The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-12-19

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4 Has BEN n idier IN tAs isnd.s- vosnswoeFHs
I - attempting 70 listen. op the evening
Eoftbe following Sunday, ~ : doIl. Iistlsss
| dil 5ourse of the discourses 20 common
at this period, N which there was e - writ
iag without seains, ana ias rel: ZION withaus
Christianisy- person who bad jusk
taken bis place beside me, tapped nae ON the
shoulder, and thrust lstser into my band
Ii waapy nswly-scquired friend of the pre-
viou1y ysening; and We shook hands heartily
under tbs pew.
"rhat letter has Just been handed me bg
nm scqusintance from your part Of the coun~
Try" be whispersd II trust 10 conlains
n0thing unpleasant
raised Il 70 light and On ascertain.
ing that IL was scaled and edged with black.
roee and quilted the church, I'll owed by mp
friend. IL intimatsd, ie two brief lines,
that my patron. the baronst had been killed
bg fsIl from he horse few evenings BE-
fore and that, dyiRg intestate, the allow.
ance which had hitherto enabled me TO pros.
ecute my studies necessarily dropped r.
Ecruupled UP the psper Ia - hand
"Ysu have learned sonbNhing very NJ
pleasant said Ferguson. "rardon mel
Ease 10 wish to intrnds tut, III at all agree
able Epuld fain spend the evening with
you
Ny heart filed, and grssping bis hand.
| bris IS intineted the pSport Of the CON-
municasion, and We walked out together ID
the dir. ction of the runs.
"ls ID, perhaps, ~ hard Mr.. Ferguson"
said. TO fall from ones hopes as from the
place 10 which thsy pointed. was ambi
tious--too ambitious, u may be--to rissf
from that level on which man acts the part
OF . machine, and u ks merely his bvdy, to
that higher level 90 which be performs the
proper part Of o. rational creature, and en-
ploys only his mind Bot that ambssiok.
nesd in3neecs mo no longer Mt pouR
mother, too--f M trusted 70 be On use EB
her."
"Ah, my friend" said Ferguson, ssI can
tell you Of q case quite as hopeless as your
owu-perhaps more 50. But il will make
you deem my ., mpathy the result Of mere
sslfshaess. In scarce any respect do our
G rcnmstances difs."
evening
was calm and mild as when had walked out
on the preceding one bot the hour was earl
ieT. and the sun hung higher over the hill
nswly-iorwed grave occupied the level
spot 10 front OF the little ivisd corner.
"Let us seat ourselves here" said NV
companion, "and win tell you story
am afraid rather tame one; for there 10.
nothing OF adventure IN IL, and nothing of
incident; but it may at least show you that
| am not untitled to be your friend. Il In
now nearly two years since lost my father.
he was no common man-common neither
in INTEL. ct nor Ia sentiment; but though he
once ioodly hoped It should be Otherwise
for in early youth he INDUCED in oil the
dreams Of the poes--he n0w hlIs grave as
nameless NJ the one before us. He was
native Of Aberdeenshire but held, latterIi,
an interior situation in the Office Of the Brit
ish Linen Company in Edinburgh, wheI
was born. Ever since remember bin, be
had awakened too fully 70 the realities Of
life, and they prese>d too hard on hrs spiriIs
to leave bin. spAce for the indulgence Of his
earlier fancies; but be could dram for bis
children though not Tor himself; or, ~
should perhaps rather say, his childrsn fell
ber TO ali his more nv, nile hopes Of fortune
and Il huence, and space In the worlds eye
--and, for himself, he INDUCED In hopes Of
later growth and nrmer ter, ure, which
pointed from the present scene or things %
the future. have m only brother, my g.
nioF BY several years, led Of much energy,
both physical and mental; in brief, one o.
those mixtures OF rfsctson ard actiFitF
which serm best formed for rising ii ths
world Nv father 1er med him rnonf ner..dl