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WA - SIL p 112 90 2 02 s p j12 90 2Q2 p 112 90 2 02 p 112 90 202 L p 112 99 2 02 i• p• 112 90 202 p 12 90 2 02 p 112 90 202 MIS IN W. WAWA. p 3 71 9.. 466 66 p 4121 97 6 09 (IOW IN W. WAWA. 7 56 1 05 861 ROSS, Treasurer Co- t, - WM. F. LUXTON, " Freedom, in Trade --Liberty in Religion --Equality in Civil Right.';. EDTIOR & PUBLISHER. VOL. 3, NO. 39, SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1870. es • WHOLE NO. 143. BUSINESS CARDS. _ MEDICAL. RTRACY, M. D. Coroner for the County of . Huron. Office and Residence—One door East of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868 53-ly L. VERCOE, M. D.C. WI., Physician, Sur - goon, este. °thee and Residence, .corner a Market and High Streeteimmediately in rear of Kidd & McMulkin's Store. Seadorth, Feb. 4th. 1870. 53-1y. -FIR. W. R. SMITH, Physician, Surgeon, etc: site, Office, -Opposite Veal's Grocery: Resi- dence—Main-street, North. Seaforth, Dec. 14, 1863. 53-ly T CAMPBELL, M: D. C. M., (Graduate of Mo- e Gill University, Montreal) Physician, Sur- geon, etc., Seaforth , Office and R esidence—Old Post Office Building, up stairs, where he will be found by night or day when at home. Seaforth, July 15th, 1869. 844y LEGAL. P.F. WALKER, Attorney -at -Law and So- licitor-insChancery, Conveyancer, Notary Public, &c. Office of the Clerk of the Peace, Court House, Goderich, Ont N.B.—Money to lend. at 8 iler cent on Farm Lands. Goderich, Janiy. 28. 1870. 112-1y. AUGHEY & HOLMSTE AD, Barristers, Attorneys at Law'Soliciteira in Chancery' and insolvency, Notaries Public ai4 Oonveyanc- ars. Solicitors for the R C. Bank, Seaforth, Agents for the Canada Life Assurance ,Co. H. B..—$30,00.0 to lend at 8 per cent Farms, Houses and Lots for sale. Seaforth, Dec. 14th, 1868. 53-tf. ENSON & MEYER, Barristers and. Attorney at Law, Soheitors in Ohancely and Insolv- ency, Coirveyaneers, Notaries Public, etc. - Of= fsees,—Sea,forth and Wroxeter. Agents for the • Trust and Loan. Co. of -Upper Canada, ancl the Colonial Securities 06. of London, England. Money at 8 per cent; no commission, charged, _ • TAS. 11. .BEN0N/ L 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 tne preservation of decayed and tender teeth. Teeth extracted .without pain. Rooms over -Collier's Store. Saeforth. Dec. 14, 1868. ly. HOTELS. flOMMERO1AL HOTEL, Ainleyvill , James kes Laird, proprietor, affords first-class acoom- modation for the travelling public. The larder and. bar are always supplied with the best the markets afford.Excellent stabling in connectiou A irdeyville, April 23, 1869. 70-ff. ONX'S HOTEL (LATE SHARP'S) The un- dersigned begs to thank the public for the liberal patronage awarded to him in tiroes past in the hotel business, and alio to inform them that he has again resuthecl business in the above stand, *here he will be happy to have a call from old friends, and. many new ones. •THOMAS KONX. Seaforth, May 5, 1870. 126-tf. T R. ROSS, Proprietor Neav Dominion Hotel, efi begs to inform the people of Seaforth and. the travelling comsnunity generally, that hekeeps first-class accommodation in every thing requirecl by travellers. A good stable and willing hostler always on hand, Regular Boarders will receive every necessary; attention Seaforth, Feb. 8th, 1869. 63- I y. 110RITISH EXCI1ANGE HOTEL, Goireassox, let Ozer. , J. CALLAWAY, PROPRIETOR ; ‘.8 WILLIAMS, (late of American Hotel, Warsaw, N. Y.) Manager. This hotel has recently been new- ly furnished, and refitted throughout, and is now one of the most crimfertable and commodious in the Province, Good Sample Rooms for Commer- cial Travellers. Terms liberal. Goderieh, April 14, 1870. 123-tf. MIS(ELLANEOUS. HARP'S LIVERY STABLE, MAIN ST., 0 5 ite FOR Tsi. First Class Hems and Carriages always on hand at reasonable terms. - R .L SHARP, Proprietor. - Seaforth, May 5th, 1870. MAILL & CgOOKE, Architects, etc. Plans 0 and Specifications drawn correctly. Carpen- ter's, Plasterer's. and Mason's work, measured and valued. Office—Over J. C. Detlor & Co 's store, Court -House Square, Goderich. Goderich, April 21, 1869. 79-1y. G&W. MePHILLIPS, Provincial Land Sur- . aseyors, Civil Enbineers, etc. All manner of Conveyancing done with neatness and dispatch. G. McPhillips, Coimnissioner in B. R. Office— • Next door south of Sharp's Hotel, Seaforth. Seaf6rth, Dec. 14, 1868.- • 53-ly.- TI S. PORTER, Seaforth, Ont.,dealer in hides, t. sheap skits:furs andwool L;beral advance- ments made on consignments. Money to lend. Insurance agent. Debts collected, Highest price paid. for green backs.—Office east side of Main Street, one door north Johnson Bros'. Hardware Store. 122-tf. 11.A.ZLEHITRST, Licensed Auctioneer for the Ockunty of Huron. Goderieh, Ont 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. 76.0 THE PARTING HOUR. There's something in the "parting hour'' Will chill the warmest heart -- Yet kindred, (omrades, lovers, friends, Are fated a 1 to part; But this I've een-s-and many a pang .. Has presset it on my mind— The one who goes is happier Than those ne. leaves behind. No matter what the journey he— Adventurous, dangerous, far, To the wild deep or bleak frontier, , To solitude or war ; • Still something cheers the heart that dares I In all of human.kind. And they who go are happier Than those they leave behind. The bride goes to the bridegroom's home With cloubtings and with tears, • But does not hope her rainbow spread Across her cloudy fears? Alas ! the mother who remains, What comfort can she find, But this—the gone is happier Than one she leaves behind. Have you a friend—a comrade dear? An old and valued friend.? Be sure your term of sweet concourse At length will have an end! And when you part—as part you will - 0 take Allot unkind,- Thathe who goes:ie happier Than you he leaves behind. God wills it so—and so it is; The pilgrims on their way, Though weak and worn, more cheerful are • Than. all they rest who stay; And when, at last, poor man, subdued, - Lies down to death resigned, May he not stillkbe happier far Than those he leaves behind. THE FALSE LOVER. --0— Gerard Mayworth lay in the shadow of the great maples, watching the little figure wending its way across he field. came nearer, and closing the book he had been reading, lie half raised himself from his recumbent position to get a better view- of her. . - Short brown curls gave a piquant expression to the fresh, sparkling face, whose red lips softly caroled little snatches of:songs ; while one round dimpled arm and hand curved themselves upward -and balanced on -the surly head a shining tin pail filled with sparkling water from the spring be- low. Ile knew that she was a sort of upper servant in Squire Mapl a's family, II -there she had been brought up from a little girl, and he himself was betrothed to Marguerite Maple, the Squire's. only daughter. He knew, too, that his admiration for the artless little Madge was wrong, very wrong, and stately Marguerite would open wide her proud, black eyes did she ever dream of it. At the thought he darted a stealthy, searching long toward the windows ot the great white house sur- rounded by the tall trees in whose shadows he lay Concealed, and then called out: "Come'here Madge ; 1 must have a drink of that nice fresh water." She turned at the sound of his voice, and the blushes; came and went as she advanced shyly to- ward him, and with a quick, graceful movement she swiing the pail downward, and placed it be -- side him. One more Etwehing glance toward the house, and his eyes looked into her own as he said, laughingly : "Here is the water, Miss Madge, but how am I to drink it ?" The blushes were yet more vivid as she mur- inured's, half apology, and started off for a glass. "You need not take the trouble, _little one • I can find something here that will do just as well" And, drawing hersback, he fashioned an odd- looking cup out of thlihangieg maple leaves, ma- king comical -efforts to procure a think, for the sake of listening to the arch rippling laugh that lighted up the nut -brown eyes and pealed 'from between the parted lips at his repeated failures. She thought him very handsome as he stood there, his hair falling in clustering rings on his white forehead as he bent over the pail, his blue eyes glancing every moment into hers with a mer- ry affectation of dismay at his poor success. • He .at last assured her that he . had sufficient, and when .she would have raised the pail to return to the house, he determined to brave even Mars guerite'Spride, and carry it himself; for he had grown strangely careful of the little brown hands of late. But the girl had a finer and truer sense of their respective positions ; for she shrank from his 'outstretched hand with a loW murmured— "It you please, Mr. Mayworth, ;I would rather carry it myself." • He took no notice of the timid words, or the questioning eyes raised to his, but lifted the pail from her hand without a word, wondering as the sharp handle lined itself on his white palm, how that little figure could support the heavy weight. She made no motion to follow him, but stood still and silent ; returning to her side, he said, •look- ing down -into her face ; "Madge, why do you not wish me to carry it; are you afraid that I will do too much for you? If sos I will take my payment now," and bending down, he pressed a daring kiss on her lips. She drew her little figure up proudly and the look of scorn she bent upon him was worthy of even; tae squire's stately daughter, as he moved away, leaving theyoungman standing there, more • humiliated by that silent rebuke than he could have been by the tnost passionate .expressions of anger. He raised the pail and followed her,feeling that nothing would be too mortifying if it would only assure her of his heart felt contrition. An old female domestic was the -only person that greeted him as he opened the kitchen doer, and he had the full benefit of laer surprised glances as he de- posited his harden without a word. - A half hour afterwards he saw Madge pass the door, and though he felt assured that she must know of his close vicinity, she did not even deign to glance toward him. As he sat there, almost hating himself for his blind folly, a white arm stole round his neck, and Marguerite Maple's love lit face looked into his own. He pressed a tender kiss on her fair brow, and drew her to a sap beside him. Sitting there in the summer twilight with Marguerite's hand clasped in his, and Marguerite's eyes looking into his own, he forgot his interest in the little girl who had so unexpeetedly- resented his audacity. He had met arguente in town the year pre- vious, and charined by her grace and beauty-, he had selicited her to become his wife ' • and obtain- ing thesassuraiice of her lave, ,he had.followed her to her country hoine to .gain the sanction of herfa- ther. ° The squire -who placed entire confidence in his • daughters judgeinent, and who was fromthe first prepossessed. in her lovers favour, readily gave his consent to tbeirunion, and since then affairs had glided smoothly on, save when an occasional lovers' quarrel marred their even harmony. The disposition of MarwOrth was haughty and unyielding, but Marguerite was equally so; and it chafedhim to think that he was sometimes com- pelled to subjugate his will to another, even though that was the woman he had asked to be his wffe. - In the days of estrangement Marguerite would realize with aching heart that her disposition was totally unfitted to mate with his, he needed a gentle, yielding wife, whowoulcl rely onhis judge- ment unquestionably,- and such she never 'could be. But a loving reconciliation would banish all such unpleasant misgivings ; and every week saw a couple of its days spent byGerarclatthe squire's old farm house, where ' pretty Madge, with her bright winning face always crossed his path. Since this little episode in the maple grove, Madge had avoided him,- and he missed her bright face even more than he cared. to acknowledge to himself. It West then that Marguerite's cause suf- fered .most ; for in his anxiety to express his soa; row and implore his ,forgiveness for his fault. Madge was almost constantly in his thoughts, and it irritated him to see how persistently she shunned him. BLit he would not be deceived by her seeming coldness;. for he could .not . blind himself to the deepening flush in the -rosy cheek, as she caught his. eyes fixed earnestly amon her, nor fail to catch the trembling light in her own, as they met his for one brief instant, reading the interest he had created far lattter than she did herself; and in the exultation of the thought, he, wealthy and high-born, realized that the. squirt's little brown -haired servant 'maid held a place in his heart. that the squire's beautiful daughter had never filled. With an ardent a 'd impulsive temperament, he.was thoroughly se sh • and stifling all manly pleading for the fair irl Nirlom he had wooed and won, lie determined Ilo disregard the sneers of his aristocratic relatives, and win little Madge for his wife. - . The oppdrtunity he ad so long sought at last presented itself. He beam face to face with her as she was flying across the lawn, intercepting her passage as ,he placed himself directly in her path. "Madge," he spoke, low and hurriedly, "there is something I wished to say to you. Wait till your mistress has retired to -night, and. then go to the old willow at the back of the house. and you will find me waiting for you there. Will you promise ?" 13e was looking at her with eyes that said not " Will lyo'n ?" but • You will!" and, like a bird charm .d by a serpent, she stood trembling and uncertain, till his -passionate reiteration compell- ed her assent. That night, whenmost of the old squire's house- hold had soeght their reipective apartments, and - unsuspecting Marguerite, with a heart full of hap- piness, had parted from her lover at the foot of the stairs, a little figure Wriiiiped in a 'large man- tle stalecautiouslyout of the back door, and glid- ed swiftly down the path, that led to the willow. She did not shrink when, a tall figure_ came to- warclher out of the thick darkness, for .the brave little heart would not fear anything from Miss ,Marguerite's betrothed, who must, like her, be good and honorable. s . The pure, upturned face, with the light of the stars felling softly upon it, posseStied in its per- fect trustfulness a talisman that was its surest safeguard; and Gerard Mayworth, with all his faults, wOuld never have brought a blush of shame to a face like that. • There was reassurance in the low tones that spoke her name, and tender respect in the voice that pleaded forgiveness for the past, and the lit- tle heart fluttered wildly as taking her hand in both of his, he asked her to be his Wife. It was so sudden, so unexpected; she could not at rst understana ; but when he drew her close to bine and looked down into her face, waiting for her . answer, she did not think of Marguerite or the great wrong she was doing her, but let her head' rest just'as he had placed it, with a feeling of per- fect happiness stealing over her. He had said he loved her, and that was sufficient to make her for- get that she was nothing but Madge 'Weldon a poor little servant, and he one of fortune's favo- -rites, as far above her as society ever places wealth above poverty. But her' lo ve spanned the dis- tance—immeasurable as it seemed, and her first thought was not for that, but for NJ arguerite ; and with a quick, frightened movement she drew herself away. „ He quieted her with loving words, telling her how wrong it would be to marry one he _did not love—and Marguerite would , not wish it ; .she would readily give him up when she saw how it was ; and trusting little Madge again suffered her head to drop on his shoulder an she listened, thinking all the time how different must be her love from that of her mistress; she would not want to give him up, not if fifty Mies Marguerites stood nethe way; and she clung closer to hirn at the bard thought. • A sudden: flash of light gleamed across the path and, looking up, they saw that it proceeded from Marguerite's chamber. "Oh, let me go "Madge hurriedly exclainaed. "What if she should want in, and I IA there!" And, breaking from his hold, she alindst flew up the garden path. • He was at her -side as . she reached the door, and, opening it softly, the two stood in -the wide, old-fashioned. kitchen. They did not see the hi le etirinking figiiie that, at the sound of the opening door, crouched,- eirighted, into ashadow- ed recess, so he drew her closely tohinenrurmur- ing tenderly: _ "Give me my good -night kiss. Madge—you forgot that when yoieran away so fast." " You will not tirkof -me when lam your avife. Gerard ?"—love had to soon made the term fami- liar—" when you see how - ignorant 1 am, and Miss Marguerite is so much above me!" He saw her fear, and his tones thrcbbed with feeling as he answered: "Never, darling. You have a true, loving heart—that is more to me than learning. Be al- ways as you are now, little Madge, and. You will hold me forever.", Thq boon he craved was not denied him then, and her lips murmured slew good -night. ea she stole softly away. He followed her a moment after, and when the ticking of the dock- Was the only sound that broke the silence, another figure gl.dei across the oaken floor, and reached its i room just after the others. Poor Marguerite! The light revealed an ashen face as she sunk powerless into a chair. Her head had ached badly ; she remembered seeing some camphor in the kitchen closet, and knowing just where to seek it, she had gone for it Without a light, and in the quiet darkness had conie upon a deeper, life-long pain. Ah, well She had been dreaming a beautiful dream. and fate had showed the awakening. It was cruel; but better now than lata.. And the wretchecIgirl bowed her head in anguish. That night, when the hours had sped far into the morn-. ing, and pretty Madgelay buriedinhapny, dream- ful sleep, there was a noise and hurrying feet, and anxious faces flitted through the great house, for its master was dying. Doctor Fayn.e hastened over at the imperative summons, to find a score of frightened. watchers gathered around the old squire's bedside. Atthe hrst entrance of the physician, he desired that all should leave theYoom save his daughter and Ge- rard. "Doctor, I know that I have but a little while to live !" and the feeble eyes searched the physi- cian's shaded face, and then rested with a _took of fond affection on the kneeling figure of his daugh- ter. "My child, tell Madge I wish to see her; what I have to. say is for her as well." The palid face was lifted as Marguerite rose to do her father's -bidding. She stood at Madg's door Waiting for her to appear. A frightened voice had answered her sharp call, and Madge, with clothes loosely thrown on, and a startled look in her brown eyes, stood in the open door- way. She shrank back guiltily when she saw Marguerite's, pale face confronting her; for she imagined that Gerard had told -her all, and that she had now come to upbraid her, Marguerite rea4 something of her thoughts, and despite her deep pain, she looked scorn- fully down on the timid, shrinking girl, that fol- lowed in her footsteps. • A moment more end Marguerite knelt in her old place, the squire's withered hand on the head of his motherless, and soon to be fatherless, child; and little Madge, left alone, standing in the furthest corner of the room. -half blinded by the light and ehe unexpec- ted scene, where nothing seemed familiar. The old slinires voice cheated into momentary strength, rose clear and distinct: "I need not -Speak of the years of life made wretched through one base act of the past. I need only tell of one innocent girl dishonoured,' a happy home made wretched, -and you know my crime. Yonder poor girl has been a living re- minder of that one fatal missp 11 speak of this so that you may know her, even at this late day, as my child, Marguerite," and his hand strayed tenderly over the bowed head, "forgive your poor father for the weakness that has kept back this confession till the last moment, leaving you to bear the disgrace alone, when he is at rest for- ever.; I know you are good and upright,. my daughter, and I trust to you to see that she shares the fortune I leave to both. Thus far Gerard had been a silent listener. But roused into anger by the squire's devotedlove for one -child, that refused to speak a kindly word of sympathy to the one he hail brought intoa life of shame, he could ricalonger control his feelings ; and, -without a thought of the shock. his words. might produce, the rash, impulsive young man strode across the room, and twining one arra around the shrinking form of Madge, he hotly ex- claimed: "You have denied her a place in your affec- tions ; and your fortune she does not need. I love her, and shall make her my wife, giving her an honourable name, and helping her to forget the shame you have heaped upon her !" The old man raised himself with an expiring effort, and glared wildly uponthe two, he shriek- ed out : " My child! my Marguerite! thou, too, art forsaken! Heaven forgive me !" and, falling back svith a low moan he was dead ! The\first streaks of approaching dawn- came dimly into that rooin, casting a sickly light on the pale, rigid form of an old man; and the kneeling figure of a young girl crushed and heart broken beneath the weight of a double woe. sse • o - Terrible Encounter with a Bear. A terrible encounter between three men and a bear last week, at Blanche Lake, is described by the Ottawa Tree Press. p Two brother:, nanied Last, and their father, were reaping oats in their field when a large bear was seen coming through the grain. Seizing their guns, one of the sons shot the animal in the body. The bear, finding himself wounded, turned and ran for a mountain and the two men gave chase. They headed him off, and the double barrelled. gun, which was load- ed with buckshot, was fired at him withoutprodu- cing any other effect than enraging him. . He • started to run again anawas again heeded off, by one of the men leaping over a shrubbery pine and getting before him in a ravine. The young man then attacked the bear with his gun, and beat him on the head, The brute leaped on him, and soon had him underneath his powerful paws, tearing the daring man's legs with his immense teeth. The old man run to his son's assistance with a heavy haedspike, and dealt the wounded bear some crushing blows on the nose. The bear then turned on his new assailant and got -the two men under him, tearing them with his great paws and teeth in a 'dreadful manner. The other boy arrived at this time with a musket and pitchfork and sent a bullet through the brute's head and tumbled him over ;y he then took the pitchfork and drove it into the bear the full length . of the prongs. To his surpri.se the animal rose to his feet and rushed. for hin: with the blood and froth flying from his mouth. The young fend* gave himself up for lost when the ferocious brute fell dead at his feet. The fight lasted from five o'- clock in the evening until dark •over two hours, and was one of the most desperate bear fights we have ever heard of. The two men were taken home and their wounds dressed, hut they will not recover from the effects of their fight for the next testo months. The bear when skinned, and the entrails taken out, weighed. over three him, dred pounds without the head. Fr is said that when a. stable is on fire there is only one way of inducing horses to make -their es, cape, and that is by throwing something over their eyes to blindfold them, when they can he led out with the greatest ease, just. after they may have resisted every attempt to compel there to go. deo,. A husband two years after marriage, met an old friend, who congratulated him upon his im- proved pereorial appearance, but said: "It seems to me you have grown smaller." "No wonder," Wai the reply.; ever since 1 saw you I have been COTILiug down hand-somely." VARIETIES. Who was the first Odd Fellow ?-.---Adam. Discretion itit speech is better than eloquence. A fine coat may cover a fool but never conceals one. The artist who ." took a lady" returned her the same day. • When is a boat like a pile of snow ?_when it is a drift. The "refined young man" has been fined the second time. From Ireland—Good name for an auctioneer's wife—Biddy. The lady who "had an eye for dirt had no " ear for music." , - What is worse than raining cats and clogs ?— . Hailing oronibusses. . Why is the letter K like a pig's tail ?—Because it's the pnd of pork-. Why is love like a canal boat ?—Because it is an internal transport. What sort of leggings would,you explore the Nile with ?—Alli -gaiters. Why not send a letter by telegraph ?—there are lots of telegraph "posts.' The advantage of having corns is that then you always stand on your own .achers. He who is most, slow in making a promise is most faithful in the performance of it.. When is a scolding woman most of-fence-ixe ?— When she's as deaf as a "post, and rails." Umbrella's 3 with windows are the latest in- vention. The windows make the umbrella light- er. r That the Tilling passion is strong in death is shown when a gambler Shuffles off his mortal coil. What proof have we that there was sewing in the time of David ?—He was hemmed in on every side. The answer to the latest question " What is ahouse without a baby .?". is, well, comparatively quiet. Why do young ladies whiten their faces Ans. • —Becaase they think the powder will make them - go off. "What is the cause of that bell ringing V' said William. "1 think," said John, "that somebody has pulled the rope." It is the man who determines the dignity of -the occupation, not the occupation which measures the dignity of the man. Oh, dear," said a fashionable girl, when she first behelcl a cucumber, "1. always thought such. things grew in slices." It is singular how pious new clothes make peo- ple. For a whole month after the 1Vlisees Flirt got new mantillas theywere at church three times a day. . "Jim, what makes your cats keep up such a cursed mewing all the night ? "Don't know. Bill suppose; though, it's on account of their mew -cuss membranes." A wealthy parishionerizongratulated a poor pas- tor on the good Air which he.breathed in his pa- rish, to which the latter replied : "Yes, the air would be good enough, if I could live upon it," Fame is like a shaved; pig with a .greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped throtigh the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by good luck, holds on to it. . A father was winding his witch, when he said playfully to his little girl, "Let me wind up awn. nose." "No, papa,' said the child, "1 don't want my -nose to run all day." "Was it your eldest daughter, madam, that was bitten by a monkey ?" 'No, sir, it wasmy youngest. My eldest daughter hall a, worse mis- fortune, she married a inonkey." The Mystery of the •art of aerostatiOn, which has puzzeled some very clever scientific men for years, has been solved by one of the lower animals; our cat eats black -beetles and /tie. • Pretty Teacher—" Now, Johnny Wells, can you tell me what is meant by a miracle?" Johnny—" Yes, ma'am. Mother says If you don't marry the new parson, 'twill be a nairaclel" "My brethren," said a country preacher, "we can not sufficiently marvel at the wise forethought of Divine Providence in placing death at the end of life, in order to give us time to prepare for it." The vigilance of Miss Langford, of Celina, Term., was rewarded on Sunday night last week by the discovery of a man under her bed. He proved to be a negro, was promptly killed by a mob. What makes the milk so warm." - said IBetty to the milk woman, when she brought her cans . to the door one morning. " Please mum, the pump handle is broke, and missus took the water from the Wier." An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it 'by social virtues, and by do- ing their duty. This kind of reputation, itis true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. True joy is a serene and sober motion, and. they are miserably deceived that take laughing for rejoicing. The seat of it is within, and there 18 TIO cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet. Mankind are net like grams of wheat—all to be ground down by the same pressure. Some minds will be hardenall by the force which others yield to, and some spirits will be broken by what is only a wholesome corrective to others. , A cockney tourist met a Scotch lassie going barefoot towards Glasgow. "Lassie," said he "I should like to know if all the people in this part go barefooted? 0'Part on em do, and the rest on 'em mind their own business," was the rather settled reply. At a christening, while the minister was Maks ing the per#ficate, Ile forgot the date and happen- ed -to say ; "Let me see, this is the thirtieth!" - "'the thirtieth'" exclaimed the indigua.ut mo- ther ; indeed but it's only the eleventh?' "A friend a mine," said Lord Erskine, "was suffering from continual wakf3fuhiess and various methods were tried to send him to sleep, but in vain. At last his physician resorted to asx exper- iment wnich succeeded perfectly. They dressed -- hiiit in a watchman's coat, put a lantern in his hand, placed him in a sentry -box, and he was asleep in ten minutes."