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It was strong drink Which broke the peaceful, happy spell, And turned into an earthly heil That home where comfort once did dwell, With happiness secure.

It was strong drink Which caused that burdened heart to throb And burst in an unbroken sob Before the cruel, heartless mob, It could not well endure. It was strong drink Which took the little children’s bread, And filled their minds with fear and dread; Whene’er they heard tieir father’s tread A hiding place was sought. It was strong drink That drove the horrid blood-stained knife Into the bosom of a wife, And took away her wretched life Without a moment's thought.

It was strong drink Which dreve the barb of sorrow’s dart Deep down into a mother’s heart, And thus performed its deadly part, And pierced it to the core.

It was strong drink! Once more its ghastly work is done. Fond parents mourn an only son, The well-beloved but erring one They cannot now restore.

It is strong drink! Each day ‘tis bursting out anew With horrors fresh before our view, While all around we see it strew Its evils on our shore.

It is strong drink! We see its dark and deadly stain On ruined body, mind and brain ; Which plainly says to all, abstain— And never use it more.

LITERATURE.

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WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER VI,

Mr. Ogden came downstairs in the middle of the day, and ordered breakfast and din. ner in one meal, He asked especially for Sarah’s smali,beer, and drank two or three large glasses of it. Hedid not eat much, and used an unusual quantity of pepper. He was extremely taciturn, contrarily to his ordinary habit, for he commonly talked very feeely with old Sarah whilst she served him. when his repast was finished, he expressed a wish to see little Jacob.

‘Good morning, papa! I hope you are better. Sarah says you were poorly last night when Feorah barked so.’

‘Oh, she says I was poorly, does she? Then she lies; I wasn’t poorly—I was drunk: I want you to read to me.’ ‘Must I read in that book Mr, Prigley gave me when he came ?’

‘ Read what you please.’

So little Jacob opened for the first time a certain volume which will be recognized by every reader when he begins:

The way was long, the wind was cold, The minstrel was infirm and old,

‘That would be difficult,’ said Mr. Ogs den.

‘What, Papa?’

‘I say it would be difficult.’

Little Jacob felt rather frightened. He did not understand in what the supposed difficulty consisted, and yet felt that he was expected to understand it. He did not dare to ask a second time for enlightens ment on the subject, so he stood quite still and said nothing. His father waited a minute in perfect silence, and then burst

out — ‘ Why, you little confounded blockhead,

I mean that it would be difficult for 2 man to be infirm and bold at the same time. Infirm people are timid, commonly.’ ‘Please, pana, it dosen’t say infirm and bold—it says infirm and old—see papa,’ and little Jacob pointed with his finger to the place.

‘Then you read very badly, for you read bold and it’s old. I expect you to read better than that—you read badly, very badly.’

‘Please papa, I read it old the first time and not bold,’

*Then you mear tosayI cannot trust my own ears, you impertinent little mon- key. Isay you read it bold and I heard you.”

An elder person would have perceived that Mr. Ogden was ill, and humored him; and achild of more yielding disposition would have yielded to the injustice, and acquiesced, But little Jacob had an in- stictive hatred of injustice, and his whole nature rose in revolt. He had also made up his mind never to tell lies—less per- haps from principle than from a feeling that it was cowardly. The present was an occasion which roused those feelings in all their energy. He was required to utter a falsehood and submit to an injustice.

‘No papa, I said old. I didn’t say bold at all, It was you who heard wrong.’

Mr. Ogden became white with anger. ‘Ob, was mistaken, was 1? Do you mean to say that I am deaf?’

‘No, papa.’

‘ Well then, if I am not deaf I have been lying, lama liar then, am 1?’

The state of extreme nervous depression in combination with irritability, under which Mr, Ogden’s system was suffering that day, made him a dangerous man to contradict, and not by any means a plea- sant antagonist in argument. But he was not altogether lost ; he still kept some cons trol over himself, in proof of which may be mentioned the fact that he dismissed little Jacob without even a box in the ear. ‘ He deserves a good flogging,’ said Mr. Ogden, ‘but if I were to begin with him I should nearly kill him, the little impudent ecoun- drel,’

The afternoon was extremely dull and disagreeable to Mr. Ogden. He walked out into his fields and round the pond, and then up the rocks that overlooked the valley, and from which he enjoyed a very extensive view. There were several springs in the little valley, but before Mr. Ogden’s settlement they had contented themselves with creating those patches of that emerald grass, set in dark heather, which are so precioasly beautiful in the scenery of the moors. At each of these springs Mr. Og- den had made a circular stone basin, with a water-duct to the pond, and it was his fancy to visit those places rather frequently to see that they were in order and kept clean. He did so this afternoon from habit, and by the time he had finished his round it was nearly dark,

He was intensely miserable. Twistle Farm had been sweet and dear to him be~ cause he had jealously guarded the purity of the associations that belonged to it. Neither in the house nor in the undulating

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fields that he had made was there a single object to remind L/h of his weakness and his sin, and therefore the place had been a refuge and a sanctuary. Iteould never be for him what it had been; this last lamen< table failure had broken down the moral defences of his home, and invaded it and contaminated it for ever, Whatever the future might bring, the even of the past night was irrevocable; he had besotted himself with drink; he had brought the mire out of the outer world into his pure dwelling and defiled it, Isaac Ogden felt

the support of religion, aud few of the con- solations and encouragements of phi 0 opby A religious mind would have acknowledged its weakness and repented of its sins, yet in the depths of its humiliations hoped still for strength from above, and looked and prayed for ultimate deliverance and peace. A philosophic mind would have refleeted that moral effort is not to be abandoned for for a single relapse, or even for many re- lapses, and would have addressed itself only the more earnestly to the task of self. reformation that the need for effort had made itself so strikingly apparent, But Mr. Ogden had not the faculty of judg- ing of his own actions with the impartiality of the independent intellect. He was simply a man of the world, so far as such a place as Shayton could develop a man of the world, and had neither a religious faith nor intellectual culture. Therefore his misery was the greater for the density of the darkness in which he had stumbled and fallen, What he needed was light of some sort; either the beautifiul old lamp of faith with its wealth of elaborate imagery, or the plainer but still bright and serviceable gas-light of modern thought and science. Mr. Prigley possessed the one, and the Dr. gave his best labor to the maintenance of the other; but Mr. Ogden was unfortunate in not being alle to profit by the help which either of these friends would have so will- lingly afforded.

No one except Dr. Bardly had suspected the deplorable fact that Mr. Ogden was no longer in a state of mental sanity, The little incident just narrated, in which he had mistaken one word for another, and in- sisted, with irritation, that the error did not lie with him, had been a common one dur, ing the past few weeks, whenever little Jacob read tohim. If our little friend had communicated his sorrows to the doctor this fact would have been a very valuable one as evidence of his faher’s condition ; but he never mentioned it to anyone ex- cept his grandmother and old Sarah, who both inferred that the child had read inac~ curately, and saw no reason to suspect the justice,of Mr. Ogden’s criticism. The truth was, that by a confusion very common in certain forms of brainsdisease, a sound of- ten suggested to Mr. Ogden some other sound resembling it, or of which it formed a part, and the mere suggestion became to him quite as much a fact as if he had heard it with lis bodily ears. Thus, as we have seen, the word ‘old’ had suggested ‘bold ;’ and when, as in that instance, the imagined word did not fit in very naturally with the sense of the passage, Mr. Ugden attributed the fault to little Jacob’s supposed inaceu- racy in reading. Indeed he had nowa settied conviction that his son was unpar- donably careless, and no sooner did the child open his book to read, than his father became morbidiyexpectant of some abstird mistake, which, of course, never failed to arrive, and to give occasion for the bitterest reproaches.

On his return to the house, Mr. Ogden desired his son’s attendance, and requested him to resume his reading. Little Jacob took up his book, and this time, as it hap- pened, Mr. Ogden heard the second line correctly, and expressed his satisfaction. But in the very next couplet —

His withered cheek and tresses grey Seemed to have known a better day— Mr. Ogden found means to imagine ans other error. ‘It seems to me curious,’ said he, ‘that Scott should have described the minstrel as having a withered cheek and tresses gay; there could be little gaiety about him, I should imagine.

‘ Please, papa, it isn’t gay, but grey.’ ‘Then why do you read so incorrectly ? I have always to be scolding you for mak- ing such absurd mistakes !’

If little Jacob had had an older head on his shoulders he would have aquiesced,and tried to get done with the reading as soon as possible, so as to make his escape. But it was repugnant to him to admit that he had made a blunder of which he was inno. cent, and he answered,

‘But papa, I read it right—I said grey, I didn’t say gay.’

Mr. Ogden made a violent effort to cons trol himself,and said,with the sort of a calm that comes over the intensest emotion :

« ‘Then you mean to say I am deaf.’ Little Jacob had already been thinking that his father might be deaf and admitted as much,

‘Fetch me my riding whip.’

Little Jacob brought the whip expecting an immediate application of it, but Mr. Ogden, still keeping a strong control over himself, merely took the whip in his hands and began to play with it, and look at the silver top, which he rubbed a little with his pocket-handkerchief. Then he took the candle in his right and brought the flame quite close to the silver ornament, examining it with singular minuteness, so as apparently to have entirely ceased to pay attention to his son’s reading, or even to the sound of his voice.

‘Is this my whip ?’

‘ Yes, papa.’

‘ Well, then I am either blind or I have lost my memory. My whip was entirely like this, except for one thiog—my initials were engraved upon it and I can see no initials here.’

Little Jacob began to feel very nervous. The reader may remember that at the be- ginning of this history he had lost his father’s whip, and that the search for it had been unsuccessful, He had consulted a certain saddler in Shayton, a friend of his, as to the possibility of obtaining a whip of the same pattern as the last one,and it had fortunately happened that this saddler had received two precisely alike, of which Mr. Isaac Ogden had bought one, whilst the other remained unsold. -There was thus no difficulty in replacing the whip so as to deceive Mr. Ogden into the belief that it never had been lost, or rather so as to pre« vent any thought of suspicion from pre- senting itself to his mind. When the master of a house has given proofs of a tyrannical disposition, or of an uncontrol« able or unreasonable temper, a system of

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were crimes. Some trifling incident res veals to him how seduously he is kept in ignorance of the little occurrances which make up the existence of his dependants, and then he is vexed to find himself isolat- ed and cut off from their confidence and sympathy.

Mr. Ogden continued: ‘This is not my whip—it’s a whip of the same pattern that somebody has bought to take me in. Fetch me my own whip—the one with my initials on it.’

Little Jacob thought the opportunity for escaping from the room too good to be thrown away, and vanished. Mr, Ogden waited quietly at first, but after ten minu- tes had escaped, became impatient and rang the bell violently. Old Sarah presented herself,

‘Send my son here.’

On his reappearance, little Jacob was in that miserable state of apprehension in which the most truthful child will lie if it is in the least bullied or tormented, and in which indeed it is not possible to extract pure truth from its lips without great deli- cacy and tenderness. Lying is the natural resource of the weak, and at least as large ashare of the blame due to it ought to rest with those who will not endure to hear the actual fact, as with those who have to color the fact to suit the taste of the tyrant. So if little Jacob lied, I say that the fault was not wholly his, andI forgive him, and I believe that a higher Judge forgave him also,

‘Have you brought my whip ?’

‘Please papa,’ said little Jacob, who began to get very red in the face, as he always did when he told a downright fib— ‘please papa, that’s your whip.’ There was &® mental reservation here, slightly Jesuitical; for the boy had reflected, dur- ing his brief absence, that since he had given the whip to Mr. Ogden, it now, of course, might strictly be said to belong to him.

‘What has become of my whip with I, O. on it?’

‘It’s that whip, papa; only you told Jim to clean the silver top, and perhaps he rubbed the letters off.’

‘You little, lying, sneaking scoundrel, this whip is perfectly new; but it will not be long new, for I will lay it about you till it’s not worth twopence.’

The sharp switching strokes fell fast upon poor little Jacob. Some of them caught him in the hands, and a tremendous one with stinging effect came across his lips and cheeks; but this was not the first time he had endured an aflliction of this sort, and he had learned the art of presenting his body so as to shield the more sensitive or least unprotected parts. On former occasions Mr. Ogden’s anger had always cooled off after a score or two of lashes, but this time it rose and rose with an ever in- creasing violence, Little Jacob began to feel his power of endurance near exhausted and with the nimble ingenuity of his years, made use of several articles of furniture as barriers against his enemy. For some time he managed to keep the table bes tween his father and himself, but his father’s arm was long and reached far, and the child received some smarting cuts across the face and neck, so then he tried the chairs. Mr. Ogden who was by this time a furious madman, shivered his whip against the furniture, and then throwing it with a curse into the fire, looked about him for some other means of chastisement. Now, there hung a mighty old riding-whip in a sort of trophy with other memorials of the chase, and took this down in triumph. The long knotted lash swung heavily as he poised it, and there was a steel hammer at the end of the stick, considered as of possible utility in replacing lost nails in the shoes of hunters.

A great terror seized little Jacob, a terror of that utterly hopeless and boundless and unreasoning kind that will sometimes take possession of the nervous system of a child —a terror such as the mature man does not feel even before imminent and violent death, and which he can only conceive or imagine by a reference to the dim remin- escence of his infancy. [he strong man standing there menacing, armed with a whip like a flail, his eyes glaring with the new and baleful light of madness, became trans- figured in the child’s imagination to some-~ thing supernatural. How tall he seemed, how mighty, how utterly irresistable! When a Persian travels alone in some wide stony desert, and sees a column of dust rise like smoke out of the plain and advance rapidly towards him, and believes that out of the column one of the malignant genii will lift his colossal height, and roll his voice of thunder, and wield his sword of flame, all that that Persian dreads in the utmost wildness of his credulous Oriental imagina- tion this child felt as a present and visible fact. The Power before him, in the tull might and height of manhood, in the fury of madueas, lashing out the great thong to right and left till it cracked like pistol-shots —with glaring eyes, and foaming lips, out of which poured curses and blasphemies— was this a paternal image, was it civilised, was it human? The aspect of it paralysed the child, till a sharp intolerable pain came with its fierce stimulus, and he leaped out from behind his barricade and rushed to- wards the door.

The lad had thick fair hair in a thousand natural curls. He felt the merciless grip

in it, and his forehead was drawn violently backwards. Well for him that he struggled and writhed, for the steel hammer was aimed at him now, and the blows from it crashed on the furniture as the aim was continually missed.

The manservant was out in the farm buildings, and old Sarah had been washing in an outhouse. She came in first, and heard a bittercry. Many a time her heart had bled for the child, and now she could endure it no longer. She burst into the room, she seized Ogden’s wrist and drove her nails into it till the pain made him let the clild go. She had left both doors open. In an instant little Jacob was out of the house,

Old Sarah was a strong woman, but her strength was feebleness to Ogden’s. He disengaged himself quite easily, and at every place where his fingers touched her there was a mark on her body for days. The child heard curses following him as he flew over the smooth grass. The farm was bounded bya six-foot wall, The curses came nearer and nearer; the wall loomed black and high. ‘I have him now,’ cried Ogden, as he saw the lad srruggling to get over the wall.

Little Jacob felt himself seized by the foot. An infinite terror stimulated him, and he wrenched it violently. A sting of anguish crossed his shoulders where the heavy whiplash feil—a shoe remained in Ogden’s hand.

To be Continued,

less Dudley Warner’s last book, ‘ Mummies and Mosiemse,’ now being published by Bele | ford Brothers, Toronto.

‘As we lay windbound, a few miles bes | low Shoohag, the Nubian trading-boat I had seen the day before was moored near; and we improved this opportunity for an easy journey to Central Africa, by going on board. ~The forward-deck was piled with | African hides so high that the oars were | obliged to be hung on outriggers: the cabin deck was loaded with bags of gum, spices, | medicines; and the cabin itself was stored | so full that, when we crawled down into it, there was scarcely room to ¢it upright on | the bags. Into this penetralia of barbaric merchandise the ladies preceded us, upon the promises of the sedate and shrewd-eyed trave ler to exhibit his ostrich feathers. I suppose nothing in the world of ornament is sO fastinating to a woman as an ostrich feathar; and to delve into 2 mine of them: to be able to toss about handfuls, sheafs of them, to choose any size an] shape and any color, glossy black, white, gray, and white with black tips—it makes one a little de- lirious to think of it!

‘While the ostrich trade is dragging along its graceful length, other curiosities are pro- duced; the short dangerous tusks of the wild boar ; the long tusk of the elephant —a beast whose enormous strength is only made a show of, like that of Samson ; and pretty silver work from Soudan,

‘What is this beautiful tawny skin, upon which I am sitting ?’

‘Lion’s; she was the mother of one of the young lions out yonder, And _ this, continued the trader, drawing something from the corner, ‘is her skull,’ It gavea tender interest to the orphan outside, to see these remains of his mother,

‘What’s that thick stuffin a bottle there behind you ?’

‘That’s lion’s oil, some of her oil.’ * *

‘I took the bottle. To think that I held in my hand the oilofalion? * * *

‘ And is that another bottle of it?’

‘ Mais,no; you don’t get a lion every day for oil; that is ostritch oil. This good for rheumatism.’

‘It ought to be. There is nothing rheumatic about the ostrich. When I have tasted sufficiently the barbaric joys of the cabin, 1 climb out upon the deck to see more of this strange craft,

‘Upon the narrow and dirty bow, over a slow fire, on a shallow copper dish, a dark and slender boy is cooking flap~jacks as big as the flap of a leathern jacket. He takes the flap-jack up by the edge in his fingers and turns it over, when one side is cooked, as easily as it it were sheepskin, There is a pile of thenf beside him, enough to make a whole suit of clothes, burnous and all, and very durable it would prove. Near him is tied, by a cotton cord, a halfs grown leopard, elegantly spotted, who bas « habit of running out his tongue, giving a side-lick of his chops, and looking at you in the most friendly manner. If I were the boy, | wouldn’t stand with my naked back to a leopard which is tied witha slight string.

‘On shore, on the sand, and in the edge of the wheat,are playing in the sun a couple of handsome young lions, gentle as kittens. The two play together very prettily, and when I leave them they have lain down to sleep, face to face, with their arms round each other’s necks, like the babes in the wood. The lovely leopard rises to his feet and looks at them, giving a soft sweep to his long and rather vicious tail’

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Women in Pusurc Lire.—M. D. Conway saye the demand for woman suffrage in England has gradually reached a social class which has never yet tailed to secure its willin the end, This was amply mani- fest in the course of yesterday’s debate, The table was piled up into a snowy moun- tain of petitions in favor of the measure, no fewer than 109, signed by many thou- sands of persons throughout the United Kingdom, and the number of these peti. tions were still less significant than the position and character of many of the sig- natures to them—among them, for instance, being fifteen Professors and thirteen Fel- lows of Cambridge University; twenty-four Professors of the various Universities of Scotland, anda large number of mayors and aldermen from various cities, who have had special opportunities of observing the conduct of women in exercising the munis cipial franchise already accorded to them. The ability which women have recently displayed as members of school boards and guardians of the poor has been recognized everywhere, and the great London parishes —Kensington and St. Pancras—have just elected women to be guardians, the highest of our municipial positions, involving the expenditure in this metropolis alone of $20,000 perannum. The Loyal Institution admits women to membership; the Royal Anthrophological admits them to be Fel- lows, with the title F. A. 8S. The great teachers of political economy and jurispru- dence in the universities are in favor of it. Sir Henry Maine, for instance, Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, says: ‘It will probably be conceded by all who have paid any attention to the subject, that the civil- ized societies of the West, in steadily ens larging the personal and proprietary inde- pendence of women, and even in granting to them political privileges, are only fol- lowing out still further a law of develope- ment which they have been obeying for many centuries.’

Since the war with France and the unifi, cation of the Fatherland the Germans have insisted, not always modestly, on being looked upon as the first people in the world, not in arms Only but in everything. Their strong national selfslove has been carefully cultivated by writers, and the consequence is that any criticism is receiv-~ ed untavorably. It may easily be imagined therefore, that an official report severely condemning German manufactures would make considerable noise. Professor Reu~ leaux, chief commissioner to the Philadel- phia Exhibition, has published in the Ber- lin National Zeitung a letter in which he gives his candid opinion of the value of German manufactures. The main object of the manufacturers, he says, ‘is to produce an article which will be cheap and nasty,’ and they succeed wonderfully well, forthe workmen they employ have neither skill nor taste. This opinion the commissioner formed after a careful in- spection of the German department at Philadelphia, and another conclusion come to by him is that his fellow-countrymen are the most servile of men, judging by ‘the number of Bismarck statues, Red Prinées and other heroes of the war, in every conceivable material, from gilt bronze down to common soap.’

The complete destruction of Custer’s | command by the Sioux is now accounted | for by some persons on the theory that he was led into the ambuscade by traitorous scouts. This is said to be the impression

revailing at Bismarck. Meanwhile the ndians continue to prove more than a match for the regulars, and the representa- tives of the Territories are urging on the authorities the advisability of enlisting vol~ unteers and offering a reward of $50 for every scalp brought in.

Charlottetown, August 14, 1876, THE BEST MEN,

POPE AND BRECKEN,

THE BEST CAUSE,

The Cause that has Peace and Justice and Good Schools for its Objects !

CITIZENS of CHARLOTTETOWN,

Vote for these Hen end Sup- port this Cause!

“OUTSIDE OPINION.” Tue Toronto “ MAIL. ”—the organ of the Protestant Liberal-Conservatives of Outario—hasa long article on our school

question. The concluding paragraph of

the article reads :—

“So far as we are able to judge at this distance from the scene of the political con- flict, we regard the men who are endeavors ing to seltie this question upon a_ basis of compromise as the truest patriots. We had cur separate school trouble in Upper Canada ; but, after ail, it was much smoke and little fire. The separate schools were a_ politic concession to a large class of the population. The amount of public money given to them annually is very small indeed; and they have nota very flourishing existence, But none of the danger anticipated from their establishment—none of the greai trouble to the State pictured by the heated im. agination of political demagugues — have happened. The people of Prince Edward Island will do well to adopt the policy pros pounded by Messrs. Pope and Brecken. It is the honestest policy, and it will prove the best in the end, despite the misdirected zeal and palpable hypocrisy of the « political religionists.” We trast our friends by the sea will be goversed by common sense and not hy impracticable ideas and religious bigotry.”