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THE MERCHANT. WEST DURHAM AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. Circulates largely in the To'ivnships of Darling· ton, Clarke and Cartwright. It is a. common Stea.m Job I'rinti:ngOf.8.ca KING STREET, BOW)!A:NVILLE. plu.tfor111, open to the free d1Bcuss1on of all quesns in ,vluch the goneral public a1(' concerned. Seventy·fivece~::>r;~rannum:inAd vance. The ·Merchant' and Obser· ver,' $2.00. AND GENERAL ADVERTIISER. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1875. POSTERS, PAMPRLE'rS, CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS CHEQUES, NO'l'ES, HANDBILLS, LABELS, CARDS, TICKETS, &c., &c, &c. NUMBER It may bave been an hour, or two hours, but it seemed but a minute nfter this that the boy shook me roughly by the shoulder. '\Ve are to g!:t out here, 1 he aa1cl. I was very st.df in all 1ny joints1 but I could get up and climb out of the f:ltage 1 and Do more. . If I was cold I dtd Mt know 1t; n1y limbs ·were ntunb, yet" -other· "'·ise I \Vas con1fortably enough. I crawled out and followed the boy into a miserablelookiug shanty by the road side, in front ot which we h·d stopped. There wasa rough bar running across the room, there w0.tl a thick black-haired brawny looking m·n behind iti a.nd there "ere t"R-'o or three kege of hquor bel.1nd hi1n; there was an iron stove in th'! nnddle of the room, a bench alor.ig the wall, and that was all. The boy asked for sou1e bnu1dy, drnnK o. glnss of jt after hauding one to 01e, ·w hich I drank, aud felt so rnnch better Jor drinking that I call· ed for nnotber, atld got it; but the boy refused to take tlie glass I offered hun. 'l ha\: e bad enough,' he enid. \Vt: were going out, when the landlord opened the door before us. J.Jooldng out into the storm, he aeked inereduloualy XX." EXECUTED IN FIRST GLASS STYLE ~tl! ~lHH1$. POETRY. LOSSES· 1H FH:\)ICE~ GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY! COME and SEE · BROWN Tr"nn:i will leave Bo,;·manvill~ Station, Bow1nanvillc Lune, ae follows : OOINO 1VEST, GOING EM!T. HILL'S l.T1jon the white sea-sand 'l'h1;1re sat a \)tli:,'Thn band, 8.2~ n Ill. Exp 1 ess"'" . !) 9:l n..m : )'.(ixei.,. · 4~~o p.m. Aii:{ed . 230p.m I Loca..l ..· 7:o» p.m. J..iocal .7.22, llo,m. I Ex.press , Exp~css .. 9 00 p. m. I Expr~ss . 0.00 p.m. !!!This traia runs every morui11g of we~k, ~Ionda.ys excepted, 'rh;; follovnng train~ now slop at Saxony NEW ' 1.'tilhng the los.ile8 that their lives ha<l known, 'Yhile e\ ening waned awav Fron1 b1eezy eliff n.nd bay, And the; shon.g t1du~ \Vent ont w1~h weary n1on.n. One spake with quh erhig hp 1 tor passengers . Local going \vest, l1t1.! at 1'I1xed µ;01ng eaot, due at 1'11xed going west,, due at Fall &Wi11ter ·Dry G~ods --:o.-- 7 30 a. u1 3.40 p. m ,2 55p. n1 7 .45 p rn Local going east, due at j)fontre<1.l tirne A LARGE LOT OF Of a fair freighted slnp, Wt th all h1,, household to the deep goue down 1 Rut one hail \\ ilder woc' IIo~- much 1' li'or a fair face, lon,; ac;o, I then told !nm what I was willrng to Lm~t in tbti da1ket depths of a great Lown pay h11ri 'l'll go and. gl~t the stage ready,' he 'l'here \\ e1 c who mourned tb eir youth \.V1th a nwst lo\ing iuth, said. :Fo1 its brave hopes and mcmo1-iea e\t'r green, After all, it was only the higher pnce he Aud one upnu the \Vest Turned an eye that \\ ould not u:at 1 l!"oi fa1 off h1lls whcicon its JOYS bad bt!eu. Som(' tall~e<l 'I <lo,1 he ieplied ' And I won't let it.go because thi: road lies o\·cr that rnonntain yonder: Jt runs close to tl10 edges of the precipices sevcr.11 hundred feet high, 1t is 1uugh and shppeiy, the snow i.s deep now, and getting deeper eve1y n1inute 1 o.nd I don'L b eheve any bor.e conld pull through it., I thuught of the hLLle children wnitrng for 1nc yonder ; of their bitter dissppointment if I did not, come. Then I said : I am willrng to pay well for boing taken.' The landlord leaning over the bar asked, zoes out tu sow deadly seeds w1ll not be. And if these. seeds are sown they will 1 ~µring up You can easiJJ check the sweet There \\'as !l, boy brought tne here flowers trom gro\\ ing 111 your border.;;, but Where is he7' 'Ile ts here too.' The voice that sa1d it you know bow hard it is to kefp the 'vecds Only v1gilanc0 cnn en,,u re success "ns husky with teara, and the band that down -JllStso with the hearts gurden Then held 1u1ne abook. watch well, anll pray \Veil. 'llas he been ill, too~' J, EMC. 'Yes.' 'I have been 111, thenr ':x-ef:I.} LADIES' and tGEN'I'S, P'tTitS Bowmanv1lle. Nov. 1st, 1873. 1 VERY OI-IEAP. of vau1shed gold, [mo1c, had beeu waitinri for. Ia five nnnutes the stage \Vas at the door. It \Vas an ordinary box \vaggon on good S ome of p1oud hon~rs told, J. CHAPLIN, ur DE..\.LEU. = = = = == =::=;;==:==:=====-------=--- - Some spake of friends who \\ele thetr trnst no And one of a green grave 131..'side a formgn \\!\Ve, 'l'li.'.l..t made him s1t so londy on the shoH' Ent "hen then tAJes 'vere done, There spake among thuw one, A stt8.Jlger, sct:m1ng from all 13orrow f1co " Sad 1osses ye have inet, Tiut mine lS hea;i,:1er yet, ]1 '01 a believing hear t is gone from n1e ' 1 ll"riut onrl Ornamental Trees, Seeds, Buns, l!'lo11;crs, tfc. 1 &:c:. )lr C. guarant0ea to furuish nothing but First-cla.as trees, and true to name. ...\.ddreas, P. O. Box 55 ciowmanv1ll1::. Jan. 22nd, 1875. bp ly-m17-o4. To Ma.stars of :C.. 0. I. LANK B reh"Ula:r CER:l'IFICAES, Applic·hons &o., &c" can be procured at th.iR office, at rates. :Bowmanville, July 7th 1 1873. '· Alns," these pUg11ms said, "For tho liHng a.nd the deadFor fol'tune's cruelty, for loYe's sure cross, For the wrecks of land and sea. ' rl'h111e, stranger, But, however, it came to thee, 1.8 life's last and heaviest loss."· Drs. Reid & Boyle. SURG ERY---SIL VER S'l'. ,... Night ca.lla .a.ns\Yercd at ]J.r. Boyle's old Surgery. or at Dr. Rc1d'a residence l3o·vmanv11lc, Jan. 14th, l875 1G-tf LITERATURE. MY NIGHT IN a STAG-E Ci>ACH Prof. J. Ruse, of Baxte1 University of !rlm:11c GRADUATE Friendship, Ne\v York. '£eaebGt" of Pin.no ancl Organ, cultivation o Voict", S1ng1ng, 'l'ho1ough Bass, H:1irruo11y, UoID1JO!'llt1on, &c. -· .G OODS! ' --o----:o:--- A 'fJLl.:.E STORY OF CHRISTMAS EVE The year \Vas 1859 - the month Decen1be1-the place Tan1aqna.-I arrived there on ).fc lnd:.ty ufternoou, wln ~h \Yas q lute a8 cold ancl disagteeable a Monday afte111oon as I ever re1uen1ber to ba\e kno,vn, thougl1, when con1pared with the 1'ues<lay that fol· lo,ved, it might be considered rather wa1 tn than otbei-v.ise I \YttS half 1iuzen when 1 got there, and I was not quite tba.\' ed out when I left, lor I had""'y ieldcd to a burnii1g cunos1ty to visit its coal nnn~, and I fancy that T1noaqua is notb1ug Uut a coal mine, with a thouR1111d inou~Ls that every tnorn~ ing swallov~·· 80 many thollsand nHncr.:i ::ind d1sgo1ge then1 every night. It \Vns then, d.nd I think it 1!:1 DO\!', a very tlack and S<'loty place, 'Vlt4 a canU). in front of it, u hill behind 1t 1 and the hug~ n1iue l have spoken of under 1t It was not only blttck and sooty itself) bnt its people were s1unlarly 1llack und sooty; . . and so were 1t9 horses, 01 rather its n1ulcs, fo1 it seeiued to Lave fe\v of the tanner and a greut inany of tbe latter Even its rlogs and cuts pu.rtook of Lll e gcncu1l soo t1nee?, and were evidently greaily clepressc d by it. I was very cold nheu I \\ent dowu into the m1ne-1i'lnch hall its ·lrnftjust bbhinu the hotel-and I was colder still when I came out of it I \vent to bed c:old, and I got 11p cold, so cold ind~~d that I thought J \VOuld .never be \Varin any m.ore. When I went do\\·n into the frozi?ll breakfr1st-roon1, I luoJ...ed out of the .wind.ow and sa.w th;i.t the ground ,, as coveted def'p '1ilth tbe sno w, acod that it was st ill sno wing a::i if it n1co.nt to Pxhaust the whole w1nter's supply IE fi\·e minutes orjso, he1ng vcrv greatly pres~ed to do it 1u1111ed i,ltely. I drnnk u1y colcl black coftee 1 ar.d ate n1y colcl,tl)ugh beef·steak 1n gloomy allence, thinking inore thau I had for n ]i)llg t1 n1e before oi hoine, o[ 1ts pleasaut ch ear and warmth, an(l at the loving boys and g1rls 1n it who ·were even then, no doubt, c:xpccting 1ny i::.pecdy comin~, for this was already tho moru1ng c·1 Tuesday, and 1.'bur~ day would lie Chnstnw.s Dil.y. In tbat Lome I \\il.a St ,Nichols hin1 sr.lf, for it t\US I that brought hor11e in the night the b1ave tree with It8 &preud111g lnanches ; it was I that planted Jt firmly in tbe middle uf tbe 1nde parlor· 1t w-as I that found the 1ufinite var· iety of,to)!:i, cakes, bon-bon.:, and ghtte'"r ' ing baubles whi ch coverec1 1t; it was I thut placed the ever beuntiful i1nage of the Ohnst·Olnld on Lhe topmost bo11gh; I tbat lighted. the mauy·colored t"pe1s, and I that, at tlie ausp1c1ons tnoment, suddenly threw open the Jolding do01s a~d let in' the child· ren to behold the glory at that \Vond1ous Ohrist1nus iniiacle In 1ny hequent journeyings through the States, I hnJ. seen 1nauy places ""Inch I \\anted to get away froni qu1ckly,Uut I ncvci: 'Saw anotht>r that I \vantcd to hun n1y 'I back upon s.o n1111~h as T,un1qLta ..Jt wu s not iu any tnannt>r a pleasant place, and hesidPs, it those nepLcws and nieces o f n1ine we1e to have a Ch11st1nas t1ee at all ia tl11S yf'ar, 1856, I thought I lnust go borne as ta.~t ns I could travel. I hr.rd-come to 1.'a1nu.qua. iu n. sta.ge, an::l I ruu at go away from it n1 n.. stage,-not to Pb1ladel phia, 11xactly, hut to the next ra1ho'ld town, anP. that 1'i1S d1t:;tant 1 I knew not hO\V far, I nrose i;hn·enng fron1 the dreary b1eok· fat-it, atJtl hun ted up the landlord of the inn. IIe \Yas ea::.ily iotnH. 1, antl wa.s no better or wa1u1er-look1ng n ruan than Lia accon11nodations ptotnieed lnn1 to be, J paid hit:i ex· travngnrit chargee, and then infor1ned hun t hat I w1r:sl.u<l to reach as quickly as po8sible the neaicst iadtoatl station, and to take t he hrst train for the "E;tLq!.· 'T'hc ucu.rel)t f:!tnhon is at Iliuni , Iliu1n J8 l\\en ty -two mlles JJstant; you cannot get the1·c before 11ight1 if nt all. I think you wou't get there at all. 1 All this \'t"'U8 Ppokcu reflcl'llvely, ancl with deliberut1on. · lJ I can get there by ten o'clock to· ujght, can I 1nake the E astern Express 1' 'You ca11, but 1 t!ouUt it you can get there at all ' ' Why 1' I aoked. He only sai<l : 'The e-itag~ won't go-on account of the 1 storul. 1 I 'Arc you Htre of thaL l' I ventu red to a<:.k, 'Q uit e snH·,' und he clo::.ed Ins lips wtth suap. as it he kn ev; all a.hout lt 'Who own· the atvge 1' Darlington, July 16th, 1874. 41-ly strong spring, liaviag a cotten cover, open 1n front. The horse was .1 hn.lf-starve<l, Jaded~ looku1g beast. I took all thig ln ns I stood on the porch waiting for tbe driver. Getting unpatient at la.:st, I asked 'Where i~ the driver i1 rrhe land}ord 1 \\'Ithout Speak111g, pointed to an ill-clad boy standtng at the horse's bead. I looked closely ut lnm He might be, l thought 1 fiteen years old, or D.e n11ght not bl· 1nore than ten. His eyes were clear blue, antl he, hearing 1ny q_G.est1on, turned thenl fnll upon me 1 a franki lioylSh smile hght1ng up every Jeature of bis delicate face. Elis complexion wos that of n girl, bi:3 mouth tender, his hair yellow, bis figure sl1ght and sinuous. I looked at hi1n, stl\ndin~ there shivering with the cold, out through the <lrivrng storm, along the snow-covered mountain road vre were to trrn·el, together, and asked, 1 Are you not .dratd to go ?' The landlord interrupted . 'It don't 1natter if 11c It:! afraid. lie belongs to n1e. He shall go.' ' Go,' I sa.1d, ' lil· F.ball not go, if he is uot quite w1lllng. 1 ' I am not at al l afraid,' the boy replied, 'and I au1 quite w1lhng to go. I havegone 1 often uu<l oJtt-n, tluough \Vorse storn1s than thi~: ' Are yo11 going?' 'Yes.1 ' said the boy: 'I \\"as told to drive this gentleman to Ihuru to-n1ght, and I'm going to do 1t. 1 'If you K·t Lhere at all, it will be night sure enough,' the landlo1d ea1d. 'I \Vlll get there all the same/ was the boy's reply. 'Let us stop here to-night; I .:mid; '\Ve can go on in the morning ' 1 I would rather take you 011, sir, there's no danger. I can·t pnt my ho1se up here, and n1y nJ<1ster would lnll n\e Ji an:>th1ng happened to him.' That de,idcd me to go on. Besides, I did not care to talk. I was beginning to feel cold again, staud1ug in tho \V1nd 1 eo we got into the stage. It was nut snow1ng any f~ster than belore, Euaply because it could not. llut the roa<ls \Vt:!rc heavier, und when we trieu Lo start, the jaded boISe balked and st1 ugglecl through the Urift, fol" the stage had froze11 fast where 1t stopped. It was three o'clock now, the light in the \\'est grovt'lng d1n1mer anl diinrner -the gloo1n of the n1ounta1ns and the bare woods eumiug nearer to Uti, rnaking their mtarnng Jelt iu our soul8, filln1g tn1ne with an awful dread of the snow· CO\ e1ed road beyoncl. mtles to go yet, the night coming quickly on, the col<l growing 1nore intense, the ruad iougber, more prec1p1tous, the borl:!e evidently giving out'But the boy Look up the Imes, the b11gbt, frank smile upon his face, the chec1y word upon lus tongue, ·Good-bye,' he said, to the t11au in the <loor-wny. The man stood for nn 1nstaut, look111g a.tter us, !lnd tbeu gave ui- a hasty 1arP.well. VVe went au along the road tl1at 1roin the beginning at tiine it \'r'as orda1ned we were to go. I crept back into my cor· uer 'Do not go to sleep,' the pleasant voice warlled me f'rorn the rront, 'Thank you,' I replied, chee1eil and warn1cd by its hearty glow. 'I will not go to sleep.' Then followed u. long silence, in ~ hich I bad views of the ±all1ug snow, the \\ hite lulls above u~, the \>vh1te hills bl11l belotv us. 1n which I heard sounds ftom cre11k1ng, croon1ng braoche~, from the wind 1EnYeep1ng savagely patt HS. Then nuconquerable drows1ues~, fu~t conung darkness-then night 1 felt a hand on n1y face, then on my t>houlders, shak1ng n1e roughly: a sweet, cheering voice in 1ny cars, calling 1ue back to hie . 'If you go sleep no"', yon ·wo11 1 t w·o.ke up aga1nt' 1t s~dd. I woke w1Lh a sudden start, for an in· stant, to a full conaciousness of time and place. I wa,s not cold, only sleepy. 'I nm 11u1tc awake,' I replied. 'IT ave we far to R. PJi!LA.TE, 'rAILOR. !L\DE I:f TJ;;Ll<: There \Yas au eai ne£t, manly grace even Gentlemen's & Boy's Garments m the wuy he shuok Lhe guLhercd flake· frorn his tattered cap, a1id ln bis voice thtre \\'as ~uch a hca1Ly 1 cheery 1ing, that from that u1orn e nt I tJ usted ar.d loved the bOJ I JUll1ve<l Jn to the e-tuge, tock the \Jack ·ren 1'EWEST STYL"ES. Bow1n'1l'l.ville, July, 27, 1869. R R LOSCOMBE, HARRISTER-AT"LAW. .~OLIGITOR IN CIIANOSRY, &c O::rFJOE 1-Over !.-IcClung's Store ;;ame flat !LS .J. lI. B1imacou1b's 11entn.1 l~oonil!I. Ilowman..,.1lle, Oc-t. 27th, 1868. ly seat, drew iuy great tneze coat close abont 111y legs, aoJ \Ye drove oft frou1 arnong the gap1ng1 sooty crowd at n·1ners 111to the lonely n1ouutaiu road, into the crnelest storm of wind and snuw tl'at I ever f:<L\V. The boy sat on the front sent, \Vatting to be spoken to, looking straight,.. ahead. 'Vhen \\"C! were qll1te cleur of the stl'Bg· ghng huts of the w1n ers CJll the outern1ost 111n1ts of the tot\ n1 I asl{ed lun1 hlil name. 'They cu.11 nie Lewis Sb1v~ly,' he Eaid. ' How old a1c you Lewis ?' \VaS rny next MARRIAGE U.!HU.t::D .BY LICENSES ~ ----- ROBERT ARMOUR - - ----MARRIAGE LICENSES. 11 Darhu<Yto11 (near "Bethesda Church) is J. " , " r· d 1 " uuthouzed to l$Stle .uarrrngo ,1censea u:J'a.r "'ington, No'. 19. 1874. m8 tf. 1 ,rR. JOHN H EYNON", Lut 7, hth Con GOODS A1 1 AT PRICES! W. H~ no 'VMAN'VILLE, vVILSON, Gen.era i Agent for PIANOS, ORl.}AJ.VS, JllELODIANS ancl SEWING Jlf.d GHlNES J. & W. J McMurtry &Co. SIGN 01? 'I1HE GOLDEN LION, Sept quest101J 'Follrtecu, nt:x t A.pnl, air 1' 'Do yon ln·e at home, with )Onr father anll motber ?' '1'hat cna.n yonder 1s the only father or mother I have, and llld 1:1to.ble lott is tbe onlv hon;e I hnve ba.U since he took ine tro~ the poor house rl1hat \Vas better than the stable though, for they taught me some· thing there.' 'rhf're y,·as no complaining chotds in the tones in \Vlnch tlI1;.se bitter words were s~nd, und while he \Vae speaking he \VllS drawing the long whip gently across the horse's back, bruah1ug off th9 SllO\V that had fallen Raymond Sewing Machine A SPECIAL!1'¥. Instruct1ou giveu} and Inst1un1el~ts nnd :\fa. ·h1nM gua.rautet!<.'i . 25th, 1874. BOWM.ANVl'LLX. '3owmanville, .Junt; 1.~~'.18'!4. :_.=._ __ _ " on it, 'Have yon been driving on this road long 1' I enquired, 'Going on thrt>e ycu.1s. It w1\l be three years HJ 1:Ia~ch 1 6-UOTION EERS "01· the Township of Da1·l·ington. H. T.- PHILLIPS, HAMPTON. Proihvt ::i.tt.ntion giveu to sales, &c, un ieasona.Lle terms. Wim.. Barton., ~ ales promptlya.ttende<l. ENNISKILLEN. to on reM01t.J.ble tei111s Robert Young, J)Olntn1ent ·ow hatn and Co SURGEON/ Grad110Le of VFT.lllUNARY the Onta.rio V"eterinary Col ege. ,lly apVeteriua1y Surgeon th'e West Darlington U11ion .Agiicultu1 al to Soc1et1es ~\.gent for the Li"ve Stock Branch of the Bea.ve1 and 'foronto Mutual I1 \re Insurance Call~ VetenJhl.il y ?.-1ed1ci.ncs constlintly on ha.nd. frou1 the c(Juntry pro1nptly attended to. Office :-One door east of lt )fau1ng's l!'t.r· nituro \Varcroo1n K111g antl Scugog Sti.:1;!1.Jt~ 1 Residence over 8. Bunlen 's store, corner of Eow1nanv1llle 1111 tf LUMBER. 'v~ It cold out there 1 Colder than in here, 1 mean.' 'I think it is,' }10 replied ; 'the wind and snow cut so, but I don't n1ind sir 1 VVe get used to rough w~ather up 111 these lnlls.' 'I wish you \\.ould con1I:! in hPre my co<t.t 'l ill cover us both. t 1 Ko, I can 1t,' he &\.t<l. 'I inust watch the road now ,V.c have to go pretty close to tl.le prec1p1ces, sornetiiues 'How close 1 I asked. '\VitLiu o f1.:iw incheA. I can't see 110\\' fi\1 e yard s ahead, the sr10\Y falls eo heavily.' 'Do ) ou tlunk it safe then, to go au.' 'Qu1te s.ife 1 sir' and [ don't n1ind the cold,, But b1s teeth chattert!d as he said it, ond the ruddy glow was all goue Jrom his cheeks. I did not talk tnore then. There \Vere, I discovered, wide cracks in the bottom of the stage, tbrough which the \VlDd poured mercilessly. I \vas-clulle.l through to the heart in less than an hour after sta1ting, I do not know 1 1ow lar we had gone or ho\v long we had been upon the road, when I heard the hoy's voice i.;heery a1.d bright go1' 'F1\·e n11les,' and the voice \rus still the same cheery voictl that I had hea1d from the first. He spoke to we oft1.:in after that; then I aaw hin1 as in a dre:am. fixing a blanket that he had taken fro111 the horses haclc, to the hickory bows ove1 head, to keep t11e snow frou1 driving l.n upon n1e, for I was covered with it to my knC'es. .As God is 1uy Judge, [ d11l not then clearly know what he was doing, or I woulrl have stopped him. I did not !eel cold, though I knew nfterwards that I was then freezing, nncl I did not thmk he was cold. I did not think at all. I was fai past that. I had begun n longer journey thai: I had started upon. In th1it long journey I dreamed. of home, of the wondrous Ohristtuas n1iracle 1 the lighted tree; at the glad fa~es of children, who(le voices I heard. I heard one of them repeat two or tb1ee times 1 ' ' ith startliug distinctness, 'We are lost!' I \\'BS conscious that the child who said 1t bad thrown herself into iny arrns, and \Vas lsing thc1e a 1 T llli. Subscriber respectfully r1.J1p1ests all !J<tt· t.1es indebted to h1m £01 Lumber, to settle their a.ccou1its withoqt f\utber dell}y, Aud he hereby ioforrns htalders, a.n<l othe18 Ju want of lun1bar. that he 1s l~ repar"ed to supply them at c 1 ,,]J rates for Ca.sh IIcncefurtb he intende to do a cash bu~1neH g. · THOS. SMITH, T..1ot 19 1 6 Con. D:uhnl{tQn. 1870 tn8tf - -- - - - - - asking, NEW GOODS My New Goods h:we LIIV.CE ! LIME! Appl.X to WlLT.IAM SP,,.AR. FOR SA.T."E in 11,nyquant1ty, Uh.urch St1 eet, neri.rlJ opposite the Alma. IIote1. Bow1un.u -.;1llc, Jn lle 19th 187~.; tf N~~ARLY ALL CO~iE rro n·A.ND 'llow .lre you now, sir 1 }-.eel111g- pretty cotniortahle 1 sir1' I nolld ~d roy bend, and crept closer into dulJ, be!l\TJ weight. Tiut !l.Sl Je from that the corner. But lie \ras wiser thau I, u.nJ cry it \Vas all bright and pleaeant-th1s would not let Ille have the sleep I coveted. rP11l, terri!Jle journey through the r:inow, 1 You aie in a hurry to get ho1ne,' lie over the rough, dangerous mountain road, so.id, !or \Vant of soLncthing better to e;ay 1u that far off Deccn1ber ThP: drean1 lastwith wbieh to rouse rue. ed a long while, through all that night, and 'Yes,' I replied. 'I \\ant to Uc at hon1e the day follO\\ing, and the night following on Chnsttnns Eve.' that. When I ·woke from it, I was in a ' 'rhe ber:.t d11y(" I ever knew were Christ- large roon1 which I hod never before seen. mas---, a good while ago. There were piles ot the softest blankets a,nd the a.5sc1 t,nent will he found fie saul it as 1t he "·ere cvc1 and ever so upon me, there \Vas a great wood fire bla.old, ond what \\as saddest of oll, as if he z111g upon the heart.h, auil I bad never telt were done with 01..iristtuas forever. J told so ~·arm and comtortablc rn all my hfe.him of the tree I was to get, and how Obr1etu1u& Day \Vf.l.l:l k~pt in tbe great oilles He was most n1tcrested in the tree, 1nak1ug me tell him ogaiu and aga.1n about it. But after awhile 1 as: it he \V~re tired of il he said · 'I never Sll\Y o. tree like tlrn.t. kno\Y about Chr1stu1a.s, tho11 gh Abont tl1e Star and the 8hepl1erds, and the Christ·Citild, you spoke ut-t.ha.t they Jatd i n the mauget' ' Then ) ou k11t w nll tU11t auy oue in tlns world nee::<l t'\e t care t0 kuo\,,' I entd, T1lc1e \Vele two stra.IJgera in the room, a man and a woman, whose facea \Vere kindly ones, bnt sorely troubled. When I stmed, and they saw that I recognizeu them, they came and stood by my bed, 'Where am 11' I a5ked of them. 1 At Iliurn, in the nnuister'a house,' i How 1011g have I been heie1' 'Since the 111glit before \a~t. You CdLne iu tbe etage, and the hore:e stopped before our door/ the mn.n Baid. ' "hat day rn tlns?' 1 It is Clins1ILlH:! daj', 1 the w·arnan replied, taku1~ m1 hand in ht.!re. ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. Fon Live1·pool London, and Glasgow W. A. NEA.DS, Agent. Bow1nau\1lh11 lune 9th, 181 . tf-30 'rickets,~ or VERY 001\ff>LETE AND infc,1mntion, a.pply to Fancy Goods,Berlin Wools,&c. K;rs. Mason, B"cO'sto 111fo11n the pnhhc, that !:!he has ~nst recei~ed a. .l'plen.did new assortment uf It ' ancy Go ::id~. Bcrlm \Vaolfl, etc, ·d11cl1 she w1ll .;;ell at ~low price ae they can be bought for elsewhere S1'Lll.PING dono on SHORTEST NOTIOE Uct, Stli, 1874. 2·::1mvs. PRICES MODERAr.l1 E 'l'llb l"!iblic are solicited to call and Hee fer themselves. HAMPTON, H. ELLIOTT JUN Hampton. Sept. 8th 1872 It would be en~y to fill page aflPr page with the Jeta1ls of t11e van · 1us ideas entertained 11bout ghoAts, go1hns, and demonfl. Snch ideas extend not only to t lie appearance oi such be111g$i th eir apparel, a.pptutenances, and so on, liut to the no1~es w h11.:h they u1ake e1tlit1 ot th etn selves or by n1co.n:i. of various supernatu1nl 11bJects which they arm. 'You must not feel like tbat. It is bet- are supposed to carry a.Lout "uh them ter so I-le hnd on}y one friend, and he is Thus, with Hun this beautilul Chrishuas 1norn~ " 'Ih~ !>:heetcd deaJ Did squeak and gibber in the Roma.u 8treets ing He h <1d no hon1e here. It is Christ· A little ere the rn1gbticst Jo lius fell u mas day, and he is at home thre ' And 1t is to be noted that as ghosts cotn111oeI took in miue the co1nfortiug hand ly show no face, so fe\lt bave been knot\ n to that by upon my arm. 'I ·wouJd like to see hi1n,' I saHl. 1 He spcn.k \\ith full voice Tins 111a3 be be cause the no1ses hearJ at tho hours \.Vhen ~.(hosts gave his hfe for me' They took me do\\·n afterward to what o.re seen :ne not such as can be Uy any poshad been the 1arnily sitting-rooru. Thc::re atbility mfotaken for the linnuin voice in 1ts \Vere warm, red curtains at the windows; a ordinary tones, wh1lr, nevertheless, an ex.bright, glo,ving ca1 pet on tLe floor; there c1tell in1agu1ation can f1a1uc spoken words were bunches of ho1ly o.nd laurel scatter~ out of the strange eouncls wluch can be eel here rind there, and over all the atu1os· heard in aln1ost ever} house in the stillness of 111gbt. Tlns also ser\·es to account for plie1e of ho1nc. They JeJt me at the door. I "ent rn the notion that gho~ta cnn clank chains, or Sonnds benrd and stood by the side uf the couch on niake other dism!ll nou:c.a. which they had laid him, The eyes of at u1ght a1c bighly decepti\'c; a srnall noise tender blue were closed forever, the yellov.' close by is take11 f( 1 a loud nouie at a d1s· hair "'as parted over the ho) ish lirows, and tance (not necessanly a very great distance) J still about the brave 1 S\vcet mouth the o.nd a noise n10.de by obJects of one kind bright smile played as it chi! at that first will be w1sta.keu for noises n1ade by ob1ects n1oment of our meetln.!!, when n1y i1uphed of a different kind altogether. A Juend of doubt of him called it Lhere He lay be- mine tolcl n1e he had bce11 disturbed two fore n1e dead, in all t}1eglow and promiseot nights 1unn111g, bv it sound as of an rirrny tran1p1ng do~ n a roa.i \Yh1ch passed some his youLh. But the smile, which trium_phed above two hundred :yaids fro111 hu1 house ; he death's ruin, rebuked UH', and as I stooped fo'1nd the 1ilitd n1gbt ( l had suggested an co kiss the lips of the ueautilul boy, I knew, e.xperituental test a.a to the place whenc.:o as \Veil as man could kno\v, that he \Vas not tbe sound canlt) th el l the noise \\OS produced deau; that He who hud given lite to by a c.;lock in the neAt honsc, the clock ha\'· the dead girl and the widow!s son bud given 1ng "Leen newly pLtceJ. aga1u~t the pnrtJ. it also to h1111; and that he bad only gone wall We all kno" Carlyle's story of the ghost· farther upon his JOllrney than I-intu a sweeter, fuller, more gracious life than he ly voice heard each ev1:11iug by a lo\V·Rpir1t· had evor known, And I also knrn tbut I e~ Jnan-a voicP. ns ot one in like doleful 1 sbould see b1m again if I but rr1adc n1y own dutnps, proclaiming, Once I 'Vas ln:1p l:;p. life as lirnve, unselfish, o.11d true aa bis had hllppy, but now I a1u tnf'e~era.hle'- - ond hO\\.' the ghost resolved itself into a rusty lotchbeen -S~ribner's Magazine. en Jack. There is a case of il J,1dy who bcgnn to think herselt the v1ctirn at so1ric d e· Making the Best of It, lusion, aud perhap8 tlirei\tened by approach 1\. cunons tale of a piuus Bro.hmin is tolcl ing illness, because each n1ght, n.bollt a. by o. H1ndostan paper. One day a Brahn1in qunrtei:. of an hour after she harl gone lo heel, accidentally touched so1ne unclean ohj~ct she heard a hideous din 1n tbe 11e1ghborwith hie httle finger. The Brah min thought hood of her house, or else (she was uncer1he that his httle finger having no'v Lecon1e tain wluch) in sonie distant roon1. unclean, any substunce which it ·~rould noise \'\."as in rr.1thty the slightest possible touch \vould be aldo rendered unclean, and creak (within a fe\Y fe et of her p1llo.v, howthus render hin1 an unclean nu1n. Sce1ug f!Ytr), and produced by the door of a \\ardno other 'vay to get out ot the scrape 1 he robe wh1t:h .she closed every night JUSt be~ 'The doo1, nhout a resolved to get the offending 1nr.n1ber am- fore getting into bed. putated Forthwith be \Vent to the car- quarter of an hour alter being close~l, repenter's and expla1ne<l. to hin1 that unless cc>veie<l its pos1t1ou of rest, s\igbt1y beyond In the finger wus c11t off, he (the Bmh1nin) which it hurl been pushed 1n closing was UD'.:t.01e to t"ake food rfh6 carpenter anoth er caae, the crctwhng of a snrul ncro:;s tried to dissuade the devotee, and urged a windO\.V producc<l sounds which wl·re n1isthat the frequent application of some drops taken for the strains of loucl but distant of water fro1u the sacred river Gunga muajc ·woul<l. mnke the hnger once Inore holy, but It is, pe1haps, not going too far to sa\' the brahmin pereisted He s·l<l thaL the that our n111dern spirits, who deal 111 no1s;. finger was of no nse to hi1n any Jonger, and making as "ell as 1n furuiture-t1lt1ng (ot that be woultl not rest until it Yta.s severed yet more ruarvelloas feats wo say nothing), As a. final lt>Bonrce the carpenter resolved 3.re not uuacquaintud w:ith the 1n ean.s by to play his ti.wkwnr::l. cu$lomer n trick, He ,,.·bicb tho eor may be deceived as 111 the told the Brah1nin to put his finger on an cases just considered Sorr1e sounds said to anvil, and to look to the sky while the Le bearcl duriug Jark seances sugge1:1t the wound \Vas inflicted. rrhe Bral::m1n dlCl so. suspicion. It \\'Ill be i:ecn that t11e opinion rrhe carpenter took up a hatchet, nnd gave to which I incline-~ls the best and perthe finger a s1nart blow vi·ith the back of 1t. ha.ps only natural interpretation of events This elicited a cry of pain irorn the pa.t1cnt, supposed to be supeu1atural-1s that ieal who at once put his finger into his mouth sights and sounds nrc 111ncl1fi.ed by t11e ilnagto allay the agony. The carpentel', laugh- i.::iatiou, either -:xcited 01 <l1Emo.scd, into It ing, explained to the Brahmin that the aeen1iogly snpernatural occurrences blow had missed and that the finger was does 11ot seem to n1e likely that 1u any large still entire; and, worst of all, that the propo1tiou ot recorde<l (and pres 1J1nahly Brahrnin had de.hied !nrnselt by putting the veracious) ghost storirs thei c has been au fing~r into bis inouth." The obliging oper- actual phantom of ~he Lra1u Such phantator, moreover, offered to perform the oms are sometimes srcn, no doubt, nnd unoperation once inore ; but the Brahmin bad real voices are sonH~thuee heard , but the bad enough pain for the nonce, and declined condition of the b1u.in wlnch l eads to such effects must be rBgarded as altogether excepwith than ks, tional. Certa1uly it is 11ot con1mon. On the contrary, the play of fancy by which Your Workmen. 1ru1ges are forrued from objects in no way What ivoulu you thmk of a farmer who connected with the picture 1 ·a1sed in tho bro11ght hon1e a sick sheep, ev·en of the m1nd b a comtnon phenonldnon. Altl1ough tnoet valuable atock 1 and tinned 1t loose sorr1c nnnds possess the faculty 1uore fnll,Y au1ong- his flock 1 Yet his folly und sin is than otberfl, fe\v actually \Vant it. I suppose light compared with that of a r1an \vho there is not one person in a thoueat1d who will knowingly employ an unprincipled can not see' face s u1 the fire,' fur instance, man on bis place, where Ins gro\.\·ing boy5 though to some the pictures so produced are 1nust associate n1ore or less wJLh }Jun nnd tnuch tuore vivid thiin to othera.-B~lected. hsten to his evil conversation It is a small nlatter to 11ave a thousand sheep infected A Turning Point and destroyed by the contagious one tnrutng·point ltl JUY hfe, I Sfttrl [l btought among them. Eut it i'I a. fea1 ful gentlenu1.11, '\Va"' whcu I \Vas a boy, not thing to have your boy's very soul corr~pt going to a low c1rcuE1 Sarne kind of a lov,r ed, as it will be, perhaps, by one hour of 11s. show an<l circus carnr. into town, an'a of socint1on. One drop ot iodine \Vlll discolor many thousand times its bulk of wate1. course all the boys w-ere dying to go. h1y mother dtll not vrant n1e to go. I 1nigbt You woultl not drink frotn a ~up into wh1t;h bavc stolen .off. I had 111oney enough in one drop of sewer wnter had fallen; you 1e~ gard the whole as polluted So a ten my pocket, the boi s did ull they coul<l to persuade me, and, u1ore than all, peoplt} 1 1a1nutes talk of one wboae soul is seething and reek1ng \VI th toulness nlay reach down were going iu squads to see it. It ls so co.Ely to go with the multitude ; it is §O harJ. to in its evil influence to your child's gray rnake a stand, break away, and gu the other hairs. Better let your crops rot in the 'vay. fields than to ruin your lad for this life and 'That ie cxuctly what I dtd. I ' JOU.slerthe next. It i' not a sulliment offset that ed the situation ' 1 }[1astered myself, nnd ,he is the best workman to be had. Bett.r did unt go. put up \Yith inferior help, ao that you are 'It was the resol1lt1on tbeu called out, satlsfle<l with the man's 1norals. and called ont pc1 haps fat' the first tuna, There 1s no time '\\<"hen a faLbi:r or a \\·bich has, under Goel, served nlG inany n 11iother can afl'ord not to \\'atcl1, and pray, good turn since, und 1nade n1c whnt I atn ' tau, over the "\\'elfa.re of their gro\ving clnl--Exchanq~. dreu, W utch their reading, for Ifere the enemy is sowing a great crop of tears in one FoR·ro.NE 1a ever set:u nccompany1ug inJus· day. Form a taste for good readrng, eaxly. try, and is aa often bundling in a wheelbar4 Let yonr home abound m good books aud ro"· as lolhng tn a coach Had e1x only the best papers. Shutt the seusational THE nature of fri ... : d!?'h1p 1s to ho.\'e ('V<>..ry prints, so \videly c1 culated, as you \.vouh1 a 1 J.eadly snake. They have 'yut LI own in .. 11 y thing In co n1mo t, g1 . ,.nd 111. jfJy und grief, --Sr G.iimaon.Y. 0 1' ;{ANIANZEN thousands.' It:1 he lJetter 1101\; 1' 'Ile \\'a.s ntiver so \Vell. He win ne\ er be ill again. 1 T looked into the face of tbe \VrJtnan who s.lill this, and Isa\\ that her eyes \Vere r~d with \Veeping. I disengaged the hand sbe held. and turnP.d n1y face to the v..·all. 1.,he won1an laid 1H:. r hand t1pon my 1 GhostR and Goblins, 'rrue bp Don't ullow yonr mind to be f:lo engro~s· A wieH tu::ni will n11lu.~ hmi!e fo forgive e<l, ruother, with the outside ado1n1ng ot becall~e he kt10\\ .. tli.. (Jo~l \' 1tlne ot tlni~, yonr duughtc1b that you iorget the 111ut1 will not sutfe1 it to p.~ ss O.\Yay in unneceSElary hfe. If ~·ou are blmd to it1 t,he sower th,.t pain, l r.nd I l -------------------- --