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AIO 4 > nth, = VOL. XVII, NO. 27.4 Hott Ontario Obseroer. WAS TH A WEERLY I : POLITICAL, AGRIOULTURAL, FAMILY NEWSPAPER, [38 PUBLISHED AT, PORT PERRY, EVERY. THURSDAY MORNING, BAIRD & paRsONS. AMS.--S1 per annum, if paid in ad- el if po $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months' and no paper discontinued until all arrears are paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line, first insertion ........ $0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line . (Cards, under 6 lines, per annum ..... 5 00 Letters containing moncy, when ad| dressed to this Office, pre- paid and regester- ed, will be at our risk. 'Advertisments measured by Nonpareil, and charged acgording to the space they ac- eupy. Advertisments received for publication, without specific instructons, will be inserted antil fordid and charged aiccodingly. No advertisment will be taken out until paid for. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants and others who advertise DY the year or half-year. p65 Fhose torms will in all cases be strictly adhered to. Job Department. Phamplets, Hand Bilis, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and golor, execyted promptly and at lower rates than any other establishment in the County. = Parties from a distance getting hand ills, &e. printed can have them done to take frome with them. J. BAIRD. Ir. PARSONS. Protessional Cars. JONES, M. D, Coromer, Physician, R. Surgeon, &c. Port Perry. Office, over Allison's Drug Store, Queen-st. Residenco--One door west of the Presby terian Church. WARE, Coronor for the County of yi "Physician, Surgeon and Ac- &oucheur, Prince Albert. et preter H. SANGSTER, M. D., Physician, Sur- J « geon and Aceoucheur, Coroner for the County of Ontarjo PORT PERRY. Office over Wott's Furniture Stare, corner of satisfaction to all who may favor me with free of charge. Prince Albert, Oct. 25, 1873. Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator, &e, and Eldon, way rely on the utinost attention being glen =| to their interests. of Victoria. Residen Orders left at this. ofiace, lected in Canning PATENT SOLICITOR AND DRAUGHTSMAN, . ,OTTAWA, CANADA, Transacts business with the Patent Office and other departments of the Goyernment. Copyrights and thé 'Registration ' of "Trade Marks and Designs' procured. 'Drawings, Specifications, and other Documents neges- sary to secure P: tents of Invention, prepared on receipt of the model of the Invention ___ Suctioueers. W. M. WILLCOX, LICENSED AUCTIONEER, FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO. AND TOWNSHIPS OF MARIPOSA & CARTWRIGHT, EGS to thank his many friends and the "public generally, for the liberal patron- age bestowed upon him for the past five years. Having now given up the business of Bailiff, I intend, in future, to devote my whole time to the business of Auctionecr, Collecting, &c. Tt will be my endeavor, by prompt and careful attention to business, to give full their Sales or Collecting. Bills draughted and Blank Notegfurnished Also Bill Stamps always on hand. W. M. WILLCOX, Wm. Gordons OR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, { Scott, Thorah, Lama, Mara, Mariposa pF Parties entrusting their Sales to me | WM. GORDON, Sunderland, Brock. HENRY GRIST, Arrangements can be made for sales &e, | at the Onssnver Office, and at the Standard Office, Port Perry. traveling public the table and aad an atte por PERRY OUSHE, a PORT PERRY. 1 JAS. V. THOMPSON, =: PROPRIETOR. The abova House is now most comfort- ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigars, also, first class Stabling and good Ostlers.-- Additions have been 'made which maker this the largest and best House in this section of country. Fare $1.00 per Day. 7 DES DOMINION HOTEL, At the Railway Station, PORT PERRY. Every attention given to the accommoda- tion and comfort of guests. The table and bar supplied with the best the Market af fords. Choice Liquors and the best brands of Cigars. Excellent stable and shed ac- commodation, and attentive ostlers, D. B. DENISON, Proprictor. REVERE HOUSE, MANCI ER, A. TENNYSON, Proprietor. The Revere ITouse is decidedly one of the best and most comfortable country Hotels in the Provinee and is situated. in a most con- venient position for the traveling public.-- Stages to and from Uxbridge, Utica and Ep- som, call here daily. The Subseriber, since becoming proprietor, has had the premises thoroughly repaired and will gpare neither labor nor expense in making~the Revere House a comfortable transient home for travelers, and for the re- freshment of guests; The table and bar supplied with the best the market supp Good stables and p, entive ostlers, YSON, Proprietor, Manchester, 5, 1! es HOTEL, MANCHESTER. JAMES T. HEARD, PropriETOR. Good accommodations. Carcful attention to the requirements of travelers and guests. The bar supplied with the best Liquors and Cigars. Good Stabling. Manchester, July 15, 1874, 30 -- Corse HOTEL, GREENBANK. R. McRAE, PROPRIETOR. The above hotel has undergone a thorough renovation, and has been fitted up with a view to the comfort and convenience of the Stict attention paid to Comfortable stables the Greenbank THOS, H- WALSHE. ICENSED Auctioneer for the Township 1 ah, Mara & Rama in , ete, in the County | Cannington, Brock. Queen and Perry Streets, 'Office holirs from. 9.0. m. 10 12 1%. Residence, the dwelling recently occupied by Mrs. Geo, Paxton. RS, MCGILL & RAE, PI Surgeons, D &C., ioe Office and Residences, King st, | Oshawa, OL MGILL, MD. FRANCIS RAF, Ma. | ee £7M. F. MCBRIEN, M.D, M. R. C, 8, Guy's Ww Hospital, London, ingland. The lye R. ©, H. Ly Oshawa, eet eer C ¥. MARTIN, M. D. Simcoe St., Two doors Ja Oshawa. North of the Central Hotel, Whitby, July 29, 1871. ! Tr _ |Mutual Insurance Company.' C John Mec Donald, This Company is n re FE. FAREWELL, LL. R., £ounty Crown Attorney for Ontario, Bar r Micitor, and Notary Public. Aupied by 8. H. Cochrane, Esq., Whitby. YMAN I. ENGLISH, LL. B., Solicitor in Chancery, Attorney, CGonveyancer, &C. OMce--Simeoe street, opposite the Post OfMee. rere YOUNG SMITH, LL. B., Barrister, At- torney-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, | tage to withhold their orders until called on rock St., Whitby by : and Insolvency, Notary Public, &e. Offce--McMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. .L, Barristers citors County urt House, and Attorneys at Law &Jouncil, Ontarfo. Offices Whitby. IL. J. MACDONNELL. (aumnons PACDONY 3, C, CAMERON, A. HURD, Attorney at Law, and Solicitor « in Chancery. Office in the Royal Arcade, Port Perry. W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan- cery; Notary Public, &c., &e. Oftice hours punctually from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Money to Loan at 8 per cent, on all kinds of goed security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. CO. N. VARS, L. D. 8. BETH inserted on all the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap as the cheap- est, and as as the best. Teeth filled with Gold ang Silver. Teeth extracted without pain by producing local anwmsth- Dentical Booms--in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Ktreet, Oshawa, 'CHAS, THORN, VSS, BMBER of dhe Veterinary Institute, WM Ill. Gold Medalist for the best Ris oy on Horse: Practice. Author of a First Prize Essay on Shoeing. Gradu- ated 16, 1867. Dr, Thorn begs to_announce that he has taken up his residence at Port Perry, and is now pre] to treat all cases entrusted to his care inthe most skillful and scientific mer, All: Jeft at the Medical Hall .of Mr Allisag, regeive prompt Wisin. par 1) Veterinary Stables may ul oe opposite Cossitt's Factory. Poit Party, Oct. 28, 1873. EN ---------------------- JOEN 8. M. WILLCOX, the Town of Whitby, has been ap- AJ pein OTAL, ASSIGNEE » of Ontario. Any business fo he EE a wil'ue sclully at- tended to. . eet 0 C he Third Divi J. oR TEA Siow tn Bigeiow's look, Pors Perry. Office hours from 10 a. m, 10.3 p. m. TOWNSNSP CLERK Issuer of Marriage Licenses--Conyeyancer, Commissioner &c. Jom CHRISTE, : iV THOLESALE and Retail dealer: 1 7 tles, Monuments, § Meso ENTS, Tomb-Tables, A ranted. Under the New Act. Office, lot 10, in the 1st con, Brock. ENRY' OITARLES. having * been te.) Hobie | (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- nish Licenses as heretofore----at Port Perry. {Cqunty of Ontario, WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS. J. & R. WOLFENDEN, American Marble Dundas St, Whit! Also, Agent for the Scottish Granite. VY Foreign o 8) Also Building Stone cut to order. $ JOHN NOTT, Agent, Port Perry. 29 MARBLE DEALER! | NEWCASTLE, ONT. Parties will find it to their advan- | J. C. WILLIAMSON, AGENT, Satisfaction gwaranteed, and all work war. January 10, 1872. 3-yr R. RICHARDSON, Re-appointed Issuer of JMarria ge Licenses Brock, Aug. 5,1874. 33 New Marriage Act. Port Perry, July lst, 1874. Marriage License Ageni-- + 1° OF DIVISION COURTS "von THR FOR THE YEAR 1875. = . nlei= wit |e Elz 2l=lal8 zl @ o oll 212 HE A Whitby. . 1 af ata Brougham. 4 3| 2] 8} 2| 2} 2{10 Pot Perr, 201 1. 6{20|26( &} | 81 510 (2 Jxbridge 22, 11315; | 8112) 934 Canningto 1223 1 9]13{10(15 mn) TE Ett) |g Mara, T, Hall .. 1251 18 15 17 GEO. H, DARTNELL, Junior Judge. or at his residence to the re will be punctnally attended to. Debts col- The bar supplied with the best wines, liquors ton, or otherwise, and and ci; prompt remittances made. Remember-- | YI aLSH E, the North Ontario Auction- eq. WESTERN ASSURANCE COMP'Y Capital - $400.000. prepared to accept risks on Farm Buildings and their contents, country School Houses Also ill be found as low as those of any regpon- | zible Mutual Insurance Company in Canada, 1 ES' IIAIR DRESSER, Switches, Draids, F rooms, corner Queen and Perry Streets. Port Perry, Nov, 18, 1874. 47 counts, Judgments and Mortgages, UTICA. J. DAFOE, PROPRIETOR. Good accommodmions. Careful attention irements of travelers and guests. ars, Good stabling, TORONTO. Incorporated lon. John MEurrich, weve Gu Magrath, I ternard Haldan, JAMES PRINGLE; General Agent. -- GENERAL ADV PORT PERRY, PR Aa eT hey ERTISER. NCE OF ONTARIO, FHURSDAY, JULY 1, 1875, WHOLE NO. 908 rT -- Port Perry, May 6, 1875, pred a supply of superior | 08 prepared to furnish first class LIVERY RIGS Moderate Terms. C. MCKENZIE. a ProcradaTion 1 TO THE INHABITANTS OF |THE CIRCULAR SAW Sharpened and Re-set And the Subscriber is determined to CUT all kind of Goods . in his line down to a SMALL MARGIN ABOVE COST ! I am now receiving my large importation of Hardware! Which has been bought very low, and I am determined to Cut all Goods Very Fine. Parties Bujlding will do well to give me a call. anew Stock of Just received BORING MACHINES, Of Superior make, An early call will convince all that there is no deception W. T. PARRISH. PORT PERRY LIVERY STABLES, MONEY 4 0 LOAN | C. MK IVITE Subseriber havi i MORTCACES WANTED. iNZIE 4 4 LL 174g |THE Subscribers have large sums of mon ¢ placed in their hands fir investment on d Farms, Villuge 1 i WANTED TO PURBHASE, rf es for whic! ¢ high- est figures wil be allowed. oh igh We nrealso appraisers for the C's PRR bl ner Ii { nxtitution in Canada. Paid B + Instalments FAT Lands Bought and Sold. Several good farms for sale, st class Fire In- suranee Compani Colleetions made and a general 0 ade and a general agenaoy busi- ness transacted. ey os ZB DEBENTURES BOUGHT. JOIIN & DAVID J. ADAMS, Office in Mr, Ross' Ontario Buildings, General Agents, | Port Perry. THE ONTARID FARMERY NORTHERN REACH |™ITot hi ow fully organized and is | and Churches, Those wishing to insure and ¥ ees nh 5 lead thereby support a Home Insurance Company | B U Y Y 0 U R ns 7 Mr 3 ] i ead- jaye now an opportunity of doing so, either | i Teper Stones of great variety, with every de- yp gppiving to the Head Office, or to any of Oshawa. scription of Marble Work, suitable for Cem- 41,4 Jocal Agents of the Company, Our rales cteries, supplied at short notice. 3 1 Peterhead gud Aberdeen Granite, Head Office--Opposite the Royal Hotel, L, FAIRBANKS, Jr., Sceretary. MRS. L. M. COOK, ts, Curls, and Comb- ings, and Hair Jewelry Manufactured. Rooms, over Mr. Nott's Furniture Ware-- "WANTED ! 0 PURCHASE, Promissory Notes, both over dve and yet to become due, ac- Apply personally. to : W. M, COCHRANE, 4 ! Port Perry. MONEY | MONEY! ONEY TO LOAX at 8 per cond interest on Real Estate. Port Perry, March 12, 1874. MONEY (Private Funds,] terest. LYMAN ENGLISH, Barrister, &c., awa, November, 21, 1866. 14 rr -- LUGGAGE PAKEN TO AND FROM THE STATION AND AROUND TOWN. The Subscriber is prepared to convey Chests, Trunks, Boxes and every other de- scription of Luggage to or from the Railway Station or anywhere aroupd town. All Orders promptly attended to, Charges {i : : J. COOK. Port Perry Jan. 1st, 1871, Patent Medicines, &c., Greenbank, July 20, 1873. 'Confectionery. Ty PORT PERRY EXTEN: TIME TABLE No. 11. Takes effect on Monday, 12th April, 1875. Trains Going Nortn. ». 4. 50RD. | Tomnomime.| CONFECTIONS ! To Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in-|3 na. J ; «AT t 320) ns--Trains stop on signals JAMES HOLDEN, Managing Director. JOHN J. ROSS, Assistant Manager, a --mn Daily Line to Rochester! [Commeneing on or about Monday, April 19.] A, RICHARDSON, DEALER IN Ts prepared to ll all orders at bis Planing Mills, PORT PERRY. rt of urdays, -- Will Jae Charlotte ( 2 p. m. tor Port Hope DOORS, SISH AND BLINDS, |= i jr lo Shore Railroad from Charlog Dealers in Stock, &e. cheapest ahd most ex ton, Albany, New York, &o, will find this the ditious route to Bos- Whithy, Jan. 1, 1875. Qffice~--Manchester. . Port Perry, May 12, 1875. pe; or C. F. Gildersleeve, Kiggst JON 10 LEAD Unusually Low Rates of Interest! Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit the borrower. Also several Improved Farms, and Wild Lands for sale, cheap. investments made in Muyicipal Deben- tures, Bank and othier marketable Stocks. 'Boots and Shoes, Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Official A ce, Broker, &e. Orricr--Over the Dominion Bank, McMil- lan's Block, Brock st., Whitby. Whitby, April 10, 1873. BAKERY! AND om Greenbank Store. | HE Bakery and Confectionery business in all their branches carried on in my Port Perry and Prince Albert establishments, Plain and Fancy Breads of Every variety. Orders filled with the shortest notice. Bridal and other Cakes made to order. Socials and other entertainments supplied on moderate terms, in every variety and of the best quality. Children's Toys in abundance. 200 . CHAS. HISCOCKS. 2 Port Perry, March 10, 1875. WM. SPENCE, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. executed in the best style, to my business as wit) CONTRACTOR. ay | Contracts taken in Stone work, Brick wark, poinis | Plastering, oy &c. Contracts completed th dispatch, the 'R, WORKMANSHIP. Gi h St, N. Y. 3 Greenwich St, am or to encourage this vanity, and the gay | I met him that I found I lovel little lady flirted from "one pleasure George Holmes with all the strength to another, certain of attention and |0f my heart. He never flattered devotion wherever she moved. the sunny July afternoon of which I honeyed speech had ever dono be- write, ono of her most devoted cava- fore. Ile was respectful to me as a ) s Borrowers with {candep nd on getting titeir money with the es, Is | east possible delay, CALL AT MY BAKERY 1.10 | Bort Perry or Prince Albert. RICK-LAYING,STONE-WORK, PLAS- TERING, &c., in all their departments, Having secured the services of a compe- tent party to manage and conduets the farm, I will, in future, devote my whole attention BEST MATERIAL AND FIRST CLASS Utica, April 14,1875. 16 wv 0 At home, ne or 835 Rocn ital. We Jen Val - r hage Of s by mail free. Ita, Crawford) mas ory d: with ten cent return RE aunt to listen, and after a moment's | wrapped it ifn soft tissue 1 A gay party of young people were pose Grace Stanmoro spoke :-- put it in a box, then with tears of playing croquet sponthe smoothly 1 was about your own age, Ethel, [sadness I put it away, as we biiry shaven lawn of Mr. Godfrey Stan- nearly nineteen, when I met George |our dead. ; more's_country seat, Tho shining Holmes, a young artist, whosoname| 'Ho would come no mote. I wlors of 4 Fiver rola: ot tho hot has now attained world-wide celeb- | knew that the silent parting was a of the lawn, and many a hard hit rity, Io was even then known as|final one, though I could not guess ball sprang over the light iron fen |™ artist of great talent and promise, | its meaning. Yet I did not' doubt to float merrily down the sunny rip- and society opened her door wide to | him even then, believing some good ples to freedom. Over the heads of receive him. I scarcely know how |reason existed for his silence; and the players stately troes met to shade to describe him to you. Shy in|waiting till time should reveal the them from the rays of a July sun manner, he could be won by interest | truth to me. : and wherever tho cfs could reach, |i bis Bubjost, to a complete self: I heard of his departure for flowers were spread m soft profusion forgetfulness that would betray him | Italy, and two years later I heard Ethel Stanmore, only child and into positive eloquence. With a]of his marriage. On that day I heiress of this estate, wasleader and gentle courtésy and modesty, he was | opened my box for the first time, to chiof promoter of all gay meetings yet mainly and dignified when oc-|throw away the flowers I had no for miles around Stanmore. Tt was jcosion required, longer » right to cherish. They her ingenuity that contrived out- 'I was then, like yourself, an)wero withered away, and I saw for door theatricals and tableaux with | heiress, petted and courted, and |the first time what the flowers and natural scenery for background and really believing in my own heart leaves had hidden with such fatal wings, It was Ethel who made up that I was a litte abave the rest of |security. Tied in the very heart of the most delightful pic nics, and the humanity ia virtue of my pretty |the bouquet was a letter and a ring gayest of parties. She was protiy, ace, my accomplishments, and my | 'He had written to me asking my 100, in a graceful, winning form ; well filled purse. I had.suitors and |love, and telling mo his own, and and she was lively, good {empered friends, and I flirted away their re- | he begged me if I could be his wife, THE WITHERED BOUQUET, Ee ¥ P ' y and a little bit of a coquette. Unit- spects in more than ono case. It|to wear tho ring when I met him in od with all this, the fact that she was | $8Y¢ me & pleasant sense of power |the evening. But the sting, Ethel, tho only child of a wealthy London to lead my lovers on to a proposal, | the punishment of that letter, were merchant, it is not a matter of aston: and then mortify their vanity and|words telling me that he dared not ishment that Ethel was flattered, crush their hope by a refusal. A {speak to me face to face, because my courted and vain of ber pretty face paltry ambition that brought its|reputation was that of a coquette, and powers to please. panishment. who laughed at her suitors who Suitors were certainly not wanting "For it was not many weeks after | offered her love. Yet ho wrote that he thought me wronged, and begged me to prove that I wasnot the heart less flirt society called me, "And when he came to me, Ethel, T smiled in his face, and offered him my hand with no ring he had given upon it. ¢ Do you wonder he left me believs ing all he had heard of my false me; yot a word or look of approval As sho knocked the balls about on | from him would please me as no liers playing against her, was evi- woman, but never paid subservient dently much absorbed 1n studying homage to my position or wealth. the cifect of green and gold as illus- I think he know I was not all the | heart and eonl coquetry? Do you trated by the little beauty's ribbons vain butterfly of fashion others |wonder that the sight and rane and curls. Ho was a tall young man | thought me to lo; and the thought |of o tea-rose has meds oe heart of true English type of manly beau- of this aroused all that was true in| faint since the day when I discovered ty, broad chested, strong limbed, | my nature. In his presence 1 drop. | how it had hidden from me the hay with curling brown hair and large ped coquetry and tried to meet his | piness of my life? > blue eyes, and a mouth uniting|oWn mental powers, and pure, high- | a ath : strength and stveetnoss in a rare de- toned conversation. Ilo taught mo| Bove: Aw fsx Woluhes again, greo, as his disposition united a|some of the delight a knowledge ot He is happy in Italy with his wife man's power with tho spirit of a boy, art gives to the sight of a fine paint oa i, and I am an old maid Ilo could meet lithel Stanmore |ing or piece of sculpture, He iwotigh Jove of him, weeping over 3 he : I ; ; houque POS i upon equal terms of position and trained my eyes for me until every ouquet 'of roses that remind me wealth, and a very promising flirta- sight in nature acquired a new foreivly of the past. tion had sprang up between the two. beauty. He guided mo through, 'Tear it apart,' said Ethel, in a Lookers on wondered if it waa to bo | higher walks of literature than I low voice. 'Sco if my fate is there.' a match, or one of Ithel's amuse. had tried alone Ethel, it is useless | ments, and Iarold himself set his|to prolong the story. Ils loved m teoth hard at some of the careless and won my love. r I coquetries that boded ill for the suc- "Yot during all the months' of in- | hunters, I know who will woo any cess of his suit. ¢ No, dear there is no ring there, no letter, but yet I tell you my story is a warning. There are fortune tercourso that bound our lodrts to rich girl, but thoy need not gain With ail the strength of a nature gether, Georgo had never said to me | the triumph of debassing your heart that was sincere and earnest, in|' love you ;' and sure as I folt of | by leading you through the mazes of spite of surface merriment, the young his affection I%kept my own love | a flirtation. Quiet dignity will soon man loved the pretty blonde, reading hidden till some words of his gave teach them their hopes are vain. Yet {he sweetness of her disposition, and | me guaranteo to speak. It was not|if a true heart is in your grasp, do tho sterling good qualities of her coquetry that kept me back, Ethel, | not play with it; gently discourage heart and mind, as yot untried by | but the modesty of true pure love. any of lifo's rough discipline. Io «Wo had come to the town for the !as you value your habpiness, do not waited, hoped and trusted that he winter, and I met George Holmes | trifle with a love you return.' would win the Leart tho coveted ; | constantly, at home and abroad, gnd he sued for it with patient, | when my uncle and guardian told {returned to the croquet ground ; and mainly devotion, willing to give all | mo that the young artist had been | Jfarold Golding Satara hide had homage to the weaker one, yet never offered a most des cringing if sovely tried by Lithel's tiv careless manner, it, it the plea is a vain one; if not, | There was a very grave-faced lady able and lacra-| happened while he was knocking o commission for a painting, that! balls around with more energy then would require him to go to Italy for | goad temper. It disquieted him to The game was over, and another | two, perhaps three years. [sco the bright face clouded and he was being formed when Ethel plead-| * I was sure he would speak then. | watched an opportunity to suggest ed fatigue and ran into the house, | It jcould not be that he would a short ramble into the woods Top loaving Harold fast bound by the leave home for years and give me jing to secure an explanation pt the mallet he had taken, belioving she [no word of love at parting. Wejcause, ' would bo his partzer. In the cool were proparing for a largo parting drawing-room tho young girl threw | at home, when the servant handed herself into a deep arm chair, and | MO a boquet of tea roses with Mr. was nearly asleep before she detect- Holmes' compliments. I loved tea- od a figure half hidden by the{roses; then Ethel, and the creamy, window curtain. half opened buds, the bright leaves, «Aunt Grace!" she cried spring- the deep tinted hearts of the open ing forward eagerly; 'I did mot flowers, all seemed smiling hope know you returned from town.' upon mo, as I sat in my room inhal- ¢Two hours ago, dear.' ing their perfume, and thinking of Fup June 24.~Yesterdoy aftornoozt (Why, auntio you have heen cry- the giver. It secmed to me a prom- hg = thik i & ing! You have heard bad news.' iso of all I had hoped and wished, Wesh Williams, war Heing RA «No dear, no news of any kind.' that I should receive the lovely gift; | 1; Baward Gott, and on reaching a depth of «And you have my bouquet in |and amid my tender thoughts I ro- | about fourteen fect fell from the bucket to your hand,' said the young girl ina solved to drop all my careless man. the bottom, a further depth of sixteen feet. wondering voice. 'I thought yon nor, all my flirting, heartless tricks, Gott at ence symmoned John Galbraith, i i re when I was assured this noble, true | near neighbor, who was lowered inta dhe. did not like tea roses. y A «I found this an the table.' heart, was all my own. Toth Fe Wo Bll to the et ha Yes; Harold brought it to me, «Never was 1 more carelul of my is k and I tossed it down here when we dress than on the evening of the |opjected to his following, and & man newed : went out to play croquet. I have party to which I refer. My choicest | Abner Whiting bravely, volunteered to go to to avoid Harold all day, auntie,' she [o¥els: my richest sill, gid duig Joy Pes rescue of the two unfortunate me, Of added, laughing; 'he is bent on that occasion ; and T dressed my ee en gre Jot Ave well ho met with the making a proposal, and I am 'not hair as George liked it best, and a rionds. Fe Joiies neta ready or ond" wora the color ho thought most be- ce aq oi ; ¢Not ready for one, Ethel ?' reit- coming. presence of carbonic acid gas, which smotl erated her aunt; *I do not under- '1 was still at my post as hostess, | ered the unfortunate men, stand you.' receiving my fast arriving guests as : «Perhaps I do not understand my-ho came in. I saw as he advanced Dr. Earle's Testimonial, self," was Ethel's reply; ¢ but I still |to meot me, that he was very pale,{ ay. James 1. Fellows, a adhere to the assertion just made |and his eyes were fixed upon my |(hemist--Sir : For several months past respecting Mr. Harold." face, as if he would read my very {have nsed your Compound Sprup in the Oh, Ethel, my dear child, do not|soul. I smiled as I greeted him, my treatment of incipient phthisis, chronic trifle with him; if you do not loveisoul full of hope. He took my bronchitis, and ether affections of the ches him dismiss him at once. Human [hands in his own, looked at them a nd § lieve So Besiuiion io stating that it, hearts wero never made for play-|mement, again searched my face I jJomedies used things, and you may find, too late, lwith strange wild eyes, which 1 an. exselles segs y 4 vous tonic, it exerts a influence your own bruised and bleeding. 1|could not understand, and then ab- | nervous system, and deh it it -- : What wag ssid exactly history does not record, but Ethel whispered to her aunt, as she kissed 'her good night. 'The new ring is Harold's, auntie. T did not let him bury his heart in a withered houquet.' a Death from Carbonic Acid Gas. ~ know the temptation youth, beauty, | ruptly tarned from me and left the |ates the body. and wealth are to a careless nature, | room. for I was liko you twenty yearsago.| ¢All through the long evening I Sit here, darling, and I will tell you | watched for bis return ; but he did why I was weeping over your not come. When I was alone in my own room once more, I took the He of tea roses. Fithel took a low seat beside her|boquet from my dressing table, third parly was summoned, but his friends * *