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I] < . ~ I - ) r RE IRE -* i n The Acton Free Tolnrac I. Xo. 3fr I W n. LOWRY, CoIJcrv O 1*1 -s. i.rt<i jt mnJf v'uTfOon^. JMrLi ^TS^ii- *Yv>n D R*. R. M0RRO1W. Phy>i} o>.l. xursi-.n, vVc , oi lej<>. Ne "\ t)t>i-Hisoi<riiti'|iu'l 'V iriorl Coilofre Tue-*i i} p. ra ACTON. C I.I Hi ^ Consul' u K>ida,\v frorjv'a. m. tXll 4 Kcvutonov Weit itn ACTON, ONT., ^THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1876. rn.it.. m,. to < "Tilntfj of .vs^i.kn: Hr<\tit-Vol4 am it i\ s^4 jlWer ilVet PS :IPH CO/S. ED. JAMES MlTTIItltS. Conf vevaiicvx .s,sue o' M.ivrl.o tlcen-es l'-oslma.'-lo', iDMinntv \*nt, Jl^tm. Honey in lxxui, Awiit >llitr<.U lele tnyh C<?>.. if oi k _ o.irt n iflsk u.Couit Cora, In cj. H , *c, \l rv^.hr D. IIEXDERSOXl . ancsrF- *o ..*Mir.iu-e Co. l)t dK-, prepared no VI \, jMsMi'tjtv tcvm e-tljj -Old on roionib'e urns IxXUl OU Moi\.TICe soc'it Glai^ow lloiiii?, \eton. D. HATHESOC, itjorneyi _at-l_s.vr, Ssillct(r in i"Nu_eerjr| Ac Office Corner of .Vila w M. LUDLW. Itarrister, iERS, |Shoes, cheapen, and* khere. - ig your lie cVf-tbe l&tMt and Acierieu .EDY BKOS. 1UM. TOCK 3ttxactiv:-e and Ises, Cobemrg*. 1 flairs, sad *s4.er- rts, Attoruev-nt-L-V onunwn-, sc onSiv-ii K ng Mr**! ,'Mt'l-ui, Jul" Milton Office Will bi v-dor r_teui of P W, CsunpbeL .lw tr.n u.i4 oil \su nit* oaTrl4njf C* j<-_> wee,.-. t^omimox HARNESS SHOP. The subscriber begs to announce to the inhabit.nts of Acton nnd vicinity tint he h\s commenced the barnesa busuies.. in the t I UIIT( II. | If lo\o wcro w lilt the roio is, Ami 1 vv ere like tlio le if, ] 1 Our lives Mould grow together, 1 In sid or singing we ither, I Brown tiuliU or iloworful clones Groen p i shires or grej gritf -f If love wtre whit tlio rtBo is, i Ami I -nero like the luif. cut C iitui i MortKmsj ilorie) unit and t-hurcll /->i i -.- . r\,\- -i- mi- I If I More \ilnt tlio-Morda arc Old ToSt OmCe Building,^ Ami lo\e iro hko tlio tune,! I I With doulilc sound ,nid smglo ! MILL STREET, ACTOX, ' ---------- .....------------' where he i^ prepared to turn out work second w none in the Domin ion, as cheap ns tho~cboipest, and on tho shortot possible notice. I linvo on hind a large aniiwell select ed block ot Horse Bl&n&ots, 'VTi.lpa, Srushoi- ComTss, Trunfis etc. Kpairing promptly attended to. Give me a call and bo convinced. rlltllor ^timllton, JiT >jr<ot. Hie Hit nwa igol hO.^ Mr r.-ud ,\<atoa oaicv Acton, Nov. J F, DEMPSEY cither, JCTEXKY L DSVK& I>5tB\iL *tfiST, UltLPH. Ateav for toe Mm-, it 1' ft J w Jjer'oo Aa^u> urs citruste<i 'd niicare xi I (if f*liir"uil%- atuuded to. Orei>> h\ mall o'leitffj. H.f UlUKE T>|kTE>TS Tor I>rE.\TIOXS 1 exv>ej-.iio'^sI> a i i>.sr i\ sjiturxU li-C*a-d , I'jli.l j-- l- uilfc.lropt., P*K*u; ^nar intet^ o- it"> c i ^t vud for*prinieJ a5trJC*on-. \g-uc\ tuoptr- Um t 'U j cus iiL^JUV iii.I^T. Vtu itj. t. auad-t, Metf*iaalcM E-nlneei, -<jjtci or oi P* tjnd I>iS'4;UsFuiai. A CTOX LI VERY & SALE STABLE J. P. ALLAX TV / ILLIAUWiTK^S, T iko^^p'o-\->ure pirhlic jouer ihj loatr Siarriajr .ktmri .fcloruaratr*, i a\ ItovAApiO utn^eni J Bjtinrts p iute ai d confidential afliatt \.b" Pot U*a^f tlUnwllIlaru, Ctm^tr lla ton. M B. S. 4ETEC. in announclnc 1o th-a j tliat Mo ! > prepared to ' fnrnl^ti JFirst-cliss 2or3CS aad Carriaroa At fteaso'iibl* ilate^. , Hla Rifrs and Hors.es ore the I>*t that jean b> hsl, and be i ifet^rmlneU not u> ,bo n-possi-l b ?ov City .stable. Acton Julv 1st, 1875. T^ekr rHur, Dnvn-tas lid FrrmtU. 'h in:ti s.r et, \ttou Delight our lips would miugli \\ ith kisses glnd as birds nn|, 1 liit get sntit l-vin at noitii J If I wire whit tho words ire, And lou wire hko the tunc. If jou wore life, mj darling. And I, } our lo\t, were ikitb, We d shinu md snow together, Kre Mirih nude swi.Lt tho w| With dittoilil and starling, And hours or trnittiil l>txathj If \ou, MerCj lift, in} dirlmg And I, J0i.rln\i, wuro di,.itb. If jou wtro thrall to sorrow, And 1 wire in^c to joy, Wtf\l play for li\ ls and acisona. With los in.; hx<ks and treasons, And tears of might and sorrow, And 1 uighs of mud and boj ; If jou \iite thrill to sorrow. And I wefo page to joy. , If j ou w tro April's lady. And I wire lord, in May, We'd throw with is i\ts for hours, AiuLtlraw Mr le.i\ia with (lowers. Till S^y like night were shadj, And night vri.ro Engirt hko da\. If Jou WtrL April's ladj, And I were lord of May. If jou wtre quern of pleasure, And I fttn. king of pain, Wt'd hunt down Io\e together, riutk o|it his thing feather, And teach hw feet a- measure, And tind his mouth a >tin. If \ou were tjueen of pleisuro. And I w ere king of pun. | my honor more precious than my I " But you had learned, that she life!,? was innocent V j1 , " liut, remember, oh, valorous | " Alas I yes, to my unutterable fair !" ho mockingly wont on, that / shame and remorse !" was the un- your wo.ipou might miss, and leave | hajipy liwaband'a leply. T^IE, WEE WIFIE. iLIVER j^ZlKR, Plasterer, -- -' II I I 1 Ol do^e un sa lslac \J .ic\ou7 A;_ "j-. r#--' ;HEIGH BO, STOP! r Rc Kiur an i leetl . >ms <;ri ci*n I u he It - tilm *! *-* 'Pt r>S O^Sl> HOI^i!. JLttou. _____Cocio .n- U 1 Uai "w-i\ ^lai uii. d publ i lU'iM'iU flEI,r,l*roir OJUMO? UOri:!., Acton, * Ho^I i> .ik *i u j m tic?, i Ij* -7J0 wit i nc i >- u in*. )C'u aiiiijl T*areUe-a wi 1 r i d ^o* t ccim_ii u utljU ft^*ntik * |>ui toth-i suU t| Uk' ra-vt Jln^ tiu l^e, r-'-bapp te uni a e be 1.1 n so*"*, a La (" s-*rs C'OoJ S jbiii-g a.uil *ttntive Hosr' r-. [ Vv'Iiat's the Matter? Whv J any per-on who wjuts a good una cheip ; jSST OS1 HABNESS -t- T>OlALEXl'H*NE HOTEL I AY) -A*o i-V-t- Ki-L_- J) q^cif I'rwp. i auubi >nu oiifau't tkitaraudiooa fi^r OoaimrcMl li it. rs-tl^.V*! a cimi- UAdmiloa irf T. it el e s^ndC>u*sis H* si brind^oT l .<i ws jn i Ci. ns t toe jti..r. Oood8ta.-)liDg.iu i AtJ'o.i're Hiist pre. w T31. UtMSTKlsET,;/ y KI L PFJ>sS J ri ltnci, in t tlj-atLs^deo to. Usjx. Sets I CAPS,^ I ^Eieenssd Aucti4neer Ko/thi (?QnntL<-s oTWciil felon and 'Hrl- toa urJers I- t i tlie " - -- - office, Acto , a' it mi Koelttroid. wil, -jepiom Tirmi reasonaoie %[ - DAVID SOX, | iLicansed A^clbionesr ; For I he toattty or HaJton. Sales attn lei *to in nr part of the Ountj-, at reason, b rui*-s. A. DtVIDstJ.V, Cinapjajlltille, f.O. fCOTT.' ats j , 'S. i " I " -0 x ung com- Hi; i- oosi Prices- TTENiEDl'S Marble Works, Opposite side from Mills L Goodftllow s> Foundxj, and 1 Xear Eramoa Bridge, Uuciyli. > ------- AI.L ErSDS Of ~ MOKUMENTS Tomb Stones, llantle Pieces, i &c , made 10 any size or design, and put up in any part of the country, | *3" Scotch Granite Monu ments imported to order. P.S lA. Kennedy is a prac- tieal"niaijjlt cutter _ Should call on Ibortv Creech, MILL STREET, ACTOX, ' Who i= alwajs reidy to Bupply cus- jomer with evei vtbin usually kept ^n a frrst-:l l-s liarnete fcbop, Hirness mide to order on the Shortest posiible1 notice. , J i COILABS'^SPECIALTT. | R CREECH, Acton. r.Nov. 1S^1S75. |^ TOX ( PLANINO MILLS AND X>RIZE PHOTOGRAPHS. '"^ Sorr Is the Time Tor 'Clieap Pictures. S*tt Eetouched ami Burnished rbotogragba taduced to $1.00 per 4ennjttlh Ontario Photograph-Gallery, Acton. 11 .t once and obtain a, good and b*p jpieture, finUhed m'the best style, before prices are again ads Mneed. ~ S. Bl We wer awarded all the irst pHies of er all competitors at the Ute County Fair at JLilto,n, Oct. lth and 14th, 1875. C. W. HILL, Pfaqtoe Acton, Not. 26, 187&.,.- 22-3m J*ABM FOR SAXB. One hundred acres of land, -U wooded, being the eaet half of Lot 21, to the 3rd Coutebsion, m the Toaship -M fasquesing. Fer ^rticulars address T- THOMAS GARVIN. fiin'P.O., Oct., Nov. 30, 1875. nntpt Sasb, Door and1 Blind Factory. THOMAS EBBAGE, Manu/acturer of - Wiada-w1 Sash, Doors, Venetian Blinds ^ Mouldings, Ajiid other Building Requisites AJeo Makers of IWPSOVEO SUCTION VUKSB LJimbar Planed and Dressed to orde in the best manner. All work guaranteed. Actjin, Jan, 1876. Tpl'RE SULK. The, undersigned begs to thank his customers for the liberal patronage re- cened during the past summer, and , would aay tliat he is now prepared to [supply an additional number of custom ers with good, pure, fresh milk deliver ed every morning, and tw ice a day on JSaiturdays Parties who keep cows will find it much cbeaperjind less trouble to ge*t milk, delivered at their doors, and they vould do well to sell their caws aritt buy their milk, Twenty-one cjuart tickets for 1, if paid in advance, or twenty-one pint txekctsfor 50 cents, P. S ARMSTRONG. -^cton, Nov. 10th, 1875. (CuncJuArfJ ^Ll see it ull now '" exclaimed the jomig w lfe, when sJie had hasti ly perused the jnper. "The signa ture is mine, but tho writing is my futhci's, and np\er until this moment lm\e I behold it. Doiibt- | le-ss Annot gate jour missi\e to him. as she considered it her duty to do . and lie, then dying, and dreading to leu\e his children quite-] ftlendlefes, answered e\aihely, bid tjing _\ou wm me if you could. My poor futlicr mils.! have thought you an honorable m.iE, else had he not cilled me <o his side to sign a papei which gj;i\e jou .v right to ask nie to be jours But with tlie earning of Mr. Mnefuil me all such preten sions as jours were as naught. My | f.ithei knew him to be good and true, and gave me to him gladly thankfullj-." __ " Has your married- life with this man been a veij- happy one," sneeied C'ajley, " thit jou talk in this evalted strain 1" *' No ; because jou oh, fceart- le^s man ' jou bave poisouedj it'" she answered, with a soIiN__/"In showing him, that paper,! j-ou taught him to "think I was not worthj' his affection. - Oh, why did I not know tljis sooner, that I might exonerate mj-self in his sight I" " Is all your pity for him 1 Have I not been tricked deceived 1" de manded Caylc-y, in a fury, as he tore tlie letter that ^ad misled him into fragments, and stamped on them. " for it | was jour vanity that was in fault. Onlj' huch ovei-whelming self con ceit as jouis could have led you to think that your addiesses would be acceptable to one whom jour bold, coarse looks and speeches ternfied so greatly that she dieaded to en counter j-ou !" " Do you dread me still, fair Agnes 1" he asked, trying to take her bund. " No, sir, I despise you ! None but the most unworthy of men would have- persecuted me as you have done ever since I have been a.' wife!" " You take a peevish tone, my beauty; but I shall soon teach you to alter it!" he told iier, insolently. " The amiable husband is absent, and'so is the dragon who generally guards j*ou when be is away, and I shall have plenty of time to bring you- to your senses before anyone can inteifere to, prevent my tri umph !" But Agfies, in retreating from hinr, had drawn near the table, on whicB lay the pistols Mr: Mjtcfaw lane generally carried with when on a journey ; and as the villain Cayley would have claBpedher im his arms, she snatched them up, | and. presented them. _J | " Keep back, sir, or dread the consequences;' 'for, as surely as I stand here, I will shoot you if you take another step towards me 1" He grew very pale, although he laughed at the threat. ' j " Pooh, sweeting ! put down your dangerous toys. Believe me, they are nothing more in such urir practised hands as yours 1" " You forget that I am a soil dier's daughter!" she answered, cocking the pistol she held in her right band; " the daughter of a brave man, who taught mo to think me unhutt! What thtva 1" " Why, then," she bravely re sponded, " I havo another, which, pointed at my own breast, will save mo fiom your foul touch !" " You could not do this, foolish ons '" exclaimed Oaj-loj-, uneasily. " I could, arid will I" said the undaunted wife. t " I will never glvo^Adlan Macfarlano cause for the cruel doiuljs luysontei tains ! Living oi dying, I am liis loudly, faithfully his! and, if he icfuses to own it now, ho shall kuow it when I am no more '" Her Rpaech ended with a shriek; for Cayley, thinking ho saw an op portunitj of springing upon and dis- auning her, bounded forwatd, and clutched her in his arms. But not before she had kept her word, and bred. Tho ne.vt minute, Cayley laj' senseless at her feet. She had saved her honor ; she had revenged herself; but she waa a woman as well as a heroine, and the pain of knowing tliat slio had shed the blood of a fellow cieature well nigh maddened her. There weio voices in her ears, calling her nimderess; and, snatch ing up a cloak that lay by, she threw up the feash, leaped from the win dow, which was,1 fortunately for h<*r, at no great freight from tho garden; and muflling herself in the w nipper as she wejnt, fled into th dinkness. ' Far and wido they sought the fair wife of Allan Macfarlane; but none could, or wouldj tell what had become of her. . Some times it was supposed that she had thrown herself into a pond or river ; but no signs of her hav ing done this were discovered. Worn -with grief and fatigue were the lineaments of the Jmsb.ind, thus suddenly and strangely bereav ed as late one evening, he rode into the countynrd of Swinton Hoiihe and craved the hospitalitj-of itsown er for one night, more on account of his horse, which was dead beat, than his own excessive)/ fatigue. Sir John leccived him with his customaiy couliulitv ; but Lad)- Stvniton's welcome was constrained. She had loved and pitied A'gnes too sincerely to have much sympathy with the man who, by condemning her too hastily, had w rought hei miservand his own. When refreshments had been set befoie her guest, the Lady Swinton, in somewhat stately fashion, with drew to her own parlor; but,^in a few minutes, Allan Macfarlane fol lowed her thither, for his soul was ill at ease within l.im, autt he could rest no wbeie. " Hate mo if you will!" he groaned ; "j et pity me, too, for I have suffered gieUtlj- ! When I wedded my poor love, her own lips assured me she wns fieo to give me her heart! Think, then, what I felt when a stranger burst into mj' room, as I was diessing to hasten to her, and assailed me with re proaches for having robbed him of the gill who had promised to be his" " Had you told Agnes this--------"' Lady Swinton began. '^A.y, had I done so, all might have been well; but I was smart- Ah, mo aht mo !" sighed Lady Swinton, wringing lieu hands,' " ifLj'ou cotild have known this sooner; now you] aie paitf'd by a culso ! Even if Ajtjnes could be restoied to you, Jiow could j'ou take to your bosom ono who, though1 in self defence, hath the death of a fellow-ci'eatuio on I]or soull" " His death be upon his own head i" exclaimed Mr Macfailano, hotly. " Foul must be the tongue that would cast any blame on my heroic love for defending her honor '" . "Scarcely had he spoke, when a sliding panel in the wainscot moved aside, and his lost wife stood befoie him. In her wild flight she had recol lected that in Lidy Swinton's friendship sho could confide, and had made her way to this knid- lleaited woman, who, in pity fot her fears, hid her in a seciet cham ber communicating with her own sitting room. , She stajed but to see the hus band and wife rush into each others aims, and then ran away to confess to her own liege loid tho secret she had kept even from his ears, lest he should be tempted to divulge it. When she did return, Agnes no longer coldly avoided, but, with her head pillo'weir on Allan. Mac- fat lane's shoulder was just ob- {91.00 per annum in Advance* Tbre Grangers and Business. (Tiom Die London AdiiertUer.} Our back numbers will bear tes timony that we have always main tamod a friendly attitude toward the Gl angers in so far as they have combined and co-opeiated for the legitimate interest!* of the farming coinni inity. We have bdeu con vinced that there weie many useful ends 'or the accomplishment of which farmeis wiould do well to Unite and hold periodical meetings. But w ) have also given expression to tlie fear less the Grangers might go pu; of their legitimate Bpheie, i and sp act as to disttub and injure existn g business interests. It is with no small legiet that we ob- sci ve i ome certain indications that our ap )rehe!isions wero but too well founded. In many localities, there has aiieady spuing up a very un-" pleiiBant feeling between village and country1 nreichants and the Gran- gois, 1'he met chants complain that custou eis belonging to Grangers leave (their stole bills unpaid, and club together to send cash to whole-] sale houses for the supplies they need Or they remit ready money for tho bulk of tjlieir goods, go to tlie store for smaller aiticles; and say to the-obliging merchant, as of old; "just charge it." In some pi ices Grangers demand a reduc tion of 10 per cent fiom ordinary prices as a condition of dealing. It is said there are cases in which countiy mei chants are closing up business, owing to unpaid accounts - . and the falling off of custom result- serving, with a sigh and a shudder, from Gnmgel. wholesaling. We '.'There is now but one cloud to [ kaQW of a v,llage raerehant wh0 mar our happiness. How can I ever forget that these hands of mine hastened| tho flight of a guilty soul to its Maker? Perchance I was too hasty ! But for me, that miserable man might havo lived to repentJ" " He did repent, my Agnes," was the consoling leply. " And w ith his last breath he craved j'oilr foigiveness and miue. Nay, so far fiom lnurmuiing at the deed that stietched him on a dying bed, he learned to feel that it was well for him a life so given over to evil deeds was thus biought to an end. He paused. "But I have j'et more to tell you," le presently added, when Agnes breathed a thankful ejacula tion. " It was not by your hand this sinful man fell.*- I was unarm ed, but not so my friend, and in his righteous indignation he fired at Cayley when he spiang forward, to seize you. Your pistol lodged a bullet in the wall above his head ; it was the hand of another that avenged jou. Now is my-wee wife content"!" And the burst of joyful tears with which Agrjes first looked at her white hands, and then twined them about her husband's neck, an swered him. " . And bo they came to understand each other, remembei ing, with in- creasingijoy, its the yeais rolled on, the mournful Christmas-tide which had bioughtj them together and evoked out of the soitow of the nast the happiness of the present and of the future. makers undertaking to supply Grangers at low figures, and turn-, ing out worthless articles which- had to he thrown away, and others bought at full prices of respectable t'and resposible parties. Our opin ion is- that there is competition enough in most localities to guard farmers against extortionate prices, '.and that, sooner or laf r, they will find i to their cost that-it will not pay them to go into business on their own account. There is no reason that we know of why a -Granger should get goods 10 per cent cheaper than hisneigh- bbi-s. The farmer who does not see fit to join a Grange, no sooner finds out that a merchant is mak ing a reduction of 10 per cent to a neighbor, then he naturally de mands to be dealt with on the same terms. It is a poor rule that will not work both ways, yet phe Gran ger, when wheat is a dollir a bush el, will not sell it for ninety cents UJ the mercha it who gives him ten per cent off. , Discrimination in} favor of Grangers is creating ill- feeling in many localities, among farmers who h live heretbTore lived in good fellowship. It is-sendering it m6re-difficult than ever to secure co operation among theib, ^or the promotion of legitimate farming in terests. Moreover the combination of has advertised " no business done with Grangers," as his protest against their line of action. "An Old President" in the township of Bosanquet, has a sensibhrletter on this subject in_ the Forest Express of Feb. 5, in which he shows how much the early sejttlers were oblig ed to depend on country storekeep ers when their farms were new, and nrgues that it is ah ungrateful re turn they are making now in driv- iug the meichaut3 to the wall. He is appiehenstve of the most serious consequences both to farmers and country merchants, if things con tinue to run in the present groove. Now, we ask our Granger friends to take this matter into calm and suriotis consideration. There is a mutual need and dependence on fjhe part of the various members of the body politic, which cannot be dis regarded without evil results. "-No= doubt a farmer has a peifect right, if his store-debts are paid, to take"a trip to the city, and Jbuy what have." , . . , -, , . i " Divoce! divoee ?' class against class is very much to, eral voices ^^^ be deplored. If farmers combine ' - - - against merchants, it will only be a" Quitting in Time. Going up^the street .abbut 10 o'clock tine night recently, a'citizen, beard the sound of, a fiddle, banjo, and tam bonne. As he neared the- point fiom which thev prpceeded, he heard footsteps keeping" time to the music and a voice calling out the figures of a cotillion. He soon learned it was a npgro wedding fro lic, j Just as h arrived in front -of the ijiouso a loudj angry voice called out: i " Stop dat music im,mejntly." It stopped, andf-the dancing ceas ed in the midst of the figure. " What is *the ina^tah, Sam 1" said another voice. " What do ye mean bj'-stoppin' de dance V " I mean jes 'zeetly wot I say," said Sam. " I'gagad dat band myself to play for dis party; Ise de boss ob dis 'casiop ; I de band shan't play no mo', f" Dis jiarty shan't go on. Gemmen and ladies, you can all g* borne." " What in de name ob sense ia de mattah wid dat niggab T^ was the speech that came from alj parts of the room. " What's de mattah, Sam, you talk -dike a erazy nig- gab." " No, Ise not crazy: Isegwinejo h>v_e a divoee L Ise gwineS to bave a divoee 1 Dat's what Ise jgwine to -*. n shoiifted sev,- " What is dat niggah thinkin' about ? He ain't bin married more'n two hours, ~, ./.!/!.* i-~ J UU1 U U1L1 IJJUILXCTJ U1U1C XI bWU UUllia, natural act of self-defence for mer-' ~4 now he.8 tolkia. about tt;n'. chants to mmhin nmnmit urmfiis. I .. *- - ' - -*. a -^- . chants to combine against farmers. It is a game two can play at. If farmers are obliged to club together to send th?ir own eggs, poultry, butter, and wool to distant mar ket, they will discover that they , | - , * . .,j . , - I and she's bin makin'me b'leve*h havebe^n^ymg witna two^gedJhad mone^_^lat ^^ rich> ^ sword, tinder the operations of the laws of trade, little villages have sprung up here and there, fur nishing convenient centres ef trade to the adjacent farmers. Many minor products of the farm are thus disposed of, and the village mechanics, tradesmen, merchants and surrounding farmers,- have I" traded to mutual advantage. Is it well to check the growth of these rising villages, "and send all the money going to great city centres ) like Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto ' and London ! i 1 In writing thus; we have no motive but the general good. The. prosperity of all classes must go hand in hand together. Society is a body ; the hand cannot suffer, the eye cannot be injnredj^the foot -cannot be lamed, without loss to the entire body. Again we say, ^by all means let farmers contrive ?7^!i.i1(l :7 *ti.-l7)!?!^f } S improve theTr"agrictilture'r"to J Whether it is good policy to do so, is another question. If his time is worth anything, and it ought to be, it is doubtless if he will save enough to amount both to expenses and" wages. If a number 0f farmers unite, employ an agent, and pay consult for the promotion of rural interests; to diffuse information as to the best modes of culture ; to multiply improved stock ; to sus tain cheese factories j to get up dis cussions ; to establish libraries; and the like, but let them seriously him to buy for them at wholesale,} ^n^^^""c^v n^*"th^ r.hfv virt.nallv trn into mFTwmf,ilf I - ^ ,-, . ^^ - ? . .1 ing under the belief that both father and daughter had deceived me and I was too proud to tell one so fickle how bitter iy_J felt her perfidy !" " You do not doubt our poor Ag- neR now ?" " No ; for I was the unseen au ditor of her interview with Caj'ley." Lady Swinton started. " You were ! And yet went not to her aid V "Hear,-before you copidemn me1 Let me tell you all the occuirences of that evening." ' " I know already," the lady said, with bitterness, "that you left your wife without one kind word or caress." Again lie groaned in the anguish of his self-reproach. " It is1 trae I did so, although my heart yearned towards her. I bad not gone fifty paces from my own dwelling that night ere I met an old friend who was fn want of a paper of importance he had given into my charge. I knew precisely whore to lay my hand, on it, and turned back with him for that pur pose. The out portal wbb open; We could hear voices within, and turn ing into my study, I had to draw | aside the curtain of the sash door leading into my wife's sitting-room, to see that her companion wasCay- Tey. Engrossed in themselves, they saw not the faces of those who looked in upon, them j they dream ed not that there were auditors to their, conversation; but when I , would have rushed into the room / to protect my belovod one, and defy the intruder who threatened her, I found that the door was bolted on the other side. Ere I could force it, Cayley had rushed upon his fate, and AgneB had fled.*' A iroman never quite forgets "the man who has once loved hei. [She may not havo loved him ;j she may, indeed, havo given him the "no " instead of the "j'es" he hoped for; but tho remembrance that he desired a "\es" always softens her thoughts of him, and would make him were he reminded of it, a friend forever. There may be girls who make jest of discarded suitors; but they are generally very young, and the wooing has been something that did not batok en much depth of tender less. There are nieicenary offers, too, that only awaken scorn and hate in the woman wooed for nionejr and not for herself; but really to have touched a man's heait is something not to be forgotten while she lives Always she remembers how his eyes looked into into heis ; bow, perhaps, he touched her hand with his, and how her heart ached when he turned away without that which she could not give him. She oves some one else Sow 3 other man has all the tenth of her soul al ways has, and always will have but she cannot forget the one who turned from hor and went his way and came no more. She is glad when she hears of his success, grieved when she knows th4t 'he has suffered; and when somei day she hears that he is married j- she who has herself been married years, perhaps; she who, at events, would never bave mar him is she glad then 1 I do not know. A woman's heart is a Ivory Strange thing. I do not believe long all matried she ^knows herself. Glad? yes! and is his wife pretty nice ? And then she says to self that " he has quite forgotten," and " that, of course, is best,' and she cries a little. they virtually go into mercantile business, and the agent is their cleik. What it costs to employ an agent, is as far as it goes, the same throg as the merchants' profit. On the Granger plan of wholesale buy ing, tlie partners must take the goods, while, when they deal with a countij' merchant, they only take his goods if they suit. In the one case, the farmeis themselves, who have le illy gone into busines, aiej responsible for mistakes in> buying and; m fact, bear all nska In the othei case, all this is borne by the mei chant. Society is framed on the princi ple of a divrsion of labor. Instead of the Farmer making his own shoes, he deals with the shoemaker; for his clothes he goes to the tailor; for his furniture to the cabinet maker ; and for merchandise, until the advent of Grangensin, he went to the stoie keeper. The question is whether the established princi ples of trade are a mistake, or, in mother words, whether the plan of exchange ,of commodities and ex change of work, on which society is based, is radically unsound. Far- meis may just as well undertake to be their own shoemakers^ tailors, cabinet makers, &c., as their own merchant. It requires gieat skill and experience to buy goods weH. Many have gone into storekeeping and I failed, because they have bought unsaleable stock, or bought so high, that they cannot make a living- profit. There is every rea son to believe that this will be the history of many of the wholesale speculations of the Grangers. It is" wiser to buy of a responsible man in yolir locality, who has a business reputation to make or to maintain . _ti ______ a divoee f He's crazy, suab. Yo'jS crazy, Sam J" "Ttell you Ise not crazy. Hertr- Ise bin courtin' Lucinda for1 two years, with honorable intenshuns. now she tells me she ain't got btifcjt dolla a dolla. Stop de'music. Di$ party is broke up. When-dis chile marries a gal for her money, she'a. got to hab' more'n a dolla, or I won't lib wid her a minjt. Ise gwine to quit in time. * What's a. dolla to a man wid a family V I j' Dat's more'n you got, you good for nuffin, lazy, no account niggah,1* shouted Lucinda. " Nex' time I marry for money, it's got tir be coemtjed out befo' de preacher Ities de knot Ise gwine to git a divoee tmmejutly." ' Such an uproar was made by this speech the citizen could not understand anymore that was said, and he passed on homeward1, thinkr ing it was"the shortest honeymboni of which he 'had ever heard. a ' Of course Sam is poshing mat ters for a divorce.' *- * " What's a dolli to a man wid** family!" ~ ' ^ - Oh and %- must fellow a crusade against the foundation principals of society, and a war upon the established course of trade. The Difference. A young man from one of the subuidan districts was in to one of oiir tailor shops getting, measured for a Test, the other afternoon. " Married or unmarried V 'quer ied the merchant^afteirtaking down the number. " Unmarried," jjgid the young man, with a blush. 1 " Inside pocket on the left hand side, then," observed the tailor, as if to himself, making a memoran dum to that effect. i After a moment's pause, the young man from the suburbs was prompted to ask : " What difference does my being married or unmarried make with the inside pocket of a vest." 1 "Ah, my dear sir/' observed the tailor, with a bland smile, "all the difference possible as you must see. (Being unmarried you want the I ppeket on the left side,' so to bring the young lady's picture next your heart." , j " Bur. don't the marrietl man] also want his wife's picture (next to his heart f queried the anxious youth. 1 " Pcssibly there is an instance of that kind," said the tailor, arching his eye brows, " but I never heard of it.r The Maine Legislature; his pass ed a bill abolishing capital pnriiah- mant, and substituting imprisetaent for life at hard labour. This is the second if not the third-i-l-tiiiie that Maine has changed its lkwg'oxy.tSlB subject^ and the same may-.be- said. of several other Statesf~|-EAgS' they seem unable to come totras^ettled policy on this questforl,'r^!s| to^ be. inferred that the abolition of tho death penalty does not materially^ decrease the numbertof murders^ ! An Iowan by the vens invented an figg-paqking-case a few years since. name t of Ste- It "took well ' Sweet meets two fond lovejra in a first eoibraco. I and in a/ short time] had returned - , . . . him $ 100,000. Ea>y come, easy and whose interest^ is to sell good g0j and to-day Stevens is working goods, and secure the confidence- ot for the man to ^h> h.rsold, his his customers. Already we~~have -~ heard) of cases in which advantage has bjeen taken of inexperience of trading farmers. In one neighbor hood l that we could name, shoddy peddjsrs have been round, sold worthless cloths at half the price 6f good goods, taken, notes, negotiated them, and cleared out with the pro ceeds In tho Western States there haye been many cases of implement patent at $2 .a day A "lovely girl'] in Wisconsin recently recovered) 140 damages in a breach of projnise siiit against a profidious loverT\JHer lawyer con4 gratulated her on the amount, wheel] sho exclaimed,.' with a ferocious] glance at her Unaers : "I'd give overy penny ef it jto have a good pull at his hair." A wet Sunday night affects the; two classes of lovers in opposites ways. To him whoja engaged it. is a god send, as it enables him ,tO snug up to; her in tho. parlor and have the whole evening to him self, bnt to the other love, the one who is not engaged, a most painful episode. His footing at, the house isn't sure enough to1" warrant his going there through the storm, and all he can do ia to attend the church and stand in tjhe " vestibule, and pull up hia-shirt col lar, in the despairing hope that she may appear. She don't, of course, and he goes back ia his dreary home, wretched and miserable be- -yond description^ O, those days of ecstatic idiocy^.how theirj mem ory overcomes us. " [ I . '" '- A timid young man was visiting' a beautiful and accomplisbediyofing. ' woman on MMn street lastlnight,' v when, after a pause, she said], look ing at fiim closely : r' Nov?,jI wran* to propose to you-4-" "Jou are- ' very kind," said the timid young man between gasps and blushes.: " but I am not -worthy o~tao much happiness, and, in fact, none of our - family are manning people,beside* my income, is limited, and, iMura, to meet Mr. M--------, and I'm afraid-. Pil be late." Then without wait ing to put on his overcoat, he triiad' to make his exit through tfaa, door of a cupboard. '< Why," ^ud tto young,woman, lifting her eyebrow* in surprise, "'I wanted yooip escort me to my sister's on Church strasW. " O, in that case," an&trejvxl-hei; swain, " if your head's leTeJ, ant your boot ia on the other foot^Jj. ' shall be only too happy, but Ii4flU ' afraid^r-that is, I almoe* dansd-*^ hope iiv fine, 1 am subject tatbewS. seizures/* and he sub down *>i^ tfcoif coal-scuttle, and said it wa^--;ya^r cold day; hadn't sefn saeii wdat^ft since last Dominion dj.j *\ J. -iit t. \k ,r I