Eastern times., 1856-04-17

1 SiCos mch' lucy iCpieoOh' PO"CI " uOm'
Sir, am plain farmer and have no crops,
ard hearing your worship had corn, 1 have
come fifteen miles this morning, money in
hand, to buy little, if your worship will sell
me few sacks
Not pint MEASURE answered the rich
man, with a sort of angry manner. People
come to me as if had laid up corn for them,
to dole it out as they want it. Go as you
came. do not mean TO sell bushel until
snow falls. can get my own price then'
But, your worship,I have two horses and a
COW, and have five little mouths and my wife,
and we have not peck of corn, nor bushel
of meal, nor pound of -four. We have been
living on few potatoes and turnips, but these
are all gone but have money here, sir, and
if you will SELL
Not kernel intend TO hold on for high
prices answered the rich man, walking to-
wards his mill.
But only once, to me, sir. l can't well go
back home empty, sir, if you please
If sell to you, must to all. You need
not ask me, nor show your money that way
don't want money. ! have more than can
lend out now
Here Thomas saw the rich man proudly
walk away and disappear along the winding
road that led past his silent mill. The poor
man raised his eyes to Heaven, as if asking
aid thence, and turning about his horses head,
slowly and mournfully retraced his way home
waid. As he went, he talked to himself, and
said -
The neighbors told me it was no use to
come; that Squire Bradling had refused every
body, and waited till the whole countryside
was starved out, cattle and men, and then ask
any price he pleased. | did not think rich
man could be so hard hearted
Here tear trcked down the disappointed
mans cheek.
1t would not have been so hard, he contin-
ued, to man on foot. who overlook him, If
people hadn't expected to buy of him. They
saw him buying up so much they thought there
need nobody else buy. But now, friend, you
see that it is just the same as if there were nt
no corn in the country. Nobody expected he
was going TO make money out of Gods fam
ine'
They didn't know the Squire's character
as well as l do answered the man. He
thinks only OF money. He thinks money is
varnish for everything. He says it makes a
man respected and feared, and gives him influ-
ence, and that is all he wants
You seem TO know him well, friend
l have reason to. was his tenant; /; and
because my sickness put me behindhand in
rent, he sold me all out, and put US forth, me
and my wife. TO shift for ourselves His mon
ey was balanced against US, his fellow-crea-
lures, and he put US out in the cold TO get his
money! If we had died, it would not have
troubled him, so he had his thirty-two dollars
quarter rent in his strong box. He won't let
his mill run now, because he means when he
sells corn that all shall grind it there
Well, there is God above, and higher
and greater than Squire BradIing, and He will
will not wink at sin even in high places
Sinp The Squire would be surprised to
hear you say it is sin for man TO do as he
pleases with his corn, and TO make money out
OF the wants of others. Why, sir, the Squire
is church-member; and goes to preaching
every Sunday, and sits in his red lined pew
and on soft cushions, and praises and prays
,;,h ha Lact saint Of thar, oil
| wonder how he faces these verses in the
Bible: "The gold and silves is mine, saith the
Lord - and ''thou shalt not grind the face of
the poor p and also. this verse, "Carry corn
for the famine of your houses - and also,
How hard it is for rich man TO enter the
kingdom of Heaven"
Why, he stands these shots braveIy, carry
ing high lip and stiff neck, and never seems
to think of his own full barns, and the houses
about him perishing with famine!'
If wealth so hardens the heart, | pray
may die in this famine rather than live TO be
rch.'
Here, coming to place where the road
parted into two ways, they separated, each
pursuing his own path TO his destination.
The following day was Sunday. The village
bell rang out musically over field and water.
The farmers and their families who lived near,
went thither ON foot those residing more dis
tant, rode in wagons or on horseback but the
handsome silver mounted carriage and fleet,
sleek and well fed horses passed one after
another the humber vehicles, and discharged
its aristocratic load at the church door,
The clergyman in due time rose to preach
his sermon. He was a middle-aged, benevo-
lent looking man, and greatly beloved in his
parish. He sympathized with them in all
their troubles.
The minister, with a countenance of unusual
gravity and solernnity, gave out his text
Proverbs, xI. 26-'He that withholdeth the
corn, the people shall curse him but blessings
shall be upon the head of him that selleth it. ,
Twice he repeated clearly and impressively
the text and then deep silence os expecta-
tion followed. Every woman and child in that
house knew whom that awful text referred to :