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mm A- Press Religious Liberty and Equal Rights to all men terms in advance No ONTARIO CANADA THURSDAY JANUARY 20 1870 Whole No 109 Sill Thuradoy M In officii BATES ADVERTISING per Lino for first Idbg and Two per Line for each dor per a iitfii will Ik charged occupied scale of His itietrnetim ill till in all cases BUSINESS BIRCH VETERINARY SURGEON cwwirkuljMareli THOMAS NA8H and NEWMARKET Ill to notify ritii In- i jVwtiicMip tin of to the in I Will Dr of who nil I In to attend o nil IiIk limit Mill v ill H of PEARSON HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE ALEX BUDGE BLACKSMITH OPPOSITE MECHANICS HALL SHOEING Homo Is where theres one Us Homes not merely four square walls Willi iitiin Imni Mid I lill1 tl lV in lalnll lniM Hi Ifonion not merely I THE STOltY ivvlyi 1 Ik irj Mil uvu iHowuill rliiiatim I I one liis ox terms NEW AUCTION ROOMS HOLLAND LANDING MARRIAGE LICENSES BARGAINS in DRY GOODS HILLARY J Rhili Hip Regular I AM A ALFRED ATTORNEY AT LAW WALTER DUDLEY SOLICITOR CHANCERY TIMOTHY STREET Ons door mt Mr EDWARD C CAMPBELL A -AT- LAW REMOVED HIS OFFICE JOHN COOK Clerk of the Court in R to hoi ORGANS DALES Stationery Fancy Goods SMALT WARE LINE I Or anything in the shape of FIRSTCLASS JOB PRINTING Dont forget that If AT THE OFFICE ALL KINDS OF School AT CQWUER OFFICE Do you think ho will drcd d Mil- I dont know the coffee Yea it in and ho tontating in front of tlin I ho would Mildred you and I a solemn mutual never to a doctor I laughed involuntarily at my little faco of much better wait until a doc- woos I a grave Get your book Mimic can read at page in thai odd old German while we low tbo tempest raged our house on that dreary December night 1 beside the whitehot grate with velvet pets underneath our foet and crimsoned shutting out the tempcatuom darkness of the outer world We had closed the piano and laid out drawing and now sitting ride by side thoughtfully awaiting Undo return for tbo clock pointed to midnight he had been absent hour in the At length there was a sharp quick ring at the dfjorbell a familiar stamp ing off the in tbo hall below and Unele genial face appeared framed in furs and rosy as a winters apple with the touch of the keen night air Well girls sitting up for me Upon my word I think youre in a fan way o spoil the old bachelor be said cheerily We could not go to bed while were out on such a as this uncle said a little sprite as she rang tbo bell for his customary cup of smoking coffee while I the eldest yet most petted one took my seat close beside the big arm chair on a little stool at bit feet How did it happen that you were de tained so late Undo asked Minnie I have been at deathbed of an old friend tonight Dr thoughtfully gazing at the rubyred glow of the coals as Iib stirred bis fragrant An old friend Uncle Who can it be Do you remember seeing Thornton Gray here occasionally that tall slender eyes that Minnie calif and hair curiously repeat bedside that I he dead Fortunate A lovly he is Why do you call him fa I asked half- a wed by the singular tone of his voice Because Mildred his life has been sorrowful dream a succession of mistakes darkly shadowed with mystery and now at last the curtain is lifted on the other shore of the dark river 1 Tell us about it Uncle I said Listen then my dear said Dr Mor daunt stroking down my curls with an in voluntary motion of bis hand a motion that I felt was only semicon scious Let bled round the snowy shores of tbo turbid looking river whero blocks of steely ice wore rocking in the freez ing current they made way in for me S3 1 passed hurriedly through their rankH There in the centre a bier made of a few rough boards lay the dripping frozen of a young girl both silent in sort of hushed horror my Uncles low solemn voice impressive description seemed to bring up the very reality before us Ho paused an instant and then resumed My children such a Bight as that once is not easily forgotten twenty years have elapsed I plainly as I saw her then the raty her face the violet open and glared with death golden hair long streamed around her face ant all the look of utter misery and hopelessness that stamped the beautiful features even in death I stooped down mechanically felt the jiulne and passed my hand the icy lip- J bad been morally 1rdiFi the it wis She had been dead for hours I turning to the little crowd who awaiting my verdict Poor pretty thing 1 said one of the who were Lending over shes scarce more than to judge by her looks To think shes gone so early pior pretty child I Nobody knew anything about her she was a total stranger in the village an even the close examination of her scant effects and clothing failed to produce an to her identity I remained over on day in the village to attend the coroner inquest and saw her buried in the snovi covered among gray dreary old tombstones ere I resumed journey Several years passed by and I had nearly forgotten the lovely corpse beside the turbid rher the strange romantic episode it bad in my life when one evening I received Thornton Grays card bearing the address of a fashionable New York hotel and the words hurriedly scrib bled underneath in pencil Jml from hurried through my list of patients and hastened to the hotel possible for been one of in and friends Hallo the same sober- od fellow as ever with a cordial grasp of the band and welcoming smile yet somehow I fancied that he wa3 changed There an eager searching look his an reaksness man- that struck me as unusual but later evening be explained the secret of tut at first The truth is I am en- iii a search A search I echoed and for whom For one in whom my lifes whole is bound up be answered with of passionate energy Four years aye I was engaged the loveliest creatures Gods s shone on but mad fool that I wa foolishly jealous of mourned for her with the constancy of lifetime are united at last And this was my Uncles story those romances that happen real life under our own eyes Was it no worth jotting een as it was lolt Look here little You should not be on street Little Amy looked into the motherly of bo questioner but she did not She- was a bashful little thing four years old She scarcely looked three sbo Utile Amy id had a right to speak Little Amy met him first 0 papal she res a lot of good things come But mammy says tbey cant belong to us but do belong to us Theyre all own dear he said to bis wife who was drearily at tbo different packages them The paper yon has the big for the tomorrow not to steal it Amy clapped her bands such little nd3 and laughed gleefully Ye need not spare he went Theres work in me arm and I the 11 in me heart Ill kape ye both never fear It lit and then you will get lost Run homo a good girl I is going after my papa tin child Oh how full the streets are The you Let me lead you bom your mother Your papa will come She took the little cold hand but the child pulled it away and push past her ran rapidly down tbo street Ah I well said the taking up a heavy basket of clothes that she bad set down on the sidewalk while speaking to little Amy I have no time to run after here She muettake her chance I hope come to no barm for there shes gone into Meg rumhole Shes after her father the loafing The the yes twenty ye Epitaph a Taylor unlike the present one and fellowpassenger was a woman closely veiled in great distress of min Once when the stagecoach stopped for mentin front of some brilliantly lighted door I caught a glimpse of her face she restlessly adjusted the folds of the thick black veil- It was that of a girl scarcely more than sixteen and but passingly lovely Once or twice in the darkness I thought I heard a sob and I almost tempted to speak and ask her ly reproached Minnie should were I similar circumstances now there what good a chance word of cheer may sometimes effect but I younger and more timid then Unnumbered evils Willmourn how time flu to I went down from the York to a Email inland villi coach then most met hod vel Jtv lord At ill baby she knew where to for him He was sitting before the fire low drinking bouse half stupefied the liquor be bad taken since fmibiug days work He was a large strongly built man with an easy careless manner almost hopelessly obliging We say because it Ill die No ye wont nor of want Its the bit lassies doings And then he told tho pitiful story of little Amys theft and punishment Ill no let you to buy cabbage for Meg the old critter ho id in conclusion There was not a happier home in Amer- than was Terrance Maloneya on that Saturday night And it plea reform which by her frequent visits to the demijohn There were a number of men and women in the room going the various sullen some quarrelsome But the man before the fire little Amys father sat apart from the rest and did not seem to sec or hear any thing about him Dont go to slape there my man said Meg giving him a rough push be on the stove next Move an alive till I off the kittle Little Amy stole noiselessly into the room and crept up between her fathers S the huge- dinner was set since he has entered a drinkioghouse notwithstanding many a tempting offer of whiskey for nothing if be would return to his old corner at Quillans There was not a neater home in tho wn than the onestorey cottage which he now but intends to own at home like a lady as she declares There is no more going out in the cold mornings to wash for other people She plenty of pleasant work at home for ttle Amy has a baby brother now who the delight of her heart He is a big fellow for a baby after the pattern of Ter- father too heavy for her to lift perpetual fountain of joy of ill her parents lead her quietly into the house of God on the holy Sabbath and listen themselves with unquestioning faith to the saving truths of the gospel of Christ This is the sweet promise of their I tell little Amys as I beard it myself not a week ago from a warmheart ed Irish woman who is my friend She is unlearned and I have been obliged to translate her brogue into plainer English but I have given the facts of the story alteration Wasted Lives the hearth The What bright anticipations and bitter disappointments lofty hopes and stern realities go to make up our changeful lives From infancy to yontb from youth to old age we are ever chasing the phantom pleasure too frequently to grasp the reality pain The little toddling in fant tries to catch in its wee dimpled hands the bright sunbeams that dance playfully over the carpet before its delight ed eyes But how soon smiles give place to tears on that childish face when it fails to gather the brightness in its eager little all palm Fit emblem in- clouds sunshine A darken lifes pathway this of life the the fortunate idlers who bap- all itabrightness of a distant relation but 1 to have any suppers of their own to how levr of to leave for their have extent with the tri of her without being mad- at my own folly Well we parted aud dismayed I full fierce died tb ight and I no more of my myster- companion The next morning I was adjusting my wrappings on steps of the unpre tentious hotel and waiting rather impa- for the lumbering old stagecoach report itself when a boy came rapidly up the one main street of the village Please sir he ejaculated breathlessly are you a physician Aye my lad whats wanting Will you step this way sir They just taken a womans body oat of the and father says may be theres a life in it yet Oh sir make baste he added shes so pretty and so girlish looking What was it that reminded me so strangely that instant of my lovely fel lowpassenger of the night What made me remember with a thrill of defined apprehension the strong look of despair that waa in her eyes that one slant that the light played upon her conscious f cap scarcely answer how well I remember that snowy Decem ber day but when I returned repentent and sorrowing ready to kiss the very hem of her garment with contrition it was too late The cousin with whom she was dwelling was dead his family scattered no one knew whither and all clue to tines whereabouts was irrevocably lost Nou you know the object of my search Until I find my wronged or injured tine life has not one hour of rest or peace forme And have you no key whatever to tliis mystery I asked None save her picture which even in the storm of my first temporary mad ness I could not bear to cast from me He took a small velvet case from his breast and touched a little clasp it There he placing the picture in my hands it but a faint idea of her surpassing beauty and yet it is like what was As I looked upon it a sickness as death over my heart I was upon beautiful face that had 1 in the freezing Enow beside the cruel atBrandford tbeunkjip and the same I returned the I could not speak I could dash his fevered hopes to the ground And up to the hour of his death Mildred hi never knew that for whom he wa seeking the earth over bad long sine passed beyond the power of love or My was silent for a minute two Presently he spoke again Tonight he died with pic lure lying on his heart as it had lain life God is more merciful far than man and I believe that now dark mystery is solved the beautiful girl that perished nd that the cupboard a out her allurements sense- Happiness the one which the possession of wealth i Little Amy leaned over bis knee to get jut preceJcs seems almost within little nearer to the dinner pot and then beyond We out her hide hank and on on we may perhaps seize its her tiny finger3 picked a bit of the tut the boon that we have toiled cabbage for our end our aim before we reach that Ill tache ye to stale ye beggar s bright beyond is swept from our screamed the woman catching hell and wc- kok around us in the same sorrow- Amys arm and shaking her in spite of as when we failed to catch her fathers hold on her the sunshine in our baby He started up from that life holds not for us has taught a how it had eluded he bright threads and the- sombre daily weave into the web of Let the child alone be said Touch her again if you dare Can ye no fieal the starving the day I battles must be fought butter An wb t Tenenee Moloney Who but yourself the tIl0 ye born fool victory Then there comes a time in the You say rue- d- g said the UB man reaching for his hat ttu il- f die his coat as beside it s call it Death The throbbing heart wages as has paid for year cabbage tbi jfl t tQ floWj many a day do it no more Loom r t0 t tho Amywisba he cabbage tf 1 jrui the by he life home after this and mate too Im thinking A A h 1 the in his arms and strode out of the house Hell be back for his dram directly mortality is left alone to silence de- said the woman laughing Itll be long day before hell go to bed without h having that But he did not come back Day after day pad by and Terrenes did Plod not vile Not a iilVcV- word did be say to his wife of bis good resolutions He watched her going and Yes all that breathe must share thy coming to her work with a worn and d is- destiny but to fall unnoticed by look on her face which so living with no friend to take note of thy bright and but Eix years ago but departure seems a death almost too said nothing to it until Saturday to he borne Ahl methinks that evening when his wages for the week were death would be diverted of half its pange paid could we but know that some one will Then after sending home food and fuel mourn us that some heartthrone will be he entered his door with a feeling that he that tome one will miss our Iru- recovered in part his lost manhood ministrations