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 mfmrm^ â- Â«Mib I â- i\ n -;» â- 1- I'm food of fiowMB, iWMt tad iby, Ftooi natBra'i fragrant bowen My bovtODiiiMW I uwmjt bay Of OUn Kimball Powen. Wbo raadi m* DOf«k fall of gor^ To cheer me when I'm feeble, And (ins* tboot the goldea â- horet Why Sophie Martin Keble. â-² little maiden, ebon-onried," ' Mow lerrei my Vfen daily Uar Mwellatiaa. aU nnfmited. la Jalia Haakina Haley. The damoeel who daraa my aocka With ehU and tweet abandon. And chaima me with her goldea locka, la Laon Winter Landon. I look ap to the geotle dame* Ai one looki ap a iteeple. Became they proudly wave their nam Like literary people. ba- PHV^ra* btddiMH^I ilaiMd lO iM •ad kow wtXl eand ior h* logkiag. I foUowad Qyifl at atoMiat obedienca, wtMB he nvadac that tea waa waiting and that it waa «• i«timB io theaw. Oar tM waa acaroaly orar when Cynl wm â- ammoaed from the roam aome one wasted to tee him on boaioeaa. He looked bb«k over it, bat ooold not refaae to go. Many minataa had not elapaed before ha agHft re- 5? I dwm «A»^Mbk^MMr'a^ Mi«yloat. UalittlaiHMrpo«luka i^4iw»Ihad â- ly iitWrIi waajiajumwat to mjwtU^^^ 'it waa a puaa ooataia- 'Ii room viadowaiX fMBd ay- alf rtiiidiag aaf aly oa tka lawa oatwda. It WM growiag dMk aad I kMW that a* oae ooaldMa *aMW, MpaeiaOy in aiy datk cloak b«t I kwW «•• tka* Vary wtaa «h* â- MOB wodd riaa, ad I eoutad vpoa tUt to aaaiat ma in the aseaatiaB of my piauk I â- tolo roand to the etablea, liataoed a mo- ment and, finding all qoiet, I ofwnad the door of Gladiator*! loaae box and qaietly glided ia. He pawed the groand with plea- tare and rabbed hit noae aninat my ahonl- der a* aoon aa he taw ma. It waa qalto eaay to me to taddle him I had often done it for amnaemant'a aaks only. Aa I waaaboottopattbebitiahiamoadi however, I ttopped and thrank back into the ihadow, for Ibeard the Toicea ot the aien who were at work in the place oataide. At any other time it would have amaaed me to find that they were tpeaking about myaelf. One of them, who waa evidently Rcoteh, aaid that I waa "a very bonnie laatie," with a " winaome face," and eyaa like ttara. The other remarked that I wat mach too good for hi« matter, wbo waa a •arly brate, with an awfol temper at times He wondered how I ever oame to fancy him at all. I cuald havetold him that fancy had very little to do with my being there. All the time they were near I cowered back into my comer and trembled leat I thoald be diacovered but it was very dark now, and my gray cloak wat not easily to be diacemad in the obecority within the ttablea, and gradually their voicea died away in the distance. When all waa quite qaiet again, I led Gladiator ontaide, and mounted him in a moment and never shall J forget the ex- ultaot thrill which flithed through every nerve when my horte and I went galloping away into the darkness. The nervous coldness I had been suffering from pasaed quite away from me aa Gladiator bounded along. The fresh air and the de- ligblfal exercite brought back the warmth tu my frame and ttrtngtb and courage to my nuking heart. I waa determined never to retam to the shelter of Cyril Vane't roof, even though I had the miafortaue to call him " husband." Rather by far would I go out aa a govemeti or a lady help and I felt sure that when Cyril came home he would not be lung in discovenog the reaaon why I had left him. I was now on my way to the nearest rail- way station, and my intention was to set off at once in search of Mrj. Hollaed. Once with her, I thought I could aecure a day or two to take breath at it were, and to arrange some further plans for the future. My fa- ther ciiuld hear nothing of all this for tome months at any rate, for he was by thia time fairly launched on his voyage to England. The moon rose the night was clear and cloudless, with a slight frost. In any other circumstances it would have b«en a delight- ful ride under the brilliant stars. Even my very solitude waa a relief to me after the hours I had spent that day in Cyril's society and, alone with Gladiator, I began to feel like myself once more. But time presed I was compelled to ride fast to catch the last train that night, and I had many miles to go. At last.after a gallop over a breezy atretch of tuesuck land unfeoced and uncultivated, tlie lights of the railway station came in I sight before me. I rode to within about a ' hundred yards of the station, and then I halted, and, in the ahadow of a clump of treea, 1 dismounted. "Good-bye, my darling, darling horae 1" I said, clasping him rcnnd the neck and shewering kiaaea on his smooth glossy skin. " How 1 hope they will love you and be kind to yon now that I shall n^t be there any longer to look after yon Go home at once, old fellow, aad gat there before dawn, ao that no oue may aee the way yon oame." He rubbed h.'snoaecaressingly against me, atd sejmcd to understand all that I aaid to him. I broke into pasaiooate tears and aobs as I reated my head against his neck, for I felt at if I were loeiog my last friend. Then I dropped the bridle and walked away from him. He seemtd perplexed, and followed ma a few steps but I ordered him to go honse and p inted backwards along the way that I had come. 1 knew that he would go atraigbt back, not to Cyril's house, which he was scarcely yet sccuctemed to, but to my old home, and this would cause a delay of some hours before he waa foand, which would be in my favour. .At last, at a bend of the road, I loat sight of him, and, drying my tears aa well aa 1 could, 1 harried forward on to the railway l,ttr. to l.er any longer to the oare of her ' " "f but then, 1 retlected, if the room time to Uke my ticket before the train came ONLY A WOMAN'S HAIB. Bj tbe Author d " A ii:rsii(e Friendship,* Ac CHAPTER v.â€" oojrnwriD. 1 think that the tight of me waa aome- wbat of a trouble to him juat then one of hia daughters was dead, the other he bad driven away from him, and bad forced into a marriage which wa« hatafal to her. Pos- sibly be might have felt a little sorry, a trifle remorseful at the sight of mv pale face and sad reproachful eyes but now it was too late to, by tacit conaent, we kept away from each other aa much aa potaible. I sat up for hours that night, crouching on the hearthrug, and staring into the warm glow of the wo embers. The shadows of the trees without waved and tOMed ap«n the blind f the large recstel window of Dy room. 1 wa^ watching facea in the tire I v.as ' king ba-'k mournfully at my past girlhood, and lojkiag forward with a dull apathy to what the future waa to bring me. When I at last lay down and fell asleep, I had a v.nd and terrible dream. 1 thunght 1 waa standing outside upon the lawn. 1 ' wora my biidal (trees, snd the ground was not green, but corerid with snow. Sudden- ly I saw Hose coming to meet me among the trees she, too, was dressed ia wnite. W hen she was w.thiu a few pacea of me, she â- toppeii and beckoned me tj follow her, I 'did so, feeling no surprise, only a calm con- tent at a^ain beholding her. She led me through the trees the snow sparkled on the branches, and lay deep upon the ground. U«r footst. pB made no sound, and utter si- lence was around ua. .Suddenly Rose st-pptd, and she pointed to something a few |«ce8 in front of us. "There, Cathie," she said, "I have brought yuu here to show you who it waa that did It " I dartetl forward. 1 taw a form recum- bent on the ground, and, veileil beneath the tnow, I could discern the outline of a humin figure, but all else was hidden beneath its icy covering. 1 tried to sweep away- the! aoow, to diacover what face lay hidden there from my anxious gaze, but in vain. 1 oould j not move hand or foot I was spell-bonnd to the spot whereon 1 stiH)d. 1 st uggled ' fruitlessly to penetrate the mystery leforu I me, anl Host all the time Btool by, nut I helping me in the least, but looking on •almly. At last she br ke into a harsh, mocking laugh, not like the silvery ring of her old girlish glee. "You cannot do it, Cathie,' she said; " your hands are tied." I looked down at my hands. I taw to my horror and dismay that thty were fas- tened together found the wrists by the miss- ing l ck of golden hair. An agony of terror seemed to wrap me round. Rose had dis- appeared, aal, struggling frantically to re- Ua-c my hands, 1 awoke, and found that the c Id gray clawn of my wedding-moruinu had broken. IHAITER Vi. As I was ilrcssing on the morning of the day which was to see me married to a man 1 did not love, a letter was brought to me. 1 oiencd it with ilull, apathetic lingers, and found that it was from Mrs. Holland. .She W'loie to ttll nie that she had already- met with a sitiution, and that nhc wax go- ing t' It at oiioe. It was a place as houe* ket|MT winch she hail taken, anil she was almost sure that she woulil be happy there. I was not to fret any more about her as I hail lei'ii doing, for she could not bear to tliink ot It, bad I was not to address my I aom to wy I thai hara to leave you for a few boart, Cathie," lie taid. "Thia ooofouadad boaineta of mine woa't wait. 111 le back as soon as ever I can, and I dare tay yoa will find tome way to amuse yourself meanwhile. There are lota of news- papers and books lying aboat." I felt at if hit abaeooe would be a plaaaare and relief to me, so little did I love my hus- band. " Oh, don't trouble yourself a1oat ma " I replied. "I thall be all right and very comfortable by the aide of thia tnag fire. Don't hurry over your baiinem, pray, on my account." He looked tomewhat diatatisfied. I think he felt I waa too ready to let him go. ' ' I would not stir a step if I coald help It," be taid " but thia" â€" snd here, I am afraid, be uttered an imprecatioo â€" "won't wait and go I must, whether I like it or not." After he had left the room, he came back again. "Stay here quietly," he aaid. "1 want to show yon the house when I get home. The room oppoaite to this is my stady and office you need not go into it without me I keep many valuable papers there, and I do nut like anything to be touched Good-bye, Cathie." "Good-bye," 1 reapooded, and I said no more. I felt hurt at hia giving me orders how to spend my time during his absence, and I let him go without another word. He bad married me, knowing that I did not love him, and, if my coldneaa angered him, he had only himself to blaniC for it. In a few minutes I saw him- through the dining-room window riding away from the house, in the company of the person who had come to fetch him. 1 sat down before the warm fire with my hands crossed ia mv l.*p, and, for a while, I did abaulutely aotning. I There might be newspapers lying about bat I did not care to read them. I could not feel at home or grow accustomed to the I strange a-pect of the room. At laat I no- ' ticed that in getting out of the carriage in ' which we baa driven over, I had slightly torn some of the trimming of my brown silk I traveling-dress, and 1 resolved to while away a few minutes by mending it. I A little drefsing-cafe of mine, fitted with I all kiuda of useful articles, waa stai ding on a table in the hall. 1 had set it down on I entering the house. I rose and went out into the hall, and selected what I required from its contents. As I turned round after doing so, I found that I was standing exactly oppoaite to tbe dour of the room Cyril hal called his study, I and which he had desired me not to enter. Of course the prohibition had only roused my woman's curiosity to see what that room i was like. I felt myself to be another Fatima in the house of Bluebeard and more and more irresistibly did idleness and loneliness impel me to follow her ex-iniple, even at the risk of meeting with some unforearen punish- ment. 1 felt sure, however, that Cyril would not be back for some hours, and that 1 should remain undetected in my act of disobedi- ence and 1 am afraid that 1 did not love him suthciently to care very much about attending ts his wishes. At last 1 rose, laid down my scissors and thimble, and, walking softly across the hall to the door opposite, I gently turned the handle, and quietly elided in. If 1 had expected to see anything start- ling or unexpected, 1 was at the lirst glance disappointed. The room was a large, bare, cold-looking, common place apartment, with a tew shelves of books at one side, a writing-table and desk in the centre, and an easy-chair, with a large waste-paper basket by its side, before the fireplace. That waa all I noted during the first few moments. "I must not touch anything," I thought. " He will tind me out if 1 meddle with the smallest bit of paper." 1 walked up to the hook -case and read the titles e.f a few of the volumes. They were chiefly works on agriculture, and a few on civil engineering, none of them in the least likely tu interest a girl like myself. I do not think they had been often consulted by any one. There was a good deal of tlust u[on them. 1 felt tempted to brush some Aaoooat far it aa wo Hay, •ayiac th* iaot. that than ia to wUok ha Maa«t. â- Mawho,«o-^.»*MM| atloatt,«taMstt' at tho p i o f ttiiD ii who t woaght i cousins m town, for she would be in her new home before this letter re'achel me. The name of the house was Ravclston ami then she gave me the rest of the address, but she iliil not tell me the name of the people with whom she was goiUL; to live. I put off my uinnrniog for Rose for tbe first time on my wedding-day. I wore a very simple dress of white silk, and 1 think my face was just 's white. The clergyman who WAS to |H rforin the ceremony had ar- rived at my lather's house the evening lie- foro we wore twenty miles from the nearest eburch. I had only one hridosmaid, .in old schoolfeUow of mine, and we had very few gaesls on .tocount of the recent mourning in our family. I was married in the diging-room of my father's hou'e-. Cynl was very pale and very (|niut. He did not look in the least a happy lriilegroi~m, and I am sure the suu never lioiio ii|' n a more forlorn and miser- able linde than myself that day. It h.id heoii settled that we should drive over to V ril's house the same afternoon and stay there lor a day or t.wo after that we were to start uihii a t.mr to the Hot Lakes. We had planucl to remain upn our travels for two or three inunths before returning home again. The cereinuny w as liver very quickly, and Sei, too, it seemed to nie, was the breakfast which iollowetl It 1 scarcely now remember anythniii about it. Very soon I had put on my traveliiig-dreao, a very quiet oue of two shades of hrown, and was seated by Cyril's tide diiving towards mv new home. We Were Iwth very quiet during the drive. Once I'yril remarked up^m my paleness, and afket me if I felt cold. I told him " No,' I'Ul that 1 had gone through a bad night and had had terrible dreams. He said quietly, .â-  So had I.' I did not ask him what his dreams were about. I sat like a persou half stunned, and saw the road recede bt hind me, and felt that I was leaving the home of my girlhood and my olil happiness and freeele^m for evermore. At last Cyril said suddenly^ " 1 am afraid 1 have rather forced you into this step, I'athie. It seems cruel of me, does it not " He looked at me with a cnrious half aor- rowful expression in bis black eyes which 1 had never seen there before. It softened his faee and improved it. .\fter a moment, be added- " I believe, Cathie, if you will have pati- ence with me, and try to like me a little, you may make a better man of me yet. (luce, long ago, before 1 ever saw you, I fell in love with another girl 1 think her beauty near'y drove me mad, but I did not reapcct her as I do vou. ' "What bfcarae of her?" I asked, with tome curiosity for Cyril waa ortlinarily so reserved that even the few worda he had spoken were an unusual expression of confi- dence on his part. He turned away, and lo^ked gloomily onl at some obiect in the distance, aa he re- pUed. "She died," he said slowly, with great bitterness in his tone. Then be added more quickly, "Don't ask me any more ques- tions. That it quite enough for you to know." I felt repulsed, and I tamed away from him and not another word patted between ut during the rest of the drive. Not the faintett shade of jealousy of Cyril's first love had crossed my mind. I did not love him enough for that but I knew aad felt that what he had said waa true â€" he reapect- ed me more than he had ever done any one •lac. If he believed in nothing else, at any rate he beUevd in me and it saddened me to realita that I oonld not in retnm offer him any meaanre of eateem, even though he was now my husband. Tea waa waiting for as when we arrived at Cyril's home. 1 do not cadi it my home I never learnt to oonaider it in that light. The two servante we had engaged bad ar- laogod averythtng vary niooly, and had lighted Area m two or tliree of the rooma for tbe afternoon wat gloomy and chilly, with a thraataaing of aoming wat weather. " Would you like to see your horae, Oalhie r aaid Cytsl. " I wiU take you out, if you wish it, to look at him at once. " I MManted eagerly, and we sat forth to- gather towwda the sSablea. They wera a haadaooM aid cooAirtable-lookiag line of lni*""y lA so^M liktle distaoee from the hoaaa-^Cyril ama kmd ot horaaa. flkdifltor waa deli|^tad to ^ee me, and rabbed hia noaa against my shoulder ia a luoka too neat when he returns, he will cer taioly find me out. Tnere was a gun-caae lying in one corner. I raised the lid softly and looked in but it wat quite empty. Nothing to gratify my curiosity was there. I wai beginning to think that I had teen up and carried me avay with itt other paa- sengers. I was rejoiced to tind that the carriage in which 1 had taken a seat was quite empty. I wi'hed to avoid all observation, though indeed by this late train I waa scarcely likely to meet with any one whom I knew. enough, and, as the room was very cold, that tf course Cyril would use hia beat en ' ' ' ' â-  j deivours to trace me out but if 1 could I only get the start of a few hours I hoped to I batfle all his in(|uiries. It was about six o'clock in the morning whi n the train reached town, and I got out I at once and drove to the station from which I 1 had next to start. Here 1 waited until I the morning was a little advanced, and then I I sallied forth to make some purchaaea. 1 bought myself a neat travelling-bag and a complete new oostnme, including a bat, alto a change of boots and a few other thingi.. (Ti) BC COSTISCED.) I had better return to the warm lire in the i dining-ro m, when I lirst noticed the one artistic object Cyril's study contained. This was a handsome and valuable old time-piece in the centre of the mantel-shelf. It was not working. The bands had stopped at balf- twe^ve. It was surmounted by a figure in bronze ot the Recording .\ngel, pen and tab!et in hand, noting down how the min- utes were spent. I took an immediate fancy- to that clock. It was so handsome, so an- common, and so superior to all its surround- ings. " I wonder how long it ia since it stop- ped " I said to myself. 1 opened the little door at the back to look at the works, and 1 saw that there was a small parcel lying thrust in among them, so that the clock coald not have worked until it was removed. "No wonder ik will not go," I thought, " with things stuffed into it like that " Then 1 put it in my hand, all unconscious ot the terror approaching me, and lifted rut •le little packet and, as I did so, a chill ran through me, for the parcel was a little emliroidered handkerchief which had once belonged to Rose, and rolled up inside it waa the missing lock of golden hair. I seemed v come slowly back from a hor- ror of great darkness, which had seemed to wrap me round, to find myself gazing with wide-open, awe struck eyes at the terrible piece of evidence in my hands. Softly and slowly my cold lips seemed to murmur â€" " When 1 tind that lost lock of hair, 1 ahall find with it the murderer of my sis- ter." Could I feel the slightest further doubt Did not a hundred trifiea light aa air, all disregarded at the moment, crowd back like a flash of lightning upon my memory, all confirming the testimony of that awful'mute witness in my fingers Cyril's occasional alluaiona to Rose, the almost fierce admiration for her he hid at timea allowed me to catch a glimpse of, the devouring jealousy which waa the promi- nent feature of his character, all pointed to the same irreaistible conclnsion, winding up at last with the empty gun-caae in the corner of the room in which I stood. I could not look towards it without a ahudder. How well I knew that little square of deli- cate embroidery Had I not seen it in Rose's hands on the last afternoon of her life And had I not embroidered thaasono- gram in the comer, " R. A. P." â€" Rose Ada Pelham â€" with my own fingers? There still clang to it a faint perfume of â-  wood-violets, which Rose had been fond of using, and which always reminded me of her. My thoughts followed one another incoherently bat the terrible conviction of ' Cyril's gnilt grew and strengthened ia my mind, and at last admitted not of a single doubt. My first clear, distinct thought waa to wonder if any one waa aware of my presence in that room. I stole softly to the door, opened it, and liatened bat the houae waa quite quiet, tave for the mormur of tbe aer. vantt' voices in tbe kitchen, and nay pro- ceed inga were entiraly anheeded. llien I thought, " I mutt keep thii proof, which I have so strangely acquired " and, folding up the golden curl once more in its delicate em- broidered covering, I placed it in my pocket. Aa I did to, my fingers cloaed upon a letter which my pocket contained. It waa the one I had received from Mrs. Holland that very morning, in which the gave me tbe addreaa of her new honia. In that one inatant my reaolntion was taken. CHAPTER VIL I passed out of Cyril's study aad closed the door behind me, I always thinkof that terrible room with anspeaka' " rror and l o a thin g, con monplaoe-Iookin^ m all ap- pearance it was. I stood now in the hall once more, and, after ligt^^'ng for a mo- ment and beooming aatiafied that I waa perfectly dnobaerred, I took down my large gray ulster cloak and put it on it envalM- ed ma from baad to toot, and was exoeed- ingly warm and comfortable then I fetched my hat from the dining-rooai, aad took from my d ra s sing -case the small ttael tfiat OENEKAli. A i\s company has been formed for light- ing Jerusalem, and a street car company fur connecting that city with the Mount of Olives is hinted at. The New-Zealanders are destroying their forests in a manner so reckless that there is a fear not only of a scarcity of timber, but that the climate will soon be changed for tbe worse. â- o]s one has aaid, what thousands have obaerved, there is nothing that keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpect- ed richea. Two Texas desperadoes agreed to fight with knives in a closed room at Port Worth. They put up thtir watches as forfeit, and, aa both had ahown reckless daring in former affrays, it was believed they fully intended a deadly duel. They were prevented by arreat. A MECHANIC at Beaufort, S. C, intent upon suicide by drowning, but desirous that bis body ahould be recovered, fastened lead to hit head and life prtaervera to his feet before leaping into the water. So he was quickly drowned, while hit legs doated. The recent earthquake at Lisbon, Portu- gal, seema to have caused little damage but It recalls tbe disastrous one of 1765, by which that city and aboat 60,000 people were destroyed. Severe shocks have also been experienced lately in other Spanish towns and in tactions of France. So the Prince of Wales it 39 years of .ige. He may be at much again before the Queen lakes it into her head either to die or to re- sign. Really this longevity trick leaves a young fellow no show whatever, He is osed op and goaty before he has the sligbtett op- portuniiv of showing what he can Jo. Wefi, well, l^ere is no help for it hot patience. All things come to him who can wait. Reckstlv Prof. Huxley taid that ninety- nine men out of every hundred became sim- ply obstructed after tixty yean old, and were not flexible enoogh to yield to the ad- vance of new ideas. 'The world, he thought, would be benefitted by any man who nad taken part in acienoe being strangled after aixty. This may be meant for Brother Rua- kin, who lately wrote to Glaagow students that he loathed liberaliam. JrsTicE SiUTB taid, on opening his court at Connoisville, Tenn. " Well Henry Smith ia arraigned for aasaulting hia father. " The magistrate had oa tha previona day kaoeked his father down with a club, and it -waa himself that be waa now arraigning. He continued " The evidence ia conclaaive, and I'm not sure but I ought to tend myself to jail for tea daya. Bot, aa thia is my first offence, and I oertainlnhad a good deal of provocation, I -will simply impose a fine of ten dollars." iTsa aadtr titebaa of se el ist. by thsir doetiiaal aacsatriat- ties. Some of these, no doabt, i i u ssasts d remarkable gifta, which eatitlod them to aQ the notorietv that they have evar reoaivad,. but the world norer^iyMred^^B^^^oat ontil their doctiiasi •Immmtitm IM %^^t them into oonfliet with the eoelesiastical aatborities to whf 1kMr'^aPMsaable for their te«]hio» • ^-' ** ' Popular as the Bev. Mr. MacDonnsll of this city deservedly ia, an4 af Tarious sod admirable as are his gifts, it may well ba questioned wbathar ke woidd ever have be- come so widely known, or lbs object of one- half the interest he actually is, had he n6t kicked over the traoes.and aaid things which the anthoritiea of his church did not consider it lawful for him to say and though he atanda higher in publia eatimatioii to-day than almost any of his b(ethMn..th«ie oA be no doubt that he woald have stood ttSl higher, if he had itubbomly adhered, rkbt or wrong, to the positioa which he first took, and bad clung to the hope, as he de- clared be would, that somewhere away off in the distant sons of eternity, sin and suffer- ing would disappear from the universe, when the dream of tbe univeraalist wookl be real- ized, and all iatelligent creatures should be holy and happy. If, having cfaoaen hit ground, he had only ttood firm, and braved even the mildest form of martyrdom, he would have ttood in the ettimation of a con- aiderable tection of tbe oommunity, ntt only head and abouldert above bis brethren, but at much higher than be doea to-day. The Rev, Mr. Roy of Montreal, is a man of respectable gifta and conaiderable caltare â€" greater perhaps in almost everything else than in that upon which he pridea himtelf most, hit ability aa an original thinker bat it wat not nttil he became so erratic and dt fi tnt of the opinions of his brethren, as to make it necccstay for them to t.-ike some very decided action in his case, that he really became an object of wide-spread public at- tention and admiration. How he stands at preaent we cannot say, since he has satisfied the Congregatioualista of his thorough or-.^ 'hodi'xy, ^t shortly before that, he was probably the moat popular minister in the city of MootreaL Many of his old friends, no doubt, have been delighted to hear of hia return to the orthodox fold but they do not f rget that it was by his heterodoxy that his fortune was made. Without it he would have been a second-rate Meth(,dist preacher to this hour but largely as the result of it, he is pastor of one of the finest Pro'estant Churches in the commercial metropolis of Canada, with a social position, and a salary, superior to any minister in that city, be- lonsing to the denomination against which, four yean ago, be raittd the stanilard of revolt. The cafe cf Prof. Swing, of Chicago, is another case which illustrates the same principle. In one respect the pn feasor dif- fer! from the gentle men whom we have nam- ed, both aa to original endowment, and the depths and extent of his culture, but he rites immeasurably superior to either the one or the other of these. He has long been known to a comparatively limiteel number of friends as one of the most scholarly and gifted Presbyterian ministers of the West, but be- yond this circle he was scarcely heard of, until be wat convicted I'f herety and depe ted from the minittry of the Pretby terian church. From that day to the preaent, he has been one of the most popular ministers in the United Statea. He is nut only uLJeratood to be a man of high intellectuahty, gifted withmore than ordinary originality and pow- er of thought, but a devout man, with a re\erent spirit, snd great purity of life but all these failed to bring him into great pro- minence before the public until he was made to suffer for his opinions but though it was only the faintest shadow of martyrdom that he suffered, it has proved sufficient to bring him to tbe front in a way that probably nothing else could have done. We have not happened to hear much of him of late but only a few months ago he had a congregation every Sabbath in MacVickert' theatre, of not less perhaps than three thuusand persons, representing the brain and culture of the city o' Chicago more largely than any other congregation in it. Prof. Swing is under- stood to hold what are cuosiiiered loose views respecting the inspiration of the scrip- tures, and other matters which intimately concern the very life of tbe Christian reli- gion, and yet there are hundre It of people who have no sympathy with his rationahstic tendenciea, who are nevertheleaa attracted by his ministry. It is too soon perhaps to speak particular- ly of the case of Dr. 'Thomas. It is still be- fore tbe church courts, and what the final disposal of it will be, is not yet known. He more closely resembles Prof. Swing perhaps thsn any other minister in the United States. He is evidently a man of consider- able scholarship and extensive reading and, withal, he ia a man with more than ordinary originality and independence as a thinker but thee qualities, so far as we can learn, never attracted to him any very marked de- gree of attention, until he was under?tood to hold, and to occasionally jutter, Wewt which were out of harmony with the teach- ing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a minister. Just so soon, how. ever, aa it was whispered abroad that Ke held modified views on the tubjtot of the intpira- tion of the Bible, the atonement, and the duration of future punishment, bit minittry began to drne and when it was known that his brethren had taken notice f his heretical tendenciea, and that he bad betn made the object of even a very mild-form of censure, this attractive power was immedi- ately and considerably increased. And if the committee, which, it is understood, is, in i short time, to deal with his case, should find cause to recommend his exclusion from the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, beyond question, his fortuae would be made. Now what does this all mean How is this sympathy with heresy to be accounted for No doubt it arises in part from a strong tendency in the pnblic's mind in every case of conflict, to sympathize with the weaker party. It is the failing expressed in language more energetic than refined, by a popular American minister, who aaid he was always on the side of the dog that was under. It arises, too, from the love of independenoe courage, that is innate in the human metUM â-¼Â«â-¼ okeaTthy *?"«.* .Pâ€"yjHjjf jag, a2ia it ttkalT that ia ^it«i« tholfls cSit'triBtfivisitsdaBtlM ibycr iaa*e*il d ^iMia wife Km Mat door. Tuoor«Matwa«f tho CHtr ol IfBdoa havo sstdaiskod* Bohool o Mhtkk wto^ and Tri LomJmdtfff SmtHul says ' 'At all eventa, ao far as Ulater is ooocemed, ahe will not ahirk her doty and it will be well for our rulers to remember, ere too late, that if they leave the loyal and well-diapoaedpeople of Ireland much longer to the mercy of demagiwues and tsstsiiiit, and tbe pretent reign otaferror it allowed to continne, the sacaof iMBortk m^ agaiate oompiUcd to seek strooger remsdiea for the protection of their Uvea, property, sad liberties-" The roboUioa of 1798 be^ among the Presby- tariaas of Ulatsr, a eireaastanoe of which towaioawaia. breast. Everybody admires the man who has the independence to think for himself, to look at things with his own eyes, rather than through the spectacles of others and who when he haa formed hia judgment in thii way, has the courage of his i^nvic- tions. To the apprehension of a large pro- portion of mankind, if not the bulk of them, there is something snblime in the spectacle of a man, who, having deliberately formed his opinions, boldly expresses them in the face of opposition, and with the prospect of pains and penalties before him. Even many who have no sympathy with the opinions of such men, do not withhold their admiration from tbe men themselves. Bat over and above all these things, it the fact, that the pt I le have grown tired of " machine " re- ligion, a set of cast iron opiniona ground out from Sabbath to Sabbath as a hurdy-gurdy man grinds on^his music, by me« who, they stispect, havenever thought out one of them, neither are capable of thinking them out for themselves. The phonograph may be a very intereating inatrament but it will never take tbe pUce of the living preacher. But one might almoat at w^ litten to the Phonograph, with itt weird mim- icry of human speech grindingout a aennon, aa to liaten to the parrot-like utterances of a preacher whose mind only runs in the thought grooves of other generations, and who never dares to say anything bat what haa been aaid, and better said, before. The fact ia, the reign of authority, in matters of opinion, is at an end, and hereafter ministers will have to think for themselves, and give the people the result of their- own thought, or own that they are no prophets, step down and out, and let men te heard who have a mission and a meaaage for the people. Like all other stages in human progress, ita inaognratioa will doubtleas be attended with inconvenience, bat tbe result will be worth all that it costs. Mr. Worth is described, fay a raoentinter viewer, aa looking Uke a shrewd active busi- ness man, with a head bearing a most pronoun- ced reaembhuiee to the portraiu of OUver Oddsmith. The OurrtaUn g ssisâ€" tells iU readers that, notwithstanding the terrible trials un- der which the Irish are now suffering, the fs^thful of Cashel, mindfal of the m^ of tbe Holy See, have eoatribated a sun of monOT tqnivalent to 60,000 fnaea tot thmr Arehbiahop's ftmmt to tho Pops. ioatraetisa is givaa hr tta vio»y b*t»sajh. MatTOfTiiMdwteitrawindMd. .Tu«ca •oats «aly abeafliiAssn doOara for four Im- OOM • wosk from tho beat tsae h s ss Tho eoat is tkonioro oidy btm aboat fofiy-two cento to oighty-five oeato a l es s o n, aooordioy to the abi^ oCtho MMNltr. Bt Me Ball's last will, Oat mrtk* W* q«c«tbod to the Mossaa of Barfsa, Norway, « great many of his trophies in tho shape of jewels, medals and deoorations of the moat Qootly nature given him in the oooiae of hia long Uii by empeiora, kings and other mn- dsee of tlw f srth, not forgottiog tho goldoo crown set in diamonds and pearls given to him about ten years ago by the citisena of San Francisco. Miss Terry will assist Mr. Irving in the production of 'Tsonyson's now play. Tho Laureate's drama ia to be a tragisdy in two acta, based on an incident in the eariy Chris- tian persecutions, aa narrated by Gibbon. If it is possible to make anything out of the play Mr. Irvinir and his oompany wall do it bat Mr. Tennyson haa not the gift of drama- tic wri'ing, and ia only wrating hia eff^rtaon what he has no natural fitness for. Hit 'Queen Mary" was without either move- ment or poetry to make it take, on the stage or in the study. Ak elMihant ia uaed in a spcctacular play in Phila^lphia. He is kept in a ttable sev- eral blocks away, and taken to the theatre every (vrning at tbe proper point in the pieoe. One afternoon be took it into his bead that the time bad come to perform. Throwii g hia keener aaide, he burst into the street, overtumea a wagon and severalstreet stands on his way to tbe theatre; smashed a door, and took bis usual slaoe on the ttsge. The abaenoe of lights ana audience teemed to convince him that he had made a mistake, and be suffered himaelf to be led back to the stable. A Sonslblo Ontlolsin. The Chicago /««r-Oeea« pricks the "hy- per-classiqal " bubble as follows "Ole Bull did not audert;ke togive music that pe pie did not comprehend. He did not soar away over the heads of those who come to bear him, for the sake of hnng call- ed " claatical." He gave what was pure aud good, and wat satisfied to feed hia hear- ers with something that they coa!d digest. He liVtd to contend with a fashion in masic which, for tbe most part, is mere affectation Nobody with a musical fibre in his soul could help enjoying every note that oame from hit violin, aid so what was the use of grumbling afterward beciuse another per- former would have played something that hardly anybody 'n the he use could under- Btand? If Ole Ball played " muaio for the mil- lion," CO much the better. They are the onei who want music, f nd who make popular con- certs jwwible. TbCTB hat not been a time in fifty years when Ule Bull did nut rank among the beat ha.'f-duzen violin players in the world, whe- ther measured by tbe " classical " standard or any other. VVhy should we not be sim- ply thankful, now that he has gone, that we were foriunate enough to hear him before he died? There is abaolutely no one to take his place, and the great body of of people whose enjoyment of music eives the chief impor- tance to tbe art itself, hit death must be reckoned a greater loaa than that of any other one man could possibly be." ^! Ml iitatri^ w; wUoh WW Vm bh ti t M My o* f i JM^b^ (dNod atoaoo to •skaowTodgo ajd rs~oe». In tho boat SMS* of tho tara be has bs«» a aalf-mado Man. Ha has h ' oewtaat strag^ of eas kind npoB the wfaola, has always boooar, aad easrally with of The Blgbte of an Organist The question at to the exact ttatut of the organiit, of hit rights and wrongs, and of his privileges aud duties, has often given rise to discutsiont, tayt a writer in the London Optnitn. What with clergymen who know nothing of music, but who unfortun- ately think that they do, and members of the congregation eager to give advice which they have not tested, the seat in front of the keyboard is not always too comfortable. Aa a case iu point, and as further illaatrating onr remarks, we are inforn ed that at a dis- senting place of worahip not a hundred miles from Liverpool, the other Sunday evening, a member of the congregation â€" himself a professor of music and an organist â€" waa in- vited to fill the position of the regular organist, who was abaent. All aeemed to go most satiafactorily until the last hymn, before the reading of which the minister publicly expressed a wish that the hymn might be tang softly, and "with but little strength of organ." The organist, exhibit- ing tbe courtesy of a gentleman, bent to Ha has lyd to maintaia kind or aBOthsr,and, ooins oat with with what U caUod Boa not Ut ftim Forth in 8oo* a bamUe, yet rameotable family, niliii ar M^'^g from bis father, ooaot a aoaad ooostitutioa and a vigoroos inUAaoi, with high moral p rin o ipt ss aad a moderate aaioiint of that eoaimtm Aobool ednoatioB which has long besa within readi of erea the poorest of Seotetanea, the tature Proaier of Can«lA wa«i wh«o stiU merely a boy of some fourteen ya j/ 9 g«. east upon tiis own resooroes aad foreed to make his way in ths world as he beat coald. We auppose that it it the right and proper thing to tay that he learned m early life to be " a buUder and architect," and that,oom- ing to Canada when he waa abont^ twenty years of sge, ho struck vigoioosly oat aa a " contractor" for.the erection of buildings ot greater or lest extent Bat if one were per- mitted to use language of a plainer d1 ' pretentioua character in desonbing what be was and what he (lid it would have to be stated thst]Alexander Mackenzie LKASKED TH« HASDIOKAIT OT A STOHK nasoii, and that, at firat, when he came to Canada, he wrought at his trade for part of the time, at any rate, onisome of the Government buildings, in Kingston, which, by and by, he had to viait and inspect as first Minister of the Crown. Nor is it any dUparage- ment to Mr. Mackeniie, but very much the reverse, to speak of him in snch Isnguage and to describe his oocupation and ongnal surroundings, in thia way, in aucb lan- guage as facts would juatify and as simple honesty would suggest. Some very foolish persons may winoe under tbe idea of either themselves, or any of their relations, having ever been "mere mechanics" but a wiser estimate and a nobler pride w ill lead men to view nutters in a very different light, and will, if nooeaaary, make them ^ry in the thought of having originally been "poor, but honeat," eapecially if they can ad(Kâ€" "POOR so UIfOKK, BtJT HONEST BTILX. " It is not neoesssry to describe how the stone mason rose, step by step,tillhecouIdtav with the proud telf-respect of modest worth and conscious success to any who might be inclined to sneer at his lowly origin and his humble occupation :â€" " Yes, I waa a mason, but had you been a mason, you would have beena maaon still." Few though Mr. McKen- zie's opportULities for mental improvemeat were, it would be a great mistake to think of him, even in his early days, aa an unedu- cated man. Be had, from boyhood, a quench- less thirst for knowledge, and always did his very utmost to turn what opportunities he bad for mental improvement to the best ac- count. Living in an atmosphere of mental activity, ceaseleaa discussion and eager curi- oaity, it waa but natural that hie original faculties should have been greatly sharpned by alt that he saw, heard and exj crienced, amid the varied occurrences of his early life. It is notorious that in very many cases ' â-  â-  n H ' ' m ' lih«atfaal_ .Maltfkt^UjWfitb ms$^m ,._ -• â-  ° UmlWItliltJ KtMWIi. §ka»r tkiBtim m pr fa.irt r w Mt :r MSsa tHnii aoi at aU so evidsat. Mr. ' ]ladk«B^« Itin bribre him the uK-ssifa^ ,* Swt wMk; «*dthat hs WlB I II i ll thai that wech io the bsst of hia abOtty. whs^tovar lo- tun h« may rooeive fur it. ia faily bdferod by hit friaods, vd searooiy doabtod avao by his Mnn'ir Nobody woaM orer think of speahiag cf him aa a gnat iaiaa in the ordiaary sense of that phraas. SUll, few in Canada lukTs had a more remarkablr-, or a aaoco koaoarod eareor. He has had WWW mMLF», AXV MAXY EnmiiiroBi, auA whaa tho time comes !to make the final award, aad fix the permanent estimate, we have no doubt tbst his name will be unani- mously enrolled among Canada's worthies, and thst, with all his tbortoomingt and im- perfections, he will he regarded aa one who did the State some service, and himself^and hia country not a little honour. The hum- ble meohaoio, who ao raised himaidf that, for five years, he usefully, b'inourably, and -with success, occapied the place of First Minister of the Crown in this great Do- minion, can never be spoken of, but with honour and res; eot Wnatever may be in store for him, his past record ia before his country, and he can well leave that record to apeak for him both before hia oontemporariea and to thoee who may come after. Even personal spite and party hatred have never breathed a word against the parity and honour of his private life. He has for many years made public profession of being a follower of Chnst, and bis ceoeral conduct has been snch, that .watched aa it has been by not a few who were personal and political fantagonists, nothing baa ever been adduced which might fairly make the sincer- ity of that protefaion to be qneationed or oast a doubt upon the. gennlneness of that which has given a dolour and character to hia life, and purified and enabled hia whole history. ApMt then altogether from the passing politics of the day, Canadiana of every name and of every party may well be proud of sack a man, and of such a career. Such a courn-e wat possible only in a free country aud amid free inttitntions, and it is infinitely to the credit of both the country snd tbe man, that he who landed in this Western world a poor unfriended mechanic, shoald, within a quarter of a century, have made hia way ao uomistakeably to tbe front that few nam s in all tbe land were ever more household words than his has now be- come, and that few have orcupind a position more hooouTod and influential than that which he has achieved. Trcth honours him whi'e it seeks no favour at bis band, and expecta no benefit from his patronage. In the shade aa'he is now, there is the lis I temptation to flattery, perhaps the more to fault-finding. Bat should his star be ever again in the aacendant, as very poasibly it may be, not a few may then be reMly to en- dorse what now may be regarded as excessive an quite uncalled-for eulogy, aa only the honeat truth spoken in 'kindness, yet with undoubted impartiality. aOW THB SKias OTTRB â- BlSo ' MHraraicioK au 'HM'-of the~b«li. yiars pst, have been soU ;. mntha**, and are eonsidertd »* â- Us for tha mannfaotsre J saddlory, hsm ess and other ftatnX «se and wear of boU, i! W» tha iagMaity of this i^ can rooesa to have no limit/ ianglos of tho sonny Easter,' have boon pooetrated ia ord., waato of fashioa and of trad^ tho poodorons, elnmsy andnj. and the treaohorons, v^iq^ strietor are now boiag tamej^ FRIDAY m^iMH uovsTsai theeiHy .^alafeM- Portia and Pw»J5»«^J t IntoUgioae^ Matters .^^i:r«s^ and sn t h« manaiaotnrert. The hide of tbe rhitj. cero. hoariest and thickest descrii ' pear to many to be moi« ^^^i maaufscture of saddlery ^j this is not the aas4. Manni^^' ers in these artioles have i\^t moat endurable leather to be^ their trade, because, owing and thickness, a naedle of sharpness can hardlv k« q^ it. Some two moatlis ag,i firm tested tbe dnrability sq^. rhinooeros hide in the made' earriago spring. It wat i rhinooeros leather was id to to satisfy tbe snpply of thue' only by slow work could orden U, then the result of this iunov.t^' itself, and tbe hide of the n was disoovere-*, cr.nld n-it mach of wear and tear aa the i, made in tbe aame thickm â-  the aame uaea. The akin was tanne^Hndm-. by foreign sonceras, aKj^.ei, ^r* brought very high prif^JTlt. ^• was not known to a very grt»t « lately. At present tbe hide • u,, is chiefly adapted to the man tilers' buffing wheels, which in making a polish on gold jeHclle„"" brought out in bamishmg bra^"" many and England there are sbor tanneries where the skin of i\,^ ^J, prepared for the market. "The skins are aent to the taoaev from Africa, in some cases bv r*^ ing expedition parties. It reiju ,^" to three years' time to prepare th' these huge monsters for the lejtjp When ths time and coat requirnj L" into conaideration, the coat of -^ leather after importation it cmti^ From one w?hol** rKtnr^..... ., ^^ 30 18 .. 10 '/_"" 4 under, first insertion.. abaequcnt in^""^:„„ 'ten^nes, first «^rUon.. .obseouent insertion. iner^rstinaertion per line subf equent in»«rtloi ^L f lines to be reckoned â- Â«Â°**' "'• miured by a scale occupied Advertiaements without ^."u'be'publishrd till for-l i-ocordingly. AU trausitoryl ,t,,MStbeintheotfi--eof pub- 11 o'clock on the Thurs l»vl og their publication. RUTLEIXJE, Propriet)r. tONAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY. DR. PI KDl' CIAN. SCUGEON, Et^OSNlA p. O. ACCOCCU- t;-i(. Spromie dk Carter, Surgeon!-, Accouclieuri-1 dec E-- Medical Hall; rosidtii'o j House. Sept. 17, 1880 l-.v ^0al.i whole rhinoceros -17*181 1 Wf- at La'w^, O'sven SotindJ t leaat 250 p..un(i, ' " secftired for utilization from th' mated that at leaat 2o0 P'UDdic^, 'Vllr, AU. THE BCBNINO QPESTIO.NS OF THE HOt^R, whether in politica, religion or science, are eagerly end intelligently canvassed among working men both duiiug their hours of labour aud reat. Alexander Mackenzie had hia full share of the discipline and studies to be derived from such schools and school- masters, while bis private reading and sys- tematic ttudy were at once extensive and thorough, not only consileriiig his outward circumstances, but even though there had lieen much more favourable than they were. It ia not saying anything but what is matter of notoriety to affirm that Mr. Mackenzie's acquaintance with Kag.ish literature in gen- eral as well as with some departments of Ecience, 1 1 say nothing of pontics and politi- cal economy, which he haa made specially his own, is far more extenaive and greatly more accurate and at command than that of many wh have had leisure all their da^s, and who have been honestly trying to turn that leisure to pl asant and prt fitable account. It oeula not be th.it auch a man should remain at hn or ginal low level, especially in such a country as Canada where a career ia open t every one who haa intelligence enough to mark bis opportunity, and tnergy to seize that opportunity and turn it to sat- isfactory account. Step by step he made bis way. HI3 SOrSD JCnOMEST, his varied knowledge, his ready utterance and hia fearless outspoken honesty, which was at once bold without being rash, and the request of the worthy clergyman but i toundly cautious without being weakly cow- after tiie service this ill-advised and inju dicious public} remark was severely com- mented upon by the congregation. As a rule, the clergy know very little about organ-playing, although they not uof requcnt- ly aasume a knowlelge which ia not war- ranted by facta. We sliall next hear of the selection of stops being taken out of the organist's bands. Concerning Applause. The New York correspondent of the Roch- ester Democrat writes Now that the theatres are open for the season, twenty-one in num- ber, including concerts, the question of ap- plause is one of much importance. t it well known that not only the players d^iend on their friendi to ttart these flattering expres- sions, but the managers also employ leaders to strike in at the sensational occasions. It may be added that applause as a part of public performancea ia as old as history itself. The Isthmian games were accompanied by loud vociferations, which were heard as far as the sea. From Greece the custom reach- ed Rome, and Seneca speaks of clapping the hands and waving robes. The Romans had three kinds of applause. One was the bombur, which resembled the loud buzzing of bees, and was made by the mouth ana hands. The next was the imbrices, cauaed by beating on the sunding vessels placed in theatres for that purpose, and the third waa the testa, which was merely an increase on the last mentior ed. From the. theatre the custom paased naturally to tbe church, and though this was censured by Aomstine, it was still common to greet a fineAmage in the sermon by a demonstration. SHDe pious people carry out this very ides when they uttt^r their lervent "amen" as the preacher pours out his eloquent and moving utter- ances. Sume of the clergy are gratilied at such things, as it shows that the congrega- tion is listening, but the custom is generally on the decline. Bmma Tbursby at 'Wleebaden. Miss Tbursby, according to her critics abroad, is worthy of being compared with Patti and Nilsson. This is, indeed, high praise, upon which we heartily congratulate our fair American S'nger. 'That the read era of The Becori may be enabled to judge of her sacceas, we quote the following from tbe Shfiniieker Kuritr " Teaterday even- ing he had aa opportunity of heating Mita Emma Tbursby, the celebrated Ameiicaovo- caliit, at a private party. At a pupil of Maurice Strakosch and introdaoei by to eminent a teacher of tinging into the art cir- clea of Europe, the young Udy would attract attention qnite apart from the success she she has alr^dy achieved, and «hich baa made her one of tbe most popular artistic notabil- ities of the north American Continent. We must frankly confess that tbe reality haa far exceeded the artistic expectations raised in our minds by tbe name of Strakosch. In the domain if artistic singers, and of the aitia- u*^ â- â- Â°^8 in the truest seoae of the words MissThursby is thoroughly dazzling, though not so snob so by the volume aa by tbe per- fect quality of her notesâ€" not so aatoundiiDg by the range of the scale over which she holds â- "y, ss by the manner in which she as- sumes in it the place of sovereign queen of sona. Every demand which modem vocal technica, aa extended by virtuosity, can make upon her she satisfies equality of tone combined with striking flexibility of a na- turaUy sympathetic organ, a style which n- â-¼â€¢â€¢Is doUcacT of feeling, and which can do justice to the exigencies of Italian florid tuging as well as to Oerman ' Lied,' based more on beauty of tone and a certain intensi- ty of feelingâ€" all these invest Mits Thursby with especial importance as an artist, and justify the opiuon of the critics, wbieh unites the newly rising star in a baaatibil triple constellation with Christino Nilssoa and Adslina Patti. In a few days Mlâ€" Thursby will leave thia place, where shehas bsta stopping to go through the ' Kar 'aad proceed to Baden for tha porpoee of saa|iBg st a concert before tho B rnp e tw weeaa oaly regret that the general pnhtie bars, also, had not aa opportaaity of «««n»g t|ie acquain- of ao amiasat a ToealiatL" ardly, gave him a standing and influence among an ever-widening number of neigh- bours and acquaintances. It was a stirring time in Canada's history when the lialt'e of coustitutiouaUtm was being fought out, against personal govern- ment and irresponsible cliques, and in all the iliscusriocs snd contendings, Mr. Macketzie bore himself right manfully both with tongue and pen. The editor's chair was occupied with characteristic energy inde- pendence and success, and gradually, from being a mere local notability, Mr. Mackenzie rose to be generally recogitzed as ONE OF Canada's most v^etvl iituens, most'bonest politicians and moat intelligent stateamen. Into the details of his public career or into any defence of his principal means it is not our i-'ention to enter. We are not either among his nndiscriminating eulogists or hit unswerving sdherents. It would not be diflicult to point out what may be his falling.- or to indicate what have to be regarded as his positive faults. Perhaps he might have been more conciliatory with- out losing any of his honesty, and less abrupt and ou'spoken without his indepen- den e and fearlessness having, to any degree, to be called in queation. His opponents have often ssid that he is not a "gentle- man." It all depends upon what they mean by such a term. In a very narrow conven- tional and altogether unimportant sense what they say may have about it a certain molicnm of truth. But in the better and more honourable meaning of the word, the best, most sensible and most high minded of his political opponents will never refuse to Alexander Mackenzie the honour and the excellences implied in such a name. His tongue may not be exactly and always tune- td to court airs, though as a courtier, even his friends aud admirers have never had to blush on his account. He may indeed have sometimes been resolute in bis adherence to bib own opinions and plana to an extent which aavoured of obfctinacy, and, in tbe contc I outness of personal integrity and strong desire to do right, may have judged others with aome measure of undue harshness, and condemned them in tones of needless severity He has never had the co.vciLiATony bcariko akd personal HAONmSM of his great rival Men have followed him more from resiKct f ir his honesty, from con- fidence in the soiudness ot his judgn*' nt and from sympathy with the general tone of his political opinions, than from anything like personal T^trA for the man, to say nothing of posit. ve .ifteotion for the friend. It can- not be aaid that be haa ever awakened great enthuaiasm among the rank and file of his party, and when at last his great defeat came, he might perhaps think he had reason to complain of the indifference of some and the jiositive coldnessof others. He is net S man however to allow himself to be greatly or permanently disooniagsd, nor is he eitiier so vain or so self-sufficient as to ref nse to do any thina unlesshe be permitted tomonld the po'icy aad bead the â- uvaniaBt Now tfiat ha has ceased to be leader of his party. We have no doubt that he will show he has no hard feel- iugs about all that haa some and gone, and that, as he made a reaolnta and rebable occupant of the first pla«e, so he can ac- commodate himself wisely »and modestly to a second, and that in loyalty to his party as wall as to his new chief, he both can Mid will give an example which ail will be oon- atrained to admire, atd many will be led to iniitate. Some bare, indeed, hinted that he will henoeforth take no part in political movements, except at a "full private" in the Reform ranks, aad that bs(»iiin he thinks he has been badly used, aaef ' HAK THXKXIORX HASOOOD RKABOK TO BK OP- TKtmMD. AH this wUl be found eventually to have no fooadatioD. Mr. Mackeniie has too much good sasue, aad is too loyal to his prinotples, to allow any merely personal ooaaidcrations «r â- nPPMal siighia to torn him from hU datv, or make him iadiHsrsnt to the oaoae with whioh, throng all hia niblio life he has been so thoroughly ideatd. He m too big a man to go off m a pet, and too eoa- scioBtioas to awrifieo impoctant publk ia Monicipal Matters (Prom the Torecto Truth.) Canada haa hitherto been free to a very great extent, from those disagreeables which largely coni|)Ose tbe Municipal politica of the United States. Not only have we been able to keep corruption in the smaller elec- tions at a minimum, but we have almost al- ways, (in Untario at least), elected the best man who offered hilnielf for any civic posi- tion, without regard to his creed, jlitical or religious. And that this is a feather in our national cap, even Americans do not deny in fact on the several occasions when Aldermen and Town Councillors from the bordering States of the Union have had an opportunity of expressing their views at Canadian bacquets and municipal gather- ings this point has been dwelt upon time and again. We have been proud of it They have been anxious to emulate our example I And jutt when we were placidly congratulating ourseU'ea that ' ' we were not' as other men are" there came a bomb-shell into the camp in the form of the Maii't manifesto. That the Conservatives have as good a right to use their '"political machine" in municipal matters as their opponent^:, no one can for a moment deny: and that Mr.Blake't speech before a Reform ward meeting, and his annonncement that he intended to be preaent and apeak at other.' wat a strong aggravation to the Ti'i y Press, is equally iudfubitable. At the same time we feel that the " Mail" was acarcely justified in the coarse it chose to adopt. Two wrongs can nsver make a right, and if Mr. Blake waa wronii in lowering his digni- ty as the leader of a, great party, the Mail cannot surely expeet to make him go right, by going wrong itselL As an indepen.lent journal we feel it oHr duty to protest against the American piiinciple of electing a man to a eivic potitiou, solely on aexsount of his party stripe, which we grieve to say is as often a badgs of dishonour as of honour. Extreme men are sometimes honest but rare- ly so. In fact their very political existence obliges them to swallow many a n lusecus dote, in order to retain their influence in the " Ward." A politician is not male in a day, he has very many stages to pass through and very many rungs to rise on the political ladder, before he can aspire to either of the two positions, which aa a rnle bound his ambition, viz., a good Government sitoation or a scat iii tiic Legislature pr Parliament. Now we hold i hat it is aim ist impossible for an exreme P-rty man to deal justly with, and for the be!ieb(ef, his fellow citizens, be- cause the very na'uralfeelii g of gratitude to tl e men who had placed ;.im in his posi- tioa wou'u compel him to reward uiem with such patrouage as fell within his pow- er to bestow, if tney clamoured f.r it and if be had been elected by the two great parties he Would of necessity bestow all he had togive on the suppirters of hia party, i. e., hia own suppiirters. Wiuhl this not be a pretty state of things? We will Isuppose that S:. James' Ward has elecied three Reformers to seive in the Council the Committee on Works almost equally divided between both partiea, has decided to lay down some (quite °un' needed ?) new pavements, now the p ttronage, by cus'otn, falls largely to the three afore- said aHermeu,and they accordingly appoint, through their Reform foreman. Reform labourers. " Bat," say the Tory aldermen on the committee, " wo will not sund this, we have a majority of one, and we will, even at thi- atage, uae our influence with the Council aid Mayor " (also a Tory) " to stop this work en one pretext or another. And thus .1 livilj "de.g light" commences which probaily continues until next election, and in tho meaiiumo tbe streets of the "loyal noble and ii dependent Ward of St. Jamea '• have to go unpaved, much to the discomfort and a noyance of those highly lespect^ble citizens who pay their taxes without a mur- mur, (so long as they are not too high), do not care the toss of a copper which party rales, so long as thev are left in peace, and moderately governed. " This state of things ought not to be allowed to make any more headway in Toronto than it haa done so far. We have already seen the tiuie of both Committee and Council frittered away for what Well tor anything rather than the good of the citizens at large, and though we have bad but a very mild attack of par- tyism, fcufficiflot there haa been to warn us against allowing the insietions reptile to warm Itself in our bosom. We depreoate most earnestly, any further Amffrifisnirinjg of our home-made aad home- ly C a n a di a n institutions which have, up to this time,Btood us in good stead, and which have called forth from at L-ast one Ameri- can deputation such n orels of commendation as these â€" " Toronto stands ahead of us in totrytking excepting street ^ssaS^^^ Let OS thei vote fur the htil staa, irre- spective of what party he may support, let US undo the miachief which has already been done, by this miserable Ward tinkering, let OS conn tejuj nee only the men wbo will spend our money on the streets instead of wasting it on banquets and other extrava- gances, who will spend their fellowHsitiaens' money, ss if it were their own, and then, we may reasonably hope for a good honest civic administration such as will be at onoe tbe pride and envy of every city, town,and village, tbrooghoat Fair Canada. â-  â- â- â-  » They get all kinds of men into OoQgress ^kansas haa rstnmod a ooloaiod barber, aad Tennessee a man wbo lost his oitisenship under oonvietion for incest. Of course he is daqoalifled. This is worwi than the ap- poiDtmeot in our own country of ex-eaaviota to act on the commisaioo of the peaee, and T •'^•^•tat of a ooatisat to the aa«ion of the^ Bntiah nwliaaMot when, some yaan â- go, a ooaviot waa rotnmsd aad somaMrily iwuad a dmi ttaae e to. the Hooae. The nno should bs drawn somowhors, and Britoas daw it at Biadlaach when assorted will, wleo -o ' ?300 t.. «400. Altb. ugbit laiisaj:: years to prepare on-; of ih«e V.^" market, at least lOU con d !« ru, '^\ the process at ihe aame t m^ ^-' Tlie skins of the Ijoa- usi j plied through the Euro{)ean inirkt' I directly brought from the ueep I, both Asia and Africa. The Krv.' ' tiapijed and secured by the clavei :~ I tal, Turk sh snd Egyptian tradwptot' I have long been supplying the di I srake charmer, shonmeu and st\ and damsels of foreign cuunir snakes are oitin worn around the at arms of these peop e whi e :J.re. are made harmless Ly tbe sk;ll necromareer or 8trp«nt-il» tor, honoured for his wonderful p,i. si:e»;e8ifnlly tearing out tli ju^r drawing the deadly poison from tiia pents, ^^^ LAdito, waist \ielta and cliUtxL. worn made of the scrpenta' »k::i. cr streets daily. Such appliaoc- ,ra:,. sity wherever seen, looking Hj»jiit,; barous in their design aa to.siit^r^ to their genuineness. They briLj:;.*. Card, cigarette and cigar ata k. monnaies are made to order from v.- material, as well aa email satchels si ping bags. In securing tbe^v king k' of the forefct and jungle, dangers are enooontereeT The manner of preparing the stiiii tanuery is of a delicate natur Aiv serpent haa been put to de th by a that will preserve the skin iruiu isyi; the beidy is assed over t ' a taiir- who strips the hide as he wou !d ti- from an eeL Tbe tanner doctors tK ;. Millers's building, ov re, Poulet Street. Frost rro«it, ISTEBS 1-v AND ATTOKNEVS Al Solicitors iu Chsnoerv, (...n-. Owen Sound, Lave ic-iiir.- i Office ojicii e-vt-ry Tliui 1 BOST. .J.W. FRo^r.l.l. tv Crown Attoriie-y. fH^llST les JVaftOiomt STERaud .\TTORKEY-.\T 1. in Cliancerv, Owen S./un i. 1880. " i Jaaies LaBioii. __ iBN'ET-AT-LAW. SOLl Ifi 1; ' Ckfcncery, Notary I'lildi.' ,vc. loaned at lowi-t luto- nil j:-..i. estate. Land- liou(.'lii aul â- â€¢] d seller intro,liicid,fit-c of lomiu PUNDALK. ber 21st, HiJii. i.\l aiurr« iauh Xg,cni-?.. hide so that it becomLS peifectly pliaL^ I le'.ains all its natural npi i ranee asc as in life. Boa-constrictos, tnoagliij I ferocious snd dangerous sptcie- oi »-^ brc also of a very costlN ' n'er tu i.'i.u this country they hav^' e'.;o{'« «•â- â€¢ j sidered only in the iWl.t .1 an at:: I feature sm n.: n avy curi•••i:!e^ tt I a circus, side show, or private â-  museum. WHi Broun. WUEB OF MABRIAOi: LKKN-l 0kMmi6!ioner iu U. 1(. )L'e. fi " ooMfancing in all its Imiii-]i ti.e it'*kjJjffio and carefully .xccut. d. JL â€" Money to Lend oii lual K r arkdale, Sept. 17, ISwi. IV" L. !liinilli. SKAL AO£XT AND I'l.AHIi. iNl rsey Stock, Williain-l-i.l Sitnl. i.. 17. li^SO, AloxitndtT Br«»»iii. 1:1. ..1,11 Il;-III:illC' Av.lll- 1 'lUllll-i.Il. J^ .V... Coiiv.-yftuccr nu*\ l.i*-vii-f- T fortheC.'Uiiiy -f iii-v. I .ni!.. i .hants, nii.l Lniid Snle^. l'iiii-t:i .j, ,7 id to iiud cliarj;cs uitide vvy iu..(. .,.•â-  'ceville. Sept. 17. ISW" TT ~Z- ' o T o. ©eorgc C*rbel, Jr.. Hunting for Submarine Treast^jju 1.OAN AND gexerat. .v. Owen Souud. Moncv to Lr man inside c:n see out ap, down, and across. KM A tchocner, owned by- a Coi.ne: u: of'^t^"^!^."' PrTuTipal'iaVabK l\ tl" marine Company, 1, being use ... ,, term of years, aud int.r.-t hulf v. ,aJ "l^ ,r'u /^""".^ I*'" -^ yearly, o^ rnucipal aud inter- ^t ivi.av skill, on the Hudson. The wreck ' mstalulctits, " there m»n yvar.,anl IS re, ut- i TA number of desirable Improved Farm been the thip of tbe famous y,-i y^ 1 • Kid.l. A visitor found amon^- ti. â€" ^^ â- ' ancet of the schooner a gre.t -- J. CIS. Simg, machines, chain' pumps, rubber \- etmflSlOS AND PROVINCIAL I. \v other contrivancea, for briUeiu.: -.r^i.-. fgnrvc\. v. Ihaxxehumun ;uid Viilu a â-  I of deep water. Chief amtng th(KM«nl .Markdalc Haviiif: iuicli.-. i large diving bell, of b ile.- 110:;. «:t:fe|al Land Survivor harh lUnk.i. round windows on every nd. s.. ta^g|ock of onpiual Field Not.-. r!.,ii in eve y ArK'.rta, Instructions, Ac uf all hi- mu â- â-  I' 's krj ::nn ^lilliiu the last tiftv-livt v. ai-, I .1 the hold, and when it is to Ik is i. ««i to make Survovs in ^t'l .. t n. 1 1 j the top sre unfastened, the top Uinj ;: therewith. l'r..|iio .111 1 L-t.u, ,:, s ao tight that the affair is both a r aai %adiug HUls, Plau^ aud S|ocii,. ..ti. n- proof. The accsation of b. ing !â-  '.fc ^jH'-p Bridjjcr., fiir:iiliod on ..(jh^.i- thia narrow iron prison for the ' r-t t:^ Money to Loan at S per cut int. r. -t. said to be terrfble, though t: e c.vptrk%.by letter, or left with O. J. LLVTH, divera do not mind it. There .r.- tuorrile^ »-iU i,^^. |.iomptlv att.u.l. d t ' tubes attached to the to)., -n to oarrJk 17, Ikwi. 1 the exhausted air, the other t anifk ^^^^^bkkkk^k^hb^^b^^^^ air. When the man is fast.:;tJ in. • H»«rM«*«»M pump ia started, and tbe It;' » ii «â- â€¢ l-' S"riW»»¥Tg. with an iinmeae 'errick anl .o«"ed the aide. Th s bell can oj ciate .b hundred feet of water, and is ot cc raised or lowered by ste^ni. When ready it is lowered 10 the bo;;. 111. T' inside looks through hi« wind «s, 11 j.»jy,t termines what Ina^•. b-.' done lii.*:. " wires to pull to signal the men ab H. can tell them to hoist, lower, j; vo him Jaaies t. l»1iito. to Dr. Cameron, Ottiii Soui.i ILL BE AT THE BEVEliE HOVm:.! MarkJ ile\ on tbe la^t Wcdue -.1,. or leas air, or any other signi tcr. -nonth.whcu he wiU bepnpar. I i.] • have been agreed upon. Attach, ^i v " °P«""'"' "'i'tircd "IHiii tliojiu .ihl sde of the divi.ii; leH, sn i » r » n»ost -atisfactory maiiiu r. and t] .iif ttiein, 110 11 above," is wh.ti 1- .a' a«ble tcims. 1 arm" â€" a hea\-y attach'i ent, â-  rovi if. ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^â€" S.I many joints and swivels that it l^ fiQtCl#» of making all ths many moti n'so'" 1 10 1 MARKDALE. 4E r-l .y-l •11. J I'l arm, witb much greater ttreugili t.c â-  -j^ .^ â€" _- â€" ^^ human arm ever bad. This arm has 1-** â- 'â- ^ J^ J. t_F ^^ with fingers, that hoM a aaw, ac crowbar, or aby instrument desire.!. man in the bell desires to saw, I., i- Txng leased the above l.'itel au.l tii up, a saw is put iu the ateam han.l. t y refariiished and refitud it, th. ti goes back and liegins work. \\2 Public will find every accmuio.l. it; wants an axe or a hammer he is ii:»*'-y tWU-t ef liquors and cit':ir- k. again, and the tool ia change!. Tit stabling. C.iirful ho-thi. bell is almost human in its cai*-"'.. JOllN V.VN HOKN, rrtq.ri, t..i work, and, with the braina of a ii'»'" "i^l7,l8i »). 1., it is a valvable labourer. When the • ' -aTr-a^i^a w ia in very deep or dark watei. .r s; l%.F x ^VA. ii* .F M. M\, M an electric light is attached t.. tie hrl the bottom fur many yards ir. an i as bright as if the su^ shone ui '3 it. St.McGIBK, l'BoriiiEi..Ks. effect upon the turf tee of tl r wat- r '.^, bright light an lerneatu it s;.id t. W ik-*'T •ijimiodati-.u fuv tU l^avollIn^• and bcantiful, and some f thf V.-\ 01 V,"^-* "• ^«» .l.«.ke.l «it! Wmklitos who live up yo de- o;i tix^'t V ' and Li'l'VUs MiA I.. may well begin to wonder when th. v *•'• 01 Cigars, lof the Hudson b:ii;ht with " • ^W to an MEAFOi;D, Out. ll;.. botton light and a stc.iin man di^ng f. treasures. r a pC I 17, 1880. and from all troii.^ 1 IMMERGiAL FRICE'VTLL.E. HOTEL, On-. â- I ' There seems to be about a 'â-  difficulty in settling affairs in South i as in satisfying the claims of the " •"" commodi.-ms S-irajh- K. 1, leaguers. Notwithstanding all ti f c^Bo^Eooms, Ac. The r..,i ;iii I '.ar aeainst Sir Bartle Frere, it ia IncMuiCe ♦^••d with the best th.' ixi:rk. I clear that it will be a very ditiui.:t t» â- oat Stabling andatteuliv.- Uostl. to make the B;sato8 and other trilw**^ THOS. ATKINSON I'l ciently peaceful to render •»., 111 ^j,,, gj^j j^^ pleaaant neighbours to.£;ir:*::*^ '"',,,, ui V- ^r I u ,^Wl CO. 'i.ist-orj. able subjects of.t^^ *».v. r. u»..^ORGE ble that th. c ....nuk '^^ atched in the struggle v. ith tbeC hey will be frightfully oulnumhers; one thing, and our experiaoce J. â- "' showed plainly that those •• •â-  .*f» ml* is more thi .be WiLSOxX. South Africa are by no mi in tl foes. The end will be in expaaditure of the' â€" hr. jVT; further expaaditure of " British taxpayer, and Bntiah soldier. It is ssid of Darmstadt that it bealthiei* spot on the globe. Neai ly »^ inhabitanto die of old age, or when the} aj tired of life move to Munich, where th.; â- tire to drop off in a very short time, it is aU a mistake," said a poor an.l te*' peasant to his doctor " Darmstadt bsi a healthy climate, for I had a oouiiB " reaided there, and he suddenly took sick died." "And what was his distsse friead f asked the astonished doctor, ing over his gold bowed spectic.is. psasant thought he prov. d hit at*, rtios ' theclimato was unh.altby by re|l)* Why, he died ot delirium tremens.' Tki sale of •• gold " bricks, made pf»' Pdy of brass, ia brisk in the West comer is pars gold, and from it is clipp« " MBIU to bo MMjadL TJCiHiE Markdale, n*st door to Expositoi I delivered at any Iiouh. lu t' â-  1 and Cattlo. 0^^ having good fat Sbccp o; ' seu, wUl find it to their advaut ^namei and addrc«s at .Mc Severe House, Markdale asd are still on tbe war jiaih, "^y poy the highest 1 ricc^. ,--„ C. W, dtA. SPEEE