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No in East ve*able lalk Iment tine if Maine dicak M pay» 1 the v that three make are C sful ven s v t Ad Begs to inform the inhabitants of Dundalk and vicinity that he has on hand . +d for sale a fine stock of June 21, 1877. n his premises Owen Sound Street, 1 STATION, â€" â€" â€" Dundalk. Good Family Flour for sale, The best Companies in the Province repreâ€" Farm and Village Lots For ‘Sale ## Business done strictly private. Residence and address Tus Orpest Firs Insuraxce and Moxey LoaX® Acexcy in the TowxsutP. Conveyaneer, JOS. McARDLE, Seveal good lots of land for saleâ€"improved and unimprovedâ€" At from $5 to $20 per acre, In Proton, Melanethon, Osprey, and Colâ€" lingwood. Terms easy. Dundlak, Feb. 23, 1877. Farms For Sale! Lots 32, 33, and 34, in 8rd Con. S. D.R. Osprey, 80 neres each ; also Lot 17, in 8th Con. Proton. Terms easy. Apply to Mr. P. WHITTLE! Oyster â€" Rooms, C onstantly 4 & Durhain, Co. Grey, Ont. Money to Loan at romsonable interest, payable halfâ€"yearly or at the end of the yearâ€"princi« 1 payable in 3, 5 or 10 yoarsâ€"or l'l'hll‘l[l'll and interest yearly to suit Borrowers. Wild and Improved Lands for sale. Mortgages Bought and Sold. *y1 Fire and Life Insurance, Money, Loan and teneral Agenut, Main Street, Dundalk. Provincial Land Surveyor, Civil Engineer, Draughtsman, Land Agent, Conveyancer, ete., Dundalk. J. J. MIDDLETON. Dundalk Dec. 21, 1877. Barrister, Attorneyâ€"atâ€"Law, Solicitor in Chancery, Conveyancer, &c., Poulett St., Owen Sound. fm 37 tt 42 Barrister, Solicitor in Chancery & Insolvency, Notary Public. . Office.â€"North Broadway, Orangeville, opposite Parsons‘ Hardware Shop. FANCY GOODS, CONFECTIONERY, LEMONS, ORANGES, FRESH OYSTERS, Marriage Cortificates and Licenses, Auomo;-.t-law, Solicitor _ in Notary Public, Conveyancer, &c. residenceâ€"Dundalk. ALEEED FROST, f Coumty Crown Attorney. 13 Fobruary 1, 1877 Also that ne Do You Want Money. * MaeRAFE, REAL ESTATE AGEXT MMMIEHNe®:â€"mol ont answ cucabrcn : ... . Advertisements, except when accompanied by written instructions to the coutrary, are inserted until forbidden, and charged at regâ€" Orlinary notices of births, . marriages, deiths, and all kinds of local news, inserted free of charge. 'oo_kn for $1, Po. nx mobth:. i. ...« . ...« %% Do three months....... . .... 15 Casaal advertisements charged 8 cts. per iane tor the first insertion, and 2 cts. per lme for eash subsequent insertionâ€"brevier measâ€" *v8 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. space and under, per year Two imokes or 24 xi..u.yf\..:,.a. Three inches do. per year. . . . Quarter column, per year.... Haif column, 4+ Cow, One column, Protessional and business cards TERMS:â€"$1.00 per :yeur in Advance, #2.%1.25 if not paid within two months. ~ Durham, â€" â€" Ont. At the Office, Garafraxa Street "THE REVIEW" -‘I’_fllz}Y ANIMALS, «e., advertised three ARRISTERS and Attorneysâ€"at Law, nély on hand at the POST OFFICE DUNDALK. _ Price only $2.00. D. MeDONELL, ARRISTER, ATTORNEY, &c. Office â€"Upper Town, Durham, Ont. y1 For Sale Cheap. GEORGE RUTHERFPORD, (very ‘Dhu rsclay, MAITLAND McCARTHY RATES OF ADVERTi HOPEVILLE, Co. off Grey. J. W. FROST, LL. B tors in Ch-ea. &c., Owen Sound and . Flosherton ce in Trimble‘s Buildâ€" every Thursday. ISAAC TRAYNOR, FROBT & COWPER, PURE APPLE CIDER. JAMES LAMON, in the Queen‘s Bench, HECTOT MeTNNE$, Dundalk P. 0 the advertisement not to ex I+ »USLNUTED J. MIDDLETON J. TOWNSEND. .\.,flp:u iel measure T. D. COWPER. y1 Issuer. Chancery, Office and SING Upper Town, me inch «21 a wibe o large Stock of _ WATCHES, Crocks, and JEWELLERY, which he sells at Toronto prices. Engageâ€" ment and Wedding Rings a specialty. Goods to select from sent on application. y30 E. D. WILCOX. MARKDALE, Would call the attention of the public or Dundalk, and surrounding country, to the fact that he keeps constantly on hand a E. D. WILCOX, of eyery description. OUR TEA at 35 cents and 50 cents on a trial recommends itself. Mens‘ Felt Hats in great variety. GREAT bargains in Fur CAPS. WINTER SHAWLS, BLANKETS, FLANNELS â€".white, gray, scarlet and fancy. CANADIAN TWEEDS in quality and price to suit everyone CLOTHING in Coats, Pea Jackets, Overcoats, Pants and Vests, Great bargains in Ladies, Furs, BOOTS & SHOES. | A great choice of every serviceable kind.‘ GROCERIES & HARDWARE § 4 As usual we have the best stock of Dress Goods in great variety Wincies at 8 cts., superior to anything ever offered at the same price. WYV int er CG oo+ds 10 15 Durham, Feb. 1878. HASTIE & GRANT done at once, and cheap, to suit the times. , Mr. Flint had the reputation of being as hard as his name. Certainly he was a SHINGLES, LATH AXND LUMBER'emsty sort of an old gentleman, with a on hand and sold at down hill prices. disagreeable habit of telling what he conâ€" J. W. CRAWFORD, ,srlered tlu? plain truth to everyone. As f everyone did not at onee bow low and say : Rockville Mills, Durham P. 0| syty, Pling, you are perfectly right," this Bentinck, Feb. 14,1878. Y‘ | habit of frankness had brought him into a 4 t ___________ | good many quarrels with his friends and relatives, so that the only one of his own blood with whom he was on speaking H A S T I E terms was his orphan neice, Borthilda, who kept house for him, to whom he was unusually kind, and who believed him to oo (tol o copit on i ho a bevaemetern Selomon. Custom Sawing of Lumber AND SHINGLES, With the Circular Saw against all kinds of Saw Logs during 1878. NO ARMILSTICE of the best material, 1 finish and at prices as low as n{ m establishment in the county. Those in need of such articles would do well to call and inspect my stoc. CUTTERS AND SLEIGHS, DDUIRILLA M Carriage Works. Cutters! Cutters! Durham, Feb, 14th, 1878. & I J l oys fifi mem» @ V iv B m F ’ ",\\"-.,.\\\. 2e A\\\ .â€"_(;_,._5__ C ‘/ * s o â€" ul gee uied uns slrl _ Atherl A Mistmie m i Are selling the balanee of their War, Warl Vol. I. No at greatiy reduced prices A LARGE STOCK OF R. MeFARLANE. HASTIE & GRANT. AT FILIE yâ€"l One was from a neighbor named Perkins, who desired to borrow a horse of him. The other trom farmer Hoskins, asking for going, after breakfast, into the little room which he called his office, and where he transacted nis busimess as notary public, found lying on his desk two letters already left for him that morning, and opening them found that each asked him for someâ€" him, since you are so partickerler, Berâ€" thildy ; though bein‘ of age, I can‘t see why he has anything to say about it." To which Berthilda, sobbing, replied that her uncle‘s word was her law, and was kissed at the gate as usual, this conâ€" versation having taken place on a Sunday evening on the way from church. ‘"Well, then, I will," said Mr. Hoskins. "I ain‘t afraid of no man, and if your uncle has anything agin me, he can out with it and prove it. I‘ll write and ask meeting, and occasionally encircled by a very large arm, which, after a squeeze or two, she always put away not a little shocked. Finally, Mr. Hoskins offered himself, and Berthilda, having confessed to a parâ€" tiality for him, ended by asserting that Uncle Flint must decide the maiter, and that she dared not mention the subject to It was a case of love at first sight on his part, and Berthilda finding herself made love to, and being quite unused to the sitâ€" uation, felt that it was her duty to refuse him, since to marry would be to contradict Uncle Flint‘s distinct assertion that she was born to be an old maid ; yet she yieldâ€" ed to the advances of Mr. Hoskins, so far as to allow herself to be seen home from | _ it was all genuine. She was one of ".huhe little women who generally bow down before the male head of their family and worship him. She had not even reâ€" fleeted that he might leave her his money, or some of it. It was too dreadful to think of Uncle Flint‘s ever dying at all. As for marrying, it did not enter her mind. She had written herseif down a spinster, as soon as she had heard L'nele; Flint‘s opinion on the subject, which was oracularly given when she was about sixâ€" teen years of age ; but now that she was very nearly thirty, she was astonished by the appearance of a lover in the shape of a stout farmer of forty, a widower without children, and owner of as fine a piece of property as could be found in the State. She was mild a had been quite uncle‘s frankness She was, really, by no means so very plain, but she accepted Mr. Flint‘s opinion without a murmur. On Monday morning old Mr. Flint, She had never once contradicted him. When he told her that the Flints were generally goodâ€"looking, but that she took after her mother‘s people, who were all as plain as pikeâ€"staffs, she answered, * Yes, uncle, but that is not my fault, you know." When he said that she need not mind about ltcing gun(l-loukillg, be.’:aus(', after all, she was a mee little thing and would be more apt to be left to keep house for him forever, she appeared to be comforted. She was mild and meek, and her vanity had been quite taken out of her by her Then you‘ll be there and L. tita If we are sheltered by the cross, * _ And through the blood brought nigh, Our utmost gain we‘ll count but loss, Since you‘ll be there und I But will you be there and I ? If you take the loving Saviour now, Who for sinners once did die, When He guthers His own in that bright home, } We know there‘s a bright and a glorious home, Away in the heavens high, Where all the redeemed shull with Josus dwell, But will you be there and I ? In robes of white o‘er the streots of gold, Beneath the cloualess sky, They walk in the light of their Father‘s smile, But will you be there and I ? From every kingdom of earth they come, To join the trtumphal ery, Singing, "Worthy the Lamb that once was slain," | Strikes are quite proper, only strike right ; | Strike to some purpose, but not for a fight; | Strike for your manhood, for honor and fame ; | Strike right and Teft till you win a good name. [ Strike for your froedom from ill that is vile ; | Strike off companions that often beguile ; i Strike with the hanmer, the sledge and the axe ; Strike off bad habits with burdensome tax ; | Strike not unaided, depend on no other; | Strike without gloves, your foolishness smother; I Slrl‘ke off the ff.-tt‘n:u of fashion aud pride : ~â€"++ +4 B 44wz w_&_w2s 0 Published by request WILL YOU BE THERE AND I> Strike where ‘tis best but let Wiscdom decide ; Strike a good blow while the iron is hot ; snu.mp-mmumyoummrumqm. Crorts.â€"Since you‘ll be there and I, Since you‘ll be there and I, Our utmost gain we‘ll count but loss, Bince you‘ll be there and L DURHAM, Co. Grey, MARCH 21, 1878 Berthilda‘s Offer. POETRY STRIKES The servant opened it, and Peter Perâ€" d“ny.' An English historian, Lord Macâ€" kins‘ voice inquired for Mr. Flint. caulay, indulges in the same gloomy anâ€" Mr. Flint at once appeared in the entry. | ticipations of the decay of our great nation. _ ‘‘Well, what do you want here?" was | He quoted from Maceaulay at some length the salutation. the argument that becauseé the nations of ‘Wall, Mr. Flint," said Peter Perkins,| old had decayed, therefore the same derâ€" "‘seein‘ you was so ‘bligin‘ and neighborly ) tiny awamited England. He recalled the about that gray mare, I kinder reehonod!m of the New Zealander standing on I‘d jest step in and lead her over toâ€"night. ; London Brilge contemplating the ruin of You see I get in ray hay toâ€"morror, n.nd’ St. Paul, Alison also indulges in the like there‘s a rain a comin‘ up along the end of forebodings. His publications led him to the week, or I ain‘t no prophet." ’hythenuondthodo-yp( England to «"So you do mean to steal her?" said Mr.| the power of democracy. These prediâ€" Flint. "I‘ve seen impudence before but tions of evil have been confidently repeatâ€" this caps all." | ed as if they were truths of the most cerâ€" «‘Kinder guess you‘ve forgot who I am," | tain description. He, the lecturer, did not said Peter Perkins. "Don‘t youremember believe these predictions. He did not beâ€" a writin‘ to me this mornin‘ ?" lieve that England, that country to whom *‘Then here goes," said Silas Hoskins, taking off his cuffs. At this moment a long, lathâ€"like figure strode past them and began to hammer at T‘H E6E ‘"Why don‘t I die !" sobbed Berthilda. "But, oh, Silas, I can‘t leave Uncle Flint like that. It wouldn‘t be decent." "Oh, oh, oh !" she sobbed, "was ever a poor woman in such a trouble ? Oh, oh !" «"Choose!" cried Hoskins ; "and darned if I ain‘t so mad I don‘t care much which way you choose. I‘d rather like to be at liberty to go for old Flint and mash him â€"by jingo, I had !" He‘s wrote me a letter that was just choek full of insults from fust to last," said Mr. Hoskins. "Said I writ ‘cause I was afeard to ask him for you; and everyâ€" body knows that I killed Abigail Ariminty with overwork, starved her to death, and sont her over to her ma‘s to be buried. Now Abigail Arminty died of consumption that was in her fomily, and I spent lots in doctor‘s stuff; and if she was buried from her ma‘s, that was the old lady‘s wish. And Ariminty said she would go there to die. And I did all that mortal could, and I hired help, and I wasn‘t hard on Abigail Ariminty ; and your uncle, he‘s a liar, and if he‘ll come out here I‘ll wring his neck. I‘ve as much as I can do to keep from saying words a man hadu‘t orter say arter he‘s jined the church. I never was so mad in my life. I‘m bursting with rage ; and he says I‘m a thief, and he‘s no doubt ‘ll steal you if I can; and so I will. It‘s jest this, Berthildyâ€"you come along with me now, and get Parson Speer to marry us, or there‘s an end of it. It‘s all up beâ€" tween us. You choose betwixt old Flint and me, and if you choose him, why I ain‘t under no obligations to you no longer, and I‘ll make a jelly of him in three jorks of a sheep‘s tail." At these words Berthilda trembled more than ever. The fountains that were in her head overflowed and ran out of her eyes adown her cheeks. "Oh, dear! the matter 2" To the gate Berthilda went in a state of nervous agitation, which made the blue ribbon bow in her hair quiver like a hamâ€" ming bird, and there she found Mr. Hosâ€" kins so red in the frace witly sage that the color was perc‘eptiblc in the moonlight. And the greeting was this : "Berthildy, if old Flint was anybody‘s uncle but yourn, I‘d go in and pummel the breath out of lim. I‘ve a minter do itl now. _ Poor Berthilda scarcely dared to lift her eyes to her uncle‘s face that day, but his manner to her was unusually kind, and she had allowed herself to hope much for it, when, as she sat at her knitting in the evening, Peggy, the sole domestic, beckonâ€" ed mysteriously to her from the door, and having thus beguiled her into the hall, inâ€" formed her that Mr. Hoskins wanted to see her at the gate. C Str,â€"I don‘t wonder you wrote, and hadn‘t the face to come and ask me what you wanted, lhke a man. Let you have | her, indeed ! When every ore knows that i you killed the other one with overwork, and only sent her Bome to be buried. A ‘ pretty idea that, indeed ! She was just a rack of bones when you gut through with her, and, I judge, halfâ€"starved as well as worked to death. Drar Sir,â€"I can‘t see anything in the way of your having what you ask. You can come over if you like and talk it over. F1inv. Having done this he put each in an enâ€" velope and sent them off, This finished, he wrote more briefly to Mr. Hoskins : You‘ll promise to take good care of her, no doubt. You may it you get her, but you‘ll only do that by stealing her, and as I suppose you are quite capable of that, I shall see to my locks. Bo he drew his blotter toward him, seized pen and ink and indited this pepâ€" pery epistle: idifits nton‘s. Prabhc tm use rsminitctiits sls i and the poor beast had died in conseâ€" quence. Lend Perkins his gray raare inâ€" deed ! He would give him a piece of his mind for his impudevce. And he would settle that business before he attended to Berthilda‘s offer. As for Perkins, he should not have his horse, He had overworked the one he had borrowed of him last harvest time. Mr. Flint was not in the habit of lingerâ€" ing long over any decision. He regarded the fact that Berthilda had had an offer as a sort of mirnele, not likely to occur again, and he had an idea that women always liked to be married. Hoskins was wellâ€"toâ€"do and respectable. She should have him, if she chase. She had been a good girl to him, and he really felt an affection for her. J his niece Berthilda‘s hand ar t" sobbed Berthilda, "what is ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO 'Gnokbutoldml "that nations decay as well as man." However great they may be they bear in themselves the germs of deeny. ‘An English historian, Lord Macâ€" caulay, indulges in the same gloomy anâ€" ticipations of the decay of our great nation. He quoted from Maccaulay at some length the argument that becauseé the nations of old had decayed, therefore the same desâ€" tiny awaited England. He recalled the picture of the New Zealander standing on' Londou Brilge contemplating the ruin of St. Paul, Alison also indulges in the like forebodings. His publications led him to lay the reason of the decay of England to the power of demoeracy. These prediâ€" Dr. McLellan, who was received with applause, commenced by saying :â€"An old _ _ On Friday evening last Dr. McLellan, High Schoo!l Inspector, gave a locture in the Town Hall. The subject was "This Canada of ours." ‘Thomas Gordon, Esq., presided, and in a few words introduced the lecturer to the meeting. The Hall was filled with a most attentive and appreâ€" ciitive audience. They listened with wrapt attention to the eloquent Lecturer. We regret we cannot do more than give a summary of the lecture, which, as one of our townsmen remarked was one "the like of which had not been heard here beâ€" dear," and cried again, Hoskins was conâ€" tented, and the wedding came off in due time. But Hoskins advanced and held out his large hands. "Let byâ€"gones be byâ€"gones," he said. "May I have Berthilda, Mr. Flint ?" «"You can ask her," said Flint. And though Berthilda only said, "Oh, ‘You‘re a good girl, Berthilda, if you are an ugly one," said Uncle Flint. "For your sake I‘ll explain matters. I wrote buth those letters, but I sent them to the wrong men. That‘s yours, Hoskins. Perâ€" kins, that‘s yours, and I meant every word of it." And he handed the letters t> their proper owners. "I‘ll see it this ain‘t a case of libel," said Perkins, as he walked off. Uncle Flint looked were red with weeping. i Flint took it in his hand, glanced at it, and said, "It isn‘t," but his face alterod. "‘Contradicts anything," said Perkins. "I suppose you‘ll deny you wrote me that?" said Hoskins, offering another letter to the old man. 3 M ts Again Mr. Flint glaneed at the page. * "Yes, I do," he said, but this time he grinned. "Perhaps a secret enemy," murmured Berthilda. **Well, that‘s the letter you writ me, anyâ€" way," said Perkins, holding out a crumpled sheet of paper. "That‘s another lie," said Flint. "You‘re fifty years old." "A lunatie!" said Mr. Perkins. "Why, there‘s the letter you writ me. If you were a younger man I‘d not stop to argy ; but you‘re old enough to be my fatherâ€"" «No doubt it‘s true, but I didn‘t," cried Flint, "He is crazy," said Hoskins. "Mad as a March hare," said Perkins. "You are a couple of lunatics. I‘ll be protected against you. Help, help! Some one go for the constable." «*You are both insane," said Flint. «"You never writ that to me ?" cried Hos kins. "I don‘t doubt it, sir!" said Mr. Hoskins. "He‘s insulted me, sir. Told me I worked my poor, late Abigail Ariminty to death, starved her, and was afeard of him. â€"Writ that to me, sir! Hang him {" "‘That‘s false," said old Flint. "Now, I am a liar. am 19" cried HWae. "Tells me I‘mf§ drunk and a liar, sir," cried Perkins to Hoskins. "Asked him neighborâ€"like to lend me his gray mare, and he wrote he would, and now calls me all the names he can lay his tongue to." "You nbominable rascal!" cried Flint. And now Miss Berthilda saw her unclei menaced by a bony fist, and flew up the j path with Hoskins after her. { "‘Then if you are sober you ean‘t read !" said Mr. Flint, . _ **You wrote me a note telling me to come over, saying there was nothing in the way of my having the gray mare," said Mr. Perkins, "That‘s untrue," said Mr. Flint. «You‘re a lying, sir!" said Mr. Perkins. "Hanged if ‘ll stand it !" "I drinking? I never touch anything but tea. I‘m a Son of Temperance, sir!" shouted Mr. Perkins, so that his voice reached the ears of the unhappy couple at the gate. "I drunk?" mare to do the same by this; and I told you what T thought of you in my note. You must have been drinking, Mr. Perâ€" kins? You must be drunk, sir, to ask me for my gray mare after what I wrote you this morning." "I know you well enough," said Mr. Flint. "D‘ye think I‘m in my dotage?" You‘re the man that kiled my brown horse last summer, and asked for my gray "This Canada of Ours." , 4 am a liar, am I?" cried Hos a & + and asked for my gray $1 per year in Advance eyes Mr. Tt developed the morality, the intelligence, ‘ fortabie as oth@er naonda an. 1. se * * » ’fl“l.“*”"l“ and the eapacities of those who were to tueir face t. un!.ut.â€"d':l':a:: would set up. The price of liLerty is conâ€" tinued watchfulness, as it was step by step and by slow degrees that the liberties of a proople were fritterod away. We had an educational system better than any other friends the teachers to think highly of their profession, which of all was the one, on which more than any other, the future of tion was an clement of national power. tics are physical energy and endurance. With such a climate, such a soil and such a race, what a noble destiny is before us. The lecturer went on in glowing language to describe the magnificent country of the Dominion, and the great advantages Caâ€" nadians had in possessing such a land. He continued that not only had Canadiâ€" ans such advantages, but they were the heirs of all the generations which had gone before. Especially were they the heirs of all the glory and renown of Britains. Her history was their history, her heroes were their heroes. Her liberty was their liberâ€" ty. We had the same liberty which had been won by the blood and srerifices of the mother land. We had the same feelings of loyalty to a Queen, than whom there was none nobler. He paid a glowing tesâ€" timony of praise to our most gracious Sovâ€" ereign. No better monarch ever ruled over a free people. He launched out into || glowing eulogy of liberty, especially the liberty _ enjoyed by Canadians. _ in some respects we were a freer people than even the British. We hbad freer instituâ€" ’ tions, trammeled by fewer drawhacks than were enjoyed by England. We lhad a free press, be quietly remarked perbaps some of us thought it was too free, We chose our own legislators, and when they did not honestly discharge the duties confided to ' them, we could discharge them and apâ€" point others in their place. He then counâ€" selled the people who possessed these adâ€" vantages to troasure them and not lose them by carelessuess, or by allowing party feeling to blind them to the evil conduct of party leaders, not to bow down and worâ€" ship the golden image or the image of basâ€" | "Briitania needs no bulwarks : Nor towers along the steep." + ; not because "her march is on the mounâ€" (train wave, her home is on the deep ;" but # because her destiny is in the hands of the l mighty God. who has. endowed; her with 4 I such mighty power. . Let us enquire wheâ€" f l ther Canada has a share in her progress, , | Man stands the heir of Nature, not by maâ€" ‘ terialism, that falsity so repugnant to the ® i dearest instinets of the human heart. Its ‘ | disciples may babble about germs and proâ€" ‘ | toplasms and cataclysms and a lot of other nonsense. They may talk of their great, | great, great, great grandfuther till they: 4 come to find their progenator a highly reâ€" ; spectable member of the family of gorillas. | They may boast themselves of such a pediâ€" gree nearer or more remote, but he for one claimed a higher destiny for himself, | They may go back till they find their proâ€" genitor was Balaam‘sâ€"â€"faithful monitor. But he claimed to be the work of a Divine |Creator. They were no nearer the soluâ€" tion of the great mystery of creation than the child whose answer is, "It is because it is." He then went on to say that it had been proved by history and experience that between the 80th and 60th paralells of north latitudes the human race developed most of its power and energy. In the tropical climes Nature had done most for man, and under the burning sun man had proved weak and enervated, The climate was against him exercising any force and energy of character. And in the extreme north on the other hand the extreme cold | and the long nights operated equally effecâ€" | tualy in curbing the mental powers. But | between these paralells where man had to put forth his energies the grandest speciâ€" | mens or the human race were produced. | Such was the favored position of this land | of ours, a land touching the sea on the ] East and West, and a land whose mighty | lakes were inland seas and whose rivers | were the highway to carry the products of f the soil to the ocean where they were transâ€" | mitted to other lands. We have a land rich in all the varied productions of naâ€"| ture, a soil which yields a rich return for |! the labor bestowed upon it. We have a| race of which the earth had not seen the | like before, the Celtic Teutonic race, comâ€" ‘ bining the courage, the imagination, the | daring, the impulse of the Celt, with the |* coolness, the prudence and the thoughtâ€"|‘ fulness of the Teuton. These two races|! form the British race, whose characterisâ€"| 1 greatest and best aafeâ€"guards against deâ€" cayâ€"to whom had been commitied the Bibleâ€"that nation which was the home of liberty and the home of the Bible was desâ€" tined to such decay. He did not think that England, the home and the nursery of all that was great and good, to whom had been committed by God the mission to send the gospel to every nation under heaven was destined to perish like those empires of old. He was no prophet nor the son of a prophet though the Mail _had taken the trouble to ask concerning him. "Is Saul also among the prophets?" but he ventured to predict that whatever the fate of other nations might have been, that the English nation, the home of liberty, intelligence and christianity, had a future bright with promise and hope. Mbunm“bym“?fi. ehronic. ‘The only way they feel cowfort, able is when harnessed with their faee toâ€" ward the whiffictree, and their back 6 the end of the shafts. ‘They may set Jown Mmhtbewmn-'nbda‘ in Boston, Brookly» or Favrenunsh, but they really have been spending alU their lives on the plain of O â€"no. There I¢t then be turned with their face toward the West, for in that way they will feel wmore comâ€" Soiree or Bocial for the good of the cause, you hope the erooked sticks will lie still, and that the congregntion will move on solid phalanz. But not soâ€"Lanballat sends for Nehermah, proposing to meet him in the plain of Ono. Bome men were born backward and have been going that way ever since. Opposition has become Tar Prary or Oâ€"Â¥0.â€"A friend*®eslls our attention to the La@t thiat Semmailat d to hold consultation with Nehomia plain of Ouo. That is the place . w more people stay toâ€"«day than in any ctier They are always protesting; throwing doubt on grand undertakings, and while you are in the mountain of Oâ€"46s they spend their time on the plain fOâ€"uo0. In the harness of society they are breechingâ€" strapsâ€"good for i #to hold buck. You propose to W:“ to: repair the old one, to have sheds erected on the church grounds, to | a parsonnge, to mn&hmch have a Every one knows that this fumous white elephant, before whom the whole . people bow the knee, is the emblem ot the kingâ€" dom of Siam. Each white elephant posâ€" sesses its palace, a vessel of gold, and harâ€" ness resplendent with jewels. Several mandarins are a‘tached to its service, and feed it with cakes and sugarâ€"sane. The King of Siam is the only person before whom it bends the knee, and a similur salâ€" utation is rendered it by the monarch. The decersed idol has been accorded a magnificent funeral. _ A hundred Buddhist priests officiated at the ceremony. The three surviving white elephants, preceded by trumpets and followed by an immense concourse of people, acsompanied the fanâ€" eral car to the bunk of the Menam, where the King and bis noble lords received the mortal remains, which were transported to the opposite bank for burial. A procession of thirty vessels figured at that curious ceremony, . All the floating houses panged in double file on the Menam, to the numâ€" ber of over sixty thousand, were adome} with flags of all colors and symbolical attriâ€" butes. floor for serubbing, and so serionsly sealded herself, that she soon after died of the inâ€" juries she had received. The bereaved parents, in their great affliction have the hearty sympathy of the whole community. â€"Orangeville Sun. The oldest of the white elephants of Stam, which was born in 1770, died in its temple at Bangkok in November last. Scarpen.â€"A sad affair occurred in the township of Amaranth a short time since. The daughter of a respectable farmer, namsd Robert Keysâ€"a girl about thirteen years of ageâ€"accidertly upset a pail of hot water, which had just been set on the floor for serubbing, and so seriously sealded the growing wheat, inflicting a heavy loss. The damages are estimated at between seventyâ€"five and one hundred thousand The North Siar of the 11th anys navignâ€" ‘ion is open between Collingwood and Parry Sound, with the exception of within about two and a half miles of the lu tâ€" named village. The steamers will be plyâ€" ing, to all appearance, early in April. Mi, Dickson, one of the oldest men in ‘ Canada, died on Buturday morning at Palâ€" merston,. HMe served under Nelson, and had been wrecked on a whaling expedition . He emigrated from Armagh, lveland, and lived in Biddulph some thirty years, and moving to Palmerston had the satisfaction of spending his last days with his lanshter and friends. . Mr. Dickson was over 112 years ut the time of his doath, The severest storm ever experienced in Virginia passed over Jefferson County on Monday. _ MHailstones, lnrger than eggs, fell for an hour, unroofing houses, breakâ€" ing glass and killing cattle, hogs and sheep, The heavy rain which followed washed out The Collingwood harbour has not been frozen over during the entire winter. This was never known before. The tramp crop at Barrie has been the largest ever known in any winter since the incorporation of the town. AmiouetndleuudiuMinnfish eight inches long, almost transparent, and very fat, the fat being puwe white and very sweet. The Indians dry the fish, then light it at the tail, and it burns with a clear, sparkling flame, which the wind wili not extinguish, Cape of Good Hope wool is being made into eloth at Walkerton, A Molly Magnine, charged with murder in Pennsylvania three years ago, was extraâ€" dited from 8t. Catharines on Tuesday, A Deaf and Dumb Institution is being bmilton the Sandyâ€"Pvint Road, near St. structive lecture. ‘The motion being so¢â€" onded by Rev. Mr. Bawtinhemier, was put tothln.fin.by Mr Gordon and carried. Dr. MeLlelian in returning thanks urged the constraction of the new High School as one of the first necessities. The school xooms at present iwore overcrowded.â€"Owâ€" en Sound Advertiiser, thrown in. He concluded by a quotation from a poom "Toâ€"morrow," and sat down amidet tumultuous applause. Rev. Mr. Mulholliand moved ‘that the thanks of the meeting be given to Dr. Mcâ€" Lellan for his very able, eloquent and inâ€" Avarhed theni agninst TeHing well ulone. The only way to educate the young in habits of andustry was to set therh the ozâ€" ample. â€" He also enlarged on physical oduâ€" céton remarking Cat a vigorousmind was all the betierdor having a vigorous body thrown in. He concluded by a anotatia® tinuing to enlarge on the highahd honoi* MIBCELLANEOUr.