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1 Plain & Colored Job Work 1, £34 311 other, axtticles Kept by druggists ganéY-illy," " Our» stock ot‘medichig's warrant- ,.. “.1 -2 LL- LAM. "dunk". v than one yea-r, Vinsértion‘. 0 50 Each subsequent insertion‘........‘... M 0 25 22 inches to be considered o'ne column. Advertlsements without Written direction 11 serted till forbid, gnd qharged acgordingly. One inch, one year”... Two inches, one year. ’l‘hree inches, one year. Advertisements for a. shorter ,period All transitory édvertiseuflnts from régh- lar or irregular customers, must be paid for when handed in for insertion. will be promptly attended to 2 Fancy Bills Business Cards, Circulars,Law Forms, Bill heads, Blank Checks, Drafts, Blank Orders, Receipts, Letter Heads,Fancy Cards, Pamphlets, Large and Small Posters, and every other kind of Letter-Press Print- ‘11". Q- 11-.~,,,, LA LLA.‘_:.‘¢ Corner of Young and Centre streets East have constantly on hand a good assortmen of Drugs, Paints, Perfumery; 'I Ohmicalu Oils, Toilet Soaps, Medicines, Varnishes FagcyArtigles, Dyg Stuffs, Patent Medicipes "-Afifiietau‘: mldreqscd to the editors must be post-paid. . No War disenutiuued‘ udtil all arréarages are p111 ; amt plrtigs refusing papers with- out paying up will be hgld .accountable for the subscription. -' ~ .. n. 1-‘ ,, .__..NL {having made large additions to the print- ing material, we are better prepared than ever to do the neatest and moist beautiful printing of every de$criptionf ew method of extracting teeth without N pain, by the use of Ether Spray,which affects the teeth only. The tooth and gum surrounding becomes insensible with the external agency, when the tooth can be ex- tracted with no pain and without endanger- ing the life, as in the use of Chloroform. 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Rlchmond Hill”, J an 25, ’72 n nun cu um". vw . uuus Ul' uuuur gullvq‘yug‘l “is, 'l‘uza YORK Hams”) will always be found to enntztiu th: latest and most important Foreign aul [meal News and Markets, and the’greatest care will be {alien to render it use puble ta the mm of business, and a mlzuhie Va. 11in NmVspaperI ‘V ' TERH“: Una 13511“ per zifiii'pin in ad- va 13.), if n n; [mi-l within twb rimnfhs,"0ne |)J{l:L1- ‘ l Fifty Cents Will‘be cltarged. 'DHE HEliALD BOOK & JOB PRINTING suer of Marriage Licenses Aul dispatched to subséfilfers by fhe eafiiest mmls or other conveya‘ncgs, when so desired. ... <' 1" ‘ ‘ V ‘II ‘ I ,. I, , L‘.A..‘,J Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Groceries \Vines, and Liquors, Thornhill. By Royal Lettergs Patfpt has been appointed Is- RICHMOND HILL DRUG STORE Nitrous Aurora. D always on 'hand the best of Beef, 'Mutton, Lamb, Veal, Pork, Sausages, &,c., and sell at the lowest prices for Cash. very Friday .1 ngrning‘. 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SANDERSON & SON, April 28, 1870 THO MAS CAR “ ’I‘H'ic YORK HERALD.” Oxide Gas always PBOP RIE'I‘OR 9 OF THE DENTIS'l‘lfiY . DRUGGISTS. IS PUBLISHED . R, on hand at PER INCH 615-tf 745-ly 756-1y $4 00 Mr. Moody read the 15th chapter of II. Samuel. This, he said, was when David was fleeing in exile from Jerusalem. Absalom had already undermined his power and su- perseded him on the throne. But as David went through the gate, 600 men passed on before him, and the king said to lttai, their leader: “ Wherefore goest thou also with us; return to thy place and abide with the king, for thou art a stranger and also an exile. And Ittai answered the king and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liyeth, surel in what place my lord the king shall e, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be?” There was another man, too, called Hushal, who went out to meet the king, but he re- turned again to the city. How it must have pleased Dayid to have found Itta'i outside the fine. Ittai is worth thousands of Hushais. avid did not know who his friends were un~ til trouble came. There was true fellowship, true love in that act. In time of distress Ittai would not desert his king, but followed him into exile. So it should be in the church. That is just what Christ looks for ; the only thing which can lease Him is the true love that will leave al to follow Him. Some peo- le do not know the meaning of the word ellowship ~â€" it means partnership. Our partnership is with Christ the Son, and when we come into it everything we have belongs to the firm ; we can do nothing by ourselves without consultino Christ. “ e must be like Ittai, Willing to leave the city and all we possess, if_necessary, to follow Him. Short addresses followed froma gentleman of Augusta, Ga., and from the Rev. Drs. Fletcher and Stephenson of Dublin, and Mr. Sankey sang a. new hymn, “A Little More‘ Rough Tossing.” Mr. Moody announced that Mr. Sankey, the Rev. Dr. Booth, and the friends from Dublin would take charge of the meetin in the evening, and as the day was 59 bad; e hoped the people would spend all the afternoon in the inquiry rooms and not go home. He said: “I was very much im- pressed yesterday when I went into the in- quiryJooms to find two little children talk- ing with some young ladies. I said to the smaller one, ‘Are you in uirers ‘2' and she replied, ‘ Oh no we are wor 'ers l’ ‘ How old are you i" I asked. ‘Nearly seven 1’ ‘How long have you been a. Christian?’ ‘ Ever since I was two years old !’ The other was twelve years, but had been a. Christian for some years. I listened for a few minutes to hear these little ones tell in their childish way the story of Christ to their companions. There are none too small to do His work. We had 300 or 400 boys in the boys’ meeting last night, and I hope to see as many irls in the girls’ meeting this afternoon. Go pros- per the work among the children." Mr. Moody’s Remarks on Christian Fel- lowship at the Noon Meeting. The Hippodrome was cold and cheerless on Monday morning. The people sat in wet Waterproofs, grasping dripping umbrellas, which made black pools about their feet. The rain beat down upon the skylights, and the registers did not give out enough heat to affect the chill and dampness. There were many empty chairs throughout the galleries, and on the larger area of the floor. But, notwithstanding the discomfort, about 2, people sat through the hour of the noon meeting; the hymns were sung with spirit, and the addresses were forcible. It was a band superior to the weather. U ver Watches, Jewelry, &c., 113 Ynnge Street, Toronto. Idleness does not mean happiness 1) any means, though many young people thin that an idle life is a pleasant one : but there are none who enjoy so little, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothin to do. Those who are obliged to work har all day enjoy their short periods of rest and re- creation so much that they are apt to think if their whole lives were spent in rest and recreation, it would be the most pleasant of all. But this is a sad mistake, as they would soon find out if they made a trial of the life they think so agreeable. One who is never busy can never enjoy rest, for rest implies a relief from previous labor ; and if. our whole time was spent in amusing ourselves, we should find it more wearisome than the hard- est day’s work. Recreation is only valuable as it unbends us, the idle can know nothing of. Many people leave ofl‘ business and settle down to a life of enjoyment ; but they gener- ally find that they are not nearly so he p as they were before, and they are often'g to return to their old occupations to escape the miseries of indolenee. ARRISTER, Attorney, Solicitor-in-Chan cery, Conveyancér, «he. ' OFFICEâ€"N 0. 6 Royal Insurance Buildings, Toronto street. Toronto, Dec. 2, 1859. 594 Children of delicate natures are always fond of birds. A beautiful child of mine, says a correspondent, who died at six years of age, was an instance of this. Seeing his end approachingnl said ’09 hint : “Arte you wining to die, dear, and go to heaven ‘2” He at his little arms around my neck and was si ent many minutes, while my heart sunk within me. At length he lifted his face and asked : “Are there birds and flowers in heaven, mamma ‘2" Sold by Druggists generally. The Dominion “'orm Candy is the medicine 0 expel worms. Try it. 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SEGSWORTH, EALER IN FINE GOLD AND SIL‘ PATENT MEDICIN ES. A Child’s Heaven. THE KING OF OILS \VM. MALLOY,‘ Value of Toil. Proprietor, Ingersbll, Lady Lisgard, of Mirk Abbey, has looked at life from a far other station than that which she now occupies. When a man of fortune does not materially increase his pro- perty by marriage, we call the lady of his choice, although she may have a few thous- and pounds of her own, “a girl without a sixpence.” But Sir Robert Lisgard did liter- ally make a match of this impecunious ort. Moreover, he married a very “ unsuitable young erson ;” by which expression you will uu erstand that he was blamed, not for chosing a bride very much junior to himself, but for not selecting her from the proper cir- cles. When accidentally interrogated by blundering folks respectin her ancestry, the baronet used good-nature y to remark, that his wife was the daughter of Ne tune and Thetis. When asked for her mai en name, he would reply : “ She was a Miss Anna Dyomene ;” for the simple fact wasLthat she had been thrown up almost at his feet by the seaâ€"the sole survivor of a crowded emigrant- ship that went to pieces before his eyes while he was staying one stormy autumn at a sea- side village in the South. Lashed to a spar, she came ashore one terrible ni ht in 3 cos- tume similar to that worn by iss Menken in Manama ; and on the occasion in question, she made at least an equal sensation. There was a subscription got up among some visit- ors of fashion to supply her with awardrobe ; and they do say that Sir Robert Lis ard’s name is still to be seen set down wit the rest for five pounds in the list that is kept among the archieves of the village post-office. Those Christmas-bells, which are also wed- ding-bells, remind her doubtless of the hour when Sir Robert lifted her lace-veil aside, and kissed ’her browbeforc all the eople in the little church by the sea, and ca 1 her for the first time his Wife. He will never do so more, He has been dead for years. But what of that? Our dead are with us still. Our acts, our dealin ‘ with the world, form but a portion of our ives ; our thoughts still dwell with those dear ones who have gone home before us, and in our dreams they still are our companions. My Lady is not alone in her private chamber, although no human being is there besides hsrself. Her eyes are fixed 11 on the firehand in its flame 'she sees a. once- oved face invisible to others, whose smile has power to move her even to tears. How foolish are those who ascribe romance to youth aloneâ€"to youth, that has scarcely learned to love, far less to lose ! My Lad is five-and-forty at the least, although stil comely ; and yet there are memories at work within that broad white brow, which, for in- terestrand pathos, outweigh the fancies of a score of gir s. Even so far as weâ€"the world â€"â€"are acquainted with the past, it is a strange one, and may Well give her that thoughtful air. But it was not until three years afterwards that he bought her a trauuaau; for the bar- on'et intended to make her his wife not only in nameâ€"a companion for life, and not a playthiu , which is prized so long as it is new, anf no longerâ€"caused Lucy Gravestone, during the greater art of that interval, to be educated for her uture position. If it was madness in him, as many averred, to marry so far beneath him, there was much method in his madness. Not ashamed of her as a bride, he was resolved not to be ashamed of her as the mistress of his house, or as the mother of his children, if it should please Heaven to grant him issue. It was in France, folks said, that her Ladyship acquired those manners which subsequently so excited the envy of the midland county in which she lived. She bore the burden of the honors unto which she was not born as gracefully as the white rose in her blue-black hair. But to perform her loving duties as a mother, in the way even her enemies admitted that she did perform them, could scarcely have been learned in France. Only love and natural ood sense could have taught her those. filever once had Sir Robert Lisgard cause to regret the gift which the sea had given him. He used, however, smilineg to remark, in his late yearsâ€"and his words were not with- out their pathos thenâ€"that he wished he could have married his Lucy earlier, and while he was yet a young man ; but in that case she would have been fitter for the font than the altar, inasmuch as there was a quar- ter of a century between their respective ages. He always averred that five-and-twenty years of his manhood had been tthn away. ' But good wife and matron as Lady Lisgard had been, she was no less excellent a widow and mother. If Sir Robert could have risen from that grave in Mirk churchyard, where he had preferred to lie, rather than in the family vault, so that she might come to visit him in his lonely slee 9 and daily lay‘a flow- er or two, culled with her own hands, uPon himâ€"not perhaps unconscious of that loving serviceâ€"he would have foundvall‘ things at the Abbey as he would have wished them to be {during life 2 that is, so far as she could keep them so. Sir Richard, their eldest son, was within a few months of his majority, and, It hides the stars, it dims the moon, it dulls the murmur of the river to which the Park slopes down, and whose voice the frost has striven in vain to hush these three weeks. Only the Christmas-bells are heard, now faint, now fullâ€"that sound more laden with divine regret than any other that falls on human ears. Like one who, spurring from the battle-field, proclaims “ The fight is ours, but our great chief is slain !” there is sorrow in the message of good tidings ; and not only for pious Christian folk; in every bosom 1t stirs some sleeping memory, and minds it of the days that are no more. No wonder, then, that such music should touch my Lady’s heartâ€"the widowed inistress‘of Mirlg Abbey. IT is an hour short of midnight, and the depth of winter. The morrow IS Christmas Day. Mirk Abbey bears snow everywhere ; inches thick upon its broad coping-stones; much even on its Slofiing roof, savé on the north side where the north wind makes fitful rushes, and wolf-like, tears and worries the white fleeces. Mirk woods sway mournfully their naked arms, and grind and moan with- out; the ivy taps unceusingly against the pane, as though entreatin shelter. The whole earth lies cold and ead beneath its snow-shroud, and yet' the snow falls and falls, flake by flake, soft and noiseless in its whitlze- malice, like a woman‘s hate upon her rive . 'l-he brow that vmx praised has colder grown, And hearts ‘ 11 change ; I suppose they must A rose to be lumiwg must blossom in stone! Ashes to ashoc. and dust to (lush hand is the ru:~ «the loveâ€"43nd we trust, Forever. When you laid this rose . inst ,my brow I was quite unused to t e ways of man, With my tnwting heart: I am wiser now, So I smile, rememberlhg my hemmthrobs than The dust of a rose cannot blossom againâ€" No, never I Ah. friend, if you and-1 should meet, .. Beneth the boughs of the bending lime, And you in the same low voice repeat 'lhe tepder erds 0 the loyterihyme. It could not bring ck t e same o‘d time- ' ' ' 4’ Nomleve‘r! “ - ' I turn the key in the idle hou‘r Ohmx ivory box. and lookin , lo-L, See our? um dustâ€"the dust 0 flowers. The waters will ebb, the waters will flow, Am! dreams wiil comé, anH dréams will g‘n~ Forever. IN MY ].AD\"S(1HAA\1BEL MIRK ABBEY. THE DUST OF A ROSE. CHAI‘TtR I RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, CANADA, FRIDAY, APRIL 21', 1876 It is the fashion to jeer at widows ; but, to a reverent mind, there are few things more touchin than the frequent si ht in honest Englangâ€"a widowed mother, w ose only 'oy seems to be in what remains to her of er dead lover, husband, counsellorâ€"his chil- dren; and the only grief that has power to wring whose heart, past sense of common pain through the dread anguish that it has once undergone, arises from their misfortunes and misdoings. Ah, selfish boy, beware how you still further burden that sorrow-laden soul lâ€"ah, thoughtless girl, exchange not that faithful breast to hastily for one that may spurn your head in the hour of need! of age, there will be no picturevgsiiien; ‘11:); any fuss made, such as is to happen in June, I hear, upon Richardis. birt_h(_lay."’_ uu'v .. 1‘v 1. . _. Lady Lisgard did not answer in words, but sheddin by the wealth of golden brown hair that ha fallen over her daughter’s forehead, she kissed the pure brow tenderly. Upon her own cheeks, a crimson flush, called thither by the young girl‘s words, was linger- ing yet. leader, happy are you if you have never known a loving voice say : “ W'hat are you thinking of, dearest?” expecting to re- ceive the‘answer : “ Of you,” when you have no, such reply to giveâ€"When your mind has been wandering far from the trustful being, and perhaps even whither it should not have wandered. Such a flush may then have vis- ited your cheeks, as now touchedythosc of Lady Lisgard, although it is certain that memory never played her so false as to re- mind her of aught whereof she need have been ashamed. The fact was, she had not been thinking of Sir Robert at all, albeit it was upon that day, five years back, that she had received from his failing hgnd its 18.3 loving pressure, and in that ‘vé‘ry‘ room. Human nature cannot be trained like those wonderous mechanical inventions of monks, that indicated the fasts and festivities of the church so accurately~to sufi‘er or rejoice at particular times and seasons; we are often sad when the jest is upon our lips, and bear a. light heart beneath the sackcloth. Lady Lisgard’s thoughts had, Heaven knew, been far from merry ones; but because she had not been mourning with chronological pro- priety, her woman’s heart unjustly smote her with a sense of want of fealty to the memory of him for whom she still woreâ€"â€"and intended to wear to her dying dayâ€"the visible tokens of regret: ‘ My Ladyâ€"for that was what we always called her about Mirkâ€"Was neither more nor less fortunate with her children than most mothers. They all three loved her ; but they did not at all love one another. Between Sir Richard and “Falter was only a year of time, but upon it had arisen a. thousand quarrels. The former thought that the privilege of an elder brother was a. divine right, extending over every circumstance of fraternal life ; the latter conceived it to be an immoral institu- tion, borrowed in an evil hour from the Jews, and one to be strictly kept Within its pecu- liar limitsâ€"themselves more than suffici- ently com rehensiveâ€"the inheritance of the family tit e, and the succession, of the landed estates. “ I hope so, mother ; although,” added he, with a sudden etulency, “there will be a‘ vast difference etween us in some things, you know. He was an only son, whereas I am not eyen an eldest one ; and when I come “And God bless you, my darling !" ans- wered Lady Lisgard, holding him at the full distance of her white and round arms, clasped with two costly jewels which had 3 worth however, in her eyes far beyond their price, being Sir Robert’s wedding-gift. “ Ah me ! how-you remind me of your father‘s picture, Watty, taken on the day when he came of age. I trust you will grow up to be like him in other respects, dear boy.” “ Where are Richard and Walter, Letty?” asked Lady Lisgard, breaking a. long silence. “ They, too, have always been mindful, like yourself, of this .sad day._”_ ' “ The'y are mindful Etill, dear mother. I hear Walter’s foot in the corridor even now.” A swift elastic footfall it was, such as is suggestive of the impulsive nature of him who uses it; for a phlegmatic man may move swiftly on rare occasionsâ€"such as bayonets behind him, or a mad bullâ€"but there will be more elasticity in his ait, even then, than in that of a. walking-do l ; whereas eve step of Captain Walter Lisgard had a doub e ac- tion, a. rise and fall in 1t, independent of the prggressive {notiqn altogether._ __ He was of a slim, yet not delicate build ; his every movement (and, as I have said, there was plenty of it) had a native grace like that of a child ; childlike and trustful, too, were those blue eyes; soft in their expres- sion as his sister’s, while he stooped down to kiss his mother’s cheek, scarce more smooth than his own. Upon his lip, however, was a fairy moustache, which being, fortunately, coal-black like his somewhat close-cropped hair, made itself apparent to all beholders, and rescued his comeliness from downright effeminacy. But no woman ever owned a softer voxce, or could freight it with deeper feeling than Walter Lisgard. “ GBd bless you, deaFest mother, and ive you all the good you deserve I” murmure he ‘91!!in » “ Yes, dearest Letty, that is true. How thoughtful and kind it was of ydu to leave your friendâ€"breaking off, no doubt, some pleasant chat over school-day ”â€"~ “Nay, mother,” interrupted the girl; “ what is Rose‘ to me in comparison with you ‘2 ‘Vas it likely that I should forget this anniversary of our common loss 1” ' Lastly, there was Letty Lis ard~but she shall speak of her sweet. 861 \Vhile her mother sits and thinks before her, fire, there is a knock at the chamber-door, and on the instant the picture in her brain dissolves, which was affecting her so (lee ly, and she ‘has no eyes save for her only aughter. A girl of seventeen enters the room, not gaily, as would have become her age, but with a certain gentle gravity that becomes her at least as well, since it is impossible to imagine that she could look more lovely. Fair as a lily, but not pale, for her usually delicate color is heightened by some mental emotion, which causes, too, the little diamond cross upon her bosom to rise and fall, and the hazel eyes to melt and glitter beneath their dark lashes ; lithe and tall as a sapling wooed too roughly by the north wind, she glided in, with her fair head slightly bowed, and east- ing herself upon her knees beside my Lady, exclaimed : “ Ah, do not weep, dear mother â€"do not weep !" at the same timeherself bursting into a passion of tears. “ I knew what you would“be thinking of,” continued she, “upon this sad night, and therefore I came to comfort you a little, if I could. If not a merry Christmas, let me at least wish you a. happy one, my own dear mother. I am sure that if dear papa can see us now, he wishes us the same.” \Valter Lisgard, the younger son, was as enial and ood-humored as hisfather before im, and 3 though (in common with every one who knew her) I loved and respeoted my Lady, it must be confessed 1:th he was too openly his mother’s favorite, he was the faydrite of all at Mirk, in the _ bey 01‘ out of it. could well cope with, and she Ife’rvously shrank from any contest with it, although, on a. question of principle~which, however, had not occurredâ€"she might have braved even him. of course, had become in a great degree his own master ; not that he mwlised Ins years sq as to place himself in osposition to his mother, for he was a. gentleman above every- thing; but he was of a dis osition more haughty and stem than her _indly nature " \Valtfer , \Valter !” exclainfed Lady Lis man past middle age, attired in a, bfiév‘coai and gold buttons ; what persons of my Lady’s age would call a decidedly old-fashioned por< There are merry-makings in the kitchen to- night, as befits the season, and my Lady’s maid has been enjoined not to hurry herself. Her mistress is beginning to unrobe, without her assistance, but very leisurely. She un- clasps one warm and sparkling jewel from her arm, and gazes thoughtfully, but far from sadly, upon the picture that is hid within it. It_ is the miniature of a handsome “ Not to-night, Richard,” exclaimed Lady Lisgard with deep emotion. “ Let not to~ night, sacred to the memory of your common father, he a Witness to your mutual accusa- tions. In this room, almost at this very hour, but a few ears back, he died, bequeathing you with is last breath to my tenderest care. Here it was that you kissed his white lips, weary with prayers for your future wel- fare ; here it was that you romised, in re- turn, to be good and dutifu sons. I know â€"â€"I think, at leastâ€"that you both love your mother. No, I will kiss neither of you while thus unreconciled. That was not all that he required of you : he would have hidden you, could he have looked forward to this evil time, to love one another also ; and 0 Rich- ard! OVValter! hark to those bells, that seem to strive to beat their message into the most stubborn ears. Do you not hear what they say ?â€"Letty, dear, do you tell them, then, for there are no lips better suited to deliver it." The young girl lifted up her head from her mother’s lap, to gaze into her eyes; then, with exquisite pathos and softness, re eated, like a. silver peal of bells : “Peace am good- will, peace and goodwill, peace and good. will to all mankind.” “A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you, mother.” The words, though conventional, had an earnest kindness, which came from the heart. Lady Lisgard kissed him fondly. “111, Master VValtet has been here before me, I see,” quoth Sir Richard bitterly, “ steal- ing, like Jacob, his mother’s blessing from her first-born, and his own account of matters. But please now to listen to my version.” The other paused a second; then reading on his mother’s anxious lips : “ For my sake, \Valter,” he grasped his brother’s fingers. There was grace in the very delay, as in the motion tenderness and genial ease, but scarce- ly the warmth of reconciliation. It was more like the action of a woman who wishes to please ; and if you had seen the small hand apart from its owner,_ as it lay with its one within the ver garden~grounds of the Abbey"; nor the win mill which crowns Mirkland Hill, and on moonlit ni hts stands up so clear against the sky, a eacon to all the country round. It was Weather which those who are armed against it call “ Seasonable ;” and some of the tender sex, who have a. fire lit in their rooms before they rise, and go out in seal-skin, and travel with foot-warmers, even so far as to call “ Delightful.” At all events, it is such as is pleasant to watch from within for a. few moments, and then to return to one’s fireside with enhanced satisfaction. Sir Richard looked at his brother fixedly, but no longer in wrath. “It is my part to make the first advance,” said he, “ although I was not the first to quarrel ;” and he frank- ly stretched forth his hand. giittering ring half Hid in thev other’s r white palm, you would have said it was a woman 5 hand. “ Thanh you, dear Richard,” said she ; “ but alas ! no Uhrlstmas can be a. merry one, no year a happy one, when [ see my children disagree. ”' CHAPTER II. THE WAITS. Once more my Lady is alone, except for her companion-thoughts, which are, however, no longer of a distressing nature. The recon- cilement of her boys has gladdened her to the core ; she thinks, she trusts at least, that the truce will be a. lasting peace. As for Letty, she is all that a mother’s heart could wish her to be. If much is lost to my Lady, surely much remains. With the Poor, one misery is removed only to bring another into greater prominence ; but with the Rich, this is not so. Only let the disease be cured, or the quarrel be made up, which is at present vex- ing them, and all, for a time at least, is sun- shine. Even not to be cold, not to be hun- gry, is something; and not to have to take thought of the marrow is a great deal. From her warm and curtained chamber, Lady Lis- gard looks forth into the night. The snow falls as fast as ever, now straight, now aslant, now whirled in circular eddies by the bitter north wind. Through its thick and shifting veil, she can scarcely see the old church- tower of Mirk, though it stands close by ___: n, ,1. It was undoubtedly a firm determined step enoughâ€"unusually so, for one so young as Sir Richard. The face of the new-comer, too, was stern almost to harshness ; and as he en- tered the room, and beheld \Valter standing by his mother’s side, his features seemed to stiffen into stone. A fine face, too ; more aristocratic if not so winning as his younger brother’s, and not without considerable saga- city : if his manner was not graceful, it had a high chivalrie air about it which befitted his haughty person very well. When he taught ghim Submission (a rare lesson with him), as now, while he raised his mother’s fingers to his lips, and kissed them with du- tiful devotion, it would have been hard to find a man with more noble presence than Richard Lisgard. ‘l‘ Oh, dear no, mother ; indeed, it is not that,” answered the young man coldly. " I envy him nothing. I hold him superior to me in no respect Whatever ; and that is ex- actly why I will not submit to his dictation. Here he comes stalking along the gallery, as though conscious that every foot of oak be. longs to him, and every picture on the Wall.” “ I will flot listen to this; \Valter,” cried his mother, sternly. “This is mere mean jea_l_oli§y of your elder brothqrf’ “That’s exactly-whet féii To him, moth- er,” answereflé" Walter, "la, ling bitterly. “Here have I just got my troop, with no more to keep myself on than when I was a coronet, and had no back debts to speak of ; and yet, so far from helping me a little, as Richard might easily do, making some allow- ance/or his own brother, he complains of that which you are so good as to let me have out of your own income. \Vhy, that’s not hie business, if it were twice as muchâ€"although, I am sure, dear mother, you are liberality it- self. He has not got enough of his ownâ€"â€" and of what should be mine and Letty’s here, by rightâ€"~\vithout grudging me your benevo- lences? Is he not Sir Richard Lisgard, of Mirk Abbey ‘Z‘LAm “ Walter, ‘Valterjj this is very gaidf’ broke in Lady Lisgard piteousl , z “ youflknow what is Richard’s manner; mi -h'o‘€V‘mgiyh less kind it is than his tyne “ Gan you not makg _son_1e alloxiim‘gée 01f;yéur g’jflrn‘brother “ Then I am sincerely sorry I spoke}? re- turned Walter hastily, the mOOdiness on his features chased away at once by loving re- gret. “ Only, when a fellow leaves his regi- ment to spend Christmas-eve at homeâ€"as I am suré I was delighted to do, so far as you and Letty were concernedâ€"he does‘ not want to find there inothei- commandln officer, un- commissioned and ‘ ‘selT-ppppintei z, gard reprov‘ingly, “ this is not like yourself, for it‘s enviousâ€"andâ€"andâ€"covebous I” “ At all events, it is very foolish, mother,” interrupted the young man drin ; “for what can’t be cured must be endured.” “And very, very cruel to me,” added Lady Lisggyd. “ Nobody as you know, my Ladyâ€"nor in- deed as I know, for the matter of that. He’s a, stranger in these parts, who’s putting up at the Lisga'rd Arms. He only came for a few days last week, walking across the country for all the world like a pedlernâ€"a Way he says he learned in foreign parts; but Steve with his odd ways has taken his fancy, so that he stays on. A very well-spoken sort of person he is too, although the sea it seems, has been his calling, which is a rough trade. How- ever, he has made it answerâ€"according at least to Mr. Steve. Any way, he flings his money about free enough, and indeed is what‘ I call rather too fond of treating folks. He is good company himself, they say, and a favorite with everybody he comes across, which is a very dangerous thingâ€"that is,” added Mistress Forest, correcting herself, "unless one is a. gentleman, like handsome Master \Valter.” “ You don’tâ€"rememberâ€"thisâ€"this per- son’s name, Mary, do you?” asked Lady Lis- gard. village a. little while a o, and ha’ve’te’éh’é’tiy- ing in the servants’ ha 1 for the clock to strike twelve.” “ I trust they have all had supper ‘3” “ You may be sure of that, my Lady. Mrs. \Velsh is as openhanded (with your Lady- ship’s property) as any cook in the country ; nor is George Steve a likely man to sit thirsty while he sees others drink. One would think that a. public-housekeeper should have drink- ing enough at home ; butâ€"pardon, my Lady â€"-I am making complaints which, however just, I know you dislike to hear, and besides, I am interrupting the carol.” Esrthlg friends will changefaud falter. Eart ly hearts will vary; He is born that cannot‘alter, Of the Virgin Mary. Born to-dayâ€" Raise the lay : Born to-da 'â€" Twine the y. Jesus Christ is born to suffer~ Born {or‘youâ€"‘born for you : A burst of melody without fell suddenly upon the midnight air, and at the same mo- ment the chamber-door opened to the touch of Mistress Forest, her Ladyship’s confiden- tial maid. “I beg your pardon, my Lady, if I startled you ; but I knocked twice, and could not make you hear.” Bay-firedths; “biting Jesus Christ was born of Mary, Born of all. Well befall Hearth and Halli Here the manly but not unmelodious voices exchanged their verses for prose, if Christ- mas goodwishes can be said to be mere prose. “ A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to your Ladyship, and many on ’em 2” Lady Lisgard moved to the window with a smile, and drawing the curtain aside, threw up the sash. On the White lawn be- neath, stood five dark figures, bearing vari- ous instruments of musm, and one a huge horn lantern, the light of which glinted upon the laurels. It was impossible to recognise the features of the rest, as they stood, cap in hand, notwithstanding the still driving snow, awaiting her Ladyship’s reply; but she ad- dressed each by name nevertheless. V “Then Letty, tooLWKat mother’s wealth must I possess since that sweet girl if not the chief of it, the central jewel of my crown? When matched with others of her ageâ€"With this Rose Aynton, for example~how bright and fair she she’ws ! Not but that Rose is a good girl, doubtless; accomplished, too, be- yond her years, and far beyond her opportu- nitiesâ€"«she sparkles like a crystal cut in ten thousand facets ; but my own Letty is the flawless diamond, bright and pure as light itself. \Vhat blessings are these three ! May Heaven keep them always as I deem them now. I wish my \Valter was alittle less im- pulsive ; but the darling boy is young. As for dear Richard, I have no fears for him. The proud lad will find some noble helpmate, meet to~v» Great Heaven ! What is that ‘Z” “ It was not 011, Mary, that startled me,” returned Lady 'isgard; “it stflfé‘iud'den music. The Christmas Waits, I an pose?” “ Yes, In}: Lady. They came up mm the “ Mr. Steve, I thank you kindly. Henry Ash, I am glad to find you in good voice again. John Lewis and Peter Stoneâ€"if I am not mistaken. Neighbors and friends all, I thank you very much. But it is a. cold night for caroling, and I hope you have been taken care of within. A merry Christmas to you and a happy New Year.” There was a. tre- mor in my Lady’s voice, although she spoke with such peculiarity, which she shewed how deeply shewas moved. 7 “ God bless your Ladyship,” returned the voices, disorderly as to unison, but each one of itself distinct and clear as file-firing.“ “ God bless Sir Richard, and send him a, fair bride. -God bless Master Walter’s handsome faceâ€"God bless Miss Letty.”A Lady Lisgard closed the Window, but as she did so, dropped the heavy curtain be- tween herself and the lighted chamber, so that she could still look out, without being seen. The curtain, too, cut her off from the observation of her maid within. “\Vho is the fifth man that bears the lantern, Mary?” asked her Ladyship in a tone of carelessness very unsuited to the expression of her face, which all in a moment had grown pinched and terror-stricken, as though it hungered. for some reply that it yet dreaded to hear. ’ trait; but it is the likeness of Sir Robert as her bridegroom. “What a good, kind hus- band he was,” thinks she. “ How he loved me, and loadedme with favors ; how much he overlooked, how much he forgotâ€"wt which others know nothingâ€"for my sake. How terrible would it be to feel that onelhad not done one’s poor duty in return torso much love. Thank Heaven, I feel freejfrom any such charge. 'If I had not loveâ€"that is, first loveâ€"«to 've him in exchange, I gave him all I had. Igigave him genuine affection, esteem â€"â€"worship. Everybody knows that ; and what is better, my own heart knows it. It never beat with truer fealty towards him than it beats to-night. God knows. I live for his children only. What‘s. fine noble boy is Richard grown ; surely, to look upon him, and to say to one’s self : - “ This is my son,” should be happiness enough for any mother. True, he is proud ; but has he not something to be proud of ? He, Sir Richard, and one of those Lisgards who have ruled at Mirk for twelve generations. (Here a quiet smile stole over my Lady’s features.) They said with reason at those tableaux at the Vanes, that with that helmet on he was the image of young Sir Maurice, who died at Edgehill ‘ with the colors twisted round. him. I wonder if it was his poor mother who had her dead; boy painted so. ’Tis certain that she thought : “ Ah, were he but alive, there would be no such thing as sorrow more for me.” Yet here I have him. Ah (here she grew as pale as death), why did I ever let my \Valter be a soldier? \Vhat weakness to give wayâ€"to the very peril of him for whom I was so weak 2 He would have gone to the wars themselves but for good Dr. Haldane, through whom (thanks to the Duke) he was not gazetâ€" ted to the corps he had applied for, \Vhy did he not choose the bar, like his elder bro- ther? How he would have moved men’s hearts to mercy with that winning tongue! Or why did he not become God’s messenger ~I am sure he has an angel’s faceâ€"and carry the news those bells are telling of to ship- wrecked souls? Oftentimes, when, as a child, he knelt beside me to say his prayers, his very looks have seemed to make the action more sacred. Goodness seemed better worth' when he was praying for it, and heaven no home for saints unless he shared it! God grantuhe may grow up a good man 2 VIibefiwstrwve . Jesus Christ was born to conquer Born to sawâ€"born to save; ._ .mnq Lafiyei, Wave: Jesus Chnst was born to govern Born akingâ€"bgm q king; rot melt hands found wgs. clutehing a. If; is suppgsed fihey hgd fired into the THE arsenal at Vienna is now busily em- ployed in the manufacture of the new Ucha- tiuslguns. Two hundred barrels have already been made, and upwards of 40 have been fit- ted to their carriages. Every regiment of field artillery in the garrison is to be supplied with two batteries of four guns each. A practical course of training in the use of the new gun is to commence in the arsenal, and will be attended by an officer from each regi- ment of cavalry and infantry, and a captain, a lieutenant, and two non-commissioned ofli. cers from each division of artillery. have her dela ed indefinitely. The'first plan was adopted- ecause the captain had no in- formation that he would be reindnefeted for the loss of his anchor. One of the crew of the vessel gave the above information to a representative of, the Direct Cable Company in Cape Breton lately. WE lately met an old negro trudging along with a. heavy side of bacon that he had bought swinging over his shoulder. V ‘Ve noticed that he was miserably clad, and We felt sorry for him, for a cold wind was blow- ing. We remonstrated with him. “‘Vhy do you spend your money for meat? You’d better buy a coat.” The old man stopped, looked us full in the face for a few moments, and said, in the most solemn tones : “Massa, when I ax my back for credit, it 'gibs it; when I speak to dis,” laying his hand upon his stomach, “ it calls for de cash.” ACCORDING to letters from an American who is traveling in China, the masses of the people of that country are very poor. The average wages of mechanics and; common laborers are from ten to twenty cents a. day, but skilled Chinese mechanics are paid by foreigners from twenty-five to seventy-five cents a. day. The cost of living to the poor Chinese does not average more than six cents a day; even a, Wealthy Ghinaman does not expend more than five or six dollars amonth for food. He is more fond of hoarding his wealth than of spending it. There is a. great deal of destitution, suffering, begging, and crime among the masses. A Cape Breton paper says that recent de- velopments go far to prove that the late cut- ting of the Direct Cable was a'matter of ne- cessity to the crew of the vessel which did it. The anchor of a. fishing vessel'fouled the line and received two turns ofAit round one of the flukes. The only alternative was either to cut the cable, slip the vessel’s cable, or have her delayed indefi‘nitely. fI'he‘first plan n.-- -J__L_J capacity or tenets. u- Tuii‘broken rudder of .the steamer Rura- day has been repaired at Halifax, and it' will“ be shipped shortly, when the steamer will leave to repair the broken Direct Cable. A . detective from New York’ has‘be’en here ‘ seeking information respecting the numerous ' breaks in the Direct Cable. V _ . A 'scnoon for the “ after-education ” of' young women has been'o'pened‘at Berlin; and 3 has now three hundred scholars” .Of these, ‘ twenty-five daughters of small shop=keepers, forty-two are daughters of miners and factory, ;, men, thirty-seven belong to the working classes, and fiftydive are returned as “ chil- dren of widows.” The ages of these ladies are given as varying between fourteen (twenty-six in number) and twenty-four (only two). FOUR powder nutgazines on Arsenal Hill, near Salt Lake, exploded on Wednesday night. Five persons were killed, and one woman died of fright. The damage to glass alone is $50,000. Two boys went shooting in the morning, and enough of their remains have been found near the magazine to iden- tify them as the remains of these boys. One f their hands fiound wine.» clntehina a. duck- ; n ‘u:__.. “inn”: THREE years ago a beautiful and accom- plished, but thoughtless and giddy, young girl, residing on Main street east, rejected the suit of an eligible young man who had long wooed and worshipped her. The young man, in his disappointment, vowed never again to address a. woman, but to live and die a happy bachelor; and yesterday, while walking up Catherine street, with a blush- rose in his button-hole, he saw his former love in a back-yard with her skirt thrown over her head and her husband’s Arctics on, trying to split a log that was all knots with an axe that wasn’t all edge. THE confession of James Kerrigan, now under sentence at Bethlehem, Pa., for com- plicity in Molly Maguire murders, has been made public. Kerrigan acknowledges being a member of the Molly Maguires, and says the object of the organization was to kill people and burn down buildin s. ' Its oper- ations are carried on under a. c arter granted to the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Kerri- an details the plans made for the killing of oliceman Yast, at Tanaqua, and John R. Jones, near Summit Hill, showing that these murders were the result of orders issued by the Molly Maguiros. THE real name of Thomas, the Bremer- haven assassin, appears to be Alexander Keith. His father, according to the Berlin correspondent of the London Times, was a brewer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the assassin was born. Before attempting the destruction of the Mosel Keith shipped an in- fernal machine on board the German Lloyd steamer Rhine, insuring the chest for $8,000. The machine actually did make the voya e to New York, but did not explade, the 0100 :- work being damaged in the packing. zine, cafifsing the explosion. “ A New York hotel has women cashiers." Yes; they make very good ones, too; but we think they would do better‘still in the capacity offiellers. ‘ q,- . . . * .x My Lady’s dimpled hand flew to her heart, and would have pressed against it had she had any strength‘fio do so. Her limbs, how- ever, were nerveless, and shook as if‘ she had the agile. But for the window-seat, she must have dropped ; and as it was, leaned, hudâ€" dled up against it, a shapeless form, decked in gray satin and pearls indeed, but as unlike my Lady as those poor wretohes Whom We strangle for a show are unlike themselves, who seem to lose, the instant that the fatal bolt is drawn, all fellowship with the human, and becomes mere bundles of clothes. The drop has fallen, and without warning, from under Lady. Lisgard’s feet, but unhappin the victim was conscious but not (lead. “ All, now I’ve got it, my lady,” cried Mis- tress Forest triumphantly. “ It isn’t Hatha- way. He’s the man they were talking of in the servants-hall as has just bought the windmill of old Daniels, and that was how I confused them, The stranger’s name is Der- rlckâ€"â€"a Mr. Derrick." A trace of color once more returns to my Lady’s cheek, and her breath, which, by rea- son perhaps of the confined space in which she stands, has seemed to be stifled durin the narration of her maid, 'now comes ang goes with a} 1ittl§ less of gfl‘ort. V “That’s his voice, I reckon, my Ladyâ€"yes, I thought soâ€"â€"and the new carol whichhe has been teaching the choir.” o‘er the hill and o‘er the vale Come three kings together, Calipg noughp f9!“ new and_ hail, “No, strange to say, I don’t, my Lady, although but a moment ago it was on the tip of my tongue. It is something like Hatha» way. ’ THE YORK HERALD Torms:-â€"0ne Dollar per Annum in Advance IUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE Issued Weekly on Friday Morning MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 0015, anduwind, and weaflnér ; N ow on Persia‘a sandy plains, N93}! whys-refring gwellq with rains. They their camels tether. Now through Syrian lands they go, Now through Moab, faint and slow, Now o'er Edom‘s heather. YONGE S12, RICHMOND HILL ALEX. SCOTT, Pnormm. Ieer_ qu' [To BE CONTINUED.) WHOLE IO 926.