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"1. FREE SEAT.
He was old and poor, and a.strnl,ger
in the great metropolis.
As he bent his footsteps thitherward
To the stetely edifice.
Outside be inquires, "What Church is this?"
"Church of Christ," he hears them say ;
"Ah i just the place I am looking kr,
I trust be is in
He passed tiara' the spacious columned door
And up the carpeted aisle,
As be passed, on many a face,
He saw surprise and smile.
From pew to pew, up one entire side,
And fhen across the broad front spa e.
From pew to pew down the other side
Re walked with the same slow pace.
*lot a friendly voice had bid him sit
To listen to gospel truth,
Not a sign of deference had been paid
To the aged one by youth.
No door was opened by generone hand,
The p' ws were paid for, rented,
And he was a stranger, old and poor,
Not a heart to him relented.
He paused outside a moment to think,
Then again passed into the street,
I:p to his ebouider lifted a stone
Tbat lay in the dost at his feet ;
And bare it up the broad, grand aisle
In front of the ranks of pews,
Choosing: a place to see and to hear,
He made a seat for his nee.
Calmly sitting upon the huge stone,
Foiling his hands on his knees.
.Slowly reviewing the worshippers
A great Confnsi. u uta sees.
Melly a cheek is orluhsou'd with shame,
Some whisper together low,
Ansi wish they had been more courteous
To the stranger old andpoor.
As if by magic some fifty doors
Oren inetawtaneously,
And as many seats, and books and hands.
Me proffered hastily.
thertging hie ,tone for a enahioned pew
And wiping a tear away,
tie thinks it Was a mistake afterali,
And that Christ came late that day.
i'ee preaeber'e discourse was eloquent,
The organ in finest tone,
itat the most iwrrtssive se' mon heard,
Was preached. by a Mullis stone.
'Twee a lesson of lowliness and worth
That lodged in many a heart,
And the church preserves the snored stone
That the truth may not depart.
THE HORSE-TH1EF;
oft,
THE BELLE OF CABIN•GILLE.
BY DR. J. R. ROB:NSON.
reaetln that t► great'lire had swept over
it, I reached $ebee, adjoining which, in
soiue direction, was my somewhat ap-
ocrypbial township.
T)pon inquiry, I found I was in the
south patt of the town, at ""Orewford`a
Corner," and Mr. Crawford's house
was pointed out to me --a respectable -
looking frame building, and the only
one I had seen since leaving Charles-
ton.
The sun was setting when I entered
Crawford's door -yard. A stout, firmly.
built, dark -complexioned mall came
out while I was dismounting, greeting
me courteously. It las Mr, Orawford,
1 solicited hospitality for the night,
hinting at my willingness to pay for
my entertainment. A slight frown
passed over the man's face.
"We are not mercenary ---you are
entirely welcome to such cheer as it is
lu our power to offer," he said, quickly.
I disliked him, gave the bridle -rein
into the hands of the hired man, who
carate forward to take charge of my
horse, and followed Crawford into the Maine, I fortnen acquaintances with
house. some melt who lead beets travelling in
were not within its .bounda] ies, The
fence was in good order, and the ani-
mals were not vicious--eo what watt to
be inferred ? The moat natural infer-
ence wasthat they bad shared the fate
of my grey. Crawford was not slow in
arriving at that conclusion. and I
thought Iperceived that he bore his loss
with less philosophy than be had mine
which of course was to be expected.
The day was spent in fruitless search.
On the following, I hired an animal to
take me over Charleston Hill ; and
which I left (hill and all) at that plane.
Having paid a round sum for the
stolen beast, 1 readily procured the ser-
vices of a man tvitb a horse and: wagon,
to carry me to Bangor, Out of packet
aatd good humor, I still had the satis-
faction of knowing that I was getting
ftazther away from toy glorious town-
ship.
Well,' got safely back to Boston ;
which statement ends this portion of
my story, and prepares the, way for
the singular incidents which followed.
Soon after my unlucky pilgrimage to
"MY wife," be acrid, by way of intro- the western and t<nuthweatern part of
duetithn, as a elhllit ly, ebeerful-toolliug the country. Atnongt other States
ADE KINDS OF
TUR NING
Doue to order.
Slehnomber the piece
?Toa* 03se t 7:Iowv ,ri
,nonan appeared after we were seated. they had visited Missouri, Louisinutt
The civility and sociality of Mr. t.raw• and Arkansas. They had hunted on
ford aria tris hclpumate, before many the Arkansas River, quite up to the
Minutes had passed, pot me quite at qq
home, and mad- me feel More recon -1
ailed to my lot than I had thought pos.
bible when 1 drew in st. ht of the place.
11y host smiled when 1 made known
its busimns. and when 1 went to bets
tilal.t :light, C would have sold my town.
ship for a bottle of chenatusgne. The
truth was, one.l.alf of it was under wat
er, and remainder suffering all the
pains of uigl'ttuare, under an enornlousl
weight of =annum and rocks. It
was a savage Wil& productive only in
bears, rabbits, skunks, wolves and
wondellucka- ,t species of property not
;"tuyintt a very high rate of interest eft
that time.
I arose in the morning, after a
troubled night, with a emir appetite
for breakfast. I ate but little, ryas dia•
posed to say less, and resolved to re-
turn to 13oston without searing my pos.
essione. I tried to conceal my mor.
titivation under a careless exterior, but
Mr, Crawford was a lean of acute dia.
cerltment, and evidently understood my
feelings.
As soon as the morning meal was.
despatched, I went to the stable with
Itay host to sea how my horse fared, and
'hake Kure he was l roperly groomed.
i.%%'e shall fled him somewhere, and
you may rest assuwed that he has had
plenty of hay and grain," said Craw.
ford, as we entered the barn.
We looked into the stalls, but they
were empty—my hired Morse was net
there. Ily host t.1uciuded that tilt•
bet h' t ' ti
CHAPTER L
Maine is now a very steady -paced.
Zaeral State, and despite its cold nor-
thern storms, and long inclement win-
ters. will o, min -ire favorably with many
of her sister States, so Inc as intelli-
gence and enterprise are concerned.
Notwithstanding its present rectitude
and eorrertnesa of habit, the time was,
when like other new countries, it was
infested with a floating representation
of swindlers, who directed their atten-
tion to fields of operation, with the
promibe of proving lucrative.
When I was a yonug man—tbat was
*:rite a number of years ago—I visited
the northern part of the State to hunt
tap, if practicable, a township of land
that my deceased father—peace to his
n'hee—had loft me in his last will and
testament.
Penobscot River was then an utter
stranger to steam navigation, bnt, after
]ouch difficulty and annoyance, I
reached B.ineor in "fore-and-aft"schooner, loaded, scuppers under, with
merchandir"e from Boston. I staged it
as fir as a little town called Corinth,
when I was obliged to take sort of
tumbril or wagon to Charleston, anoth•
er now settlement presenting a formid-
able array of stumps.
At the latter place I was agnie com-
pelled to change my anode of travelling
and et on horsebaok; for the road,
he'hic had been growing worse and
wor+ae, then dwi»dled into a mere bri-
dle -path, not n:nuh more anarked than
6.1.1Indian trail.
I
began to labor under the feelings
of discouragement, cur were my orbits
at all fxhiarated a inn 1 found that T
lead run my horse's head against a
mountain, which the good people of
the settlemont—heaven forgive their
simplicity --called ""Charleston .Hill."
After riding toward the distant sitm-
init nutil I took pity on the beast, I
dismounted and walked until I had
mastered the difficulty ; Let I cettainly
telt mull il!terestin my township when
f reached tike top of the tedious (Mai-
hence.
kept op, passed thrnngh a sunken,
dirty, toe -cabin place -L. -Atkinson, 1 be-
lie ve—permuted a small tiver-
--the Pieoa-
tnquis—wt;d following a„rabbit-patth --
it was little else—through a dense
growth of ,furze, spruce, cedar, low
pine, .alder, haclrmetack and t'eplar.
kuown art the .'".Eturnt Ladd," for Itis
hys were watering O ttn; so we we In[
;he yard and waited awhile. My beast
did not appear. Crawford grew ner-
vous, and hurried to the potato -patch,
where his man was at work, to ]itquii e
if the animal bad been %arried into the
pasture. He came back quite di:ieon.
carted, saving he feared my horse had
been stolen. I inquired if they ready
had florae thieves in a place so new and
remote, and was assured that there
was every reason to suppose that there
was an organized baud of that clasp.
who did not confine their operations t
a single town or county, but ,extended
them through the entire State,
I was surprised that such a ennditinn
of things should be atom, d to exist,
and begged to know why the thuuder„
of the law were bushed, when there
+•ere so many offenders who ought to
confess its might.
"Before offenders can be punished
they must be caught ; and before the}
can be caught, they trust be discover-
ed,” he replied.
13ut do you, in good faith, wish me
to u derstand that there truly exist,
an organized band of florae-tlneves sr,
extensive that 8111brace6 toe whole
State ?" 1 asked, in order to bo stare
whether I fully comprehended hit
meaning.
"Precisely that, sir," he replied.
"And do you seriously apprehend
that nay horse has been stolen hien
your btabl a ?"
"I do, indeed. I have sent my man
to the pasture to bring up two .horses,
that we may ride aibont in different di.
reotious, and see if we can get any ch,
to tha matter, Meantime, let us notice
r
tracks at the stable flea, and ho slang,
to the road. Were ti ere and pecnlier-
ities about ynnr annual's shoes?" 1e-
su,: ed Crawford.
"None—except that they were of
large size."
We tracked the horse from the atublt
to the road ; but when we reached the
four cot tiers— few rods distant—there
were so many tracks so much alike, so
Confused together and mixed up, the'
we could not, after the most critical
me,irch, decide what direction had beet,
taken by the thief.
While we were yet 'examining the
footprints of the different roads, the
man who bad been despatched for the
horsey, appeared with the intelligence
that they could not be found. Re hod
traversed the teti+tnre frt t i side to Aide,
irulli eud to Baud, and was aure thatylttlj
Iudtan Territory, and told the moat ex•
travagant tori of the beauty of the
scenery, fertility of the soil, and sahib.
rity of the eliwate. In their view, it
wan another editon of the paradisiacal
'garden, where Mr. and Mrs. Adam ate
fruit.
The result of aimhigh-wrongbt pia.
tures was, that I closed up my busi-
ness. operatious in Massachusetts, and
at the expiration of six months set my.
face towards Arkaneas, in company with
two of those who were s,a euthusiastie
in its praise --Henry Follows and Dau.
iel Day ; hardy, adventurous persons,
fond of excitement, and pleased with
novelty.
I found the country really very fine,
and the hunting excellent. We went
up the Arkanoaa River uutil we thought
we had got beyond the border .Bottle-
ments, when we stumbled upon a do
lightful spot (consisting of eight or teu
dwellings), called Cabinville.
Being laleaeed with the looation, I
resolved to remain there until my love
for the rural and wild should be fully
satisfied. In a few days .1 was antutly
domiciled in a cabin of my own, tthilt"
Day and Fellows went nu, preferring to
"look u little farther."
TO BE CONTINUED,
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LEGAL
I 1 ARDING IIAItDING, at, WHITE,
13ari•.tors, Attorney 8, Solicitors, Corn-
aiouers, R. 11., dc.
,IS 10e-11UTTON'$ BLOCS, Water tract,
Ma t y's.
l,bUS R. ]HARDDIN0, E. W. nARDINO. U,A.L.WHIT
rAT.COMSON & OADtaii',
..Y1. t3;arriotei a, Attorncvs, Solicitors fie.
?tonov to T.oan on ltoai Estate.
Samson's Block, Exeter.
\\r MoDIAR:I1ID, B.A.,
aft it ItISTER,NOTAftY, CONVEYANCER,
&C.
LUCAN,ONT.
' 1•i ESSRS. JONES & MI SCRIP
l Barristers, Attorney's -at -laic, Solioitorn
'nanoery, Conveyancers, Commissioners inB.R
i,.t:aries Publio, 4, Blary's
C.s.JO?iES. W. C.SIOSCRIP.
Oe tion—Button's Block, Waterst.,t,;ltary's.
NEW
WATCH MAKING AND
Jewelry Estab.':shment
AT RNSALL.
V1= A. KEL.Y
MAY 9, 1878
u $II!ISNAN, L. D. S.. HAS 013
L1 stn bled his Diploma and License to prao
tics Dentis,
try and will
be on hand
as of old, 011
IfondayB,
Tuesdays,
Settitad
aardlf aan
ys
Office near
Ben's Bakery Maim Street. ExetsrOnt.
Shingles for Sale
Fl3031 31 TO x1.60 PEft SQUARE,
At C. 3, Brooks' aawmiUi,
TWO MILES WEST Or THE LONIT N
ROAD, `tT OV HAY,
A good supply of Hemlock Lumber and (War
Poa t.constantly on liana.
THE EXETER
PiauingAiilI Sash,
DOOR AND
MD mu
H,as opened ou" a large stock of
Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, de., do.,
IN DR. B tTCHANAN'S BLOCK:, and from his ex
perionce in the business, hopes to merit a
liberal shareof the patronage.
Spcctablcs of all kinds constantly on hand.
R•rpairing n Speoialty. All work warranted
A. KELLY.
Hensel', January 17, 1875. 1y
CONSUN1PTWWN CURED,
N OLD PHYSICIAN, retired front
1 1 active practice, Having had places in lir
uaude by ran hirer India Missionary the formal.,
of a Vegetable Remedy for the speedy and im-
manent euro of
OONSUtffiT1ON ASTHMA BRONCHITIS OLTAIIRR
and all Throat end Lung Affections ; also apositive
and remold eure for nervous debility and all ner-
vous complainte, after having thoroughly tested
its wenderfud iterative powers to thousands of ea -
see ale it his ditty to make it known to hie euf
tering fellows, Actuated by this motive, and a
;ou-ioieutiou, desire to reltevo human suffering
Lad will Send. free of charge, to all who desire it,
this recii u, with full directions for preparing and
.necesefu]ly using. Sent by return mail by ad;
dressing, with stamp, namhtgthis apor, Lit. U'.
la1'Ja) V iili.S, Box 86 Brockville, Ont.
¶he Hi Price of Pu
does not atfeet the low p trout which
Ti. T. 13ISSnT'
are offering their stock of
TINWARE, STOVES, Etc„
itt
Exeter & liensall
,vbielt alpinists of all the latest and ,improved
sty lesof Kitchen. Cook and Parlor stoves,Milk
•'lila, pant;, and palls of bus most approved
natt,tan, awl everything in the line ; Also, a
;+sad seltetiul' of linntleulue
. 11vE troi'tphixlg
as usual, receives every atteatiun, and dont
,tt the lowest figures.
Having opened out a branch establishment
at Repeal', our friends in that a igttburhuutt
eau be supplied ou the shortest notice,
T11E GREATEST
7 onders of 1Viod.ein Time`
3olloways Pills &Ointment
The Pills Purify the Blood.correct alt disorder
f the Liver, Stomach, Kidneys ant' ]towola, au,
re inv.ltuable in all complaints incidental t(
'amities
The Ointment is the only reliable remedy to
:ad Lege, Old Wounds, Sores and Ulcer . of lion.
-vex long standing. For Bronchitis, Diphthori,
'olds, flout. Rheumatism, and all kin ease.
1asnoequal.
BEWARE OF
New York counterfeits.
Spuricie imitations of "Holloway's Pill'
ad Ointment," aro manufactured and sol.
tuner the name of " " "^way d Co," by .1.1'
[anry, Curran & Campany, Drug
'feta, and tiler by the Metro•
of i#an Merl' due company a
`sew York; vizi I r e n assumed traria
nark, thus-- is --Again um
roeeph Elaydocl 'ja , of New York,lik.
.vise usages off •- coon torfeitsofhir
awn make under ��` the Shame alto)
away & Co., having for a trade mark a Crosen:
tad Serpent; uotiessen fi Robbins of New Yorl
are agents for the same.
These persons, the better to deceive yon, un -
:dashingly caution the public in the small hoekr
of directions affixed to their medicines, whicl
are rot -fly theepurious imitations, to Beware n
Counterfeits.
Unscruputone Deniers o stain there at very
tow prices and sell them to the pubic in Ceua-
de runny gennino Pills and Oihtments.
I meet earnestly and respectfully apposite the
Clergy, to mothers of families and other ladies
and the public generally of British North Ameri-
ca, that they may be pleased to denounce un-
sparingly these fronds.
Purchasers should look tothe label on the pott
and boxes.. If the at.drese 15 not an, Oxford
Sire •t, London, they are the counterfeits, Each
pot and box of the dlonuine Medicines, bears the
British. Government stamp, with the words
""HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND UINTMT7NT, ].r0nd011,"
eeeravod thereon: enthe label is the address,
58 3 [teford Street. Lnneoh,whoro alone they are
bI anufaotnred. Parties who may be defrauded
by Ve adore selling epuvios n''Hglloways Pills and
Ointment as my genuine make eh, on .cern.
municating the partionlaxs to me, be triply re-
m% neratod,and theirrime ur•vr-rdivulged.
TB 'ROLE ,UW Y
588, Oxford St,. W. C.,'Loudon.lauglan,l
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