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Vol. 2. —Whole Number 63.

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Oats per bush - - Ys 2da 2s 3d
Barley per bush 33 a 3s 6d

Potatoes per bush - - --- Isddals 6d

‘Nurnips per bush - - - -- Isalsld

Butter per tb by ‘Lub - Isals ld
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eet DONID ee oe ee Sd a dd
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~ SUMMERSIDE BANK.

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DR. PRICE,
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next door to Bank, Central Street

SUMMERSIDE, ..... 2. BE. ISLAND,
_October 12, 18

JOHN “HOMER, OUTREACH.

MEDICAL OFFICE
OVER GREEN & SCHURMAN'S STORE,
WAT Re STREE Ts Sl MW RSID E, P. k Ad.

R. MeNEILY, lately, Hevue Hospital,
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to the inhabitants w Lohdon
ty, that he has op!
J. M. Lydiard’s
(formerly known rry) where he
my be consulted i 8 departments
of his Profession, at al) hours—day or night,
Stanley Bridge, New London,
Oct. 18, 1866. tt }

“GEORGE ALLEY,
BARRISTER AND
Attorne y-at-Law,

NOTARY PuBLIC, &.
Telegraph Buildings, Water Street,
Charlottetown, -- -P. FE. Island.

THOMAS KELLY,
Barrister - at - Law

AND
NOTARY PUBLIC, &, _
SUMMERSIDE, - - - - P. EB, ISLAND.
aug. 9, 1866 ly u

J. H. GIBSON,

Nlain & Ornamental
HOUSE & SIGN

PARENTER,

Summerside,.... BP. #. Tala.
October 12, 1865.

Blanks of all kinds for sale at

Business Gards.

Cc AR R D
WILLIAM B BEAIRSTO,
Commission Merchant,

Auctioneer & General Agent,
WATER STREET,
Summerside, ---- cael
Ii. J, RICHARDSON,
CoMMISSION MERONHANT

Auctioneer.

Flour, Groceries, and
Dry Goods.

Water Street ...... Summerside.
> GARVELE BROTHDRS,
AUCTIONEERS,
Commission Merchants,
And General Agents,

BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET.
Charlottetown, - - - - - P, Ff, Island,

WILLIAM DODD,
Commission Merchant,

Dealer in

PORTRY.

THs FOOTSTEPS O

‘ DECAY.

O! let the soul its slumbers break—
Arouse its senses, and awake,
To see how soon
Life, in its glories, glides away,
And the stern footsteps of decay =.
Come stealing on.

And while we view the rolling tide,

Down which our flowing minutes glide
Away so fust,

Let us the present hour employ,

And deem each future dream a joy
Already past.

Let no vain hope deceive the mind,

No happier let us hope to find
‘To-morrow than to-day!

Our golden dreams of yore were bright,

Like them the present shall delight—
Like them decay,

Our lives like hastening streams must be;
That into one engulfiing sea,
Are doomed to full—
The sea of death, whose waves roll on
Over king and kingdom, crown and throne;
And swallow all.

Alike the river's lordly tide,

“Oh, Oe a oo 1 ae ae much the|
better—I will rule him, You may tell old
less by youth, beauty, and talent, others ;Humdrum to-night, Agnes,and het enn send
attached “by the reputed wealth of Mr. | my bridal present at Christmas.” And she
Hastings. ‘Fortwo years the twins reigned leit the room, singing us she went a gay
as quee sens, heart-whole and gay. Agnes air from ‘Traviata.
was something of a blue, and had been | Agnes sank into a deep reverie. Her
guilty of poetry. Helen added to her sister's questions had touched upon bitter
Beauty a wonderful talent for musie, and memories and a painful present. Back,
a superb yoice. Cultivated to the highe est over intervening years, her thoughts trav-
perfection by her proud father, the voice | elled to recall the lover of her “girlhood.
richly deserved the fame it had acquired, | She pictured in the frank handsome
and few saloons considered their visiting | face, heard again the tender loving voice,
list perfect where the beautiful young) felt the tender caress of long ago, and then
singer was not 2 guest. jeaaie the agony of parting. She heard the
rom early childhood there had been | | pleading words to which she would give
at dissimilarity i. the characters of the | no ray ot hope. Loying him utterly, “che
ers. Agnes, grave, even reserved, | had resolved never to burden his brilliant
fond of re vadingr, something of a by giving him an ailing, crippled
reat sweetness and gentle- | wife; never to bear the misery of seeing
on, and at sixteen a mem-|his Jove turned to pity; never to beara re-
Episcopal church, and a Chris-| proach for loving herself better than hin,
tian, since’ trying to keep herself ** un- | | He had left her, left the city, and she knew
spotted from the world.” Nellie, on the | nothing more, Was she to have another
contrary, wasa dashing, lively girl, super- | trial now?
ficial in all studies ex opting: music, full of an her heart with a firm unshrink-
animal spirits, and thinking religion * very ling tonch, she found there a respectable
nice for old people.” affection for her kind friend; a sense of

Two years after their debuf, the grave | dependence upon his advice and friendship
Agnes was_ betrothed toa young lawyer, that it would be yery bitter to lose. She
poor but talented, with a héart full of de-| knew that it would cost her mueh pain to
votion to his beautiful betrothed, and aj wound him, be a sore trial to her to. see
head that promised in time to win him dis-| him no more, yet she did not Jove him.
tinction in his chosen profession, ‘The | ‘Too well she knew the feeling were heart
engagement was satisfactory to relatives | strings to mect heart, too w cll she remem-
on both sides, and preparations for the! Hered what dreams Jove had awakened in
wedding were commenced, when Agnes her young life, to mistake this calm, res-

ie in the circle of asian and suitors |
Were not wanting, some attached doubt

ber of the

——— | day morning at ® o’¢!

Alike the humble rivulet’s glide,

To that snd wave!

Death levels poverty and pride,

And rich and poor sleep side by side,
Within the grave.

And Auctioneer,
QUEEN SQUARE,
CHARLOT7 ETOWN--- P.E. ISLAND

THOMAS HANFORD, Geo a.
ur birth is Lut the s artin; y pince:
AUCTIONEER Life is the running of the ne

AND And death the goal;

Commission Merchant, There all our glittering toys are brought—

That path alone, of all unsought,
ST, JOHN, N. B. Is found of all,
Noy 1, 1865

James Greenough,
FLOUR

Commission Merchant.

No 47 Commercial Street
C orner of Nlinton Street- - - - - BOSTON

G. L. RICHARDS,

Importer and Wholesale Dealer in
British & MHoreign Groceries
4, North Wharf,

See, then, how poor and little worth
Are all those glittering toys of earth,
That lure us here;
Dreanis of a sleep that death must break +
Alas! before it bids us wake,
We disappear.
Long ere the damp of death can blight,
The check’s pure glow of red and white
Has passed away ;
Youth smiled and all was heavenly fair;
Age came and laid his finger there,
And where are they?

Where is the Wee that spurned decay,

‘ T on any . Tayi re The step that roved so light and gay,
Be soy New a unswick, ‘The heart’s blithe tone ?

pelenanatia The strength is gone, the step is slow,
d. E HILL & C0., And joy grows wearisome, and woe!

DEALERS IN When age comes on!

Potatoes, Apples, Ono, | ———————

Moreign & Domestic suits, Select Viteratare.

Cranberries, Hiei Green & Dried Apples| ~~

Stalls 107 ad 109. OLD HU MDRUM.

and Cellar No. 19, Faneuil Hall Market
SOUTH SIDE BOSTON. ACHRISTMASETORY
LY $. ANNIE FROST.

EK, D. STAIR,
CABINET-MAKER,

AND

«© T wonder what old Humdrum will give
us for a Christmas present,” said Nellie
IIastings, as she twisted her curls before

t Indertalkcer. the sitting-room mirror, and admired her

pretty face, as therein display
FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS MADE] ‘Don't Nellie,” said her sister Agnes.
TO ORDER,

looking up from her sewing; “ nicknames
ave intensely vulgar, and “it pains me. to
Kent Street, -.----++ -+- Charlottetown. wilne: I
Sept. 1866, 6m

hear our kind friend so spoken Ole
DAVID BERTRAM,

« Kind friend, indeed,” suid the beauty,
Saddle and Ilamess Maker,

saucily; ‘what has he ever giv to us
but a few prosy sermons 2”

Water Street . . . . . Summerside.

Vetober 12, sed, ly

«0, Nellie, what should we have done
JOUN ANDREW

without his eare forus? Think how cheap
the rent of this little cottage is made for
us, and how many scholars he has procured
MACDONALD, you, and how well he pays me for the
° : owing. He is a kind friend,” and tears
Importer of Dry Goods, stood in Agnes Hastings’ eyes as she
Hardware, Crockeryware, Groceries, | spoke, |
‘ @ : ae 3 i “Well, then, don't cry about it,
Furniture, &c. &e.
Summerside, ie oe 2. Op Island. “T won't call him nicknames any more,
tee a if it displeases you, and L s! soon be
aS OART independant of his kindne with a
NAT MAHWORNCR Ii : _|seorntal emphasis upen the last word.
an ate AU ee ue ye ” PAG tte “There is one of my tiresome brats at the
ry a Bohoss in ¥uthro will be [gate Now,” and she sauntered into the
abst. Hicty by
eonucter by ntention coming up the garden walk, to take his
1 y of goods Na:
adapted Tor the meer’ y ou would searee ‘ly have supposed the
solicits a shure of public lage, tansy es
ALBERT L. ANDERSON, _ | Sis!
St, Eleanor's, April 10, 1866,
Mails.
JHE MAILS for the UNULED KING DO
KD STATES, &ej, will, until
be make up and fOrwarded
Post Office, Charlottetown,
Bor CANADA, N MM
the UNITED S'TAgte
Monday evening at 8 a

stoves,

and Nellie gave her si tera hasty k
10 t little parlor, to meet the music scholar
a he is fis} j
keep cons uit A ri
NEIGHBORING PROY INe aS

vin Shelliny, every in
ock, and

For NERA SGOT? divfon, every | bu
Monday and ‘Thite}lay ney at 9: and | bre
via Brule, ey, ening at 8 o'clock. | wl
For GRRA'T IN, NEWFOUND- | gli
T INDIES, every alter- | mi
ny uta Monday thaymiieg gt 9 O'clock, anil eve ry | for
alternate W ‘odnesday morning ut 10 o'clock,

viz: nis
Monday, Dee. 8. Wednesday Dee, ? iu:
Monday, ** 17, Wednes “ 19. ‘int
P. DESBRISAY, he

Postmuster General, ry

Gen. Post Office, Dec. 6, 18) er
oh _ ; TAD AEE TT |
PBRASE PAY, i

Subscriber, ei
otherwise, previous
positively request
Delay will only

od

Summerside, Ro¥, 18; \B66. ni

N. B.—Medical=@ffice over’ the Store of chi
Mesers. Green & Schurman. 5

ideno at the © LIFTON Howsn. ha

— eesti i

» by Book account, tt
d to make IM- | if
, to save expenses ES)

the “ Journal Office.

if’ 20, 1866,

met with an accident that crippled her for
life. She was driving out with her lover,
when the horse became frightened, and,
making a sudden plunge yorward, threw
her from her seat into the road. ae in-
juries at first appeared to be slight, but as
time went on the physicians nadia the
injury to the spine was twisting the
figure to one side, and making a limping
gait anda curved back -unayoidable. In
the agony and horror of discovering this
Agnes dismissed her lover, spite of his
prayers and pr otestations, and then months
of bitter repining proved that even her
Christian spirit could sink under her heavy
burden. It was a still greater aMiction
that roused instead of crushing her, and
restored her faith, patience, and hope.
Her father committed suicide, after peril-
ling his own and sist fortune in one
speculation, and losing all; and that
sister, deprived at once ol home, fortune,
and the brother she idolized, in one short
month followed him to the graye. Nellie
was frantic under this complication of
trouble, and now Agnes, ronsed from her
own selfish grief, came out true and fith-
fal in the storm around her,

Friends came forward to offer counsel
and a nee, and from the wreck of the
once noble fortune a small sum was. sc-
cured, barely suilicient to clothe the or-

‘phans in an humble style, greatly ab vari-

nnee with their onee splendid wardrobes,
By the advice of the ?
girls left the city and went to a small
country town, where, by their needlework,
they earned a support.

They had been but little time in their

new home when a stranger, a gentleman
past middle aye, came to reside at G——
It was not long before he beeame ac-
qui ainted with the young seamstresses, and
in ashort time so won their confidence
that he became a fast friend. Tlis means
appeared large, for he bought a cottage
for himself, and two others which he rent-
od, one to the sisters, anda large Ihand-
some stone mansion, in process of erection,
was soon known to be his future home.
Having letters that made him at once in-
fluential in G——, he used that influence
to procure mnsie scholars for Helen, who
hore the drudgery of sewing but badly,
and himself kept ‘Agnes busy on the most
exquisite of shirts, collars. and ents, at
large prices, but of the most elaborate
finish.

The musie lesson over,
again to her sister's side.

‘Still at that handkerchief?” she said,
touching the dainty embroidery growing
under her sister's busy fingers, ** ow hata
dandy old—Mr. Lawrence is.

«I think, Nell, dear, if is more the de-
sire to aid me by giving employment, than
from any dandyism of his own, that he his |
such wonderful shirts, and so many
handkerchiefs with his initials embroidered
in the corner.”

‘ 2 Along panse—then, sgain:
s he in Jove with you?”

and shocked, Agnes let the
work fall from her hands.

“ Noli, how ean you?”

Helen came

“Wal, but, Agnes, see Jiow odd it is. | heart had ¢
Tlere we are perfect strangers, with no|

net ful friendship forthe tender passion,

Yet, if lelen was right! Ifthe lov ed her,
t)

| and was secking to win her love, what had

jshe done? In her gratitude for his kind-

ness, her real fr: ankly expressed pleasure

in his society, had not she encouraged him
to think he might win a dearer place still?

Ilot tears were coursing down her pallid
cheeks, when her hands were taken in’ a
firm clasp, and a grave, gentle voice spoke
her name, “Agnes, you ‘uve in trouble.”

She knew the voice, and re jot blood
rushed tor a moment to her face; then she
said, hesitatingly

“T—was—thinking of the pa

“You must not think too. s: Uy.” said
her friend, seating himself beside her
* perhaps the future may have bright days
too, T—you know to-morrow i pistinas
and T have mu offering to lay at your feet,
my little friend, that you may “not alto-
gether despise. Ihave loug—"

** Good afternoon !”

Nellie's gay voice interrupted them. She
wis followed soon by her dover, and the
tele-a-tele Was Not resumed, It was late
before all the visitors had departed, and
Nellie threw herselt at her sis feet.

“Well, old Humdram must see how
Harold and I stand, and if he dont send
me something handsome to-morrow he’s
foo mean to live.”

+O, Nellie, don't talk so.”

“Was he proposing Aggie, when Ieame
in? I did not sce him until it was too late
to get away, or I should have kept Iliuwold
in the parlor a while longer.”

“*Please Nellie.”

** Well, L won't tease you, You are the
dearest of wl sisters after all, and may be
sure of the best room in my future home,
and all the love your madcap sister can
gi you,

«Thanks, dear; but I can never consent
to be dependent upon Mr, Granyille.”

“Stuf and nonsense, You m
your dear fingers off, if that will es
conscience. I'm sure it will be as well to
sew forme and Iiavold as for old—Mr.Law-
renee.”

But

scw

yaword, ‘To-morrow
Pl convince you by all the rules of logic
that it would be barbarous eruc es to desert
me, but now Lian too sleepy. Good-night.
By the v won't the old maid's tongues
run? Harold and [will be served up all
over the village, with pepper saree. Good-
night! Pleasant dreams to you!”

But dreams will not come without sleep,
and sleep would not visit the cripple *s pil-
low. All night she lay thinking of the bit-

“task she felt sure the morrow would
uponher. Thinking of the true wise
counsel so long offered her, of the hours of
He sunt Intercourse go soon to end, think-
oo somewhat sadly of a future of lon-
, or spent in the home of a man she
could not pect, and whose money had
| won her frivolous sister's hand,
| And what was Mr. Lawrence thinking
in those same long hours, when he too tos-

sed upon i ‘A sleepless couch? Ile was re-
enlling hours spent with the pale, gentle
lc cripple, when his own world- hardened
ywn soft and tender in’ the
light of her smile, the music of her voice.

li

carthly elaim upon hin, and he takes as | He was thinking of her pure Christian pa-

nya jptorest in our concerns asif he was
ere
Nellie—no, no, a thousand times no |
question. He, so good and noble,
-what am T?” and she touched the |
‘y that rose some inches above its
place,
, dear me, Agnes, he’s as old as
Is, and as stupid as possible. Of
he cannot expect youth and hesuty
iwife. [think he will propose to

tience, her resignation to suffering, her
quict industry, fer unw avering cheertul-
ness, ‘Then ‘he thought of his new home :
| whose large rooms were furnished and
ready for oveupants, and he fancied her
presence makiug the house a home, her
taste adorning the rooms, her smile wel-
coming the master when he entered; and,
less selfishly , he looked forward to the life
of ense and rest he meant to offer her, re-
storing the Noom to ler cheeks and the

id so doves Harold.”
rold ?”

eve, don't look
you know what Harold cume here

astonished. Or}

t, Nellio—"

‘arime out. He came to make love |
and propose; well, he has proposed,
said yes, and in January LI will be}
Follie!
‘hy not?" and the young pirl's head |
ith a hanghty look of defiance.
.e—he-—you know, Nell, they say he
constant.”
! A parcel of old maids who
to win him, and cannot, tattle for re-
». I tell you, Agnes I am sick of this |
and she sprung: “from her seat and
1 the floor with quick steps, to and fro, |
id fro, like some benutitul wild beast,
Pd but untamed. ‘I'm sick of drudg- |
> ver stupid children, who ean’t or won't |
52; sick of hearing glorious melody tor- |
dinto hideous sounds; sick of being | |
ined to hours; sick of poverty, obseuri- |
and toil! Harold Granville is rich. He |

es me; he wilktake me away from this |

‘tehed’ v illage to a circle such as I once
zned in.”
*Do you love him, Helen ?”
‘Well enough to get along. He adores
, and that is much more to the point.”

© But Nellie—his—his—intelleet.”

light to her cyes. Se
Christmas-de ay dawned bright and clear
The sisters we sated ip theit little sit-

Hting-room after breakfast, when Ma. Law-

rence’s servant handed ina small parcel,

Upon being opened, it Wats found to con-
tain v set of diamonds of e xyuisite purity,
} beautifully set, a tiny note tor Lele ny} aud
a letter for Us,

+Q Aggie! are they not superb? And
for me; see, My name is on the card inside.
Bat’—anid, as She read her little note, her
| cheeks grew erimson, ‘is not this spitelul "
and she read aloud :—

“Will Miss Helen aecept the accom.

jpanying jewels, il) they are handsome

fenough to save old Hamdrum fiom the
charge of meanness?”

“Read your letter, Agnes. Of course,
ashe sends you nothing, he offers you
himself for a Christmas gilt.’

There was a long pause, then rery from
Agnes— God is very good tome ! i

‘What is it, Agnes?”

‘Sit here, Nellie. Do you remember
|how often father and Aunt Lizzie used to
speak of our uncle?”

“Phe one who sometimes sent us pre-
sents from Europe, Asia, or Alrica, as the
}ease might be?”

«Yes, Nellie, yes. Ourown dear uncle,
who wanted to win our love before he made
himselfknown. And, Nellie, the house on
the hill, the new house, he has settled it
upon me, with an income of two thousand
« year for Tile, only asking me to let him
be my guest there,”

«And you consent 2”

Ife was there, in the doorway,"(asking
the question,

Nell looked up with a comical look, half
terror, half penitence,

Tm sorry,” she said, advancing to
meet him.

He kissed her tenderly. ‘* Never mind,”
id, heartily, perhaps ] am a little
prosy. You will sti iy with us till you are
mivried, and I promise you 1s handsome
a trousseau as New York can furnish; but
here,” und he turned to Agiies, “I Took
for some comlort alter a lonaly, wander-
ing life.”

She gaye him a tearful but happy emile,

** You Jove me, Agnes? * he sad, gently.

* As fondly as you can desire.”

Then you will accept my offer. Come,
the carriage is at the door, your home is
ready for you. JTinvited Harold to dine
at the new house to-day, so you will come
at once, to muke the beginning of a new
litefor Old Humdram.”

SOCIETY IN NEW YORK.

A late New York paper contains the fullow-
ing faithful sketch of society” in that me-
tropolis :—

© To be fashionable it is not enough to be
rich, to be respectable, to live and dress well,
to give parties and to entertain many acquaint-
ances. All this is requisite, but something
more is necessary. Fashionable society is
organized by a clique of wealthy persons, who
having nothing else to do, make it their busf-
ness to give dinners and parties. They are
generally intelligent, reside in handsome
houses, dress richly but in good taste, drive
fine but not fast horses, and can trace their
ancestors bac s far as their grandfathers
although their grantithers are often eny: reloped
in a dim and romantic mist, through which it
is quite inipossible to distinguish whether they
were shoemukers or noblemen. These organ-
izers compose their society of a few hundred:
young ladies and gentlemen, divided for con-
yenience into half a dozen cliques. Most
American ladies are in a hurry to get married
young: they know that time is fleeting, and
they want a mun to pay their dry goods bills.
Fashionable young Lidies are in no such haste,
With rich parents, and in an assured position,
they do not care te marry befere they are
twenty-five. Having finished their education
ata fishionable school, they pass the interval.
until their marriage in dancing the German,.
uttending the opera, and receiving the atten--
tions of the gentlemen, with whom, however,
they do not go so fiir as to flirt.

These fashionable gentlemen are also a pe-
culiar class; they toil not, neither do they
spin, except waltzes; but Solomon in all hia
glory was not arrnyeil like unto them. Thy
Gerinan is th@ig sole occupauon. ‘hey rise

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late, breakfast at noon, and then come down
town, ask the price of gold, and drink a cock-
tail at the lower Deluionico’s by the way of
business. Fatigued with this-exertion, which
they perform with great solemnity and regu--
larity, as if the finances of the nation would
be disarranged should they emit it, they then
ride home snd dress for dinner, Afier ‘dinner:

they go to various parties, lead the German,
and retire at 2 o’cluck, A. M., to be awake
several hours, trying to invent a new figure
for their fivorite dance? Their only ambition,
like Von Bisinarck’s, is to be the German
if the dance got off well no Prince
could be prouder, If the couples get confus-
ed the Jeader is exiled, like Napoleon after
Waterloo. When they grow too old to dance
they marry fashionable women, and when they
die they expect to enter a fashionable heaven,
and dance the German throughout eternity
upon floors of pure gold and music ot angelic
harps. —These are the real fashionables, and
to apply that term to any other chiss is a mis-

tuke, They set the fashions in dress, in am-
usements und in society. and a host of adimir-

ers and imitators are ready to follow them.

They did not patronize the watering place
hotels last summer, and consequently the sea~
son was a complete failure. The fact is that

these fashionables have been crowded out of
many of their old haunts by the newly rich
people who have more money and spend it
more extrayagartly. The true fashionables

never waste a dollar. They have the best

things, but buy them at the lowest prices,

Only the shoddy people give their carriages

to their coachinen ond ght their cigars with
ureenbacks. Itis as untashionable to throw

away money foolishly as it is to earn it by

hard work. The newly rich may flourish at
the watering place hotels, pay enormous bills,
and make the fortunes of rapacious landlords ;

but the fashionables have quietly withdrawn
to their neat cottages and secluded villas,
where they are more comfortable at a much

cheaper

DON'T LIKE MY BUSINESS.
ENE

There is no greater fallacy in the world
than that entertained by many young men
that some pursuit in life can be found wholly
suited to their tastes, whims, and fancies,
‘Lhis philosopher's stone can never be discov.
ered, and every one who makes his life a
search tor it will be ruined. Much truth is
contained in the Irishman’s remark * 1t is
never aisy to work hard.” Let, therefore,
the fact be always remembered by the young,
that no life-work can be found entirely agree-
able tow iman, Success always lies atthe top
of a hill; if we would reach it, we can do sa
only by lard persevering efforts, while beset
with difficulties of every kind. Genius counts
nothing in the battle of lite. Determined, ob-~
stinute perseverance, in oue single channel is
everything. Hence, should any one of our
young readers be debating in his mind a change
of business imagining he hus a genius for
some other, let him dismiss the thought as he
would a temptation to do, evil. If you have
made a mistake in choosing the pursuit or pro-
fession yoo did dont make another by leaving
it. Spend all your energies in working for
and clingtng to it, as you would to the life
boat that sustained you in the midst of the
ocean, Ifyou leave it, is almost certain that
you will go down; but, if you cling to it, in+
forming yourself about it until you are its
master, bending exery energy to the work,
success iscertain, Good, hurd, honest efforts,
steadily preserved in, will make your love for
your business or profession grow, since no one
should expect to reach a period when he can
fecl that his life-work ia just the one he could
have done best, and liked best. We are al-
lowed fo wee and feel the roughness in our
own pathway, but not in others; yet all hyve
them.

Trovent.--Thought engenders thought.
Place one idea on paper, and another will

“Yes—look!” and she pointed to the| follow it, and still another, until you have

| signature at the foot of the letter,
“Lawrence Hy stings, My
{You don't mean—

read Nellie.

written a page. You cannot fathom your
mind, ‘here is a well of thought there
which has_no bottom; the more yon draw
frou ielgianore cleay and fruittal it will be.

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