See AN RN PHON® DEVOTED TOLITERATURE, SCIENCE, COMMERC HS SOBRE SCI URUSS ELC Ege) “RE, AND NEWS. Vol. 3. Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, March 19, 1868. io THE Summerside Journal, 18 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BYERY THURSDAY EVENING, BY JOSEPH BERTRAM, AT HIS OFFICK, CENTRAL STRENT. TERMS: 1 copy for one year, inadvance, 6s. 31. tf a halfadvance, 7s. 6d. atthe end of year 9s. Persons getting up cuss of ren Subscribers will be entitled to the Journat for one year. ADVERTISEMENTS Gnserted at moderate rates and in good style. SpucraL Agreements may be made on reasonable terms for a whole, a half, or quar- ter column, or by the year, JOB PRINTING” of every description, performed with neatness .and despatch, and at moderate rates, at the Journan Offic “ec “ ‘Alma MOON'S PHASES. First Quarter, 2nd day, 12h.36m., morn., N. Full Moon, 8th day, 4h.9m., A’noon, below h. Last Qtr. 15th day, 1ih.14m., A’noon, below h. 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Hay per Ton - - - Straw per cwt. - + - Pine Boards - - - Spruce Boards - Od a 10d - Od a Lod - J0d a Is - Sda 4d - 2d add - 84a od - Is Gda es - 60s a bods - 18s a 205 - 70s a 80s - ds Od 10s 4s a ds Charlottetown Markct March 12, 1868. Beef (small) - - - : Ad Gd Do. by quarter . * - ddadd Mutton : - : 4a Gi Lamb per tb. - - - Byda dd Butter . : : - da lid Do. by (nb - - - Is a Lisi Chcese , © ms * -« dad aaa Pillow ** - - - Od a 10d Piha Seer - - - a gd Klour lb, - - - Aad Oatmeal 100 1b, - - 2s Liggs - -- - - lida léd Potatoes. os - 25 a Ys Bd ‘Turnips - - - - Wd Barley - > . - 8s a 9s Oats . . - . vs Od Boards (Hemlock) - - - 4s Spruce ba . - - 4s 15s Vine : . « - Ts ads Shingles : - - 12s a Lis Wool - - - - Is n 1s Gd Hay - - - - 70s a 80s Straw cwt. « * : Is Ga 2s Tfomespun - - - 5s Vid abs Sheepskins - - 2803s Calfskin Ib, : - - - 5d add Ilides 1b, - - : - = 4h Business Gards, BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Corner of Queen § Water Sts., Charlottetown President—Hon. Daniee Br N. Cashier—Wintram Cunpatn, Esquire. Piscount Days—Mondays & ‘Thursdays. Hours of Business—lom 10.a.m. to Lp.m. from 2 p.m to 4 p.m. UNION BANK. below h. | Business Gards, THOMAS KELLY, _ Barrister - at - Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC, &c. SUMMERSIDE, - - - -P. lb. ISLAND. aug. 9, 1866 FRANCIS LONGWORTH, BARRISTER AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ba Office—PAVILION HOTEL. (mext door to the Ifon. Joseph Hensley’s.) CHARLOTTETOWN - - - VE. Island. Jan. 17, 1867. ly WILLIAM M. OWL, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public ov. EneANor's.. DT Isnann Co-Partnership Notice. MAMIE Subscribers have this day entered into CO-PARTNERSHIY as BARRISTERS and ATTORNIES-AT-LAW, under the name, style and firm of ALLEY © DAVIE OFFICE,—O'HALLORAN’S BUILDING, Grear Gonos Srrere. GEORGE ALLEY, LOUIS Il, DAVIES. Charlottetown, Oct .18, 1867. oct 24, _ ISIPSON CASEY, MD,, Physician, Surgeon & Accoucheur formerly Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Navy, offers his protessional services to the people of Summerside and vicinity. He can consulted at his office, over the Store of Green & Schurman, in Summerside. June 13, 1867. tf Physician & Surgeon, Ovvicr—aAt the Sumuersips Drug Srore, next door to Bank, Central Street SUMMERSID Ly, P.E. ISLAND. October 12, 186 ~ ‘WILLIAM DODD, Commission Merchant, And Auctioneer, SQUARE, -- P. BE, ISLAND QUEEN CHARLOTTETOWN WILLIAM BHAIRSTO, Commission Merchant, Auctioneer & General Agent, WATE Summerside, 1) 3H, ALLEN, Commission Merchant, And Dealer in iroyisions, &¢, MARK DT Soh Yb, St. John, N. B. b@™ Gives personal attention to the Sale and Purchase of every description of Goods. May 9, 1867 James Greenough, FLOUR Commission Merchant. No 47 Commercial Street Corner ot Clinton Succi 55 BOSTON. HANPORD BROTIERS, Successors to Thomas Ianford, ois Lege erya! Commission Msrchants And General Agents, IL WORTH MAUI i 61. JOHN, N. B., Chas, U. Hanford .......... Fred.$.Wanford, Jan, , 18s. P. . Island CARVELL BROTHER AUCTIONEERS, Commission Merchants, And General Agents, BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREDT. Charlottetow: P, li, Island ~PHOMAS FRIZANL, Boot and Shoe Maker, WATER STRER, opposile Green & Schurmaws Slore, Boots and Shoes of a superior quility con- stantly on hand, and for sale cheap, Summerside, June 6, 1867. ly JABEZ HUDSON, Authorized Auctioneer, GENERAL AGENT, «e., TRYON, © + « Poni i June 27, 1867. CO. L. RICHARDS, Importer and Wholesale Dealer in Grofion St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown President—Cuarins Parmer. Esquire. Cashier—J 2s ANpERSON, [Nsquire. Viscount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays. Hours of Business—From 10 a.m to Lp m., from 2 p.m to 4pm. British & SHorcignGroceries. 4, [Lead North Wharf, ST. JOIIN, NEW BRUNSWICK, Dee. 6, 1866. ly Important to Shipbuilders Blocks! Blocks! Blocks! IF YOU WANT TO RAST THE Price of Vessels in England, order a set of those SPLENDID BLOCKS, which everybody is praising, from YOUNG'S. Terms Liberal, Water-st., Summerside, Sept. 26, 1867, SUMMERSIDE BANK. Central Street, Summerside, P. E. Island. YPresident—HIfon, Jonn R. Garpiner. Cashier—. L. Lypranrn, Esquire Discount Days—Tuesdays and Pri Notes for Discount must be in o'clock on Discount days. a ‘ Hours of Business—10 a. m., tol p.m., from 2 p. m., to 4 p.in, DAVID BERTRAM, ‘ Saddle and Harness Maker, Water Street . . . . . Summerside. ctober 12, 1865, Business Gards, ROCKLIN HOUSE, Kent Street, Charlotictown, SIMON D, FRASER, PROPRIETOR, Permanent and ‘Transient Boarders will find the above House to give satisfaction, Ch’town, June 13, 1867. ? ne lore eee Hountain Bouse Hotel, King Square, (North Side,) ST. JOHN, N. B. The Subsgviber having leased the above Hotel, and refitted the same, is now prepared to accommodate ‘Transient and Permanent Boarders, and trusts by attention to meet a share of public patronage. \ Having also leased the commodious Stable attached, and secured the services of a careful Hostler, who will be in attendance at all hours, travellers will be sure to get satisfac- tion at lowest rates. JAMES W. THOMSON, - Proprietor. St. John, N. B., July 4, 1867.—ly ORAWFORD’S HOTEL, No- 9. King Square, St.John, N-P, Permanent and transient Boarders accom- modated on reasonable terms. In connection with the above the subscribers haye opened a First Class Grocery Store where they will keep constantly on band, Flour, Corn Meal, Provisions, ‘Tea, Sugar, Molasses, and all articles usually kept ina Grocery Store, J. CRAWFORD & SON. May 80, 1867.—ly Commercial Hotel, NEW ARRANGEMENT! GOACH FARE PAID! N FUTURE the Coacu Fane of all travel- lers from the Railway Station and Steam- boat Landings in this City to the COMMER- CIAL HOTEL, King Street, who meke their stay one day or upward, WILL BE PAtp by the Proprietor. FARE AT THE HOTEL: TRANSIENT. One Day, --- One Week, -------- PERMA Per Week, $325 to gt 50 The HOTEL is situated onthe best business street in the city, and nearly opposite tie aypniy. Itis handsomely fitted up and wleulated to accommodate sume fifty persons very comfortably, D. P. HOWE, Proprietor. St. John, N. B., Nov. 7, 1867 ly al SAWS, SAWS ! SAWS!! A AWS of the best quality, and at the follow- WD ing Cash prices, alw on hand at the inanutacture of the subse: 13 3— CIRCULARS, Diameren, 18 each Diameter. in. $20 each Seach each Mill Saws 54 fect, $5 each; Buck Saws 25 $7 per dozen, set and sharped. A. RICHARDSON & Co. ig Along Your Eorses. 1 my Ale \yN SMITILS PORGH. ae subseriber having engaged the services of agood HORSE SHOERR, nud CARRIAGI wd SLEIGH OUNTER, he is now prepared to ) teallsuch work, as wellasall other work ia line of business, at his Pore (Sutherland's old stand) on Water Street, opposite the store of Colin el. ennan, eq. NEWTON LEE, Su Srimmieratde, Noy 21, 18 North British and Mercantile INSURANCI) COMPANY. TIRE AND LIFE, Established 1809. TWO MILLIONS, Sterling. HEAD OFFICES: EDINBUUGIL & LONDON, G. W. DrBLOIS, Agent at C lottetown. ition can be had by apply- stinam, Journal Office, Sum- CAPITAL: Forins of Ay ing to J Meret C ly Cash, Cash, *till pays the HIGH- ish for OATS, —3n ash, T. WOLMA2 R. Wholesale Customers Will find it to their adyantage to call and see samples of The Assorted Crates of GROCKERYWARE still remaining for sale, at a sui..il advance on cost. le, Dee 12,1 ALSO; CONFECTIONARY, KEROSEND OLL, = PITCH, TAR, OAKUM, ANCIIORS, IRON, TOBACCO, PIPES, CHALNS, NALLS, SULPHUR, ROPE, SALTS,SALTPETRE, DY UFFS, ARCH, COPYERAS, MATCITES,CANDLES, BAK- ING SODA, WASHING SODA, PLOUGIL MOUNTING, SHERT IRON, MOUSE COAL. R. FT. HOLMAN, PORTRY. [ ADDRESS TO A MUMMY. ITH, BY THORAC Anp thou hast walked abeut (how strange a story !) 3 In Thebe’s streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow These temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous. Dummy. Thou hast a tongue—come—let us hear its , tune; ‘Thow'rt standing on thy legs, above-ground, Mummy! Revisiting the glimpses of the moon, Not like the thin ghosts or disembodied crea- tures, But with thy bones and flesh, and limbs and features, Tell us—for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his nanie ? Is Pompey’s Villar really a misnomer? Had ‘Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer? Perhaps thou wert a Mason, and forbidden By oath to tell the secrets of thy trade— Then say what secret melody was hidden In Memnon’s statue which atsunrise played ? Perhaps thou wert a Priest—if so, my strug- gles Are vain, for priesteraft never owns its juggles, Perchance that very hand, now pinioned flat, Has hob-a nobed with Pharaoh, glass to glass; Or dropped a halfpenny in Homer's hat, Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass ; Or held, by Solomon’s own invitation, A torch at the great Temple’s dedication, I need not ask thee if that hand, when armed, Has any Roman soldier mauled and knuckled, For thou wert dead, and buried, and em- baled, Ere Romulus and Remus had been suckled : Antiquity appears to have begun Long after thy primeval race was run. Thou couldst develop, if that withered tongue Might tellus what those sightless orbs have seen, ITow the world looked when it was fresh and young, And the great Deluge still had left it green— Or was it ten so old that History's pages Contained no record of its carly ages? Sul silent! incommunicative elf; Art sworn to secrecy? then keep thy vows ; But prythee tell us something of thyself— Reveal the secrets of thy prison-house: Since in the world of spirits thou hast slum- bered, r What hast thou secn, what strange adventures numbered, Since first thy form was in this box extended, We have, above-ground, seen some strange inutations, The Roman empire has begun and ended, New woilds have risen—we hare lost old nations, And countle:s Kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has cruinbled. Didst thon not hear the pother o’er thy head, When the great Versian cenqueror, Cam- byses, Marched armies o'er thy,tomb with thunder- ing tread, O’erthvew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis, And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder, When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder? If the tomb’s secrets may not be confessed, The nature of thy private life untold: A heart has throbbed beneath that leathern breast, And tears adown that dusty cheek have roiled: Have children climbed those knees and kissed that face ? What was thy name and station, age andrace ? Statue of flesh—Immortal of the dead! Inperishable type of evanescence! Posthumous man, who quitt’st thy narrow bed, And standest undecayed within our pre- sence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning. Why should this worthless tegument endure, [tits undying guest be lost forever? Oh! let us keep the soul embalmed and pure In living virtue, that when both mustsever, Although corruption may our frame consume, The inmortal spirit inthe skies might bloom! The Wild Duck Shooter. BY JEAN INGELOW. é Fas Tre charity of the rich is much to be commended, but how beautiful is the charity of the poor! Jall to mind the coldest day you ever experienced. ‘Think ot the bitter wind and driving snow; think how you shook and shivered—how the sharp, white par. ticles were driven against your tface—how, within doors, the carpets were lifted like billows along the floors, the wind howled and moaned in the chimnies, creaked, doors rattled, and every now and then heavy lumps of snow came thnnder- Speak! for theu long cnough hast acted windows ing out her thread, crooning an old north- e-n-country song, to hear a sudden knock at the door, Tt was loud and impatient, not like the knock of her neighbors in the other cot- tages; but the door was bolted, and. the oll woman rose, and shuflling to the win- dow, looked out, and saw a shivering liguve, apparently that of a youth, *Trampers !” said the old woman, sen- tentously, “tramping folks be not wanted here;” so saying. she went back to the fire, without deigning to answer the door, and called to her to beg admittance. She heard him rap the snow from his shoes, against her lintel, and agin knock, as if he thought she was deaf, and he should surely gain adinittanee if he could only make her hear. The old woman, surprised at his au- dacity, went to the casement, and, with all the pride of possession, opened it, and inquired his business. * Good woman,” the stranger began, ‘1 only want a seat at your fire.” « Nay,” said the old woman, giving ef- fect to her words, by her uncouth dialogue, ‘thou'lt get no shelter here; I’ve naught to give to beggars—a dirty, wet critter,” she continued, wrathfully slamming to the was theretore surprised, us sho sat draw-| _ But even as she st | forget her imagination, for othe woman [a waisteont into her trails, sic tateen never passed thum beiwe; a gold pbad | cuse dropped trom the pocket, and on tlie jfloor, among a heap of mud that covered jthe outer gurments, lay «a white shirt» sleeve, so white, indeed, and fine, that she thought it could hardly be worn but | by a squire. She glanced from the clothes to tha owner, IIo had thrown down his cap,and ihis fair, curly hair, znd broad forehead, jconvinced hev that he Was of gentle birth; » The youth, upon this, tried the door, hut while she hesitated to sit down, he st a chair for her, and said, frankness ; “Tsay, what a lonely place this is; if yeu had not let me in, the water would ave all frozen on me before L reached home, Catch me a duck-shooting again by myselt!” & “1s very cold sport that, sir,” replied the woman. _The young, getleman assented most rea- dily, and asked if he might stir the fire. * And welcome, sir,” said the woman. She felt 2 curiosity to know who he was Ie partly satisfied her by remarking that he was staying at Deen Hall, a house about five miles off, adding that, in the with « boyish window, ‘it’s a wonder where he found any water, too, seeing it freezes so hard, a body can get none for the kettle, siving' | what's broken up by the hatchet.” On this the beggar turned hastily away | And at this point in his narrative, the! person who told it to me stopped, and) said, Do you think the old woman was} very mnch to blame ?” “She might have acted kindly,” I re-, plied, ** but why do you ask ?” | ** Because,” said he, ‘1 have heard her conduct so much reflected on by some who | would have thought nothing of it, if ithad | not been for the consequences.” | “She might have turned him away less roughly,” L observed, aad “That is true,” he continued, “ but in any case, I think, though we might give them food for money, we should hardly invite beg@ars in to sit by the tire.” “ Certainly not,” [ replied; ‘and thi woman could not tell that the beggar y honest.” “No,” said he, ‘ but T must go on with my narrative. ‘The stranger tured yery hastily from her door, and waded through | the deep snow toward the other cottage, ‘The bitter wind helped to drive him to- ward it.—It looked no less poor than the. first; and, when he tried the door, found it bolted, and knocked twice, without at | tracting attention, his heart sank within) him. His hand was so numb with cold, | that he had made scarcely any noise; he! tried again, | Arush candle was burning within, and a matrouly-looking woman sat betore the | fire. She held an infant in her arms, and | had dropped asleep; but his third knock roused her,and wrapping her apron around | her child, she opened the door a very little | way, dnd demanded what he wanted. ‘Good woman,” the youth began, ‘I have had the misfortune to fall in the wa- | ter this bitter night, and Iam so numbed that I can scarcely walk.” The woman gave him a sudden, earnest look, and then sighed, ‘Come in,” she said; ‘* thowart so nigh the size of my Jem, [ thought at first it was him come home from sea,” The youth stepped across the threshold, wonder, lor his clothes were completely ped from them at every step he took on the sanded floor, “Thou art ina sorry plight,” said the woman, ** and it be two miles to the nigh- est houses; come and kneel down betore Cal She looked at him more attentively, and saw that he was a mere boy, not more than sixteen years of age. Her motherly heart was touched for him. ‘and drank the w trembling with cold and wet; and Hel ineased in wet mud, aud the water dvip- | | What she should do with them, the fire; thy teeth chatter so pitifully, 1} cely bear to hear them.” jhaye come to her door, and she should morning, he had broken a holo in the ice very near the decoy, but it had iced over so fast, that, in the dusk, he had missed it, and fallen in, fer it would not bear him, Le had made some landmarks, and taken erery precaution, but he supposed that the sport had excited him s¢ much that,in the moonlight, he had pase:d them by. Me then told hev of his attempt to get shelter in the other cottage, e ‘ Sir,” said the woman, “tf you bad said you were a gentleman—” The boy laughed. ‘I don't think L knew it myself, good woman,” ho replied, my senses were so benumbed; for I was seme time struggling at the water's ede: among the broken ice, and then [ buligve f was nearly an hour creeping up to your cottage door, LE remember it all rather distinctly, but as soon ay Lhad felt the fire, rbeor. Twas a diifer- ent creature.” Vile they still talked, the husband eama He P in, aid whlie he was cating his supper, they agreed that he should walk to Deen Ihul, and Jet its inmates know of the gen- tleman’s safety; and when he was gone, they made up the fire with all the coal that reoained in that poor household, nnd the wouitn crept upto the bed, and lete her guest to lie down and rest’ before it. Tn the grey dawn, the laborer returned, with & servant Jeading the horse, and bringing a fresh suit of clethes. Vie young gentleman took his leave, with many thanks, slipping three halt jerowns into the woman's hand, probably all the money he had about him. And T must not forget to mention that he kissed the baby, for when she tells the Story, the mother always adverts to that cireum- stance with pride, adding that. her child being as ‘clean a3 wax, was quite fit to be kissed by anybody !” |, ** Missis,” said her husband, as he stood in the doorway, looking after their guest, ‘who dost thou think that be 2” “I don’t know,” answered the Missis, Then, Lil tell thee, that be young Lord W.; sothou may bea proud woman, thou sits and talks with lovds, and asks them in to supper,—ha, ha!” So saying. her master shouldered his spade, and went his way, leaving her clinking the three ; half crowns in her hand, and considering Her neighbor, trom the other cottage, presently see in, and when she heard the tale, and saw the money, her heart was ready to break with envy and jealousy. “Oh! to think that good luck should haye been so foolish as to turn it away. Seven shillings and a sixpence for a morsel of food anda night’s shelter; why it was nearly a week's wages !” * Art hungry 2” she asked, turning to * Shooting wild ducks,” said the boy. “Oh!” said his hostes4, ‘thon art one of the keepers boys, then, I reckon?” Ile followed the direction of her eyes, and siuw two portions of bread sat upon the table, with a small piece of bacon on each, ‘My master be very late,” she observed, her husband; **but thou art weleome to my bit and sup, for L was waiting for him ; may be it will puts little warmth in you to eat and drink ;” so saying she took up a mugs of beer trom the earth, and pushed it toward him, with her share of the sup- er, “Thank you.” said the boy, ‘ but Tam so wet, Lam making quite a pool betore your fire, with the dtippings trom my clothes.” ‘Ay, thow art wet indeed,” said the woman, and rising again, she went to an old box, in which she began to search,and presently returned to the fire with a per tectly clean shirt in her hand, and a toler- ably yood suit of clothes” * There,” said she, showing them with no small pride, ‘these be my master’s Sunday clothes, aud if thou wilt be very careful of them, Pil let thee wear them till thine be dry.” She explained that she was going lo put her “ bairn’ to bed, and proceeded up a ladder into the room aboye, leaving the boy to array respectable and desirable garments, for charity did not make her use elegant! language, and by her master she meant! y himself in those | When she came down, her guest had} ” ing down, with a dull weight, from the roof, Now, hear my story. In one of the broad, open plains. of Lincolushire, there is along, reedy sheet of water, n favorite resort of wild ducks, At its northern extremity stand two mud coltages, old and out of repair. One bitter, bitter night, when the snow lay three teet on the ground, and nenutting east wind was driving it about, and whist- ling in the dry, frozen weeds, by the wa- ter’s edge, and swinging the bare willow trees, till their branches swept the ice, an old woman sat, spinning, in one of these cottages, before a moder, tely cheerful fire Her kettle was singing on the coals; she had a reed eandle, or home-made rush- light on her table, but the full moon shone in, and was the brighter light of the two. These two cottages were far from the road, dressed himself in the labore! 8 clothing; lilt them up, she said: been sorely frightened, ifshe could have seen thee a while ago.” Yes,” said the boy, and, in imagina- tion, the cottage dame saw this said) mo- ther wv care wort, hard-working creature, like herself, while the youthfal guest saw, in imagination, & beautiful and courtly lady ; aud both saw the same love, the ame anxiety, the same terror at sight ol a lonely boy straggling in the moonlight, through breaking ice, with no one to help him, snatching at the frozen reeds, and thon creeping up,shivering and benumbed, Summerside, Dee 12 ,1867—3mn or any other habitation; the old womau 'to a cottage door. he had time to warm himself, and he was | eating and drinking with hungry relisu.; you what L thenght the best of the anec- He had thrown his muddy clothes in’ a! dote. heap on the floor, and as she proceeded to! we So there, as they both supposed, the the table; ‘thou wat wet to the skin, | matter ended, and the next week the frost What hast thou been doing 2” was sharper than ever. \ Sheep were frozen in the fenny fields, and poultry on their | perches; but the good woman had walked | to the nearest town and bought a blanket. jlt was a welcome addition to their bed ‘eovering; and it was many a Jong year since they had been so comtortable, But it chanced one day at noon, that, looking out at her casement, she spied three young gentlemen, skiting along the ice toward her cottage, They sprang on to the bank, took off their skates and mado forthe door. ‘The young nobleman in- formed her that he had such a severe evid he could not como to see her before. ‘Tle spoke as tree and pleasantly,” sho observed, in telling the story, ‘¢asit Lhad been a lady, and no less! and then he brought a parcel out of his pocket, ¢ and [ve been over io B.," he says, and bonght you a book for a keepsake, and I hope you will accept it’ Aud then they all talked jas pretty as could be, for a matter of ten minutes, and went away. I waited till my master came home, and he opened the yureel, and there was a fine Dible inside, jallover gold and red moroceo. and my hame was written inside; and, bless hin! aten pound note doubled down oyer tha names, I’m sure, when I thought he was a poor, forlorn creature, he was kindly welcome, S) my master laid out part of |the money in tools, and we rented a gare iden, andhe goes over on market days to isell what we grow; so new, thank God, Wwe want nothing.” This is generly how she concludes tho . little history, never failing to add that the lord kissed her baby. « But,” said iny tiend. ' T bave not told When t poor Christian wouan ag asked what had induced berto takw eet steanger, and trast hin with lin a perl “Ah! lad, lad, [doubt thy head has /the best clothivg that her home aflurded, been under water; thy mother would have | she answered, slip) y. « Well, [saw him shivering and shak- line. so I thought thou shalt come in here, /for the sake of Ilim that had not » hure te Hay His head.” , ‘The old woman in the other cottage may, ‘open her door every night of her tuture’ lite, to some forlorn beggar, but it is all but certain that she will never open it to a nobleman in disguise! | Let usdo go.d, not to receive more ‘good in return, but as an evidence of gra. titude for whathas been already bestowed. ‘Tn a few words, lot it be * all fer the love, aud nothing for the reward.”