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POETRY.

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for then

the charity of their good neighbors the days were short and very dark in that TIRED ' narrow street, and old Fispeth could scarce

t whe!

. vo knit or spin. Sometimes n he QO for wings, that I might soa: | the Rhine was partially frozon, and the i

A little way above the floor— lin the great old well near the Hauptkirct A little way beyond the ar— had to be broken with an axe her {ings A little nearer to the sky stiffened with the cold, so that she could n t To thet ue hills, lifted high use them, although the ltt was crying Out of all our: at her knees tor food and warmth Those Where alone is beard the lark, were fearful times for the Frau Elspeth; but Ward e infinite arc, there was @ watchful Providence which never Fron the « ning to the dark. | eutfered ber to be utterly overborne; and by |

up kind, cheerfu

Where the the callow eagieis wink degrees, as Bertha grew On the bare and breezy brink active, clever at her spinning wheel and het Aad siow pinivns rise and sink breviary, industrious in household matters Where the dim white breaker beat, land tenderly careful of all the necessities of Under cioud drifts at our feet her aged grandmother, things assumed ai eo aspect for the better, and comfort ence more Where we see the glimmering bay began to dawn upon their little fireside Gravely melting far away, } Bertha was. in truth, an excellent, kind On the contines of the day. | hearted, pious little soul, and as merry asa Where the green larch fringes swee} bird. See her when you would, whether at Rocky les, still and stee} | mass in the early morning, bending her fair nn wus head over her book, and casting her bl Where the gentian blossoms blow | eves meekly down upon her rosary; whet cae Cre) Maree SHOW | spinning or knitting with busy fingers Where the downwards torrents flow outside her grandmother's door, on a sum To the plains and yellow leas mers evening ; whether chatting gaily to the G g. twickling through the trees |) Liohbors, or demurely listening, with half Pure a6 trom cotegiis! Seas averted head, to the bashful sentences murs Where the face of heaven has smiled mured at long intervals i! ear by young Aye< m, sweet and wild Max, the bronzed and curly-headed son of Aye on beauty undefiled at all times and uns

Leena Herr Jugel the miller

Where no sound of human spec fer all circumstances, Bertha was charming oa ssh pe a 4 ; ak | And nobody better appreciated her gov iness ae . : i and beauty than Max. But he was not yet Where no trout . ¢ bas t twenty years of age, and she was scarce) On he a t tt t¢ ct in seventeen, and so it was _— : © _—

oe Meoasine, | °°" * marriage yet; and the litile . quette

would sometimes jaugh in his very face ha a ie wresk in upon his love speeches with a jest, ane He Reernee fener ee. pea eal him a “ions her ten times ee

the more, in spite of his anger

Matters were in this position when, one | gutumn’s day, Max was sent by his father siness to the distant city of Frankfort

She di

Dear Jonathan, from where I sit, | I hear your nasal cheers

Break out in answer to the gun That numbers off your !

While, from above, your wav Displays its stripes and stars,

vea

fon bu nd Bertha was

left alone i not care

P nif hen some two or nd Yankee Doodle proudly playe much for it at first; bul when some two 1 : aan mm ! } | not re Forgets the stars and bars. three months were past, and he did not!

turn, and When she heard from Herr Juge!

Well, Jonathan, as nations live Well, athan, as nations live, Lee : ua wet be detained ft You're yet the merest youth, himself that he might yet a . ss ; ] Le . nr »r yar . A knowing young one, Ii] allow | many months, hance a year longer, she And quite well grown, in t uth | began to feel very desolate, and to fear that as yet & Cissipated lite | she really laved poor Max more dearly than And vour almighty greed , sine rearty } Ma Vial bee meee , asieir ne nter cam an unusually Have leftya look uy ur fae ske imagined, Winter ca sibeiibeneaaie $ , . ) Of running into sa | severe and bitter winter. The snow feil for cessive days, and almost choked the Dear Jonathan I've livee so !ong Se hen came thaw | In hearing of your voice, | narrow streets of Boppart; then came nm That I've haif learned to sympathise and frost, and snow and frost again, tii they When yearly you rejoice | thought the spring time would never arrive. haugh over e ensigtT ave ! . o : : : ne coun But the worst of all was, thatthe Frau Elss That's braved a thousand years ee ee ; Which | salute with filial pride } peth was seized 1 g And you with scornful jeers limbs, and the parish doctor said that withs } } ne end r¢ ‘ food and Dear Jonathan, at! i out she had rich wines, and good food, and Beneath that U even brandy, to When you to tear it ft strove, the outer fr she must die. Alas, poor ascm st ‘Hei ‘hts a i Lundy’: Lane | Bertha! whence could she procure such At Queeastown Heights, and Lundy ne | - ee And Crysier’s Faym, you found j 4 : er A grave was 2!| a foeman earned seeking from plac I ug the Of this Canadien groun town; but her scanty purse could not pur» ‘ ° } Y HiT And Jonathan, chase the things for which she yu The flag 1! her poor neighbors had none to give or lend, | As must be seen —— land she went homewards, weeping as if T ae hee j her heart were broken. hat } ‘ | hat be take my plac : i Beside peers She hed to —s the ss ort Haupt And enter rt | kirche on her road. The door stood open Of glor ‘ ars | and the last two or three who had been ats }tending the vesper service were just dk scending the steps. Bertha thought she | would step in and say one prayer for hel; to the Holy Virgin, for there was now no other who couid aid her. She accordingly

ars, and gliding up the dark k

a shady aisles, knelt down hum

of the altar steps, and tried to pray. Butnot a word of any prayer could she recollect, her heart was so full of sorrow; and she

bend down her head and sob

eht }

touenu

uld

on her shoulder into

was

the apathy of grief 1 fall She thought it who wanted to c! e rose very meekly, and without But the

same hand which had aroused,now restrained e

rn en.

ose the church

ynce looking up, turned to depart.

deep grave voice close beside her. Bertha looked hastily round.

la tall man wrapped in a long travelling

looking

There was

LITERATURE, cloak standing there, down at her, a

OLLI | with his large dark eyes full of compassion BERTHA'S CHOICE. and gentleness. Something in the tone of

_—_———— his voice, or his glance, seemed to go at

A STORY Ri once to Bertha’s heart, for she burst into a

yly at a corner |

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: n } impossibie for at to treat him with ¢ : at} ' respect. In his visits to olu Elspeth stu ~- oe : he would sit sometimes for an hour at a time When a bullet like an ox When it without speaking ng his head upon his | ¢ i ae a ne hat re 1 hand,aad watching the rapid fingers f Bertha W! the j ih ba knitling i he W Ww At tin D enh ot is nhs sarily trave Ww i lead the subject 1 w! , ' they knew little, and eight I r. measu! it tome Would ands and t s away 1 i the end wi | round of the great deeds of « the time Li iid that in the Paris gardens one! gone by, and the d men | may find every kind of roses, even including ) | ' ‘ rose whe found fresh y ££ . the } What art Y¢ said a father to ) } * ! ’ ovea I tl i e a was tinkering at an old watct samme equa voice, 1 then | Imp time, sir.’

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nner current enthus l iy WA How many trouble might mankind be | ressed, and betrayed « y by the lghting { sy lif they would only stop to hear each | » of his dark eyes and the faint flush upon | Other's exp/anations | ; ° } ' } 1e How tol partly acquainted with the | e sertl w 1 listen W

er ks, B ee her th ve with your wife, mother | eager attention and delight The stranger) 44 mothe w |

i ‘ na

eemed to wish to impart ' tance) Our adva: | holar comes in with the |

istruction to her. and to d tall his ¢ | suggestion that a title-page like charity | oo 4

yersation to her only, and Bertha knew this } because it begins a tome rsati i

and felt grateful It was very strange, but | Whatis the difference between a gauze |

. +} } | iress and a drawn tooth? One is too th n |

he never told whence he came or whither het ee ee , | and the other is tooth out was going He was a stranger the ana } a vs teinil frar ; | Eminen 10f to be reached by afrantic | he had once said that the event ee I struggle The road to it is much more com- | he tirst met Bertha was the v day of } } m nplace. He who would izzle must dig, | arriva e than this, they er K | A notorious miser, having heard a very |

and th jare not ask anvthing I juent charity sermon, exclaimed, ‘ This

aes t ermon ngly proves the necessity of alms,

' } neon e . t | ’ And thus the win " cco I hay sta mind to turn beggar ' me ! me upon t Khine, | oe * 1 7 aU i {to a Danbury scholar, while | \ mil at :

pudding t upon t vines, and S'S | writing a ¢ mposition ‘ast w ek, to make the | pin the nstields, and bursting il n tatement that ‘an ox does not |}

green leaves and grass,and wiid sweet f} wers } taste as ¢ ‘a in oyster, but ik can ran |

n forest and meadow-land, Still Max Jugle | faster

' } sawn) «mis th that little boys tind that | had not returned, and still the known | moe oa

; : : > { r hats I 1 ( arge r 1em, |

gentleman lingered in the little town of Bop- | and walk into school with lone. thom. ane

part, and the neighbours all arou: | began to | mpatheti . pet ‘Why didn’t you | whisper, and shake their heads, and prophesy have head tiled, instead of sand-paper- | | ed for B a Sh j ° ‘ : ‘ banks.” | A drunken Chinaman feeling rich and | a fairevenin 6 pon ™ sted at | rogress in American civiliza- : i ¢ Lit 1 iis pr gress in American Civiitza said t : -_ ver @ TOU | tion, went through the streets of San Fran- absence Ask the Frau | ibeth, Bertha, | , rying, ‘Hoop-la-hoop-la! Meall same | you may puton y cloak and walk with] »man. Hair cut short and Irunk | me for an hour beyond the town I have ' g heen asked by one curious in something to say to y Ciniasen | whit bee deiee | aie a fir me he had er { tc . 2 M 7 { It was the first time he had ever ol 1 10 | hote <sare bald,’ a keen observer gives | walk with hersince that wintry nig when | itas his « n that it may be’ hecause the | | farce nature have heen divarted f } ; ms the Ha forces Of nature have been diverted from the they metin the chanc of t 1au ‘

{ : teen 3 Bertha | 4 scalp to tl iltivation of supernatural | he granamotn nse ak n her I ick a tnd i e he siivel W} . ’ sae tl ‘What is love asked 2p |

arrow in her hair, and hall-} “d [-res ne of his pa Huding 4

tant, I vad him it ol 5 se a 1} the wo1 i i} sense i.

‘ i ve, sir! W , dius! |

ito the streets of Boppai s de, pt ina | but quite silently, they pass lg im os sure ve kenba

There are tw 3 | boy } it love’s just next to cholera

} et 1 XA ' sid nia tf .

who was playing with . ar the] ‘ht ware. 1@ cor ik |

jas to have town~gat | I hed and trembled, ar wel, > 2 Thought ertha blushed and trembled, and : penne 2 ' | keys in the human soul t filled up with tears; but h ipanion draw out its sweeter and seemed a he hea tnot,a k the path | m s. They may be the 1 nd sor “ hey may } he loftier | ilong the riv sa $s ind y th ma oe t flier i i hia ’ oe | notes of j aud Ifess. God knows where t was, as he had said y evening, | | oS wen, a *’! the melodies of our nature are, and what} and the birds were singing ihe plesl SONGS | aio nt line w be 1} forth. Some with | among the trees, as they walked onward ops} plaintive tongues walk in lowly vales | te the little village of Oberspay, and t e| f life’s weary way ; others in loflier hymns }

: i ¢ ( ad | sing of nothing but joys, as they thread the | nite wa .% ast O1 i fb } . e y} |

or : ” F in ! they all unite |

Let us sit h said the s laking the ascending |

his seat upon thet f i tree ing hearts finds |

: } ' he redeemed in |]

Bertha o! silence, a! r some time

neither spoke, and the is i of the

F card of the lady |

river gurgling against 1 } and t id, upon a certain |

tinkling of the distant ! dyt $s, and tne 1S 1, that the only real, d sinterested | - | \

buzzing ef the i were the only s st com nt she ever received was from a} non the still air At le 1 he spokea il i who asked permission to ligh) pon th 3 £ | gain .

Bertha,” he said, and his v t gh

low, was deep and t! ng, ‘we have known

each other now f ie months, and yet I

have never told W whatla You}.

Jo not n know my nam }

|

He pa e a xpecting s$ piv, but Bertha remained silent and a

“My name is Albert. J amri linmy|.

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native Du fam noble. ; 4g the sailor returned, with humble

Still Bertha ked down, and made no | defere ‘ls 1 like to know your answel

‘When I first ¢ 1 here, it was with the ee

ntention of rema g two orth ays li

I weys travelling slowly threught untry od man, would

for my pleasu I met you’ and | re- | }

. . Ht , answered the old tar, looking ee ‘An yOu guess WAY | honestly up, ‘in a storm at sea, with danger I remained, Bertha ’ or deat! me, | would like to aall the

She shook her head, and murmured ‘‘No name rhtest thing I'd ever seen in

} ' f sunshine it eve the

He looked earnestly into her face, and a | ‘¥°@. : en n in the larkness

fain mw ' asl mean Vete Bie

faint smile passed over his lips. . .

: 1 } Wowman.—Place her among flowers, foster Bertha, you are young, you are affection- | her as a tender plant, and she is a thing of ate, you are truthful. It is true that I am | fan "y, waywardness and folly—annoyed by . . law-<daron fret hy ha . « i some few years older than yourself, but I am | 2 G@W-drop, I a lL by the touch of a bul-} still v wing t true that Iam more edt t- | terfly’s wing, at Lready to faint, at the sound | ed, but it will be the pleasure of my t ras and she is over wered by the nstruct you. I love you, Bertha, and I w perfume of a rosebud. But let real calamity a a fa f come, rouse her affections, enkindle the fires make you my wil ; As a ae fa He took her hand in hisas he said this, | Of ber heart, and mark her then; how } herrt strengthens se) how strong is he | and drew nearer towards her ; but she rose | 2errt eee it a vis “s 18 r in an impulse of sudden agitation, and strove | Heart, place ber in oi heal of the battle— : m + } r } a % vthing tc rr . | to withdraw it. He rose also, eee a bird—anything “er I —anid s G ver relative instance, lif y ‘You do not speak to me, Bertha; you d and se . - si ier : ] | her white arn eild, as her own blood | not tell me that you love me?” ‘ sane a * a - You are too good for me, my Lord,” fals | ee = 1 + DESY ' ' g ) ; 1) nh atk tas Inless ranspla ser

tered the young girl. “I—lI cannot marry te pl +n I ans} = é

wens i * | in the dar& place f earth, call forth her ens

wus } if ergies to action, 4 her breath beeomes a

lr is you whoare too good for m ae 3 :

a vy wife t healing, h res ea blessing She dise

and as fur rank, my wife becomes m s ae i a od ;

’ putes in » stride of stalking pes- |

« Leannot!’ repeated Bertha I putes inch by in n the strid I slaiking pes |

‘But rged the lover eager!" | tilence, when man, the strong and brave, | oe eT - sent atieohiad aheinks awa efor.

“| have not yet told you a I ca | pale andaffrighted shr nks away. Misf r

was noble, but [ am more | tune haunts her not , she wears away a life

as | of silent endurance ; and goes forward with pose. I am a Duk ‘ ° :

Duke—the Duke of Ni less timidity than to her bridaj. In prosper-

at ‘ ail | ity she is a bud full of odors, waiting but for | mother shall have serva! } 28) | , rates nd + | the winds of adversity, to scatter them abroad honour, Bertha; and y \ | y ess! 2 i= pure gold, valuable, but untried in_ the

In one of the darkest and narrowest | that her grandmother was dying

streets of the antique walled town of Bop-| ‘ What ails her? Where do you live?

part on the Rhine, there lived, some fifty | Has a doctor seen your grandmother? Is ail |

years ago. an aged woman named Elspeth |help unavailing?’ asked the stranger, ra-

Stuler, and her pretty gr laughter Bertha pidly

Every traveller who has seon Boppart} A few words told all the little story, and

will ‘ren ts line of old imbling | he listened to it as he walked along beside

walls, a!) surrounded by long tufts of v ng | her out of the church porch, and across the

grasses and bunches of white netiles; its | Market-piace. ee

quaint Morisco turrets, with their tapering} — Lei ge Wh you to your Some, me en, ts glo finished. ‘ Your

roofs hed entrance, an old round tows

farther than the rest, yet

iis g.00my are

the he said. when she had

standing back somewhat | grandmother must notdie. I am a@ stranger

near enough to be| to this city, and I know not where to seek

reflected with them upon the surface of the for what you require. Lead me to your water. Then there is the Hauptkirche lift- shops, and we will purchase all that is ing up its twin slender spires, with the} needful.’

curious little gallery which unites them like | He spoke to her soothingly and tenderly, & vridge; and the picturesque houses ot as if she were achild,and placed his heavy

town, crowding together their high slated purse in her trembling hand. Wher

the

roofs and pointed gables within the walls; | gtroveto thank him with her quivering lips, and above ali, the broad, rushing, sunn and hesitating accents, he only shook his i

Rhine river, which here takes so sudden bend that it locks lil

head, and bade her hasten on and be silent.

r ke some v lake shut There was a great abundance that evening

| ' : hae t ntiains. and ‘ fe ms | i j i te n in by the mountains, and woods, and vine- | y56n the little table in Frau Elpseth’s cham- yards, and rich green pasture meadows, | ber and a bright fire glowing merrily upon . . aul nee the lias ine a i . which extend all along the banks up to the | tne pearth: and above all, there were glad

littie village of Kamp, half a league away on the side fecing Boppart. And summer evenings, when the nd golden with the sunset, and the river runs more soft! stand by st shadows lying at their vaguely near the waters edge, the come down here from the farms and villages, with tinkling bells hanging to their necks, and, splashing in among the flags and water- lilies, drink with the young herdsmen stan! by singing songs of the Liebenstein or the Lurley, or whispering in the ears of the fishers under the cherry trees And it was in this rare i primitive t that Elspeth Stuler lived of its beautiful situation, for blind—not for the sake of its Homan ren about them—not for the sake of anything, in short, which might attract the antiquery, or the traveller

and grateful hearts beneath that roof. ‘The blessings of be noble sir!’ murmured theold woman, feebly, from her bed, when he rose from chair beside the fire, and turned Bertha said nothing’ but as he reached the door, she bent down and kissed his hand in the old simple German fashion; and the gentleman did not prevent her; but whea she had done it, he laid his hand upon her shining hair, inclined his lofty head towards her, kissed her gently on the forehead, and without another word, went out, and closed

in the sweet

Heaven upon you,

SaV iS @! red ' the arm-

, and the purple mountains

| and

to go

so sti solemnly, with their

feet, and ring ows

qui¢

juiet content; while

| the door. faughters sitting | Bertha’s heart fluttered painfully, and her cheeks grew pale and red by turns, as she |} stood for some moments rooted to the spot. Then, with a sigh anda smile, she her pretty head, began humming the burthen

wn not for the sake

a she was nearly shook

. ' ' for she kue

lains w of an old song, and busied herself in prepars

its antiquity and | nothing | i

| ing some warm messes for her sick charge. | From that moment the Frau Elspeth began

artist the |

but simply be-| % mend, and in the course of a few weeks But the

cause she had been born. married, and | Was restored to ber usual health,

widowed there; and because the little old | Stanger did not on that account cease to cemetery outside the town contained the| Visit or befriend her, He came regularily dust of all whom she had best loved, and| four or five times a week; and scarcely a amongst whom she also desired to seep. day passed on which they did not receive So she lived in a very old hous?, in a nar. | sometresh proof of his bounty. Now it was

an easy chair, or 4 warm rug, or an eider- down quilt for the old lady; or a piece of fine wooilen cloth for a cloak for Bertha; or, perchance, a lamp for evening use, for it was still winter time. But more frequently there came baskets of wine, and meat, and fish, and dried fruits. And such rare and delicious conserves as neither Elspeth nor Bertha had ever tasted or heard of before. They came also in so great a profusion that the grandmother had to eutreat him to be less liberal. it was quite plain, she said, that the gentleman could know nothing of housekeeping; at which he smiled in his

row dirty little street, no better than a lane, with a gutter running down the centre. It was a Very curious house, and bad once been inhabited by people of some mark and |ike- jibood. The gables were richly ornamented wish bas-relie/s of remarkable intricacy ; the upper windows projected quite over the footway, and were set in deep carved mould- ings; and the old arched doorway was ac~ tually embowered in a portico laden with the most elaborate wood-carvings of fruit, foliage, and grotesque heads of birds and animals. Beautiful as it was, and is (for the | house is yet standing), it was used hy ‘1 merchant, to whom it belonged, as a store- grave way, and said that he had generally house for wool, and Elspeth and her grand- | left those things to the care of persons who child lived rent-free in the lower rooms, and understood them better than himself took care of the property. He was a strange, calm, silent man; They were very poor» so poor, indoed, very unassuming and kind, but witha] so that when Bertha was a little child, they | stately in his look and bearing, and so reserv- poust have starved many 4 winter, but for! edin his cenversation, that it would have been

she |

as he had

But Bertha, instead of looking, expected joyful and surprised, wrung hands together, and turned deathly pale.

‘Alas! alas!’ she said ‘| wh

bitterly, “ what

| shall | do? what shall I do?

A stern change passed over the face of the wooer. He dropped the hand which he had been holding, and drew hack.

“Bertha,” he said in a low distinct voice,

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“ why do you refuse me?

She began to weep. At thismomenta little boat containing two men came up the middle ot the river. One man was rowing, and other was standing up in his place, shading his eyes with his hand and looking in the di- rection of Boppart. Bertha started, and looked intently at the boat—her colour came and went—she tried to speak, and her voice

faltered.

“My Lord,” she said turning away her head, ** i—I love—another.”’

The boat came nearer and nearer. There

was a long silence, so long that at last she looked round, The Duke was still standing in the very attitude in which he had last

spoken, except that his head was bent upon his breast, and his eyes fixed on the ground. The mute grief ef his attitude struck Bertha to the heart. She crept timidly to his side, and, as she had done once before, upon the first night of their meeting, took his band in both her own, and covered it with tears and kisses.

He lifted his lofty brow, and looked at her sadly and tenderly.

‘You should have told me this before Bertha,” he said, very gently. ‘But yet it is not yonr fault, for I never spoke of love to you tillnow. I thought to have made you my Wife—to have taught you all the wisdom and poetry of life—to have—but enough of this! The dream is past, and it is vain to dwe!! uponits illusions, Who isthat, Ber- tha ?”

The boat was by this time moored to the bank, a little lower down than where they stood, and a young man was hastening to-~ wards them.

“ Bertha !” tha !

“This is he, my Lord,” said she, blushing and smiling through her tears

The Duke paused and looked steadily at the young pair before him. Then he turned somewhat paler than usual, a shade seemed to pass over his brow, and his lip quivered visibly.

“Heaven bless you, Bertha,” he said, “and you, my young friend. I shal! not forget either of you. Adieu.”

He stepped forward, and once more kissed her on the forehead. It was for the last time. Then he drew his hat down lower up- on his brow, and walked swiftly away. In less than an hour a carriage rolled out of the gates of the Rheiniseher Hotel, and took the road to Cologne.

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Many weeks had not elapsed when Max Jugel received an appointment at the irons works of Iohenrain, which enabied him to marry his pretty Bertha without further delay. It came unanimously, and he could never discover the name of his unknown benefac- tor; but as hoherain lies in the territories of Nassau, it was conjectured by many to have been the gift of his‘noble and generous rival.

Bertha and Max are stilldiving; but the Duke of Nassau has been dead some twenty years. Hemarried a noble lady, the daugh-~ ter of a royal house, and was succeeded by his son, the present sovereign. :

And this, reader, is a true story of the Rhine.

he cried, waving his cap, ‘‘Ber-

her | | the great charm of existence.

| That h

the |

| furnace

| hist

In short woman a miracle—-a mystery, from the center of which radiates

is

A Worp, Morners.--Each mother is a rian. She writes not the history of empires or of nations on paper, but she writes | | | |

her history on the imperishable mind of her

child. That tablet and that history will re-

main indelible when time stery each mother

and read with eternal joy or

woe in the far ages of elernity

uld weigh on the mind of every mother,

rende

shall be no more will meet again, unutterable This thought | sh | and | prayeriul, training up mortality

circumspect and and faithful in her solemn work of her children for heaven and im

V [he minds of children are very ble and easily

eply l

susceptibl impressed. <A word, a look, a frown may engrave an impression upon the mind of achild whieh no lapse of time can efface or washout. You walk along the sea shore when the tide is out, and you t characters, or write words or names in

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the smooth white sand which lies spread out as clear and beautiful at your feet, according as your fancy may dictate, but the returning tide shail in a few honrs wash out and efface forever all that you have written. Not so the lines and characters of truth, or error, which your conduct imprints on the mind of your ehild. There you write impressions for the everlasting goed or ill of your child, which neither the floods ner storms of earth can wash out, nor death’s cold fingers can

erase, nor the slow moving ages of eternity can obliterate. How careful, then, should each mother be of herself in her treatment of her child. How prayerful, and how serious, and how earnest to write the eternal truths of God on his mind, those truths which shall be his guide and teacher when her voice shail be silent in death, and her lips no longer move in prayer in his behalf, in com- mending her dear child to her covenant God.

Re TN A

This isto certify, that in May last, I was sorely troubled with what the doctors pro- nounce pleurisy, and other complaints. Afier applying to several eminent physicians, and obtaining no relief, I was, by the advice of of friends, who had used Gates’ medicines, induced to make a trial of the same. After using two bottles of itI am happy to say thet lconsider myselfentirely free from the de- sease Which the dectors pronounced incurable and safely reco nmend it to allthose suffer- ing with the same complaint.

Miss Asay Conoon

The above sworn to before me, at Liver- pool, (Jueen’s County, this 18th day of Oes tober, 1871.

T. N. Setios, J. P.

Jy 27,—1m

A DISTINGUISHED PHYSILOGIST has said that Neuralgia is the ery of the hungry nerves for their special food, which is the Pohsphorous contained in the blood. This painful disease isusually followed by general prostration on account of the great waste of nerve tissue and insufficient supplyof nerve force to maintain the functions of the vital organs. The common cause of Neural- gia and Rheumatic Pains is depraved Nutri- tion arising from Derangements of the Sto- mach, Mal-assimilation of food, and Poor Blood. Dr. Wheeler's Compound Elixiar of | Phosphates and Calisaya supplies Phosphors | ous for the nervous system Lime as an excis | tant of nutrition, Iron for the blood, and Calisaya for promoting strength. No pre- paratiou in existence is so reliable to main- tain the vital forces and energize all the organs and tissues of the body.

; Captain’s Biscuit,

|} Sugar Crackers,

ROBERT ORR & CP.

Beg to inform the Citizens of Charlottetown, aud the inhabitants ov! Prince Edward Is- land that they have rented the Building on

QUEEN STREET,

(Next door to Messrs. OWEN CONNNLLY & Co’s), for the purpose of carrying on @

WHOLESALE & RETAIL

‘DRY GOODS BUSINESS

And trust by purchasing their Goods in

the best markets and selling them very low, |

to merit a share of the public patronage.

N. B. Wholesale Buyers, Far-

mers. and others will learn some- |

thing worth knowing by eraminine

ORR & (20°S STOCK, before purchasing elsewhere.

Charlottetown, May 18 1874. ly

Cshuarlortetown

STEAM BAKERY,

BRICK BUILDING, INCE STREET.

HE SUBSCRIBER in returning thanks for past favors, respectfully intimates to humerous customers and the public that he preparing

PR

his generally, supply of

EILOT No. 1 Pilot,

is

BREAD:

Extra Pilot,

| No. 2 Pilot, Cabin Pilot, No. 1 Thin Pilot, No. 1 Navy, No. 2. Thin Pilot, No. 2 Navy,

Thick Family Pilot, ; Fancy Pilot, BISCUIT & CRACKERS: Dyspepsia Crackers,

Cottee Crackers, Ginger Crackers, Oyster Crackers. Wine Crackers, Thin Captain's do, Abernethy Crackers, Lemon Crackers, recommend and CHEAPER

Soda Biscuit, Wine Biscuit, Medford Biscuit, Seed Sugar Biscuit,

sutter Crackers, Water Crackers, whick he can contidently warrant to be BETTER

| than can be imported.

Persons requiring any of the above articles

| will please send in their orders immediately

Ile has now ready

300 bbis. of Superior No. |, & No.2 Navy Bread, which he offers for Sale on his usual liberal Terms.

All orders from town or country receive |

prompt attention. JOHN

Ch town April 20, 1874

QUIRK,

QUEEN SQUARE KFURNTEPURE WAREROOMS !

Qur premises have heen greatly and are now the

LARGEST and BEST ARRANGED

IN THE CITY,

and equal to any in the Lower Provinces.

WORK WARRANTED TO GIVE PERFECT SATISFACTION.

ALL

I have 200.000 feet Seasoned Lumber under

cover, for manufacturing purposes. Ihave 20,000 feet Gilt and Walnut Picture

Frame Moulding, $0 different patterns Cheap.

Oval, Gothic and Square Picture Frames, in Gilt and Walnut.

All the latest Styles of Rustic Frames Heavy Gilt, for Oil Pictures, Cheap.

English, German, and American Lookisg Glasses and Mirror Plates.

A few Large Mantle Mirrors and Pier @lass- es, Cheap.

Window Furniture, AC.

Poles, Rings and Cornices, Rollers, Shades Blinds, Tassels, Cords. &c.

Upholstery Goods, Hair Seating, Bedding, Ke.

New patterns, in Damask, Repps, Terry, Plushes, Poplins, Brocatells, Fringes, Gimps, Buttons, Tufts, &c., cheap. Bedding—Feather, Hair and Pillows and Bolsters, constant- ly on hand, cheap.

IRON BEDSTEADS AND CRIBS,

a Great Variety, Cheap.

A few of the celebrated Iron Bed CHAIRS, —it makes a Bed, an Easy Chair, and in- valid Chair,and a Lounge ina few seconds, very durable. No house should be with- out one.

Our siock is the Lar est in the City, and the very Cheapst

Strongest CHAIRS aud BEDSTEADS,

Most beautiful and durable Drawing Room, Dining Room and Chamber Fnrniture, in suits.

It is a pleasure to have customers come and examine.

George Woods & co’s. CELEBRATED