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: anid BS "ur = : VOL. XX, NO. 33.1 to PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, AND GENERAL A DVER THURSDAY, TISER JULY 26, 1877. ratsid albleow inalib domo or ort) pm -- a WEEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICUL- _ TURAL & FAMILY NEWSPAPER, i PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT. EVERY THURIDAY MORNING, BAIRD & "PARSONS. * PERMS.--$1 per annum, if paid in ad- wance ; if not $1.50 will ve charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; and no paper discontinued | until all arrears a d. rs A 4 or ADVERTISING. For cach line, first insertion ........$0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line 0 02 Cards, ander 6 lines, per annum . 5 00 .. #@F Letters containing money, When ad- dressed to this Office, pre paid and regester- ill be at our ris! = vertisemints measured bv Nonpareil, Sol Shag od according tothe space they oc-- DS vurtisements received for publication, without specific instructions, will be inserted antil forbid and charged accordingly. No advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants and others who advertise by the year or half-year, &c. J or CUDLIPP, Anouirter, Having had considerable practical ex perience in France, the United States and Canada, and holding Certificates from Her Majesty's P ivy Council in Building Construction, I am prepared to furnish DESIGNS, PL Fp PETALS, ESTI- S, 0. For dado din figure, All orders addressed to me, Port Perry Post Office, will receive immediate attention, NB. [am prepared to erect Buildings of any size or kind Port Perry, Feb 8, 1877. Ww SPENCE, CoNTRACTOR, BUILDER, &cC. The Subscriber In returning his sincere thanks for the Vind liberal patronage be- stowed on him in the past would inform the public generally that havin a perty and moved into the Village of Albert, he will in fulpre give his whole attention to his business a8 Contractor, and is now ready to ad Stone Work. Brick- Laying, Plastering, and everything connecte therewith. which hie will execute on the short- est notice and in the best and most durable style, and at the very lowest figure at which a good Job ean he done. heh e best maternal and first-class workmanship. atsh Wa. spENCE. Prince Albert, April 5, 1876, +. terms will in all cases be IM eait ct oto i) ARRLY iT ON, Teacher of Music, Job Dapariment. Iso denier in Musical In! Pamp Jats, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro-[" "Residence. on Union Avenue. grammes, Bill Heads, Blink Forms, Recipe WC SS HARRINGTON, Teacher of Books, Checks, Books. Cirenlars, Business wie, n muti bv Cp n " Cards, Ball Cards, &e , of every style and tesideniee, on Union Avenue, Por «color, exceuted promptly and at lower rates / than any oth:r establishm nt in the County . Partics from a distance g tting bund 3 Z . have them done to take bills, pos printed can e the AMP. BEALL | # E, PARSONS: JOWNSHIP CLERK, -------------------------------- | TOWNSHIP OF EAST WHITBY Conveyancing and General Iusmance : Aszent ? Yhesicint Office in the Town Hall, Business hours Coroner. selon, Port Perry. Resilence--OfMce door west of the Preshy- gerian Chureh. W ARE, Coronor nor for 1 t Ontario, Physician, Surgeon C0 ee. apposite the town hall. Prort Perry. Jonnty of Ac- and H. ANGSTER, M. D., Physician, J. geon and Aceoucheur. Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY. Ofce over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of «ueen and Perry Streets. Office hours from 9a. m. to 12 m. Residence, the dwelling recently occupied oy Mrs. Geo, Paxton. LEX. KENNEDY. MD ,M CPS, formerly assistant to Prof. Mac lean, Surgeon of the University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich, Office--Currie's b ock--corner of Qu-en and Perry strects, Port Perry. from 9a m till5p m The Clerk will be home for township vusiness on Mondays and Satmidays JAMES W. BEALL. Tp. Clerk. Columbns, March 28, 1877. "OHN S. M WILLCOX, F the Town of Whitby, has been ap pointed OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE or the county of Ontario. Any simon sntrusted to his charge will be carefully at- tended to. 1 Ww. BURN TAM, of lerk of the Third Divi- +) + sion Court. Office in Bigelow's Block Port Perry. Vien hones from 19am, tod T C. FOFM :N, INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS § MEASURES For the County of Ontario. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 45:tf RS. MrGILL & RAE, &e., &e, Office and Residences, King ta, ~ Osha WM. M'GILT, M™. W i Hoi, J, H. FRANCIS RAF, M.D, S., Guy's N, M.I ann 'Fhe 'liye R. I, London. dL Oshawn, BE. FAREWELL, LL. B., County Crown Attorney for Snark Barriste r,Attorney, Solleitor, and Notary Public. Oflice intely oc- cupled by 3. H. res Esq., Brock street, Whitby. Solicitor in Neer, &c. YMA GLISH LL. F Es Attorney, Convey Oshawa. yMee--Simeoe street, opposite the Post Office OUNG SMITH, LL. B.,, Barrister, At- YOUNG oT Solicitor in Chancery, wnd Insolvency, Notary Public, &ec. Office--MeMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. a esiiimmmimeoniosecams IN& MAC iD: NNELI, Barristers Oa rs at La Solicitors County Couneil, Untario. Offices : "Court House, Whitby. H. J. MACDONNELL. WM, C, CAMERON, re HURD, Attorney at Law, and Solicitor . a Chancery. Office in the Royal \reade, Port Perry. W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan- yi cery Notary Public, &c., &c Jffice hours punctually from 9a.m to 5 p,m. Mons 7 «2 Lon at 8 per cent, on all kinds of good security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. "J. A. MURRAY, ATE Patterson & Feuton, Surgeon Dentist Office over bells Store, Port Perry. All work done in the very latest and best style and warranted to give satisfaction, Port Perry, March 28, 1877, wonld inform th public 'tives his profession of Prince wd Surg on at his residence, Dental Albert, where be is prepared to attend to ail who cequire his services, or parti 8 will be Sioned at choir residences if they prefer it pnd thorouzh knowledge of every da ent of th profission cuable me to t sutisfaction in every instance re R. FOSTEK, LDS. 3 incealbirt, Aug. 16, 1876 8. £ nserted on all the latest princi- Lyles of the art, aud as cheap as the cheap 1 wy ands good as the hest. Teeth, filled Lowi Gok pnd, Silver. | Teeth extracted | " ' with pain by oraducing logal unasth- | o Rooms-sin - Cowan's new [1 "block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King bawa. JUHAS. THORN. V 8, ew &arriage Act. Port Perry, Joly 1st, 1874. ENRY CHARLES having been re- | appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- nish Licenses as Here tofore--at Port Perry. R. RICTARDSON, , Re-appointed Issuer of I.icenses. Office, lot 10, in the Marriage Under the New Act. 1st con, Brock. Brock, Aug. 5,1874. T C. FORMAN, ISSUER OF Marriage licenses. One door Weir of the Walker House Port Perry. OHN CHRISTIE, TOWNSHSP CLERK, ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Afice-- Manchester "THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co'y Head Office, Whitby, Ont. This Company is now fully organized and is prepared to accept risks on Farm Bnildings and their contents, country School Houses and Churches Those wishing to iijure and thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportanity of doing so, either | by applying to the Head Office, or to any of | the local Agents of the Company. Our rates will be fonnd gs low as those of any respon- ible Mutual Insurance Company in Canada, Head Office--Opposite the Royal Hotel Brock St., Whitby ©. NOURSE, Sceretary. W H. BROWNE, General Agent. WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS J. & BR. WOLFENDEN, HOLESALE and Retail dealersyin WwW "oreign and American Marble Man tles, Monuments, &c., Dundas St , Whitby, Also, Agent ¢ for the Scottish Granite Also Bailie Stone guts to orde. HN NOTT, . Agent, Port Perry. . 3! Whitby, July 29, 1874. fQu-tione vy. { i i Jd ines Ee Pon guion on Hores Bractics, Author hocing, Gradu- ated Sept. 16, 1867. Dora begk to' afinounce has ett up his residence ens GL " Sh - the skill scientific i nenmer. All nas left ab the Medical Hall ai SRA ion will receive prompt gltention, 8a The Veterinary Stablr may. hokage AN Apposite dts Gonsit Fury. 38 ratings; o Documents neces - to in Tee hvention, pre, - teceipt of the model of the Invention. : Ce be M. WILLCOX, . oy Licensep AUOTK 24! FOR THE 00° OF ONTARID, 8 be nv 'erideavor, 'by promps and Port Perry, Oct. 25, 1873, 1 3 Port Perry, March 8, 1876 Having now given up the business of B® MAJOR, ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties wishing his services can call at the "Qbserver" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Sales, Glen Major, Oct. 10, 1876, MORTCACES WANTED. WM. GORDON, HE Subscribers have In Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator, &e. Tes Hace in thelr hands OR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, p&@y™ Parties entrusting their Sales to me may rely on the utmost attention being given to their interests. rms, Village Propert! os Securities in'this and at the lowest current rates of interest. candep nd on east possible delay. WANTED TO PURCHASE, WM. GORDON, Sunderland, 'Brock. est figures will be allowed. T Pe WALSHE, CENSED Avctioneer for the Township of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in North Ontario; Mariposa, etc., in the County of Victoria. Residence--Cannington, Brock. Orders left at this office, or at his residence will be punctnally attended to. Debts col- lected in Cannington, or otherwise, and prompt remittances made. Remember-- WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction- eer. manent Building Society, the chea largest Monetary Institution in Canada. up Capital $1,500,000. in from 2 to 2 years. Lands Bought and Sold. Several good farms for sale. 722 Agents for several first ols Fire In surance Ci om panies. ness transacted. 74 DEBENTURES BOUGHT."%GX JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, Motels aa WALKER HOUSE PORT PERRY General Agents, Office In Mr. Ross' Ontario Buildings, Port Perry. Port Perry, Oct. 11, 1872, 'IYHE Substribe r having leased the above it will be his endeavor to conduct rit the JAMESLUND, MONET, LAND & INSURANCE v oa and patronage of the public. THE WALKER HOUSE whether for extent or quality of accommo: diions is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by none out of the best cities Travelers, the Traveling Farmers and others doing business Commercial Public, T0 MONEY in the Village and the general public will nay manner to snit borrowers, Mor : find in shit, Accounts, Notes, &e., Collected and > 1 rompt remittances made, Ww 5 sm THE ALKER TOUSH The party borrowing money can get it It without commission, at Fig all that can be required in the matter of accommodation and moderation in charges The Charges are No Higher at the Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House is fitted up thronghout in FIhS. CLASS STYLE. The Tables and Bar supplied with the choice ot the market and the utmost atten-- tion paid to the convenience and comfort ot BN 2) years on Cron ani vie e ment. Loans made farm, or good pi ductive property. In all ses whe Te he title is p «will that a ne A lor 3 1 Campanas There enn possi be no Publi- ALL GUESTS, |Compe ort co . An abundance of comfortable Stable and It the title = crfict the money will be Shed accommodation, and attentive hostlers. | paid here in two weeks after makirg applica- Taw tion. W. B. McGAW, JAMES I | Port Perry, April 20, 1876. Parrish's Block, Cor, Bre Streets, , Uxbridge. po T PERRY HOUSE, Uxbridge, May 17, 1877. MONEY 10 LOAN. PORT PERRY JAS. V. THOMPSON, PROPRIETOR, The above House is Mow most comfort- ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigats, also, first class Stabling and good Ostlers.-- Additions have been made which makes this the largest and best House in this section of country, Fare $1.00 per Day, Unusually Low Rates of Interest the borrower. roe HOUSE, PORT PERRY, Lands for sale, cheap. tures, Pank and other marketable Stocks. | Apply to The Subscriber 'having leased this comfort. able and convenient Hotel, will spare neither labor nor expense in providing for the com. fort and convenience of guests. The Tables will always be supplied with the best to be JAMES HOLDEN, Official Assignee, Broker, &e. OrricE--Over the Dominion Bank, McMil had in the market. Only choice Liquorsand | lan's Block, Brock st., Whitby. Cigars at the Bar. Any quantity of firstelass | withy, April 10, 1873, Stable and Shed accommodation properly | ---- er attended to by careful Ostlers HITRY, CRT PERRY & LINDSAY \ RAILW TIME TABLE No. 18. Taking eflect Wednesday, May 9th, 1877. TORONTO TIME. CHAS. HOLT. I EVERE HOUSE, MANCHESTER. By GEO. HOUCK. Having leased the above excellent Hotel it will be my endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the appro- bation and patronage of the public. Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. Trains Going North. NTARIO HOTEL, WHITBY, dma ------ | T. MASON, ~ - PROPRIETOR. "Trains Going South. The public well cared for, and all Guests NO. 3 MATT. a Port Perry. will please feel at home. Prince at Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. Munchester . Ln = : Simi i bm lout Mary. UEEN'S HOTEL, Brook! p.m Whitby Y5pm | "¢ Dusk cameon. T sent Edwards Corner of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts. Whitl: ar. 800 pn CANNINGTON, Oxr. D CAMPBELL, . Proprietor This Hotel is now furnished in the best style, and offers every accommodation to | travelers . . * Platform Stations--Trains stop on signal Connections, -- At hitby h Stage for Uxbridge, and 3 FA Leut? for Lindsay. p&5™ First class Sample Rooms. Livery JAMES HOLDEN, attached, Managing Director. Cannington, Oct, 20, 1875. 43| Whitby, May. 4, 1577 A TISANERAY HOTEL, PRINCE ALBERT. W. H. PARK, PROPRIETOR. Having purchased the above pleasantly Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired and renovated' the entire premises even to the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the best Liquors and Cigars! Strict attention paid to the comfort of Commencing on or abotn Tuesday the 17th of April. THE STEAMER " NORSEMAN," (W. SHERWOOD, MASTER.) 'Will make her regular Trips on that route. leaving Cobourg every morning at 1 Port aL 9. on arrival of ky 'Hom Kast # est, oi a Rochester with the New York Central, North. guests Tk rae and one clay wil the The table and: bar well supplied. Lake uhtario Share Division of fhe Rome, W H. PARK. orev wt Orden Railway for al Ey E ig will leave Charlotte (port % y Prince Albert, June 12, 1875 pstunine, Si leave Ch A RMSTRONG HOUSK, [J Chane and most, Expeditions route to h Albany, New Yor! or further IAtorIaanon Apply to Ww. SHE Wi oon, , are ALBION) WHITBY, ONTARIO. E ARMSTRONG; PROPRIETOR. The Only First Clady House in Town. NSO OUSE, Its ate Jewett House, Kent Bhi fia deay. Board, 3 50 ver dey. AND TOWNSHIPS OF MAR! OXAL, XCHANGE Sw fas } ¥ Bdwards sleeping in the tent, The PosA' & CARTWRIGHT, 1 , LIAMSBURG, CARTWRIGHT: ti © TAT | + [1ad was not good for much but still Bug v0, uni his soany oad 1 The 8 x A re Mason c. M = N Zz I E, he was'somebody. It would now be- - Homer h a oars in sis Dlessant ani Som Hons Hoteh Hap) suite a9 ' PROPRIETOR a contest of skill between the: follow noid ing now fully ps Terovaling the entire ip Sut thes bay / tn devote any LTH | IVE Tivery Sabi 8 With shame jg Tire he best arts nds ai Cigars: hue of Schott oc the of. he | aim en ve Livery Stabl ah stabling rot pga Catlorng tclass rans. | chreful attention to: business, to give full Wameaty ot hoe L i V E h YR 1 GC S 2 faction tol who may ovo 1m with | 3 MONEY "20 a "om 'Moderate Terms. AND) thal Sal or Collecting. AY to she a 1 [Private Funds, , Bors Polish Aug 1780 C. MCKENZIE. ms grovciinty wud Blank No to Tati on tod Farms, at 8 Ya cet fn- : a op IT Stampa alway ya on hand. terest. Arrangements can bo made for' ales " io, : LYMAN ENGLISH, ¥, ONT. atthe Onspavsn Office, and at the Sandard | Leds Bikhiaris, &o., "M¢GANN & TAYLOR, Panes: Offiog, Port Perry. 3 Oshawa | Every accommodation for the trave ng YM WILLCOX, November 21, 1866, 4 public, MUNEY k{ LOAN || sums of mon- or investment on rties, and joining Counties o have funds on hand at all times Borrowers etting their money with the Any number of Mortgages for which the high- 'Wearealso appfaisers for tha Canada Per- st_and Paid Instalments re-payable Collections made and a general agency busi- The undersigned hasany amount of Money to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at Loans ean be repaid in any manner to suit Also several Improved Farms, and Wild Investments made in Municipal Deben- Ldep. L.25 p. m 1.35 p., Wh Junction with Jrand Trunk % Rallway Trains, East and West. wit DAILY LINE TO ROCHESTER. nR, opt Saturdays when she will leave at 3 p.m. for Port Hope 18 in Stock, &e., will find this the to Bos: Hope. ipped ELAM'S ADVENTURE. [coxcLupED 1 "1" a woman does not trifle with subjects like these, nor deceive when she goes out of her way to do a service,' she answered. ¢ I rode off from that house the other way this morn- ingand made a deture,and came here to warn you, And now I have done, if you will please to get my horse, I will ride away again.' All fare that I full of thanks and re- pentance, asked her to stay longer if she was not perfectly rested ; but she declined, and I brought the steed ronnd and helped her to mount him. Once in the saddle her humor changed ; she smiled and reminded me that I had not been polite enough to invite her toreturn. A week of reading, talking, rid. ing, trout fishing, and romaucing up in those splendid mountains would be very charming; perhaps she might come if I asked her, ¢ And did you ask her 2 *Idid not. A young man, with a reputa- tion to sustain up there in the mountains, couldn't invite a young lady to stay with him, could he now?' crird Elam quaintl y, which set us toth laughing. 'So I parried the question as easily as I could, and she rode away In going slowly down the trail, she turned and kissed her hand to me with a gracious sweetness. T assure you the struggle within my own mind was greatat that moment, and I don't know whether T have forgiven myself yet for what happened afterward.' ¢ What did happen 7' ¢She-came back again, She came back That is I made the best excuses I conld for not readmitting her, saying. we should perhaps have' fighting urder--and what not--in my fort that it, and it would be no place or scene for sately-bred woman. The pretty and modest girl, who was to come from Walla- met Valley and hang up her pink garments on my pegs, had rushed into my mind, you see--but I never like to confess to this part of the story, because I get langhed at. But] dor't you think that 1 did right ?--having my reputation to keep up ?' While we had our laugh out, again, and I drove her away. adel Elam was pushing his soft, fine light hair off his brow with those slender fingers, that looked as if no rough work ever came near them and what must they have been betore it did come? He went on thoughtfully. ¢ She finally rode away, not having been invited to get off her horse, leaving me in anything but a pleasant frame of mind, From telling myself that I was a bear, I turned to the other subject--my promisca robbery and murder. Had she simply in- vented that little fable, or was it a true bill ? I felt inclined to believe it the latter. Any way I deemed it well to be prepared for all contingencies, barring and bolting my fort against intruders, and sitting up late over | the fire. On the Tuesday morning three or four men rode up. One of whom was the traitor, my former naked anil hungry protege. He no longer attempted to conceal his true character from me, but he said he and his comrades were intending to clean out the. Chinese camp, and I was on wy guard in answering him, simply saying that I would have nothing to do with rob- bing the Chinese, that they were my friends and customers, and I thought they had best With that he went off. That same afternoon Edwards came having He was very tired, and asked leave to stay with the horses at my place till next day. I said nothing to Edwards of the gang just gone away or thut (what I had suspected) they had talked of making a raid on the Chinese only to throw me off my guard, and that it was. on my fort on which theattack, was to be, and I hoped the fellows did not know of the arrival of the horses, ns they would be an additional temptation for them.' This was Sunday night. e asked me to join in the raid, - | be let alone. in, recaptured some of the horses. «I'd not live in those wild lawless regions for the whole world,' cried dead tired, to bed ; made a great fire in the tent, and sat by it tacing the My expected visitor came, the villian, He made believe to have been drinking, and put that forward as a plea for asking shelter until the morning. The instant he was inside, I made the gate fast, driving the big wooden pins home with an axe. Icaughta gieam from his eyes as I was doing this, which ; window. + 'But why not have made the gate fast before he entered ?' « Because he was safer inside than out. A conviction had come over me that this man was some desper- ate character, His comrades were no doubt waiting near, and his plan had beeh to quietly open the gate to them." * Had you no arms bat your rifle?' «I wanted none, for fve under- stood ench other--my rifle and I,-- This villian understood us; too. I don't think, either, he liked to see f and me. He was waiting his op- portunity;and so was I. Of all villanous- looking men, he was the was the. worst: Tall, awarthy, black- beardéd', with a hard face that mus: have been handsome once, and fierce, black eyes gleaming with evil. He sat ori'oneside the hearth, I on the other, dur eyes fixed on each other.' _ Elam paused. I wondéréd what | disobey me?and he should die 'a0 loved me like a brother. 'You guess, 1 daresay, that I have a quick ear, for yutl know what my temperment is--all sensitive consci ousness. My good hearing had been cultivated too, by listening for In- dians. By.and-by I detested a slight movement outside the fort, and then a faint chirrup like a like a young squirrel might make.-- Up sprang the man, but covered him with wy rifle, cocked. He saw the movemenf, snowed his teeth, and drew out a pistol ; but not before I ordered him to throw down his arms or die, He hesitated; he saw that in my eye that made him quail.-- With the rifle leveled. and my finger on the trigger, he threw down his --pistol and knife--with a dreadful oath. I bad the best of him, and he knew it; for before he could have put his pistol into form, or rushed upon me with his knife, the ball from my rifle would have been in him. Tis language was awful --and we are not nice in that respect in California--the foam lay on his lips. Te demanded to be let out of the house, denouncing me as.a robber and a murderer. To all his ravings [ had but one answer; to be quiet, to obey me, and he should live; dare to He sat there codved, on the oppositeside of the fire not erin tote even a doubtful motion. Then I told him what 1 knew--that I had heard what he was, and what he meant to do. With that he broke down utterly -- or pretended at it, howled like =a child, declaring that now he knew my pluck, and had been the first man ever to get the better of him, All the same, love or no love, he had to sit where he was, and I in front of him with my rifle on my knees. was a long night before us; he could have no liberty in "it, and the rve- | straint was horrible to him. One! moment ho laughed uneasily; the | next, cursed ; the next, cried. It | was a Strange experience wasit not? To pass away the time, I asked him to relate the history of his life. Ile said he would ; but would first of lall just shake fay for the respect he bore me touching my rifle significintly, I pointed to stick lying across the hearth place between us. 'That's your bound- ary line my man,' said I, "don't go | stretching your hand over that.'-- {And it sent him into a fit of sullen~ 0s8." "What came of it?' . ¢ We must have remained in this position till midnight. Several | times I heard slight sounds outside the fort, to which he" listened ; but dared not respond to them, he could do nothing after a while they ceas- ed ; his associates, rightly judging that something had gone wrong and spoiled the scheme, no doubt made off, tired of waiting. The fellows head was bent, his chin rested on his breast, his shaggy beard spread- ing over it likea mantle. He suffer ed martyrdom. He was like a heyna caged, though ha showed it only by involentary nervous star- ings and furtive glances. Finally he could beur-it no longer, and entreat- ed mo piteously abjectly, to give him his freedom or blow out his brains. IIe could not have his freedom just yet, 1 quietly told him; but he knew how to get his branis blown out if he desired it. ~~ Which brought forth some more of his 'choico language. And the lad; Edwards, slept throngh-it all I" ¢Ay, it was, By-and-by, we got to talking : I not relaxing my vigil- ance for an instant. Once started on his own history the subject seem- ed have @ strange fascination for him. He had been honestly 'rais- ed,' he said, by good and loving par. ents, in the state of Missouri," had. in the village in which he lived-- and his description of ber was fo pretty and vivid that I. declare it brought into my mind theother girl waiting for me down ix Wallamet valley. To enablehim to marry be somo honest way: 'the He made it, and, make in requisite money. other, her over was dead, and married him, he Was invited to' an ev ning love andher hikband ; been ery man {ook was comings There | bud passionately loved a young girl resolved to 89; to' 'California and full of joyful aniicipations, returned to find that she had married 4n- he 'man--tho hushand--had played 'then, false, | told the girl that] her ENinvelf. 'When he came out of the froin fever 'which this news gave partyin tow, one given fn honor of of him. To this party came his. when he put out; his. had to. weltome her; eph Xkaew 'Abert From that hour the il "churses, and his victim was the false husband. His hand was against every man, and every man's against him; and he became a desperate outlaw. Once again he saw his love meeting ber in the streets of Sacramento ; she was married again, and she turned away from him with a cry of aversion.-- Yes, he added,he might be desperate | now, but he had had his trials... I ask- ed him what his name was, Hiram Creddin, he answered ; but. the one he wae known by was Boone. Helm. That made me start.' 'Why did 16? "Because I had heard - of Boone Helm before--and knew he was the greatest terror of the time. I sup- pose I shotild have done. society a favor if 1 had shot himas he sat there; but I did not. Perhaps you won't believe that I felt a sort of pity for the fellow--but I did. -- Well, morning came at last. I sont Edwards to open the gate, and escorted my visitor out, telling him that there was not room for me and him in that part of the country and that he had better quit it for an- other.' * And did he ?' 'Isuppose so. Ho nevera tempt. ed to molest me again. Not long after I heard of his death. He met his fate up east of the mountains.' 'And what of that pretty Amazon, Elam ?' I'm sure she was almost as to you as a guardian angel! Com- ing on horseback to give you warn- ing!' 'Was she not? And Thad return- ed it by behaving so unhandsomely to her! But now I just ask you-- Would it have been proper to hay let her come 1n on that week's visit? --and Ia young man with a reput- {ation !" Again wo burst out laughing, [Elam's appeal to us was put wit | the most unsophisticated nir possi- ble. ¢ At any rate, you did not.' | "No," said he, 'I did not. And, taking all things into consideration, I think I did right.' . ' Have you scen her since ?' 'Once. Itwas at San Francisco. She was married and staying, at the same hotel that I was. Her hus baud was a fine, tall, dashing man, what with you would be calleda gentleman, and very wealthy. She had been lucky you see. I knew her as soon as she came into the drawing room, and in a few minutes I suw that she recognized me; but she did not take any notice neither did I. She told me with her eyes that she remembered, but there was an appealing glance in them which I interpreted rightly. After dinner she went to the piano and sang, 'Kate Kearney." We got into cone versation before that,the three of us, just as strangers will do in 4a hotel and I found the husband a very in- telligont, educated, well-informed man. In parting I got justa word aside with her. 'I am glad to meet you again, and thus.' 'ITush! she answered: 'I thank you for your reticenco. In a life that has been composed of ups and downs, there is generally something or other lying on the memory that wo don't care to recall or proclaim to the world." "And about that young girl in the Wallamet Valley ?' 'I never found her,' replied Elam, shaking bis bead thoughtfally.-- 'Truth to say, T never started fairly to look for her. i ups and downs, you know, as, the other lady observed, ot delightful hopes and all that. = Perhaps it's as well.' ? Nias can have, as a steady thing, in fhe Totig run, is relf-conceit. shoes. a secret, , % pt father drives an omnibus.' with his parents all night, an ight, uh one of fitigae or the time of diy. have known the defendant. s long time! = What are bis habits--loose, ar rwise | The one he bas got on | now I thin shout loty Jo vn apais youmg | that, age; of those, with whom the A This resparkabl., dimness.of. memory. of the widddle ages." Lite is composed of About the most uncomfortable seat & man ¢T think we have made too much of that giagantic Czardine, * is the way a patriotic orator stated "the case with regard to thé Grand Duke Alexis, re 'Keep love, a secret) exclaimed Alot] Kerzah. 'Can you keep toothache a secret? Well, ng more ean you kegp: dove for. tight A pert little girl boasted' to ofie' of her | friends tbat 'her father kept a carriage,' 'Ah, but,' was the tiueiphang reply; 'my, and h A doting 'young 'father bonsts_that hia. young sort Ts #0 affectionate shat be sits. up) so} tongh that he seein to hive pe "dance ellen 'One, more 'question Mr. "Parker. You at isrothet} Tr of | hd il iy been very "pproprately styled ¢ the darkness ee mit A little' girl with tangled" peeping from undér 4 dalico' clad in a dréss of chintz RE: ung ° all dwt, loiterbd " behind' as. the great, dusty crowd moved oat of the gates of Mr. Adnan; the HBS Any, after they hill Beattered the Hwers, If and done honor to the dead, %¥ dreamily she gazed after' "Herm aay disappeared and thé ra drarhs had died away, Hl she tirned "afd vaguely scanned" the mounds that rose about her, ¢luf ch- ing still tighter the fast' fading bunch of dandelions and grave grass that ber chubby hand beld. ~~~ An old man passed by, and gently patted her ¢ufly héad, as he spoke her name, but she only shrank 'back still further, and when he told a passing stranger that the'little Sne's father was one who went on the bat- tle field And never came back, there wasonly a tear drop in the child's eyo to tell thatshe beard or kuew the story. ' When they were gone she bed on further to be fiéglécted, empty lot and kneeling down she packed up & mound of earth, whispering asi she patted it down, and smoothed itwith her chubby band : This won't be so awfully big as tho®thers, I guess, but maybe, itll bo big énongh so that God will see it, and think that papa is batried here'. Carefully she trimmed the gides with the stray grasses she plupked murmur ing on: 'And maybe it will grow and be like the rest in two or four years; and then, maybe, papa sometimes will come back and--' But she paused as though it ails denly dawned upon her young mind that he rested where the Southren breezes whispers 'unknown * and the tear drops that sprang to. her eyes moistenéd the little bumeh of dandelions that she planted among the grasses on the mound 'that shé hed reared. When the sexton passed that way ut night as he went to close the gates he found the little one fat asleep, « with her héad pillowed on [the mound, and when he roused 'héf she started up andl looking dreamily around for a moment, and then smi]: ingly filtired : ' 'Yes, I'll go home row, for God says Ho will watch papa's grave.' tenderness, until t Asparagus resembles long sermons in one important particuldr-- thd ends are most sought after. Lightning never strikes twice in one place, any moré than two straw: berries hit in the same short cake. Dr. Redfield says injadicious food is killing hundreds of people in' this country every year. ' Well, what of that ? You wouldn't have thé officers of lite insurande tompanies 'Mgging off all the money, would you?" The agricultural papers 'are pud- lishing articles of « How to Pp tect Melons * "About the best plans to' bire's man with a doublé barrel gun and dog to wateh' the meflna, or else raise each ofie separately n burglar-proof safer 10° iab You can' generally tol thé 'man' - who has just exme from 'the séakide- He has a buat nose: THT of Grecian outline, 16 now Tools Tike .& half-seraped radish," Whild "dy 0- nose does not look unlike" 8 "sty berry; hat hidden in dough. A Now Hampshire man' t bra ried two wives Within eight honths. Well if bis wives were Head "#utdl he wis opposed to cremation; we' 'don't seo what else' he 'eonld' have' done with them. + H¢' would have been. more fit sabjett for NEWSpAPEF Sum ~ ment iH he: 'hisd refused 10 biry them: Ha A Rowonid hs oon qu ing kris son, who bas jast' Fetirned from: an expensive school, andsays Lthe boy answers: four questions out, | of fivercorreetly insévery branéh of his stadies. To fom . Sut fis Slways A on he Rn y 2 i