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· THE MERCHANT. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. CirouJa.tes Jarg-ely in tlte Townships of Darling· ton, Ola.rke and Ca.rtwright. It is a common platfor1n, open to the free diecussion of all questions in which the general public a.re concerned. TERMS. WEST DURHAM Stea.m Sob Printing O:ffi.eo KING STREET, BOWMANVILLE. Seventy-five cents per annum, In Ad" vance. The 'Merchant' and 'Obser ver,' $2· oo. RATES OF ADV .u.RTIBING. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. VOLUME VI. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1874. HUMBER XIII. One column 45 per annum. Half do. 25 " Quarter do. J5 " r a.ns ient advertisements,5 cts per line first in rtion, and 2c, per line, each subsequent one. POSTERS, PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS CHEQUES, NOTES HANDBILLS, LABELS, CARDS, TICKETS ' &c., &c., &c. EXECUTED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE POETRY. GRAND 'TRUNK '.!tA~LV\'A!Y I COME and .SEE · Song of the Christma.& Bells. BY MRS. A. OAMPBELL. Trains will leave Bowmonville Station, Ilow1uanville time, as follows : OOING 'VEST, ·I GOING .EAST. HILL'S Hai:k ! those merry Christmas bells, Ilow they ring ! Pence on earth, good-will to n1en IThus they sing. Local ........ 7:22. a.m. I Express.,, ... 8:20 a.m. J~xpress* ...... 9 ;;tr a.m. Mixed ...... 4:05 p.m. b-Iix00 ....... 2:30 p.m. Local. .... .. 7:55 p .rn. Express .... 9:00 p. m, I Express .... . f.1.00 p.m. *J'his traio rl\DI! every mori:.iing of woek, Mondnys excepted, ,, Singing of a Chi i,jtmas n1orn, And a Jnange r so forlorn, Where the Son of God was born,Thu!! they sing. Singing memmges of love, F. i:otn the }'a.ther high aboYe, The following trains now stop at Saxony for pas,engers : Locai going west, du" at ......... 7:30 a. m Mixed going eaet, due at.. .... c .. 3:40 p. m' Mixed going west, dueat ...... ... 2:55 p. m Local going eaet, due at ......... 7:45 p. m Montreal time. Fall.&Winter ·ory Goods ---::o;- .And tbe Spidt IIcaven1y Dove,Tl.lua they sing. Singing charity and grace. Pardon tor a. sinful race, And a reconcilt!d fac~. 'l'hruc they sing. A LARGE LOT OF 'LADIES' and GEN'l'S' F'tTBS Bowmanv1lle. Nov. 1st, 1873. VERY CHEAP Singing to the rich and poor, Chanting gladness evermore, Christ is now the open Door,-'l'hus they Ying. Singing to the rich ti) be Generous, for Thou dost see, And the poor belong to Thee- Prof. J~ · Ruse, 41-ly of Baxter Uni\·ersity of I\.fuaic GRADUATE Friendship, New York. TeM:her of Piano and Orgo.n, cultivation o Voice, Singing, '11hor9ugb BasH, Harmony, 'fhus they ~ing. Singing enmity should cease, Love and kiodn~ss too increase, Christmas i~ a time of peace, Thus they sing. Singing out a Christmas lay, Ila.ppiness to Qtl ! '\Ve sa.y, '\ 'lishing you o. merry day.ThllII they ·ing. Ha.rk I thooo merry Christmas bells, Ho'\\' thuy ring? Peace on earth, good-will to men,Thus they sing. From tltcNew Dominion 1Jfonthly for JJ~cem.bcr. Composition, &c. Darlington, July 16th, l874. B. PE.A.TE-, TA'ILOR. MADE 1N THE Geatlemen's & Boy's Garments 1'EWEST STYLES. no·wma.nville, July, 27, 1869. R R LOBCOMBE, BAR.RISTJJ:R-AT-LAW, SOLICITOR IN CHANOICRY, Jic sa.me fln.t as J. M. Erimacomb's Dental RoolD.6. Bowma.nville, Oct. 27th, 1868. ly OEFIOE,-Over~ng's Store LITERATURE. MY CH.RISTMAS REVENGE. I do not think there is any need of my explaining how it happened that I, who when born, bad expectations of quite a foir tor.tune, shouhl have found myself, when womanhood came, obliged to e·rn my daily breai. But so it was ; and in one ot the large sewing-machine emporiums (no mat~ ter which one) of a leading American city, I held a position ns teacller for several years. My dutieo were very monotonous ; but I uci:ed to extract a consideraLle amount of interest and amusement, w bile engaged in giving instruction, from learning the histories-and they were varied-of lllY scholars. If the prove1bial cup of tea unlocks the female tongue, l found that a lesson on the inacbine, and initiation into the mys· teriea of aetting u. needle, ·y ;inding a bobbin, and regulating a tension, were even niore conducive to communication. I do not wisp to appear egotistieal; but I must confese :to quite a power which I seemed to posoess of gaining the confidence of my pupils, through my habit of taking an interest in them ; also that I was very fond of ar. 'ower true tale;' }Jerhaps l:iOiae 111alicious crit~9 would cull my propensity ,by no higher uatne than r~rnale curiosity. ' Even 11ow1 though tin1e has brought its changes to ine, and r no longer haunt the old familiar places, I often find myself recalling oµe and another among the many romances and stories in which I figured as an interested and syn1pathetic listener, and occasionally an unsuspected actor. The present recollection always comes back to me at the Christmas time ; and therefore, when the season iolls around againJ with its merriment and cheer, its mistletoe and holly, its written auJ unwrit~ ten tragedie' and comedies of life, I feel like recounting it to others. The position of instructress hrought 1ne a.lmost e..ntirely in contact with n1y own sex. Sometimes I had a male pupil-one of a mildly mechanical turn, who would wish to becon1e familiar with the nia.chine, so as to be able to assist some wife or sister; but the instruction-room, es a rule, was usually quite free from lre'lucut visits of the sterner sex. During the fall of a special year I became conscioue: that a certain ~fr. Harry Lee, a gentleman whom I knew to be an intimate acquaintance of one ol my employers, and whose face wae quite well known to all in the eatabliehmeot, began to occasionally drop into my departn1ent, an<l look on dur· ing instruction h.:>urs. He was very pleasant and gentlemanly in bis manners, and gave ae an excuse for the interest be took, that he wae a born Yankee and therefore very fond of inventions. Although there were other teachers, I discovered that he lingered most freqnently in my vicinity, and seemed more interested in my conversation than that of my com· pa.niona. I was yonng at the time, and no doubt, had the usual desire of my sex to please. I felt flattered, perhaps, at bis respectful atte,ntion, and took particular pains to make my obsurvatiun~ on 1 wbu.t I knew abuut sewing·machines' as 1ntelligeut as my limited powers permitted. He eoon b<lcan1e a. frequent visitor, at.ld sometimes when business was dull vroulcl hnger and converse on other sulijeets besides the technicalities of the trade, I found that he was well educated, had travelled considerably in his own country, and new, as they say,' 'moil and things.' His intimate friendship with one of the firm prevented any 1emarks as to the frequency of hie visits ; and be ma' e the additional apology for possible intrusion, that he was very much at bis leisure, and sometin1es thought of connect· ing himself with the business. r must admit that I was quite interested in him, and felt pleaeed when sometimes he would bring me some favorite book about which we bad conversed and exchanged views, or aek my opinion on some magazine article that was engrossing pubhc attention. I had never giv.en a thought to his relations ia lifewhether he w11s married or single ; he bad simply been to rne a pleasant epieo<l.e aLnoug my daily l1tbors ; and the flash of hi· blue eyee an d his frank smile, when saluting me, I at first considered as merely among the other usual incidents of my daily life. MARRIAGE ISSUED DY LICENSES ROBERT ARMOUR MARRIAGE LICENSES. ·u duly authonze<l to iaaue ¥n.rriage Licenses. Darlington, Nov, l9, 1874. m8-tf. llJ. Dnrlini'.ton, (near )3ethesda. Church) is R. JOHN H. EYNON, Lot 7, 6th Con. ~ NEW . GOODS I W. H. -vVIIJSON, MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED BY JOHN J. WILLIAMS Ont Cherrywood l'ost·office Pickering BOWMANVILLE, --o-- G-enera.l Agent for PIANOS, ORGANS, MELODIANS ana,'sE WING AfAO HINES Stock Fully Assorted. ---:o:---- Raymond Sewing . Machine A SPECIALITY. Instruction given, and Instru1nent~ and Ma chines gua.ranteed. nowmanville, Junu 18, 1874. GOODS AT RI'GFiT PRICES1 AT AUCTIONEERS . For the Town$hip of Da1·lington, J. & W. J McMurtry & Co. SIGN OF THE Sept. 25th, 1874. GO~DEN LION, H. T. PHILLIPS, HAMPTON. Pton1pt attention given to aale.s, &c, on reason· able tcrme. . BOWl\l.A.Nv.ILLE. Wn:a.. Barton, ,, ENNISKILLEN. Sales promptly attended to on reBBona.ble terms. :Robert Young, FTERINARY SURGE01', Graduote of the Ontario Veterinary College. By a.p· pointment Veterinary Surgeon to the VVest Durha1n and Darlington Union Ag1·icnlturaJ So<iieties . Agent for the Live Stock Branch of the Beaver and Toronto Mutual Fire Insurance V Veterinary !t'Iedicinea constantly on hand. Ca.lls from the country promptly attended to. Offi~ :-One door eaat of R. Manb~g·s Fur· niture 'Vareroom. Residence over S. Burden's store, corner of King a.ud Scugog Stt·eet81 Bowmanvillle. · mltf Co. LUMBER. HE Subscriber respectfully req_uests all pa.r· tics indebted to him for Lumber, to settle their accounts without further de1ay. .And he hereby informs buikltlrR, and others in want of hunber, that be is prepared to sopply them at ca.Ah rates for Ca.sh. Henceforth be intends to do a ca..sh bu~iuess. , T THOS. SMI'l'H, Lot 19, 6 Con. Darlington. 1873. mStf. ' :C:IME ! LIME! quantity, Applx to F'OR SALll in anyW!LI.IAM SPEAR. Church Street, ,. nearly opposite the Alma Hotel. :Bowman ,·jlle. June 19th 187~-J . tf NEW 'GOODS. My New Goods have ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. Liverpool London, and Glasgow apply to FOR 'rickets, or infi..rmation, W. A. NEADS, Agent. Bowma.nville, .Tune 9th, 1871. tf-30 '( W. S. BOYLE, M. D. RADUATE of the Universititiii of Trinity G College Toronto, and Victoria College, o Cobourg. Licentiate of the College of Phys1ci ans,a.nd Surgeons, of Ontario. Office, Ku1.g Street, one door ~·est of Mr. Corui!!lt's Jewelly Store, Bowm~ville. NEARLY ALL COME TO HAND and the assc ,1nent will be" found \ 1ERY COMPLETE AND To Ma.stars of :C.. 0. :t. CERTIFICAES, Al'plicotions BLANK &c., &c., can be procured at this office, at leg:ular rates. Ilowmanville, July 7th 1 1873. PRICES MODERATE The Public are solicited to call and see for themselves. Hampton) :Sept. 18th 1872 MARRIAGE LICENSES W. saued by R. CLIMIJ,:, t~e-Statesman 0.ffic~ Bowmanville BowmM>ville Nov, irb H. ELLIOTT JUN bp Mrs. High.flyer in position, passed betwf'en ed by making an appointment with Aire. The Broken-hearted Wife and Mother. us; and th~n, after feet were co111fortably Lee, on some excuse as to n1y conveuience, A ilhort time sinct~, as I was passing a v.·armed, and gloves re1noved, the lesson be· at' four o'clock on the afternoon before Upon the raieiug of her veil as she Christmae-(Ohrietmas Eve at a very early Sabbath in a country town, in tho inte1ior gan, seated herself, I discovered that her heauti- stage of the anmversary), ancl meanwhile of this commonwealt11, I was requeBted to The first aBpect of ful bro\\ n eyes showed traces ol recent tea.rd; gained a character for henevolence by tell· visit a dying woman. andse,·eral timesaa Lhelesson progressed,and iag my companions jn teaching that they the horne to which I wa.R led in its loose uncnnsciously long ~drawn sigh or sob proveJ. ho.U better go home Carly and th\.18 enjoy clapboards, broken \'dndowa, ~and - decayed very plainly that she bad lately passed the gay eighta and sound· presented by the fence11, told me too plctinly that I was npThe through sonic .strotJg enlotion, anU that na· atreets on that festive sea.son. And tl1en proaching the home ol a drnnkard. apartment in which the dyin~ wo1nan was lure was kindly restoring the equilibrium. that I crowned the whole by making auoth· In the course of the le'3on, that day, she er appointment with Mr. Harry Lee, for brenthing her last, 'vas 011e whose aspect of told me that she was niarri ed and the tnoth· the ~ame place, hall an hour laler, having cheerlessness and discomfort n1ade niy A few wretched articles of er of a little boy so1newbat over a year olll. in view the necessity of' bringing him un· heart ache. She hinted at troubl e in connection with expectedly upon his wife at the very lOO· furniture were scattered nbout the roou1, her marriage r1::lation ~ , auc.1 of late news that 1neut when she would be sev.ring away at a.nd upon a luw bed, in one corner, 1nost scantily furnished, lay the wasted forrn of had caused the past night to be spent very the top ot her alnlity. Iler countenance b1Jre unhappily. She seemed low-spirited, and Once npon a tin1e I kept an extraordinary the dying n1other. trc1ces of intelligence, of refine1nent, an<l. yet deepl) ashamed of her ignorance as regard· bug that I had captured, under a glass tnn1ed all knO\\·ledge ol sewing: or the construe· bler, for <lays, to see the change by which of t11e 111ost ovcrwhel1ning mental anguish. tion of the simplest garment. I encouraged it would becvme something else. It effect- H er husband stood at lhc head of tbe bod, her-tolt.l her that patien~e and. npplie:ation ed the change one night when I could not with an expression of aR deep anguish as only · -i.vere necessary, as she showed very see it, anc.l I was left very little wiser than could be cr0wded into the featu res of a good natura] abilities and would learn ens- before. And I know not much more about bloated inebriate. Five little children stood ily. But she replie<l sadly that she was the meeting between Harry Lee and his around the bedside, loudly sobbing ; the afraid that those were virtues she ha<l never wife, over the ~ewing-1nachine, that evening eldest, a daughter not twelve yeara of age, cultivated, nor even until lately deemed at before Christmas ; aa (confound it !) I felt kneeling by lier 1nother's eide, and alu1ust all necessary. 8he assured roe that I could myself obliged to leave them alone togeth- convulsively clasping lier han(l us she form no i<lea how useless and helpless she er just at the iuteresiing moment, and they drenched it with teal's. It was oue of tl1o!lc bad been. She had never liked to sew, and bad made it up before I thought it proper scenes of \\'Oe which at once pnints itself upon the eye and imprints itself upon the her mother 11ad never wished her to do so, to return. telling her ~bat there were plenty of poor 1-Iowever, l had 1ny revenge. l\{r. Lee n1ind, never, never to be eff::i.ced. Froin the people who would be glad to do sucl1 labor ([ wish it to be understood and believed on fe\v altnost inarticulate worUs of tLP. dying woman, I gathered that all the anguish of instead. She hoped I would not laugh at this point) never flirted any more wi!U Tue, the n1othcr's heart wa..<i in fevered excitesome of her no tlonbt trifling and silly q uea- however mildly-' never no 1nore.' fie tions, as she bad never even made a gar· went to Europe, Uut a little later, anJ. took ment, as she was to leave her poor children ment of any kind in her life-not even a his wife, leaving his little son with his no- -her tcnJer boys and girls, in this \Vorld of At la.st, frbm an incidental remark of one I laughed good- table New England mother, who wae sure ternptntion, with no guide but their besotof my employers, I dis"overed the 'skele- little one for lier baby ! ted, drunken father. ton in his closet.' He w·aa a married man, naturedly : I could not help it; and told to take good core of him, though she mig'it She was already breath ing her last as I but separated from his wife. I think that her that she took too severe a view of her not pennit him to romp hihlriously. They entered the room -and in a short time her I felt a little pained at the information ; defioiencies- that there were plenty of other were kind enough to believe that I had struggling, broken, grh·f-rent heart, wa~ 1 and I certainly could not help the coldness ladies j uat like her ; but she said, swihng a been of service to thetn ; aud I was the- restill in death. I inquired into the circumof my manner when next I met him, Ho little 1nourufully in r eturn, that if I knew cipient of certain rings, one of which Harry stances of the co.se, and found that a few saw the change, and asked with his eyes for how bitterly she bnd lately begun to under- Lee gave ree with what I thought .:as rathyears Lefore, this woman, then a young lady stand what rin unedu cated wornan in useful er a conscious look, and the other of which an explanation, though riot with his tongue. of many accomplishu1 euts of person and of Had he taken the latter liberty, it is very matters she was, and how inconvenient she Gracie Lee gave me witb no shameface<lness mind, \Vas married to her husband, tl1en a possible that I might have told him, and had found the position, I would not wonder and a hearty kisa. a young merchant-amiable, intelligent, of I saw thetn together, and at hotne again, then- this story would never have been at her desire to Uo better. correct habits, and eogagetl in llwrativE: and The first lesson was succeeded by others, in a pretty new home over which,tanght by written! As it was, u. few boure thorough~ successful busium~s. The sun of present and ly calmed n1e i showed 111e ROn1ething for several clays following, during which I some mistakes in the past, tbe wife was sole pro~pective joy, beam ed brightly on the of the imprudence of which I had been learned that she hacl been married be.t\veen mistre11s, appareut1y very happy, the next morning of the11· nuptia ls. Every thing was guilty, in n1flking so close an ncquainte.nce two and three years; that she had always Cbristn1as; and I think that Mrs. Lee, un- cheerful aud tasteful u1 tlie happy horn" with 11 man about whoni I knew literally before her marriage lt!d a gay and luxurious der some sort of idea that she owed tbe r~ where their youthful affections were first nothing ; and roused all the woman within ex.istence, perhaps because she hnd never covery of her husband to her aewing-n1a· cemented, A few year:; of untroubled prosme, in pridl· and a dim suspicion of rE:venge. known of a.nJ otbcr, her parents Ueing fash- chine, looked upon that useful article as a perity glidecl swiltly aw,y. Behind the That revenge was much nearer than I ionable butterflies ; that she had passed species of ~ood fairy, and her seat at it as a counter of this young nian's store \Vere arcould pos·ihly have dreamed; and unlike through a great sorrow,been very sick when place of refug1!, and always was to be found rnnged severnl puncheons of ardent spirits moat revenges 1 no sorrow is entailed by the her babe was born, nnd now \Vas just begin- sewing \vhen t bin gs went at nll CTooked in for retail. In selliug to other~, he tasted recollection. But of that anon. Following ning to appreciate rnme of the realities of the household. himself. Gradually he acquired lhe appethe discovery, the first thing I did was to life. She confessed that it \Vas when re- r l\fy after:acquaintanct': l\'ith th em, at all tite for stong drink-and in the lapse of a enlarge it by ascertaining particulars- hew, CO \'etiug ftoni a sick bed. and among the ev ents, showed that the incJ.olent, useless, few yfa rs he scattered all hi &property, rninis a mntter of no consequence in connection new and stmnge feolings tliat came with the and seJl.willed wife had become the buay, eU hie reputation, beggaied his family, and with this otury. What I additionally dis- birlh of her babe, that she had awakened useful, and gentle one ; and that t~ie hus- becn.n1e hi1nsel1 a ragg~d vagabond in the to t he truth,and listened to the promptings, band, who had begun by misunderstanding covered, howe,·er, is of consequence. streets. He was naturally a1uiable and af. He had n1arried a petted, V·rayward, beau- always befure ignored, of her ~1ore practical her, J1ad come fully back to his senPes, and fectionate, con1pliunt and yieldiug, and h av tiful girl-the only child of wealthy par- nature. That it was through the advice of grown much wiser as to the quality of the ing in his natu1e but littl e of that sterner ents, who hsd by injudicion· management a kind friend who hnd been with her wo1nan with whon1 he had been intrusted. n1aterial which is called decision, wh~n fostered every weakness of her character. through her sickne;s, that she bad pur- And something of this, if not all of it, \\"O.S temptation can1e with its mighty power, he He had forn1ed her acquaintance, and null'· chased a sewi ng-machine, the friend believ- the result of a little flirtation nipped in the fell at once, and irren1ediably. 1n such ried her after a short courtship, w)Jile on a ing that it would be a good beginning iu bud, and of My Christmas Revenge.-From persons it ia not nufrfque nlly the case, that the A /dine for Decenibet'. vi si t to Ler nntiYe town, and after a few her r:::ffort~ to do so ntethiug useful. iutox1cation produces perfect phrenty. A n1011ths rcn1oved to the city where be now All this my new pupil did not ten n1c in few glasses would pcrlcctly craze him, an<l Trilling With a Coroner. made his residence. He bad Lrought her ao iuany words, but it was the aubsta.nce of he would return to l1is lio1ne at night a raghorpe to tho house of hi s n1other, who, \Yith what .J gathered by degrees. I was very .From the T1l'ritorial Enterpri·e. ing, teariug n1aniac. lie would tnke the his siater, was of the true N cw England mnch interested (as u s'..lal) ; and one day,as Recently ~n excited individual, wi1h his whole range of th£ house in his fury, and type. They were thorough·going, practical sht· wa:s leaving, casually rem'lrked that her hat standing on two hairs and his eyes pro· v,; ifc and chil<lren weie conipclle<l to flee, women, nota\.tle bouae"keepers, slightly Puri- hu sband was, no Joubt, plea.Eed at her pro· jecting from bis head hke tbc horns of a wounded and bleediug, Jro1n Ida terr1b]e tanical in their beliefs, and holding very gress hi n1asteriag the mystery. Theu I sno.il, rushed into the office of Coroner violence. Often "ou lcl she gather her little little sympathy with youth and inexperi- beard what I had 11hnost before snspected, I-Jolmes. The Coroner is by pTofesaion a flock of children in th e corner beloind her, ence. The young wife was irn.pulsive, un- as with tears filling her eyes she said that dentist, antl bis first thought as be 15:anced and receive upon her own pe1sou the fearused to <fiscipline of any kind, carelt!s:,, she bad no husband in one sense-that ehe at the man was that he was well nigh dis- ful blows wbic'.i their brutal father was ignorant of al1y habito of industry, but had separated tron1 him-that it '"'as her tracted with the tooth ache. He was eoon dealing around hi10. warm .. hearted nnd affectionate. No doubt own fault-an act done by herself in hot und~ceiveU, however, as the frenzied indi- "Oh, wbo can tell what da.ys, ,\·ha.t nights. sh'i a very tronbleso1ne rl·lative to the st!lid, anger and rage, but now bitterly repented. vidual cried out, as aoon. afi he could catch f!pent methodical women with whom she took up She indicated that that there ..vere others to his .breath after running up stairs, 'Been a Of tueles11 wnvelesl!!, sai.11 ess, shoreless woe." lier residence. Ulamc, Out did not excuse herself ; and sai1l mah 1nurdered !' In tbe rnorning, this wretd1 ed victim of Unfortunately for the wife, also, her hus- that she had spent the night pl'evious to the 'A n111n murd~red/ cried the Coroner rum woulU aw:l.ke fron1 his dchallch,and re· band had been taught to look up to his day on which she had taken her first lesson, ' How 1 Where 1' stored to his natural affection, would r efi ect m other and sister ae the best of women in great grief from learning;that he was v<ay 'In a garden, I believe, with a club or upon bis brutality wiLh horror and i·e and had fondly fancied that when bis new soon to sail fot Europe, and tbe thouglit a rock.' morse. treasure came ·rnder their control all those that they would then be utterly and forever ' How long ago 1' c1-ied the Ooronor, ~eiz He would fall upon his knees before bis little weaknesses of which he had soon be- separated had nearly . driven her to distrac· ing his hat and cane. wife, with tearg of anguish rolling clown his con1e aware after n1arriage, would be cured ti on. 'Been done a good while, and no police cheeks, and implore her forgiveness: he by their example and advice. Dut his sJ.nI felt very sorry- never more so for any nor constable hasn't never done nothing 'vould curse the clay be was born ; lie guine hopes were doomed to early J.isap· bun1an being ; her repentnnce waa so sin~ about it. Never been no coroner set on his would call him&elf a brntc and a fiend, and puintment. ln8tead of his wife growing cere, and her sorrow so hopeless. A dim body or not1in ' of the kind : no virwish himself dead; he would resolve nnd docile and .} ielding, she became more wil .. suspicion had been creeping through my dict--' rQ·resolve never to drink agaiu. For a few ful and intractable, rebelled with a high miad tiuring this last relation, that I had 1 What.'~ the dend innn's name 1 Who days he would sucoeed in keeping his promspirit against any rule, and looked upon her beard a story something akin to thi s before; was he?' cried the Coroner. ise, and keep himself from temptation. But huaband niore as a companion with whom and as she was about leaving I reminded ' His name was Abel.' the acquired appetite would gather strength to enjoy the amnsements of fashionable so- be,:- that although we were well acquainced 'Abel 1 Abel who 1' by the transient restraint. Asaociates would ~iety, than ae a helpmate and friend with us teacher and pupil, I had never yet heard 'Don1t kno\V, Never heard nothing but lnre him into the village store-, the sight of whom to pass through the trials and cares her name. Apologizing for her remiaanese, his first nan1e, 1 the decanters, the furne s of the spirits, of life. Still she had a kind heart and she handed me a card as she left the room, 'Well, what is the name of the man who would sweep away, with hurricane fury, 1111 warm affections ; and had more love and I will not say tl1at I was very much sur· killed him 1 Do they know 1 Any one his resolutions. One glass would follow sympatl1y been exhibited in connection with prised, for I had half gueesed the coincisuspected 1' another in the desperation of remorse and efforts to chanfie her"habits, and less cold, dence by intuition,-when I read ou the ' Well, I've heard that a fellow named despair. severe exactions .shown On the i1art of her card I held in my ha.nd,' AI rs, Qracie Lee.' Cain put out his light. Cain was the Frenzied with the fi· n<l-creating poieon, husband's relatives, the event might have Y el:l, it was Harry Lee's wife who had brother of Abel-' he would return home and re-enact those been better for all. At last the usual re- been my pupil ! A great many strange Coroner, flourishing liia cane cries : sQenes of outrage, the bare imagination ~f sult followed. Quarrels became of frequent feelings were at work v.ritbin my breast 'You git down them stairs, niy fine fel· which makes humanity shn<l:ler. Again occurrence; estrangement grew up between during the next ten nlinutes. I had not low. Git, and don't show yourself here and again his wife, in her wretchedness, 1 husband and wife ; and it wa.e only a year seen Air. Lee for some tio1e ; he 11a.d avoidagain.' went to the village groceries, and with all after their marriage that lhe young wife, ed the instruction-roou1-a cuurse of conWith a loud guffaw, the fellow went the elo(1ueuce of a despairing and heartone day, after a passionate outbreak and duct for which I had been thankful. l do·~vn stairs three steps at a time, the doctor broken mother, implore them not to sell her mo~t unhnppy scene with her husband, left bad beard uotbiag of bis intention of going calling after bim, '.How dltre you trifle with husband liquor. She would show them his home and retu1ned to that of her par· to Enroµe, and ftilt su re it runst be a new an officer in this way, sir 1' her own wounds, she would lead her poor, ents. liere she V.'llB not only received with project, very suddenly thought of. And half.starved cbildreu to them, and tell them open arm" bo1t condoled and sympathized why 1 Had rny actions anything to do with A Few Things that I Particularly Ad- the awful stories of her woea. But all lt' r with to her great it1jury-a divorce pro· it 1 I felt sorely distressed before I had mire. entreaties were vnin. Sometitnes they posed, and ~u chau~e of reconciliation des- done thinking out the whole u1attt.!r ; and An elegantly-dressed and sweetly-per- would refuse to sell to liim. Bat then every troy·d. I nught have been more so had I not pas· fumed exquisite nt the opera, who wears on toper in the vfllage coulU get his pint and Such was the painful story, as I gatherer! sesseda resource always so dear to wornen the top of bis ambrosial curls a smashed ball-pint bottle filled, and at every door of the particulars-no rare one in the world, I and children-that of doing something. hat that you wou ld'ilot pick up in the street, the store, bold the.bottle to the mouth of am quite nware, and }:Ct sad enough as emNow the rest of this is going to be very merely because fashionable people do so rn this wretched sot. Drunkards, like mi.:;ery, bodyin~ the wreck of two Ii ves. Perhaps a brief. On my bed, that night, the desire to Europe. love company. Arnl a toper seems to be knowledge of the whole softened my pride ' do something.' born of the necessity, took An author, with his own productions in pleased to see his fellow-toper drunk. The toward !\fr. Lee a trifll, though it by no practical shape, and I saw my way to my his hat, which he considers particularly sale of ardent spirits w:as free in this village, means curt:d n1y wounded self-respect or revenge on Harry Lee. Dicken.' Christmas fine, and wllieh he insists upon reading to and of course there was no such thing as put me more at ease with myself. What stories were then in the height of their you when you have other matteN to attend keeping it from one who bad not mental rernore acquaintance might have followed is popularity ; I had been fascinated by to. ~ solution of his own to retiist the ten1ptation. A belle and an heiress, who encourages uncertain; perhape none whatever, under them, and to their intluence and that of the Misery is a elow acd cruel murderer. But the changed conil,)tiong ; nor hM·e I the ·pproacbing holy season perhaps my plans the addresses of a lover in moderate circumstances, merely for the gratitica.ti on of be gnawed with a vulture tooth at the heart cleareeit idea ho,.-my revenge would have were chiefly due. I hope my imaginary declining his proposals. oftbis mucL injurtd woman, till exhausted been accomplished, had I not heen favored blushes may be spared, when I say that to The leader of an orchestra who bi8'eti at nature sank and expired, Where that by new and unexpected circumstances. accomplish it I took occasion to throw my- the end of every two or three demisemiqua- wretched father now' is-whether in the It was in the month of December that self into Mr. Lee's way (of course by nppa- vers, in order to secure the attention of the grave, the almshouse or state prison-I musicians. one very cold and blustering morning n. rent accident), and that within a week I A young lady to whom you :cannot en- know not; whtre those children are, I know lady v.·as ushered into the instruction-room had won him back to the instruction-room trust a secret without having it shared with not : but they are scattered probably as by one of the salf',5men. She was a young and the renewal of our frienO.ly chatE', her confidentiallriend. A most determined muncher of peJ.nut.s melancholy ruins over a. te111peetuous world; and r err1arkably pretty womnn 1 as I diR- tJ.ough at such hours (late in the al~ernoou) on the snme sent with you in a crowded the daughters fondled in the embraces of a covercd at the fir'Rt glunce, and tlrc2sed very that there was uo chance uJ his nleeting his box at the theatre. faithful mother', Jov e, pe rchance in the beco1ni11gly in the prevailing n1odt:. The wife. That I never labored harder with A fellow in a crowded thoroughtare of warel.Jouse uf 1ni'!lr11y ; the sons, inheriting usual rema1ka tllat 1 ~ho was afrahl ebe any pupil tlmi with that wil!iug well·drei:sed persons, with u. paint-pot in their fatber"e appetite di~ co urag ed by his 1 \Von l<l be stu pul, · and n1y reassurance that hut nervou s little Indy, to c:nable her rapid- his digits. A young lady, in a thin pair of prune!!a d1sgrace, and lured by hrn example, growI had tnught pupil· from twelve to eighty ly to become not only proficient at the ma· shoes, cro~sing a muddy street one winter's ing up to be the inheritors of shame, crime in age and from Irish Norah to the !Ion, chine, but to aeem so. Tlien that I progress- day, and poverty ...-YVestern Teniporccnce Journal. I 1 It \Vas during a son1ewhat extended conver~ation, one da.y, some weeks after our first acquaintance, that tl1e thought flashed across my mind that he had aeen trouble and wae unhappy in connection with his affections. His opinions of the fec1ale se:x, I discovered by probing bim a little, were not very enthusiastic Ol" roae·colored. Sometimes, when speaking of marriage .u.nd its relations, I thought hia remarks rather cynical and bitter; aud once or twice he criticised son1e of my young and fashionable pupils very severely, seeming to have a very poor opinion of them as to their usefulness as probable wives and mothers. I naturally always defended my sex ; and once when I laughingly expressed my belief that if I ever should see the woman destined to be his wife, it would no <!oubt be one of those sa1na pre Lty , useless, f11shiou11ble J creatures against whom he railed so bitterly-a look of pain crossed his face , and set me thinking that I had touched a sore spot in his experience. \Ve became very good fri~n<ls, eventually; indeed, I atn afraid that should I corifess to the truth, we indulged a little in harmless flirtation. I know that I was ahrnys pleased to see hin1 ; and l am sure he often lingered beside n1e iu a manner savoring a little of devotion. Sttll this was only on the surface ; anJ I grew tnore and more certain from a melancholy that often possessed hin1, that there was son1e secret connected with his domestic life, of an unhappy character. · - 1 '