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|A TALE

+ Katharine?

| done it before, so as she’s been used.

| shall speak what] think, for all you or your

looks! J say she’s been treated shameful, | and I dont care who I says it before, judge or jury !°

| Edward, in a deep, husky voice.

| Was gone. she sat crying fit to break her

| orders ?’ asked Mrs, Grove, violently.

: SERENE OEE? SOT AEE

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.

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In speaking ofa person's faults, Pray don’t forget your own; Remember those with homes of glass Should never throw a stone It we have nothing else to do But talk ef those who sin, lis better we commence at home And from that point begin. | We have no right to judge a man, Until he’s fairly tried ; Should we not like his company,

We know the world is wide;

Some may have faults and who has not— The old as well as young,

Perhaps we may for aught we know, Ilave fifty to their one.

Vil tell you ofa better plan, And find it works full well;

lo try my own defects to cure } Before of others’ tell; And though | letimes hope to be No worse than some | know, | My own shortcomings bid me let ¢ ‘The faults of others go. Phen letus all, when we commence lo slander friend or foe, Phink of the harm one word may do,

lo those we little know.

sometimes like

, ‘roost athome:’

Don't speak of others’ faults until We have none of our own.

R , 1 MNeM her epeeee PeMICMIVET CUPsSesS

Our chickens

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YOUTH AND AGE,

} Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, |} Where hope clung feeding like a bee— Both were mine! Life went a-Maying ; With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When 1] was young! When Iwas young? Ah woful when! | Ah, for the change ‘twix now and then! | This breathing house not built with hands, | This body that does me grievous wrong, | O,eraery cliffs and glittering sands, How lightly then it flash’d along !— Like those trim skiffs unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide That ask no aid of sail or car, That fear no spite of wind or tide! Nought cared this body for wind or weather When Y h and | lived in ‘t together.

Flowers are lovely ; Love is Jower-like ; | Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh, thy joys that come down shower-like, Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty, Ere I was old! Ere lwasold? Ah woful ere! Which t

ells me Youth’s no longer here!

Q Youth ! for years so many and sweet, "T is known, that thou and IT were one; Iii think it but a fond deceit-— It cannot be, that thou art gone! Thy vesper-bell hath not vet toll’d, And thou wert aye a master bold!

| What strange disguise hast now put on, lo make believe that thou art gone ”

| I see these locks in silvery slips, rhis drooping gait, tais alterd size ; But springtide blossoms on thy lips, And tears take sunshine from thine eves! Life is but thought ; so think I will, That Youth and I are house-mates still.

—Coleridge.

— Tt

LITERATURE.

KATHARINE.

OF WOMAN'S TRIALS.

CHAPTER )X— Continued.

Enclosed in the envelop? wasa list of her treasures.

This letter was found, soon after Kathar- ine had left the house, by the servant, who, cent by Edward, went to summon her to

| the travellcr’s early breakfast. Alarmed by | the appearence of the room, and the absence | of all the usual litter of an occupied chams

ber, the girl rushed screaming dows stairs,

| exclaiming.

*She’s gove!—she’s gone! I knew she'd be drove t> make away with herself; I knew

| she would!’

‘Who's gone ?—who’s made away with herself?’ cried Mrs. Grove, angriy. ‘I

| wonder you're not ashamed of yourself, y y

Where’s Go and call ber dircetly, and leave of making this racket.’

‘ She’s gone! it’s she that’s gone!’ answerd the girl, almost enjoying the start and stare of consternation caused by her reply.

disturbing people in this way.

*What! cried Edward, springing from his eeat, end ce'zing the servent violently by the arm. * Whi’s talking about ”’

* Mies Kate, Sir,’ ing to cry.

¢ Where ?’

‘Oh, I don’t know, inte tke river, perhaps,’

}

ycns? What are you

replied the maid, be gins ‘ It’s che as is gone.’

| continued tle servant, with a noisy burst of | teats,

‘Nonesense, gir! |’ said Mrs. Grove, alarms ed et the suddenpa or whieh ¢verspread ber son’s countenance at these worde. ‘Mind what you say, or you may be made topay frit. Whatshould she have to go in the river for?’

‘ Pienty, I think. I wonder as she ain’t It’s no use your looking at me in that way; I

‘How co you know she is gone? said

*Cause her bed ain’t been slept in, and there’s nothiog about, and her bonnet and thawi’s gone. And ‘ cause when I took her bit of supper up last night, after Mr. DaVal

heart. I could see them as she was in deep trouble.’

‘Mr. Da Val here !ast nizht!’ cried Jane. ‘You never to'd me.’

‘No cause; ‘I didn’t thnk your cousin’s Visitors were apy business of youre, e didn’t ask for you,’ said the girl, maliciously.

* Then who did he ask for, you impertins ent creature ?”

‘ For her as he always came to see, though you wouldn’t believe it. Miss Nugent, to te eure!’

Did you dare to allow him up, after my

‘No, he showed himeelf up, and glad enough to,gefhe chance, seeing how she’s beea shat up this fortnight past trom bim and everybody else; but] should if he’d given me ‘ime.’

‘Then he aaw her?’ said Jane, sizgnifir cantly.

‘Yer; I suppose he did; it was’ot quite dark,’ answered Sarah, pertly.

‘Oh, then we may easily guess where my lady’sis off to now. There'llke no need to drag the river, I think,’ said Jane, with a scornful laugh.

‘Why what wickedness are you hinting at?’ cried the girl, in strong ind‘gnation. * What sinfulness are you waking ep now ?'

‘ Hold your tongue’ and leave the room this instant!’ retorted Miss Grove, loftily; while Edward, who had stood gazing from one to the other in agony, now turned away, and uttered a deep moan:

* No, | won’t, for I see what you're driv» ing st; and now the poor girl’e gone, and

TEAEES

got vone tu etand up forber,{ will- Don’t you believe anything agen Miss Kate, Sir,’ she said, addressing Edward. ‘ Take my word for it, she,d no more be led to do what she,’ pointing to Jane, * hints at, then an angel out of heaven. If she’s come to mis- chief, it’s death, not shame, and they've drove her to it.’

‘How dare you? Hold cried Mrs. Grove, furiously.

‘No, I won’t. Itold gowso befure. Iv’e held it long enough, more shame for me; but I won’t no longer. | can see what you're trying todo—to make Mr. Edward think bad of his cousi», by’ cusing her of things you know she’d scorn; but you shan’t have your wey,—at least not whi'e I’m here to speak up for her.’

* How long was Mr. Du Va! here ? asked Edward, ‘ a: d when?’

* Last night, for abovaan hour, But don’t let that make you misjudge her, sir,’ cried Sarah eagerly. ‘My worl aia’t much, certainly; but I’d stake that, my life’ too, as neithar Mr. Da Val, nor nobody else’ could tempt Miss Kate into what is wrong.’

* Would you? IT would’ot!’ and Jane toss ed her glove contemptuously upon the table ; ‘for I happen to know otherwise.’

‘You don’t, Mis: !’ exclaimed the girl; ‘and it’s a urnirg shame you should say so!’

‘Jane,’ said Edward at the same moment, speaking through his closed teeth, * bavea cure! You've vot to do with ‘her’ now, but with me, and I wil! make you prove every slanderous word you gay. Vil stabbing in the dark,’

‘Dark! I think the dark’s comes pretty well to light. You might have seen what she wasall alonz, if you’d not been bewitehs ed.’ 4

‘Silence! Abuse is no reproof; and proof you shall bring before you dare ‘o speak a light word, in my hearing, of a girl that I'd give my right hand to call my wife!’

‘ But such an artfal, wicked F

‘Hosh, mother! I can’t bear it. Be Kate what she may, I will never hear a bad word against her, and so you'd better make Jane understand; for, so ling as eho stays in my house, she'd best learn to be s lent,’

‘Your house!’ cried Jane, in a raze, ‘How long have Ibeen io your hous, 7 should like to know ?”

‘Ever sivce your father died; and if you

your tougue !’

have no

expect to stay init, you must govern your tonzue; for Ll warn you, that no ove living with me dare io speak, or even bint, a word to Kates discredit. No, answered Jan,’ he aided, sternly; you andI know | each other !’ ‘Hadn't they best go up and seo if there’s | anything as thoy can trace her by? euge gested tho girl.

And thankful fer the eec:pe, Mrs. Grove } and her daugtber ran up.

‘Now, sir,’ whispered Sarah ergertly, | when they were gone, heres a letter for you | as I found on the drawers. 1 did’nt think you'd like to gt it before then and that’s | why I wanted them gone.’ Without a word, «nc trembling in every | limb, Edward tock the letter. At first, the | mist which dimmed his eyes prevented him from seeing » werd; but when, by a great | effort, ho recovered himssif sufficiently to read, Sarah, who had drawn back, saw his | lips quiver, #nd bis eyelids drop, as he pros proceeded. There was evidently sorrow, | but no bitterness,—bis hopes were shattered, but he respected her st:!’. }

sini | CHAPTER X.

| A period of many years has elapsed since | the occurrence mentioned in our last chapter,

It wasthe morning of a glorious winter day,

exactly eighteen yoars alter Mr. Grove’s | | death, thet a lady and geatleman stood to- ; gether in one of the lay windows in the | great ha!l at Wallasay. | Both were more than ueua'ly attractive, especially the lady, wio, althugh really past thrirty, 'ooked ten yesrs younger, so Lappy was the expression of her beautiful face. Her slizht figure, almost childlike in its g:ace, | alwaye showed t» peculiar advantage when, as now, it was supported by a wanly torm of her huteband, whose carssing arm was thrown around her waist, while her head, leaning againet his shoulder covered it with a shower of rich chestnut curis. One hand lay clasped in | is ; the other rested upon the grave upturned trow ofa large Newfound- land dog.

The eyes of both gentleman and Iady were fixed lovingly upon the ecene beneath, where two gallant boys of fifteen and sixteen were to be seen, mounted on their hightred hunt- | ers, while from the kennel bslow trottedin the the dozs, causing the mettled animals ridden by the boys to stamp the chafe, pull hard at their bridles, ard utter short impa- tient neighs.

“YT hop> that borse of HKanulph’s is thos roughly broken io,’’ said the lady, as her eldest ton’s horse betrayed symptoms of strong disobedience to his rider.

‘What, Thalaba! Oh, yes; only 's rather fresh to-day afer the long reet this frost bas give us. Besides, if he were not Ranulph has such @ capital seat that you, need never fear. Ile sits like a centaur. One does not often see such a boy, teks him allin all. Whata perfect manner hs has !” continued the gentleman, as the boy raised his vel vet-cap in courteous acknowledgment of two or three men who rode up to join the meet. ‘ And Edward, too, whata fine feilow he is, but how different. They look like res presentatives of two distinct races. No one would take them for brothe:s.’

‘Do you think not? Tome they do not seem so mueh unlike,’ and the mother’s ‘eyes reeted fondly on her sons. ¢ Butis not that Sir Courtney Tyrre!! entering tie save. nue? You must go now,I suppose; well, enly be careful ef the boy; don’t encou. rage Renulph to ride to daringly, and above all things do not set him the example, reck- less being that you are! Who would think, to see you flying over hedges and ditches that you had euch encumbrances as wife and children to think of ?

‘ Nobody, Kate,’ answered the gentleman, kissing the beautiful, halfslaughing, hali- pouting lips which spoke; ‘so do not you be erael enough to betray my sorrows, But hollo, what does Ranulph want?’ he added hasticly, as the boy, who had ridden down the avenue to meet Sir Courtney, now turn. ed back ata eharp Canter, reiuing up his fretting horee under the wi: dow where his parente stood, doffing his cap the while to his beautiful mother.

* Well, Ranulph, what is it ?”

‘A message from Tow, sir,’ replied the youtb, eagerly. ‘Sir Courtney met one of the helps just below the spring, coming up with a message to say that Tom thinks we

| York,

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 11,

had better draw Thorely Wood this morning for he’s had information from ons of the Baker’s ploughmen, who saw a fox go in about two hours ago, and, from what Tom can learn, it’s the same we lost in the home co~ pic the last day we were out. Sir Courtney bade me 1ide up and give you the message, and says that it’s half-past now, quite. We shall have a capital field,’ continued the boy, glancing round as the great stable clock ranz out the appointed time, and brizht scarlet coate glanced into sight, in the avenue, across he park, ia the private bridle~roads, every~ where, making for the appointed place, from which the merry bugle rang clear and loud. * We have always a fuller meet at Wallasay than any-vhere else,’

By this time the Master of Wellagay was out with the hounds, talking eagerly to the old sportsman, whom his eon called Sir Courtney Tyrell, end questioning tke h-lp who kad ruo up with the earth-etoppr’s message ; while his wifs, who had thought herself sheltered from all eyes but her s>:.’s, by the great carved screen behind which ehe stood, was soon spied out by two or three neighbours, and blushing and smiling, was now bowing to their recognition.

Five minutes’ ‘law’ to allow for the difs ference of watches, and give the laggards a chance of joining,—a litt'e animated discus» sion about the weather, the state of the country, the heavy olay and l|:ght soils, and the rime which even now iay under the hedgs e:,—whes Mr. Du Val sprang upon h’s horse, and, accompanied by the fie'd, rode cff in the direction of Teorley Woods.

To be continued. EE SCT ae ee ONE PHASE OF NATIONAL GREAT<~ NESS. [From the Montreal Gazette,}

Ata time when many of the most iilus- trious men of science take a stand with regard to Biblical revelation, which, if not boldly antagonistic, is suggestively nega: tive or injuriously neutral (for ‘he that is not for Me is against Me,’ said the Lord), it is consoling to believers in the saving verities of Christianity to see such a man as Dr. Dawson, a man who is among the most eminent of philosophers of our day, maintaining, with quiet dignity and a fear- less consciousness of strength, the cause of Heaven inspired truth, even in the very stronghold of its adversaries. Such a fact ought to be especially gratifying to the various Christian communities of Canada, of which Dr. Dawson is the scientific re- presentative, the intellectual ambassador and interpreter among the nations of both hemispheres.

We are proud of our material progress, of our wealth of all kinds, of our imperial extent of territory, touching three of the great aqueous divisions of the earth, of our vast developed and developing, and our still vaster undeveloped resources of field, and forest, and river and mine, of our mighty industrial forces, of all the facilities, in fine, which bounteous nature has placed at our dispesal for the exercise of our varied energies in the advancement of the world’s civilization. Bnt in the list of these energies we are too much inclined to omit what is the most important and,

rightly applied, the most honorable, the | When we recall the |

most glorious of all. great works of Greece or Rome, of France or England, and the men who have ac- complished them, it is not only the names of statesmen, of jurists, of merchants, of farmers, of mechanics, or of soldiers that are suggested to us—necessary and noble as is their work, and much as they have aided in the architecture of the ages which they signalized and adorned. Not these only. We are reminded, also, of the thinkers, the lovers of wisdom, the seers, the artists, the poets, the seekers after truth, the venerators of the beautiful and the good, the gatherers and treasurers of the world’s best, the loving toilers for

their brethren of all times and climes. If)

we ask a man of any nationality to men-

tion a few of his country’s representative |

men it is, most probably, from such as

these that he will choose his heroes—- | Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Seneca, | Newton ; |

Pliny ; Shakespeare, -[acon Dante, Machiavelli, Galileo; Humboldt Hegel, Goothe ; Corneille, Pascal, Descartes; Agassiz, Draper, Longfellow—these, and such as these, sre the names which in the Temple of Immortal Fame, oecupy the niches most near to the central shrine. And among the pioneer creators of our own national reputatioa, among those who, in after times, shall be recognised as our greatest and our best, however little atten. tien may be now accorded to them, in the intoxicating whirl of material progress and prosperity, will be such as, in aspiration

_and achievement, shall have approached

most nearly to the standard of the acknow- ledged intellectual Kings of other coun. tries and ages.

It is as such a one that Dr. Dawson has been receiving his meed of honor among our kindred republican neighbors of New It is as such a one that the associa~ tion of his name with Canada is an honor to eur young nationhood, compared which the reputation of our greatest of merchant princes sinks into an- nihilation. Far from ws be the absurd affectation of despising wealth or making little of any honest means of obtaining it. Far be it from usto undervalue the in~

fluence of one class of men, whose merits | have raised them to high pesitions, in order | Far be it from |

to exalt that of another. us to make invidious comparisons between

thinkers and workers, between learning and |

commerce, between literature or science and business ability, professional skill or mechanical aptitude! There is no fear of us doing that, there isno danger of us doing any mischief, if we were allowed to do so.

The danger is, on the contrary, that in our |

zeal for material advancement, in our head-~ long race for wealth, in our practical ignor- ing of all excellence or worth save what may be counted by thousands, we fail to attain that dignity or self respect, that power and that reputation among the na- tions of the earth, which no wealth can buy and for the lack of which no material ag- grandizement can compensate.

A nation’s greatness depends on its mov ral and intellectual culture, on its literary and artistic creativeness and faculty of scientific research, no less than on its mere material developement. The one is, the body, the other is the mind. Without the informing spirit, without the divine intellect, the body, however majestic in its comely outlines, is dead. ‘he illus- tration is common-place enough, but it is none the less true, and of the truth, when

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one forgets it, it is well to be reminded. We, in the Dominion of Canada, are too careless of our great names in literature, science and art, so careless that as could be abundantiy proved, it is generally from abroad that we receive the first intimation of any more than ordinary merit in « Canadian writer, artists or savant. We lack & genuine, patriotic spirit of independence. We import our ideas and our opinions. We think and believe accordisg to the ipse dizit of alien critics, And so native merit is neglected, unless it is supported by wealth, or is fortunate enough to secure a favorable foreign verdict. For the most part, engrossed by the pursuit of riches, we ignore those who find their happiness in, and aspire to a reputation for, what in other lands is so highly prized and honored. {t is accordingly taken for granted that in Canada there are no great men of the kind of which we have spoken, and we claim no recognition, in this respect form other coun- tries. If we influence their judgments at all. it is against ourselves that we do so. We say practicaly to all the world, with re- gard to literature, science and art, that no- thing good can come out of Canada. At least notas yet—nor till she approaches maturity. This is a poor excuse. Al- though, as a nation, Canada is young, she is young Shly in a certain sense. She has in intellect and education, equal advantages with all tne old countries of Europe. There is no reason why her sons and daughters should not occupy a position in all the de~ partments of intellectual culture, and in creative and inventive productiveness, as lofty as any country in the world, She has already given birth tomenand women who have in all these departments highly dis- tinguished themselves, and whose names are held in honour throughout the range of civilization. And all that their successors need is encouragement—honour in their own land, or, at least, as much considera. tion at home as that which is accorded them when they pass the boundaries of the Do- minion. THE KINGSTON ELECTION.

Commenting on the result of the Kings- ton election, the Montreal Gazetie says : « Kington has remained true to its old representative, and Sir John Macdonald has accordingly been elected by a majority of seventeen. Under ordinary circums stances, Oo narrow a majority would almost be equivalent to defeat At the moment, the election itself, is a splendid political triumph, Sir John is not only without patronage or favors of any kind to bestow, | but his party has certainly no prospect of being again in the ascendant for the next four yearsat ‘east. His defeat has been the darling ambition of his politieal oppon- ents, and all the energy and patronage of the Government -- nay, of two Governments, that of Ontario as well as that of the Do- minion--have been devoted to bring it about. Ministerial favors have been showered with an unspacing hand upon the old city. The obstructions in the harbor hare been removed, a Normal School has been promised, the Military Schoel has been located there, and if our information is to be relied upon, the Government, just on the eve of the election, out of pure kindness of course for the poor people, set some hundred or two of laborers to work to dismantle and raze the fortificas tions. The First Minister has been unre- mitting in his attention to the Kingston- ians during the last twelve months, while Mr. Cartwright has labored with the feroe city of personal hatred to bring into disre- pute the man to whom he owes his en- trance into public life. More than this, knowing well the influence of deputy re- turning officers in working this precious Ballot Act, every one of these officials were political opponents to Sir John. In spite of ali these influences he is again triumph. ant ; and he stands to-day in the proud position of receiving a renewal of the contidence of a constituency which he has represented without interruption for thirty years, a record which few public men even in English history can boast of."

The Toronto Mail says :—We cannot but

regard it as a most fortunate circumstance that, though he [Sir John] be but in Ops position, the country is not to be deprived | of the ripe ability, high statesmanship, and _large powers of the man who has success- | fully wielded and eontrolled ite destiny for |so longatime. We trust he has many years of usefullness yet before him; and | while he has a voice in public affairs no one need have any fear for the commonwealth. We offer to Sir John Macdonald our hearty _ congratulations on a triumph which he may | may weil regard as the greatest in a career

| which has been pre-eminently great and |

| noteworthy.” .

The merchants of Toronto have organs _ized a special force of night watchmen, | under control of the chief constable for | the protection ef their ware houses. =>

Daniel Mossart, a well known American watch inventor, has just been taken to the insane asylum at Kalamazoo Mich. He has been for years at work on a watch which, without being larger than usual, was to show quarter seconds, minutes, hours, days of the week, days of the month and | months of the year, and every fifth time it was opened was to wind itself. He had

offer from persons in the city for the right to manufacture it. A short tine ago he took the model apart to fix, and being un- | able to put it together again, some part | having probably been lost, the intense |mental application upon the difficulty | deranged his mind.

Bio Ixvention.— Lloyd, the famous map | man, who made all the maps for General | Grant and the Union army, certificates of which he published, has just invented a way of getting a relief plate from steel so as to print Lloyd's map of American Continent— showing from ocean to ocean—on one en- tire sheet of bank note paper, 40x50 inches large, on a lightning press, and colored, | sized and varnished for the wall so as to stand washing, and mailing anywhere in the world for 25 cents, or unvarnished for 10 cents. This map shows the whole United States and Territories in a group, from sur- veys to 1875, witha million places on it, such as towns, cities, villages. mountains, lakes, rivers, streams, gold mines, railway stations, etc. This map should bein every house. Send 25 cents to the Lloyd Map Company, Philadelphia, and you will get a eopy by return mail,

NO. 2.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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Dr. Schultz, M P., for Lisgar, has been committed for trial on a charge of perjury.

It is proposed to establish a regiment of Zouaves as one of the local Militia corps of Montreal.

A German member of Parliament, editor of an Ultramontane journal, has been ar- tested for publishing a seditious article.

The condition of the iron trade in Pen- nsylvania is such as to warrant the belief that the production in 1875 will be very limited. About one half of the western furnaces are alredy out of blast, and the stock of pig iron has been reduced toa greater extent than at the east.

This is a rattlesnake season in Texas. A letter from there says: ‘ Twenty-one rattlesnakes were caught and caged at Eigin during the last cold spell. Two sink holes were attached and thirteen taken from one and eight from the other. They measured from eight to five feet, and some of them had as many as nine rattles.

French Canadians in Boston in conven. tion protested against the death sentence imposed on Lepine, and voted to send the Governor General of Canada a petition with over two hundred signatures, that Lepine be immediately released, and that the

eneral amnesty promised by Sir, John A. nald’s Government be granted to all Manitoba rebels.

An English amateur photographer claims to havediscovered a method of fixing the image of an object on a sensitised plate no more than half an inch in diameter, an im-

ression from which can be afterwards ens ged to the necessary size. The plate is fixed in to an ordinary locket or keepsake hanging froma watch chain, and can be suddenly exposed, by a touch of the finger, on entering the room, and an image taken of a picture or person, without any one besides the operator being aware of it. The operator, however, in order to secure a passably distinct impreasion, would have to possess an unusually steady hand.