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Ten Shillings per annum in advance, MONTREAL ASSU R AN CE GOM PAN x.

Incorporated 1840.

or Twelve Shilllngs when not paid in advance

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Moon's CHANGES, ; Full Moon, Sth day, 5h. li w.,p m, We Last Quarter, 14th day, 2h. 44m.. a. w, S. E.

> » } - New Moo», 20th day, Sh, 19m.,p. m.N-W- | OF TORONTO, land the while his theaghts-were carried First Quarter, 23th day, 9h. 2m., a mw. SW. | | , lovi a hildish days. of —<—<—= == Established 1833. | back to the bygone, loving, childish days. o P) pay SUN] SUN joel 22 [St |Z , |e now lost Maude, 2 Paso WEEK. rises| sets |oiock a= | =e |35 | Yapi ; wa. 500.000 At length, when the old man’s tale was | sets Iclock.| 8° | TS |s Capital and Cash Assets, upwards of - Q gih, Ie : r , on ef sree pao] tn P » “P f $ ’ ‘told, and the two within had lapsed into it ' i sit * i e <a ° . ¢ | si aip . s as s} sun 2 golt qal3a0! 1 31,629, 99 | Joint Policies, binding both the above Offices, issued on Vessels, | ronccted. es cn aes ie 7 al @ 4 © oll een ° 2 | ary ted, i : ; “ 2 a $i 2 oa oo 'Cargoes and Freights, to and from all ports of the commercial world ceniled en bis hen-teline dames Maas 9 ‘wes v 2u) 5,3 30, 5 <e] 8 _~ y 4) W | 2| 19 3 3 | clerk On arrivieg there he was warm! 4) Wed 49-28) S 12) 65 37; 9 3 32 s " | clerk, n arriving there he was v y 5) Thur | 49} 24 39) 6 36) 944) 33 $10,000 covered on First-class Risks. | welcomed by Mr. Gowar and his wife, who, | 6| Frid asl - 6 - : = - — P RATES MODERATE. ‘nevertheless, looked somewhat surpriced at 2] gee | a6 B27} 9 alt aol 38] | the visit, even after Mr. Birton had apolo- 2; Sun 4-/ 26) 57; 9 4 il 40 38 - . a “ Pa? . ‘ © | Here vist , even a ters e ae Pp ¥ 9] Mon 47) aah 7 Ql 9 aulA. 15) 40 Losses promptly adjusted and Paid in Cash. gined for’ the tetraitddi’ wad oxplsiaed “bp

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20) Mon 31) 57] 33} 223/524} 2 | 3'| Tues 7 294 53.13 42 3 35) 6 37/9 29 | www Ye ee Paid Up Capital,

Husiness Oards. Surplus, $ ; ek, HENRY J, GAFFNEY, M. D.,

| Total Assets, 1st Jan’y, 1870,

rc \T Re GY | 1 LY 7 . ° 2 ° ° PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Risks against loss or damage by Fire accepted on every description | disappeared

OFFICE IN Des Brisay’s lock (next Apothecarie’s Hall,)

QUEEN STREET,

of property.

FENTON T. NEW Charlottetown, April 25, 1870.

| PRIZE MEDALS, MR, A SMYTHE. __| 1862 AND 1851; PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, | F, S. CLEAVER

Has Removed his Academy to Water St,, | Begs respectfully to recommend the following ! articles of

Resipexce.—North American Hotel. Chartett-town, Aug 3, 1870.

(Opposite the late Telegraph Office.) ‘Tomer Soap ann PeaxruMenry

Manufactured and Imported by him.

Pianotorte and Meiedeon Tauing pure- tually attended to. July 25, 1870. ly All of which may be relied on for their genuine 7 in ll i el | quality, a8 many years’ jucreasing patronage will ' | testify,rendering unnecessary any further comment, WILLIAM DODD, In hon-angular tablets, White Glycerine Soap, Comuuission WMerchant and ‘ich!y perfumed Letiace Milk roap, Floral Soups, Spermaceti Soap, Otto of Rose Coid Cream Soup, AUCTIONEER, | Centtleurs Toilet Soup, Prize Medal Honey Soap. y + | Almond, Palm, Giycerine, Santlower, Mallow and QUEEN SQUARE, jevery description of Toilet Soups, Musk and Trebie CHARLOTTEIOWN, P. BE. ISLAND. | Scented Brewn Windsor, Improved and Extra ~ —— | Scented ditto- C AR VY wns BROTH ERS. | TUE LATEST NOVELITIES 7 F. 8. Cleaver’s Hyacinth Toilet Soap, F. 8. A UC TION EER S, | Cleaver s Musk Kose Windeor Seup, Military and Naval Toilet Scap, Plate Rouge Soap. F. 8. : . Cleaver's Honey Pomade for the Hair, F. 8 Commission Merchants, cise: Fos! br the | |aceous Tooth Powder, Glycerine Shaving Squares, AND | Cosmetiques, &c, The Scent of the Period, also 1OW GENERAL AGENTS, | Ess Boqaet, Millefleurs, Mangolia Rondelitia, BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET, | Tlengi lang. May a New Mown Hay, As ‘ > } Lon Like it Ces Ce Charlottetown, P. E. Isiand. | For Family Use, the following Boaps.in 1 Ib, A. Me NEILL, Chambers’ Castor Oil Pomatam, Marrow Oil, | Bears’ Grease, Bears’ Marrow. Crystallized Reading Room Proprictor, Cream. Lavendar Water, Eau de Cologue, Viole 2h 720 per a: | Powder, GON ff3sioe MSRCMANE Caurion.—Owing to the recent introducticn AND | of Soap made from Cocoa Nut Vil, F. S. Cleaver | feels it incumbent on bim to remark that he ere AU OCOTLON EER. | tirely abstains from the use of that pernicivus jarticie in any Soap bearing his name, the only Charlottetowm, - - - P.E. Ze | advantage of which is to enable the maker to May 31,1869. tf | produce soep at less cost, and with a suiooth and livory-like appearance, which treacherous and STHR D. SHAW, | superficral qualification is to be avoided; as a seap so made posssesses a much more powerful

Attorney-at-Law, ac. | alkali than genuine Englishb-inade seap; and lke |

many other things, beautiful to behold, leaves OFFIC E—Cocner of Great George ite sting bebind, by causing a severe irritation to and Dorchester Streets. | the skin—particularly if used for shaving. It Opposite City Hotel. Formerly occupied as likewise produces # faint, sickly, and disagree- a Law Office by Charles Palmer, Esq., | able smell, az the bands of any person who fias ueed and recently by H. J. Cundall, Esq. ¥ + A emene’ CHARLOTTETOWN,

Mare!: 21, 1870.

H HASZARD. Coiminission Merchant, GENERAL AGUNT,

anxD_ }

AUCTION EER SALT, in bulk, Uppe. Queen Street, } Bark CLIFTON,

Charottetown, - - - P.E.L.

—_—ee |

N. B.—Orders from abroad, and the country |

gril! “ecvive eine eas es i April 26, 1869

London, W. C. | Paria, Sola by

Deput, 243, Rue St. Dennis,

W. R. WATSON. City Drug Store, Victoria Building,

| Oct. 23, 1269 r at:

| SALT. SALT. OR SALE, 600 Bushels LIVERPOOL

Also, 2000 SACKS, ex

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: JAMES C. POPE, | Ch‘town, August I, 1870. ve

Wool.

the Store of

H. J. CALLBECK. Ch'town, May 30, 1870.

BROOMS & PAILS.

50 doz. Pails, 50 du. Brooms,

| | A. HERMANS, |

Bell - Hanger, Gun and Tin- Smith,

Dorcheser Street, vee ON VELL BROS. Vext to « ” Office. (Next to «* Examiner” Office.) Sept. 26.1870. tm

EGS to retarn his thanks to the general | public for the liberal patronage extended | to him since his commencement in business, |

and as\s for 4 continuanee of the same. He! keeps voustanty on hand

A meat Assortment of

TINWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS

Just Arrived AND NOW OFFERED CHEAPER THAN EVER, HOUSEHOLD - FURNITURE IN VARIETY. Latest styles in Walnut, Mahogany, Chestaut,

fas dec., dee. | Butternut, Maple and Birch, selected perso.

: . i nally in the United States and the D i AL). CRDERS in the above BUSINESS | a Secin ey ee will be panctually attended to. | PICTURE - FRAMES, in ail the Jatest styles.

Having lately nade large parchases in the Round, Oval, and Square; Gilt, Waluut, and Cheapest Markets, intended for House Builders, Rustico; Plane and Ornamental. auct is Second - baud Pianos aud Melodeons sold at a Gias Fitting, Water Closets, bargain. JOHN NEWSON.

Belt Fittings, &., &c., . . Ch*t Ia) prepared to SELL THEM at RATES| Weta te ihre. es 48 LUW AS CAN BE HAD IN THE CITY, | . end will fit them up in a good workmanlike style Ti | ei a reat I would eas, that al) C A U 0 8 ore BI | ee NESS will be attended fo with Despatch | Bhat erento your Money 1 Saying BOGUS nd Lotot First Clase WATER COOLERS as = sas sise Oltgwel Sou akan. encapaben > oe . 2 the . SAVER'S CRYSTAL BLUE, ‘ CITY HARDWARE STORE,’ Sold Cheaper than ever, _ BOUKKE, GILLAN & Co. July 12, 1869, August 22, 1870,

COMPRISING THE

Head Office, 1 Old Broad Street. London.

Head Office, 45 Wall Street, New York.

Pomades for the hair, Sapen- |

| dockey Club Boquet, Kise Me Quick ,Frangipauni, |

ara —Fymily Brown WV indayy- Alo slyceri Barer Hanily Row py inde tool Glyceriyes |

Manufactiry, 32 and 33, Red Lion Street, |

Cas paid for WOOL, on delivery, at

—_ om = wane

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1871,

a oR | RTON SPENT) ‘Yes, sir; a sady lett it,” NSURANCE. HOW RALPH BI y lett j

| HIS CHRISTMAS EVE.

RANGE UNION,

A Tale of the Season.

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(Concluded.)

Cuaerer IIL

ABOUT A BALL AND ANOTHYR EESOLUTION,

For some time after we left him, 3 Birton stood entranced by the window, els, = $1,099,540 | gazing ia upon the cozy picture of a cheer-

i fal home, aud the, to him, silent pantomime ND | of love that was being enacted within, For- 'getful of everything else, the lone men’s

wHicn Is

BRITISH AMERICA ASSURANCE CO.,, | ears was drawn into the seene, and he

| yearned to bo an actor in euch another ;

FENTON T. NEWBERY, Attorney. : ver | hese tcgg ii Rabin that they were entertaining a few guests (he thought that, pechaps, they would not

and dism'ss your driver.” ‘Thark you. Have yon a place where [ can stow away, until] I leave, a few par- i cels which 1 have in the sleigk?? * Yes, certuinly. ’

£1,965,000 Sterling.

ileft at old ‘oe’s—were brought in, and the | driver dismissed; and then Kalph went up

i i with his host tothe scene of festivities. As) $400,000 C0 | th ‘y stood for a moment at the door before |

a. “3 ~ o - - 328,399 94 |eatericg Rolph felt anything but a merry om | subject for a merry meeting. aie (Renae ; ~ m4 | few back to the last Christmas party be was WOR RO { j oe : . o ” $726,399 94 lat, wh n he himself played the host, tu

the hoste-s, of whom ie had been so proud, ‘heir advent checked for a moment the procecdings going on within, where the little ones were having their Sir Roger before being dismissed for the night; aud . aright merry dance they wore making of , TMI it, beaded by Miss Gowar—a tall, shapely VW AN'T iD. girl, with dark violet eycs, and fair hair— ¥ TANTED, a Steady, Sober Mar, whe} and young Courtrey, her acknowledged canYead apd write, to ect as fipeman jjover at the Gas Works,

Apply to BERY, General Agent for P. E. Island.

So SEEN ES

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Good wares ANG constant} } def pie it} 3 NI magia ciate iemployment wili De gifen. vone need appey

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My Gaurtter- Custer; Mire Biton, ” |who cannot produce a good character for) said her father, as, uta sigu from him, sze subriety, de, &c. | Jolned then,

WM. MURPHY. | ‘Allow me to bd my father’s kindest | Dec. 5, 1870. fiend weleome to cur hous-,’ said Char- 2 latte, unaffeetedly aud gracefully extcnd- ling her band,’ ‘and thank bim sincerely Do you care

| ne AL HEARTESTONE } MOHTREA HEAR sow Giils ; . — for the hencr he does us

GREAT OFPUR TOCLUES, . ws ws | BHipb saw that his presenee had cast

/50 Cen-s for Six Moaths. $1 for 1 Year, ra her a damiper upow the spirits of th: lei jade, seins Sepepniar gers | younger cues, and determined pot ta allow ONLY ONE CLUB FROM EACH POST OFFICE IN THIS! jg, {¢o continue, he answered—* Yes, I am

rae : very foud of them and must not allow my WHO WILL BE IN THE CLUB? lenteraace to interrupt their mcrriment,

| . : ‘ | Wilt you join «heir dance with me?’ said The ‘*Montreal Uearthstone” is one of Wi au 3 : , " the fine-t Eight Page Periodicals pubs | he, turning to Mrs, Gowar; and they fell lished. Subscribe for it) Support into the middle of the line, end, though | Sanswn 4 bets j ‘ ‘ ‘ liome Papers, and establish \the dare? mov d on a little stiffly at first, | liome Literatuie, : ; ‘ Ralph bad the happ, keack of waking every- ons ebout him feci at their ease; and in a! short while :he romp Wae swinging on as wildly as ever, And when it was over, a | Wee maiden, seareely a yard in height, i With DIP C¥efPanddeng woldew curly brushed | back [rcm her forehead, and coafi.ed in a HeabtTustone for six montls—26 numbers—and omt ; r hi ; ; ten rcdabout e@o « } ! - give to the getter-up of Club ten sets of Nickel | roundabou 20 — and bit of b = cibbon, Silver Teaspoous, or five extra copies of the came up to him and said, paper. : | ‘Good night, [like ’ou; whai’s ’our Fora Clab of Twelve, at $1 00 each, we will| | 9» 8 re send 12 copies of the ‘* Hearthstone * for one year | BAMES oa) — S2uumbers — and a set of Nickel Silver Tea-| Ralph saatehcd up the diminutive bund'e : 3 tach Subseriber 4 , sts of sp $s} . . spoon toe: et Subs rit - und two sets of s} oons of tarlatan, and kised its owner over and | and an extra copy of the paper to getter ap of | it 3 ce Club. lover. Then the children dissppearcd, and Any person getting up a Club can send in five | the party went on with their elders, Ralph half-yearly subscribers at a time, and we will, on | } a ah Bes , : a4 receipt of names and money, send the papers and | 92uCed, HOW WD ARES, — Gowar, now with two sets of Teaspoons, or one extra copy of the! Charlotte, aod agaia with others of her paper to the vetter-np of Club; or they can send} 2 a a in three yearly Su‘*scribers ut a time, and we will yeaey friends, standing < Sp for all the send papers und presents to Subecribers, and send | 8qUare dances, though be declared bimselt | prese’ ts to getter up of Club as soon us Club is uvequal to the round, and in spite of him-

complete. ¥ ae hi 7oOni } } 7. Culy one Club will be received from each Post self, ery ryed alg evening t soroug)ly ? bar

end for a Specimen Copy.

We intend to have Subscribers from every Post Office if we bave to pay for them, and have de termined to make an offer that will set Ayevts to Btn ee be. Lie ance , for a Clab of Twenty five, at 50 cents each, we wiil send twenty five copies of the

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saying that feeling Jonely, and knowing |

TOTTD TAT i | So the packages—less bulky, but more | INSU R AN CK CO ‘pumereus aud valuab'e, perhaps, than those + 4ad 4

for ehildrern, Mr. Birton?’ she continued |

| some of us when it seems as if God and

|dark wolf fee's real, ‘and relentiessly dowa the gloomy road to

OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND NEWS.

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having to advise the Public, may speak free.’---Euripides.

| And Ralph passed into the drawing- ‘room, followed by Mrs, Brooks,

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Cuarrex LV, 4

(HOW A WILFUL DAUGHTER REPENTED, AND CAME HOME, AND HAD A DREAM WITH A FAIR BENDING,

Our readers will now look ia with us

fy |8pon a couple of tenement chambers in a_

retired quarter of New York, a short while ‘before our stury opens, Without, a chilly, |raw, wet Decomber evening, The vane |on the neighboring steeple jerking fitfu'ly round in the gusty air to every point of the compass, though principally to the N_ be-

leween N, ¥. and N, We gray, mazkey |

‘clouds scudding swift and threatening across ‘the sky, and ever and anon discharging themselves in cold dashes of rain, which are angrily hurled upon vnpzotected heads by ‘the gale which is whistling among the \chimmey-tops above, and noisily twisting and snatching at the skirts ard umbre’las below, with a wild joy, as of a demon, at \the mischief he is causing. Mvyeryone in ‘the street who has a home to go to, burry- ing thitherward with cloak or coat wrapt

tightly round and buttoned to the chin; |

while those who are homeless shrink cower- ‘ing for shelter into protected alleys and

| gateways. | Within, a room ha'f-warmed by a coup!e of small logs burning in the stove, haif- lighted by a solitary candle dimly fl ckering |in the constant draughts, which cause it to ‘gutter and waste all too speedily, room itself appears neatly kept and shows |markrofa cuitivated mind in its superin- \tendence; for th0tgw<Le-‘nrniture and ‘vulgar or common in their choice and ‘arrangement, In one corner is a little | railed bed, wherein lies in peaceful slumber a fair-haired bab;-girl; by the candle-stick lies some unfinished sewing, the needle and thread still sticking in it. scene in the centre of the room that ou:

plain coffia, still unclosed, wherein lie the

earthiy remains of what must once have | Stilt young |

been a very handsome map, when death struck him, the hard lines of sin and sorrow had not yet become so deep

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ieable, and the soothing haad ef the dumb |

angel hed smoothed them nearly sway, a04| pif soream. ‘Oh! Miss Maude, is that lef: hia much more resembling the dashing |

spendthrift, Willie Dacres, who, in days! gone by, had carried by storm the loving heart of Maude Birton. than the degperate

sinning Will, who bad drank himself into | oh

the grave 2nd brokes Maude Dacre.’ heart, Yet, wi all bis faults and negiect of her \ehe loved him still, and ~ow the only cowed that broke the etlence of that room, except the fi:ful wail of the storm outside, and the |dismal rattle of the locose-fiting windows, was her viclent sobbing, as, bathed in tears,

she kuelt by the pale corpse and kissed | over and over again the chiselled featurcs, |

and arranged the curly locks of dark brown bair and beavy dark moustache, Truly, there come times in the lives of

man dad alike forsaken us—when we forget | what is left to u3, and remember only what | is lost and gone--when the smile of the | idle passer in the street seems a cruel | mockery, and the eager g'ow of blooming | health a sin—when the fair warp of sun-| light, woven by the Graces into our lives | ems a bit‘er delusion, aod only the Fates’ | Piuto drives wild'y |

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Averous; while Proserpive, in despuir, |

loses consciousness avd self control, and, | frantic and distracted, madly flings away

}+be heantifal flowers of hope gathered in|

brighter hours, ‘Then, most terrible of all, | the Tempter struggles to undermise the | fousdarions set upon fiith; a.d the poor, | weak, buman soul faila—utterly fails of | hope—and lies panting, soiled, and draggied | in the very Slough of Despond if it ceuves |

to look upward to the Cross, and grasp it ‘with the dying energy of despair; and

even when faith is heid firm, and the dark- ness is prevented from becoming Cimmerian by the sure know-edge of the satisfying rest for the weary which lies beyond; still, even then, the iron may enter isto the soul and cause it to writhe in very agony.

Poor Maude! Bitter the lessons she had | learned since she left her father’s home !— |

eae —— a

The |

croaments are poor, yet therc is nothiue | mons, and siewould fain bide from them |

But it is by the |

attention is at once riveted, for there is a |

| but as she realized the truth she

, ® | ced the queerest sensations she had known ly cut upon his features as to be ineradi-

)ain’é the living image of her grandmother!

| parried

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: [ NO. 1.

= Tar SEE meat saat LEE TTT ‘with me, Kiffie; andfor you, my darling, loved title to-night, after so long atime, I [ will arise and will return unto my father, come back and fling myselt on your merey and will tell bias how L have sinned and for forgiveness; and oh, dear father, re- sorrowed, and ha can do with us what member the father of the Prodigal Son, and 'seemeth good in his sight.’ pity your once erring but sow repentant | So the dead was returned unto the earth, daughter, who, in all her wilfulness and her few remaining things were sold, and wanderings has always loved you with an _the proceeds served to carry Maude and her infinite longing, and wept day end nigh’ babe to the city of her early home in the, bitter, bitter tears of scrrow for the gulf West, ‘that for five long years has lain between | On the Christmas-eve of our story, and, you and ber. Willie is dead; but i: is not while Ralph Birton was out on his labors) because [ am poorer and more in want aow /of love, a humble bired sleigh drove up to than when he lived that 1 have returned; his house, and a woman with a child in for, for wore than three yeara, I have 'ber arms got out, and mounting the steps | ported, by my needle, my baby Effic and ‘which led to the door, timidly sounded the myself—bot, ob! my father, 1 yeara to bell. fing myself at your feet and iaplore your It were difficult, indeed, 6 Paint, even in forgiveness and blessing; for I love you |words, the various thoughts, feelings and with a love stronger and more purified than emotions which had passed through Maude’s' of old, and daily—hourly—pray to be al- | brain, or had strugg'ed and wrestled for the jowed to consecrate the poor remains ef my | mastery iu her bosom, during the journey to life in endeavors to efface the old memories ‘ber old home. How grief, acd bope, and of sorrow from your heart, and make some \fear bad alternately obtained the upper | amends for ali the pain which I have caus- |hand, as her mind ran upon the past, the | ed you. | present, or the future. And now as she In hope and fear, laid her hand upon the bell, after all their, [ remain, your sorrowful and joving daugh- dread/ul riot, each passion seemed only to ter, | have gathered strength for fiercer struggling —pent in her bosom their prison seemed | too small; and, exhausied in the war, ker | |noor heart panted and fluttered, and beat | its bruised wings tgainst the walls of its) Mdungeon, until it seemed as though the! istrie within must kill ber,

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Mavupa,

This she folded up and addressed to ker father, and it was taken by Mrs. Brooks and laid upen the desk in the library, Then commenced a weary, anxivus waiting for ber father’s return. ae ; : Tired and fagged though she was wi | Aid me now, oh God! for my child— : : | for Thy Son’s sake-’ She just had time to! eee wae eae = ‘on ire, /pray when the door was opened, and Mrs |p 45ks gave up im despair of making her

Brooks stood befor ber. She breathed a| |) 4. ted even after she had induced her

\sigh of relief, for she had feared lest one of | = atiaes Effie to be put to sleep.

‘the other servants shou'd answer her sum-| Ten o’elock, and still she was waiting, —

; se . wearily, anxiously, patiently waicing, terri-

| the = See ee a _\ bly bored by poor Mrs. Brooks’ bustling le-

| ealen « volee at she ©6 ld sind ' quit.ousess—and woodering, though. Jae ; ahaa sia ae dim aimless sort-of way, where ber father

«No, he’s gone oat; end Mrs, Brooks) cid be ‘He used ndt~itrathe old times Was ugcermouiously closing the door i”) +. b. out so late, I wonder if bewmuch ber face—for the little housekeeper bad) ranged? How will he recsive ms? what —~—

| scarcely yet recovered from the petulaney willbe say? ‘Ob, how I wish he would

come;” but the only auswer to ber thcag bts was the tramp of @ solitary pwc y ereaching the hard-frazen snow under foot es be aavanced towards the house, and Maude hali-started wp, as she thougkt it might be ber ‘ather; bat the walker passed by, and the sound of his footsteps died away in the distaree, ond silence fel! again upon the house, and the restless sickaess uf hgpe aad fear upon her heat.

Kleven o’elock, Sileoce was fallicg up- on the house—even Mrs. Brooks’ was lapsiag into quiet—and nought wes heard but the ticking of the heavy br-mze clock upon the mantis-piece, and the eeca- sional jingle of the bells of sume passing os : ? : : | uigst he could’at eat his dioner with think-|Suveave.” Slowly. the ponccwnig ig Tey

| ing of you, and I had seen everything made : tie: ' |s0 nice mysell, just to tempt him, bat it was | rote ed See en ee

| suming its sway, /no use, But you must be hungry now} “I ) p Aira sive o’elock, , . yourself, miss. Let me help you off with Twelve o'clock, Maude, to Mrs. Brooke?

your things, and get you something to eat, | gest satisfaction, was falling off into Oh, dear! this isn’t the way you used to! ' : dress in the old times No, indeed! Bat! Cling clang, ding dong, hard and strong, pers tanh Dawns iean sete uiaail low and clear—how the bel!s rang cuttin sie iieiuas bedgiy Will we wine l the frosty air, ring'ng out their Obristmag at grandpapa’s?’ frettully murmured ihe jane tolling, the world thap'tte dey had otild: now just waking |broke which, eighteen hundred years ago Wed Mike dices lola eal Boe Ss }end more, had brought to sinful, sorrowful 9 + ’ J Uses > ‘ . ; sai ; . Maude, as she stooped to place her on the | magkten red Sing oF Brent joy; ond the + al | great chureb-bells wero telling it im their ,>| wild and joyous elangor with ringing tones

‘Qh, the dear, precious Jitttle darling ; . - * | fe 18 giee! exclaimed Mrs Brooks, snatching her up| rae anne Senge ae ee

1c her arms, ‘end she’s hungry, is she |and sending the. emnng? Ser Say

Weil, 171! get her some supper in a minute oll matin’ io the astens ee ’

eae ee ae >) t¢ 1. | about—ead their sound floated Will you give me a kiss, pot? Well, if she| oom where Maude ley, and mirgled with her dream, As she fell asleep, the noises and sensa- \tions of the railway train persistently re- enacted themselves within her drowsy braia se ae ; _, | —~the shrill, screaming whistle of the em Not for me, Brooks, 1’ll not eat till | gine, the jerks of starting, and then the my father comes home ; but you may get/rumble and ratile of the ever rapidl y-in- something for my baby, and bring me a peu | creasing motion of the cars, while the en- and ink, and some paper, and don’t mention | gine snorted angrily, and its bell was kept my return to the others. The last | ringing in a strange warning way; and, direction was useless; oue of them had then, in her eorser of the car, whither she overheard the scene at the door, and the) had shrunk from observation, she suddenly news that Miss Maude was back had a'-| seemed to know that her father was the ready spread to the servants’ hall; so that | driver of the engine, and that he was going as soon as Mrs Brooks entered, she was be-| at a terrible speed—houses, trees, feucza, seiged with questions, Nevertheless she barns, stations flew by—faster still and conscientiously their queries. faster; while the mad excitement seized ‘ Deary me, @yn’t you leave a body alone? upon the passengers, and some wept, and Never you miad, you’! find out all about! others jauzhed as they g'ared and pointed

|caused by her unappreciated dinner—when | Maude, looking full upon ber, said, * Have you forgotten me, Mrs, Brooks?’

Mrs. Bro. ks was not given to fainting ; experten-

aud it was as much as she cou'd do to exclaim, in atone half gusp,

for many a day

you?’ and thea she barst out erying.

| Yes, Brooks; but is my. father not at | home ¢”

‘No, miss, he has just gone out, But, oh! come in. come in; its bhimse!f will be | glad to see you, and welcome you back, | _kuow. He’s an altered mae since you left, 'mss—not the same at all, Why, this very

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Step in here into the dining-room, miss— | (even the babe could not make her thin of dtrs Dacrés as anything bat Miss Maude}, and [’il have supper laid out in a mivute

| Office on these terms, as our object is to establish | ag svon as supper Was over, he quictly bade | pitter the cup she bad now draised to the | it soou enough, Here, hep me bring up| at her; acd then, in that way in which we

| subscriptions at every Post Office so that we can . ce ee . : ' fill out at rejular rafee,as we hope every Sab | good night to his hosts and their daug iter, scriber, on these low terms will endeavor to get Saying to Mr Gowar—who reminded him} | others for us. Ail persons desiring to get the paper at this low offer mast yo into a Club at once i . ; $ . | oc else it will be filled witheut thom. We cannot ir nd for a sleigh—* No, Do, the na ght 18 | make unytuing on this offer, but we fee! certaix | glear and starlight, and [ shall enjoy the that from every Post Office where we get one tL ae “ i . - )Clab, we can secure others at regular rates | Walk, Toose parce will perhaps be i } Subseription will commence at date, or with No acceptable to Mrs Gowar and Charlotte ‘ wthoad «Wa St héaethe R sli shit abe i . . | | 8, as de ired,- -No.8 | aving the first chapter of the |Good night.’ An?, without waitiog for an | jxreat story, - Phe Evil Eye; or,the Ked Doctor ” | - h k - Our paper is one of the finest periodicals publish. | @Bswer, 8e shoo’ ed, and we are viving you Club rates that we will) stepped out into the night. . never offer again; so goto work and get up your | sy Clubs. We pay you well to do 80. Seud ull communications to ' ? n NOKTHUP & Ca., o » | Publiskers of “ The Montreal Hearthstone,” | No. 70, St. Francois Xavier Street ;

Vor a few minutes he walked quickly on |

jover the crisp and crackling snow, with bis

|mind rather in a whirl, and not thinking of anythiog in particular. Then drawieg his

’| cigar ease from his pocket, he lit a cigar, ‘and his thoughts commenced to assume s ‘definite shape. Suddenly the Christmas | midnight chimes rang out clear and ful! in- ito the frosty airs

Montreal, P. Q. Ch*town, Nov. 14, 1870,

* Hark ! the heraid angels sing Glory to the new-born King; Peace on earth, aod merey wild, God and sinners reconciled, *

‘Do NWot Ruin Your | EYE-SIGHT |

: Luvoluntarily, like »the echo from his | By Wearing Common Spectacles;

mother’s voice, and the far-off distaut years ‘of his boyhood, the words of the joyful

‘Nine-tenths of all Eye Disease {

; } r . ° | "8 CAURED BY * God and rinuers reeonciled, ”

Woaring Improper Giasses. ne repeated, ‘and shall not sinners be re-

ak « _.» conciled eve towa:daguother ? and that, too,

Hit rus & Nor ri ~ | When they are of oSe kin and cae flesh,’

PERFECTED ™ |*Seventy times seveti,’ said his heart,

§ Ps 3 8 Tr AY 8 LS (= § ‘Lord, L sce my course, grant me grace AND EYE-GLASSES,

and strsngth. for ‘Psy dear Son’s suke, to For which I am the SoLe AGENT, are the mos Perfect and Beautiful Ever Offered.

to-night, L shall write,” and hastening on most brilliantly. ; ; W.R. WATSON, deor, and we comed him ia with a smile— > = Just Received (80 Ve to uottee either her promptness or ber

he soon arrived at bis own house, Searcely Sole Agent for Charlottetown | half of fear, laifot joy—upon her face, and 400 Yais WATR PROO? CLOT ; nina sir, there’s a letteron your des

follow it. He, too, must be forgivea and

| They will cause a continuous and abiding im had be time to. put is latch-key into the

ieahataeee- ten jwith ey:s very red with weeping; but | HRARTZ & SO”. m the library for you; a lady left it,?

t Teceived back with her, Tc-morrow—nay /provement in the Eyes, and assist your sigkt lock, when Mrs. Brooke Aung open the | Ralph was too muc wrapt in bis vew re- ‘A note for me ??

4 Nove 39, 1869.

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his hosv’s hand and|*% for four years, had she struggled on

|} sbone into ber soul for

dregs!—the reaction after the excitement | ot the flight from home—the repentance —

letters a'] unanuswered—her husbend’s) weeks of neglect and moments of fondaess| —her jewels so\d—aothing left her but her | needie to support herseli aud child; and

only sustained by a new jove which had Ose who also had

: i. re ey j}known waut ia this world of ours, but is

these things, Leave them in the pantry ’| know things in dreams, she knew thai the In the meanwhile Maude was left alone| reason of that terrible speed was that her

F is °2Td an: Dey is a all s i. .: * » i : of hic paro:ls, aid begged to ‘be. allowed '0| the sorrcw—the silence of her father—her| in the dining-room of her father’s house. | husband was fice'ng from her father in s

At last she was back again to the happy train in front, and that the latter was de home of her infaney, which she had left so | termined to run him down, though he sbould wilfully, and to which she now returoed so / {ili himself and all his passeogers ia the at- penitent, And how memory flew back and | tempt; but, of a sudden, site felt that the

|filled her brain with tumultuous thoughts train in front bad disappesred, avd thea

as she gazed once more on the well-remem-| the short, joltiag motion of ‘be railway @ar- bered furniture, pictures and plate ? What |‘ riages faded, aud changed into the caster, scenes from ber happy, laughing child-hood | gndu'ating motion of @ vessel, in which she

uow able and ever ready to succor and) aud maideabood arose from the buried past, wag being borne away to sea, ana there wae

| sustain those who turn to flim. She knew \that if she would abandon her husband jand retarn home that her “father would jreceive and forgive her. ‘ But how cau 1 'do that?” she said, * Have I not sworn to \love and to ¢hberish and to obey bim ithrough “health and through sicksess | through wea'ch and through poverty, until! |death us do part? No; not, return alone, ’

But now he was gone—gone fertver |

|and she was left alone with her babe in the ‘heart of thé great city amidst hundreds of thous:nds, with not one to care for her,

Jucistmas bymo floated through bis brainy) ang it scemed to her as if she were sunk | Brooks eatered with w salver, laden with a

jaad wbout to be cverwhelmed im a great

I cannot, L will}

and flitted, one afier another, rapidly ‘through her imagination! How vividly she Kflic, and the crew, and these looked |saw the image of her too-indulgent father’s askance at her, and said one to anuther, |well-remembered form before her, as her|+Yes; if she had come soover she might | eyes tell upon his accustomed seat! How have saved the old maw’s lile; but bis heart |many loving scenes and expressions, long was broken.’ Then the land faded out of since forgo.tea, came trooping once more sight, aad the birds and the sea-weed were into light! left behind, and the ocean was glassy green,

‘Is this grandpapa’s, mamma?’ inter-| Afver that the icebergs rose around them, rupted Effie, jand sailed by, and clashed and splintered

‘Yes, wy darling.’ ‘against each other, sometimes with great