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v 1 -- VOL XXII NO. 16.1 , PORT PERRY, PROVINCE r---- -- © AND GENERAL ADVERTISE R amon OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, ARRIL 3, 1879. id Co WHOLE NO. 1118 Hoth Ontariz Obaeruer. A WEEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICUL TURAL § FAMILY NEWSPAPER, ___18 PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT, EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY BAIRD & PARSONS. TERMS.--$1 per annum, if paid in ad- vance ; if not $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; and no paper discontinued until all arrears wre paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Foreach line, first insertion ...v 5. .$0 08 Subsequent insertions, pet ne ...... 002 Cards, under 6 lines, per annum... 5 00 Letters containing money, when ad- dressed to this Office, pre-paid and regester- ed, will he at our risk Advertisements measured by Nonpareil, and charged according to the space they oc-- cupy. Advertisements received for publication. without specific instructions, willbe inserted until forbid and charged accordingly. No advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants and others who advertise by the year or half-year, &F™ These terms will in all cases be strictly ed to Job Department. Pamphlets, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards, Bull Cards, &c., of every style and solor, exceuted promptly and at lower rates ban any other establishment in the County. REF Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &ec. printed can have them done to take home with them, H. PARSONS. J. BAIRD. H" ISTER, M.D, . geon and Acconcheur, Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY. Office over Notts Furniture Store, corner of Queen and 1 S| 5 Office hours from 9a. m. to 12-m. ce, the dwelling recently occupied eo, Paxton. ¥ by 3 Coronoy for the County of R. WARE, Surgeon and Ace ontario, Physician, coucheur, Office, opposite the town hall. Port Perry. (GILL &R Phayscians, Surgeons, ¢, Office and Residences, King st, Oshawa, FRANCIS RAE, M.D. R. (1. 8, Guy's ad. The lye Ro PARBWEE ttorney forn or, and Noga ad by 3. H. Coe! Whitby. T YMAN I ENGLISH LL L Chancery, Attorney, Con Oshawa. °t, opposite the Post Office OMice--Simcoe s Remi YOUNG SMITH, LL. B,, Barrister, At- torney-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, thd Insolvency, Notary Publle, &e. OMmce--McMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan A ry Notary Public, &c., &c. Office hours punctually from 9 a.m. to 5 pm. Money +0 Loan at 8 per cent, on all kinds of good sec Office, Bigelow's ltoyal Arcade, PORT PERRY. PERSON, (late of Beav iN. Burrister an l Attorney-at Law, Solici for in 'hanecery, Conveyancer, Notary Pub- lie, &e., &C. Office over Brown & Currie's Store Port Perry. K.P JPILLINGS & MeGILLIVRAY, Solicitors, Notaries Public, &e, Port Perry. 20 A large amount of money to loan at 8 per cent. John Billings. P J. A. MURRAY, ATE Patterson & £00 _J Fenton, Surgeon Se Dentist. Office over 48 Corrigan & Camp- ' Barristers | John A. McGillivray. CB GH A. HURD, Attorney at Law. and Solicitor 'Tn Chancery: Oftice in the Royal Arcade, Port Perry. bell's Store, "Port £8 Perry. All work done in the very tatest and best style and warranted to give satisfuction. Port Perry, March 28, 1877. C. N. VARS, L. D: 8. "oor inserted on all the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap as the cheap- 2xt, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted without pain by producing local anwsth- esia, Dentical Rooms--in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Street, Oshawa. HE Subscriber would beg to inform owners of Horses and Cattle that having completed a Session in the Ontario Veterin- ary College, Toronto, he has now located mn Port Perry) for the practice of his pro~ fession and' is now prepared to give advise on and successfully treat all diseases to which horses and cattle aro liable." From long study and close investigation of the nature' and habits of Horses and Cattle and T MBusiness Cards. "ONTARIO BANK, $3,000,000 CAPITAL . PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. A Savings Department is now open in connection with this Branch. Deposits of FiveDollars and upwards received and inter= est allowed thereon. No notice of withdiawal required, A.A. ALLEN, MANAGER. emi eer . BURN HAM, Clerk of the Third Divi- . 0 RNS Olnce in Bigelow's Block, Port Perry, OfMce hours from 10 & m, to 8p. m. T. C. FORMAN, INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS § MEASURES For the County of Ontario. Port Perry, Nov 1, Gi 45:tf OHN CHRISTIE, 8, TOWNSHIP Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchester. OLBRE, ssuer of T ¢. FORMAN, ISSUER OF Marriage Licenses. One door west of the Walker House Port Perry. Gg (35 i 4 EDN A ~wew Klarriage Act. Port Perry, July 1st, 1874. ENRY CHARLES having Leen re- F appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- nish Licenses as herctofor at Port Perry. R. RICHARDSON Re-appointed Issuer Marringe Licenses. Under the New Act. Office, lot 10, in the 1st con. Brock. | Brock, Aug. 5,1874. 33 ENRY GRIST, Patex SOLICITOR AND H DravcuryAy, Ottawa, Canada Transacts busines® with the Patent Office and other departments of the Government | Copyrights and the Registration of Trade | Marks and Designs procured. Drawings, Specifications, and other Documents ne sary to secure Patents of Tuvention, pre in receipt of the model of the Invention. INO. & D. J. ADAMS, Money, Land & Insurance BROLERS, HAE large sums of money on hand for Investment, Mortgages Purchased. A number of excellent Farms for Sale or to Rent. AGENTS FOR THE Of Steamships. JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, Office in Mr.*Ross' Ontario Buildings, : Port Perry. Port Perry, Jan. 23, 1879, JAMESLUND, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE BROKER, ONVEYANCER, Commissioner for taking AMdavits in Court of Queen's Bench, &e. MONEY 10 LOAN In any manner to nit borrowers, Mortgages Bought, Accounts, Notes, &c., Collected and pron pt remittances made. money can get it The Fisherman's Ward. It was a stormy night on a bleak New England coast. i Tho wind and rain kept driving pitilessly, and the white, hungry waves came thunder- ing over the sand-hills and breaking in cataracts of foam over the deso- late, rocky shore. In a.room of a hittle cottage built so close to the sea, that some of the breakers, more aggressive than the rest, seemed al- most to threaten to overwhelm it, old Roger Boscawan sat smoking his pipe before the fire, that roared up the wide, old-fashioned chimney us if in degance of the tempest of wird and rain outside. ¢ Bless me! the storm?' "Yus, father. It was a strangely beautiful face that looked up into the weathers beaten one of the old man from un- der the shadow of tho projecting angle of tho fireplace, and strangely out of place it seemed among the rough arrangements of the fisher- man's cabin, Large and lustrous were the eyes of Orienfal, midnight darkness, white-lidded and long- lashed. The forehead low but broad, around which the luxuriant hair was braided in heavy, clastic coils; the Leah do you hear cheeks of a dusky carmine, and the a year (not in advance y tine, just as eireun ees + part. or all of the principal, w= or he cu permit re the Com pany binding thems Iv gage Wo necept such sum, wi and apply it as a di ul, immedi um paid. reply ne of t 2) 2 i 2 Loans w » from 2 to In all eases where the title is perfect, the cost will be very slight to the borrower, As am acting both « and Valuator for SOV : nies there can possibly be no publicity in the transaction. If the title is perfe paid here in two week ton. t the money will be after making applica- IN Broker, &e., Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and Bascom streets, Uxbridge. May 17, 18] Jam Uxbrid MONEY TO LOAN. The undersigned hasany 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. Investments made in Municipal Deben tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks. Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, M. SPENCE, CoxTracTOR, BUiioer, &c. The Subscriber in very returning his sincere liberal patronage be- would inform the y hat having hought a pro- berty and moved into the Village of Prince 'Ibert, he will in future give his whole tention to his business as Contractor, and is now ready to undertake Stone Work, Brick- thing econnecte centeon the shori- and niost durable (herewith, which he wi est notice and in the! d style, and at the vers 1owest figure at whieh a good Jeb can be done. X The best maternal nd first-class workmanship. BI RES "a seENCE. Prince Albert, April 5, 157 W. M. WILI.COX LICENSED AUCTIONEER. | . ) ETURNING my sincere thanks to my | \ numerous friends and patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed upon me as Auctioneer during the past eight years, 1 would now beg to offer my services to all | who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or | other property to sell by Auction anywhere ! in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa or Cartwright. My long and extensive practice as Auc- tioneer has enabled me to judge the value ot Farm Stock with an accuracy second to | none in the County, and this is of import- ance as if the Auctioneer is vot a good judge of the value of Stock 'he may soon lose far more than his fee in any sale, Bill stamps always on hand. Sale Bills wranged and notes supplied free of charge. Days of Sale may be arranged at the ( Office, where a Bale Register will be kept. Terms Liberal. W.M. W, Port Perry, Sept, 4, 1877. E. MAJOR, - [OENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties I. wishing his services can call at the "Observer" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Sales. len Major, Oct. 10, 1876. long practice in the of such together with the great advantages derived from a Session at the Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, T flatter myself that parties placing their Horses and Cattle under my treatment will find it to their advantage. Any order or commuaication for me left at Mr. Allison's Drug Store will be promptly attended to. AIDE 5 Port Perry, March 8%, 1878. WM. GORDON, heed Al heer. Valus OR the Township of Brock, Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, and Eldon, 4 } p&¥~ Parties entrusting their Sales to me Uxbridge, Broker, &e. Whitby, April 10, 1873. NOTICE TO FARMERS & OTHERS MONEY TO LOAN. HE undersigned would say to the owners of Real Estate, that he has in his hands a fagze amount of private funds which he is prepared to invesy for periods to suit borrow- ers--interest at eight per cent and most reasonable terms assure 8. H. CHRISTIAN, 7, 1877. Expedition Manchester, October r {HE Subscriber is prepared to lend money on improved property for terms from one to twenty years, Agent for Western Caxapa LoaN asp Savings CoMPANY, He has also been instructed to invest a large amount of Private I'unds. Inter st Eight per cent. No Commission. : N. F. PATERSON. Port Perry, May 20, 1878. Solicitor CLEMENT DAWES, J AS Money to Loan on Farm sccuiity in any manner to suit borrowers. Mort. gages , bought at Jowest rates. Accounts, Notes, &e, collected on reasonable Com- mission, Apply personally, or by letter to C DAWES, Auctioneer, &c., Port Perry, March 7, 1878. MONEY (Private Funds,] 'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- terest. LYMAN ENGLISH, Barrister, &c., Oshawa November 21, 1866. : a WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY, INCORPORATED 1851. CAPITAL . . $80000 (With power to increase to $1,000,000.) © HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. p&>™ Insurances effected at the Towest ven |emrent rates on. Buildings, Merchandise, 33 TAY HOLY Sho monk attention being a8 "| and other property, against loss or damage _ D. BATEMAN. Frindie # . WM. GORDON, ' |by fire. : = Sunderland, Brock. JNO. & D. J. ADAMS, ---- oe frei Agents, Port Perry. J _ T.H. WALSHE, © | Port Perry, Jan 22, 1879. ICENSED Aucti for the T hip | Music. R OF, HARRINGTON, Teacher of Music Port Perr. Also dealer in Musical In- struments. Residence,on U 18S 8. 8. HARRINGTON, Teacher of Music. Ap) lications by Post or in person phased, Residence, on Union Avenue, Port erry. : -------- The VICTORIA | MUTUAL Al Fire Insurance Company a of Canada, BAD OFFICE,....... HAMILTON. GT * T HIS is decidedly one of the bestcompanies in the Dominion, and parties having property to insure will do well to consider] the many advantages of insuring with this Company. ; T. H. WALSHE, Agent, Cannington, Ont. Cannington, Sept. 26, 1876. > % nion Avenue. | of Brock, Thorah, Mara & 'Rama 'in North Ontarie ; Mariposa, etc.,in the County of Victorfa. Residence--Cannington, Brock. Orders left at this office, or at his residence will be punctually attended to. Debts col- lected in Cannington, or 'otherwise, and pronipt remittances made. Re ber WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction- eer. \ a br poReaThe NE + : TT : WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Insuance Co' Head Office, Whitby, This Company is mow fully organized and is prepared to ncoept risks on Farm Buildings and their contents, country School Houses and Cl es. Thess wishing io inure and thereby support a Home Insurance Com fe now a opportunity of doing pig 04 ES WOLFENDEN, 4 0! BE 5 gi an Mos pate ties, Monuments, &¢., Dundas Et, Whitby. "so, Agent fot the Scottish Granite. . Also Building Btone cut fo order, ' JOHN N "| Brock St., Whitby. ha t by applying to the 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 ©. NOURSE, Seeretary. mouth sweet. and expressive and perfect in its curves and the dimples that it showed when it parted in a smile. Many of the people often on farm, or good productive town | have a daughier equally unlike Lim- i self and her brother. +I pity any craft that is out to- night,' the old man went on. 'I have lived on this coast for over fifty years, man and boy, and never saw-a wilder night than this,' Lea did not She risen from ber seat, and, crossing answer, the room, was looking out of the window seaward. She could sco nothing through the pune except the driving storm and the red, lurid lamp of the lighthouse, but in the lather direction could be discerned a villuge, and, further away towards the town, among its dark clumps of Iallam grandest Lodge ablaze with light. Lodge was the oldest and house for owned by the man whose namo it bore, the direct descendant of Ralph Hallam, colonel in the Parliamen- tary army, who bad crossed the ocean for bis principles, and laid the first stone of this new dwelling- place more than two hundred years ago. miles around, Suddenly the tramp of approach- storm outside, and the next moment the door opened to admit Stephen, old Roger's and three other mer, who earricd the insensible body of a mun between them, He was a fine, handsome fellow, this son of the old fisherman, but utterly unlike bis sister both in feature and complexion, having. clear, reddy skin, somewhat browned by expos- son, ure to the weather; honest, blue eyes, and curling chestout hair, He might have set to an artist for a picture of some old Norse gon ; but a tender look came his eyes and his voice assumed softer tone at he spoke to the girls riking's into ¢It 1s tha young gentleman that they say 1s going to marry Miss Edith Hallam,' he said, as they laid the uncons¢ious man on the warm hearth stone before the ftire.-- «His yacht struck on the rock below the lighthouse and all hands were lost but him, He has a breath of life in him yet, though, and we may pull him through. Give me some of that rum out of the closet, little sister.' She did so in silence, and theo, in obedience to hor brother's command, knelt down and chafed the we, white band of the unconscious man, while Stephen poured some of the spirits down his throat. She could not help admiring the handsome face, so still and pallid, supported on her brother's knee. The features were regular and high bred, with dark curls falling over the high, white forehead. She was thinking, too, what handsome hands they were into which she was try- ing to 1b returning life--almost as small, and how much whiter, than her own--When a sharp knock came to the door, and a young lady, tall but stately, swept into the room and knelt down beside the inanimate form... Lh (I ath his cousin, and it is my right,' she said sweetly yot decisive Iy, as she took thie bands to which the warmth of life was slowly re- 2 |W. H. BROWNE, General Agent, 1h te «Agent, Port Perry. Y Whitby, July 20 1874. ; 8 turning, between her own. had | few twinkling lights of the fishing | evergreens, the windows of Hallam | and was | a { and Leah relinquished them at once and shrank back to her position in the shadow of the fireplace, with a feeling in her breast she had never known before. This tall, stately young woman was Miss Edith Hal- lam, the heiress of the Lodge, and she was only Leah Boscawan, the fisherman's daughter. She could not avalyzo the cause that made ber mind [dwell so bitterly upon the fact, yet it did in spite of hersolf, and tho knowledge of the great sociul gulf fixed between them filled her with a great vague regret. In less than half an hour the young man was sufliciently rovived to thank his preservers and accompany his cousin in her carriage, which waited outside, to the Lodge. He bad passed, and, the sorrow for her father's death beginning to wear off she became more accustomed to her new position. Mr. Hallam was kindness personified; but from the rest of the household she held her- self aloof. They were all kind to ber, but an indefinable something folt though not expressed, that she was not to the 'manor born' and a sort of interloper, raised # barridr between them. As for the visitors, of whom there were many, of course this had nothing to do; but still the feeling was in hor mind the tame, and she became cold and reserved. As for Frank Vernon he became fascinated by ber--so much so that it became a subject of remark. At last he proposed and, and she accept thanked them all most cordially. To the three men who had assisted him be gave money; and to Stephen his card, which showed his name to | be Frank Vernon, and promised to! call next day and thank again, Both the old man and his son were taken with his manners and spoke in praise of him and his eupposed | betrothed, Leuhb, sitting silent in| the shadow, said nothing. but brooded | in silence over her newly-awakened thoughts, with rebellious | feelings againat her destiny surging | in her heart. i vague, The storm did not abate that nicht nor the next day, Neither did | . a r | the next day bring Frank Vernon to the cottage, but he sent a message | When night again | fell the wind was still driving eave the house. the | | | ' | heavy rain along the shore, and tho | | | fury of the sea seemed | The old man and his daughter sat in| | their old positions at the five listen--| ling to the fury of the storm without. | | "Lea, said the old man, breaking | I the silence, 'where is Stephon to- | unabated. | night 2 | She had been busy with her own | thoughts, intently gazing into the | | blazing cmbers, | tace, aglow with the firelight, to his. | With a cry of alarm she sprang from | her seat and caught his head, which was falling forward on his breast, ised her | Lin her arms- ¢ Futher, speak to me! what is the | matter ? she cried, with a great | dread at the set and rigid features had | | fled leaving them palo as ashes. | "Leah, 1 am dying,' the old man gasped, * Quick--Old Mr, Hallam at | the Lodse--I mustsea him, Tell | him I: for Lim and ho will {come | The gray head fell back upon the | | chair as he spoke. Tho girl, nearly | | frantic, and scarcely knowing what | land lips from which all color ing feet was heard through the pe did, kissed him in a wild, fren- | ' | zied way, and then dashed out into the night and storm, | It was some distance to the Lodge, | more than a mile, but she did not | | mind fatigue. She did not feel it] lany more than she felt the stormy | sweep of the rain that drenched ber | to the skin. 1ler mind had room | for but one thought--that she might | be too late. | She reached the house at night | and delivered the message to Mr. | Hallam in person, and then her | overstrained faculties gave way, and | sho sank in a swoon onthe When she came to her senses |again she was laying in a white | cartained bed in a room finer than she had ever seen before, and, bend- ing over her was the stately young lady who bad come to her father's cottage the night before. «Hus ho gone?' she asked, 'Yes, the lady answered 'ho is with him now.' Sho would have arisen at once and returned through the storm in which sho had come, but the lady wus kindly, resolute and firm, and forced her to lie quiet and wait. An hour passed; it seemed an eternity to Leah--when the door opened and Mr. Hallam entered still dripping with rain. IIe crossed the room to the couch and took ber hand iu his. «My poor child,' said he, 'you 'cannot go home to-night -- this is your home from this time forth.' Sho looked at him in dum amaze- ment. 'You are my daughter now,' he said, 'and you must learn to look on moe as you would your father' ¢And he?' she cried out, flinging 'up ber arms with an unconscious gesture of entreaty. 'You must bear it calmly, my poor child," he answered her. 'He is dead.! How it chanced that she should become the adopted child of the wealthy Mr. Hallam was much of a ed him. She did not love him but she liked hissociety, and she loved no one else, and felt proud of his talents aud handsome person, as any girl would have done. She mado a con- dition, however, that their engage mont should be kept a sceret until her brother Stephen who had gone on a voyage of several months should return. A week afterwards Stephen came Hho was almost beside herself with delight at seeing him, It would have been a rovelition to any who only knew her as the stately Juno like beguty of the Dodge to see her hang about his neck and S him again and again through her one d | wondered iow old" Roger came lo saying that he was too unwell to | joyful tears. At length she told himhow Frank Vernon had be his wife, and she had accepted him.-- The change that came over him startied her, Ilis face grow pale as death to the very lips, and a wild mist swept over his eyes--only for a moment, however, und then bho brushed the back of his band across his eyes and forced a smile. 'Leah,' he said, in a voice that trembled in spito of all bis efforts to keep it calm, 'if it is for your happiness I will try to bear it. 1 have had dreams, when 1 kept my lonely watches, that sometime you might love me well enuogh to be something dearer than a brother, -- L sce whut a fool I have been now-- you a lady tod heiress, while I am a poor fisherman--but let it pass; the memory of my little sister will always be the dearest thing I have on earth.' ¢ What do you mean ?' she manag. od to gasp at length. «Do you not know ? Iave they not told you," he cried, that you aro not my father's daughter, nol my ster, but the only child of Mr. Hallam's brother, and tho lawful mistress ot Hallam Lodge ?' The color faded from her face, Jeaving it so pallid that he thought sho was going to faint. Then as quickly the warm blood rashed back again, suffusing her face to the very roots of her hair. « Aro you sure of this?' sho ask- ed. «As sure as of my own life,' he answered I heard it when Mr. Hallam died, from father's dying lips and saw the documents to prove his words. I know I should not have spoken to you as I did, but forget it ull, Loab--' ¢It is so sudden,' she interrupted him, 'but I do not wish to forget them. They have lost me my bro- ther, it is true, but they havo found me something nearer, though dear- er he can never be. Stephen, look into my eyes and tell me were your dreams very wild after all 7' asked her to Of course Mr. Hallam was very much disappointed, and Frank Ver- non even more so. The one, how- over, found consolation in being allowed to retain Hallam Lodge, and the other by returning to his old love and marrying Fdith. Leah and her husband are happy in each other's love--what more need be said ? Heavy Damages. The driver of cne of the Brooklyn City Street Cars hailed a Loy passing with a can of water, and asked for a drink, The horses were walking at that time, and the lad jumped on. Before getting off, he asked the driver to stop. Instead of heeding the lad's request, the man whipped up the animals, and the boy's right foot catching in the step he was thrown, dragged a distance, and his leg crushed so seriously that it bad to be amputated. An action was entered for damages at $20,000, Iu the first court the plaintiff was non-suited, on the ground thst ho was not a passenger, and the diver had no right to invite him on the car. A new trial was granted, and the judye holding that the driver being thirsty had a right to ask the boy to board the carto give bim a drink, dhe jury awarded half the amount gought, namely, $10,000, The company, having taken proceedings forfeiting their right to appeal, will have to pay the money, and carry something like half a million passengers before making the amount good. Lat Nothing. # Blessed be nothing !" an old woman said, As she scrubbed away for her daily bread ; « I'tii better oft that thy neighbor the squire, He's afraid of robbers, afraid of fire, Afraid of flood to wreck his mill, Afraid of something to cross his will, I've nothing to burn and nothing to steal, But a bit of pork and a barrel of meal, A house that only keeps off the rain Is easy burnt up and built ngain, Blessed bo nothing! My heart Is light ; I sing at my washing and sleep all night." « Blessed be nothing 1" the youtig mn cried, As he turned with a smile to his smiling bride, ¢ Banks are breaking and stocks are down, There's dicad and bitterness all over town; There are brokers groaning and bankers sad, and men whose losses have made them mad ; There's silk and satin but want of bread, Aud many a mother would fain be dead Whose little children sobbing cling For the daily joy she cannot bring. Blessed be nothing, for you and me, We have no riches on wings to flee." Blessed be nothing, if man might choose, For he who hath it hath nothing to lose ; Nothing to fear from flood or fire, All things to hope for and to desire; The dream that is better than waking days, 'The future that feeds the longing gase ; Better, far better, than aught we hold, As far as mining exceedeth gold, Or hope fruition in earth below, Or peace that is infus than outward show. Alinost, when worn by weary years, Tired with a pathway of thorns and tears, When kindred fail us and love has fled, And we know the living less than the dead, We think that the best of mortal good Is a painless, friendless solitude, For the pangs are more than the peace they give, Who make our lives so sad to live, Blessed be nothing, it knows no loss, Nor the sharpest nail of the Master's cross; No friend to deny us, of none bereft, And the' we have no one, yet God is left. Yet having nothing, the whole is ours No thorns can pierce us who have n flowers ; And sure is the promise of His word, Thy poor are blessed in spirit, Lord! Whate'er we lose in wealth or care, Still there is left the breath of prayer-- That heavenly breath of a world so high, Sorrow or sinning come not nigh ; The gure and certain mercy of Him Phat sittath botween the Cherubim, © Yet cares for the lonely sparrow's fall, Aud is ready and eager to help us all, Rich in His bounty to all beneath, To the poorest aud saddest He giveth death, 8 Analects of Confucius. To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is casy. He who speaks without modesty will find it bard to make his words good. To have faults and not to reform them-- this indeed should be pronounced having faults, For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought indeed to be careful in avhat we say. tle who is not in any particular office has nothing to do with plans for the administra- tion of its duties, When we see men of worth wo should think of equalling them ; when we see men of a contrary character ave should turn ju- wardly and examine ouisclves. Do not anxiously hope for what has not yet come, If you wish to know what most engages a man's thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation, ¥ A little impatience subverts great under- takings, fivery man sees the faults of others; but cannot discern his own, Better not be than be nothing. dues not fear fire, True gold The full moon soon vanishes and the bright cloud does not last. a -- Gems of Thought. One smile for the living is worth a dozen tears for the dead. Laziness isa premature death, To be in no action is not to live. A man owes his success in bis life work to the woman who walks beside him, The sweetest thing on earth is a little child when it bas learned to know and love. The innocence and purity of childhood Lrings bitter heart pangs to the sin-harden= ed wan und worldy woman, It is better to wear out than rust out. -- We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike until is made hot. People who cannot hedrtily love and hate will never command the one or kmow the cheering influence of the other. It the loved ones could come back to earth only long enough to be forgiven, it would relieve many a remorseful heart, The object of all ambition should be to be happy at home. If we cannot be Lappy clsewhere. Tears are the gift that love bestowes upon the memory of the absent, aud they will avail to keep the heart from suffocation. + It is a curious fact that on the track of kopavery & misplaced switch will be found somewhere, and it is sure to wreck the train, one place than another, and Lwill show yoti himself, «3 Good picturesars great teachers, work of art banging in one's house, to him constantly in language of tender | mystery to Lean, even when months Show me the man who cares uo mote for |; in that person one who loves nothing but | 'speaks cnt ag pS An alibi--Dodging down & back lave td. escape a creditor, Gent A slippery patoment is often the powef behind the thrown, i : To remove paint from the Wwall--back up against it before it gets dry. Always put up something fora rainy day. An umbrella, for instance. 1 ! + We flad him guilty, but not very guilty,' was a recent Chicago verdict. A man can never see the point of a joké in a paper he does not pay for, An Irishman says a coffin is the house & than lives in when he is dead, Mrs, Partington said her nfinistel preached about the ¢ parody of the probable son.' «Weel let the subject drop,' as, the grave robbers said when the police chased them. The schoolboy manages to be more per- fect in ¢ recess' than iu any other exercise of the school, The man who is waiting for something td turn up generally finds it when he steps od a barrel hoop, Doctors conslder the house furnace as their best friend. Tt gives them more cases of lung trouble than all other influences. It requires wonderful insight, says thd Stillwater Lumberman, to keep your consciens tious scruples and your liver symptoms sep- erate, - Lite fs but a span, Marriage ts a double team. Youth wedded to old age is a tandem. A cross old bachelor is single and «| all sulky. A French paper says: * Not one Americad in a hundred has a handsome chin.' Of coarse not j their time is devoted to the culé tivation of cheelt. Philadelphia propuses to introduce the the needle in the public schools, Asan improvement on the bent pin we think it will prove a success. $ In polite society it's not reckoned the correct thing t oask a lady if she has been cating ouions for supper, but you can keep away from her all the same, The Elk Poiut (T. D.) Courier says there is very little difference between a man who sees a ghost and one who swallows a bad oyster as far as looks dre concerned. The Indians used to 'bury' their dead id the tops of high trees. This was considered an awful joke on the Ohio medical students burrowing around in the ground beneath, A sigu before a Boston grocery reads as follows : ¢ Wooden pails, 6 cents each. Notice--We did not steal thdse pails, but we think the man we 'bought them froin did.' A gentleman, noticing that bis wife's bone nets grew smaller and the bills larger and larger, calmly said: *I suppose this thing will go on till the milliner Will send nothing but the bill.' It is said that artificial eyes for holses are now so skillfully made that they defy detec tion. The imitation must be wonderful in. deed, for the horses themselves cannot see through tbe deception, > At Salt Lake the other day, a young lad§ entered a store and called for a pair of stockings. The clerk politely asked her what number she wore. + Why, two; do you suppose 1 am a centipede 7 Ancxchange tells of a young man who swore off smoking and was worth $10,000 in 5 years. There's some mistake hore, Wd know a young min who swore off fifty times in five years and isn't worth a vent, Mvery once in a while we hear of a Calic fornian woman killing a bear. That is all right. But we challenge the world to ran- sack the pages of history and show us where a woman ever got away with a mouse, A young mun asked a young lady ber age; and she replied: 6 times 7, and 7, times 3 added to my age will exceed 6 times 9 and 4,as double my age exceeds 2Q. The young man said hoe thought she looked much older. There was a tide in the affairs of Noal; taken at the flood, which did not lead on to glorious fortunes, though the patri-ark managed to keep his head above water, and save * the only complete collection of wild and trained animals in the world.' The story that the late Judge Cadwaladet of Philadelphia, wus so punctilious as re- garded official dignity. that he fined hig brother $50 for contempt one day when he came into court aud addressed the Bench ad «John, is possibly somewhat exaggerated, In the churchyard of Childwell, Edgland; there is this epitaph i-- Here lies the remains of Thos. Woodhen, "Phe most amiable of husbands and excelletib of wen, N.B.--His name was Woodcock, but it would not come in rhyme. Mark Twain says that French duels are dangerous afluirs, not, however, from any fear of immediate loss of life,or limb, or even bloodshed, but because duls are always fought in the open air, and the duclists are exposed to the hazard of catching cold, and' injuring theie health; When a woman burns her fingers she cries a liftle over it, and keeps the burn id good bome to get sympathy, A wan in ste condition will stick his diget in bi§ mouth. kick over the office tool, swear at the boy; and forget all about it. Ona 1s the effect: of The editor of an exchange did not mead to improve upon the old adage; but the cout La positor was an original sott of a felloW ' it appeared in the paper, * It's a Poot mule that won't work both ways.' Tlie statement geems a little stictling dt first, but a a philosopher; Phiilosophets have written and p sung of the feelings of a man beauty that wins its way to the heart, Ta condition to show her husbandwhen lie tome# * love the other of business. id reflection will show that the compositer was: