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 ViatastlMlfieTolfi FaaeiillilnrtkN em cmam ei ptd itwii al »IH«n- TboafUik«4^k« gaz3 like With itnagal^ bewiUaciaji ilidc I Tii7 diadowT oatlia* ia phaataamAgorMl Thoo^MOi'ik (to nttar • Poim* mativlioriottl) A aort of penoBifiea guide. i Wh^ wondrona inTentor with mind metho- j dirtiol Conceived thy idea, aeml, mystical, Tet lo mathematic'ly tme The brain which ^concocted thy airy ma- chinery â€" ImagiQed tby ipectral effect on the ccmery â€" iA'm ghostly and dreamy ai yon. Philoaophers tell us inrentioDi mechanical Are made by observing the stractarea or- Ksnic^l Wnich all thrt)ai;hoat nature abound, bat were she sabjsctcd to strictest of scmAioy By geniuses 'ArcLimedean or 'ewton-y. The prototype wou.d not be fonud. aaioag b«ner« in the tdcwto aC thiBfi (•wwnd d«rk. wiiiilMiwood; ttM hatMlf had aok ^ohM, «saa«(r wttk • aMife} and, after • wow sat ol task miiiIw|. ihat the window ai;auL Bat Saaart^ hnwag hia anawar, went to tk» ooor, rntitl l3k» I latcV, and entered. Aad thaa ha aaaatad t* turn oTer another page o » IMct lata.* He passed through an ordinarv kitohan, wHk an open window and brlek floor, with noth- xan out of the common aba«t it exeept tkat it was empty on so hard a day, when labour had nothing to do bat ait and rest by I its own fireside. Bat the roooi into whia he passed oat of it was rerydiSsraat indeed, ia such a place it was eren atartling to find such a room. It might hare been a boadoir i of any great lady in the U»d, if it had not I been so obriously an enchanted maiden's hower. In that country of Oooe upon a I Time, soft carpets, fine hangings, Inzurioas „, ' aphoUt«r; books, and pictoreseost ootbin^ l wberr more tbaa a few wares of a wend, or tlsa (yrother StaM 4Mr aad Mtta Aral aoU hM ol HavTaw isJ|_MHi lUU. tka» God •Mc yatai w »a«| aumawhm. I if foand that a Thou Imnu nftarmâ€" thou wilt, irresponsible, I FUmy objective to all that's demonstrable â€" ' Faataatic, ridii-D'oas word Tby gyrates mesmerical pozzie bamanity, Thuu outcome of scitnce, inspired by in- sanity, Tbou wary, emboiied absurd, ' Drew the Wrong^Lever ' ALBXAMEI; A-NDERSO.'*. This Hiu what the pointanian aa-U, VVitik both haniis at bis throbbing head " 1 drew the wroog'lever, standiDS here \xu\ the iUDf(«r,signaU suxjd at cKar but jefore I could draw it bacli'again Un I arric thf fast express, and tbtn â€" Theu came a roar and a craab^that sh'iok Thill caoii. iloor, Lut I could nut^look At,lhcretW, for 1 know [the dead would peer With 8trant{e doll.Vyes at thtir murderer here.' " Drew the wrongflever " " Ve?, I say «o, tell my, wife, audâ€" take mc away '" That was what the pointaman said, Willi bath binds at bia tbrobbiog head. U ye of this nineteenth century time, \Vno bold low dividends ai a ciiine, Uaten. So long as a twelve-hours' strain lust!* like a loiii of lead on the brain, oi bellH, and rolling of Witb Its riiigiug wheelH, Drawing of levers until one feels •Ihe relesj hands ';row numb with a nerv touch, .\nd the baiidli -i i^bake and slip in the clutch, Mo I'.ii,; will yu have [fomtsmcD to say â€" Drew the wruu({ lever 1 take me away '" AT THE TWELFTH HOUR. I.V 1 Jk. FIJlll'll tO.N CriAlTKK I. Thui;iuuil waN nx li.inl aM iruu, the hky blue a« tuii|ii ir, tliu biinaliiDe yellow as ;{ull, and tLu air a3 htill and aa silent ai •foiy the hatilfiit of ffostn can be. Nobody, lor wiekii I'S't, bad larU even so mucb as lu dii-ain of :t fox il was U^yoard'a iloli- j â- lay Mild tbiii^!t been an ttiey ou;{bt to b«, Kupert (i.'ayabaw would not, late in tbc atleriiofu, have heeu louiiJ upi'ii uiily two lees instead of four. TuIiiri beint; as they wurr, \\f was making the lie.st, or the i wuift, il Ukiii I'V ualkiiff; briskly alon^ a winding; Ifcnu that led from the village ef ~Cuml'H lta.|..ctt to nowbere in jiarticular, at the rate of aonietbiug over lour miles an hour. Kiip'rt (irayithaw was goinf[ uu for thrre- and-th.ity years old, full of 8treu(;tb and' life,ban'lMiiuaiid8(miethiDi; more. Fewpoo- pie nolii'i'il bow line a faeu be rt ally bad until seen, and because I ihey I- mil! to know bun well, for those who l wheu be is coming. daw bun lor tlie lir.it, vTcoml, or third tiuic \, le atiiivk xeluKively by all such signs unil iiniloU ol lioth mental ami vital force at woiilil have male pI'iniieHS for^iotten. llu wai a mail who looked both eaxer and I able to enjoy tbu wliuleoflife all rounil, wilb boily, lirb i, ami soul. And assuredly, i though tbu loxes Were bafe, it was a day on whicn life etjuld be nio^it amply and acuvc- ly e.ii'vid. 1 ueeil nuke no mytt-^ry about j [tu]Hrt ^ia}.s)iaw, for tin re wan none to be ina^ie, aa tboiigh, no ibiubt, he bad his secrets and priv.itc alfaii.i like other ineu, he was known, uu tl;e wliole, ratbir moie i fifx n y than inoit of one's frieuds. lie wai ' tha only 'on of the younger son ot au oll Yorksbirc I iiiuly he h.d taken I) gh mathe- inalK'al bonours at Oimbridge; be was a| Keilow of St. Kenneth'h; be was without near rri.itioiis; he bad no prufeiisiuu, but: lived en bis Fellowship, and, without saeri- licin;; any pleasures tnat were open to bim, iiail, wilu ail enuiiring cuthusia-m, adoptfd aoientitic lUVe.-'Ligalion and discovery lor a uareer. llu luld himself as much a 'oveaoil iK-yoiid marriaxo an Hiience is above the brew 111^ of kinall beer, llu hail come tu L'uui*" l'---iett on a vieil tu Xnt father s| ubl liii'iiil, litk Derwtnt, fur the take of the oviTtH and, .si Inr as tbc c iverts were ciiueeriii'l, bid Lonie n v.iin. Ami that is the whole bi.4t ry, asc^inipletely told aa any mill's i-aii b â-  â€" from thi- outside. The lane preseuily lid through a thick bill II v broHii and lealless wood. lla|ert vaulted over a vtile lo the left, and his fcot their preunca here would have seemed something more thau straoge. And here she, whose face wo hare for a moniaat seen, rjn forward to meet Kupert qoickly aad joyfully, and let him take ner in hia arms. " I have good news, Ueithal" aaid he. "Ai^d yoj will ner«r guess it. The poft, tbi« very rooraiog, brought me the news that I am rich enough for all things â€" for You, and Work, and Gladoesa, acd all life m aas to me for You and Lore, above all \ei, my darling, it's true. I shall be able to give you a better bower even than the mysterious ecchanter who keepa }oa here in his power." "Oh, Rupert 1 What haa happened? What is going to happen? Who do you mean 7" " Everything has happened, Bertha A f ir-off conaid of my mother.a, whom 1 never saw in my life, is dead, and haa left me a fortnoe â€" an immense fortune for me and you, but not too large to be a bniden â€" only nn condition that 1 will change my name " " What â€" you are not to be Kupert, my Rupert, any more " "Ob, I shall keep that name â€" tkat is yours I But I shall give up my Fellowship with more pleasure than I had in getting it for I hate the least thing that has kcps me from yon and there is nothing left bat a form or two to keep me from my wife for another hour I When will you come to me In two weeks ?â€" In one In " " Rupert /f it true " " All true â€" every word When will you come?" " And may I tell my father â€" " " Your father Bertha, mjr darlin/, now ' that I can alaim yon I think thia mystery ought to ba at au end. Just think what our story has been â€" a story that nobody j could believe. I come down to Combe Bassett with a heart as empty as life with- I out you. I wander into a wander into a wood â€" 1 fiU'J, by chance, in a common cot- ' tago, a F'airy Queen. I win her heart, and her troth plight, and at the end of weeks I know no more of her than that her name ia Bertha â€" Queen Berthaâ€" and that she haa no I aurname, but only a mysterious, nameless â-  I father, who comes to see her, like an en- ' chanter, from far away â€" flying, I suppoae, on a magic carpet, or a brazen horse through the air. .She is attended by invisible hands I â€" for none but her own have 1 Been. I am sworn to ask nothing more than if she loves I I me. She forbids me to enter her bower I without a fcignal, and unless it is answered. I .\nd yet I know that she is as innocent as i the lil.cs, and as pure as the snow. Sooner ' than loose you. Bertha, I would consent to know nothing but that you are lovely, and good, and true, and that yi.u love me bat IS it in man not to wish to kuow moie?i And IS it uot time " ' "As if I would not tell you every thought I have in me! But, oh Rup)rt, how c in I tell you a name I never heard Aa you say, my father must have some dwelling- I place of his own, I suppiae that i.H true too, And " "And vou really do not know who you are ' "Surely â€" that 1 am Bertha, acd yours. But if it :s time " • •' It is time.' "Thenâ€" my fathor comes to-morrow, at five o'clock in the afternoon. I Aaas told you why you must not come to me without a sigoal becanse hi does not wish to be I 'do not always know But I do happen to of tki koaaat* UidMrat tka flialatoakaaf mi4w|^to tha year. Bst I fia« ovt wkatH aMaM, awl yot atttioa maat h»Ta a meoBiag wowler what paapie thii* «a^ tha New Year ehme to a hoasa aad the door okwed V "Happea?^ aaid West " Why, fewer people woold b^gia the year aaec i-. VTW* •** y«« sa W iM " " I dafe jBr," ^»4 Dh*- I i«» --1 tbey kMW ojee kyoa ft fim*. Well, lU dooo oMT, aafiaft«r all ikwoold never hare done to hare the froet break up everywhere else, and not roond the Uall.' But the first dsyef the New Year did not bring a tbaw, either ronnd the Hall or else- To-day waa yesterday's twin Nor was Robert sorry lor it, for- Akâ€" Wkift* -^ee4a D a k to a t* tka jtOM ri4ar Ikie a* aaspisM ' takeA Mr. OiaaomL • "IMS iT «mJW •iak y^i kaffj Ik«9Mr »at4M '^aaaMaabMi r IkiaaMyo* odd mUtA, aoM rare holiday tkat kam. whew I k a ap » U Uif fii it ia hMMM. all tka ^ma nd I kare tak4i Ika afpaf^ailf of daii« it ft dfty. TiM kaa a way of flykt„ V^ ofOraaMMflM. •-*^-t2i^! La- »-*..,. af tka lliiit iJmmUttm, Mf l_ t tj I iBii-^ fa whfok «ka«tMn«f â-  •^--â€" ' â€" » ftfU ftie deftrly Uy. It M to Bski Mm^ Bo*^ «m mftiority of ik4i aaiiertk. had it thawed, be wonld hare found it ei eeedingly diffioalft t» i»veat aa excuse for aiaying at homft vkile the other mea were all a-field Q|'«e«ue, while the grooad waa hard it was lMUft^eaoagta^r aphaoao^Mr to take solitary walks in company with problems. Bat problems when the socnt lay^^ren a broken leg would haidly serve aa an excose for him then, after three long weeks of i'on. Happi;y, the weath«r allow- ed him. with no more dificulty than nsnai, to be at the cottage by tive in the afternoon. If he had believed in omens, he would hare felt that his lock at laaat had not changed with the change of the year. He was neither shy tor timid by nature, and waa eager rather than anzioaa for the first ibtirriew with the mysterious person- age who kept his dau^bUr so strangely cou- fibei in such an unacoountable prison. Beyond all questioo, B^srlha waa nearly as Ignorant aa he of her own history. She Bcirce'y knew o( any other life, except after the vague and onunatwortby manner of dreams. .She was fairly well cdacated, for she had been thrown upon her own mental n sources all her life, and had been put by this aama nngueaaable father into the right way of using them. Oddly enough, she «as moat familiar with the very books and branchea of knowledge that Rupert himself would hare cboseo for her had heredocatiou been given into his hsnds. She had lived in this way â€" so he learned from her â€" all her life, seeiag none hot her father and an elderly nurse who attended to her admir- ably, but told her nothing. She was under a strict discipline wbioh she bad never i thought of breaking through, never going out tor exereiae except in the early momicg j in the wood*, or being allowed to have a friend. Short of making inqoiries, Rupert I had invented a thonsand theur.es to aooonnt I for the mystery, but had rejected them all. But about one thing there was no mystery j at alL No wonder thit a young girl, with such infinite capacity for the lifa that had been withheld frora tier for seventeen years, bad snatched at life, lovr, and liberty as ' soon as they had found bor out in her soli- tude. She was the sleeping princess who woke when the prince had forced his way to her through the uhoma. But now, at last, the whole secret waa to be disclosed. Of the result, Kupert had I absolutely no fear. He waa rich enough to sstisfy any earthly father, and in love en- oujh to satisfy any father, man or demon, I who loved his child. His hi^h spirita of ' yesterday were nothing compared with to- ' aay's. He hardly felt the ground sa he walked, but seemed to tread on air. He reached the cotta((e well before five. But The door stood wide open, and the front garden was littertd with bits of broken wood, ends of cord, and straw. The kitchen was without a fire. With a strange feeling of fear in bis heart, he went at once into B:rtha's bowerâ€" it had four bare walls and an empty floor. Toe lattice waa o|.aa, and the air seemed deadl]i cold. Had It all been but a Fairy Dream Bat it was no dream that he loved her with his whole heartâ€" and she was gone. ••Orel " Mot with mt, Mr. Hildreth ftot with ase. Tsars â€" laailasaiiia tmA to oa. I bo- lieve yoQ wen aeqaaifttNl with Mr. Riebard Derwent, of Combe Basaitt. I have bera his legal aIviarr for some years. Prriiaps ya a-e not aware " [to bs cuimxDn*. TtoOoTOTkim Ooloiy- (fnm the Cklesfo Timss.) a inoBY or armano. The Timn correspoodsstt, in oompany with thres responsible gentlemen, visited the Connemara settlement, twenty- five miles from Morris, the other day, made a thorough investigation of each shanty in that colony, and eon versed with there truly nn'ortnnate people and their oeighboura. Tbere ia no poasiUe doubt of the r«Mly ot their misery and deetitatioa ezistiag, and the utter criminal beartleisnesa ai.d neglect with which these poor, miaerab'e creatures have been treated.' Never Las there been seen in thia oonntry such Mjnalid overty and suffering. It TvscCT Aft»aai •tend at tha fmmkmnmmA^m Ike briak «i trar of wkat. if oom begwi it woaM b» tmpo«iUatavr«die»tkaaad. Ilia^osH^ ^aftd,* ftMsr h» r prsMBt Uuimftamui, ^iw«r â- at (taad by and »♦ Otoaoa poasibly aaaexed, by'Torkey. Oa the other hftad; ^mahl Qrecoe bo v^tonao*, it ts' hardly probable that the w'oald be oooteot •ivh the territory promised her by the Beilm tresty, more especially aa ah« wooU have the moral sopport of Riiasia. In aach a case Rngland ejoid hardly remain inse^va aad permit ber ancient ally and debtor to be plaadetwd and the aeoarity of her Turkiik bondholders lo be handed over to the Atko- uian Qovemmciit. The Ureeks are ^v^r eeoagh to aae the horns of the dilemma t« tween which KagUod ia plaeod. and they realza that 'now or nevsr " applii s to Uieir case. They aigae that tbey hare waited long eooa^a for the fjifi meat ol the pro- mises mads to tlMDi. Tbe:r army is ready and the seotimeat of Earope is on Ibeir aide. Why, then, sbooU they not fire away Curioua'y enongb, the only hitch in thcirpr gramme iaogcaaroaed by the troublaa ia Ireland. Mr. Olstdatcae's Miaistiy seems to be in lacU a muddle about Inah affairs, and the Eigliah popalaee are getting so as- distisss, and suffering. It is oatrageous _„ ._ „ .^..^. _.., â€" « that such an indeacribable atate of affairs asperated over whst tbey consider a oolicy should exist in any civilized commiuity. It ot vscillatior, that it is quite poaaible the ia alleged that thaeo poor, ill-treated, haU-staived criaturea have gooe to the prieet in charae. Father Ryan, for aid, ae- ported the aoSering, hanger, aad want, yet in every,oaae were TCIi:fSD AWAT WTTH AilOBV WOKIH and abuse instead of food, medicior, cloth- ing, fuel, or even sympathy. Daring this trip the Titmet oorreapoadent never beard his name mentioned with reepeot, nor one woid spoken in favour of his colony. The colony is situated mainly in town 13t, range 45 Big Stone county, the people being scattered over the township at distsnoes of from five to thirteen miles from Oraoeville. Aa a rule they are more intelligent than the fonnders of the colony would hara it appear. In almost every case they were striving to eoonom'zs the little wood they had by burn- ing hay on mild days instead, and in no aingle inatance, although clueely watched by all the party, was even an attempt made tu L'bera s may go cut of iffics as suddenly as they eutered it a few months ago. Wlieo Lonl Beaeonsfield wis in power the Oroeks ware shrewd enough to keep quiet, and aheuld he return to the Premiership, itwou!d ba a Fad b'ow to their hop s tbe Cunserva- tires are much more opposed to a dismem- berment of Turkey than tbe Liberalr. rHX ANIfCAL CATTLE SBOW began on tbe G.h iuat. at tbe AgriiU tarali, Hall. London. The distiOLtive features ofl Y, " oattle show week aie aa different from those of any other part of the year in London as can well be imagined. In it the famtsra throng to the metropolis from all parts of England, sai the streets aud pUoes of amusement are filled with their bnrly bodiee and merry with their jovial faces an I reaoa- ant voioes. Aa in the month of May a casual visitor might fairly imagine that the msjority of Londoners were clergymen, to. TiMia- tweat takeatoaU thk by Lydoa aoct a^ Mmr. BUvatafcy wkaMMr aka yayftftWai* te the British metiOiiaUr .â- !..â-  â-  mi s^al om Earlier tkaa MBSi-"Sdaad avaHT importi r ^^ tfC eJSTthlhTu. fSuow, tkiayaar^thedl-' laiimialarf A tvmna m t coamua nAw wee* 9Nad eat kefara wiakfaTeMo. Oar^imkaMaaa kava aaoal widely arraa|- ed aa their d^iimanU iate ft grMtar aamLar of diriaioaa, or aaparationa, tkaa hitherto, altboagh the fat4aatiaM «f this peneroos seMoa hive atch aa«posi«bity of readily focn-aiftg one's atttatioa. Thia eahdivSea «(« fthml MmHtm vaHety of artio'ea that mi0if be cUaaed oa ftaa arta. high arte, dcoorattro arta, aad arte piotacaaqac, groteaqae, aad seni-worthka^ offera aa aaay opsortaaity for that too oom aioaaearoher â- tad apea the fabrie^ or the ma t e ri a l she eaa riert the ioeaUty af aa^ tbiags, and hont for a formalatie expreaeian of hot hitherto vague deeiree. Laat year it waa a rate pattern of Orieatal rag that wrn more interest aad teatoh than aa^thiag else. The year before it waa a longiag after aotiqae bellowa which were carved in disremembered sgse aanfTera that had forgotten how hot candle- wioka taatrd porringers whitii had been for oentarica bereft of gruel halberda that were sapcoscd to have chopped open no end of feudal tat vastly heroic brains. This vcar this sentiment is still warm, bUze ia less fierce. Like vulcaaoee, the barsting forth if allourintbusisrosmiut begin upon the highest pi oes and piur their mo:taa enotioos down opon the lower levela. It ia abtnt theee hambler tnrfaoes that the warmth for tkilleta aai snuffers BOW gathera, wnile tha crater bams other aorta of tire. pincpncKm o" to tiB« ••»«i^nw» ___ to ftMOraatai va *i ..»hL«' (WWW- ' • r*' T*****^* "^^T. BSSTiaftllftria^T knOt, aAMkaa ai iwtalFrWkit L_L- aa aaay opportaaity for tkat too oom earoher after a gift, the style of which ct knows not If abe haa fixed' her Had and funerals, and there ply their trade of robbery, because the minda of crowds ore too *«**ihiw' „ fWMplBy«anakl--Ul«S»-kafaiaiw mttnkwm, irko]i««d«gktiraan.gk« _m the mo'ker of eaf r a at ae a Mildrait w that time, having twias in tka flrat jflt m their mankiga. The next year another {Mir oft«i.s werebom. £aek aaaeeadinar yoar. Cor four yeara tfce r ea f tei Mta. Bear baeftaa tbe mother of triiMatk IbM 4«««ttk rwr ^^.lim^ by the birth of osily ooc ehild. iTa. UefMr die 1 aad waa laid away ii)Jhe TiUaga chureh-yaid ia Othahay. tka wid- oiMT had mow a lMBflya « w«aa n h ildi aB, tteoUeafcaBlyTyeanalage. Tki**MtM tbeieaflerft youg lady «aok akoife of tka ohildfaa, aad ia ooawa.rf tlaaaakebaiiai*; the eecood Mr. BeOkar. fhe ftra* wifb had di«i ia fthmaiy. 18«. In febnmry, IW^ thia aeoond oriia nmsatad Mr. Heffaar «}tk* a boy. On Chnstaua dajr of t' e same rear the nineteenth ehild waa added to tha HefT- aer flock. Thelhmay«aa BOW larger Oan aoy othwinthatpartoftheeeaatry. Fire j'ear* paoaadoDrJb' MeSk r'ahooaehod waaiaena- ed by the a-ldhioa of tan more ohiUran, ft pair of twioa bo ng bom every year. Thrre was now a loll, and for three years the eaf er only one child was bom onto them, la 1M4 he same to this country with his family, aad the laat three children were bom in America. In 1857 his wif' died, having been married nine years. He vas now tbe lather of thirty- two children, twelve of whom had died, leav- iag twenty to be taken in oi'arge bv a widow, whom he had married in 1S58. Mrs. Ueff- air-number three and one child by a pre- vious mairiage. She became t e mother of nine more children in ten years, by single births. His last, or third wife, i.s still livin/. None of the first aet of aeveoteen children sarvive. Two of the Hftoen ot the second wife's children still live and three of the tbitdi wife's nine. In a period of twenty- eight years â€" from 1840 when he first married, to 1868, the date of tlie birth of hia laat child â€"be became the father of forty -one enildrea. The five who are still living are girla. W hea the stepchild that the last marriage to tte ooaoeal or mulead when qn««tioned as to j^^p »,, ,be ,^oi„i„„ that tbe popnlauoo 1 to notice just what other motivee prevaU .svrruH OK hand. CHAPTEK II. Two Three â€" Ten tbeir Their ehantiea are about 12 by 16 feet, eigbt feet poets, boarded and battened oo thatidca aad the roof. Some few hare the roof ahingled. All tbe shantiea are sodded to the eavea. The shantiea are cold, deso- late, and dreary, som« dirty, but tbe ma- jority comparatively c!ean. O: furnituie of even the rudest deacriptiou there is nothing bat a sheK and a bench, and occasionally a bunk and a table. All have cook stoves and a few diahee, bnt the familiea are deati- tnte and in sad need of teds and bediling. A few of the cows are giving milk, and in some cases are in the ahantiei but aa a rule are in little sod stables near by. Few have more Elevrn One: Twelve He whom bettered Fortunes and a testa- tor's fancy had transmuted form Rupert Orayshaw into Rupert Hiidreth did not rise irom his chair, or throw open so much aa an inch of window at tbe sound. H" laid down his pe:: â€" but that was all. The twelve strokes eame to his ears muffled through double windows and doss doors. ,. 1 » 11 "I am not luch a fool aa that," thought Come, Kupert, and come openly, and tell ^^_ ,. ^,,6 old yesr'a a great deal too long I don't want a bttter. I've know to-day when his next visit will be â€" for he never f-iils to see me on the first day of the New Year " " Yea â€" to-morrow is New- Year's Day. Well him " And if he says No t" " Wny should ho say No? Andâ€" if he does â€" do I not love you He canqpt forbid that, Kupert- " ".My dail ug I teill come, Uuchanter thoiigb he be." Kupert left the cottage just in time to reach the Hall (sa bis host's place was j^opnlsrly Icillid) before dinner. He met Dobudy ju ' the way bnt an old woman in a blue cloak, of whom he touk no upecial heedâ€" for what I weie all outward things to a man who loved, ' and before whom the future waa opening out in lainbuw colours Even the mystery of bis lovu story gave it additional charm to him, whose imagination, chronically kept in the grooves of hard study, needed now and then to take a flight into the open I air. There were nut many guevts at tha Hall. I Div:k Derwent was a bschelor of five-and- forty, who did not care to fill his house for ' the sake of having it full. The few who were tbere were men who were waiting for I the frost to break, and with whom Kupert â€" CDgajsed aa he was with hia own affairs â€" had I but little symjiathy. He liked Dick, who I was tbe best of i;out fellows, and had shown him much kiudaess bnt] he did not like friends. And even to Dick, goad Hfe ••iKiii injt-i^ing the uever-pallin delight of tiaiiiplini; and crunching over I'alk-n and i ri .,l frozen leaves, lie was glowin..; with health j^^J,^^ ^^ ^^ ^e had never breathid and exercise, and, it miajit be, wiih »"'ne l^^^^,, „f ^1. luve-story. There were macy stdl more peculiar j.y. Ihe wood Was » ^^^„, lor silence, of which each was all- ma/u of paths, but he either knew their clue ,u,u^,e„t for bim. In the first placeâ€" until had, from his point of by heirt or el.sc gave himself up tu chance more decisively than most ineu go towards a known .l^oal. Audio, either ly accident or deiiiLU, lie reached at la^t a solitary c dtage standiu;^ in a small garde n and ncaily hidden anioiiu ihu trees It was a humble place enough a little, but not much, better than i i,'r.„„ ,„ the common ruu oi labourers' dwellings in that part ol the eiuntry â€" low, rough-ca«t, aud straw-thatched, with small latticed windows and immeiuely deep e^ve*. The long strip of garden was given over to vege- table!-, except a patch in front if the porch, where it was not bard, though in inidwin- tei, tu onjure up, in fancy, a little wilder- ueas of full sceuts and strung colours. 8ome iitylo was qi\. n to the place, even now, by the creeper wi'h evergreen Kavcs and scar- let lierries that covered the porch, and the thick ivy that darkened the lower windowa, .\s if he knew its inmates aud all their ways, Kupert went to tbc n imtow at the side of the cottage and tapjied thercou three times Then ha leaued against the pear-tree and waited patiently. Or perhaps impatiently. For presently the lattice opened, and like a live portrait set in a fr^mc of ivy haves appeared a face that seemed to say, " Ah ' be has a 8ecret in his life, after all â€" and I am '^he " Y'cs; when a rasn comes to look for Fcxes and tinds Fronts, lie must liad something wherewith to fill up bu idle days â€" some- thing or someliody. Of course it is unlucky when it happens tu be Somebody instead of .Somethingâ€" when he has both publicly and privately forest rn marriage, and when, if he forswear himsdf, he must give up the means of study aud take to bread-wianiog instead of wot king for science and glory. I'orbaps it is raih for nicu to take lunj; holi- days until they are at lesst seventy years old. For if ever there was a face made to come between a student and his books, be- tween a aportsman and his sports, between a sworn bachelor and his vow, it was the fscf that Kupert had calltd from out the ivy as if his three tap* had been spells. It was a vry young gin s she could not possibly have been more than seveuteen. But ber number of years was to be gathered from the indehnable expression of girlhoo 1 rather than from any palpable sigof. She was neither child uur woman, but blent in one face the charms of the two. The delicate glory of perfect health breathed from her I autUcient for bim to-day â€" marriage ' view, been simply impossible. He had been merely drifting, and hardly bared to open his own eyes as to the course he had been uking. In the tecond place, to profane the mystery of his romance by speech would reduce it from poetry to prose. Again, how conid he bear to tell such a story to open-hearted and free-tongued Dick, who had never kept a secret in his I liie, and would besurn to make Bertha and Ruperts love for her a matter of rongh chaff, even if tbey did not some day, lor wautof better sport, ride out and draw tbe cottage with "Y'oieks " and "Talleyho?' And who was Bertha's father, aud what secret might he not have that ought not, in honcur, to be betrayed And Bertha's ex- istence been known of at the Hall, he wonld himself have been the first to hear. D.nner and billiarda hiul lasted the evening through, when the stroke of a charch bell sounded full and cloae through the thin air. D ck Derwent rote and filled his tumbler to tbe brim. " Let all who love me, follow 1" cried he, in his bluff, ringing voice. " At the first stroke of twelve, I throw open the front door with my own hands, to let the old year out and the new year in " Dick Derwcat was a fine, stout,! hearty country gentleman, with all manner of jov- ial ways. He was the very pink of geneios- ity and honour. He had been Rupert's father's stauncheat f i lend, and had, at old Mr, Giayshaw's death, transfsrred bis affco- i tion from the father to the roc. Indeed, it j was more than cmmon affection that he showed townids Rupert, on every poesible occwior. Though so much the elder, be I bad a strong b.dief in the prudence and i woildly wisdom of the younger msn, wbioh canaot be supposed to be altogether ill I foandod â€" at any ra!e, Dick Darwent was not the man to have Ut a hundred fellow- ships stand in the way of marriage had he been that way inclined. But, then, it is true he was not a man of science, but only a jolly middle-aged gentleman who kept up Id customs and foll^we.l the hoanda well. The ha'f dozen young and middle-aged men, without a woman or a child amoos them, gave way to tbeir host's whim,thuagh not without smiles and sbrags of tha shoul- der at taking part in sncb a piece of obeolete the biting air did her no wrong, but merely deepened the glow on her cheek that proved I folly- »,. no froet to lie within. She could be called " ^^"t Joes it all mean aaked W eatâ€" I a young man who was wiser in his own eyee neither |darkncr fair, bnt simply barmoni oas and so quick were the changes of light and shade that Rapett seemed to hear her looks with some subtle inser sense aa if tbey were the melody f a song. And, whitever else the words oi that song may be, they were at least gentle and pure. Why need I deecribe her feature by feature, line by line? Enough that passing and heedleaa eyee would have called her lovely, while RuperVa as clearly found her a great deal more. She waa no cottager's daughter, though ahe waa found in this out-of-the-way, almost hidden cottage. She suggested one of thoee laal p t iuu iai u a whom travellrre find by even than Rupert Orayahaw waa ia Diuk Derwent'a. " Wny should we tronble oar- a.:lves to let oat a good time â€" thaak's to you, D.ck â€" ao'd let in what nobody kLowt may be death, miy be marriage," " Marriage, eh ' said Dick, tarnlng upon i him saddraiy. " Perhspe I know more about that than yon. But that'a neither here nor there â€" marriage won't eoose inaida this door for manv a iMig day. Tkat ian't what it racana. It maaaa that tka osaatsr of thia hoose haa, with hia owa haada let in two hnadred New Years, and that I'm not going to be the first iahoapiti^e fellow that has been suraamed Derwent and chriateaed I to lose, snd 1 don't want a I done for six years paat with wanting more I than I have, since â€" since â€" No I've done I witb dream;. Peihapa lAty might oome back if I opened the door to a change, Lst tnoae open tbeir dcors who are aick, or sorry, or sinful, or poor not I, who am riuh, and con- I tent, aud aound in heart and limb and brain andwhokniws what happened once, when I let out the one sweet dream of my whole life, and when that better waking I came in through the open door 1 Never j again. I might let in sickness, or disoontent, or worsa â€" who knows? I'll be aa I am, I with one long, faithful old year all to myself, I that I've tried anl proved. Yes, it has sn- Bwered. Fevers have oome with the new yeara, and have emptied other houses, but I they havepaasel by aijf doors, that had kept I out the evils of tbe unknown like thoee oi a 1 wise man. Fortunes have broken bnt mine stand. Others, in tbe new ye.rs, have mar- ried and died 1, with the old year under ' my roof, am as alive and free aa I was six i years ago, I have seen others grow grey I and wrinkled I am near mindle age â€" and young. Life palls on others, unless they re- ' new it in their cliildren I have only myaeli and my book â€" but they are aa fresh as cf old. Why, if tbere be a grain of trath in old wives' tales, to bar the old year out snd to bolt the new in means to stand I still at one's best all one'a days, to be for always as oae is, and to fear no cbanoa or change that comes to tbe rest or the world. I ... So knock on. New Y'ear, as hard I and as long aa you like â€" you'll find one I door bolted and barred against yon and i yours." I He took up hia pen again, and worked on. It waa true that, ever since that midnight of i six years ago, he had practiced the new superstition of keeping his front door close I shut, so that no new year might find a chink I whereby to creep in. For on tbe night ot I long ago he had lain down with joy and hope which the new year had, with itafint touch, taken away. Perhaps â€" so he felt in fancy â€" if he had kept the new year out. Bertha and the old year wonld have itaid with him nor waa the fancy quite lo on- reasonable in a man of science ss it may seem, or what had Bertha herself ever been to him but a fancy and a dream? Aud it was true that, while the new years bad brought troubles enough on other*, they had left Eupert Hiidreth, the rcholar and chemist, undisturbed in his life and labour. With kirn the same old year seemed for ever to abide, ant!! it bad earned by enatom an undiaputed '-^t and title ti a place by his hearthstone. He and his life never knew a change, from year to year, Irom day to day. He lived, for quiet study's sake, in the outskirts of the town of Rainbam. Oue year a plague of cholera swept through the place, and broke np bonsehelds â€" that would have been safe had they never let the Xld year go. ^nt he never troubled himself about the matter, and just lived and worked on. Some thought he kept himself too much sloof iu time of trouble and no doubt that tame aai new year, while it brought death to bojies, brouubt good to souls. Bnt what haa he to do with the things of new years that have never come to him Another new year had brought among its gifu a great financial crash that bad been felt in most homee, but had not given Kupert Hiidreth, though a rich man, a moment's doubt or fear. He had never loved a new faea. or made a new enemy. From January to D«.ember every yea^had been one and the same. V There were aome who thought him hard, cold, and sefish. Othertâ€" women moetlyâ€" could not help bjiieving that, early in life, his heart had been broken by soeae great aorrow with which a woman had had to do, and that this made his days so changelees i and his lifd so lonely and self-contained. I He would have denied such a theory, had it I ever come to bis ears, with roora. Hia treatment of new years and its effecto might be bat a saperstitkas fancy but he lived as if be tfaoagbt it based oa truth aad rea- son. Never, ainoe that New Tear'a Kve, had he teen, or eveo, despite of ail hia searching, heard of Bertha again or of any- body who bad ever beard of her, Aad bow he hai abut out the threata of ' year. He worked lata, aad roaa laH without takiac oote that a new year kad kngan far atTUa rert erne 4«M. Why Aouhl ke, jH-r-' wkcn it waa still tke old year, of yaanago.farkim T It waa oetts^ aothiag particularly new, tk,.-gfc a Uttia unoaaal, tkat ka akonld re- ealva a vMt tnm a aUaa garln tka awia ol than will laat for a few dayr. Two families had only enoagh ti last over to-day. Some wood â€" from ton to thirty sticks â€" was dis- tributed Thursday, and tht day previous each home waa supplied with a few frozen potatcef. These potatoes were sent up by the bishop last month, but owing to the priest having refused to pay tbe freight they were left in an nnfimshed depot and tnzaa. As they are rotten, they are unfit for any use whatever, although the poor people were trying in a few ouci to eat them. The writer has seen the sick and the frozen, noted the lack of food and the scanty of fael baa heard from reliable parties of tbe wretohed, starving condition of theee peo- ple and it was plainly written in their riNCHKO vacbh. A three montbs-old babe was in a cold shan- 'y, with cotbing hot a sbirt made from a flour aack to cover it, and a child warming ito hands on a cow in the room. Tbere Were handa black from frost, the nails com- ing away with the rag, and limbs swollen and disooloored from the same cause a father helpless and dying from exposure and three weeks before Chiistmas, be might intent upon tbe ceffiu or the tossing famitare list, forty-two children have caiTed Jonh jump to the ooooluaioa that tbe populauoo to uotioe just what other motivee pravail i Heffner "father." The old man haa long â-  waa chiefly compoeed of farmers snd stock amid tha throng. Annual gift-hunting drawa j since forgotten the names f his nomeioas rairersâ€" or graiiers, aa they are termedâ€" j together in the citv another and rqaal pre- progeny, and ran only recall thoee bom in occapied mnltitaae. Only their eyes are i Uter years. deoMTcd and their parses robbed; Lutj never miml, " Christmas comes but once a • year." We have had our epooba o:' many thing- which are droll. Tbia season our enthnsis asms are more eveoly divided, ss I have learned by viaiting the various shops « here elegance combine with costliness irith an nnprejudiced, at leaat an almost even, baUnoe, Fabrics that are painted, or em- broidered, take the lead among Cbristniss gilta that are prepared by young Iodise. These arUcWa are for furaiahiog rooms or for personsl dcooratioos, or they may be painted book-bindings, cigar-case' pert*- sis a a w i, letter-oasea, writiog-padsf ete., which are on linen, satin, silk, wood, or leather. Oifts of kilver and gold have • i OIVaN PLACE TO ltBA:4, ' this metal Uing tbe only one that causes j who might compete, so fat are they, with their cattle for tbe priaes offered for an exoess of adipose tisaiM. 'f his is a great seaaon for artists, as the exhibitions of the !«onrnr or bkitlsh abtlsts, the Society cf Painters in Water Coloais, and the Dudley Gallery fully att(s^ The Society of British Artiata, ia Suffolk street, contoics over a thousand pictures, none of which are very good, though many are very Ud. A different class of picture is to be found in the rooms of the Society of Painters in Water Colors, although here, too, the figure paintings are far behind the laodtcapes. The Dudley Gallery ia composed of calit- net pictures in oil, which as sketehers are not to be conaidered in comparison with pio- tores of more elaborate character. There ia, neveithe'esf, a great amouat of talent exhibited bora. Among the mot notewor- thy are M. Fantin's " Panier de Fleam d'Automoe " aad an intricate stady of naa- turtiums by tne same maater. The Berlin correspondent of the London DaHjf yiM reporte that the polioe anthori- tives have paid a strange posthumous to TBI POET HBIinUCB BKIXI. A portion if his works it is said,9ave been oonftstioated andjordered to be destroyed. Tne reason given for thia singulsr proceed- ing is the fact that cartain passages in the condemned portion of the dead poet'a works exclamations of a properly expressed artistic i oe^toiug. CattiBg « Boy's Hair. There ia ao oae ia fooliog around ahoat it. When a boy's hair has beoome long Mid bleached and acraggy and fall of burrs aitd feathtrs it is time to cot it, and the inevita- ble must be faced. The boy doesa t want it cot, of couree. No one ever had a speakm^aoqaaiatance with a boy who thought fflPtime had ar- rivel when he could part with enough hair to stuff a sofa pillow. Tbey must be ooer- oed, and kind words and broad promises are thrown away. Coercion is the only method. I let my boys ran about ao long, snd then when I get a spare ha'f day I play barber. Tbere ia no appeal from my deoisi'-n. When I come out flat-footed I carry my p3int or â- â- â€¢â€¢SM: vato^niga lite btundsnT â- lag eM^aUs watcl7i_ afay k id j t kfc Tathewiid^lH tkaaa ttan^ we camp .d ontT^ moBtka. Oor beach wss faataatin ksrtieada ol ^^^ kftW bean Iprue there fro* kaavy atomsa. Coder th« irikiera and the sua of ' tUok ba'k kad decayed ^( leaving the trunks and ioo{«/ ta tb»'white o oie of ivory. ^^ JwM tiitla koUaw the sut tJ we often aaw in t' a dsmpvjl of tbe tJay hoofs of tbe ue», " dtNn iJ Mop the piqiaut U,'J m 1^^ t»y»t so lortunit,- gBmnoe of the shy creatures Tfarbad6h presented to tbi » • of unvarying brown, but as w," and forth we fouu 1 much im,^ ' ty atones of bright, cle« hs^'" laora, rose-tinta, browns, aad 'l phun-coliW. Bat these are foa?! a beach. There were otbers-S, form gray, oarvtd and womV into at'aage ahap«a, and iat„ laasadsr^ PVfL delight, cr aa ideal eathuaiasm, and per- i â- .â- ',.••' hape very properly. With the rug there j J».-;^^;-J^^ ,.. seems dreams of hearth with Chrutmas tires I ablaze upon them. Theaa fires suggested brass scnttlee, fire screens that are iu fanci- j ful and graoefal shape, andirons, braz.ers, shovels, tongs, and ixkers, with a pretty stand for their support also scuttles and fenders yer, and toddy-kettle*, too, snd brass coffee-urns, the ingenious internals of which are so subtly cunning snd so satisfso- ory that coffee will be c-fl^, if not genuine ung maa, you can get ready to have the reigning boure if Hobe: zollein. This pettty attack on Heine's remains wonld be in ke.-ping with the spirit now msnifested iu Germany against all who belong to the Jew- ish race. On the 29th of November, 1780, the moot liberal, intelligent, and humane monarob who ever ruled Auatria took ioto hia own snffenng. It is rot nooeef ary to say more j hands, absolutely, tbe reina of imperial gov- contiin unflattering remarks in regard to nectar, no matter where ite barrlera arew. ^1 u lT_i 11 t^u;- .- j :* â-  i ., i ., â-  -â-  than that tbe actual c indition of these un- fortunate, « ronged people hss never been' fully deic^i'xd in i;a gsunt, cruel awfulness, to say nothing of being exaggerated. These people are in need of immediate assistance, ss the supplies of food sent from Morris will not Isst long. Nothing but com mcsl has been fnmiabed them by the priest. The oaifit of CLOTBnco from Morris waa liberal, tha first they had received since they left Ireland, and it will last fir some time. Fuel and food are needed, the former eepecialiy bnt both are needel, aa their supply will not last any length of time, and it will be hazardous to leave them even a day on the b'eak prairies j in their miserable aud unprotected situation without t supply to laat during a period of ' stormy aud cold weather. Their condition has been only temporarily relieved by tbe timely and generous cootribationsaent from Morns, and there is no question but this I aid alooe saved many from perishing. Strange and incomprehensible aa it may ' Seem, while many of the other settlers ac- 1 kuowledKB that these people are and haVc been dettitote and tnlferiog, y et they are i I.V-DIONANT at TUK IXVBSnOATION, and displeased that measures have been tskeo to nlieve the distress. There is no little comment here over the fact thst Dil- lon O'Biien piremptorily refused to allow Mr. Hntehina ts accompany him on his tour of investigation, and hia report is looked for with interest. No liquor or any trace of it waa fonod anywhere. Nineteen families were viait'Ml and interviewed. It should be remembered that no part of this destitntioo and suffer'ng ia due to any lack of fertility or productiveness of tbe land where the so- called colony is located. It resulta simply from the STVrtS AKD CBCU. BLCilDBB, or woree, of bringing penniless and practi- cally helpless men, women and children from Ireland and p'aeing tbem in hute on an open prairie, with no time for raising a crop before the closing iu of a severe northern winter, without adequate proviaion for feeding or warming them, and apparently with little care on the part of tbe authorities whether they survived or not. A »UKD boy at Montreal has built a miuature bouse outside sn ordinary four- ounce bottle, oat of forty pieces oil wood neatly glued together. It would puzzle a person with good eyesight to get the parte into tbe bovt-'e, to lay nothing of puitiag them together. Te xBoston speculators in Bernhardt tickets have had a hard expe.ience. They bought the best parts of the house for the entire two weeks, and found that, after the iireat rush of the first night, they not only could sell st ao advance, but bad difficulty in gettinif their money back It was UMially poosible, at a few minntea paat 8 o'clock, to buy a |3 arat for $2. Mr. Abcbibald Fobbis. â€" An American paper has the following amusing burlesaue of Mr. Archibald Forbes^ style. Mr. Forbes is •uppoeed to be replying to tbe toMt of the English press :â€" " Mr. Cbsirmaoâ€" I am Mr. A ehibald Foibet. I have been every- where. J have dona ererythiag. I am a smart frllow. I I know done. am not to be oat- the Empercr of China. I know tbe King of the Cannibal Islands. I am intimately acquainted with the Grand i .. -o Uma. I have livtd with the Shah of Peiuia. '"Iâ„¢*"" cantcns, I am the dearcst tritnd cf the Bmpeior aisk "' '" '***" ^* "" oorapsonous dia- Russia. ' The report cornea abruptly to aul?*"" ""T""" •" P""' 'w tb« Pnat two or ead with the editorial remark, "Here •"Pl»y "f I'e gave out" Thb Babt.â€" The yoangeat is alwayi em- peror of the hoosehuld. Father and mother brothers and autera, all band to his baby dictation. He can sow tbe parlor carprt with oake crumbs, tip over the plant stand spiU the milk piteher, and get nothing bnt begs aad kisaea for his taaeJity he ia kcnt oa the laagb sail screed by all themcmh^ of hia faauly, aad their nerve. u« taking without any tronbU, and^girw away family secrete to high-toned tJuJ. aad is rewarded by â€" ^ittiannmeralZr^ is round aod ehubby, aad awoot aadhMtT aad hoaaahold aflain revolva ia their mK^ jrooadhim. M though ha wrn* aaidW erument. It was upon that date that Joaeph the Second succeeded to the sols administra- tion of an auihurity which he had already shared for fifteen years with the Empress Marie Thereae. Vienna oelebrated this cen- tenary with a popalar festival. JOHKPH tBM GOOD, "the friend of mankind," was conspicuonsly tbe iovereign of the people. His universal benevolence, tbe hcierality of hiscned, his enlightened devotion to the arte aad sciene ces, made him a grand figure imong tbe monarchs of his time. He emancipated the peaaanta, introduced freedom of worship and tha liberty of the preaa, and reformed the administration of justice, finance, and edu- cation. His especial zeal waa directed against the religious orders, whose magnib- ceut rstablishments he sequestrated and converted to public use as h'lspitala aad aa- ylum*. He loved to roam abjut hia capital as Hsroun AI Raschid, uti to wander through Bagdad, bat he had no headaman at his heels. Once, in Moravia, he took a plough from a psasant's hand and I'.nished the serf's work, merely to know by experi- ence tbe labour it entailed- He was abreak water for the peop'e, agmiust which tbe en- croachmenU of the ariatccracy and of tbe piieat) ood dashed in vain. He ruled thns wisely for ten yesrs and died amiil the la- mentations of his subjeot*. The Viennese celebration of his acoeesion to the throne began with a meeting of the Town Council. Their hall was profusely decorated with silken fkvors and garlands. A large bust of the Emperor stood between crowns of laurel, the civic digniuriee went in atate to tbe obapal of the Capuchin Friars, where a oom- memorative aervice was hel ' One of the most eflcctive featorea of the imposing cere- mony was the singing of the Bfati Moilui by the Vienna M»aner-OeeangVerein. At night there was a graad full dreea perform- ance at the Stadt Theatre, at the close of which the patriotic hymn, " Gott Erhslte Unsem Kaiaer," waa aung by an immeoee cueras. The studente held their own oele- bratiun the nignt before in the great Hall of Moaic, where libatiooa of brer and clouds of inotnse from pipes and cigars honoured the memory of the |pod Kaiaer. It must be a gratiiying fact for the preeent Emperor to hear the whole press apostroph'z i him aa the only anoceeaor of Joaeph the Second who has inherited his virtnea aad hia wisdom. Toe ancient Hoancx OP aaLtT ootbabo is to be cloecd. The establishment datce back to tbe fourteenth centory. Tbe tnonel of the Mount St. Oothsrd will make the hoepice useleea. It waa razed to the groand by an avalanche toward the end of the laat oentnry, bnt was rebuilt shortly afterward on a larger acatr. In 1799 it waa ravaged by Maosena during the attack on Souvorow. The baildins fol almoat into raiaa, but wa ouce tto-e restored by the anthoritiea, aad and haa ever aioce remained open to poor travellero. Toeee are generaUy Uboteia from upper Italy, who oome in troops. Over ooe hundred of them were rejeotly receved in a single nighf. Large numbers of wai-der- ing Germans are also accommodated, but Swisa and Fr^ch spplicaote for shelter are ***;. *•*• '••" '" f^^tfi received an- noally ao average of 20,000 traveUeia, for each of whom ia provided a warm mesl snd a night's lodging. Tbe ezpentei are bo.-oe in part by tbe Goveramente of the Canton of ricino aod of Italy, aad by annual sub- scriptions which are taken up throughoat proviled it is passed through this last inven- tion of sn inspired Russian. BRA.18 AS BBA.S.4, and not aa a metaphor, ia really one of the prime f sotore of this season's gift oombiaa- ti-iua. Vases and lampa from Benarea, from Per- sia, and from Constaotinopl rouse a wild longing in the aoula of purchasers. Ttieir curious engravings and their sti.l more effec- tive carvings in this enduring and but lately- diabonored metal is an illdaiiaator to cabi- neu and to sjiartmente where, but lately, only the most subdued snd ripened (faded was its other adjective, but nobody used it), hues weie permitted. The eyee even of tnined enthnsiasta may have weaiied of A TOO rROFOl'ND S0BCRXP.S8. At any rate, they are eager for possession of tbes;: srticles ol leal l-einty and Inmiuous tinte, tke more especially ts they are Orien- tal in their fabricati in, and cannot be rt pro- doeed in a coootry where skilled labor oosta much money. Only handwork is able to peiform tbe quaint, irregular, semi-barbaric, and yet altogether charming omamentetiona upon these reosntlv imported objects of real art and indisputable bcanty. A few years ago, when we were young and foolish â€" tbe nat on, not the individual, is re- ferred to â€" a pnatty list cf china, or a aingle cup and lanoer, a dainty gruel bowl, or a tiny tiay for wafers made one glad for tbe whole year. Now we expeot to find on oar table, or in our stockings, complete d noer aeta, dessert aete, soap st' fish seta, ctcam sets, ft nit sete, or, peihaps, all theee at onoe; yes, and entire wine sete, also, with our own ciphers graven upon them. Noth- ing less satisfiee the maturity of oar aspira- tions and exactions. »»» m A Snlddftl Oanary. DlTRRMlaBD BPTOKTS OP A PT BIBD TO EMb m DmA.4K-BDRDK!CED LIFE. (Ksw Terk Mercury.) A canary, the propjrty of a lady well- known ia aooicty ia this city, who reaidee oo Fifth avfnae, within a stone's throw of Major Cooper'a private reaidence, waa about teiv days ago taken unwell. The little fellow wss abont 8 years old, and bad been reared h^ the lady, who was extremely food of it. ^o amount of coaziag or persuasion coold induce the little fe'.low to open hia bill, aod when once or twice a drop of diluted brandy was larcjd into its m-mth it raaolataly r^ fused to swallow it, aod flattsted and pecked BO obstinately that ite fair owner waa foroed to let it alone. After being nibjeeted a seoood time to what it evideay considered an indignity, tbe bird's mode of action showed clearly that it had determined to pnt».iend to itself. The SMfas cfummdi was watAcd by ita miatfaaa and her hus- band with great aad inereaiag intereet, aa it firat tried one ptian aad then another to acoom- pliah ita auicidal purpose. First it wooU climb to the topperoh la tbe cage, and seiz- ing the ring which hnog pendant from the le.l ta the top of the cage in ittbsak, would hang suspended, ite liitle bgs tucked in nodemeath ita «ing», nor was it very ea»y to open the beak and take tbe Urd down, for It resented the sligtest attempt at in'«r ferance. Aa it waa f oua4 imposaiabia topre- vent the recorrenoe of theae asioidal tftAta, the nng wss rt moved. The eanarv laaonted this m a very strange faakioa. the water- Next week "No, sir- now I " -â-  •' With a bust-saw " " Yea, if tbe sbeirs won't do it." " Won't you draw blood " "I may Lave to." "If yon won't cut my hair. I'll bring In 'nnfi whmI and ooal to laat all winter,' and I won't aak for a light when I go to bed " " Come oat here and make ready " I never take any chances on a boy. I have aa old chair belted to the floor, and than I bolt the boy to the chair. I fix him ee that be can move neither hand nor foo^ put a soft-gag in his month to prevent a naignbor- hood alarm, and begin work. Tbe first step towarda catting a boy'a hair is to pot in ten minutes' bard work witb a curry-comb. It he hasn't been running looee over two or three yeara this tool will be found sufficient to rake out the snarls, buttons and srticles previously mentioned. A basket is placed behmd the chair for them to drop into, and tbey oao be decorated with fancy pictures and made to serve aa parlor ornaments. When a boy's hair is ready for the sheara braoe yoar feet aod ahear away. Shear front, baok, top and side without reference to linee or angles. The object is to remove hair. There is no use of any C-nveraatioa, not even when the shears find a piece of wiie and re- fnae to out it, Tbe boy wouldn't knotr how it got there if yoa a»kel him. He has had his head in o'oaeta, cellars, garrets, barns, fence-corners, barrels, boxes and all sorte of nooks, and auch extra attachments are no surprise to him. No one should be less than halt an hour robbing an average boy of his capillary sub- stance. Any attempt to hurry the joib will resBlt in ovciluokiug a lot of shingle nails, the mitsing screwdr.v- r, or something whidt may damage bis .Sund..y hat. My average is thirty -five minutes, and 1 have only two minutes left after being ab'e to see that he has a scalp. It then takes an additional ten minutes to !o ik him over and ident:fy him aa the aame boy I began on- Hia neck haa grown larger, the aize of hia ears inoreaaed, aod the whole ahape of the head is altered. Wben I feel aure that it is my boy, and not the son of some neighbor who has sknlked in on me, I bnuh him off with an old broom, crack hia beatl three or four tisses, draw the bolts and remove the gag, and then hold the I door open for him to shoot into tbe back yar.i. I am a loving father on all else, but I when I Ottt a boy's hair I'm a stern old Ro- man ot the firat watcr.- ISept. i7, 1880. aboriginal name of t^ Batftaew and eppoaite it, on tka tkai« livad, eantnriea ago, a qoally chleiF. He had one chi d, whi m the island was named, «^jj^ iitf beauty hss been handed ig,, y tion. She had many lorsrs, ^t, her father'a todgo. she was iij them alL In vain they rslx apatbetij ear stories of titir hunting and in war, and tritd t' dor thought by their ofl :rui|i (,( robes of ohoioeftt skins, glitte«L' briceleU of strange ahelU aod rskl Bat though the ooil's of th, |,^ alow, they griad.anrr, and hi\it^ made so maigr koarto ache, wit have her peaae dieturbed. Theaa appMiad to tbe tribe, bni liughtier and mere ttbhtic, v,u ayes than ""y ••• •'"y l»d ever •aa knew whenoe be eauc, bat â- ight, around tbe camp ftita, he them all witb atoiies of tdvi wild deeda. The obdurst« heanTj throbbed with a t ew emotioD aente ahe was happy aaay from Ieeaanddi«qnited. TheyptsMl honrs in her oaaoe, which fr,qi_ them to this islaad. One maiaui on the rock I of the main shoit, pacing uneasily near. Her ([Oickw, his foototepe, and raising her fyei,^ terrified to aee him walking on Uk He vanished from ber gaze ia i which drifted away before tk. bcoeza, but did not reveal her bvet^ In her desolate loneliness she ci to thia island where they had bea ply together, and, titung ou tbe idle thought, sifted the sand tbi brown fingers. As it fell it took tit bird*, animal*, and the arms aoil ch Idren, till the beach wij thickly with the curious shapes. Ooce when she went cut lu h;r progress waa mysteriously an en mvidens p'ied their paddles, uj over and looking down ahe sav tk face of her beloved. She ianpWtii oome back to her, but tba;, lie said. never do. For a long time th^y deecribed to her the atrange b aai wonderful oaverened home, and to go with him there. Her heart •d at the familiar voice, but when her to oome down with bim abc with fear. Stronger, though, thu love. Bidding ber companioai go tell her father she wonld return in t she sprang into th^ wster, aud th: eJdy bid her from their view, Tm lamentations filled the air as the;! pa Idled to the land. Tbe wbol deoed thsinesl*e. to the envra aavage nooralng, but in hve d» ohiMged to the wildest joy, lor the up ita prisoner. Her love for her hindered contit^ o- i*. toan changed, and her Mfe was divided â-  °*Pt- ^^ ^»*^ her father'a lodge and her myiteni beneath the sea. Ssme gracroui ment kept for her the freahneu ol while those who were young with he and diopped out of the ranki of tii till even the memory of their faded into oblivion. As they d she writhdrewbeiself from her earthly though she did not forget tlioie Rising fearleee aod beaotiful abji wavea, she gave warning of srerj She was not altogether enveloped and gray cloud*, and ber phani bright clear day, waa prophetic of of aome of the tribe by drowDiog. not been seen for many yearsâ€" not whitea came â€" but the Indians an the tradition by tbe stones foaod oti land that bv tbem yet bear her ss Sha'l we disenchant you snd tstl we rowed around tbe eud of tbisitl aftemuon and found a elayey bsi which isaned a spring It4 wateri, over the bank, cut little channel*, nally irregular masses were loosened tbe storms came theee are tilteu a,;' surge and carried oat into deep wati they are tossed and worn acd at \a« back upon the beach amooth and aometimes wearing bnt a rude to formt in nature sometime* elsb rated it is hard ta believe Ui waves alooe have acalptnred then We found bean-pods, the fs;-i rag-doll heads, a aeal, a duci^, tbe a bird with a very positive beak, fluks, discs seometncally accarste, baby tiita and anns,qaeer unshipel) hideous enough to be Hindoo g«l many imperfect specimeos that voi seemed very wonaeifal' but fjr vantage of comparison witii Dstam WUkMs OwenSoand. Robin- ly â- ^j^, building, over ,TKB8.kSD;tfT0BNRY8-AT ,^».^ ia Cbancerv, Convey ^^' Sli have resumed at O^'JSevery Thursday, as ' "fiH. W. FaosT, LL. B. ' â- - T. 1 ATTORNEY AT-LAW, ^TcHaonj, Owen Sound. ML i-y ;T.AI-LAW, SOLICrrOB I.N lotarr Pnblia, dtc. ' at loweet rates on personal Lands boaght and sold. iatrodoeedfree of commis tlat,l8«0. 1 t|m^|lir»t*. KABBUGE LICENSES, .Ve., inB. B.ite. in all its branches promptly carefully executed. ly to Lend on Real Estate se- 1-y W. L. SaUtli, AG£NT AND DE.4.FEB IN Stock, Williamsford Station. 890, 1_ «er Br«WB, Marriage Ijeonaes, Fire and Agent. Commissionei Conveyancer and Ljcensied fw the Couitv of Grey. Farmern, ' Land Bales, PnnetnaUy at- charees made verv moderate. 1-y AND GENERAL AGENT 1. Monev to Loan at low t. Principal parable at the years, and interest half year- principal and interest repay- lents, T of desirable Improved Farms ly J. O. Stav, AND PROVINCIAL LAND Dranghtsman and Valiutor, Markdale. Having purchased d Snrveyor Charles Rankin's original Field Note*;, Plans, .ctiouB, dtc, of all Li^ Surveys last fifty-five years, I ajn e Surveys in strict accord- Profiles aud Estimates ills, Plans and Specifications fnrnished ou applica- to Loan at 8 per cent interest. r, or left with O. J. BLYTH, be promptly attended to. 1-v the three weeks. M. Francois CoppeeTtbe well- l!??^° PJT,*' •»*â-  «"«P«»ed » faataatic balkt «dl»d "U Korrigate," for whieh M. Oharlas M. Wider ha7eaatnbutad the musie. It waa produoed at the Oraad Opera fa the moat samptnous awauer, and aekivad an unmediata A ;«BW BALUT U AB BVCBT IB PABIS, •nd the first night of " Lt KonipMa" 'mm •**»ded by erenbedy in aoeia^Tinelnding the ««.Queen of Spirin with a briiliart miZ Zr^JJP^TT'j*'*^ daligkta»t*a tr; of Mile. Manri. tka fUmbTt kaOa^wkeia *â-  *^" " •BfianiM^aad wko, i )ka«nkfatam,aB«a **«n appir aicka jatko kalf t'oigh ased was a very deep one, which wiUiin tha reach of the bud when oa ... kwrett pendi of ito cage tke aeeood nerah ran lengthways. Suspending itself by ito claws to this, the eanary hung with ito head down into the water-trongh, tvidratly da* tarmined to ccosmit suteide by droaning. n hen discovered the firt time ita head waa aljMet entirely oeve.ed by tha water in tha tr«B^ TojmvaatallehanoaofMsadvan. tare, bat vwy Httia water ma aftanrard left a the water cup. Oettiag oa tka top parek of tke eaae, it aext poked ita UtUe kcwl urougk tke wtiua, and, letting go of tka parch with ito feat, triad to kaog tttal^ aad of tha ladi. ?•«**«*• ek*«o£lfiWaH bi p lae baldly Me to tooTt. but tka Bniaid4 mama wfta apan ir, Md U waa eaastaaUt M4kil pnk% m k«iittMUh the iMJA tkamdeaf tkaoMu aadti^wg toattanila ISf£§'?S«i's^ •jg-d dJedwiuTigtemptiBgurcomS AClBCIBBATI Itr ato bT»fc« nfeitiel iMdawitktka â- torafaoadta wUek ko pnrMad. Former 8t«uner Lift on the Bed-Sea. (Blackwood's Uagaxinc.l Altbongh it was to hot, oar apiritoâ€" that is, cf the younger members of the party- were Quite unaffected by the weather. The sea waa calm as glaas, aud we all had (,ot to be very intimato and friendly. It waa a comfort, too, to be asanred by the older pas- sengers that tbe beat on board was much gieater than anything we ahoold encounter at Calcutta. We youngsters did not mind the heat a bit if India was no worse than this we shoal 1 think nothing «f it, and we coul 1 not understand why the others should make koIi a fnsa about it â-  And, the heat notwit h s t an din g, we all had exoelleat appe- tites, for satisfyiag whioh ample pronaMa waa made in a rough lort of way. Stewed tea and coffee, with bisonita, at 6:30 in the moniog breakfaat at 8:30, withfreah rolla. •ad eggs, verv eatable poached a prof oaion of diahee. and I'ght wine for those who pre- ferred it to tea and ooffea at noon there was a alight InoobeoB, with obeeee, sardinee, sad bottled stoat and then nothing farther waa supplied ti 1 dinner, at 4:30. "Thia was an tlaoorato mea^aerved in tbe good old faahioa, with a'l the diahee pot on the table together, ta send np the tamperatura of tl e aataoa a degree or two higher, while there was hardly room for tie stewards running about agaiuat eich other, with helpings ob- tained from dishes at opposite ..ends of the tabb. Er8r3rtkiBg waa oaiv.d at table, aad there waa atways a great ran oo the roast pork, the preliminary aacrifiae of which took plaoe en the previous evening, and might be witneaaed by tbooe amok in forward, near the part of the deck partitioned off for tha buteher. The butober waa ooe cf the few Europeaaa among the crew, and a moch-em- ployai m em ke r of it. The dinner waa fol- lowodbydMi r t, with plenty cf good atrang poet and aheery, and avarrtking anit«i to tha cl Bsata aad tka taiapifaliin tka Pea- i nw l t r and Oricatftl ConpoBy aridod tfcam- aehras on desag tkinga in good otd Entl'iah atylfc Than tkeia wonld be qnoft-nUyins ot«mla««iA.MaiUgnMe.ti« ezVrelaeir afprafciala te kenr and to digaaUon. uatU •«;»««»•-*•• «d oofta ufBia. atewwl ia a workmaaahip. Oae would nst expeot to tiad to m manoe among the alovealy, stcii'y. aad alto^ther unattractive " Fiik loi aa the tnbca living near the aea art i Bat they c'lerish many imai(inslii tiens, banded down from those pilo wben a superior race was uadreamn their aboriginal dignities and libeitaf enjoj e 1 witbont an overshidowin{ eon of the ways of tke "llMh«l " King Georgemcu." A Banl Oreat Man The New York S*n hai a •lacrf Chang, the Chinete giant, whom it ' as being nine feet high. He T is tbe son cf a wealthy tilk and chant in Pekio, where he was bora: educated, apeaks, reads and vr-Ut Oermao, French, Italian and Sp'" ia thoroughly courteous an 1 g^s^ The Sun, however, errs in aa\io(!' individnal ia in America frtbei He cams to thia country fr^ioi ChisijJ 1870, and in the aprln^ oi ISTI "" himaelf at Y'onng Men's U iH. ' Old readers of the Frte J'rtu «"" recall the very attrtctive » ketch of given in thete c himna at the tiM^ aamueh as the article we it the nn** the papers, it ii probable ih.it "f f ' will reoogn se the new-comer ^V**^ old acquaintanc*. He is a vt ry 4 without doubt at present the ver^^ man in Amerioa. «• J. Wktte, Oamereaa, Owen Sonnd, AT THE REVERE HOUSE, le, on the Ust Wednesday in isn he will be prepared to per- Mis required opon tbe^outh itisfaetory manner, and upon «. 1-y â-ºION iiou»E lA RKDAL E. the above hotel and thor- »da«dra«ttad it. the tray- l nad every accommodation. at ef liqaors and cigars kept Careful hostler. VAN HORN. Proprietor. ly )RD, Oct. I'RomitTOZUI. Hon for tbe trsvsUing* well etocked with the *na Liqners aud the Uot • from ftU tiaius. l-.v lAL/HOTEL Out. Sample Rooms The Bar and larder beet the market af- •« nd,attative HosUsr's. ATXniSON, Proprietor. 8 UorrlMn Barbarltlss- The Went of Afriii is a ti« Slace to live in. People there i*-.^ ie of any diaaaM in f tct, kiopj^.^ •re aboat tke only person who "« dsatha. Tne Cluef of Whydah^ Klagdosn of Dahomey, died with many otfc*' eildRM. Irith plenty of toact aad liqnid Mlt fcattar. This waa aarred at 7. At », an amy ef apirit-b«MM gneed tka mUc*. takl^ with leaoH^ aagar. an i«ad water i •Mawko pwfawa d It m^j kt knv* katwater if aakii ttt. W* all nartaoTlMntSjr « «kHa atftlft Mmt inlnikMB^ aad tjlHpif My h aa Wan Ut wa j!"^^ jy-***."' tkat in ladia tka oUawta. aai Mt tlaLiiBt. baada ts^paaaiMafdrSltkaSaMllNn; ^^m mm t^^m ^^^mm va aw^^^^n^ |^^^H^V W Mia tke ., tribca, tka death was celebrstst â-  asor* of people. The horril U nV lawed by aaother massscre at ' the new Ckaoa as a token of hqi:^ prodcoeaiqr. Ko aooaer was thii tka tinaa arrived when the Eing of mry akoald kold a aimilas^' koboar of hia deceaaed f«*^ Bw â€" oa j f ftbont ttO oaptardi pn" to bTkabaaibd. TheEurfwtf' voM ia«it«A ta alkiaai the ebss' ^IhiTftU refnoad ta go. The^e K kavaaxtaadad orar a period of i^. â- â€¢4 dariMtltat time ao trade cot" riadoniaaiakiaidaat. WILSON. KtoETli ' to Expositor Bfftouancstt, .rr rr« THaSestESkzST :a,ooo ACEXTs hatiI 9.000.0001 "Das Synip Posstss^s ft BtlBiBliiir« Ue PtivJ wbirhreaTrrls |1,p sirr| Isod iDlfi KluriMr. K i^n, e""sr« Wind andKoarlnc SMmarb. ir Ibe mrdlclu^ aielr afier railai ilx-ferj frevraird. I« nris upon ibn .lver. !««•â-  "V Ike KUinrr It Recaluie. ikp Bo»tli I( Pariflrs the RIoad Il Qsieis lb* %ri-T*o sj Il Pr*Bair« DlnrmiUn llNeerisben. Nirrn(ihp, Itearriea ofl ibe Old illj It mptat ibr |Hrrs cl ihl aealchj PrrapirailoD. It nAu'rttjzcfi \\. bi rr- ;i biMd. ul.k 1 t^vamvcM Srnilu Diianer of akin diae^-a kd(1 i There are no apihts eroplov and It can be taken by the nV t^r azeJ and faable. ca/nr any I UfiU^H to ^irectivns. psio: cp LASss Eom F3ICE or SlIALL SSTTU Read the VOLUMTAR of Persons who have b ooaof the BLOOD PURj -FOIt DYhri.I'M.\ C).MI'I..\ Kilviii. Wi Dear .Sirâ€" T]l)^ i your valuaWt- luliuu baii benefited me moi' aud Liver C'om|laiiil, ciue I c-ver before- usee Mii M.| SAVED 111" Kehiu, V,l Dear Sir â€" I ha\ doctors' hands almosti eight years, this year I that I have uot empk After using your ludl for a brief sjiacc i.f tii| led to do ail n.v lieve it na.-; i)i. m life. Ml.-. MAl;V r.-.irii.r.i, ijr Deal Sik lu 1 was ufflu'ted vvitli a which grew \v..r^. ca my room, and was liuj incarable by uiv \Ai\ .-^id 1877, I comiuiiJ(.t.Mi Blood Syruji. wi^ â-  meuced to g:tiii m -ai a short tim 1 u:i^ fair day » wuii. .M' entirclv guiie. •' ISAAC lli'l^l CLKES Li:VSl Mt. Iroreet, Wellington DeabSib: â€" 1 was-. VI Erysipelas fur twu ui a your Indian lilixij t)yii.|i me. .Man UNKl LIVKK OiMlf.i Mt. Furift. WiUiii^-., IBaB Sib â€" 1 )i»a. u^. i Blood Syrup f^.r l.:v, r « received great bcuvt.l :!.• mend its ux; to all ?ilui.:it.\| Mf,f DISE.KSK ol fil; Mt. I'oio.-^t, Wt;:;!.,:; "-Deab Sib: lbi :- valuable liiaiaa l;l "j Cramps -.n ti.e S:. n.a ' DlsK.visi. vi iia; C^c•S^ 11-1.. \\ DeaA hiR .â€" 1 v:i- I: Pains in mv Stouiu' it. :. Appetite and ».i- 1.1. ' ' relieve iu« aut;i, 1 t â- â- â- Â» :-»ui Syrup wh;oh efl. cli -i a -i •• i^ always givi- you: un i. jaatly dt-cr\. -St.\i;i:' II. â-  N,.i-t...i; Dbab Sir:â€" ^y iiai^u and I was uiuiUv l^ li i ^\^ went to a doctor, who (;ri which did no good. 1 tbii, TOUT Inaian Ulood Sviiij, m only a short time, wheu il... ed.and now xny bauus ar. i 1 can aafcly rt-commend it reufedy. Mas. HK. m'SPEPSH .^^"l) kid.vev \V.-t|ort. JaJ lEaik Sm-I Imv. 1.. .^n years with lp«i'»;a m. i In| ludury Com|la:ui. ui. 1 ii" many reni«^ii**»», i'Ul vwiii-.tiv came very lad aud ouiU ii"t I beut tu "\i\ A^eul. \V;li liottle of your Indian IU M uot he-itate to ^ay itiat .l aij am complettlv turej ami ' man. Last weik uiy -i^" with severe Uisiiachi' aU'i TOUT valuable meJicuie iiicj aar b ladia. tkiB Baagk of profnaioa. ta tka CUKES iYsi'i;i'si.4 TluN in: C7attle. M i»e a geo«««^ at Canton. 0., ' ky poeketiDg some •! lii^tb imss ipOC^j the gate, I whMh she I kia to ill, aad raooTered the al r l«tt. \Ve»t|M rt. Out,. .1 Peab Sib;â€" 1 baNc v*-ia Dyspt^pbia for about i.^ui y Indian Bl^td Syrup is tbe uul; aver helped ma. I would sav ' from this diaeaae to giveyuur i trial. \\. H.J " Sole Goueral JgenUJor cJ op and Lyman. No,/4i, Toroj Toronto. 'aI»o jfgeuts for Mj Healing Syrup, ah Enplish Dis well kuowu as a valuable Qlepd Purifier thruugliuut tbe Fireown, as well as other talk of their old tlames. The town of Hull, Enj;laud, 1 atraets lifffated by the :»iemi4 eleetric ilinmiLation. Aa exchange safT: " St oaaattyaranumisgdiy." Th| WTkaa a atream is dry it oaa't i