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This good old lady lived and flourished oa long ago as 11)41, and the Museum contaius several editions of her prophecioi one made in 16G3, ah other 16G7, and tho lastone> a reprint, dated 1870, and from which wo copy the follow ing prophecy. Will tho read er read it carefully, mark mony ,of tho prophecies that have already como to pass, ami then note these that are yet unfulfilled. We think that Mother Shipton is much nearer right 'than auy of tho Milleritcs tn ho have so pf tea pro- phecicd the end of all earthly things. But hero is Mother Snipton's prophecy* j word for word, as copied from the re cords of the British Museum : A house of glass shall como to pass In England but, alas 1 War will follow t\ ith tho work In the land of tho Pagan and Turk; And state and state m fierce strife. Will seek each others life. But when the Korth shall divide tho South, An eagle shall build in the lion's mouth. Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents till the worlct%ith woe ; Primrose Hill in London shall be, And m its centre a Bishop's See Around the world thoughts shall fly, In the twinkling of an eye. Water shall yet more wondors do, ( Now, strange things shall yet be true The world upside down shall be, And gold found at the root of a tree. Through lulls men shall ride, And no horse or ass b> his side. Under water men shall walk, Shall nde, shall sleep, shall talk, In the air mtn shall he seen, In white, and black, and green. Iron in water shall float, As ca*y as a ooden boat. Gold shall be found and shown In a land that is now nnkuoun. Fire and water shall more wonders do. England shall at last admit a Jew, The Jew that v, as held in scorn Shall of a Christian be boru, aud born.. Three times threo shall lovely Franco Be led to dance a bloody dance. Before her peopled shall bo free, Three tj rant rulers 1 Three times the people rule alone, Three times tho people's hopo is gone. Three rulers in succession see, Each spring from different dynasty. Then shall the worser tight be done, England and France shall be as one. All England's sons that plough tho land Shall lie seen book in hand, Learning shall ebb and flojn-, The poor man wisdom know-. L The -n orld to an end come. In eighteen hundred and eighty one. KXCHASI.E. * Oh, I am, dear father,' buo criod, Beating herself on my knoo, and nestling her head on my shoulder. ' There,- hold up your head,' I said, 'tand look at tne. Now tell me frankly did you over sea such a freak, stupid old fool in jour life?' ' I liko weak, stupid old men,' she said archly,and hereyos twinkl ed with merriment, and then soft ened with teara that stole into them. ' Yes,' I said, ' because > ou can tyrnnnizo over them, and do what you pleaso with them, and make * I them your slaves like you do me. A pretty rig I've been running these last two mouths to find a place yoifliko just as if Bryans- ton Square wouldn't do. I toll you what, ray lady, you'll havo to take pains to niuke mo comfortable down there, for I shall be ab dull as lead.' ' No, you will not, pa dear,' ahe said, laughing, and Then laying her cheek to mine. ' You made me so happy, for Ii. was veryr tiled of London.' f I did not answer, but sat look ing dovtn on tho smooth poachy cheek that one of my hands would keep stroking, and at the long, yel low hair that hung down over shoulders in waves, -and, in spito ot myself, a sigh escaped my lips. Ruth Cobweb, as I always cal led her, because she was so soft and downy started up, gazing earnestly in my face, and then kissed me tery fondly, ' Don't think' about the past, dear father,' the said softly she always called" ine father when she was serious. ' Can't help it, child,' I said mournfully, and then, seeiug the tear gathers in her eyes, I tued to be cbeeiful, and smiled as I added, ' I have the future as well as the past to make me sad, my dear.' She looked at me wondeiingly, but did not speak, and I sat there holding her little hand to my heart ed garden seats in tho snuggest, shadiest spots for my special be hoof. Ab I havo said, there was a wil- dorness of a wood adjoining tho garden, which the foimer posaessor had left in a state of nature, sav ing that ho had the old paths and tracks widened in their o'd wind ing ways, carefully tutted, and dotted with a chair here and thoie. This was Cobweb's favoiite place, and if I missed her out in the gar den. I know I should finl her here, with the sun raibing a shower of golden beams through the netwoik of leaves overhead, to dance and Bash among the wavy tresses of her long1 golden hair. One day I found her leaning on a dead bough whiph crossed an opening in the \V(k>d, where all seemed of a delicate twilight green. She wji8 listen intently to tho song of a bird ovei head, and as I stop ped shoit gazing at the pictuie be fore me with a sigh ' All that's bright must fade ! my darling, I wish I had your likeness as you stand. Time flies,' I muttered, ' and winter comes at last, with bare trees to the woodB grey hairs and wrinkles to the old.' She caught Eight of me directly, and the scene was changed, for 1 was listening the next momeni to her merry, happy voice. A day or two latei I was in the City, where I always went twice a /week for I could not givo up business, it was pirt of my life when an old friend dropped in, and in the coufse of conveisatjon he said ' * ' By the way, Bun ows, wl>y don't vou hate von- portrait painted !' ' Ii ih ' btuff ' What for I said. ' Well/ said my old ftiend, laughing. ' I don't know,-only that it would give a poor .ti tibt I know a job ; mid poor fellow, he wants it badly enough.' ' Bah ! I m handsome enough without being painted,' I said gruilly. Then as a thoughtflnshed of the curtains, and then half closed another, so that the light fell strongly upon her hair. laving in pardOn f<j> am going I could-not Bpeak for the passion'here, sir,! to paint jmy little girl's bubbling in my throat, and as 11 portrait, And yon aw going to paint as l thought of the past, and how ' ncioss my mind for I siw again Those wishing to learn SHORT-HAND would do well to address s. vj. galbrait;h, Free Press, Acton. -tkrjfc. HEHSTBfcET, ^f Licensed Auctioneer ro f the Counties of Wellington and 'Hal- *on.-Urders left at the Fbee Pezsi Offlce, Acton, or At my residence, In Bockwood, will be promptly attendee' to. t efitasar e asonab le. V TBOLLOPE CHAPMAN, Practical Bookbinder. Ail Descriptions of Biasing Jfeatly 'Executed. Xtummt Bocts of all Kinds Made to Order. n Ruling Promptly Attended to. &UDB2Y St. George's Sqtexre, Guepl W Orders leftat the FEB Press Ofie will receive prompt attention. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE HOTEL, AOTON. This-weH-kjwn house has recently The undersigned hegs leave to inform the people of Acton and sur rounding neighborhood that he has procurod a magnificent HEARSE. And is prepared to attend and con duct Funerals on the shortest notice and most moderate terms. Caskets, Coffisg, Burial Robes, And all kinds of Funeral Furnish- ings kept in stock, and supplied on the shortest notice. Hat Bands and Gloves supplied when Required. ?0H1^ SPEIGHT. Acton.Feb. 10, 1877. TWO COBWEBS. AX OLD MAX'8 TALE. ' There, I've found the place, Cobweb.' ' You have, papa !' ' I have.' * Not a dreadful detached villa or cottage, oruee, papa-3' ' Oh, no.' ' With admirably planred kit chen and flower gardens V ' ' No,' said I, laughing. ' With an extensive view of the Sinrey Hills.' ten yeurs before, just us business was beginning to ptosper with me, I was left alone with the little fail haired girl of eight, who found it so haid to believe that her mother had been taken away neter to la tum, only to live in our mcmoiies. And I thought, too, of how the yeais had fled away, and I had be come a wealthy man, whose sole thought had been of tho child I had seen grow up to maidenhood, making a very idol of her, yielding to her e\ery wh'im, and doing tho most I could be spoiled ~~ all the accomplishments I had la\ lbh^-d upon her, Ruth had mow n tip to be a notable little housewife, who disgusted our cooks by insist ing upon goingjdown into the kit chen and making my favorite pud dings and tarts with her own hands, and generally behaving in what the seivants called an un ladylike way. And then I thought of nly other sonow the future-and pictuied with an agony I cannDt describe the day when I should hate to re sign my claims to another, and be left alone a desolate old man. I am naturully a very ccmaion, haid, and businesslike old man, and terribly selfish. Cobweb had woven heiself so around my heait 'Why ally one would think yo.i ^ iu ^ peevish, initable way, - ~ - ~ 1 was never happy wljen home from the city without she was u bny first-class Pcanos and Organs cheaper of .DAN IEL F. BEATTY, Washing __ tonr New Jersey, than any other manufacturer in the United __________________________________ States- Why? Because he sells odergone a thorough renovating and only for cash, takes no risks and has pirmg, is now furnished with new no book accounts, Every instru* *nd modern furniture of the best des- mentis fully warranted forsixyears eription, and is prepared to provide ag strictly first cla6B, ami are sent first-class accommodafion to the public. ' on from 5 to 15 days' test trial, Toe present proprietor has received a |-mon9y refutidrd and freight paid Uctase, and he will keep the bar well , ^^ wayB by h;m if thpy are usatis- .-' K'A ft,- Illustrated Ad- ______,. Send for Illustrated Ad' vEBTisBB (Catalogue .Edition) and very beat ol liquo frtetorv *ad cyan. The stablinj is large and ""2!* ill, 8oUcite and now Acton, June SC. 1877. , ington, Dfew Jersey T u " were a house agent, Cobweb,' I- said smiling. ' No wonder, papa, when I've been reading so many adveitise-j ments. But do tell me ; have you really found the place at last f ' 1 have really, my dear at least I think so.' / ' It is a real old-fushioned coun try house.' ' Smothered in clematis and roses and honeysuckle V ' Yes, and swarming with biids' nests and insects.' 'And with a regular great wih derness of a garden !' 'Yea.' ' In which yon can very easily lose yourself, * Yes, and iu the wood too.' ' What ! is there a wood V ' Acres of It' ' And plenty of fruit and flowers!' 'Plenty to make you ill and litter the house.' 1And purply plums and ruddy apples, and soft downy peaches, and great rich cherries 1' ' Yes, yes, yes, and cabbage and turnips, and 'tatoes and beans, and brocoli enough to supply a green grocer's shop,' I cried, testily. <. 'And it doesn't look new and stiff, and bricky ; and it isn't over looked by the neighbors, who hang out washing, and there are no organs, nor cabB, nor street singers V ' No, no, no, no, child. It's just what you aBked me to get old and rugged and picturesque, and inconvenient and damp, and littered with leaves, and four miles waiting on me rilling my pipe. I hope you're happy.' mixing my one nightly glass of gtog, upon which the butler frown ed in fact, he had ouee suggested to me that his late master took port of an evening Cobweb was very quiet ns she glided down fiom my knee to hei hassock at my feet, and was evi dently thinking as much as I; and at List I biightened up, for a thought had como to me with a selfish kind of comfoit. ' She'll be quite away from all temptations to leave me, theip, any how,' I said to myself, as I thought of the ' at homes' and balls to which she Was so often invitations. This set me talking fishing, as I called it in my great cunning to see if there weie one of the rocks ahead of which I waa in dread, ' How shall you be able to leave all your fine friends and setouts?' I said. t ' Oh, I'm tired of them all,' she said clapping her hands. ' And gay cavaliers, with da ady airs and moustaches V ' Ha, ha, ha !' she laughed mer rily. And then, it seemed to mo in my jealous watchfulness, turn ing the subject, alio began to talk of the countiy place T had taken. A fortnight later and wo were settled down ; and really, with my London notions, I began to find the calm and repose of the country delicious. Cobweb was delighted, the pictmo in tho \\Lod with Cob w cb leaning on the branch ' Stop a minute. Can Tie paint well V ' Gloriously.' ' And is terribly haid tip J' ' Horribly, poor fellow.' ' How'b that V ' Don't know. He's poor and proud, aud the woilcTlms dealt very hai'ly with him. It ir.n't 'so smooth with eveiy one, Jack, as it is yrit-h us ' 'Tim?, Tom, old fellow,' I said, ' true. Well, look here : I'll give For, with i him a job. Would he come down and stop at my place V ' Oh, yes, if you treat him well; but as I tell you, he's poor and piond and quite a gentleman.' Well, I'm not/ I said testily. ' I'll give him enough to eat, and a good bed to sleep on ; and he'll have to put up with me diopping my ' his."1 But,' I added, slapping my pocket, ' I can pay hi.n like a geutloman.' ' Qet out, you purse proud old humbug]' Biid my old friend, laughing, as he clapped me on the shoulder. ' But there, I'm obliged to you. Have him down and I'll thank you. He's a gentleman and a man of honor.' ' Oh, T'tn not afraid he'll steal the spoons,' I said laughing. 'No,' he said, drily, 'no fear of that. But yoa'll make a good pic ture ' 'Stuff!' I said. 'Do you think I'm going to be painted V ' Why, what are you going to do then?' he said in an1 astomshei way. Let him paint little Cobwed,' 1 Raid, chuckling and rubbing my hands My friend gave a long whistle, and after a few more words he left. It did not stuke mo then, bill; I lemarked afteiwaids thrt he seem ed disposed to diaw back fiom his pioposal , but I was now so wrap ped up in my plans that I coiiid think of nothing but the pictuie in receiving) the wood, and I went home ful| of it, meaning it for a sin prise, i Two days later one of tho ger vanls announced a Mr. Grantly on business, and on Imh being shown in, I found myself face to face with a handsome, gtave looking man of about thirty. He wasiathei shab bily dieased, and looked pale and ill as he bowed to Cobweb and my- belf, ending by staring at my child, as I thought, in rather a peculiai way. This annoyed me a stout,choler ic, elderly man for no one had a right to look ati my Cobweb but me; and I spoke lather testily as I said : ' Now, sir, when you pleaso I am at your service.' ' I beg your paidon,' he Baid in a low, musical voice. ' Miss Bur rows, 1 presume? Just ono mo ment please move.' Cobweb was eitting in one of stood gasping, he came and took my" arm, led me aside, and then, pointing to where Cobweb sat, as much astounded as myself, he said : ' That would be admirable, sir. Wo could not in any way improve that uatural pose.' ' What the dickena are you mad, sir 1 What do you mean ? ' I beg your pardon/ he said, flushing, und speaking hastily. ' I am wrapt up in my art. I thought you understood. Mr, Elden said you wished me to paint this young lady's portiait. Am I mistaken V ' Chut!' I ejaculated, cooling on the instant. ^1 beg yonr pardon. Sit down, sir. Yon'ie hungry, of course. ^ How stupid of me. Cob web, niy dear, order some lunch into the dining-room.' He smiled, returnedIthe pressure of my hand in a frankv honest way that 1 liked, and then looked aftei my darling in a way that 3. did not like; for this was not what i meant, and my jealousy was arous ed. I expected some snuffy looking old painter, not a gay, handsome young fellow. But I remembered Tom Elden's words ' He's a gen tleman, and a man of honor' and castingaway roysuepiciousthoughts I entered into the subject at once. ' I'd half forgotten it,' I said: ' She'll make a good picture, eh V ' Admirable, sir. " That position stiuck nlo at once as I entered.' 1 I'll show you a better one than that, my boy, I chuckled. ' But I'm a-Business man. What's your figiue tho price, eh V ' Would fifteen guineas be any too mucbf ' Fifteen 1' I said. ' I should take great pains with it it will lie a long task,' he said eagerly; and there was trouble in the wrinkles of his forehead. ' But if you think it too n)<jch, why ' ' I think it an" absind price, sir,' I sai'd testily, for Elden had said he was very" poor. ' Why, Mr. Elden gave four hundred for a bit of a scrap of canvas that ' ' By a -clever artist, air,' he said with, a grave fcmile. ' Look here,' I said, ' Mr, Mr. Grantly. You make a good picturo of it and I'll give you fifty guineas,' He fluihed and looked pained. 'Less than half would pay me well, sir,' he said. 'Tuf, tut! stuff, manl Elden told me you were poor and hard up. You always will be if you are ndt more of a man of business.' ' Sir !' he exclaimed, rising and looking at me angrily. ' I came here expecting the treatment ' He stopped short, reeled, sank into his chair, covered his face with his hands, and sobbed like a child. i ' My dear sir don't mean,' I stammered, pre- spiring at every pore, for the posi tion was most painful, i ' No, no,' he said hastily, 'J beg your pardoD, ' But but,' he con tinued, striving to master his emo tion ; ' 1 have been very ill, sir, and I am weak. I have been un fortunate almost starving at times. I have not bioken. bread since yesterday morning^-I could not without selling my colors am much obliged let me go Inf k to town. My God ! has it come wj this V NHe fell back half fainting, but started as I roared ' Go back!' for Cobweb was coming into thej-oom. ' Thank you,' lie said, taking my hand, us he saw-what I had done. ' It was kind of y^u.' - ' My deal1 fellow,' I said, ' this is terrible,' and I mopped my face. ' There, sit still back directly.' I ran out to find Cobweb in the hall. ' Oh, you dear, good father!' she cried with teais in her eyes. 'What a kind surprise 1 Is anything wrong}' - V Artist a little faint Hare, the sherry ^bibcuits. Stop away a bit."1 I van back with them and made him take some wine. 'Thus re vived, he rose and thanked me. ' What are you going to do?' I said, staring. j own way, I beg yoqr r what 1 have said and to say. You come down it before you go baak to town1; and when you do go, you are going to have fifty guineas in your pocket. Hush, not a wordj sir. My old, frieud Elpen told me that you were 4 a gentlenSan and ai man of honor. Tom Elpen is never deceived. Now, sir, please come into the dining-robm and have some lunch. Not a wdrd, please.] If good food J won't bring you around, you shall have a doctor; for, as the police say,' I continued laughing, ' you-'re my prisoner but on parole.' He trisd to speak, but could not, and turned away. ' All (right/ I sajd, 'all-right,' and I patted him on the shoulder, and walked away ito the window for a few minutes before I turned back to find him more composed. That afternoon-we thiee"went info the" wood, and I made Oobweb stand as I saw her on that day. I Grantly was delighted, and in- sjsted on making alsketch at once, and then the days' wore on, with the painting progressing slowly, but in a way thai was a wonder to me, so exquisite was every touch, for the artist's soul was in hia work. |Those were delightful days, but there was a storm coming. I jtook to the young fellow, though, and aatd by degrees learned from him his whole story how, young and -eager he had, five years before, come to tawn to improve his"art and how bitter bad been his struggle, till, just before he had encountered my friend Elden, he bald been literally dying of sickness and want. It was a happy time, that, for when the painting was-oyer for the morning, we gardened or stroll ed hi the country our new friend I being an accomplished botanist, and * a lover of every object w'e saw. I wondered how he learned so much, and found time to paint so welL 1 I say it was a happy time for the first three weeks, and then there were xiloudB. | 1 Cobweb was changed. T knew it bilt too well. I could see it day by day. Grantly was growing dis tant, too, and strange, and my sus picions grew hour by hour, till I was only kept from speaking out by the recollection1 of Tom Elden's words ' He is a gentleman and a man of honor. 'Tom Elden was never wrong,I noon, and found her as if expected ' in the tittle wood, standing dreamy and sad in<hpr aid position leaning upon the tree, listening to no bird song now, in her eyes, that swept away, the last selfish thought from my heart. X did not let her see me, but went straight up to Elden's, learned what I wanted, and a short time after I was in a handsome studio in St. John's Wood, staring at the finished picture of niy child framed" against the wait As I stood there, I heard the door open, and turning stood face to face with Mr. Grantly. We looked in each other's eyes fer a few moments without speak-*' ing, and then in a trembling, bro ken voice ; I said' " Grantly, I've come an a beggar how. My poor ckding God for give her 1 I've Urojken her heai t!' It was my turn'lo sit down and ^ cry like a child, while my -dear boy tried to omfort me telling nitT too with pride how he had worked and became famous and in a few months meant to come down and ask my consent. But there, I'm miring it up. Of course he told me as we were rush ing along, having just timeto catch i the express; and on reaching the station there was no conveyance, and we had to walk. That scoundrel would not wait, but ran on without me, and when. I got there panting and hot, I' found my heart was mended witit all of that belonging to the good man from whose arms she lan to hide her rosy blushes on my breast. I'm not tie selfish old fellow that I was about Cobweb, for here Sn the old_place where they've let nie stay with -them, I pass ray time with two flossy haired little tyrants, Cobweb-the second, and fhe spider, as we call little Frank." As for Cobweb the second, aged two, she said to me this'niorniug, witb>-her tiny aims round my neck, and her cherub cheek against minet-^" Oh, ganpa dear, I do yove 00 !" a? I love he with my own seh'sh heart. see him out in the garden digging lustily. The case seemed such a I was thinking. l K ' Yes, come in,' I said 5 and there we stood looking in one another'a-H51"00*" ot"tue virtue of cod, liver oil that he stopped to make more par ticular inquiries about it. and constantly dragging me sbme where or another into the ground* j the bay windows,1 and to my Utter of the old place, whero.she arjang- astonishment he Quickly drew one 'lam going back to. town, sir/ he said quietly, but with his lower lip trembling. ' I am aiot fit to nnde^tuko the task. I thank you, but it is tob late. I am-not well.' I looked at him as a business man, and in that brief glance, as in revelation, I saw the struggle of I a. poor, proud man of genius, who could not battle with the woild, I saw the man who had sold, bit by bit, everything he'owned, in his stiuggle for biead ; and as I look- | ed at him I feTt ashamed that I should be 60 rich, and fat, and well. v ' Mr. Granttly/ I said, taking his hand/ 'I am a rough man, and spoiled by bullying people and eyes. * ' He's come to speak to, me,' I said, and mj heart grew very hard," but I concealed my feelings till he spoke, and then I was astounded. ' Mr. Burrows,' he said, * I've come to say good-bye J' ' Good-bye J' I said. ' 4 Yes, sir, good-bye. I have wakened from a dream of happiness to a sense of misery of which I cannot speak. Let me be brief, sir, and tell you that I never shall forget your kindness.' ' But you 'haven't finished the picture.' ' No, sir, and never shall,' he said bitterly. ' Mr. Burrows, I cannot stay. I I need not be ashamed to own it, I love your child with a\l my heart.' ' I knew it/ I s^aid bitterly. , ' And you think I have imposed on your kindness ? No, Bir, I have not, for I have never shown by word or look.S | I ' No, you scoundrel/ I said to myself, ' but she knows-it all the same.' 1 ' And, sir, such a dream as mine could never be fulfilled it is im possible,' 'Yea,' I said,, in a cold,"hard coice, ' it is impossible.' 'God bless you, I sir! good-bye.' ' You will not Bay good-bye to her ? I said harshly. J He shook his head, and aa I stood there, hard, selfish, and jeal ous of him, I sa\y him go down J i the path, and breathed more freely " You oeem to be getting very well," said he, addressing the Ger man. '" " Saw, I ish well," replied the formerly sick man. "'You took as much oil as I told you V queered the doctor. " O yah, I have used as many as four gallons of the dog liver oil!" " , "The what?" said the^astonish- ed doctor. " De dog liver oil dat yon say I shall take. ,1 have killed most every fat little dog I oould catch, and de dog liver oil have eared me. It is a great medicine, dat dog liver oil." The doctor had nothing to say, but rode quickly away. older, went to seek1' her one after^ WSi Cared by Dos Liver Oil. j -, A jolly old German, while su fering from a pidroonary attack, sent for a physician. In a ^short time the doctor -called on him, prescribed two bottles of .cod liver oil, received his fee of $8, and wa told by th$ German, who disliked the size of the bills, that he need said ono morning, as' I sat bIom, not come Sain' The German, ' and (or a man like that, afar my 1 who bid. < lheard 'e doctors kindness, to take advantage of -his prescription very werl, supposed I position to win that girl's love from *hat \% co"ld 8ft the oil and treat mA would be tho act-of the great-1 himself. The doMor saw no- more est' scoun___' ' but ' May I come inj Mr."Burrows V one day, riding past the residence said the voice of the man of whom , of the German, be was pleased to,' Hard to beat Boiled eggs. ' A striking affair A clock. _' The-baby's little game BawlT A^nirror. A beneficial strike Striking a Job, J A very narrow aperture The crack of a whip. What holds ail the snuff in [the world 1 No one nose. It is said that the people of New York city eat 2,400 barrels flour daily. Statisticians show that London contains nearly 500,000 dwelling, houses. Why does a rooster always, have his feathers smooth 1 BscaUse he always carries his comb with him. Stanley siya that one African native became so fpnd of him that he beggfed Stanley as .a favour to kill him and eat him. A corset manufacturer puts his name on each piece of goods wade, ThuB^it is that advertising does nn\t and then go to waist. A young lady, just home fro-a boarding-school, on being told by the servant that they had m for he waa gone Gone, but there was a shadow on my hor^e. Cobweb said not a word, and expressed no Burprfse, never even referring to the picture,] but went about the house slowly, di ooping day after day, month aftei month, till the summer time came around again, and 1 knew that jpi my jealous selfishness, I was break ing her heart. I She never complained, and was as loving as ever j but my little Cobweb was broken, and the itears spangled it like deW when ever it was alone. It was as nearly as could be a year after, that I, fueling ten years J gooseberejei, exclaimed : ' Why.' what has happened to the goose?' m