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7 oS TS od NO r VOL. XXII, NO 41.} S---------- AND GENERAL ADVERTISER EE -- PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ON TARIO, THURSDAY, SEPT, 25, ss -- emt RTH ONTARIO OBSERVE 1879. {WHOLE NO. 1138 A WEEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICUL- TURAL § FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 1S PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT., BEVERY 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 are paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line, first insertion ........$0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line ...... 0 02 Cards, under 6 lines, per annum .,... 5 00 Letters containing money, when ad- dressed to this Office, pre-paid and regester- ed, will be at our risk ; Advertisements measured by Nonpareil, and charged according to the space they oc- eupy. oN variisomants received for publication, without specific instructions, will be 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. 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, Ball Cards, &c.,of every style and solor, executed promptly and at lower rates than any other establishment in the County. B&F Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &c. printed can have them done to take home with them, J. BAIRD. H. PARSONS. Professional Cards. Emme -- H. SANGSTER, M. D., Physician, Sur- J « geon and Accoucheur, Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY. Office over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of. Queen and Perry Streets. OfMce hours from Ha, m. to 12 m. Residence, the dwelling recently occupied by Mrs, Geo, Paxton. Coronor for the County of ysielan, Surgeon and Ac- R. WARE, Ontario, eoucheur, Office, opposite the town hall. Port Perry. LR. C. 8, Guy's NM. FL NCB R.C. Yio and." The Eye R. Ww F¥ospital, L 9, H. wy Oshawa, SH LL. B., Solicitor in Attorney, Conveyancer, &c. Oshawa. ¥ YMAN L 1 Chancery, ce--Simeoe street, opposite the Post Office YOUNG SMITH, LL. B., Barrister, At- OG tornev-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, nd Insolvency, Notary Publie, &e. OMee--MeMiilan's Block, Brock street, 'Whitby. W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan x cery Notary Public, &e., &c. Jffice hours punctually from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Money 10 Loan at 8 per cent,on all kinds of good security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. ¥. PATERSON, (late of Beaverton.) N Barrister an1 Attorney-at Law, Solici- tor in 'ha y, Conveyancer, Notary Pub- Lie, &e., &e. a Office over Brown & Curries Store Port Perry. BILLINGS Barrister, Solicitor, Notary J: Public, &ec, Port Perry. 29 A large amount of money to loan at § per cent. J. A. MURRAY, ATE Patterson & * 4 Fenton, Surgeon De Office over Corrigan & Camp- bell's Store, Port Perry. All work done in the very : latest and best style and warranted to give satisfaction, Port Perry, March 28, 1877. C. N. VARS, L. D. 8. EETH inserted on all the latest princi- ples of thie art, and as cheap as the cheap- ast, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted without pain by producing local anmsth- esia, Dentical Rooms--in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Street, Oshawa, : Hanning & Lally. L. SURVEYORS, CIVIL EN- P. GiNegrs. Draughtsmen, Solicitors of Patents. Office, Gould's Block, Uxbridge. ©. @. HANNING. C. W. LALLY. Moxey ro Loax --C. G. Hanning, Agent forthe Freehold Loan & Savings Co. Uxbridge, March 26, 1879. ENRY GRIST, Patex SoLiCITOR AND Dravenruay, Ottawa, Canada "Transacts business 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 neces- sary to secure Patents of Invention, prepared in receipt of the model of the Invention. D. BATEMAN, Veterinary Surgeon, 'PORT PERRY. LL CALLS by day or night promptly attended to. rders by mail or telegraph will be attended to without delay. Orrice--Mary Street, directly south of Hallett's Hotel. D. BATEMAN. Pert Perry, April 9, 1879, Re-appointed Issuer Marriage Tiicenses. Under the New Act. Office, lot 10, in the 1st on. Brock. Brock, Ang. 5,1874, W. BURNHAM, Clerk of the Third Divi- + sion. Court. Office in Bigelow's Block, Port Perry, 33 Business @ards. ON TARLO BANK. CAPITAL $3,000,000 PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINCS DEPARTMENT. vi Department is now open in RB dng Rin Branch. Deposits of FiveDollars and upwards received and inter= est allowed thereon. No notice of withdrawal required. A.A. ALLEN, MANAGER. C. DAWES, LICENSED AUCTIONEER, FOR THB COUNTY OF "ONTARIO, Township of Maiposa Charges to suit the Times. C. DAWES. Port Perry, Feb 12, 1879. W. M. WILILCOX ETURNING my sincere thanks to my + \ mimerous friends and patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed upon me as Auctioneer during the past cight years, I would now beg to offer my services to all 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 of none in the County, and this is of import- ance as it the Auctioneer is not 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. Sule Bills arranged and notes supplied free of charge. JNO. & D. J. ADAMS, Money, Land & Insurance BROKERS, PORT PERRY, Hx 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 Afidavits in Court of Queen's Bench, &e. MONEY TO LOAN In any manner to suit borrowers, Mortgages Bought, Accounts, Notes, &e., Collected and prom pt remittances made, The party borrowing money ean get it without commission, at the Lowest rate, and is allowed to fix his own time for payinent of interest once a year (not in advance), and he cun at any time, just as circumstances permit repay part or all of the principal, the Company binding themselves inthe mort- gage Lo accept such sum, whether large or small, and apply it as a direct reduction of principal, immediately cancelling the interest on the sum paid. No extra charge Is ¢ on such repayment. Loans made from 20 years on farm, or good pioductive property. ted \ 0 town who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or | Farm Stock with an accuracy second to Uxbridg In all cases where the title is perfeet, the cost will be very slight to the borrower. As am acting both as Agent and Valuator for several Companies there can possibly be no publicity in the transaction. If the title is perfeet the money will be paid here in two weeks after making applica tion. JAMES LUND, Broker, &e., Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and Bascom streets, Uxbridge. May 17, 1877. MONEY TO LOAN. The undersigned has any amonnt of Money to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at Days of Sale may be arranged at the Unusually Low Rates of Interest! Opsgrver Office, where a Sale Register will | be kept. Terms Liberal, Port Perry, Sept. 4, 1877. W.M.W. | BE. MAJOR, ~ ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties I; wishing his services can call at the "QUserver" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Sales. i Port Perry, Jan 10, 1879. WM. GORDON, L d Auctioneer, V OR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, { Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, . pe Parties entrusting their Sales to me may rely on the utmost attention being given to their interests. Sunderland, Brock. T. H. WALSHE, ICENSED Auctioneer for the Township Li of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in North Ontario ; Mariposa, etc., in the County of Victoria. 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 prompt remittances made. Remember-- WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction- eer. WM. HEZZELWOOD, Licensed Auctioneer. HE Undersigned having taken out a License as Auctioneer is now prepared to attend to all sales entrusted to him.-- | Having had much experience in -handling Real Estate, Live Stock such as Horses, Cattle, Sheep, &c., also Farming Imple- ments of all kinds, Farm Preduce, &c, &c., parties placing their sales in my bands may rely on getting all forthe property that is ible to bring. : Pon orders promptly attended to, sale bills made out and sale notes turnished free of Charge. Parties leaving their orders at the Osssrver Office, Port Perry, will receive immediate and careful attention, Charges Moderate, ns WM. HEZZELWOOD, Raglan. Raglan, Sept 10,1878. Ww SPENCE, CoxTRACTOR, BUILDER, &cC. The Subscriber in returning his sincere hanks for the very liberal be- stowed on him in the past would inform the public generally that having bought a Dre perty and moved into t| il of Prince Albert, give his whole now , Plastering, oh shone will execute on the short est notice and in She heat and most durable the very lowe, a Se Fo "i "be one, ne material mans and first-class worl bra. SPENCE. Prince Albert, April 5, 1876. OHN CHRISTIE, TOWNSHIP OLEREK, ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchester. T. C. . Marriage Licenses. One door west of the Walker House Port Perry. BOARD. OUR or five young men can be accom- modated with Board, two doors north of the M. E. Church, Port Perry. . RS. W. LEE. FORMAN, 1SSUER OF 'OfMee hours from 10 a. m, to8 p. m. sy wd | WM. GORDON, | 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 Delien tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks. Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, 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 logge amount of private funds which he Is prepared to invest for periods to suit borrow- ers--interest at eight per cent. Expedition and most reasonable terms assured. 8. H. CHRISTIAN, Manchester, October 17, 1877. : Motels. THE WALKER HOUSE PORT PERRY Subscriber having leased the above AL hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the approbation and patronage of the public, THE WALKER HOUSE whether for extent or quality of accommo- dations is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and su by none out of the best cities, C: Travelers, th iz Public, Farmers and 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 dation and moderation in charges. he 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. P° RT PERRY HOUSE, PORT PERRY, JAS. V. THOMPSON, - PROPRIETOR. The above House is now most comtort- ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigars, algo, first cls abling and good Ostlers,-- Additions have been made which maker this 1 | the largest and best House in this section of country. Fare $1.00 per Day. cy MERCIAL HOTEL, The subscriber having succeeded Mr, guests The supplies for the table and bar care- fully selected. PETER HOLT. Cartwright, March 4, 1879. R EVERE HOUS vu MANCHESTER, By GEO. HOUCK. Having leased the above excellent Iotel it will be my endeavor to conduct it in| every particular so as to merit the appro- bation and patronage of the public. Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. (FTARIO ROTEL, WHITBY, T. MASON, PROPRIETOR. The public well card for, and all Guests will please feel at home. Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. UEEN'S HOTEL, | Corner of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts. CANNINGTON, Oxr. D.CAMPBELL, . . This Hotel is now furnished in the best | style, and offers every accommodation to | travelers B&y~ First class Sample Rooms. Livery Prorrieror MONEY TO LOAN. HE Subscriber is prepared to lend money on improved property for terms from one to twenty years, Agent fof Westiry Cavapa Loax asp Savixas Company, He has also been instructed to invest a large amount of Private Funds, Inter st Eight per cent. No Commission. N. F. PATERSON. Port Perry, May 20, 1878. Solicitor CLEMENT DAWES, AS Money to Loan on Farm security in any manner to suit borrowers. Mort. gages bought at lowest rates. Accounts, Noter, &c, collected on reasonable Com. mission. Apply personally, or by letter to C DAWES, Auctioneer, &c., Port Perry, March 7, 1878. MONHEFH [Private Funds,) T'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- terest. LYMAN ENGLISH, Barrister, &c., Oshawa 4 November 21, 1866. WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. INCORPORATED 1851. CAPITAL . . $800000. (With power to increase to $1,000,000.) HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. pF Insurances effected at the lowest on Buildi wh Cannington, Oct, 20, 1875. 43] A; SaLo-aMERICAN 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! Strict attention paid to the comfort of guests. The table and bar well supplied. W. H. PARK. Prince Albert, June 12, 1875. A RASTRONG HOUSE, (LATE ALBION,) WHITBY, ONTARIO. E. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. The Only First Class House in Town. PENsoy HOUSE, late Jewett House, Kent Street, Lindeay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. pee QUEEN'S HOTEL, WHITBY, ONT. McOANN & TAYLOR, Propmizrors. Every for tha public. CENTRE HOTEL, SAINTFIELD. The dersigned having th reno- vated and the above iently located Hotel, would now inform the traveling public that the utmost attention will be given to the comfort and convenience of al! guests. Choice supplies for the table and the bar. Good cuirent rates y and other property, against loss or damage by fire. JNO. & D. J. ADAMS, Agents, Port Perry, Port Perry, Jan 22, 1879. THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Insuance Co'y Head Office, Whitby, This Company is now fully organized and is prepared to accept risks on Farm Buildings and their contents, country School Houses and Churches, Those wishing to insure and thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportunity of doing so, either 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. C. NOURSE, Seeretary. M Port Perry, Aug. 20, 1879, W. H. BROWNE, General Agent. Stabling and a careful hostler. JOS. BROWN, Propri Dewart in the Commercial Motel, Williams- | burg, Cartwright, intends fitting it np with a | view to the comfort and convenience of | fof deeper insult, seeking thus to | At this hands sat motionless for several WHICH WAS THE COWARD? ¢ Will you bear that, Edward ?' Tho young man to whom this was addressed stood facing another per- son about his own age, on whose flushed countenance was an expres- sion of angry defiance. The name of this person was Logan. A third party, also a young man, had asked the question in a tone of surprize and regret. Before there was time for a response, Logan said sharply and in a voice of stinging contempt : 'You are a poor, mean coward, Edward Wilson! I repeat the words ; and if there isa particle of manhood about you--' Logan paused for an instant, but quickly added, ' You will resent the insult.' Why did he pause? His words had aroused a feeling in the breast of Wilson that instantly betrayed itself in his face. The word coward in that instant of time would more fittingly have applied to James Logan. But as quickly as the flash leaves tho cloud so quickly faded the indignant light from the eyes of Edward Wilson. What a fierce struggle agitated him for the mo- ment !Y *We have been fast {riends, James,' anid Wilson calmly, 'bat even if that were not so I would not strike you.' 'You're afraid.' "1 will not deny it. 1 have al- ways been afraid todo wrong.' | Bah! cantand hypocrisy,' - said the other contemptously. 'You know me better than that, James Logan. Iam sorry that in; your resentment of an imagined wron you should so far forget what is just to my character as to charge | upon me such mean vices. I reject the implied allegation as false.' There was an hagnest indignation in the manner of Wilson that he did not attempt to repress, "Do you call me a liar?' exclaim- ed Logan in uncontrollable passion, drawing back his hand and making a motion as if he was about to strike | the other in the face. | The eyes of Wilson quailed not, [nor was the smallest quiver of a | mascis perceptible. For some | cause the purpose of Lagan was not exccuted. Instead of giving a blow he assailed his antagnist with words provoke an assault. Bat Wilson was not to be driven from the cita- del in which he had entrenched himself. i "If I am a coward, well,' he said, 1 would rather be thought 'a cow- ard that lay my hand in violence on bim whom I once called friend.' moment light girlish laughter and the ringing of merry voices reached the ears of our ex- cited young men, and their relation of antagonism at once changed. Logan walked away in the direction from which the voices came; while the other two remained where they had been standing. 'Why didn,t you knock him down ?' asked the companion of Wilson.} The latter, whose face was now very sober and very pale, shovk his head slowly, but made no other response. 'I believe you are a coward I' ex~ claimed the other impatiently, and turning off he went in the direction taken by Logan. The moment Wilson was alone he seated bimself on the ground, con cealed from the party whose voices had interrupted them by a large rock, and covering his face with his minutes. How much he suffered in that short space of time we will not attempt to describe. The struggle with his indignant impulses had been very severe. Ile was no cow. ard at beart. What was right and humane he was ever ready to do even at the risk of both physical and mental suffering. Clearly conscious was he of this. Yet thia could not and Saintfield, March 25, 1879. NPISSING HOTEL, SUNDERLAND. The undersigned having leased the above Hotel has renovated and fitted it up with a view to the satisfaction and convenience of uests. Supplies for the table and bar care- ully selected. The traveling public will find gras adeonmodetion necessary to comfort at pissing Hotel. T. TUCKER. Sunderland, May 5, 1879. FE NONQUON HOTEL. again. | Sreie sod gs The occabion of this misunder- a pdersigned having purchased the | ging ia" briefly told. Wilson did not protect him from the unjust and stinging charge of cowardice 80 brought against him. In spite of his better reason he felt humiliated ; and there were moments when he regretted the forbearance that saved the insolent Logan from punish- ment. They were bat moments of weakness. in the strength of manly character he was quickly himself ghly ed in every department in and around the premises fitting it in every way to secure the comfort of guests. The supplies for the table and bar will always be the best the market can supply. No effort will be spared in making this large aud pleasantly located Hotel an agreeable resting place for the traveling public. W.S.LATIMOR. Seagrave, May 1, 1870 made one of a little pleasure party from a neighboring village that was spending the afternoon in a shady retreat on the banks ofa mill stream. There were three or four young men and half a dozen maidens ; and, as often b on such ions, tid some rivalries wero excited among the former. These should only have added pignancy to the merry intercourse of all parties ; and would have done so but for the impationt temperament of Logan which car- ried him a little beyond good fecling and a generous deportment towards others. Without due reflection, yet in no sarcastic spirit, Wilson made a remark on some act of Logan's that irritated him exceedingly. An angry spot burned instantly on his cheek and he replied with words of cutting insult, so cutting that all present expected nothing less than a blow from Wilson as his answer to the remark. And to deal a blow was his first impulse, but be restrain- ed himself; and it required more courage to do this than to have stricken the insolent young man to the ground. A moment or two he struggled with himself, then turned and walked slowly away. His flushed and then paling face, his quivering lips and unsteady eyos, left on the minds of all who witnessed the affair an impression somewhat unfavorable. Partaking of the indignant excitement of the moment many of those looked for the instant punishment for his un- justifiable insult. When, therefore, they saw Wilson turn away without even a defiant arswer, and heard the low, sneeringly attered word 'coward' from the lips of Logan, | they felt that there must be a craven | spirit about the young man. A] coward we instinctively despise; | and yet, how slow we are to elevate | that higher moral courage which! enables a man to brave unjust judg- | ment rather than do what he thinks to be wrong, above the mere brute | instinet which, in the moment of! excitement, forgets all physical | consequences. | As Edward Wilson walked away! from his companions he felt that he was regarded as a coward. This was for him a bitter trial, and the more so because in- that little group strength of bis own arm. Bravely Ao he pushed from the shore, and, with giant strength, born of the moment and for the occasion, from his high, unselfish purpose, ho dashed the boat out into the current, and bend- ing to the oars, took a direction at an angle with the other boat, {o- wards the point where the water was sweeping over the dam. At every stroke the light skiff sprang forward a dozen feet, and scarcely halfa minute elapsed ere Wilson was beside the other boat.-- Both were now within twenty yards of the fall ; and the water was bear= ing them down with a velocity that a strong power, with every advant. age on his side, could scarcely have contended against successfully. To transfer the frightened girls from one boat to the other, in the few moments of time left ore the down speeping current would bear the frail vessel to the edge of the dam and still to retain an advantage was, for Wilson, impossible. To lot his own boat go and manage theirs he saw to be equally impossible. A cry of dispair reached the young man, the oars dropped from his grasp into the water. It was evi- dent to the spectators of the fearful scene that ho had lost his presence of mind, and that now all was over. Not so, however. In the next mo- ment, he had sprang into the water which, near the breast of the dam was not more than two feet deep. As be did so he grasped the other boat, and bracing himself firmly against the rushing current, held it poired a few yards from the point where the foam crested waves leaped into the whirlpool below.-- At the same instant his own boat shot like an arrow over the dam.-- He had gained, Lowever, buta small advantage. It required his utmost strength to keep the boat he had grasped from dragging him down the fall, The quickly formed purpose of Wilion, in thus springing into the of startled maidens for whose gener- | water, had been to drag the boat ous regard he would have sacrificed against the current to the shore.-- all but honor. , but this he perceived to be impos- It was, perhaps, half an hour after sible the moment he felt the real this unpleasant occurrence, that | strength of the current, If he were Logan, whose heart still burned to let the boat go he could easily with an unforgiving spirit, encount- save himself. But notonce did such ered Wilson under circumstances |a thought enter his own heart. that left. him free to ropeat his in- | ¢ Lie down close to the bottom,' sulting language without disturbing he said in a quick, hoarse voice.-- the rest of the party, who were |The terror stricken girls obeyed the amusing themselves at some dis~|injunction instantly. tancé and beyond the range of ob-| And now, with a coolness that servation. Ile did not succeed in|wonderful under all circumstances. obtaining a personal encounter ashe | Wilson moved the boat several yards had desired. away from the nearest shore, until Edward Wilson had been for some ' he reached a point where he knew time sitting alone with his unhappy | the water below the dam to be more thoughts, when 'he was aroused by | expanded and free from rocks.-- sudden cries of alarm, the tone of | Then throwing bis body suddenly which told his heart too plainly [against the boat, ranning along un- that some imminent danger im-|(il ho was within a few feet of the pended. Springing to his feet be dam, he sprang into it and passed ran in the direction of the cries, and [over it. A moment or two the quickly saw the cause of the excite-| light vessel, as it shot out into the ment. Recently heavy rains had swollen the mountain stream, the turbid waters of which were sweep ing down with great velocity. Two young girls, who had been' amusing themselves at some distance above in a boat, that was attached to the shore by a long rope, had, through some nccident, got the fastonings loose, and were now gliding down far out in the current with a fear- fully increasing speed, towards the breast of the milldam, some hundred yards below, from which the water was thundering down a height of over twenty feet. Pale with terror the poor young creatures were stretching out their hands towards their companions on the shore and uttering beartrending cries for succor. Instant action was necessary or all would be lost. The position of the young girls had been discovered while they were yet somo distance ubove, and there happening to be another boat on the milldam, and that nigh at hand, Logan and two other young men had loosend ii from the shore. But the danger of being carried over the dam should any one venture out in that boat, seemed so inevitable, that none of them dared to encounter the hazard. Now screaming and ringing their hands, and now urging these men to try and save their companions, stood the young maidens of the party, on the shore, when Wilson dashed through them, and springing to the boat, cried out: 'Quick, Logon! Take an oar or all is lost. But, instead of his, Logan stepp- od back a pace or two from the boat while his face grew pale with fear. Not an instant more was wasted. -- At a glance Wilson saw that if the air, stood poised, and then went plunging down. The fearful plunge was madein safety, The bowt struck the sceth- ing waters below and glanced out from the whirlpool, bearing its liv= ing freight uninjured. * Which is the coward?" The words reached the ears of Logan, as he gathered with the rest of the company, around Wilson and the pale, trembling girls he had so ber-- oically saved. Fair lips asked the question. One maiden had spok Some years ago there used to be pointed ont, tpon the streets of Glasgow, a meth whose mind had been unsettled upon a strange account, Wheh a youth be had happened to pass a lady on a crowded thorotighfare--a lady whose extreme beauty though dimmed by the intervention of a veil, and seen bit for a moment, made an indellible impression upon his mind. This lovely vision shot rapidly past him, and was instantly lost amidst the common place crowd through which it moved. He wass g confounded by the tumult ot his feelings {hat he could not pursue or even attempt to see it again. Yet he never afterwards forgot it. With a mind full of distracting thoughts and a heart filled alternately with gushes of pleasure and pain, the man slowly left the spot where he had stood for some minutes 83 it were thunderstruck, He soon after; without being aware of what he wished or what he was doing, found himself again at the place. He came to the very spot where he had stood when the lady passed, mused for some time about it, went to & little distance and then came up as he had come when he had met the exquisite subject of his reverie--unconsciously deluding him. self with the idea that this might recall her to the spot. She came nut; he felt disape pointed, He tried again ; still she abstain. ed from passing. He continued to traverse the place till evening, when the street became deserted. By-and-by he was left altogether alone, He then saw that all his fond efforts were in vain, and he left the silent, lonely street at midnight, with a soul as desolate as that gloomy terrace, For weeks afterwards he was never off the streets, He wandered hither and thither throughout the town like a forlorn ghost. In particular he often visited the place whe re he had first seen the object of his abstracted thoughts, as if he considered he had a better chance of seelng her there than anywhere clse, He frequented every place of public amusement to which he could purchase ad- mission, and made a tour of all the churches in the town, All in vain, He never again placed his eyes upon that angelic counten< ance. She was ever preset to his mental optics, but elie never appeared in a tangible form. Without her essential presence all the world beside was to him a Dblank--a wilderness. Madness invariably takes possession of the mind which broods over much or over long upon some engrossing idea. 8o did it prove with this singular lover, He grew * inno« cent,' as the people of that country tenderly phrase it. His Insanity, however, was little more than abstraction. The course of his mind was stopped at a particular point. After this he made no further progress in any intellectual attainments. He acquired uo new Ideas, His whole soul stood still, He was like a clock stopped at a particular hour, with some things, too, about Lim, which like the motionless indices of that machine, pointed out the date of interruption, As, for instance, he ever after wore a peculiarly Jong.backed and high-necked coat, as well as a neck-cloth of a particular spot--being the fashion of the year when he saw the lady. Indeed he wasa sort of living memorial of the dress, gait, and manner of a former day, It was evident that he clung with a degree of fondness to everything which bore relation to the great incident of his life. Nor could he endure anything that tended to cover up or screefi from his recollection that glorious yet melancholy circumstaace. He had the same feeling 0 veneration for that day, that circumstance, and for himself as he then existed, which caused the chivalrous lover of former fimes to preserve upon his lips, as long as he coulds the Imaginary delight which they had drawn from the touch of his mistress' hand. When I last saw this unfortunate person he was getting old and seemed still more deranged than formerly, Every female whom he met on the street, especially if at all good looking, he gazed at with an enquir: ing, anxious expression, and when she had passed he usually stood still a few maments and mused with his eyes cast upon the ground, It was remarkable that he gazed most anxiously upon women whose age and figure most nearly resembled that of his un- known mistress at the time he had seen hef and that he dia not appear to make allow. ance for the years which had passed since his eyes met that vision, This was part of his madness, Strang: power of love | Incom- prehensible mechanism of the human heart ! and in a louder voice than she had intended. 'Not Edward Wilson,' said Logan as he stepped forward and grasped the band of him he had so wronged and insulted. 'Not Edward Wilson! He is the noblest and the bravest.' Wilson made an effort to reply.-- But he was for some moments too much excited and exhausted to spoak. At last he said : 'I only did what was right. May [ ever have courage for that while 1 live.! Afterwards he remarked, when alone with Logan: ¢It required a a far greater exercise of courage to forbear when you provoked and in- sulted me in the presence of those who expected retalliation,than it did to rsik my hfe at the milldam.' There is a moral heroism that few can appreciate. And it will usually be found, thatthe morally brave man is quickest to lose the sense of personal danger when others are in peril. A story iow goes the rounds that & mem- ber of the British Cabinet having called the I to another, Beaconsfield, "Uncivilized 7" exclaimed the Premier, with that calm astonishment that prec.des his plange into paradox, © I do not quite see that. They have routed our armies, outwitted our Generals, killed a girls were saved it must be by the prince and converted a bishop. The most , civilised nation could not do more," Pr of Mind. Presence of mind has proved valuable in several interesting cases. Henry Kuhn, at the bottom of a Dubuque well, drove hig pick axe into the side, and stood under it when he saw the earth-laden bucket falling, thus saving himself from being crushed, -- John Carey, when the lightning struck the New Haven mill, of which he was foreman knocked down three of the panic.stricken operatives, who were madly rushing towards the narrow exite and, so prevented a danger- ous jam on the stairway. Mrs. Dunkin of Long Prarie, Minn., was threatened with an axe by her crazy son. She said: 'Well, it if you want to chop my bead off, let's go to the chopping block." He 'nodded and they passed out to the wood-pile. It was dark and, and addressing him with, 'Now, I'll put my head on the block, she drow the white kerchief from her neck and threw it down and slipped away. The litnatic strack the kerchief a heavy but harmless blow, = Julia Clarke, a San Francisco ¢ Zulus uncivilized in the presence of Lord | shaft, seized