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my Davy-lamp, tied him hand-and-foot ; | ** Now, Nelly? Wecan neyer marry,

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SUMMERSIDE, «... POE. ISLAND.
October 12, 1865.

PUOSTRY.

thought I might as Weil be in my grave as |
continue to live there, Besides [should be
always meeting: Nelly, perhaps lurking
about her mothe cottage, and making
her as miserable as my Why should
not Igo away, to Yorkshire, or Derby- |
shire, ov to the diggings in Australia, for}
that matter? Phe notion, if it was good
for nothing more, gave me a little spirit.
it turned my thoughts, and I stepped out
brisker, going straight home—l hadi’t
much to settle there, only to bid good-bye |
to the folks 1 lived with, pack my pack,
and begin my tramp.
ihe oLee cad aa splitn T stopped at the moor and looked back,
hh ke ce remembering | might never see the place
The violets and the lily-cups, again, and, dismal as I now thought it

Those flowers made of light! with its gaping walls and shaken roots
The lilucs where the robin built, encumbering the blackened ground, T had |

And where my brother set; neon ADDY there. Not one of those tun-
The laburnum on his birth day, d Be CO ye ene vty ae nue Ni

ise OC TRIVIG Gari oor to me} not one where L wouldn't

Eyet nee a friend,—And there I had been
an : porn; it was the only spot on earth that,
I ReSIas T remember, j {even in that hour of AiienGee Tloved best,

Where I was used to swing. (pad Tdidu’t turn away without dashing my
And thought the air must rush as fresh | hand over my eyes.

‘Lo swallows on the wing; Twas walking on, when suddenly the
My spirit flew in feathers then, air rang witha crash thatshook the ground,

KEM Ho MoH bow —L knew what it: si ified; such sounds

y , denote but one result in the black country
And summer pools would hardly cool and, throwing down my pack I darted olf

‘Lhe fever on my brow! to the pil, with the feeling that animate
every miner on such oceasions,

It didn’t seem a minute before Leayie to
the dust-heaps round the pits inouth, but
some were there befory me, and the off
men tnd the wemen were rushing up
trom the village ina strum. ‘The smell
{ivom the pit almost stifled me as TL came
up, and I had to web my breath a little
Wheu three or four ol us crept on to the
mouth and looked down, he explosion

—Loon. had destroyed the cage, not leay nga

Ce aT inna | stick a it, but it hadiwt injured the s
\ ws a rope; hence a meuns of communication

es) | IV iy { a jl { ty at u Wy ‘ | remained for any one immediately below,
BueGunu sae | As soon as we sitw this J

I REMEMBER.

IT remember, I remember,
‘The house where 1 was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon,
Nor brought too long a day,
But now I ofien wish the night
ad borne my breathaway !

IT remember, I remember,

I remember, I remember,
The fir trees dark and high,
T used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky;
Tt was a childish ignorance,
But now ‘tis little joy,
To know I’m further off from Heayen
‘Lhan when l was a boy.

I set to work to

ure i ee rig a cross-bar, and presently had it ready,
A Minex S Love Story, Just lower me gently,” 1 said to the
we banksmen, ‘I may pick up one or two,

Neniy Grove Was the prettiest lass in | if there’s any near.”
the pit villuge.  Iler eyes were of the} ‘You can’t go down yet,” said the
ea pus i he shoes Were like roses : | ve aay many are there in the pit?”
ta You tight have thought her brown! ‘*tlalf an hour ago there were filty,”
gut 2 i= OWL I . 3 ere were lity,
havi Wits the finest silk, ‘hen she had a | teplicd the time keeper; but Lam thankiul
ae yey au a ‘ Ayia so trim; and with | to sity Aue aul eel up but ten.”
a waist you could almost span. L loved! And they ave all lost,” said the viewer,
Nelly, but as tor that, all the young chaps | ‘fer there will be another explosion di-
of the village were ot the sanie mind, and | rectly.” *
she might haye had her pick of us; the, ‘1H go down anyhow,” I
yore ul ae Ae treaied us ali alise, ty 3 aud it uobudy will lower
and wouldn't look to one more than! down,”
another, She had a smile for everybody, | A good many were on the heaps now—
and Was always good-tempered, bul there men and women some of the women ery.
it ender and, suinchow, neue of us could jing, nd some prying; but when T spoke
serew up courage to try her further, 1) out that way, there was a dead silence —
don't know how vlten 1 thought it over. | Phen two or thre allow out * Gooil-bye,
eR, head the first taing in the | Charley. God bless you, brave kul.” ‘Phe
morning, and there it remained the list bauksmen lowered me down, and I sank
nae wt night, wee It cither kept eae aie mouth, A Davy lamp
awake or haunted my dreams, At last it! Was Ged vound my waist, and 1 held a
quite took possession of me, No matter | Pope in my band, se that T might signal
W here tan, digging, or blasting, or tun- to be hoisted up, il the air beeaine too
uelling; above ground, or down in pit; | loul. But lL had no intention of going
iy thoughts turned on Nelly, and trom | back ULL had searched the pit, and seen
bene the Hp tREASLON in the village, | oie Were nny + One thing, T didu't
just came to be the dullest, One morning | care about ny lile, another, L would haye
there was no work in the pit for my gang been ashamed to ace the folks above
because the viewer wanted that part ofuie | Without doing something, so L felt’ impa-
seam shored up, and it struck me, all at! tient that they lowered me at such a sniall
ol i ae I et have it out with Nelly, | pac ie ei looking up and down to
soli e myself smart, and set off, walk- | ieasure the distance yet to be traversed,
ing is brisk as a it Was lorawager. You |'‘Phe shalt had never seemed so deep to me
pty le it fondle tn me, but t can say: Hele Gal ! ae my we in the dark-
that twas then as clever a chap to look | mess below, ind DP saw no bottom: Ll elane-
ik as i an olten see—and | knew itt ted et pee ou a light grew siiailer
For all that, LT began to walk a little slow {aud fainter! I scanned tae walls of the
when [caught sight of Mrs. Glover's cot-! shalt, aud marked ouly their black bound,
tage, and Lielt adread at my heart. But! But my progress was notilied by the in-

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suid, dogged.
2 Vil jump

li
jabove, and nothing around buta waste, 1]

then pulled the signal rope
people above hauled the tackle, and lifted
the straddle from the ground, L hung on} Nelly falling away, but Z remembered
by my arms; thus we began to mount the | Jack's counsel and held her by the waist,
shalt, : “There's your promise to your mother
it wasn’t till we had got twenty feet up} and Jack.” 7 continued; how are we to
that I felt the strain ef standing on nothing, | get over that?”
but, from that moment, it became just * J forgot that,” faltered Nelly, her face
terrible. My hands seemed ready to snap;

as white as a sheet. :
the ache in my arms spread throagh every! And what do you say to it, mother?
muscle; my head spun round; and my

T cried to the old lady. ee
feet kicked about in agony watched] Mrs, Glover got up, and took Nelly’s
the mouth of the pit till my eyes swam,

hand and put it in mine,
and as I reekoned the space between, “Thats what J say to it,” she said
while my strength waned, aad my misery

nnd as the} you know.”
The litte fingers unlocked, and J felt

heartily, “and Z know Jack isof the samo

deepened, LE thought | must drop before 1} mind,”
whed the top. Then they began to * And this is what Z say to it,” J cried,
hoist taster. I mustered all my strength, | givin y it kiss,
I tightened my grip of the straddle, though] ** You wou't be surprised to hear that
my tingers were growing numb; Esteadied| We were miurried the next we And
( elf tof now Z am viewer of the collicry, and as

my fect and hardly trusted my
Teould the walls of the shatt;
[ could feel the pure air; 1 heard voices;
and presently the tackle swung ; strong
arms caught me around the waist. wad I
was landed on the bank.

They had Jacl Glover off the straddle
before yon could look round, and he was
carried away, While they ralsed my head,
and poured a little Iyandy in my mouth,
Leoallod out for the viewer,

What is it, Charley Batson? he asked,
bending oyer me.

Everybody away from the pit, sir,”
said.

* You are right,” he answered; it will
come in av minute or tivo,

They got me to the top of the bank,

for Nelly, she will tell: you that, though
she has married a pitman and has her
roughs aud smooths, like other women,
sien is uo happier woman in tho hing-
dot,

breathe,

THE WISEST CHOICE.

A Philanthropist of liberal means ones
bethought bimselt of the good he might
accomplish by gratitously presenting «
portion of his wealth to some worthy man
Whose poverty would make the gilt ac-
ceptable and desirable. Ja cherishing
these generous thoughts he recollected
that there were three worthy and homeless
men ia his employ, either of whom would

when I hearda seream, and there was! po a worthy subject to receive his gift.
Nelly, trying to throw herself on her} put whieh ot the three was the mest

brother ¢

k, but kept back by the other
womenfolk. She never ghinced around
atime! T wished then that L had stopped
in the pit, or let myself drop from the bar
usJ came up. and so es ing her
again, But Tmadeup my mind that Thad
looked on her forthe last time, 1 told my
helpers that IT ecould walk now, and when
they let go my arms, T turned towards the
moor, intending to pick up my pack, aud
drag on at least to the next village.

But LTcould no more walk five miles
than IT could fly. When T eame to the
pack T sank down by it, and felt that 1
must give up, Twas so beat, that thoagh
there was now another explosion at the
pit,as Thad expected, and though it shook
the cround under me, T didn’t littiny head.
All I thought of was stretching out my

worthy he was unable to determine, as
each possessed bis peculiar virtues and his
peculiar futs; and as his means would
not alow of his presenting each with a
gilt, which he intended should be a home,
Without doing injustice to himself, le con-
cluded, in order that he might learn which
Was the most worthy to receive the fiyor
of his liberality, to make known unto them
the subject of his intentions, with the as-
surance that the one who should make the
best selection of a home, both for his own
good aud for the good of others, he would
present that one with the home selected.
Accordingly he acquainted them with
his intentions and quatilied ofer, allowing
them ample tine wherein to select such
au homeas they might choose. Alter the

expiration of the time which he had allow-

wins and legs, and lying quiet, Mow) od for them to scleet the site of their pro-
long T day there T never knew. But, by spective home, he inquired of each where

deyroes, [recov a liad rength. and
wallhde

my thoughts tookiore’Mape, when 1 de-

cided to return to my old lodging, and

lave a day’s rest before I set out on my

wanderi

he had determined his home should) be,
providing his selection should be cousider-
ed the best

Soe iit
for the site of
own native Vv

e,” answered the first, ‘selected
the home of my choice my
lu, fur the reasons that £
shall be the and most contented
there among (he scenes of my youth, and
that others shall naturally partake of my
happiness aud imbibe of my contentment,
which will, besides improving my own,
ford ne an opportunity of ameliorating
the social condition of others by increasing:
their happiness and ia enhancing their
contentment; and in seeking to provide
for the welfare of others, aud to guard
them against the commitnent of sin, we
should first strive to make them happy
and contented. ‘Those are the paramount
nurdians of all good morals; fer when a
manis lappy and contented there is no
danger of bis being euticed by the allure-
tents of sin to depart from the doing of
good,

** Your selection,” said the philanthro-
y good, and deserves our ad-
» for the love whieh you
elaln for your native vale, as it is natural
for man to love the hone of his birth;

mht, and the
stiliin bed, the good
folks tended me like a child, My limbs,
which had been racked with pain, now
felt. easy, and I was ready tor a. start
agnin, But [ thought there would be op-
position; sol got up very quict, and was
putting on my things when the room-door
opened and, to my wonder, in came Jack
Glover.

‘Iillea, Charley, here we are!” he
evied, seizing my hand, and giving ita
hearty squeeze, ‘Who would have
thought of us two being alive to-day 2”

“Well, Jack,” Lanswered, ** am elad
for you, but [ shonldu’t have eared ior my-
sell.”

“How's that?” he asked,

“Boenuse The mething on my mind,
You!” he said, langt givi
mo a little push, * Here, down and
have a pipe, and it will all go oi like
smoke.”

**Tdon't eave if I never smoke a pipe

{ went on, and [just got up to the cottage, (creasing density of the air which began
when who should come out but Nelly here [to alect my breathing; and as LE went on, |
self, She never looked: prettier thi at; 1 had to shift my fice trom side to side to
that minute; but, appearing so suddenly, |make va little current, At last my teet
she dashed ny spirit, and L hadn't a word | touched ground,
to say to her, T looked round, as T jumped #9 the
FEW IY, Charley, what is the matter?” straddle, and saw the firnace Was out
she cried, ina frightened sort of aw way. I which put a stop to the veutilation of the
“Well, it is just this,” I said. And there; mine, as iar as. it depended on the |
I stopped. : tices, and no air entered but by the ;
‘els anything wrong with Jack?” she} Phe stench was overpowering, and, from
cried GIN N }Uhis and the silence, L guessed the worst.
» Jacky ne ; ts phuin that the explosion had killed
*Yes, he is down in the pit, and they | the horses; for nota sound came from the
8 foul, Which makes mother and me stables, which were Glose to the shai:
You hayent heard anything 2? | and what open could there be tor hunian
And she looked in my eyes as il she would | beings in a distant partotthe pit? You
search me through. finay be sure L didu't id to make these
No, nol” I answered, steadying, now | reilections; they Hoated across ne, and |
that I thought I could comlort. ‘ile is! was working lorward before they got
all right. 4 ou musu’t mnind what the old through my mind. 1 knew the old™ mine
women of the village say, or you'll bu | blindfolded, but what with the foal smell,
looking out fora blowing-up every dayin | and what with the gloom and my short
the year, when there is nothing more than | nessot breath, | was some minutes seramb-
common, Thaven’t come to you about) ling to the top of the inclines Keeping my
Jack, Nelly; it is ibout nyse’, arms stretched out, us 1 went along, to
She gave ine another look how; then) feel for anything in the way.—And it was
her cheeks flushed up like w flume, and}lucky Lid, or £ should haye dashed my
her eyes turned away head against some empty tea tnd, ia
“Do you know what I want to say Nel-| the state | wasin, that would have finished
” Twent on: IT wish you did, for I}me, ‘Thus [ reached the first riullery
ttell it; it’s more than LT have got} whieh you could only enter stooping. “I
words for, How I love you, how you are pushed open the trap, and went on a tow
always before me, how Lam ¢ 4, and | steps, though my D. lamp was what
mad about you! But though T can’t s yall | pitmen call alire,’—the flaine being all
Twan't to, here T stand, and LT wouldi't}blue—and LE knew that the athiospheve
change with a king, if you'll take me as TE} was somuch gunpowder, Bat Lstunbled
wun!” along, as, it d wasn'tto save any oue, it
* Ah, Charley, you don’t know how you | didu’t matter what became of myselt. and |
pain me!” she answered, I pleased myselé with the thought that
** Don't say that, Nelly. Tdoubted about | Netly would Hear Thad died in the attemps,
speaking to you, but now that Lhavedone} Aud then, all at ones, it came into my
it, now that Tean’t go on deeciving my-| head what she had said about her brother
self, if you have any pity in your heart} Jack being in the pit. This gave my heart
show it to me, and Twill chetish you to} such aturn that [ quite staggered, and the
the day of my death.” | per piration poured from my forehead like
felt isno use,” she replied, “T ean never | wate LT rushed forward as if Twas mad;
marry apitman. I gave the promise to}my foot struck something; 1 bent down
mother and Jack when he walked up to |oyer what seemed a corpse, and the gleam
the funeral of my poor father and brothers, | of the lamp fell on ils face, Tt was Jack
all three killed in the mine—our great|}Glover, LT dida't know whether he was
sorrow which I can never think of without| alive or dead, but I cnught him in my
ng.” anins, and with the strength of a giant,
And the tears, it is true, were running |and the speed of a deer—hardly conscious,
down her cheeks, though, for the minute, | hardly breathing—L made a dash for the
she seemed to me to be harder than stone. | shatt, S
And I seemed turned to stone myself, 1} It was easier work going back, when
had no recollection, no feeling, no sense, | you were once in the main or hors road ;
and T couldn't have moved a step to save |for now the shaft was before you, instead
my lites Phen it all flashed upon me Jike}of behind; and though you would’t think
lightning. [took a last look at Nelly, lit, this made a wonderful difference in the
dropped iny head upon my breast, and) light. Dark as piteh as it still was, though
without a word more, walked out through | not a pitman’s eyes, and I found out that
the gate, ack breathed when I reached the shatt.
Our village seldom looked bright, no! 'The discovery nerved me airesh, and kept
matter how the sun shone, and now LF felt | all my senses at work, without seeming to
as it the sun would nevor shine again for) know it. I only felt that there would be
mne ; so, as my eyes fell on the line of cot-| another explosion. So I placed Jack on

mnt

ly. sew oo | Se¢ondly, for the generous regard which
ue what aris sald you cherish for the social advancement of
oe til with | others, whieh is worthy of our emulation.”

“7,” veplied the second, ** have selected
my home in aw quiet town where 7 can ob-
tain the means of giving my children a
thorough education, which Z consider will
be the best forimy own and fer the good
of others; livstas fo man ean doa better
deed than to educate his children ; seeond-
ly beeatse no man ean leave a better

win,” [said savag
Now, Fl tell
Jack; ‘you have been havi
our Nelly.”

“T haven't,” I answered, my cheek
burning

“Well, you know best about that,”
continued Jack ; “Wut it's what I guess,
beenuse you were seen tulking with her
dideshe bad a erying fit directly
And when she heard trom me that

tery
alter,
Wiis

you brought me up from the pit, she fell) legacy to the world than a well educated
on my neck and fainted.” family.”

** Your selection,” said the philanthrop-
ist, ‘isa wise and good one; and was
chosen with a laudable object.”

“Fhayve not selected my home yet,” re-
turned the third, ‘but ean tell: you where
Z should select it, were J to do so, £

“Didn't she know it before?” Lasked,
relenting,

No,”

“Then TH just tell you about her and
me,” [ said.

I was along time telling it, but Jack
set up as if he was listening toa’ play, or] should solect itin the most corrupt, de-
asermonatchapel. Lgave him adeserip-| praved and immoral community extant.

rst, for the good which ZJ should receive
trom secing the evils and sius of other,
which would, Z trust lead me to strive
more earnestly to lead a less sinful life,
seeing the tolly and the wickedness of the
more sintul actions of others; secondly,
for the good ofothers, which good J should
seek to accomplish by combating the pre-
valent evil, and by striving to win its por-
petrators to embrace a purer Way ot lile
by emulating my example, which Zshould
earnestly endeavor to make an exampis
worthy their emulation,”

Your would be selection is by far the
best,’ suid the philanthropist, not somuch
for the good which you hope to derive
trom it, but for the good which you seeks
to confer upon others by waking such an
eccentric yet good selection, Therelore,
7 wil y dochwe that you are jistly én.
titled to reecive my intended: pitt, under
the qlulifications with which it is and was
aited, as those qualifications
1 strictly adhered to you in miuk-
ing your selection, and by ime declaring
you to be the seecessful aspirant for the
gilt; for, while your colleagues seck to
aggrandize the good of others by increns-
ing their happiness and contentment, und
by setting the good example betore them
of educating the children, you seck to
accomplish un object which contains and
surpasses those worthy designs, as you
strive to combat evil and to reform the
evil doer, Jn order to do this you must
cherish the good as well as discard the
evil. Jn doing this, you will provide for
the happiness of others, for that is a good,
and wil strive to dispel their discontent+
ment, for thatis an evil; and will look
well to the education of your family, for
that is one of the fairest features of moral
good, while beyond this, yon will be per-
forming the best, the noblest action in the |
power of man to execute, eign ‘ con»

tion of Nelly that would have done for the
Tueand Cry: went into all the feelings
she had raised in my breast, told him how
Phiad watehed tor her, thought of her, and
dreamt of her, and finally recounted our
last colloquy. Jack never moyed ains-
ele, and not til T stopped for breath did
he pnt in av word

“Don't you think you've been a little
fast, Charley ?” he then said, dubiously.
amenn ?”? Tanswered,
giving upso. Suppose when
he couldn't have you, you had
rmaround her waist, and said

put
she must?

This view had never struck me, and
rather took ine aback,

“But there was her promise to you and
her mother never to marry a pitnan,” 1
urged,

*Sothere was. But did you never hear
that promises were made to be broke?”

“Teant say but I haye,” I muttered,
clapping on my hat. ;

“Where are you going?” said

“You wait here a minute,” Ereplied.

With that 1 took two strides down the
stairs into the road, and hurried off to Mrs,
Glover's cottage. [stood ontside a minute
when T opened the door, and the first thing
T saw was Nelly, sitting by her mother
und looking like a ghost--only ghosts
never look pretty. She gave me one look,
then started up and sprang into my arms.
My heart was so full that [ couldn't speak
at first, but [thought I must do something,
so L slipped my arm round her waist, as
Jack recommended, Now T felt sure of
her, and of all the happiness the world
could give, and, as iy breast swelled
proudly, I began to bear a little malice,

‘*Ah, Nelly | if you had only loved me !”
Tsaid. Nelly tightened her arms rouad
my neck,

“How happy we might have been!” I 9
continued. as * ee evil,’ which, A bbe! lo, evil
“Thon we can’ be, Charley,” she mur-| would soon be vanquished an truth
mured, ‘ id good become triumphant.”

tages, with the clouds hanging down from) tho straddle, and, taking the cord from