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IS- * E. SICKUS, Proprietors. Xl3Ur'-l "eedalV5 on band, wljoic-- *I* and r;UJL Griming an.! Cnopplsg l,tly. CPsii Tor ail kinds of lir.Un. SGiN HOfSE, Acton. C^jjo to lhe..ii. T. Railway ritatnni. -"Excellent ^ceuimo-Ja'.lo:i fnr theTravel- Uaj pabUc THUS. fAMl'BULL, Eropr. w . lAfo and ^.cridsnt IH3UBANCE C0fe:?AMY OfvIIartford, .c'ouu.' TDK HOME CONCKRT. Well, Tom, my boy, I must Bay Rood- bye, l'vo liatl a wonderful visit horo ; Enjoyed it, too, us well ns I oould, - Away from all that my heart holds duar. Maybo I'vo^beon a triilo rough A little awkward, your wifo would say And Very likely l'vo niiBBud tlio hiut Of your city polish day by day.; But somohow, Tom, though tho samo old roof Sholterod us both when wo wero boyB, And tho samo dear mothor-lovo watoh- od ub both. Sharing our childish griefs and joys. Yet you aro almost a' stranger now j . Your ways a<id mine, are as far apart Aa thoagh wo' had' novcr thrown an arm ; About each other with loving heart. Yea, tho" coucort was splendid last . U'Riit, Tho singing splendid'; hut, do you know, :" My heart" kept "longing; tho oveniDg through, Al For another concert >.eo swoot and low That niaybo it wouldn't please tho car Of one so culturod and grand as you ; But to its music My heart and thoughts must over ho truo. I shut my eyes in the hall Ia6t night, (For tho clash of tho music wearied mo,) Aud close to my heart tho vision came. The samo sweet picture 1 always soc; 111 tho viue-clad poreh of a cotbigo i home, ; Half in shadow "and half in sun, A mother chanting her lullaby, liockiog to rest her little 0110. And soft and sweet .is tho miiaio fell 'From the, mother's lips I heard the coo, Of 1115* liaby girl, as with drowiiy^.tonguo She echoed the -song witirt, "Goo-a- - goo." _ Together they eang, the'mother and b*be, My wife and child, by the cottage ? door, * , Ah : that is the concert, brother Tom, lly ears are, aching to hear unco more. So~now pood-byo. And J wish you . . well. And .many a year of wealth and gaiu, Yon were_Jj<>nj to be rich r.ud j;ay ; I am content to 1m.1 poor and plr.in. And I go back to my country home With a love that ab^euco has strength- CHtll tix>. Back to tho.conrert all my own Mother's singing; the baby's coo. BORDER.SQUBTSEHP. L Ta)<r or the Frontier. NIasara ATS [Men's F&ctpjJ B )Ugllt led, Fif D3ISIGX HOTEL, Aeton, i Robert Asaeir, Kroprietor.Tnls new Hotel 1 Qsted cp in nrst-clas 1 etyle vim net furnUore. Commercial J af-cp nacojBiollo'U Simple lloome. hi^olal ^"" A ^ itn--loa paid :o th wants of the travel- Kcjpcblle. Bartnpplleil wlthtne best Liquors end -Clgnrs. Gool StabUng and attentive Hocilers. There are fow scones of more calm and placid beauty than the Niagara River from Lake Ontario to Quecnaton Jieighta. The bank in steep escarprhente crowded vfith (o&k fathor of pretty Mary Lawson, a damsel of some eightoan Bummers, aud qb blitlio aud bounie a lass aa ovor gladdoucd a father's hoart; or inspired a lover's droarus. And lovers Mury had in- plenty, but the most oligiblo -'of thorn all, in tho opinion of the village gossips, was young Ensign Boborts, attached to tho Amorictm forces at tlio Fort, Not so, however, thought Mary ; tho favored of hor heart was a smart young Canadian, who for some time had acted aa Glork for Lor father's storo, and had shortly beforo opened a small establishment of his own on tht, opposite side of the rivor, in tho thriving villago of Niagara. Every Sunday young Morton crossed in Lia own light skiff to attend church with Mary; and on summer ovenings many wore tho pleasant sails thoy had upon tho shining roaches of the river, watching the Bun go . down in golden glory in tho bosom of blue Ontario, and the silver moon bathe in its palo light tho dusky foliage of tho shoroa, benoath which dark aud heaviy crouched tho stealthy shadowfl, while the rivor rippled calmly by. . With the outbreak of tha war, however, theso ploaaant. saih and visits ceased. It 13 one of tho dread results of international con- Hict,\jJ}at the inhabitunto of the hostile frontiers, who had previ ously dwelt in good fellowship and neighborly hclpfulnoss aro often changed to deadly enemies, and even claim for thoir bitter hostility, tho sanctions of duty, George Morton naturally espous ed the cause, of-his uativo country, with which, too, all his commercial ;interests wero identified. 'This brought him at once under tho ban of Mary's father, and his visits were interdicted. Ensign Roberts) took udvantage of tho absence of his rival to press his suit, which fequiro Lawson favored as being likely, Lo thought, to warn Mary from hor forbidden attachment to ono v/iio woa now her country's foe. But ho littlo know the'depth and strength cf c woman's affection. Tho more hor royalist lover was oBpor.'ci unci maligned, the more warmly glowed her love, the more 6rm was hor resolve to be faithful unto death. Early in the war the British met with a great, loss- in tho death of the gallant Brock, whose name and military skill wero a tower of strength to his country. George fought an r.'volur.'iioorct Queonston, the bloodv confiict which avenged the fato of Canada's " darling hero," and ac the minato guns "of .both XTJ-tt. HE31STKEET, Incensed Auctioneer roitbo Cootrti.3 or V.'eHingtodand ';}}j$ Capital:..... 9eoo,ooo .......... 4,054,000 Surplus for protection <f - Policy-holders.......... 1,320,555 Deposit irit}i Dominion Oov- Irntiieal .........'...... UO.000 The Travelers is o. STOCK COSI- KjiE'E V'uess PANY and writes Life Policies upon the Low Kate all-cash plan. Noun in , oertain promises of imposcible "divi- "but a reduction of the pre- ton, urdoi"* lrt rt ite Offlce, Acted, or a: mj- residence, Uookwooi. v-'-J be promptly attended to. Terms retbn:.ble. _^--------^ ----------------IdendB, t~i TPOf 7 C-'^-T f{Ii5>YJtf1'mium at theoutsat; equivalent to a "O TECrL^O* Jb tIiA*-JUi..j : ,ldlvldead .ia advance. The Trav- telers writes Life and Aecident Foli- PraCtlCal BOOkHll&Cr.Tc^s combined aa cheap as niosi, *-rawwj.>d,A *^*>"'"-^y companies irrite life policies. It is -------- I the largest Accident Insurance Com- ' pany in tho vrorld, having written 436,000 policies and paid in actual cash benelits to accident policy holders alone over C2,o65,000. An aecident pohcycosts but a trifle. No medical examination required. Get a policy and "share" in the general benefit "t and elm and giant walnut, vith gentle turf-clad slopes, sweeps 1 the American and British forts AH Descriptions <ft Binding JKeatiy Executed. .-. jA,c<H#U Boots <if .all Kinds Modi to Order. %L any md a arps, mage r Gopd. trt ex- \ * CO- Eolinar Promptly Attended to. "BiiilX^B-^Bt. George's Sqtuare,"Guepl, j ^-Orders left at the Fsee .PiiESS -dffiae will receive prompt attention. 0. F. EUSSBLL, District Agent, 33 Adeside Street East, ojsl-jiU. WILSON 1KWIK, Special Agent. ~*J* LU The un^orsigDed ,begs leave to inform the'peoplo ofrActon and eur- mounding neighborhood that he has procured -a. magnificent HEAIiSE And isprepared to attend end'eon- duct JPunerals on the shortest notice .sjidmosf moderate terms. * - - * Cinktls, Coffins, Burial Holesf And all kinds of Funeral Furnish- iu.gs kepv-in stock, and supplied on the shortest .notice. Sat Binds and Gloves supplied when 1 required. ; ' -J A t!TON i^\ srnceful curves around tho ^injin^'s of the stream. In places tho wOw'JiiiiS hirch trails ita trcseca in the w.iter like a wood nymp admiring her owti loveliness. - The comfortable fai-TiBteadB nestle amid_ their onibowering peach and apple orchards, the very t-/V f Pface and pienty. The migbty river, after its dizzy plunge at tt.'e great cataract, and mad tumultuout." rush and eddy'ai the rapida and whirl pool, smote its rugged front ana restrainj-ito impetuous stream to the semblance of a placid old age, after a wild and ctoimy life. The slumberous old town of Niagara has also an air of calm re pose. No vulgar din of trade dis turbe3 its quiet grass grov/c streets, tha dismantled fort, the broken atockade, the empty fosse, and tho crumbling ramparts, whore wander ing sheep crop the herbage and the swallows build their n6sts in the mouth of the o'erturned and rusty canon, are all the evidence of tho long reign of an unbroken poacp. But at the period when^our story opens other sights than these met the eye. On opposite sides of the river 'grim forta frowned de fiance at each other, end guarded like stern warders the channel bo- tween them. The morning 'reveille' day. after day seemed the shrill challenge-.to mortal combat. Sul len, and silent, like couohant lion3, through tho. black embrasure the grim cannon watohsd the oppoeito shore; and not unfroquently from "feverish lips, as if they could no longer hold their brcatb, hurlod ut ^tlio fco the iron death. The wbito tents c? an army dotted the The marks of recent con- linos of attack, in order to recover the Niagara frontier. 'Gonoral Mo- Cluro, tho American commander, prepared to ovaouato the town; hut beforo doing so ho resolved to por- potrate an act of inhuman barbari ty, which shall hand down^ his nnmo to infimyao long as tho story.. oliall bo told. In order to jdoprivo: the British troops of winter quar ters, lio determined to burn Ni agara, leaving tho innocent nnd non-combatant inhabitants, help less women and little children, houioleBS and flholterlogs at the very boginning of a Canadian winter. Amid tho active preparations made for tho transfer of his forces and' material aorosa the river, in- tolligonco of tho atrocious | deoign came to tho knowledgo of Mary Lawson, chiofly through tho indig nant dissent and romonBtrjincq of McCluro's own officers against ..the rmm~iWr':fmr^*f~nwmi!mrM$n \ tffiartatMwiBfiWBfttt -rr-r'-^ xr&-i(rt^rT3itt^^,-HrT,gz^i^?z^A-^-j,^-.s*i!fttr^^^ |s^l.OO per annum in Advance walk on wathor, and this iee-slush isn't much better." " Unless you answer,..I'll fire," shouted tho Bontry, to whom Mickey's maunjierings,: half drown ed by the crashing ico and gusty wind, were unintelligible. - " An' that same is tho very thing I want, for it's! starved wid the cold I am," saidtho Bhivering creature, who wirti characteristic ingenuity, had failod to approhend the meaning of the menace addres sed to him. Btrt a sudden flash and ,tho. dull against the ice protod to his thud of a bullot beside iitii inter- sluggish brain tho LSVERY fit SALE ST/lSLE j ji^were everywhere to be seen, ,4ctOD,F^):, JOJIX 10, 1S77. .SPEIGHT. J. P. ALLAN - Takes pleasure In announcing to the public generally that he'is prepared to furnish First-class Sorsc3 and Carriages At Reaeonablo Hates. His JUkk and Horses fire the best'that can bo had, nnd ho Is ilel^rmliiod not to be surpassed by any Oity Ktable. Acton Julyli;t,IS7o. TOB PRINTINofaIlUinds ally .il )/o:nTtly executed at. too. FREE FltESS OFFICE, Neil tlic I><t Ojnce, Mill SIrcct. aiid v/-aa tho multitude of cbldi'erc' (j'-aves, ivhcna cilent' sleepers no morning drum boit should arouse forever: The peaceful Parish church was turned into an hospital, where in stead of praise and prayer, we heard the groans of wounded mun. Everything in fact gave indications of military; occupation, and tho prevalence of martial law. At the" outbreak of the war of 181-2-13, Squire Lawson held the important rural position of Justice of the Peace,.miller and merchant, at the littlo hamlet which nestled 'beneath the wing of Fort Niagara, on thb American side of tho river, at its-mouth. Biitjvh'at more con cerns our story ie, that ho was the boomed over Lis grave, the gentle Alary wept eymp'athetic tsars over her Country's fallen foe. One morning in tho spring of 1813 it was on tho 27th of May-^f- a brilliant but omimoua spectacle greeted the eyes of the garrison and citi;en3 of tho town of Niagara. In the.ear^v light a crescentehap- ed fleet of; vesaels lay moorod on; the blue bosom of the lakjp before tho town.^ Tho roll of drunis,. the blast of bugles, and the tramp of armed men through the. streets were, shortly heard. Tho guns cf fort a.ud fleet thundered forth challenge and ] defiance. The glittering sheen of burnished arms flashed in The morning sun,! us barge, after barge transferred the hostile-force from tho fleet to the shore under cover of a heavy fire. Morten, v.'ith the militia com pany to which he was attached, wore lying in a hollow near the chore, to check, if possible, the ad^ vanco of tho foe. A pound sjiot from tho Coot struck tho ground in front of bim, covering him with dirt, and breaking the arm with, which he was loading his musket. At tho aanio momenta bullet from the enemy struck hie nearest com rade, passing right through his body as ho lay upon the ground) A Blight shiver convulsed his frame and then he was at rest for ever. ^ the foe advanced'in force, driv ing back the British. George, un7 able to retreat, as rapidly as the yest, was takeirprisonor, and with others sent across to the American fort. ; . Personally, George Morton re ceived ev*ry kindness from tho officer.and surgeon bf the Ameri can hospital ; and j in the gentlo ruiniutintions of) Mary Lawson, which he; shared Willi tlio rest of the wounded, he found a compen sation for all his sufferings. Upon his partial convaloscouce, ho was' roloasod on parole, and returned to Niagara to look after bis disorgan ized and partially ruined business. By his skill; and industry, aided by tho fictitious prosperity, caused by the preEeucGjOf a numerous army, before.the winter net in- his busi ness hud became again exceedingly flourishing, but only to be ruth lessly and completely! destroyed. An opportunity soon occurred for Mury to show her daring und devotion to her lover. The winter of 1813 whs approaching. The British army were closing in their unsoldicr-like cruelty. The intre pid girl's resolve was taken on tho instant. Sho determined, under cover of tho night, to givo the alarm to hor lover, and through him to the inhabitants, that vhoy might, if possible^ frustrate - the infaniouB dosign, or at. least; rescue their moveable property fr|om de struction. ,2'\i. It required no small amount of courage to carry outlher purpose. Tho winter had Bet in oarly and sevoro. Tho river wan running full of ico, which rendered profising," especially- by night, exceedingly perilous. To this was added thq danger of being challenged, and it[ might bo shot by tho gentries of the American camp. But when did truo lovo in man or woman stop to calculate chances 1 or hesi tate to encounter danger or oven death, for tho beloved ono 1 a bleak, cold, cloudy night that Mary, having secured the aid of her father'o faithful servant, Michael O'Brien, a jolly, but rather stupid Irishman, who know no fear, escaped from tho window of her room after tho family had rotired to rest, which was not till near midnight, and aot forth upon her perilous mission of'mercy. "In order to: avoid the American ccn- tricn, they attempted to cross about a mile above tho camp, and in tho tnirky darknecs fearlessly launched their little bo?.t, steering by tho lights in tho town slumbering un conscious of its fate, -where some patient watcher kept her vigil -be side & sick-bed. ' The dark water eddied and gurgled amid the ice-floes, from which a ghastly gleam was reflect ed, like that from the face of a corpleo dimly seen amid the dark. Occasionally a huge fragment of ico would grate, and crash, and crunch against tho frail ribs of the bor.t, r.s if ecgor to crush it and frustrate the generous purpose of its inmates. But the strong-arm "of O'Brien pushed a passage through the ice, while Mary:sat wrapped in/busy meditation in -the bottom of the boat. But they had not calculated on tho strength of the. current, and the resistance of t|ie ice., In ppite of every effort they wero being rapidly borns down the stream. Another danger stared them in the face. Should they be carried into the lako with the floating ice, they might before morning bo drifted out cf sight of land and perish.miserably of cold or hunger ; or bo dachod upon tho ice-bound shore, where! thoy could hiar' tho water roa^ harshly like the sea- beasts howling for thoir prey. But the bitter north wind, which proved .such a source of discomfort, now proved their salvation from this imminent danger. Blowing fresher every moment it arrested the ice-draft and formed rs solid barrier, from shore to shore and extending far up the river. But this in turn effectually prevented, the progresB of the little boat, which had almost reached the Canadian chore ; and worse still, -tho-dim gray light of -morning be gan to dawn. ' j Suddenly the sight of a black object in the middle of a white field of now dense ice, and the sourid of O'Brien'B our striving to force a passage through, caught the watchful eyo and oar of the sentry near who2o beat they had unfortu nately drifted. , "Halt!" rang out sharp and clear on the frosty stir the challenge of the sentry. '. - "Faith, an' it's halted?. fast enodgh I mn," unscvered Mickey. " Yf-ho goes* there 1" repeated the sentry's voie?. "Sure, I don't go at all, that's what's the matter," said tho boat man, unconsciously anticipating, a slang phrase'of later times. " Advuncoimd give tire counter sign," exclaimed the enraged soldier, who in martinet obedience to discipline, would challeugo a danger in which ho stood "The Baints bo hetune us an' harm," ho oiclairaed, devoutly crossing himself. " Oh 1 sure ye wan't murder a foody in cowld blood who's kilt. entirely already. It's: half drowned and;froze I am, with out being riddled like a cullonder "wid your bullets as well." ; " Why, Mickey O'Brien," ox- claimcd tho astonished soldier who. had by the flash liar features of orou3 purpose. tainod here as rude accommod drowning man save him. "Bedad ! an would if I could w.ildercd Llrishman, "but I can't before trying to it's the samje I replied the he- recognized the fami- a q.uandam_ friend ; "why in thunder didn't you tell your name, man 1 1 might have killod you as dead as a door-nail." "An' a purty trick it ud' bo for ye'o too, Tommy Daily.. It's not uslmmed of my namo I am, an' if I'd._ know'd it was you, I'd tould before. But help us out of this an' I'll jiear jhb'b no malice what- ivcr." I The guard had turned out at the roport of the gun.'and'gotting such planks as was available, laid them on tho floating! ice; but still they could not reach] the boat. Tommy Daily with fertile ingenuity tying Bo.-no twine to his Vamrod, fired it over the skiff, whenjt was easy to sond out a strong fisherman's line, which <.Mick" tied to the thwarts, and a doz^n strong arms quickly drew the boat ashore. ~ Tho benumbed form of Mary was horno to the guard-room, and En sign Roberts, thle officer of the night immediately sent for. " Why, Miss Lawson," he ex claimed with astonishment, "to what can wo owe your presence at such a time and place as this 1" "To the inhumanity of your commander, ahd to my desiro to. rescue an innocent people from its consequencos," " I regret, Miss Lawaon, that my ^military duty prevents my per mitting you to carry out your gen- You will be enter- comfortably as our ition will allow, till tho riyer clean, when you will 'be sent safety home." "Is this your generosity1 to a fallen foe, Mr, Roberts V she ex claimed ; but tbo proud to ask a favors for her lover from his rival, Bhe relapsed into haughty silence. With the early morning, messen gers were sent ihrough the town to warn the inhabitants'to leave their houses and. remove their property ; and th& soldieis proceeded forth with to fire the buildings. Then might be seen the women mo3t of the men were away with the troops hastily gathering together their own and their; children's clothing and a few treasured heirlooms, and with tears and jbitter lamentations leaving their roof, going forth like tho patriarch, knowing not whither they went. - Late into the night burned the fires reddening jtbe midnight heav ens with the llirid flames of com fortable homesteads, well-filled barns and stacks of grain. Herds of affrigbted cattle rushed wildly over the meadow, the kino lowing piteouBly with jextonded udders for the Eccustomed hands of their milkers at overitide. One hundred and pfty dwellings were consumed, only two or threo escaping, iy acci dent, one. of which still remains ; and four hundred women and chil dren wero loft -to wander in the snow, or seek j the temporary shel ter of Eomo remote farm houffe or Indian wigwam in the woods. Some wandered for days in the ad jacent . dismal! " Black Swamp," feeding on frost-bitten cranberries, or on a;.casual rabbit or ground hog. -. t - i But a swift and bloody revenge followed the dastardly outruge. ; In two days tlio! British re-occupied the cite of the, Binoulderi.ng town, now but 'a i.vaste-.of blackened embers, whichj.tho "Americans had evacuated horse, foot aud artil- ]el.y not a hoof being left behind. Six days later, a strong party of the British crossed the river.five miles above the American fort. at dead of night. Like an avenging Nemesis, shod with silence, the column.approa.ched the slumbering garrison. Not a word was heard, not a sabro -claikeq,; Tho qentrles were bayoneted "before they could give the uhirnij. and in the early -morning wu,teli the sleepers wero awakened to the fierce, stern death- grapple with a victorious foe.,' A sharp fight ensued,. The garrison, 300 strong, were overpowered, ,and immense miliary stores und com- misriurt supplies.were taken. ;Eu- sigh Roberta was amonjrlthe slain, "and squire Lawsoh's property waB destroyed. Then followed the burning of Lewiston, Manchester, Black Rock^nd Buffalo, in terrible retaliation for tho destruction of Niagara. - . It is- a relief to turn away from these scenes of war and - bloodshed to the record of human affection and.heroio Belfsaoriffce and devo-' tion. -,. '-" - George Morton, crippled, . im poverished, Bickat heart, and de spairing ever claiming Mary as his brido, returned to: the ashes of his ruined, homo, to com mence life overgain. A partial in demnity from the Government enabled him to res'time husiness on a modest scale, which by thrift and industry grew and increased with the gradual growth of the town. Old Squire Dawson, broken by his losses and exposure, gradually Bunk and died, Mary nursing bim de- voutedly to the last. After years of delay the love'of the no longer youthful pair found its consumation in a happy marriage, folio wad by a calmly tranquil life. ^ "Although this criel war," whispered-George to his bride upon their wedding day, "has robbed ns of all our own worldly wealth', has cpst you your father, and has left me a cripple for life, yet it has not taken from us the priceless wealth of our affection."' . ' "Nay, dear.heart," she replied, " tue long trail of our Ipve has purified it from earthly dross, and proved it the type of love immortal, in the skies."- In after years to children, and to children's children on his knees, Qsorge used often to'recount the perils of those fearful scenes of war and. wasting; but no theme was more pleasing to himsel, and to his youthful auditor^, WhileHhe comely matron in her pure beauty blushed "at- tho praise of her own heroism and the episode of the fair Mary Lawson's midnight ad- venturo-intho ice on the Niagara. IHr. Gladstone's Oratory. This is ths image in Mr, Glad stone's 'speech at Birmingham which the London Spectator says is finer than any known in oratory. He is speaking of the Armenians, the Bulgarians, the Servians, and the Greeks, who resisted and broke the force of the Turkish inunda tions which centuries ago threaten ed to overthrow Europe, and says :- " They were like a shelving beach, which restrained tho. ocean. That Beach, it is -true, is beaten ;by the waves; it is laid desolate ; it pro duces nothing; it becomes, perhaps, nothing but a mass of shingle, of rock, of almost useless seaweed j but it iia fence behind which, the cultivated, earth can spread and escape the incoming tide ; and such was against the Turk, the resistance of Bulgarians, of Servians, of Greeks a resistance in which one by one they aucoumbed, with the single exception of the ever glori ous mountaineers of Montenegro, who have'-never suc'sumbed. . It waB that resistance . which left Elurope able to claim the enjoy ment of her liberty, and to devolop hor institutions and her laws." Bird-Lime. "Boon off on a lark, ohV $_ woman's voice came dropping out of a second-story window out on West Hill, at tin solemn hour of midnight. " Buon out uti a lark, eh 1" " ^"Bot'yoiir life,"-replied a deep manly voice about eighteen inches thick. .- .- " All tight," she said, "'go roost in thehcowshed."- ._.""' "Won't do it," he persisted; "There's cattle linnet." ' '" Then she told hfm he had been robin hie family to. pay the bar- keoper; and be. said if she din't hush owlin he'd whip "her well when he got in the house. ',_ ;-".7ou-'."tr7 it," she screamed," '* ah' I'll up an' bawk yoa down with a flat-iron;" "Gell long," he yelled, '[ ye couldn't do, it.'. LoC me in and let's stork it ovei-." And,' if th(j .neighbors hadn't interfered and stopped it, there-is no telling to what extremes "they might <rBurlin(jton 'Hawlceye. \ - '"" Gems or Thonght. A man too busy io take care of. - his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. \- The best dowry to ^advance the" marriage of a young lady is when she has in her countenance mild ness, in her speech wisdom, in her behaviour modesty.* It is one thing to love trutb]^ni to seek it for its own sake, and quite another to welcome as much of it as tallies with our impression' and prejudices. "The mind of a young creature," says Bishop Berkeley; "cannot re main, empty; if yjau do not put : into it that which is good^-it will be sure to.UBO even, that which is bad. " , ^ There is one sure way of -attain ing what we may term, if not utter, at least mortal Imppiness; [it it this, a sincere' nnd unrelaxing activity for tho happiness of others." Too ' great familiarity and too evidoni pleasure in the society of young men are errors Into whfeh ' no delicate and jHjrd-minded girl . should fall, if they-,desire to retain the respect of tho.opposite sex. Keep busy, f The man who Las' nothing to. doI m the mostiBiMbl <) beings If you have no regular, work, do odd jobs aa farmers do when it jrain& loo|hard fa> work in the field. : In occupation wo forget OUr troubles, and feet a respite fjnj sorrow. " ; ' , ' Pay no attention to slaaderers and gossip mongers. Keep straight. 9n in .Jour course, and let their backbiting die thie death ofneglecs. What is the use of lying awake at night, brooding over the remark of some false friend, that runs -through your nrnin like lightning. ":f -T ' It is the honest, " pfbdding** workman who rises to an elevatedl position in the world. Work is, as a rule, at the foundation of alii true success. Brilliant parts, fine education, powerful friends, are not to b'e despised, hut they jcan- not supply tho place of personal tail and patient, painstaking "in dustry. - ; ' - - '" i - ' ThePhonoffrnph* We had liardly got reconciled to the telephone, which-would enable us to converse with a frieqd -in Jericho when - we find ourselves confronted wfth "a ;still more marvellous invention . the phonograph. By means of tais instrument, invented by a New-' Jersey olectricran, Mr. Edison, th sound-of the human voice can be impressed on paper, and the! tones reproduced ^at any .subsequent poriod. -Thousands of yeara after a man is dead, if his words, have been recorded aiid preserved oif phonographic paper, the machine can be set in motion and his 'voice ho heard again. At least, so the papers say, and they are all full, of - the new inyention-aiid the wonders it willpeiform. The idea of thus bottling up oratory for future use is certainly startling. .To-think of iaving a, sermon by a popular preacher,-a speech by a noted politician, 'or a song by some-sweet-.singerUstorsd in our libraries or cellars we, hardly know which place would be most appropriate and then .bring., ing them out whenever we felt disposed in the privacy of our own homes, turning the crunk like an organgrinder, and taking 'aa-large or as small-portion as -we..-pleased,' in the; very voice of tho origiuaJ; is we'll, us Artemug Ward said when thirty-five "widows' of *a defunct Mormon wanted him to inarry them : " It is too much.*' Tiere are not only many doubts, but there aro redoubts, about the Eastern war. - , A Minister in GlaBg'ow recently gave out as. the morning lesson the fourth section of the: 119 Psalm, uud while the congregation were looking out tlio "portion" in thoir Bibles, lie took out his mull, and ooi/jng a: hasty, pinch- with finger nnd thumb, regaled his nose with tho snuff; hev then began tho lossoo : " Mv s6ul cleaveth vinto the dusf.". The tftte'r Uiat run round the church, nnd the confus ion of. the poor man," showed that . the congregation and he felt- the :Ps;dmist's pfneh." - One of our, well-to-do farmen from Bruce attended the Cattlp Fair on Tuesday; and," having boW some stock, received fifty dollarsj Soon after.a young ruan took- him! : to Chambers hotel, to insiwet som| . poultry, and' on reaching -there, another s^trunger, made his appear ance, and on seeing that N<? ttranger was abbut to open u box," No 2 bet-fifty dollars that. No;,l could not open the box. No "-i ~" attempted to force the box open, but appeared to . have neither ; strength or pieans_to do-so, where- ,- upon No 2 demanded the 50 on; the spot. : In vuin did No 1 pro- ; test his luck' of funds, and pleaded for time. His creditor was. obdur ate. He* quiotly askeiKthe -farmer\the loan/ of 50, which sum wasr. given in a highly magnanimous, spirit and in a prompt uianner,. No 2 was theli paid. In a very . short time both straiigeisi"had dis- apfieared, nnd no trace being found of them,"our farmer began to. see things in their reai aspect, and that Jie had bean duped. Without de lay, Constable Reed pursued and ~ overtook the sharpors'near Pinker ton. On arriving hn're ;they wer* trie" : . the MagistratesiKi'ourt ix4 nej.\, uiortiing:conveyed, tcf. .Wa'.kt: ton. -Paisley Advocate, , I -,i m I Mil \> "0 U&MZ ,mt* tf&*xt* skifl ^ta