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aprm-- | » . rg Hort} ntti or 4 RY a ity ey 0 & FAMILY NEWSPAPER, AT IS PUBLISHED AT PORT PEBRY, ONT," EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, ToL BY BAIRD &- & PARSONS. TERMS. --$1 por annum, if paid in ad- wpnoe ; if not $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; snd no are ES OF ADVERTISING. v For each line, first insertion ........$0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line Cards, under 6 lines, per annum ..... 5 00 BEF Letters containing money, when ad- pL and, regester- od Dot be at our risk, vertisments measured by Nonpareil, "and charged according to the space they oc-- OE rertiomauts recéivéd fof publication. without specific instructions, will be inserted antil fordid and charged accordingly. No advertisment will be taken out nutil paid for. A liberal disfount allowed to Merchants snd others who advertise by the year or half-year, These terms will in all cases be strictly adhered to. Job Department. Phamplets, Hand Bilts, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, "Business Cards, ' Ball Cards, &c., of every style and color, "executed promptly and at lower rates than 'any other establishment in the County. gay Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &c. printed can have them done to take home with them. J. BARD. Profession Carros. Physician, H. PARSONS, JONES, M. D, Coroner, . Surgeon, &c. Port Perry. Residence--OfMce door west of the Presby- tarian Church. Coronor for the County of ntuio, hysician, Surgeon and Ac- oucheur, > ou Prince Albert. H. SANGSTER, M. D., Physician, Sur- « geon and Accoucheur, Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY, Office over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of Queen and Perry Streets. Office hours from 9a. m. to 12 m. Residence, the dwelling recently occupied by Mrs. tieo, Paxton. RS. MCGILL & RAE, Physclans, Surgeons, &c., &e, Office and "Residences, King st., Oshawa, WM. M' GILL, MD. FRANCIS RAE, M,D. y M. F. McBRIEN, M.D, M. R. C. 5, Guy's Wi Hospital, London, England, 'ne liye R. Oshawa, E. FAREWELL, LL. B., County Crown eo), Atto fo nario, Ba Arrister, Attorney, Sotleitor, and, oper Public. Ofilee lace 5 cupled by 1, Guchrane, ks , Brock street, Whitby. sa me Ly YMAN L. ENGLISH "LL. B., Solicitor in Chaucery, Attorney, Conveyancer, &e. Oshawn. OMce--Simcoe street, opposite the Post Office SMITH, Li. B., Barris HERI ER gb , Motary Public, &c. Ottice--MeMilldn's Block, Brock street, Whitby. AME RON & | MACDONNELL, Barristers ttorneys at Lyw, Solicitors County Councrl, untario. Otrods Court House, Whithy. dig 11. J. MACDONNELL. M. 0, CAMERON, {1 A. HURD, Attorney at Law, and Solicitor . in Chancer¥s Shice in the Royal Arcade, Port Perry. 'W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan- cery, Notary Public, &c., &c. Office hours punctually from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Money to Loan at 8 per cent, on all kinds of good security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. GR DENIISTRY. FER The undersigned would inform the public that he now practices his profession of Dental Surgeon at his residence, Prince Albert, §vbiure he is prepared to attend to all who his setvices, or parties will be attended at their residences if they prefer it. My long and thorough knowledge of every departmgnt of the profission enable me to. warrant satisfaction in every instance, R. FOSTER, L.D 8. Prince Albert, Aug. 16, 1876. "lt. .0.N. VARS, L. D. S. EETH iaserted on all the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap as the cheap- ext, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with Gol d Silver. Tecth extracted without re 'producing local anasth- esia. + » Dentical ms----in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Btreet, Oshawa, i "Dr. a bogs | to wont that he Toe taken up his residence at Port Perry, and is now prepared to' treat all cases entrusted to his care in the most skillful and scientific manner. All orders left at the Medical Hall Aiscpntipued | until all arrears . 002 Phos Pe = imi that havin © gene! af erty ahd moved il bert, will in stenting tor his r, and riot: ric! ©o! business as Cont) w read Stone Wark, 1 Plas fa very thi Eaying Piose which he will EI the short: eo ul est notice and in the best and mu style, and at the very lowest % Squre; at which done. a |THE WALKER HOUSE PORT PERRY. =e Subscriber having leased the above hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the a good job can be and od Jon jar. workmanship. Prince Albert, Aprils, 1875. FE & . J ¥|usjc. : ROF. HARRINGTON, Teacher of Music, rry. Also dealer | in Mustont Ine struments. Hesidence, on Unjon Avenue. SPENCE. + - -- ISS 8, 8; HARRINGTON, Tedcher of Music. A by Post or in person & ted. Residence, on Union Pek Port erry. Business Sarvs. ' JOHN 8. M. WILLCOX, O° the Powa of Whitby, has been ap~ pointe FIAT ASSIGNEE or the county of Ontario. Any business 2ntrusted to his charge will be carefully at- fended to. W. BURNHAM, Clerk of the Phird Divi- «J «+ slon Court. Office in Bigelow's Block, Port Perry. Office hours from 10a m, to8 p. m, T. C. FORMAN, INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS & MEASURES For the County of Ontario. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 45:tf New Marriage Act. Port Perry, 1st, 1874. ENRY CHARLES having been re- H appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues to Fur- dish Licenses as heretofore--at Port Perry. July R. RICHARDSON, Re-appointed Issuer of Marriage Licenses. Under the New Act. 1st con, Brock. Brock, Ang; 85,1874. TT C. FORMAN, Office, lot 10, in the 33 ISSUER OF Marriage licenses. 'One door west of the Walker House Port Perry. - JOHN CHRISTIE, TOWNSHSP CLERK, , = ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchester. THE ONTARID FARMER: Mutual Insurance Company. pp and pa age of the public, THE WALKER HOUSE whether for extent or quality of accommo- dations is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by none out of the best cities. Commercial Pr the Traveling Public, Farmers dnd others doing business in the Village and the general public will find in THE WALKER HOUSE all that can be required in the matter of and moderation in charges. The Charges are No Higher at the Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House is fitted up throughout in FIRST CLASS STYLE. The Tables and Bar supplied with the choice of the market and the utmost atten-- tion paid to the convenience and comfort of ALL GUESTS. An abundance of comfortable Stable and Shed accommodation, and attentive hostlers. W. B. McGAW., Port Perry, April 20, 1876. Pporr PERRY HOUSE, PORT PERRY. JAS. V. THOMPSON, - PROPRIETOR. The above House is now most comfort- ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigars, also, first class Stabling and good Ostlers.-- Additions have been made whieh maker this the largest and best House in this scetion of country, Fare re $14 00 per Day. Aree HOUSE, PORT PERRY, The Subscriber having leased this comfort. able and convenient Hotel, will gpare neither labor nor expense in providing fof the com fort and convenience of guests. The Tables will always be supplied with the best to be had in the market, Only choice Liquors and Cigars at the Any quantity of firstclass Stable and Shed accommodation properly attended to by eureful Ostlers. CHAS. HOLT. Port Pa {HAKESPEARE HOTEL, CORNER OF KING AND YORK S8TS., JAMES POWELL, . . First-class accommodation ; bath rooms, &c. Board, $1.50 per day, R EV ERE HOU! MANCHESTER. By GEO. HOUCK. Having leased the above excellent Hotel it will be my endeavor to conduct it in Proprieror. "iis Company is now fully organized and is prepared to accept risks on Farm Bnildings and their contents, country School Houses and Churches. Those wishing to insure and' thereby support a Home Insurance Company | have now au opportunity of doing so, cither | ! by applying to the Head Office, or to any of | the local Agents of the Company. Our rates | will be found as low as those of any respon. sible Mutual Insurance Company in Canada, Head Office--Opposite the Royal Hotel Brock St., Whitby L. FATRBANKS, Jr., Secretary. WHITBY Ks STEAM MARBLE WORKS. J. & R. WOLFENDEN, HOLESALE and Retail dealers in \ Foreign and 'American Marble Man- tles, Monuments, &c., Dundas St , Whitby. Also. Agent for the Scottish Grinite, Also Building Stone cut to orde:. JOHN NOTT, Agent, Port Perry. 'Whitby, July 29, 1874. 32 Auctioiesrs., M.WILLCOX, LICENSED AUCTIONEER, FOR THE CO. OF ONTARIO, AND TOWNSHIPS OF MARL. POSA & CARTWRIGHT, Begs to thank his many triends and the public generally, for the liberal patron- age bestowed upon him for the past five years. Having now given up the business of Bailiff, I intend, in future, to devote my whole time to the business of Auctioneer, Collecting, &c. It will be my endeavor, by prompt and careful attention to business, to give full * | satisfaction to all who may favor me with their Sales or Collecting. at the Opserver Office, ard at He Standard Office, Port Perry. M. WILLOOX, Pork 'Perry, Oct. 25, to. every particular so as to merit the appro- bation and patronage of the public. Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. UEENS HOTEL, Corer of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts. CANNINGTON, Or. D. CAMPBELL, ProprigTor This Hotel is now furnished in the best style, and offers every accommodation to travelers BeS™ First class Sample Rooms, attached, Cannington, Oct. 20, 1875. Livery 43 A Jato MERICAN HOTEL, PRINCE ALBERT. W. H. PARK, - - - PROPRIETOR. Having purchased the above pleasantly situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired and renovated the entire premises even to the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the best Liquors and Cigars! guests, The table and bar well Srptied, H. PARK. Prince Albert, June 12, To J SuaThose HOUSE, (LATE ALBION,) WHITBY, ONTARIO. E. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. Strict attention paid to the comfort of "Imperial Measure." Also all yard demned. CIRCULAR SAW, use. Port Perry, June 12, 1876. According to an Act of Parliament, all parties using Weights and Measures sre compolled to buy Copper or Brass Measure and all stamped and parties must use a Yard Measure with either Brass or Copper on the end--in fact all Weights and Measures mus: be'brought to the Inspector for examination ; and all former measurss found too small will bs con- Therefore, to conform with the Law parties had better call at the Where they can purchase the proper size of each, and Stamped ready for i ' measures now in use are condemned 3 PORT PERRY, W. T. PARRISH. MONEY TO. LOAN MORTCACES WANTED. FVHE Subscribers have large sums of mon- ey placed in their hands fir investment on Laproved Farms, Village Properties, and other Securities insthis and adjoining ounties at the lowest current rates of interest. As wo ive funds on hand at all times Borrowers candep nd on getting their money with the «cast possible delay. WANTED T0 PURCHASE, Any number of Mortgages for which the high- est figures will be allowed. Weare also appraisers for tha Canada Per- manent Building Society, the cheapest and largest Monetary Institution in Canada. Paid up Capital $1,500,000. Instalments re-payable in from 2 to 20 years. Lands Bought and Sold. Several good farms for sale. Agents for several first class Fire In surance Companies. Collections made and a general agency busi- ness transacted. Z3& DEBENTURES BOUGHT.-&X JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, General Agents, Offic in Mr. Ross' Ontario Buildings, Port Perry. Port Perry, Oct. 11, 1872, MONEY T0 LEAD! The undersigned has any amount of Money to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at Unusually Low Rates of Interest! Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit the borrower. Also several Improved Farms, and Wild Lands for sale, cheap. In: ts made in Mi 1 Deben- tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks. Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Official Assignee, Broker, &c. The Only First Class House in' Town. Street, Lindeay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. OYAL EXCHANGE HOTEL, WILLIAMSBURG, CARTWRIGHT. E. BRYANS, Proprietor, Bi'ls draughted and Blank Notest, ished [1p this commodious Hotel has Rte of charge, ~~ = spared 2 be foie nor expen a Tie Bas. Also Bill ratnpe always on Wd sup) Hod With 3 pein Chace Of Libor aad TA ents can be made for sales &c., | the best brands of Cigars. The choice of the stabling and attentive Ostlers, E, BRYANS, " Williamsburg, Dec. 6, 1875. of Mr Allison; will receive p The, Vetosintrk Stables may be fauna) to ComitEs Pea wu © | AUCTIONEER. d having obtained Railway, on street, License as Auctioneer for the T abi liyteeet, pnocit 28, 1873. gi Hiding prepared to ar Deposits received on. t of principal iL -- of evry: on equitable terms. : Sal 4 F care and wi . Architects, feolioit'S shave of PAD Patronage. The p h il -- a ood Mo oes Huot Jd. ~SHDLIEE, Asuree do. lo 1 "i WM LEE, pon WHITY ¢ por PERRY EXTEN- * Having had consid ml racial ex. | Graeutosk , Avg 31, dota! tw TIME TABLE No. 14. wh sation i erience in ni i IT Takes offect on, Monday, Sth May, 1876, : RECT en ue | BE me 1 ani prepared to furnish | TOR the 'Township of; Brock, Uxbridge, | Going N hg 2 W. - AM. fo Th ) Mara, Maripos xo xs wolmx.| Por Prey. or 40. ¢ thelé Sales fo ine Jip gi August 31, 1876. : : tion being given rs yl All orders essed to me, Ry Ba i i M Ki f JOHN TIPP, ; ES Tower GOR 15 ro Sim i MONEY |" MONEY ! ¢ orort Buildings of Fe . 5) | of Victoria, St . Trade | will be punctnally attended to. Orders SE or ve hs or 20 ~12asen ern ALTIVE 7.85 tations-- Brisay HOUSE, late late Jewett House, Kent The ihecriber having succeeded Mr. Mason market provided for the Tables. Excellent 297 | and ns stop on signal Orrrce--Over the Dominion Bank, McMil- 1an's Block, Brock st., Whitby. Whitby, April 10, 1873, Money to Lend. Interest eight per cent No Interest in in NO COMMISSION. NO FINES | LOANS PROMPTLY OBTAINED. Advance, Real Estate Securities is applications for Loans of large Apyiications will receive son the title is approved. Charges lo P. A. HURD, : Bolieitor, Port Perry. Bu ery, Ap 11, 1876, i HE Underigned ny having made arrange rae fo the investment of i gust on = small 'athounts at moderates rates of interest. = All Jom attention the money will be paid in every case as w MONEY [Private Funds, 'I'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- terest, LYMAN ENGLISH, Barmister, &c., Oshawa November, 21, 1866: 14 1wt OF DIVISION COURTS FOR THE ® County of Ontario, For the year | asked him what be intended to do with" dll FIFTY 'CENTS CAPITAL. Farmer Brown was a very respectable man. He had some oddities, but they were harmless ones, and people who knew him best rather langhed at them than feared thera, The farmer had two sons, Marcus, a good steady boy, who worked with his father on the farm, and Horatio, who was just home from college, and was considered handsome and smart by all the heighbors. * Mrs Brown had been dead some years, and.| her sister, Miss Erminetta Griggs, better known as Aunt Ermy, was house-keeper, and general manager of the men-folks on the farm. Aunt Ermy was a very industrious woman, 'both with her hands and wih her tongue; and could do more and say more in a. given time than any other woman in the village o Tuscu- lon. She knew it ard was proud of her gift.-- As she was also a woman who always knew "what was what," and could give it to you in a nvtshell, ber opinion of the family' was of course perfectly reliable, as well as pithy and concise. ' You see, Horatio is smart, but he's lazy. Here he's been t' home 'most two months: und here he is, readin', and fishin', and huntin', that's what "Ratio does. And bro- ther aint very patient, and materially ' he don't like that kind of doin's. He's awful disappointed, and gets angry at 'Ratio; but "Ratio takes it cool as cowcumber, and bro. ther gets angrier, and angrier, and things aint as they'dorier be. Now look at Marcus; he aint particular handsome to look at, but "handsome is as handsome docs." That's what T say I' And what she said was true. Marcus was very handsome in all his doings, and Horatio was, indeed, very lazy. When his futher his learning, Horatio would look very wise for a while and then answer : ¢I really don't know, father. I haven't decided yet, I'm studying nature just now.' Ther. he would take his gun or his fishing line and saunter away, as if natare had an appointment with him and he had just re- collected it. And Mr. Brown went back to his work, grumbling to himself, and some times it made him petulant even with Aunt Eri wror Things were lad enough in the summer, but in the authmn something happened which made them still worse. One bright, cool morning when Horatio was on his way to the woods to kill partridges, he saw a great cloud of dust rising from the middle of the road, and comihg rapidly towards him, Then he a red cow, and the next instant in the thickest of the dust behind he saw a girl holding fast to the cow's tail, and run- ning with all her might. 'Why, that's Gazena Hartman," he said to himself. Then he said aloud : ¢ Zena, what are you doing ?' s 'I am having a; ride / ®he answered, laughing merrily, and showing all her little white teeth as she flew out of sight, But Horatio could not forget her. Ga- zens red checks, her flashing eyes, her curly brown hair flying in the wind, were before him all day, and saved the lives of many little birds. How she has grown, and bow bright and pretty she is. Having a ride indeed! How handsome she would look in a fine carriage! And he had a great many other thoughts on the sume interesting subject, y and Marcus, who had done nothing i876. unio Judge. Whitby, Dec .11,18%5. PORT PERRY LIVERY STABLES, C. MK ENZIE, PROPRIETOR. 4 Subscriber having now fully ec uipped his new and extensive Livery Stablss with a supply of superior Horses and Carri ges, is prepared to furnish first class LIVERY RIGS On Moderate Terms. C. MCKENZIE. Port Perry, Aug. 6, 1873. 8 Luggage TAKEN TO AND FROM THE STATION AND AROUND TOWN. The Subscriber is prepared to convey Chests, Trunks, Boxes and every other de- scription of Luggage to or from the Railway Station or anywhere around town. All Orders promptly atbended to. Charge: moderate, J. COOK. Gold and Fancy JEWELRY, School Room Paper and Fanoy Goods of the Best Qual- ity. Most Attractive Ap- pearance and at the Lowest ' Possible Prices. ' The Subscriber takes this opportunity of returning thenke to his After supper he asked his father : «What is Hartman doing pow! Does he goon well { with his little farm?" «I don't know, answered Mr, Brown grufily. 'I have enough to do minding my | own business, | people's. 1 | thought he would meddle just a litle. -- I don't meddle with other Horatio did not make any reply ; but ashe had no business of his own to mind, he Hartman is a worthy man if he is a Dutch- man,' and it would please kim to be noticed in a friendly way, People ought to be kind to each other in this hard world.' The very next morning Horatio took the trouble an's farm, to be kind a was not visible, short and stout, stood ig his pipe: said Horatio, Kindly. -- at the gate smol 'Good morning,' 'How do you do? 'Do preety vel, answered the farmer, said Horatio. Mr. Hartman Jooked round to see how fine the Tapsving was, but he reserved his opin- ion. a hede Mrs Hartman is well. Yes, yes, preoty vell answered the? bus. band. 'She's very Vissy We are all very bissy. And now I goto work in mine field. Goot.day. A few days atterward the young man went again to the farm and presented some birds to Gazena's father. 'I shot them myself,' he explained. 'Sol I nefer kill doleedle pirds,' said Mr. Hartman regretfully. Then Horatio kindly offered to carry them into the house. 'Nein, nein, I do dat mineself; said the farmer 'Mine vife, she vas veery, veery bissy always. She vants none sdrange beo- ples round. Our blace is not a pig vone, oe I likes to lief by mineself.' Horatio understood that delicate hint, and retired politely. He was provoked, but he did not tell his neigbor so. The such a daughter must be humored if he was blunt. As for Gazena herself, Horatio could not understand ber at all, and a merry smile, but she, two. hurry--¢very bissv,' as her father said, the neighbors', and insisted upon walking home with her. And as he was not sure that again, he decided to make the most of it: past five months,' he said, run away from me so ?' 'Oh, 1 don't, Gazena, I for their gengrous patronage during the m¢py years in whi #4 he has done business in Lort Perry, and would now inform them and the public generally that he has re-opened his Store with a Valuable Stock of carefully se- lected Goods of the newest and most stylish patterns in Gold'and Fancy Goods for ladies and gentlemen, A splendid variety of Chains, Broouaes, Rings, ins, Ornaments, of every description, Berlin Wool, a large stock the best quality and wos in. the D mo! fom, Books, Sitio e choo! large quantity of ele- ant Roo P avers, Blank Le a Fors 2 s, Deeds, ortgages, &¢. &c., The, best Sualty of Goods at the lowest : | prices TALLY, Port Perry March 1,1876. PASS BOOK LOST. tion and told the story, for Aunt said | burned the timber to make "blacksalts," Tost on Thursday, 10th inst t, somewhere | 0 Mr. Brown the next evening, EY, raid | which he'sold at & good price in the city = between Tilags 'of Manchester and Sex. | goin' to have a. weddin', I s'pose they'l | With that noney I t forty more acre: | 8 Book, eonteiAing have to come and live here. } of in the spring hi Bo i Ate of farm property. ng to diye here 2! end Tend. Then be and other papers. opens. 'The property «an be of bY at you hi oh ato no use to to up mem the owner The ZeneHartmaa. Ofcomse she' finder 'will Savor by letting me po him, » prety little | : know or leaving i © Ogemves Office, | Farmer Brown was so angry at first that | It willdo very well to begin Port Perry. he could not speak, But hmgetover thatin | Horatio, and in two or three ' Aon GRAHAM. @ few minutes and spoke his mind pretty build & house just as we want Reach, Aug. 16, 18! ' fixly tobe son, * Yes, indeed,' seid Mss ; f ~ % x ian . _-- ee warts eC A : at's not fun to me,' said Horatio, makes me feel unhappy. me? only the fun,' said Gagenn, too frankly. and like me? asked Horatio, to like you for 7' 'Because--becanse--you will 'like some- body sometime, and get married--' nun and work on the fa married, I want you to marry me.' ran away and left him alone on the road. father of "When she bappened to meet him she gave a little nod, ashy look never spoke to him, or stopped long enough for him to speak to ber more than a monosyllable or She always seemed to be in a great At last one evening be met her at one of he. would ever have anch a good chance I have been trying to speak to you for the 'Why do you it's such fun!' answered It Do you dislike 'No, I don't care anything about you. It's 'But won't you feel sry for me, and try 'Like you,' she said, 'what do you want me 'No, never,' interrupted Gazena. "I don't wan't to get married, 181 am going: 0 be a 'No, you { wont,' said Horatio, you will get Gazeva stopped lm and looked up at him with flashing eyes. 'You are a bad 9 | boy! Don't you know you shouldn't talk so to me ? she said hotly and fast. Then she Some owl must have heard this conversa- 'I won't have it!' he said, you shant bri a Dutch girl into this house where mother lived--not while I live I' 'Who said I would?' said Horatio, quietly enough ; and he, too, was very angry and dingrated with everybody, Gazena included When Hartman heard the story, it: made him laugh, and he only said: 'Vat! give mine daughter to vone lazy mans? Not moochl' * Gazena did not laugh at sll, She cried every night when she was safe in her bed. 'Oh, what 'bad people the are she said. * I wish I could get a chance of speaking my mind to somebody I' Bhe had her wish, she to 'his fields, They were alone on the road and he spoke first, ¢ Look here, my girl, you had better be careful what you do. You are not wanted at my house, You understand ?' 'Gagena's face turned red, then white, but she answered bravely : « Farmer Brown, 1 ain't your girl, "so you needn't call me so. -- And 1 don't want to live with proud folks and work for my husband. We are as good \a8 you bemy father is!' And away she ran, Farmer Brown was so surprised at this speech that instead of going to the fields, he went home and went to bed, declaring that he was sick and should die. That was a way he had. It was one of his oddities, When he was more then ordinarily troub- led about his affaire he always thought he was going to die. Sometimes he made a few last remarks, then took a dose of rhu- barb, and then--the next morning he was as well as ever. So when Aunt Ermy called out : (Come in quick, boys, your father thinks he is dying I" the boys went into.the house without burry- ing very much. They had seen their father in the same position before, The scene was quite impressive. Mr. Brown lay on his bed, dressed in his Sunday clothes, his head propped up on several ik: lows. 'Come here, boys,' he said in a weak voice. 'T am going to die for good this time and I want to speak to you. The boys tid near the bed, and Aunt Ermy stood down near the patient, who spoke thus : 'Ermy, you have been a good. sister to me, and it my wish that you should stay here till yondie. You hear, Marcus, take good care of her. The house is yours, my son, and the land ; the whole farm is yours, because you have "be: sen & good and dutiful son." Horatio, come here. I haven't much to say to you Here are fifty cents. Go and buy a rope to hang yourself with.' Horatio took the fifty ceuts with very faint thanks. If he had any doubts before he was certain now that his father was not going to dier He did not even stay to see. | live with proud folks to ook began small bat Ee and you grow big and you grow oittow vig ve Eh roy age But now something wai the matter Gazena. She did not look as ha to the cottage ; it was | Yes, she was willing ve Eve Eos and June as 4 a 8 very peetly WHOLE NO. 980 tich, and it is not every have been d. No, she ramet married in, 'IN tell -- rit Mis, yo wd one' evening, to Horatio, 'I was saucy to your father once, and 1am for it, though i wag the truth I told him. ¥ don't wentto down but:I dant like to mili |any , when bis * You rest' you a my father ?* ~~ "Yes, I mean just that. Now prense go and tell him and'make peaceathat wht bring us happiness. It will be so right and nice I' Horatio promised that he would go, and went the next afternoon. . . v . . . It was more than three years sinee be had left his home, He bad sometimes seen hiv father riding past the West Farm, but th never met face to face, or spoke to -- other, : . Let him alone' Farmer Brows had sid to 'Aunt Ermy, when she had proposed to gor and see Horatio, 'Let him alone, and don' bother.' But when the wedding was talked aboun$ Aunt Ermy could restrain herself no longer. 'Marcus. I suppose you have heard that your brother is going to be married 7 she said, one day, atter dinner dddressing her nephew, but intending her specl really for ber brother.n-law, ¢ Welly said Mr Brown, 'What of it Talt. don't hurt us any, does it ?' ¢ No, but--you see he has taken that Gag- ena, "Of course he has, Why showldn't he ?-- She is the pluckiest little girl I ever saw I and Farmer Brown began to laugh, Suddenly, while he was etill lasghing, the kitchen door opened and Horatio walked fa. They stared at®at him for 8 moment ; them he said: . Well, father, how about that fifty cents ?" ~ CAll right I' said hie father. *I never 'go# 50 much out of fifty cents in all my life 1" I declare,' said Aant Emmy, advancing upon Horatio with open arms, Thos peace was fade and sealed. * The Brown-Hartman wedding was the event of that summer, Everybody in Tus. culum remembers it to this day, and says that there never was a handsomer groom nor a prettier bride. Gazena really looked very pretty--*beau= He put on his hat and marched out of the door in a transport of mingled wrath and mortification. Alone in the open air, he began to plan what he should do. He would go to a large city and become a great preacher, a great lawyer, a great--' 'No, I won't,' he said, stopping suddenly, I will stay here and work, I will be a gr farmer, and marry Gazena Hartman! Then we shall see who shall biy a rope and hang himself! Abal Iwill keep that fifty cents for good luck,' (taking out the coin and hold. ingit up in his fingers), 'There, that's set- tled." . He went back to the house and to his room and slept a few hours, got up very carly, made a bundle of his clothes, and left the house before any one was awake. At broad day-light Farmer Brown got up, well and strong as ever--of course. But it was some time before he discovered that his son had gone, The next day the whole Village of Tus- culum was all a-buze with the great news. "Ratio Brown had left his father's house and bad gone and hired himself for a year to Mr Maynard, of West Farm! Wasn't it queer? And how long would it last? It lasted a whole year to begin with -- Then it was said that Farmer Mayland found Horatio so handy that he had hired him tor another year, and paid him good wages, all of which was true. During the first and even the second year Horatio was not once seen in Tusculum. But one bright day, when Mr Hartman was eojoying his after dinner pipe, surrounded by his women folks, there was a knock at the door that startled Gazepa, «Come in,' said Mr Hartman, atio came in. Gazenn blushed rosy red, Mrs Hartinan started, and her husband took the pipe out of his mouth. Bat before he had time to speak, Horatio said : 'Mr Hartman, I have come to sec,yon on business, [have worked hard for two years, and am now a pretty good farmer, I h. saved oll my wages and bought forty acres woodland and a yoke os oxen. Now I have a plan ot making money out of my'trees, apd by next year I intend to buy forty acres more and make more money. If 1 succeed, will you give me your davghter--it she is willing 7 'Now look what a boy! said Mrs Hart- man. 'He works hard two years, and no And Hor- but is good and true all by himself. Now I like that, that is very good. you take him, father, and our 'Zena, she take him too. She 1ooked him two years past when he go away, and she cried so to break her heart, I knowed i then. Now you take him father." . Two such long speeches overpowered Mr Hartman. He 'took' Horatie chickens had not yet had their dinner, and Horatio was left alone with Gazeta and his word the whole time, and had teied to look this dutch way of courting. the young lady, and said : ¢ Gaz na will you come out on the poarch with me.' had to say as well as Le could eay it ; then he waited for Gazens's answer, I'll be a nun, as I said I would, till--till" ing to let her be a nun for one that it was all to be a secret inv the family. bad never seen me before.' Horatio was very happy, and worked bard. er than ever. mother, nor no home, and ne says nothing, I take him and Then Mrs Hartmen remembered that her dozing new papa, CGazenn had not said a as if she were somewhere else--very far away. How she felt was what Horatio, wanted to know, for he did not much admire So be turned to Gazena got up obediently and went to the poarch, but she looked down at some tin pans that were drying in the sun as if they were novel objects, both new aud interest. in PE joretic took courage, and said what he 'Ylldo as father and mother say,' she answered ; but thers one' thing; I: have never been engaged before, and 1 don't want to be engaged now, So, if you don't mina --Horatio did not mind, and was gmite will- year longer.-- It was decided that he should come every other Sunday night to see his listle mun and 'Because,' said Gazena, ' I don't want peo. ple to talk about, and look at measif they He cut down his tres: and tifal"--Horatio said, And Mr Hartmst gaye her,away as it he knew that it is not every father who has such a daughter to give away. After a substantial dinnerat the house of the bridegroom's father, the newly-married pair took a short wedding trip, as far_as i | their little cottage, which Farmer Brown had bought and presented to kes daughter Gazena. Overdoing it-- Bashful (on his honey-moon) : "Larry, my wife and I have both noticed that the townspeople stare a® us very hard, I. hope you haven't been telling anybody that we are newly married ?* Larry (the faith ful factotum)--¢'Me tele 'em, sor? Isis likely Oi'd go agin my express ordhers? Why whiniver anybody thryed to pump me, sor, ive towled 'em ye wasn'$ married atall.' v - 'How do you like your new ministes Madge? asked one very stylishly dressed young lady of another, in a Highland car the other day. 'Oh, he is just splendid,' shy replied with animation. ¢ You ought to see him, Mand. He is so handsome, aud he prays so beautifully, and reads the hymns in" such a lovely way ; and besides, Maud, there was a dreadful scandal about him in the cached before he came here.' Se ------------ Patient to his doctor--'And it is really true that I shall recover?' 'Infallibly,' an- s the man of medicine, taking from his a paper full of figures. 'Here, look at the statistics of your case; you will find that one per cent. of those attacked by youy malady are cured." 'Well' says the sick man in an uasatisfled menner. 'Well, you are the hundredth person with this disease that 1 have had under my care, and the first nine- ty-nine are all dead.' swe The thermometer at Atlanta doesn't fool around and play with the north wind. A young man who attended church with his sweetheart attempted to sit the sermrn' out with a paper shirt-bosom, but was pot alto- gether successful. Tt is said that when he came out waving his rattan, his appearance was such as to give rise to a suspicion that a saleratus bombshell had struck him in the stomach. The girl said she had accepted an' invitation to take dinner with a friend, A recent trans--Atlautic advertisement ins the infi i 'If the gentleman who keeps the shov store with a red head will return the umbrella of a young lady with whalebone ribs and sm ivory handle to the slate-roofud grocer's: store, he will hear of something to his ads vantage, as the same is the gift of a decensed®. mother now io more wisi the nasi engrave ed upon it, sine mms A Concord (N. C) man tried a long time to open the first postal card he had ever your veived, Why should it be easy to break into ami old man's house? Because his geitis Broken: and his locks are few. er -------- ¢ That was very greedy of you, Tommy to eat your little sister's shase of cake |* ¢ Yow told me, ma, I was always to take her part,' said Tommy. ¢ Do they ever bark = Nevada, who had 1 'uriosity ® digger squaw and her p latter being # bright little half unmistakable tdications of neg med, * 'Clare 0 8 A gentleman. of cor te "artved - been scanning w