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BY FLORENCE HARTLAND. | Just as | am! I dare not tarry longer, | Striving to wash the deep dark = stain away; Striving to make my faltering spirits strong eT.

| j rERMS rey: sher, $1.40 in advance; $1.62 if paid; IMPORTER & RE p - he vear; $2.00 if not paid within | tELPAIROEOR | dust as I am—tho’ every past endeavour Or + But mocks we with a stormy battle lost— | CLUE RATES: | SEW] NG MACHI | me oe a a troubled 7 ' empest’s w eary $s 3 | Try EXAMINER wil! be forwarded to | \ NES. oa ee ee ee following rates per year—) App xss:—P. O. B ena CO . : iii aieai ' Si). OU. DOX 303, Charlottetown. | Tne : oe Uy in advance: Oct. 25, 1875.-—-1y ttetown. Just as I am—with the old idols broken, pies uldress,---- - $ 6.00} — ; __ tbe old ambition buried in the dust 4 « 10.00 were st? Fcne Old “grouhd hopes — once too sadly ea ‘iy, MacKENZIE & STUMBLES, sane .

their trust,

gladness That touched with beauty the fair morn of life— B . > ~} sut scourged with memories that are blent with madness,

Fleeing for shelter from the noonday

strife. dust as I am—foptsore and worn and weery— Faint from the rugged paths I have long trod

With pallid lips I ery out “ Miserere ! And at thy footstool lay me down, O God!

Just as I am—the crimson stains upon me, But thou canst wash me whiter than the snow— With the dark legions that had well nigh Worn me, Thronging my path to mock me as I go.

Just as I am—never again to falter,

Never again O, World! to dread frown—

But clasping close tha Stained altar—

To bear it onward till 1 grasp the crown !

thy

Cross—our blood-

LITERATURE.

LOLOL DBL

WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER XIIL.— Continued. It was, of course,a great satisfaction to the Prigleys that the head of the Stanburne family would thus voluntarily renew a con- nection which, eo far as a personal inter- course was concerned, was believed to have been permanently severed. It was not simply because the Colonel was a man of high standing in the county that they were glad to become acquainted with hin—there were clannish and romantic sentiments that now found a s:tisfaction long denied them. Mrs. Prigley felt, in a minor degree, what a Highland gentlewoman still feels for the Chief of her clan; and she was disposed to offer loyalty to the Colonel as the head of her house which was very different from the common respect for wealth and position in general. The Stanburnes had never taken any conspicions part in the great events in English history, but the successive repre-~ sentatives of the family had at least been present in many historical scenes, in con- flicts civil and military, on the field, on the quarterdeck of the war ship, in stormy par- liamentary strugg'es; and the present chief of the name, for other descendants of the family,inherited in an especial sense a place in the national lifeof England. Not that Mrs. Prigley had any definite notion even about the history of her own family; the sentiment of birth is quite independent of historical knowledge, and many a good gentlewoman in these realms is in a general way proud of belonging to some old family, without caring to enquire very minutely into the history of it, just as she may be proud of her coat of arms without knowing anything about heraldry. Nobody who knew the Stanburne family at all could be more ignorant of its history than Mrs. Prigley was, all her ideas on the subject being confined to three or four traditions, of which two were in the highest degree doubtful and improbable, and one demon- strably amyth. Mrs. Prigley used to nar- rate that at some period, the date of which was never given, and under some king, whose name was equally unascertainable, there had lived five daughters of the house, and the king, who greatly admired their beauty, had called them the Five Pair Maids of Wenderholme. The tradition was a pretty one and Mrs, Prigley firmly be- lieved it; but the worst of it was that the five unknown beauties whom his unascer~ tainable Majesty had appreciated, were no where to be found in the Stanburne family at all; for no representative of the house, during the seven centuries of its existence, bad ever succeeded in raising more than three daughters beyond the age of thirteen. In the pertinacity with which Mrs. Prigley clung to her traditions, and in her total lack of curiosity as to the actual fact, she was but a type of uncritical mankind in general ; yet the marvel is ever new how people can care at the same time so much about a particular object, and so little— how they can feel interest enough to be never tired of repeating what they heard, and yet not sufficient interest to make them take one step towards inquiry and investi- gation. The Colonel, in a very kind and graceful manner, expressed his regret that such near relations should have been separated for so long by an unfortunate dispute ber tween their fathers. ‘1 believe,’ he said, ‘that your side has most to forgive, since my father won the lawsuit, but surely we ought not to perpetuate ill-feeling genera-~ tion after generation’ Mr. Prigley said that no ill-feeling remained; but that though he had often wished to see Wender- holme and its owner, he knew that, as a rtile, poor relations were liked best at a distance, and that not having hitherto the pleasure of Colonel Stanburne’s acquaints ance he must be held excusable for holding him like the rest of the world. John Stan- burne was pot quite satisfied with this somewhat formal and dignified assurance, and was resolved to have a more intimate footing established before he left the par. sonage. He exerted himself to talk about ecclesiastical matters and church architecs ture, and when Mr. Prigley offered to show him tae church, accompanied him thither with great apparent interest and satisfac. . tion. The doctor had patients to visit and went his own way. CHAPTER XIV.

Colonel Stanburne returned the same evening to Sootythorn on militia business, and on the following day the doctor travel- led in the same direction in his gig. When he came near Nanny Pickering’s cottage he felt strongly tempted to go and have a little chat with that lady: not that he had any-~ thing very particularly interesting to talk about, but he was under some inciting in -

town, P. mie R. FITZGER ALD, Agent Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—6m

fluence, surely not that of the tender pase

Death as the youth that gave them all

Just as lam—though notin the bounding

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23, 1816.

; '» ; * ; . sion. The fact is the Goctor wanted to folks knows on. Take it wi’ you nor— EASY LESSONS IN POLITICS | smoke, and as there was rather a high wind, you've counted it 1 reckon—take it wi’ you | lecsathamamti

he had found it impossible to get a light on | and put it out to interest for me, and rent! Goop AND BAD MEN, AND HOW THE COUNTRY | the open road. |meéa bit of a house in Shayton. You shall WAS SAVED,

Nanny was at home, and received her pry me the interest and I'll live on’t.’ (BF clei

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friend with exclamations of welcome and; The opportunity of escape was not to be . =e van.) i

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| brought to Twistle Farm.

She would go! do all I ean for you.’

She asked after little Jacob, lost, and the doctor was not slow to seize _and heard with interest that he had been | upon it.

‘Good.~bye Nanny,’ said he, ‘1’] He looked out

firat | C'4Sses

ore three or four years ago in this Do. , | minion of Canada there were mainly two of people in this country, the good

Striving to teach those dumb lips how to | and see him there, and said; she bad taken | to see that nobody was in sight, and asthe |@nd the bad men, The bad men were

a great fancy and liking for the lad, as in. | road was quite clear, he carried the money | '¥lers in that day. They were awfully bad,

| deed did everybody who knew him. | wonderful patience, and will stand perfect-

| ly’s horse had this faculty in avery remark~ | able degree; it would stand for hours and | hours, unconscious of the lapse of time; ‘and its owner profited by this as often, | fear, for purposes of gossip, as for strictly | professional work—for he was a great gos- sip, and had the art of making himself agreeable to his patients of every order and degree.

The doctor loved a joie, perhaps he loved it rather too much. _ His manner of jesting was eminently English; that iS*fhe truly jocular element in a jest seemed to him to lie in the sufficiently frequent repetition of it. Itisa part of the affectionate fidelity inherent in our national character to be- come attached to old jokes as to old friends and the oftner we hear them the wittier they seem; so that in making a joke, the older it is, .be sureris the jester of success, for itcan butimprove by time. We are just the same in ovr musical tastes also. We like an air that we have heard thou- sands of times; we like ‘God save the Queen’ best because we have heard it oftnest, and the nearest an air approaches to that one in the great quality of familiar ity or accustomedness, the better its chanc- es of finding favour in our ears, Now the doctor's joke with Nanny Pickering, as in. deed with very many of his female friends, especially the oldest and uggliest of them, was that everlasting old joke about getting married; and it may be concluded, as a matter of course, that he returned to it on this occasion. The form given to the jest in this particular instance was, it must be admitted, a peculiarly dangerous one; for the doctor—with a rashness and temerity which he afterwards saw reason to repent— did not merely joke upon the subject of matrimony in general, but more especially and particularly upon the possibility of a matrimonial alliance between himself and Nanny Pickering. She listened to him for some time in perfect silence, laughing low,

| bags and rolls of notes to the gig.

hand in a rather tender manner, she expected the doctor to give her a kiss,

ppointed her.

house.

nothing but this mone of disposing it. He

could not have chosen better, Mr. Jacob was not so much astonished

He knew so well how fortunes were made, and had been so accustomed to observe the wonderful results of extreme

had been,

those instances of secret hoarding which were s0 common in the manufacturing districts. He proposed to purchase first a cottage for the capitalist herself in Shayton, and then to invest the rest in good railway debentures. A niece little cottage was got not far from the doctor’s own residence,and Nanny was installed there in course of a few days.

A remarkable alteration now became visible in Nanny’s habit of life. She,who had always been hitherto the most miserly of women, asked the doctor for a hundred pounds in ready money, and proceeded to furnish her cottage in a style of perfect comfort and decency, In her person also there was 9 change not less remarkable, She had been slovenly and even dirty: she became one of the neatest and tidiest women in all Shayton. She never alluded to what had taken place between her and the doctor, She never spoke of love; but

renewed between them—his peace of mind

and as it were to herself; then suddenly lifting up her eyes and laying ber hard on | the doctor’s arm, she said with the utmost | possible earnestness, ‘It'll be right, doc- tor; we’ll get wed.’ The doctor, in his astonishment, was gox ing to utter I know not what exclamation, | but Nanny, apprehensive of some answer | unfavourable to her. views, laid her hard hand across bis lips, and said, ‘Answer no~ thing for five minutes; give me just five minutes afore you speak, and you willn’t repent of it atter.’. The doctor made a sign of acquiescence; and Nanny, proceeding toward the bed, ripped a hole in the mat- tress with a knife, and drew thence a bundle of bank notes. She threw them on the doctor’s knee and said, ‘ you count them there, while I look summat elz.’ The doctor mechanically began to count, and Nanny disappeared, She returned shortly with a canvass bag which, from the way the canvass was drawn into little narrow creas- es by the contents, evidently was extreme. ly heavy. The doctor soon found out how heavy it was when she laid it on his knee, It was full of gold. Nanny disappeared again, and this time her absence was longer. By the time she came back the doctor had counted fifteen hundred and twenty-five pounds in bank notes, and eleven hundred and thirty-seven pounds in gold. He was literally stupified. The jokes about Nanny Pickering’s suppos- ed wealth had always appeared to him, as the French newspapers say (witha happy mixture of metaphors,) a noise denuded of all foundation. He had sincerely believed in the absolute penury of his friend, and pow, behold she wasa rich woman! The doctor was more surprised at this discovery than anybody else would have been. The joke about Nanny’s riches riches had be~ come so general in Sootythorn and the neighbourhood, and had spread itself so widely in Shayton and the other villages, that people had ended by believing it, and Nanny, to her great alarm, became aware that her wealth was known. She now felt that neither her’ money hor her person was safe in the cottage where she had so long enjoyed uninterrupted peace. She had res solved to leave and go elsewhere—whither she knew not, but certainly out of the reach of this dangerous reputation of riches—a reputation which people in other ranks of life are so anxious to acquire, and struggle so painfully to preserve. Nanny Pickering loved her money, but she loved ker life still more, and the publishing of her wealth had always seemed to her the sure forerunner of a bloody end. The doctor's joke had suggested to her mind a reliable plan which would insure her for the future that pros. tection and safety which needed. She was tired of her lonely life—tired of standing sentinel over her treasure. She did not dare to leave it, and to remain with it was to incur fearful risks. The doctor would be a good husband she believed; and though there was, no doubt, a wide social distinction between them, money was a powerful means of abolishing distinctions of that kind, and she had money. She returned with other sacks of gold and other bundles of notes, and the sum total fell little short of seven thousand pounds. ‘ Why, Nanny,’ said the doctor, ‘and have you been losing the interest of all this money ?’ ‘That's what most plagued me,’ said Nanny; ‘but I never durst go to a bank wi’ it for fear o’ folk knowin’; and I dunnot believe i’ banks. There were ever so many as lost their brass when Sootythorn Bank broke. Banks breaks, Doctor -— banks breaks.” ‘Nanny,’ said the doctor, ‘ old folks like you and me have nothing to do wi’ getting wed; but if you're tired of living by your- self, L can see no reason why you shouldn't live a deal more comfortably than you have been doing. If you were just tocome and live in Shayton, and put your money out to interest, you'd be very well off, and perfect~ ly safe besides.’ ‘Well, doctor,’ said Nanny, ‘we willn’t talk any more just at present about gettin’

was gone. He felt thai in doing his duty by her appointment, of the wealth committed to his keeping, he ought

to go oftner than he did; but there was a

as trustee

great fear on him every time he ventured to go near that neat little cottage,

lie did go there though, sometimes, as in duty bound ; and on one of these occasions the lady invited him to tea. She kept a little maid-servant, and the tea was served ip quite an unexceptionable manner, There were nice cups and saucers, there was a clean tablecloth, and there were both tea cakes and muffins, as well as plenty of outtered toast. Two fresh eggs were boils ed for the doctor, and slices of ham were fried for him. The doctor would have been truly happy at the little festival if he had not dreaded some allusion to matri- mony ; but the nearest hint upon which the lady ventured was this: she inquired what would be the annual income from her for- tune, and on being informed that it would amount to £400, she expressed her resigna- tion at being obliged to calling whatever that mysterious profess sion may have been, She then asked the doctor if he had any intention of giving up

abandon her

question of money, Nanny simply inquired whether he thought £400 would be suflici- ent for him to live upon. He answered that his present prefits did not realize more. As Nanny made no allusion more direct than this, the doctor’s coniidence gradually returned, and be went rather frequently to Nanny Pickering’s. From time to time she consigned to his keeping various sums of money which had been due to her, and which considerably augmented her fortune, She really was a rich woman and a most re~ spectable woman too, in every way. She became quite a personage in Shayton, and began soon to have something like a posi- tion in society at her disposal, if she had chosen to avail herself of it. It will be seen from the preceding nar- rative how even the great passion of avarice may yield to a passion still more mighty. Nanny Pickering, who, before she knew the doctor could not endure the idea of spend» ing even what all considered necessary for the commonest human existence, now spent her money like a gentlewoman. The read+ er hasalready divined the good lady’s policy. She bad made up ber mind that there shall be nothing repulsive about her: and if she cannot have the charms of youth and beauty she will at least have the advantages attain able by her—she will at least be respect. able. She says nothing to alarm her victim; she simply lies in wait for him, that is all. Will he yield at last, or will he resist unto the end? This as yet, we know not; but time shali tell. A constant though gentle press sure is now operating on the doctor's will, yet he is not fully aware ofit. Heis asa fish that hardly knows whether the hook is in his mouth or not. so gentle is the pull- ing. Patience is the great merit of the angler, and this angler possesses it in the supreme degree. She will wait and wait, as jong as it may be necessary to wait. The doctor must goand pay her a visit occasion- ally—common civility commands it; and, besides, he has constituted himself her man ot business, and must therefore see her from time to time. The doctor discharges his duty with, perfect earnestness; but his conscience tells him that other duties res main which he does not discharge. Which of ys, alas! is perfect at every point? In the best of characters there is ever some grievous shortcoming,'’some lamentable de~ viation and failure from the high standard of the right.

To be Continued,

WypoLpsaLe MassacRE BY ABYsSINIANS* — London, Oct. 12.—The Paris correspondent of ihe Times telegraphs an account of an interview with an officer in the Egyptian army, who gives circumstantial details of the horrible events which have taken place in Abyssinia during the attempt of Egypt to civilize the Abyssinians.

peditions. The first, which was despatch- was surprised in the defile of Goundel, and

massacred to the last man. expedition composed of 15,000 men, start~

overwhelmed, 4,000 men being killed. ‘Ihe

wed, but I wan’t to be shut of this here brass. It makes me as miserable now as

with great secresy.

When The horses of medical men acquire a| Nanny wished him goodsbye ho rather | Course, were not among the rulers; they dreaded some demonstration of affection, | ly still for an indetinite period. Dr. Bard. | but she did no more than just press his | have anything to d with men so bad. The

Instead of going to Sootyhorn as he ex~ pected, the doctor turned back to Shayton and got Nanny’s money safe into his own He was not fit for much profes. sional duty that day ; he could think of

and the best way ermified to constit Mr. Jacob Ogden on the subject, and he

at Nanny Pickering’s wealth as the doctor

economy and constant accumulation, that it did not surprise him to hear of one of

the doctor’s mind was not at ease. He always feared that the subject might be |

his profession when he got older; and when he replied that such a decision would be a |

The officer states that there have been two known ex.

ei in October, 1875, consisting of 4,000 men The second

ed in January last. It met the Abyssiniars in February, in the defile of Goura, and was |

s0 the good men said. The good men, of

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nothing but pay and plunder; that they knew nothing about the proper way to govern, and were simply making ducks and drakes of public offairs, The good men were in despair. They wanted to save the country from destruction, and wished to ‘preserve the heritage’ of their forefathers. So they told everybody else how shocking! A aS tow Uley wok railway charter for money, and how corrups tion and self-seeking prevaded every branch of the Civil Service. Other people seeing that the bad men were so very bad and the good men so very good, turned the bad men out and gave the management of public affairs into the hands of the good men. Then the good men hoisted the pure white flag—this they called ‘elevating the standard.’ They said, ‘Here is Purity,’ And the good men then decided to save the country. And there was among the good men a man who had been good for a long time, for he had wanted a chance for save the country for twenty years back, and couldn’t get it. And this good man whose name was Dorion, said: ‘Now let me save this bleeding country—give me the Chief Justiceship of Quebec;’ and they gave it to him and saved their bleeding country, And there was another good man by the name of D. A. Macdonald, and he said: ‘It is now my turn to save my bleeding country. Give me the Governorship of Ontario.’

they country was saved again. And a third good man, William Ross,to wit, stood forth and said ; ‘Behold I stand ready to save my country. Give me, I pray you, romething more congenial than the Militia Depart- ment.’ And they took him and gave him ; the. Collectorship of Halifax, which he didn’t want, and against which he kicked mightily at the time, but anon subsided | and enjoyed the great satisfaction of hay- ing saved his country. Anda fourth good man, by name Fournier, came up and he said: ‘ Alas! my country, who shall save thee? Give to mea seat in the Supreme Court in the Dominion, and I, even I, will try to save my country!’ And they gave this good man the seat for life and $8,000 @ year, and the country was saved once more, ‘Then there arose up two or three more of these good men—allthe good men we have named-being members of the Hest Government the world ever saw,’—-and these several good men said with one voice : ‘ Now let me save my country; my turn has come! Send me to a Governorship and so my country shall be saved.’ And their colleagues said: ‘Only one can go—we will select the very best. We'll take this absolutely good man from Prince Edward Island, and make him a Governor among the Indians and thus save the country. And his seat in the Government we will give to Ontario.’ So they gave him to the Indians, and the Isiand’s seat they gave, to Ontario, and once more they saved their unhappy country.

And similar sacrifices | went up all over the Dominion; the smoke of their altars ascended constantly up into ifeaven. Day and night these good men ceased not to pray for a chance to save their country, Supreme and County Court Judgeships were given them and” their country was saved; Postmasterships, Sena- torships, Sheriffships, Collectorships, Island Revenue offices, Railway offices, Contracts for rail and telegraphs and canals and breakwaters were freely given—all to save the country. Down in New Bruns- wick there was a perfect mania for saving the coantry. One good man said: ‘I am the man who wished to save the country— am he who moved Annexation resolutions. Now, give me another chance to save my country.’ And they gave hima chance— they made him a Customs Inspector. And another said: ‘He has done well, but I better. I advocated Annexation in my paper; it was I who apologized publicly for a loyal article which my wicked partner published in my absence. I pray you, give mea chance to save this bleeding, condemn- ed country.’ And they gave this excellent good mana Postmastership and $3,000 a year. And another had said : ‘ But for me this miserable country would long ago have perished: with my pills I kept it moving, and these clean hands have sported the tottering fabric for Lordknowshowlong. Let me now save it once for all,’ And they gave him Money Orders and a snug salary and saved their distressed country for the fiftieth time. And in Carleton there sprung up an exceedingly good man, and he said : ‘Give to me the St. John Penitentiary, that by cutting the prisoners’ hair just so, and taking proper care of their effects, and let- ting them have the freedom of the Province every few weeks, I may save this distressed country of ours.’ And they superannuated the Warden, and put this exceedingly good old man in his place, and,having (as in the case of the Post Office) charged two salaries to the Treasury where one was paid before, they congratulated“themselves on having again saved the country from terrible perils. But perhaps the most touching case of re- ward was that bestowed upon a remarkably good man named Anglin, who had labored for his country for many years, —solely for the country’s sake,— and had never thought of asking any return. Sut seeing the coun- try in danger, he rose up and said : ‘ Unless something is done speedily, peradventure this miserable country may go to the dogs. Give me nowa seat in the Government,and my great weight may happily prevent this country from sliding out into chacs.’ And they said, ‘ That seat we can not give thee, bui take thou this chair of the Speakership with $4,000 a year, net, and this Twenty Per Cent on £5,000 or $10,000 a year of Post Office Printing, and save the country.’ | And he took the Chair and the Twenty Per And

Cent., and again saved the country.

Abyssinian King then disappeared into the s0 these good men have gone oa from day interior, and according to the latest report, | to day and month to month, drawing salar. has repeated what he did in the ¢defiles of | Goundel and Goura by again crushing an army of Egyptians but the details of this, as of the other expeditions, are guarded | years ago there were no work for the laborer,