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' ' THE MERCHAN'l', ton, Cli:u·ke nncl Cartwrigh~. It. is a. common pla.tform, opr:in t o t he free d1scuss1on of all q uessions in \Vhich the gener~l public ar e concern ed. TERMS. WEST DURHAM AND GENERAL ADVERTISER Ch·cul:.\tos largely in the 'l 'ownshlps of Darlins- Stea.m. Job Printing' Office KI~G STREET, BOWMANVILLE . Seventy-five cents per annum, in ad· vance. The 'Merchant' and ' Obs er· ver,' $2.QQ. RA.TES On~ 01~ ADV ti.RTISISG. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. VOLUME VJ. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1874. oolumn 4£ per aI?ium E J a.lf do. 2o Quarter do. · J.:S u 'l'ransil,)llt advcrtiscmeuts,5 eta per line first inserl ion, and 2c. per line, each subsequent one. · NUMBER III POSTERS, PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS CHEQUES, NOTES, HANDBILLS, LABELS, CARDS, TICKETS, &c., &c., &c., EXECUTED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY! -Bown1anvill~ COME and SEE · Trains \Vill lcnve Bo,vmanville Station, time, as follows : GO INQ- WEST. GOING EAST. HILL'S J_,ucal* ..... .. 7:20, a.pl. l Expres~ .. , ... . 8:30 a. m. ~vvrcss ....... 8.55 a.m. : 1\Iixcd ......... 3:GO p ,Jn. rvii ~o ~ ....... 3:20 p.m~ j Loco.I. ... .... 7:20 p . m. Expr~aa ... "'-8:50 p. m.1 Ex:p1·ess; ····8.50p.m. *Thie trn.ia ~ s ev ery morning of 've.ck, 1\!ondu.ys excepte~; NEW ---:o:--- 'l:he J'ollowing trai ns ~ow slop a.t Saxo ny for passengers :Loc:i.l going \vest, due (tt, ....... . :52 a. m. Mixed going east, due at ....... .. 3:-17..p. m. Mixed going w~st, dueat ..... .... 3:47p. m. Local going cru;t, due at ......... 7 :22 p. m. ~lo ntreal tim e. Fall &Winter Dry Goods A LARGE LOT OF LADIES' and .G·ENTS' FTJ'RS VERY Bowma.nvill e. Nov. 1st, 1873. CHEAP. Prof. J. Ruse, I-tADUArrE of 13ax.ter Univeraity of Music, Friundship, :Ne-..v York._ _ . 'rcacbur of Instrumunt, Cultivation of the ·\ r oicc, 'l'horoug11 Bass, :E-Iox1nony aud Con1 position. 41-ly · Darlington, J uly 16th, 1874. G · B. PEA.TE, TAILOR. Gent lemen's & Boy's Garmen ts :MADE IN THE 1'EWEST STYLES. Bo\:v1n::i.11v -illc, J uly, 27, 186~. R R LOSOOMBE, BARRISTEB-AT-LAW, SOLICITOR IN GlIANOliJRY, &c 0f.1"1 HCE,- Ove1' MuClung1s Stora, same fl at as J. "M. Bxin1aco1nb's Dental n.ooms. ,.... Bo-wmanville, Oct. 27th, 1868. ty MARRI-4.GE ISSUED DY LICENSE s ROBERT ARMOU R BEAUTIFUL TEETH J.M. BRIMAOOMBE L D. S ·rc e th Extra cted a.t McClung Bros. Rooms oYcr McClung Bros. Stores. Bo1·nna.n ville, Oct. 1st. 1870. 1 JSSIJED IlY Tvventy~fivo Ccn ts MARRIAGE LICENSES JOHN J. WILLIAMS Ohen·ywood Post-office Pickering Ont Importers of Dry Goods, Groce1·ies, Crocke1·y, Glassware, etc., etc. G. D. Lockhart, DEN '1" I s ·T ,- FALL . CIRCULAR. . Bowmanville, Sept. 187 4. McCL'LJNG BROI:>. are now fully assorted in the various departments for the Season, having received, with the exception of a few packages, their entire Fall and Winter Imports. The greatest care has been bestowed in the purchase and selection of this Stock, one of the firm having himself visited the leading European markets and manufactorc ies for that purpose. They have the largest Stock ofDressGoods,Silks,Shawls, :Mantles, irts, CQttons, FLannels, '\Vinceys, Tweeds, Overcoatings, Mantle-cloths, Blankets, Carpets, etc., etc., over bought in Bowmanville. All these goods have been purchased on the most advantageous terms, a great portion of them having been bought for DASH. If you will favor them with a call, you will feel assured that few, if any, retail establishments in the country, can offer for your inspection a larger, cheaper, and better assorted stock. It affords them pleas~re to show their goods and they court co:nparison. Thmgs are already on the move-call early. ' Graduate of the Royal Co/leg e of Dental Sugeons, Ont. l~ov;m a.nvi ll ~. Olllue over F. F. McArthur's Store, King St., :Bown1anvillc, Oct.. 23nl, 1873 iu3-tf. 1V. H. vVILS ON ' BOWMANVILLE, General Agent for J>l; l.NOS, ORGANS, MELODIANS antl SEWING MAO HINES f Raymond Sewing Machine A SPECIALITY. ' lnstrnction given, and I11struments and I\f chines guo.ranteed , Do wmanville: June 18, 1874. · AUCTIONEERS b,01· the Township of Darlington McClung Bros. H. T. PHILLIPS, HAMPTON. L'ro1npt attention given to sales, &c_, on reason . ubhi tt:rms. "'VV:m.. BnFton., £.N'...lfJSI{ILLF,'i'\r. Sale11 promptly o.ttendcd to on reasonaUlc tcrtna :Etobe1't, Young, ·v1".l'ImINARY SUil.QEON, Graduate of the Ontario Y et ei-inary CoUege. :By a.p pointment V etednary Surgeon to tho ,.,.,.est Durha1u n.u<l Dadington L-nion .i;-\gricultuxa.l Societies. Agent for the Liv.a Stock Branch of the l3ert.ver and Toront o ?rlu tual .Fin: Insurance . K ing _and Scugog Streets, Bow1na.nvillle. V ctcriu :i..ry ?Yi cdiciue ~ constantly on hand. from the. C(luntry promptly nttended to. Office :-0~ 1e lloor east of lt. Maning'~ J!"nr· nituro Wareroorn. l{esillenee over S. Burden's :;tore, corner of Call~ Co. n1ltf LUMBER. to &ettle .AJ1d he hcr(Jby iufortt builders, nnd others in \Yant of lumber, tbn.t h · p1·e~1·e<l to supply them at cash rates for Cas H enceforth be intends to do n. cash busiul!SS, t..ie~clebted to hint for Lnn1ber, their acco 1~s without furthe.r delay. rrn~ ~ubseriber respcctfull)· r<)quc r:i ts all pll.l'· NEW GOODS. Uy New Goods have OS. SMI'l'H, CoJL Darlington. 1873. · n18tf , LIME! LI?(E! _.,\J.?ply to FOR S.AI. 1£ i11 anywquantity, .n :.LIAM SPEAR. Church Street, · ne1trly opposite t he Alma. Hutel. Bowman ville , Jn11n 19th l87a. tf NE-ARLY ALL a.nd c.o~IE TO HAND the assortment will be'fountl .!, ~ ERY ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. LiVM'Pool Lo ndon, and Glasgow arplv to FOR 1rickut g1 or inf1;1-m::i.t.ion.,1., ./L N Agent. '\-1;- · ~.A.DS, COMPLETE AND Tiow1na11ville, .Tune 9th, 1871. tf-30 p The Public are solicited to call and see for themselves. Hampton. W. S. BOYLE, M. D. RADU.A.'£E of the Unive1·sitieis of 'rrinity College, Toronto, and Victoria College, of Oobourg . Licentiatti of the College of Phyaiei an(l.:,and Surgeons, of Ontario. Office, King Stl·eet, one door west of Afr Coroish'e Jewelly Store, Bowman\·ilte. G Sept. 18th 1872 H. ELL IOTT JUN bp- The Drunkard's Grave. to inake a run of it. As it turned out he I might \Yait long enough without finding then see ! Well thia was my manner of did 1nak.e a run, or at any rate he got n any n1nch better opportunity, I determined treating her. One evening last \Vinter, I Tangled weeds grew over it. Rank grasil, to try my luck ,there and then, ana down wo.a returning from the office, it wae about starL. STAR-GLEAMS. eeveu o'clock, and it never rained harder in great antl. little tufts, flourished luxuriIt was a low· built house, and betore those to this public· house I \Vent. BY ELL E~ P A'J.·rO?'i . It was a cold, slippery antly beside Lind around it. No wen1orial There was no one then .Particnla.r in the eince the delage. who went in could get np·atairs he drop1)ed Before the ca.uilles were lighted out of the bed-ruom \\'indow, coming down bar, and so I pa§sed through to the back, horribl e night, and Jim Hawkins and I stoae, with name graven thereon, a.nd little I sat in a muaing moQ(l; safely on bis fe·t; but beforo he could take and tbere shut-inintbeskittle alley I caught walked atraight through the crowdeu boat, cherub, with outstretcherl wings, ns if brarI thought of hopes that were blighted, There no· iog the departed son! aloft to glory, carved to his heels I was facing him, my right sight of the gang, eight in number, and with and stood outoide the awning. I thought that the Lord \Vas goodhand, holding my staff ready-drawn behind three sailors in tow. I felt quamiah, but I ticed a wom11n leaning agaiuat the opposite upon it, marked the spot where the Yes, good wben he took 1 uy treasure A. Scotch I saw she had on an earthly remains were deposited. my back, ruy left hand ready to collar him. knew that it wouldn't do to give way to aide of the window. l\_way from r:!y arm and lo\'e. thistle, bristling with pricklea and angry· old waterproof cloak, and the hood was 'Oh, it's you, is it 1' be gri~ds out be- tbat feeling, ond so eeeing my gentleman This 1ife iA not all for pleasure, · like, stood sentry over it, fr?wning upon a tween his teetb, and before J could say a there in the midst as large as life, I put on drawn over the hat. Finally after considBut a sehool for life above. Bathurst bur that presumed to occupy the erable squinting at the figure and side face word or move an inch, be had whipped out my boldest face, bounced into the alley, Th.ough the task be ha.rel that's give~, second place of dishonor near to its foot. o~ the 1vomnn Jim said with a nudge, a l arl(e claap-knife. I could see murder in and shutting the door, placed u1y back Still I must patiently len.rn, l\fodeat little \Vild flowers gre\\· at son1e 'Don't you know who that is Fred 'i' liis eye, and eo I dashed in at once to seize ugainst it, Thougb the gang were taken by .1.itthe feet of the Master in-heaven, distance, as if unwi1ling to corne n ear it. 'How the mischief should I know 1' him; \mt before I could lay hold of him he surprise, they acted cleverlY. enough ; they r:I'ill he gives the key to turn For it was a drunkard's grave. 'You ought to if anybody does. Take a My toil into joy and singing; had gashed my band to the bone didn't know which of them might be-want· No iron railing, or in the absence of iron, My cro~l!I to a shining crow11; -and then it was my turn. He was ed, and not one of thc1n snid a word or good look now.' no wooden pailing enclosed it. Nobody 'l'he swift hours ever are bringing 'Just then tlte boat touched the dock. I drawinrr back to make a running stab at me moved nn incbi bq.t I noticed my man pick A glory and blessing dowu. when ~uick as li·htning and with all the up a pot and make a,pretence of sipping at looked, and as sure aa I live tbere stood living see1ned to take an interest in it, or So let my cup be uplift ed stren~th f could ;ut into\t, I sw ung round it, thciugh I could see easy eDo?gh. that bis Sne Osmond, my lady love. She drew the have any care for it. It stood, or rather 1'o c<i.tch the gift fron1 above; my iight arm and caught hiru with the staff real ~o;e \Vas to be ready to fi1ng it at my hood closer over her face, and while I was lay, neglected and torsaken ; a ma1·ked and From their moorings lives have drifted, full in the face, felling him like a liullock. bead if it should turn out that ho was the deciding what to do the chain was lowered, striking contrast to some of its neigh Lor.. Forgetting th<Jt Gotl is loveli'or it was a drunkard's grave. and Sue was lost among the crowd.' He waa quite senseless, and by the time the man \vanted. Driftcd vast p ea.cc and the morning. No weeping willow drooped its peu<lant 'The man who hesitates,' you know.' oLhers got round I liaU him quietly hnndI caught his eye, antl in an ofl'-handed Into deep gloom u.nd the nig\it; green boughs mournfully over it, like guarYes I know all about it. An hour after, ' cuffed. \'\'hen we got bin1 to the station tone said, : Oh, you know it's j·on I've co1ne 'l'hey saw not the stru:'1:1 bright dawning She was dress- dian angel with folded wings watching the Just over yon mountain height, \V e sent for a doctor to dress his ~\round, for, ~hen; Lut take my Rd vice, don 't <lo nny- I called on Miss Oamond. ready to receiye me. 1 never saw her sleeping duE=t till the glorious resurrection ed, but he wouldn't have it touched, and in- thing in the pot-throwiog lice. It will only Lighting the path of the \Yeary, eye· so bright; there was an indefinable glit· morn, when ' the trump shuil eom1d, and sisted upon being taken into COUl't next make things worse for you, for the house is Clear shining for all the ]ost; the dead ehall be raised incorruptible.' No znorning "·ith his fac.:e all marked ; but surrouuded, and there llre men enough in ter all over her, and her uH.1.aner was fasci· '\-Vith it lift:i cannot be dreary: dark cypress gracefully reared its sleuder nating to the laet degree. After o while But, ah! tiic ntar\·eloug cost though he certainly looked horrible enough, re serve to take a houseful of you.' form close by it, speaking its own silent Tliat set t his beacon bl blazing! he didn't take anything by his move. He ' I shall make it death or glory this time,' said I: Blushini;r heaYens and trembling e::i.rth, "Sue, I could have s\vorn an hour ago language, ' Friends, keep his 111c1nory was ·well known, and besides, though I ho anstYered, 'an<l so here goee ;' and as he A chorus of joy were raising, green,' It 'iYas a drunkard's grave. that I saw you on a ferryboat!' atruck with a will, I struck in self-defence, spoke the words he threw the pot a· hard When Bethlel1cm'1:1 Star had birth. No roses with their sweet smiling 1acei:t, 'Could you !' she laughed, without changand for life. Re had penal servitude, and as he could, and then made a dash for a looking so happy of being permitted to ocIts light hna neYer grown dimmer he didn't live to do bis time out, window at the end ol the alley. The pot ing color. 'Never swear to personal idencupy such a hallowed ground, grew about Through the lapse of stormy ye&rs; a man who got into a hor· tity. I kuew That i· the sort of customer a policeman just akimmed my ear, and then I was on it, or dropped one of nature's pearly Even no'v I catch its glimmer has sometimes to tackle, aud as he never him like a panther, and drogged him back rible scrape once by doing so.' Through the midst of fa.lling tears. I tears upon it. No violets peeped out with '\VelJ, it was::i't you, "'·as it, Sue 1' knows the day or hour when he may have just"" ho had got half out of the window. I It will gild tho grave 'li'.,ilh glory, their little eyes from quiet resting plae"s asked. to tuck le. Men as are wanted will general- downed him, and had all bnt m.stered him, Rob death of his fatal sting, &round it, making th e air redolent of their 'How ridiculous l' she answered ; and Shine on f'.'hen saints tell their story ly come quick enough, when they find they when one of the gang, that had popped sweet perfume, embalming, in their own Of triumph through Christ the King. theJI, with a n1ost t~nuaual touch of defiance are fairly dropped upon ; but still you can out as soon as my back was from the door, quiet way, the dead, aa the gentle, lo>ing ATCHlSO:t-· . · Sllppose it was-·wbat never be quite certain of them; if the drink came running back to t ell the others that it in her rnanner: v.·oman of whom 'iVe read in the Scripture, then · 1 · or the evil is in them at the time, they may lvas all ga1nmon about there being a reserve. only good-by, with the alabaster box of ointment, very 'N olbing much,' said I i take it into their heads to show fight, and Thia WM enough for them. Without anothprecious, did the living. It waa a drun· 1 \\'hen th ey do they're not particular to er \Vord saiJ, they made a. rush towards n'lc; Miss Osn1ond ! kard 'a grave. 'Truly 1' said she, in the calmest possible trifles-tho first thing that comes handy and, !hough I still held my maa, my heart The "'ild, winter winds carcer~U unmothey'll u se, But, as I said before, it's when grew cold, and a prayer ftaohed through my manner. MEN WHO FACE DEATH· lested over it, an<l re.shed on heedless! v ' Yes truly,' I answered, 'unless you can they go in for being revenged on yon that mind, for I felt that I was face to face with past it, ·rhe coming summer's hot 'vind.~s they are the most dangerous. It isn't a death. I kn ew tbat they'd stick at noth· account satisfactorily for cond11ct so quesecnthed it and scorched it a nd burnt it 'rHl;, POLTCE'1MI. case of fighting then ; they don't give you ing, nnd that the very aiune gang had kick- tionable !' gl'owing aa white '!'bey had no respect for it. It WM ouly a 'So what 1' she asked, tbe cbance to fight; they creep upon y ou- eel a man to death only a few months be· drunkard's grave. Don't go and make any miatake ! Tbe in tbe dad< for choice-and are up to all fore. But I was in lack. as death. Since the hard and hardened grave-dig· picture in the comic papers, and all the rest sorts of cruel, cowardly ways of Jammg a 'do qnestional.ile,' 1 repeated. I would have called to the sailors for ger carelessly nnd roughly smootLed the of the j okcs about policemen, moy be all man. Many a fine man has_ been made a help, but tb ey looked helplessly drnnk, nnd 'She rose in a white heat. 1'his is what surface of the cold yellow clay of wl:ieh it very '\·ell in their \Vay, aud I can laugh at cripple for life, in cloing or for ha.viag clone two of 'em was, but the thi!d, as it happen- she said : was made, no other hand had tended it. a goud joke at the expense of the Force, but his duty aa a policenul.n, and aon1e have ed; was only l1alf-seas over. I-fa \'\'Q.9 a big 'About seven o'clock this evening J crossSince the last dull thud of the spade sound· for all that there ie not much in them as been killed outright. lump ofa fellow, a Yankee mate, as I knew ed the ferry from New York to Brooklyn, ed heavily upon it, pressing earth upon some o{ the would-be sharp ones make out. Th h r h t . t afterwards, and about as cool and bold a aud I refuse to give any account of the cir· earth, and clay upon clay, and dust to the Most of 'em are as stale as they well can be, en sdec takO'W ab ibcetna.n 1·" ho gto 111 .ca.rd as the1e v.:ell could be. As thr. they cuu1stances which made such questionable dust, as if the body were not to ri.e:e again, ~e ia c ance o 'v n 1nay . . . and though for ~nything I know they may a ro\\", an . · t f . 'th . ·d sprang forward, so did be, wbipprng out a conduct necessary. So good-by, Mr. Tracy.' but go down deeper nnd deeper, no Lun1an er er1ng lVl \\' l 1 or . have been to th e point some time, they ain·t happeu fron1 in ' What then I' inquired Harry, 'l" th e1r · bl oou. .1 up j again, . revolver, says he, 1n .au aggrtlvatinrr 0 sort ot foot i l run k en men \Vl J..L , bad stood beside it, aave the paesing now-a-days, not by a long way. There's a 'Why, she swept out of the room like a . t h b way, Gentlemen, fair play is a jewel, and foot of the heedless stranger, as he slowly . saying aLout life not being all beer and see h ow h e h as t o ·go in o a ouse w ere I rJ tragedy queen, and I haven't spoken to her , M d ,, · b · h t d <l h 1 <e to see it respected-a nd so I will. moved regardlessly along, Learing th e re· skittle, and you may take my word for it ' ur er · 18 e~ng a au e ' an . w . ere ~er~ ':t.ihey are man to nJan and rett f · ·1 since.' mains of a friend or nejghbor to the narro\Y a n t h d u· h fli' p y. an y that life ain't all cupboard courtship for haps the first thrng that meets hJS sight JS . 1a c e , ant1 t e o cer can take h11n he hov.se and the Jong home, ' ?to· here the wickWh tb b ll ' a policeman. Even if he had the inclina- man more thun half-mad, and slaslnng sh II , Three weeks after. Same room, sa1ne 0 ed cease frotn troublin g, and the ·weary aro tion for it, hi.i! snperiors would take precl- righ t and left with a poker. Then there ia h a ·fi d t :h er ~ no~ ekrea Y would company. being at fires, and being out in all sorts of ave ire a · eni, t iey 8 un · back. All --0µ.s en.re that he di.:ln't spend his time on 'Poor Will Osmond has gone,' said Harry at rest.' No busy bee ever paid a flying th H t b t 'th th. d the same they b ad done a good thing .for visit to it, rested at it, or returned frorn it one ing ~n t li ~ h· mntc. duly making love to cooks and feeding in wt:a er, so 1 ~ \V n. \~1 Blake. laden with luscious honey, gathered from is both a hard JOb another, a pohceman's gentlemen's kitchens. That may be very 'The deuce he has l' replied Pred Tracy. \Vhile this had been going on I had, opening flowers hlooming around it. rrhis '"ell in a pn.nlomime, but it'a about as much and a risky one. If there's any one as thinks without knowing it, slackened 1ny holU., 'Yee. I was ove1· tbere this afternoon, they did not, for no flowers invited them, the real thiag as pantornim e fish und car· as it ain't rh!ky, just lt:t 'eu1 ask any police- and my man, putLiug out all bis strength a11d had a talk with his widow. Wilt's had never been planted, so they never Roses man's wife as cares for her husband hO\\T rots are; and whatever people n1ny think, in a sudden move, thre\v me off,and got on, health fail ed immediately after his marri· bloomed. It · was u drunkard's grave. polic~m e a don 1tnlways Colne up jnst v..·hen often she has lain awake, fearing tbat some· to his feet, and before I could close with age, and his father was so angry with him Cold, bitterly cold, blew the wind on a fight is over, 11nd it isn't only \Vomen and thing might happen to hi41i, when he's been him again, had dra\vn a litc·pre.'5erver. IIe for marrying his daughte1)a governcs~, that that cold day. Mercilessly beat the min little boys,tbat they collar-I should like on night duty in a bad quRrter ! ma.de a dash at n1c with it, aud nhned a he would not do the least thing for him. upon that rainy day. The wind blew upon What class of criminals are the mos t to see some of them that talk that way crtishing blow at my head. Mrs. Osmond said 'that if it hadn't been for wretcbed borae, and sii!J more wretched· ha~e1.o tn.; kle some of the customers thllt dangerous for a policeman to have to deal Fortunately it only reached rn v left Sue they would have certainly starved. we have 'to ; they'd mixhty soon alter with l Well, I haI\ily know; the regulars, shoulder, but even there it was a c;ippler She pawned and sold most of her jewelry, looking tl.river, upon shackory dray an<l uncovered coffiu. It LlW upon miseraLle their tone, I expect, Why, tak ing it a1l the 'bobitual criminals,' as they are !called, for tho tin10 being, for I felt niy arm drop and managed so skillfully that 1\'ill was A widow, and still more misera ble-looking thronB_h, there's few busi nesses as ~re more are called, aro much of a muchness. I found us~less to my aide. He staggered a bit f'rum surrounded with every comfort. orpbane, as they rnovcd on slowly and risky \ban a polic·eman's. In plenty of sneaking thief may turn Turk upon you, out eo1nething, lf'red.' partly missing his blow,and before he could drearily, scantily elad,along tbe rough bush neighborhoods hc .goea on duty with hts life while a burglar or g·rotter, as you might r ecover hirnself, I \YllS alongside of him,aud ' What was it 1' road towards the druukard's open grave. in bis band. People read and talk about think likely to show fight, will often let he went over like a ninepin, and held np 'Do you remember the date of the night Splash went the heavy wheela in the the dangerous classes, but it is the polic.:e- himself be took as qnietly os a lamb. The you saw Miss Osmond on the ferryboat l his hands to have th e bracelet put on. muddy ruts. Splash, ·plash, jog, jog, they rnau that has to deal with 'e1n and it's hitn chance cases are often rou gh ones. A mn.dWas it the third of Decell!ber I' It was about a two minutes' jeb altogeth· went. For the rain Leat viteoufily upon us kno,·..-s how dangerous they are. They drnnk sailor a iu't a nice customer to handle, ·Yes, sir.' er, but it 'vas a mighty tough one, I can wretched horse, nnd still n1ore wretchcdknow wl)_etber it's only women nud boys and· mad· ~runk aol<licr- especially when '\';'.,ell that day Sue spent with her brothtell youi and a. dangerune one too ; and that we collar ; they know who Jaye them he takes to tlie belt-i· a decidedly naety what I say is, that when people tal k about er. He was a great deal worse, nnd she looking driver, upon creaking dray, and rough, unpainted, unstained, unvarnished, hy the heelfl, and they l'eruen1ber it, \vith a one ; and lilon1c:tirnes your swindling clerk, policemen, they should remember that they WM detertl]:_i~eU, come 'vhat \YOuld, she vengeance, 'Revenge is sweet' is n. n1otto or absconding bo..nkrnpt, will show bis teeth never know the day or hour \Vhen, in th~ "'ould not lcuve him until he was easier. uncovered, unornaruented, ruggedly plain and ugly coffin. It beat upon famished with a good many of them, and when they -pull out a pistol, or pick up a decanter or way of duty, they may have lo tackle a job He gre\v more comfortable, and \Vhen R he _widow and huugry orphans, as with droop· nre loose they will often go a long way to on a chair,and talk of knocking your brains ih which their life i~ at ctakc.-Ocissell's. got ready to start for home, it raiued hard. ing heads and dripping hair,drenched backs, have it on th e man that has been the means out if you lay a hand on him ; though of So she borrowed her Sistf'r's water-proof, and wet feet, they moved silent and welauof caging them-that was how I came by course we do lay hands on 'em for all that. and hurried off. Now, what do you think 1' choly along that uueven,slippery road with the gash you see on the side of my face If you dash in boldly at them they general· Making Up; 'That I was a brute, and I'll make it up what iemained of bim whom they called ly knock under, here. this very d·y.' 1I Late 'e1n P father, towards that unhallowed. - resting· I had got a customer two years for steal· Coiners used to be about the 'vor.st, but Evening. Scene-parlor in the house of place, the drunkard's grave. 'Singular!' ing lead, and l was one of those that escort· there's not ruany about now. There is one Osmond. Sue Osmond in the library alone, 1 As he would have nothing to do with reI don't think it is si ngular. 1 ed him to the va.n a.fter he "'118 tientenced custon1er, however, as is more likely than Fred Tracy is announced, ligion when living, religion would have and as we plll'sed along he growls out to me not to make a fight of it before he'll be Fred Tra.cy lit his cigar O\'er again, and ' Good evening, Mr. Tracy,' and Sue ex· No under bis breotb. 'You've scored thb taken, and as ia generally a tough un to resumed l1is favorite recumbent. attitude tends a very steedy. little hand to her visi- nothing to do with him when dead. u I am the resur· solemn words declaring chalk, but you may lay any odds that I'll fight, and that is tho escaped convict. His fri end Harry Blake, kept on whittling: It's tor. rection ap.d the life," He that believeth on ecure the next, if I have lo die for it.' generaJJy·o desperate hand that does man- now and tL en casting \vouclering glances at ' I have just beard to·day of your broth· me, though he were dend, yet he shall live,' this handsome womo.n~hater. After a moI could tell that he meant "hat be said, age lo escape, and one that's dreadfully er's death, Miss-Osmond-and-and-' were spoken hopefully over the drunkard's and I bore it in mind. \\Then he wns out fond of hia liberty, and tbot knows that if n)e nt's silence Harry remarked : Freq Tracy wa.~ neyer kno\\·n to stammer, ' How any mlin ca.n dislike 'V01nen is Lut now the English language had foiled grave. again, I kept well on my guard wherever I be is took again be may bid a long goodNo words o[ psalm nor voice of praise saw him lurking about ; but at_length he bye to it, · A gentleman of that Sta!J'!p gave more than I can tell.' him. were heard. No earnest prayer went up 'Bah !' interrnpttd Fred ; 'yon forgot · was too aharp for me. me the stiffest tussle I ever had, and the ' ·w-m bad been ill fQr several months,' from holy lips pleading for the wiclow ancl One rather foggy night I w"' passing tbe one I'm proudest of, for I fought him fair, that I bad a etepmother, and-' \vas the caln1 ans\ver. the fatherless, Tbe man had lived a drun'Waajilted !' top of a dark side-street, when hearing a und took him single-handed. When h e 'And to think,' said Fre<l, almost sob'No, sir !'-this n·- ith emphasis-' no wo- bing, ·that I should have been such 0 kard's life, died a drunkard's de"tb, and had rush, I wheeled round as quickly as I could made bis escape he got clean away~ and he thus a drunkard's grave. -but too lote. I just caught sight of the had sense enough not to hark back to bis man ever jilted me!' brute ! I wonder if you can ever forgfre No hallowed associations cluster around scoundrel making a swinging hit at me old Lon<lon haunts while tbe search was 'But what a.bout your engagement with n1e ~, it. No holy memories cling tenaciously to with a bottle tied iu o handkerchief, and hot; but about a year afterwards be did Sue Osmond 1 Something happened. 'u ~rtainly,' replied Sue; 'I forgave you it. '!'he man's !if< was a blank, his death a the next instant I '"'·as stretched senseless. venture back, and I acciilently got wind of Whose fault was it yours or hers 1' a long time ago.' blot. The only legacy he left behind was I shall carry the mark of the blow to the it. 'If you want to know, I'll tell you, and 'Angel! ' whispered Fred. 1 Ho'\' cau I Iii. bad name and a drunkard's grave. grave with me, as you may see, and it was leave you to j u<lge whose lault it was. ever be thankful enough P I koew that th ere was five pounds for '.!'his is it, with tangled weeds growing pretty nigh carrying me to the grave ; I \'i'aS 'l1hat girl ran away with every bit of sense I The hands he tried to seize-were withany one who took him, and I hacl a pretty over it. With the rank grass flourishing within an inch of death, as you n1ay say 1 had, for a brief period-only a brief pel'iod. drawn as she replied : gom.1 idea that the gove rnor of the priBou he is it, with no forif it had been half an inch more on the I woke up one night to rea!faation of what 'b remembering, ~fr. Tracy, that no luxuriau tly around it. That hatl. broke out of would stand something Yonder, · where teb.1ple it woulcl have been an end of me. a fool I had been ! Of couroe, e;-ery fellow \Votnan orth having \Yill en1.1ure the high memorial stone over it. u1oi:.e ; but n1ore than all that, 1- \."{elJ, I As it wus1 it laid me up for about three who is engaged to a girl supposes he ha13 und lofty treatment yon aliempted witl;i me! tbo Scotch thistle, angry-like, frowns at its may aa well say it : I bad not been long in head, nnd the Bathurst bur, fit emblem of months, but beyond inarking n1e, it did me \Yon perfection. I did.' and that \vhere there is true love, there is the Force at the time, and I wanted to show the curse of strong drink, grows at its foot. no permanent harlll;. 'A very fooliah thing to suppose, to be- true C')ntidence ! 1 that I bad something in me ; and so, though Yes,thot i· the drunkard's grave. Stranger, When I got on duty again I saitl. nothing gin "'·ith.' 'Sue, dear Stie,wbat do you mean 1 Why I could have asked for help, I made up my 1 as you poss look at it in the light of thia but made up my mind that th ere should be Pshaw! You don't kno\v whllt you are are you so cold I' mind to try to take hln1 myself, · I was passage. 'The drunkard shall not ::inhorit n third chalk to th~ ga.me bct\Yeeu 1ne and }?or about six weeks after talking about. 'l\'Ir. Blake I, unnounued v. sery~nt, twenty-se,·en at the time, stood five foot the kingdom. ot God,' and man,as you "alue the fellow that sir~[;\~ the blow. He had our engagemellt everything \V<l. S lovely, ' Good evening, :Fred,' cried Harry, coreleven, weighed twelve stone-good fight· your sou], avoiU the drunkard's grave. bolted as rnon as he bad done it, and hadn't She was pretty, fu.scin llting, deuced ly ·jn- dially. ing weight-and, thou gh I say it that Ca>! CaMnoc . been heard of since; but for all that I felt telligent and accomplished ; and I spared ' And how's my little Sue 1' shouldn't, the convict escaped or unescapeU, quite sure he would turn up in bis old lurk no pains to take her every where she want· 'Y'"ery well, thank yon,' cried Sue, lovdidn't ureathe tliat l feared to tackle singlengain, sooner or later, for his wife and all ed to go. My team was kept pretty busy ingly. handed. Death ifi t he very fdeud 'vbon1,in his due Lis con1panions we~e there, . So I watched those days, I \ell yon. Sue couldn't ride 1 This, 1Ylr. Tracy,' she continued, \Vith a oeason, even the happiest mortals aliould be It was not of the man bi mself that I was in a hired coach ; and as for the cars or nnd 'vatched, and sure enough at the end of deep blush, 'is my ·i ntended husband.' ready to embrace. afraid, though I knew he was a Tartar; a couple of years I spotted him again, I stage, why bless your heart ! I should never ' How long baa this been 1' inquired poor found out that had only been back a what m~de the job so risky was the danget have dreamed, in any en1ergency, of sug .. Fred. week when I caught si~ht of him, and so I of being set upon by tbe whole of tbe gang geBting either.' ' About three months,' replied Blake, You cannot pay to o careful a ttention to didn't try to flutter the 11est too soon. I let to which be btlonged, and who always went 'Do you mean to tell me that Snc Os- nonchantly, bueinees, if yqu ·want to succeed. 'A11d you allowed me to come round three months go by, so that be migbt think about together, and would, I 'k n..e"'·, tliiok mond is such a fool as that 1' here, and make a fool of myself in this 1 nothing of murdering a policem an, I \\'Rithe · was all right, and then I '. .'ent iu to score 'She llever said anything about the \vay manner1' We h ave ta ken the firet step in forgetting ed a fow weeks to see what chance might ·he should go ; but, don 't you ·ee, I made my next chalk. ' What manner I I was delighted that our own i.\'oes when .we become interested I reported him, and half a dozen of ·us tUl'll up, au<l at length one aftern,0011 I such an idol of her that I couldn't bear to you anctmy Sue 'vere going to make up a4d in another'e. were tol<l off to take him. Three \V ent into heard tha t the gaog had picked up some feGl for a moment t hat sbi; had stepped out- be good friends again.' Before Harry bad concluded bio-sen tence It is wonderful how it"w evils are remedithe l::.ou se after hirn, two kept wotch in the sailors) and were spreeing ·w ith th em in a side of her own eepecial sphere J' Fred waa gone. less if you fai,ly see them, ·1lll honeatly 'l~id dlesticks J) front, and I took my stnnd at the back, the public-house some little distance form their The hall-door shut 1rith ~ bang, and t11e try to remove tb em. . way h e was likeliest to come i(.he managed regular lurk; and thinking to myselt that 'All right. !<all in love yourself, and lovcra were :'\lone, POETRY. r ' LITERATURE. po of be ·