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A ho ~ VOL XV, NO. 52. « yd 3 ow "DENTISTRY. Pe filled with Gold g 3 LL LL decay. 50,85 13 Preserve PRINCE ALBERT, ONT., THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 1872. TTA be Wntavie Whaeoher, A WEEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICULTURAL . AND Family Jewspaper; v8 PUBLISHED AT THE VICTORIA BLOCK, PRINCE ALBERT COUNTY OF ONTARIO, Fvery Thursday : Morning BAIRD & PARSONS, TERMS :--$1.50 perannum, if paid withinsix watheiifustpaid within thattime, $2.00. Nosub- eription taken for less Lhan six months;and nopaper BurgeonDentist, Cor. Main&Brook 8t,, Uxbridge ns pi with the utmost skill and care, warranted to givesatisfaction or no charge, and at prices whic! on Also dealer in all kinds of Jewelry, Fan 2 an ; ry, Fancy { 3 Byrne, Whitby; Jos. offie entrance Simcoe street, third door north of the Ontario Bank. C. D. WAID: hotels Dental opera- tions performed defy competi Rererexces.--H. P. Griggs, Port Hope; Rev. Gould; Esq.,' Ux- ridge. Uxbridg 2, Dec. 17, 1868. bo-ly C. N, VARS RACTICAL Dentist, Oshawa, Ont.-- Dental Rooms directly opposite the post iscentinued until allarrearsave paid. Port Perry, June 16, 1869. "REVERE HOUSE," MANCHESTER Royal Oanadian Hotel, PORT PERRY. HENRY FOY. The Subscriber having leased the above Hotel has fitted up inastyle in keeping with the rapidly increasing business and prosperty of the Village and neighborhood, and with direct re- foivuce to the comfort and convenience of the public. Strict attention paid to the Table and the Bar. Comfortable Stables and attentive Hostlers. Neither labor nor expense will be spared in making the Royal Canadian Hotel worthy of public patronage. Sam Shingle's Angel. BY COLs Ae D, BAILIE. It was near the graveyard gate. The fuce and figure of the man seemed quie familier ; but who was the boy? 'I'he two, as I drew near, stepped back two paces from the narrow path, still facing to the front, brought their heels together with a snap, stood perfectly erect, eyes square 10 the fiont, and with the right band, as I passed. each gave the regular military salute, It was comical to see the young-- ster of eight years or thereabout imitate B. PLANK,............] PROPRIETOR. To lo dis bb bi by RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line, first insection. $0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line.. 0 02 Oards, under 6 lines, per annum...... 5 00 il Mutual Insurance Company Ensurance. AVIN 1 h NG purchased the above hotel, and has d the Bar with the choicest liquors and cigars. Every attention paid to guests.-- Stages to and from Whitby call daily. T Careful ostlers always in attendance. 8 with perfect gravity and in military time the action of the man who stood beside him. A moment more and 1 remembered the man. . ¢ Why, Sam!' 'Ha, ba, colonel! Bothered you a THE ONTARIO FARMERS' Adver edin Pp: ceording tothe space they occupy. Adverli received for pu ion, without pecifie instructions, will beinserted until forbid.an ov, N twillbetaken | g; ut until paid for, wheadvertiseby the year orhalf-year. k I Lisssterms willinallcases, be strictiya de sredio. JOB DEPARTMENT. ings Brock Street, Whitby. Pha nphlets, Hand Bills, Posters, Programmes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards. Bull Cards, &ec., every style and color, executed prowpily und at lower rates than any other Establishment in this County ! Parties from a distance ge'ting handbills, &c. , printed an have them done to take home with them, 4 Bi 8} prepared to accept risks on Farm Buildings and their contents, country School Iouses and Churches. Those wishing to insure and thereby an opportunity of doin; i i Aliberal discountallowedto Merchants and others | to Sins Office, or RE a Wo plying of the Company. low as those of auy responsibleMutual Insurance Company in Canada. 27-1y WESTERN ASSURANCE COMP'Y( TORONTO, C. 'W. is now fully organized and is upport a Home Insurance Company have now gents Our rates will be found as a. Head Office--Tlie old Registry Office Build- Mackie's Hotel, (LATE BRODIE'S,) WALTON STREET, PORT HOPE oo Wu. MACKIE, Proprietor. Jewett's Hotel, KENT STREET, LINDSAY. Good stable and shed attached, and an attentive ostler always in attendance, Free Omnibus to and from the Cars and Boats. , dido't 1? Give us a shake, please----give us-a shake, just for old times. 1 know'd ye wouldn't forget Sam, aud bless'd if 1 didn't feel like + Huggin' of ye when | seed ye comin'. Ha, ba! Itdoes me as much good to see ye as it did tosee the old flag go up at Vicksburg.' Turning te the boy, who had stood at a ¢ parade rest,' he commanded. ¢ Break raoks! an' come an shake bands L. FAIRBANKS, Jx., Secretary DAFOR UTEC A 00D accommodations. J. DAFOE, Proprietor. Centre Hotel, SAINTFIELD, JAS. CAMERON, Proprietor. HOUS KE In Careful attention to the requirements of travelers and guests. he bar supplied with the best wines, liquors and cigars Good stabling. LJ The boy advanced with the air of a man and silently gave me bis band, whilst his large grey eyes seared to be carefully studying my face. ¢Forty-Eight knows ye, colonel -- knows ye of old' coutinued Sam--*all about you au' the lint: black mare. late ye gut er yet? He knows all them little speeches ye used to make the boys, an' what ye used to sing out in the fight when it was a-gettin' hot--ull excepiin' some J. BAIRD. | H. PARSONS. - = INCORPORATED .... vofessionl €arvs. i _Brotesatonal CAS. |capital - = $400,000 Dr. Brathwaite, Presiden N. JOHN McMURRICH PRINCE -ALBERT, HEE (RATD, RALDAN, Eng. Physician, Surgeon, and Accoucheur. A RN . DR. WARE, py ORONER for the County of Ontario, J Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur, Prince Albert : C. E. MARTIY, M. D., PORT PERRY. " DRS. JONES & MALLORY, PpazsivaNs, Surgeons and Accoucheurs, bs PORT PERRY. Ofice--over Allison's Drug Store, Queen-st, R. JONES, M,D., CORONER. A. E. MALLORY, Co. Outario, M.D, C.M Drs. McGILL & RAE, - PrrSiciams Surgeons, &c., &c. Office and Residences, King street, Oshawa. WM. WGILL, M. D. FRANCIS RAE, M. B. WwW. M.Willcox AND TOWNSHIP> OF MARIPOSA & CARTWRIGHT, bestowed upon him during the past four years. intend, in future, to devote my whole time to Albion Hotel, WHITBY. A. MASON, . PROPRIETOR. 'Whitby, 20th June, 1870. 25 This Hotel has undergone a thorough renova- tion and been fitted up with a view to the com- fort and convenience of the traveling public.-- Every attention will be paid to the table and bar, while obliging and atientive hostlers will have charge of the stables. strong, ye know, ay it would not do a boy any good for to Lear. "Go you along abead, Fory-Eight) be said to the boy, 'an' tell the cld Judy we're u-coming.' As the cluld, after again saluting, start- ed whead, Sam resumed : ¢There's a man, colonel, inside them little trousers as General Grant'd be proud 9 ih G8 fe AUCTIONEER, FOR THE COUNTY CF ONTARIO, BESS to thank his many friends and the public generaily for the liberal patronage Having now given up the business of Bailiff, [ WM. F. McBRIEN, M.D, M.R.C,5,, /GUY's HOSPITAL LONDON, ENGLAND. THE EYE R.O.H L., Oshawa. J. E. FAREWELL, LLB, COUTNY CROWN ATTORNEY FOR ONTARIO, Standard Office, Port Perry. ARRISTER, Attorney, Solicitor, and No- W. M. WILLCOX, tary Public. ] Priuce Albert, Sept. 18th 1872. Orrick lately 1 by S. H. Cocl y the busi of Auctioneer, Collecting, &c, attention to business, to give full satisfaction to all who may favor me with their Scles or Col- lecting. . It will be my endeavor, by prompt and careful Bills draughted and Blank Notes furnished free charge. Also Bill Stamps always on hand. Arrangements can be made for sales &c., at the Onsenrver Ofiice Prince Albert, and at the Esq., Brock street, Whitby. LYMAN ENGLISH, L. L. B,, OLICITOR in Chancery, . Attorney, Conveyancer, &c.; Oshawa. Office--Simcoe street, opposite the post office. G. YOUNG SMITH, LL. B, ARRISTER, Attorney-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, and Insolvency, Notary Pub lic, &ec., &c Office--McMillan's Block, Brock Street, Whit- by Ontario. Wm. Gordon, Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator, &e., &e., OR the Townships ot Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thora, Mara, Rama, Mariposa and Eldon. ¥3~ Parties entrusting their Sales to me may relyupon the utmost attention being given to their interests. : WM. GORDON, Sunderland P.0., Brock. CAMERON & MACDONELL, ARRISTERS and Attorneys at Law, Solicitors Oounty Council Ontario. Offices: Jourt House. M 0. CAMERON. | H. J. MACDONELL. Atte ntion! The undersigned would respectfully call the attention of those wishing the services of an Aucti that he is prepared to attend sales JAMES LAMON, TTORNEY at Law, Solicitor in Chancery, Qonveyancer, &c.--Land Agent, &c., xbridge. Office over Armstrong's Hotel, Main street, Uxbridge. JOHN BILLINGS, ID ARRISTER, Atwiney at Law, Solicitor in Chancery, Notary Public, Conveyancer, &s., Prince Albert. Office over in the Royal Arcade, Port Perry. Nr P. A. HURD, ATTORNEY at Law, and Solicitor in Chan- cery, Port Perry. Eee Port Perry. f -J. W. BURNHAMN, LERK of the Third Division Court. Office in Bigelow'sBlock, Port Perry} Office hours from tena. m. to 3 p. to. Deutistry, rr { ] mn H. L. Harnden,L.D.S., Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, © Of Eleven Years Experience; OFFICE, 4 « QUEEN STREET, PORT PERRY |o . RESIDENCE-- PRINCE ALBERT. ular attention given to the regulation Tooth, monsed on Gold, Silver and rs Oils San Miuiginered for the Office in the Royal |* on the shortest notice anywhere in the County of Ontario. Blank Notes and Bill Stamps kept constantly on hand. He is sole Agent for the best and cheapest family Sewing Machine in the Dominion--pat- ented June, 1871. The Patent Letter A Family Sewing Machine is acknowledged by Tailors Milliners, and all who know the properties of Sewing Machines who have had the pleasure of egamining it_to be the best and cheapest in the Dominion. Ladies make sure work, and put chase the Patent Letter A, and you will hav the best machine for $30. All Machines wa ranted. Orders attended to on the shortest notice. J. C. PILKEY, SoLE AGENT. Epsom, Sept. 7, 1871. > THOS, H. WALSHE, I ICENSED Auctioneer for the Town- | 4 ships of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in Mariposa, ete., in the County of Victoria. Residence--Cannington, Brock. Or- ders left at this office, or at his residence i be 1 ded RD rlemedin Can NorthOntario; p to. Deb nington, or otherwise, and prompt remittances e. Remember-- WALSHE, the North On- tario Auctioneer. HENRY GRIST, PATENT SOLICITOR AND DRUUGHTSMA, ; OTTAWA, CANADA, Sransacte business i Je Patent fis and other departments of the Government. - Oats and the Registration of Trade Marks and igns procured. Drawings, Specifications, EE Trenton pecDowen" oa rovtipt of Tae Model of the TARO 7 REFERENCES, > Hon. A. Campbell. Postmaster General; W. C. Smillie. Faqs, Presiaent Britten Bay Note Com, ; Jehn Langton. Esq.. Auditor forth minion Wn Wode. Esa.. Manager Ontario Bank ; Hon. John Carl ng, Minster ef Public Work. Province of Ontario. ---- Porter JOHN CHRISTIE, FYOWNSHIP CLERK for Reach, Con- nation on Horse Practice. Prize Essay on Shoeing. 1867. Dr. Thorn begs to announce that he has taken up his residence at Port Perry. and is now pre- pared to treat all cases entrusted to his care in the most skillful and scientific anuer. ders left at the Medical Hall of Messrs. Allison & Pettet, will receive prompt attention. X35" The Veterinary Stables may be found on Lilly street, opposite Cossitt's Factory. Port Perry, July 27, 1871. of ?| of applicants in each class so vor ot Examingth ib C¥YAS. THORN, V.S., go, 111. All EMBER of the Veterinary Institute, Chica- Gold Medalist for the best exam- Author of a First Graduated Sept. 18, or- 30 10 be the father of Forty-Eight Sidney Foster's a man biled down, if ever there was one.' « What ? IT asked, ¢ Lieutenant Foster's son 1' ¢ Jist ro, sir," answered Sum, whilst n look of sorrow pussed over bis louest face. + And the lieu enaut ? 1 suppose he is--' | and locked the rest of the question. { LA «Yes, tir, gonz-- mustered -- expiration | of term. He never got 'nrely well of] that shot inthe lung; and after she the went, be scemed as though bo was always | a pinin' to be on ihe march after her. Av' last full two year ago, ove night 1 heard | hin a-callin' loud us he could--an' it] New Watch and Jewellery Establish- ment, G. GODDIEN. lately employed by McCaw Book Store, opposite the Ontario Bauk, Ro. manner and at very moderate charges. cheap. moderate. G. GODDEN, Port Perry, Feb. 28, 1872. RACTICAL WATCHMAKER Bros. has now commeaced business in. Mr. Allis 3 Block, and guarantees that all work committed to his care will be done in a geod workmanlike A large stock of superior Watches, Clocks and Jewelry always kept on hand and sold Remember! all work warranted, and charges Allin's Book Store, opposite Ontario Bank, 10. weren't much more nor a whisper at that. | ¢ Sam! suys he. * Lefienant!'| says I. *'Lhe boy-- quick!" says be.--| (You sce the little fel ow always slept | with me ) So | wraps little: Forty-Iight up'an' takes him to the bedside. 'L'he| i, nt jist put bis arms around him, | kiss d hin. once, looked at me, tried to] say somethin', kinder drawed a long} breath, au'--un'--he'd got bis transfer, | colonel. Both of Pens's laid together jist out there--cnt wheres we met you.' : ) Sam! Poor Sam! The breaks in his story, the choling in the throat, aud the bis gulps with which he tried to swallew his grief as he slowly and with bated breath ALE -. COMMENCING ON AT 2 0'CLOCEK, P. M. Certificates. AT 9.0°CLOCK A. M. sent themselves for Examination aud also Clase-- forwarding at the same necessary Certificate of Moral Character. f the PublieSchool Teachers HE County of Ontario Semi-Annual Examination of Candidates for the office of Public School Teacher will be held in the TOWN OF WHITBY, Monday, 16th December 1872, For Candidates for Second and Third Class The Examination of Candidates for First Claes Certificates will be held at the same ° | place as the sbove Commencing on Tuesday, the 24th day of December, Intending Candidates will please notify me without delay of their intention te pre- the GRADE of the Certificate for which they intend to apply; whether lst, 20d or 3rd ime the As Inspectors are required to forward a gave me this informati m, fet mn know full | well that the brave fellow's eyes were full of tears. Passing my arm through his, we walked on for some time in silence. Sam Shingle bad formerly belonged to the Forty-eight Volunteer Infantry which during the war T bad communded Brave men all were they, but the bravest, and at the same time the most troublesome woo in the regiment was this same Sam. A more loyal, geutle, fearless self sacrific ing bieart never apimated 'six feet two' of rough, angular, masculine humavity than it did in Sam. For drinking and fearful profanity he was without a peer in the command, and when drunk be was a per-- fect demon. Lieutenant Foster of his company, slight of build and delicate of frame, a gallant soldier and an educated gentleman, bad In one of the assaults upon Vicksburg t lieutenant had been badly wounded in the right lung, and left upon the field within pistol-shut of the enemy's works. Sam had gone back and carried him off under a heavy fire--an act of self -sacrificing hero- istn that commanded even the respect of the foe, who ceased firing upon the brave soldier and his helpless burden ; not, how- ever, before Sam bad been so severely wounded in the bip and shoulder ss to render his discharge necessary at the same time as the lieutenant. of the D. the see the necessity for ary information at once. 20th day of November, JAMES McBRIEN, Inspector of Public Schools RAGLAN P. Qonsultation free and all work warranted. Oct. 4,1811, 39-1y sun Complain tlh Soh ueen'sBen i carefullya Manchester, - Raglan, Nov. 24, 1872, ( that the y apers may be made out and returned in time for Examination, intending Candidates wil forwarding the necess- Applications must be in my hands by the for the County of Ontario, oon From that time, notwithstanding the the two men were like brothers. Togeth- er they bad gone te Foster's western home, where now, seven years from the time I bad bidden them ¢ Good-bye' upon the field, I bad met Sam. When I first recognized him at this present meeting, I noticed that, whilst the brave, still there, the recklessness seemed entire-- 0. |ly to have disappeared from his face ; the cm in his conversation, also struck me. Wish- ing to find out something ia regard to the noticible change without direct inquiry, said, pointing to a tavern which we were approaching. with yer colonel, Forty- Eight' | d been adopted by Sam as hus special charge. disparity in social position and education, hooest, self-confident look was absegce of profesity, formerly 0 plentiful -- ¢I suppose, Sam, that is your head- quarters ? 'No, sir!" he emphatically replied, ¢ There ain't been a drop of that stuff gone under my buttous since the night--Well, it's over three years now since | swore off for good--promised her, colonel, for ever and ever. Amen! ¢ Bul, colouel,' he contismed, ¢ I'd take it mighty kind ov ye if youd jist tuke the time and walk to my quarters. 1 want "0 have a talk with a Christian. 1've wact- ed it bad tis many a day, an'it seems as though you'd come along a-purpose.' * Why, have you no companions?' 1 inquired. ¢ Oly little Forty-Eight, sir,' was the answer. * 'I'he whiskey crowd keep shy of me, now that I don't train in that com- pany any more, and the upper crust ain't the kind to mix with such as me ; so the little man and me have it all 10 oufselves I 1-arus him what I've picked up--drillin' and disciglin' mostly--aun' he learnd every thing out of books quicker'n snap a cap.' * Don't you go to chu.ch, Sam ?' T ask. ed. ¢ Well, no, colonel, 1 don't. You see I was in the habit of getiin' sorter warped pretty considerable often for a while after I first got here, until she come, an' folks "bout Lere got to thinkin' me a pretty bard lot--aw' so | was--an' when 1 tied both the meetin's "bout a year ago, everybody was a buggin' vod a whisperin' and a look in' at ma 'stead of 'tendin to what the parson sail 5 and I didn't take kintly to that sort of thing, as ye might guess.-- Aoybow, they was too much for we. 1 dare gay thev're all mighty goud people, but they am't my kind. There's only two meetin's here, an' the one person preaches so far ahead of my understaudin' that 1 crn't make out what he's a drivio' at; t'other one says as every one as don't jist believe Lis way is a goin' an' booked for the everlastin' voastin'; an' 1 can't jist « Walk right inan' take a neat, sir. Tain' much of a house, but we've both had worse quarters than thie afore now, aw't we 2' he continued, Chairs were brought upon the porch of the little house, and we sat long in con- versation. The boy and the housekeeper had retired ; still we sat and talked, and there, in the quiet moonlight, the brave, simple-hearted old soldier told me of her \WHOLE NO. 778 | praying nor yet just like talking--what. - { she said waro't. If kind of come over one ~~ just like the music used to sound of a still Sunday Evening when a fellow was a lying on picket, and the band away back in camp, would play some of them hymn tunes, and the breeze woud bring it through the air over the tree-tops, il: you thought it twas---I often Lave shut my who hud rescued bim from the clutches of or Dei sugels hg iy quiet, bis besetting sins... when [ looked at her, seemed as "though . ¢ Ye see, colonel, after we was muster-- | one of them angels was a.setting there be- ed out an' come up here, the lieutenant | side me. bought this little house an' we started to| And then she asked me, for her sake, fix things for the wife to come on; an', promise that | would'nt never touch the way we worked | Well, there wasn't |, n° > more, and | did promise ; and that no sojerin' *bout it, you bet. LI kept! pomise 1 have kept, and will keep, s0 help pretty stiddy them times, "cause I had him | | 0" 04 1 10 look after ; still T used to take my tod : pretty regular. © Well, at last everything was ready, as fur as we could make it vo' | could see that he was gettin' sicker an sicker every day for the sight of her an' baby ; and at list ove. day, when the check came for bis back pay, he just shu right down. * Sam, says le, '1 can't stand it no longer ; I'm off to-night for the wife and litle Sid." Ye see, sir, she was down to her father's in St. Louis, waitin' for him to come for ber. 'That night he started. expectin' to get back in bout three weeks. Fore be went he gave me fifty dollars of mine that he had : he allowed to get Lis check cashed io the city. I seed him off, and then walked back to the honse here with the fifty dol- lars in my pocket. It was mighty lone some here, all alono ; so I starts and goes over to that rum-mill for company. Well | 8'pose you can guess the rest, colonel. In about an hour | was warped the worst you ever seed--vou knows what I am sich times --an' [ kept it up. In ten days I dou't believe I eat a day's rations; just pourcd rom, rum into me all the time, ull | wasn't fit for vothing but a strait- jacket or knocking in the head. Fact! | was just as erazy as a boss in a fire, 1 just made this town howl. It was one night late I came rolling home [row the tavern full as a tick, a- muttering, crizy-like, and striking out at things 1 thought was follerin' me, when as ¢ What times them was, colonel, when she and him was here! Seemed to ma, when she was "rcund that we warn't here at all. I could not have thought a bad thought a bad thought or said a bad word than | could Lave struck her, I dida't know myself. I used to pinch myself and wonder if this was me, them times. She seemed to be all about me--so little and yet on every side of me--everywhere at once. + I knowed it cou!dn't last ; it did not. She didu't belong here below. She knowed she was goin'. The doctors said it was consumption. | knowed better ; the Lord wanted ber up above, where she belonged. ¢ Colonel, for the whole year und more that she was here movin' ubout, quiet, lovin' hap)y, a-singin' low and a workin' bard thai him an' the baly might be com-- fortalile after she was gone, and talkin' to me--Italkin to me just like 1 was her bro- ther--talkin' like nobody ever talked to me before--all that time, colonel, [ never touched not even her dress, 1 didn' dure to. An' sometimes when she'd lay her hands on my shoulder, I'd feel--1'd feel like 1 was goin' away, far away, far out of myself. * "Then she went--went home, up above, where she belonged. ¢ One Sunday night she had been sing- swoller thai. "Tain't what she used to tell about, ye know ; an' [ ain't a goin' to Jue no company where 1 can't understan' the articles, an' 1 don't believe in bein skeered into salvation, or bein' walked inter heaven by the seenff o* my neck. -- An' so, when Forty-1iight goes to Sunday School aw' Church every Sunday, | jist goes out where you met us, au' sets there, quiet like, a thoukin that the |. ftevant an' her is backs 'Tain't a bit lonesome or ing hymos--Dhere right in this very porches Sle heard litle Foity. Eight crying in" the bed-room, and she gts up and says, ** I'm wanted, I'm called ; and I looked up at Lier face jist then-- jist like an angel's face --aud she says. © Good-night, Sam !-- I'm wanted --1'm called." And she went in. ¢ Next morning the lefltenant came aut where | was. le was white and tremb= ling. He beckoned me, and led in to the I came near the door here, I seed a man moving ar und im that sitting-room, where Forty Eight is sleeping now, and the man seemed (0 be trying to light a in the oth- er room. | was just achin' for somebody to puch into, and as 1 didn't expect the lef enant for about two weeks yet, I hadnt no thought but that it was somebody in there after something wrong. | just gave one yell, jumped into the room, and I had solomeolly--jist mukes we feel contented an' settled for the rest would. colonel, me.' 1 don't know as 1m talking right but that's the way I feels it wn os : : Feeling unable to di-cuss or explain | Lisle down blowed across the floor by theological matter, I ivquir-d of my for- mer foliower, * Llow came the licutenant's | boy to be called by the old regimental number Wiili a short lauzh, Sam answered. ¢ Why, sir, the fiist time | seed the little chlip he was a wee chusk of a baby, an' | had my old cap, with the regiment's num. ber on top, on my head. Moment pabby seed it Le weot for it, an' raised pariicular li he got wt. Them numbers used to | keep him quiet better' na dose of paregaric | an' 80 the first cap she made for hin--it was in winier--I takes an' sticks the old brass numbers in front, an' ye never seed any creeter so pleased in yer life ; and he used to raise bis little hand and point them numbers out lo everybody, and so every one got to calling him ¢ Forty-Light," till we've sort of got to thinkin' as it i: bis real name ; ond I don't know as he'll ever drop it. He's proud of It, and he got that little cap yet; and sometimes when he thinks I ain't a looking he'il take it oat of bis chest and set it on them curls of bis, sassy as can be, : continued Sam, * it a' most took my breath. Only last night it was, Forty Eight says to says I-- colonel." oe ye." up to ye, but I sags, ¢Stiddy, man! ye were. after all my drill:n® ye? Get into line-- quick! Right backwards march! Halt ! --right dress! Froet!" an' as ye come up, | give the command, ' Salute! an' then, ¢ Paraderest I' Aa' didn't he fist do it, colonel ?' asked Sam entbusiatically-- + didn't be jist doit?" Ob! I'm a trainin' bim up in the way he should go--least- wise. as far as J knows how--an' he's a man an' a soldier, he is. See bow he started off when I gave the command, though be'd a given anything tohave stop= ped and walked with bis colonel. « Then why not have allowed him to stay and walk with us?' I said. . 3 ' hy Sipliss colonel. Disciplin' must be kept up, an' 1 know what's good for him in that lino. 'Sides I wanted to have u talk with you. ye'll come in, Ir il | when | am warped, as ye knows, colonel a Sen ; ofthe, ond it wasa't half a second befora 1 had oh | week, an' 'cordin' to my lights, it does me | only an' all that Lie cared foi--alter she ore good than a going to their meetin's | | . »| hearth, when the docr of the bedroom {opencd. and she came out--not a-rushing {puff of breeze. | --all in white she was, and her long hair | ¢ When [ seed you to day, colonel, me, * Sargint,' says he, ¢ tell me somethin' "bout our regiment ;' an' coursd I tuld him lots ; and then to-day, when I gseed you, ¢Forty- Eight,' says I, ¢ there comes aur ¢ Where, sargint? says he-- where ?' ¢ Here !" says I, * &.walkin' down right ¢ An' he wes a startin', boy like to run As Don't ye know better than that, hin quicker nor lightning. I am u.ly | 000 ; and there sho lay--dead ! her little baby asleep on the pillow beside her tating ar es and --ber pretty thin hand or tie baby's that man up in ny hands, ard was Just go |, 5 bi curls, and the bappy smile on her ing to bring him a smash down onto the [lips, just as though she was :eing boly | things in her dreams. There she lay, not | one bit altered, and | knowed that she was ie seem' holy things and wos happy. She The Lord wanted ber. 1d not feel my own sorrow and lossy | streaming over Ler shoulders, and her big | lpr sss Se eh pled gel eyes looking ut me--and she just laid her} Bidet tak b lauds on one of my arms (3he bad to reach | The leftenant he didu't take on muc [up to doit), end I felt as though I'd Veen | Leatinise, my i folks a ee | struch wi ing i ted rahe | he jist seemed to keep | struck with lighining. just wilted night | io uy ete A iio v.! | down --sorry, skeered, feeling 1 don't | koow how.~ 1 let go my hold on the man. as for me, though | knowed she ras fone | yet I dido't seem to lose her--ain't yet ; | heard Lis voice. and gave one look at)! I 5 | B : | She was around me all the tive, jist the {him 5 it was the leftenant 5 and then the | APCULL ne H crying of a baby came out from the other | 31%" yet. * $e only to sharing eyes % and 1 can see her--I've ouly to shut my | room. a el | ¢ Tye heard fellows talk about wishing as i £48 hear; highs I | the ground would swallow then up, but 1 We buried ber. I dug the grave-- | never felt hke wishing that same until {Lat dug his. T bank God ! these big rough hands of mine could do for them even to | time. 1 seed that 1'd burt him bad j he ' could only ketch bis breath wnd speak a | the very last ! ¢ Ili parson prayed over her when we buried ber. [don't know as I'm right, word now and then as he lay on the floor, but it seemed to me like prayers wasted.-- | with Zer a leaning over him. 1 hadn't a word to say. I just turned around to go ; | out and get away--anywhere, | didn't care | There wasu't no call for prayer for ber; where. He must a-said something to her | the Lord knew her--sbe was near kin to | for she came after me to the door in her | him, Me wanted her close to Lim, and he bare feet, on tbe cruel cold floor, and she | called her, and she went. laid ber little haad on me again, and says,| ¢ But still she stays around me. She low, sorry like, just the sound of soft music. | knowed, the leftenant knowed how I-- "Bam! Come back Sam, and help me | well--loved ber. I doo't mean loved like take care of him.' men talk of loving women. 1 don't know « Colonel, I broke right down. I didn't as I can tell jist what I mean ; it's jist that she seemed to be light und breath and life--everything--to me. It seems that 1d have died for ber at any moment, I ever koow before that there was anv cry in we, but it came then. Ye see, 1 can't tell it iv words, colonel ; but 1 feel it and she knows. was weak from drink and not eating noth. ing, and it was that or something that un- ¢« She lays over the ground she's up above, a singing ber sweer hymns ; and settled me. + She knowed me from bearing him talk yet she's here with me. = ¢ Last year when the ice broke up all about me. - 'I'ho reason they'd come home of a sudden, and 1 jumped into. the river sooner was because some sickness bad broken out in ber father's lLou.e, and so and fetched Squire Edgar's little boy out, was near freezin"--'bout ured up, and the and screaming, just quiet and quick like a | hart been called. She came right up to me! liciu he brought them home for fear of the ba- by. I went back witb ber, sir, and belp- ed the lefienant up, and did all I could but I couldn't look him io the face. And Ler ! would burt her. she was a human being ; se in' every minute to see her vanish. of the row. made with her own hands. Jow-rooted, small but comfortable house. ~ 1 did not care to speak to her at all. So little, so light, so brave--seemed to me as though my Lig, heavy voice I never felt as though med as though she'd just come from somewhere--from up above--just to keep ime from killin' bim ; and | watched, and watched, expect. «I did all I could that night, and then laid down on the floor ane tried to sleep. Next morning | was mighty low and shaky snd couldn't hardly move my head. The lefienant was about but never said a word She came and made me get up sod go up stairs to wy bed, and then she brought me tea and seup that she had ¢ And that evening she sat with me up there, and "twara't no preaching, wor yet squire handed me a tumbler of brandy.-- Without thinking | was a-raisin' it to. my lips, when plain before my open eyes, plain as I see you colonel, 1 seed her looking sorrowful at me--an' heard her say * Sam Sam,' plain as could be. 1 jist dropped that licker on tlie floor; and them I seed ber smile, an' 1 was warm and strong again in an instant." ¢« Will you always remain bere, Sam ¥' I asked. « Always, sir, always, until Um called | ey gin ty L oity-Eight's to v-- oh ill be oe more that he'll look alter a little sometia right pext I my place. Hy bones will rot right at fuet.. My pension as what Learn I'm win? up lor the boy ; that'll where he's to live. He ku [Concluded on fourth below where they lay; that's