The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-01-14

evening rlde IN his 0ne-h0FSe chalSe TO
and from his suburban residence. 1t is
not worth while TO say on which side of
London this was chosen, for the suburbs
have strong family likeness, differing
only as much as rich and poor relations
may do. They all haye their Minerva
Terraces aud Belle Vue Cottages, and
now-a-days Albert Roads and Victoria
Squares. They all, too, have their little
great people, from the reigning beauty,
whose Sunday attire sets the fashions OF
the place, to perchance some county
magistrate or ci,deraRt lord mayor, who
lis looked on as a second Solon, provl-
IdentiaIly sent to enlighten the world.
Trihing as such weaknesses seem, at
which we are all inclined to smile, grave
mischief arises from them; for almost all
our social evils aIise from a want of that
extended sympathy, which, stretching
over the barriers Of class, should commu
nicate good-like light-without being
impoverished, nay, multiplying it rather,
as by rejecting mirrors. Now the sys-
tenn of cligueS, whether they be of the
witty or wealthy, or of the little-great
people of a suburban neighborhood,
strikes at the root of all this. 1t hedges
a little. party round with thick stone
wall, impervious to mortal sight, while
the melancholy part of the affair is that
the poor deluded prisoners think their
dungeon is the world. Mr., Markham's
world consisted of the people with whom
he transacted business in the day, Che
always dined with his son in town. and
the two or three neighbors they visited
y but as they all belonged to the same
genus, do not think be ever knocked
out cube of his wall, through which to
take peep beyond His only daughter,
an elderly young lady of about thirty,
and his wife, completed the home circle,
to which his orphan nephew and niece
had lately been introduced.
The father of Herbert and Alice had
been very different character from his
elder brother. He had been a music
master in a provincial town; and though
early left widower, had brought up his
children in much responsibility. But so
precarious did he know such a means of
existence as his own TO be, that it had
/ long been the wish Of his heart to estab-
lish Herbert in trade. Of his brother he
knew little else than that he was pros
porous man; and when he found that
4 an illness of some standing had assumed
dangerous turn, it was very natural
thing to leave his children to the guar
Edianship of his only relative, and two
hundred pounds, the savings of life, to
his care till they should be of age. Mr..
| Markham considered that the only sensi-
/ bic wish "poor Charles" had ever ex-
pressed was that Herbert should be a
tradesman it met his cordial approba-
ton but as for advancing any of the
two hundred pounds for apprenticing
him, he should do nothing of the kind.
The youth was nearly seventeen; let
him get situation which would "lead
to something" Alice, who was three
years her brothers. senior, was equally
desirous of independence and perhaps
the fondest hope of both their hearts
was that they should not be separated.
Yet they both knew that there were few
situations in which this would be the
case therefore was Alice proportionally
grateful when she heard from Herbert,
on that eventful evening, the cause which
had detained him so late. He had found
employment for himself and sister as
assistants in an extensive drapery estab-
lishment; nothing remaining to be settled
except Alice seeing the parties, and the
necessary reference TO their uncle being
made.
\ What a benevolent dispensation of
Providence it is, that you h soaring alofl
on the wings of hope and expectation,
and looking at life as il lcM look through
Its own brightly colored imagination,
should find in its own untried spirit the
strongest weapon Of defence against the
world with which il must wrestle How
else could the suffering youth of this
great metropolis, not counted by tens and
by hundreds, but by tens Of thousands,
live through their fearful course of slave.
Try, in numbers sufficient to make at last
their deep-toned cry audible. Alas
alas we take no account of the myriada
who have sunk ahertheir term of suffer.
ing into the crowded sepulchres or the
dense city. And yet how great thing
is every human heart, with its little world
} of hopes and fears, its warm affections,
! its trusting faith, its bright imaginings
| And how desolate, indeet--desolate as
the last survivor of worlds wreck
} must that one be who hath not some dear
ones to mourn and rejoice with him. So
: desolate, that would fain believe the
J earth counts them BY units; and least ol
, all do | believe they would be found
among the struggling and oppressed, fol
J such have warm sympathies. But this
: is mass Of misery, past, irrevocable
: though good for US sometimes to think
on there is another picture yet more
painful, because more present TO pui
) sight, and more disastrous in lis results
. The myEiads who do not die, but puF
: chase lingering life by the sacrifice 0
; health for lis remainder; or worse still
4 1.-The myriads whose minds are warped b.