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“his is trae Liberty, when Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.’’---Euripides.

VOL. XVIIL. J

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PR

INCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1868,

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~ WEST INDIA PRODUCE, FISH, &e.

N SALE, by the Sabseriber, at bis Warebouse, Queen Street si Puna. Bright Barbadoes MOLASSES, 6 do heavy Demerara do 1¢ Beals. Bright SUGAK 950 Qils. prime Shore CODFISH, oo do iwfector small de 5 — Rexes large Murray Harbor CODF! SH, [for family use. 8 Qus. HADDOCK, 10 Cusks Codlish OLL,

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2 Chests Prime Cerngon TEA,

YCUAINS & ANCHORS sa table for a vessel of 100 Tens New Measurement, 3000 Bashels Turks’ Island SALT DANIEL DAVIES. Ch'town, Jan 20, 1S6« Qin

SAVE MONEY. I. W. FALCONER & Co,

Bevo received, per Alhambra trom

Boston, Mens’ and Boys’ Winter Caps, Ie Far, Astrican & Cloth Sold at Smail Advance on Cost.

Paper Collars, In Shakspeare, Crescent, Linen Finish, and Clipper, at 7d per box

Gentlemen's Ties,

Ie Sheridan, Grecian, Henrietta, Exposition, Queen, Fancy and Black Koots aud Parepus. The best assortment in town.

Gents’ Knit Vests! | BUFFALO ROBES.

For all who seek Comfort.

INSPECTION SOLICITED.

Beath Suie Queen Square. ’ Charlottetown, Nov. 25 1867 5

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fey PEEL for

DIGGERS

MUD

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MUD DIGGERS

( 6 Bbls

er for MUD DIGGERS

at W. E. DAWSON'S. , 1868.

CANADA FLOUR.

SOR Sale at the Subscriber's W arebouse,

Bank Bui

ding~-

400 Bbis. Canada (No. |! FLOUR, @ De CURNMEAL 30 Bags do 1S Boxes Montreai Cavendish TOBACCO, 14 iho TEA. i 2 Pans. (in Bond) Dark BRANDY ' & De du do do

RW. BRECKEN.

Queen Street, Jan. 6, 1568

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SUPERIOR | | PHOTOGHAPH 5S. j

Old Stand, Great George Street.

KORGE P. TANTON retarns thanks

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fer the liberal patronage w! be bas re-} eeived during the pal eighteen vears é Das veen in Uusiness Hlis Roouw having receativ been elosed while being re fitted und improved, be wuald his GALLERY is

now veepecifully announce tial agwio RE-OPENED for LRANSAULING BUsl NESS.

With increased facility iu his operating depart meat, u careful selection of pure chen cais, and a strict attention to busivess, he hopes still to give

greater sutiefaction than he uilberte hus dou CARTE DE VISITE taken in the Lest atyles, aiswo Dollars per Dezen,. All other styles at the lowest rates 8S" Rooms open iv Winter at 8 o'clock, a. m, in semmer at 6 4. m,and continued anil suuduwn Charlottetown, Jan. 13, 1868 2m

Co-partnership Notice.

HE SUBSCRIBERS have this day

eutered into CO-PARTNEKSHIP as BAR- RISTERS sud ATLORNEYS-AT-LA WW, nnder the same, style aud firm of

ALLEY & DAVIES OPMICE -- - - OHALLORAN’S [UILDING. QGReaT Geouee STREET GEORGE ALLEY, LOUI3 H. DAVLES. _Charlottetown, Oct. 18, 1867. tf 4

NOW READY, HARVIE’s PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

ALMANAC for 1868.

For Sale, Wholesale and Retail, at

HARVIE'S BOOKSTORE,

Queen Street.

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aluable Mill Property for Sale. | OGERS’ MILLS, Western Road, on |

Township No. 5. These Mills are in good working order, placed on a good and never-fuiling @tream, with 10 acres of as good Land as this) Island cati atfurd, well covered wit): larve Hard | and Scft Weed. This Property is invaluable w a persou of small capitai. There is au industrious | aud thriving settliemenat— Bloomfield --fust nwoprov- | ing the ‘ands around this property, and Lumber | always iu demand. There ix a Cotinge at the Mill, | a enw! clearance of 6 or ¥ acres, with a Dwelling House and Stable. The Mill is new, well-made, ' and double geured. }

fuformation may be had on application to a meré, ov the premises; enj. Revers aud Herbert Beil, Alberta ; of to the eabscriber in Charlotte: |

town. | I. C, HALL. t

Seneney 0.108. tins a

Freehold Farm for Sale, | ITUATED on Lot 65, fronting on Eliiot | River, three miles from Charlottetown,

acd one wile from Rocky Point Ferry, 97 acres |

Land, 40 of which are cleared and in a nigh state | of cultivation, the remainder covered with feuce oer aad a good growth of hardwood, with good ildings on the premises. For further particulars | apply to the subseriber ou tae premises PATRICK McMAHON, |

December 16, 1967 : i

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FAT HERRING !! 300 BBLS. Bay of le ands FAT) HERKING, just arrived per Schoovers |

“ Lettie’ and *‘ Foam,’ aud for sale by i Ch'town, Dee. 23, 1867. .. © Rate |

<e CODFISH! 100 QUINTALS Lares

CUDFISH, tor sale by Ch'town, Dee. 23, 1507.

"NOTICE.

aod Medium |

1c. Mans... |

muse Subscriber having been July appoint-|

ed Attorney for the Rev. MALACHIAS| REYNOLDS lute of Dedable, daring lis temporary | ! from thie Island, requests ail persens indeited to the said Mr. Keynolds to pay up their liabilities without delay. WM. CUNDALL.

Ch’town, Sept. 9, 1867. i

GOOD FIR:tS. Ss New selling at the Gas Works a) q

mantity of very superior COKE at FIVE

PENCE per bushel. N. i. Coke will last longer aud give # ureater beat thuu Sydney Coal.

duuuary , 1868. ia! }

| restorative properties it wili bring back the Hair | to its i

|HALL’S VEGETABLE SICILIAN HAIR)

| quarter # notice required previous to the removal |

{ Queen Street, Sept. i, 1867.

TO FISHERMEN, | Kor Sale W E OFFER FOR SALE, at low! AT THE prices, a very large and complete assort- | Establishment of W. W. Lord,

ment of ‘ 1 HERRING TWINE, 2 & 3 ply, BY WHOLESALE! SALMON PWINE, | MOTJASSES in Puncheens, ‘Tierces aud Lurrels,

MACKEREL TWINE, SHAD TWINR, HAND LINES, SET LINES, TRAWL HOOKS, COD HOOKS, BOAT NAILS, MANILLA ROPE, At the “ CITY HARDWARE STORE.”

H. E. STARBIRD & CO.

Jan. 20, 1868 Gi

SUGARK in Hhds. and Barrels, | FLOP Rand INDIAN MEAL,

TEA iu Chests and half Chests,

ONIONS and APPLES,

Boxes Ground CC IPFEE,

Boxes Grownd PEPPRE,

Boxes SQDA and WINE BISCUIT,

Barrels PLLOT BREAD,

Bays RICE,

Boxes Liverpool Brown SOAP

Boxes PIPES, 6 gross each,

Any quantity of SALT, by the Bushel or Bag, 0 HERKINGS in Barrels and half do Ee : a ia ied 25 Tons eommon BOLT TRON, 3, 3, f, a £15 cash,

rt Sat aye SPEEL, Nails, Spikes and thepe, -s wi = | Secoud hand Rigying, Blecks, Sails. Masts, Bow-

AT aprit, Patent Lron Work for the Windlass, aud Boat for » Schooner of about 60 tons

The British Warehouse! | 500 Tous Kocnd COAL. 80 Tons Small COAL.

Ch'town, Dec. 2, 1867

venient Glands casein ANCE

QUEEN SQUARE HOUSE.

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Umbrella Stands. UST received, Ex New Dominion—

Pire Geards, Nursery Guards. Si rth omen ee & COILSEEN'S

Favey Fenders for Grates. WINTER BOOTS & SLIPPERS,

Mahogany Poles. Rings and Ends. LATEST STYLES.

Brass Poles, Liings and Ends,

Brass Brackets and Holders.

Brass Stair Rods and Kyes. i | }

Fancy and Plain Coa) Scutrles. Fancy and Plain Coal Shovels. lron Bedsteads aad Stretchers.

Ex “ ALHAMBRA,” 2 CASES FUR CAPS. WM. HEARD.

Aud all Furnishing Goods.

Ch’town, Dee. 2, 1867.

BUY YOUR

WW. & A. BROWN.

Charlottetown, Nor. 11, 1367

WEST INDIA HOUSE, HARDWARE GOODS

Upper Great George Street. | AT Who has Imported this Fall, and has on band, the largest stock hithertu offered to bis

customers. Nov. 25, 1867.

TENHE Subscriber offers for Sale, at his

Stere, the followtny, viz

tl Hhds. Strong Demrara SPIRITS, Hhds Helland GIN j Casks Port and Sherry WINE, } a Casks Scot Prime}, Cusks Irish WHISKEY | 90 Doz. Edinbargh ALE, 6 Cases CHAMPAGNE 10 ** Blood’s xxx PORTER, Cases CLARAT, 3 Bbis CURRANTS,

| SCHOOL BOOKs. | fFNUE NEW SERIES OF R®ADING

BOOKS, anthorized by the Board of Educa- tion for use in the PUBLIC sCHUOLS of this Islaud, can now be had complete at

HARVIE’S BOOKSTORE, QUEEN STREEY.

A Liserat Discount allowed to Teachers and

i? Boxes RAISINS, 25 $do RAISINS, Bays KICK, 60 Boxes FIGS, Bays PEPPER, j Chests Superior TBA, Bois CruashedsUGAR, Cacks Washing Sopa, | Hids and Bils. P. R. Hids and Bols. P R.} M)LASSES, SUGAR } ) Kerosene OIL, 6 Bbls. Red ONIONS, | #24 Wholesale Deuwiers. 20 Doz. Am. BROOMS, 20 Doz. Am. BUCKETS, } Ee Please send in your orders. |} Ch'town, Sept. 30, 1867. tf

—Also— | siileiasbciaiiaiah ’ \ large stock of Spices, Pickles, Frait, &c., &e.,) HERRINGS. HERRINGS. HERRINGS. i advove aaa aa of th ae y best descrip- ' 0 W being Landed irom Sch Commerce, won, and will be sold cheap for Cash Gs from say of Isiands, NA‘d. -

LEMUEL McKAY. | 300 Bbis. Fat Herrings,

1&6 | % very superior article, and suld cheap tor Cash

HALL'S VEGETABLE SICILIAN|” ?""°"“* HAIR RENEWER, |

Has pre ved itself to be the best pre- wi!

paration ever presented to the public; a fact }

Charlottetown. Dec. i7

ALSO ON HAND, 3,000 Bushels of Liverpool SALT, whieb wil be suid cheap tor Carh.

W. B. DEAN.

to ch thoasauds have testified who bave been Dee. 23, 167. sim benefited by tts use “ ——_——— Sibiaiseapinidihcsliaiaie liam A few applications of this Compound will change FROM LONDON brash, dry aud wiry Hair to a moist and glossy |} appearance, and make it of | TO SILKEN TEXTURE. CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E. ISLAND, the Sicittan Harr Re- | DIRECT.

The Proprietors offer NEWee to the public, entirely contidevt that by its

THE FAS? SAILING NEW BRIG ed 5 years A 1 at Lloyd's, 274 tons register. D. McDonaup, Master

NATURAL COLOR.

It is not a dye, and consequently does not stain! w,,, sas) irom LONDON, sbout the let o! |

the akin or soil the finest fabric. If the Huir is] mung srey, the use ofthe Rexewsr wil surely arrest its decay, ho inalier trom Wiiat | i create a new growth, ad make it!

APRIL, 1868. Parties wishing to Ship by this Vessel wil! apply in Lonvon to Messrs. Joun Pitcairn &

failing off or bee

callse, atid Wii

COMPOUND FROM

daudraff, and cures all diseases of the scalp, and |

by its eooling iat “sn ullays the itching aud) LIVERPOOL AND GLASGOW.

fever of the scalp tcombines not only the best | . ae : : '

remedial properties for all disewses of the Hairand| o@ TH ii Subseribers inform the public

Scalp, but also is the best dressing for the Hair. | that the following vessels wiil be uta loading berth at Liverpool and Glasgow, and will

Chis preparation has been sold for the past seven 4 : years entirely upen its own merits. sail from their respective ports on the lst April wext:—

assume in @ short time all its former vigor, as i : : furnishes the uutritive principie by which the Hair | 5YN8, tJ Cornhill, orto the owners. is nourished and supported. As a | PEAKE BROS. & CO,,

HAIR DRESSING, Charlottetown, P. E. [. he Rexgwer is unequalled by any other Hair | Jan 27. 1868. _ Ain f preparation in the worid, giving it that beautiful | an = > leXture W!.ich le 80 wach admired by all It does | REGULAR LINE OF vot contain any poisohous drugs, the basis of | ot its remedial properties being a VEGSTASLE | PACKETS

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It completely eradicates scruf and

Beware of the numerous imitations, which in ap- } From Liverpool: pearance only are simular to it, which are forced | lad ake ' upon the public upon our reputation. Call for the ALShip “L.C. OWEN, 480 tons Register,

; copoered, ANGUs Brows, Commander. From Glasgow : the Bark ‘‘ EMPRESS,"' 38C tons Register, 3, 3,

ll Bureau, Veritas, Jouwx GILLis, commander. Both these vessele have first class accommodation For Sate By Henry Beer, Southport; Wm. Find for passengers

ley, Orwell ; K J Clarke Orwell ; Jas Flay For freight or passage apply in Liverpool to den, Vernon River; Dauiel Gordon, George- Messrs. William Stewart & Co, 1 & 2 Tratford town; A. W LeBrocq, Georgetown; J, R.-| Chambers, South John Street; in Glasgow to Boerke. Jr, Mount Stewart; John Binns, Jr, New Glaszow Bridge ;

RENEWER, and take no other, or you wili be dis |

appointed. R. P. HALL & CO, Proprietors, Nashua, N. H.

Db. & P. McNutt, Mal- | Charlottetown to

peque ; Win. T. Haunt & Co, Summerside: | L. C. OWEN David Rogers, Sumwerside; Herbert Bell, Sin ' i i Alberton. WILLIAM WELSH.

W.R. WATSON, Geueral Agent for P. E. Island. |

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City Drug Store, Victoria Building, , ys

September 30, 1867 ; i i I I 5S HER I u “i Xe. eters For Sale to the Trade.

BALES first quality Cotton Her. ring and Mackerel TWINE, 110,000 Ibe firat quality do do 5.000 doz do do dv COD LINES, 2,000 doz do do do Muckere! and Po) lock Lines, 50 superior do 20 do do Light and streng Mackerel) Purse Seines, Cotton is as cheap as before the war. AMERICAN NET AND TWINE CO. 43 Commercial street, Boston.

ISAAC ©, HALL, Agent. Ch'town, December 2, 1867. 4m

NEW GOODS.

Charlottetown, P. E. Island, }

Jan 27th, (868 2m

School for Little Girls, | In connection with the Charlottetown 10 Academy. Peres per Quurter of Eleven Weeks, commerwemng trom day of entrance, Taition

in English £1 French £1. Music £1 10s.

Terms, in all cases payable in advance. A|

of w pupil. For farther particulars apply to MRS. McDONELL,

Great George Street.

Jan. 20, 1868.

Charlottetown Academy for young Ladies. ‘PERMs, ineluding Board and Tuition iv English, French, and Music, £12 10s per {1K Subscriber has lately received a quarter, payable in advance. Day pupils £5 per LARGE ASSURTMENT OF quarter. Voeal Music, German and Drawing, extra \ quarter's notice required previous tothe removal ¢ of a pupil. Fer farther particulars, apply to the | Dry Goods and Hardware, Prineipal, Mrs. MCDONELL,or to the Kev. D. Fitz. | which have been bought at Auction, and will be gerald, Rector of Chariottetown, P. E Island. | sold very low- weede neware : rrene verman, dra wi nares | ches » é * N. B. French, German, and Drawing Classes | Crapand, Angust 22. 1867.

open to young ladies who are not pupils in the | NEW GOODS!

Academy HE Subscriber would inform the Inhabi-

{ustruction in Music £3 per quarter. | NEW GOODS ! tants of P. KE. Islaud, that, on the arrival of

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ERSKIN’S A Tonic aud Unfailing Remedy for Wholesale and Retail, Rheumatism of all kinds, Neuralgia, For Cash or good Joint Notes of Hand, Lumbago, Sciatica, paren _ & 3 WHITE LEAD, iu 56, 28, & 14 As also for FACK-ACHE, TOOTIL-ACHE, | So > "re HORA J mapping ee pe Black, Red, & Yellow PAINTS, in 28 & 14 lbs. ;

‘ ; Chance’s Swethwick GLASS; ee ee eee {PU TY, Black and White, in Bladders 28 and . BON. }

ze : 14 ibs.; City Drug Store, Victoria Building, CUT NAILS, and CUT SPIKES; | Diamond Head DECK SPIKES; | Bats Refined and Common LRON, assorted sizes

STOVES. a pe .N J | Barrels and Kegs COAL TAR; OR SALE No 1 aud No. 2 MODEL pois lack and Bright VARNISHES; PARLK’ STOVES, cheap for Cash °F | Coils HEMP and WIRE CORDAGE; COPPLSOH: * she BRON EAM’ Bolts Extra and Navy Boiled CANVAS; Reading Roow Rentine | Bare YELLOW METAL, § to 4; Oct. , 1987. __|YELLOW METAL BUTT BOLTS, 7 » §; | CLINCH RINGS, Lron and Yellow Metal; Crates and Casks GLASS, CHINA, and EARTH- ENWARE,—Crates assorted for country

FENUB SUBSCRIBER keeps constantly on hand a supply vi Tar & Wonson’s Copper Paint, [ an article which has givey the greatest satisfac- Sebucmen. : ‘ tion te all whe have used it. Lt possesses superior | Parties wanting any of the above articles will quaiities for eifectually preventing the accumula-|do wellby calling and inspecting them, at the

tion of al) foul matter, such as Worins, Barnacles, | OLD STAND, Cormorty occupied bg hd, A am. &e.. on the bottoms of Vessels or Boats, to ices HEAD ef LORD'S WHARF, | lied. ater Sireet. nt when properly apph ARTEMAS LORD. Oct. 29, 1866.

Charlottetown, May 20, 1867.

use ; /A NEW MIXTURE for Bottoms of FISHING BOATS, much approved of by English

I. C. HALL. |

"Sa

ee ee Sakae ee

_ | As if old memory stirred their hearts;

Casks Henuessev s Dark & Pale Brandy, | qn ‘ ye ' ey = ear : . 7 } eae ee “S THE NEW SERIES OF

AMPHION, coppered, and class- |

| t0 make a clean breast to bis father of bis ‘love for the fair young cousin 80 soon to be | left fatherless, when the door of the room | opened and she came in.

She was dressed in quaker-like, unrast ling cashmere, that fellin soft folds round her very slight figure, drooping now from the exhaustion and anxiety of the Jast few days. At first sight there seemed to be no special beauty about Helen Seton’s pale face and braided hair; but to those who knew her well, an indescribable charm lingered in the meek brown eyes,—dimmed now by weeping, —in the ever-varying play of the mouth, and in the set of the little head upon the slender white throat Henry Seton had long found

| ss LTP ERATURE.

THE STRANGER ON THE HILL,

Between broad fields of wheat aad corn, In the lovely home where I was born, The peach trees Jean against the wall,

| And the woodbine wanders over all ; There is the shaded door way still,

| But the strauger’s foot has crossed the sill.

There is the barn—and still as ef yore I can smell the bay from the open door, And see the busy swallows throng,

And hear the peewee’s mournful song ; | But the stranger comes—ah! painful proof— | His sheaves are piled to the heated roof,

he loved her; but as yet Helen had given

shrink from a look or tone more tender than cousinly. loved her passionately, but be was not an bumble man, and it was not his nature to fear failure in what depended upon his personal efforts. He told himself that he

| There is the orchard—the very trees, | Where my childhood knew long bours of ease, And watched the shadowy moments run,

| ‘Till my lite had imbibed more shade than aun; j

That swing from the bough now sweeps the air, But the stranger's children are swinging there.

| | There bubbles the shady spring below, | justice to him, it must be said, from any

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with tender words. He eould not venture to of a pen, and it would be done, and detection make the attempt; there was a certain dig- would be impossible. No Bnglshman had nity about the quiet, delicate girl, even in| been near his father’s death-bed, seve the one

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| her grief, which held bim ina kind of awe.| who had so speedily followed Kim to the

out this charm, and confessed to himself that) him no encouragement, and rather seemed to |

Yet, Henry did not dispair. He,

He thought of her and of ber forlorn position; grave ; no one but himself would visit thet very tenderly as he leant back in bis arm obscure German village to enquire partiou- chair, Hethought bow ber presence would lars; she priest would soon forget the exact brighten the house that would be his father’s; hour at which the stranger died. Yes, it —Helen’s old home; how it might De her) might be done; only if it were, he, Henry home in a truer sense some day. if only she Seton, who had always looked down from would allow it. On the whole, his reflections | his pinnacle of self-esteem with condemnation were not unhappy. A postman’s knock in- for the erring, and contempt for the weak, terrupted them. Henry Seton had beard he would know himself to be a villian. Yet once from his father since he lef England. who would be the loser? Not Helen; for he He bad written from Vienna, whither urgent believed that bat for her possession of thie legal business. andertaken for a friend in In- accursed fortune he could win her love. His dia, bad taken him. Matters had been ar- devotion would secure her happiness, aad the ranged, and he had promised to write again | riches would all be hers. And if not Helen, to fix the exact day of his return. But the| who? There was no one else; no other re- letter was brought in, though it bore the | lations near or remote would suffer ; but——. post-mark of a German town, was not in| Again and again he wrestled with the sug- Captain Seton's hand, nor in any writing gestion that bad come to him, tearing up the which Henry knew. It was directed in an’ tufts of grass, and biting them in the bitter irregular foreign scrawl, and in breaking the struggle; again and again he rose, as if te

seal two letters dropped from the cover, one return home, and end the temptation, again

| would wait and win her, and to his mind the | tura woich affairs had now taken had almost | changed the hope into a certainty; not, in.

With its bulrush brook where the hazels grow; | conscious thought of thisfortune which would |

belong to bis father and to him, while Helen would be left penniless, but because when }Captain Seton should be Helen's nearest protector, Henry thought she would naturally

"Twas there I found the calmus rvot,

And watched the minnows poise and shoot, Aud saw the robin lave bis wing—

But the stranger's bucket is at the spring.

Oh! ye who daily cross the sill, Step lightly, for L love it still, And when you crowd the old barn eaves,

'to shelter ber from trouble.

| be well to give her some hint of his affection, which, though she might not be ready to accept it, would prepare her mind to receive

Then think what countless harvest sheaves Have passed within the scented dour To gladden eyes that are no more.

| she should be installed under his father’s roof. | He had not yet found an opportunity of doing }80. Meantime she came in, | step was as she advanced towards her uncle, | very sorrowlul and gentle her look. Dine uncle, | thought you would be going ;soon. I came down to say good-bye.’ ‘Indeed, yes: { must start at once,’ said | Captain Seton, pullung out bis watch. ‘I | Suppose there is no change ?’ ‘No; none.’ | little as she gave the answer.

| Deal kindly with those orebard trees ; | Aud when your children crowd your knees, | Their sweetest fruit shal] they impart,

To youthful sports still leave the swing, | And in sweet reverence hold the spring.

The barn, the trees, the brook, the birds, | The meadows with their lowing herds, The woodbine on the cottage wall—

My heart still lingers by then ail;

Ye strangers on my native sill

Step lightly, for I love it still.

can get affairs at Vienna settled. you!’

THE SAILOR'S WEDDING.

“ O Jvitering ship,’ the sailor cried, “ Now speed me howe to meet my bride!”

gone.

preparing to leave the room.

The ship, through flying spray, emnmenin innate’ Went bounding on her way.

*Yes, [ must go; don’t keep me,’ said Helen nervously ; quietly detained her and placed ber on the l'sota, she was too gentle, or perbaps too sub-

1 O midnight bells! my watch is done; | O buppy morrow! baste the sun.”’ Then down he lay and siept, And in bis dream be wept. | dued by grief, to resist | Henry tovk bis place beside her, and spoke He dreamed that suddenly the waves iin a low, tender voice. | Stood fixed and green, like churchyard graves. ‘I only wanted to ask you to let me help And then a mournful! bell i you us much as [ can, now my father is gone. a . Nothing in this world eould give me such tang out a funeral knell. : : pleasure as to be of use to you. | *Thank you,’ began Helen, feebly, ‘ there | is nothing’—but he interrupted her. | ‘Helen, £ eannot bear that you should * O day of joy!" he said; |treat me as @ stranger; you must not This night shall 1 be wed.” | This is not the time to tell you how I love }you, and yet——no, Helen,’ detaining her }as she would have risen, * don’t be afraid ; if will not go on.

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| Land bo!” the deck wateb called, wilh cheers: The sleeper wakened from his tears.

With eager feet he leaped ashore, | And steod at Mary's cottage door.

Was in her grave at reat! | piness it is to me tu be ullowed to do anything

' ao |for you.’ But Helen drew her hand away and stood

| THE STROKE OF A PEN. ‘oan bim, the drooping figure erect, the

clear eyes looking steadily into his, IN TWO CHAPTERS.— CHAPTER I. ‘Heury,’ she said. and her voice did not A father and son stood together in the | tremble now, *you must never speak to me bow-window of a lodging-house #t Hythe. | again as you have justspoken. | was afraid be tall, suldierly figure of the father leant | you were thinking oi—of something of the against the sloping panele, and he was look- | sort, and it has made me ¢eew ungrateful for ing out over the sea with an expression that | ail your kindness. But now you will let me seemed ‘partly grief, partly embarrassment. |treat you as a dear cousin and brother, and | An old Indian veteran ; Captain Seton's face | remember that I have asked you with all my | was bronzed by exposure to climate, but his | heart to forget what you have said, and | blue eyes were *tii] both bright and soft, and | never, never, to think of such a thing again.’ bis hair, though grey, was thick and glossy.| How earnestly she spoke, and with what His son closely resembled bim, but bis ex-| gentle kindness she held out her band to pression was perhaps a thought lese pleasant him at the conclusion of her speech! And than his father’s, and the mouth a trifle} yet Henry fancied it was only maidenly coy- weaker, while his face lacked the dignity | ness that prompted her words. conferred by Captain Seton’s thick grey ‘Dear Heleu, dearest cousin,’ he said, beard. ‘I'he son was speaking. holding ber hand in bis.

father? What did he say?’ anewer yet, and I will not take one. Let me ‘Oh, he was afraid to commit himself, of | be to you now in a brother's placo, but,’ and jcourse. I faney the truth is it may last for) he attempted to draw her nearer, * nothing

im possible.

| be with him at the end. Poor fellow!’ and | tears stood in the bright blue eyes.

| There was silence for @ minute or two, and| went down in a burst of teara.

‘then Captain Seton spoke again.

| * What a sweet girl Helen is. How she loved her, and he was far away.

‘has nursed him.

The bride in white all dressed, 1 only said it that you might know what hap- |

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| turn in her grief to the arms that were ready | | to welcome her, and the love that was waiting | Henry Seton | | was not impatient, but he thouget it would |

in English, the other in German. Henry | and again he sank down beside the pool to took up the Knglish letter first. It was! gaze once more at the fatal‘a.u.’ After dated from an obscure village in Germany, each struggle the temptation seemed to grow and ran as follows:— | stronger, the power of resistance weaker, ‘ Sir,—I grieve to have very bad tidings to Alas ' he was yielding—yielding. communicate to you. Last Monday, the | The sun had long set when there crept into diligence in which I was travelling stopped the bouse at Hythe a man with bair dam

at this place to change horses, | was appealed | *"4 heavy with the autamn dews, wi

to by the priest, who entreated me to receive | slouching gait and weary step, a different the last words of an Englishman unable to | being indeed from the Henry Seton who that make himself understood in German who} Morning had sat musing so calmly in his arm- was lying dangerously ill of a fever in the|®%4it. He entered noiselessly, and passed inn. On alighting, | found that the gentle-| into his room.

man’s name was Captain Seton; he was _. When the lawyer, a personal friend of

'conscious when I saw him, and seemed re-) Mr. Seton’s, who had been summoned from

the idea when, in the natural course of events, |

" sent his Jast love to Mary and Helen. Very light her |

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Helen's voice quivered @ and had to be lifted out.

| tended to have gone on to B ; | ‘Good-bye, my child ; 1 am grieved to have | remained here. Unfortunately, this village | than your father. to leave you. I shall be back the moment [| js eg remote that no really good medical ad-

God bless! vice could be obtained till many hours too Captain Seton kissed Helen affection- | Jate,

ately, shook hands with his sun, and was) {5th October, at two o'clock, a. m.

When the sound of wheels bad died away, | melancholy oceasion. Henry Seton turned to his cousin; she was aj] Captain Seton’s effects should be packed | from the companionship of her cousins. It

but when her cousiD | immediately.

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*| sudden faintness ; he had been carried to bed, | ber. Don't try to answer me |

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‘I have been too | terrace were one or two officers from the |.) : ls ithe very letters she received. Al ‘You saw Dr. Malcolm this morning, |abrupt; but 1 have not asked you for any | School of Musketry conning their books Nite ieeiad very dark, and Helen wept, if not

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| days yet. 1 wieh I could stay, butit is quite but the knowledge that you cared for some | raised bis eyes towards the soft green hills, | at the door Not that I suppose he will be | one else would make we give up the hope of | nor the grey church round which the houses | ¥ James Kelsv, jun, Esquire, Union Street, or in| conscious again, but one would bave liked to | being some day nearer to you than a brother. | clustered.

I believe she bas hardly /not all, Helen had long known that her) found himself opposite the barracks

lieved at hearing an English voice; but he} London, told Helen the next morning of her was in the last stage of exhaustion, and sunk “0cle’s death, her first impulse was to try rapidly. He gave me your address, and | *"d ¢omfort her cousin. wp

Lam| ‘ Where is Henry?’ she asked, rising; * 1 sure you will forgive me for using these | will go to him.’ Bee familiar names, as [ do not know to whom; ° You had better not, my dear, interposed Cartaia Seton referred. He gave no other the old lawyer, gently detaining her; ‘he is

directions, and, indeed, was scarcely able to, '" 80 state to see you; I never saw a man eo He appeared to me to have been | broken down by grief. He seems completely

saffering from acute fever. The priest tells) °Verwhelmed. I am afraid | ought to tell me that when the diligence arrived the day | YOU before L go,” he added, after a little hesi- before, Captain Seton was unable to stand, on, * that this will make no difference in I presume he in-| YOUr prospects. Your pvor unele died on

Of course Tuesday at two Pr. M., just three hours later

CHAPTER Il.

Some time bad passed; the iong winter months had come and gone, and the birde Allow | were beginning to bestir themeelves in the me to express my sincere sympathy on this| business of nest making, when Helen Seton I have directed that took refuge in her own room one morning

Captain Seton expired on Tuesday, the

up; and if you will be good enough to com-| was a pleasant, sunny room, looking out

‘Don't go, Helen,’ he pleaded ; ‘can’t you | municate with the priest (here followed his | over an extensive and trimly kept garden and I have something ©} pame and address) ke will take cara that | shrubbery. say to you, and you are not wanted upstairs.’ | your instructigns are attended to.

Helen had altered in these . It was! months. Her figure, always slight, seemed advisable that the funeral should take place | to have acquired a weary droop, ber brown : eyes were mecker and more often shaded by ‘Lam sir, your obedient servant, , | their long lashes, and her face was paler, *Epwarp Witson. | anless, perhape, it appeared eo from its con-

The letter was read, and Henry Seton) trast with the deep mourning dress she wore. mechanically stretched out his hand for the | She carried in her hand a little basket, filled other. He telt dizzy and sick ; but the blow| with early primroses and early lilies of the was not realized us yet. The second letter! valley, confusedly tossed together, as if just was from the priest, a half-educated German| gathered. After locking the door, she sat Catholic. He wrote, however, with sincere; down to arrange them. Bat her fingers feeling, and deep contrition for having, when | trembled, and the tears gathered and fell one driven to extremity, pressed Mr. Wilson to| by one apon the flowers. At last the task visit Captain Seton's dying bed. The Eng-| was given up, the basket was pushed aside, lishman bad not known the extent to which | and Helen sank upon her knees by the bed- fever, of an acute typhoid kind, was raging | side and wept bitterly. Life had not gone in the villages around f[mmediately after | well with her since we saw her last; she finishing his letter. he had been seized with | tried to find out whether the fault lay with Her cousin Henry was entirely chang- and in twenty-four hours more he had paid|ed. Before her father’s death he had been for his act of charity with hie life. The kind and tender, and considerate ; even after priest entreated Henry Seton to break the | she had refused bis love, he had cared for her news to Mr. Wilson’s relatives, and lamented | like a brother. What eould have altered again and again over the two deaths, the | him? He had grown gloomy and capricious; last of which he laid at his own dvor. | now persecuting her with professions of love, These were the letters. now recoiling trom her as if with dislike; ie tlk dim eeteien alain nena sometimes overwhelming her with gifts and d oe: Settle s lik * attentions, sometimes leaving her to the oo i ene os ® @ man’ mercy of bis hareh sister, who made her stunned by a blow. Then as sudden impulee | cruelly feel her dependent position, Poor came upon him; he seized hie hat, pussed| tien! her heart ached sorely as she thought quickiy through the passage, and let himselt of the years that wight have to pass before ak on ryan ne escape could be found for her from all this. seemed to dazzle him. It oo the firat one Sines thet one Smo af FSO, she hae pear in iets indents hi tae death dared to hint to her cousin her love—nay, We oe ‘a lobed. blinds had made | Ret emgagement—-to one who was poor and ey per peo the closed blinds had made | obscure. She had learnt to fear Henry. She kind of shadowy twilight; without, the| simost knew that he would sternly exert his “tana sunbeame danced merrily upon the | rights ae master of the house, and refuse to ue waters, and the waves came rippling to ‘admit Alan Morton within it. Besides this, The | she was not yet twenty, and Henry Seton

the shore with a delicious murmur.

| beach was almost deserted, but upon the | was her guardian, and watched suspiciously

together,

Henry Seton turned away, and walked rapid- |, till her heart grew light,’ at least till it was ly and unsteadily up the avenue that leads | .ased of some of tho burden of grief which : 4 oe t

from the beach to Hythe proper. He never | as heavy indeed to bear. A servant tapped

‘Mr. Seton would be glad to speak to Mise

On, past the withered stems of| tion in the garden.’ Lielen rose, calmed

Poor Helen! The allusion swept away her | the trees which the sea had destroyed—past hereclf, aad prepared to Ghee. Thess te |hardiy maintaimed composure, and ber head | those oa which the autumn tints glowed— se we z: There was| through the high street, where one or two }some one whom she did love, and who dearly | persons turned round to look after him, he| vire them she bad no choice but to eubmit

That was | never knew or thought where he went till he | 4 ;