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Perhaps it’s carried into the mtstresa’s room.” I It was a winter’s aflernoon, cold and ibright, and the nursery window of Danesbury House looked out on an extensive and beami- ful prospect. Seated at it, occupied in re- pairing some fine lace, was a smart young woman of twenty, an uppermaid, sensible and sharp-looking, with quick, dark eyes, and a healthy culur. “Yim' must have touched it, or also it would have been here,” sharply retorted Mrs Glisson. “ I tell you I have not,” answered Jessy. “ Where did you put it when you had gsed it last 1 ” “ What have you done with the baby’s medicine?” she exclaimed to Jessy. “I have not done anytbmg with it,”‘was the reply. “ I have not topched it.” She flung off, not in the best bf temper,the child coughing in her arms. “H.833 you found it ?” inquired Jessy, Presently a fit of coughing took the baby. The nurse put him to sit up, and patted his back, but he coughed violently. He had had a bad cough 101' more than a week past, but it was getting better. Glisson rose and looked on the mantel piece for his cough mixture.â€" She could not see it. ' Clisson made no reply. She had closed her eyes, perhaps with a view to finish her own doze, and was.gently keeping the chair on the rock. The child, soothed to quiet, lay at“. Jessy paused in her work, turned her head sideways, and kept her eyes fixed for the full space of a_ minute on Mrs Glisson. “ The idea of )our trying to hush the child offto sleep again!” exclaimed Jessy. “ I’m sure he has slept lono' enoughâ€"all the time we were at dinner! ”b “ Mind your own business,” cried Glisson. Jessy was one who rather liked to have the last word. “He wants amusing, nurse; he doesn’t want more sleep: and I daresay he 18 hun- gI-y.,, CI [55011 rose, and stepping into the nig1t- nurser), hrmwht forth little William Danes- bury, a lovelv3 child of nine months old. His cheeks were flushed to a crimson damask, his pretty mouth was like a rosebud, and his eyes were large and dark and brillian.. She sat down “1th him on the low chair: he seemed somea hat fractious, as infants will be, on awaking from sleep, and Glisson laid him flat upon her knee and rocked the chair backwards and forwards. him?” Glis'son, the person she addressed, was a woman of middle age, active and slender, the valued nurse in the Danesbury family.â€" She was sitting in a low rocking-chair, right in from of the tire, nodding at intervals. She half Opened her eyes and turned them on Jes- sy, with a. somewhat dull or stupid expres- sion. “ Did you speak ? ” she asked. “ The baby, Glisson. Don’t you hear “ There’s the baby, Glisson,” she suddex - 1y exclaimed as a child’ 5 my was heard from the qdjoining room. [Miscellaneous Ii? 011115 72.31! The Bold Volunteers-d Patriotic Song for the Times. $500 PRIZE STORY. 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Proud Britmmia’s three crosses for ever! The St. Patrick, St. An-Tre w, St. George-â€" The St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. George! When dangcr’s alarm is near! Thus our dear country’s emblcm’s for ever Shall Victoriously wave o'er our foes! Let us bind and éntwizre them together, The Thistle, the Shamrock, and Rose-â€" The Shamrock, the Thistle, and Rose! DANESB EVERY HOUSE. DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, EDUCATION, AND tenICULTURE. Let w TUB MISTAKEâ€"*TIIE DINNER TABLE. (Amâ€"J‘ The Red, W'ltiteand Blue,”) DURHAM, C. W ., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1860 BY MRS. ELLEN WOOD. E-Q E533 $3- CHAPTER I. inguired J easy, As Jéssy went into the factory to do her master’s bidding, 31.16: was assailed on all lSid€§° Was the CNN dead? Could it be Nothing but emetic: could brave any coun- teracting effect upon so young 3 child, and those Mr Pratt tried ; but whether they would save him, could not yet be proved. Mr Danesbury, the first shock over, began to reflect that it might be better to send for his wife; who, whatever should be the issue, would be the more satisfied to be at home than awa . He determined to despatch Thomas 1 arding, one of his most esteemed foreman, who had been in the works many year-g. l “Jessy,” sand Mr Danesbury, to the éirOI, “ b 9k to the factor (nit ll ' - go ac - . _y r} 6 your uncle to prepare tor an 1mmed1ate Journey to London. After he 13 ready, he must come here to re: ceiye my instructmps.” _ _ . Mr Danesbury, with a word of apology to the gentlemen, hastened from the room. “ You should have sent for Mr ePratt, Jes- sy,” he next said. . . :‘ I have, sir; I did not lose time ; Ralph 18 gone for him.” . . It was a deplorable accident, and it hap- pened at an unusually unfavorable moment, for Mrs Danesbury was away from home.â€" She had left Eastborough with her two eldest children the previous day, to pay a visit to London. Eastborough was forthwith up in arms. To see one of the servants from Danesbury House come along, without his hat, at the pace of a steam-engine, dart into Mr Pratt’s, and to see the two,for happily the surgeon was at home, go steaming back again, caused unheard-of consternation. People came out of their houses to wonder; and ask each other what had occurred, and the news soon spread to them from the works; for there Jessy’s er- rand had been learut by the operatives ; little William Dauesbury had been poisoned. She missed his cough mixture, sir, and she found it, as she thought, in my mistress’ s closet, and she gave- h1m a teaspoonful. It was not the mixture, but the laudanum.” To the right, at a distance of nearly a quar- ter of a mile, rose the large and extensive buildings, known by the name of Danesbury “forks. Jessy gained the spotfiew through the outer grounds, the passages, and into the pri- vate room of her master. Mr Danesbury, a tall man of commanding presence, with no- bly intelligent features and earnest blue eyes, now some years past thirty, was stand- ing by his fire, engaged with two gentlemen. To see one of the handmaids burst upon them in that tremendous fashion astonished him considerably: he thought her wild, as Ralph had done. “ Oh, sir,” she panted, “there has been a sad accident at home. Mrs Glisson has made a mistake, and given the baby the wrong medicine.” “Wrong medicine!” uttered Mr Danes- burv. ture. Ralph, after a prolonged stare of bewilder- ment, started off, clown the steps. Jessy folâ€" lowed him, and was running in a ditTerent direction, when a thought struck her, and she called again to the man. “ TeHVhim what it is, Ralph; it may save time. The baby has had a dose of laudanum given him, in mistake for his cough-mix- tnrn ” I 'I here was not a mom‘ettt'to be lost. She left the woman to her own reflectrons, to the two bottles, and the child, and tore down the stai‘fir‘23i the hall she encountered a man- servant, and Jessy laid hold of himhand drag get] him towards the from door. The man thought she was wild. “The baby’s} dying, Ralph. Fly for Mr Pratt: don"t let him lose an instant.” “ Yau are not yourself, and you know it : you are not In a stale clearly to distingmsh one botzle from another.” “ Oh, nurse What have you done ?” she utâ€" tered. “ Here’s the baby’s medicine behind Miss Isabel’s d'oll’s house! What have you given to him?” The nurse looked confounded, and turned her gaze from the bottle in Jessy’s hand to the bottle in her own. They were precisely similar in shape and size, small round bottles, each about half full, with what, to appear- ance, might be taken for the same mixture. Jessy snatched the strange bottle from her, nncmked it and smelt it. She turned deadly , _, I Mrs Glisson poured out a teaspoonful of the mixture, and gave it to the child. Jessy, meanwhile, was thinking how very improb- able it was that any servantfieven Sarah, the careless and frolicsome under~housemaid, should presume to meddle with anything be- longing to the nurse and baby. All in a mo- mentâ€"shecould not tell how or why a doubt flashed over her. Could Mrs Glisson have overlooked the bottle? Letting her work fall, she started up, and with one bound cleared the space between the window and the mantel-piece. Sure enough,there was the missing bottle, pushed out of sight behind a child’s toy. pale. “ Found it ? of course I have,” replied the nurse. “There shall be a stir about this; how dare anybody come and carry off my nursery things ? It was in Mrs Danesbury’s eloset, put among the spirits of camphor, and the magnesia, and the other bottles. They thought to play me a trick, I suppose, for they have been clearing the directronofl': may bis-"gey’ll get one played to them, in a way they won’t like, before thejay’s out;- It’s that impudent Sarah ! She said, at din- ner, she’d be up to pranks, now mistress was away.” when she returned. E a You don’t know 'what’s good for them, I lsee,” interposed Mr. Serle. But the subject Idropped. T To be resumed, however, at desert. In :pouring out the port nine, Mr. Serle filled four glasses three parts full, and passed them to the children. “ Oh! [beg your pardon for not speaking sooner,” interposed Mrs. Danesbury; “I did not observe. Arthur and Isabel do not take 0 '15” - . “No; rake wine! and not take beer!” ut- tered .Mr. Serle;_ “ why, do you intend to make little hennlts of them? I can assure you, these children, when they are indulged 'by dining with us, and on Sundays, look for their glass of Wine, filled ‘ up to the pretty}: , as eagerly as we look for ours. stout. “ Your children are not going to fink wa~ ter ?” exclaimed Mr. Serle, when she saw the water piaced for them. “This cannot hurt them, Mrs. Danesbury; it is only porter, not n‘nnt ’7 “Thank you,” replied Mrs. Danesbuty “ t‘hgyneyer.ta_ke anyghing but water.” ’ There was no water on the side-hoard; it was a beverage not frequently called for at Mr. Serle’r, and one of the servants had to go down stairs for some. Matthew and Char- lotte Serle had each their small silver mug of porter. - “ 0h. water for me, if you please,” said the child. “ ‘Watcr, sir?” “ Yes," replied Arthur, “ and for my sister also: “7e always drink water.” Mr. St. George could scarcely take his eyes from the boy, who was still bending for- ward, so remarkably intelligent did he think his countenance. Fair, with a broad, White, intellectual forehead, his features gave prom- ise of the same high order of beauty that dis- tinguished his father’s, and he possessed the same large, clear, earnest blue eyes. He was in his eighth year, his sister two years younger. Aservant placed a glass of porter by his side, and _recalled him to his dinner. .“ But, sir,” suddenly cried Arthur Danes- bury, leaning forward that he might see Mr. St. George, “ you have not told me about the tower, Do you often go to it?” . “ Well; no, I don’t,” smiled Mr. St. George. “But I will take you.” Mrs. Danesbury laughed. “ Arthur has a" book at home, describing the glories and wonders of the tower in days gone by,” she said; “lions, giants, dwarfs, soldiers in ar- mour, and scaffolds. He cannot s'eperate those marvels from the present tower, by any process of reasoning whatever: so I fear dis: appointment will be in store for him Wherrhe. shall visit it.” v‘ w---“ ’.c .l' .Ad . o ""' 1"“ f it. They would have guessed his errand,had : its object not transpired. » . Mr. Danshury had turned" into the house again, but Jessy stood and watched the chaise down the hlll ; through the town she lost sight of it, but specdly saw it again, ascending the opposite hill, for Eastborough, a. very small town, deserving little more than the name of village, was situated in a valley. Jessy was the daughter of a farmer who had a large fa mily. She had received a good plain educa- tion, was well-mannered and well-conducted, and her friends had not thought it beneath them to accept a place for her as maid at Mrs Danesbury’s, to wait upon and walk out with the two eldestfchildren; Jessyehad, at first, somewhat rebelled at it, not having thought she should be “sent out to service.” Thomas Harding’s wife was her father’s sister. W'h‘ilst that chaise was nearing the end of its forty mile journey, a merry party had as- sembled around a well-lighted dinner table m a handsome house in Bedford Row, the metropolitan locality where so many men of law congregate. Mr. and Mrs. Serle were its owners, and sat at either end. By the side of the former, who was an eminent solicitor, sat Mrs. Danesbuxy, an elegant woman of thirty years, with beautifully refined features and dark eyes, thoughtful and expressive.-- Opposite to her in a drab silk gown, sat Miss St. George, who was sister of Mrs. Serle, and lived there because she had no other home. Next to Mrs. Serle was a young man, Wal- ter St. George; he was in Mr. Serle’s office, and had been invited to dinner to meet Mrs. Danesbury; and the middle of the table was occupied by four children, two little Serle’s and Arthur and Isabel Danesbury. Mrs. Danesbnry was first cousin to lValter St. George, and both of them were more dis- tantly related to Mrs. Serle and her sister.-â€"- The children’s dining at this late hour was unusual : but they had been out with the la- . dies, sightâ€"seeing, and had lost their own dinner in the middle of the day. Of course they enjoyed amazingly the dining by candle- If 1. A ligfit: - -â€" â€"â€"Jv-' ing in 'excitément, who flooked 6 ‘their doors and wmdows to gaze after itas it rolled ast, and at Thomas Hardmg seated bolt uprig t in :‘_ 'FLA“. ‘__A ‘ ‘ ‘ brought round? How did it happen? But she would not answer one inquiry, until she had delivered the message to Mr Harding, and when she did explain, it was very brief. Amistake of ghe nurse’s in taking up the wrong bottle, she said, and Mr Pratt could give no opinion yet. one way or the other. In those days, railroads were not common, and the quickest way of general travelling was by posting. A chaise was ordered from the Ram, and was soon at Danesburv House. Mr. Harding equipped for the journey, was already there, had taken his orders from his master, and was now standing on the steps outside, talking With Jessy in an under tone. As the chaise rattled up, and turned round, he got inside. and just at that. moment Mr Daneshnry came out again. “Miml,'Harding, hoiir you break it to Mrs. Danesbury. Be as cautious as possible. Mr Pratt does think there may be a little hope, tell her.” “I’ll do it in the best way that ever Ican, sir,” he answered, the tears risingto his eyes with earnestness of feeling. Th9 chase drove baaâ€"1653 swift pace,down ghe hl” and through the small town; to the gntep-se delight offh‘e‘inhjtbitaqts, eye; rejoic- .”~ -4 _- PRICE, $1 50, IN ADVANCE. [WHOLE NUMBER, 90. The words seemed to electrify Mrs. Danesv bu’r y,and she turned pale as death, as she started from her seat. “What can be the matter- ’2’? she uttered.“ Something must be amiss With my husband or my child I” She quitted the room, and hurried to the one where Thomas Haru’ing had been shown. “ He asked {0; Mrsflhnesbury. He has a plaid shawl round his neck, madam, and a white top coat on He and he came from Eastborough, and his name was Hardingâ€" Thomas Harding.” _ “ A gentleman !” repeated M rs. Dancsbxry in surprise, who had no friends in London. and thought the man must be mistaken.â€"-.- “ For me! Are you safe ’3” “ Madam,” interrupted a servant, entering the room and addressing Mrs. Danesbury, “there’s a gentleman below, asking to see.- you.’_’ o O In. ‘-- is O “I do not know that,” she answered: .“I trust to be able to implant 1n him other' wholesome training, besides that of drinking} water; I mean, touching his own resmnrsi': bility of action. But, whether he shall con- fine himself to water or not, I sheil‘l'have the comioiting consciousness gt knowledge that I have done my duty by him, in‘briuging him up to like it. When Matthew and Arthur, your boy and mine, shall stand side by side in after years, the one loving water the other deSpising it, the one regardless of stimulants, the other craving for them, what will have made the ‘diflerence, but the opposite mode in which they were reared ? You do what yon can to eradicate the natural liking for wa: ter implanted in the child, Ido allI can to foster it. Believe me, Mr. Serle, we should all do well to bring up our children to drink water.” “But, Mrs. Danesbory, if you keep your childrenâ€"let us say the boy-40 water, so long as you have control over lum, you can-' not expect that he will con fine himself towa- ter, when he becomes a man.” “ They are mine. I believe my husband thinks with me, but his hands and head are so‘full of‘ business that he gives but little heed to what he would call domestic points. He has entire confidence in my management.” “ W’ell; it is hard upon the children.” “Hard upon the children ! how can you take up so mistaken an idea? It IS quite the contrary. Had I said to my children at din-Z her, just now, take which you like best, beer or water, they would have chosen the water. YVater, I say, assimilates itself naturally with 'E’child’s palate : beer does not. Give a glass of beer to my children, who have never had any, and they would find it salt, bitter; dis- agreeable as a dose of medicine.” There {was a pause. It was Mr. Serle who broke 1t. “ Are these your own sentiments chiefly, Mrs. Danesbugy! 0}“ your husband’s.” â€"“That is chiefly it: they must giow up fond of one or of the other. My objection to children’s taking beer or wine Would be less strong, could I make sure that they would al- ways partake of them in strict moderation :. but who can answer for the future ? Ithiuk,” continued Mrs. Danesbury, smiling upon them pleasantly, but with deprecation, " though you must not take offence at my saying it, that when parents do not oblige their children to drink water as their com-' mon beverage, they are guilty of a’positive sin.” “ Oh 1 Mrs. Danesbury! ” , “ A sin against the child: and perhaps,” she added, in a lower tone, “against God, who has sent him into the world to be trained to morality and goodness.” ' ‘3 Just so,” returned Mrs. Danesbury; “you debar your children from tasting water, and in a tow years’ time the)r will have lost their relish for itâ€"if they have? not done so already. You impart to them a taste (a forced, acquired taste, mind!) for stronger beverage, and indulge the taste until they learn to love it; naturally, after that, water appears insipid. Once let a child lose his liking for water, through disuse, through ac-i customing him to drink an artificial beverage; and you rarely find him regain it in afterlife. Many grown persons will say, f I cannot hear water; I could not drink it '. ’ ” “ I éould not,” interrupted Mr. St. George. “ I never did drink it, and I am sure I could nog ‘pegig now?” Mrs. Danesbury smiled; for she saw they all could have joined in his words, and it i1- lustrated her theory. “Just so, Walter,” she remarked: “you were not allowed to drink water when your tastes, for good or for ill, were being: formed. As our tastes are trained in childhood, so will our after likings ho a: “ Yes,” said Mrs. Danesbury, “their iastc. We should be very cautious what taste we impart to, or cultivate in a child. A child cannot dislike Water naturally; it is its ha -‘ ural beverage, as. rely upon. it, it was intend- ed to be the natural beverageof man. A child should never be allowed to drink any- thing else (except at those seasons, tea andé breakfast, when milk is substituted); whe; ther at dinner, or when thirsty, let it have its- appointed drink-water. Confiiie a child’s? drink to water, and he will obey the law of nature, and grow up, loving the water. I believe that it is of the utmost importance that he should he allowed to do so.” “ I don’t see why.” “ As soon as a child can sit down to tahlo‘ and eat dinner, how many parents give the child beer to drink with it! ' Take your own‘ children, for‘example , have you accustomed them to drink water?” ' “ No,” was Mrs. Serle’s reply; ‘.‘ but their; London wa‘er is such wretched stuff. Since the children could sit at table they have al- ways had a little sup of_beer.” “Then, it is not that you think so ill of beer and mne, as that you wish yours to grow up fond of water,” observed ‘Mr’i Serlcr “Thfl" ;Q 0h;antf I" 0 1kn1? W‘v'lh“ N‘ni- .sn be. “But you cannot possibiy think ihat thé small poxtion of beer and wine which our . . % chxldren have gust taken, can have done them any hgrm?” "‘ Whether it has done them harm, I can; not say; but I W111 say that water would have done them more good, even for their health’s3 :9va v V _ --~â€"â€" sake.” “ Even for their health’s sake!” repeated Mrs. Serle. “ I scarcely follow you. There Is nothing else that could be benefited by it.” “ ‘rnfi 3’ afizl‘ hflro nnlxno1xusuno “.l\r\:_ ¢n_4_ “ How cad you force those nicedc‘hildren of your: to drink water?” began Mrs. Sorle,~ turning to her guest. “ Do you do it uro’rr principle ? as people say.” _ . . . “I do it because I believe it to be good for them,” was Mrs. Danesbury’s answer. â€"â€"-vâ€" v v.- Her manner and tone, though fierfectly courteous and lady-like; were unmistakably decrsive, and no more was said. The little Serles drank their wine, and when the chih- dren had eaten some pears and oranges, they were all despatched to the nursery to play. .L‘U, g. lllUDL JUPUEU. [Hat 1 prelel should not,” returned Mrs. Danesbury. fr-“ “ All moonshine!” laughted Mr. Serie, “ Drink it _up, children. ” ing‘ children in that way,” cried Miss St.‘ Gepr‘get “ ii is no punishment,” was Mrs. Danes- !mrfs reply. “They are not accustomed to H, and therefore do not wish for it.” (( must repeat that I prefer they 3’ rainy-marl TNT..- nnnA-L.-_--