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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1870-06-24, Page 1and terichant blade, orm in England and invective of ult, perhaps has and good hYmnor US thoughts and at and the influence recognized. Con- tkes attractive, hut ;sea there is scarcely vorite characters are. nored. His ola pee, - 'act or venerate. If rley are excessively [tetion but their. 'sea ay errors, his popu- It is no fleeting :wag as the EngliS11 of Real Property in the 'row && to 10percent., & SQUIBB, 'misters, Goderich. T H R, AND CTORY! ave to tender their sin- umerous cestoraers and e very liberal patronage g business in Seaforth. very large stock of Dry having lately enlarged New Wlaehinery (there- iea for doing work with ent of giving eve.ry sa- ma3r favimr them with but first-class workmen ILL to custena planing. ADFOOT & GRAY. L S. The National Pills are anew discovery in medicine. They are composed of purely vegetable extract prepared by anewlydiscov- iered process, and are sugar coated. They are the great blood and stomach purifier. They act on the liver with magical effect, are mild, 4searching, yet a thorough purgative, &.•heve no eqUal as a first class family pill. See circulars with each box. EN and E. HICKSON ;eine dealers generally. BENTLY 004 prietors, Brougham, Ont THOMPSON reua customers for their durlag the last fifteen 1 receive its continnance, large assortment of eIc:ck! ail! give satisfaction. ET OF PINE! Fon. RNERAL P URPOSES beral terms. Orders will D. a large assortment of FED ACCOUNTS telltiou of • his old casto- r., their advantage to re - without legal proceed- ,• 1870. 84-tf: ;TOCK OF Tweeds.. RRTYE i,SSORTMENT OF Checks. aRinic Ff1R18, DONE IN A FIRST AND ACCORDING TO !OR ANY OTHER TO SUIT OMER& 1.87D. 115— WM F LUXTON, VOL. 3, NO. 29, po5,1111, ".Freedom in Trade—Libelly Religion ---.Equality in Civil Rights". EDITOR & PUBLISHER. SEAFORTH FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1870. WHOLE NO. 133. BnsiNES$ CifkIRDS MEDICAL. 1-) TRACY, M. -D., Coroner for the County of Huron. Office and Residence—On door East of the Methodist Episcopal Church. - Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868, 53-ly J' L. VERCOE, D. C. M., Physician, Sur - geon, etc., Office and Residence, corner of Mearket and High Street, immediately in rear of Kidd. & McMulkin's Store. Seaforth, Feb. 4th, 1870. 53-1y. 'TAR. W. _R. SMITH, Of6.ce,—Opposite dence—M ain-street, No Seaforth, Dec. 14, 18 Physician, Surgeon, etc. Veal's Grocery.- Resi- rth. 63. 53-ly JCAMPBELL, M, D. C. M., (Graduate of Me- . Gill University, Montreal) PhySician, Sur- geon, etc. , Seaforth, Office and Residence—Old Post Office Building, up stairs, where he will be found by night or day wheh at home. Seaford", July 15-th, 1869. 84-ly LEGAL. 1-11-F. WALKER, Attorney -at -Law and , licitor-in-Chaneery, Conveyancer, Notary Public, &c. Office of the of the Peace, Court ouse, Goderieh, Ont. N.B.—Money to lend at a- per cent on Farm Lands. Godmich, Jan'y. 28. 1870. 112 -1y.- -A vcAuGHEy & EfOLMSTEAD, -Barristers, Attorneys at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolvency, Notaiies Public and Conveyanc- ers. Solicitors for the R. C. Bank, Seaforth, Agents for the Canada Life Assurance Cp. N. B.—$3.0,.000 to lend at 8 per cent. Farms, Houses and. Lots for sale. Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-tf. • DENSON & MEYER, Badisters and. Attorney at Law, Solicitors in Chancery and Insolv- • ency, Conveyancers, Notaries Public, etc. Of- fices,--Seaforth and Wroxeter. Agents for the 'Trust and. Loan Co. of. Upper Canada, and the -Colonial Securities Co. of London, England. Money at 8 per cent ; no commission, charged.. TA& H.' BENSON-, H. W•. C. MEYER. - Seaforth, Dec. 10th 1868. 53-ly DENTAL. G. W. HARRIS', L. D. S. Arti- ficial Dentures inserted with all the latest improvements. The greatest care taken for the preservation of decayed and tender teeth. Teeth extracted without- pain. Rooms' over Collier's Store. •• Saeforth. Dec. 14, 1898. •ly. HOTELS. - • ry nOMMERClAr HOTEL, Ainleyvill , James. k) LMrd, proiyietor, affords first-class accom- • modation for the travelling public. The larder • -and bar are always' supplied with the best.,the • markets afford. Excellent stabling in connection • Ainleyville, April 23, 1869. 70-tf. - Tr ONX'S HOT EL (LATE SHARP'S) The un- I- dersigned begsto thank the -public for the. liberal patronage awarded to him in times past in the hotel .business,, and also to inform them that he has again resumed business in the above stand, where he will be happy to have a call from •old friends, and. many new ones•. •• • THOMAS KONX. Seaford', May 5, 1870. •126-tf. JR. PeOSS, Proprietor New' Dominion' Hotel, . begs to inform the people of Seaforth and the travelling community generally, that hekeeps firit-class accomnaoclation in every thing required, by travellers. A good stable and -willing hostler always on hencl, Regular Boarders will receive every necessary attention. -• • Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869. 63-1y. -DRITIOI EXCHANGE HOTEL, GOD'ERICH, JO ONT., J. CALLAWAY, PROPRIETOR ; J: S. WILLT.A.ms, -(late of American Hotel, Warsaw,- N. -Y...) Manager. This hotel has recently been new-. ly furnished, and refitted throughout, ancl is now one of the -most emnfertable and commodious in : the Province. Good Sample Pk.003ES for Conner - mal Travellers. Terms liberal. • _ 1 Goderich, April 14, 1870.- 123--tf. ' ,.. MISCELLANEOUS. , .i , SAHRPS, LIVERY STABLE, MAIN TS.' 1 SEAFORTIL First Class Horses and Carriages always on hand at reasonable terms. •I - If .L. SHARP, Proprietor. • Seaforth, May ali, 1870. 3-tf— i 1 . , O-MAILL & CROOKE; Architects, ete. Plans 1 0 and Specifications drawn. correctly, Carpen- ter's, . Plasterer's, and Mason's work, measured il and. valued. •Office—Over J. C. Detlor & Co .'s 1. store, Court -House Square, d-oderich: -1-. • Goderieh, April 23, 1869. 79-1y. 1 _ - 1 ty &-W. McPHILLIPS, Provincial Land Sur- a ..-. veyors, Civil En5ineers, etc. All manner t of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch. G. McPhillips, Commissioner in B. R. Offiee— i Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Seaforth. • a 1 Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1868. 53-ly . a t . • • , T S. PORTER, Seaforth, Ont., dealer in hides, eo el „ sheep skins, furs and wool. Liberal advance- e rnents made on consignments. Money to lend. y Insuraime agent. Debts collected, • /Highest ii) price paid for green backs.-0ffice east side of y Main Street,one d•oor north Johnsen Bros'. b Hardware Store. 122-tf. • ii • . •a HT) HAZLEHURST, Licensed Auctioneer fo. 11. the County Af T-Tii rim _ •CI -Ail AAA _• On+. Particular attention paid to the sale of Bankrupt • ...Stock. Farm Stock Sales attended on Liberal Terms. • Goods Appraised, Mortgages Foreclosed, Landlord's Warrants Executed. Also, Bailiff First Division Court for Huron. Goderich, June 9th, 1869. TBANIC,GOD FOR SUNDAY. Now God be thanked !That he has given •-,-Blst boon to saint and sinner— v C14y of rest—one day in seven, . Where tell is not the winner; Rest for the tired and jaded brain ; e wearied hand, on Sunday, That they might gather strength again For toil renewed on Monday. The merchant, in his counting -room, The clerk, o'er desk and ledger, - The artizan, at forge or loom, The ditcher and the hedger— The labourer, who must toil and slave From early dawn of Monday Until the week sinks in its grave, fiZAll cry: "Thank God for Sunday !" The clay that -lifts the mighty' chain , Which all the week hath bound us; That respite gives to heart and . brain, From thousand cares around us; That in the toilsome march of life That bids. us take for one day, Rest from the battle and the strife; Oh! God be thanked for Sunday! If thus by all one day of rest 'Be hailed, as respite solely, How to the Christian doubly blest Must be the Sabbath holy; As in faith's light he lifts his eyes To that bright world where, one day, He longs to spend beyond the skies, One blest, eternal Sunday! UNDER FALSE COLORS. CHAPTER. HOISTING THE PLA.G. A dreary, murky November day brooded over Southampton, and an impenetrable fog hung over sea and shore alike, penetrating:the clothing, chil- ling the blood and depressing the spirits of every ° =tacky person who was so u7ifortunate as to come within the range of its inffuence. .The passengers • on the steamship America, from Bremen for New York, via Southampton, found thebrief period of their stay at the latter port almost unendurable; and whilst semepaced the wet decks impatiently, others grumbled. both loudly and deeply in the • cabins, or shut themselves up in their state -rooms sulky discomfort. _ Those who remained on cl4k had'at least the amusement of watching for the steamboat which was to bring the .Soathamp- ton passengers—a pastime whieh, however, being indefinitely prolonged, began to grow wearisome. It came at last—a wretched little vessel, rather smaller than the smallest of the noisy tugs that puff and padclle on our Ainerican rivers—and the wet, sick unsheltered passengers were gradually transferred to the deck of the ship. . Among those who appeared to have suffered most severely from the rocking_ of the miserable little steataboat was a young fair-haired girl, a,p- parently about seventeen years of age, who seem- ed almost insensible. She would have fallen had not one of her fellow -travellers, a lady evidently not ranch her senior, thrown her arm arounclher; thus aided,' she ma,naged to: reach the steamer's deck and to totter down the staircase leading to the ladies' cabin. The active, busy steward at once bustled up to the two young girls: "Your names, ladies, if you please. I will point out your state-roonis in a moment. Miss Marion Nugent—Miss Rhoda Steele? Miss Nu- gent, berth No. 20, state -room 0--" ehisCatnot I occupy the same stat -room with was young lady ?" interrupted. the taller girl, who still lending the support of her arm to sustain jLi half -fainting companion. Do not leave me, please," murmured the suf- ferer: The steward threw a compassionate glance up- on the pair, went away, and after a short consul- tation with the. unseen powers, returned and said that they could take possession at once of their state -room, into which he proceeded to usher them. It was more spacieus than such apart- ments usually are, and abounded with all those little contrivances for comfort a,nd convenience for which the steamers of the North German Lloyds are justly famed. The invalid sank down on the soft -cushioned little sofa and gasped pain- fully for breath. "For heaven's sake, get me some wine or some brandy !" exclaimed her companion. "This poor thing seems very ill; and do tell the doctor to come here at once." With a -quiek, energetic movement, as she spoke he =elapsed the heavy waterproof cloak of the sufferer and threw it back, thus revealing a feu. alid face, framed in loosened curls of silky gold- en hair. It was a face that must have looked ingularly lovely when tinted with the rosy hues f health, so delicate were the features and so arge and blue the -half-closed eyes, but it was hastly pale, and a livid, bluish tinge.had settled round the small mouth, whose ruby hues had ed to give place to a sickly purple. The ste- vard speedily returned with .some brandy, the mil's -eye Was tl.krown open, and the cpld sea air lad potent spirit soon asserted their restoratiire (Ayers. She dat up, a more natural color over- preading her countenance, and she murmaredin- rticulatly a few 'words of thanks, while the kind- earted steward h4stened away again in search of he doctor. ) - "1 ara subject to these attacks," she said, aintly, to her companion when they were again eft alone, "Only feel how my heart is beat e ship's sutgeon soon naade his appearance. e was a young, light -haired, solemn-looking,rGer- an, who shook his head and looked very grave s he listened to the labored breathing and felt he bounding, kregular pulse of the sufferer. "It is away that the ship has started," he said a very good. English, "for I hardly think you re fitted to bear the fatigues of a sea -voyage t this season of the year; and had we been still t anchor, I should have counselled you to return shore. But it is too late now, and you must to keep as quiet as possible. I would adVise eu to retire to your berth at once; it will probe- ly be a stormy night, and you had better settle ourself comfortably before the motionshegins to e unpleasant. I will see you again in the morn - g, and. if you feel worse meanwhile, letme know once." The doctor and the steward then . quitted the • ate -room, , bemg left alone worse for wear, and contrasting sadly with the neat but simple travelling costume of her compa- nion, But about her slender, finely -proportioned figure there was an air of style and grace which • lent an elegance even to her shabby and faded finery, and which was wanting in the owner of • the fresher and moreappropriate attire. Her face was beautiful, with a singular and weird beauty which owed nothing of its fascinations to the ordinary charms of delicate outlines and dain- ty coloring. Her features were small and attenua- ed, and her complexion was of a sallow paleness, whose lack of freshness seemed caused by dissi- pation and late hours, or by theravages of illness. Heavy masses of soft silken hair, black as mid- night, with bluishreflections on its lustrous waves (bleu a force a d' etre noir, as Alexandre Dumas describes such tresses), untutored by crimping pins or curling tongs, were rolled back in plain folds above her low, broad brow. Her eyes would have lent beauty to a plainer face. Large almost to a fault, of that dark, clear blue which _is too perfect and too transparent ever to look black even under the shadow of such long, thick eyelashes as shaded them in the present instance they were perfectly magnificent; and their lus- trous azure and ever -varying expression lent to the noble countenance of their possessor its most potent and peculiar charm. She was the first to speak. "Doyou not think Youliacl better retire to your berth?" she asked. " The rocking of the ship is increasing, and we hadbetter, early as it is, settle ourselves for the night, before it becomes se violent as to prevent us from moving." • At this moment two porters made their appear- ance laden withpackages. Two small new trunks —one marked R. S. the other M. N.—were de- posited on the floor and identified by their pos- sessors. The sick girl then attempted with trem- bling herds, to -disembarrass herself of her appar- el, but it was not without much assistance from her companion that she was enabled to remove her travelling costume and make preparations for retiring. At last, however, she was ready, and was about to make an attempt to reach the upper berth, whicb wad the one allotted to her by num- ber, when a quick, imperative gesture from her companion stopped her. • "No, no," she said; "you must take the low- er berth. 1 can reach the upper one without any trouble,- and you are not strong enough for so much exertion." •, "You are very, very kind," said the invalid. gratefully. She sank back on the pillow and watched the otherfor some minutes in silence, as she quietly and quickly gatb.ered up and put in order the scattered articles with which the state -room was strewn. "Will you not give me that little black bag?" she said at last. " Thenks ! that is it I wished to be certain that I had! put my letter of introduc- tion in it. Ah! here it is quite safe. It would never do for me to lose that letter, for the lady with whom. I am going to live as governess has never seen me, and she might take me for an. im- postor were I to come without. An English lady who was her most intimate friend, engaged me for her. I wonder what New York is like ?,-very rough and. wild, no doubt, and I am afraid. I shall be much annoyed by the rattlesnakes. You are _going to New York too, are you not ?" • " I a.m." • "Have you friends there?" "None." "I wish I had some acquaintance among our fellow -passengers, but I do not know a single one. Do you ?" "You have not told the your name yet. -Mine is Marion Nugent ; and yours—" ," Is not so pretty a one—Rhoda-Steele. •• There was something in the tone of thesereplies that quelled the invalid's disposition to talk and she remained silent while her companion finished her arrangenients and prepared to take possessisn of her berth. It was time that she clid Fe). The threatened gale was by this time blowing in ear- nest, and the ship was commencing to roll fear- fully; so after securing all the boxes and bags as well as possible, and hanging Up all the scattered garments, she made a hasty retreat to her couch, and lay there only half undressed, but utterly prostrate, and as unable to touch the tea and bis- cuits brought by the attentive stewardess as was her more delicate and suffering room -mate. Time passed on; the daylight faded froni the sky, a feeble, glimmering lamp shed its faint rays into the state -room, andthegreat steamship went steadily on, though rocked and i;ossed likeaplay- thing by the whistling winds and angry sea. Then midnight came; the lights in the state -room - were extinguished, and atprofouncl silence reigned throughout the cabins, broken only by the ceaseless throb of the mighty engines and- the noisy clanking of the screw. The state -room was wrappecl in profound dark- ness, when Rhoda Steele awoke, with ,a start as From some troubled dream. Was she still dream- ing, or did she indeed hear a strange choking sound proceeding from the lower berth? She sprang to the floor at once, heeding neither the darkness nor the violent motion, and clinging to the side of the berth she called aloud. There was no answer, even the gurgling, choking sound she heard at first, had ceased. She put out her hand, and it encountred. her companion's face. It was deathly cold, and the features quivered as if convulsed under her touch.—Again she called aloud—still no answer; and then, thoroughly frightened, she caught up a cloak from the sofa, threw it around her, and opening the state -room cloor„ she rushed into the cabin. It was almost deserted. The lamps swung heavily overhead, $wayed by the unceasing rolling of, the ship a droWsy waiter slumbered at one of the ta,bles, his head resting on his folded arms, and one or two sleepy passengers tried to maintain a recum- bent posture on the broad sofas that lined the sides. The cries of the terrified girl soon brought several of the waiters to her assistance, and Cap- tain Wessels himself, who had not retired to rest, owing to the stormy weather, came to ascertain the cause of the unusual 'disturbance.—Her story was quickly told: Lights were brought, and the captain accompanied her be& to the state- room. • It was a pitiful sight that met their eyes. l'he young girl lay motionless in her berth, her face tinged with a livid bluish hue, her eyes agony. closed, and her sinall hands °clenched as if in "The doctor !—run for the doctor," was the in- stant and universal exclamation. The doctor came. One look at the pallid. face, one touch at the slender wrist, and he turnedwith a grave face to the bystanders. • "There is nothing to be done he said. "She is dead. I feared some such catastrophe When I saw her lastevening. She was the last stages of heart disease." • surveyed each other curious y. The ateive and energetic girl who had acted spokeswoman and directress throughout the brief scenewe have just described, had let fall her wa- terproof cloak and stood arrayed in a black vel- , vet -jacket and dark silk skirt, both much the "And who was she ?—whet was her name ?" asked kind-hearted Captain Wessels, looking down with pitying eyes at the fair, pale face. • The steward brought, his lists. "Berth No. 22, " he read—" Miss Rhoda -Steele.• •• "And this young lady ?" continued the captain, turning to the other occupant of the state -room, -who had sunk back as if exhausted on the .• sofa, still enveloped in the shrouding folds of her large waterproof cloak. • She raised.her head.. The answer came after a moment's hesitation—came with estrange, defiant ring in its tone: name is Marion Nugent." CHAPTER II. • -UNDER FULL SAIL• . More than a year has passed away since the events narrated in our first chapter took place, and the curtain now rises on a far different scene • —a dinner party in one of the most splendid ' of the gorgeous mansions on Madison avenue, New York. • ' . Mrs. W, Rutherford, the giver of the entertain- ment in question, was a member of a class unhap- piny now fast dying out of New York society— one a those adies of high social position and. an- cient linea who adorn the station which- they occupy as much by their virtues as their social tal- ents. A high-minded, pure-souled matron, a de- voted wife and mother, as well as a queen of so- ciety, inheriting the noble qualities of her Revol- utionary forefathers as well as their great estates —such was the lady who presided overi the bril- liant festivity we are about to describe. She had been left for many years a widow, and her sur- viving children—two sons, Horace and Clement —were both of mature age! • IIbrace, the young- er, being just thirty years old, and Clement, the elder, some seven years his senior, Mrs.. Ruth- erford herself was a few years over sixty. A year or two before the period at which our story opens, a terrible misfortune had .befallen her. Amaurosis—that most insidious and unmanage- able of diseases of the eye, had attacked her vi- sion, and in a few months after it declared itself she was totally, hoplessly blind.. But, although debarred by her inthanityfrom going into society, she still received her friends in her .own home; and her evening receptions and . elegant dinners were always cited as being among the mostagree- able and successful entertainments of the season.. Another sorrow had recently come to trouble the calm of her honoured and tranquil existence. Clement Rutherford, unlike any other member of the faraily, was &cold, reserved man, =pleasant in temper and disagreeable in manner. When he was still quite a boy,his mother's only sister, Miss Myra Van Vleydon, had died, and had bequeathed to him the large fortune which she had inherited conjointlywith Mrs. Rutherford from her father, the two sisters oeing the onlychildren of Schuyler Van Vleyclon. She was a soured, morose old maid, and probably saw some congeniality of dis- position in her oldest nephew which caused her to single him out as her heir. After he attained to years of manhocid, he al -ways manifested a de- cided antipathy to ladies' society, and was gener- ally looked upon as a confirmed old bachelor; so that when he announced to his mother the • fact of his engagement to Mrs. Archer's pretty gov- erness, Miss Nugent, her distress of mind was fully equalled by her astonishment. The match met with her strongest disapproval, as was to have been expected; for it . was hardly probable that • she the oldest surviving representative of the oldknickerbocker family the Van Vleydons, an acknowledged leader of society by the triple right of wealth, birth, and intellect, should be inclined to welcome Very warnily as a daughter-in-law the penniless beauty who had been occupied for some months past in teaching Mrs. • Archer's little • daughters the rudiments of Yrench and music. Morepver, the investigations and inquiries re- specting the -young lady's origin which she had at • once caused to be instituted on hearing of her son's engagement, and revealed a state of affairs which had placed Miss Nugent in a very unenlia able light. Her parents were well born, though poor. ,She was the daughter of a curate in the North of England, who had lost his young wife by heart disease when Marion was but a few months old, and two years later Mr. Nugent died of consumption, leaving his' little daughter to the care of his unmarried and elderly brother, the Reverened Walter Nugent, who though the living he held was but a small one, contrived to rear and educate his niece as his own child. He had only allowed her to leave Min and become a governess on the assurance of the village physici- an that her health was seriously impaired, and that a sea voyage and complete change of scene would prove the best and surest of restoratives. But the pained though manly tone of the letter in which he replied to Mrs. Rutherford's inquir- ies had prepossessed that warm-hearted, high- minded lady most strongly again.st her future daughter-in-law. •, "I loved Marion always as though she were my own child," wrote Mr. Nugent, "and I cannot but look upon her total neglect of me since her arrival in America as being wholly inexcusable. She has never even written me one line since her departnre—and 1 learned of her safe arrival only by the newspapers. I can but infer from her -ob- stinate and persistent silence that she wishes to sever all ties between herself and me, and I have resigned myself to the prospect of a lonely, cheer- less old age. I trust that she may be happy in the brilliant marriage which, you say, she is about to make, and I can assure her that her old uncle will never disturb her in her new prosperity." Mrs. Rutherford had one long, stormy inter- view with her eldest son, and. . learning, therein, that his determination to marry Miss Nugent was fixed and unalterable, she had with commendable wisdom acceptedthe situation, and resolved to so order the conduct of herself and her relatives as to give the scandalous world no room for that contemptuous pity and abundant gossip which an open rupture between herself and her son would doubtless have 'accessioned. The manner of the wooing had been in this wise: John Archer, a sober staid gentleman of • great wealth, was Clement Rutherford's most in- timate friend, and naturally, when the Archers moved into their new and splendid villa at New- port, Clement was invited to spend a few weeks with them—an invitation which he readily ac- ' cepted; A few days after his arrival, Mrs. ii.reii- er, who was a pretty, lively little, coquette, not iii. the least sobered by some thirteen years of married life, offered to drive hiin out in her little pheaton. "John has just given me a new pair of ponies," she said—such perfect beauties and so gentle that Hong to drive them.So thepretty, sty- lish equipage, with its fair driver and faultless appointments'made its first appearance on the • avenue that afternoon,1J and abo, 1 am sorry to , say, its last, for the "gentle beauties" aforesa excited to emulation by the number of sphit steeds around them, became ataitious of di tinction, and. sought for and decidedly obtain it by running away, thereby overturning the p aton, breaking the harness, bruising Mr Archer severely, and dislocating Mr. Rutherfor ankle. Mrs. Archer was as well as ever in a few da, but the injuries received by her guest proved a ficienty serious to compel him to -maintain a cumbent position for along time, and preven him from walking for several weeks.. She ma every arrangement possible for his comfort, an She had a charming little reception -room on t ground floor, adjoining the library, fitted up as bed -chamber, and installed him there ; so that soon. as he was able to quit his bed for a sofa, could be wheeled into the latter apartment, a there enjoy the distractions of literature and s ciety.—For a few days after he made his first a pearance there his lovely; hostess was all attenti and devotion- but, finding that he was anythin but an agreeable or impressionable companion, s soon wearied of his society. Mr. Archer, short after the accident had taken place, had been sum moned. from home by important business connec ed with seine mining property which he possesse and which necessitated his presence in the int rior of Pennsylvania ; so Mrs.: Archer, thus le with the entertaimnent of her most uneongeni guest exclusively confided teher care, cam speedily to the conclusion that he was a nuisan and. began to look about for a substitute to reliev her from her unwelcome duties. She clecid.e that .her pretty governess, who spoke French well, and sang little French chansonettes so swee ly, and gotherself up in such a charming marine giving so much " chic " and style even to th siinplest of toilettes, was just the person to tak upon herself the task of amusing the -uninteres ing invalid. ".Do look after Mr. Rutherford a little, there' a dear, good creature," whispered Mrs. Arche confidentially to Miss Nugent. a• 'He is cireadfull tiresome, to be sure, but John thii:iks the worl of him, you know, and it would not exactly do t leave him alone all the dine. I wish him- to re ceive every attention while he is in thelicruse, o course ; but as for sitting for hours at a tune wit him in that stuffy little hbrary—just in the heigh of the season, too—why, 1 cannot think of Acan it. If you will just go and sit pith Mtn sometimes, and read to him a little, it will be a, absolute charity to me. I'll see that Alice an Emily do not get into. any mischief.'" Which, considering that the young la.di, es in ques tion were, one twelve, the other ten years of age and both much -addicted to flirtation and dancing the "German," was rather a rash promise and inconsiderately made. So Miss Nugent was definitelyinstalled as read- er and garde inalade in general, and Clement Ru- therford soon learned to await her earning with impatience •and to welcome her with delight. All his life long will he remember those summer days, when her voice and. the low- plash of the far-off °con waves wove themselves togeth- er into music as she read, and. when the blue plendors of her lustrous eyes lent a new ni4aning o the poet's story as it flowed in melodious vers - s from her lips. Then came a day when the ook was laid aside, and the impassioned Utter- nces of poetry gave place to the more prosaic but ct_less fervent accents of a newly -awakened pas.- ion. •Cold, silent and morose as Clement Ruther- ord had always been, it had so happened that ut few women had ever attempted. to attract im, notwithstanding his wealth and social posi- ion ; and the interestedj motives of these few had een so apparent that he had been repelled and disgusted, instead of being fascinated, by their riles, so that Miss Nugent's grace and beauty nd syren charms proved all too potent for hi3 noccupied though icy heart to resist; and thus t ch'Inced. that the day before Mr. Rutherford. IN eft 'evfport he astonished his hostess by request - g private interview mall her, and therein an- ouncing his engagement to her governess. • (To be Co-ntihrued.) , • A New 'Shoo Ply.' Der efening gloucls vas sed.d.lina fast As a young man drough. the fillage passed, Shkacling along the shclorm and hail, . Mit dese vords tied to his coat tail : • "Shoo Fly." "Oh! dond go auch &night as dose-," His mudcler cries, "You vill got froze; Dot John Frost dot vill nip your ear," Ile only said so rait• a shneer : •••• "Shoo Fly." "Come beck l come beck 1" the oult man sed "Of you dond look out you vill be dead; Coe beck ! and by dot fire sit," Ha ! ha' 1 dond vas fraid a bit•," •"Shoo Fly." id, ed s- ed he - s. ds ys, uf- re- ted de he a he ud o- p- on - he ly t- 43, e- ft al e - ce SO t - r, t- li f "John Ilenery," the shmall maid said, "Come here and eat dis piece of bread" He just looked down and holed a sigh— "Pm a bully boy mit a glass eye," "Shoo Fly." Higher and higher dot young man vent, For the shdorms he dond did care a cent, As he viped the Allow off his left ear, Dem yowls was heard shdill strong and g.lear "Shoo Fly." • In bond a veek, or may be more, Der peeples heerd an awful roar, Dot sounded loud imd VAT and vide, From vay up on der moundain's side --- . "Shoo Fly," • `Dwo mem; vas out shoodin.g shnipes, And vile cley shdobbed to smoke cleir pipes, ' Von he happened to look around. -Und saw dis shdicking oud der ground : ••••`Shoo • .11c: few days ago a very starchly dreSsed indi- dual -called at an out-of-the-way shop on Howard street, over which hung the sign of Dr. Jiffries. "Is the Doctor ?" he inquired of a dilapida- ted darkeywho answered his summons. "He am dat sir,, ' was the smiling rejoinder. "Tell him I -think I have symptoms of small -pox, an'dI wish to consult lairn.' The whites of the darkey s eyes grew intense, and his dusky complexion as- sumed rapidly e creamy hue. "Golly, boss, what em dat ?" "Tell the doctor I'm sick with the sniall-pox and wish to see him." The astonished darkey, gave a.wild leap, and darting_ through an inner door, slamming it in the visitor's face, cried out : - "Leave this yer house, I don't want 310 small -pox" "But the doctor ?" "golly/kis I'se the doctor, but I ain't good at sraalrpox."