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=— PRAYER AND POTATOES.

BY REV. J. T. PETSRE.

‘© If a brother or sister be naked, and desti- tute of daily food, and,yone of you say unto them: Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled? notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are feedful for the body ; what doth it profit ?”—-James 2: 15.16.

An old lady sat in her old arm chair, With wrinkled visage and dishevelled hair, And hunger-worn features ; For days and for weeks her only fare, As she sat there in her old arm chair, Had been potatoes.

But now they were gone; of bad or good, Not one was left for the old lady’s food Of those potatoes ; And she sighed and said, ‘‘ What shall I do, Where shall [ send, and to whom shall I go, For more potatoes?”

And she thcught of the deacon over the way, ‘The deacon so ready to worship and pray, Whose cellar was full of potatoes. And she said, ‘‘I will send for the deacon to come ; He'll not mind much to give me some Of such a store of potatoes.”

And the deacon came over as fast as he could, Thinking to do the old lady some good,

But never for once, of potatoes. He asked her at once what was her chief want, And she, simple soul, expecting a grant, Immediately answered, ‘‘Potatoes.

But the deacon’s religion didn’t lie that way, He was more accustomed to preach and pray, Than give of his hoarded potatoes. So, not hearing, of course, what the old lady said, He arose to pray, with uncovered head, But she only thought of potatoes.

He prayed for patience, and wisdom, and grace, Bat when he prayed, ‘Lord, give her peace,” She audibly sighed, ‘Give potatoes.” And at the end of each prayer which he said, He heard, or thought that he heard, in its stead, That same request for potatoes.

The deacon was troubled, knew not what to do; "Twas very embarrassing to have her act so About ‘‘those carnal potatoes.” So ending his prayer, he started for home, But as the door closed behind him, he heard a deep groan, “Oh, give to the hungry, potatoes!’

And that groan followed him all the way home; In the midst of the night it haunted his room— “Oh, give to the hungry, potatoes !"” He could bear it no longer; arose and dressed ; From his well filled cellar taking in haste A bag of his best potatoes.

Again he went to the widow’s lone hut ;

Her sleepless eyes she had not yet shut ;

But there she sat in that old arm-chair,

With the same wan face the same sad air ;

And, entering in, he poured on the floor

A bushel or more from his goodly store Of choicest potatoes.

The widow's heart re up for joy,

Her face was d and wan no more.

“Now,” said the deacon, ‘‘shall we pray ¥

“Yes,” said the widow, ‘‘now you may.”

And he kneeled on the sanded floor,

Where he had poured his goodly etore,

And such a prayer the deacon prayed,

As never before his lips essayed ;

No longer embarassed, but free and full,

He poured out the voice of a liberal soul,

And the widow responded aloud, ‘‘Amen !” But said no more of potatoes.

And would you, who hear this simple tale,

Pray for the poor, and praying, ‘‘prevail ?”

Then — your prayers with alms and good eed ;

Search out the poor, their wants and their n ;

Pray for peace, and grace, and spiritual food,

For wisdom, and guidance, for all these are

good, But don’t forget the potatoes.

THE WIDOW GRANT.

‘Harry Fredericks, aged 19, shot in battle of Fredericksburg.’

Such was a part of the inscription upon a plain marble slab in the little cemetery of Allandale.

Mrs. Grant, strolling by the grave, stopped for a moment to read the simple record.

‘Aged nineteen,’ ‘Only a boy.’

And then, as if by some subtle feel- ing of sympathy, she sat down on the soft turf near by and let her thoughts go wandering back that mournful time when so many homes were so desolate, because their ‘boys’ were in the midst of danger and death.

‘Harry. ‘Our Harry’s somebody,’ she said to herself, gathering a spray of mytle that trailed about the grass, and laying it tenderly in her palm.

‘A blue-eyed, blonde-haired Harry, broad-chested and strong-armed. A warm-hearted, big-souled Harry, brave as a lion and tender as a woman—- somebody's darling, somebody's stay

and consolation.’

she murmured.

The tears stood in her eyes and} She, too, | had lost a Harry—the love of her g®&& hood,the husband of her young woman-

dropped over her cheeks.

hood.

* ‘{ wonder who this Harry's mother was?’ she thought, “and if she is living

still ?’

And then she tried to imagine how # mother must feel when the child she has nursed and reared, who bears about in himself the very heart of her own being goes away to battle to kill or to

be «illed.

‘It is hard,’ she said, “hard, hard!’ Brows Hea) | meh oF to Absxanpee And pressing her lips for a moment! bhi upon the sod that covered the brave’ young heart, she rose and walked away-

From the cemetery she went to the: a UBSCRIBE ior

main street of the town, and going into’ Paper published in the Province,

a dry goods store proceeded to examine satins and ribbons. ‘Can I have the goods on three months’ ercdit 2?” she asked, after decid- ing on several articles. ‘No, madam,’ answered the clerk, eurtly. ‘L have orders to the contrary. ‘Very well.’ A despairing lool fell upon the pale, sweet face, and Mary Grant walked out of the store and to her little home of three rooms over Tom Harsen’s bakery. What was she todo next? Sarsnet & Co. would trust her, no longer, and they had been her main dependence. She sat down in the middle of her tiny shop and looked with a sort of stolid griei at the specimen bonnets and hats that should have been finished long ago, and at the old Indies’ caps that seemed, in their grim imperturbability, to be giving her a silent lesson upon the fal- lacy of human hopes. How she hated them at that minute, this little milliner, who six months be- fore had set contentedly making these caps, with her blaek dotted lace and purple bows of illusion ruchings ! Bat, then she was sustained by hope, and that makes all the difference. Mary Grant, a soldier’s widow, came to Allandale with less than $50 capital in her shabby little wallet. She had a few pieces of furniture, and a letter of introduction to Sarsnet & Co., from a city mercbant who had done the firm many a good turn first and last. With these assets and sundry liabilities, the young widow had hoped to strike a favorable balance, and get up a business by which she could support a humble home. But she had not been fortunate. In the jirst place, Mehitable Pillsbury, an old maid, with bank bills as numerous as her wrinkles, had set up business a block or twoaway. Her show window was gorgeous with pattern hats, rich ribbons and laces, and she kept a stand- ing advertisement in the Allandale 2n- terprise.

ft made little difference that Mary Grant’s millinery was artistic, while Miss Pillsbury’s was ouly showy and ‘stylish.’ The Allandale fair ones were not artistic themselves, and aimed at nothing higher than keeping up with their neighbors. So it happened that the widow’s hats and caps stood upon their standards, till, as I have said, they seemed to leer at her with ridiculous and accusing aspect, She could not make her first pay- ment to Sarsnet & Co., on time. They gave gave her an extension, but she fail- ed again to pay the whole amount, and at last, as we have seen, the firm re- fused to trust her for any more goods

(To be Continued. )

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To.be sold, by Public Auction, at the Court “House in Summerside, in Prince County, on Tuesday, the Eighteenth day of February nexf, at the hour of one o'clock, fin the afternoon, under a Power of Sale in an Indenture of Mortgage. dated the fifth day of October, 1878, made between William Thomas Mill, of the one part, and John Frecken, Frederick De St. Croix Brecken, and Robert Robinson Hodgson, trustees, of the other part, —

All that tract, piece or parcel of land, situ 1. ate on Lot Eighteen, and bounded and described as follows : Commencing at a stake tixed on the shore of Indian River; thence by a line running south twenty degrees west until it meets the boundary line dividing Lots or Townships Numbers eighteen and nineteen; thence running due east on said division line for the distance of thirty-two chains; thence by a line running north twenty degrees east until it reaches Indian River, aforesaid; thence following the course of the River to the place of commencement, making and including tifty- six (56) acres of land be the same, a little more er leas, in Prince County, aforesaid, 2. Also, all that other tract, piece ox parce] of Land, situate on Lot or Township Twenty- five, in Prince County, aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Com- mencing at a stake fixed on William Mc- Murdy’s eastern boundary line at the south. east corner of Joshua Harding’s Lot; from thence running south for the distance of forty four chains; thence east eleven chains and fifty links; thence north forty-four chains; thence west eleven chains and fifty links, to the afore- said stake or place of commencement, making and including fifty (50) acres of land, a little more or less, being the southern moiety of one hundred acres of land; and being bounded on the north by the northern moiety thereof, known as Joshua Harding’s lot; on the east by —Gay’s land, onthe south by Keefe's land, and on the west by the said William MacMurdy’s land. 3. Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of land, situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, bounded and described as_ follows, that is to say : Commencing at a square stake fixed in the south-west angle of land in the oc- curation of Peter Gillis; thence running north six degrees and forty-five minutes, east four- teen chains and two links to division line be- tween Lots Nineteen and Eighteen; thence along said line westwardly twenty-six chains and sixty nine links to the entrance of Barbara Weit River; thence along the course of the said river to the place of beginning, containing twenty-nine acres and forty perches, be the game, a little more or less. 4. All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Eighteen, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a stake set on the shore of Richmond Bay in the centre of a road on the line of Lots Eighteen or Nineteen; thence northwardly along said shore sucha distance as shall make fifteen chains and sixty- five links (15 chains and 65 links) at a right anglefrom said division line; thence north eighty-nine degrees east or __ parallel with the said division line forty-eight chains and fifteen links (48 chains, 15 links) or to lands the property of the said William Thomas Mill, thence south twenty degrees west to said division line to the stake at the place of commencement, containing seventy- eight acres of land, a little more or less. 5. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Twenty-five (25), in Prince county, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say, commencing ata stake set in the north boundary line of land in possession of the widow Keiff or Lawrence Malone, being the southeast angle of fifty acres of land the prop erty of William T. Mill, from thence by a line running north twelve chains and fifty links, thence east nine ehains and fifty-five links or to the east boundary line of land in possession of William Gay, thence south to the first mentioned land, thence westwardly along said land to the stake at the place of commence- ment, containing eleven and nine-tenths acres, a little more or less, 6. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, in Prince County, bounded as fol- lows, that is to say, commencing at the southeast angle of land in the possession of Neil McDonald, from thence running west along said land twelve chains and twenty links (12 chains, 20 links) or to the sonthwest angle of said land, and from thence two points running two parallel lines south thirty-one (31) chains or to the south boundary line of plot G containing thirty-seven and one-half (373, acres of land, be the same a little more or less, together with all buildings and improve ments thereon and appurtenances to the same belonging. For further particulars apply at theoffice of Messrs. Hodgson & McLeod, Solicitors, Char- lottetown. Dated the 13th day of January, A. D 18 9.

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FREDERICK Dre Sr. C. BRECKEN.

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AILS will be closed daily at this Office,

(Sundays excepted) at 8 o'clock. p. m.,

and forwarded via Cape ‘Traverse, to all laces abroad.

The British Mail for Canadian Packet sail- ing from Halifax on Saturdays, wili close here at 8 o'clock, p. m., every Wednesday ; and for the fortnightly packet sailing frora Halifax on the first and third Tuesday in February, it will close here on the previous Friday even- ng at 8 o'clock p. m.

Mails for all places West of Charlottetown and Summerside receiving Mails by ee train or Postal Car, will close here at 7 o’cloc a, m., daily.

Mails for Georgetown and Souris East and all places on the route to those points, will close daily at 2.25 p. m.

Post Office closes at 8 o'clock, p. m,

A. A. MACDONALD, Postmaster.

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fy.O BE SOLD, by private contract, that valuable FARM of 50 acres of excellent Land, vituate at Graham’s Road, Township No. 20, now in possession of ASneas Brenan. This well-known Farm is eligibly situated im the immediate cicinity of Chonbes Schools and Mills, and is in a good state of cultivation, For terms aud particulars apply at the office

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Ch’town, Dec. 23, 1878-—-

AUCTION!

To be soid by PUBLIC AUCTION, on TUES DAY, the Twenty-fourth day of DECEM BER NEXT, at the hour of Twelve o'clock, noon, at the Court House, Char lottetown, under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in an Inden- ture of Mortgage, bearing date the Third day of February, A. D. 1873, and made between John Henesy, of the one part, and Francis Kelly, of the other part—

LL that tract of land and premises situate

lying and being as follows, that is to say: Commencing on the north side of the Fort \Augustus Road, at the south-east angle of a farm of land in the possession of Thomas Ceerley ; from thence north fifty chains, or to the northern boundary of the said Johns Henesy’s land ; thence east five chains ; thence ‘south to the said road, and from thence west to place of commencing, containing by estima- tion Twenty-five acres, a little more or less, and being part of Lot or Township Number Thirty-six, in Queen’s County, together with all rights, members and appurtenances there- to belonging.

For further particulars apply to Messrs. Hoveson & McLxop, Solicitors, Charlette- town.

Dated this Twenty-seventh day of Novem ber, A. D, 1878,

FRANCIS KELLY,

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Dec. 2, 1878—law t sale

THE above Sale is hereby postponed till TUESDAY, the Twenty-fifth day of February 1879, then to take place at the hour and plage

above mentioned FRANCIS KELLY, Mortgagee.

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IN CHANCERY.

SILAS BARNARD, Executor of the last Will and Testament of James Coles, deceased, Complainant.

—AND—

THOMAS REILLY, CATHERINE REILLY and MARY G. REILLY, by her

Guardian, Hannah Reilly, Defendants,

In pursuance of a decree made in this suit by His Honor the Vice Chancellor, i date the nineteenth day of November, instant, A. D. 1878, there will be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of February next,, A. D. 1879, at twelve o’clock, noon, at the Supreme Court House in Charlotte- town, in Queen’s County— °

A that Tract, Piece or Parcel of Land being part of Town Lot Number Eighty- ninein the third hundred of Town Lots in Charlottetown, commencing at the northeast angle of said Town Lot, on the southeast edge of Kent Street; thence, following the course of the same, westwardly for the distance of eighty-six feet and eight inches ; thence, by @ right-angle line with said Kent Street, south- eastwardly for the distance of forty-eight feet and six inches ; thence, by a line with said Kent Street, eastwardly for the distance of thirty feet ; thence, by a right angle there- with, northwestwardly for the distance of six feet ; thence by a line running northeast- wardly to the southwest angle of the dw house ; thence, by a line at right angles with the course of Prince Street, eastward thirty. one feet to the westward edge of ae Prince Street ; thence, following the course of the same, northwestwardly thirty-one feet to the ae of commencement ; together with the uildings and improvements thereon and the vdpurtenances thereunto belonging. Jated this Twentieth day of November,

A. D. 1878. T. HEATH HAVILAND,

Master n Ch r. Net McLrop, a

Solicitor for Complainant. nov 22 lawts

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