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Newmarket Courier, 6 Jan 1870, p. 4

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to white and atlll the rides of When nil natures a life glad and tender Full of rich and sweat Who will think of whits hands On and silent breast to know of A A recent number of ffara6i contains interesting romantiosketcl by of the female explorer whose tragical death year was a real loss to This re woman daughter of English merchant and a Dutch lady of good family attached to tie Court of the present Holland Ilor father dy ing when was only Ave years old was loft heiress to tt considerable property and as her personal attractions she hud no took of suitors when those of the beat birth quality But all she turned a deaf pita from through tortuous visitor court with ilia the revives on heap staves end girls lying on the ground big adorning with bits of broken window Jooghalred bounds an wljllcbcarded Berber who acted porter The lady So oriental mourning and wiring sq of deep countenance occupied a twilight which hid been an with floor quaint eastern furniture In teresting the ethnographical specimen chil dren of different of interior who had voluntarily fallowed her In order from the doom of slavery in their liomcs It was old mo says iflrrotor by a missionary who bod mot in tho Interior Africa that bad often taken up a wounded on tho animal had been riding and proceeded herself for hours long on foot wading through deep was very While I drew ho continues speaking of Interview with her it Cairo eat in Arabian fashion looking the ground never tired of tell- mo her groat marshy tracts of tho Upper regions bad recalled tho memories of her Dutch homo Again had tho endless green flats which her childish eye rested risen be fore her minds eye But often felt that had than enough of green with longing to the thought of tho yellow deserts Sahara What could bo Iho incredulous that the beauty could ho insensible to the universal passion whispered that she nourished hopeless love to some unattainable prince nod that it was this which subsequently drove her despairing into wilderness However that may be two barons are said ID of their suit to have fol lowed her to Khartoum Her earliest de veloped tastes those of an Amazon She delighted in taming horses and sought nature in its most aspects Her first journey any length was to the North Pole The Queen of Holland her in troductions to many Courts of Europe but she was bent on visiting East and made her first expedition there when in her 18th year She then traversed Asia Minor Syria and Egypt and at once to have to the fascination which those regions have exercised over the mind of European women as well as men But it was not the love of rule which she sought to gratify like Lady Heater Stanhope nor was it the grasping desire for wealth the simple human sympathies which hound her to the like Lady Duff Gordons her passion was to the problem of the Nile discovery this resolved to turn African to the best of adopted the Egyp tian dress purrounded herself with African servants for her protection The native tribes of the interior imagined her to bo a lovely white shining daughter of the Sultan of Sultans who spending freely lowed her adventur Dr effects of and difpir had alto from and Tic how pleated lie lodged is It nothing purer tliau honesty noth ing sweeter than charity nothing lovo nothing brighter than virtue and nothing than to united In mind form purest sweetest brightest and most lead wind Is but It tbo brow ripples of Hi Into silver spangles of beauty Bo good eh of heart though Invisible to tho la eye makes its presence from its effects upon surrounding objects wo are r wont eo well to a mar In a plain neat modest a single ornament about he ion looks then as though she worth In herself needed no art it rigging to her value If her mind training her temper cherishing kindness mercy and Swiss Alp it is just on Great St Bernard They been travelling from towards tho Italian frontier tho intention of resting for tho night tho famous Hospice that stands almost tho boundary lino between Switzerland Italy By seven oclock in even ing they had reached a little inn on tho to the Monaelry they had still to journey forsevcral toilsome miles Astbo night was dark and stormy the them to wait uutil morning ml being poor they refused They be longed to that class of povertystricken pil grims who arc constantly passing between Switzerland and Italy who carry all their worldly goods in a knapsack of food and 1 and in of travel Hence although the t was pitch dark and tho wind down with hurricane like from the great mountains that shut in valley tho three travellers resolved that they would push on to the Hospico Soon iter leaving the canteen they began a winding rocky and steep which overhangs a bowling leads to the Monastery So black sky that the wayfarers to grope by means of precipico which rus in the side of the path farthest from torrent Had the moon been up they ght have been guided by thepolea monks planted in a direct from the Hospice to the valley to indicate the direction when the path is buried un der the snow and the torrent is frozen the pitch darkness the friendly ivorc obscured Hence the travel- to a standstill before reaching that ford of the brook a which the road dips and guides and cheers the by the beacon light The poor pilgrims were so near to the blaze that had they been able to exert themselves for a few minutes longer they would have been safe without the among a thousand he has boon circulated by some- travellers recently arrived in London respect- Wheeler tbo of collected that on bearing of daughter to that ladys head should die Dn Light t ho death of that that for every one Sepoy bit 1 the part A patient that one of his was Some after this tbo Roger Knight i Douglas went to sleep in good health to wards tho middle of the night ho saw Id his dream a man infected with the plague quite naked who attacked him with fury and threw him on the ground Three days after he was seized with the plague and died Hippo- ll j Life The assured nothing should induce her to Europe and she rejected the solicit her who actually came from England to Caiio to escort her back Her desire intention was to build herself a residence either at Cairo or on the Nile island of and she was very busily occupied with architectural plans of a Strange fantastic character when M met her for the last time in the Egyptian capital Her plans of settling there did Egyptian Government and it was in con sequence of her inability to procure the laud necessary for her purposes that she departed in her own steam vessel to vis the African coasts of the While on this voyage she put in at Civil whence she frequently visitt Home and astonished the natives by by that craving for sleep for rest is the effect of intense cold and vithm sight of the gleam that beckoned to them overhead all the travel lers lay down and died On the Great St Bernard the winter season beginasoon Already it is winter be sides the mountain dwelling and daring the long months when the snow covers the r the cold makes travelling peril the daily custom of the good journey as far as the bottom of order that they may lend journey from Tripoli Abysi i traveller Gerard but he bad just the British It traveller who way Clad in their Ion is and hat attendants who carry lives will bo happy ones Deluded reamers They imagine that they are dif- rent from other people and that when and will ever be their at Such ones had better byfar con themselves the same as other resolutions to do differently them from dangerous Unhappy marriages depend upon man a r- AT LOW AND la Variety and Cheap FANCY and TOYS Stationery School Books JUST RECEIVED AT VARIETY STORE Opposite Hotel THE COUBIEB OFFICE Hoop Rod Bar EVERT Pit HEAV AND V Jilt bar good will found to the public coy A T WevFTOarlret Out WOOLLEN FACTORY NELSON OF Cloths of Every Description ALSO GENERAL DEALER IN WOOL THE BEST J J HODGE IE THEIR BUSINESS THAT THE COOKING PARLOUR HALL AND BEDROOM STOVES tiffied that the not Canada Bear in mi Is indisputably the best you can get anywhere They also keep the Beet Tin Copper Sheet Iron Japanned AND PRESSED WARES PLAIN FANCY AS Covers Jelly If Planished Double Kettle Ladles Spoons Spring Music Away I Or Worth of New Music for of the Sahara between ouk and Ghat that er fate She bad intended to or near till tho following ii previously to prosecuting her dropped by the black serge go accompanied by and provisions for the restoration of wearied or fainting travellers and guided by the famous St Bernard dogs which do the work of pointers two or three monks daily moke the seven journey to the below When the searching party of monks had proceeded to a short dis tance from the Hospice they found the bodies stiff and cold They were taken to the little morgue is situated at a short distance from the principal building of the monastery and in that naked mausoleum the remains will abide with other relics of mortality by the kinsfolk of the lost In that small hut perched of the of 11 ii camel drivers of the savage of the and her own Dutch servants one morning brought her to the scene of action when a javelin was thrust through her from behind The actual ad dition to their knowledge which African owe to was made in her expedition to the Gazelle River She succeeded in ascertainin position of the watershed which marks off the basin of the Western Upper this direction and obtaining vague of a central African inland Lake s about the third degree of her abode he boys who all knew her welt as the countess who her dwelling almost the of the dwell tin and genera have perished in the fatal pass and dressed clothes which they wore when found dead they stand perched id while the leeks through the iron grating of thei tomb they peer grimly forth as if solicit ing recognition from an place of rest An old man leans against tht wall lib bead bare his staff io his hand and his attitude stiffened for ever by the death that smote him years ago clutches in her arms babe that perish with her in the snow From tho other grim figures clothes have rotted away by fragments leaving bleached cot d Why should the us Why does ilkworm toil the sparkle the ma but too light I example that eagles fly alone but sheep that herd together bat should a poisonous worm Hays Thomas itVciiiulatlon beyond the I ill It mail a shall be glad to fill it J Broadway New York P Delay is Subscriptions this Offii The CocEraaVor one year and the Monthly Monthly Ed Three subscript months J Photographer BEGS respectfully to inform the tants of Newmarket and th he has opened Photograph Booms OVER DRY GOODS MAIN St prepared every st for by strict I a liberal share of pub ALL KINDS OF School AT COURIlsr Reading Books cloth boards Thirty bound Boos illustrations strongly JOHNSONS SASH DOOR Blind and Planing Factory Is now in fall operation A CALL BUILDERS SOLICITED A Good assortment of MOULDINGS Custom Planing done at any lime SHOP Comer Mill jAnoniy23 Honey to Land Farming Commrjaity J COLLINS MONEY TO 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