Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-01-06

ment approves the co8se Farewell, friend
Ketchem, should troa aDle walk at thy side
in the future, come ulEo ne and thou shalt
not 60 away empty.
Ketchem could IL ke 10 reply to the
plain remarks of his quaker clerk. Alto
gether he had pursaA stzange course;
but he had managed pay an old debt for
him that had given ii ntany troublesome
dreams, and paidit eaen after he was bank
rupt.
As Ihave said before. tie Ketehena fasni-
y lived IN an humble awar, III an humble
home, up in an hunbb aIIay. Their fash
ionable friends at one res~sfed them as
unfit materials to 90 s5lsF truction
of the great tenn zssss-A
thrown UPON g ! - g - life. Mr..
sslf0r tfgle : s.sly cart through wet
and dry and sometimes cursed loudly at
his mule. The mother and the two daugh-
tiers, since they were safely down from the
pinnacle of pride and folly, felt willing
ness to make exertions for loaf of bread
or measure of meal, but they were met
by formidable obstacle. Like too many,
aye, nearly all the class they represent, they
had grown up in idleness without the knowl-
edge of the way the masses ''make living"
They earnestly sought something to do,
but their ignorance of the needle and other
!, implements of woman's labor was barrier
to their success. By dint of rigid econo-
! my they managed to keep body and soul
together. Pride had been their ruin-the
Accusing poison they had quaffed, and now
they felt it burning in the veins.
t Ella Livingston lived with her benefac-
| tor. 1t was a pleasant home and happy
5 family. Colbert's heart was an honest one
: and he was never happier than when doing
: a generous action. Ella, the outcast Or
:. phan, was rich; and having herself been
S the victim of adversity she could feel an
o others grief and her hand was ever open
!. to the needy and the suffering. The pray,
h ers and the blessings Of the poor were Civ.
r en- her. Again and again she sent human
It comforts to the Ketchem family in Their
} distress; for in the family of the christian
e quaker she had learned the great lesson o
a beneyolence She felt it was more blessed
n. to return fish for serpent than serpen
d for serpent-bread for a stone than ston
IS for stone.
Another scene and our story is ended
rs In CHEEKY home in that great city, live'
is Crocus and Rhoda. They were marie
lie and happy, Why should they not be 2
:" They are sitting by a cheerful fre-Crocu
as in the corner with his pipe and Rhoda a
t. his side. That home is the gift of the bt
in nevolent Colbert. Rhola- la,,~I.--is--s-
on her husbands shoulder ana say :,
p "Swate Crocus, amt w hapPS
:, = 7,SS $p2fHs aSsr ssSsa sii $ dass
cd "And not the devil" adds Crocus.
no "Och! he is a gentleman, Crocus."
,ol "And not walking Udolpho or a w
Ids, ard
era ''The howIy vargin be wild him"
ont "He is not woman-a she monst
1ad Rhoda."
If a '.Niyer bit"
the "And gooef Ella Livingston"
as "a blissed Angel, Crocus."
ion The fire on the hearth glows CHEEKY
and the sap in the forestick sings merry tt
the with the song of the kettle where the
tres tatoes boil, and Rhoda looks up IN
the husbands face saying
mos "Och my own swate Crocus, amt
happy as the brides that come IN
un- spring 2"
tisfv- And CrocuS mods