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irom tkt Louinillt, JturnaL
The following lines are above all praise. They
are surpassingly beautiful :
The spring of life is past,
Wiib its budding hopes and fear,
And the autumn time is coming
With its weight of weary years
Ourjoyousness is lading,
Our hearts are dimmed with care,
And youth fresh dreams of gladness
All perish darkly there.
While bliss was blooming near us
In the heart's first barst of spring,
While many hopes could cheer us,
Lilc seemed a glorious thing !
Like the foam upon a river
When the hrppe goes rippling o'er,
""""hopes have (led forever 4 'v
'Tis sad yet sweet to ltsieJt
To ihe soft wind's gentle well,
And think we hear the music
Our childhood knew so well;
To gaze ont on the even,
And the boundless fields ol air,
And leel again our boyhood's wish
To roam like angels, there !
There are many dreams of gladness
That cling around the past.
And from that tomb of feeling
Old thoughts come thronging fast
The forms we loved so dearly
In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,
So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens
Who seemed so formed for bliss,
Too glorious and too heavenly
For such a world as this;
Whose soft dark eyes seemed swimming
In a sea of liquid light,
And whose locks of goM were streaming
O'er brows so sunny bright :
Whose smiles were like the 3unshine
In the spring-time ol the year
Like the changeful gleams of April
They have passed-like hope away
Oh ! many a heart is mourning
That they are wiib. the dead.
Like the brightest buds of summer
They have fallen from the stem.
Yet oh ! it is a lovely death
To fade from earth like them !
- J ' ' - adHening
To muse on such m .-, ,
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away !
That the fair ones whom we love,
Like the tendrils of a vine,
Grow closely to each loving heart,
Then pcriih on their shrine !
And can we but think of these
In the sott and Eeulle spring,
W hen the trees are waving o'er us
And the flowers are blossoming!
For we know that win:cr's coming
With his cold and stormy sky
Ami the glorious beauty round us
Is budding but to die!
hnr? nnt .,1 -I I i .
ihVfrV , r ' T "orny in monance, but was, in numerous capacities. Fvery on in
,?h . 5em TBni. .Pished thmjiho office found him the hand.Mt fellow
"tn u j i iii - m u iiiiipu prn i i rat r r 1
i - ""Jwiia, vi liJl' III ' III
pernio disposition? discharge their debts. Thp
worst of it fas that quotidian three pence
was of Bob's earning, and thero was conse
quently no staying at heme. Forth he
must po and tread the inclement ground,
when the morning clock Mrtick eight ; and
il ho would find bis feet after hall an hour's
exposure to the frost he must look or them
ff ; y human, warm brcathinif. endowed
with life from God, and made akin to high
angelic beings, he was of less account than a
bird or beast brought from a foreign land
would have been. A sheet of parchment cov
ered with the hieroglyphs of a deap man's
will, bequeathing an hundred acres, wtuld
have out ralued ten thousand of such itm in
the soci
I . k. a
n " - " vBvwa,D l aii ciiiiiif a i jniifij h iniianii in r i i a a
.l. l.-J T ... Ul UIVIIIIl
vB.wo.iw.acu. eyesores 10 gentility are"
naiu icei. un i u mere nod but been Shoe
Charities I
The mortification wns that urchins more
uiminunre than himself noticed tho jm..fid
The lawyer was not a nrotid mn hut ho
had a becoming pridt ; that gloss by which
; the old serpent, when he would disguise him-
extmki,, .guo nau snJe i nj ( , calccumen l0 his own conceit The
SR horseob thought, hathem and J Bob8 mV A
and hundreds of pairs unappropriated, ask-1 feet'through half the frosty season whfn
intrtobe worn, Fonirinrto escape from the i suuucn.y ui wxuiuiuk ...k8v
shelves, and sec thi world outside, with iron
tips that fretted themselves to rust because the
roais were slipper with ice, and hundreds
1 and hundreds, aye thousands and thousands
1 and thousands of pairs, and Bob's feet smart
ed, and Bob'l feelings winced for lack of one
pair. Ob, if there had but been Shoe Char
itits I
birn one day, and went the length of band-, c who had no "ho". COQ'd be H'v of
erfc submitted for public touch and general "Snoc8 u you win.
naked footed urchin was not a fitting Mcrcu
ry.
"Robert Racket," said the lawyer, one
morning, coming into the office fresh from
his nrivate dwelling with extremities that
the frost had sharnlv bitten thro-igh well sea
soned Wellingtons: "Robert Racket, where
nie vour boots?"
Boots, Sir?" echoed Bob, trembling, as
inspection, and Bob thought he underwent no ,
risk. But n boy seeing his hngers close
upon them, niahed out.
'Oh you would, would you i
'Would what?' asked Bob Rackctt.
'Steal them shoes P
No,' said Bob, quietly and he went on
handling them. Stout 6ervicable shoes they
were to look at.
'Now Tom,' cried a voice inside,' what
are you dawdling at the door for 1 There's
the three pair of Wellington's to go to Great
Orrlmond street.
'Eve upon the fives, father,' replied the
bov- TheyZwi meaning Bobs fingers
f)r slinnera?" susrrested a ciei k muuiy.
"Shoes, Sir? I ain't got any," answered
Bob, shaking al the CQnftssion of so great a
turpitude.
"No ?'' said tho lawyer, retreating a step
backwards. '-Not got any ? Sparrow, (to a
rlerW 1 this bov has a mother, a worfiSr.,
Sparrow who is bound by the laws of nature
to have a heart, and she lets this boy go
about in this Russian wtathtr without
shoes."
The clerk nddressrd as Sparrow looked at
the oflending feet, and the other clerks look-
I ed at them, and the lawyer looked nt them,
nd Hnh himst ooked nt them. 1'oor leet
...i a .k ..;a iK nr.ni Yon thev were, uioicnea wun ciinuiaiiu, .Cu
l ii nuriiu io i.ici.i, D.im ...- i j . j ,
me incessjiu iuuuiu ui iu ""
make a conveyance of the Wellingtons'.
'Eye upon the fives, shouted Tom again, .
'Im stiff if he ain't got em off the nail.'
Bob had indeed ventured so far to inspect
them more closely.
What is this here, that's a interfering with stop ii.
Very poor,
ery offending, absolutely wicked fed
'You may go, Sir,' said the lawyer. i ou
iiiu j to j i - m , .
He hasn't earned it, to be sure ; bnt I will not
He wishes to earn it, no Coum, ana
When
iiori from tn fcVtT of aStieJtiTitiiS t.
h?o overboard rbil corrtetnplatbj th tnt
irous hoe Which Itb Sfrtinf ind xsnectot
from th iky fthitt, of the 'eltxemsj lati
tudes upon the thousand peaks and pinhacJrf
J,nVf"' --m'Mlttu'jMl
A fry poor nory. Bet floh; iatgaf hk
frozen let, a h imi.jirline jorfflinf w
ter, ebiing tround kit boc!; e!fin,f; the
sea where the great whales . ,4( , i
Uncle Jrm' rich, ain't h, mother V risk
ed Boh , 4
If he's alive, dear, the genttemta made
him rich', i
f wonder il he know that I bad no shoes,
whether he woold prive roany.
Bob's mother said the dido't know, for
money didn't iofb?n benrtt . and people who
bd it were loth to part with it But, sb
dded, the heart of Jameu Taddy must be
ercatly changedjreatly changed, indeed
if he wasn't the kindest mortal bwrthirtg.
Brother of her's he waa and aha had a riant
to speak what wn in her mind,
I m bound.' she concluded, 'he woo Id rive
you a pair of shoes, Bob and many of, em.'
i nougn wny h was, ne had never found
her. .0,,t had never wriitokuta- h -ried.
Perhapahe supposed hef dead: hot
he could use his nen like a schoolmaster, and
there miht be a letter lying at the poat office ;
but the good mother shook her bead and aia
the postman wou d have delivered It, "for he
knows where I live.' she remarked, "if ancle
Jim don't.'
Bob couldn't keep away from the office,
though he waa no longer connected with it
A new boy hod taken his place, and dusted,
swept, and went on menial errands. WeH
hod was the new bov in bran new bluchers.
Very lank he was ; Bob wondered whether
he was tall enough to reach the cobwebs.
One day frost wasn't broken up; the
Thames, above bridge, presented one field o(
ice as Bob was lingering about the office
door, Sparrow, the clerk emerged from the
lugubrous threshold. Intent opon procuring
a shop was Sparrow, and a pint bottle of
Guinness's stout Sparrow, rejoiced to Go,io
nru But encountering Bob, who was
standing with the old shoe less Bending'
feet, upon the curbstone of the pavement, he
became oohviou of chop ana porter, ana
Counting opon the disregarded Mercury,
ore htm boldly intolhe lawyer's presence,
Here he is, sir said Bpanow oat ot orejiu
Here is young Racket.'
Young Racket was ivithtn a small trifle ol
swooning ; for he remembered short pea,
worn to the stump, which instead of sweep
ing into the dust hole he had opon occasion
picked up and carried home with fell intent
of teaching; himself to write therewith.
'Oh here he 4s,' said the lawyer. Pon
my word Sparrow. Tin gieatly obliged to
a.i How ddNr&o do Racket? Vm gUd to
see you. Have yoo procured ant shoe yetJ
r
Ml . -L J I
them Wellingtons a going to great Ormond we will taue me win .or ... .r
Sued?' cried the cordwainer approaching , V.ou no - v . a waS cut off
the door. 'Thum shoes .' address"
'Please, Sir said Bob Racket, looking
imploringly into the man's face, 'would you
take it by ibe week, sixpence a week? and
he pointed lo his red and raw feet 'told
weather, fair.
'Yes, I take weekly payments,- asuu m--t-.
a. - c.., ;nanra.iuiw. and 111
man. i ay mo um Ain.v w..,
atow them away for you.'
But please, ain't 1 to have tnem ai ih.lc
stnmrrered Bob.
'We don't do business on that principle.
see you have not Sparrow to do t
,pr rw UAik
Me a fur-
9G
John Gamhcll, ICsii.
January 18.
129-ly.
ELIJAH DICKINSON,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
(Senior partner of the Utc Dim of Dickinson &. Morris,)
WILMINGTON, N- C.
Rrrr.n to
Messr. B. If Forest ft, Co., ) Ne York.
Nesmith 6t W'slsh, J
B. D.Peters & Ca.1Bo8,(1I1.
.Means 4 Clark, )
Walters A Souder, ) philailclphia.
A. Benson Co., J '
Oct. 3, 1846. y"P
(iILLESPILj !t ROBESON,
A0ENT9 FOR THE SALE OF
TIM HE It, LUMBER, NAVAL STORES, f
Will make liberal cash advances on all consignment
of produce.
March 17. 1
ROB'T. G. RANKIN,
Aurtlonrrr and fommlision Mrrrliant,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
N. C,
NO TIC E .
rpiIE kibms or
DeROSRET cV DROWN-.Vfir York,
BROWN i DEROSSF.T-inminrron
Atl THAT OP
JOHN OAMMF.LL-irUmion, N. C,
Will bo discontinued after this date ; .nd the under
niened, will, in future, be nsaocmica tor
tion of
COMMISSION BUSINESS
in A'u York, under the firm
BROWN, DiROSSET A Co.,
And. in Wilmington, .V. C, und-r the firm of
n.nnsSKT BROWN 4 Co.
17 L IV " " - I
Dealers with the late firm, will oblige, by attending
to the scttlc.ni nt of all account! as Speed' 'r " l"""-
blc' JOHN POTTS BROWN.
ARM AND J DeROSSET, Ja.
JOHN GAMMELL.
AprU15, 1947.
THE ANNALS OF THE POOR.
A LONDON STORY.
BOB RACKET'S SEARCH FOR SHOES.
Y EDWARD YOl'LL.
r
a - i ..;ii hrovr m sent ortn a nercrr irusi
...a c.ar f'.r-d be with the
r leicer ouu . i .. ,
poor. Longer days, shorter nights, fci-b-ruary
month. Tbe Sun, speeding towards
the Spring solstice! And still frost, Irost
? t l:r. il-m n rind
biting at the very core ot mu
humanity. Heaven, in its mercy, send few
such Februaries in a century.
Blessings bo upon they bend, kind Lidy.
Seraphic peace everlastingly dwell in tby
breast, for looking out of tho window on
anu K""6
to
we
11 the yar doesn't
UiMtAnVA-MMADnO.Mtrl!KTStOIII.lllDi
13-if.
FOR SALE.
NK Kltgant Pinno forte, in Rooe
wood caae, of L. GiuiaT a manurac
re. Boston. Also, one second-hand
Piano Korte, for sale hy the Subscribe i, at his JHuaic
Room, oppoalto the thrmvit itmct.
Piano Kortea tunod sod repairw in a u.u-.
manner. . n.mmv
PIANO FORTES
In the year
matter in the depth of the winter season, a
very hard frost set in, which lasted a very
long time. Not such a frost as is common
to ordinary winters. Nothing like it. But
much more severe, than t,ngianu una u
lor the last quarter of a century. The earth
bit men's toes as they tiod upon it ; and some
ol those unfortunates who, perforce went
shoeless never it was said, found their feet
again, but had them withered up, long before
the prent thaw came.
i I i . ' . - f t V r tKt i
un, u was a naru mui: iui "' ji"u., ,
iiiilno.l nnu limn mn ho said to be easy I
hlflra thu vokei rands lor a
wiiii 1 1 1 1 1 m . ii i uii to iiujl - j
of poverty is doomed to sit. If it only gall
ed the flesh! but it galls the so il, ui course
or amid our selfishness we have much rea
leeling for the ills of others there were all
sort ol Charities set a foot, Blanket and
Flannel Charities-Soop Charities Bread
Charities Coal Charities I But no one
thought ol Shoes. If they had, feet wouia
not haA w thered Oil. ana as ooo ivacuc.
. . 1 m n rr
- . - rrt i ii,.i hiiiar t4 sinriinrv iiiuiiiiuu
It wouldn't stand, eh mtner cr. - m ,he ,g6 ot
.rw I 1 m rW IM II 71 111
icrnusiu,
'Not exactly 10m. aimmtu ...v
L l:,urhintr. 'Come, take those Welling
ton'sand you (to Bob) pay sixpence on the
nail, bring another sixpence eveiy ,
and 'in ten weeks the shoes arc yours.'
'In ten weeks the Spring will be here,
siirhcd Bob, and walked away.
. . . I t.. ami Ian.
When Uiiys went uy, mm weciia, a..
.r .va.nrnilw Out.' and no signs of th
breaking up ol the wcamer uau uwu
to the sagacious iu such matters, Bob Racket
limped, nay, went very lame. Cbilbrams had
' .i . r... . il,,ir hnri was
scarnea ins poor ices uhv.. r
nearly lost. He suffered excruciating patn and
got no sleep o'nights. And though thou
sands of unappropriated pairs of shoes bur
dened the cordwniners' shelves, filled their
tpmnlmf v at their Ooors
r o j
I
th-
"Certainly sir-Wiii B!uche; ir,r id
Sparrow. ,
Yes; with Bluchera-warm and com
foning to the aoklea. Sparrow See thatlb
leather is seasoned and moUwnL Will you
hare the goodness 7. AoAUtUg hut. bacls.
Sirl' Asked trie eierir. , ,
Of course. Are you hungry Racket 1
Yes, ah, 1 thought so Take him to
eating honw. Sparrow hereia a fourth Ml f
crown, Make bim as plump as you c.
ahould STj?grst roast beef-but Ierhirn have
hat be fancies, tie may nonf f
w
nk n.-l.i nh ch drew tOV aueniiou
its unshod teetnd heelaiodtly kibed.
And the benediction of Mints make thy
while locks shine sunbngbt in the Eternities,
thou aged minister ol the Word, who, meet
ing the poor bare footed girl ia the streets
wcdI with bcr to a sDoe-si.up, u- .
feet encased in warm, serviceable boots, py-
aio'ns of the , ing lor .hem out of. tby purse.
JJUl UOO lMtv K
r.nmP Mother. te'Ui tht story again,
about uncle Taddy, said. Bob, one evening
to his mo:hcr. The Croatia not broken up,
but was more severe than ever. 'That story
about uncle Jim, brave uncle Jim.'
'Story. Bob, it aint a story,' replied h-s
mother, 'it's true.1
'Yes, I know it is all's one its as good
I'm snre.'
way
what
March 3.
147
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
OfW LBS. very superior uoshen uuuer
iCUUUJ)
April 15.
r1 . Wat vnrv annanHnr Ohpfi? kt
NEFF 4- WARNER'S.
For anl by
Msv 19
CHAIRS.
i mnp msnBTMENT of brat
AH..1.VU J
New VorkManufacliired Cane and
n,..h lintinm Mania and Roaewood,
Black Walnul, Grecian, with Cuahlona,
vv ij, nn,i- rhairai Kuan
nd Cane teat Sewing Chairs, with j to go barefooted.
I nsira, nr.,
A. MARTIN.
77
temnimr v at liHir
"'""""i 1 r OJ, , . . i .lr
though skms stripped reeuing rue a . u. - - u fQ
n;mia iira tMnmrrrru irom aouuuuna iw
Ullllliuia "viv -
tanpits, and thence to shoemakers' workshops, j
where awls pierced and hammers rang on
lasts and lnpstonts from morning tonight,!
yaBobKacketgotnosnoes wfco
Still irosioecarna more ;- ' a)V wish up0Q th
X W I in uv.-i." ...---j ,
er. Dark, diogy rooms mat ,
a
PUAndthe bewildered BoMUttff?
tion momently increasing-tra
to be shod witn oiucner, nj
he fancied termiflating- rh frutn
pudding. . .
I dare say now you are P0Jj
ished, ain't you, younger V asked MSf
row, when the Bluchers had been tertfedto
Bob's feet (as if they were never to come oM
a-aini, and the second plate of roast beef waa
in rapid course of evanishrrtenr.
'Yes, please. Sir. It f '
'It ;.,t hatr
'Funny, Sir; ain't i V . :
'Funny, by Jove I I sboutd think it funny
to have on uncle com? home from tea, and
rret n lawyer to find me out, and giva me ten
ft. a imnnili M Mr Snarrow. Wiftk-
. t V ... 14 ,
'Do tell it, mother, said Bob's sister Ivilty.
Do, mother,' said lilUe Charley.
'Pleaso mother, urged lesser ommy.
inu Ac, mmher.'said Maiv. 'cast ol all,
Vll. MVI w I " '
would have been shod by Shoe Charity, I
should have had no tale to tell.
Bob had no shoes, and his mother, (his
father was dead) could not afford to bay him
any. After paying her rent she bnd jus!
llirra nd sixnencea week left lo furnish sev
en mouths with food. Sixpence a month, less
than a penny a day, and provisions weie dear
as they ever are, when it is the interest of ibe
noor lo have thsm cheap. Therefore, ai
there wcra no Shoe Charities, Bob was
lUOttU
lawver. Dark, diogy rooms that
.vuPrhad. full of roustv law books and-1
cobwebs; wiudows that were never cleaned i
lookiogout upon dead blank walls ; severer
than in the atrecta, where the atmosphere
,.m hitino from the skv. W3B the flOSt 10
these chambers, where the warm soul cf ..u
manity was turned to chilling ice.
Bob's master was of a taciturn disposition,
seldom addressed his elerks exceptito
were too
i
pon tne suojec.
This is U, then,' saia tue goou ...
pleased herself to please her ch.ldrcn. "It
was where tho great w bales arc.
'But are there great whalea? asked Kitty.
Ain't there jueir ciied Bob. 'ion don t
know, how should you?
It was where tho great whales are ;
and
was.
vmir undo
But must relate tbe story, a poor
.ir in nor OWfl WBY- The UOCU!
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.... i I i i .
u nk K an Ant I brother to Bobf rooiDcr, wu w -v-
maton, a pfece of machinery doing er
sort
was
n
and
give instructions ir uo nan oe : ; AlluIed a narr.tiva ol
miiu f j . . i " ,i
i i- nrn njk siiiDtimiiriKi miuvu
a wnaung iir- TV I " at .
like
Rocken, Children a
pnAr RnK i Tha oics of his feet irom
A VVI V W I a " - - .
long practice in walking upon them unshod,
by virtue of aome ingenious mechanism war
ranted never to get out of order, and tntailieg
no other expense than three penn'orth of oil
per diem for the lubrication of its springs and
wheels, and oo more trouble than the appli
cation of it, he coukl not have been more a
cypher in the estimation of both clerks and
masur. Bob cleaned and dusted the desks
ai.d shelves (be could uot reach tha cobwebs
wh ch c ouded the angle oi me ceutog uo
crew
sab a draoervl be fetched and carried, he was went, plung.n, aod bubbl.ns oo
T 2-to ih lr drudgahe up a gentleman who had joined th
destined for thalfiahaiy off the coast
ol Greenland. Jim Taddy. brave Jim.
Whose heart warmed not aa he read in the
newipapers. of the drive Jim bad down into
the deep half frown sea, where iceberg jost
led with iceberg and the polar air burnt so
fierce that the sailora became mutinous I
Fathoms deep Bob's mother exaggerated a
little in her enthuaiaam among the ice he
od bubbling down, w oimjr
expeui
rrnl nUaaiintrv. 'I ShoUJq JUK
think itfaUy. How do tho Bluchtraeet
HaclHTf.k . . .
iCornlbrtaJJe. Sir-nncortmon -pleas
STr.theJt ,inche a little,' lpled Bob. 'I
have In tnclc, Sir, as is gona to sei.
'Didn't I say so ? and come home aranv
with instructions lo our gotenor U---bIeaa
h i tfow do tou do, Mr.
Thaddy Your nephew, Sir Racket
"fi rBrave Jim Thaddy, who
carrw into tbe eating bouse, u any itrtnger
might- i ' ' v
Whn they got bom? food Mr.-8pr
after first returning to appfi
went home with their, to mtrouacej w
tbe brother to the sulci), and , ,WM r
greeting were over, Braro .JttoloMv how,
though h had oOer intaadrd isVter
could get to England before, but waa busied
in making money, that hi! sUier, cif f
were married, at waa moat hkeJf, W
dren.oa wtll as herself, ahonM 'lotaltTJIUa
Ibrtunea. How, on arrival in lJJV
has j.oght out a lawyer loset muW foot
and, after weeks had r,tnolaw)r, ta
ing gained ihe oecewuiy cbttd
only on that morning, that ho Ulieved Ufaro
thedosk, sister, and oircta, ao4PTr;
would alt be found. To are the Icarv.ftXi
in vtw roan.
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