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Ontario Reformer, 6 Dec 1872, p. 1

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ERVICE] band U8 an RKLY . TO 5 PNDONDERR Y SGow. 8 LI NEa ARR alt Tron' ween Liven ontreal, loavi on arrival of 'm Montreal ween Glasgow, Quebe PASSAGE. , Fst arding to Lag a plentiful aoe * Servediont Wy Lompany. st Cabin, $01; Inten rr ----_---- AM BEN * QUEBEC, REAL. WN YS LINE lowing First-Class pwAY, i ES, SEVERN. = ine are intended a_i evel TUESDAY ution of Iss and from kh tickets fom al eR, rtificates issued el eenston and pool | CITY OF ANTWERP. CFry or BALTIMORE. City oF BRISTOL. CITY OF LIMERICK. Crry or DUBLIN, City oF HaLirax. Crry or DURBAN. SHINGTON. ere at moderate rates d for their friends. iy to the Company' V. SMITH, Osmawa. say. ET -- - The Ountaio Reformes EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, ff li WM. R.CLIMIE AT THR OFFICE, SIMCOE STREET, OSHAWA, moe, O ¥ roy) ters, ) an instructive Miscellany. 1 TERMS : $1.00 per annum, in advance- $1.50 if.paid within six months --2.00 if not paid: till the end of the year. No paper discontinued until all paid, except at the option of the AITOATALES Are publisher, and parties pers without Paying up will be held responsible for the sub- scription until they comply with the rule. ressed to the 'All letters add Editor must be -paid, otherwise they may not be taken fro Lyre Office. ¥ y m RATES OF ADVERTISING : ~ Bix lines and under, first insertion. ..... Each su! nent insertion....... From six to ten lines, first insertion .. uent insertion.............. 08, first insertion, per line. .. Each subsequent insertion, " .. ... The number of lines to be reckoned by the space osecupied, measured by a scale of solid Nonpareil. Advertisements without s| fle directions will be published till forbid am , All transitory advertisements must be ° when handed in. Advertisements must be in the ™ of publication by 10 hodlock on the Wednes- morning blication.-- To merchants and others ad ng by the year a very liberal discount will be made. ------ A ~~~ WN. FREDERICK McBRIAN, M. B., M. R. C- § UY'S HOSPITAL, LONDON, ENG- LAND. Hindes' Hotel Oshawa. W. CORURN, M.D.,F.L., : HYSJCIAN, SURGEON, AND ACCOUCHEUR, King Street, Oshawa. Residence and Office --Nearly opposite Hobbs , Hotel. FRANCIS RAE, M, D., HYSICIAN, SURGEON, ACCOUCH- eur, and Coroner. King St., Oshawa. 1-2 J. FERGUSON, JOENTIATEoP DENTAL SURGERY. 8 Office over the Gracey o essrs. Simpson All gperations preformed in a skilful manner. Residence a the oars building. oy Veterinary Surgery and Drug Store, ENRY'S BLOCK, KING STREET, Oshawa. -Hofse and Cattle Medicines of a uality. All drugs warranted pure. A always on the preinises, Pro- ~W. G. FITZMAURICE, late of Her esty 8 7th Dragoon Guards ahd Horse ara. ery. -ly Business Bire to 8. fr. invite the publis to aria) i 4 rmS------ Befor 4 win » me 8. crowd "1 woul d have run te} » Mr. Stanley, "only T" d the presence of such a embraced him, only that he re -------- a -- MANUFACTURING COMPANY AVE NOW ON HAND THE FIRST INSTRUMENTS N OF THEIR er Pe scture, which have been pronounced by Good Ju to ;be superior, both in Tone Wo pa Mute any In fe ments. of the kind that have ever been ced before the Public of Oshawa Men of Practical Experience, Having a thorough know! of the Business; and, theref: ments can rest assured tol cannot be arpa igh? xt dot nthe I a aatry- ALL JOUR INSTRUMENTS ARE WARRANTED FOR FIVE TEARS, 080 acturer only is responsible for them, and Agents selling for them in t dominion will not be likely to take the responsibility on their own Fos By pag have now opened our Wareroom in Mr~ Wilkinson's Sto ial Hotel, King Street, Oshawa, , oy We inspect our instruments. Parti desiring to hase d it to their advantage to deal with us, as they can save Tem Por sent. gt r ua the same time ome facture, DARLEY & ROBINSON. Ww. ROBINSON. 16-1y Ontario Commercial College, Belleville, Ont. A AL THOROUGH AND PRACTIC INSTITUTION : CHARACTERISTIC of the , WW dt suited to the wants of the times. age, where young men aul bn An hn wv Pirchising from us will have a guarantee they cannot have by purchasing th (:] A. M-DARLEY, 'Oshawa, October 9th, 1871. FOR BUSINESS y¥ can procure an education ons of the Press, letters from prominent bus of iness men, and thre united i oly nats aus nd rited admission of hundreds of y and offered by this College. SUBJECTS TAUGHT. Book-keeping--by single aud double entry, Spencerian Penmanship, ing, Railroading,' Steamboating, Mechanical and Architectural Drawing, ete., ete. A Staff of Seven Practical and Experienced Seachers. Those who can devote a few menths to study; those desirous of changi r present oocupation for somethi thetnaeives to conduct thelr 5 or h own business systematically, will elsew! mts who have SONS TO EDUCATF thei that the advantageswe offer TAREWELL & McGEE, ARRISTERS, ATTORNEYS, SO: LICITORS, Conveyancers and Notaries Public, Oshawa, South-East Corner of King and | Simcoe Streets. : AT MONEY to Lend. Mortgages bought and R. McGez. 8. H. COCHRANE, L. L. B;, ARRISTER, ATTORNEY-at-LAW, J.E. FAREWELL. ~~ (D Solicitor in. Chancery, Notary* Public, &c:-- "Qfice--In Bigelow's New. Building, Dundas st., Whitby. > - JOEN MeGILL, ICENCED AUCTIONEER, OSHA- wa. All orders left at'this Office will be . promptly attended to. 1-2 P. R. HOOVER, Issuer of Marriage Licenses | WHITEV ALE. lr OSHAWA LIVERY STABLE, H. THOMAS, PROPRIETOR.-- hand ; also, Daily Jiveof om #0 Beaverton, connecting wi teamer at Lind, C. W. SMITH, ROHITECT, PATENT, (INSUR- t, Si treet, £2. 12 Gov Ag Sh Sr, New York and Live REFER- ENCE--Mesars. Gibbs Bros., F. W. Glen, Esq., 8. B. Fairbanks, Esq. 2 y Wa. DOMINION BANK! WHITBY GENCY. J. H. M CLELLAN Aent DR.CARSON'S MEDICINES. The Greatest Public Benefit of the Age ND FOR WHICH, NOTICE THE Testimonials, jon few of ther enclosed in Wrap) d h bottle,) with a numerous list of respectable persons' names, who testify to the superior qualities of his various Compounds, vis: -- > Lung Syrup, @oustipation Bitters, Liver Compound, * Cough Drops, 'Worm Specifle, Pain Reliever, Golden Ointment, &c. The above Medicines ean Prug fteres. ~u > : . 23m B. SHERIN & Co., HOLESALE MANUFACTURERS of HOOP SKIRTs. Best New York Ma- terial used. The trade Supplie on best terms. Factory--King Street, East, wmanville. 3 Wanted, 3 N EXPERIENCED MILLINER, at 'once; also, two apprentices (girls) to the Tailoring busineyl. 8} UNG BROS. Bowmanville, Sept. 23, 1872. 9. Choppers Wanted! HE UNDERSIGNED WISHING TO T have the wood on fifty acres of land cut in Cordwood Ma rapid. as possible, will pay to eaoppers the fol c= foes prices: During the month of October, 80 cents per cord, During the months of November and Decem- ber, 75 cents per On and after January ist, 1573, 70 cents per ALSO, WANTED, ! THREE TEAMSTERS, TO DRAW WOOD. Particulars made known on application to the 'Board will be provided for workmen on. the premises, if desired. THOS. THOMAS. a, to T. THOMAS, by vos 2 Book Be oe Biackemiin's work, requested to the same infmediately. Bowmanville, Oct. 16, 1872. 12-41. American Organs! TEE SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN leted their Twenty-First Co Dave POwith a constant dstill increase "one of the rr \ < During the long e: e fy cturers they have steadily added to the'| {BE GONE JOHN FROST! rd capaci eir instruments, and have availed nn Ke bs every method to improve ihe uality of tone and to increase the mechanic fachiitles for the performer. And though they expect to continue the course of improvement, they are abundantly satisfied with what has been done, with the estimation in which their in- and d ) . by good ju of music ee hey HL vt Bl ¢ t regard to cost, an vee Tt thorough oie éomparisons as fo the quali d as to the effect- i 8 a hip o i "They call attention ot s are sold AT EX- arged of thoroughly ap! ploy ing none but skill ing made i ¢ labor,they are able to pi a 3s 4 vidi ous ratesthan most competh other things, or fair dealing, purchasers that warerooms with is not in every respect per- : intend to se- oure in purchaser. catalogue With fall et and socursie enRTavILES A ay Afar mAtion eheerfully Finished. Address THE SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN CO. Waltham St. Tremont St., opposite Wal nr MBE, 7.3. BRIMACOMBS ville, Bowmanville, LAprililo, ted manufact workmen, snd havi be obtained at &IT &F Sp of Py hip, and Journal containing all particulars sent free of charge. dress, 8. G. BEATTY & Co., Belleville IMPORTS FOR FALL OF 1872 -W. F. COWAN 18 'NOW SHOWING A CHOICE SELECTION OF FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODS OF HIS OWN IMPORTATION. J ; 10: 1 The great advance in th rice of wool has led consumers to expect a corresponding rise in Winter Goods. They w agreeably disappointed when they visit this well-known house, to find that the low prices of last year are still current in many of the leading lines. Piles of heav' Winceys at old prices. Stocks of Woolen Shawls atold prices. Thousands of yards of Flanne at old prices. Heaps of Dress Goods at old prices. ts of Blankets at old prices, Kkc., &e. oo '9: The Dress Goods Department Contains { | All Wool Saxon Cloths, a full assortment ; all Wool S8erges, a full assortment ; all Wool French | Merinos, Silk and Wool French Serges, striped and plain ; real Irish ogling, Bonnet's celebrated Lyons Silks, pure Silk and Woolen B zi and other Mi i oods In great variety. | "y | --i)} | The House Furnishing Department Embraces: oS te--T try, Wool and Unicns, Felt, Hemp and Star. Quilts, ;Lace Curtains, Linen i Table 'overs, Sheeting, Towelings. Price and quality can be confidently recommended - i the most prudent buyers. v :0: THE TAILORING DEPARTMENT ly stocked with the choicest West 'of England Tweeds, Cloths and Overcoatin' A will commend themselves to all requiring S ble and Fi ble Clothing. && An early call respectfully invited. | 5 *. W. F. COWAN. Osmawa, Oct. 17, 1872. ' 2-27 18 New Fall Goods. 72. -- Direct Importation for Our Oshawa Fall Trade, HE SUBSCRIBER BEGS TO INFORM HIS CUSTOMERS AND THE T Public, that he has received per Steamships St. Andrew and St. David A LARGE STOCK OF DRY GOODS IMPORTED DIRECT, CONTAINING IN VARIETY Shawls, Mantles, Ribbons, Flowers, Feathers, and Millinery Stock, and Corsets, Skirts, Hosiery, and Gloves, including Jull range of Sizes and Colors of the genuine ~ celebrated Jeovin and Josephine Kid Gloves, i i h below the res usually asked for these goods. Together Which will be sold at prices muc below figu 8 hug | Plain and Faney Dress Goods, Lustres, Al , French e t Pink, and 3 Saxony Flannels, Plan and F Winseys, Superior Make, Carpets, Damask's, Lace urtains, Table Linens, Oil loths, Towellings, ete. To- gether with a large supply of Gents' Furnishing, Oloths & Trimmings, ~ Clothing Made to order---Fits Guaranteed. MILLINERY AND MANTLES A SPECIALITY. LATEST STYLES AT ALL TIMES. 8. TREWIN. Comer of King and Simsoe Streets, Oshawa. Merinos, Scarlet, White, | Oshawa, Oct. 16th, 1872. 10% * TFRRIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN A FELLOW BY THE Name oF JACK FROST and a German Gentleman by the name of M. MAYER, Iaged 3] ng or; report said JOHN FROST got the oust of thie content. Not being sulliciont Be pped, | n Bis 4 his peace . M, being ic i trons pry oben have Jroffered their assistance in the emergency. The Czar of Russia has forwarded a Splendid Lot o Sable, Austrican & Russia Dog Skins, To protect his men in the campaign. The Emperor Napoleon has forwarded a FINE ASSORTMENT OF FRENCH CONIES. The Queen of Great Britain has tendered to her loyal subject, BRITISH CRAPE, MUFFLERS AND SCQTCH CAPS, And Donald Smiith or Reil, from the Hudson Bay Company, have sent the finest lot of BUFFALO ROBES, MINKS, ERMINE, &c., THAT WERE EVER OFFERED IN BOWMANVILLE. M. MAYER, thankful for the distinguished honor Sonferred upon bia, have arral pparel, d he has no doubt of admin ng such a tion to this ud y rR y that he will long remember the struggle. 10,000 Volunteers, Ladies and Gentlemen, Wanted for the Campaign. ER irs and alters damaged goods, and pays highest price HAVER rope . for Raw Furs. Call Early. M. MAYRE. these into Bo wmanville, October, 1872. OSHAWA ORGAN & MELODIAN| The "charges are moderate, the risk nothing, the result unvariable, and the opini- Arithmetic, Correspondence, Commercial Law, Phonography, Telegraph-_| more lucrative, or to qualify 1 -- * ma OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1872 ~ Bortrp, -- NAS A " LITTLE MAY. BY ELLIE MAUD HENRY. " Thank you, Mary," he said, and crept out of the warm, bright kitchen, into the storm and darkness that reigned without. There was a conscious flush on her cheek, as if something had gone wrong, when she rejoined the Squire in the sitting-room. "" Well," said Squire Partlet, " has that ne'er-do-well gone at last!" "Xo" Mrs. Partlet kept the secret of the dol- lar bill within her own heart. It was six months afterward that the Squire came into the room where his wife was preserving some great red apples into jelly. "Well, well," quoth he, "wonders never will cease. The Buddiloves have '| gone away." : " Gone where!" "Out Whst somewhere," replied Mr. Partlet. " They say Luke hasn't touched a drop in six months." ; { "I'm glad of that," said Mrs. Partlet. "It won't last long, I haven't any faith in those sudden reforms," said the Squire. [ Mrs. Portlet was silent; she thought thankfully that, after all, Luke had not spent the dollar bill in liquor. Six months--six years--the time sped along in daysin weeks, almost before busy little Mrs. Partlet knew that it\, was gone. [The Ruddiloves had gone back to Sequ- osset. # » Luke had made his fortune, as the story -- rr ---- went, in the far-away El Dorado, vaguely Selection phrased 'Out West" by the simple Sequ- 5 . osseters. AAA SAA "They do say," said Mrs. Buckingham, "" that he bought that ere lot down oppo- site the courthouse, and is going to build such a house as never was." Folks thinks its dreadful strange he should put a dol. lar bill in with other things under the cor- ner stone." ? Mrs. Partlet felt her cheeks flush scarl- et; she glanced up to where the Squire was checking off a list of ] items in the bill he was making out some client. But he never looked d, and Mrs. Buckingham went on with her never-ceas- ing flow of chit-chat, and so the color died away in her cheeks. After all the money had been her own to give, and the old oil- cloth in front of the dinitig-room stove had answered very well. ) She met Ruddilove that [afternoon for the first time since his ret to Sequos- set. He looked her brightly{in the face as he held out his hand. | " Mary." i "1 am glad to see you back here again, Luke," she said, tremulous] '" And well you may be, [he rejoined. "Do you remember the night you gave me the dollar bill, and begged me not to go to the tavern." "Yes." "' That night was the pivot on which my whole desting turned. You were kind to me whenTevery one spoke coldly. I vow- ed a vow to prove myself worthy of your confidence and I keep it. I put the dol- lar bill under the corner-stone of the new house, for the house has risen from it, and it alone. I won't offer to pay you back, for I am afraid," he added smiling, " the luck would go from me with it; but 1'll tell you what I will do, Mary; I will give money and words of trust and encoarage- ment to some other poor wretchas you gave me." SERVILE PEOPLE. Some men are afraid of making enemies and this is well But when this fear amounts to severility, it is not well. As a general rule, the man who has no ene- mies is a mere drone in the great hive of created intelligence. He is a milk-and water man, who contents himself with doing no harm, while it is notorious that he is doing no good. Such men are time- serving, fence-riding, go-betweens, who creep after men of position and property, and hypocritically bow t6 men of humble walks of life. They take no part in public gentiment, and smile and smirk upon all hey "contact with. They usually glide through life undisiarbed, and sink into ob- scure graves, ; " Unwept, unhonored, ani unsung." Their bores are marrowless, and though their heads are not brainless, their lives are useless. It is better far to do some harm occasionally than never to do any THINGS THAT I HAVE SEEN. I have seen a farmer building a house so large that the sheriff turned him out of doors. T have seen a young man sell a good farm, turn merchant, and die in an in- sane asylum. I have seen a farmer travel about so much that there was nothing at home worth looking af- ter. ] I have seen a man spend more money in folly than would support his family in comfort and independance. I have seen a rich man's son begin Cold and bitter the dark night grew, Chilling her tiny fingers blue; Ereezing each golden curl of hair, Falling o'er neck and should'r bare. Alone, in the city at night, Except where gleamed a watchman's_ligh® Winding her way with tired feet, i To a dreary and dismal street. Only a few red cents, to-day, Gathered she, on her weary way; Only a crust of bread they gave, A precious human life to save, Onward, still, though the heart grew cold, And her hands loosed their feeble hold; Till the tattered cape, falling low, Bare'd a bosom, white as the snow. Sadly,a cry of bitter pain, Came from her icy lips again; Turning once to the watzhman's light, Gleaming still in the dreary midnight, Vainly she urged Ler weary feet, To tread with care the slippery street; Slowly she bowed her shining head, Her life was growing cold and dead. Father, high in heaven above, Look down with mercy, in thy love; ~Tenderly dry the tears that start, And rest the little aching heart, Wildly the winds may wailand weep, Sweetly she sléeps her long last sleep; Little May, with her curls of gold, Resting safe in the Saviour's fold. BEECHDALE VALE. ~~ ~ ~~ " THE ONE DOLLAR BILL How it did rain that November night! None of your undecided showers, with hesitating intervals, as it were, between; none of your mild, persistent patterings on the roof, but a regular tempest, a wild deluge, a rush of arrowy drops and a thun- der of opening floods! Squire Partlet heard the angry rattle against the casements, and drew his snug easy chair a little closer to the fire--a great open mass of glimmering anthracite, and gazed with a sort of sleepy, reflective satisfaction at the crimeon moreen, and the gray cat fast asleep on the hearth, and the canary bird rolled into a drowsy ball of yellow on its perch. "This is snug," quoth the Squire.-- "I'm glad T had that leaky spot fixed in the barn roof last week. I don't object to a stormy night once in a while, when a fellow's under cover, and there's nothing particular to be done, Mary. "Yes," Mrs. Partlet answered. Shy was flitting about' between kitchen and sitting room, with a blue check apron tied around her waist. 2 ""Im nearly . ready to come in now, Josiah. Now I wonder," sotto voce, "if that was really a knock at the door, or just a little rush of the wind and rain?" She went to the dcor, nevertheless; and a minnte or two afterwards she went to her husband's chair. "Joe, dear, it's Luke Ruddilove," she said, half apprehensively. The Squire never looked up from his paper. "Tell him he's mads a mistake. tavern is on the corner beyond. '" But he wants to know if you will lend him a dollar!" said Mrs. Partlet. . '" And couldn't you have told him No, without the preliminary ceremony of com- ing in here to ask me? Is it likely that I shall lend a dollar or even a cent to Luke Ruddilove! Why, I had a great deal bet- ter throw it among yonder red coals! No! --of courge not!" Mrs. Partlet hesitated. "He looks so pinched and cold and wretched, Josiah. He says there's no. body in the world to let him have a cent." '" All the better for him, if he did but know it," sharply enunciated the Squire. "If it had come to that pitch half a dozen years ago, perhaps he wouldn't have been the miserable man he now is." "We used to go to school together," said Mrs. Partlet, gently. " He was the smartest boy in the class." '" That's probable enough," said the Squire. " But it don't alter the fact that he's a poor, drunken wretch now. Send him about his business, Polly, and if his time is of any consequence, just let him know that he had better not waste it com- ing here after dollars." And the Squire leaned back in his chair after a'positive fashion, as if the whole matter was definitely decided. Mrs. Partlet went back to the kitchen where Luke Ruddilove was spreading his poor, thin fingers over the blaze of fire, his tattered garments steaming as if he were a pillar of vapor. '" He wouldn't let you have it, Luke," said she, 'I thought he wouldn't." "Then I've got to starve, like any other dog!" said Luke Ruddilove, turning away moodily. "' And, after all, I don't su b : pose * sds much difference whether 1 Where his father begans-pentiess. shuffle out of the world to-day or to-mor- 1 have A060. § Young girl marry a youns Yow." of dissolute habits, and repent of it "Oh, Luke, not to your wife!" a8 long as she lived. "She'd be better off without me," Ihave seen a man depart : from the Luke. dowah aly. truth when candor and veracity would " But she ought not to be." have served him a much better pur- " Ought and is are two different things, | PO%- Mus. Bartlet. Good night, Iain't going I have seen the extravagance ard folly to the tavern, though I'l wager something of children bring their parents to poverty the Squire thought I was." and want, and themselves to disgrace. ; "And isn't it natural enough he I have seen a prudent industrious wife should think so, Luke?" ! retrieve the fortunes of a family, when Yeo--yon, Mary, Tdon't auy but what her husband pulled at the other end of the rope. it is," murmured Luke Ruddilove, in the : } as 3 I have seen a young man who despised same dejected tone he had used through- | ., council of > vag i advice of t} out the interview. good, end his career ia poverty and wretch- " Stay!" Mrs. Partlet called to him, as : edness. his hand lay on the door-latch, in a low 1 have seen a man engage in a law voice. " Hear's a dollar, Luke, Mr. Part- | suit about a trifling affair that cost him let gave me for a new piece of oil cloth in | more in the end than would have roofed all front of the dining-room stove, but I'll try | the buildings on the farm. and make the old cne do a little while longer. And, Luke, for the sake of old times--for the sake of your poor wife--will you do better?" Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly first at the fresh new bank bill in his hand, and then at the blooming matron who placed it there, The said Rater Airy, --Mark Twain thinks that soda-water is not reliable for a steady drink Itis too gassy. The next evening, after drinking thirty-eight bottles, he found him- self full of gass and as tight as a balloon; He had'nt an artical of clothing he could wear, except an umbrella, a : both grasped and | NO. Be tani and heanid ------------------ NLEY'S BOOK--THE RELIEF ol Of LIVINGSTON. The following interesting review is from the London (England) Daily News: -- had an interview with the Sultan. From this fruitful island, with its groves of co- coanut, mango, clove, and cinnzmon, and its whitewashed cify, he proceeded across the five and twenty miles of strait to Bag- amoyo, on the African continent. He ar- rived at Bagamoyo on the 6th Februrary in last year and organized his expedition.-- It was divided into five caravans; the last led by himself. The first caravan consist- ed of twenty-four porters (called pagazis) and three soldiers, and was despatched on the 18th Februrary. The second follow- ed three days after, and was co! of twenty-eight pagasis, two chiefs, two soldiers; the-thrirdwtarted-with twenty-two pagasis, ten donkeys, one white man; one cook, and three soldiers, on the 25th Feb- rurary. On the 11th March the fourth caravan got away with fifty-five pagazis two chiefs, and three soldiers; and on|the 21st March Mr. Stanley brought up the rear with twenty-eight pagazis, twelve soldiers, two white men, a taildr, a caok, an interpreter, a gun:bearer, seventeen donkeys, two horses, and a dog. The ex- pedition thus consisted of 192 persons and 153 loads of provisions and merchandize, and Mr. Stanley's object was to proceed as quickly as possible to Ujiji, so as to ar rive there before any rumour could reach Dr. Livingstone--for rumour flies even in to find hin. He says: -- 'We left Bagamoyo, the attention of all the curious, with much eclat and de- filed up a narrow lane, shaded almost to twalight by the dense umbrage of two par- allel hedges of mimasas. We were all in the highest spirits. The soldiers sang, the Kirangozi lifted his voice into a loud bel- lowing note, and fluttered the American flag, which told all on-lookers, 'Lo, a Musungu's caravan," and my heart, I thought, palpitated much too quickly for the sober face of a leader. But I could clung to me-despite my travels; my pul- ses bounded with the full glow of staple health, behind me were the troubles®hich had harassed me for over two months. -- With that dishonest son of a Hindi, Soor .| Hadji Palloo, I had said my last word; of the blatant rabble of Arabs, Banyans, and Baluches I had taken my last look; with the Jesuits of the French mission I had exchanged farewells, and before me beam- the Ogcident. 'Loveliness glowed around me. I saw fertile fields, riant vegetation, strange trees--I heard the cry of cricket and peewit, and sibillant sound of many insects, all of which seemed to tell me ' At last you are started." What could I do, but lift my face toward the pure glowing | sky and ery, 'God be thanked? They arrived at the first camp, 3} miles, in an hour and a half. If was rear the habitation of a wealthy Indian widow, who trades extensively with the interior. Three days were occupied here. in puting the long land journey, and ecafly in the bright spring morning they got finally off. The road was mere footpath, over a sandy but, surprisingly fertile soil. In the fields Mr. Stanley went first to Zanzibar, whete he commeticed his preparations and | a they had fallen from the clouds. Tn this way the distangp of 119 miles from Baa- | gogo to Simbamwenni was got over 'n fourteen marches and twenty-nine days. | met as it were at the end of the world, This was the'season 'of the early rains, | Mr. Stanley gives an extended and most which the seges of Ban had declared | in i . { 'while the discoverer rested after his jour. ney and the discovered got the news of the great world from which he had'so long been missed, they set out explore the morthern end of the lake.-- Coasting along it, they proceeded to its" most northern was nn permitted to see you." Ha answered, 'I ; feel thankful that T am here to welcome yor es Of the talk of the two men who thes | would continue incessanily for 40 days. | They lasted just 39 days, and of these-on- | ly 18 were really wet. The rains produc. | ed floofls, and Mr. Stanley gives an illus- | tration of the discomforts of African travel | --a picture of his caravan struggling, up to their waists in water, across the Maka- |taswamp. The march to Chunyo was A extremity, where | rendered memorable by the quarrel with supposed by some that the pe | the two.white men, Shaw and Farquhar, | out of it on its way to the Albert Nyansa | the latter having eventually to be left be- | and theNile. Captain Speke had | hind sick. = At Chunyo two of the formar ed that the universal testimony of the na- | caravans joined Mr. Stanley's as! *1- tives that the Rusiai was aninfluent prov. | har's had dong® previously, and tho, 5° od it to be an effluent; and on the : { out, having grown to a body of four huu- of its being an effluent, some " | ated men, #0 cross (HY waterless wilder- | Bad declared Tanganlka to the sowthem- | ness of Marenge Mhale, a distance of twen- most Yeservonr of the Nile. But the Rusi- ty miles. Here Mr. Stanley had an at- | # flows into the lake and not out of it, ! tack of fever, but got over it in . day.-- and its connection with the Nile is wo far Beyond this wilderness Iay a pleasant disproved. The voyage on the | country, and about a month was occupied occupied twenty-eight days, and, during ! in reaching Unyanyembe, where the whole that time some 300 miles had been trav- expedition was to unite. The friendly érsed. They got back on the 13th Decem- Sheikh met the traveller and took him in | PeFs and having spent Christmas together, | state to his house in Kurkuru, the capit- started down the lake to Urimba, just une a). © A house was found for Mr." Staley, degree of latitude below Ujiji, as a mare { his carriers were paid off, his suit installed convenient point from which te begin the Africa--that a white man was on his way | not check it: the enthusiasm of youth still | ed the sun of promise as he ®ped towards | the finishing touch to the preperations for | in their apart s, and the first, second, vans inspected, and their leaders rewarded. Tabors, which is close | to Kurkuru, is 'he chief Arab settlement ! in Central Africa. It contains a thousand houses, and five thousand people. On the second day of Mr. Stanley's arrival the Arab magnates of that city all came to see him, and he learned that there was | war in the country between him and Ujiji. A few days afterwards he felt listless and languid and began to see visions and dream dreams. At last he woke up, and his at- | tendant told him that for a fotrnight'he | dad been down with fever. 'His illness had really-lasted only a week, but the at- tendant Shaw was himself sickening with the fever. At the end of the month all { and fourth ¢ | were well, and started on the farther west- | ward jourrney, accompanying the Arab | army of some two thousand men who were going valiantly to finish the 'war. The | expedition 'duded disastrously, and Mr. Stanley returned to Unyanyembe ina state of discoursigament. On the Tth August | he wrote in his diary--*" If Livingston is { at Ujiji, he is now locked up with small means of escape. I may consider myself also locked up at Unyanyembe, and I | suppose cannot go to Ujiji until this war with Miramwbo is settled." At this place he was detained till the 20th September, | tortured by the treacherous behaviour of | his man Shaw, tempted to turn back, yet | holding on his mission, and at length re- | solving to reorganize his expedition and | make a detour southwards to avoid the war. He set out. with 54 men and boys. t For his adventures on this journey, his | hairbreadth escapes, his resolute manage- | ment of grumbling companions, we must réfer our readers, to Mr. Stanley's own | pages. On the 9th November he sees the ih from which Lake Tanganika can be seen, and could hardly contain himself at the sight. On thenext day --the 236th | from Bagamoyov, the 51st from Unyanem- be--they set out on a gliorious morning on the last stage. 'Dr. Livingstone took possession of his -work would be thrown away, if the animal were men andWomen at work in the sim- "In two hours I am waraned to®pre- plecostome of nature, " and not ashamed." | pair for a view of the Tanganika, for from They left work as the caravan passed, and | the top of a steep mountain, tire Kirango- laughed and giggled and pointed at the | zi says I can see it. . I almost vent the return journey. From Urimba Dr. Liv- ingstone accompanied Mr. Stanley to Un- - ,. yanyembe on the return journey, where stores, and where, in the middle of March, they parted after four months' pleasant intercourse--Mr. Stanley to find his way to the coast and home, bringing Dr. Livingstone's sealed journal and des- | patches with him; Dr. Li him- self to return to the lake 'and make his tramp all round it, so as 4 fill up with certainties the blanks in that conjectural map of the Nile sources make them lie in a chain of lakes far west of Lake Tanganika. : STOP THAT FISH. An inveterate joker was fishing quite recently irf the muddy watters of the Don when to his surprise, he got-a savage bite. He immediately gave his line a jerk that pulled up a huge snapping-turtle and threw it flat on the path. "He stood in amazement, gazing on the singular beast, when an Irishman came along, followed by a large dog. ry The Donoman tried to get the son the Emerald Isle to put his finger into the turtle's mouth, but he was too smart for that; but says he: I'll put my dog's tail in it, and see what the baste will do. Ho immediately called up his dog, took his tail in his hand, and stuck it into the turtie's mouth. He had hardly got itin when Mr. Turtle shut down on the poor dog's tail, and off he started at railroad speed, pulliug the turtle after him, ata more rapid rate than he had ever travel ed before. The Donoman, tli. .\ing that his day's shopld run'long at that rate turned with a savage look upon the laughing Irishman, . and said: Fe Call back your dog! » Paddy put his hands in his pockets, threw his head to one side, winked, then answered with provoking san) froid: Call back your fish! __PACHELORS AND FLIRTS. strange things they saw. In half an hour | feelings of my heart in cries. But the fields were passed and the caravan en- | we must beheld it first. And we tered an open forest of ebony and calab- | forward and up the hill breathlessly. ash. At the sound of the caravan the red | the grand scene hasten away. We ure at antelope bounded away to. right and left, | last on the summit. Ak! not yet can it and the frogs hushed their croak. The |boseen. A little farther'on, just yonder route lay through a rich valley surrounded --oh! there it is--a silvery gleam. I by-dark forests, and shone upon by a fer- | merely catch sight of it between the trees, vid sun. Then came a river, the turbid | and--butlherc it is at last. True. The Kingani, famous for its hippopotami.--- | Tagnanika! and there are the blue-black Their course lay along its right pank, but | mountains of Ugoma and Ukaramba. An wa stopped by a narrow tributary, accross | immense | road street, a burnished bed of ress | BY JOSH BILLINGS, Some old bachelors git after a flirt, and can't travel so fast as she dog, and then conclitdes awl the female group are hard to ketch, and good for nothing when they are ketched. _ J A flirt iz a rough thing to overhawl un- less the right derg gits after hur, and then they are the easiest of awl to ketch; and 'make the very best of wives. When a flirt really falls in love,she is az endure in this conservative land for gen- erations, as the handiwork of the Wasun- gu." ferryman with his hollowed tree us a fer- halloo as though the Kingani had been heaved upwards to a rounded ridge, ** just English mansion--a noble expanse of lawn and sward with boscage sufficient to agree- ably diversify it." this was the character of the country.-- villages, but between them a wilderness. 4 Indeed," says Mr. Stanley: -of complaint. Inthe deep thickets, set he would have found shelter from the noon-day heat, and a safe retirement for himself and spouse during the awesome darkness. In the morning he could have walked forth on the sloping sward, enjoy- ed its fertile freshness, and performed his ablutious in one of the many small streams flowing at its foot. His garden noble forests, deep and 'cool, are round about him, and in their shade walk' as ma- ny animals as one can desire. For days and days let a man walk in any direction, behold the same scene." fever. By the 3rd of April the two horses were dead, and out of a force of twenty- five men one had deserted and ten were on the sick list. Nevertheless, Mr. Stan- ley pushed on, now passing through hor- rid jungle, where the miasma of decayed vegetation and the pungent odour of rank plants almost overwhelmed the men; then coming to some village or town where the inhabitants looked on them as though . which it was needful to erect a bridge, 'to | Farther on was the ferry and the | ry-boat, who at once responded to the | the Thames. Across the river the plain | such a scene as one 'may find before an | For long distances | There were signs of cultivation round the | Had the first man at the time of the | creation gazed at his work, and perceived | it of the beauty which belongs to this | part of Africa, he would have had no cause | like islets amid a sea of grassy verdure, of fruit trees is all that is required; the | north, south, east, and west, and he will | But the Paradise has its drawbacks.-- | There are horrible flies and a more horrible silver--lucid canopy of blue above-- lofty mountains are its valances, palm forests | form its fringes! The Tanganika--Hufrah! and the men respond to the exultant cry | halter, her pruning into a cradle. of the-Anfglo-S8axon with the lungs of Sten. The best way to ketch a flirt is to travel tors, and the great forests and the hills | the other way from which they are geing, seem to share in our triumph.' | ur sit down on the ground and whistle They descend the mount, pushing on | Some lively tune till the flirt comes round. | rapidly, lest news of their coming should | Old bachelors make the flirts, and then Presently they | the flirts got more than even by making - { halt at a little brook; then ascend a naked | the old bachelors, | ridge, the very last of myriads they have | A majority of thedlirts finally get wasried, climbed. They reach this summit and cross | or they have a great quantity of the most | to its western edge, and the port of Ujiji | dainty tidbits of woman's nature, and al- is below, embowered in palms, only five | ways hav shrewdness to back up their | hundred yords. off. They unfurl their | sWeetness. : | flags, fire a salute, and march to the vil- | Flirtsdon't deal in poetry) and water lage., The people swarm out to meet | grewel, they hav brains, or else somebody them. At two or three hundred yards | would trade them out of their capital at from the village, Mr. Stanley hears a | first swop, Dissapointment luv must, ov course, be on one side, and this ain't any more ex- I ask, says Mr. Stanley, Who the mis- | cuse for being an old bachelor than it chief are youl!--I am Susie, the servant of fur a man to quit all kinds of manual Dr. Livingstone, said he, smifing, and | labor, jist out of spite, and jine a poor "ase he kan't lift s tun at one powerless as a mown daisy. . Her impudence then changes to modesty, her cunning into fear, her spurs into as voice say, * Good morning, sir." Itisa merry-faced black man in a turban. showing a 'gleaming row of teeth. What, | he is Dr. Livingston here!- In this | Poi. you sure--Sure, | An old bachelor will brag about hiz free- sure, sir; way I leave him just now, (ood | dom to yu, hiz relief from anxiety, hiz in- morning, sir, said another voice. Hallo, | dependence. This iz a dead beat past said I, is this another onel--Yes, sir.-- | resurrection, for every body knows there Well, what is your name!--My name is | ain't moke anxious dupe than he iz. Al} Chennah, sir. What! are you Chennah, | his dreams are charcosl sketches of board- the friend of Wekotani'--Yes, sir. And | ing school misses; he dresses, greases his | is the Doctor welll--Not very well, sir.-- | hair, paints his grizzly mustache, cultivates Where has he been so long?--<In Manyue- | bunyons and corns, tew please. the wim- ma: Now you run, Susie, and tell the | men, and only gets laughed at for his { Doctor I am coming. . By this time we | pains, ® ' : were within two hundred yards of the | I tried being an old bachelor. till I was village, and the multitude was getting | ghout twenty years old, and came very | denser, almost preventing: our mareh.-- | ;05r dieing a duzenlimes. I had more Flags and steamers were out, Arabs and | sharp pain in one year than I have had Wangwana were pushing their way through | since, put itallin a heap. I was ins the natives in order to greet us, for accor- lively fever all the time, ding to their account we belonged to them. |» .__ : But the great wonder of all was--How | A citizen of Keene, N. H., had to draw did you come from Unyanyembel? | a man four miles in » gig because Greeley The squel of this story is knownall over | wasn't elected. A Minnesota man who | the world--how the two white men met, | bet on Greeley, had to roll in the mud | keeping up their dignity before the Arab | from one side of the street to the other, Yes, sir, ed a , : village Yés, sir. Are

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