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CHAPTER IV.

Mrs. Ogden’s desire to bring about a re~ newal of the acquaintance between her son Isaac and Mr. Prigley was not an unwise one, even if considered independently of his religious interests, Mr. Prigley, though by no means a man of first-rate culture or capacity, was still the only gentleman in Shayton—the only man in the place who resolutely kept himself up to the standard of the outer world, and refused to adopt the local dialect and manners. No doubt our friend the Doetor was in a certain special sense a gentleman, and much more than‘a gentleman—he was a man of high attain- ment, and had an excellent heart. But,so far from desiring to rise above the outward ideal of the locality, he took a perverse pleasure in remaining a little below it. His language was a shade more provincial than that of the neighbouring manufacturers,and his manners somewhat more rugged and abrupt than theirs; Perhaps he secretely enjoyed the contrast between the common~ place exterior which he effected and the elaborate intellectual culture which he knew himself to possess. He resembled the house he lived in, which was, as to its exterior, so perfectly commonplace that everyone would pass it without notice, yet which contained greater intelectual riches and more abundant material for reflection than all the other houses in Shayton put to- gether. Therefore, if I say that Mr. Prig- ley was the only gentleman in the place, | mean externaly—in language and manner. If wealth be the standard adopted, the best gentleman in Shayton was a certain cotton

a million, and had six illegitimate children, to whom he never gave one farthing—and a first cousin, a paralytic old woman, in a state of utter destitution. If knowledge is the standard, who can be compared to the Doctor? And if moral worth be the standard of true gentlemanhood, as perhaps it may be in the eyes of the angeis in heavs en, than the best gentlemanin Shayton was a poor, pale operative, denying clothes to his back and food to his belly that he might keep alot of poor children who had no claim upon him except that their father had helped him ten years ago, and received, in consequence, a solemn promise on his deathbed that his little ones should not be forsaken. The living of Shayton was a very meagre one, and Mr. Prigley had great difficulty in keeping himself above water ; but there is more satisfaction in struggling with the difficulties of open and avowed poverty tban in maintaining deceitful ap- pearances, and Mr, | ed to think about appearances at all,

rigley, had long ceas- The only luxury they clung to at the parsonage was a degree of cleanliness considerably be- yond the ideal prevalent in Shayton; and their washings were considered extravagant and were no doubt heavier than the narrow income warranted. Uncle Jacob used to say that Mr. Prigley could not possibly know the luxury of a clean sbirt, because he ngver felt the delightfulness of the tran- sition from a thoroughly dirty one; but Mr. Prigley considered clean linen so pleasant in itself as to be beyond the necessity for contrast. In his earlier life he had beena fine swimmer, and passionately fond of taat amusement, but there was not a place with- in many miles of Shayton where he could indulge in it. The love of cold water re- mained with him, however, and he tubbed himself winter and summer, with heroic regularity. He had heard of the pond at Twistle Farm, and during the whole of last summer had longed to go and bathe in it but as Mr. Ogden never came near the par-g sonage, a feeling of delicacy had always re-~ strained him.

Soap and water are cheap, and therefore rich people are apt to conclude that people may always be clean; but when a family is poor, and there are five children besides the parents, it is found in practice that if the household is to ke kept up to any strict rule of cleanliness it must be at the cost of considerable sacrifices. The Prigleys could no doubt have managed this more easily if their residence had been situated in the pure air of an agricultural neighbourhood; but in a manufacturing town or large vil’- lage like Shayton, where a number of tall chimneys are continually filling the air with black smoke that descends in solid specks of carbon like perpetual rain this taste of theirs was found to be an expens sveone. Now it had happened sometime ago that the carpets showed grievous signs of wear, and in fact were so full of holes as to be positively dangerous, They hac been patched and mended over and over igain, and an ingenious seamstress employed by Mas. Prigley, and much valued by her, had darned them with variously-coloured wools in continuation of the original patterns, so that (unless on close inspection) the repairs were not very evident. Now, however, both Mrs. Prigley and the seamstress, notwith~ standing all their ingenuity and skill, had reluctantly come to the conclusion that to repair the carpets in their present advanc-~ ed stage of decay it would be necessary to darn nothing less than the whole area of them, and Mrs. Prigley deciared that she would rather manufacture new ones with her knitting needles. But if buying carpets was out of the question, so it was not less out of the question for Mrs. Prigley to fabri- cate objects of luxury, since her whole time was taken up by matters of pressing neces sity—indeed the poor lady could only just keep up with the ceaseless accumulation of things that wanted mending; and when-~ ever she was unwell fora day or two, and uvable to work, there rose such a heap of

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them as made her very heart sick, In this | perplexity about the carpets, nature was | left to take her course, and the carpets,

| were abandoned to their fate, but still left | upon the floors; for how were they ever to

| be replaced? By a most unfortunate co- incidence, Mr. Prigley discovered about the same time that his shirts, though ap- parently very sound and handsome shirts | indeed, and became deplorably weak in the | tissue; for if, in dressing himself in a hurry his hand did not happen to hit the orifice of the sleeve, it passed through the fabric of the shirt itself, and that withso little dif- ficulty that he was scarcely aware of any impediment; whilst if once the hem were wevered, the immediate consequence was a rent more than a foot long. Poor Mrs. Prigley had mended these patiently for a while; but one day, after marvelling how it happened that her husband had become so violent in his treatment of linen, she tried the strength of it herself, and, to use her own expressive phrase, ‘ came in two like a sheet of wet paper.’ It was characteristic of the Prigleys that they determined to re- new the linen at once, and to abandon car- pets for ever,

Shayton is not in France, and to do with- out carpets in Shayton amounts to a cons fession of what, in the middle class, is look. ed upon as a pitiable destitution. Mr. Prig« ley did not care much about'this; but his wife wasmore sensitive to public opinion, and long after that heroic resolution had been taken, hesitated to put it in execution. Day after day the ragged remnants remains ed upon the floor, and still did Mrs. Prig- ley procrastinate. Her husband used to say, ‘ Well, Sally, aren’t the carpets taken up yet? 1] thought our parsonage was to have adopted French fashions by this time, and that the dining room was to bea salle a manger, and the drawing room a salon, and the parson’s study the cabinet de mone You needn’t think the house will look wretched without carpets; the floors are very good, and I'll stain them like dark oak, and rub some linseed oil into them, and they’ll look as well asa French para« quet**™ But though the resolution had been taken in theory, the great step from theory to practice seemed very diflicult to Mrs. Prigley, and her old patched carpets, even with the holes in them, were dearer to her than any bare boards ever could be, how- ever disguised by Mr. Prigley’s oak stain and linseed oil, So they remained day after day.

Whilst things were in this condition at the parsonage, the conversation took place at Milend which we have narrated in the preceding chapter; and as soon as Mrs. Ogden had seen things straight in the kitchen, she ‘ bethought her,’ as she would have herself expressed it, that it might be

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a step towards intercourse between Isaac Ogden and the clergyman if she could make little Jacoh take a fancy té the par- sonage. There was a little boy there nears ly his own age, and as Jacob was far too much isolated, the acquaintance would be equally desirable tor him. ‘The idea was by no means new to her ; indeed she had long been anxious to find suitable play- mates for her grandson, a matter of which Isaac had not sufficiently perceived the im. portance; and she had often intended to take steps in this direction, but had been constantly deterred by the feelings of dis- like to Mr. Prigley which both her sons did not hesitate to express. What had Mr. Prigley done to them that they should nev. er be able to speak of him without a shade of very perceptible aversion or contempt? They had no definite accusation to make against him; they did not attempt to justify their antipathy, but the antipathy did not disguise itself. In an agricultural district the relations between the parson and the squire are often cordial ; in a manufacturing district the relations between the” parson and the millowners are usually less intimate and have more the character of accidental neighbourship than of natural alliance. It is difficult for the poorer clergy not to feel a little unconscious jealousy of the enor mous incomes netted by men whose edus cation has been confined to writing and arithmetic ; and, on the other hand, it is equally difficult for the cotton spinner, whose signature is a very lamp Aladdin, not to feel slightly jealous of the social and in~ tellectual (or at least educational) superi- orities of a class of men whoin many in- stances are actually struggling for the very necessaries of life. Tne contrast between the temporal and spiritual powers is seen here in its very strongest and crudest form ; but the violence of it is greatly miti,ated when (as frequently happens in the rising generation of manufacturers) the industrial chiet is a highly educated man, and when the clergyman has sufficient private fortune or'a sufficiently comfortable benefice, to re~ lieve him from painful comparisons.

The intercourse between Milend and the parsonage had been so frequent that Mrs. Prigley was quite astonishing when Betty, the maid of all work, announced Mrs. Og- den as she pushed open the door of the sit- ting room. But she was much more aston- ished when Mrs, Ogden, instead of quietly advancing in her somewhat stiff and formal manner, fell forward on the door with out- stretched arms and a shriek. Mrs, Prigley shrieked too, llttle Jacob tried manfully to lift up his grandmother, and poor Betty, not knowing what#o say under circumstan+ ces so unexpected, but vaguely feeling that she was likely to incur blame, and might possibly (though in some manner not yet clear to her) deserve it, begged Mrs. Og- den’s pardon. Mr. Prigley was busy writ- ing a ‘sermon in! his study, or rather learns ing one by heart that he had written, for he was supposed extempore ; and being suddenly interrupted in the midst of what seemed to him an uncommonly eloquent passage on the spread of infidelity, rushed to the scene of the accident in a state of great mental confusion, which for some seconds prevented him from recognising Mrs. Ogden, or Mrs. Ogden’s bonnet, for the ladys’s face was not visible to him as he stood amazed in the doorway. ‘ Bless me?!’ thought Mr. Prigley, ‘ here’s a woman in a fit!’ And then came a dim and somewhat unchristaian feeling that worfien liable to fits need not just come and have them in the parlour at the parsonage. ‘It’s Mrs. Ogden, love,’ said Mrs, Prigley ; and, oh dear, I am so sorry!’

By the united efforts of the parson and his wife, joined to those of Betty and little Jacob, Mrs. Ogden was placed upon the sofa, and Mr. Prigley went to fetch some brandy from the dining room. On his way to the door the cause of the accident be~ came apparent to him in the shape of a yawning rent in the carpet,which was draggs ed wp in great folds and creases several

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inches high, He had no time to do juss tice to the subject now, and so refrained from making any observation ; but he ful- ly resolved that, whether Mrs. Prigley liked it or not, all ragged old carpets should dis» appear from the parsonage as soon as Mrs, Ogden could be got out of it. When Mrs, Prigley saw the hole in her turn, she was overwhelmed with a sense of culpability, and felt herself to be little better than a murdress,

‘ Betty, run and fetch Dr. DBardly as fast as ever you can.’

‘ Please let me go,’ said little Jacob; ‘I can run faster than she can.’

So little Jacob bounded out of the par-

sonage, and ran down the main street of Shayton Hea hare before the hounds. Some durty little boys that were playing at marbles saw him pass, and called out after him, and so raised a hue and cry that was taken up bya straggling population of juveniles. At last half a dozen of them closed the path before him, and when he tried to make his way through the ranks of the enemy, our hero dealt several very hearty blows with his small fists, which was returned with equal heartiness ; and indeed so irritated did the little mob become that little Jacob would have had his legs varie- gated by kicks from their heavy clogs if a powerful ally had not come to his assistance. It happened that the battle took place just before Susy Tattersal’s shop, which, as everybody in Shayton knows very wel! (though some strangers in London and elses where may not be aware of the fact,) is in the main street of the village just before you turn up to the Doctor’s, Susy is a strong woman yet; but at the date of the present narrative she was an uncommonly powerful one, and loved and hated as ener~ getically as she drove the scouring stone along her sanded floor, or wrung out her check aprons on the washing day. Her trade was of a miscellaneous description. She sold the Manchester papers ; she sold shilling novels, and religious biographies, and atheistic pamphlets, and pious tracts ; she sold sugar plums and children’s toys, including whips of various descriptions, with whistles and without whistles. She dealt in tarts also, One of her most regular patrons was Master Jacob, who had lots of pocket money (more than was good for him), and seldom fail to look in at Susan’s when he passed that way. The woman had had a little son exactly of Jacob’s age but the child was dead ; and every time Susy saw little Jacob, the maternal heart within her said that her own Isaiah would have been about such another if he had lived ; so she often kissed our young hero, who ra- ther wondered at these attentions, to which, however, he had no objection, as they were usually followed by gratuitous sugar plums and tarts. And when the lad’s back was turned, and Susy was left alone in her shop, the check apron would go up to the corners of her eyes, and the next customer would wonder what had been the matter. So when the scuflle took place at Susy’s door she rushed out, and perceiving that her favour was surruunded by enemies, threw herself valiantly into the thick of the combat,open- ing a way with her big red arms. and scat- tering her foes at the right hand and to the left. The little dirty urchins had all of them a great awe of Susy, and vanished before this stalwert maintainer of the right. She drew little Jacob into her sanctuary of tarts and lollipops, and questioned him in rather an overwhelming manner. So soon as she had gathered that Mrs. Ogden had fallen down in the parlour at the parsonage, and that her young friend had been sent to fetch the doctor, she set off with him to Dr. Bardly’s house. Martha opened the door. ‘Eh, Susy! what are you comed about ? Is somebody noan weel?’ and then per. ceiving Master Jacob, ‘ What! is there sum» mat wrong at Milen or up at Twistle Farm ? Without giving Jacob any time to answer. Susy Tattersal whispered in a grave and breathless manner, ‘it’s Mistress Ogden; who’s fa’en down ja fitt at th’ parsonage, and who’s ’appen deead by neaw.’

Whilst the Doctor and little Jacob are going to Mr. Prigley’s—the doctor walking as fast as he can and asking questions, his young friend running by his side and do- ing what he can to answer them—Susy stops to have a little chat with Martha, and then goes back to her shop, where, to her confusion, five customers are waiting for her. It is very natural that, by way ot appology for her absence, she should nar- rate what she knew of Mrs. Ogden’s acci. dent, with her own comments, Soon af- terwards Mr. Isaac rode into Shayton, and just as he was turning into the yard at the Red Lion, one of his tenants, who stood bareheaded in the doorway with a long clay pipe in his mouth, came suddenly forward beckoned, and in a grave low tone, with an expression of muchsympathy, communicat-~ ed the news that Mrs. Ogden had just had a fit of apoplexy at the parsonage, and that Dr. Bardly was with her, but that it was be~ lieved lite was not yet quite extinct, About the same time his brother Jacob at the mil} received the news that Mrs. Ogden had had a severe fallat Mr. Prigley’s, and that she had broken her arm, but that Dr. Bardly had set it, and she was doing as well as could be expected.

To be Continued,

Tur Yacat Countess or Durrerin.—The Canadian yacht Countess of Duflerin, which arrived here on Friday night, as reported in our last, sailed at 7 o'clock yesterday morns ing for New York. She was visited on Sunday by many persons interested iu shipbuilding and yachting, among whom the general opinion was unfavorable. She has been constructed on principles different from those commonly received here, and as she was turned out in a hurry she is ina rough state, which can hardly fail to pro~ voke smiles from the New Yorkers who are used to seeing yachts finished to perfection. The commander and prssengers frankly admit that the Countess is not much to look at, but they smile in a self-satisfied way and say that she was built fora specific pur«

e—to win the Queen’s Cup; that her lack of finish does not effect her sailing qualities; and that ber performance in the race with the Madeline will be the best test of her soundness of her builder’s ideas, If the strange-looking craft earries off the Queen’s Cup in the coming contest, there will be a revolution in yacht building in New York.—Hz. Chronicle,

The following isa cablegram to the To- ronto Glube:—‘The Merchants’ Shipping Bill has been amended in accordance with the cable despatch of last Saturday. The billas arhended will be reported to the House of Lords next Friday. As the bill now stands, the decision of the House of of Commons allow three feet deck loads and makes other concessions to Canadian interests. ‘The bill, after passing the Lords, must be referred back to the Commons for approval of the alterations msde.”

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CORRESPONDERCE.

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

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Wasuineton, D.C., July 3, 1876. We may not sing the exact words of that good old hymn: “Lo! whata cloud of wits nesses encompass us around,’ but by chang-~ ing theword witnesses to visitors we muy sing it to our heart’s content, and truthfully too, for the city is full of them from all parts of the country. They all seem to be « ing themselves, and look extremely happy, and we

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the soberssided citizens the

in thought that they are so, are pleased it should beso, The public -buildings, the Smithsonian, and Agricultural bureau,

re~ ceive their due share of attention, and then Mount Vernon claims their regards. The numerous steamers making daily excur- sions to that place afford ample opportunity for the exercise of their reverential emo- tions, and the delightful trip well repays the pilgrim to the Mecca of America. The ‘*down-east ” style of answering one ques- tion by asking another obtains here just now toa limited extent. To the question, what do you think of the St. Louis Conven- tion? The reply frequently is, are you going to the Centennial on the Fourth You may observe from this that politics and the Cen- tennnial Fourth divide the public attention between them. Just now there isa “ dead lock” in Congress, on the subject of appro< priation. The house feels economical,and thinks too much money has been spent by the Administration, and has therefore re- duced the amount beretofore deemed neces- sary. The Senate feels generous and wants the amount heretofore supplied, and have s0 amended the House bill as to obtain this result. But the House will not agree to the Senate's amendments, and commit~ tees upon committee of conference have been appointed, they too have utterly fail- ed to agree, and the state of affairs produc- ed by such actions has, or will cause much embarassment in the transaction of public business. It is probable, however, that the House will agree to a proposition made by the Senate to let the appropriation for the last fiscal year, ending June 30th, run over for thirty days, hoping by that time to ar. rive at some satisfactory adjustment of the differences now existing. If they make no better headway than the experience of the past thirty days would leads us to look for, they might safely have given thems selves sixty, and at the end of that time been no nearer a satisfactory settlement than they now are. No matter how this may be, they (that is Congress) can find time and money enough to flit over to Philadelphia to spout “ Buncombe” in In- dependence Hall on the near approaching Fourth. But in accordance with a resolu- tion passed by the Senate, the President of that body will select fifteen poor old victims to be left behind to eat pudding and sip wine with Doctor John B. Blake and his venerable confreers yclept, the Association of Oidest inhabitants. I suppose that they (that is the fifteen ‘left behind ”) will see and hear just as much to interest and amuse them here as they would had thef gone with the rest to the city of fraternal affec~ tion, and doubtless the many interesting incidents (many of them existing only in the imagimation of the relator) connect~ ed with the early history of Washington will, together with a sip or two of fine old wine, make them feel like singing ‘Oh, would | were a boy again. Mr. Rink of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, has reported a bill which, if it pass the Senate and become law, should be at once published throughout the lana so that those interested mzy avail themselves of its bene- fits. The bill provides that any person who has lost a limb in the service of the Unit- ed States shall receive every five years an artificial limb, and, if I mistake not, the bill provides that all expenses for going and returning, in having the limb fitted; shall be defrayed by theGovernment. The proper way to get all the information neses- sary would be to address the Commissioner of Pensions. I will ascertain the facts, and give them to you in my next letter. SAXON,

A SINGULAR MURDER:

AN ATTEMPT TG SAVE A MAN BY USING ANOTHER MAN'S BLOOD,

[From the Georgetowu (Col.) Miner, June 17.]

Last week we mentioned briefly the cuts ting of Frank Grey in the neck by Thomas Kerwin, on Monday, the 15th. At the time we penned the brief paragraph it was gen- erally supposed that the woundel man would recover,

The event, however, has proved that the aftray was destined to terminate ina tra- gedy that was not at first anticipated.

The wounded man is dead and in his grave, and the murderer is safely locked up in jail.

Last Sunday night Gray, who was sleeps ing in an upper room in the Doyle House, was seized with a fit of coughing, and a fearful hemorrhage ensued, He was alone at the time, and started to the door to give the alarm and have the physician sent for. The blood spurted in torrents from the

him, nearly a gallon of blood, it is estimat-

the carotid artery. was almost lifefess.

most part lay in a semi-unconscious state.

blood into his system.

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surprised at the result.

the same decision was given by the pbys

words addressed to him,

the temperature of which was regulated b a thermometer.

Lemon, an incision made in a vein of th

cision vein through a small syringe. Abouf. four ounces of the blood draw

wound, and before Dr. Lemen could reach

ed, had been pumped by the heart through | The result was that he | During the day (Mon-~ day) he was gradually sinking, and for the

The attending physician determined, as a last resort, to try the effect ot transfusing Kerwin agreed to supply the blood, and shortly after dinner the experimemt was made, Dr. Lemen operating, assisted by Drs, Todd and Van We were present during the operation, and are free to say that we were The poor fellow seemed in the very grasp of death before the operation commenced. We could de- tect no pulsation whatever at the wrist, and

icians; his hands and feet were cold and clammy, like those of a corpse; the eyes had only a vacant stare, betraying no intel ligence, and when spoken to he appeared | entirely unconscious of the import of the | fou!

Blood was drawn from Kerwin’s arm and kept at the temperature of the body by |

immersing the bow! containing it in water, |

The fibrine or clot of blood was then carefully removed ty Dr. |

right armi, and the blood forced into the in- |

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frora Kerwin arm were injected into Gray's | end ina shori time the pulse was quite | perceptible, the extremities resumed their | normal condition and became warm, con- | sciousness returned, and although he did | not attempt to speak he evinced a know- | ledge cf what was said to him and replied | to questions by manual signs. The strength | given him by this accession of biood prob- |ably prolonged his life some hours, but | about one o'clock Wednesday morning he | breathed his last—another victim to deadly weapons in the hands of passionate men. Upon learning the fatal result of the traged, Kerwin who had been out on bail was promptly arrested by the proper officer and committed to jail to await the action ot the Grand Jury summoned by Judge Stone to investigate the case.