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I have known one in that state when he has tried to abstain' but for one even- Ing though the poisonous potion had long ceas- ed to bring back its first enchantments, though he was sure it would rather deepen his gloom than brighten it--in the violence of the st. le I have known him to scream out, to cr; aloud for the an; ish and pain of the strife within." -- CHARLES LAMB. Grace 'Willoughby's wedding-day was fixed, and the dressmakers and seams- | tresses were at work upon moire antique, Lyons velvet, gros grain silks, and other costly materials that went to make up the | bride's trousseau ; for the country minister's was to have what Mrs. Thayer called an elegant outfit; and this lady, who under- took to superintend the preparations, spared neither time nor money. in her element, satins, sitting in private consultation by | the hour with fashionable dressmakers, | and displaying her excellent taste in the | choice of trimmings and the blending of | colors. To add to her happiness, Mr. Landon requested her advice and assistance in furnishing the stone-front mansion built for him during the summer upon Clement Avenue, the fashioncble street of the city; for it was Mr. Landon's purpose to com- mence married life under his own roof -tree. | '" He had dragged out a miserable exist- ence," he said, "long enough in hotels | and boarding-houses, and now intended She was tossing over silks and | | to commence living with a wife and a | home." future residence, and proceeded to propare it for his bride, in a style of lavish expen- diture that would have drawn largely upon the Doctor's bank stock. ment and ornamentation of the rooms, he found he needed a lady's taste; and he called upon Mrs. Thayer, who was only too happy to lend her assistance. It was necessary at this time for Grace to spend much of her time in the city with her sister. There were dresses tobe fitted, and important decisions to be made re- specting points and scollops, plaits and gathers. But every few days Dr. Will- oughby's bay horse stood at the parsonage door, and Grace was summoned home upon some'pretext. " Your mother wants a little help on her sewing machine," or, "Your mother is in trouble with Katie: you must come and straighten matters out between them;" for Grace, with all her girlishuess, had that firm, sweet temper which controls, without seeming to dictate. The fact was, the old people missed her sadly, and wondered every day, when they sat down to their solitary meals, what they would do when this dear child left them. The doubts and fears that troubled Grace Willoughby during the early part of her engagement had apparently all dis. appeared. Every one told her she was a fortunate girl; and to all appearance she believed it. She knew- that her parents and sister were superlatively happy in view of her prospects; her lover was thorough- ly devoted to her; she was proud of his talents, and the position they gave him among his fellow-lawyers in the city; and she very often assured herself that she loved him. But she was in no hurry for her wedding-day. When Mr. » Landon fretted over the delays in building, and feared the house would not be ready «ab the time appointed, Grace suggested, with a bright face, the expediency of postponing the marriage. She looked upon the grand preparations going forward with almost a childish wonder and delight, She visited the house one day in com- pany with her sister and Mr. Landon, and ran through the spacions rooms, opening and shutting doors, and peeping into closets, with a look of girlish curiosity on her face that Mrs. Thayer thought very unbecoming in the future mistress of this stately mansion. , "Fanny," she called out with great animation from the next room, "I've found the dearest little closet--just the nicest place for to make a soft bed for my kitten." Mrs. Thayer looked at the grave; .care- worn face of the man at her side. oo '1 wish she were a little more woman- y, Mr. Landon," she said, 'for your sake." 'I like her very well as she is," he re- turned. " Her fresh and enthusi pleases me, Mrs. Thayer. One of your sister's chief attractions in my eyes is her youthfulness of feeling. She retains all the buoyancy of childhood, while she pos- sesses the judgment of riger years. We are fond of] contrast, you know, and to a | world-worn, world-wedried man, the spring and newness of her life are refresh- It did not occur to either of the speak- ers that youth, and freshness, and enthus- lasm, might not find congenial companion- ship in the world-worn and wearied, --that | come to that." | - For the two or three Sabbaths after | He peremptorily refused Dr. | Willoughby's offer tofurnish his daughter's | In the arrange: | i | no self-deception about it. cellent friends; and the long walks and | rides she took with him to visit furnishers and upholsterers, the hours she spent in the house on Clement Avenue, arranging, and re-arranging, with her frequent shop- ping expeditions, so delightfully occupied | her days, that home duties for the time | She knew that all was | "| not right with her husband. She could were neglected. not fail to perceive the gloom that darken- ed his face, and kept him silent and sad, save that now and then his eyes were lit | up with a strange fire, and the melancholy | was exchanged for a brief season of hilarity, | which left him gloomier than before. She | understood perfectly well the cause of these sudden transitions of feeling. She | knew he kept hisstudy locked at times, when | even her voice and knook failed to effect | an entrance, and that he came out with a | pale, haggard face, anl a look of gloom and terror in his eyes. She could not for- | get his desperate words, after the shame- | ful affair at Saratoga; bnt with the hope- | fulness of her enthusiastic nature, and the feeling so natural in view of a threatened | calamity; that something will prevent, or { the thing is too dreadful to happen, she | put the fear from her. Her mind, too, was thoroughly preoccupied. *'I have no { time," she thought, *' to watch Louis now. When this wedding is over, if there is no | change, 1 will tell father all about it. He { has great influence over Louis, and will | make him realize the danger he is in, if any | one can. Oh, how can he be so infatua- (ted! My husbard a--no, it will never | ent manner of their pastor, as he passed -- -- " The senior déacon came to his pastor the week following this precious commun- | ion season, to consult as to the expediency | of holding a church-fast; '""for we feel," | said the good man, 'that the Lord was | made known to some of us last Sabbath, 'in the breaking of bread;' and that ' He | showed us His hands and His feet." Who can tell, if we humble ourselves with pray- er and fasting before our God,' confessing our sins one to another, He will not ' open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing, that thére shall not be room enough to receive it." In conversing with a Christian woman of the church to-day, Miss Bethiah Emmersly, she tells me that she has been wanderfully drawn out and assisted in her prayers lately for a reviv- ing of God's wrk in our midst." The fast was appainted; and when the large assembly, gathered in the audience- room of the church that Friday morning, noticed the pale face and listless, despond- up the aisle; they looked upon him with reverence and pity. '"He is wearing him- self out for us," they said-- 'the faithful minister! Such devotion to study! Such scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty! He has no need to fast. The dulness of the flesh will neyer dim his spiritual lamp." He offered a short introductory prayer, read the fifty first Psalm, and, coming down from the (lesk, took his station im- mediately in feént. "I wish," said, *' to put aside the win- ister, to place myself on a visible equality with the humblest disciple present; for in the sight of Gad 1 feel myself to be less than the least, a great sinner, --the vilest their return from Saratoga she watched | him closely, but soon found she had nothing to fear. Louis Thayer never en- | tered the pulpit again under the influence | of liquor. Perhaps he recognized 'as a | No imposing attitudes or gestures, or cant- | positive precept the commandment to the Ing, whining tohe, no extremes of intona- | Aaronic priesthood, "' Do not drink wine | tio0 noaffectation of tears. or strong drink when ye go into the tab- | ernacle of the congregation, lest ye die," | | and feared the fate of those who offered | strange fire and died before the Lord ; or | | perhaps hie dared not again test the power | said: -- heavenly or of another origin, that stood him in his sore hour of need. However | this may be, the sermons he preached, rich | and powerful, terrible sometimes in their | | threatenings and denunciations, but fre- | fulness of sin, that his own heart appears | quently full of sad and pursuasive elo- | vile in his sight, what depths of iniquity, | quence, were all his own., There was no | second lifting out of the written discourse. | No flow of ideas and freedom of language, as marvellous to the speaker as to those | | who listened. But when the day's work was over, and, refreshed and strengthened for another week of toil, the godly members of his | flock thanked God, in their evening pray- | er at home, for the words of heavenly wisdom they had heard,and invoked every needed blessing, spiritual and temporal, upon their young pastor's head, what was he doing then? - The study door was lock- | ed on the inside, and he was alone. . His | wife never went to him on Sabbath even- ings now. The liorror of: this man's sin lay partly in its s litude. There niay bea shadow of an apology for one who, in mis- 'taken hospitality, gathers his friends about "him, and passes the sparkling wine-cup; but what shall be said for the man who, turning his key, deliberately sits down to selfish and solitary indulgence! There was He had a thorough understanding of the enormity of the sin he was committing, an utter loath- | ing of the vice and its consequences. He looked tothe very bottom of the abyss down which he was gliding, saw the ruin that awaited him, all the horrors of death be- low, and could not, or would not stop. At this time he neglected no outward duty. He visited his people from house to house, seizing the most favorable opportu- nity fo urge upon the impenitent the claims of religion, with a simplicity and t , and a J asive tenderness of manner, that were well-nigh irresistible. -- He was particulerly careful to ascertain who were sick. The scene in Alice Cole- man's death-chamber was never repeated; and dying believers, listening to the young pastor's words of assurance, forgot their foar, and, with the song of trinmph on their pale lips, stepped boldly into the flood, His faintly-uttered Amen was the last sound of - earth in many a dying Christian's ear. '" Courage, my brother!" he said to an aged member of hia flock, iu the agony of the last struggle. 'Courage! It is but a moment, and you shall be singing the song of redeeming around the throne." A look of tender recognition lit up the old man's dying eye. | "We will sing it together, my dear pastor," he said, When you come." Then the minister turned away his head, and an expression of| the keenest anguish crossed his face. I a: dar love peculiarly blessed as those at the com- munion-table. He came to this sacred "seen the Lord;" and with his soul melted into tenderness and |compassion, dwelt upon the love of a dyifig Saviour with a touching pathos that mlelted his audience crucified, making Him tractive to the eye of the believer. he led them to feel that] in sinning against this Saviour they had wounded their dear- est friend. Making sin appear very hate- ful in their eyes, he ¢ upon them, while sealing their vows with the conse- crated symbols of Christ's body and blood, | to renounce it, and ' in renewed and unre- | served dedication give themselves soul and body to God. His hand visibly trembled when he took his share of the sacred feast; and when the sexton swept the church the next week, he found a piece of bread which had somehow fallen behind the minister's Perhaps none of his "services were 80 | feast, his people said, as one who had | to tears. He set forthlthe Son of God | incomparably at- | And | of the vile; needing the forgiveness of my church, and that God would have niercy on my soul.".| Then he sat down, and, bowing his head upon his hands, burst into tears. There was nothing of stage effect in this. Not a person present doubted his heartfelt sincerity. -- But 'how did they receive the corifession? The senior déacou rose, and, in a voice tremulous with age and with emotion, "If to our dear pastor, dwelling, as we believe he does, in 'intimate communion with his Saviour from day to day, is vouch- ed 80 clear a view of the exceeding sin- my brethren, must the all-sesing eye {Hf God behold in yours and mine!" 4 TO| BE CONTINUED, os -- + ® + A -- Axillustration of the sharp Yankee's propensity for bargaining, and ever ready inclination {o settle a question by a 'swop,' is given by a Connecticut man's proposi- tion for the settlement of the Alabama claims and the Cuban difficulty, as follows: " That the British Government give to the United States, in' satisfaction for the indirect damages, the fortress of Gibraltar, and that the United States then offer it to Spain in excl for the Island of Cuba. Tux London Morning Post politely con- fesses that the English are indebted to the United States for many things besides the indirect claims, and then goes on to describe the doings of a ' national safe deposit com- pany" which has just been formed in Lon- don upon the model of the ones in New York, but--as they claim--with several im- provements. The building, a very large one, 1s to be erected ostensibly [of iron, some- thing on the modei of an" armour-plated vessel. The walls will consist of a number of plates varyingin thickness from } to § of an ch. These plates will be successively of hard and soft metal (steel and iron) so as to render all attempts of burglars use-. less, and between each of the screw plates there is to bo a packing of gneister, of which material the higher walls are to be mainly constricted. The intention of this construction is to guard against the effect of lightning as well as the attacks of fire and burglars. Inside of this build- ing are safes, also made burglar and fire proof, so that all objects within' it will bé about as secure as mortal hands can make them. Each safe in the building has its own pecular lock and key, and by an in- genious invention of the locksmiths, it is impossible for any doorfto be accident- ly left open, as each door locks itself: by the mere process of with-drawing the key. The idea seemp to be received with great interest among the wealth and busiiess of the City. Tue Montreal Herald says that in giving Ottawa city a new member under the Re- added one more to their majority, for Ot- tawa has no public opinion and under the cireumstances ican have none. The whole licy of Redistribution seems to have n governed by the determination-|to gain at least one seat for the Government and Ottawa is the only seat they coi be sure of --hence|the little Capital was honor- ed and Hamilton gets a new member and Toronto comes in for a share. It would never have done to have given Ottawa an additional member without dealing jas generously with the larger cities west, Lm --------e Tue importation into England of speci- mens of Japanese paper has already | to the invention of a paper cloth by an Englishman. It is said to be manufactured from a pulp of wool, silk, fur, flax, jute, hemp, and cotton, which is mixed, bleach- ed and felted by machinery. The fabric may be sewed, and has a strength equal to cloth. It is already stamped into table napkins and ' covers, with design to i itate damask; from which it is said to be | indistinguishable. In Japan, similar paper is made so cheap thst a paper coat costs but ten cents, and a suit of clathes.dnly pd | straddle it like a man. A NEVADA FUNERAL There was a great time over Buck Fan- shaw when he died. He was a representa- tive citizen. Hé had killed his man, -- not in his own quarrel, but in defense of a stranger beset by numbers. He had kept a» sumptuous saloon; He had been the proprietor of a dashing ghelpmeet, whom he could have discarded? without the for- mality.of a divorce. position in the fire department, and been a very Warwick in politics. When he died there wasa great lamentation through- out the town, but especially in the vast bottom stratum of society. On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken "arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four story window and broke his neck; and, after due de- liberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death * by. the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries! i Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral. = All the vehicles in the town were hired, all the saloons were put in mourning, all the municipal and fire com- pany flags were hung at half mast, and all the firemen orderéd to muster in uniform and bring their nfachines duly draped in black. . Regretful resolutions were passed, and various comuiittees appointed; among others a committee of one was appointed to call on a ninister--a fragile, gentle, spiritual new fledgling from an eastern theological seminary, and as yet unac- quainted with the ways of the mines -- The committee man; "Scotty" Briggs made his visit. 3 Being admitted to his presence, he sat down before thie clergyman, placed his fire hat on an unfinished manuscript ser- mon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow, and heaved a sigh of dismal impressive- ness explanatory of his business. - He choked and even shed tears, but with an effort he mastered his voice, and said in lugubrious tones: " Are you the duck that runs the gos- pel-mill next door!" 'I am the--pardon me, I believe 1 do not understand." With another sigh,-and a half sob, Scotty rejoined: "Why, you see, "we are in a bit of trouble, and "the boys thought msy be you'd give us a lift, if we'd tackle you,-- that is, if I've got the rights of it, and you are the head clerk of the doxology works next door." "I am the shepherd iri charge of the flock whose fold is next door." 3 '* The spiritual adviser of the little com- pany of believers whose sanctury adjoins these premises." _ Scotty scratched his head and then re- flected a moment, and then said: "You rather hold over me, pard. I reckon I can't call that hand. Ante, and pass the buck." " How! I beg your pardon. I understand you to say! " Well, you've rather got-the bulge on me. Or maybe we've both got the bulge, somehow. You don't smoke me, and 1 don't smoke you. You see, one of the boys has passed in his checks, and we want to give him a good send off, and so the thing I'm now on is to rout out some- body to jerk a little chin music for us, and waltz him through handsome." " My friend, I seem to grow more and more bewildered. Your observations are wholly incomprehensible to me. Cannot you simplify them "in some way! As first I thought perhaps 1 understood you, but now I grope. Would it not expedite matters if you restricted yburself to a cat- egorical statement of fact, unincumbered with obstructing accumulations of meta- phor and allegory?" Another pause, and more reflection. -- Then Scotty said" "T'll have to pass, I judge." *' How!" : '" You've raised me out, pard." "1 still fail to catch your meaning." '" Why, that last lead of yourn is too many for me---that's the idea. [I can't What did distribution A¢t the Government simply ap trump nor follow suit." The clergyman sank back in his chair, perplexed. * Scotty leaned his head on his hand, and gave himself up to reflection. -- Presently - his face came up, sorrowfully, but confident. "I've got it now, so's you cavvy," said he. *" What we 'want is a gospel sharp. See!" "A what!" '" A gospel-sharp, parson." "Oh! Why didn't you say so before! I am a clergyman--a parson." * Now you talk! You see my blind and Put it there!" -- extending a brawny' paw, which closed it a shake indicitive of fraternal sympa- thy and fervent gratification. '" Now we're all right, pard. Let's start fresh. Don't you mind me snuffling a little, becuz we're ina power of trouble. You see, one of the boys has gone up the flume--" twenty-five cents. Tue Mail eontinues to publish those | burlesques on/ the speeches in Parliament | | which it dignifies by the name of " impar- tial reports," and boasts of as Jorming | new era.in Parliamentafy reporting. it forms a new gs fr that it ei | be a short one, we hope--for it is more | one-sided than anything of the kind we | ever had before. . In the last debate on Costigan's 'dirty little bill " it omitted | the best points in Mr. Blake's speeches, | and so doctored up and swelled up those of Sir John with what looked very much ly false impression of 'the d --i A Detroiter has invented a machine which trims paper, holds it up against the wall, puts on the paste, and cuts off and smooths down nicer and faster than three men. ¢ like old' Mail editorials, as to give an entire- "Gone where!" Up the flume--throw'd up the sponge, you . "" Thrown up the sponge!" ** Yes-- kicked the bucket--" " Ah! has departed to that mysteries country from whose bourne no traveler re- turns." Has *' Return! Well, I reckon not. pard, he's dead." "Yes, I understand." "Oh, you do? Well, I thought maybe you might be getting tangled once more. Yes, you see, he's dead again----" " Again! Why, has he g¢ver been dead Why before!" " Dead before! No. Do yon you reck- on a man has got as many lives as a cat! But, you bet, he's awful dead now, poor old boy, and I wish I'd never seen this He had held a high' over the minister's small hand, and gave | to see him get started once. He wal a bully boy with a glass eye! Just spit in his face, and give him room according to his strength, and it was just beautiful to see him peel and go in. He was the wors son of a thief that ever draw'd breath. -- Pard, he was on it. He was on it bigger than an Injun!" j "On it! On what?" ** On the shoot. On the shoulder. On the fight. Understand? He didn't give a continential --for anybody. Beg your pardon, friend, for coming so near' saying a case word -- but you see I'm on an awful strain in this palaver, on account of hav- ing to cram down and draw everything so mild. There ain't any getting around that, T don't reckon. Now, if wo can't get you to help plant him " " Preach the funeral discourse! Assist at tho obsequies?" ** Obs'quies is good. Yes Thats i that's our little game. gardless, you'know, He was always nifty - himself, so you bet his funeral ain't goin' to be no slouch; solid silver door plate on his coffin, six plumes on the hearse, and a nigger on the box with a biled shirt and a plug hat--how's that for high! And we'll take care of you, pard. We'll fix you all right. There will be a keeridge for you; and whatever you want, you just 'scrane out, and we'll 'tend to ic. We've got a shebang fixed up for you to stand behind in No. 1's house, and don't sell a clam. Put Buck through as bully as you can, pard, for anybody that know'd him will tell you that Ke was one of the whitest men that was ever.in the mines. You can't draw it too strong. He never could stand it to see things going wrong. He's done more to make this town peaceable than any man in it. I've seen him lick four Greéasers in eleven minutes, myself. ' If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't the man to go browsing around after some body to do it, he would prance in and regulate it himself. He warn't a Catholic; but it didn't make no difference about that when it came down to what a man's. right was; and so, when some roughs jumped the Catholic bone-yard, and started in tc stake the town lots in it, he went for "em' And he cleaned 'em too! 1 was there and seen myself." ' That was very well, indeed-- at least the impulse was-- whether the act was strictly defensible or not. Had deceased any religious convictions! That is to say, did he feel a dependence upon, or ac- knowledge allegiance. to a higher power! More reflection. "I reckon you've stumped me again, pard. Could you say it over once more, and say it slow?" "Well, to simplify it somewhat, was he, or rather had he ever, been connected with any organization sequestrated from secular coneerns, and devoted to self- sacrifie in the interest of morality?" "All down but nine--set 'em up on the other ally, 'pard " "What did I understand you to say!" " Why, you're most to many for me,you know. When you get in with your left, I hunt grass every time." : '" How! Begin again?" "That's it." "Very well. Was he a good man, and " There--see that; don't put up another chip till I look at my hand. A good man, 'says you! Pard, it ain't no 'name for it. He was the best man that ever pard,you would have doted on that man. He could lam any galoot of his inches in America. It was him that put down the riot last electon before it got a start; and every- body said that he was the only man that could have done it. He waltzed in witha trumpet in one hand and a spanner in the other, and sent fourteen men howe on a shutter in less than. three minutes. He had the riot all broke and prevented nice, before anybody ever got a chance tu strike a blow. '"He was always for peace, and he would have peace--he could not stand dis- turbances. Pard, he was a great loss to this town. It would please the boys if you would chip in something like that and do him justice. Once, when the Micks got to throwing stones through the Metho- dis' Sunday-school window, Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut up his saloon, and took a couple of six shooters, and mounted guard over the Sunday-school. -- Says he, ' No Irish need apply!" And they didn't. He was the bulliest man in the mountains, pard; he could run faster, Jump highler, swear harder, and hold more tangle-foot whisky without Spilling than any man in seventeen counties. Putthat in, pard; it'll please the boys more | anything you could say. And you cén say pard, that he never shook his mother." '" Never shook his mother?" "That's it--any of the boys will tell ou 80." i " Well, but why should he shake her!" "That's what I' say'--but some' people does." i > '" Not people of any repute!" " Well, some that average pretty so-so." "In my opinion, 8 man that would offer personal violence to ought to--" J ** Cheese it, pard; you've booked ygur ball clean outside of the string. What I was drivin' at was that he never thpow'd off on his mother--don't you see! deed. He gave her a house to live in, and tewn lots, and plenty of money; and he looked after her and took care of her all the time; and, when she was down with the small-pox, he set up nights and nursed her himself. I think you're right. I think you're a square man, pard, I like ou, I'll lick any man that don't. I'll ick him till he can't tell himself from a last year's ! Putit there!" (Another fraternal hand-shake-- and exit.) The obsequies were all that *' the boys" could desire. Such a marvel of funeral p had never bden seen in Virginia City: The plumed hearse, d breathing, brass business, the flags the long, p'olding A n jociotios ; re companies, carriages of officials, and citizens in vehicles and foot, attracted multitudes of the sidewalks, for years J deur attained by ci City was determined Buck Fanshaw's funeral. We are going to get up the thing re i 0, in- » his mothgh, No man ever knowed Buck Fan- « {