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MOON'S CHANGES.

Fall Moon, 34 day, 6h. 44m., a. m., W., below horizon.

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New Moon, 17th day, 5h. 45m., a. m., E. below horizon.

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TWENTY YEARS AGO. I'm sitting darling, by thy side, wan in the days gone by, hen hearts were light and ho B wan g d hopes were As summer's cloudless sky; No lines ef sorrow marked thy brow— From all life’s cares apart, The future casts no shadows now To cloud thy sunny heart,

No spectres from her mystic depths Came foith to mar our bliss, Life’s opening heavens shone fair and bright, And love brought happiness. We strolled together side by side Our hearts with joy aglow, i And you became a loving bride, Just twenty years ago.

Do you remember, darling,

How the hours would swiftly fly As we listened in the moonlight F ‘To the music, you and I? :

In the glorious summer moonlight,

‘ Sitting by the open door, :

Conning o’er the dear old story That so many learns before.

Like Some struggling golden sunbeams, Filtering through a clouded sky,

Come, those memories sweet to lure me Back to days that are gone by.

We have sailec our bark together Down life’s ever-changing tide,

And when storms would rouad us gather, You grew closer to my side.

When the breaker’s spray dashed oe'r us, ** Keep up courage,” you would say,

** Bright and clear will be the morrow, Dark and drear as is to-dvy.”

When we anchor in the harbor

And the tude is ebbing low,

In our hearts be peace and sunshine,

As was twenty years ago.

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WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER X.—Continued. Matters remained in this state until Christmas Eve. Periodical festivals are highly agreeable institutions for happy peo- ple, who have the springs of merriment within them, ready to gush forth on any pretext, or on the strength of simple per- mission to gush forth; tut it is difficult for man oppressed by a persistent weight of sorrow to throw off because the almanac has brought itself toa certain date, and itis precisely at the times of general festivity that such a man feels his burden heaviest. It may be observed, also, that as a man, or a society of men, approaches the stages of maturity and reflection, the events of life appear more and more to acquire the power of colouring the whole of existence; so that the faculty of being merry at appointed times, and its converse, the faculty of weeps ing at appointed times, both giving place to a continual but quiet sadness, from which we never really escape, even for an hour, though we may stil! be capable of a manly fortitude, and retain a certain elas- ticity, the appearance of it. In a word, our happiness and uisery are no longer alterna~ tive and acute, but co-exist in a chronic form, so that it has ceased to be natural for men to wear sackcloth and heap ashes on their heads, and sit in the dust in their wretchedness; and it has also ceased to be natural for them to crown themselves with flowers, and anoint themselves with the oil of gladness, and cloth themselves in the radiance of purple and cloth of gold, No hour of life is quite miserable enough or hopeless enough for the sackcloth and the ashes—no hour of life is brilliant enough for the glorious vesture and the flowery coronal,

A year before, Isaac Ogden would have welcomed the Christmas festival as a legiti- mate occasion for indulgence in his favour- ite vice, without much meditation (and in this perhaps he may have resembled some other very regular observers of the festival) on the history of the founder of Christianity, But as it was no longer his desire to cele- brate either this orany other festival of the Church by exposing himself to a temptation which, for him, was the strongest and most dangerous of all temptations, and as the idea of a purely spiritual celebration was an idea so utterly foreign to the whole ten- our of .his thoughts and habits as never even to suggest itself to him, he had felt strongly disposed to shun Christmas alto- gether—that is to escape from the outward and visible Christmas to some place where the days might pass as merely natura! days, undistinguished by any sign of national or ecclesiastical commemoration. He had de- termined, therefore, to go back to Twistle Farm, from which it seemed to him that he had been too long absent, and had an- nounced this intention to the doctor. But when the doctor reported to Mrs. Ogden, she would not hear of any such violation of the customs and traditions of the family. Her sons had always spent Christmas Eve together; #d so long as she lived she was firmly resolved that they always should, The pertinacity with which a determined woman will uphold a custom that she cher- ishes is simply irresistible—that is, unless the rebel makes up his mind to incur her perpetual enmity; and Isaac Ogden was less than ever in a condition of mind either to brave the hostility of his mother or wound her tender feelings. So it came to pass that on Christmas Eve he went to Mi- lend to tea. Now, on the tea table there were some little cakes, and Mrs. Ogden, who had not the slightest notion of the sort of delicacy that avoids a subject because it may be pain« ful to anybody present, and who always simply gave utterance to her thoughts as they came to her, observed that these little cakes were of her making, and actually added, ‘ they're such as I used to make for little Jacob; he was so fond of them.’ Isaac Ogden’s feelings were not very sensitive, and he could bear a good bit; but be could not bear this. He set down his cup of tea untasted, and gazed for a few moments at the plateful of cakes, and left the room. i The doctor was there but he said nothing. Jacob Ogden did not feel under any obliga~ tion to be reticent. ‘ Mother,’ he said, ‘1 think you need not have mentioned little Jacob. Our Isaac cannot bear it. He knows no other than what the little un’s dead, and he’s 98 sore 838 sore.’ This want of delicacy in Mrs. Ogden arose from all but a total lack of imagina- : thize with others if tion. Sbe could Toa sical deebenion ith them— on ae pee viticized as tautological, ss will understand what is

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proved efficacious in her own case, and res leased her from the torturing pain, she would have looked upon her fellow-sufferer 4s pusillanimous, if after that she continu- ed to exhibit any outward signs of torment, Therefore, as she herself knew that little Jacob was safe at Nanny Pickering’s, it was incomprehensible to her that his father should not feel equally at ease about him, though, as » matter of fact, she was per- fectly well aware that he supposed the child to be irrecoverably lost. Mrs. Ogden, therefore, received her son's rebuke with unfeigned surprise. She had said nothing to hurt Isaae that she knew of—she ‘ had only said that little Jacob wax fond of ’em cakes— which was very true.’

Isaac did not return to the little party,and they began to wonder what become of him. After waiting for some time, Mrs. Ogden left her place at the tea tray, and went to a little sitting room adjoining—a room the men werea great deal more accustom, ed to than any other room in the house, and where indeed they did everything but eat and sleep. Mr. Ogden went there from habit, as his mother expected, and there

‘ Be quiet, Isaac—try to compose yourself a little. Dr. Bardly’s gone to fetch him, He’ll be with us very soon.’

Mr. Ogden remained quietly seated for some minutes without speaking, and then as his mind began to clear after the shock of the great emotion had passed through, he asked who had found the boy, and where they had found him, and when,

These questions were, of course, some- what embarrassing to his mother, and she would probably have sheltered herself be- hind some clumsy invention, but her son Jacob interpozed. ,

‘The fact is, Isaac, the Icss of your little ‘un seemed to be doin’ you such a power 0” good ’at it seemed a pity to spoil it by tellin’ you, And it’s my opinion as mother’s let the cat out o’ the bag three weeks too soon as it is.’

‘Do you mean to tell me,’ said Isaac, and you knew the child was found, and hid him from his own father ?’

‘Isaac, Isaac, you mun forgive us,’ said the mother; ‘we did it for your good,’

‘ Partly for his good, mother,’ interposed Jacob, ‘but still more for th’ sake o’ that

she found him sitting on a- large rocking. chair, and gazing abstractedly into the fire, The chair rocked regularly but gently, and

not only of its motion, but of every other material circumstance that surrounded him.

Mrs. Ogden laid her hand upon his

shoulder, and said, ‘Isaac, willn’t you come

to your tea? We're all waiting for you.’ The spell was broken, and Ogden sprang suddenly to his feet, ‘Give me my hat,’ he said, ‘and let me go to my own house. Iam not fit to keep Christmas this year. How is a man to care about tea and cake when he’s murdered his own son? I’m best by myself; let me go to I'wistle Farm, Do you expect me to sing songs at supper and drink rum-punch?’

‘There'll be no songs and you needn't drink rum unless you like, but just come and sit with us my lad—you always used spendin’ Christmas Eve at Milend, and Christmas Day, too.’

It signifies nought what I used to do. Isaac Ogden isn’t the same as he used to be. He’d have done better, I reckon, if he had altered a month or two sooner. There’d have been a little lad here to make Christmas merry for us all,’

‘Well, Isaac, I'm very sorry for little Jacob; but it cannot be helped now, you know, and ther is no use frettin’ so much about it.’

‘Mother,’ said Isaac Ogden sternly, ‘it seems to me you're not likely to spoil your health frettin’ over my little lad. You take it very easy it seems to me, and my brother takes it easy too, and so does Dr, Bardly—but then Dr. Bardly was nothing akin to him. Folks say that grandmothers care more for childern than their parents do ; but you go on more like a stepmother nor a grandmother.’

This was hard for Mrs. Ogden to bear, and she was strongly tempted to reveal the truth, butshe forbore and remained silent. Ogden continued :

‘I cannot tell how you could find in your heart to bake them cakes when th’ child isn’t here to eat ’em.’

The effort to control herself was now al- most too much for Mrs. Ogden, since the fact that she had baked the same little cakes, or others exactly like them, and prepared other little dainties,for the especial enjoyment of Master Jacob, who at that very minute was regaling himself there- with in the privacy of Nanny Pickering’s cottage. Still she kept quiet:

After another pause, a great paroxysm of passionate regret seized Ogden—one of those paroxysms of grief to which he was subject at intervals, but which in the pres-

able to contend against or postpone, ‘ Oh, my little lad!’ he cried aloud, ‘ oh, my little innocent lad, that I drove away from me to perish. I'd give all I’m worth to see thee again, little one!’ He suddenly

cheeks he looked out of the window into the black night. ‘IfIdid but know,’ he said slowly and with inexpressable sadness ‘mother, mother, if I did but know where his bits o’ bones are lying!’ ° It was not possible to witness this misery

me: thy little lad is alive—he’s alive and he’s well, Isaac.’

Ogden did not seem to realize or under-~ stand this communication, At last he said : ‘I know what you mean, mother, and I believe it. He's alive in Heaven, and he can ail nothing nor want nothing there.’

‘] hope he’ll go there when he’s an old man, tut a good while after we there ours selves, Isaac.’

A great change spread over Ogden’s face, and he began to tremble from head to foot. He laid his hand on his mother’s atm with a grasp of iron. His eyes dilated, the room swam around him, his heart suspended its action, and in a low hissing whisper he said: ‘ Mother, have they found him !’

‘ Yes—and he’s both safe and well!’ Ogden rushed out of the house, and pac~ ed the garden walk hurriedly from end to end. The intensity of his excitement pro» duced a commotion in the brain that need- ed the counter stimulus of violent physical movement. It seemed as if the roof of his skull must be lifted off, and for a few min. utes there was a great crisis of the whole nervous system, to which probably his for. mer habits may have more especially ex- posed him. When this was over, he came back into the house, feeling anusually weak but incredibly calm and happy, Mrs. Og- den had told the Doctor and Mr: Jacob what had passed, and the doctor without hesitation set offat once for his own house where he ordered his gig, and drove away rapidly on the Sootythorn Road.

‘ Mother,’ said Isaac, when he came in, ‘ give me a cup of tea, will you?’

‘A glass of brandy would do you more good.’ . ‘Nay, mother, we've had enough of brandy; it will not do to begin now.’

He sat down in evident exhaustion and drank the tea slowly,looking rather vacant- ly before him. Then he laid his head back upon the chair and closed his eyes. The lips moved, and two or three tears ran slow~ ly down the cheeks. At last he started suddenly, and looked sharply round him, said, ‘where is he, where is he, mother? Where is little Jacob, my little lad, my lad,

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child. What made him run away from Twistle Farm, Isaac Ogden answer me tbat.’ Isaac remained silent,

‘Do you fancy, brother Isaac, that any consideration for your feelins was to hinder us from doin’ our duty by that little lad ? What sort of a father is it as drives away a child like that with a horsewhip? Thou was no more fit to be trusted with him nor a wolf wi’ a little white lamb, If he’d been brought back to thee two days after, it °ud a’ been as much as his life was worth. And I'll tell thee what, [sauce Ogden, if ever it comes to my ears as you take to horsewhips pin’ him again, I'll go to law wi’ you and get the guardianship of him intosafer hands. There’d be little difficulty about that as it is. I've taken my measures—my witnesses are ready—l’ve consulted lawyers; and ~ tell you candidly, I mean to act at once if i see the least necessity for it. Little Jacob was miserable for many a week before you drove him out of the house, and if we'd only known, you would never have had the chance,’

‘Nay, Jacob,’ interposed Mrs. Ogden,

‘you're a bit too hard on Isaac; he’s the child’s own father, and he had a right to punish him within reason.’

‘ Father! father!’ cried Jacob, scornfully ;

‘ there isn’t a man in Shaygon as is’t more

of a father to our little ’un than Isaac has been for many a month past. There isn’t &man in Shayton but what would have been

kinder to a nice little lad’ like that than he has been, What signifies havin’ begotten a chiid, if fatherin’ it is to stop there ?

At last Isaac Ogden lifted up his face and spoke,

‘Brother Jacob you've said nothing but what is right and true, and you've all acted right both by me and him. But let us startafresh. I’ve turned over a new leaf; I’m not such as I used to be. I mean to be different: and I will be a good father to that child. So help me God!’

He held out his hand, and Jacob took it and shook it heartily. The two brothers looked in each other's faces, and there was more of brotherly aftection in their look than had ever been since the dissolution of their partnership, Mrs. Ogden saw this with inexpressible pleasure, ‘That’s right lads; that’s right. God bless you! God bless both on you!’

The customs of Shayton were mighty,

on every imaginable occasion. If a Shay-~ ton man felt sorry, he needed a glass of port wine to enable him to support his grief ; but if he felt glad, there arose at once such a feeling of true sympathy be-~ tween his heart and that joyous generous

an impediment was not to be found in any well-to-do household in Shayton, where de. canters were always charged, and glasses on an occasion so auspicious as this Mr.

probably two glasses—of port; and his

freshment, bore him company. ‘Now, Isaac, lad, let’s drink a glass to

' mother’s good health,’

Mr. Ogden had not made any positive

ship, made his soul yearn to the wine,

‘ Here’s mother’s good health,’ he said,and

drank.

Isaac now began to show signs of uneasi- ness and restlessness. He walked to the front door and listened eagerly for the sound of wheels. ‘ How fidgety he is, the old lad,’ said Jacob, ‘it’s no use frettin’

and fidgin’ like that, Come and sit down a bit and be quiet.’

‘ How long will he be, mother.’

Before Mrs. Ogden could reply, Isaac’s excited ear detected the doctor’s gig. He was out in the garden immediately, and passed bareheaded through the gate out upon the public road. He could not see who was in the gig, but something told him that little Jacob was there, and his heart beat more quickly than usual.

Perhaps our little friend might have be- haved himself somewhat too timidly on this occasion, but the doctor had talked to bimon the road. He had explained to him quite frankly, that Mr. Ogden’s harsh~ ness had been wholly due to the irritable state of bis nervous system, and that he would not be harsh any more, because he had stopped drinking. He had especially urged upon little Jacob that he must not seem afraid of his father; and as our hero was of a bold disposition, and had plenty of assurance, he was fully prepared to follow tho doctor’s advice.

Isaac Ogden hails the gig; it stops and little Jacob is in his arms.

‘ Please, papa, I wish you a merry Christ« mas and a happy New Year !’

CHAPTER XII. And a merry Christmas Eve they had of it. Mr. And Mrs. Prigley, and all the little Prigleys, received a sudden invitation to Milend to meet little Jacob, whose return to the land of the living was now first made public, and created an immense sensation at the parsonage. They had intended to have a snapdragon at home, but the snap- dragon was quite forgotten, and paled its ineffectual fire before the young hero of the evening. ‘Tell Mrs Ogden we'll go at once,’ said Mrs, Prigley. ‘Children, put

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your things on; and'to think that they’ve found him alive and well. glad

The parson, put on the least threadbare of his two suits of black, and a white neck-~ cloth ot the most dazzling purity. By the time they reached Milend—the parson, and Mrs. Prigley, and Harry, and Billy, and Dick, and Dithy, and Conny (fer such was the familiar nomenclature of th’ famiily)the news had spread through Shayton, and there was a little crowd about the gate. Shayton. though an important and increas. ing place, was not a very large one, and little Jacob, being the nephew and _ heir- presumptive of one of the richest manufac. turers there, was perfectly well kuown to many hundreds of the inabitants. Beyond this, his disappearance had made him a celebrity, and if he had been in Sootythorn or even in Manchester, a crowd would have collected about him. Perhaps it is not too much to say that in the metropolis itself he might have created something approaching to a sensation amongst diligent readers of the newspapers. ‘Ihe anxious crowd at the gate made way for the parson and his family; but after the clerical party had disappeared in the house, the foreman of Ogden’s mill was deputed as spokesman, and boldly knocked at the door. He re- uested permission to see his master, and was shown into the little sitting room. ‘ Please, sir, there’s two or three hund- red folk at your gate as wants to see little Jacob, They’ll never be satisfied until they have a sight on him.’ It was considered necessary to exhibit Master Jacob to this multitude, who hailed him with hearty cheers. In the midst of this ovation, as he was standing with calm dignity like a youthful Prince of Wales, his said dignity was disturbed in an unforseen way by a powerful woman, who rushed at him and seized him in her vigorous arms and kissed him in an extraordinary manner. The young gentleman felt that he could have dispensed with his demonstration ; but so soon as he became aware that his assailant was no other than his old friend Susy Tattersail, dealer in tarts and lollpops, his rising irritation gave way to feelings of amore amiable description, and he kissed old Susy’s jolly fat face with a heartiness that won a murmur of approbation from the bystanders. Little Jacob was called out of the house several times that evening, quite like a famous opera singer or a mins ister of state.

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To be Continued.

THE TURKISH OUTRAGES AND BRITISH POLITICS,

Mr. Gladstone is seemingly weary of private House of Commons membership in the cold shades of Opposition. . Possibly too, he is not quite satisfied with the mea- sures of success achieved by him in the field of ecclesiastical polemics. Perhaps like-~

in the copses of Hawarden. And it mary be that he sighs for the glory of leadership and the re.possession of power. At all

minent part in the attempt being made by the British Liberals to use the Turk asa lever to upset the Disraeli Government.

day, when it will be desirable that the des~ tinies of the Empire should be re-committed to the safe keeping of a Liberal Adminis- tration headed by Mr. Gladstone. But at

Mr. Gladstone has never been strong nor much trusted in the management of Eng- land’s foreign relations ; nor has he particu. larly shone as an administrator in Colonial matters; and there are questions both of a foreign and of a Colonial character, re-

ing british Cabinet than any that could be formed from the Liberal ranks just now. Besides it must be admitted that there are

can be as advantageously regulated by the

stopped, and as the tears rolled down his} y, 9} Ogden should drink a glass—or more | men now in power in England as _ by any

sect of men that could be selected from the

certain that neither British public opinion nor the Liberal party is in such a state as would render practicable the immediate existence of a thoroughly efficient Liberal

any longer. All Dr. Bardly’s solemn in-| yow of teetotalism, and although there | Administration. The needful reaction in junctions, sll dread of a possible relapse | might be some danger in allowing himself | public opinion has not come; and the into the terrible habit, were forgotten. | to experience afresh, however lightly, the | equally needful re-organization of The mother had borne bitter reproaches, | seductive stimulus of alchohol, whole cen« | Liberal party has not been effected. It but she could not bear the agony of grief. | turies of tradition, and the deep pleasure | only needs time to bring the one and ac- ‘Isaac, she said, ‘Isaac, my son, listen to} he felt in the new sense of brotherly fellow. | complish the other:

the

The Liberal leaders, including Mr. Gladstone, seem to think otherwise. They are disposed to hurry things unduly. They fancy they see their opportunity in the atrocities perpetrated during the early summer by the fanatical and blood-thirsty Turks: Their cue is to make it appear that the Disraeli Government is responsible for the brutalities and beastly deviltries of the Bulgarian Moslems. This done, they hope to turn the tide of honest English in- dignation against the Turkish murderers, also against the Disraeli Government. Hence, apparently, Mr. Gladstone is ex~ tremely anxious for an early fall session of Parliament, while public feeling is at its hottest, and before the sober second thought, which takes everything that ought to be considered into account, comes to the nation.

This party scheme wears to the distant | and impartial observer an aspect purely factious and unprincipled, and its success would probably prove a national calamity. Nothing can be more unjust than to hold the Disraeli Administration responsible for Turkish wickedness. No accusation could be more false, more detestable than that which charges the Bulgarian atrocities upon Lord Derby and his colleagues, From first to last, in reference te Turkey, they have pursued the traditional policy of their country—a policy, it is safe to say, which in ita grand aims will still be pursued by that country, whatever the party rela- tionship of the men who for the moment may be entrusted with the nation’s affairs. —News.

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CrepitaBLe TO Messrs. Pore anD Breckey. —Messrs. Pope and Brecken, who fought stgutly in the late Prince Edward Island election for sectarian schools, under the guise of ‘payment for results,’ and were happily beaten, refuse to lend themselves for facteous purposes to the separate school party. They have very properly declined to oppose the re-electon of the new At- torney General and Provincial Secretary.

good citizens. That is well and will be re- membered in their favor by and bye. They both havea capacity for public business and it is to be regretted that they took the wrong side ofan important public question, —St. John News,

The time may come, even at an early | a place on the Sussex coast,

They bow to the decision of the people like |

AAMINER.

1 DREN ON ADVICE.

Advice, like physic, is better to give than to take,

Everybody hos got a stock of it on hand ready to administer it on the slightest pros vocation.

If you want to sound the depths of hus man generosity, just ask somebody for ads Vice.

You will get any quantity of it for the asking.

And you sometimes get a good deal with, out asking.

On the other hand it is difficult to get any body to take advice,

There are two kinds of advice, practical advice and impractical advice ;

For instance, when in a fatherly manner Ll advise Themistocles : :

‘My on. don’t climb over that fence, bes cause if you tear your tro again, mother will wallop you, aaet au _ Here is something practical; a warning 1s conveyed of consequences not to be con- templated by a youthful mind without dise may.

But when a young man informsan exe perienced relative that he is going to get married, and the experienced relative says ‘don’t,’ it is impracticable advice,

Because when @ young man has gone 60 far he can’t retreat.