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B assED ARE THEY TRAT MOURN.
111 WILLILIC C. IRT►BT.
0! deem not they are blest alone
whose lives a peacefnl tenor keep ;
? he Power who pine: man, has sown
A blessing for the ryes that weep.
The light of smiles shall fill again
The lids that overflow with tears ;
A n d iiesry bows of woe and pain
Are promises of happy years.
There la I day of sunny rent
For every dark and troubled night ;
A n dre( mac hide an evening guest,
Bel py shall come with early light.
And!holi, who o'er thy friend's low bier
Shei,leat the hitter drops like rain,
Hope that a brighter, happier sphere
Will give him to thy arms . again.
r l e t the good man's trust depart,
life Its common gifts deny ;
liionh pierced and bmiam be his heart,
And, spurned of men, he goes to die.
For God has marked each sorrowing day,
And numbered every secret tear
AO heaven's age of bli-s shall pay
For all its children, suffer here.
From Clmber's Ed.ngburg'. Journal.
TWO KINDS OF HON Es'nr
s , rrie lee years a4o, there res•itterl m Long Acre
" 4 i-centric old Jew named Jacob Benjamin ; he
v. , A seed shop, in which he likewise carried on
a common thing, we I.elteve, in London—the
„ t ,„1 meal, and had risen from the lowest djegt
, e dy. nalti.try and self-driial, till hearer",
, e rf Hiluent tradesman. He was, indeed, a
;r, for as lie had ttei!lier wife nor child to
h.i money. nor kith nur kin in borrow it or
e ;,, a _resat deal more Mail he knew wh at
1,4v,h it of himself he could lint, for
nut; to him. and his wants were
ile A. , ;.I Vi c:eari and decent in hr dress.
'. t -, e for el , ::Ar,ee or sp entfor in any
'7m not 1!4,1 even tie plea-ures of the table any
!,irn ; !i) ihal u lt,ou.2li ue 'vas no miser,
b,. lone% kept on accurnol,itio2, whilst it occurred
.„.„ sett and 'lien to 'under what he should do
'4.11 hereafter One would think he need not
tare wan ered long, when there were so many
:erple !offering for the warn of what he abounded
r • t , u , Mr fl , ryitnin. hottest man, had his errech..
e r st e other folks. It the first place, he had less
am;elv with poverty than might have been ex-
Pe'-te,l con.tilenno• how root he had once been
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ht !elf bat he had a theory, just in the main.
zoga by no means without exceptions—that the
od.gent have generally themselves to thank for
!reit rollmop. Judging from his own experience
k.ettelltred there was bread far everybody who
, ake the trouble of earning it ; and as he had
had lode difficulty in resisting temptation himself.
Tas not philoeopher enough to allow for the
nie,er of human character, he had small coot
paean for those who injured their prospects by
it. Then he had found. on more than
tleoccamon, that even to the apparently welkin.
e.isnute was nor always serviceable. En
two, was relaxed, at d' gratuities once received,
v`e tatted for agaya, Doubtless, part of this evil
. ...541‘va t o he sought in Mr Benjamin's own de
tnotte of proceed ; but I repeat, he was
tiptido.ophpr, and in matters or this sort could n o t
at ?Inch farthet than hie nose, wch was, how
eTPr. a very lone one.
ruptittlic charities he sometimes subscribed 'the
ft:l • Wins hand was frequently withheld by a
intX fPgaidllig the judicious expenditure o 1 the
bttl3 ar.ti thus doubt was especially fortified after
rreletng to see one day, as he was passing the
etnn and Anchor Tavern, a concourse of
cr.'nm out with very flushed faces, who had been
i.. , c;!ngeh er for the benefit of some savages in
tleSoothern Pacific Ocean, accused of devouring
tzetati flesh—a practice so abhorrent fo Sen.
1 7 0 . hat he had subr.crib.d for their conversion.
nig to perceive the connexion betwixt the
and ifiat desirable consummation, hip name
tPitareJ hencefonh leas fiequently in printed lists.
L "e fall more uncertain than belore as to • what
~ at unknown posterity he should bequeath
hitiOra ne 1y
r,e meantime, he kept on the even tenor 01
caridin g behind his counter, and serving
6cut omens assisted by a young woman called
la:' Lee, who acted as h s shopwoman, and in
to% en the whole, lie felt more interest than in
A lYbody else in die world, insomuch that it soma-
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-Ported acmes his mind, whdher he should
rcin4ke her the he;iese of all his wealth. He Hey-
Ctoieter, gave her the least reason to expect
th a'illag, being himself incapable df conceiving,
rat "the entertained the notion, he ought to prepare
Iv by education for the gond fortune that awaited
lc Bat he never perceived this necessity, nor, it
i ' e hAd, could he have liked to torte the service of
i?etrun he had been so long accustomed to.
at 'erirrih, one day a new idea struck him. He
reading the story of his namesake, Benj..-
the Old Testament, and the question occur.
kiln I " many amongst his purchasers of the
I^,!er
ail who came to hisshop person'
L ,!'ere rt(that c!ass—would bring back a piece
calm; the
11, y mialit find amongst their meal, and
ea4rit he should like to try a few of them that
*vst4t tsgnlar customers. The experiment would
.ta mmd. and the money he might lose by
he dal not care for. So he began with shilling.,
in amongst the flour before ha handed
Pnrchaser Rut the shillings never come
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ret People did not think so small s sum
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the same luck, and the longer he tried, the more he
distrusted there being any honesty i i the world, and
the more disposed he felt to leave all his money to
Leah Ltiet, who had lived with him so long, and to
his belief, had never wronged him c 4 a penny.
" What's that you have put into the gruel, Mary 7"
said a pale, sickly-looking man one evening, taking
something ont of his mouth, which he belt) towards
the feeble gleams emitted by a farthing rush-light
standing on the mantle-piece.
" What is it, father," inquired a yoong girt ap
proaching him. " Isn't the gruel good 1"
" It's good enough," replied the man ; " but
here's something in it : it's a shilling, .1 believe."
" a guinea!" repeated the man ; well,
that's the first bit of luck I've had these seven years
or more. It never could have come when we want
ed it worse. Show it ns here, Mary."
" But it's not oars, father," said Mary. " I paid
away the last shilling we had for the meal, and
here's the change "
" God has sent it to us, girl 1 He saw our dis
tress, and he sent it to us in His mercy !" said the
man. grasping the piece of gold with his thin bony
fingers.
. " It mutt be Mr Benjamin's," retorned she.—
" He mnst have dropped it into the meal tub that
stando by the counter"
'• How do you know that ?" inquired the Man:
with an impatient tone and a half angry glance
'• How can yon tell how it came into the gruel ?1—
Perhaps it was lying et the bottom of the basin, or
at the bottom rit the %mice pall. Moat likely it was."
" U tte, father," Baia Mary ; " it is loageinee we
had a guinea."
" A guinea that we knew of ; hut I've had Alen:
iv it; my time, and how do you know this is not
one we had ovettooked I"
o We've wanted a guinea too mach to overlook
one," answered she. " Bin never mind, lather ;
eat your ginel, and don't think of it : your cheeks
are gelling quite red with talking en, and you won't
ba able to sleep when you go to bed."
. I don't exec to sleep," said the man peevish
ly ; I never do sleep "
" I tidal( you will, idler that nice gruel !" said
Mary. throwing, her round his neck, and ten•
detly kissinu his cheek.
" And a guinea in it to gi%e rl a relish ton !" re.
turned the lather, with a faint smile and an expres
sion of archness, betokening an inner nature very
different from the exterior, which sorrow and pov
only had menaced on it
His ((slighter then proposed thayhe should go to
bed ; and having aaSisted him In/undress, and ftr.
ranged her little household manias, she retired be
hind a tattered, drab colored curtain which shaded
her own mattress, and laid herself down to rest.
The apartment in which this little scene occurred.
was on the attic story. of a mean tinu4e, situated in
one of the narrow courts or alleys betwixt the
Strand and Drur Lane. The furniture it contained
was of the poorest description ; the cracked win
dow panes were coated with dust; and the scanty
fire in the grate, although the evening was cold
enough to make* large one desirable—all combin
ed to testify to the poverty of the inhabitants. it
was a sorry reheat for declining years and sick
ness, and a sad and cheerless home for the fresh
cheek and glad hopts of youth ; and all the worse,
that neither father nor daughter was " to the man•
or tam' ;" for poor John Glegg, had, as he said, had
plenty of guineas in his time ; at least, what should
have been plenty, had they been wisely husband
ed. But Joh-, in describe the thing as he saw it
himself, had always as had luck against him " It
did not signify what he undertook, his undertakings
invariably turned out ill.
He was born in Scotland, and hail passed a great
portion of his li.e there ; hut, unfortunately for him
he had no Scotch blood in his veins, or he might
have been blessed with some small modicum of
the craition for which that nation is said to be dig.
tinguished. His father had been a cooper, and
when quite a ynong man, John hal succeeded to a
well-established be-iness in Aberdeen. Hie privet
pal commerce consisted in furnishing the retail
dealers with casks, wherein to pack their dried
fish ; but partly from good nature, and partly 'from
indolence, he allowed them to run such long ac
counts, that they were apt to overlook the debt alto
gether in their calculations, and to iake refuge in
bankruptcy when the demand was pressei 4 . and the
supply of goods• withheld—his negligence thus
proving, in its results, as injurious to them as to
himself. Five hundred pounds embarked in a
scheme projected by a too sanguine friend, for es
tablishing a local newspaper, which " died ore it
was born ;" and a fire, occurring at a time that
John had omitted to renew his insurance, had 'ie.
rionsly damaged his resources, when some matter
of business having taken him to the Isle of Man, he
was agreeably surprised to find that his branch of
trade, which had of late years been alarmingly de
clining in Aberdeen, was there in the most finer
ishing condition. D.elighted with the prospect this
state of affairs opened, and•eager to quit the spot
where misfortune hail so unrelentingly pursued him,
John, having first secured a house at Ramsay, re
turned to fetch his wife, children, and merchandise,
to his new home. Having freighted a small ves
sel for their.conveyance, be expected to be deposit
ed at his own door ; but he hadunhappily forgot,
ten to ascertain 'the character of the captain, who,
under pretence that, if he entered the harbor, he
should prObably be wind-boom' lot several weeks,
persuaded them to go ashore, in a small boat, pro
mising to lie to till they had landed their goods ;
but the boat had no sooner returned to the ship,
than, spreading hie sails to the wind, he was soon
nut of sight, leaving John and his family on the
beach, with—to recur to his own 'phraseology—.
" nothing but'what they stood up in."
Raving with some difficulty found shelter for the
night, they proceedo to Ramsay; but here it wts
found that, owing to some informality, the poop!,
who had possession of the house refused to give it
up, and the wanderers were obliged to take refuge
in anion.- The next thing was to Immo, and re-
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cover the lost goods ; knit some weeks elapsed be-
fore an opportimity of doing so could be found ; and
at length, when John did reach Liverpool, the cap
tain had left it carrying away with hint &considera
ble share of the property. With the remainder
John, after many expenses and detsys, returned to
the 'stabil, and resumed his business. But hescron
discoverid to his cost, that the eatcufations he had
made were quite fallacious, owing to his having
neglected to inquire whether the late prosperous
season had been a normal or an exceptionable one
Unfortunately, it was the latter ; and several very
unfavorable ones that succeeded, reduced the lama
lyto great distress, and finally to utter min.
Relinquishing his shop and hisgoods to hiscrecli
tors, John Glegg; heart sick end weary, sought a
refuge in London—a proceeding to which he , was
urged by no prudential motives, but rather by the
desire to fly as far as possible from the scenee of
his vexations and disappointments, and becattse he
had heard that the metropolis was a place in which
a man might conceal his, poverty, and sutler and
starve at his ease, ontmobled by impertinent end
osity or oflicibus benevolence ; and, above all, be
lieving it to be the spot where he was least likely
to fall in with any of his former acquaintance.
Bet here a new calamity awaited him, worse than
all the rest. A fever broke out in the closely
they had fixed their
abode, and first two or three children took it, and
died ; and then himself and his wife—rendered
meet subjects for infection by anxiety of mind and
poor living, were attacked with the disease. Re
recovered; at least he survived, though with an en• '
feebled constitution ; but he lost his wife, a wise
mei patient woman, who had been his comforter
and sustainer through all misfortunes—misfortunes
which, after vainly endeavoring to avert, she sop.
ported with heroic and uncomplaini:.g fortitude;
but dying, she left him a precious legacy in Mary,
who, with a fine na.ure, ail)] the benefit of her
motber•s precept mid example, had been to him
ever since a treasure of filial duty and tenderness.
A faint light dawned through the dirty window
art the morning succeeding the little event with
which we opened our story, when Mary rose sof. ly
from her humble conch, and stepping lightly to
where her lather's clothes lay on a chair, at the
foot of his bed, she put her hand in his waistcoat
pocket, and, extracting, therefrom the guinea winch
had been found in the gruel the preceding even.
trig, she transferred it :o her own. She than dress
ed herself, and having ascertained that her father
still slept, quietly left the room. The hour was
yet so eyly and the streets so deserted, that Mary
almost trembled to find herself in them alone ; but
she was anxious to do what she considered her du
ty without the pain of contention. John Glegg was
naturally an honest and well-intentianed man, but
the weakness that had blasted his tile adhered to
him still. They were doub'less in terrible need of
the guinea, and since it was not by any means cer•
fain that the real owner would be found, he saw no
great harm in appropriating, it ; but Mary wanted
no casuistry on the matter. That the money was
not legitimately theirs;',lnd'lbat they bad no right to
retain it, was all she maw ; and so seeing, site act
ed unhesitatingly on her convictions.
She had bought the meal at Mr. Ber.jamiu'e, be
cause her father complained of the quality of that
she procured in the smaller shops, and on this oc
casiod he had served her himself. From the eat li
ness of the hoar, however, though the shop was
open, he was not in it when she arrived on her. 'er.
rand of restitution, tut addressing Leah Leet, who
was dusting the counter, she mentioned tie circum
stance, and tendered the guinea ; which the other
took and dropped into the till, without acknowledg
ment or remark. Now Mary had not restored the
money with any view to praise or reward: the
thought of either had not occurred to her ; but she
was nevertheless pained by the dry, cold, thankless
manner with which the restitution was accepted,
and she telt that a little civility would not have been
out of place on such an occasion
She was thinking of this on her way back, when
she observed Mr. Benjamin on the opposite side of
the street. The act was, that he did not sleep at
the shop, but in one of the suburbs of the metropo
lis, and he was now proceeding from his residence
to Long Acre. When he caught her eye, he was
standing still on the pavement, and looking, as it
appeard, at her; so she dropped him a curtesy,
and walked forwards; while the old man said to
himself: " That's the girl that got the gu'nea in her
Meal yesterday. I wonder if she has been to re
turn it
It was Mary's pure, Innocent, but dejected coun
tenance, that had induced him to make her the
subject of one of his most costly experiments. He
thought if there was such a thing as honesty in the
World, that it would find a fit refuge in that young
bosom ; and the early hour, and the direction in
which she wrs coming; fed him to hope that he
might sing Eureka at last. When he entered the
shop, Leah stood behind the counter, as usual, look
ing very staid and demure; but all she said was,
" Good•morning ;" and when he inquired if any
body had been there, she quietly answered: " No;
nobody."
Mr. Benjamin was confirmed in his axiom ; but
he consoled himself with the idea, that as the girl
was doubtless very icior, the guinea might be of
some use to her. In the meantime, Mary waslinil
ing the gruel for her lather's breakfast; the only
food she could afford him, till she got a few shil
lings that were owing to her for needlework.
" Well, father dear, bow are you this morning!.
"1 scarce know, Mary. I've been dreaming;
and was so like reality that, I ran hardly believe
yet it was a dream ;" and his eyes wandered over
the room, as if looking for something.
" What is it, fatherl do you want you breakfast!
It will' be ready in five minutes."
" I've been dreaming of a roast fowl and a glass
of Scotch ale, Mary. I thought you came in with
the fowl, aid a bottle in your band,and said: "See
father, this is what V. bought with the guinea we
found in the meal r'
IMSAILDLESS OP DEN6NOIATION Piot ANY QUARTER."
* g' But I couldn't do that, Esther, you know. It
wouldn't have teen honest to spend other people's
money."
" Nonsense'," answered John. " Whose money
is it I should like to know ? What belongs to no
one, we may as well claim as any body else."
" But it mast belong to somebody ; and as
knew it was not ours, I've carried it back to Mr.
Benjamin."
" You have I" said Glegg, Pitting up in bed.
" Yes i have, father. Don't be angry. I'm sure
you won't when you think better of it."
But John was very angry indeed. He was dread
fully disappointed at losing the delicacies that his
sick appetite hungered for, and which, he fancied,
would do more to restore him than all the docter's
stuff in Loudon ; sod, so far, he was perhaps right.
Ha bitterly reproached Mary fur want of sympathy
with his sufferings, and was peemh and cross all
day 41 night, however, his better nature regaided
the ascendant; and when he saw the poor girl wipe
lbw tears from her eyes, as her nimble needle flew
through the seams of a shirt she was making for a
cheap ware-house in the Strand, his heart relented,
and holding out his hand, he drew her fondly tow
ards him
" You're right, Mary," he said, " and I'm wrong
but I'm not myself with this long illness, and I oft
en think If I had good food I should get well, and
be able to to something for myself It falls hard
upon you, my girl ; and of en when I see you sla
ving to support my useless life, I wish I was dead
and out of the way ; and then you could do very
well yourself, and I think that pretty face of yours
would get you a husband ) perhaps." And Mary
flung her arms about his neck, and told him how
willing she was to work for hint, and how forlorn
she should be without him, and desired she might
never hear any more of such wicked wishes. Still,
she had an ardent desire to give him the fowl and
the ale he had longed for, fur hie next Sunday's
dinner ; but, alas ! she could not compass it. But
on that very Sunday, the one that succeeded these
little events, Leah Leet appeared with a smart new
bonnet and gown, at a tea party given by Mr. Ben
jamine to three or four of his inmate friends. He
was in the habit of giving such small inexpensive
entertainments, and he made it a point to invite
Leah ; partly because she made the tea for him.
an I partly because he wished her to keep out of
other society, lest she should get married and leave
him—a thing he much deprecated on all accounts.
She was accustomed to his business, Le was au
coition ed to her, and above all, she was so very
honest.
But there are various kinds of honesty. Mary's
was of the pure sort ; it was such as nature and her
mother had instilled into her; it was the honesty
of high principle. But Leah was honest, because
she had been taught that honesty was the best pole
ey ; and as she had her living to earn, it was ex
tremely necessary that she should he guided by the
axiom, or she might come to poverty and want
bread, like others she saw, who lust good situations
from failing in this particular.
Now, after all, this is but a randy foundation for
honesty ; because a person who is not actuated by
a higher motive, will naturally have no objection
to a little peculation in a sari, way—that is when
they think there is uo possible chance of bemg
found out. In short, such honesty is but a counter.
reit, and, like all counterfeits, it will not stand the
wear and tear of the genuine article. Such, how.
ever, was Leah's, who had been bred up by world
ly-wise teachers, who neither taught nor knew any
better. Entirely ignorant of Mr. Benjamin's eccen
Inci method of seeking, what two thousand years
ago Ding,enes thought it worth while to look for
with a lantern, she considered that the guinea
brought back by Mary was a veld, which might be
appropriated without the slightest danger of ming
called to amount for it. It had probably, she tho't
been dropped into the meal tub by some careless
customer, who would not know how be had lost it
and even if it wire her master's, he must also be
quite ignorant of the accident that had placed it
where it was found. The girl was a stranger in
the shop ; she had never been there till the day be
fore, and might never be there again : and, if she
were, it was not likely she would speak to Mr .
Benjamin. So there could be no risk, as far as
she could see ; and the money came just
change
to purchase some new attire thit the change
of season rendered desirable.
Many of us now alive can remember the begin
ning of what is called the sanitary movement, pre
vious to which era, as nothing was said about the
wretched dwellings of the poor, nobody thought of
them,nor were the ill consegtenceS of their dirty,
crowded rooms, and bad ventilation et all appre
ciated.
At length the idea struck somebody, who wrote
a pamphlet about it, which the public did not read;
but as the author sent it 10 the newspaper editoni,
they borrowed the hint and took up the subject, the
importance of which, by slow degrees, penetrated
the London mind. Now, amongst the sources of
wealth possessed by Mr. Benjamin were a great
many houses, which, by having money at his com
mand, he had bought cheap froM those who could
not afford to wait ; and many of these were situated
in squalid neighborhoods, and where inhabited by
miserably poor people; but as these people did not
fad under his eye, he had never thought of them—
he had only thought of Omit rents, which he re
ceived more or less regularly through the hands of
his agent. The sums due, however, were often
deficiedi, fir sometimes the tenants were unable to
pay them, because they were so eicit i they could not
work ; and sometimes they died, leaving nothing
behind to seize for their debts. Mr. Benjamin had
looked upon this evil as irremediable; but when
he heard of the sanitary movement, it occurred to
him, that if he did something towards rendering
his property more eligible and wholesome, that ha
might let his rooms to • better class of tenants, and
that greiter certainty of payment, together with a
little higher rent, would renumerate him for tees
pense of the cleaningand repairs. The idea being
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agreeable , both to his love of gain-and , his betietro.
lenoe, he smitmoned his builder, and propespd that
he shou!d accompany him over these'• teneMente,
in order that they might agree as to what ;shoal
be done, end calculate the outlay ; sod the , - hoose
inhabited by Glegg and hie daughter happertirig tb
be one of them. the old gentleman, in the natural
course of eventslound hiruseltpaying an unexpect
ed visit to theimconsolous sufiect of his lest ex.
periment ; for the Past is was, and so it was likely
to remain, though three months hail elapsed since
he made it : but its ill success had discouraged
him. There was something about Mary that so ev
idently distinguished her from his usual customers;
she looked so innocPnt, so modest, and withal, so
pretty, that he thought if he failed with her, hwwas
not likely to succeed With anybody else.'
" Who lives in the attic I" he inquired of Mr.
Harker, the builder, as they were ascending the
stairs.
"There's a widow and her dinghtec, anti son
in-law, with three children, in the back mom," an
swered Mr. Harker. it I believe the women go
ontcharring, and the man's a bricklayer:. In the
front, there's a man celled Gleeg amd hi• danghter.
fancy they're people that have been better off at
some time of their lives. He has been • tnides.
man—a cooper, he tells me ; but things went bad.
ty with him ; and since hexame here, his wife di.
ed of the fever, and he's been so 'weakly ever
since he had it, that he can earn nothing. His
daughter lives by her needle."
.Mary was ont ; she had•gone to take home some
work, in hopes of getting immediate payment for
A couple of shillings would purchase them
coal and food, and they were much in need of both.
John was Fitting by :he scanty fire, with his daugbt.
er's shawl over his shoulders, looking wan, wasted
and desponding.
" Mr. Benjamin, the landlord, Mt. Gleeg," said
Harker.
John knee they owed a little 'rent, and he was
afraid they had come to demand it. " I'm sorry
my daughter's out, gentlemen," he said. " Will
you be pleased to take a chair,"
'" Mr. Benjamin is going round his property said
Harker. He is proposing to make a few repairs,
and do a little painting and whitewashing, to mike
the rooms more airy and emulonable."
"That will be a good thing air," ausweredGleeg
+" a very good thing sir; for I believe it is the
closeness of the place that makes us country folks
ill when we come to London. I'm sore I've nev.
er hail a day's health since I've lived here."
" You've been very unlucky, indeed, Mr.
Gleeg," said Harker. " But you know, jt we lay
out money, we shall look tor a return. We must
raise your rent" •
Ah, air, I suppose so," answered John with a
sigh ; " and how we're to pay it, I don't know L..
II -I could only get well, I shouldn't mind . ; for I'd
rather break stones on the road, or sweep a cross
ing, than see my poor girl slaving from morning to
night for such a pittance.
" If we were to throw down this partition, and to
open another window here," said Harker to Mr•
Benjamin, " it would make a comfortable apart
ment of it. There would be a room, theni for a
bed in the recent."
Mr. Benjamin, however, was at that moment
engaged in the contemplation of an ill-painted por
trait of a girl, that was attached by a pin over the
chimney piece. It was withnut a frame, for the
respectable gilt one that had formerly encircled it
had been taken ofl. and sold to buy bread. Noth
ing could be coarser than the execution of the thing
but as is not onfrequently the case of such produc
tions, the likeness was striking ; and Mr. Benja
min, being now in the habit of seeing Mary, who
bought all the meal they used at his ibop, reeog
raised it at once.
'• That's your daughter, ii it ?'' he said.
" Yes, sir ; she's often at your place for meal ;
and it it wasn't too great a liberty, f would ask you
sir,'lf you thought you could helpher to some sort
of employment that's better than sowing; for it's
a hard life, sir, in this close place fora yonng crea•
tore that was brought up in the free country air
not that Mary minds work, but the worst is, there's
so little to be got by the needle, and it's such close
confinement."
Mr. Benjamin's mind, during this address of poor
Gleeg's, was running on his guinea. He felt a dis
trust of her honesty—or rather of the honesty of both
father and daughter; and yet being far from a hard
hearted person, their evident distress and the man's
sickness disposed him to make allowance for them.
" They couldn't know that the money belonged In
me," thought he ; adding Woad : " Have you no
friends here in London 1"
" No, sir, none. I was unfortunate in tin:fines.
in the Coentry, and came here hoping fir better
luck ; but sickness overtook as, and we've never
been able to do any good. But Mary, my daught
er, doesn't want for education, sir ; and a more hon
est girl never lived r , q
" Honest ia -ahe 1" said Mr. Benjamin, looking
Glegg in the face !
Fit answer for her, sir," answered John, who
thought the old getleman was going to assist her
to a situation. 11 You'll excuse me mentioning it,
air ; but perhaps it isn't everybody distressed as
we were, that would have carried back the money
she foetid in the meal ; but Mary would do it, even
when T said that perhaps it wasn't yours, and that
nobody might know whose it wall which was
very wrong of me, rib doubt ; but one's mind gets
weakened by illnesti and want, and I couldn't hr I?
thinking of the food it won's]. buy us ; but Mary
would not hear of it. I'm sore-you might trust Ma.
ry with untold gold, sir : and it would be a real
charity to a situation, if yrna knew of such a thing."
Little deemed Leah that morning, as she handed,
Mary her quart of meal and the change for her
hard earned shilling, that she had spoiled her own
fortunes, and that she_ would, ere night, be called
upon to abdicate her stool behind the counter in fa
vor of her bumble customer ; and yet so it
Mr. 'Benjamin could not forgive her deld!etian from
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honesty ;.• and the more he hall trusted bet, the
_ireateeirsglhe. shoat to , tiie ; crnkle*, ^ Natio
ver, his short.siglited views of human nature, and
his incapacity .fq- ernnptelleltditlilt, l lll its infinity
-hales and varieties, canoed him to existed bit ill
noninn farther than the delinquent merited. In
spite of ind protestations, he could not believe that
this was her first miodemedier s : bat concluded !het
like many other people in the world, she had only
been reputed honSia; .becaese she had not beep
found out. Lealt si r iontound fierier hi the very di
lemma she had deprecated, and the Opprehensioa
of which had kept her co long practically, honest—'
vritnoui a situation and a cupe.;ed character.
As Mary understood book-keeping. the duties et
her new office were poen learned, end the only !wit
attending - it'svart,*that she could not take care at her
lather. But determined not to lose her, Mr. Ben
jamin futinthneantet teemed, • the difficthy by
giving them a room behind the shop, where they
lived very comfortably, till Glegg, recovering some
pnrion of health, was able to work a little at bia
trade.
In recess of time, however, ast infirmity begs
to disable Mr. Benjamin for the daily walk Item
his residence to his shop, he left the whole map
agemunt of the business to the father and daughter,
receiving every shilling of the profits, except the
moderate salaries he gave them, which were goatr
clout to furnish them with all the necessaries Writs.
Bo! when the old gentleman died, and Fla will
was opened, it was found that he had left every.
thing he possesses! to Mary Glegg ; except one
guinea, which, without alleging any reason, herb*.
rineathed to Leah Leet.
A !thongll chocolate is not a daily necessary like
tea and coffee, yet the taiga qnantityconsumed en
titles it to some notice. Chocolate is made trom
the beans of theobra cacao, a small tree of the mid.
va.family. indigenous to tropical America and the
West India lirlands,-whicn beers a very small flow
er, not two lines in diameter, and a disproportional
ly sizid gourdlike fruit, which is fit i inches tLiok,
and ten inches long. It contain. in a reddish•white
agreeably tasted pulp, twenty-five to forty kernels
or cacao beans, each covered with a skin, with
which they are bronght into commerce. When
the fruit is ripe, - the beans are separated from the
flesh and heaped up in pits or ditches covered:a ith
boards, where they are left some days under Ire.
quent inspection. A sort of fermentation is thus
set up in them which removes a good deal of theist
bitterness and renders them darker in colcr ; they
are subsequently dried in the; inn. There are a
great many varieties : that from Canteen is the
best, and the West Indian the worst. 'I he beans
of cacao have not been thoroughly examined; they
are only known to contain a peculiti mild fat, the
cacao butter, to the amont 0:48 per cent. according
to Bousingauh, and 53 per cent. accordiirq; to tam.
pedius. esperimen'ts found a considerable
quantity of albumen, a kitty of tannic scid, and
some starch among the more remarkable ingredi
ents. In preparing chocolate the cacao beans am
roasted in a c 3 tinder similar to those employed for
roasting calee. In this operation the aroma is de.
veloped, the bitterness diminished, and the beans
rendered fragile. They are broken under a wood
en roller, and vs innowel to revove the husk entire-
ly. They may then be reduced tote soft pails in *
machine consisting of an annular trough of granite,
in whiCh two spheroidal granite mill stones are
fumed by machinery, with knives 'attached to re 4
turn the ingredients under the rubbing surface. An
equal weight of sugar is here added to the pato,
which is &ally rendered vita smooth by fieliqg
ground under horizontal rollers on a plate of iron,
heated to about 140 dee_ Fah. The preparation of
cacao consists in roasting, peeling and grating the
peeled beans in a warm rasping apparatus or cho
colate machine. The flour of the seeds forms with
the liquid fat, a kind of paste which congeals to a
solid cake in the
A witty clergyman had been teeming one ever •
ing in a c:nmtry vitlaee ori the subject Of Temper
ance, and as 'mat, after the lecture the pledge wee
passed around for signature..
" Pass it along that way," said the lecterer, poin•-
ing towards a gang of bloated an 3 red nosed loafers
near the door. " ease it along, p-rhaps some a
those gentlemen would like to join nor cense
41 We don't bite at a large hook!' gruffly mattered
one of the material.
" Will," replied the ready clergyman, I be
lieve there is a kind of fhb called sucked that de
not bite."
have seen some people rudeby being over civ
il, and tioublesome in theireourtexy ; though, these
excesses excepted, the knowledge of courtesy and
good manners is a very necessary %truly. It is,
like grace and beauty, that Which begets liking atul
an inclination to lave one another at the first
sight, and in the beginning, of an acquaintance, a
familiarity; mid conseqbentlyi that which fuer
opens the door, and induces ui to better ourselves
the example% of when', if there be anyuting in the
society worth taking notice of.
bfpiRTIY rarer. w tlettrunta-4Snme English
people were visitin; a:, el.•gnrrt private garden at
Palermo, Sicily, and among the little ornamental
buildings they came to one Upon whieh wee wri!.
ten "Non aperite," that is r• pooh open." This
prohibitition Ohl,' served to excite their curiosity,
and they viry , uncivilly proceeded to disobey the
hospitabl i i owner's injunction. On opening the doe*
a forcible' ism of , water was scuttled full in their
faces. A very just, though not vol severe tetribe•
Lion.
04r When one sees a family of children goir
to school in clean and well meniled clothing, it
tells a real deal in favor of their mather a ono
might vomit that those children learn some value.,
We lessons at home, whatever they may be telor i bs
at schoots
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