hushed in dumb forgetlulness.
But it has taken my hopes trom the perish-
ing earth, aud anchored them on high,
where T trust to clasp my cherub boy to
my heart in an eternal embrace. Now,
Nellie, we will listen to you, and our sad
task will be finished,”

‘The same calm sweet voice of ten years
before echoed through the room as she
began,

* The tumultuous strife of years has
rolled lightly over my brow. ‘Though

great storm-clouds of sorrow have sone-
times arisen to shut out the light, yet: by

faith Thaye been enabled to pierce the
gloom, wud see the sun sill shining beyond.
[know that my feet are treading closely
upon the dark river, and [ patiently await
the coming of the eold boatman who shall
bear me safely to the other side, where 1
shall mingle with the white-robed bands
in everlasting bliss.”

Tur Ligue or Narune,—The celebrated
Mir. Hume wrote an essay on the suflicien-
ey of nature; and the no less celebrated
Dr, Robertson, on the necessity of Revela-
tion, and the insuflicieney of the light of
nature, Lume came one evening to visit
Robertson, and the evening was spent on
the subject. The friends. ot

soned with accustomed

power,

clearness

conviction,
gentleman, and, as he rose to depart
bowed politely to those in the room, while

took the light to show him the way—‘*O
sir,” he continued, **L feel the light o
nature always sufficient.” as he bowed on
The street

low rs into the street, Robertsot
ran Miter him with a candle, and, as he
held ie over him, whispered softly an
cunningly—-"* You had better have a little

ing him up he bade him good night, anc
returned to his friends,

The Princes
asked M. Alex.
how com
the Jewe:

$
Dumas: ‘Pray tell im
it the Jewg are so ugly anc

sions of friendship then turned coldly trom

is learnt, and I

ands
went up to her whiter face, and erystal

wave-like

pause Lilly broke

it brightest, its sweetest repose was brok-
en by the entrance of a pale phantom who

both were
present, and it is said that Robertson rea-
ani
Whether Hume was convinced
by his reasoning or not we cannot tell;
but at any rate he did not acknowledge his
Hume was very much of a

as he retired through the door, Robertson | s€

yor Was Open, and presently,

the seenes which lay behind, how w 8 di es the entry, he stumbled
would baye shuddered and shrank from JRY® thing coneealed, and pitched
light trom above, friend Ifume,” and rais-

de Metternich recently

8 are so beRdtiful?” “ Because
j the men crucitied our Lord and the women
to encirglerhor bead, the dlickering lamp | wept for him.”

to insure an indigestion, is therefore likely
om a dream favorable to tho

waking wishes: ist Friday
was Valentine’s day, and, the night
!} before, T got five bay-leaves, aud pinned

four of them to the tour corners uf my pil-
low, and the fitth to the middle; and then,
if f dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty used
to say that we should be married before the
year was out, But to make it more sure
L boiled an egg hard, and took out the
yelk, and filled it With salt; and when I
went to bed, ate it, shell and all, without
speaking or drinking after it. We also
wrote our lover's names upon bits of papar.
and rolled them up in clay, and put them
into water; and the first that rose up was
to be our Valentine, Would you think it,
Mr, Blossom was my man. I lay a-bed
and shat my eyes all the morning, till he
eaine to our house; for [ would not have
seen another man before him for all the
world.”

A singular custom prevailed many years
since in the west of England. “Three
single yoimg men went out together be-
fore daylight on St. Vatentine’s day, with
aclapnet to catch an old owl and two
sparrows in a neighboring barn, It they
were successful, and could bring the birds
to an inn without injury before the females
of the house had risen, they were rewa
ed by the hostess with three pots of purl in
honor of St. Valentine, and enjoyed the
privelege of demanding at any other house
in the neighborhood a similar boon, ‘This
was done, says our correspondent, as an
emblem that the owl being the bird of
wisdom, could influence the feathered race
tg enter the net of love as mates on that
ae whereon both single lads and maidens
A

ould be reminded that happiness could
one be secured by an early union,”

Tranqutrity.—A good man thus spoke:
“The sourees of all pleasure are in’ our
heart; he who seeks them elsewhere out.
rages the Divinity. Truth is my com-
pass, and moderation my helm. The
clouds arise and the clouds deseoud in rain
without causing me any inquietude. When
they coneval the sun from ine by day, I try
to look at the stars by night. + Golden roofs
do not keep out sleeplessness and care;
and were the country shaken by an earth.
quake, how easily Lean gain my humble
door! When itis very hot, [ cool myself
in the shade of a tree; and when it is very
eold, L rm myself by working. Old
uge is coming upon me, but my children

e young, sud willrepay me for what
have done for them, Ifthey always ob-
serve truth and moderation, a hundred
,| years will notcostthem a sigh. Whatever
{| tempests may arise, tranquility is a port
always open to the innocent heart. Hail,
tranquility of the soul!—sweet charm of
lite! Kings would sell their crowns to buy
thee if they knew thy value. Complete
1 | thy benetits—thou hast helped me to live
«| well—help me to die well,”
|

"| Horr and Covursar.—True hope is
1 based on energy of character, A strong
mind always Lopes, and has always cause
to hope, bucause it knows the mutability
of huinan affairs, and how slight a ciream-

stance may change the whole course of
steven Such a spirit, too, rests upon tt

1) self; itis not confined to particular objects;

and if at last all alia be lost, it has
saved itself its own integrity and worth,
Hope awakens courage, while desponden+