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CLARK'S Photograph Car, Brock St., Uxbridge. Uxbridge, Oct. 20, 1866. 14-tf PROCLAMATION To All Whom it May Cencern !! KE ALL MEN by these Presents: That it having come to the knowledge of the undersigned that there are certain individuals resident in and about Port] Perry who contemplate erecting Dwellings, &c., in the aforesaid Town of Port Perry, Now Tms 13 Tuererore To NoTiry the aforesaid residents of Port Perry, and its vicinity that | am prepared to Build, Erect, and Complele,tin a substantial and satisfac- tory manner, all such T BUILDINGS, whether of Wood, Brick or Stone. AND WHEREAS having leased the Sash and Door Factory, I am prepared to furnish Sash, Doars Youldingsy Scroli- awing, 00d- Tt 'uce-Planing % on fhe SHORTEST NOTIOB pi gd REASONARLE RATES. oh ite + Given under my hand at Port Perry, in . the Township of Reach, and County of Ontario, this 4th day of April, 1867. (Signed) GEO. ROBINSON, : Builder, Feet of Seasoned od Note.--4 few Thousand 'Flooring for sale. NOTE LOST. | E 'PUBLIC are hereby forbid negotia- ting a Note drawn by Wm. Wallace, Sept. 15th, 1865, in favor of Truman Wilson, (by whom the same is endorsed,) for the sum of Eleven Dollars, with interest at ten per cent, and payable 12 months after date, as payment ofthe same has been stopped. 'DONALD STALKER. , 1867. Brack; April 3; ONTARIO HOTEL! THE RAILROAD HOUSE}|. Treasure in Heaven. Every coin of earthly treasure, We have Javished upon earth, For oursimple worldly pleasare, May be reckoned something worth ; Tor the spending was not losing, Though the purchase were but small Tt haa perished with the using : We havo had it--that isall! . Al the gold we leave behind ns hen we turn; to dust again, Though our avarice may bind.us, We have gathered quite in vain: Since we neither can Yiroot it, _By the winds of fortune tossed, Nor in other worlds expect it : What wo hoarded--ive have lost: But each merciful oblation-- Seed of pity wildly sown, Which we gave in gelf-negation, We may safely call our own. Thus of treasure, kindly given, Tor the future we may hoard ; For the angels keep, in heaven, What isTent unto the Lord. The Man and the Moukey From Bluckwood's Magazine. < When I was at the siege of Gib- ralter-- "I say old fellow--2 1 appeal for protection to the chair. (Hear hear.) When I was at Gibralter, my post was for some time in the Queen's Battery, which immediately fronted the besiegers' works. It was my special duty to acquire as accurate a knowledge of these works, their armanent, p sition defensive, and progress, us it was possible to obtain by constant obser- vation and a very middling spy- glass, while enveloped in dust and smoke, choked with sulphur, and ex- posed to incessant compliments of shot and shell, Fhe knowledge thus obtained I had the honor of imparting to our Licutenant-Governer General Boyd, wheu he came out to the front from time to time. This cirenm-- stayce procured for me the glorious distinetion of going out as guide when we made a sortie by night for he purpose of surprising the enemy's works, burning = and destroying them. - Iam not going to describe the sortie'; you will find all about it in Drinkwater. Let me only say that tagit prosed. ib. teal surprise. to. the enemy ; their works. were rmined, their guns spiked, and. their ap- roaches in a corresponding degree retarded, whicll was just what we wanted, The affair was nearly ower, their gabions along the whole front were Lin a blaze ; but though outnumbered at onr point of atiack, the enemy fonght stontly, and a good deal of savage skirmishing was still going on, 1 wis in the thick of a regular melee, hard knocks at close quarters, when my attention was arrested by a diminutive I'reuchman, anoflicer in splendid uniform, who was doing chivalrousedecds, as if he fancied his own arm might yet restore the Jost combat. He wus a mere pigmy ; and his pluckiness had so won upon our fellows that they' were bent upon effecting an object to which his own valour was the most obstacle--that of taking him alive. Flonrishing his sword he skipped about, facing every point of the compass in successiof; and thrusting, with loud cries of de- fiance, at every one that approdched him. *Dow't kills him!' the men cried. ¢ Take him alive ; don't hurt the litile chap ;' thongh the little chap had already disabled a sergeant and a private, who had ventured too near him, I shouted, taking off my hat and entreating-him for his own sake to surrender ; it was clear, in- decd, that he had no chance left bat cither to be taken prisoner or to bite the dust, He returned my salute, but still maintained the defensive, spinning round and round, and lung: ing at the horizon, As'we had done our work, and it was high time to get back to our lines, lest the enemy should attack us in force, I began to fear it would be.out of my power to save the little Frenchman's life, Oar men, too, were beginning io lose patience, and shewed a disposition to close upon him with fixed bayon- ets ; in which case, thongh he might very possibly have set his mark upon one or two of them, the consequences to himself might have been far from agrecable, At that 'moment, and just as I. was thinking, asa last effort, of trying what I could do by approaching him in person, he scem-- ed to awake suddenly to a conscions- ness of his own'operil, "and" rushing toward me threw down his sword, clasped his hands, uttered a piercing shrick, and dropped on his knees at my feet. i ! Te wis my prisoner:--a very grand capture, to be sare: In anin- stant he became calm, gentlemanly, and garrnlons. Walking with me side by side as ourivarty withdrew, he was kindienough to commence a perpetual stream of talk, which lust- ed all the way, and in which he found time to tell me who he was and all aboat his own family and his- tory ; how he had fought in many battles, and always come off' with more glory than all" the rest of the combatants together ; not forgetting to 'mention how much sooner Gibral- ter would liave fallen--it was 'sure to fall at lagt--had only his sugges- tions been appreciated as they de- servedit | Yorbudic oni Seka dau The next day, when M. de Mont- maur © was presented before the Governor, his Excellency' séemed a little nonplassed.. To shut up a diminutive object like that in dur-- ance would have looked absurd ; one would as scon bave thonght of im- prisoning a tom-tit. , Formally to parole him 'would have been formali- ty in a matter of no importance-- always better let alone. Among the officers he soon became. popular. Ihad given due publicity, to his gallantry when captuved, and that was saflicient to place him ond! good footing with military men. Beside this, he was good-humoured, clever, and always lively ; could take a joke, and repay it with interest. Tu the garrison, however, we had 7 onc individual with. whom MN. doje Montmaur, though it was not his own fault, never established amicable en lations, This was a foreign officer our service 3 he wag from the north of Burope----a Captain Schugab, who thongh he wanted neither courage nor capacity, certainly failed in ma- king himselt popular 'amongst us Unfortunately, also, be viewed all Frenchmen with hostility, cand this feeling he had no opportunity of exhibiting, except towards M. de Montmanur, whom he was in the habit of treating as ignominously as. the 'g¥neral focling of the garrison wonld permit. To me our listie prisouer had mentioned the subject. more than once, pompously remaking that be feared he should be nuder the painfal necessity of teaching ¢ ce-clier Cap- taine Seche naubbe! a lesson in' po- litesse 5 At length, in M. de Montmam's . opinlon, the time for administering this very necessary lesson arrived, and he communicated with me induc form. He commenced the conference by intimating that, thongh kttle in stature, he was brave as a lion. To this I merely responded by a bow. He next went on to state that * his sence of honor was not inferior to bis bravery.' In short, secing he had a commnni- cation to make, and was taking a very rountabout way of coming tu the point, T brought him to at once.| tie then gave me to understand that the moment had at length arrived, when without appearing either eap- tious or precipitate--lie wouid like to sce the individual, present cofipany excepted, whase discretion and amia- bility eame anything next his own-- he felt himself. free to terminate a long serics of insolences. Observing next the seawall, he saw a party off officers in conversation, among them a 5 Lie "¢e cher Captaine Sechenauly had been impelled by that courtesy which so cminently distingn shed him to approach and salnte them is salute was politely and smiluig- ly returned by the whole party, with one exception. * Ce cher Captaine' gave no token of recognition ; nay, worse, actually held up a key, and looked at him through it, ns if it had been an cye-glass, thereby convey- «ing the offensive imputation that he was so diminutive, so insignificant, a8 not to be discernable by the naked eye. This raised a laugh among the gentlemen present ; and, more offen: sive still, the langh was. take and audibly' re echond by cout non-commissioned officers and pri- vates who were stantling not far off. For this iasult M. de Montmaur tel himself entitled to prompt satis faction, ¢ Well)! said I, ' you state the case as:a party interested. Before pro- nounciug on it, | should like'to nseer: tain the-impression of one or two of the officers present. Considering that you and have been so much together, and that it was I, more: over who had the honor of receiving your surrender, I shall view the in sult, if any was intended, as ofl to fnysell. The quarrel in thay case will be mine, T am the person to whom the Captain will owe satisfac. tion. (Such, in those days of duel- ling, were our notions of honor, ) ¢ AN) cried the little Frenchman, 'that is brave ! that is :oble! that is just what I knew you wonld sny | But I have anticipated your chival- rous sentiments by equal chivalry on my own part. My challenge is al- ready sent, I despatched it an hone ago; and Ihave the Captain's neecp- tance in my pocket. The only favor, therefore, that I now ask, is your obliging conpany as my friend." The affair came off :--the weapons rapiers , the time, that same alter noows; the field of slanghter, a retired spot beyond the barracks, not far from the sonthern extremity of the Rock. Nevertheless, the business having got wind, a Tew oflicers to see; and several other persons, civi- liaus as well as soldiers, looking on at a distance. : Tha parties being placed, a few thrusts were exchanged without ef fect. The Captain looked sulky enongh. It was evident he keenly felt hiv ridiculons position; he, the, biggest mun in the garrison, stnck up vis-a-vis in mortal combat with the least. Fhe poor man fenced as if he couldn't help himself. The little Frenchman, on the contrary, 'was all nctivity and o-terprise. At length, after a brisk passage of arms, the two stood facing each other for a few seconds in perfect stillness, their awords barely 'touching at their ex' tremities. Suddenly the little French' man 'swelled to twice his natural size, stamped, shouted * Hah!" sprang: forward a yard, sprang back' again. It was done in the twinkling 'of 'an eye. There he stood, just iwhis formar attitude, as thongh he had: never 'moved. * At first I was not aware of any result; but three: inches of his sword had taken effect, just asl surely as when a spider, having netted a wasp, jnmps at him, nips and jamps away again. The Captain had got y progue in his sword arm, between wrist and elbow. The first -- 8 tl int hie hal used some] bad language; pext he adly pale 3 then his sword y went down, down, down; ife weapon fell from lis grasp Ehud old it no Tonge * M. de nor scorned to profit 'by his , bowed politely to his gn- Bt thanking lim for ¢ dis meet bl f3pressed himself ¢ perfect in Schnaub appeared at I thie third day with a' slung na fSetilight was wel', ids the first pact of my story, bliged; no more wine, I'll you for a little of that. &; only alfa tumbler, think hank you, Dl just liglit anoth- 1 r aud proceed. InTprocdss of time, as the soice t, my post duties wore Thera was reason to sus: rin residents in Gibral- rds, or others who favored wore the habit of conceal. gmselves in the rongh groand # abou he gnmgnitoof the Rod; and | framgdhat elevated position making ig to their friends ontside both by diy and night. Oue or two de- inqii@nts were can ht and hanged, adit in my charge to look { offenders, while tak neral snpevintendence. of $0 ' 501. pas La WHOLE No. 39. ass, and the outsider wonld infall be preeipated, one lies down, and the other walksover him. 'This led me to fancy that a goat had met the Captain, and that either he had laid himself along to he walked over by the goat, or that the goat had done so much for him. 'Nonsense goat!" he exclaimed. ¢ What do yoa mean hy goat? No, Sir, nof a goat, a baboon. ¢ Met yo1 at the back of the rock? 'Oh, one of the Gibralter apes, I sup- pose. 'They hide up here among the crags and crevices ; but IT never met one yet in that pat, or in any like it. When anything diswerecable has occurred, it is quite natural that we should feel thoroughly out of temper with everybody, and just in the hu- mor for wreaking our vengeance on somebody, and so quarreling with the first person we meet. Such secmed to be the Captain's temper now. ¢ Sir, said he, fiercely, I did not say an ape; I said a baboon--and a préity big ong, "too--full the size the Governor's wolllo ot 86 19% a baboon, though, sone I have seen," hie 'added with an insulting glance. Twas on duty, and didn't want to quarrel. along the summit, and onr men there stationed piv eyes about them. lookout him. eon of conyersation that I was on the "Point of visiting the "Signal Hong another station on very high grog , he intimated an intention of gn there too. I merely ree kad that [ should be glad te have sure of his company, that, he re- * We shall o ng wiil not have his rough way. iff rent paths." wr so" 1 asked. <I know of available from we--ihat along the sum- ridge, It is not 80 smooth I-walk, but it Jeads from (Go you by the summit, il you prefer it; I shall go by the back of the tock. Ho spe a tone of bravado. Mont pc c aware that the eas: side, or,* back of the Rock," is a tre mendons precipice -- Formerly, on the face of this precipice there were narrow paths frequented by goals, { ication such as tern base of summit having at a ein is oI two simi paths, as they be ealled--paths which led down to the iit at one in at other-- point, and up mnication between snmmit and base.and wed obli- terntion, Those remaining paths T well knew, and had occasionally Aried ; bat it we ickish work. wall of Yon looked np on recipi d down on the Mediter- ranean: a single false step would be destruction. gailant Cap- tain, the v and balk of his corporeal ice rendered his pro- 1 posed expedition doubly dangerous. There was every reason to fear, upon mechanical principles, that his cen- tre of gravity would overlap the line of safety at certain awikward points; and in tiie mildest ma I ventured path afer as well as more pleasant. ) Tocyon cit may be, fully, * but we 1 sir, ied mountains ly this rock a mole hill, I haye a mood head and I shall go. Take your own way, and give me leave to take mine. I don't ask you to xo with me, and Lwonldu't advise it. A boriog, boa gines how diss himself, even to-those well, In this case there was nothing more to be said, The Captain, dis- appearing ver the ridge, -looked very mneh like a man stepping down into vacancy. Puesuing my course [rom the Rock Guard to the Signal House, I had covered above half the distance when I heard a human yoice. At that solitary clevation it sounded odd: Wienge did it come ? It seemed to proceed from the left or ridge of the Rocks 85.7 it was the' Captain, Nuthipg visible but his head; he spoid in hi's usual grufi"key, some- whatitremulons though. "4 flere | Lend a hand! > 1 helped him up. Iie was Mlowzed and prodigionsly sweated; we won't say frightened, bnt to use the mild- est term a litle excited. le spoke vindictively. 'You didn't tell me I ehould meet any- thing ? Couldn't go-forward couldn' o bagk; and only the brerdth of a Rr iothord 1 There I was; much obliged to you I fAsgoat I' Tasked. : It was well known in the Arrison, and the Captain must have thown it too, tht the. zoats which browse on the Rek, in going (rom 'one part of the Roek to the other, do occasionally use those ' knife board' paths along the face of the precipice, and wlien too of thea meet, as there is 10 rooin replied ho Let me al man, littie ima- reenable has makes 10 wish him o fine day, when I was making | hy gbecr vations at the Rock Guard, a position which vertically dominated the mys lives. 1 was une tedlggjoined by Captain Se He was off duty, and had co to hint that he would find the usnaly $ Come,' said T, laughing, and eye- ing his portly person, ¢ we don't dis- | pute which baboons are the biggest {or which donkeys, 1 gant it. There | g i { apes on the Rock { which is considered larger than the common sort, and hich, theref re, rhaps, be properly called ba- Well, in passing along that perilous path, one of these baboons wet you. Tt was an interesting meeting to both parties and a singn- lar adventure. Now please tell me the pirticulars." ° y The captain, somewhat toned down by the idea of telling, began to nar- rate." For-some distance he made his way along the path with no obstrne- tion, save only the want of additional space. 'One arm brushed against a perpendicular wall of lofty rock, the other hung free over the abyss. Ie owned he didn't hike it ; but his cool ness and determination, not to men? tion the impossibility of turning back earried him forward. Just as he got round a projecting ridge, which, once _ | passed, retuen was hopeless, what do Lo AH tw wwe tthe pn Tere] him? An enormous baboon! yes, sir; not an ape, a baboon. What was to be done! He could not zo back, and the baboon would not. Passing was impossible, There they stood for some seconds, each 'looking daggers at each other, Tt uestion of hfe and death ? Presently the baboon began to grin--grinned menacingly--raised himself erect on his hind-| erinned again, ad- vanced ¢ teps and gave another avin! The Captain, could easily have pitebed the beast over the hedg hut in so doing might he not have lost his balance, and gone over him- sel(? At this moment, na bright idep occuring to the Captain's mind, he mad ight movement downwards with his land hoping that the beast wotld do as coals do, nnder similar circumstances--z. e., lie down upon the path, in order that he, the Cap- tain might walk over him. The ba- boon took no notice. What remained ? Only that, as the baboon wonld not, the Captain must, Accordingly (this part of the adventure the Captain narrated with a considerable amount of self vindication). The Captain laid himself along at full length, and the * huboon walked over him. Seo they parted j each went his own way; and the n embraced the' earl. est opportunity of transferring himself from the tace of the precipice to the summit, where T had the honor of landing him in the blowzed colliques- cent condition already described get- ting mo thanks for-my trouble. vo pt «Very glad to see you safe back again, said 1. ¢ Had yi missed your footing, the resuit must--' Here onr conversation was inter: rupted by a distant bugle. We both knew the note : it sounded for some one escaping to the cnemy's lines, Then followed a eannen shot from the Queen's battery, then a dropping fire of musketry. In order to see what was in the wind, we both made the best of our way back to the Roek Guard, whence there was a clear view, the whole of the ¢ Neutral Ground, or space be- tween the enemy's lines and our own, ving spread out almost beneath our 'feet, At first nothing was visible, save the occasional striking of our shot, as they knocked up the sand. Presently, however, we distinguished a little black speek, which was evi- dently making the best of its way to the hostile lines. Our glasses were promptly in re- quisition. The party escaping was at once bronght nizhto the Captain's eye as well as mine. The fugitive ran well. No wonder ; hic ran for his life. * ha . Presently, heedless of the fire, Tie paused, cooly fazed round, laid one hand on his heart, with the other took off his hat, and made a profound semicircle obesience to the ghrrison. He then skipped down into the ene- my's trenches, and was lost to our view. But not till he had been recognized both by the Captain and myself." ¢ The little wretch ofa Frenchman,' exclaimed the Captain, i The ludicrous reality broke at once npon'my mind. 'THE Baboon! I replied. . Captain Schnaub turned on me like in tiger. i 40 hort the Captai feelings ; bu whole thing was so unutterably ical, langhter was irrepressib'e.= Sod laughed heartily ; there was no helping it. The Cap- tains rage knew po bounds. It was too clear: --¢ that little wretch? had again been too much for Lim : had disguised himself, had taken the path at the back of the Rock, had there met the Captain .and had got off undetected. andl "unsuspected. The Captain, tohi wrath and mor- tifigation, Ww gain disposed to qu "Per, ng, 'however, that 1 continued far less inclined to wran- gle than to laugh, le gradunally toned down, and tarned sulky, Sav-- that the 'little wretch' had. got I, what chicfly stong him was one particular. incident. After some minntes gloomy silence, it at length came out :--'To think that I was his bridge, and that he actually walked over me from end to end.' * Nev mind, Captain, said I. Considering your different ampli- tudes, he know, very well it wonld bie a much more eerious business if yon walked over him so of the two evils lie chase the less. And now. let me advise yon to keep your own counsel. No body in the garrison knows of this little affair af the back of the Rock but our two selves; and 1 shall tot mention it. Somewhat. mollified, the Captain awhile remained silent and pensive, At length, growing confidential, and speaking low, ' Do yon know, said he, 'just as he had got his beastly foot on the small of my back he gave utterance to a strange sort of gutter- al ¢ which 1 did think rather odd | as coming from a babpon ; a kind of | mixture between a chuckle and the crowing of a cock ! : So, then the little Frenchman had felt such intense exulation at the rich | idea of walking over the Captain, that between crowing and chuckling, he had nearly betrayed himself, and | stood detected a man and no monkey. However, thongh «the joke would have exhilarated the whole garrison, I kept my promise, and did not tell ; s0 the Captain was not made a laugh- ing stock. There was a striet examination of the quarters which had been occu- pied by M. de Montmaurj but. the search brought nothing to light 1 didn't wi =p ing. He had doubtless been aided in his escape by some party or parties within the garrison. It transpired thut he had been whol i his apartment daring tt twenty hours which diately preceded his flight ; and for not re~ porting this the proprietor, a civilian, had to pay a small pecuniary - fine-- a far lighter punishment than he de- served. Whether the baboon seting the ithin the fortress without, we never state of our to our enem learned. If he did, it mattered little. A few days after came their grand attack. We burnt their floating bat. teries; and shortly alter the seige was raived. © Passing along the séa-wal, af second day after the attack, I noticed a brother ofiicer with his elbows on - the parapet, blowing a-cloud. I was soon by his side, doing as he did. Onr faces were toward the water. We saw the whole surface of the bay covered with fragments ef the wreck, the debris of battered galleons. And let me remark, itt we had net burnt | | them we should have sunk them, so steady and overwhelming was the fire of our artillery. True, we fired red hot ball; bat Lg 'd with the remark of an old artillery officer, 'Sr, we could have beaten them ! with cold shot', Among the wreck that had floated in, my eomrade and | noticed several human bodies bodies popping up and down, now visible, now disappear- ing; as they were rolled and tossed by the waves--the corpses of our enemies who had derished in the at- tack.--Up bobbed a very dark face. * Al, said my companion, "that's an Andaluz. low curious | Those fellows always call themselves Blan 0s; and they are only balf a shade lighter than the Moor over tnere on the other side." ¢ Look there, said I; 'alas, a poor priest 1 Doa't you sce his shaven crown {' ¢ See this one,' said he, 'close in by the shor ¢ A drummer-boy,' said I, ¢ More like a powder monkey,' said he, cn i "Military," said I. 'Naval,' said he. Bach of us begged leave to assure 'the other that hie was as blind as a bats 'The difference, of course, led to a wager; and we walked down to- gether to the shore, in order to ascer- tain which had won. The sufferer floated prone, with his head nnder water. A soldier turned him over for ns with the but-end of Lis musket.--No powder monkey, no drummer boy 2 It was my poor litgle friend, M. de Montmaur! On one side of his head and face was a tremendous contusion, en ugh to have killed a mnch bigger man. At least, then, he had escaped the horrors of 'suffocation or slow com. But be had cut and run. Could ho» recieve military honors ? Yes. He had never- given his parole; and he had only availed him- self of every prisoner's right, by all the laws of war, to cseape if he can. The funeral was very generally attended by the officers of the garri- son, amongst whom M. de Montmaur liad been langhed at and rather liked. Tt was not altogether to the liking of Captain Schnaub; but that gallant officer, also, yielding to my persnasive powers, was present with the rest, : - Ye, Woman's Mission, Is it to repine when not abprecia ted, to mourn when betrayed by those she has trusted, find fault with ber lot and wish she had more power ? Nay, verily, it is to. love and be loved again, to nse the power of love, kindness, patietice and forbear- ance with which God has. endowed her, for the upbuilding of His cause and for Tis glory, ibis. SIf, ag Franklin says, man's Iappi= hess is God's glory, surely woman's power is unlimited; for from tho cradle to the grave she watches over man. As a mother she presses the first kiss on lus infant brow, watches him as he takes the first step sympa. thizes with him in his first sorrow, chides her way-ward boy for his first wrong doing, telling bim the sin or folly of such a course, shares' with lim his hopes and fears, strives, by» example and precept, to teach him to do right and she overlooks and forgives what the world would con- demon. As a eister, she may wateh over the brother so loved, and be so. kind and loving to him, sharing his confi- dence and never betraying it, that, for her and his mother's sake Le will respect all womankind. As a friend, how wide the scope ! A friend, oh how 'much is comprised in that one word | Friend, warning, in advising, telling him truths which man dare not teil man; yet he will hear and heed them from woman's lips till for hor sake, he loaves the wine cup, the dissolute ' eompanion, the gambling ealoon and all other places where his character is black- ened and bis soul ruined. As a wife, haw much stronger the without the othe! ner with him in every care, joy or sorrow-----pever doubting. Though the world forsake him and cast him ont as evil, she can still find some redeeming trait in his character, ever hoping, trasting and clinging to him, till he partake of her hope and faith and come off tonqueror And when sickness or age has bowed the stalwart form, who like woman can minister unto him? Let her come in either guise, mother, sis- ter, friend or wife, whose hand so soft to press the throbbing brow? Who can so sweetly whisper words of cheer 2 And when the last,g last hour has come, aad the spirit is foe: ing its "casket, who can so gently ose the eyes and press thie 1ast kiss: 1 lip and brow of him she loved in jifeand mourns in death? Ah! is not woman indeed, man's guardian wigel 7 Is not her mission a noble one, if she but faithfully perform it ¥ God: help her to do'her work weli ! Spring Timo * In the early part of May very many persons begin to feel that they are not as well as they have been. There is a degree of languor and las- sitnde, an indisposition to exercise or leven to read or think mueh, which makes life almost a drag. This ought not toe be. There is no good and snflicient reason why man should not wake up to a newness of life, and embark in its business with a new energy and a new enterprise. There is nothing in the spring dir to cause this ; for it is soft and balmy and blisstal, and brings animation and a newness of life to every living thing, man only excepted ! The modus " operandi," is worthy of being studied, and well matured, by every intelligent render. Weare all kept from freezing by an ivternal furnace j the fuel for which is the food we eat ; the living furnace like that of our dwellings, requires more fuel in winter than in summer. Who has not, in considerable anger, abused Bridget for roasting them, by keeping up a greater fire in April than in mid- winter 1 and we call it perversity: But she does in the cellar what the mistress does in the dining-room,-- she simply, puts the same amount of fuclin the grate or furnace daily. The maid rousts the outside of her mistress, while the | mistress herself roasts her inner-man ; thus she is literally between two fires. Isit any wonder that people complain of spring fever? As a remedy, Bridget opens the doors anl windows and diminish. es the heat, while the mistress resorts to tonics, and the mastet to ¢ bitters' alias brandy and water, to, whet up the appetite, to' make the stomach call for more fuel, instead of attend- ing to the stomach's instinct, in call- ing for less food. In all nature man is the biggest fool. Tn spring be a strict cold-water man, keep cheerful, keep out of doors, and your spring-- time will not be the sleepiness of the gleeful and as bustion, the lot of so many Spaniards on the awful night of the attack. Ah, the yells of a thousand awutes da fe seemed all to be concentrated and avenged in. the fearful screams that came into us from the burning ships! 1 at once took charge of the corpse and thtn and there determined to wive my little lamented friend a bu- rial according to the*rank, 'pig, but it will be'as man consoling a young widow on that she conld not find his equal. = . "I don't know about that," remark> «| ed the sobbing fair one, "but Pll uy. tow gladsome as that of birds of May.-- Exchange. : gi Alar aus aa .CoxsoLve a MWinow.--~A. clergys - we the death of her husband remarked «