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PRA; ee il) Physicia: nt /& Surgeon OvrienrAt the ‘Bay Day © next door to Bank Cony ISUMMERS IDK, ti PoE _Obtober 12 241865, | TON ANDI WW MACDONALD, nportel of “Dry Goods; Hardware, Crockery ware, Groceries, | stoves, Iurniture, &. &e. Stemmers --+.P. HE. Island. "DAY BRERAM, 69 Saddle and Harness Maker, Water Street . . . Summerside. October 12, 18¢5, Dealer in She aN 4 While crossing a bridge with a tipsy friend, PORTRY. JON 3 ARLEYCORN. A sotty sort of a fellow am TI, A trifle fond of a spree; Yet not so bad after all that’s said, For they tell hard tales of me; But people, you know, will have their say; And the world rolls on in the same old way. Little it matters if good or bad, I’ve many a friend, LT know; And never was man or woman yet Who could not count a foe; Then mine may talk till their throats get dry, So they keep their hands off what care 1? Come sit you down here along with me, ‘There’s ‘nething like a glass, And a jolly fellow for company ‘To make the dull hors pass; So drive all care from your thoughts away, Why need you heed what the dunces say, With # kindly sparkle I light the eye, And 1 flush the pallid cheek ; And with sudden flashes of wit I make ‘The ready tongue to speak; And in course of years I give fo the nose Just a trifling shade of the red, red rose. In the rich man’s paluce, where gilded wealth Its air of splendor lends, tlobnobbing there [am often seen With the master and his friends ; While ny Gided cousins trom over the sea Are set aside out of choice for me. Vil tell you a joke that happened last night, How all in the storm and dark, By way of a little lark, T tubled him in when no help was nigh, And the man was drowned or the papers lie. Meeting another, a savage brute, JT put it into his head ‘To beat his wife after reaching home, While she lay sick in Led; And the woman's slicks, as they rent the air, Would have frozen your blood had you been there, Ifere’s a hopeful youth, a crony of mine, A widow's only son, Who had chances plenty and friends enough, But he lost them every one, And tor no better reason, Sir, than that he Was seen too often along with me. Silly prejudice, so sey I, But it matters not a straw, Only a lot of blockheads framed A stupid excise law, Shutting we up after twelve at night And all day Sunday ull dawn’s pale light. But forth from libvels where squalor reigns, On the last of every week, Come hali-starved wretches, women and men, My well-known haunts io seek; And in greedy clutches they bear ne away, Sabbath day, And house me over the So you see I'ma favorite with rich and poo, Though Uve many a bitter foe, And wicked stories are told of me, But people will talk, you know; Then let them, L say, till their throats get dry, So they keep their hands off what care 12 Selec t ‘Literature, Ta aad Oat or tile Dranblus, (Concluded) My poor little dear came and sat beside me, laid her head on my pillow, and sob- bed as if her heart would break, Oh, Perey,” said she, L have dreaded this worse thu death, Itseems to me ty father’s heart Must be made of stone, | have aever had a loving word trom him in y life, and when f think ef what mother endured, [feel asif Lbad no real atfection tor him; and yet she suid he was not al- Witys sa. terribly ill, but when T began to te, L think 1 need not have m quite such tedious work of it; but it so pleasant, after a life of lonelin unrest, to be loved and petted, and waited upon, TL that always waited upon others, to have every wart anticipated, I have told you all this, Clem, to let you know how much I lost when L lost her, 1 dis- tinctly remember one day when Twas able to sit, up she was reading to me from a favorite poem, When she ; got to this verse —she was i glorious reader, Clem—her voice was like a chime of silver bells, and then her enunciation was so perfect— “Yet though dull hate as duty should be taught, I know (hat thou wilt love me; though my name Should be slut from thee, as a spell still fraught With desolation and a broken claim; Though the grave closed between us, ‘twere the same— IT know tht thou wilt love me; drain My blood from out thy being were an aim And an attainment—all would) be in vain— Sul thou wouldst love me, still iat more , than life retain.” **Sull chou wouldst love me,” she re- peated. «*T think our love would staad such tests ag those—don'® you, Percy? | but God forbid thataye should ever be mpPlled totravel M6 thorny path some peows do when’they love deyotedly! But ie times L have # preseatiment of; evil. aps ings your iiiess Gait his thrown a gloo yer inéyfor J was ereagltully 4 Mfraid © 4 time God would separate us,’ “S Ang Yel you kept ipa brave heart, Lizzie dagling. ~ Lnever felé yor were 4 wnxious for my tile any @ time.” “Phat is a way Women have,” laughed Lizzie, + oe i said {though | scarcely know frort experience, as you were scarcely free Irom every déderi iption of nervousness), Hitt it is dangerous for a man who is ill to bw or be let to. con- ceive the extent of his illness, so we haye to be brave to keep you alive.” The weeks passed on, and [ was finally though to Io necompanied ine tb ee ie tinee, until T went to the office, On returning on day I found a let waiting me, Ww Vhich contained the terri ing inte Nigene e that mother was danger- ously ill, and to come to her without de ay. She was then at my brother's house, in a village on Long Island. Thad built a “arent many air-castles dur- ing my hours of conyaleseence about my future, and the greatest of all was the one IT built of my home, with Lizzie as mistress and mother, serene and happy inher old nee, living with ug, and that was the first to tumble. My ittle girl telt. dreadfutty for me, and arranged: everything for my comfort, for L was even then too weak to walk about much, We parted as true lovers always part— y to sob, Lizzie in tears, and I almost reac for somchow I hada terrible mi then. I promised to write in a few nnd she toanswer. As the carriage turtied the corner, I saw my darling wate! (ching for the Tist look, and that was the” ast time, Clem Hungieford, that I ever saw her, Where under the canopy of heaven she is, Lamp unable to decide; but, oh, Cod! if | could oy find her! Perey cleared his throat, and continued ; I wrote to her soon alter I arrived, and received a reply, a sweet, afectionate letter which comforted me considerably, although she did not seem in good spirits. One litile sentence of hex letter I remem- ber especially. es EN ant you here so much dear Perey. Papa is sick, and acts so strangely that he alinost Hrightens me,’ Mother ‘Tingered ee three weeks, and it was almost «month since L parted trom Lizzie, when I started to return, Death is terrible, Clem, and when it takes one’s mother, | tell you itis rough; but there ave events a thousandiold worse, and harder to be borne, For the last two weeks Thad not heard from Lizzie, which considerably akumed me, fearing that she might be dll TP hurried back, stopped at the oflice on Iny way up town, and there found a Jetter, She said she could not bear to add to my misery by writing to me while at home te sad tidings, She said her futher had been pronounced insane, and his brother had come from Philue si phia, and found his pecuniary affdrs in’ a terrible state, and now said she: fling, L find upon inquiry that as been transmitted trom genera- ‘eration in my father's fmily. Sad as itis, we must puri; for Lb can never ail such ipisery tpl you, and who knows but Loamay be the next vietina? My poor father is ‘to. be Garried to an asy- lam, for he is already ve violent. Ar- thar and 1 go with om uncle to Philadel- phin.” It was a long, loving, heart-broken letter. f went to the Quaker City, but could get no clue, TL have linuted and in- quived; sometimes seen a litte which reminded me of hers; sometimes a pair of shy brown eyes, which opened my heart afresh, but itis no use. God sepiar- ated us for some good reason; and now, Clem, lets go to bed; 1 am totally wa- nerved, Clem sat amomentin perplexed thought, then stretched ont his hand, and grasped his triend’s, saying: ~ for you, Perey; T swear 1 mins; but have you no picture of her?” Yes, Lhave a perfect ove,” and Perey opened his private drawer and passed a little jeweled case over to his side of the table. “Good God!” roared Clem, and you have hunted and inquired; been up down Broadway, and never seen that fe Why, Pye been dead in love with her for the last six months, but { could never sue- ceed in getting a smile or a nod; in faet, i dow't believe she ever saw me, She comes down town every morning about nine o'clock, with 2 young, fine-look curly-headed Tittle fellow. Le leaves her at W.’s music store and goes further down, ne always has a roll ol musie with her, Have you a picture of her brother?” * Yes,” groaned Percy, mid produced another, ‘The very same,” said Clem; ‘ the sane large blue cyes and fearless expres- sion. Ile looks as if contact with the world wouldn't hurt him, Tai not mis- taken, old boy. So you needu't look so incredulous. If you had made me your confidant six nmionths ago, | could have saved you some miset Perey Peuwick arose trom his chair, and paced up and down the room at a furious rate, “Can T five till moming? To have been so near ber all this time and not kuow must have to work, too, the poor ring; aod here Tam with money and position, anda heart overtiowing w ith love for her. Oh. my God! why aresuch thing permitted 2” In vain Clem persuaded him to go to bed, “Go to steep!" he replied, “Do you suppose you could: sleep under such cir- cumsninee iad «No, I suppose not,” sympathetically responded Clem. But you cau make it all vight in the morning 3? and he snored olf, leaving Perey to continue his walk and mediti tions aninienupte aly The movning dawned bright and beauti- inl, Old Sol did his best to make every thing look brilliant. Ele poured his corus- cations into windows were sickness and isery dwell, and brightened up the pale little. Le flashed his vaysin among the branches of trees whose only folinge was the frozen snow, and caused them to dvip litde sparkling diamonds on the pas- sers-by. Perey Fenwick didn’t see the sun, His light Was away in the distance, and no warmth or enthusiasm could be refused into his soul until he could again bask if the rays of his old love. ; Ile made o hasty doflet, drank off two or three caps of song cole, died in Vain to rise Clem, who, at each poke he reeciy- ed, would turn over again, muttering : * All vight, old fellow, TU be with you ina moment, Lhe music etore on the corner of C street and Broadway,” and his voice would die away into « deep breathing, which Percy well patie le and knew it would be no use to disturb, He put on his over-coat, buttoned it ap to the chin, wound a red and white com- forter all over his mouth and ears, hiding effvetually the long, dark whiskers, which would have betrayed him instantly, pulled pronounced well enough to ride out; | a slouch hat over bis eyes, and started out, lic felt quite ‘eortain his disguise was per: fect, for as he passed down ‘ho met friend after friend, but nobody recognized him, It lacked about fiftech minutes to nine when he arrived at the corner where he proposed waiting ; but he was not a mo- ment too soon, for there came tripping along right past him a little graceful figure, which caused his heart to bound against his side, with a violence which was truly distressing. Arthur was with her, and as they paused ne eel at the door, he heard Arthur You will be home to dinner, Lizzie?” “Oh, yes, dew, Ishall be back in an hour,” Perey waited here and there, up and down, until he grew very impatient, and revolyed a multitude of ridiculous plans. Finally she came out, looking, it seemed to Percy, more be aatitul and bewitching than vy She tripped along—he following—some- almost losing ht of her. She slackened her pace ; aud by the tire neve they arrived at Fourteenth street, Percy somforter,” tied so closely around his neck and face, was a comforter ouly in name. Down Fourteenth street a few paces, up whigh stoop, and Perey lost sight of her. Ile feppe a few moments, Wrote on a eard, ‘Ls ib. Generve, Professor of Music, and le passed up the same flight and rag sume bell, A colored porter answered ? SUDO, ‘1s Miss Lizzie Banks in ?” “Walk into the parlor, ud I will see, sir.” * Give her this card,” said he, the sham piece of pr istebourd. Ina moment more the little light step which had been made so fimniliae to hin by constant attendance during illness, and which he had heard in his dreams innumer- ible times crossed the sott Wilton carpet, aud his ie was beside him, looking: up into his face, ov rather his com- *, With a wondering look in her liquid passing” eyes, on Do you wish to seo me on business, sir?” and there was a depth of dignity and truc womantiness ia that delici uly modu- lated voice, Perey deliberate); closed the parlor door unwound the snake-like wrappings fvom his neck, and with a litte shriek, Lizzie was in his arms. It was along time before Perey could find voice for t xqiisite happiiess,aiter so protracted a siege of mental torture it Was too much for even his abrouge herves, Lizzie was first to speak, “Oh, Pirey, Perey, iw this right? Ought [to be so hap py when Lamesure that we sutnhever be aay more to eteh other than frieuds?” “Don't let me hear any more such non- sense,” replied he, try to tue 2 sternness he was very fur from feeling. ‘+L have borne this as pationtly as Teould, hoping that God in lis own good time would unite us. [le has done so. Tf you love me stil the sume, then am L content, for we shall have nothing to feav in the future,” i But you know, dawling,” snid Lizzie, 7 atlove for you could to lay aside’ amy lile’s sus Thave done, It was all red to entail upon you werush- because L te ing misery. * Look at me. dear Lizzie, right in my and read there the truth of what 1 am about to tell you. IT never i never will endure to live on aller the fashion of the last two us, and if you t upon such a cot there willbe one ¢, aad his nae will be Percy insi: more man Fenwick,” “ I i} ) I wrote the letter which separated us ihn, should L once see you, every resolye would be seattered to the winds—and_ here they ro, ‘Take me, des . for good or for evil, siekuess or health. Clients waited, fumed and. flustered. Smith the leamed advocate, (hought Pen- wiek must be ill, for never before since the sign went up proclaiming the taet that tb eopartn ip existed between Sinith and Penwiek had Perey ever been dilatory. Business men depended upon hin—tor his word was his bond—anid totaan had traer friends then Perey Fenwick, Bat there Was a screw loose that day. One old gen- theman who had been pretty severely litten in a recent defaulting encounter shook his head, remarking: ell ine, frank- ‘Jooking man, but I have learned not to depend upou phy slognomy any more, He minty be on his way to Kae rope by this Seareely to He wondered at that men grow suspicious, When friend robs friend and brother ruins brother with the same sung froid they woul eat a good: dinner, Arthur cue in with a look of astonish- ment on his young, lamdsonie f but when he saw the iia py stile of i s, he was completely overjoyed, “Oh, Mr. Fenwiek, ‘Lhave heen on the point of coming for you many #4 time, but Lizvie wouldirt let me. She had some foolish whim iu ha head, which 1 hope you have ceerlastingly dispe Hed. Ma. Banks was ‘still co! violent, and his childven occasionally visit- ed him, but with little satisinetion, [lis brother, or hali-brother, Philip Lambeau, had moyedto New York a lew aiouttis previous, and Lizzie, with a true nobility Which scored de spendence, determined | that both she and Arthur should support themselves. Arthur found wv situation in a large importing house, and Lizzie eom- posetl music, earning tor herself in’ the musical world quite au enviable reputa- tion, Perey and Arthur went down te- gether after dinner, and as Perey bounded into the oflice with a face In] of love and satisiaction, Smith looked up from his musty old law papers with: “Why, what lias happened, Funwick ? Ae “ANT could desive, Smnith, 1 have found her.” Is that Ml? T thought, your radiont countenance, had a fortune leit you! That man carries his soul in,his pocke Loe a locality containing more than one man’s soul-—whose outer covering is bros aaicroth and fine linen. Death will strip that of, and what will be leit? Perey gives up is bachelor establish- ment in Ric: and Clem has been promis- ed « place at his fireside, with this promise, judging from thiit you had that he shall not make love to Mis. Jen- “bs but less}: w oe 15 which he has reluc tantly consent- ed, So when the June roses are in bloom, there will be led to the altar the sweetest flour of them all—charming Lizzie Banks. A SPECIE BASIS FOR CHARACTER, In the admirable memoir of that great and good man, George N. Briggs, which ought to be read by every young man in the C ommonwealth, nay ‘iw the land, there is u letter full of wise counsel, addressed to his nephew, Allred Briggs, From this letter I eatract the following paragraph: “A yeputation not growing out ot a well regulated moral character, may, indeed, for while attract the public gaze, and give its possessor a currency ; but the time will come When, 1 bank’ bills that have no specie basis to rest upon, payment being demanded, it will be protested and found to be ficticious und worthless.” Ilere is a whole lecture to young men compressed in a single paragraph, We have all seen bank bills havi ingatemporary curreney, bright, clear, w ith a beautiful vignettée, duly filled up and clegantly signed, toallapp ice of genuine worth ; but time has revealed that they had ne basis. They represented nothing, and he orth became as worthless as any other piece of paper with a picture on it. And so, alas, have wemany times seen the young man, ‘eilted, accomplished, coming forth and taking position in society under gonditions full of brightest promise, gain- jug for a while a wide currency, but the time came ** when payment was demand- ed? and there was nothing to meet it. There was no moral principle, and all his shining qualities became like che pictures on the bunk-bill, that represenis no specie basis, Worthless, Young man, sooner or later this demand tor payment will come, and if tnable to meet it, you will be like the protested bank bill, Goy, Briggs, in his whole lite furnished a most striking il- lustration of a character that had a ¢* specie basis.” ‘The pure gold was stored away ju the vault equal to any demands that ever were made on it. As he vose in position, step by step, till he reached the lofty one on whichhe was standing when summoned trom earth, these de smands wer! constantly increasing, but they were ever and fully met, till death, A MYSVERY EXPLAINED. Ii all siartling phenomena were investiga- ted by minds tree from superstition and fear occurrences that seem to have a superna- tural origi’ would often find an easy solu- tion, Judge Parsons used to tell with ereat gest oi an incident in his travels, which would have furnished food for a whole company of village gossips. His wile, who seemed much agitated, waked him one night at a village inn, and told him there L wom silt ng at the foot of the bed knitting. The Judge saw Pthe figure is distinctly’ as his wife, but hay- ing no thought of a supernatural origin of the + vision, bow in to speculitte on its real cause. Atter look ing sharply tor some minutes while the woman knitted on with unrufiled composure, he was confident that he could see the wallthrough her, and that she could not, therelore, be substantial lite and blood, ‘his discovery, which might have allrighted weaker nerves, only roused curiosity. Ile at once vr from the bed, and walking to the foot, saw that no one was there ; the form had vanished. Putting his head as nearly as possible in the position were he had seen the wo- niu, Une myste wt once explained. Ile saw a circular hole in the large shutter behind the bed, through which rays of light were siveaming ; ant going to this hole | to look through, saw a wonian in w room on the other side of the sueet. knit- ding. The nerves of the wile were gre: atly soothed Ly the discovery, and the inquisit- ive spirit of the judge was gratified by such a siuple expliunation of “the apparition, Many ghost stories could be easily shorn of their apparently supernatural character by a cool aud garetul investigation. OPENING OF THE PARIS ENILTBI- TION, [Special telegram to the N.Y. Werald.] 3. April Ist,—The Exposition o y. ‘The day is observed as a holi- At 11 ain. the doors of the buildings opened, Within and without the building dere was a humentable state of cofusion, Everywhere debris, Not one- tenth ol the goods were opened or arranged but the French Departincnt, ofcourse, W the first in order. ‘The next to that was M and the third the Nuglish., The American Department is one ot the most incomplete, and the commi HS; OX= hibitors and Americans generally, in the ity, are very dissatistied Awith Commission- er Beckwith, who appears totally inelfici- ent. ‘Lhe voly department in operation is the Restaarants, but even here the Americas ave behind had. ‘The only goods daim- aged on the voyage were Ame rie, At one o'clock p.m. ihe invited guests passombled in the Art Gallery, where Ameri- ca made a fine show, many fine pictures being exhibited aud well hung, but the sh display was much gt or, the time the mperor “arrived 6,000 persons were inside, On the outside along. the banks of the Seine and on all the hills aud roads for miles around Paris, ab least 100,000 people has asse “ambled, 8000 policemen are on dut The Emperor aud Eanpress came precisely at 2 p.m, ‘The crowd outside the building: were good nae tured butZnot demonstrative toward them. No cheers greeted the Imperial. party. eded by ehamberlains the party passed round the ontite gallory neanly a ile long. Tau syent national camiiissioners stood » on th@,plitforms over the sections allotted io tee gountries. Turks, Japanese, Kus- siaus, Movecbans, Tunisians ahd Persians : were there in full national costume, The Enpertr spoke a few words to each commission, but at the American depot he stopped with the Empress and howed to the crowd who were cheering heartily. Llalfan hour was consumed in 1 this tour, then the cortege descended and passed through the Art.and afew other galleries, and at 8 p.m. returned to the pulnee, The Exposition will not be ready nnotil May. One half of all the space js allottey*