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i gt 1 00 week. QAP ..cddscsessenseess- ET i RS mic Pod 4 + woh makes one @ square. “Prancient murt be pre- ret B. BUCK & McCRIMMON, | PAL RMO “hours from 7 to b. crate: m, daily... bate ag wigoen a seats? dD. +» Me@ill College, Montréal, M. .P. 8. > 43 pDRssSU E RLANO " - SUNDAS STREET ta Oo AKYV ILLE. i 8. W. WILLIAMS, M.D CORONER. COUNTY OF HALTON, | own al eee ~R, A. CLARK, M. D., L. Graduatein 1870 of Meail) jaiversi- oatreal. Licentiate of the eof Physicians and " Ontaric. Suiage ef eraatann snd Seren the Pres-| pyterian Church, Oskville, 39 cy & MEMBER HOURS.—Ste 10. 8,m. 1 to 2 ands scree ald tend. ey A - fe] Vridays. will noth e = eaieencari “ “The ‘Teolated Sik. B ie —arh—_ Ei CAPITAL - ~ $600,000. \GovgaxaEnr Derrosit - $160,660 esonly Non-Hazardous Property Joux K. APPELBE, : AGEST, Trafalgar P.O. \~ OAKVILLE “FARMERS? INSURANCE CO. |S ‘At the New Drug Store ‘R.C. BALMER, DEALER IN iucs AND |WEDICINES, |~ Colborne Street, near Post Office, ‘ ONTARIO. ERE MAY CONSTANTLY be found a fall and complete stock of SAVES, |CHEMICALS, PATENT EEBICIEES, Druggists Sundries GENERALLY. attention given to PRES- oa also compen ite FARM= oxir 108 W. 8. STONERAM, 8 PREPARED | TO TAKE OR- —DERS, end MAKE UP (GENTS: CLOTHING, - IN ALL THE LEADING FASHIONS. = Orders loft with Mr. doun ecu. or Mr. M. S. McCraney, willreceive prompt attention. CUTTING DONE, those who wish to: MAKE UP At be on REASONABLE TERMS. fee Shop on Colborne-st “west of Youngs Aroade. qqutd® UFE SS comPanr. ESTABLISHED 1347 HEAD OFFICE, HAMILTON. CAPITAL AND FUNDS OVER 4.200.000. TS RATES ARE AS LOW AS it of other good companies. the con- cant oP the bos, Hones ta the expectation that at next divi of prosts, which tukes place this year, will prove ofa very satisfratery charao- ter. insuring before the 30th of April arse He page in thé last five years profits. Th any after two yearty preininms have ‘beon eo pala obeyed are indisputeable on any AG. RAMSAY, Ww. H. YOUNG, Mana Agent Oakville. reet, Oakville, ep caes OAKVILLE, ONTARIO, MAY 28, 1880, - Public Libraries. The town that ‘tee five’ hundred books that deserve to be -read more truly a library than another with five timesas many of the kind that are most po Statistics of circulation do not give very accurate information as to the ecbaiiiees of our libraries, So many thousand entries on the record per month, so vast an te a year. To each man, weman and child in the whole community, so ‘many volumés on an average. It makes an imposing array. All this mighty army of read- ers must make knowledge the com- mon ien. Wehave reason to be proud of that universal intelligence which is the birthright of free institu- tions. But when suddenly a Communist mob lifts ite bloody head all over the land; and iva time of hardship and business depreesion ruthlessly destroys jcountless millions of property, setting at defiance ull correct ‘ideas of owner- ship, of the laws of -supply and de- hinnd, and of government, a are made painfully to .reflect that. the popular intelligence is a delusion. Only the direst ignorance could engen- der such anurchy. Only minds that had made absolutely no use of the sources of correct information could give ear to the desperate demagogism that fanned this material into flame. } We wust look, therefore, beneath the figures to know where we are. Not only bow much, but: what has been read, Suppose that it is“The Bloody Bar of Soap; or the Washwomau’s Revenge,” that graces the shelves. Ail the hoodlums will read it, and come again with wolfish demand tor mbdfe of the same kind. The circulation in the figures swell, but who is benefited thereby? Give us, there-, fore, good librarians, in your classifica tion of poverhaey new division. Head it “Silly and Unprotitable Read- ing,” reading that contirms in folly or mukes*bedlumites, and give us yet another, tse. ee at the facts, the per-cent. thonghtful readers, and one statistics will have new meuriing, though possibly a much soberer one. I believe that mere reading irrespec- tive of quality is of scarcely more value than mere talking without sense or goodness. Indeed, a large deal of both is positively baneful; the more of it the worse off we are. When fond mothers tell us what great read- ers their sons and daughters are we usually inclineto laugh, and to ask what their capacity for trash is. Or more seriously, will they, with these habits of desultory reading, ever know anything thoroughly, or be capable of thinking justly on any subject } The book with n-singlo reader- may be of more consequenceyin «its influ- ence than anether that counts its hun-f dreds.._A short tiine ago [ heard a gers! young man call for the next volume Bancroft’é United States. I venture to say that it was the only call for that work in that library during the year. It reminded me of Henry Wil- gen and his devouring of all the his- terical.worka in the villaze library where he first made shoes, and of the faithful work he did the nation as the result of his reading. For the sake of one such reader the best should be has |trath « which he knows all about. fess) with his laughter does he not ae tee) more? If we can put into bis hands a beautitul Jittie classic like “Rab a his Friends,” the tender pathos of which may per-| haps make him kinder in his family and more-humane at heart we have done him a higher service than tostp- ply him with brainless foolery to laugh at, There is no better antidote for the ills of poverty than the companion- ship:of noble books. The best ‘are none too good.— A. M. Pendleton m the Library Journal, —————eeEEEEEEE ‘ A Matrimonial Romance from Paris. French society is much divided at preeer: upon the merits of a case that’ as come before the law _Qpurts. The circumstances are these: The son of the ‘Turkish Ambassador to England, M. Paul de Masurus, fell in love some time ago with Mile. Marie. d’Ime- court, the daughter. of a. widowed countess ; and his passion was. return- ed. M. Paulasked for the hand of the young lady from her mother,. who refased on acceunt of the religion the intending bridegroom, for he is a member of the Greek Church, while the d’[mecourts are Roman Catholics, The match would have been all that could be desired frour~ew. areas: point of view—age, rank, wel id social standing. Madame not only refused, but declared if there were any symptoms of a disobedisnt dispo- sition Mile. Marie should be put into | aconvent. Whereupon M. Paul re- turned to London from Paris, where is] the lady was not disposed to give up her lover, and shortly afterwards she escaped from Paris and betook a self to Loudon. The young man con- sulted his father as to what should be done,*and was advised to send the girl baek ; but she would not cunsent, and the couple were married before the at Westminister, This appened about six mont white te the pair were passing thet honeymoon at a hetel in PieetGdilly they received a call fro Jacob formerly the chief of detectives in Paris, but now a private detective, his office having been taken from him for cause. This man told the young peoplo that the lady’s mother was not obdurate, and would be glad, now that they were married, to be recon- ciled to them. But the Countess was very ill ; she.much desired that a re- ligions marriage sheuld be solemnized, and begged them to.go to Paris, After some hesitation the request was acced éd to, and they did return to - Paris. Arrived there, Madame Musuras set out to meet ,her mother. When she band became alarined and followed Mier. in exnellont health, who informed him, that the marriage was illegal ; that the French courts would be asked to set it aside, and that meantime the lady had been sent to a convent. He to find out for himself. That is what the young Masurus has been trying to do ever since,” but wholly without} avail. do, but that unfortunately, is little. There is no way under law by which an Fp Ac of life, the prosy, “sober reality of | | he had been prusecuting his suit. But}, had_ been gbsent.some-hours_her hus-| would have enquired what convent, and was told |i hae My é gs rg : ine our ages. “Now cut me. a | same size as the one done, the duke tramp with his feot, aud te 2530 tous of tiene 60c. on every ton ot coal it bays to melt the iron, whittles down its tender to the lowest possible notch, and un- dertakes to ares th pipe for $33.30 a The authorities have assisted | and him al] that it was in their power hid : can be} c pursued beyond may tor soring. where no man may enter rena Bere the invitation of the gov