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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-4-11, Page 2(Tneissretw wit van Few; exQ Ileums.) dficotildeg withed to teke them haele jab a One evening the Wren% teek eletilde Om emend them, but they would not coneenii aide and said, to Unit. Wore going they wished to bid "Olotilde, I want to aek •Your efldlee." Mr& ¥a tin good-bye. For they loved They went to hie rivet° rOeul leaving thet good women fee the eimple kindneea of Martha and Isebel with jemes. her heart, "James told me something in coed ence, At loath they took their plans in the be Raid, ewben be was beseeching me not to carriage beside the Merceionessa fligmisa the girla leom the caetle," for the Stelae. Gents Their hearts were "4 coeddencel I think I can guees what heattng cloleutly, aud every few rainnos tt woe, they would take Clotilde'S halide and silent- giele levee one of the girls." ey lima theme Clotilde felt heraelf already so remit more oleow which one yo no - light hearted said relieved -lore an oppreesive heemot asked him and te: ane ignorant, burden. When he epohe to Me about it, it %ears al in tilt! StQUe Giant °am° fltt) VW, Yoar oaae a few clays before themilepaztare, the tette of the eieters hake oet afresh. 1 was os, prostrated and eave that theneefor- They remembered so well the day of of readetion their departure, and their deepair. And ward the dream of his heart was o impoa- everything two bed taken their attention able ethat I didn't even dream of means more from him," then, aught it apin Welty, the beanis,. the oast enee iteeme, tau by the roanaide, the Very ruche 1 the "Are yort 4," a that r eelesa ciosuees vale of Tbillea the Moselle and its bar3kes a little surprised. Everythigsg WAS fall fmemories of their "e has tole me sme ebildbacel and melted their heerte. Bur eimhat se stmegeei she met -muse& they no longer had, the seine eyes for seting 44143re you not tunieeti that Ono their it all. Then they were happy, but now, return he has teeeted Martha with hie usual whet tears had heel ahe1l,whereegretei whee tenderness, and leabel aluloat 02101y1' deePar hal been quaqrca 441 wily go lay whet he tad Mel Rie Tee °Arriage bralight 'theta to the gates heart mey beve ebangeke way. o cum wee there to receive them. el went r lame if dee% kuow In any "UV are weltieg or Yell ilt the drawls, og eau 1 meeu to (lecithin him. I Abell (Ince- rOetthr Chitilde edidt as the went 'mere tion Isabel alae, mad shall letiele the tenth them threegh the lortg corridors. from We Or the other." It woe there *het they heti been brought Erie wife replied; "Yon brought me here np, Pet they hed increeeed, In years end to tell= et Jartieta and bie love for Isabel. stesture, thet they had ersieyed themselves, De you wisi mo to scud in one of then, thilt theY bed. hem happy. Yee. nethiug Will you quatien 011P aon or Isabel, s • bC04 ehouded• •th the great hall, eve you deeide yeureelf, or siet yen wish that I in several ot the rooms everythiug was the should!' _ e mxe, the tame beeke, tbe eatee heogiugs, "I behaved Welly to Imbed," here the game trophies u ha k2e. lu n t «U title love exiete.andmarriege lepeastbl roome they pasta though there was the let me make her bappy, in order diet she ante fereaturee At tat they reached the may forget my foreoerharehaea." clawing ream They etopped. They were to "Welt I will send her to you et once." deeply moved that they seemed quite out Cloak% went eway, babel was atillin the et breath. drawing room, The Merchiettese went up "Collage 1" the MarelliStle” whiepered aa to her And giaigit he opened the deer. The !lemma wa tett "The Marque: withee to ere* with you, dog before the fire with eis heuds stretehed my dear etalid." oet teivarde the doge. Ile wee alum, bawl hatened to obey. June had geae tO hie room where he wee When abe eoteeed 1argernont a ivom, ite wahine; for tale reedier. advanced smthn and kissed ner on the fere. 46 Lewreticei" eles dela, "here I am." ia.L "Alt l" be replied, in a quevering ole, "St down, ley child, we must have a "you bee° gee heck. have yeti, and yoga talk tegether." hare not aucceeded. Yes You he failed like (e e.04,34e basalt), piougizgnAtouldeeo the =pelf. I told you ea.', iubjent," you are quite a youn WomanISOW. He =tinned to warm We hands without Mang amid. " Eery we Are, liewresiceed she said nein, with emphale on the "Wo." JT e trembles, rani hie beta, riae.s, tees the tWa asters, and nUlkett reale eaten to, weeds them. The ehildren fall ea their knees, ide holds out his aria to elem. They seize his baud*, rover them with kksee, eta beret out eadaing "Father 1 tether 1 we have conte back." ,Auti he, 110 *tern and an hard, he weeps His mulligan been mesh roftened la these pat day*. Ile has kat his hard inaexibsti- ty. Macterteue has eweeteued him. Siewly he eareseestheir. hair. ".ldy daughters 1 my daught3re 1 I have vahmuderateed yeti, and 1 alk your pars don " "0 !father we havonothing to forgive, yea nobody. owe Us within% and we love you ges touch a °But sogneliody loves you, label:" thepast. Will you forgetall I" " Levers me 1" Well, rt help you. You to loved one of the sister'," "Perhaps 1 did," eel:Imes. teat" "perhapi° why you mentioned the name, it wita Timbal." "Forget that 1 told you so.° "Why, don't yon love her any longer ee "I mistook myself. Panoy erole anil not my beart." "Ah, I didn't know you had eo emegt - ho- agiUi(fl." James did not smile. He Wee paha and envoi& Then the Mei quis aid a if careleiny, "ty faith you have done well, 1 want. ea to know for certaa aboub what you had said, to me, and se I asked the young lade if she were willing to he your wite." And whet did elie stay •• She flatly refused." " Dld mho ay why r “No, however she pretends that her heart is free and that she levee nobody." "She lies," 44 Hoer de you know o see ems not love any longer, perhaps, but she did. one. It was not 1, but it was one of /der on." "Are you ore of itr' "She told Inc eo." is .Auti you, do you love her still!" said tea Marquis conapenionetely." lie nook We head, and as his father el,. peered doubtful he saki, almost violently, "No. I don't Jove her, 'deletion her." Seeing this he herded away, a prey to despatr, and shut himself up to, hie own nom. me you1 By the weminess, which stamped itself on her fan it was easy to read the tnortel despair a her soul. Jealousy, the great love she had for the young hien, the deep. amen motherly af- fection she bore to her sister, ail met to- gether and etruggled in her Mart, and made her suffer, (*Yee," elle said, "I have amended, MO- ceaded too well." 'demos was fondling Martha's halide and long kept there preesed lovingly to his lipa. The Sky by this time was quite overcast again. The black dead Wait being driven along by the full force of- the wind. Al- though it was only between four and five o'clock it was almost as dark as night. "Let as make Mete." said Martha. They disappeared, eefarthe being anion carried by the young hum. Soot* the rain began to fall, in large single drove atfirse and then all the drops seemed to mingle in the sky before dashing themselves to th.e earth, and it was as il & huge glass of water had been overturned. label walkel on under all the deluge without paying any heed to it, wet to the skin, pot hearing the thunder pease listening only to her own heart etrugeliog in revolt. At lasb she reached Bergemont. The next day she had a fever, but ebe was strong. She re- meinecitwo days in bed and got up nein gate well apparently. Bat was she better? Was. she not worse perhaps? Ono thought constantly permed her. She wanted to see more ache at loud this happiness she had wished to bring about, her own work in a weed. She wanted to touch it with her fingers so to speak, to Wet herself upon it, even though she offered in doing ao. And for thet it was negenary that she ahead be on ber feet. And, indeed, ehe offered everything that jealousy mule make her offer. She o longer seemed to exit for Jaren and Martine SOMetinlea, however, Martha aelelared tie remember that ehe had a eider. (r0 LI CONTINDAD.). WAITER VIII. Summer has come. Agana hax the forget clothed iteelf in its green mantle. The Moselle rolls along akar and sParkling. The meadows on ite haulm are full of balmy hay, the fielde have their wheat and their oats, and the but WU bathes ell the Tetley I ita burning rays, All Is green around Berge - moue The bterae Wane Only, eteodieg there amid its lovely ourroundlege eaeme to he A • pretest of eatieette, egad lierreer aphid the ueiv life and the leeplug op of the setleall. Two or three me/Atha have paned, and thloge el:menet changed in, then mouths. And yet there has been sorrow of heart arming the inmates et liargement male. Those who love beve net ceeseed to tare, but a erisia IS approaching undreamed of by the lifetquise James And Isabel egotma opoi4 to One Another, label hardly veutieres to raise her eye, to biro, wbile 10 is with a look of eouterapt and Allot cd hatred that &mats aometimes hooka at her. label tries to be as muck as ponible acme. She Oren Ahura hierthe, mei no losieer hae for her the maternal tender:leas of Hasa Tou mer tlitoUght °I 444d714,e4•• If" ,former demi, the little attentive:2e earesbes, Your bort 'lever eld4terl to 34 " 01 Pu l'and sweet words, end Martha notices tbe ele me the Wove to regard me as your Nth. er and ea Rive me your confidence 47,he was so little prepared for this kind of converisation that rue forgot to answer. The differeece and is addend by it. She Aeolus for the ream% iggebere cold. Dela hut without menu, dames---Whe it from contempt, or A elece of readea—passes Moque; had to renter° her, smiling as he ble time by Martha e aide. did INNAnd indeed to mime' . era du rot -knew " Nei" rile at lenath ota, "the Imo u°4 whab lied happened, he isel every appear. never COM to me. 1 bey° not yet thought lame a rally loving leer, so conataut wee 0 marriage and love nobody." his attention, so tenet hte worde, se kindly "You are not bidiug auything from. me els eye". arl7277,12nliothinct." elm busaccompenies her on her walks, or if gone out before him, he knewe where "11 is peseible that, brought up Ili You- to end ber. were, you directed your leek; not far aeraY Isabel has more than once aurprised them amoug theme who touched you nearly. Now welkin eleetc goy, arm in arm, bushing, den% be afraid to tell me. I know a good man, an (au at the happieees at IN. due, and nothiug you cen reveal evill sur, pries me." el otitn is transfigured, "But 1 have nothing to reveal. I love Ifealth shines= her Meeks, en her eyes, in her whole bearing. Her Ion—Isabel had gueased it woll—to this ceild her love is her whole. life. The Ion a her hope would kill her. Is 11 jealousy then that affects hor slater? Is it a cruel fate which mune these aur - prises, brings about these chance meetings ? One day Isabel was returning from Thillot, She was walking very quiekly because a storm was brewing on the mountains. It overtook her, and she took rail c in the than her will. That name was so powerful _weeds, and meow gam rook. mem with her that she could not hoer it without the storm had passed, abe reaumee ber talk emotion. ma saw in front of her James and Martha "James does ta ot love me. You aro tale- 1mm in eem. taken."1 They Beaded to he enjoying theraelves Clotilde his gone out, but not in order to "Yes socaohody worthy of you, wham leave them aloe& Neither Bergeinent nor you know, have known for a long, the girls bave any isee.d to hide their cram long time, and in wliont commeinently you tione. But she Ina gam to telt James who cm have eonfieence," cornea down immediately. He tauten the 44 And wlio fait dining zoom, in nett a sate of nervousness 44 Jamee that he is hardly able to stand. She Wee expecting that name, and yet Isabel and Marthe ere al much moved she made a sudden stet& It was stronger as lus but for different reasons. Isabel said to b.eraelit 'I wished to secrifice myself for him aud he knows it. What will tee ray to me ? He has already treated me 88 000 who was ungrateful, when he implored me to tell the magistrate. what I33ad seen. Since tqen be mut surely have under ;toed my ream' for silenced' And Martha, with tears in her eyes, whigh were full of love and trust in James' love, Wae saying to ber- "ow pale he 'is tind how easny one can see that he has suffered, and is suffering still 1 Oh, how love him, and how he filla my heart." It is to her tbat he first advance& She trembles weth joy and lowers her eyes. "Martha," he said, "I am delighted to etee sou again. Your sweet smile will brighten this dull house from which. 11 seems to me as if you had been away a whole century. it was good of you, Isdarthe, to come back. ' He next approaches the elder sister and Bays. "Our misfortune failed to soften you bub your devotion, your silence, your energy, profoundly touched us." he words were almost cold. He turns his eyes immediately upon his mother whom he caresses. So 11 is all over. He does not love rae any more." Such in Isabelei thought and grief inex possible seizes upon her, and seems to stills ber. She does not wish to be loved. Every- thing that lay in her power she had done to estrange that love, but now when it has fled, and she nuns forsaken, then it is that, even amid her success, she is full of despair. It le all she oan do to restrain herself, and pre. vent ber emotion from being seen. She em- braces her sister. Is it nob for Martha's sake that she is sae /zing ? The evening in the drawing rooM panes quietly. After dinner Clotilde takes Martha and Isabel to the old rooms which they find just as they had left them on the day of their de- parture. It seemed as if they had only had an evil dream, as if nothing had happened, as 11 they had never been driven away as if Oliver were not dead, as if the name liargemont was yet and alwaye a synonym for honour, and as if the Stone Giant still spoke of calm and peace. They slept and awoke the next day at the sound of that long age they had lie te.ned to thab fateful morning, and which were the first signs of life every morning-- tbe comings and goings, the noise of wagons, the shouts, the well known voices, the fowls, the dogs. Martha, who was first up, embraced her mister as she lay still in bed. " Happiness has come back has it not ?" she said. Isabel did not answer. Her eyes were tired end sad. She shut them, and could hardly. with the slightest touch of the ime, respond to the child's kiss. The days that fele:wed passed amid comparative cane z he preceding days had been so age +seed. Tones. Few of us are there whe fail to recognize the power for .good or evil that resides in One. There m the Wile of authority that intern obedience; there is the tone of Auger which exaeperates; tOore are the gutruleue, eing iaimating, tbe expestoiet. tog, the supplicatory tones. There is the tone of happy childhood, clear, meet, mo- lests; the tone of neglected Obildheed, au moving, so pitiful. There is nothius when one is uuder a high aide of exeitement so eliffieult to one trol as the voice, and probably there is to one inaleetor of cberaoter so accurate ma truetworthy as the voice. In the leavening tonea ot the Vike iu coneeratiou a die, Orireitaltinr listener Orku totally detect the various qualities a the mind atel bent which go to take up the character of the epeaker and this is to a levee extent true whetherlie apelike in A Litigant) Intelligible to the borer or in oue unknown to blue Culture ahem Weil in the toms of the voice ameat as °natty as in the tannage articulated, or iu the expectation a the fame Deaden, indeeisioe, (finimulation, Wattled gooi-nature, merriment, melancholy, ill- teepee—all leave their record as inefteceale ly ui the tones of the voice as they do on the lineaments tho face. The cultivation of one'll vole° thugs re. solves itself into the cultivation of one's character. Where the voice le habitually Soft, cagier, uniform, the Meader will Mien:nit* correspond with it. Whoa the voice its full of diesonance, hers:Mese, colduess, negativeness, the character will be found to correspond, with it. The vocal ermine are exceedingly mobile, and sanative, or they could not so exactly repreduce in tone the condition of one's mind and the form of men clianoter. Being thus mobilo tbey aro capable of hide finite cultivation lin the rialinees, variety, depth, and modulation of the toneu they produce; hut no amount of cultivation will kaput to the voice those petallike Ono and qualidea which indicate sweetneas of temper, charitableness of dispoation, or refinement of tate. These trate mud be In the char. actor, or they will not appear permanently and habitually in the voice. The mother who can repress in herself and in her cbildren irritable, angry, and im- patient tones, does much to Imo harmony and Peace withia the circle in which she is the contra. Tbere are then whose voices bring gladness, light,. cheer, wherever they penetrate), for they give anurance of 'balmy presence, genial sympathy, infotions mer- riment. Benefactors indeed are the owners of these voice is and their memories are pre- cious to the hearts of all who listen to the melody of their utterances. "He oonfldedhis love to me. Why should ma were laugbing gaily. They also, it he have told me falsely ?" "Perhaps he deceives himself, and only ima ines that he loves me." " man is not a Mild. "Are you sure it is I whom he loves ? D and theater was quite black behind them, you not think it is my sheer rather 1' and seemed to purism them with threats of "Martha? Head not mention her name." " Ask him aivein." tempest. Martha was leaning tenderly against James, who seemed pale and very "Useless. He lovesyou. At the mo- . grave. meet he told me his intention was to sek Isabel was close to them and watched your hand from toe," them with burning eyes. It seemed to her as "From whom would he ask it, if not from • • was evident, had been surprised by therein, and had taken refuge somewhere. They were almost running now becalm some mut- terings of thunder were still to be heard, if James teen very timid. Martha raised her eyes to him and said, "Janne, I am eo bappy, so very happy that I am almost afraid. It is too much, and I fear I don't—" "Dear Martha 1" he said In a trembling voice. "I ask nothing of emu, James, nothing at ell, but only that you will let me love you as I do now, that I may Bee in your eyes that I do not displease you, and. that will satisfy me. If you only knew, James, how unbappy I was at Giromagny when far the Marchioness or myself. Are -you -willing to be his wife, Isabel 1" " No." "Do you refuse?" "Yen,since I do nob love him." "But you miebt love him tome day." «1 am quite sure not, and not loving him, should be too much afraid of making him unhappy." "Isabel, your refusal surely minuet be dictated by a repugnance to bear our name. Once on a time to be called a Bargemont, was to compel sympathy and reopen. It is no from you, bo longer eo to -day whenthename is synonymone unhappy that resits, I don't knovehow I kept from dying. If I did not die, it was only because, at the bottom o my heart, lingered the hope of returning. Never to see you again, never to return to Bargemont seemed an impossibility. When slime with Isabel, my pride made me swear that I would never consent again to take a inees, am I not ox.e of the famdy ?'' place in your family, ib was done in good its happ no.ws faith certainly, though even then, a voioe "I darenot insist, further. Who k but James himself, if you question hem, seemed to be crying tome," • "Be silent. Do not swear. Yon are speak- ould undeceive yon, and make min give hi wup your mistaken idea ?" g against yourself, against your own Shetaerembraced the Marquis and went to liegthl my her own room. days were passed in dream- Clotilde was on the watch for her depart- ure, and when she saw her go she went in betide her husband whom alie found gloomy and reflective. "Well ?" she said anxiously. "Isabel does not love our son. I asked her frankly if she would be hie wife and she refused." "You see / was tight a little while ago. Perhaps they have already had an explan- ation. Perhaps Isabel has already thrown him into deeper, and that is the reason of the constraint mid coldness between them Little matter to me, I am happy and ask nothing more. I could pan my whole life thus. You believe nae, don't you James? "Dear, dear child 1" he answered softly, fondling her hands. "And I would have remained near you without guessing your heart, without noticing your lovelinese and grace." "0, you elaider yourself, James. Isabel, to whom you confused it all, repeated it to _ He paled a little, and made a Sudden geature as if to force away an importunate thought. Isabel pressed both hands against her heart, "Did he love her," she said to herself, "did he really love her UM ? and have I indeed succeeded 1 for tray this result was just what I had wishede TKE MAIlaa OF THE six HIINDUED MACDONELL MEN. with sbame and crime. Is that the reason Isabel?" "To think eo would be to do me great in- justice. The name of Bargemont lin never been dearer to rae than it is to -day, and I often imagine it as my own. What effaces Bargemont effects me. I am interested in ing of you, dames, and my nighte were full of your image. How often in my dreams did I not utter your name! Isabel told me of it when I awoke. If that exile at Giroma- gny had lasted some months longer, I would have died. I felt my life ebbing away. Bat I am happy to -day, Jame, infinitely happy. / ask nothing more. I see you and speak to you, and you listen to me. Surely it must be out of pity, ant, because you see that I am nervous and impression- able or 18 18 because you love me a little? • Burgin the War ot 1815. BY JOHN" FRASER, alOnTRICAL, The march of the Macdonnell men 1 They were not all Macdoenells ; neither wore they all Glengarriaus ; nor even, Sootchmen in that brave little band of *ix hundred, led by Red George—Colonel George Meedon- nell of the Glengarries, the hero of Ogdens- burg. e The officers were nearly all Sootannen, or, at least, bore Scotch antes; but hilly eve - sixths of the men were !sturdy Teen Pouch- Cenulian voyageurs and hardy shanty men; the woodreina's axe and the boatman's oar or paddle were as playthings in their hands. They Were pet such kind of men as had to the enemy's marksmen and to the gum Le %erect dwionis ethi eey Ci ;nal d colt pe nbta xvianodhear at the verious fortified poste as they passed; tILC causing them to be on their guard, the whole way and to hug closely the Canadian there, out of reach of the enemy's bullet. They reaohed B,sauharnois Ott the evening of the 24th of October, 1813, having encount- ered a Inevy storm on Lake Ss. Louie After clearing the Quicade Rovids--thence from Beauharnois by a midnight march, in Indi- an Ole, of t;wenty mile, through the baek, woods, arriving At DeSaleberries rear at early raotning of the 25th—ever to be res membered 25th cloy of October, 1813; in advance of Sir George Prevost, who had ridden down by relays of horse On Prevost: meeting with litelonnell, he exclaimed tone et greet imprint " And where are your men, Meodounellr Therm" said heimelourgell, panting a elm hUndrecl Worn out men aleepieg all areland, on the ground ,• eot enemata missing I Thus accomplishing the distenCe from Eiogeton to the battle -field of Chateauguay, 170 milea by water and RO miles by laud, in aiety holm of Actual travel. Wbat a timely arrival was Maodennelln force to De Selaberry, W14080 whole force preview to this ate mit mead few hundred men. That IMMO day, the 25th October, Hanaptones 'avenge was arrested; and then begau retreat, An ignominious retreat ; before a force now liscreesed to about one thouggentl men ; not ono -tenth of the hived- ing army --that is, counting all their ranks, regulars and militia. It is not our intention to chronicle esteem) ne PIE DOWnn,,4 01! THE IRAVIGATIO11 threngh, which they heel to pass, A goodly nomber of them were old voyageurs, liaving many times previously faced the (lavers then ahead of them. 11 waa jute: fifty three ereera before theta time, in 1760, when General Amherat pees - ed down these same rapids from delver°, with, his array °eel:tout 10,000 men, advanc- ing on Montreal, losing in me of these. enacts, the Coteau, 68 batteaux and 88 men. Maodonell did not lose one boat or one mart in his descent. Besides the dangers of the rapids. this little force after leaving Kiegeton bad to work its way though the gun boats and, the armed. sohoonera attached to Wilkinson's force; and on their onward course through the Thousand Wangle and down the Ste Lewrence they were expesed et all points Come, young Canadian reader, let us et) haat nearly four score years—to the month of October, 1813 ; to those dark but glorious daya in the pan history of our country—to then daps when our noble and brave Ames - tore had to defend a froutier over one thou - and miles in length, against the moults of an enemy ten times their number; manfully facing every inVOSion and filially driving the (Melee tome tier butler& The story or the sketch of some of the gallant) deeds of our forefathers will, aseuredly, teethe some agora in the "peace -bound pulses"' of the yonug Ca4Thagiclireloter4gette'd metal of sixty-two Eng - Bela mita in twentiesix Mere, by tbe Light Division, under Crawford, to eolith the field of Talavera; to over and paten the retreat a the British Army under Lord Weltiogton, after that terrible fight, which Wellington had won ; but Wail aterwarde obliged to te- tent or to fat back and OM up another poeitieu, fiemiligir to every the least acquainted with the earolies—the comters marches, and the betties of the Penineular WaTrine writer, es a boy, was intimate with Many of the men of the 95th Rifles.; one of the regimenta of that Lighb Division • and he now nails the deltght with tail he had tietened to the etirring stories of tlie old wieners ; only aeventegen men, we believe, fell out of therranke during that long march of sixteetvve mite. Crewford, with bis division, was posted high up Meng the Spaniale /elite ; nearly three ordinary demi' march from the aceue of egefitot; hei like the wee horse of old, "had smart the battle Oar," and hie anxiety for the eafety of his Chief emceed him to decade, in a moment, to strip every Mall to the lightest marching °edge eand to march directly on Talavera. At nearly every league of their Advance cavalrymen from the field of Waver& met • them ; reporth3g program of the battle, and then couveyiug bolt to Lord Welhogton the welcome Mars of the Mealy and, mire nevem° of Crawford and hie men to hia eupport. The excitement pervading all ranks wee interim Every man in the reales knew the distance Ahead to be reached ; and he could count, alumet to a certainty. the very hour of the arrival of the Division en the field—to joie in the fight—or to cover and protect the rear of the now retreating British army. The formation of militery camps which I have remarked." "No doubt, no doubt" Nothing ohauged in the attitude' of the Marquis and his wife towards label. They could not be stern with the young girl. And she on her part was sweeter than ever. And yet the marque' wished to be perfect- ly sure. on the subject. One evening after dinner, taking his son by the arm and draw- ing hira away into the woods, he said to him. Do you remember what you said to me thet summer day when you °erne to meet me and beseech me not to send away Martha and Isabel? Recall the reasons—one of the reams especially—that you urged to keep me from my purpose. Don't you remember? " No." 0150 AIANV DAIUNG YVATS of De Salaberry'a little band of Canadian Voltigeure and the bardabips they had to endure tor eeke in watehin and lu dia- puking the Advance of Ilamptess'a army ; but ;Amply to record, as at the heed of this article t'...44Tho roarch of the ilia hundred ?Mcdonnell men," and we have doue this to the beet of our humble ability. The advame of Wilkinson's Army Was aerated at Chrysler's Farm and there forced to take to thew beets and arose the Se Lawrence; thereby relieving Montreal from the joint attack of those two American Armies). Seventy-five yore home come and paned, away aim the ineethig of Mactiounell and DeSalaherry on the battlefield of Chateau- guay. This was it mooting of two kindred spirits—brothers in arms; leindonnell Was true repreeentetive of the Highland gentle, man of the old time, dem:idea from it ram- ily of aoldiera ; war, for material, had been their calliug or prenatal; the Mama nrsighb be paid of all Highlandere at the beginning of the hat century. Sotch utimes could then be found in every army of Europe. FranO0 0;111, boast of her celebrate, blargshaf Mucdoneld; DeSalaborry was a true type of a French noblemen, a worthy represen- 'Wive of mold Frontal family. The DiS berrye were early settlers in French Cauadis. The most etrikleg historical feature ol then tWO Oatlanane 18 this: —They were representatives of two noble families which, seventy years before the meeting 4 these two men at Chateauguay. were in arms againat the Crown at Groat Britain. The Maceorrielle were all out in the rebellion of 1745, closing with fatal Cullodeni DeSels,berry's ancestors were then soldiers of Old erance. Wo may here add -that in religion they belonged to the same church— the Church of Rome. If we mistake not—there were two DeSidat berrya at the etormin and fall of C;nidad Rodrigo, in January1812, one in the British the other in the Preach Army. We, as 'Canadians, are Allowing our old landmarks to pan out of reznemberance ot to fall into decay. Would it not be a fitting tribute of respect to the memories of those two noble Canadians to mark the spot where they firet met? If nothing eetter ; lot us erect a simple "May pole, ' or a cross; after the Canadian custom, or, better still, a Scotch cairn, com. posed of loose atones; headed with the toliowing inscription: Thia is the spot whore DeSalaberry and Macdonnell met on the 25th of October 813." Stoney Creek and Chateauguay will ever be noted as important turning points in the war of 1812. Harvey with hie seven hundred and four unloaded muakets and flintiest' looks check- ed the advance of Daarborn's army at Stoney Creek on Sunday morning, the 6th of June, 1813; Harvey's force was composed of fully three-forths regulars; De Salaberry, 'with his small force of Valtigenre ; consisting of nine -tenths of young French Canadian boys and voyageurs; watohed fen weeks, and finally arrested and checked the advance of Hampton's army then on full march on Montreal. This is it bright father, gracing for all time the bonnets of our young French Canadian boys • les bonnets rouges and tha touques blazes Of Lower Canada, COSH Dr TUE CANADIAN FRONTIER, extending from Plattaburg to Wait ; during the mummer andantumn of 1813, gave evidence of impendieg owning events ; the sum and aubstance of which was to atrike a decisive blew for the reduction et Canada before the 01050 of thee year, The Americana haa made then:k- nives maiden of the whole Western Am heratburg frontier; having dispoteed the British form serving under General Ptootor. Only a tew hundreds of Proctor e ran escaped by falling back and retreat% through the then dense forests of Western Canada byway of Ancestor to the entrench- ed position ut Burlington Heights. Port George, at the mouth of the Niagara, was still in the peasession of the Americana To our atory or aketch ;—"The matchof the Macdonnell mon." It was not altogetber a mareh ; lb wes partly it march and. partly it sail—it nil of one hundred and welly miles down the rapids of the Sts Lawrence frorn Kin- gdom to Beauharnole • and a march of twenty miles from Beaharnoie throutih the backwoode to join and aupeort the rear of DeSslaberry's small force; then facing, watching and disputing the advance of Haraptores army of twenty times their num- ber. This extraordinary sail and march of 190 miles was performed in the almost in- credibly ahot apace of sime of sixty hours of actual travel atter leaving Kingston until they reached the battlefield of Chateauguay. Sir George Prevost. the Commander-in- chief of the British army in Canada, was at Kingtton on the 201h of October, 1813. The American army of Emma 10,000strong was then concentrating in the neighborhood of Kingston, under General Wilkinson, making preparations for a descent oi the St. Lawrence to attack Montreal. Hamptoo's army of about the same strength, watched by DeSalaberry, was advancing on Montreal by way of Chateauguay to form a junction with Wilkinson on the shores of Lake Sb. Louis above Lachine. Those were dark demi for the fate of Montreal. Sir George Prevost mounted his horse at Kingston to proceed by relays of horse with all possible speed to the threatened points in Lower Canada: before starting he sent for Macdonnell—Red George, who had lately been appointed to the command ad, battalion of French-Canadian Fenoibles ; Macdonnell was then at Kingston organizing and drilling that newly raised regiment ; Proven asked him if his men were fit to proceed to Chateauguay, and how soon? Macdonnell's reply was :—That his men would be ready to embark so soon aledthey had dinner. Plucky boys, such was the material our Canadian army of • 1812 Wee composed of. Prevost gave him carte blanche, simply enjoining on him to throw his whole force in front of Hampton's ad- vance. fiwe may use a vulgar term, Macdonnell }lactic) Light for London. The city of London is -about to be electric- ally lighted from Fleet street O Aldgate and from its northern boundary to the river. The arrangements which the Commissioners of Sewers made yesterday is the largest scheme of electric lighting which has yet been ventured upon in Europe, and with good management there seems to be no reason why it should not be a complete success. The contract is to be for 21 years, and, bearing in mind the improvements which will pro - batty be made in electrical illumhmtion during that long period, the oommisaioners have not lost sight of the public interests. They have stipulated that when the profits from the oontract exceeds 10 per cent. ono - hall of the surplus is to be applied to the reduction of the clumps. Also the commis- eioners may, if they see fit, -purchase the undertaking at the end of the contract. This is an arrangement with whice the citizens ought to be well satiefied. It gtvea the new light a fair chance and protects the ratepayers from the creation of a monopoly. --(Ste James Budget. A Solid Silver Waggon fioad. Philadelphia "Press ":—" You may talk about nickel -plated railroads," said Vice. President L. fe. Stanley, of 904 Walnut sweet, "but what do you think of a solid silver waggon road? The Hormel:gm mine, in Colorado, has one, although when it was built they didn't know it would pan out that way. They had to have a road from their mine, a distance of three miles, over which heavy loads were O be drawn. They took the rock thas had been taken from the shafts theywere sinking andwlaichlay around in the way, andmacadamized the road all the way through. The waggons pasting over the road ground the rook down. One day they had a heavy rainstorm,. and when things got dry again after this ram, the wind blew the dust off the road, and all through the road bed, every which way, they coati see big streaks of ailed& Well, maybe they didn't collar on to the rest of that loose rock that lay around those nate 1 They sent away a lot of it to be assayed, and when the re- port came back they found that their road bed was worth 0200 a ton. It was a little expensive to drive over, but they had to have the road, and I oppose they've got it yet, if their mines have held out.' A Friend in Need. A family residing at Cape Elizabeth have Iwo boys, one aged four and the other two and a half years. The older boy fell fore- most into a tub of water. He kicked and screamed, but no one was near to help him, but his little brother, taking in the atm,: tion began tugging away to pull him out. MAW° hands were not strong enough to do so. All at once an idea struck him, and he left the room to return with a switch, found himself in a "fix." He had not onlywhich be began to apply quite vigorously to to find boats, but to secure pilots to conducttwo part of his brother hanging over the his force down the dangerous rapids of the St. Lemma& Theo preparations, forbun ately, did nob hike mucli over half a dee, there we r teen plenty of battoaux and other boats at Kingston; every Man WAR on board that night to sal the next morning. , That sail of one 'hundred and aeventy mike down the St. Lawrenoe from Kingston to Beanharnole, in open Mate was quite a different undertaking to a sail now -a -days in otie off our well-built and well-equipped. lake steamers. MactIonnell and his six hundred men had only batteaux and common flat -bottom boats or sows, row boas, with paddle and oar to propel them, to face the dangers of the Long Sault, the Coteau, the Cedars and the Cascade rapids ; the breaking of an oar or tohtloosti. ehenf apaddle would be a serious mat t - But those boats contained not only brave men, t men ' tub, nearest to hine The applioetion of the witch around the temper of the boy in the tub, who by a dexterous use of his legs and the help of his little preserver rained himself and backed out. --- A Grateful Little Heart. A thoughtful child livingnear Albany was recently given permission to hold a party for some of her friends and enjoyed the occasion with extraordinaty zest. At its close she welt to the place where slae keep her little savings bank, and taking it to her mother with a bearning face, said "Mamma, I have had such a very, very de- lightful time and enjoyed my party so much that I want you to take 25 cents out of my bank and, give it to the missionary fund." • .—___,—egeegeseas—as d The rage for miniatures est in delicate rims of very small gliantotde and Worn as br000hes, show no signs of abating.