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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), 4 Feb 1881, p. 3

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CHAPTER I. coNTDii-U). The evening grew late, and Mary Brown aat OD, in Kej^ina'a lodgini^B, ahivering and trembling. She waa a oervnoa, timid girl, and feared to be alooe at night, her imagina- tion alwaya mnnioK od Bome absurd gboat or Tiaion atory. Mary thought that the narrona dread that ahe experienced wLen left ao much alone at the RiU bad been the firat cauae of her failing health. Where could Kegina be Mary had expected her home at eight o'clock, and now it waa near- ly ten. The people of the houae, who had been in bed b.ng ago, alept in a remote part of it, and their preaence there gave no cour- age or conaolation to the timid gijl. Mixed up with her own imaginary terrors came fears for Regioa's safety. What if a stray ahot from aome poacher ahonld hare struck her aa ahe came by the copde 8uppoie anything bad happened to prevent Nomy walking home with her (and the reader baa aeen that it bad,) she might be lying in the road wounded. The girl half resolved to go out and look for her she dartd not stay much longer alone where ahe waa yes, she wonl'l she would go out and meet K»gi- na Throwing on her bonnet and shawl.Mary tore along the passage as 'if a spectre, were at her heela, and out of the house-door, tak- ing the precaution to lock it af ler her. Once out, her superstitious fear was over, and robbers, poa.hers â€" anv tangible cause of dread â€" ^brought no fear to the mmd of Mary. Keared in the couotrv, amid t)ie solitudes of ita woods and dales, she thought nut there of fear, and cuuUl have walked about in the open air, from night till morning, it was only in the til' nee of a midiii;;ut cham- ber that her ghost tcrrora occurnd to her. 3be continued faer way beyond the vil- lage, bat could s«e no trace of Rrgtua. She did not meet a soul. The oifly moon, draw- ing toward its setting, waa ofien obscured by cluU'.s, but the nixht was light. At length she came to her brother's bouse and sprang forward to open the gate.N hoping Bra.i8y waa at home. ' What a curious thing the gate waa fas- tened I Never had Mary known that gate to be locked before. The key of it had bung ap, untunched, on a nail in the kitchen, as long as she could remember, Urassy must be out But, as Mary kancJ forward on the little gate, for she was tired with her walk, she de- tected a light elimmering through a chinck ID the shutter of the kbtping-ruom. And, at the same moment she heard, or thought she heard, a movcmtnt in the garden, on the right side of the house. She shook the gate and called out. Waa it her fancy Mary thonght she saw a low, dark form creep from the middle of the garden toward the back door but thn house cast its shade just there. " They are getting ready for a poaching expedition," ahe mentally concluded. " IV-rhaps Smith, or Timais, or some of them chaps are up here." She ehook the gate again. •• Who the devil's that 7" cried Mr. Braa- sy Brown^pokinj his head, enveloped in a cotton nightcap, out at an upper window, that of his bedroom. ' It's iiut you, is it, Simms " " Braaay.it's me," responded Mary. " The gate's lucked." " Tou 1 ' echoed Brassy, in a tone of the moat unqnalilied astonishment. " What thsprariaaa Aai «r or ooa cf his stdwact ly hav* bnaght bar ««cd wk^ BOOM frooi work. OoaU hooM with tka paiwM, aad W wiUiMn.B«dd! Ttet wm aotlikly, awl if sha had aba wwild not ataj ao W» aa Or oo«U abahara aat dow* m W boBeward walk to roat, (moot Mary hatf a great idaa of peopia bean fatigtiad,) aad ao dropped aaleep It will aoaroaly h* ba- liered that the poor girl sat on tlwt door- step till momipg. She did it waa a faet well known afterward to kba â-¼illafa. Saca^ times dodn^ wandering in spint, always shivering, the loatg nigbt paasedaway. With the morning light aad the awaking village, Mary's coarsge rstaraad to bar. She tbenght Bagina had staid aoaMwhere to sleep and woold soon bo in aad explain. The first thing she did npon catsting waa to make a fire and pat oa Uia tea-kettle. By seven o'clock breakfast was ready, and after drinking one cup of tea, for she wanted it badly, she sat down and waited for Bigiaa. R^ina never came. Before kmg the whole village was araosed with the news of her disappearance, and nearly the whole village dM something toward searching for her. Uonses, forests, glens, liaas â€" for three days every spot was looked into, every exertion made to hnd her but in vain. No person had seen her, as far as could be learn- ed, after she left the under-keeper's cottsge that night. Nomy deposed that she wstca- ed faer as far as the turning ia the road, (about forty yards only), walking at brisk pace and Mr. Braasy Brown asserted that ahe never reached bis house, or, at any rate, she never entered it. He was sitting in his keepjng-room, smoking, a good part of the evening, expecting Timms to drop ia, and he neither saw nor heard her pass, 'f'^r bad told him in the afternoon that she should call fur bis sister's shawl, and he looked for her, and laid it out ready, but abe did not come. Wnan asked if her non-appearance struck him as singular " Not a bit of it," ha answered, " what was it to him If he thought of it at all, it was that she had gone home the longeat waa, to take a walk with the parson." Among the universal perplexity, none waa so much affected by this mysterions disappearance as Mr. Lewis for none hsd regarded Kegina's with feelings akin to his. He left not a stone untamed to find her. He turned about in his mind every proba- bility and ioprobability that oould bear up- on the caae,; at rest, or in action, in his daily duties and his midnight chamber, be was ever dwelling on it. m mmtam mf, nr agK to â- fialia* by strag wpsa Ua I real spot «i BagMi'a raataag- ha iwialMl te hiik Ha had Hony, «r to tha yaaag aknyaaa vba bad oa«a la do Uadm^lar h,aa4whowaB to bias Uka a hrothar. Jfk* raadar »af ba iiH mil to doabt than aehdwaaMr aver bad plaea, bat that tbay bad, and that the body wsa (oaad ia Boassqneaco, is an aathaati- eatadfaet. The third night oaae and pssss il, aad, with the first faint gliasaaatiag of aoraiag light. Mr. Lewis samssBoad his booaefcasp- er, who drssssd hunalf aad bastsaod to hia scarcely knew why, rose, hke a pluud in his mind â€" a suspicion of Brassy Brown. But what suspicion The clergyman could not dtfine it to himself. Mr. Lewis had heard of such things aa young girla being atolen away and married against their will, and it waa known that Brassy Brown bad long wanted to marry Regina. But Braaay could not have entered upon a feat of that sort, because Mary fo'and him in his own house soon after what must have been the hour of her dissppearance, quietly sleeping in his own bed. The joking words of R^ina oc- curred to him "He will kill me, some of these days, with his shakings. If be does. Sir, I shall look to you to give me Christian burial," and he remembered hia rssh pro- mise and shuddered. The fourth day after Retina's disappear- ance Mr. Lewis went again up to Brassy's. The latter waa in his garden planting cab- bages. He came forward when be saw his visitor, invited him into the house, and set a chair. "Mr. Brown," began the clergyman. "I bave come up once more to talk with you about this mysterious affar. Will yon swear to me, before Heaven, that you have no iiiea what has become of Miss Winter " "Won't do au thing of the sort," said Brassy, coolly. " i have had an idea from the first." "How? what idea?' cried the clergy- man eagerly. " I suspect that you took her off for a moonbght walk that night yourself, Parson; and that, maybe, jou have kept her in hid- ing, against taking her for some more." ' This levity ill-becomes you, Mr. Brassy Brown," "Levity!" uttered Braasy. "I don't mean it as levity. Who else ia likely to have got hold of her, but you â€" von had the best right to her." "Did yon get hold of her?" asked the clergyman, looking at him keenly. "if I did get bold of her, I shouldn't have been able to keep her," retorted the imperturable Brassy. "Not likely. Here was Numy= here the next day, sobbing her eyes out, and looking all over my rooms and into my cupboards. When the had done, I a^ked her if ahe thought 1 had locked her up in one of 'em. My opinion is, Parson, that you and Nomy and Mary are all soing cracMd together over this matter, What do I know of Regina Winter â€" or want with her Not so much as on. " " Where eon she be " bewailed the cler- gyman, in his perplexity. "On what mys- tprious spot of this fair earth can ahe be hid- den Is she dead or alive T" "Nomyl" ba axclaimad, "I faavo a strange troabla npoa aiy niiad. I eanaot reat." "Dear master," she said, "what is it? I am sure trouble's bad for yoa." "These last three nighu I have beeo dreaming of Bagiaa. I thonght ahe came and pointed ont to me where she was lying, snd though I saw it, and stood noon it, though all around the spot was familiar in my dreams, I cannot reoall it when I awake. This last night it seemed the plainest, and the place where I stood I now know was a garden, for I saw the vegetablea not a plowed or pasture field, ss I had thonght yesterday. And I don't ksow why, bat Mary Brown seemed in some way to be mii ed up with this last dream." "Yon had better call to mind all the places where yon have ever seen Mary Brown, master, or where she ever wss, to your knowledge, with Miss Begins," whis- pered the woman, after serious thought, " It misht sfford some clue, maybe," The Vicar lay back on bis bed, remaining sileBt, his hand sbadmg his eyes, as if he would shnt out outward things. The woman stood watching him. " Where is there a privet-hedge, Nomy " he said, after a while, without removing his hand â€" "a privet-hedge, and potatoes planted nader it, with a path ranniag acroas to it?" " A privet-hedge and potatoes growing by it," uttered Nomy " there's many such in thu neighborhood, master." "The kidney- beaiu lie in this way," he added, making a movement with the unoc- cupied hand, "and the peas â€" they aie just coming upâ€" are lower down. The chbbaKei va^e suspicion, he are close under foot â€" Oh, Nomy t " he cried with a positive shriek, " I reooUeot â€" I She's not in my pocket," returned Bras- bnngs you here, knocking people npat this I gy, "and I'm sure you are welcome to search time of night?" „ everything else that's mine. Beoause I I am looking for Regina," answered â-  Mary. " She went after school to sec No. my, and she has never come back. 1 got frightened stopping there all alone, and frightened for her, ao I came out to meet her." " Why.what a confounded little stupid yon mast be," ejacuatcd Biassy, "to come uut npon .Huch a wild goose cbase as this While yon have been blunditing up here, she's no doubt gone home by the other road." "She never takes tb.%t road," rejoiced Mary, " it is such a round and very lunely. I waa afraid that some stray shot might have struck her, coming by Poachers' (Jopse. You remember the horse that was shot down, go- ing by there ' " 'There are no poachers oat to-night, you simpletonâ€" it's too light. Miss Regina has walked home with her black-coat gone round the longest way to enjoy bis com- pany. I'm up to her. 1 see, by the moon. It's hardly half after ten just the hour for sweethearting. What a frightened child you are, Polly I" " Do you really believe she has gone that way with him " returned ^ary, wonderful- ly relieved. " I am not going to stop prating witli yon any longer, that's what I believe," retorted Brassy. "Just take yonrselt off. And never you come waking me out of my first sleep again, or you'll catch what you won't like." " Brassy, there's a candle burning in the 'keeping- room." " Who says so?" " 1 can see through the chink. Did you forget to put it oit " " There waa a log on the fire half burned when I came to bed. I suppose it's flicker- ing up again. So much the better hope it will stop in till I get up in tho morning. Come, be off." " You could not come dow.i 'nd give me my cotton shawl?' asked the girl. "The walk tires me so much, I don't know when I can get here again. It was the excitement that helped me on so cjuickly to-night." "Cotton shawl be burntd, and you with it I" roand Mr. Brassy, wrathfully. " Do yon think I am coming out of my tied for a cotton shawl " " Regina said she woald call for it," an- swered the girl, in a deprecating tone. " Did " No, she didn't, replied Brassy. "I've not seen the colour o! ner since I met her this afternoon. She couldn't call here, not abe, if sha went roond with the parson the other wsy." "Goodnight, Brassy." Mr. Brassy Brown vouchsafed no reply, bat banged-to his casement. Mary had got iae pacea from the gate when she tamed oack, shook ii, and called out. Once more the window waa thrown open, with an im- patient anathema, and the white cotton night-cap extending itself out as before. "Braasy," she said, lowering her voice, " I forgot to tell yon that I saw something ia tba garden. It seemed to be making its way to the back door." "Saw what r "Idca't know. It looked like a great black dog, or else a man on all-fours." " Don t yon think it wss a cat " rejoined tba irallswtn, sarcaatioally, 'No," said tho girl shaking ' it was too big for a her head, cat â€" if is was sny- Tm not snra ahoat it, Braasy. It aigfit only have baaa the shadows, or my twiny." " It woold ba a good riadaac* if yoaaad wgor fanniri ware faoried with the shsd- aMwand tba iraacibta Braasy. "Toa I to bo ahat ap ia aa asylnm for Inna- lasl G«i along bona with yei" Mary taraad ftuUy away, aad walked SBM M fast aa bar troablad breathing I M bar, (ally expaotiag to find Begi- mi Mm Bwaad Mr. Lewk waitiac at I daar. What axoasa ooald she aiaka for Mlwr 8haB«««rwmkltaUof bar aa- may bave got the character for havinit taken a hare, or so, you must go, slap off band, and 'U^'pect I'd take a woman. 'The two are not the tame articles. Parson." Nothing more satisfactorily ooald be got oat of Brassy Brown, and the affair remain- ed as unfatoiuable as at its first onset. A new mistress was procured for the school. Mary Brown, whose health was growing rapidly worse, retumed home to the Rill to dU; Brassy continued to pursue his free- and-easy tort of life, and the village, in time, ceased to think and speak of Regina. But there were two hearts in which she was never forgotten â€" those of poor, faithful Nomy and of the Reverend John Lewis. II. The Reverend John Lewis lay on his bed in Littleford Vicarage, tossing and turning from side to side. The cheek's hectic, ot which observant trieods had predicted mis- ehiet in the earlier part of hia clerical career, had at length shown ont in its true nature, and John Lewis was dying of decline. Seven years had elapsed since the now nearly for- ).otten dsappearaace of Regina Winter, and he had been an ailing, fading man ever since. The years had brought several changes to the village. Mrs. Budd was dead, and Nomy, whose husband had been killed in an affray with poachers, was now the house- keeper and general servant at the Vicarage, It had been a desperate conflict, this affray two gamekeepers were shot dead, and others badly wouuded. Several lawless characters were committed for trial, on suspicion of being concerned in it, one of whom was Mr. Bratsy Brown. But when the trial came on at the AMizes, the suspicions could not be converted into proofs, and the men were dis- charged. Brassy Brown felt, or afftcted great indignation. They had treated him like a low, common poacher, he raved, in- stead of a gentleman, as he was by descent, and he delared be would not stop among them. He was as good as his word sdver- tised hia small estate for sale, pocketed the money, and took ship at Liverpool. Some people thonght he went to America, some to Australia, (not then fl ckeU after as it is now), and soma to the ooast of Africa; but Brassy himself never said where, and after his departure he was nevei more heard of. The Revered John Lewis Uy on his bed, tossing aad taming. His restlessness that night wss not wholly the result of his fever- ish sick state. He had just awakened from a disagreeable dream. He thought that Re- gina Winter came to him dressed in white, with a pale, sorrowfal face, and gently re- proached him with neglecting his oath, and saffering her to lie in anconaecrated ground. He thonght be asked the qoeation, Where are you lying and she gbded on before, telling him to come and see. He seemed, after they had gone soma way, to lose sight of her, and to have halted, himself, on a spot of ground familiar to him. Bat just then he awoke, and, try aa ha would, wss unable to recall the featorea of the place, which he had seemed, in his sleep, to know so well. With thia dream, all the old troable came faaek again, the paiafal f aeliaga, the yaaraing after Ragina, which ha had ia a degree, oat- grown. He had long bean vary ill for many moBtha had daily looliad for death his hoars wet* naasad in great paia aad wcariaeas yet oaath eaoM not sad the soBswhat TNifloary idea now riabad over his miad, was it that ho emU mtt dia th a t he was not pennittad todie natil ba had fal- blled his oath to "^tf"*. foaad, aad bariad her? No woadar, with tbaaa thaaghts baaat- iag hist, that tba Viaor ' aight, Ha rattled to laat t ba _^ waaM visit hia Mria. Ms* batoMbaaiiMaMatt baaa bat tba mqmmm to out, see it all! The servant drew nearer to the bed, and grasped hold of the counterpane. A name- less terror was stealing over her. "It is Brassy Brown's garden," gasped the invalid " I see every part of it, as I used to see it when I read to Mary in her illness. The green apot â€" but the green was only in my dream â€" is on the right of the narrow path leading ta the back door along the side of the house. Cabbages were grow- ing on it the Spring I used to go to Mary. I saw Braasy trajsplsntiog them there the very day 1 went to ask news of Regina. I believe solemnly,' uttered the clergyman, with emphasis, "as truly as that we mast all one day come to the same earth, that Re- gina lies there. Call Mr. Hampton." The young curate wss summoned out of his sleep, and came. M.. Lewis related his extraordinary dreams to him, and his sacred conviction that, in this particular spot, the remains woud be found. Before mid-day not leaa than 20 inhabitants of Littlefntd had listened to these dreams from the Vic- ar's own lips. He could not go himself, he was too weak to get there and to risk the agitation it would entail, but he took a piece of paper, and drew a plan of Braasy Brown's garden, minutely markiog the precise spot where he believed the body would be found. A com- pany â€" such a campany â€" armed with spades, picksxes, and shovels, and headed by Squiie Rickburst and the Revered Mr. Hampton, flocked to the RiU in the afternoon the uew owner of the place willingly granting them leave to itum up his garden. It was in Spring, just about the tine of year she had dissipeared, and the spot waa now planted with broccoli. They rooted them up, and dug and dug and, a few feet below the surface, they cime npon the moul- dering remains of Regina Winter. Dressed aa she bad been drevscJ that evening a blaok-dreaa, a black-and-white plaid shawl, a white laoe collar, and a atraW tionnet tiim- med with black. The bonnet and ahawl were torn and tumbled, a» if in a struggle, and lay npon her. A Coroner 'a inquest was held, and the cause of death proved at it. She had been shot in the left breast, in, or close to, the heart. The verdict was " willful murder against George Brown," though some of the jury were for bringing it in "manslaughter," lelieving it might have been the result of an accident. Brassy always kept loaded guns about his house. Then came a contention between the Vic- ar and Nomy, between the Vicar and hia curate, between the Vicar and the Squire â€" he insisting upon officiating at her burial, and they aaying he was not bt to do it. But on the afternoon appointed for the service the Vicar struj^led up out of his bed snd dressed himself. " I took a rash oath, dur- ing her life, that I would give her Christian burial," he answered to their remonstrances, "and I must fulfil it." There was scarcely moving room in the church-yard all Littleford and its neighb.r- hood for some miles ronnd flocked thither to witoess that lingular interment. The re- mains of the ono9 happy girl, about whose ill fate there could be no doubt, whatever may have been its mysterious details, brought, after the lapse of seven years, to their home in conrecrsted ground and the weakened frame, the wan, attenuated face of him who stood there, in his white surplice, reading the service over her Many who witnessed that funeral are dead, but of those who remain, not one has forgotten the scene, or ever will forget it. With the last words of the burial service, the Reverend John Lewis's strength, so srti- ficially buoyed up with excitement, deserted him, and it was feared he could not walk back to the vicarage, short as the distance wss. Leaning on Squire Rickhnrst, on one side, and on Mr. Hampton, en the other, he at length gained it. IJefore be had wdl re- poaed an instant on the sofa, prepaiatory to being taken back to his bed, Ted Timms, the man who had been the intimate asso- ciate of Brassy Brown, pat bis hesd into the room, and ssked to speak with the Vicar alone. "Be quick in what yon have to ssy, Timms," panted the Vicar, " for I am vAry ill." " I thought it my duty to come in and make a clean breast of ic. Sir," began the man. " I have been away from Littleford till to-day, since the body were found, or I should have been here afore. I think I hold the due to this murder." " Speak np," breathed the Vicar. " My bearing is growinn dull." " The night afore Brassy Brown went away for good, the very nigbt afote it, we waa a-drin^ing together at ray place, and Brassy got a drop too much, which is whst he didn't often do. We got talking about a many things; a-bragging what feats, for good or bod, we had done in our career boasting, as it were, one again the t'other. Brassy at last hicocped out that be hsd, one night, had a desperate quarrel with a girl in his house, at the Rill and at last got so mad that he shot her, though be never meant to kill her. I didn't pay much attention to him then, setting it down to the boastings of a man in his cups but. Sir, I now think it were nothing but the truth, and that he spoke ef Miss Oina. The shot must have killed her, and he might have buried in the garden that same night If you re- member. Sir, Mary Brown told folks she was frightened by fancying she saw something bisck a-creeping from that spot into the bouse, while she wsa a-shakiog at the gate. It mast have beaa Braasy a-digging the gravatbea." " Maka raady with tho aaeraaseat," mor- marad J^ Lswis to Mr. Haaptoa, aa ka feebly rsaistad tbair wiabss to earry hiss ap stairaaftsrtbodapartarsolTiaHM; "I iaal tima bar* ianrowiag abort." IhqrwMteMtohaUi rnBMkiibwi ahUhy.ia bar way, as ha aMkea mm^ i». hia way, aad that thsy whmM ootoUas tba faad far the sapport of tba biaai k p U This is sowswhat differsat fnna aa ordinary partaarship, for in that saoh partoer does what ho is best fitted to one trsaaaetiog^ for axaapie, what iseallad tba oatKioor, tba other toe in-door, bosioeas; one dsatiag with enstoBsrs, and tho other k ee ping the Marriage, which, stripped of ssntiment, is, for the most part, little else than a boa- aaas- partnership, answers doaaly to it ia many of iu relations. The hasbaad attsads to external matters the wife to the inter- aaL He grapplea with tba pablio she keeps the sojounts be brings in moosy she saves it so that each contribatea his and her part to the sustainment of the firm as partners do in every well-regulated es- tabUabment It is vsry rare that both partners try directly to bring in money, snd tor a man and his wife to attempt it is usually a mistake, financially as well as con Dubially. Experience has proved this again and again, and ic is easy to understand why ing money in a differant manner or by a dis- tinct calling, sboidd in time gr^w apart rather than together. In the first place, rivalry is very spt to srise between a money-making couple and where rivalry exiits, love and sympathy are prone to languish. Secondly, the pr^tce tends to create in each an individaalism so strong ss to interfere with, if not to hinder, perfect union. Thirdly, it is like to mssca- lioise the woman to a degree that is unoon' gmous with the harmooy of a complete union. All this ia probable when a man and his wife sre forcible, enereetic, oonscien- tious; when esch tries hard to perform his or her full duty, and to get whatever finan- cial recompense is possible for his or her labor. Bot the average man is inclined, after his wife has proved her capacity to get money, to relax hia efforts in that direction. Most of us are as Isxy as we can be with any sort of convenience to ourselves. When we find that anybody will take care of us, that we aro not compelled to eam our own bread, it is surprising and humiliating to think, how many of ns will consent, under various pretexts and for specious causes, to be indirectly, if not directly, de- pendent. The thing is continually exemplified in men who wed rich women. They may be very independent in dispoeition they may declare that they will never toach a dollar of their wivea' property they may proclaim that they will leir the entire expenses ot their home. But, unless they be themselves weslthy, or bave an exceptioaally large in- come, they will fail of their high purpose. They may for a while execute their intent, but it cannot be for long. They will event- ually compromise with their proper pride aad share their wives' fortune, growing in- different by degrees to the proportion that they receive. If a woman earns but little â€" a few hun- dred dollars, aay â€" barely enongh to meet certain extraordinary expenses, or to use in charity, it is very much as if she should eam nothing. But when her earnings equal, or nearly equal, her hnsband's, particularly when they exceed those, a very unfavour- able influence is pretty certain to be felt and a markea interior change to occar. Except he be very different from bis kind, he will steadily, perhaps ineensib'y, lessen bit ex- ertion until his calling, whatever it be, be- comes more nominal than real. As his earn- ings decrease his power of self-deception will increase. He will be likely to discover that it is more pn.fltable to look after the wife's basiaess than to attend to his own. He will dcKeuerate in due time into her agent, and fl ttter himself that, but for his counsel, wis- dom, and managing talent, she would be able to do nothing. He is constrained for her interest, indeed for their mutual interest, to withdraw measurably from bis affairs to insure the prosperity of hers. He may not deceive hinuelt by this transparent fallacy, but he strives to deceive others by it, and to such end expresses it constantly. When a man ia willing to play second fioancia, violin to his wife a firat, there is no chance of his ever leading an orahestra of any kind. There are m^n entirely virile, of ample pride and sensibility, who marry women for no better reason than love, when thesi already have a vocation they are averse to relinquishing. They may be actresses, musicians, writers, physicians, painters, teachers, and so deeply interested in their employment that it would seem unjust, if not cruel, to demand that they ahonld give it up. So long as the husbjnd can earn more than hia wife, so long even aa they eam nearly the same amount, they may jog on amoothly. But when bis earnings, from aay cause, fall below hers, there must be a shock to his self-estaem that he cannot wholly resist. It msy not bs from any fault or romissness of his, it may be the result of uncontrollable circumstance. Nevertheteey, it marks the date of his discontent, which is well-nikh certain to increase in geometrical ratio. He la apt to grow peevish and bitterâ€" the man who dislikes himself seldom likes anybody else â€" finsUy, so morbid and misanthropic that he wiU, unless remarkably strong, so- k relit f in diisipation. If he drink, drink will soon so abase him that he will loose all sense of shame from his peculiar position. Ha will not care whether he earns anything he will surrender mor^illy and abjectly he will allow himself to be supported by a wo- man's wages; he will be, in the worst sense, a petticoat peuaioner, and lose the power of blushing. Not a few huabandaof this sorry sort have grown to be sots others bave kept sober, but have sunk out of notice others,, sgain â€" and these aro the luckiest, perhaps â€" have terminated their own lives. If the inner history of the divorce courte could be ascer- tained, the cause of many separations would be found to be the si^perior earnings of wives. It is doubtfol, even if a right-minded man could be tranquil under the trantfer of finan- cial protency and authority to a woman, whether ahe can ever completely respect in her inmost heart the man who has permitted her to Usurp his proper fnncuoa. Generally speaking, it is as much the business of s man to eam the money needed for a household as it is for a wonun to fnrniih ito children, and when he neglecte or shirks that busi- ness he does so at the peril of bis peace and of his wife's esteem for him. Many women like, apart from any need they may have, to make a little money. It gratifies their pride, their sense of power but it is ques- tionable if they can make much money, and make it regularly, without losing the best, bcoanse it is the minliest, that is in their husbands' spirit snd character. aawttk •ftba Vasia bat tkiasaa w«a nfaMtoiiw _^ tothafiiliil i iiaH«r n l ii OTt M tkt baalatocwiiagoaa. Balfsraaii- af tbaiabhan Ihay woold bars lateaaJad ia flaatariag ao«a |lX.00O,O0e of saapaaa a»d aalk. I* woald bava baaa tba laqiaat haal arsr aado ia this eoaatry bat f or tbsir atapidity. Tho kifa vaalt ia Trasaarar Byatar^ oOoa, ia tba aaa- toa-baaao baihHag,oo«tdaa twoapaitaaeta. Ia oaa of thaas itS saatsasaiy to atara tba I eeapoaa that arc prisia t i j far to- la tba ««bar, saaaH ooia ia kapl Tbia fact beoaaa kaew^ aad a (sag waa oigaaiaad to auks a raid oa tba plaosi ProaiBsat ee tba lial waa Jbaay Mgaa, now in tba Bastom paiiitoayary, who had 170,000 oa haad, froah from a bank bar- giary. Tbars wora a ooapla of well-known New Torkara, and two fellows who bad m- litaatiatyâ€" Anotbar caped from the Kings eoaaty paai t sa ti s T y â€" beUevsd to bo Porter and Imag. wss a new man, for wkoos tho been scoured, bat withoat avaiL secund a fine reaidanoe ia West PhilsJel phia, whero the whole party midcd. Ha waa to be reimbarsed for bis axpanditarsa out of the prooeods of ths robbery. As war- rants sod rtqoisitioBS were out for the men on all aices, they feared to come into (he city, and selected Fairmoant park as their place of rendexvons. Their favourite, resort wss the quiet retreat of Strawberry mau' sion. Here they met daily, after tok ing an airing and mapped oat thair pi, mUSSmkkm i» jwrtMWtBMbMM. avajl.aa«tt «Ma* Iaal #vw n^ m Iha thaotr that Ai bad in« b«aafi iifle tks iliM â- hiiliin-r'1ri*-^ Wbyahaabwdd laka CTWa aw • w ato u. IM Ito4 • •nfiMfiMVto Ito'A. H^MMaiA b^ «« To I ST. „ sajoyabla. Tl»«Hb* *-^. *^ w«at iaw soataliT. prafaniafr â- â€¢ iha aaU, to shiM szehuiroly ia. tba dawi ^o euolr. Sha was ohildlaaa. Poopla aavi«l bar, bat ihadida'bMaatoaan. HwwhofeUlawM objoot, aad that waa bar liw^ilililnfl Aflarbardia- oapMraaooho attiiad amim, iaatalUu â- â-  â- w^Maof bto heart aad taaa a fair ywug brida. Bat it bsfaa to ba wUiparod aboat brida. Bath bggaa to ba w b i s ys r a a aboat that tba old niaatotioa hoaaa waa baaatad. Oaa old daikay bad aaaa tho ghost ol tba plaater's fiiat wifa walkiag ap Ba4 dowa tba It' It was found aeeassaiy to have one of their nnmber inside the cnstom-hoare, so this happy plaa was hit upon One day a reverend looking gentleman, with elerioal- cut garmeato and a white choker, waited upon CoUoctor Tntton and informed him that be was Rev. Mr. Paddock. Theoflloial knew of this clergyman. The sham minis- ter wss accompanied by an innocent appear- ing yonng man, who he stotod, was one of his parishioners. Dr. Paddock would be much obliged to the collector if he could only give the young man something to do-^ some light work, such as watchman â€" as he wss in need, and his health would not admit of exposure. Collector Tntton was exceed- ingly pleased to see Dr. Paddock. Mr. Tntton's rector at Downington and Dr. Pad- dock Wire, in fact, well acquainted, and|Mr. Tutton tolked freely of Downington's spirit- nsl needs. To the reverend gentleman he explained that no reliance could be plaoed on the recommendations of politicians, wh le a minister's endorsement was nearly always a safe guide, The sham clergyman got quite shaky when Mr. Tntton toauhed on Down- ington mattors, bot soon switohed off the conversation and avoided ombarassment. ItU now diaclosed that"Shoey" Miller, whe was mixed up in the bogus naturaliza- tion business, and was sentenced to two years' imprisionment in the Eastern peni- tentiary, pervonated Rev. Dr. Paddock, and was a party to the job. The yoang man recommended by him was appointed and made a watehman. By a strange coincidence the yonng fellow was assigned to that end of the building where the sub-treasury is located. For weeks he was attentive to bis duty, but all this time he was gathering poinu and familiarizing l.imaelf with every part of the balding, and with all the per- sona employed in it. TneM facte were made known to the gang, of which be was a member, and some of the confederates visit- ed the place to learn the by-ways. The robbers exhibited no undue bssto in moving upon their prey, bat waited until the time when the quarterly interest on the United States bonds fell due. They knew tnat large sums of money were stored in the vsults. On Sunday morning it was discov- ered that a hold had been made iu the side of the custom-house wall, large enough to admit of the passage of a man's body through it. A closer examination revealed the fact that this led directly into the vault. The place had been cleaned out, but the robbers had been fooled. In this tpirtment were stored the pennies snd small coius. Next to it, and with only the thickness of a few bricks, was the huge pile of interest money. It has been presumed that the thieves be- lieved they had struck bags of gold, and that in the darkness they merely felt of them to learn whether they were coin or not, and immediately passed them oat to their con- federates to carry to s place of safety. In- stead of Koinx' farther, the job was, for some reason, abandoned at thia time, and after an outlay of thousands of dolUrs the burglars captured but a couple of hundred doQars' worth of pennies. It is thought thst day- light came too faat for them, and they were compelled to vacate the premises, which was a good thing for the government. aaethar had saaa Um mmm objaot ig motionless in the osatra of tba diaiM-room, looking white aad i^uOj; atraiMa aoiasa had also baaa board groana aadaiAs awakaaad oaa aarrant or another at Diidaight, aad tba opirit of tba daad aad ty has ffoM lady seamad to ua nU qiaoe. Perhaps to^s It waa thia wbioh oaoaad tba plaatar to dia- ^^^ poaa of tba proper^ at a saonfior. At any rate he sold oar, and, with his bride, wont away. Some said ha forthwith returned to France others that be left for Csnada but, as he took no one into his eonfidencs on this p3int, none knew positively, and the talk abont his proapeotive deatination was notb- ingmore than idle conjectiire. The new proprietor didn't boliove in ghoete or in any aort of diaembodied spirits. Ha iBovad into tba hoaaa and aat about »«»kwig a good maay improvsoMnta, not only upon it, bat also upon tba plantotioo. lie cut trenches, built fences, fellad foresto of osk and pine, erected addittonal buildings in short, changed or rather checked the ad- vance of decay and dilapidation. Last week, in cleaning ont a well, the water of which had Bol bean naod for aome years, a strange object was brongbt to light. It was a hu- man skeleton, evidently that of a woman. How it bad come there none oould tell. But the ghastly " fiod" revived the speculatioas oonoeming the mysterious fate of the miss- ing wife of the former owner of the plaoto- tion, and it was readily divined that this grisly, loathsome skeleton wss all that re- mained to tall the story of her doom. But how did she oome there t Did she, in a fit of madness thus seek death or had she been murdered, and her body flaog into that dark »byss with the hope of hiding the crime These are questions which sgitote people in the vicinity, and to which no satis- lactory answer can be found. All or nearly all the acton iu the strange scene have dis- appeared. D'Ossel is no one knows where. Uu sooond vrife did not fignre in it to any (treat fxtent, and besides she went away with him. The ssrvaou are scattered and some of them dead. Those who sre now living in the nei^hbonrhood believe that d'Ossel murdered his wife, having grown weary of her. In support of this theory they recount numberless conversations which they overheard in which he threaten- ed her life, he at the aame time being dmnk and deaperate. They say, further, that his wife was slightly insane, not so much so however ss to attract attention or be trou- blesome, bat enough to make her an incubus npon such a man aa d'Ossel. They assert, now since her bones bave been properly in- terred, her spirit will no more wander about the old bouse where he spent so many happy hours, and where (if their story is just) soe wss so foully murdered. The case is a strange one snd is something seldom devel- opedâ€"something which, when trying to decide whether it be murder or suicide, must raise a train of ngly donbte and vain tarmiscs in the strongest mind. «hawaa4ar k ia a t^SMav aMMt all h«iwB«d«bi«thf dMd bMl waald b aTa ta ba jaada ao ^J** • wha4oaot|My alall. This to bo faaaraBjr aadriatood, aii that mm kaa Ml rabaBad 'AivMtaildaalarosabayolosar withoaah Lm â- Ilk HiiTI The siaasr ba by* tba my tima bar* IS sowing abort. Ban aaa^b. tLu avht ba died. It ia- daad woald ass* aa if ka bad oa^ baaa psr- nittMl to liaisi oa aaitb far tba aarDoaa of mittadto baryiac Wiatar.â€" n« ' Savmral woald-ba Jarpia wara «wy anob disappoiatadataeti llf goa tha jary a* W.a Jay. jad irft ^^sa a rt reaapu fbs^ to gat oa tba jKn. Oaa ii tha aaaioaato aaid to tksaa who -Kbaaaaa far tahaaji Tho Oub Boar'a Delisbt (From the Little Rock Oasitte.) "My name is Acton," said a man who visited the f7as«((« bffi^e yesterday. "Ac- ton. Is there anything fanny in that name T" "No," answered tho weary brow-beater of all oppoaing factions. " Dj yoo see saytbing fanny ia ny ap- pearance?" " No, sir. Do you wsnt to subscribe " " I am going to give you a joke, and then yon will be willing to send me the paper free. Ii strict accordance with the philoso- phy of life, aU animals an more dependent npon the mother, and, of course, have more affection for ber than for the father Ain't Uutaf«!tT" " Yes daily one yasrâ€" " "Did I say all animals? I nistske. Tharo is oaa nimal that is sqaaUy depaa- daatapoe tba father. Dayoa want tokaow what aaiMl that is r «uow "Sea tba advartising man, will yon ♦" ••That aaiaaal ia the cub bear. Shall I taD yoa why " ^^ "Ho. sir." "BatlwilL la tba SHMT Oa cab MB^aad ia tba wiatar ha 'ilaMt ooaaty. Goodday." " Otoorca EUot a Llfs. THX IKSAKITY OT HKR HCSBAKD, MR. CBOM â€"A LKTTER rROM HnSSBT SPIKCUt. The notices of the London press upon the death of George Eiiot add little to what baa been aaid here. The Sxammer tells of the insanity of ber husband, of which no pre- vious public mention has been made. It says "It seems bot little more than a year since we lost George Henry Lewes, her first snd must trasted counselor and companion, and hardly a twelve-month since the world learned with, perhaps, some degree of sur- prise, that she had married a gentleman of the stock exchange named Croes. While they were on their wedding trip â€" it is no use now to conceal the cad facteâ€" he lost control over himself at Venice, and threw himself from the balcony of their rrsiuenoe. Hsp- pily, the sea, and not the ground, received him, and he survived, but only to be placed in a mai»on dt nntt. Bravely Mrs. Cross set herself to face her now doubly lonely ifs, but the stmggle, not surpassed in in- tensity by that of any of her heroines, did not Ust long, snd she has now gone, at the age of 60, to the rest that mast^ave oome to her as a relief." The following lettor from Herbert Spencer was published in the London Ktm :â€" "Though, aa one among those intimate friends most shocked by ber sudden death, I would willingly keep silence, I feel that I can not allow to pass a serious error con- tained in your biographical notice of George Eliot. A positive form is there given to the belief which has been long current that I had mnoh to do with her education. There It not the slightest foundation for this be' lief. Our friendship did not somnence un- til 1851, s date several years later than the pnbUcation of her transIaUon of Strani8,snd when she was already distinguished by thst breadth of culture aad nniveisality of pow- er which have since made her known tb aU the world. ' The AsWsrd gives soms reminiscences of her aarly literary life. " For twenty years. " •» says, "the aame c( George ifclit k- giras UaaahHWto hii papoi, meat bis aotto and My oarreat aipsassi. Oaaifsa ua tba book BMaa eaab aaat aiaatii, or tba aaath after, or aoxt ««ar. Oa* aakaao favoara azoapt to ba waited apea. Oradit aaat batra a boak- kaapar, a aoUaotor aad a lawyar. If a ra- IdH dealer ia groea rfa a aaka tba priaa of atarob, ho ia toU that ho oaa bara it ao osneb oa oradit, ar aa Maeb far spot eaab. If thaooaaaaMraakstkopftoaoftharataU- or. it U oaa pitoa to Cash Dowa or Dead Baal Tba BMra oaa thiaka this aattar arar tba mon ba reaUaaa tho foroo of tba ranwrk of a prdoafaaot Waatara flaa iwirr wba latoly afaaarrod "Tboata who paya cask whan ho oaa got credit is a foot." Aad so aay we all. if Dead Beat is to have the same price as Cash Down, with an additional advautaga of sixty-iix days timeâ€" which means ainaty in nineteen oases out of twenty â€" why do any of ns pay cath? Why not all take credit? We know of several city firms who bivj long realized the injustice of miking oasi pay credit's debto. They have said that it was all wrong, but they cool 1 not see bow a change could be made. Tary woald n it aay to customers "This ii so muoS for cash down, and so much if you want crrdit." That plan woald be offonsivc;, but there are others. Suppose a gruser should adopt the rule of handing back to evei^ ca-h custom- er five per cent, of the purchase If Cash bought $5 worth of goods bis rebate would be twenty-five cents. If Credit bought 95 worth, he should havs the same pric s but no rebato. Cash wonld be encouraged, and Credit weald only be paying frr the favor, the same as he woald have to if hu borrow- ed the money. Let any grocer nu s doing a half-cssh, half-credit business, pat this plan in operation snd his cash cattomers would increase faster thsn he dreams of. Scores who now ask for credit wonld turn aboat and pay ciah. It is simply adopting the plan ol the wholesalers. It is no exp.ri- ment with them, and would not long be With reteilers. Cash hss preferet.ce ard advantatjc everywhere and iu all cases ex- cept buying at retsil. It must be accorded anadvantege there. If recaileis refttse,then a citizen who pays cash when he can secure time it indeed a fool. Credit should be made the aime business transaction in a erocery that it it in a bank, and cash thould be appreciated in a dry-gooda atore the same ss in desling with iobberj. "WhtraistbaH.^^ Whan ia ths lrd^ZT*t| HMrhMtkobeTL|!K2 Whatstats^l 3 opra n, aad toi^ u Aad yaads r iD- **' Hstau oa f ' It I a*l •â-  .u assaaaaaoa â- ** »* itpayiM '?W A Fendiu Fiend. Imagine, if yoo can, aays a Paris corret- pondent, and English newspaper office being converted into a fencing-saloon, and, if you are able to stretch your fancy thus far, you will nevertheless fail to form any idea of the scene presented recently in the house of the Rue Dronot, built for toe printing and pub- liabing of 1m Figan. It was announced a short time ago that a certain Baron di Sau Malato, the most redontoble swordsman of Italy, and who had acquired a notoriety as a faat man about Florence, intended to exhibit his prowess in Paris. The Eigaro according- ly offered to him the hoepitality of ite house, for the purpoee of giving a private assault of armr, to which an exceedingly small number of invitotions were issued, theee being restricted to the best twordt- men of the metropolis and the writers on tho paper. The publishing office is of it- self worth a visit, and it is especiallly in- teresting to Eoglisb journalist* by reason of ite being utterly unlike any estobliah- ment of the kind in Britain. It consiste of a large and lofty hall, open to the roof, and surrounded by a gallery ranning round the first floor, similsr to that which i« to be seen iu many an English country house. The walls are adorned with admirably frescoes, depicting episodes ot the plays rf Beaumarchais, of which Figaro is the hero, and the polychromatic omamenUtion is gorgeous in the extreme. Bich panoplies of arms are fixed against the walls of ths aato-roonu, snd on the staircasea are big vases, conteining handsome plaote. The decoration of the central hall is completed by pictures of the royal pertonages who have been ueste of the staff of the ^igar0, the prince of Wales occupying the place of honour in ths middle. A low platform waa put down along the centre of the hall, and here the Baron di Sin Malato pitted himself against M. Merignac, the first professor of Pans. The Itolian appearwl with a foU of a peculiar description, the handle of which he held between his first and second fingers, and he wore booto, which are here never don- ned m toe fenciag-room, bat are reaerved for dueling purposes. He exbibitad exU»- ordinary suppleness in his movements, and assumed attitudes which, effective though they would be on the stage, would be dM- gerous "npon the ground,^' I^was amusins to contrast the wild gpstnrei, the foo^ stamping,, and the defiant oriee of the Ital- lan with the calm, quiet, nnassnming bear- ing of his French antagonist. But it soon becsme evident in whcee bands toe mastery would remain, and,aftora bout which lasted nnore thau half an hour, M. Merignac scored doubtful touch of the Banm di San Malato One of the most curious aspeoto of the evenl ing was the intense oxcitoment exhibited by the few speototors, who were almost all aaepte in the brilliant art. been before the pablia ' Adam Bode ' waa pablishediu ISM. aad the on y due to ite authorship was the announcement on the title page that It cama from the same nan aa the "fWof Clerical Lifc-^JSicH^ previoaslTappsarad in.»ia«tipe*f,^,«^^ Several cUtmante to the hooonr of itopro- duction presented themsslvea. Such im- postors are toe common-pUces of litenr* butory. Sir Walter Scott i^JTasksdW^ soquautaooe to coogratnlato him on his I^SS^ T^ *^' ' ^r*. t^»kaown' whS Ud ITfSlI fST^^- The ms.tor-pi«,es 01 Akenaide, Shendan, aad Thomnion were »P|JPn^ br Omb street higEwViZ' fartthathewroto'ThaSoBgof tbaSfir? Tf "^.S^TT!^^ thara^iSa tima M JM« in toe Md for th. UawuJSiSu^ rf**' ** "â- â€¢ I'Tu Liataa ai tba snikiJL In Lnsk. Only a Dog. We were all crying, every one of as. Father declared it was smoke thst had got into A« eyes snd made them imart but mother threw her apron over ber head and sat rocking and sobbing for ton minutes. Pbcebe snd I juat threw onrsolves down on the fioor by poor Leo, and 1 took his dear old shaggy head in my lap, and toe hot tears dropped one by one and Phoe'te ette4 his poor old stiff ears and cmoothedout hia thin, gray haira and then we took off the old brass collar that was marked all over with hieroglyphics that we bad f cratche 1 with pins in the proud days when he first wore it; then we cried again, aod just then iu walked Squire Toote, and he didn't seem to know what to do when he saw nt all so distressrd he looked at ns and then at Ljo then he Icok ont his handkerohief and gave his nu^e a real Sunday school blowing, and said kind of huskily "Why it's wicked to feel s' bad. Any- body d' spoee it was a piascn 'taint only a dogi" That just made us sll feel worse. There wasn't any Heaven for him to go to, and we knew we never could see him again, and we cauldn't remember any life without Leo, we were suck little tote when he came to ns, and he had been one of the family all to« time: Father used to lecture him jast as he did us children. " Where did I sne you to day, sir?" he would say, 'Over at Mr. Ma- son's, associating with that dog that steal* Shame I" And then Leo would whine, and pretty aeon father would ray, " Go to bed, sir " and he'd sneak off to nis box in the back shed and lay awake all night to protect us while we slept, and he never once in over fourteen years was forgetful of his trust â€" and he was "only a dog." Only a dog W'hy, was there ever a time that we went racing home from school tfiat Lso hadn't met us half-way to r.oe with us and do all sorto of funny tricks at our bid- ding, and how proud we had always been of him with bis handsome stetoly presence and superior manners, and how safe we feit to hear his dfep-cbested bark as we went to sleep' Well, death had found him sore enough, and we buried him out in the grove in a lit- tle hollow, where be loved to lie on hot summer dsys, and there will be no resurrec- tion for him, tboagh there will be for the vilest thief he keut from our doors bnt none the less, in looking over his booeat. blameless life, in whieli be was never faith- less to any, even the tmallest trntt, I dare apply to him the Master's meed of praise, "Well done, good and f«ithful servant;' though, as Sqaire Tooto said, "He was only a dog." ThoaextiafairlT,-^ Aad avMi a wish fcS Haw withoat prs WiU auch ' Hers is a page beat, »^ Written with firmtsiS* No saafsoe-readine J?*^' Find. fanltV,*y What stands apontk.!. So-oethecalligrapT,^ Ah I I remember {!*, The light borijj^^ Bat what now foUoi,,,, 1 tarn the page, o'er J. -1 Each after each conlJr'jl And nothingill'^J Ah! here at last, a 1^, Ite lines in fu |, J)^ throogh; ""i roamu-t contain soe.. *«* food IS ,^' I find of earth, what',,*" Earths joys, ejjjij., renown. On yon appt»r. Iraaditelengthy-w,,^^, Itoboaatâ€" what'-llT^' HowsbsUIoniuLr*. Strike bsi.zss:?'»i WoiCloaalhebdokttJ, Anew I dare not thr^o, Thel«..nwhi.«;;r;l By heart I bo,! ' Oould we bnt bl«t-,,„, Ths dsys and h",*^'"' How easily n.gnv"»«t What woii\4» ,rtththoralaa. IMOO t7 M 15 UO 8 60 V. iaaertioa Sd»»rt»»vrv. Itstiat*** â- liaa to be snroi by VOL. I DH without till for- oa tba Thureiay • pa^iwtio" }K, Proprietor. JOHI Inliaii 77 W.3d StI ^•UtlNESS 5TORY. rml. â- c dk Carter, sons Accouclieiirs Hall; residanee at ^7, 1880. l-.v JBOS. ACCOUCH- kP. O. â-  6-tf. Wlllt««. Owen Sound. I's building, over Bobiu- et. 1-y And if onr year^ f(*i^«^ I Doing His work â€" Bumti^l We need not fosr tht 'â- It.^'l When life ia dont ' PBOKIHZNT PEQjII Lord Chikf Jitstice Cocskb i a bachelor, but always £4.000 Chief Baron Kelly,, ,4 married and leaves children, jj and Lord Justice Thesi,er, *hoa bat childless, and o ly talf th* other two, left i:«0,000. Jamks RcasKLL LowKu, I* Frost, iV ATTOHNEYS-AT I in Chancery, Convey nund, have resumed at I I every Thursday, an j J. W. FnosT, LL. B. 1 oner. 1 |attobnet-at-law, Bcery, Owen Sonod. have clear bine and dark mottlings. Hrral gray toa^ In cxpicaiia strongly indi. ative of huBou^ ed upon study they are i nod a,/ ' ing in ordinary oonversttatin. aiM cherry, bnt in moovi;, of 1 toey become very lustrou. Victor Hugo has been twierk- the placin- on the houae at Bt^l he was born, F b. 2tj, 1 ^02, sbZi scribed with his name and birt:^ letters, snrronnded bv gJtlajr^. go promised to rttend the f«iaal his honor, but at the lut moaei; cuse. Thb first person of promuem fashion, now so 1 revalent laosj English I eople, of win t nnjfoi;!* the Mediterranean, waa iM who took up I is abode at Cinno years ago, and was the mesne of advantage as s winter resort into Mediterranean shore may no t i 1 ned with the villas of iiji Bn-o-^ nnmber hss staulily increased able that Ruffinis :bann\ng » .taionio," helped to saisx tbt Besides these residences od thr nean numbers of other Ensliihic country seats in o ber land Dilke has a beantifnl retrtst wj.- )AliK. itfMi^llgrttt*. tOE LICENSES, drc, |in B. B. c. I its branches promptly bfolly executed. I Lend ou Koal Estate ae- 17, 1680. 1-y J'JSVt^^ •«" J" V-ri*i South, aa ba aat Joaaa ea tba aw ths â€" â„¢ "TWiteK totribla." "AayofyoaT^ ** far toiM Httla ttaa rtSlI^ uJ» â€" ^r " BMd tbiaa barroia U aatSaaa ZT^ **• " T*m wga't. Jaat bead liltiy "^jT^ ** " -VirttoMa fa •vfaad that ti J3ij?!5*2rj*j*£^ waaahdy." ta»awi Iptaa f^.i^^""" «*"»' • " "»«»» "d r^' creators of many «»ompliahmeoto. At the gossip runs, sht was Carrying to takri «hrtaatml-lookiogoldg«,tlaaian. He \2 • asat beaide himself. Ooevoisatiaai flaw^ Pleasantly aod ^n-^tSTriSid fiS Oa PMUng at a ttotioa not muiy'Sua t^ Theold raUaaiaa pwrStTba a WMUht S^JSr^Sj^* •*«?* • oorSSa' J!!S! *^ "w.hawiae. 8ba aa^SV 3«*.M af««Wy -•ba tdkadT'lSS wwgwl thttr way Isatar batwaMi tba Strb. 2d£i^SrSi.*tiS?^ •M^iuuiaw baM an ia MiMaa aaj Il2 A BomuiM of Britisli Hich Lift. Many years mjo, »%y ths roroalo OM*, a yoang man made hia appearenoe in Strat- ford, aod passed a few weeks at the tovem which then existed to afford shelter to stage coach travelers. Whence he came, and what was his business, none oould goass. D reet- ly oppoaite the tavern st'rad the small cot- tage and forge of a blacksmith named Ful- som. Ue had a daughter who was the beauty of this village, and it was her fortune to captive the hesrt of the young stranger. He to'dhis love, said he was traveling tneom but, in confidence, gave her his real name, saying that he was heir to a larga fortnae. She ratamed his love, aad they were marri- ed a few weeks after. The stranger told hit wife that he must visit Nsw Orleans He did to, and the gossips of the town msde the young wife nnhsppy by disagrMable hinta and jeers. In a few moatlM tho bns- bMid returned bnt before a weak had slapa- ed he received a luge budget of letters, and told hu wife that he most at oaoe lotom to England, and must go aloos. He took hi. departure, and the gossips bad saotbsrfilor- ions opmirtuity toauka ooafidiag woman wretched. ToaUbatbarsdf ,tWaacl«!r «»e of diMTtioe. Tha wife baouae a mo- thw and for two year* livad on ia silance sad hope. BTtba sad of that timo a lemJ "'«»r«*^»««« Stiatfort b««ty from her hnsband. direoti«g bar to go at once to Haw York with bar^ild. taW aothiw bark in a ship for a home in finglaad. On her imval w New York she found a vaasal splendidly fa nithed with every ooovaai- •noe aad luxury for her comfort, aad two •trvaata ready to obey e»ery wiah that she iBight express. The thindaly arrirwl ia EoKhad, aad toe tUraUocdgirlbooaaM mu- trsaa of a maanoo, aad, as tha wife of a jwaat, was Mlptad by tba ariatoaracy aa Iitdy Saaiaal SurUag. Oa the death of bar hasbaad, maar yMrsago, tUStraUotd boy •aoaaadad to tba tiUa aad wealth of hia fa^ tbsr; aad in tha laat aditioo of "PsaraM and Baroeataga," ha is spokae of aa tba ima of "Miss pSlaom, of sSItford. jroSi Sir Kobert Peel one on the Lutd Lord Salisbury owns ihe C uW (â-  Dieppe Lady Holland bu snti Xaplrs, and a milliona re Bnuc: lovtly place wL«re Queen View spent some dayt on toe Lake 0!' onr own continent, t enty yta similsr mj^rement will 'o}»hl, ,^^^.^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ly all ta ""' â€" lasaa 1. te M' tlW Mfi «| ki« had* whTRi^UiT!: Tba Barooaaa Bimlatt3otitta to Ooataat tba Oqahaaa of 8t Albbal WUl. Ctaai the Lsadoa WorU.) to ba takn lor matad that tba tM larfaitaia alsBsa ia of at. Albaas. Itt^ U aOowad la toka •ibJi?lSbi.?S: Ikattba »iOpaH% otba^pineaa. laa wholly wl*be«t _i**«" *» »»• «»• psiviiiua ImotraM thaviUoiHani^, southward, snd Flonda will leL atial cottagea as Xew[iort. Ahova with the news that '.: yachtsmen are tekin .: .in unuiu. the cup won at Cowes m 1851 b; ica, comes the information that tha been t orou^bly overlia lej. iii ed the o ber day from Duffy • ir; at Boston. In speakin; of hn ntenta. her commander, t-'spt I a Boston branch pilot snd a Jeep-i gator of celebrity, said: "The .A been rebnil from four strakes btl' tor line with new top t mbrn asc hackmatack, and ceilin and low pine. The fastenings are of c 'aniaed iron, and locasi trrtiui deck then are four Jarge iuxei fonr bertha. All has Wti finisl wito poliahed mahogany thmmisfi now the same span as ^bra 1 agsiaat the Madeleine in M' tvs from Sandy Hook and back for Ii Cap. In order to remedy a 'iit| America haa of running herself i an I sett ia^ aft, all the time niiti like a Virginia faaoe, she has ba' with an overtisag of six snd 1 Capt Beid adds thad be ioteodi out in racing trim earlv tl» son. KxcsPT an Irish landlord, an i W»rid, no member of the pecv "I be pi ied than Lord Auk "I yean past he has been m»^^H the career ot a clever ajwittia; ' been please I to adopt the us* ' son, Lord Ogilvy. and, under ' tion, 10 run up debts, forge lilii-' die people generally in all puini' "The nombe of applicatiom vti: lie has received .for " psfm »• ' count " from tradeemcn, who *•! were trusting bis s n iid Vtr.t cridible. "niese bills come shower from all parts of ths I the United States and al b« tices and warnings of all ki launched at the head of the i once or tsrice he has actoaUv i yot, after a abort time, te u « foand at his old tricks again, Airlie is obliged once more 10 â-  phalaux of clamorous trsdesa^^ nave been duped and robbed, was ever trasted half so ms*' COS one. Bis manner are 1 tJagnithod," his personal ifl tractive, and wito the fair ssi' baena^raat hit. Meanwhile r OgUry ia always wi b bit Tenth Hnaaars, in India, sach a good time of it si his Tai Dnke of Richmond eiii' tary psasion of £19,000 rer ••""J Chiriaa XL Krantod to the V^'*p and his heis Is. per chaldr** ported from the River Tyn* »»' Enflsad. This duty »«" rert^ Dnkes of Richmond until ^r exoliaagwi for £19,000 P«r »« apon toe Consolidated Fund- •totato. in 1801 £444.611.^ £14«.IM 14l. and in l»i* «d., mere invested, in the «»» in Three per Cem. CostoliJ' *r toese pensions. Tie " •tai raeaivfa a direct p*"**^ graatad by Charlei II., tod ' «oa crmatad by the sainejj" daaasdialSM for £193,ii" in addittoa to aU this, ChariaP Dtike's aaoeator snd to hu ixir' batlsr^ of winss throoj botlat^aUia* the King!' ., to bis owa aia, and at hit '"j maeh el all aerchandise ebaat atiasgas oat of every Hkmammm be had ocessius tha tbaa Daka of Graftoa » HOC xikM, i8«^ ^- •*?ii yanhawCHMb ia tiis r ' ttisehaMS. ThsmaisJ â€" laaaifisls sstsHw aSSpabSTobssrvab-' ttut act natindby the tgmi ttlborikkaoadakl d 0^4 to ovadb awkwaid iaqointt It ' â- in II HI did toswMathia.^ titiiyttikRv] SUtousneng. The Best n] '0.OO3 .;i.t\Tsl 9.000,0( T7-J ^/r..,-, ,.sj It atlBiel.'.ir^ iH,. whi'-brcavi-rm f.r- â-  ••il IniA icltiro^r na-ru tVlbd nnd f stoinaib. If ibr ni •leir arirT raiioK i rrevcaied. It nr(« upon ih' It nrim upon ibi- Ic Rpc"lar Ikr It PariGra Ihr lilij It Qult-m rha rr If Proimntm Dice I Moorislirii. fair It carrier fiS ilir I II •prosi itir por*-.^ Ilrallbr rrrapiraiii It Dcc'ralire* i)i hrj bind, wl :, 1 tencrila m-n^T ft tkin d:.if^% Tljere are no ejiints and It can bu takui Lr] I.LAW, SOUCITOR IN i J,^,^*wij;*!i' ' â-  PnbUc, *c. I pgj5£ Qp LAESE rest retes ou personal â€" ..^ nr «!«»att Qdt bought and sold. ^^^ 0* S..A1L duoed.free of commis- â-  Road t!i3 VOLUN of Persons who h. use of tha BLOOD] FOR bYSI'Kl C«»V| Ki ivj Dear .Sjj- 1 your valuabl.,' has benefited ma and Liver Compi ciue I ever biforl yu SAVEDl Keh Dear Sir â€" I doctors' bauds eight years, this I that I hftve uot After UEiiig your for a britef space I lod to lie all ,ni Ueve it «•.(• til. life. .Mi:~. MJ CURES (JlGl r.r.iiur Dear Siu 1^ was afflict...! wi which grc'v\ •no* my room, uijtl \vj incurable by uiyl 1877, I coiuui' Blood Syrup, meuced to puih a short tiiu 1 M £air days worL entirely gone. ISA.W CURES Mt. I'oresI ^VeUi Dxas Sis â€"1 Erysipelas for two \\ your Indian U1"J me. Mas. LIVKn Mt. Fun'.t. Wil Saan Sm â€" 1 hni Blood Syrup f. i 1., received crvat it i.' moud its u^r to h:: A Smitli, SNT AND DE.^HER IN Williamsford Station. 1 ler Brown. e Licenses, Fire and Agent- Comuitsionei eyacer and Licensed tyofOrey. Farmers, Sales, Punctually st- made rerv moderate. 1880. 1-T Corbet, Jr., r^D GENEBAL AGENT (k^tfonev to Loan at low ^Frincipal parable at the I, and interest half year. lipal and interest repay- Slav, PROVINCIAL LAND ghtsmao and Valuator, de. Having purchased •or Charles Rankin's Field Notes, PUns, at, drc, of all bis Surveys St fifty-five years, I am â- urveyt in strict accord â- Profiles and Estimates Plant and Specifications fnmlsbed on appbca- 1 at 8 per cent interest. t left with G. J. BLYTH, promptly attended to. 1-v Wfclte, neron, Owen Soiuid, SEVERE HOUSE, » last Wednesday in I be prepared to per- inired upon the mouth ' manner, and npon ly DlSE.^Sli UK] Mt. l.-rest. W. i; Dean Sibâ€" Ibi: valuable luuiau lUi Cramps iu tiic-Stn â-ºIV HOUSE LDALE. I above hotol and thor- 1 refitted it, the tray- 1 overy accommodation, ^uors and cigars itnt *»fili hostler. HORN, JVoprietor, ly_ HOTEL, ALE. Proprietor. has had a Urge al- tborougbly refitted, none in the county, ntive ostler. First- ' eommercial travel- ' day. 17-ly rOTEI^, ^RD. Ont. Pbopbietobs. for the travelling I stoeksd with the |Liqaars and the best all traios. 1-y I LAL HOTEL B. Ont. Sample Rooms le Bar and larder ist the market af- lattontive Hostler's. *80N, Proprietor. 8 WILSON, mn 'to B^oaitor ia tows. ly DlSE.\bL ur j Cr." 111! Deaa Sib â€" I v.a| Pains iu my Sti ii.tn' Appetite aiid wars r.i rebeve me until 1 td Syrup which effoci.'d I always give your iu4 justly dcvvMc^. S AHin .N\u| D«4« bin: â€" My and 1 wius unable t went to a docUr which d id no gooj I voiir lutiian liiood s only a short time, wb. ed, and now lu.v haua I can xafrly ntom remedy. M DVSl'El'SI.V AM) Wt-t|| DiUB SiB â€" I buv- yeari with Lysp»-p-ia| Kidney Cotuplaint, a| many rcmedie:-. but ' came very bad and col I sent to your A^enl] bottle of your Indian not hesitate to say thij am compli'telv cured man, Last week u:j| with severe Headacbd your valnal'le weJiciul CURES DYSI'Ll'bl TlUl Went port, Deab Sis: â€" I hav^ Dyiipepbia for about Indian Blood Syrup is ever helped mc. I » from tbi9 disease to gif trial. " Sole General Jgenl op and Lyman, No. 2| Toronto. .^Uo ilgentJ^ Healing Syrup, an En^ is well known as a Blood Purifier througbJ WM. PMatOraaiM Estimates for stone I plication. Satiefaftio| daaooâ€" Qoeea Strest, Iforkdale, Sept. 17,

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