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NO PAPER NEXT WEEK-CHRISTMAS
A* AIAEGORV.
IIcartMeasc I'oiiimI at tlie Tem
ple l)»or.
K. W. RUTHERFORD.
Heartsease, oh heartsease.
Flower o tenth r hue.
Who could so carelessly
H^e have dropped yon.
Bweet Spirit Pitiful
Looking on me.
Can It be possible
Bhedropped thee?
Fold thy soft petal
C • otoir.y heart,
Draw 'he rank poison
Out where the d irt
Pierced so cruelly
Oh little flower!
Have you, oh. have you
That magic powfcr?
’•Only arnba sudor
1 claim to be.
Fresh from the one
Who alone can heal Ihee;
Look, thou wilt find Him;
Kpeuk, He is near.
The Father of mercies
Now waitetli to hear.’
THE FATAL BOND;
Wealth and Knowledge.
Do They Bring Happiness?
BY LIEUT. FELIX,
ren a t? rf the ruler w ct’d for these
inner. Yeu slnli le ere c! i s, ete <f
■i iheii o< d vLo, d»c’a:rg tie tlifl rg
lies v lith to < t( uj y tie tin e cl cur
b ep, life (i irents with e ir vet ei fi
elds. rid fell, tlat leie which icr-
f tl e E cu ah”
hew 1 jejcice to leer yeu tins!” fi
ll Ihe ertLusustic Fiamis. “I he’d
tl et, having l o n cney to pay n y tvi-
eculei x.ot gain ingress to the source of
dge.”
tty ! IrFfh!” cried the etudent, dis-
l)y. ‘Cur ver.ti8ledrittei.1or will
ene of ii: cn the ccutitry, fct tie dcee
i lecture Le tliows a el e wer ct geld
aorg us, tellirg us to tele the tieeh
.y cur esj tries, 1 ot 1 ct tc get ere tu
ny, elte the gild will letum to its
B f ’ jut . leu si ell le ifceived
idler m erg us, trd with ue peiuse
iletej Lj wl:eL tie gieat Egj j turns so
t will tie greet n ester receive cue
le trows ieth rg of, ene who is a
t strerger to It i’
v, nyirierd, yeu Ir-cw net tl.eirfi-
ie ol tin. ciwhe m yeu epetk, the you
rotleiktlus. Ee trews yeu, your
r, yeur dittns ef aepii fillers, and,
1 at'w c rdi c us fe re t r ev le ege v hith he
KSiniUetfT) extllid degite, he will
> jar restiry eid itaje its ctuiee
cn. the ebstanes which n ey chstiuet
it. This night w e meet in the Great Pres
ence—a glorious band of us, knit together in
the bonds of brotlieihood, treading onward
in ibe progress te> complete maturity’,and led
by one w hose great love, w hose expansive in
tellect is not bounded by the stars
in the heavens. See, it is even now
growing dark; let us partake of this homely
fare and away to our meeting.’'
The student closed his boob, and taking
from the shelf u piece of meat, placed it on
tie table with a glass of w’uter for each.
They sat down, one on the chair and ihe
other on a box, and ate of the fare, convers
ing during the time upon the iheme which
so interested loth. Alter buying finished
their fare, they arose, anu follow ing the stu
dent, Francis w’as led down the stairs into
ihe street. They turned down a datklane
and lollowirg its course tlm ugh many turn
ings they entered another still more narrow
and deserted. Passing through a sombre
i rob, they i raced its course ior sente distance
' t.v the aid cf a dim lamp hanging from the
concavity overhead, till they reelhed the
massive iron portals of what appeared some
deserted chapel. Tne student, by dint of
great i ffort, unfastened the bolt, and swung
i he gate on its hinges. YVith a rough, grat
ing sound the massive iron gave way to the
student's strength, and, when they entered,
-wurg back to its closed position w ithout the
aid of either. They pass d through a dimly-
lighted and very tmriow passage,which smelt
stionglyof mildew—of that peculiar odor
which invariably recills the idea, of the
. bai nel-house—and then entered a small door
where stood a dozen or more very small
lamps upon a table" The student took one of
these, and, motioning ibe other to follow
bin-., led the way down a long flight of steps.
Down, down they weut, till the fresh, earthy
• mell stemed line that of a new-made grave.
Finally, they beard ibe low bum of voices,
and the next moment, opening a door, they
lound themselves in u laigeapartment, with
in w’hich were assembled two scoi e of young
men. They were silting each befoie a vol
ume similar to the one which the student had
oeen poring over, and which he had brought
with him; while at the lurther end of the
room, upon a raided platform, sat a venera
ble looking man ot such a striking and pecu
liar countenance as would attract the atten-
I tion of any gazer wtre he amid tie crowd of
I a London street. His hair fell down upon his
-boulders m » 'V'r Wkf wH - e «g,
.fmo- as ngM eouia bleach them. His fore-
. head was high and massive, indicating great
mental power, and his features, although
uecuiic in their expression when in repose
when he spoke, l.gbted up with such an un
earthly brightness as to capt.vate all of bis
i eaters. He aid not look up when the two
entered; but w ith bis eyes averted upon the
book t eluie him, he ccutinut d to speak, bays
ing evidently been dw eiiing upon the subject
belore his entrance.
“i is even s o,” he spoke; ‘ ihe one of whom
we speak is even greater ikan ye ail, for in
his mind there aw ells that tpii it of inquiry,
that straining alter the things which are,and
which ale to lie, that may overturn a W’orld,
or confer terrestrial immortality upon him.'
He is one whom je all may’ love, may ad
mire, for witnm himself is contained the ele
ments of ibe greatness which will extend
throughout time. The man’s among ye—be
hold ! ’
'Ihe eyes of every student were instantly
lixeO upon Francis. The young man blushed
as he thus became lie observed of all observ
ers, ana lam would have hia himself behind
his friend, the student. Lut tie Professor
culieO him cut, took him by the bend, and.in
w ords ot great kineihess ai d encouragement
intioduceu him 10 the company. They all
gathered around the new comer, anti with
many a beany shake ot the hand, encourag
ing and welcoming speech greetea his aavent
among them.
Thus passed away several hours, when
taking their seats, a large book similar to
those among the rest was given to Francis,
and a seat appropriated lo him. He bad
seal cely seateu himself w hen he felt a curious
change coming over him. His ears began to
ring nke the uistant sound of music; anon the
inuudy increased, till the room appeared to
Le filled w ith a choir of angels, w hose voices
Larmonized in the most de lgntlul manner.
He gazed around, douotmg whether it, were
au lhUsion, when he uncovered that his sight
was lading rapidly. Kings ot light began to
waver in brilliant haloes beloie his Vision,
and expanding till they merged together like
ihe pusmatic colors of the specti uui, but a
thousand times more brilliant, and such the
material iaculues cannot see nor conceive.
Thus glowed lie trail ceudental and last ulti-
l mate ot materialny upon the Students spirit.
Gradually the things about the room had
j laded, till the choir had absoibed his soul
: with its ravishing melody. And then the
! jotiiig btueient heard a voice whose tones
were so snriil as to itverbeiate to the very
: arches of the universal portals, jet w ild as
the whisper ot a summer zepher—and the
voice utiuressed him in accents ot mildness
and love, and encouragingly spoke of the
\astness of knowledge and wealth, and of
I their great power over the planets and the
I minds of men. There sounds sank lower
and lower, til they ceased, when the
student ia>sed his Lead and ftund himself
billing belore his Look, W hile lus fellow stu
dents weie aiound him busily deciphering
tLesjmbols m thtirs. Francis luLhed his
ej es, and wondered w hethtr Le had not teen
cieaming but upon lotting upen his book
each svmici wests Itmiliar to him as if he
bed s'ucied it lor jtais. He raised hisejes
end beheid tlcte or the Eioiestoi fixed upon
him.
‘ Jfy eon,” said he, ‘ tion lest learned that
w hich no man befoie thee I alh obtained on
ly w ith ui re mittii g toil. T Lou art i ov, p.re-
pand in part ler tiy destiny, for thou art our
chosen, aLd to thee will be given ail which
men covet, and which tbej loudly dream the
essence cf true happiness. TLougezeth upon
tlat took of knowledge, and thru earnest
therein all tlcu desirest, for to thee are its
portals opened, its depositories unsealed
Look upon its leaves, and thou wilt know
all.’’
Francis perused the mystic characters
ana lound th»m liavght with the Wisokm cf
all the past ages, ar.d with that which thou
sands ct jtais of the iuture wiiltcii to learn,
bo itpiciiy, so vastly came ihe flood oi
knowledge upon his mind, that Le felt over
whelmed with ils force, as if the under
fibtts ot the train wcuid yield to the gush of
new Lem in pi cations, lut he grew wist with
a ri pidity w bic-h astonished ail the rest of
his fellow students, and they alter maiveled
when they lei eld the vastness tf his concep
Hols, the astuter ess ol his reasoning and ’he
CONTINUED ON’ EIGHTH PAGE.]
The student Francis Patti sat alone in his
study. His head rested upon hi6 hand and he
meditated in silence. His expressive features
betokened a mind considerably agitated,
while his^^^^
forth no sound,
•'•1 wish * 1 * it were so,” at length he spx ke
"HeielsOii day and night, with scarcely
the pittance of a galling slave, lhat 1 maj’
gain knowledge and honor; lhat I may move
in the society my ambition would aspire to,
and that mankind may bestow upon me
their piraises and tlieir approbation. Oh!
that 1 could gain ibis knowledge, and its
concomitant wealth and influence, without
this severe trial of the body; without tbise-
ternal exercise of the faculties to their utter
tension.
”What would you give?”
The student turned quickly around, upon
hearing these words, and beheld a man
of no prepossessing appearance standing
near, “I say, what would you give to
gain’the consummation of your aspira
tions, without the severe study of which
you complain?”
Patti gazed upon the strange crea<ure
and scarcely could refrain from burst
ing into laughter, so curious was the fig
ure of the man. With a mouth which ex
tended almost front ear to ear. a wide, fl.it
nose, oblique eyes, very considerably squin
ted long protruding teeth, and, withal, enor
mously hunch-backed, the little man made a
most unfavorable impression upon the sensi
tive mind of the student.
“What would I give?” answers! Fran
cis “We are both, my little man, upion
the same footing, so far ns the consumma
tion of my ambition extends, for I have
nothing to give, and you could rnt ass.st
me did I possess thousands.
•* >Tis true, sir, that my appearance does
not speak verv favorably for me,’ croaked
the little man, “but appearances, you know,
are often deceitful, and they may be so m
this instance. 1 repeat, what willyougive?
“1 have nothing to give.
“You have that which 1 seek, although the
time has not arrived when 1 can demand ir.
UVe will meet again; if so, will you give me
’hat I ask. provided l reward you with
knowledge and wealth to your fullest desire?
•‘Assuredly I wilL What would you de-
8ire lot yet, but we will meet again when I
shall claim that promise. Give me a trifle
that you may rememl^r tbis pledge.
“1 have nothing, sir."
“Ah this miniature will do,’ exclaimed the
little man, taking dexterously from the s u
dent’s pocket his pic ure which the tender
hearted student had caused to be painted for
6 “<tav sir you must not take that, ’ cried
evoohrmed student, but the little man has
£ned to the door and ere the other could
reach him, he sprang out and was gone. The
enraged student followed ns rapidly as he
ri 7 ami hastening down the stairs, ir.qmr-
Tnf the people'below which direction the
£x>k spread out before him soon .forgot the
Wsofhis picture in the pleasing task of
I??®, 01 „ , w ben he had grown tired of
study ami tl , * hrew himself back in his
w ould do were this wealth paced at ms on,
posal. This was an absorbing dream of the
^ i Y a ‘ m ; fl rQ and Francis had fallen into if,
that wealth alone w as the ke>’ to happiness—
that the transmutation of the baser meta.8
into gold would result in placing the discoV-
crei upon the pinnacle of mortal felicity.
PART SECOND.
One would search perhaps in vain for such
a mental organization as that of h rar.C'S I at-
H for it is seldom that we find the nervous
and sanguine temperaments so exactly bal
anced as to mutually aid and exalt each
other! The mind of this young student was
one i f those extremely wayward ones whose
energies act upon the delicate organization of
thl brain, rDentines with such swaying
ce as to destroy the normal condition of
I'liKlSTJIAM TIOKMML
its tissues. We sometimes observe these phe
nomena in meniality who either as'onish us
with their powers, termed genius, or else,
swayed by the strong spirit beyond the cere
bral endurance, present us with the melan
choly spectacle of the maniac. Such was
Francis Patti, descended from parents who
were strongly marked with the poetic or im
aginative faculty, he had caught their pre
dominant traits, but greatly exalted in the
offspring.
The imaginative temperament has been
termed the dreaming faculty and it is true
that he who is blessed with iF is capable of
calling up before his mind glowing creations
cf unearthly brightness which the sun never
gilded so sparklingly as the sun of his imagi
nation; but he is not capable of grappling
with the cent per cent utilitarianism ot the
world and leaving the inward man for the
earthly things which are transpiring around
him. Francis Patti bad fallen, from his boy
hood, into the fashion of dreaming, and as we
often noth e a child chasing the gilded and
lovelj’ butterfly, so would he follow up some
gem of the mind, tracing its meanderiug
course till it was lost in the mystic depths of
thought.
Time rolled on. The young student grew
np till he had dreamed away twenty years,
when he conceived .the idea" of learning the
properlies of the visible world around him.
In part that be might gain a species of knowl-
dge which he knew was of the utmost im
portance and that he might thus^avoid the
habit of his dreaming reveries. For awhile
after he had conceived this desire, he ceased
his visits to the realms of his brilliant crea
tion. but pondered upon the means through
which he should gain his desires. Books in
those days were not, like the present, to he
had for the barter of a gold coin, and were it
so, Francis could not obtain them as his purse
was quite empty, but teachers who did orally
what books do now, were the principal
source of knowledge and they were veiy
sew rce.
After much patient inquiry, the student
learned that a venerable sage w as then teach
ing his lore to a select class in London, but
whether he could gain ingress to the fount of
knowledge, was unknown to him. Nothing
daunted by ihe aegative surmi-es of those
who had heard the sage, fie shouldered bis
small bundle and amid tne sneers of his ac
quaintances, started on his journey to the
great city. He found the people of Londtm
much as they are at the present time. Tbej*
could give him detailed accounts of all the
play houses, horseraces, pr ze fights., ah stops
and places of amusement in the city but not
one could give him any information as to the
whereabouts of i he learned sage.
After much diligent inquiry, he heard that
a student dwelt in a garrtt not far from Tem
ple Bar. and to the attic of the scholar Fran
cis Patti hied himself. He feund the man of
letters busily poring over a musty volume
whose soiled leaves were covered with a n ul-
j titudecf curb us, and, to him, unknown e-bar-
? aciers w bieh ti e studei t ej peaied to tiens-
j late, or strive to, wi1h the Pin cst ei geiress.
! Tne garret was a small creal d we uic.sctxce-
: ]y he noted, w ere it not thst jei 1 aps tl e vis
itor might take an interest in it ts laving,
; in alter days, been the plate v ine Clivtr
! Goldsmith passed nary a day wiitiiglis
i Vicar cf Waktfield. But the atudent tlcught
not of after days, ncr of Goldsmith, tut wnh
! his whole attention fixed upon the musly
| tome, he eagerly ceeiphered its fjmlolkal
'characters. Fiancis stood by him tor seme
moments uneibservtd, but finally, by dim ef
j pretty loud coughing, attracted the attention
j of the s*udi nt.
| “A thousand pardons, sir. I was so deeply
J engaged that 1 did not c tseive I had 1 ten
j he.poied with the company of a stiaigtr.
! "Will jeu be seated, sir»”
' The sludenr, with surprise dejicted upon
Shis features, landed a c-lair lolisvisner.
; As there w as but one chair in the le < n — ei d
I that a nokety c.ne.—the visitor declined eit-
ting, 1 ut proceeded at once to state ihe ob-
! jeet of his vis.t. The student’s features
glowed wiih pleasure bs he listened to the
others recital of his ow n dree ms and aspira
tions and when he had finished, be arose tnd
throwing his arms around bis neck, en brac
ed him traternaliy and called him brother.
“How rejoiced I am,” 1 e exclaimed, “to
have met another n an who would forego