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NINGâ€" Leaves CW ‘except Tuesday at 9.45 N lay 51: 4.25131. (3033ch fit}: early trains for all poi! wk Central and all‘ divetgi F3 at Brighton and Calhoun L and Friday at 4105.! [um] Wednesday Morningl ening from Rochester. Tickets and Baggagec‘ld or on board. H. NICHOLSON. Gen. Pass. and thJ LERSLEEVE Pom Beneral Manager, lecsrox. DRTH KING is one of Rest and most powerful! lakes. Lighted by Elect! L throughout. lled as race 1 prize birdS, Cobourg at 8 A.}I., - FOR - HUGH nificient New Steamet , a Bedstead fol- $2 1 Chairs, Han Fun: drive in MattraSSE LASS POULTR‘ TAYLOR, Ts: near the ’ntario Steamboat .YMOUTH ROCKS- WHITE i .\.\I., on arrival 0” North, East and West jes Wanting Agent, Lindsa} But somebody else was in the house BOW, sure enough, so I quietly dressed V and stole down. There was a flicker-l ing light in the rooms, and my indigna- tion swelled on observing that the fellow had lit one of my fine wax candles. heeing that I Was providing him with things to steal, why in thunder i could he not bring his own light, or why could he not have looked about until he found a. tallow handle 3 ago. Fortuue has always favored me. nhcriting curmxlvruhle means I have ded stcao :3 to the store and was repcrted rich long before I felt entitl- ed to be so considered. Friends always warned ~ I‘ ‘szainst. burglars, my house: was so 1. :uOVCd from the frequent- ed streem, and so much gossip was 3thth about my income and possessions, but I had never bothered a. bit about ’1‘ until this particular night, when I was sure I heard a. foot-fall down stairs in the library. A footstep had no business there at midnight. Besides myself there was only the housekeeper in the place and she was asleep long On the table he had spread out a number of valuables collected from different rooms. There were two pieces of silver, heirlooms in the family which no money could buy from me, besides two other pieces of gleater intrinsic value. As I got in View be tossed on the table a. wallet containing several hundred dollars. which he had secured by torcing a lock in a cabinet, and then he commenced coolly mm- maging among the papers. In my} hand was a stout oaken stick which I ' 'Ld found in the hall and grasping it :‘rxuly I stole in upon the fellow. When within six feet of him he 1 riked over his shoulder, not as though . - had heard me, but as though warn- ‘. by instinct. He tried to turn but I as upon him and brought him a ter~ nric blow with my stick and then we clinched. He was a powerful brute. but my strength has always been great and I had the advantage in the attack. We fought stubbornly, and finally Igot him down with my hand on his throat. Somehow he seemed passive as though reserving his strength, and I was Saspicious. As my breath began to return I thought I saw the man actual- ly trying to smile. And then I looked at him. akes the spirit calm arm meat; 1' we know a day is coming for the changes of our fate, Fhen nur hearts will thank Him weekly {hat He taught us how to wait. -â€"-From “ The Chamber of Peace.” cg .. 51d tn count at morning [he Imus to even fall; the waiting time my brothers, he hardest time cf all ! Lean hear the heat of conflict, p112“ the sudden, crushing blow, 35111! b:..;‘;; our gathered forces, r3 moment lay us low. “may rise again beneath it, me the weaker for our fall; If :he waiting time, my brothers, :he hardest time of all. ,r it wears the eager spirit, rthe salt waves wears the stone. [bare, 1d Hope’s gorgeous garb grows thread- uits brightest tints are gone. Len amii youth’s radiant tresses, Lent snows begin to fall; I, the waiting time my brothers, the hardest time of all. at at last we learn the lesson, a: God kuoweth what is best. 1.1 a. silent resignation akes the spirit calm and blest; m we know a day is coming g‘L(I-l n o “ Ah there 3 ” retorted the rascal in gas as m firmers relaxed. * D ‘ ,L ‘A... not urn. "Yes, and why not?” he asked Unhlushingly as he arose “Business is business and I am no more ashamed of mine than I would be of yours. "We-H mu re a thoroughbred scoun- “Is this what you are '2) up. “Wen you’re drel.” “L\ A. “Go :Iow,the:'9. No names. Dog’t Presume too much upon our acqgam. tanceship, but attend to your busmess and I’ll attend to mine. Now_ you go back to bed and I’ll go on thh this job. I’m nearly through.” â€" - -- ’1‘ nuvnfi va. ‘ m “V ‘J ___i “Ju ' as near through as you ’11 ever get. D0 you call this attending to Your own businessâ€"don’t you know sad to ware .[he light Wh has a “inbov sad w count the hours t0 the waiting fie haar are times the [ears r‘ o \3 (“x 1,11” MY FRIEND MARK ! once. JOE T CLARK, IN THE “LAKE." , . . Q (L'untmued from last weak. ) Mark I inve are 0ft impatient, mus beyond their reach; d3,13: grows sick with hoping, “5 wh‘tt life can teach. c the fruit be gathered, 96 the blossoms iall ; Lirizlg time my brothers, I time of all. ‘e‘h and loving ever, no!) for years whose fitful shining MW of our tears. . s of deepest sorrow, uf our Me; 1, despairing moments, rs of moral strife, C HAPTER II. of stormy anguish, refuse to fall ; time, my brothers, ime of all. TIME OF ALL. at now. this is my house 2” I was in a rage, although now the memory of his im- pudence is amusino. "Of COUTSU it’s your house. I didn’t know it until we grappled and then I knew it was all right. You are under oblioations to me. I saved our life a y you know.” “Suppose you did. Call around at my office to- morrow and Ill pay you the $500 I premised you, but I Won’t stand by and be robbed by you or anybody else.” “Well you are a nice one,” saidl Mark with an oath. “You wouldi have been dead and buried in a. hollow ; tree four years ago only for me, andll here instead of thanking me you bob' Up when I have got a nice haul spread out on the table and expect me to let you spoil my game. What would I do that for? I am here on business and am going through with it. If I. killed you it wouldn’t be murder.‘| iBill and Andy were going to do youi four years ago, and so if I put a holel through you now It would be their bullet which I have :onsiderately held back all this time. But you have no gratitude. If you haVe neither grati- tude nor sense enough to go to bed I’ll finish you and feel no deeper per- scnal concern than if I only met a funeral on the street. I have a right to kill you if 1 want to, and I’ll get away too, for my partners are down at the wharf with a boat and we will be across the lake before morning.” His reasoning was forcible but not com 1111,1110. The man meant it, I could see, strange as it was. I made a mo- tion for my stick and we clinched again, he soon proved too many for me. Before, he had been mild, thinking it a was “all right seeing it was me.” Now he fought to win. He banged , and pounded me and I was growing ‘ faint when by a quick wrcstler’s trick , I escaped him and got my club, and , rushed at him again. There was al report, a pain in my left leg, and as 1 dr0pped to one knee he pocketed his smoking pistol and started to gather up. the booty. I hobbied to the table and started to smash at him with my lstick, and just then a terrific noise, of screams and falling furniture came to [us down the stairs. My housekeeper was aroused. Between this and my attack Mark became alarmed, dropped the silverware and rushed for the open window of the adjoining room. As he vanished his parting exclamation reach- ed me and it was: "Curse you for a thankless brute 1” His ridiculous idea. of the nature of gratitude due him from me struck me. then and I rather smiled, but that leg ' deserved attention. The llOUSckeept’ri did her best, but she would not go outside for help, and as I could not walk, we contented ourselves with lbandaging and bathing it until near ‘ morning, when the good woman with wmany a prayer for her Safety brought, *ia doctor. Before he arrived I had ' determined to give no description nor 3 confess any knowledge of my burglar. I I thought of the hollow tree in which my spinal column and yawning ribs might at the moment have been hidden but for Mark, and so concluded to let him 011' if he could eacape. But I was I I ,- l r t him off if he could escape. But 1 was out of all humor with him and consider- ed him either a thorough-paced scoun- drel or else a lunaug to argue with ma â€"-V. v- as he did. Surely I was in the right of it for who would go to bed at. a burglar’s bidding and allow him [.0 bag suck: treasures as mine were? CHAPTER III. Three more years had elapsed and I was buried in a bigger law practice than ever. My friend, or enemy, Mark, had never bothered me during that, time, having, no doubt, scurried wa‘ THE VVATCHMAR, LINDSAY, TJ‘IUKDDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1892 had killed me then, instead of merit- ing death for murdering me he would deserve praise for having lengthened my days by four years. To me his notion indicated a species of lunacyfi‘ but I knew that unless cured of it, he ‘ would. now that four years had increas ed to seven, feel that his toleratlon was amazing and that I was vastly his debtor. If he felt three years ago that he was legally and morally entitled to kfll nna whenever he chose and to despoil me of all he could carry, what‘ recompense fer supplying me with life for seven years would he hesitate to i ask? Surely the man had a screak of insanity in him and a review of his conduct showed it. Did he not strike me a blow that would have killed an ordinary man when we first. met, and didn’t he trap me with his questions and incite the others to murder me, and did he not plan the entire scheme of stuffing me in that hollow tree? Then it was not only a whim that Causd him to smash his friends over the he-td so that I could escane; more, would a sane man run serious risks in making whiskey and then decline $500 iollered him as a gift? Would he do this and then try co rob and murder l me when he could lawfully receive the $500 I again offered him‘l And then his absurd claim that my life belonged to him! There never was such a man One day an the office one of my clerks hrouorht me a. telegram. One or two wires had just been strung up that summer and telegraphy was not what it: has rince become. Openimr the mes- sagu it proved to contain the remark- able words: To HENRY L. WILSON, Barrister. Am arrested on a charge of murder. Come at once and spend that five hundred dollars in getting me off. Here was my friend at last. Arrest- ed on a charge of murder and ordering me to come and free him as though my life depended on his! Evidently he did not consider that putting a. bullet in my leg had at all voided his proprietary rights in me. The way the message read, tooâ€"not a petition to one who might; heafriend, but a. command to one who dare not refuse ! No doubt. he had killed somebody: perhaps he had only strangled another life owned by him as he professed to own mine. In that case he would feel innocent and greatly abused. But COUld I go to the rescue of a man whom I doubted not; was a. murderer, and if I succeeded in getting him free would that balance our accounts according to his eccentric notions or‘ would he promptly appropriate his own by finishing me? VVnuld he let loose ;the fate Bill and Andy had prepared Lfor me and which he had “considerate- , ly intercepted” for seven years? The inipudence of his demand aston- ished me and then the novelty and singularity of my whole connection with the man impressed me. Did ever another respectable lawyer in all the world have such nu experience as mine? Pocketing the five hundred. dollars I went to Cbipaloo but not to che jail at first. It was easy to get full par- ticulars of the case for nothing else was talked about The prisuner had arriv- ed in town the day prevmus to the murder and had got into a. fight in one of the saloons with three men. He had fought like a demon and knocked and hammered the three fellows all in a. heap but was anested and fined the next dav. Then he disappeared until evening when he paraded the streets, half drunk, 9nd meeting the constable who had arrested him the previous evening set upon him with a knife. He slashed his body beyond recognition while a dozen horrified "'"F'|" onlookers stood speechlvss, but a. man ran out of a hardware store Wlth an axe and with a. h‘ow stretched him alongSIde his victim. 31 - 4---:L3-.. “IVLIDUâ€"vâ€"v 7 V And now he was in jail awaiting ‘ trial. A feeling of loathing towards the man began to possess me and I decided not to see him. His crime was too cold-blooded, too much like the act of a fiend Who revelled in slaughter. If he had killed one 0t those men while engaged in an uneven fight with the three of them it would not have been so had: something I would not care to have on my consciâ€" ence, yet I have shaken hands with men guilty of manslaughter committed with less creditable particulars. A lawyer was engaged and guaran- teed any reasonable sum of money to ‘put up the best possible defence. He saw no chance unless we could estab- Iish Mark’s insanity: but the prisonerl positively refused to conduct himself wildly. Nothing would induce him to roll his eyes and talk at random. He wanted to see me, but I would only treat w1th him through the lawyer. He sent me word to buy the judge and jury, and if his fivc hundred Was not enough, then I would only be .doing the fair thing in spending my savings during the past seven years towards .this end- Of course this was absurd, CHIPALOO, N. Y. MARK. fur the jut‘lge wz‘s simply unappraach- wk: and such was public feeling that no jury dare acquit that man or they and he would have been hanged on the same tree. I did (verything possible, arranged *or certain comforts for the prisoner and leturned home to attend urgent business. The result of the trial was telegraphed me and of course Mark was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged a momn later. The lawyer wrote me that Mark desired me to be present during the ceremony: and the day previous to the execution I arrived in Chipaloo. The hour appointed for the final scene was 8 o’clock in the morning, and at 6 o’clock I entered the jail along With the Shem}, a minister and the lawyer. We were ushered into the condemned C€ll. Mark had changed greatly since my two previous encounters with him ; he was much stouter and had a full beard “Now look here, we are not going to have any revival meeting business here this morning, Mr. Whiskers,” said ‘ he irreverently to the good preacher, “and if we did you would be disappoint- ed at the amount put in the collection plate. As for lawyers, they are an a11~ tired greasy crowd and it makes me shiver to touch one of them. They are mighty USCfUI when you get into a quarrel over a line fence, but they are no good when your life is at stake. How much of my $500 have you wast- ed on this jay?” - u I. 9 Y V“Aboutu {wo hundred dollars," replied. “Well, take the balance and send “Well, take the balance and send it to Mrs. Mark Snyder, Bloomington, Illinois.” " Is she your wife?” “ It doesn’t matter whose wife she is, nor whether she is anybody’s wifeâ€"you send it to that address, that’sall you’ve got to do.” This was pretty cool, but there was no use arguing. The minister sought; gallantly to pray and impart spiritual instruction to the doomed man, but I will not put down here the profane interruptions and scoffings of Mark. The time went by and soon we march- ed out to the scaffold. Mark paused before the signal war given and turned to me. “Gentlemen, there stands a man whose life I saved seven years ago. He would have been buried in a hollow tree only I saved him. But there he stands and never ofi'ers to take my place up here. Well, Wilson, you always were a thankless brute and I told you so once before. Mind you send that money or I’ll 13y for you at the edge of the hot lake.” Iâ€"â€" T ~nnL It. was over in {our minuteC. I sent the money as directed so that I never could blame myScIf, but after it had remained idly there for a year 1 recov- ered it. No such woman could be found trace of; and I think it was an eccentric prank of my friend and pruservar. , - I , LA... «Ln “not So it has been shown how the first time 1 met him he saved my life; the schnd time I met him he tried to taLe my life, and the third time I met him I saw him hanged. building. Money to loan. 1‘11 RISTERS, SOLICITORS. etc. Offices, im. mediately opposite the Daly Heuse, Kent street, Lmdsay. JOHN McSWEYN DQNALD R. ANDERSON ALLAN S. MACDONELL, BARRISTER, Solicitor, Notary, 830. Office, over Kennedy’s? store. Kent. St, Lindsay. MOORE . JACKSON (SUCCESS 0113 to HudSpeth Jackson) Barris- ters. Solicitors etc. Office William street, Lindsay. G d. HOPKINS,(successor to Martin ° A’c Hopkins) Barrister, Solicitor etc Office. William St. Lindsav Ontario. APPLY TO MR. JOHN A. BARRON Lindsay, for Moneys for Investment, at Lowest Rates of ' Interest. Offices William St. in new Dominion Bank build- ings. ‘l ' CITOR, Proetor, Notory Public. 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The sarne Blue Book shows that t . composed entirely of the unassessed portion of prexmum note ever expects to be called upon to pay. he surplus of the London Mutual was $67,176 s whlch no policy holds The following table shows at a glance how the affairs of the London Mutual have been going during the last few years :â€" It should be borne in mind that during 6501‘ n1 1L suuuxu uo uu...- --- -___ lected in heavy assessmehts over $30600 more last year, after collecting a full year’s income. 1 pay $26,182 of unsettled losses. In regard to anh nnrn rmnv t Lindsay, July 22 Fancy. Goods, ies silks : sufficesâ€"Ara}; n-‘gwspaper publishers ,,A4‘_I_ -~A*A.An an Year. W 004 and 00/007 article; For Sample of our work as removed to the store lately occupiec‘ by Mrs Gemsja; east of the BensOn House, where he will keep a large stock of 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 I mm m receipt oft/zevery [atesz deszgizs, (ac/kick will 5e found w my carefully selected sz‘oeé. - - - â€"â€"â€"__‘ ~. DYEING and SCOURING promptly 311' n-‘awspap er pub1i_shers, Rev. ’1‘. Dewitt Talmdge. mercanule agenczes and banks 1n New York City. Losses unpaid at .close of each year. WHICH WILL YOU HAVE ? For thts $6, 047 9, 878 1‘) 455 23. 014 20, 436 28,182 , 1891 yuuLv I-v NORTH AMERICAN HOMES PUBLISHING CO., -_ a Eroods, Wools, Embroider- sflks and all kinds of Goods in that line. Cash available for‘ paying losses ‘ at 01006 of 1 each year. a and Trimming Etfects, $63,963 50,686 22,701 20,721 13,911 1,403 "' J" :8. In reward to security no which company to select. HETTGER set: Editor of this paper. To all our Subscribers for $25 Dom}: TO ORDER the last three years the London Mutual col- >0 more than usual, and yet at the close:of loome. they _had only $1,403 with whlch to 1‘ 1.--:AALA An ‘A Money Borrowed i\' one None $20,000 40,000 60000 flow Selling at Casi, Agent Royal Canadian Company. Surplus reckoning premium notes at full face ‘ value. $101,816 115,955 97,268 75,334 74,068 67.176 World Building, New York. and neatly executed odnepsl'muld hesitate as to '. HETTGER. Investments each year. 7 None $6,500 11,7 97 None 9,028