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The totfca red to , it yffli *ar as Wag: [utid ii^ Mtb a **- S*eat i*. ->ear, and s !^_ ) all sold Igr^ fe expense; new |>rablj with |ie-of credit UTxperienee }e has bee* |o som& >s, an4 [es nnd rc- Milliiterjv i*s LOl ^mafekt ^ Win- Ires. |cfL; Fi aii any f -A ': / J Tolumc III. >o;'M Whole No. ISO.} ACTON, ONT.; THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1877. ,{$$1.00 per annum In Advance SrSTXESS CARPf, r H. LOWUY, M. B_., 31. 1.mrl *;-.-wt.-.rito or Trinity ror Oolii-coof I'to-sielai^ on*, oitlco tvml HosUU'iiiv *-':," Vrtifc <*ll<vt, -VTvtN, In tVu> V'0>.% Yu-lvoCvaiv->>-1 '"J" u- tJitlo. Ks-i. ____ o M'ORUtfclY, Physl- in S'.irsoo'i. Ao.,i'i liolUvii.' j"ol- k, a, so Ordinate ol Victoria ,., inrvl-.. C.v.toillallon ilays <ls^-^:i'5;l l---i.i:*y<, f;-. ~ "' * ^. . U .iiO>e;ice- Wost A CTOX B.VKKKV. The subsc-ib?rinrotumiuc thnnks m.mu for the liberal pationngo besfowed Itowcr Mroet, upon rtio late fit-m ol Galloway Bros., -___________:___________ solicits a continuation ol" tho Bftino, ___ .:.,.- r. TT foeling asstirodthat tho utmost satis D. S&^TAAW^J " b> given, and that Urn Liri AsnrA:ioo Co. IVeds, Morisasw, high reputation of'our bread and 4erl a roasociblc (vrmfc Money to tun a UortjAge security. "Oft\eo ^l^gVV- Hoaup, Acton. Our superior qhMity ot BREAD, BUNS AND CAKES Jp, MVTIIESOX, Attorney- Belivored fresh around the villago 9 tti-Us, Solicitor In Chancery, and vicinity every day. A good * r.',,w,?f UaVc"*n'1 Cliureh: stock aUayi on hand nt the Bakery frein and cheap for cash Ttt> (Oil.rEB) >6 credit given except to prompt paying monthly customers. Provincial Land Surveyor ancVj Wedding and Fancy uke9 Civil Engineer, Guelph. (Made to order on tho shortest possi- .Order, by mall -.'romptlj attended to. ble notice, and satisfaction guaran- ' ______:______1_-^---------------.------ teed. . All goods are warranted pure, as notning-but the beat material ia used. R.T.GiUOWAY. Acton, Oct. IT, 1*77. WJfl. LA1B3laW. Barrister, CHi-eorv. A.-. u-M-^-s: Hamilton. 10 iliV^a Offlo? W..1 b- under uo raiausj- UW Vi!l f.-.--enJ at tne "illlloi:. Offlco'!- i t'riJt;--c.f Lec'.i vroek._______________ H EXiiY X. DlilKE, ISSl'SASCE AGENT. GlEll'n, JLsent for t!:e Jii^rtiUlile and Waterloo. *.H t^*'u--- ->i::;-!^:t-i'.c ;^lr;<-are \tiii be ValVHMV.v alVO'.-.^a U^. Oir.ee at Day'p>y-.,ii-o-e.' t5"-:ol"n. orie&i Sy Tnall I aJ.lrorrjeJ : > i.iu-'ptior Do.'QM'onOtncp ^..l rw.v.% * H L nIlAKE- I ^OOkS FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS In stock at PiTS-VTS for INVENTIONS |!i.C vnad%l>l-; l'uU-(sl^-rrOS iind Europe. Vi*"rL x-iir-s-*^ ^'* or n^* cnarge. J'or.d aJiJa-iea yc^rs. HESRV .UK1AT. Hes^^nlni Ertsice'er, SoUciior of ?*i i Day's New Bookstore TVTILLIA3I WATS1NS, tsiacr SHrrlase' Llcensrs Jt't>rtlf-ate .By EpyilA?rlstraeoV.) B^sineiJ private and oor.lMentlal <?!ce it trio 1'ost Otrioe, (He^wllHanr, ,CatT iiii'.ton- GTJEL.PH. OX A NA14UITV I.1TXI.I1 UUV SLliLI'. IVti. Just now I inisaud him from hall aud fitair, A joyful trdhlo that had grown' As tlear to 1110 as tha't j^ravtrtouo Tliat tohrtho world my older care. And littlo footsteps on tho lloor Were stayed. 1 laid aside my pen, Forgot my themo, and listened thon Stole softly, to tho library door. No sight! lio Bound ! a moment's freak Of fancy thrilled my pulses through ; " If and yot that' fancy drew A fathdr'a blood from heart and cheok. Aud then I found.liimJ There ho lay. Surprised by Bleep, caught in tho ivt, Tho rosy vandal who hnd saokud' Hia littlo-.town, aud thought it play. Tho shattered vase, the broken jar; A match still smouldering on tho floor; . Tho inkstand's purplo pool of goro ; Tho chessineu soajttcrod near and far. Strown leaves of albums liylitly prcBSOil This wicked " I?aby of t,ho ^ oodn ;" . ,.In_fact of half tho household gooda This sou andhoir was seized poasossod. Yet all in vain, for sloop had oaught Tho hand that ,roachod, tho feet that -strayed : j ' \Sa& falleu iu tuaf'^mbuBoado Tho victim waa himBolf o'erwrought. What though torn leaves an'6L:tattorod r book Still testified his deop disgraco 1. ! I stooped and kissed tho iuky faoe, :\Yith its demure and calm outlook. Then back I 'stolo, and half beguiled ily guilt, in trust that . when my sleep ^ Should come, there might : ho ouo who'd keep An equal mercy for hia child. , - yo'd taho ma without Lor leave, miro it's nothing I'd oaro for tho loss 6' thousands, let alone what yo'vo got. Doarest Noruh, think, liko other mon, and got drunk and waatod.Jt rui(,'hfc bo in roaBon, But Mint's neither here nor Miore, An to, Morris, ebo was very fond of sinco yo'll do nothing without hor\the boy, till she found.that I liked THE WISE THOUGHT. EY MKS. S. C. HALL. 31 as S. CiETEB. 5-eSrrjrlailt.l>rawlttC aaaFrtnch, C'Wwch euwei, Act-n. IITEU'LOZIEB, Plasterer, ! _ \.-: i=, Ou'_. Every cle.-eri|>'l'in of j W-wt-ri"- an.! E-iosri-eiitltK; done on re .b^sabie Lcrmi, U2I saLlsfac- alitre'i. , ^ o ,JL' tl.OX F2.tti 3IILLS- B._J:E- NIC KLIK, Proprietors. ^Flazr n-*1 1 Fe"vl alwnvs on nand. whine- -' anle u-i reiijl. U.-Uii:!^ ai'l Chopping Ui'.lv. Cuiaror alVklnisof iirt. w The Sunday Teacher's Treasury. . Tbe Bibical Treasury. . The Sunday School :an essay by LrOuisa Davis. The Child nnd the Book, by Robert Dunning. The Apostle Peter, by Samuel reen. Counsels to S. S. Teachers, by T. A, Cooper. The Note Book.. /Our Work. i>/ Vrv. H.- Croier. "The Four : Compels of the one^ Christ, by G. E. Johnson. - ' " The Art of 'J'encbing in a Sunday School, by J; ft. Fitch. r Ready for Work, by W.U. Orosier. Barnes' Soles, &c. <tc, ic. A cheap, big stock at Day's book* store. Day sells cheap. R9SWX HOUSE, Acton. Clo-; to tSe O. T. RaU-sray station. Eic^'.i-nvscconimoJatlott-frtbetmvei- .Uaj p-iblle. TilOS.-CAilr'BELIv, Piopr. DeniXIOX HOTEL, Actn, ,R.ireri Agnev, irciriotor,Tnis nw Ho-.ei -U at'^e'l tip Jt flrsr.-class ^tviei with ne--' Tarnltore. Commercial Crivel'ers wl.l And good accoromolfitlon an 1 commolious Sample Rooms, special fttwntlon jjai.J tQtiio w*.nu cTtbe travel ling p'arilie, Batsupplle>' trilimine best L,!q = or^and ' ^- L" sttestlve o*ulferis. tiodi Sta-bliug and w a. IIE31STBEET, Tjicensed Auctioned- For the Counties of Wellington and ;Hrii- mjJATELERS ;Life and Accident IHSyRANGE COMPANY Of flartf ord, Conn. Paid-vp Ca,ih Capital...... $600,000 C(uhJ.*ifU................. 4,054,000 buTplwi for protection of , PuViey-hohUn.......... 1,170,855 Deposit icith Dominion Gov~ 000 ",Yv'e may as well give it up, Alorria Douonvan; look, 'twould be us easy to twist the. top off tho Mr. and Mm consont, do thinkrfor onco bo mil ousand don't luugh." Itiaufact equally known and credited in tho good barony of Bafgy, thut Morris Donovan really possessod an honest, aincero ind' uffoctionato "heart bruvo as a lion and gentle as a dovo. Ho was, moreover, - the, priest's nephew, understood Latin aa well as tho priest hiiuBolf; and bettor oven than thut, ho was tho beau, tho Magnus Appollo of tho parish ; a fine-looking fellow, that all tho girls (from the housekeeper's lovely English niece at Lord Gort's down to little deaf Boss Mortican, the lamo dressmaker} were regularly and desperately in love with ; still, I must confess (perfection certainly was never found in .man). Morris Was at times a little tho least bit in tho.world not.exaotly. otupid oithor, but,Blpw of invontiou would fight^ Lib . way out of a thousand scrapes, hut could novor gat peaceably out of one. No wonder, then, where fighting was ou$ OI" the question, he was puzzled, and looked to tho ready wit of the merry Norah for assistance. It was not vorjf extraordinary that ho loved the fairy creature the sweetoBt, gayest of all IriHh girls; - now weeping liko a child over a dead chicken or a plundored nest, then dancing on tho top of a hay ruck to the music of hor own cheor-' ing,voice j nowJcoaxiug hor terma gant mother, and anon comforting her hen-pecked fcither. Do not lot my respected readers imagine that Clary wore cdn:. uini, and thenr my dear, she turned like sour milk all in a minute. I'm .afraid oven tho priest '11 get no good of her." " Father, dear fathor," said No rah, " suppose you wore to Bay nothing uboutlit good or bad, and just pretend to take a sudden dia- liko to Morris, and let tbe priest speak'to hor biinsolf, she'd come round." " Out of opposition to me, eh !" "Yes." ' ' , "Aud let her gain tho day, then ': that would be cowardly," replied tho farmer, drawing himself up r ' 'No, I won't!".' !. " Father, dear father," said tht ounning lass, "you "don't under stand me. and when wo are I mean you know what I mean," she contimued, and luckily tho deopejning twilight con- coaled her blushes, " if" that took, places it's you that would.have your persisted, not only in abuiing Mor ris, but M^orris'a unclo, until at last the farmer's holptuato swore, aye, by cross and F. TKOLLt)PE CUAPHAX _____ The Travelers is a S'rOCK COM- to= o-ders i-rt at the "kkee "p'bess 1 PAJY and writes Life Policies upon 03w, Acton, or lvk n"" residence, m ti3e Low j^te all-ca4h plan. No an- t.l^etfflF1^5- y -i <=e--tain promises of;mpoEsible. "divi- ^rmare P ' ._______- idends,^ but a jeduction of the pre- ' mium at the outset; equivalent to a "dividend" in advance. The Trav elers writes Life and Accident Poli- Practioal" BOCkMlL&e^.! es combined as cheap as most '*, icoinpanies write life polcies. it is -------ti_, ' S. j the largest Accident Insurance Com- All Descriptions" of Binding g"^:^ ^ hpViVtS jcash benefits to accident policy i _____ is i holders1 lalone over 2,565,000. An .! j accident pohey costs but a trifle. Account Book* of all K'aidi Hadf to \ medical examination required Jieatly Executed. Order. ft" 3. Uo G^t Ruling Promptly Attended to. Bhtdkbt St. George's Square, Guepl. ST0rder3 loft at the Fkee Pcesb Office -srill receive prompt attention. a policy and. sHares in the generil benefit. ; C F. RUSSEIjL, " _ District Agent, 33 Adeaide Street Esat, Toronot. WILSON IRWIN, Special Agent. Ironage. mr Goods, &O0 rV . '"l-SKlrsS _ The undersigned beg3 leav^e-to : inform the people of Acton "and sirr- rounding neighborhood ttiart he has proo'nrod a magnificent flEAKSE. - And is prepared to attend and con duct Funerals on tbershorteat notice ...2-iid rnOct moderate terms.; C'iiktti, C'oJJine, Burial liobet, And all kinds.of Funeral-Furnish-' ings kep.viq stock, and supplied i. -. on the shortes-t notico.: ;iP?* Bands and Gloves supplied when required. " ( <*(.* it r I CTON great hill of Howth, as to make father und mother agree about any one thing. They've been playing the rule of contrary- these twenty years; and U'b not likely they'll take a turn now." ,; It's mighty hard, so it is," re plied handwomo Morris, that mar ried people can't diaw toaother. Norah, durliiit! that wouldn't bo the way with us. Sure, it'B one wo.'d be in heart and soul, and an example of'JoVe and " Follf/'Jiiiterrupted the maiden,, lullghjingj , i"-J^orns, ilorris, iwe've quurrelljtil a score o' times already, and tolinj' thinking a bit; of a breeze irmkes life all the pleusanter. Shall I tulk^bout the merry jig I danced with Phil Kennedy, or re peat what mark Dooleu said of me . to Mary Grey ? eh, Morris 1" The fpnj; black lashes of Norah Clary's bright -brown eyes almost touched her low, but delicately penciled brows, as she looked archly up at her lover; her lip curling with a half playful, half- malicious smile ; but the glance was soon withdrawn, and the maiden's cheek glowed with a deep and eloquent blush, when the young man passed his ami around her waist, and;pushing the cluster ing curls from her forehead, guzed upon her with u loving but mourn ful look. " Leave joking, now, Norry : God alone knows how I love you,' he said, in a deep voice, and broken with emotion. I'm ye'r equal as far as money goes, and no young farmer in the country can till a better stock to his.'share than mine 7 yot I don't pretend to de serve ye, for all that'; only I can't help saying, that when wo lovo each other (now don't go, to Contra dict me, Norry, becausb ye've as good as owned it over arid over, again); and ye'r .father agreeable, and all, to think that ye'r mother, just out of devilment, should be putting batwixe us, for no other reason upon earth, only to spite her lawful husband, is what sets me mad entirely, and shows her to be a good-for " " Stop, Mister Morris," exclaim ed Norab,.having her hand^ upon hia mouth so effeotually as ,to pre vent a sound escaping j it's my mother ye'r talking of, and it would .bo ill blood, us well us ill- bred, to hear a word said against an own pareqt, ^s that tho pat tern of ye'r manners, sir, .or did ye ever hear reo turn my tongue against any one belonging to you?" own way. " True for ye. true for ye ; I Norry, my girl, never thought of Acton, Feb, 10, 1S77. SPEIGHT. LIVERY a SALE STABLE J. P. AlitAN Taken pleasure In announcing: to the -euhlic generally that he is prepared to furnish.- / 3Tirst-C(lass_S6r3os and: Carriages j At fteasonable Hates. , ' HlP-Rip;K nnd Horses are the nest that cafl.r>/'.h:i(f,iind liei.s determined not to be urpaKe'J by any Hity Stable. Acton July 1st, ISTO. JOB PJlI?tfTINGofJilIktii(ls jieatly ind promptly e-zequted at the FREE PRESS OFFICE, \cxt tie Post oracc, JJII1 Street. yer paraou, my temptible bog-trotters, with only a plot of praties, a big, and a one- roomed cabin. No such things ; they rented a hundred good acres of bright meadow land, and their comfortable, though somewhat slovenly farmyard told of abund ance and to sparo. Norah was their only child j and had it not been for their most ungentle tem perament, thay. would have been the happiest, as well as the richest family in the district. ' " I'm not going to laugh, Morria," replied the littlo maid, "at last, after a long pause'. " I've got a wise thought in my head for once. Hia reverence, your uncle, you say, spoke to fathor to Bpeak to mother about. I wonder (and ho a priest) that he hadn't more sense. Sure mother was the man; but I've got a wise thought Good night, dear Morris, good night.";. The lass sprang lightly over the fenco into her own garden,' leaving her love perdu on the other Bide, without possessing an idea of what her " wiao thought" might be. When she entered the kitchen matters were going on as usual her mother bustling in glorious style, and 88 cross (her husband muttered) as a bag of weasels. " Ye'r a pair of lazy hussies!' she exclaimed to a pair of fat, red- armed stockingless handmaids; d'yo think I can keep ye in idle ness ? Ten cuts to the dozen that wouldn't keep ye in praties, let alone salt and such illigant flax, too I Barney Leary, ye dirty ne'er-do-good, can yo find no better employment this "blessed night, than kicking the turf ashes in the cat's face ! Oh ! ye'll ' be mate for the ravens yet, that's one comfort ! Jack IQlary !" addreBsiiipr heiself to her husband, who sat quietly in tbe corner, smoking hia dhudeen, "it'o well ye've got-a wife who knows what's what'!. God help me, I've little the pood of, a husband, barring the name ! Are you sure Black Nell's in" the stable 1" (The spouse nodded.) " The cow and the calf, Lad they fresh straw 1" (another nod.) " Bad coss to ye, man alive can't ye use- ye'r tongue, und answer a civil question ?" con tinued the lady. "My dear," lie replied, "sure one like you has ftulkTiiough for ten." - " i ThiB just observation was, like most truths, bo disagreeable, that a severe storm wpuld have followed, had not Norah stepped up to her fathor und whispered, in his ear, "I don't think tbe stable door is "fastened." Mrs. Clary caught the sound, and in mxvery gentle terms, ordered her husband to attend to the comforts of Black Nell. " I'll go' with "father mysejf, and sue," said Noiiah. " That's like my own child, always careful," observed the mother, as . fathor and daughter closed the door: '-" = " Deiir .father," began Norab; " it isht n}f/o;rether about the stable " I ax Norah," he replied'.meekly, as m duty bound ; " for the sake of the lamb we sparo the sheep. Why not; and I'm not" going to gainsay " : " The least oaid's the BOOnei' mended!." again interrupted the 'impatient girl. " Good' even, Morris, and God bless ye; they'll be after missing mo ..within, und it's little inother thinks1' where I1 am." i I wantied ye the priest' " Norah, above all ths girls at said something to yo to-day about wake oji-paUern, I've been true to ; Morris Djbnovan."'. ; you."~Wo have grown together, i " Yes,Mailing, and about your- "iind since jo were tbe height of a-r-.self, my sweet Norry." . rese-bud, ye have been .dearer to j "Did ye speak-to mother about lie than anything on', earth. Do, j jt f \ . ' '_ -- Norab, for the sake of our young t "No, darling, she's been so cross hearts' love, do think if there's nb ' all day. Sure I go through a deal way to win ye'r mother over. If lor peace and" quietness. If I was that before." And, pleased with the idea of tricjbjing his wife, the old man fairly j capered for joy. " But stay awhile asy, asy," he recommenced; "j how am I to man age? Sure the priest himself will be here to-morrow morning early, and he's out upon a station now; so there's no speaking with him, he's no way quick either rwell be bothered entirely if he oomes iu on d suddint." j : . -- "Leave it to mo dear father leave it all to me," exclaimed the animated girl, j' only pluck up a little spirit, andl whenever Morris's name is mentioned, abuse him ; but not with all yo'r heart, only from the teeth out." ! When they re-entored, the fresh- boiled potatoes sent a warm ourl-- ing steam to the very rafter of the lofty kitchen; Ithey were poured out in a large wicker dish, and on tbe top Of the pile rested a plate of coarse white salt; noggins of but ter milk were filled* orr the dresser, and on a small table a cloth was spread, and some delf plates await ed the more delicate repast which the farmer's v/ifo was herself pre paring. "' What's for supper, mother?' inquired. Norah j as she drew" her wheel towards iher, and employed her fairy foot in whirling it round) " Plaguy snipeens," she replied, " bits o' bog chickens, that you've always such a jfunoy for Barney Leary kilt them himself.'" "So I did," Buid Barney, grin ning, " and that wid a hook stiok of Morris Donovan's, the finist thing in tbe world for knocking 'era down." -. " If Morris Donovan's stick touched them, they shant come here," Baid the farmer striking the poor little table such a blow with his clenched hand,, as made not on}y it, but Mrs. Clary jump. " Ajid why so, pray," asked tho dame.' J . " Because nothing belonging to Morris, let alone' Morris himself, Bball come into the house," replied Clary ; " he's not to my liking any how, and there's no good iin his bothering here after what he won't get." " Excellent !" thought "Norah. " Lord save ub !" ejaculated Mrs. Clary, as Bhe placed the grilled snipes on the table, "what's come to the man ?' ' Without heeding his -resolution, she was proceeding to distribute tho savory "birdeens," when to'-her.astonishment, her usu ally tame husband threw" the dish and its contents into the flames ; the good woman absolutely Btood for a moment aghast, The calm, however, was not of long duration. She soon- rallied, and with blazing face, aud fiery tongue, thus com menced hostilities : "How. dare yo, yo spalpeen, throw .away any of God's niuUs after that fashion, and I- to tho fore 1 j What do ye mane, I say 1" ."-I mane that nothing touched by ilotris Danbvan shall come un- d.er this roof, and if I jcatch a girl of mine looking, at the same time, at the road he --walks on, by the powers I'll tear tho eyes out-of her i.head and send her to a nunnery." "You; will?" and you dare to say that to my face, to a chili of mine. we'll see, my boy ! I tell ye what, if I like, Morris Donovan shnllcome into this house, and, what's more, be master of this house ; andlthut's . Gems of Thought. The follies of youth becqm* the vices of manhood and disgrace of old ago. Learn not to judge too rashly of any one, either in respect to good or evil, for both are dangerous. With men of small understand-' ing, the things they do hot under stand make the deepest impression. The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. AU. sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere- the same, because it Oomes from God. .-.-.- To be covetous of-applause dis covers a slender merit, and self- conceit is "the ordinary attendant of ignorance. The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is pre judice ; and her constant compan ion is humility. Ha who tells a lie ia not sen sible how great a task ho .under* . - ,.-.,_ takes ; for he must be forced to in- wbere, by chance," etther morn- I vent twenty more fc maintain one. mg or evening ;-she generally met Morris Donovan. I.I don't know and roundly, too, saint, that before the next aunset, Norah Clary sho Donovan. I wish/ y-ou oould have seen Norry's eyes dancing with joy and exultation, as it! peeped through the keyhole ; it Isparkled more brightly than tho j richest gem in out monarch's crown, . for it was filled with hope and lovo. The next morning was clear and frosty. Long, slender icicles hung from the branches of the wild haw thorn and holly, and even under tho light footstep! of Norah, tho glazed herbage crackled like feath ery grass. The mountain rill mur mured undor a frosty bound cover ing; and the poor [sheep, in their warm fleeces, gazed mournfully boaiitiful as it morning light, nor dale could over the landscape^ was in the healthy for neither on hill they discover a mouthful -of grass. The chill December breeze vuBhed unheeded ovor the jglowing cheeks of Norah Clary, for hor " wiso thought" had prospered^, and she was hastening to the - trysting treo how it is, but as soon as the course of true love runsj smooth, it be comes very uninteresting except to the partieB concerned. So it is now only left to me to say, that the maiden, after, a due .and proper time in teasing and tantalizing her intended, (a. practice, by the way, which I strongly recommend as the best modo of finding out tho tem per, etc., of the goutleman,) told him her saucy plan and it's result. And' tho lover hastened upon the. wings of love . (which, I beg my readers to understand, are swifter and stronger in -Ireland Mian in any 'other country) to apprise tho priest of the arrangement, well knowing that his reverenve loved his nephew and niece that was-?to be (to say nothing of tho wedding supper, and the profits arising therefrom,) too well, not to aid their nierry.jesfc. AVhat bustle, what preparation, what feasting, whit dancing, gave the country folks; 'enough to talk about, during Mie httppy Christmas holidays, I cannot how describe. The bride, of course, looked lovely and sheepish, and! the hricTegTooni but pshaw 1 bridegrooms are al ways interesting, j When Father Donovan had concludied the cere mony, before tbe^ brjHal kiss Jiad passed,'Farmer Clary, without any reason that hia wile could discover, most indecorously Bprang up, and Beizing' a shillelah of stout oak, whirled it rapidly over hia head, shouting, " Carry |me out ! ^By the powers! she's bet!" The priest, too, Beemed vastly to enjoy this ex temporaneous effusion, and even the bride laughed ;OUtrighfc. Wheth er the good wife discovered the plot or n,o, I never heard ; but of this I ani certain, that |the joyous Norah never had reason- to repent her " wise thought." L Marrying for a. Joke. Beguiling a young girl into mar riage has got three young Germans of Newark N. J.,i into a very awk ward scrape. George Hart, a pros perous saloon-keeper, haa a daugh ter, Lizzie, 15 years old, and not over-bright or haindsome, whom Charles Lutz for ! some reason was eager to marry, i So he, with two friends, Greiner and Diertoill, en ticed her away with him one day and induced her to go to a minis ter's and get married, "just for a joke." She finally agreed to do this, and also to swear that she was eighteen years old, and; proceeding to the hous8 ofi a Congregutional clergynian, they were married, Liitz who is 19 years ;old, swearing that he was 2i. Aa booh as the cere- uiony was over; the girl returned home. When the father got wind of the performance, he obtained warrants against the bridegroom and his two friends for conspiracy, subornation of -perjury and abduo-? tion, and they -were bound over in 1,000 apiece; ; Lulz pretends tbtit it was: a love-match on both fiides,1 but tlie girl repudiates it entirely, and the general! belief is that'Lutz's design wus to-get hold of some of George Hart's money. ' Faith and Mope iThey are'twin sisters and hardly to. be known i apart j.botji alike beautiful, and yeryjoftenmistaken, each.for Uie-otiiui'. Yet there is a clear difference. While hope^ex pects, faith.inspects-; while hope is Many judge rashly only for tbe pleasure they take to discourse, and make conjectures of other ntoen's manners by way of exercising their wits. * - To doubt is an injury ; to SuBr pect a. friend is a: breach of friend ship ; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds ; prone to distrast; because apt.to deceive. With love the heart becomes a, fair and-'fertile garden, glowing with sunshine and warm hues, and exhaling sweet odors ; but -without it, it k a. bleak desert covered with ashes. : Little do men perceive . what solitudeis, and how far it extendi etb. i"or a crowd is not company ; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. . -Grief -never sleeps; it watches continually like# jealous husband. All the world groans under its sway, and it fears that, by sleeping, its clutch' will become loosened, dud its prey.then escape." - j Every burden of sorrow seems like a stone hung around oui-neck, yetLtkey are often like the stones used by - the pearl divers, which enable them to reaim the prize an'd to rise enriched. . Nothing really succeeds which ia not -based -on reality.; sham, in a large sense, is never successful j in thedife of the.individual, aa in the more comprehensive life-of the State, preitension -is--nothings.and power isjeyeryibingi ' Wit! is not the produce of study; it comes almost as unexpectedly on the speaker as the hearer. One of the. first principles- of it ia good temper. The arrows of wit ought always be feathered with Smiles ; when they fail in that they become sarcasms. : ' ' Fit for Humpbacked Wcpicn. . Yesterday afternoon a meekr. looking young lady entered a store-, on North Second street, and,.point ing to a dolman, she-drew a salesi lady aside : '. .- " Miss, is it true that.- none but humpbacked women wear, these things?" - * ' ' . - " No, indeed, it isn't, for I wear one," indignantly replied the sales lady. T. ;_: .--,.- jThe meek-looking young womsu colored.up, and then asked i . " And is it true Maut a woman whp weara one isnrt thought much "-".- '(No," snapped the saleslady. '..- _" And does every woman who wears one gut sick and die in less'.- than a year?" continued the r.ioek- lOoking young woman. . ~ "No, of course not," -was the quick'reply, Tlierrthe meek-looking ! woman put her bandkerdiief to her eyes and commenced weeping, and be tween hor Bobs-she blurted out .such expressions as " O the villain j Q . tho wretch!" "nWhy, what's tho matter, madam?" inquired *he saleslady. " Matter-!" responded tho weep ing woman, ' stamping her foot angrily upon ^he floor. " Why,. hdre T havo only been'. married three weeks, and,-when I ask my' husband for money to buy'.'-a dol man, he tells me that they are only .fit for humpbacked -wom*n ; that they are not respectable, and that I'll die in a year if I wear one. And nfjWI see he died to me to keop-me from bu-yi-ng- one. Isn't that .matter .enough V' Detrait Free Press. Oisia's Terbitobiai. Acquisi tions;. -Since 1871 Canada has bad ceded to her"by treaty with the Indians in the Northwest territory land . representing tiie enormous . amount of 457,508 square miles. By Treaty No. 1, effected August, 1871, Canada came into-poasessiou of the Province of Manitoba, 185,- 000 square miles. . Treaty No. 2, also effected AuguBt, 1871, adjoin^- _ ing the northwest of Manitoba, 32,- " 000 square miles. Treaty No, 3, effected "October, 1873," east of Manitoba and extending to the., limits of Ontario,' 49>7-00 Bqua-ra _ miles. .Treaty No. i, ' effected September, 1874, wefrt of Treaty No. 2, south of Saskatchewan, and extending from Lsike WinhipegOais southwest to the Cypress -Hilla, 75,700 s.quare miles.. 'Treaty. No. 5,- effected September, 1875t-em- bracing territory generally ; sur- 'i-ouuding Lake Winnipeg, .102,009 square .miles. Treaty No. - .6, effected 1&76, territory Iravsrs&d by the main Saskatchewan extend ing from Treaty No. 5 to the" Rocky Mountains, 120,000 square miles. Treaty No. fl, effected last ' month, emhracing the - country be tween the..Cypress rllills and-the "Rocky -^Mountains," and .^extending northerly from the international boundary to the southern boundary of Treaty No. 6, . 152,000;.square' miles. '; i \m Sagacity, of Wild GEESE'^The large flocks of geese which are con stantly passing over towns are fre quently shot a1", but they generally fly at too high an altitude to be f Save tho Old Papers Never throw away old paper. If you have no wish to sell it, use it in the house. Some housekeepers' prefer ,it -to <slotb- for cleaning many articles of furniture. For instance, reached0by the leaden missiles, a volume written)'by a lady who Sometimes, however, the "nhb^-prided herself on her experience, takes effect.- The other day seve- 'und tuct, says :- " after a stove' has ral persons were watering a flock been blackened, it can. be 'kept: US IllaMUUl Ol bine iiuuoc , ti"-^.w"<*.-j ;.,, \r l i i tr :.l iiii ,,\i hko Mavy, looking upward- tilth wliut you never had she heart to be ; ... ,T->'., , ,"? . , ,i , w*w ' : i. \T.U. hnhiokino' ATwiu'-d Uie yet, ye poor tld snail.11 so say ing, Mistress phiry endeavored to rescue from the lire tho hissing re mains of the poor snipes^ Norah attempted to assist her mother, but Clary lifting her up somewhitt after the stylo of an eagle raising a gold en wi-en, fairly put .her out of the kitchen. : T^is waa .the signal for fresh hostilities. Mrs. "Clary storm ed aud Stamped, and Mr. _ Clary is liko Martha Hooking at ward;, the eye of hope .is !bright,,and;the eyo of faith is etrong ; hope.troKi.bles iu expectation, faith is quiet,-in jios- sesion ; hope leaps out toward .w.hat will be, faith holds on to what is ; hope- idealizes, j faith realizes. ; , A young lady-last week declined frosted ,pa.ke because she thought it might -give hera/cold. flying southward, when the- report of a gun \j|p8 heard, and they ob served one of the geese begin to' fall slowly, The others, perceiv-' ing that their coinraae wa3 wound ed, uttered Bhriil cries of distress, and about a 'dozen of them flew under the wounded bird, huddling together so that tbeir backs formed a sort of bed upon which the wounded one rested. .They buoyed it up for some time, the others meantime looking .on and^manifest- ing their :concern Ipy uttering loud,' discordant shrieks'. Finding that their companion waa .unable any longer to accompany themin their flight,, they, abandoned him to bis fate, and he fell to the earth, and into the .arms . .of an' expectant- sportsman.. ._-----_------,k---------:-------- ' COKIOUSJSPrTAPII. rThe. follow^ ing corrrmemoi-utes the- sturdy fel low . who kept, thoj -turnpike to Worcester, and demanded- toll of George lll.\wlien. his.majesty was going on u visit to .Bishop Hurd :. On Wednesday:last .old" Robert Sleath: .' Pasacd. througli the turnpike gate..of Death. . , . >. To him would Death no toll-abate, ; Who stopped the Kin" at \V.oi3ter Gate.- .' "Poison. How many"of our in habitants are drinking water frji of poison, and breathing, an atmos phere of death in-their homes, for :wunt of.-proper .venti'latitfn ;.- clean, out your: wells, and have every upper sash of your windows made; bo as'to lot .in "air, and-you will increase your enhances of.."life pro portionately. !. looking very :well for. a long time f by rubbing it with . paper every morning. .Rubbing it with paper is.u much nicer way of keeping the outside of a tea-Jkettle, coffeo pot and tea pot bright and clean than the old way of washing them in suds. Rubbing with paper is also the best way off. polishing knives; tinware, and apodns , they shine like new silver. For tiolisfi- ing mirrors, windows, lamp chiru- neps, <icc, paper is better than dry cloth. , Preserves and pickles kV.up much jbetter if brown paper, in stead of cloth,1 is tied over tho jar. Canned fruit is not so apt tainould if a; piece -of writiinj paper; .cut to .fit/the cap,' is laiA directly in the fruit. Hard ok Doctors. Cut this out :, Croup can -be cured in piio minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to ac complish the deed.is to taken knife or grater and shave off in particles about a teaspoonful of alum, then uiix-it-with. twice its quantity of sugar, to-.make it palatable, and administer it.as quickly as possible, Almost . instantaneous relief fol lows. . . ' i Aii old - L'.'.cheloiv explains thot courage of the Turks by saying- that a man with more than' onu wife ought to be willing".q-fae death at any time. ' ' .j ' Some one suggests that ths' X--03' dpn'-rs place Cleopatra's.-neeflk. i Tine:vdneedle street. ^Bntwcj: " *.;: if h&< just aa'"proper..to .Stjssk;.-.'- : fhe outskirts ? ; - ' "-.:' "" . : "