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CLIM | § Dy AT THE-OFFICK, SIMCOE STREET, OSHAWA, RT ce THE LA L INTAINS rH Now, Loca) Intell. | EIGN and Matters, i Pe Bast o M ei n Tay Al w comply deripiom wntil they od to the tor must te v Al Jothes Searwise they may But be'taken from ve Post Ottice. 4 YATES OF ADVERTISING: Ste Ya i ar first inserliOm. L. ...... Si ERED Sul so sad ous From six to ten lines, first insertip Each subsequent insertion. ... Over ten lines, first insertion, per (li Each-subseqiient insertion, of lines to be reckoned by the space sured by a scaie of Solid Nonpareil. wt specific [directions will 1 J ingly. ert ts must By . Advertisemen e-. ies atl sa by 10 o'clock on the Wednes- preceading their Ppublication.-- The num? y liberal discount will Business Birertory. ve CANAAN AAA AA AAA W. R. Climie, SSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES By authority of His Excellency the Gover or @aneral: Ofice at the Statesmanofiice. W. COBTRN, M.D, P.L., HYSR(CIAN, SURGEON, AND A OCOC CHEUR, King Street, Oshawa. Residence and Oifiice--Nearly opposite, Robie Hotel. tf YRANCIS RAE M, »., HYSICIAN, SURGEON, ACCOUCH. | eur, and Coroner. King St, Oshawa. 12 | C. S, EASTWOOD, 1. p,, ara ATE OF THE UNIVERSIT™ | X of to, at present at Black's Hat Jshawa. ho J. FERGUSON, ICENTIATEorDENTAL SURGERY. Office over the Grocery of Messrs. Simpson ros., King St., Oshawa. | { All operations preformed in a skilful mshuer. Residence in the same building. { Veterinary surgery and Drag Store, ENRY'S BLOCK, KING STREET. |: Oshawa. Horse and Castle Medicines of a | alit 1 drugs warranted pure. A ays. mn the premises, Pru ; ZMAU RICE, late of He: Tih Dragoon Guards and Horse Artil fi | z FAREWELL & McGEE, | BR STERS, ATTORNEYS, 80. | { Conveyancers and Notarie: | Pub g , South-¥ast Corner of King and Simcoe Streets, t 24 MONEY to Lend. Mortgages bought and sold J. E, FAREWELL, (7. R. McGee. S. Ji. COCHRANE, L.L. B,, ARRISTER, ATTORNEY-at-LAW, | Saicitor in Chancery, Notary Public, &c.-- Ofiice--In Bigelow's New Building, Duncas st, | Whitby. 12 | JON McGILL, i ICENCED AUCTIONEER, OSHA- | wa. All ordersleft at this Office will be | promptly attended to. 12 i P. BR. HOOVER, | Issuer of Marriage Licenses WHITEVALE. |. | | 1 ' OSHAWA LIVERY STABLE, H. THOMAS, PROPRIETOR. -- | o First Class Horses and Carriages always | on band ; Cay Line of SI from Oshawa | to Baavrerton, connecting with er at Mad, say. ¥ | C. Ww, SMITH, { RCHITECT, PATENT, INSUR-| anes and General Agent, Simcoe Street, | - awa. Agent for the loman Line of Steamers { #0 and from New York and Liverpool. . REFER- | | ENoe--Messrs. Gibbs Broa, F. v. Glen, Esq. 8. B. Fairbanks, Esq. 12y i DOMINION BANKI| WHITBY GENCY. J.H. M CLELLAN Aent - BJSHERIN & Cou, | THOLESALE MANUFACTURERS | } Faatorys . Best New York Ma- trade supplied on best ters. "East Bowmanville. 3 j < | King 8 D. HOLLIDAY, - BEUVKLIN, ONT, AGENT .FOR | the [solated Risk Fire Insurance Company | Tor a purely Canadian Institu- | '= and Lancashire Compan- | each. Also. Agent and | nada Permanent Building | , Toronto, for loans of money | t 18-1y | MEDICINES. The Greatest Public Bemefit of the Age A SD FOR WHICH, NOTICE TH} A : Testimonials, (s few of them enclosed i: «1 Favper around each. bottle,) with a numervu list of respectable persons' names, who testify tc the Superior qualities of Lis various Compounds, Lung Syrup, | Constipation Bitters, | Liver Compound, } Cough Drops, | . Worm Specific, | Palin Relieyer, Golden OQiatment, &e. { The above Medicines ean be obtained at all | Tug Siores, . . 22-3m SPRING STYLES [n great profusion at the i Dominion Outfitting STORE. Latest Styles in Hats end Caps. 1 4 A LARGE STOCK OF Men's Under-Clothing VERY CHEAP. A large and 'attractive stock of { Men's& Boys' Ready-made CLOTHING. MUBRELLAS, CARPET-BAGS, : SATCHELS CRICKET and LACROSSE BELTS,™, .. | CHEAP st HODDER'S. | OG. HODDER, | &F One door North of McLean's Cheap Grocery Store, Simcoe Street, wa, Apel 20, 1470 at | MARKUS MAYER 5 Invites the attention of his friends in Oshawa and vicinity to his enlarged place of | {Furs Altered and Repaired. FALL'AND WINTER STOCK | Fancy Flannel Shirts and Drawers, all Colors. Collars, Ties, { JOHNSTON SELF-RAKE REAPER, ever used in my experience of 20 years. | THE CAUGACHIEF JUNIOR MOWER, i a I have ever used in 10 years Eianafaeturing | | THE FAR FAMED PARIS GRAIN | ring ipally previous Lo using stock's Oil. : i ---"_n ee ee ee YolL.1~ OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUA RY 23,1872. NO. 46.° |. Borg, BOWMANVILLE, LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR. | A good wife rose from her bed one morn, And thought, with a nervous dread, | Of the piles of clothes to be washed, and more PRACTICAL HATTER AND FURRIER ! nepotism oo | And the children to fix away | To school, and the milk to be skimmed-and i churned; | And all to be done that day. ! It had rained in the night, and all the wood © Was wet as it could be, | And there were puddings and ples to bake, And a loaf:of cake for toa. | The day was hot and her aching head : | Throbbed wearily as she said, ' i | "If maidens but knew what good wives know, When Tou Want a Nice Set of Furs for Tour Wifo or Daughters, | They would be in no hurry to wed." CALL AT M. MATERS. | Jennie, what do you think I told Ben Browp" . . v.53 Called the farmer from the well; Highest Price Paid | Asda flush crept up to his bronzed brow: | And his eye half bashfully fell. for Raw Furs. | It was this," ho said, and coming near, (26) He amiled and mooping down, | Kissed her cheek,--" 'twas this, that you were NEW FALL. GOODS. i87l ? ; ™ . In a smiling and absent way, --AT THE | Sang snatches of tender lttle songs Ld wy pn - . - - | She'd not song for many a day. Tr dow M P E O - 2 t 3 Aj i And 'he pam in her heii was gone, and the s Business and his Superior Stock of Goods. His long experience as a And his strict attention to-Business, has guaranteed him in Enlarging his Stock, and he is now ring GREAT INDUCEMENTS fo buyers. His fall purchases have been heavy, and his agscrtinent of Hats, Caps, Furs and Buffalo Robes PAPER COLLARS, NECK TIES, GENTS' FURNISHINGS, &c., » Are well Worthy of Inspection. M. MAYER. Bowmanville, Oct. 5, 1871, 1871. the best | And dearest wife tn town | The farmer went back to the fleld, and the wife clo hrs Were white as $a ter bread was light, aud And goiuen as it could be, :4t think,' the children all called in a' breatl' Tom Wood has run off to sea! He wouldn't, I know, if he only had As happy a home as we." | The night came down, and the good wif smiled To herself, as she softly said, *' "Tis sweet to labor for those we love-- { "Tis not strange that maids will wed!" LARGE SUPPLES! BEAUTIFUL STYLES! de AND-- Julien was sweet; VERY CHEAP! ugly feller like me, and stick to it, when I was jost ready to eat him up, 1s a kind of a man to, tie tuo." Here Bud stopped in fright at his own volubility, for he had run his words off like a piece learned by heart, as though afraid that if he stopped he would not have courage to go on. Ralph said that he did not yet belong to any church, and he was 'afraid he was full of sympathy, and, what is better than sympathy, a yearning for sympathy. ' You see," said Bud, 'I wanted to git out of this low-lived, Flat Crick way of livin'. We're a hard set down here, Mr. Harteook. And I'm gittin to be one of the hardest of 'em. But I never conldgit on good out of Bosaw with his whiskyand meanness. And | went to Mount Tabor church oncet. ' I heard.a man discussin' baptism, and regeneration, and so on.-- That didn't seem no cure for me. I went | to a revival over at Clifty, Well, 'warnt {no use. First night they was a man that spoke about Jesus Christ 'in sech a way that I wanted to foller him everywhere. Bat I didn't feel fit. Next night I came back with my mind made up that I'd try Jesus Christ, and see ef he'd have me.-- But laws! they was a big man that night that preached hell. Not that I don't be lieve they's a hell. thousand miles away as deserves it, and I don't know as I'm too good for it myself. But he pitched it at us, ard stuck it in | our faces in sech a way that I got mad. -- | And I says, Well, of God sends me to hell | he ~an't make me holler 'nough nohow.-- You see my dander was up. And when Selections, AAAS A |THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER. .A Most Comprehensive Stock of Staple Dry Goods, | lannels, Blankets, Winceys, Dress Goods, Binens, Damasks, Carpetings Curtains, Towelings, Hosiery, Gloves, &c., &ec. ---- JUST TO HAND! Two Cases of Beautiful MANTLES, made expressly for our Fall Trade, in Silks, Velvet, Plein anl Satire Cloths, Velveteens, together with an asssortment of very Elezant Waterproof Suite. BY EDWARD ECCLESTON. : From Hearth and Home. CHAPTER XIV. if you will, I went with that girl once. >- When I found you had some claims, I gave her up. Not becanse I was afraid of you, for I would rather. have taken, the worst thrashing you can give me than give her up. the night of the first spelling-school." "" You lie!" said Bud, doubling his fists. Ralph grew red. "" You was a-waitin' on her last Sugday right afore my éyes, and a-tryin' to ketch my attention too, So when you're ready, say so." + > AF TE - ar Fy > MILLINERY. MILLINERY. The patrons of the Temple of Fashion (who are legion) will be pleased to learn that MRS. REDMAN "(late Miss M. J. Thomas) cos es to superintend the Millinery Department, and that great pains have been dieplayed in the selection of our Fancy Goods, Ribbons, ln Feathers, Trimmings, &c., 80 as to render this Eestablishment the Great Fashionable Emporium for all who desire Stylish Goods. Temple of Fashion, Corner King and Simooo Stiocts, Oshawa. | "Bud, there is some misunderstend- S. TREWIN. ing" Hartsook spoke slowly and felt be- SEPTEMBER 14, 1871, | : wildered. "I toll you that I did not W M. DICKIE'S |$pugk to. Hannah lant Sunday, snd you know I didn't." ¢ Hanner!" ** Hanner!" Herehe gasped forjbreath,and looked around. " Hanner!" He couldn't get any further than the name at first. -- + IS NOW COMPLETE IN | *" Why, plagae take it, who said Hanner?" Dross Goods of the Very Latest Patterns, "iit, iui rod insvges nah," said Ralph, feeling round in a vague Irish Poplins in all Shades and Prices, from 35 to 80. - way to get his ideas together. Shawls of Choicest Styles, in Stripes and Clan Tartans. ¢ Mirandy! Thunder! You believe Mi- --Blankots of the Warmest Make, and V 1 oh { randy! Well! Now looky here, Mr. Hart- Woolen Ki ioods of Frery Description. | s0ok, ef you was to say that my sister lied, | I'd lick you till yer hide wouldnt hold In great variety, very cheap. Dress and Mourning Caps, Furs, Ete. Rid QAloves, Two Buttons, in Black and Colors. i shucks. But I say, atwixt you and me TAILORING! S an 1 the gatcpost, don't you ever believe Clothing made to oRDER by First-class Workmen, and a Good Fit Guaranteed. Ladies' Bayard | anything that Mirandy Means says. Her | and marm has set theirselves like fools to | git you. Hanner! Well, she's a mighty ! nice gal, but you're welcome to her. I | never tuck no shine that air way. But I : | was out of school last Thursday and Fri- Overcoats apd Pea Jackets, Pants and Vests, | day a shucking corn to take to mill a Sat- { vrday. And when Icome pastthe Squire's | and ceed you talking to a gal as is a gal, 1 2 | you know" --here Bud hesitated and look- Umbrellas, Carpet Bags, Valises, and Trunks, | ed foolish--* I felt hoppin' mad." from 81.50 to $16. i Bod ue on ha coat. . a ! put on his coat. Hats and Caps Cheaper than Ever. Then they shook handsand Bud went BOOTS AND : OT {out. Ralph sat looking into the fire.-- . + i There was no e~nscien: HiMouity Tr 1928, Pubbers ' OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND PRICE. ia the war of his cls rude 4 lurge assortment of every description for T The . " Ete., Good and Ll ; . GA The an Sowing Machin and the Self-lal.s um iy forestick Ning on oe ~uy tho Leckman Bove! : s Sold-Llasis lcm W. DICKIE vadirons burst into a blaze. The smd ler- : : ing hope in thehaart oi R uph Hartaook did AUCTION |G B siecos Celebr ated {ihe Sawe _-- sod have Hannal if he | . | could win her. ut there came slowly : Extra Machine Oil | : : : AND J | back the recollection of his lost standing at t | TS. NOW USED IN ALL THE PRIN. |; Fiat Creek. There was circumstantial x , Manufactories and Mills in Ontario | 1 Lia i Com mission Business Loris eatire satisfaction. and al unite Jn |-evidence against him. It was evident that ---- | saying there is from 2 tn three hun: r cent. 4 all oth HE SUBSCRIBER IN RETURNING | this Ol 1s sell nono it Is tabecestary for 136 to TT his sincere thanks for the many favors be- [stalethe Tedbons why it Jupercodes all Sihes Oil, i did not Would 1 as a wi OWN [AC Ww or gum kno '. Smal hing a $inee ns ee Fan Hon nor ot thick in the coldest weather. | lation he did n " ou uy attend to Sales wherover desired, and " bs . pared to a TESTIMONIALS: bi cy yg rk at Harmoney, for the Tae Josern Bais, Miconis bpp h . F a shawa, Ont., 187 purpose of kveping on baad all kinds of ex. B. STOCK, Eso. Brogan. Pp ve ) MACHINERY | nbs. en imme oe Lot | heart of the bound 451 aqui: Rug, { without hesitation, that it is the oil we have | The bright flame on 'orestick which N ever used. It is alsocheap, and lasts | than ULTORAL "IMPLEMENTS so other oil; we have rua our Jars 1d foot iron Ralph had been watching flickered and AGRIC | Gl a gh, Wo wah anything | burned low. 3 Pi THE | better as ricator. CLIMAX DOUBLE CYLINDER! + "*Noustruly, F.W.GLEN, Prest. | CHAPTER XV N N I will run Stocks Oi! against anyother oil io | APTER : THRESHING MACHINE, the Dominion, and 1 prefer it tw either Sperm of | THE CHURCH OF THE BEST LICKS. Just as the flame on the forestick, which int lo fink fact a erson, Glasgow & Co. Olive oil, or any other used on machinery. ich is the ay bri h 0 ever introduced into A HENDERSON, Foreman Joseph Hall Works. Ontario, also the | Po fin ' Ralph had watched so -c a 1 find Stock's Oil to be the best ofl I hs ver P wa Ys od LITTLE - GIANT THRESHER AND |, m0 os Ol te he et oa purposes ness | and burnedSiow, asd just as Raloh with a 1 had used vlive previous to Stuck's, and I find | f ' J P SEPARATOR, Stock's to be the best. | heary but not quite hopeless heart rose to Moses SurrH, Dufiins Creek, Ont. | y 9 4 ope -- | leave, the latch lifted and Bud re-entered. [fhan any if wT wanted to say something," he stam- man, Stratford, also the = I would 'rather Lave Stock's Oil GEORGE BLAKE, THE BUCKEYE COMBINED, Forewan for Beown & Paterson, Whitby, Ont. THE OHIO COMBINED WOOD'S 'SELF-RAKE, ie {1 ha'n't no book-larnin' to speak of, and I have used Stock's Oil and I find it to excel | some things is hard to say when a man ha'n't got book-words to say 'em with.-- | And they's some things a man can't hard- {ly ever say anyhow to anybody." Here Bud stopped. Bat Ralph spoke {in such a watter-of-cuurse way ir reply | that he felt encouraged to go on. { 'You gin up Hanner kase you thonght rience, and have used Cast r and Olive Of 4 DRILL, CULTIVATORS, GANG PLOWS, AND ALL OTHER PLOWS. ALSO CLIFTS PATI NT LOOM | FOr oT my MANGLES THAT TOOK THE FIRST voles sat LW tmes per inter and And" > the only oil that gives satisfaction, 7 TORONTO, 5c . gor, Ont. AND FANNING MILLS, (HURCHELL, Banger. Ont | sho belunged to me. That's more'n I'd a haw wh 1 , > And a host of other things,and last but not least, | op Oshawa, Feb, 771871. | done by along shot. Now, arter I left having been appointed agent for the sale of o . § Your extra machine off comes nearer to | Bere jest now, 1 says to myself, a man JOHN McDONALD'S TOMB STONES | nerfection for li icating purposes tlan and | what ean gin up his gal on ittlok ssh AND MARBLE, MADE AT NEW- thing used, so far ga' k ntome, it w neither | . . gua Ror curude, and wares satislac tory. a fecling fer the rights of a Flat Oricker Very tru.y yours, A. FarewsLL | ,. 3 : CASTLE. | like me, why, "dog on it, says I, secha i i w 45 50 | | man is the man as can help me do better. Al ins of Plow Poiats and | Land Hides opt { | I don't know whether your s Hardshell or of pubic paironage solicited. 8 Saftahell, or a Methodist, or & Cambell. DAVID BISHOP | its, or'a New Light, or a United Brother, or a Millerite, or what not. But I sags, Ber Ria Aen. Hume poy T.GIBBS, Ohawa,Ont ' the man what can do the elean thing by ACOB STALTER, Greenwood. | We prefer Stock's Oil to either Sperm, Qlive, or | any oti er oils ever used, for experience shows it. | SeateuT & Sox, Markham, Ont. B. STOCK, Esq., SOLE PEUPRIETYOR! GEO. B. STOCK, Broucmam, Ox7. AGENT FOR THE DOMINION STOCK & WEBSTER, Box 1214, Toronto. S But I haven't spoken to her since | Bud's eyes grew large. -- | Low and as the quality of | Hannah believed something of this. What | | other stories Small may have put in circu. | who can define repentance and fait} te the | to win Hannah's love to throw it away | | again as h¢'had done with others! Atleast | { he would not spare any pains to turn the | |/mered, " but you know it's hard to say it. | | my dander's up, I wouldn't gin np for the | devil hisself. The preacher was so insult. | in' with his way of doin' it. He seemed | to be kind of glad that he was to be | damned, and he preached somethin' like some folks swears. It didn't sound a bit | ike the Christ the little man' preached about the night afore. So what does me and a lot of fellers do but slip out and cut | them on to the rider of the fence, and | then set his hoss loose! And from that day | sometimes I did, and sometimes I didn't, want to be better. And to-day it seemed | { to me that 'you must know somethin' as | Jer, but I mat Jones right by the bigroad, | would help me." Nothing is worse than a religious ex- perience kept ready to be exposed to the gaze of everybody, whether the time is appropriate or not. But never was a re- ligious experience more appropriate than the account which Ralph gave to Bud of his Struggles in the Dark. The confession of his weakness and wicked selfishness was 8 great comfort to Bud. "Don't you think that Jesus Christ would--would--well, do you think he'd "T think he was a sort of a Flat Orick- { er himself," said Ralph, slowly and very earnestly. "You don't say? ssid Bud, almost get- ting off his seat. » "" Why, you (see the town he lived in was a rough placo. It was called Nazar- eth, which meént * Bushtown.' " |. "You don't say?" " And he wa called a Nazarene, which { was about the same as ' backwoodsman.'" | And Ralph read the different passages | which he had sthdied at Sunday-school, illustrating the cpndescension of Jesus, the stories of the pulilicans, the harlots, the | poor, who came fb him. And he read | about Nathanielffwho lived only six miles | away, saying, * any good thing come | out of Nazareth | "Just what C | Crick," broke in "Do you think being baptized?" he added presently. "Why not? Let's begin now to do the best we can, by his help." " You mean, then, that I'm to begin now to put in my best licks for Jesus Christ, and that he'll help me?" This shocked Ralph's tion a little. Put it was the sincere' utterance of an | earnest soul. orthodox start, but it was the one start for Bud. And there be those who have repeated with the finest ssthetic appreci- ation the old English liturgies who have never known religious aspiration so sin- cere as that of this ignorant young Hercu- les, whose best confession was that he meant hereafter *" to put in his best licks for Jesus Christ." And there be those turning of a bair who never made & genv, | ine a stert for the kingdom of hegven as Bud Means did. Lf Ralph said yes, that he thought that was just it. At least, he guessed if there was something more, the man that was puttin' in his best licks would be sure to find it out. "Do you think he'd help a feller? ! Seems to me it would be number one to { have God help you. Not to help you fight other folks, but to help you when it comes to fighting the devil inside. Bu, you see I don't belong te no church." off. Two people that halp one another to serve God make a church." I am afraid this ecclesiastical theory will i not be considered orthodox. It was Ralph's, and I write it down at tho risk of bringing him into condemnation. But other people before the daysof Bud and Ralph hraav discussed church organi tion when they shod have bien doing religious work. For both of them had forgotten the danger that hung over the old baskeét-maker. until 8h0cky burst into the school-house, weeping. Indeed, the into convulsions. " Miss Hawkins--" | Bud started at mention of the name. *' Miss Hawkins has just been over to say that a crowd is going to far and feath- or Mr. Peatwou to-night. And----'" here Shocky wept again. " And he won't run, but he's loaded up the old flintlock, and says he'll die in his treks." couldn't do Bud much good. But histone - They's pleaty not a | help a poor, unlamtFlat Cricker like me?' | It may not have been "an | | CHAPTER XVI THE CHURCH MILITANT. Bud| was doubly enlisted on the, side of John Pearson, the basket-maker. In the tirst place, he knew that this persecution of the unpopular old man was only a blind to save somebody else; that they were thieves who cried "stop thief!" and he felt consequently that thiswas a chance to put his newly-formed resolutions into practice. © The Old Testament religious life, which consists in fighting the Lord's enemies, suited Bud's temper and educa- tion. It might lead to something better. It was the best possible to him, now.-- But I am afraid I shall have to acknow- ledge that there was a second motive that moved Bud to his championship. - The good heart of Martha Hawkins having espoused the cause of the basket-maker, the heart of Bud .Means corld not help feeling warmly on the same side. Blessed is that man in whose life the driving of duty and drawing of love impel the same way! But why speak of the driving of duty? For already Bud was loafning the better lesson of serving God for the lové of God. The old basket-maker was the most un- popular man in Flat Creek district. - He had two great vices. He would go to | Clifty and have a " soree" once in three months. And he would tell the truthina | most unscrupulous manner. A man given to plain speaking was quite as objestion- | able in Flat Creek as he would have been | in France under the Empire, the Com- | mune, or the Republic. People who live in glass | houses have a horror of people | who throw stones. And the old basket- | maker, having no friends, was a good | scape-goaf. | In driving him off, Pee | Jones wovld get rid of a dangerous neigh- | bor and divert attention from himself. | The immediate crime of the basket-maker | was that he'had happened to see toomuch. © | ' Mr. Hartsook," said Bud, when they | got out into the road, * you'd better go | straight home to the Squire's. Bekase ef "Bud, listen to me, and then thrash me | Off the big preacher's stirrups, and hang | this lightnin! strikes o second time it'l) strike awful ¢loste to you. You hadn't | better been seen with us. Which way did { you come, Shocky?" | "Why, I tried to come down the hol- and he sweared atmo and said he'd Lill | me ef I didn't go back and stay. And so | I went back to the house and then slipped | out through the graveyard. You see I was bound to come ef I got skinned. For | Mr. Pearson's stuck to me and I mean to stick to him, you see." | 'Bud led Bhocky through the graveyard. | Bus when they reached the forest path from the graveyard he thought that per- haps it was not best to * show his hand," | as he expressed it, too soon. ~ [ow Now, Shocky,"" he said, *' do you run | ahead and tell the ole man that [ want to | see him right; off down by the Spring-in- | rock. I'll keep closte behind you, and ef | anybody offers to trouble you, do you let off a yell and I'll be thar in ne time." When | Ralph left the school-house he felt mean. There were Bud and Shocky gone on an errand of mercy, and he, the truant member of the Church of the Best Licks, was not with them. The moré he thought of it the more he seemed to be a coward, and the more he despired himself; 80, yielding as usual to the first brave im- started briskly through the forest in the direction intersecting the path on which werd' Bud and Shocky. He came in sight just in| tine to see the first conflict of the Church inl the Wilderness with her foes. For Shocky's little feet went more swift- ly on their eager errand than Bud antici- pated. | He got farther out of Bud's reach than the latter intended he should, and he did not discover Pele Jones until Pete, with his hog-drover's whip, was right upon him. Shocky tried to halloo for Bud, but he was like one in a nightmare. The yell died into a whisper which could not have been heard ten feet. | I shall not repeat Mr. Jones's words.-- | They were. frightfully profane. But he | did not stop at words. He swept his | | feet round and gave little Shocky dne ter- | | rible cut, Then the voice was released, | | and the piercing '¢ry of pain brought Bud down the path flying. "You good-for-nothing scoundrel," | growled Bud, " you're a coward anda thief | to be asbeatin' a little crpetur like him!" { and with that Bud walked up on Jones, who prudently changed position in such a | way as to get the upper side of the hill. | "Wall, I'l gin you the upper side, by { come on," cried Bud, "ef you a'n't afeer- | ed to fight somebody besides a poor, little, ! sickly baby or a crippled soldier. Come { on!" : | Pote was no insignificant antagonist.-- | He had been s great Bghter, and his well- | seasoned arms were like iron. He had | not the splendid set of Bud, but he had | | more skill and experience in the rude | | tournament of fists to which the back- | | woods is|so much given. Now, being out | could lie/about the fight afterwands, he | | did notiscruple to take advantages which | | would have disgraced him forever if he | had taken them in a public fight on elee- | tion or training day. He took the up- | hill side, and he clubbed his whip-stock, | striking Bud with all his force with the | heavy end, which, - coward-like, he had | loaded with lead. Bud threw wp. his | | strong left arm and parred the blow, which, | however, was so fierce that it fractured | one of the bones of the arm. Throwing | away his whip he rushed upon Bud furi- | Bud slipped quickly to one:-side, and let 4 Jones pass down the hill, and as Jones | came up again Bud dealt him : one crush- ing blow that sent him full length vpon the.ground. Nothing but the leaves saved him from a most terrible fall. Jones sprang to hia feet more angry than everat | being whipped by one whom he regarded | as a boy, and drew a long dirk-knife.-- But Pete was blind with rage, and Bud dodged the knife, and this time gave Pete a blow on the none which marred th homeliness of that feature, and doubled the fellow up against a tree ten feet away. Ralph came in sight in time to see the beginning of the fight, and he arrived on the ground just as Pete Jones went down under the well-dealt blow from the only remaining fist of Bud Means, While Ralph tied up Bud's disabled left arm Pete picked himself up slowly, and, muttering that he felt *' consid'able shuck up like," crawled away like a whipped puppy. To every one whom he met, Pete, whose intellect seemed to have weakened in sympathy with his frame, remarked feebly that he was comsid'able shuck up like, and vouchsafed no other explanation. Even to his wife he only said that he felt purty consid'able shuck up like, and that the boys would have to get on to-night without him. There are some scoundrels whose very malignity is shaken out of them for the time being by a thorough drubbing. "RA "I'm afraid you're going tohave trouble with your arm, Bud," said Ralph tenderly. 'Never mind; I put in my best licks fer Him, that air time, Mr. Hartsook."-- Ralph shivered a little at thought of this, but if it was right to knock Jones down at all, why might not Bud do it " heartily as unto the Lord"? Gideon did not feel any more honest pleasure in chastising the Midianities than did Bud in sending Pete Jones away consid'able shuck up like. CHAPTER XVII A COUNCIL OF WAR. Shocky, whose feet had flown as soon as he saw the final fall of Pete Jones, told the whole story to the wondering and ad- miring ears of Miss Hawkins, who un- happily could not remember anything at the East just like it; to the frightened ears of the rheumatic old lady who felt sure her cle man's talk and stubbornness would be the ruin of him, and t¢ the in- dignant ears of the olc suidier who was hobbling up and down, sentinel wise, in front of his cabin, standing guard over himself. "" No, I won't leave," he said to Ralph | and Bud. "You see I jest won't. What would General Winfield Scott say ef he [knew that one of them as fit at Lundy's Lance backed out, retreated, run fer fear of a passel of thieves! No, sir; me and the old flint-lock will live aud die together.-- I'll put a thunderin' charge of buckshot into the first one of them scoundrels as comes up the holler. "It'll be another Lundy's Lane. And you, Mr. Hartsook, may send Soott word that ole Pearson, as fit at Lundy's Lane under him died a fightin' thieves on Rocky Branch in Hoop- ole Kyounty, State of Injeanny."', And the old man hobbled faster and faster, taxing his wooden leg to the very utmost, as if his victory depended on the vehemence with which he walked his beat. Mrs. Pear. 01 sat wringing her hands and looking appealingly at Martha Hawkins who stood in the door, in despair, lvoking appealingly at Bud. Bud .was stupefied by the old man's stubbornness and his own pain, and in his turn appealed mutely to the master, in' whose resources he had boundless confidence, Ralph, ing that all depended on him, was taxing his wits to think of some way to get round the old pulse, he leaped nimbly over the fenceand man's stubbornness. Shocky hung to the | old man's coat and_pulled away at him with many entreating words, but the venerable, bareheaded sentinel strode up and down furiously, with kis flint-lock on his shoulder and his basket-knife 'in his belt. Just at this point somebody could be scen indistinctly through the bushes coming up the hollow, " Halt!" cried the old hero. goea there!" '" It's me, Mr. Pearson. Don't shoot me, please. ' It was the voice of Hannah Thomson. Hearing that the whole neighborhood was rising againat the benefactor of Shocky and of her family, she had slipped away from the eyes of her mistress, and ran with breathless haste to give varning in in the cabin on Rocky Branch. Seeing Ralph, she blushed, and went into the cabin. '"' Well," said Ralph, *' the enemy is not coming yet. Let jus hold a council of war." This thought came to ike an in- spiration; It pleased 's whim, and hie sat down on the door-step. "' Now, I suppose," said Ralph. 'that General Winfield Scott always looked into things a little before he went inte a fight. Didn't hel" " To be sure," assented the old man. "Well," said Ralph. "What is the condition of the encmy! I suppose the whole neighborhood's against us." "To be sure," said the old man. The rest were silent, but all felt the statement to be about true. "Next," said Ralph, "I suppose Gen. Scott would always inquire into the con- dition of his own troops. Now let us see. " Who * Wel', let's you and me have one right | of 'sigh of witnesses and sure that he | Captain Pearson has Bud, who is theright wing, badly crippled by having his arm broken in the first battle." (Miss Haw- kins looked pale.) " To be sure," said the old man. "And I am the left wing, pretty good at; giving advice, but very slender in a fight." "And Shocky and Miss Martha and Hannah good aids, but nothing in s bat- tle." 'To be sre," said the basket-maker, a little doubtfully. "" Now, let's look at the arms and ac- poor, nervous little frame was ready to go | OUSLY, intending to overpower him, but | couterments,I think you-call them. Well, this old musket has been loaded --" "This ten year," said the old lady. 'And the lock is so rusty that you could not cock it when wanted to take aim at Hannah." ; The old man-looked foolish, and mut- tered *' To be sure." '" And there isn't another round of am- mugition in the house." The old man was silent. _sengers reached the deck in safety. pe -- ' Now let us look at the incumbrances. ~ Tere's the old lady and Shocky. If you sive them a chance to kill you. -| And then he old lady will die, and they will do vith Shocky as they please." ; hth *"To be sure," said the iy old man reflec- ** Now," said Ralph, " General Winfield Scott, under such circumstances would re- {reat in good order. Then, when he * ould muster his forces rightly, he would Irive the enem) frem his ground." "To be sure," said the old man -- " What ort 1 to do?" " Have you any friends?" "Well, yes; thers my brother over in Jackson Kyounty. I mout go there." " Well," said Bud, "do you just go down to Spring-in-rock and stay there. -- Them folks won't be here tell midnight. I'll come fer you at nine with my roan - colt, and I'll set you down gver on the big road on Buckeye Run. Then you can git on the mail-wagon that passes there about five o'clock in the mornin', and go over to Jackson County and keep shady till we want you to face the enemy and to swear agin some folks. And then we'll send fer you." | i "To be sure," ssid the old manin a broken voice. 'I reckon General Win- field Beott wouldn't disapprove of such a maneuver as that thar." Miss Martha beamed on Bud to his evident delight, for He carried his painful arm part of the way home with her.-- Ralph noticed that Hannah looked at him with a look full of contending emotions. He read admiration, gratituds, and doubt in the expression of her face, as she turned toward home. *' Well, good by, ole wo- litle handkerchief full of things andstart- ed for his hiding-place; "good by. I didn't never think I'd desart you, and of the old flint-lock hadn't a been | rusty, 1'd a staid and died right here by the ole cab- in." And Shocky Iroked afterhim, as he hobbled away over the stonés, more 'than ever convinced that God had forgotten all about things on Flat Creek. He gravely exp d this opinion to the ter the next day. CHAPTER XVIII ODDS AND ENDS. The Spring-in-rock, or, as it was some- times, by a curious perversity, called, * the rock-in-spring," was a spring running out of a cave-like fissure in a high lime- stone cliff. Here the old man sheltered himself on that dreary Christmas evening, until Bud brought his roan colt to the top of the cliff above, and he and Ralph helped the old man up the cliff and 'into the sad- dle. - Ralph went back to bed, but Bud, who was only too eager to put in his best licks, walked by the side of old John Pear- son the six miles over to Buckeye Run, and at last, after eleven o'clock, he de- posited him in a hollow sycamore by the road, there to wait the coming of the mail. wagon that would carry him into Jackson County. ) " Good by," said the basket:maker, ss Bud mounted the colt to return. "Ef I'm wanted jest send me word, and I make a forrard movement any time. I don't like this ere thing of running off in the night-time. > But I reckon Geners! Wintield Bcott would a ordered a retreat ef he'd a been in my shoes. | I'm lots obleeged to you. Akordin' to my tell, we're all of us selfish in every thing; but I'll be dog-on'd ef I don't believe you and one or two more is exceptions." 5 [ra 8 coNTrxveD.) A Disacrrzasiy Passzxoze.--A diss greeable incident seems to have in some degree interfered witli the comfort of three hundred passengers on board the vessel Glenarvney on the voyage to Calcutts.-- One night, when they were slumbering 'tween decks in the Straits of Malacca, they were disturbed by the gambols of a black panther who had escaped from a cage in which it was confined, and amused 'itself by making springs over their pros- trate bodies. Their screams having at- tracted attention, every available means of exit were thrown open, and all the pas- One man alone appeared to have suffered from the claws of the animal, a large strip of skin and flesh being tern off his back. As the panther could not be found, it was concluded that he must have jumped out of the port into the sef, and the next even- ing the passengers settled down in their quarters as before. During the night, however, the pantherturned up again. -- Some boatswain's stores being required from forward, one of the Chinese lascars ently returned, exclaiming in trembling accents, " Tigor gotee down there." The captain, determined to stand no more non- s2nse, immediately sent for his breechload- ing rifle and cartridges, and went down the hatch by himself, and ordered it to be closed after him for fear t9e beast should again get on deck, and cause further an. noyance and alarm to the passengers. reaching the deck of the storeroom looking around, the Jorge yellow i eyes 6f the animal glared down on him from the top of some spars stowed along by the ship's side. Taking advantage of the dim light admitted by the port, the captain took a steady aim at what he considered the centre of the animal's body and fired. Still the yellow eyes glared on, and a sec- ond shot being fired, the pather, measur- ing seven feet eight inches in length, rolled dead at the captain's feet, to his great re- lief, and no doubt to that of - the . passen- gers also, 9 - " Now then, children," said a parish mistress, showing hir pupils off on exam- ization day, who 'loves all meni" * You, missus," was the. unexpected answer. Facets. --Why is a hen immortal] Her son never sets. Why have chickens no hope in the future I They have their next world (necks twirled) in this. Why is 8 hen on a fence like a cent ?| Head on one side tail on the other. Why don't hens lay at night? Then they are roosters Why is the first chickens of a brood like the wainmast of & ship? (A little fcrward {of the main hateh, Way is a chicken just hatehed like a bull's tail 7 Never seen be- (fore. Why should not a ' 'road 1 It would be a » ship captain had po eggs do! Lay to ($wo.) to conclude, » hen is a poor economist, Because for every gaia she gives a peck, : ight, the enemy will be pleased. It will | 3 vin Reformer, a man," said Pearson, as he took up his 5 was sent down to get them, when he pres- E ?