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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-1-30, Page 2, %he Verenteer, °routine , , , t the gra woluroh ,wuz 0"4,100, feu ee eretn., cloth tlatIST silk, , Bonne riob. es twits= then Grows on or el brindlen milk; /Wiled Poet% bead etarts, etift dieltem, ste etovepipe hue vrere them. te,' tioede ntle troueetioonem tient then 0011140 tette! dew e la prayer, oes older in hie poolpit high said, eti US elOWly rip: Our organiet ie Imp' to hum, laid unIna reee a matte, we hey b eubstitoet. LIA Brother ueore anas nl abetuere, . rin some ,un, in the oongregetton be so kindn to vooluteer?" , to then a red weed, draulteu town, of ton toned r0wdY gitYle Ivo an interdectory hiccup, an' thee stagaered td .hen.othneteltenteleehthe atmesmone otere crop, a mime er sin, .P.' Mao' met air of sanctity thenedorl uv or giu, :hen Deacon unmoor.. he yelled, hie teeth alk. sot on edge: . This man peetanee the house of God! W y, this is sacrilege!" 3ie trame dein' hear a word he mid, but nouolied 'ith stumblin' feet ale sprawled am stem'ered up the steps, an' ant gained the organ seat.j :mono through the oeys, an' soon fetthen. went pawin' there voile a mania !het seemed to jest bulge out the neut. an' loe• .. tray the brain ; mntlien lio slapped down on the thing Ithhands en' head an' knees, le-slaui-de.shed bis hull body doWn kerflop upon eon the keys. tee Penn. }he organ roared, the musk flood went Bweopin, high and dry, t swelled into the rafters and bulged out into ' the sky, Mu, or entrain shook an' staggered, an' seemed to reel an sway, La' the elder shouted " Glory!" an' I yelled out ," Hooray!" , oe then be tried a tender strain that melted io our ears, Haat brought up blessed memories an' drenched :....-- °em down 'ith tears ; . Ln' we dreamed of ol' time kitchens, "ith Tabby .on the mat, Iv home an' my an' baby days, an. mother an' all that I LW then he struck a streak uv hope—a song from penis forgiven— !het:bunt from prison bars uv sin, an' stormed the gates of heaven; lhelnernm' eters they sung togethor—no soul •cla,:' i- was loft alone— Yeaelt the universe wuz safe, an' God wuz on his throne I in' then a wail uv deep despair an' darkness come again, ...name black crape hung on the doors uv all the homes uv men ; ' to luv,„rto light, no joy, no hope, no songs us mad delight, ito then—the tramp. he staggered down an' reeled into the night ! 3 tat we knew he'd tol' 'his story, tho' he never spoke a word, el' itevia the saddest story that our ears had ever heard; le hed tol' his own life history' an' no eye wuz dry that day, Ten• -the elder rose and simply said: "My brethren, let us pray," —S. W. Foss in Yankee Blade. . . l tione. The younger, of new ecettaoeedt whoilehoe .00uld not bet be amused It: t wilftt: MU% 60011, 40cleafia ebeolete, yet reverenced with all . his. heart the, noiteet eerneetness . , ,,, . , „ . , , wAt peronice4 14 luetmide erbient he would not have ItneWhinow -te OtteroPt to ohnuge.. 'The elder WaVate ootirageottely upright Mid en fendlY Offeetionate 114 he'wits herneneue 1» oniward ekt?Ok.41,10e. *act detne weer. 'Tile lane he heed for . bite Protege, Pepeotelly bis es,gr '• h 'al t h 1.1 . lel ' lt, I a . one o e e on Ma 0 eal ear y haPthd 1g, led Inee often to talk a a rid e ' - his own yeaeg twee and a his coejagel life, ie h• n • t e . . .. . , w le 1 we easy to. be eeen mat eon& of true love s fruition had. fallen tO.hinlet• Tiannow Preaeber boarded with the Iti• grams, whose bent:Immo mane:ion, in a an grove of red oak d bleokneok, stood at the head of a !street called Meiden Lane, on the aide of whiob, where it made a bend, was Ur. Wymeaa's armderny, Itehind, ex. tending Beath end 50othwest, was their plantation of two thousand acres. Here also bed boarded. Harriet and Ellen while at school . for ia those times fatuities who . were at tt'le highest in property and 1100i4 'position for the sake of the school and the -oh urohes, , took boarders, and that et none- inal chergen considering the living r is- peened. by them. urn Ingram, a niece of Mrs. nlay, had been brought up a Baptiet, but after her intermerrittee had accepted the faith of her husband, :Methodist chess. leader. As neither of the congregations could afford to hold public, worship every Sunday, the members of eaoh commonly attended that of the other on alternate ay n ' t in the oft di • meeting.d s, otwiths and g 8 onesion of denominational differeinee. These, even sometinaea when aorimonions, were iguored in neighborly intercourse ; for indeed the Rev. Mr. Buffington, a near neighbor of the Ogeeohee posters, who served bona Horeb and the Baptist church in Gatestou, was believed by his brethren to know, when duly roused, about as well as Mr. Swinger, bow to meet blows and to give. Mr. Wyraan not often preached there, suspecting that his brother Bulling. ton's feelings were fklittls hurt' sometimes at the praise bestowed upon his more learned discourses, and when he did, re- cognizing the policy and the duty, asnar as possible, of being all things zo all men, sen dem preached mere dootrinal sermons. Our girls omasionally visited. the In- grams, Ellen as fmely, because she knew that she was as welcome, as Harriet. Henry Doster had seen them seldom, and not at all since he had first gone to oollege. One, day, when he had been -in the village several weeks, Mrs. Ingram, happening to enter one of the stores, 'mot at the door Harriet May, who was about to return borne in the family gig, in which her brother had brought her. . "Caught yoa at last," said Sdre.Ingram, " just as you were about to steal off. What have I done to all you people that not - one of you has darkened my doors in weeks on weeks? Will May, you may just go home by yourself, and tell Aunt Mertha I kept Harriet and carried her home with me, that being the only way that I could get her there. You young folks ought to be ashamed of yourselves for not ceiling on boarder' • t my aud. showing him florae anent- ion. I tell you now that he is as good oom- pany as anybody, if be is a preacher." " Why, Cousin Emily," answered Har- riet, looking down at her plain gingham, " I couldn't stay to -night. I jest came to town to get some things for ma, and—" "Yon needn say you can't, for I say you shall; and if Will is too busy With the plantation work, or rather with his hunt- ing and running, about, to come for you in two or three days, I'll get Mr. Ingram to take you, or I'll sena yoa in the carriage." " Stay, Harriet, if you'd like," said Will. " I'll come for yon whenever you say. You needn't be troubled about your dress. That's good enough for kinfolks and a preaoher, Methodist at that." , " Methodist at filet I" retorted Mrs. In. gram. "1 wish meg were as geodes Henry Deaner ; and if you didn't think so mach of your own good looks, you'd wish you were as handsome. Bat you are a good boy for giving np so nicely for ' Harriet to stay. Now do, my dear Will, you and Hiram, pleage make anat. call soon on Mr. Doster, and tell Ellen as yon go by there that if she has anything against Emily Ingram, that respectable lady would like to -know, as soon as convenient, what it is; and you tell her further that if she does not come to my house within less than one week from this day I,will sea if it is possible to know the reason ve33y, and tell her that I said it in earnest and without cracking a single smile Hear ? " . „ ret ' "ear' °origin. If Ellen wants to come, I'll bring her up te-morrow in our carriage. Maybe I'd better be with her when she meets the Doster that's so awfully good- looking." ,, "1 didn't so describe him, you conceited fellow. I only intimeted that some people might dare to think him handsomer than even you. Well, off with you. Good -by. My love to aunty and all the Joyners." "How did you girla like the young preaoher ? " Mrs. May asked. of her daugh- ter on her return. .,„ " Ohnina, I wae glad Cousin Emily kept me, although I felt not quite comfortable in an everyday frock in pregenoe of a young man so well dressed and so cultivated. However, the next day, when Ellen brought me another, I was already at ease." "Yea n Ellen sent me wordily Will that she was going to join you .at Etnily's, and suggested that you might like me to send you something." "Bless Ellen's heart, and years toot You are both so thoughtful.' Henry Dos- ter doesn't look like a preaoher, ma. He's handsome too, and a good talker, . and a 4 f good liatenee. , "What did he talk about 2 " "013, lots :of things -nsooiety, books, course, and, to teli, the tetelle, Indlike to see him MYself after all the tent abent hie.naieg eo ernart spa each a Ana preettlaer." " Etenneall hisee, ,4 doubt not, when he ,comenee eee Town T l', - otine Ifirain, Will cog/ OPoa Wm before thotiana X hopenhat when the, notteg man, dews, isoinbeether Will \wont' „,be es oonclesoentliog in Inennern to him oa he its to Tome,' • . " " Willieen does (teem to rather wieb. to t ' T I n 1 • h ' ' pa= romze ortli wee 1 In MY Inert he'd, be as ettentive to bUda0Se. SO Tom Duster. The poster property ie improving and in. greening coostautly, while,. if . it waernt for Eevnt Ore Weald, ge to reek feeten ' titan it is going, alresden If. he and Ellen are ever te marten I wish they'd do itSobie'aud let him. settle dowo to work., . 11iraea noes some bettor titan he ; but thenee, repel ,for improvement there too." "The (moony with both of them, ma, is that they've been so long taking some . things 16r granted that—" " "Oh, well, well, eland, let' es all hops ,.. . ,. they II see in good. time the need Of a change, end thou go serionely &mat making it. Go to your room now and change, ,your .frocht I want you te help Ritter in baking Some c/akes." ' The mothers of these families ranch de- sired ,to each have the other's daughter for her daughter-in-law, though the' oontem. plation of the other's son in corresponding relationship Was far from eager. The young men had received many an earnest parental admonition of the danger of toeing what they had been (taunting on always in security ; and for mord than a year past they had been growing more anxious Upon the subject than they would have admitted to any. Especially was it them With 'Hiram, who, of the two, was more singleminded, of far greater persistence in sullen purpose eind capable of deep resentment of injury' done or suspected to be intended.. Not courteous by nature he had ever nepotted himself toward both the ' 1 '1 ' la „ gir a as i neit er • • had ght to opinion aa to the disposition which circumstances had destined. Win liam May, gay, volatile, was fond of teasing his little sweetheart in all ways within the limit of impunity. In neither cam had been that ardor of pursuit which is always becoming, and which is almost 'always necessary with neon girls as Harriet and Ellen. Therefore, when aourtship began to be avowed, the men were sarprised, and Hiram indignant, though muoh frightened, When, their proposals were checked by the , girls who said, smiling, that, having been confined at school so long, they must have rest of indefinate duration, with as much freedom and fun in it as possible. They were lovely girls. None knew that fact better than Hiram and Will, and, I may add, Tom Doster, who lived so near,dyet regarded himeelf asso far away. No doubt from childhood they had looked forward to the destiny which to all minds seemed in- evitable. Yet now, become women, they felt that influence of a kind hitherto un- known must accrue before they could eon. sent to take each steps. Although Tom Doster had never shelyn, as he was aware of, any preference 7or either, Hiram particularly since his own ' ' t — most unexpected disoouragement, suspected him of wishing to marry Harriet, sun nor some time past what had been meant .for condescension toward him had given piece to a reserve that ill concealed his, jealous hostility. If Tom's preference had been for Ellen, such hostility would have been as deep, tbongh different in kind. But in that case he could have given, as he knew, open and effectual expressioft to it, and this he would have done with his native arbit- my resoluteness, knowing well that his chances of getting Harriet, uncertain, se he had been startled to find them, would! 1,3,e reduced to nothing unless Will was to h tee Ellen in exchange. Tom w ',entente° egt suspinion; which, whether we I outt, :. te not, wag then known to none besides him- self. He had been meeting Hiram's new manners as he had his former, apparently not noticing that they were different from what he might have been better pleased to see. His visits, especially at the oeynere, continued as theretofore, infrequent and Beamingly, if not really, aooidental. Several times, however, within the het six months, when the girla, together or singly, ,were visiting friends in town, he went there, and —generally with his ootisin—called, upon there whenever they were elsewhere then at the Ingramen In this time Henry Dos- ter Ina become well acqnainted with both ; but it was near the end of the sprintebefore he made his long -promised visit to Tom. Thia °conned only a few days after a call which Hiram, responding to many suggest- ions from both families thereto, had made upon him. - Daring the sojourn of a couple of days the cousins paid a visit together to the Mays and Joyners. The easy courteone. ness of the preacher made a good impreste ion on the mothers. Mint Joyner, a much more ardent 'partisan of Horeb than Mrs. hlay, said thee she could ,notabut wonder and be sorry that such a fine, bright young man could. ever have become a. Methodist preacher. ' Will and Hiram, as in their mothers' presence they must, behaved with 'decent hospitelity, although Ellen thought her brother might have made fewer allusions to the profession of the principal visitor, and perhaps Harriet would have been more pleased if Will had been less punctiliously gracious. ,, Two remarkably fine young women, Tom," Henry said when, having parted from the Joyners, they had mounted their horses .for the return. " I wonder you haven't fallen in love with one of them. Indeed, I em inclined to suspect yen have —perhaps with Mies May, as I noticed that you had rather more to say to her than to the other." Tora laughed and answered: "Yes, they are very fine girls; but I've never indulged what thoughts I may have let come into my mind omosionelly. ' - • "Why not?" " Oh, reasons enough, Henry, for thin." "Are they actually engaged, think you,' either couple en , . ,, e can't say. If they .are not, It amonnes to about The same. It has beenguillotined understood always tient it is to be so some, • - • time or other, and the glee, knowing that, feel I suppose, that they needn't be in a hurry. Those boys, I think I have noticed, have been getting impatient about matters. Yott can see that by their confounded Oyer- politeness to gentlemen in their own hottses, whiont mount that .gantleneen may, titled notice that if they come there for any par. pose ontside of paying ordinary neighborly eivilitieg they may AS well keep aWay. Ma, . , eve she doeen't believe that they are en- • . ' ' tn , . . ., gaged ; rtna she Boys fur erraora, he added, with a hob quite kneatty'ettile ', that est& of the mother a is enxieme for lar. eon's _ . . marriage with the other's daughter as soon,, and wants , her oven danghter's,pat Off OS tete,' ea poseible... It's it .tight interesting ease, ia it not, where in the Wier, each hap to give cm much boot." . ,* They walked their heroes for it while in 900,26e. , PlIA.PTER XII. ' , . , fi Tore4" hie ettlusin 'tit ' length geld, " if You dte atitifled thet these Orlin ore not engaged, and if yon has' feeling in. that es I ' ' t ' ee 'h ' oti ehould reprelie w 1, . 010110 0 W .Y Y . . . . it, tiniese yen are eoniidont, thet ite India, genoe wonln be 110,11010.30. ilt ie, pleitriel,ine ,. them• and in the looka that hoth of. like you, . . . , ., , ., •4 a “1,-• ..d.a. 46tia ' navngi. fit hat Istether'd fri9.1 wa_s m. .entioned, e. epeoiallY in the Mtge of niesa M.,ete!, there Was. stimettitng—Well, it. seemed to nee a, Bort ef pene, nectifferenoe . which len leer to turn frem the eubjeat, NOW, InY,dean oa'finow," Ionian ,his hnid twenty en Tom's ehouldetr, " Iiirlen't itek oeng for yoor confidence, hoeg I rather think thee n, might get Meat. tri !mob et ottee 1. should freelY give to you ; bet if, as I summon yo do love one of them young Wernen, yet! oright to know that ,A, mew is ie soe bondeto his 01V11 heart and it 8 nuon honorable ambitiens, and I have never known one who. with greater propriety_ then yourself May feel and nee alt meuful means to the fulfilment of Beth ottligittton." Suddenly turning upon him, Tone Bain, playfully : 0 Looky here, my boy, why not tom gnome of that penmen no , yonrselt ? There are two•ot these women and but one of me" Henry bluehed elighnly, and, looking for. werd, answered, with solemnity ; ,, My dean. Tom •1 1 honid everlook for ' , I, e a wife, my best chances, I suppose, to saY no thii)g of congruity, would be among the Motive- - diets. I doubt if I shell ever energy, bound Per aPs as I am to an itinerary lite, which h no woman whom I could admire sufficiently, espeoially itt ehe were not of tny religions fettle, could be expected' to endure withoht complaint. But yon," turning to him again—" yon, my dear Tom, so upright energetic, constantly bettering your coa: dition with promise of n career higher, far above • those young men, and with a manfoler appreciation than their a of these young women n'hom they have not milli- vetted the manhood to deserve—if you want one of them, and do net believe that you would be interfering with a premontraot, expressed or implied, I repeat it, you owe it to every behest of your being as a free- mete to enter these lists." They had turned into the grove fronting the house, when, 'checking their horses ' It I if' ' . ' t d Thera simn aneous y, they ismoan e . was so raubh of solemn earnestnese in Henry's words that when they had seated themselves upon the projecting roots of one of the oak -tress, Tom told him without reserve the secret that hitherto had been kept within his own breast. Henry, 'pet. ting his arms around him, and laying his head upon his breast, was silent for a min- ute. Then, lifting himself upright, he said, with glowing faoe : "Oh, Tom! my beloved, my, most precious old Tom 1 Thetiektnt am L. oh, so thankful ! Yet I would have chosen, and,I would have prayed to die rather than not avoid a conflict between your heart and. mine! Yon understand now my earnest wish to look into yours. Give me your hand. Hand in hand wa will go to meet these arrogant youths, who already claim what they have never learned how to site for mai to win. Let ne commit the issue to God, who, I do not doubt, will order whatever is, beet for all," '' CHAPTER IV. Promptly began a change in Tom Dos- ter's life. Not negleoting any part of hie work, he thenceforth went more f requently not only to the Mays', but the Joynera' ; f kindred t h' the f th oro is own was e cause o e 00118. .bark in who had imparted to him the new courage by whioh he was now Iasi:need. In - creased freedom of speech was noticeable at both houses, particularly when one or both of the young men were present. It looked as if he meant to show that he felt himself to be any man's equal in whatever a man may strive with honor to achieve; re - grading the risers and dangers at what they were worth, no less, no more. Always having ignored the condescensions of Wil- Hem May and Hiram Joyner's supercilious reserve, be treated the expression and the witholding of their opinions as if they were Of the same importance in his mind as • se of any others in the neighborhood. It was plain that he had decided to be neoessary not only courage, but timely ex- , hibitions of it. His cousin acted. eimilany whenever in their society. He saw the girls always when they were in town, and several times within the Bence of a few weeks had visited them at home, sometimes with Tom, more often alone. Though little used to the sonety of young evomen, the instincts of a true lover who had been born and reared a gentlemen taught him at onoe all the manners he needed. Before the summer was ended it began to be talked in the village, and throughout the region between it and the river, that Tom Doster was oourting Harriet May and Henry courting Ellen Joyner, both, to all appeer. anoes, with very fair prospeote of tameness, What made the rumor eeem more probable was thot not one of them, male or female, when joked upon the Babied, either admit- ted or denied. Hiram had learned at last that his sister, etite meek thou h he was o rad P , , g s , o not be controlled entirely by his own imPeriotie will. Without speaking to her•on the mat. ter, he ramineted silently upon what course he would pursue if he should' be con- vinoed that there was any just foundation for it. But William May, outspoken always, determined to find oat if possible at least how far Harriet was interested in Tom. One day, after returning from one of the fields, having met Tom, whe had just come out of the house seeming in con- tented humor, he said to his sister: ‘ Harriet, Of otters° I don't believe a worn of is go a the roande about this talk that in you and T Doster.Y ' • Tom et since his cousin, that everybody is flattering met of his Benson has been coming down. here, and following you and Ellen all over town when Yon go there, Tom has gotten to be as Proud. as a peacock with a full.spread tail, and he behaves as if he felt himself aa good as anybody. What the deuce does it all mean? I never saw Hiram eo angry in m life." y "1 don't see, brother Will, why Tom tershould not fee a ' Dos t e you desonbe about is ' oodness ' as you • compared h g , y call it, with that of other young men of his ao- quettntance," she answered, very, very 13311413% do • for he has neither the • • propertyi.nor the position to warrant." He has not indeed the property that, fat instance, yon have, or Hiram ; but as for position, on know ver 11 • 01 , 3, well that in, Ints county it is as good as—aS anybOdy's, t no , only for what depends upon his perso. pal character, but his family, which I have 11 tieard.pa say was as good an any in alt his sentatme " °tin • Ay ? Well, I merely remark that Memel 's ettin furious about t repont 1 g g . he r port cenneot. Ellen's name with that 2.1. . ethodist cox- comb, and he saes that it hag to etop, other. en . , tne house. •se he will forbid his visiting' If they were of the right eon of rn the en y would lege often con30 to private houses where then are obliged to know that they are not Wanted." . •, '' -• "Brother , Will, I, do not object to e th: teens of Tom boeter--X, for whom you stippose, perhaps truly, that they are in. needed Mainly; and I have good reasons to believe that 4 feels ' . , . Ellen smailaely about those of his coneien Ma has not notbiddett, nor hes Mrs..JoYner that X know of, that we receive the yisitii of these young men, and Until that is done Let least,' Shill treat them vvith the same civility Witte' Which I ' have hlwaye treated those whom I have taken to be gent' - en " em . ,, . ." My,1" he said, pleasantly, aa if c,s6m, raciSing her spirit.; '1 yri:rt telk' ea if ,Yon felt independent eke Wood.sewyer." ' , ' It 1 idle* nM hoar in 14 antos a e,,,t• ,,ip,a• ••ii Fenton bitb,ithally noels, b, ut. I kuow very Well 010 I 811411 itlwele be n VerY OePerel* met woinan, and go 1 Meant() try to be very earefel, en to the one en whom I ani toadod neml melnlY when—when the time Omen: Blotlime Witliam,", she went on, nerved by to,' eqhng warren by his hi*.rak. , languege„ "yea and Hirem Joyeer heve alwaYe hed BOtne Strange notions end neither Of yell is had the at, perhe'pd bee' twee you. never. ,believed it worth your whne t eeeo i .You have ed with dne as if you 'them. ntun No, and could have bad, no °thee ennenit- ation than for me to mieept Hiram la in r aji riage wheneher he chooses- to offer himse , and Hiram has done the 'same and more with Enloe, in her 'relation to you, and that neoeutte such wee the surest if not the least trotibiesome means of 0000mplishing your own ends'Why °Quid not both or one of you at Inaat, clue', on yoar own merits ? " (To be contm• ti'f,' o.)' , , . , IL WONOintelfelet atting,,, ' ' k ' Ine '''Aletintain tig. (101(1" Ail"ulAT r)e- volopett in Austrau . . • • . . 4' ' 4 " fdeOUtaili Of 0014" is the title which, bee' been. gineil to the great Lout aorgan ld • nt td. 0 t Len — go. ?Saone, al tia 0, In on Xs ' ueentiliteda. which' is Ming at the' rate .of over a wit! a year in dividend. The history of the h"Mine,' .whioll. has onlY Wan 'fully , developed durum the last year is ts 'curious' ' 0118.°, ' 'The Miginol selector of the freehold. .' Portion' andiis wondetfalle, rich property, eonsiseing of 640 Bores, was one Douala : Gordou who paid 5s an acre fpr 1 d , - • . 1 an ' utilized it as grazing lend for his Pottle. :..1 norresPondent of .1he .Sydney •dlerninfn •iferaki, Who visited the Mine uome .siate ago, told the renders of that ienrnai how. the .. ' mountain ' he returning from ' stopped at a wayside inn, ' where "a tall, weather-beaten, •grizzled -look. ing man". took his home- t9 a well to drink t This Was the original bolderf . .. m the freehold, None ported with it to the Morgans. the said he had always believed h • - • • t e nmentainto be of ironstone ; and neven knew of the fortune that wa so lo g w'thee• hlithi: gpirotgatmo:pic'eto.t:oiteiTleotneedii:itItilifa3ill-tuzeiecimiidn-oter1;e:e:lii. Rook - er the hnoitue- 9. Gordon sold the freehold to the Meesre Morgan for 4640, or gl. an Acme. They diet. oovered . gold in 1882, and in, that year formed a p.arteerehtlth in whim, they hem halt the mine, while meihrs. rh. 81.. Hall, W. Hall, W. H. D'Aroy and W. Pattison, who are now four of the principal proprietors, held the seoondth.opaolt The Alt eositirrs.andaorregaz subsequently d' d h ' h these gentlemen tor £93,000 • and in issa the present company Was l'ormed with a aspital of 21000,000 in 1,000,000 shares of . Lleaoh, ok which 17s, 6d. per there is paid, "Leaving Rookhempton shortly ft e o'clook in the morning, the travealleerr is deposited at a roadside station at about 7 o'olook and a :rough breakfailt is to be Obtain' e'd at a conntit. '.inn front 'Which th—e coach starts for Mount Moegane We were about to enter the principal room in which the breakfast was laid out when one of the engagers, who was employed et the mine, informed no in an awe-struck woioe thet "the direotora " were . there; and as the direotors of the Mount Morgan Mine were evidently too great to be contaminated by the presence of ordinary Mortals we betook otirsolvea to a humbler apartment, where teeh we he nejtoayretde started tupooreralightbtit clef four -horse ottWohe holdiug eight persons besides the driver, 1'1 which we were jolted along the roughest a roads through 't paddocks " of over 3,000 acres, with parrots and itookatoos shrieking among the branohes of the gum trees over - head. After a drive of between two and three uhourslcudouBiythroughete e pt hee Babennet.h 0, ii n ao 1 uhdai in kg nt oh we nt r ea; the Razorbaolo-up which every partial° of maChinery for Monnt Morgan had to be brought, we reached the newly -formed • - • mining township. Scattered about among the trees ' • es were tents of venom desoriptione, huts, huts of corrugated iron and. , wooden houses. In a central position were two hotels, some etores or general shops, a church in process of construction, a eohool and ' an Odd -fellows' hall. There are already about 5,000 inhabitants, and the object which has attracted them all is st conioal-shaped hill about 500 feet in height above the water level, and with nothing, so far as outward appearetioes are concerned, to distinguish it, from numerous other well - wooded hills which surround it. At the foot or the mountain is one set of works which are daplioated about half way up it. Seine two hundred feet from the top a tunnel runs in for about 700 feet when, 11 13 met by a shaft down' which the 'stone is sent Is • isthen brought through, the ' tunnel in small nude.. and shot down If slide to *lee .upper ' works, While a cable tramway supplies the lower works. At the top of the mountain is a regular quarry where some five dozen men are occupied in, blasting and qaarrying the stone. Fifty- twoneet have already been out away, and they are now working at a seoond bench. The preponderating stone is a kind of blade ironstone with no appearance of gold what - ever, yet it yields ae much as five and six ounces to the ton. Some of the stone fe reddish, and looks as if it might ciontain copper, while here and there is a bank of yellowish sand which yielde 11 ounces to the ton. Formerly the • ore was treated by the ordinary battery and quicksilver amalgamation process, but the geld ia so finely distributed through the stone that most 01 11 was lost, and the tailings are being treated with satisfactory remelts by the onlorination process which' is now in use at the mine. Under this prooese the ore is firat crushed by powerful machinery and reduced,to fine sand. It is then roested in ft:tenet:me, and when cooled is placed in the chlorination barrels and sunjeoted to the action of ohlorine gas, which dissolves the gold, and it flows out in a fluid, the color of sherry, into large vats. It is then placed in cher- coal filters, and the gold adheres to the charcoal beds, which ' are giabseqetently roasted in, a reverbatory fternacis until nothing is lett but an ash containing 75 per cent. of metallic. gold. The workei which are lit throughout by the eleotrics light, are kept constantly going night and day. Nine huedred men are employed and work. in three shifts of eight hours each. . The expenclitare of wages is $100,000 per annum; 4,000 tons of firewood are burned per month, and the output of gold is about a ton per nnonth. If the works were stopped for a single day lei would mean a loss to the iharehtelders of 44,000. ins e a ett er to s Watchmaker. A Q ir r' L En I here ith ' a th fl' t . t h . ve . sen thee my pro igs e Wa e` which greatly standeth in need ef thy friendly correction The lost time he was ' d . at thy friendly eohool be was in no way re- 'formed, nor in the least beuefited theinby, for I:perceive by the inden of his tnind thai he is a liar, and tne tenth is not in hing ; ' t• ' d 'ere ti- that his mo lens are wavering and i g lar; that his pulse is sometimes fast, which betokeneth not an even temper, at other t' 1 'th I ' h. ' Not. th n times ilwax° a uggle . . en _a eel gun frequently urge him whet, he should be on leis duty, as than knowest his usual name denoteth, I find him elm hering or, as the vanity of human ea: Ex - sop phneeth it, e catch him napping. retie- ' amine him . therefore and prove him, I beseech thee, tboroughiy, that thou tmayeet , . bead= aogneanted with his inward mind, frame and IldiaPasitian' Draw him fram the error of, hie .wage and show hina the path wherein he ehonld go. It grieves me to think, and where I ponder therein, I am verily of opiuion that his body is foul amt the whole mase. is corruption: Cleanse him, therefore, with thy charming physio from ' all pollutioa, that he may vibrate acoording to the truth. I will placenhitn.a days un or thy oare and pay for his few da a board as thou request. I entreat thee, friend John, to demean thyself aO0Ording to the gift which is in thee and prove thy- self a workman, and when thou layest thy ootreotin hand upon him let it be without passion, feat it should drive him to destrum tion. Do thou regulate his Motions for a es him raleth the da and when thou findeat h• time, to come by the motion of Iwigahytetahna: converted' froym, the error of his more conformable to the Above-mentioned rules, then do thou send him home with a . . just bill of charges, drawn out in the epint of moderation, and it ehall be sent to thee in the 'toot of all evil. . A Western Journalist in Norwich. The Norwich Weekly People's Gazette, . Gordon Wilcox. publisher and editor, is perhaps the most unique newspaper in New England. Its field is society and ethic's, and for two years or more it has treated loon' questions practically with the • same . can or that latingaishes the Arizona dd" ' Kicker theoretically. Its motto is : "Gat r a there, Eli 1" At the head is the publiehe ' notice: - THE PEOPLE'S WEEKLY GAZETTE ' is a 63 -cont Reformed Newspaper with pious tendencies, published at 111 ve ater street, Norwich, by Wilcox the Reformer, and printed by Wilcox the_Printer. The Gazette is published ostensibly for the nentohgeoree6hriisu icetoaniAtuyetfeo/ tlifrejordootif re P" European' plan, If yen don't see what you wanet ask for it. If you don't get what you ask for go without it. It receogni_zes no fixed orbit, but tevnennieertneaelonenet111 altly1 IL :f Titat: Auras naemer ffatnh; they will be repaired at short notice; on reason- able terms, and guaranteed for one year. We claim the proud distinction of being the only pious journal in North America wh. Loh is pub- fished solely "for revenue only," has no plat- form, preamble, or by-laws, simply this trade mark and nothing moro. —New York Sun. THE DOSTERS : - kRomance of Georgian Life " Baoheldrin, Henry Dawster, now they lay be some kind of men that baoheldrin ont ; but they monst'eons few, and a reacher, speshual Meth'dien not among MM. . Make no odds how mnoh a young reacher in the first off -start in his mad enters, so to speak, may think more of isself than other people think he's liable 3, and he mayn't feel like he want to other and hamper hisself with one single itnale section of people, yit he'll find in Me .that the time will come, and that xayby enddent, when his holt will begin to totem, and it'll keep ona loosenins tell he'll nye to let her drap. And it't staeshual the lee when he have good looks, bnt which I've . ever ben oneasy about your settirn Tar liver afire on them score. Yit so it is, and have yit to see the bachelder preacher Sat won't knock under in the course of !me. Because for why ? In every cone- unity that I've ever ben anywhere they Iways girls and not only them, but wid- era and oldmaids of all age and descript• in, that in ti 'case 'like the present they verlastin' workin' up shoe -slippers, or toneyqmsses, or dressinngownds, or neok- ankohers, or eomethin' of some kind that o nation of men of no kind ever had any se for, but which in the first place that ney'll go to aonwince him, if he don't look at, that he' e too good to go and preich to 3mmon poor people at illosonvenant places. end, at lawn he'll see that seoh foolishness ave to stop, and 'did of each onuseless nicks, whioh nobody, much less a Meth'. le' preacher, have no yearthly necessity ir, he'll find that what he wants is a wife, ot only for company, but for makin' and tendinn and keep him decent respectable. 'ow it ain't that I would ricomtnend any oung . man to go into the very market of Dung women, as it were, like he was after horse or a piece of prop'ty. No, sir ; and a man is any account he'll wait, no tatter how long time -it take, tell he fall ead in love with jes one lone partio'lar one y herself, and feel like, thoo every bone in is natarn that she's the welkin pink of arteotion they is, make no deffance how inch the gittin' a married boand to take, le aige off seoh as that. No, sir; and I 111 you. now, Henry Dawster, 'twer'n't for soh as that, that aige would be took off a eap 'sooner and a heap more of it. Yes, n, my boy, wait till she strike you a center ion and you feel like the ground ain't molly good enough for her to walk on it. !f course a feller bound to find out in time, ad when it's all over, that his wife ain't f that angel kind of women love -tales tells bone ; and you mayn't believe it, but often ve set up a mighty nigh all night with a Aloe candle, and sometimes nothin' but a ;tatted', knot fire, a-purnein' " Alonzer and [Wiesen" and " The Bandit's Bride," and !oh, and cried, and wantin' to be thar, ed, jerkin' out my knife, haok them Ilion'a heads off and tekin' them wim. in' off eomewheres and live together,"Well,I s nee and them, by ourselves. Yit I 20,7f,. well as anybody that ain't a borned lot obleeged to know, he can't expect a ife. -who have tho keer of a family to be .ways amettin' up in the parlor with her especially 1st frock on anistenin' to him a ever- is Ain' cotin' kiss verses, like he need to did. nd, beelines, what's a heap more, if any. tingnfor the argyment of this p'int of the me, he have ben conwinced , long before sw, and then without her ajtellin' him, the iat he ain't, nor he never were nether theing renpral Wasta'n'tn. nor the Junto Ctosar e want to make her believe when she took .., ime6 irat. But, Henry Inewstei Beale idees do 8 . ' ' metegood in the first offstart ; and when O'S done married and settled down, ta'r natiejnert ,i1 he'll be true, and he 'won't b 0 m fetilt-findy, he'll yit think hie own wife 3 the best of the whole kerhoot of 'em, jos e every merriedmatt had ought to think 1 hi's wile; and as for old beohelnere he'll y or any El twiy8 feel "ere. e h ' ia -CCi a aa ' roggy eon like wee ben sorry for rem ever. it, ; ' tit, / ree , th , . ' . t y me er say, yes, em ' you hould ongbh to wait tell you find Olio y YOU IAA ifi a Webtie or et ant:loner ier h—t ' w u • Elena poottte calla tem in theiritty; and ?hen you do, then fe.r"*7 II, • world," " . , e wor , ' It WaS interesting to seethe reiatione be. Meet:ell:tett, orietwith the unetudied meth nn, teethe" of a rita th. •t• , . , e mon, en , p other dth Otago ar a culture needga for the; t6tiVir Go to Bed and stny. - Touching La Grippe the one golden rale on which all doctors are agreed is "when you have the inninenza, go to bed and stay there." "The death rate would diminish, says the offictial French note, "if, when people are attacked by the grippe, they would not commit the imprudence of going out and exposing themselves to the cold—if they would take cafe of themselves, and, being grippes, hot ran the risk of engem. veting their Mutes through their own im- prudence." But 'Whether the disease is their own fault or not, writes the Pall Mall " Tittle Tattler," the lot of the " gripped " • • (if I may anglicize the words) is decidedly not a happy one. Indeed, according to the correspondent of the Daily News, the infla- enza ia a veritable plague. ',I went through , the hospital," she Bays, " during the cholera visitation and did not then witness any. thing like the amount of human suffering which I saw this morning." to- Down Went — . The 'ate Mr. McGinty is, says the New York Sun, responsible for the mimeo of a new devioe in the toy line. A good many young Men are scattered over the principal streets nowadays greeting passers-by with the line, "Down went McGinty to the bottom Of the sea"—and as they sing they hold aloft a glees tette filled with water. In the water is a .comical looking figure that remains at the top of the tube when its buoyancy is andisturbed. By pressing the thumb upon the top of the tube the figure is calmed to sink elowly to the bottom, whence the empropriatenese of the' song. The device has many patrons. , Pleasset with _Everybody. Jolliboy—Good rnerning,, sir! Bilious—Why, tair,•I do not know you. ' ' Jolliboy—I didn't say you., did, air. Good nifIrning, sir. ,', steeping; math. the lHead to the North. The superstitions belief that human beings. should sleep •th their he d'' en a a toward the north is ,now believed to be based upon a scientific pelt:t- oink. The lunch Academy of Science has made experiments upon the body. of a man, Which go to prove that each human betty is in itself BE electric battery, one electrode being reprelented by the head and the other by this feet. ' The body of the subject upon 'which expert? nients wero made was taken immediately after death, and pieced upon a pivot free . to move in . 0,S y direetion. After some - ' . ' ' " ' VaCHIMIGE the head portion turned toward the north, the pivot -board then ternaining etationary. One of the profeesote turned it half tvtiy around, but it 'gem regained et position With the need piece towercl the horth, end the some results were reneetedly obtained Mita • ' t ” d engem.° moveneen cease • ---- . "And religion." " No, raa'am, net at all. I suppose he thought that young girls and of Baptist people would not care to hear a Methodist preecher disooarse in private on religion, and when they were omits in the house where he lived. I thought that was very polite and sensible. Yet at bedtime he he Moat heautif I re, ' 'in made t . . ,., u p pen, His voi e, whei3 it takes on a religione tone, very impressive. We were not long on books, Latentre you. I slapped he saw that Ellen and I were not anxious he should find how few we had read, and he let us drop subject when he saw that we wanted to. n as he is, yet he is fnll• of fun. Clousin Emily say% he tette her things' about ohl Mr. Steinger thati she. end he both,' and so the Old man veheo preuent, ittegh at II ey have o ory. Bu he didn t talk, ti th t t ' ' about hide to us. That, I sappose, he felt would he telling tales out Of eoheol. rt - —eh! devoted to music, lie Bang a Very goel tenet with some of ray songe, and he said tO me privately that Ellen.. played better than any Person henn ever heard.. He evi, dently admires Ellen higbly." it I h like T " ' , " Not very; but eaglet. Ellen thinke he's handeomer than Toni. I,herdly think - - - t SO. , Hee very .fond i'ef Tom, °mei he field that he httia prombled *6 melee him a Visit before icedig.,' Brother' Will did not mime to the house Mitt' it Was riesr Y time for tla to . • - - - • a - , start back.' Brat I . Wee glad thet he did COMO at leen en& Wee' polite enotigh to ite- vite, klenrY 15'006; *rhetn het. Wee in the ..,, , tib,,..,4,' ..,,, a in ,,,,, „.. ,„„ „„ . '405.......-"°.' ''' ''''''":–,L7`, `"°•" . ' •••'• , . - • , • ', ,•• , . -, 't , ' Neatly Turned. . pudding s . not very good." ' The i "Ali, but we oan afford to ignore' the ionading whorl *e. consider the sauce." ' . ' ' • —•—we--- Notwithstanding the powerful oppopition brought to beat upon the 11 -bout work day bill for cotton and woolen operatives it, Georgia, it wee passed lay, the Legislature and went into effect Jan. lst. ' . AUGHT Ag WELL GIVE UP. Get out mi. iinvilin dimes, gins, And -betel get out your , You business men with winter beards Get orn your little ranee. - - The spring iehere etid soon. the birds . . Wjli come la legionen t '71n4tfp:!..1,3g.edlIgU "le„;,tz.j,,re and dare - loave — -- ' —The Salvation Army in the Dominion' . . .. - • . . , .. -. or Canada and Newfounalhnd have raised for the Ind e"1 f d $7 690.13 f h' h they 9: 56 .3041. India,' • - eY' sen ' ' . ° e I,t.is reportedihat to., e totareameant mid ll't . ' :1 • . n20 000 S' te Panne_ I e (toupee , is. , . ir Charles Russell telleved, n7,000; Mr. Look- wood i,rid • Mr, R. TA Read qicitli Q. C's..) were Pnid' tt4,6'00 ematii 'tit, VaWtkril gae, - riiigtini.ahalIr. Aseplitk; 1,0l cull, end Sir Charnel Rassell's • eon and' . the two ot er,jmnors ;were each reentede&for their , a by the payment of £1,q 0. , labor . ' 0 The Connectieat &memo Court hes jest decided that en eigreeineht te forfeit the' 'weigee Of a Workingman 11136. leaves' 'With. maiLitar, timsfecit;a6+1APIA'neitynilitiiiOntil ' • - ,Another Girl E ti 1 . .. • - • n re -Y• ' • ' ' anegge,—The young lady who, '`*6t pawed , , i e a looks 111 'misanthrope.::'''' . . h , eggs n . ,e len ea,. e e Mrs thi '-eln t eh ' it a iShe Miesa..H.ObInsolli — Grade - OrOsninganlifeilintY ' and the ' ' ' grippe Inuit go.—Du - ' ' . ' 1 ;lit ' Little grains d n it t tidal.) drinlai h nuke kigriPpeitheA fi. goyim' ' Dropib tmln mid.ny, - . , pia May Onto* help YOU ' - If Otin'tOoninetO f 'Bd.......t don't forgetthe egininee • - ' Winne yeti take, tne, teen ' - • , Thensiedel ha Ann die eine the ellen 'ha — , - - - , --,:, :-„--,-- ----, W., , a ft • clone snai,o