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It was in her troubled face that he had looked a few minutes befdfe. He 'Yes. I spoke to him as he was leav- ing the house. He was in company with THE FARMER'S GOLDEN WEDDING. "Tis fifty years ago, dear wife, just ity years to day, Since we hitched up together to tread life's weary way, The recollections of that time are with me yet you see, When you said " no" to otherlads and answered, "yes" to me. What troubles have we waded through, what pleasures have we seen, Since I was one and twenty wife, and you were sweet eighteen i The winter hills ate white without, our heads are like the snow; And not sorosy sreour cheeks as they were years ago. What though tio guests are here to-night togrest us now we're old? made of gold? We've got the water from the spring that has not ceased to flcw, ! Like the old love that made us one just fifty years ago. The spring is "bout the only thing that looks as It did then. For time writes many changes on farms as well as men; But then, there is this difference--I know and do not guess-- Time makes a wel-worked farm worth more--a well-worked farmer less. Where are the woods that stood between your father's farm and our's, Where oft we wandered in our youth to gather wild wood flowers? There's only here and there a tree, loft towering to the sky, And they are scarred by lightning strokes, and scarred are you aud I. s And where are our with us so, Around the district school-house, just fifty years agot? Their names are written on the stones that head the mounds of earth, And none are left to chat with us around our cheerful hearth, Through all the years of joys and tears, how kind the Lord has been, How helpful when we've been astray, forgiving every sin! Now we are looking forward to the city made of who frolicked "gold, And though the years of youth are fled, we feel we are not old. For has. not iChrist, in his dear book, to every mortal said That he that will believe in him shall live th h bk * You astound me more and more. Whe p Ls What (Nodgh we sip ae ruby wise from gobi | 1 rouble will be with them, not you.' an elegantly-d d young lady, who had also been visiting this saloon. . Her color was too high, and her eyes too moist and bright. She had been taking more cham- pagne was good for her. I know her father mother very well. It made me feel sotry.' did not find it easy to draw her into con- versation. She replied te his k briefly, and in am sbsent kind of way. Every few moments he sew her eyes wander to another part of the room, as if in search of somebody. The plate of re- freshments she had in her hand was scarcely; touched. was she'd : ' Will you have a glass of wine ' asked Mr. Adbustis shook his Lead, ' I84 Mz: Albustis, : would not be right for me to mention}. 'No, Ithank you. No,' she replied, : with au ipstinet of rejection in her manner, and a change of countenance that indicated some unbappy sssociations in her mind. ¢ Where is that saloon I' I would rather not ssy. I might get myself into trouble.' ' 'If they are selling liquor without a the, zoom, snd Mr; Alburtig sev lines of , 'said Mr. Cleaves, 'the ord in and hamiligtion cut. themaelves into face, ' Considerately, he tarned. from her. - As he did so, he met another lady ¢ What kind who had a son present. She was the wife 'Social. The people who are engaged | of a ful banker--a highly educated in this thing are people of standing and | and accomplished woman, and a leader in great social influence. Some of them are | society. He had been more than once at among my most intimate and valuable | her house on similar occasions. Her friends.' eldest son a young maa who had been ' There is some éatch in all this. carefully trained at home, and educated are playing on my credulity.' at one of our best colleges, had recently ¢ Would to Heaven it were all a mere | been admitted to the Bar. He was be- fiction !" answered Mr. Alburtis, with great | ginning life with unusual promise of seriousness of manner. ' Bat it is mot so. | success. His mother was justly proud of These are the places we have most to dread. | him. Here it is that our sons learn first to drink | But Mr. Alburtis fiad only passed a --here they acquire the appetite that leads | few words with this lady when he dis- them captive at last. 1 am not half so | covered that something was wrong much in fear of a public drinking house as | with her also; and that her eyes, the I am of a private saloon. You may guard | moment she had answered to some remark, your sons against the former, but not | would go off, half by stealth, as if she did against the latter. An open euemy is al- | not wish her pre-apsorbtion of interest to ways less to be dreaded than a secret foe. | be noticed, to another part of the "room. A mutual frieid coming by at the mo- | Following the direction of her eyes, Mr. ment interrupted their conversation. | Albartis soon discovered what. all this « I would like to talk to you again about | meant. Her son was near the lower end this,' skid Mr. Cleaves, as they parted. | of the table, busy with the wine, not It so happened that the two gentlemen | atdending on any of the young ladies anil did not meet agnin for several weélks. | sipping with them, but in a clister of Then if was at a cocial entertainment | young men, drinking champagne with an given by a wealthy citizen, who stood high | unseemly relish and abandon at indi- in the community as a man of great public ] cated appetite more than sociability. spirit and enlarged Christian beneyolence. | = ' There is to much wine here,' said Mr. Hs personal character was held as above | Alburtis. i 'I do not mean legal trouble.' You he be dead? And ho that liveth and believes in Him shail never die, But reign ferever in the home that knows no dimming eye! Why then look back on youthful days?! Why mourn for pleasures fled ? Let us beneath our silver locks in patience look ahead; For o'er the vale of shadows, in the city bullt of gold They ll cease to measure life by years, theyll cease to call us old. Selections, BY T, 8. ARTHUR, «I don't know how you feel about it,' said + gentleman, speaking to his neighbor, 'but I am troubled at this multiplication of saloons. They are coming up to our very dours--intruding themselves into our best neighborhoods. That property over the way has just been sold for twenty- five thousand dollars, and is to te fitted up in the most attractive style as a drinking saloon. It will be the fashion- able place, and draw into its dangerous New Dominion Cabinet Ware-rooms. WALTER WIGG & SON, N L FOR PAST FAVORS WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM Tas FE7UL FOR always keep a Stock of good well-made Furniture on hand, eonsisting of boards, Bureaus, Bocksases, Sofas, Couches. Chairs of all kinds, snd every- al ge thing in their line ef busizess. 'Pictures, Looking-glasses, Pioture Frames made to order in every style We have got the best Patent Balance Window Blind Lifter, and the very * best Steel Spring Bed Bottom in the Dominion, So the people say,and what every person says must be true, but we say try for yourselves. { JNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT IS COMPLETE, HAVING A THE v¥D SPLENDID HEARSE. . Coffins kept on hand and made to order, Terms Reasonable. The cheapest and best place to buy yodr Furniture is at our establishment. Rememberithe place On e door West of Wilson's New Block, King Street WwW. WIGG & SON. OSHAWA, Desember 5th, 1572. s id 2-34 Ontario Commercial College, Belleville, Ont. 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BEATTY & Co., Belleville precincts many of our most promising young men. Neither your sons nor mire will be as safe as they are to-day." ¢ When it is opened I' ' Yes,Jthat is what I mean,' The name of the first speaker was Cleaves, that of his neighbor Alburtis. They were engaged in business, and were living in good style in a fashionable part of the city. Both aad sens just approach- | ing manhood. { 'The countenance of Mr. Alburtis grew troubled. ' The public indifference to this thing is marvellous," continued Mr. Cleaves. 'Just think of it! We kave in our city over five thousand places where liquor is sold under the sanction of the law! And there is not a man in this community who'does not know that nine-tenths of the pauperism, crime and suffering with which we are cursed springs from their existence.' '1am more afraid of private saloons than these,' said Mr. Alburtis. ¢ Private saloons I" returned the neigh- bor, manifesting a little surprise. 'These must be something new. [ have not: heard of them.' ¢1t is in these private saloons that the appetite is usually first formed,' said Mr. Alburtis. 'There are a great many ol them and they are working a vast t proach. The company assembled in his | The lady turned to him quickly, her elegant rooms was made vp largely of | face flushing. : young people. 'I agree with you,' she answered, mani- As Mr. Alburtis, who had two sons pres- | festing an unexpected degree of feeling. ent--one eighteen and the other twenty-- | 'Is all this right 7' he asked. was passing to the supper-room, heen-| ° No; it is all wrong,' replied the lady. countered Mr. Cleaves, who said, in an | She spoke in an undertone, asif not undertone: - | wishing others to hear what she said. ¢ Just the man I've been wanting tosee. | 'I have seen the same at your house.' Haven't forgotten that talk--you remem- | 'You will never sce it again,' was an- ber I' swered--* never, never ! I did not under- "Oh, yes | stand what I was doing." Then, after a The crowd pressed them asunder. Ten | moment's pause, and in a voice drooped minutes later they found themselves side | to a sad undertone, 'The son of a dear by side again. They were in a large din- | friend came to my last entertainment ing room, in the contre of which was a{ sober, and went home to his mother table covered with the choicest wines and | drank] 1 use plain, hard homely words. every delicacy the season affurded. Areund | A veil fell from my eyes when I saw that the table a portion of the company, mostly | almost heartbroken friend next day, and young men and women, had gathered, and | looked into her desolute face.' laughing voices mingled with the sound of | 'More dangerous to our sons than popping corks and bell-liketinkle of glasses. | public drinkingplaces I" said Mr. Alburtis. Freely as water the wine was flowing. Fair| 'A thousand times more dangerous, maidens smiled sweetly on their young at- | in my estimation. When my son leaves tendants as they received from their hands | me in the morning to go to the office, I the foaming champagne. Grey-haired men | feel no concern for hin because of the drank with youths not out of their teens | drinking-saloons that crowd nearly all the 'and mothers with grown-up sons took | blocks of your city, but I have learned wine with the fathers of grown-up daughters. It was a * free and easy' in good society-- enjoyable in the highest degree, counte- nanced and encouraged by the best people in the city. L There was no restraint upon any. The | boy of eighteen filled and refilled his glass as freely and as unquestioned as the man of fifty. Tho tender young girl, just blushing into womanhood, challenged her companion again and again, and drank with him until both were merry. All this was passing when Mr. Cleaves and Mr. Alburtis found themselves side by side, each in the act of discussing the good things provided by their liberal host and each with the flavor of a glass of fine old sherry on his lips. 'Phings are getting lively,' remarked Mr. Cleaves, with a smile. He liked ter- rapin and oysters, and he liked especially a good glass of wine. He was enjoying himself. ¢ They generally do,' answered Mr. Al- burtis. ¢ On these occasions I' s ' Yes'. Good wine and good eating are apt to make things lively--a little too lively sometimes. Mr. Cleaves gave a shrug, and slightly lifted his brows. : 1 Just then a voice was heard pitched toa higher key, followed by a merry peal of laughter from a group of girls. Mr. Cleaves hh ad +. to dread a fashionable party. Not that he shows any special fondness for wine, but I know the danger. Hundreds of our most promising young men drift every year away from safe moorings ; and what is tosave him mpre than the rest 11 find myself ask'nz with a shiver of pain." They were too closely surrounded for further conversation om this theme, as they were admonished by the fact that sum¢ of their nearest neighbors were begining to assume a listening attitude. For over an hour the tide set toward the supper-room. The crush was great in the begining but that portion of the company which cared least for eating and drinking soon came back: to the parlors, and left those more interested in the pleasures of appetite than in social inter- course to indulge themselves at will; Most of these were young men and women. a few were past middle-life--gray-haired tipplers and gol ds whose capacity for eating and drinking was marvellous. Mr. Alburtis and Mr, Clesves had both returned to the parlors.It was near twelve o'clock when they found themselves standing together in a bay-window. ' Our friends are having a great time up stairs,' remarked the former. 'One would think so by the noise they make," answered Mr. Cleaves. 'Just listen to that I" A loud discord of voices came ringing of harm.' 'You mean what are called sample- rooms 'No ; their keepers do not hang out any signs. They ake mot open to the public. Only a select, few can gain access to any one of them.' 'You astonish me,' said Mr. Cleaves. ¢ Are you sure about this I' 'Very sure. They have the choicest of liquors, and are usually fitted vp in the most elegant manner. Refined and cultivated people of both sexes--chiefly young men and women from eighteen to twenty-five or thirty years of age--are al- ways to bo met there. It is the msthetic ard luxurious side of drinking--fascina- ting and dangerous beyond anything to be found in the most attractive public saloons of our city.' ¢ Are they licensed I' 'No. Our common wealth gets no reventie from these saloons, the value of several hundred dollars. They used to be open only in the evenings, but now many of them are to be found open all the afternoon. I saw your son Edwin coming away from ome of these private saloons only yesterday.' 'My son Edwin !" exclaimed Mr. Cleaves with » marked change of countenance. ged oc He recognized the voice of his son, and looked toward that part of the room from which the sound came. He did not feel pleased at what he saw. A young lady was holding a glass of wine fo his son's lips, and the young man was pretending to refuse it. act in so disgraceful a manner. Itisan in- 'I'm for local option," he heard him'| sult to their host. It is turning his ele- say, in a loud tone of voice and with | gant mazsion into a hall of revelry.' mock seriousness. Then came another | ; shout of laughter. down the wide staircase and along the halls. ¢ I don't call that respectable,' said Mr. Alburtis, knitting his brow. ¢ Nor 1" I wonder how men and women who claim to be gentlemen and ladies caw ' Wine and strong drink are great level- : ers,' was replied, ' and they always level ' Don't believe it," cried the fair temp- | down--never up. Education, eulture, tress. 'Saw you with' a glass of cham- taste, morality, religion, are agencies that pagne in your hand not three minutes | continually level npward, but drink and ago. Come, drink it!" sensual indulgences level the other way. 'If I must, I must,' answered the young | Their action is always unseemly, and their man, with pretended reluctance; and | hearing always downward. Make a men taking the glass he drank the wine With | half drunk, and you excite his lower an evident relish, nature. It matters little to what class he A woman past middle life was standing | belengs, his latent coarseness and brutality a little way off looking at the gay group. | will reveal themselves.' Mr. Alburtis knew her, and was pained | * It is mortifying to think of it,' said | by the expression of her face. many of | anxious. She.was bending forward un- | that our sons take part in these orgies.' which dispense liquor in a single night to | consciously, and her eyes were wistful { and troubled. It was Mr. Cleaves, 'and humiliating to know * There is an evil sadder than all this,' or! thal 3. AB remarked Mr. Alburtis. 'The oor ers,' sig A urtis, ' forgetfulness of iety, the brief ex- speaking to himself. ' They are not always posure of hidden tn are little happy on these occasions." 7 | things compared to the deeper effects that Turning to make some further remark are produced. The down lovel of the ex- to Mr. Cleaves, he found the spot vacant . ternal life is of small moment compared to where he had been standing. A little the down level of instinct and feeling that while afterward he was by the side of Mrs. | must surely follow such degradation of t7 - The Joud woes of her son again filled | they ¥ to-night --as we a often have iit these fashionable gatherings. A sudden t at one of the parlor doors, tnd {he startled question, * What's the matter made by « lady ner them, brought ¢ gentlemen from their re-. a: As they came f thay heard some one say, in a re- pressed v * Don't make a fool of your- self, Hasry, a stern gjaculation, a of some one whe h any "Bowen has been taking 400 musk cham- pagne, and lost his head. But his father has settled him. I wonder at any one in- viting him now; he plways loses his head.' Down from the supper room came loud- er and more-confused the sotinds of revelry --voices of men and women pitched to a high key, bursts of merriment and snatches of song. ' Come,' said Mr. Alburtis to his com- panion, "let us look around;' and the two men left th) parlors and went again to the supper-room. ' What's going on here I' asked one of them pausing at the door of a small ante- room, into which some of the guests were looking curiously. A young man was sitting on the end of a sofa, or rather crouching down into it, with his ehin on his breast. He had been tempted to take more wine than he could bear--tempted under repeated challenges to drink from: fair young lips. i A glance told the sad story to Mr. Cleaves, and it told him more. He looked npon bis own son. His ejaculation of surprise and grief touched the group that had gathered ab) ut the entrance of the room, and with an instinet of pity and respect they moved away and shut the door upon the father and son. Mr. Alburtis did not see his friend again that night. It was after two o'clock before the last of the revelers went home. The conditi company made up of our most prominent and fluential eitisens and their on ' Ladies and .gentivmen; and friends; [ cannot tara o into a drinking saloon to > your 3 . pw belote yok the thet I en fed in A wit atte hearty welcome, 'best of God's good ih arith! > see dk. mt Hamat sot. Bet tnd x yo wok iy did not invite any ene to h ti, and was not seen to drink evening. ! : A few days afterward, meeting with Mr. Cleaves, he extended his hand in a friemily way, saying as le did so, while a grave, faint smile played for s moment about his lips and then faded off. 'I have made up my mind to go the ' ¢ What business ' asked Mr, Cleaves, not understanding him. * The business of saloon-keeping,' 'Oh 'Thank yotf fof knocking the sesles from my eyes. But for this I should fot have seen the half of what passed in my house last week. There were and od out of peace ever since.' d ¢ Could it be otherwise I Ah, sir, if we put the cup of confusion to the lips of vis JUung men and maidens, what good e expect to come of it! Do we gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles 1 As is the sowing, so shall be the reaping. If we tempt our young men with wine, and encourage them to drink both by word and example - if we crowd our tables with choicest lignors aud invite them to take of it freely--is it any cause of that so many of them become intemperate? Will your son or mite be the exception 1 Does station in life give any sure barrier to the encroachment of appetite? These sre questi that should be laid to of most of these was no better than the | condition of those who are last to draw thembelves away from the public-houses in the small hours of morning. There is no difference in the effect of deep potations, whether taken in a gentleman's supper- room or in a public drinking-saloon. The question of respectability is another thing which each will settle for himself, though in the abstract it is difficult to associate respectability with tippling, no matter where it is done. : A few weeks later, Mr. Alburtia and Mr. Cleaves were standing at the corner of a street where their ways to business parted, talking earnestly, when a gentle- man well known to both came up. He was rich, and had just built for himself a costly residence. It was to be thrown open to his/ friends on the following night, and the invitations were out. The com- pany was to be very large, and rumor, helped by sundry hints from caterer and wine-merchants, gave many intimations touching the lavish style in which the evening's entertainment was to be saved. The wine and. liquor bill, it was said, would d two th d doll ' You will be st my house-warming to- morrow night I" said the gentleman, in a pleasant, familar way, addressing Mr. Alburtis and Mr. Cleaves, who were old and intimate friends. The latter, in whose mind the humilia- tion and sorrow he had experienced but a little while before were still poignant, answering quickly, and in an almost effen- sive manner, ' No, sir. I've done going to drinking- saloons.' 'I don't understand you,' said the gentleman, his face slightly coloring and his eyes fushing a little.' ' You will pardon my free speech, but I can't help it," returned Mr. Cleaves, 'The great curse of our city is its drink- ing-saloons." 'I am aware of that. But I don't pro- pose going into that business. What are you driving after!' : 'Is the temptation to young men less where the best of liquors are served in elegant supper-rooms, for nothing, than it is in bars and saloons where every glass has to be paid for 1' . There came into the gentlemans face a slight expression of surprise. ' Less,' continued Mr. Cleaves, * when surrounded by beauty and fashion ! Less when eminent bankers and merchants and men in the Jearned and sacred professions entice them by word and example to drink 7' The slight expression of surprise which had come into the gentlemans countenance gave place to one of doubt and perples- ity. The sharply-put qu stions had awakened in his mind some troubling con- victions, A 'Is a gentlemau's diningsroom, where he dispenses wines and liquors to hls guests, practically less a drinking-saloon than the 'Bhades' over at the next corner} We had better luok this thing squarely in the face--better call things by their right names. It dosen't alter the quality of a lis to call it a fib, or a bit of romance, or any other fancy name ; mine less a drinking-saloon for the time being if we dispense liquor to onr guests. and sn it dosen't make your house nor | PIN before me with & magnitude never scen before," returned the other. ' What is to be done?' | 'Remedies thet are of much account are radical,' was replied. The home drinking-houses must be closed, and an only be done.by public se " We need a few independant men and women of high social position who are brave enough to lead off by the exclusion of all intoxicating drinks from their enter- tainments. You lost a grand opportunity . last week." : : [The gentleman was silent. Then, with a deeply-drawn sigh, he answered, 'x foe. it ; but I was not brave enough.' = . Ah, this lack of courage to do right I" This slavery to social custom ! y will | rise above them, and take the of honor1* What to do in Case of Accident. Prof. Wildes, of Cornell University, gives these short rules for action in cates of accident. v. A For dust in the eyes, svoid : dash water into them ; remove etc., with the round point of =» lead Remove wax from the ear with tepid water; never put a hand instroment into the ear, If an artery is cut, compress' above the wound ; if a vein is cut, compress below. 1f choked, get on all fuurs and coughs For slight burns, dip the part into cold water. ° Smother & fire with carpets, ete.; ; water' will often spread burning oil, and increase danger. Before smoke, take a full breath and stoop low, but if carbon is suspected, walk erect, . Suck poisoned wounds, unless your mouth is sore ; enlarge the wound, or, better, cut out the part without delay ; hold the wounded part as long an can be borne to the hot eval, or the end of » cigar. For acid poisons, give alkalis; for | alkaline poisons, give acids--white of egg is good in most cases; in case of opium poisons give strong coffee and keep moving. i For apoplexy, raise the head and body; _| for fainting, lay the body flat. I -- © ---- A Juvesiie Orvexper.--A small boy in the Upper First Form was heard 40 re- mark that the best Sanskrit were the Parsess. Didn't he catch it? A Wert Kerr Sgcupr. -- Hers is a story of 1811, told by a New England newspaper. In the year mentioned a mischievous boy in a Vermont Town made a kite, and at- tached a lantern to it, in which he put a candle, and arranged it so that when the candle had burned out it would explode some powder which was in the bottom of the lantern. He kept the secret entirely to himself, and waited for a suitabie night in which to raise his kite. The boy got his kite into the air without being discov: ered, for it was so dark that nothing but the evlored lantern was visible. It went dancing about in the air wildly, attracting much notice, rnd was looked apon by ig: norant people as some supernatural omen. The evil spirit, as many supposed it, went The free dispensation is only an incident in the case. The hard, bad, demoralizing fact lies back of it all. Forgive this plain | speaking. I do not mean you more than | others--more than myself ; for I am far | from blameless in this thing. But I shall | te blameless hereafter.' : | 'Good morning, sir,' said the gentle- | man, turning off with the air of one who had taken offence. | 2 Bonill suvit forgive you for that,' bobbing d for shout twenty minutes and then exploded, blowing the lantern to pieces. Next morning all was wonder and excitement, and this lad, who had taken in his kite and hidden it after the explosion, withont being found ent, hed | his own fun out ofthe matter. The be- tion of the mystery until some sixty years afterward, when the boy, then an old gen tleman revealed the searel by pablishing the story in a newspaper. » : ssl i i THe will disgraceful things that have troubled my