eee ted -- $2.00 per Annum VOL. 2, No. 6.] "All extremes are error, the opposite of error is noitruth but error; truth lies belween the extremes." STRATFORD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1864, in advance. [WHOLE No. 33 Select Poetry. PP LDDDPDAS Tell not thy Sorrows. Oh, tell not to the busy world Thy sorrows and thy care; They have no tears to shed for thee, No sympathy to spare. Bréathe not thy trofibles to the stars That shine sa far above ; They will not stoop to pity thee, Nor whisper words of love. Nor think thou this pale, cold moon Will hear thy notes of woe, For the grand music of the spheres Would drown thy wail below. Complain not to the raving winds, They will not hear nor stay To breathe one word of sympathy Or kiss the tears away, But make a grave within thy breast, Bury thy sorrows there ; And hide them from the world's cold gaze, Nor breathe them save in prayer. And move among the busy throng As though thou hadst no care. For they've no tears to shed for thee, No sympathy to spare. Sing, though the harp within be mute ; Smile, though the heart weep blood ; Let thine beam bright as though its gaze Had fall'n on naught but good. THERE IS NO HURRY! A TALE OF LIFE-ASSURANCE. REE BY MRS. 8s. C. HALL. From Chamber's Ido not tell! you whether the village of Repton, where the two brothers John and Charles Adams originally resided, is near or far from London: it is a pretty village to Journal. A young, unmarried, handsome physician, with about three thousand pounds in his pocket, and " good expectations," might be excused for building "des chateaux en Espagne." A very wise old lady once said to me, " Those who haye none on earth, may be forgiven for building them in the air ; but those who have them on earth should be content therewith." Not so, how- ever, was John Adams ; he built and built, and then by degrees descended to the realities of his position. What power would not that three thousand pounds give him! He wondered if Dr. Lee would turn his back upon him now, when they met in consultation; and Mr. Chubb, the county apothecary, would he langh, and ask him ifhe could read his own prescriptions ? Then he recurred toa dream-- for it was so vague at the time as to be little more-- whether it would not be better to abandon altogether country practce, and establish himself in the metropolis--London. A thousand pounds, advantageously spent, with a few introductions, would doa great deal in London, and that was nota third of what he had. And this great idea ban- ished all remembrance of the past, all sense of the present--the young aspirant thought only of the future. * * * Five years have passed. Dr. John Adams was " settled" ina small " showy" house in the vicinity of Mayfair ; he had, the world said, made an excellent match. He mar- ried a very pretty girl, " highly connected," and was considered to be possessed of 'per- sonal property, because, for so young a physician, Dr. Adams lived in " a superior style.' His brother Charles was still re- siding in the old farm-house, to which, be- yond the mere keeping it in repair, he had done but little, except, indeed, adding a wife to his establishment--a very gentle, loving, yet industrious girl, whose dower was too small to have been her only attrac: tion. Thus both brothers might be said to + * this day; and when John Adams, some} fairly launched in life. five-and-thirty years ago, stood on the top of Repton Hill, and looked down upon the houses--the little church, whose simple gate was flanked by two noble yew-trees, beneath whose branches he had often sat--the mur- muring river, in which he had often fished --the cherry orchards, where the ripe fruit hung like balls of coral: when he looked down upon all these dear domestic sights-- for so every native of Repton considered them---John Adams might have been sup- posed to question if he had acted wisely in selling to his brother Charles the share of the well-cultivated farm, which had been equally divided at their father's death. It extended to the left of the spot on which he was standing, almost within a ring fence; the meadows fresh shorn of their produce, and fragrant with the perfume of new hay ; the crops full of promise ; and the lazy cat- tle laving themselves in the standing pond of the abundant farmyard. In a paddock, set apart for his especial use, was the old blind horse his father had bestrode during the last fifteen years of his life: it leant its sightless head upon the gate, half upturned, he fancied, towards where he stood. It is wonderful what small things will sometimes stir up the hearts of strong men, ay, and what is still more difficult, éven of ambitious men. Yet he did not feel at that moment a regret for the fair acres he had parted with ; he was full of the importance which the possession of a considerable sum of money gives a young man, who has been fagging almost unsuccessfully in an arduous 'geleonca: and one which requires a certain appearance of success to command success-- for John Adams even then placed M. -D. after his plain name ; yet still, despite the absence of sorrow, and the consciousness of increased -power, he continued to look at poor old Ball until his eyes swam in tears. With the presence of his father, which the sight of the old horse had cunjured up, eame the remembrance of his peculiarities, his habits, his expression ; and he wondered, as they passed in review before him, how he could ever have thought the dear old man testy or tedious. Even his frequent quota- tions from " Poor Richard" appeared to him, for the first time the results of common prudence; and his rude but wise. rhime, when, in the joy of his heart, he told his father he had absolutely received five guineas as one fee from an ancient dame who had three middle-aged daughters (he had not, however, acquainted his father with that fact,) came more forcibly to his memory than it had ever done to his ear-- '. For want and age saye while you may ; No morning sun shines all the day." He repeated the last linc over and over again, as his father had done; but as his "morning sun' was at that moment shin- ing, it is 'not matter of astonishment that the remembrance was evanescent, and that it did not make the impression upon him his father had desired long before. It might be imagined that Charles Adams--having determined to reside in his native village, and remain, what his father and grandfather had been, a simple gentleman farmer, and that rather on a small thana large scale--was altogether without that feeling af ambition which stimulates exertion and elevates the mind. Charles Adams had quite enough of this-- which may be said, like fire, to be " a good servant, buta bad master"--but he made it subservient to éhe dictates of prudence-- anda forethought, the gift, perhaps, that above all others we would most earnestly covet for those whose prosperity we would secure. 'o save his brother's portion of the freehold from going into the hands of strangers, he incurred a debt'; and wisely-- while he gave to his land all that was ne- cessary tomake it yield its increase--he abridged all other expenses, and was ably seconded in this by his wife, who resolved, until principal and interest were discharged, to live quietly and carefully. Charles con- tended that every appearance made beyond a man's means was an attempted fraud upon the public ; while John shook his head, and answered that it might dovery well for Charles to say so, as noone expected the sack that brought the grain to market to be of fine Holland, but that no man in a pro- fession could get on in London without making " an appearance." At this Charles shrugged his shoulders, and thanked God he lived at Repton, ' The brothers, as years moved rapidly on --engaged as they were by their mutual in- dustry and success in their several fields of action--met but seldom. It was impossible to say which of the two continued the most prosperous. Dr. Adams made seyeral lucky hits; and haying so obtained a position, was fortunate in haying an abundance of patients in an intermediate sort of state-- that is, neither very well nor very ill. Ofa really bland and courteous nature, he was kind and attentive to all, and it was certain that such of his patients as were only, in moderate circumstances, got well long be- fore those who were rich. His friends at- tributed this to his humanity as much as to his skill; his enemies said he did not like 'poor patients.' Perhaps there was a mingling of truth in both statements. The money he had received for his portion of the land was spent, certainly before his receipts equalled his expenditure; and, strangely enough, by the time the farmer had paid off his debt, the doctor was in- volved, not to a large amount, but enough to render his 'appearance' to a certain de- gree fictitious. This embarrassment, to do him justice, was not of long continuance; he became the fashion; and before pros- perity had turned his head by an influx of wealth, so as to render him careless, he got rid of his debt, and then his wife agreed with him 'that they might live as they pleased.' It so happened that Charles Adams was present when this observation was made, and it spoke well for both the brothers that their different positions in society had not in the smallest degree cooled their boyhood's affection ; not even the money transactions of former times, which so frequently create disunion, had changed them ; they met less frequently, but they always met with 'pleasure, and separated with regret. 'Well!' exclaimed the doctor triumph- antly, as he glanced around his splendid rooms, and threw himself into a chatse longue--then a new luxury-- well, it is certainly a charming feeling to be entirely out of dept.' And yet,' said his wife, 'it would not be wise to confess it in our eircle.' 'Why ?' inquired Charles, , ' Because it would prove that we had been in it,' answered the lady. ' At all events,' said John, 'now I shall not have to reproach myself with every extra expense, and think I ought to pay my debts first; now I may live exactly as I please.' ' 'T do not think so,' said Charles. 'Not think so!' exclaimed John. I not make the money myself?' 'Grented, my dear fellow; to be sure you do,' said Charles. 'Then why should I not spend it as pleases me best ? Is there any reason why I should not?' As if to give the strongest dramatic effect to Charle's opinion, the nurse at that mo- ment opened the drawing-room door, and four little laughing children rushed into the room. ' There--are four reasons against your spending your income exactly as you please ; unless, indeed, part of your plan be to pro- vide for them,' answered Charles very seri- ously. ~ 'T am sure,' observed Mrs. Adams with the half-offended air of a weak woman, when she hears the truth, 'John need not be told his duty to his children; he has always been a most affectionate father.' 'A father may be fond and foolish,' said Charles, who was peculiarly English in his mode of giving an opinion.' For my part, T conld not kios my little Mary and Anne when I go to bed at night, if I did not feel Thad already formed an accumulating fund for their future support--a support they will need all the more when their parents are taken from them, as they must be in the course of time.' 'They must marry,' said Mrs. Adams. 'That is a-chance,' replied Charles; ' women hang on hands now-a-days. At all events, by God's blessing, I am resolved that, if they are beauties, they shall never be forced by poverty to accept unworthy matches ; if they are plain, they shall have enough to live upon without husbands.' © ' That is easy enough for you, Charles,' said the doctor, ' who have had your broad acres to support you, and no necessity for expenditure or show of any kind; who might go from Monday morning till Satur- day night in home-spun, and never give any- thing beyond home-brewed and gooseberry wine, witha chance bottle of port to your visitors ; while I--Heaven help me--was obliged to dash in a well-appointed equipage entertain, and appear to be doing a great deal in my profession, when a guinea would pine in solitude for a week together in my pocket,' i 'I do not want-to talk with you of the past, John,' said Charles ; ' our ideas are more likely to agree now than they were ten or twelye years ago; I will speak of the future and present. You are now out of debt, in the very prime of life, and in the receipt of a splendid income ; but do not, let me intreat you, spend it as it comes ; lay by something for those children ; pro- vide for them either by insurance, or some of the many means that are open to us all. Do not, my dear brother, be betrayed by health, or the temptation for display, to live up toan income the nature of which is so essentially precarious.' ' Really,' murmured Mrs, Adams, ' you put one into low spirits.' Charles remained silent, waiting his brother's reply. ' My dear Charles,' he said at last, ' there isa great deal of truth in what you say-- certainly a grea deal ; but Icannot change my @tyle of living, strage as it may seem. If I did, I should lose my practice. And then I must educate my children ; that is an imperative duty, is it not?' ' Certainly itis; it is a part of the pro- vision I have spoken of, but not the whole-- a portion only. Ifyou have the means to do both, itis your duty to do both; and you haye the means. Nay, my dear sister, do not seem angry or annoyed with me ; it is for the sake of your children I speak ; it is to prevent their ever knowing practically what we know theoretically--that the world 'Do who need itsaid. It. is to prevent the possibility of their feeling a reverse." Mrs. Adams burst into tears, and walked out of the room. Charles was convinsed that she would not uphold his opinion. ' Certainly,' said John, 'I intend to pro- vide for my ehildren ; but there is no hurry, and : 'There should be uo hesitation in . the case,' interrupted Charles ; ' every man intends to provide for his children. God forbid that I should imagine any man to be sufficiently wicked to say, 'I have been the means of bringing this child into existence --lI have brought it up in the indulgence of all the luxuries with which I indulged my- self and now I intend to withdraw them all from it, and leave it to fight its own way through the world.' No man could look on the face of the innocent child nestling in your bosom and say that ; but if you do not appropriate a portion of the means you possess to save that child from the' here- after,' you act as if you had resolved so to cast it on the wild waters ofa turbulent world.' ' But, Charles, I intend to doall that you counsel; no wonder poor Lucy could not bear these words, when I, your own and only brother, find them stern and re- proachful ; no wonder that such should be the case ; of course I intend to provide for my children.' ' Then do it said Charles. 'Why, so I will ; but cannot in a moment. T have already said there is no hurry. You must give a little time.' 'The time may come, my dear John, when time will give you no time. You have been spending over and above your debt--more than,as the father of four children, you have any right to spend. The duty parents owe their chileren in this respect has prayed more strongly on our minds than usual, as I have been called on lately to witness its effects--to see its misery. One family at Repton, a family of eight children, has been left entirely with- out provision, bya man who enjoyed a situation of five hundred a-year 'in quarterly payments.' ' ' That man ig, however. guiltless. What could he save out of five hundred a-year * How could he live on less ?' replied the doctor, : 'Live upon four, and insure his life for the benefit of those children, Nay,' con- tinued Charles in the vehemence of his feelings, ' the man who does not provide means of existence for his helpless chidren, until they are able to providéfor themselves, cannot be called a reasonable person ; and the legislature ought to oblige such to con- tribute to afund to prevent the spread of the worst sort of pauperism--that which comes upon well-born children from the carelessness or selfishness of their parents. God in his wisdom, and certainly in his mercy, removed the poor broken-hearted widow of the person | alluded to a month after his death; and the infant, whose nourishment from its birth had _ been mingled with bitterness, followed in a few days. Isaw myself seven children crowd round the coffin that was provided by charity I saw three. taken to the workhouse, and the elder four distributed amongst kind- hearted hard-working people, who are try- ing to insure the young soft hands, accus- tomed to silken idleness, to the toils of homely industry. I ask you, John Adams, how the husband of that woman, the father of those children, can meet his God, when itis required ofhim to give an account of his stewardship ?" es 'It is very true--very shocking indeed, observed. Dr. Adams. 'I certainly will do something to secure my wife and children from the possibility of anything like that, although, whatever were to happen me, Tam sure Lucy's family would prevent-----" Charles broke in upon the sentence his brother found it difficult to complete--' And can you expect distant or even near rela- tives to perform what you, whose duty itis, neglect? Or would you leave those dear ones to the bitterness of dependence, when, by the sacrifice or curtailment of those luxurious habits which, if not closely watched, increase in number, and at last become necessaries, you could 'leave them in comfort and independence? We all hope for the leisure of a deathbed--awful enough, come as it may--awful, even when beyond itsgloom we see therisen Sun of Righteousness in all his glory--awful, though our faith be strong in Him who is our strength ; but if the consciousness of having neglected those duties which we were sent on earth to perform be with us then, dark, indeed, will be the valley of the Shadow of Death. Ido not want, however, to read a homily, my dear brother, but to im- press a truth ; and Ido hope that you will vent the possibility of these dear children focling what they must feel, enduring what they must endure, if you passed into another is a hard world ; hard and unfeeling to those ® world without performing your duty towards them, and through them to society, in this.' Mrs. Adams wet her brother-in-law that day (people five-and-twenty years ago did dine by day) at dinner withan air of offence: She was, of course, lady-like and quiet, but it was evident she was displeased. Every- thing at table was perfect, according to its kind. There was no guest present who Was not superior in wealth and position to the doctor himself, and each was quite aware of the fact. Those who climb boldly, sometimes take a false step, but at all times make dangerous ones. When. Charles looked round upon the splendid plate and stylish servants--when the children was ushered in after dinner, and every tongue was loud in praises of their beauty--an_in- voluntary shudder passed through _ his heart, and he almost accused himself af self- fishness when he was comforted by the re- membrance of the provision made for bis own little ones, who were as pretty, as well educated, and as happy in their cheerful country home. (To be continued.) Deatu.--We regret extremely to learn by the Prototype that Brigade Major W. Light, of the 8th military district, died at London, on Sunday last of a severe cold, contracted in the discharge of his official duties, in the 40th year of his age. Wuo 1s N. H. Downs ?--He is, or, rather, was a public benefactor, a philan- thropist. Heis now dead, but he has left behind hima monument more lasting than brassor marble. His memory is enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people, and 'his Balsamic Elixir is or ought to be a house- hold treasure in every family. Itis a cer- tain cure for coughs and colds. See ad- vertisement in another column, John F, Henry & Co. Proprietors, 303 St. Paul St. Montreal, C. EH. StvevLarty Svuspicious.--Six weeks ago last Saturday, the barn and' shed with some stock, belonging to Mr. Joseph Churchill, Lot 11, 6th,con. of Morris, were burned. Two weeks after, the barn ef. Mr, James Churchill, Lot 19, 4th con. of the same township, was consumed by fire together with this yédr s crop sworeu tincterr: Last Saturday, the barn of Mr, J. Churchill, deputy Reeve of Goderich township was also destroyed by the same means. Cer- tainly stronger evidence of design than of accident, and fully justifying suspicions of incendiarism. We have since learned that a reward of $50 has been offered for the discovery of the guilty parties--Goderich Colonists TIME WILL TELL.--Yes, that is the sure test. That whick does not appear plain to- day, may be thoroughly cleared up in a short time. Our certainties or uncertainties are all to be decided by time, which: never fails to bring out' the truth or falsity of any matter. For five years the Vermont Lini- ment has been before the public and their verdict has always been steadily in its favor. Use it for pains both internally and exter- nally. It is warranted. John F. Henry & Co. Proprietors, 303 St. Paul St. Mon- treal C. H. Deratu or A VETERAN Horse.--A grey horse belonging to Mr. Andrew Austin, of this town, famous in his day for his trot- ting powers, dropped down dead in harness on Main street, almost opposite this office, last Saturday. '" Old Shackleback," as he was called, had been sold more than once for $2,000, and had run frequently on the - Ogdensburg, Long Island; and other well- known race-courses. He was nearly 30 years of age, and to his last days retained a good share of his former vigour and fleet- ness. Indeed, until very recently, few horses could keep abreast of him for a short distance.--Gult Reformer. Voyace Rounp tHe Wortp.--The © Austrian screw steamer Marco Polo will leave Trieste on the 5th of March next, "on avoyage round the world." It has been calculated that a period of eight months will be amply sufficient for the pur- pose of the yoyage, in the course of which thirty different seaports will be visited, or five more than called at in the famous" Novaro expedition. About two hundred days will necessarily be spent on sea, while there will be fifty days to be availed ofon land for visiting and inspection of the | ak points of great interest in different parts o the globe. The shareholders will consist of from fifty to sixty oe and the contri- bution of each is fixed at five thousand florins equal to £400, which will cover all expenses during the yoyage, including cent lodging on shore, The expedition, whicl is being formed under the auspices and superintendence of the Austrian Govern ment, will be provided with influential letters of recommendation to the various Consulates in different parts of the world.