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nr VOL. XXI, NO. 31.1 PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1878. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER a WHOLE XO 1075 it Forty Ontarie. Obgeruer. | Business garys. |MUNEY T0 LOAN: | PBTPERRY LIVERY STABLES|Prosscution. Brings Dettorance u aparc of manliness to rdeom thom : . ; w an Daw, TH. 34.25. ere it worth while, he said, he A WEIRLE ROL hE ONTAR10 BANK. Harp, sabkbut, psaltery, call would gallop over to the nearest 18 PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT., M ORYCAGES WANTED. C M°K EN Zz I E Tiepuiis ad tilt Tg Peto. EVERY THURSDAY MorNiNg, [CAPITAL $3,000,000 ' ' Dow ditatiess fhensinds i Sudo ofthe contract under 'pais of sn ; PROPRIETOR, Before the god of gold ; flogging and imprisonment; but he BAIRD & PARSONS. TERMS.--$1 per annum, if paid in ad- vance ; if not $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; and no paper discontinued until all arrears are wy RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line, first insertion ........$0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line . . 002 Cards, under 8 lines, per annum ..... 5 00 Letters containing money, when ad- dressed to this Office, pre-paid and regester- ed, will be at dur risk. y Advertiserients measured by Nonpareil, aad charged according to the space they oc- cupy. Advertisements received for publication. without specific instructions, will be inserted until forbid and charged accordingly, No advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberal allowed to Merch and others who advertise by the year or half-year, _§@¥~ These terms will in all cases be Strictly ane vd to Job Department. Pamphlets, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Ci B PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINCS DEPARTMENT. A Savings Department is now open in connection with this: Branch. Deposits of FiveDollars and upwards received and inter- est allowed thereon. i No notice of withdrawal required. A.A. ALLEN, MANAGER. W.BURNHAM, Clerk of the Third Divi- « slon Court. Port Perry. Office hours from 10 a. m, to8 p. m. T. C. FORMAN, INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS § MEASURES For thé County. of Ontario. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 45:tf OHN CHRISTIE, . TOWNSHSP CLERK, ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c, host Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and olor, executed promptly and at lower rates than any other establishment in the County. ga Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &c. printed can have them done to take home with them. 3.8AmRD. Professional Caras. = ere cf H. SANGSTER. D., Physician, Sur- Jd. geon and Accoucheur, Coroner for the County bf Ontario PORT PERRY. 3 OMmee over Nott's Furniture Store, cornet of Queen and Perry Streets. Office hours from $a. m.tol2m. Residence, the dwelling recently ofcupled by Mrs. Geo, Paxton. H. PARSONS. R. WARE, Coronor for the County of Ontario, Physician, Surgeon and Ac- toueheur, Office, opposite the town hall. rt Perry. ns, Surgeons, 5, King st, RR. MCGILL & RAE, Phys &c., &c, OfMce and Reside Oshawa, FRANCIS RAF, M,D. WML MGILL, MT. M. F. MCBRIEN, M.D, M. RR. C., 8, Guy's Ww Fospital, London, England. The liye R. 0, H. uu, Oshawa, E. FAREWELL, LT. B, Connty Crown . Attorney for Ontario, Barrister, Attorney, oficitor, and Notary Public. Offiec lately oc- Suplad by 8. H, Cochrane, Esq., Brock strect, Whitby. leit c. YMAN TL. LISH LL. | Chancery, Attorney, Conveyancer, & Oshawa. OMbe--Simcoe street; opposite the Post Ofce | MITH, Ll. B., Barrister, At- . tornoy-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, and [nsolveney, Notary Public, &e. OMee--MeMillan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. 'W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan cery Notary Public, &c., &c. Office hours punctually from 9d4.m. to 5 p.m Money to Loan at 8 per cent, on all kinds of good security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. of ¥. PATERSON, (is N Barrister an'l Attorney-at sliei- ii Pub- {or in Chancery, Conveyancer, Notary lie, &e., &c. Office over Brown & Currie's Store Port Perry. ILLINGS & MeGILLIVRAY, Barristers Solicitors, Notaries Public, &e, Port Perry. 724 A large amount of nioney to loan at & per cent. John Billings. | John A. MeGillivr: A. HURD; Attorney at Law. and Solicitor I . in Chancery. Office in the Royal Arcade, Port Perry: J. A. MURRAY; ATE Patterson & A) Fenton, Stirgedn Dentist, Office over Corrigan & Camp- bell's Store, Port Perry. All work done in the very latest and best style and warranted to give satisfaction, Port Perry, March 28, 1877. C: N. VARS, L. D. 8. EETH idserted on ail the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap ds the cheap- ext, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted without pai by producing local anwsth- esia. Dentical Rooms--in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Street, Oshawa. CHAS. THORN. V 8, EMBER df the Veterinary Institute, Chicaga, Ill, Gold Medalist for the best examination on Horse Practice. Author of a First Prise Essay on Shocing. Gradu- ated Sept. 16, 1867. Dr. Thora begs to announce that he has taken up his residence at Port Perry, and is now prepared to treat all cases entrusted to his care in the miost skillful and scientific manner. All orders left at the Medical Hall of Mr Allison, will receive prompt attention. a" The Veterinary Stables may be found on Lilly street,oppositeRichardsou's Factory. Port Perry, Oct. 28, 1876. HE Subseriber would -beg to inform owners of Horses and Cattle that having completed a Session in the Outario Veterin- ary College, Toronto, he has now located in Port Perry, for the prictice of his pro- fession and is now prepared to give advise on and fully treat all d to which horses and cattle are fable. From long study - aud close investigation of the nature and habits of Horses and Cattle and Jong practice in treating the Diseases of such | together with the great advantages derived from a Session at the Ontario Veterinary College; Toronto, I flatter myself that parties placing their Horses and Cattle under my Offi co in Bigelow's Block, | T= Subseribers have large sums of mon- ey placed (n their hands for investment on Improved Farms, Villa Properties, and other Securities in this and nd joining Counties at the lowest current rates of interest. As we have funds on hand at all times Borrowers candep nd on getting their money 'with the least possible delay. WANTED TO PURCHASE, Any number of Mortgages for which the high- est figures will be allowed. 'Wearealso appraisers for the Canada Per- manent, .Socletv, the Aan largest Monetary Institution in Canada. Paid up Capital $1,300,000. Installments re-payable in from 2 to 20 Years. Lands Bought and Sold. 'Several good farms for sale. 3 72 Agents for several first class Fire In- surance Com panies. Collections made and a general agency busi- ness transacted. 2 DEBENTURES BOUGHT." &x JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, General Agents, Office In Mr. Ross' Ontarlo Buildings, Port Perry. Port Perry, Oct. 11, 1872, \ C. FORMAN, id 1 ISSUER OF Marriage Licenses. One door west of the Walker House Port Perry. ENRY CHARLES having been re- appointed Marriage License Agent-- years duty) continues to fur- os as herctofore--at Port Perry. I (after six nish Licen \ #7} hak Sr R. RICFARDSON Re-appointed Issuer Marriage Licenses. Under the New Act. Office, lot 10, in thie 1st con, Brock. Brock, Aug. 5,1874. 33 JAMESLUND, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE BROKER, ONVEYANCER, Commissioner for taking Alidavits in Court of Queen's Bench, &e. NEY TO LOAN MONEY TO A In any manner to suit borrowers, Mortgnges Bought, accounts, Notes, &e., Collected and prom pt remittances made. The party borrowing money can get It without commission, at the Lowest rate, and is allowed to fix his own time for jy nent « re vear (not in advar an at any time, just as eireur 1 mit repay part or all of the pi the Compuiny binding thems: Ives int gage 10 accept such sum, whether large or small, and apply it as a' direct reduction of principal, immediately t on the sum paid. N on such re 20 yea town ses where the title is perfect, the cost will be very slight to the borrower, As | re am acting both as Agent and ator for several Companies there ean possibly be no publicity in the transaction, If the title is perfect the money will be paid here in two weeks after making applica- tion, JAMES LUND, Broker, &e., Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and Bascom streets, Uxbridge. Uxbridge, May 17, 1877. ENRY GRIST, Patex SOLICITOR AND H Dravanryay, Ottawa, Canada I'ransacts business with the Patent Office and other departments of the Government rights and the Registration of Trade and Designs procured, Drawings; red y to secure Patents of Invention, p in receipt df the model of the Invention, . WwW M. SPENCE, Coxtracton, BuiLpEr, &c. The Subscriber In returning his sincere thanks for the very liberal patronage be- stowed on him in the past would inform the public generally that having bought a pro- perty and moved into the Village of Prince Albert, he will in future give his, whole »n to his business as Contractor, and is uly to undertake Stone Work, Brick- Plastering, verything conneete t th, which he pxecuteon the short- st notice and in the best and most durable 'le, and at the very Dwest figure at which + good job ein be done. The best material and first-class workmar . SPENCE. Prince Albert, April, 1 W. M. WILCOX | LICENSED AUCTIONEER. I ETURNING my sincere thanks to my | 2 \ numerous friends and patrons for their | liberal patronage bestowed upon me as Auctioneer during the past cight years, I would now beg to offer my services to all | who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or other property to sell by Auction anywhere in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa or Cartwright, My long and extensive practice as Auc- | tioncer has enabled me to judge the value of Farm Stock with an accuracy second to | none in the County, and this is of import- | ance as if the Auctioneer is not a good judge of the value of Stock he may soon lose far more than his fee in any sale, Bill stamps always on hand. Sale Bills arranged and notes supplied free of charge. Days of Sale may be arranged at the Onsgrver Office, where a Sale Register will be kept. Terms Liberal. W.M. W. Port Perry, Sept. 4, 1877. E. MAJOR, ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties wishing his services can call at the "Observer" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Sales. Glen Major, Oct. 10, 1876, WM. GORDON, A L y ¥ , &e. OR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, RES™ Parties entrusting their Sales to me may rely on the utmost attention being giveti to their interests. 'WM. GORDON, Sunderland, Brock. T. H. WALSHE, JCENSED Auctioneer for the Township of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in North Ontario; Mariposa, etc., in the County of Victoria. Hesidence--Cannington, Brock. Orders left at this office, or &t his residence will be punctually attended to. Debts col= lected in Cannington, or otherwise, and prompt i R b it made. the North Ontario Auction- treatment will find it to their r Any order or communication for me left at Mr, Allison's Drug Store will be promptly attended to. a D. BATEMAN. Port Perry, March 27, 1878. J usic. BOF. HARRINGTON, Teacher of Music P Port Perry. Also dealer In Musical In- struments. Rasidence,on Union Avenue. 183 8. 8. HARRINGTON, Teacher of \fusic. Applications by Post or in person $n oitel. Residenee, on Union Avenue, Port rye oo WALSHE, The VICTORIA MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company of Canada, HEAD OFFICE,....... HAMILTON. HIS is decidedly one of the best companies in the Dominion, and parties having property to insure will do well to consider the many advantages of insuring with this Company. T. H. WALSHE, Agent, Canpington, Ont. -ations, and other Documents noces. | MONEY TO LOAN. The undersigned has any amount of Money to lend upott Farm and Town Property, at Unusually Low Rates of Interest! _ Loans can be repaid in any mauner to suit the borrower. Also several Imprdved Farms, and" Wild Lands for sale, cheap, Investments made in Municipal Deben tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks, Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Official Assignee, Broker, &e, Orric--Over the Dominion Bank, McMil- lan's Block, Brock st., Whitby. Whithy, April 10, 1873, NOTICE TO FARMERS & OTHERS MONEY TO LOAN. FPHE undersigned would of Real Estate, that he liuge amount of private which he is prepared to invest for perio n sult borrow- ers--interest at eight per cent. Expedition and most reasonable terms assured. 8. H. CHRISTIAN. Manchester, October 17, 1577. MONEY TO LOAN. HE Subscriber is prepared to leni money on improved propetty for terms from one t& twenty years, Agent for WestErS Cinaba Loan and Savings Company, He has also been instructed to invest a large amount of Private Funds. Inter st Eight per cent. No Commission, NF. PATERSON, Solicitor v to the owners n his hands a Port Perry, May 20, 1878. CLEMENT DAWES, I | AS Money to Loan on Farm security in 1 any tianner to suit borrowers. Mort. at lowest rates, Accounts, lected: on bl gages bought HE Subseriber having now fully ecu m Bis pew and SYangive Livery Sani 8 he a supply of superior Horses and rri 1 prepared to furnish first class Carriiges, 1s LIVERY RICS On Moderate Terms. C. MCKENZIE, Port Perry, Aug. 6, 1878 o 18 WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS. J. & R. WOLFENDEN, "HOLESALE and Retail dealers in Foreign and American Marble Man- tles, Monuments, &c., Dundas St , Whitby, Also, Agent for the Scottish Granite, Also Building Stone cut to orde:. JOHN NOTT, Agent, Port Perry. 32 Whitby, July 20 1874. hotels. THE WALKER HOUS PORT PERRY HE Subscriber having leased the above _L hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct it in every particular go as to merit the approbation and patronage of the public, THE WALKER HOUSE whether for extetit or quality. of accommo- dations is equalled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by none out of the best cities, Commercial Travelers; the Traveling Public, Farmers and others doing business in the Village and the gerieral public will find in THE WALKER HOUSE all that can be required in the matter bf accommodation and moderation in charges. The Charges are No Higher at the Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House. is fitted up throughout in FIRST CLASS STYLE. The Tables and Bar supplied with the choice of the market and the utmost atten-- tion paid to the convenience and comfort of ALL GUESTS. An abundance of comfortable Stable and Shed accommodation, and attentive hostlers, W. B. McGAW, Port Perry, April 20, 1876. pony PERRY HOUSE, PORT PERRY, JAS. V. THOMPSON, ~ PROPRIETOR. The above House is now most comfort. ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in | the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigars, also, first class Stabling and good Ostlers.-- Additions have been made which makes this the largest and best House in this section of country. Fare $1.00 per Day. AILWAY HOUSE, (Opposite the Railway Station,) PORT PERRY. This House has been thoroughly over. hauled, fitted up and arranged with a view to the accommodation and comfort of guests, Meals and Refreshments on the arrival of trains. First-class stable and shed accom. modation, I C. HOLT, Proprietor, EVERE HOUSE, MANCHESTER. By GEO. HOUCR. Having leased the above excellent Hotel it will be my endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the appro- bation and patronage of the publit. Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. Qiraslie HOTEL; WHITBY, T. MASON, ~ - PROPRIETOR. The public well cared for, and all Guests will please feel at home. Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. UEENS HOTEL, Coruer of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts, CANNINGTON, Ont. D. CAMPBELL, . . . PgopriEToR This Hotel is now furnished in the best style, and offers every accommodation to travelers pa First class Sample Rooms, Livery Notes, &c, col ol 'om. mission, Apply personally, or by letter to C DAWES, Auctioneer, &c., Port Perry, March 7, 1878, MONEY [Private Funds,) "o Loan on good Faris, at 8 per cent in- terest. LYMAN ENGLISH, Barrister, &0., Oshawa November 21, 1866. - Money to Loan N Farm Property at Seven and a half per cent. No Commission, Enquire at P. A. Hurd's Law office, Port Perry. P. A HURD, Solicitor; &c. Port Perry, Jan. 9, 1878. THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co'y Head Office, Whitby, -- This Compiny is now fully d and is Cannington, Oct, 20, 1875. 43 AToL0-aNERICAY HOTEL, PRINCE ALBERT, W. H. PARK, - - - PROPRIETOR. Having the above pl ly situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired and renovated the entire premises even to the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the best Liquors and Cigars! Strict attention paid to the comfort of guests, The table and bar well supplied. W. H. PARK. Prince Albeit, June 13; 1875. A RMSTRONG HOUSE, (LATE ALBION,) WHITBY, ONTARIO. E. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. The Only First Class House in Town. ean ~ ENSON HOUSE, late Jewett House, Kent B Street; Lindsay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. ROYAL, EXCHANGE HOTEL, WILLTAMSBURG, CARTWRIGHT, E. BRYANS, Proprietor, Ruildi The Mr. in this stn prepared to accept risks on Farm and their contents, country School Houses and Churches, Those wishing to insure and thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportunity of doiiig go, either by applying to the Head Office, or to any of the local Agents of the Company, Our rates will be found as low as those of any respon. sible Mutual Insurance Company in Canada. Head Office--Opposite the Royal Hotel Brock 8t., Whitby C. NOURSE, Scerctary. havin, a Ig Hotel has spared neither labor nor expense in re-fitting and renovating the entire premises. The Bar supplied with a superior class Silidvors and the best brands of Cigars. The ice of the market provided for the Tables. Excellent stabling and attentive Ostlers. )_ Bi BRYANS, 'Williamsburg, Dec. 6, 1875. rae QUEEN'S HOTEL, WHITBY, ONT, McCANN & TAYLOR, PROPRIETORS. Every dation for 'the W. H. BROWNE, General Agent. Cannington, Sept. 26, 1876. public, Yet three refused their praise to bring, And stood erect before the King, Sternly the monarch spake In fierce and scornful ire, "Seize them : these {rditors take And give them to the fire. Bind them securely, spare them not And cast them in the furnace hot.' Soon as he spake the words, The guards sprang on the Three And bound them fast with cords With, gruel fiendish glee; The raging fires their murderers slew As in these faithful men they threw. Then rose the King amazed, -- His heart was filled with awe | As in the fire he gazed Four living men he saw | Four men unharmed that furnace trod, The Fourth was like the Son of God ! Their foes are put to shame, The captives now are free, Safe in the fiery flame They walked at liberty, Their bands are burned, their freedom won, And now they walk with God's dear Son, Thus persecution dire, Though sharp and sore its stings, Like Bab'lon's furnace fire Abundant blessings brings, Tt sets {he fettered Christian free To walk with Christ at liberty. : H.M, Howick, P. Q. en THE BURIED BUNGALOW. 'What can this mean?' asked 1 reiting up my horse close to the milkthorn hedge that shut in Mr. Warren's pretty house, and its gar- den gay with flowers, from the tea plantations, the green valley, the upland pastures and tho dazzling peaks of the Himalayas soaring overhead. There on a fragment of rock stood the well known tall form of the planter himself, angrily con- fronting a motley mob of natives, some tawney, some yellow.skinnud, and others nearly black. Those, although they had flung aside hoe and spade, 1 knew to be the coolics employed at the prosperous hill station, where such a scene of con- fusion had hitherto been unknown. 'The scoundrels are going to leave me that's all!'.said Mr. Warren, curtly,, and at that instant there stepped forward in advance of the rest a gaunt Taibetan, clad in sheep skins, who cercmoniously and with perfect gravity placed on the ground a fragment of wheaten cake, a hand. ful of salt, and a lota or brass drink- ing cup nearly filled with coins, from silver. rupees to copper pice.-- Then pointing to a peeled willow wand that he Leld in his hand to the food and money thrice, he snapped in twain the slender stick and with bent head and downcast mien stood motionless as though waiting to be questioned. 'What, mumery is this?' asked 1 in an undertone. My intended father-in law who knew the people and the countty better than I did, shook his head. 'It means mischief,' he whispered. 'Something has terrified the super- stitious curs, and see ! they renounce, my bread and salt, return the ad- vance of wages, and break the wand in token that they are my men no more." 'You mean,' he added harsh- ly in Bengal dialect 'to desert me then, Han Gorain?' 'The Sahib Warren is a good mas- tor,' replied the Thibetan in the same language. 'If we go, it is be- cause the evil eye has looked upon his threshold, and the voice that never lies bas laid a curse on Yirmi Sou and all that dwells there.' The man spoke slowly and with much difficulty, such as those who use a foreign tongue imperfectly mastered ; but he had uttered his brief speech with emphasis and with a certain dignity of bearing. Be- hind him stood the Thibetans and hill men, sturdy fellows, on whom devolved the very rough work of trenching and dyke-building, while a little way off clustered the dusky coolies from India proper, their lips tightened over their shiny teeth and in attitudes éxpressive of the most abject servility. Clearly there was stimulus short of physical fear which would have nerved these crounching creatures to disobey the Burra Sahib, or owner of the plan- tation, whose lightest word had peeti law to his meek subordinates. It tht Sahib will heéarken to the counsel of the poor,' said the spokes man, afler a pause, 'he and his will hasten away before. , But here Mr. Warren lost patienée and interrupted the orator, roundly rebuking tho whole gung as a pack of cruven hounds who were frighten. "od at their own shadows and without wanted no half-hearts in his service, so they might go. 'You hear me?' he thundered; silencing Han Gorin's fresh appeal to speak; and the men slink away, cowed, by his undoubt ing assertion of authority. The planter recovered his tempor as 800n as the recusants had depart- ed, and laid his broad hand on my shoulder, saying with a jolly laugh: 'A lesson, George, my boy, as to tho thorns * that 116™1h" your path when you and Edith live here in my stead, as I hope you will after the gathering in of the next tea-crop, and set to feather your next, as her mother and I have done. I thought better things, too of the overseer-- Han Gorain, who, before some heathen bogie scared him, was a shrewd and reliable servant. Bat nover mind. Come in, Musgrave, come in. The pgrson from Nynee Tal is here, and you must help the bride expectant to entertain him un. til dinner time.' Pretty Edith, who was on the morrow to become my wife, smiled away any uncomfortable feeling which the conduct of Han Gorain and his companions had left behind; and neither she nor her parents, nor Mr, Edwards, the clergyman, who had come over expressly to perform the ceremony, attached any impor- tance to the panic among the coolies 'It was something,' explained Mr. Warren, 'about Alph Dagh, the big Mountain, at the foot of which we live; but I have been a planter here too long to care for the tattle of cool: ies. They are like children who talk of nursery ghosts until they sce, them in every dark corner, a delight. ful life [ should have lud hore had [ been credulous.' And with that ho dismissed the subject and the evening passed geni- ally enough. Later on, however after the whispered farewell to my sweet Edith in tho porch, draped with the glistening leaves and big white blossoms of the Indian creep- er, after a ride home to my dwelling umong the hills, and when my head rested on its pillow, a vague sense of insecurity bcsst me afresh ; and even when I fell asleep my dreams were troubled and sad, not such as should visit the slumbers of one on whom the world smiled as it did on me, George Musgrave. The dawning of the day--my wedding day--however chased away the clouds from my mind, and when 1 mounted my horse to ride to Yirmi Sou, attired as a bridegroom should be, my heart was light and full of hope. Edith loved me better than I deserved.-- I knew that; and it was her father's intention to establish the young couple on his own plautation, while he and Mrs. Warren returned to England to enjoy their well earned competency. The day was fine--no rarity in the east, but a sort of haze hung over the peaks northward, and there were frequent gusts of ice cold wind rushing down from gap and pass in the rocky range that forms the boundary of India. I rode on, and presently from an angle in the motintain road I caught a glimpse of the 'Twenty Springs,' as Mr. Warren's station was called, with its gardens and meadows, and empty coolie huts. Then I turned the corner and saw it no more, but even as it vanisned from my eyes I heard a strange deep sound like that of distant thunder, the nature of which I ¢tould not divine. My horse suddenly snorted and reared and then stood trembling and could scarcely be urged forward. While I was in the act of stooping forward to pat the Arab's glossy neck; speaking soothingly to him the while, there broke upon my ear a sudden roar, louder, nearer at each instant, and culminating in a crash so dreadful that the simultaneous discharge of a thousand cannon would have seemed puny when com- pared with it. Deafered, dizzy and confused, 1 dismounted from my frightened horse, now wholly unmanageable, and hurried on foot to a spot whence as I remembered Edith's home was in sight. The air was thick with dust and withered leaves, but as the prospect grew clearer I could see no trace of the bungalow, of its home- stead and gardens, or of the thriving tea plantations and verdant mead- ows around it, Vainly did T strain my eyes. to catch one well known feature of the familiar scene. No- thing was visable save a' dreary waste of stones, mud and rocks, fill ing up half the valley, and above which bung a crowd of fawny dust that was slowly subsiding. As I stood stupidly gazing on the scene of ruin, I caught sight of a man, bareheaded and with a seared white face, I knew him: 'It was the young clergyman who had come over from Nynee Tal to perform the marriage ceremony between Edith and mo. 'Mr. Edwards ?' I eaid inquiringly, as I neared him. He caught my hand, covered his face, and burst into tears. Then for the first timo I realized what fear was: 'For pity's sake; tell me alll' tried T, honrsety. fs Miss Witrren --is Edith safe? What has--' 'Of all beneath the roof--thé roof of Mr. Warren's hospitable house--I alone," am spared,' answered the clergyman in broken accents ; 'death the grim mower, bas gathered in his barvest there.' The causcot the disaster was but too evident. A stone avalanche or moraine as it is called in Switzer- land. hud rushed down from the un- scaled heights of the huge mountain towering above Yirmi Sou, and had overwhelmed all beneath it. 'I caught a glimpse of Miss War- ren in the garden, as the stony flood burst on us with its deafening roar,' said the clergyman as he grew calm er; 'It may be that God's mercy has spared her lite, too.' And indeed, I have much to be thankful for, since my dear Edith was found, fainting but unhurt at the foot of a tall cedar, the only one left standing, wedged in between fallen rocks. of the house had perished, nor were even their bodies ever extracted from the mighty mausoleum which nature's own hand bad piled above them, Edith and I have been mar- ried these five years, but our home is in England not in India, and some- times when I see a shadow come across my wife's fair face, I know that she is thinking of those who sleep beneath the cruel stones at Yirmi Sou. Mount Vesuvius is said to be a fine old crater. In love, asin letters, engagements always begin with a-vowel. The Louisville Courier-Journal parses "love" as a "fine-night verb." The Gréeks kept no cats, and wore no boots; hence they had no use for boot-jacks. Put two slices of cucumber into a phonograph and hear whether or not they yell for a doctor. The Detroit Free Press asks:-- '" Are water-inelons healty 7" They are not. They are dropsical, and never attain a "ripe old age," seldom living over six months. There hasn't been a western town upset by a tornado, or rent in twain by a cycloue for a whole Jay. Go west, young man, go west. and blow up with the country.--Oil City Derrick. A small boy of the freckled ¢ pecies in the parlor where a dry goods clerk is sparking the boy's big sister, will make the course of true love rougher than riding in a» lumber wagon. The sermon of the best preacher in the world cannot make us much impression upon a congregation as the sudden pattering of rain on the window panes of a church contain- ing two bundred new spring bon- nets. Tough 'Uvs.--The New Orlcans Picayune suys: "It is said nine Chicago lawyers and nine insurance men are matched to play a game of base bull: They will have no need of wire screens for protecting their cheeks." " Make yourself necessary, young man," says Josh Billings, ' and success is certain." Aye, aye, good philosopher ; but suppose the young man makes himself necessary in a breach of promise suit ? A Boston man has a vest that Faony Fern made With her own hands. And we will bét & hundred dollars that it never did and never will fit any man in this widé; wide world ; that they can't tell by its shape, whether it was originally made for & fat woman or a lean man; for a man with a sway back; or a man with a bump on bis back like a camel. Woman; heaven bless her, is the light of our homes, but when she tries to make a man's vest, the angels weep. And when she makes a pair of pantaloons for him, the tmmortal gods just hold their sides and run away out into the woods and roll on the grass and howl. Beer contributes ten millions of dollars annually to the reventie of the county, 'and adds to the health, well-being, and content of the gom- munity. The brewers themselves admit this, and they ought to know. Violet Fane sings in the London World, *T do not dread an altered heart. No Indeed, an altered Heart is nothing to dread, for you"can easily alter u clut to beat it, bat an altered one, Violet, altered fram a ten, that's what makes your pocket book sick.-- Burlington Hawkeye. William Joseph, of Ackley, Tia, while drying his head with a tow! rubbed off every hair, besides 'byo- brows, moustache and whiskerss It must have been a printing.offico towel. The printing office towel, it may bo as well to explain, is tre: quently used to rasp off a brass rule when he can't find the file, Visitor to Sunday School, address- ing the children--W hat is the osten- sible object of Sunday Schoo! iustraction ? No answer. Visitor-- What is the ostensible object, of Sunday School instruction ? No answer. Visitur-- What is the osten sible object of Sunday School 'in- struction ? No answer. Visitoy-- What is the ostensible object, of Sunday School instruction ? Small boy (in a feeble voice)-- Yes, sir. Au intelligent farmer, living in Des Moines county, Las invented a henophone, leled on the principle of the teleph by which one old reliable heti otctipying a centtal office in the henery, sits on all the nests about the establishment, leaving 'the other fowls free to lay eggs, dcratch, and cackle. As fast as new nést contains But the other inmates i the full complement of eggs, it is connected with the central office by a copper wire and the business is settled The only trouble with the machine is that it sits so hard it Latches out the porcelain nest eggs along with the others, so that one chick in every nest is is born with glass eyes, and the farmer bus to buy a dog and train him to lead it around This makes it expensive, -------- Lying for the Whetstone. The old proverbial expresion, * to win the whetstoae," was applied by our ancestors to describe preeminence in lying. A notorious liar was often suddenly presented with a whetstone as a hint that if he persisted in his wholesale exaggeration his wits would require sharpening. From this custom arose anotherthat prevailed in England on the holidays: There was a jocular competition who could spin the most outrageous yarns-- 8 whetstone veing the prize adjudged to tle winner. At Coggleshall, in Essex, on a cer. tain holiday, Bishop Porteous, who was puss® ing through town, cbserved a crowd in the streets He inquired the cause and was told that it was the day they gave the whetstone to the biggest liar. The good Bishop felt shocked, and on arriving at the scene of the contest, delivered an eloquent hurrangue up- on the sinfulaess of the proctice. To his great surprise, as he concluded by saying "I never told a lie in my life,' the chicf umpire, after briefly conferring with his fel- lows, approacchud the carriage and exclaim- ed. 'My Lord, we unamiously adjudge yon the prige,' thrust the whetstone into the carringe window. The Bishop, at first an« noyed Ly such questionable distincion, atter- wards entered into the spirit of the joke, and long after usedto tell the story to his visitors and show the whetstone, carefully preserved on the mantcl-peace of his dining-room at Fulham. 3 It is indeed a fact worthy of remark and one that seems never to have beem noticed, that throughout the whole animal creation, in every country and clirie of the earth, the most use- ful animal that eat vegetable food work. The all-powerful elephant, and the patient, untiriug cawel, in the torrid zone ; the hoise, the ox» and the donkey in thetemperate ; and therein deer in the frigid zoae, obtain all their muscular power from nature's simplest productions--the vegetable kingdom. But all the flesh-eating animals kept the rest of the animal creation in dread of them. They scldom eat vegetable food until some other animal has eaten! it first and made it in flesh, Their own flesh is unfi.d for other suimals to eat, having been itsely made oat of fish, and is most foul and offen sive. QGreatstreagth, fleetness of foot, useful ness, cleanliness, and docility are, then always characteristic of vegetable eaters. Natural Selection. Investigators of natural science have démon- strated beyond controversy, that throughout the animal kingdom the "survival of the fittest" is the only law that vouchssfes thrift and per- petuity. Does not the same printiple govern the commercial prosperity of man? An ins ferior cannot supersedé a superior article. 11- lustrative of this principle are the family medicines of R. V. Pierce, M. D., of Buffalo, N; Y. By reson of superiof metit, they have led all other medici Theirsale in the United States alone exceeds one million dollars per annum, while the amount exported toots up to several hundred thousand mare. No business could grow to such gigantic pr portions and rest upon any other ign that of merit. It is safe tosay that no fes.abin al or ¢ ination of medicines yet diséo ed equals or can compare with Dr. Pierte's Golden' Medical Discovery, tor the cure of coughs: i colds, and all and blood affections If the bowels be constipated aud liver sluggish his Pleasant Hurgative Pellets will gives prompt relief ; While his Favorite Prescription, will positively; perfectly, and permanently cure those Weaknesses and '" wa sensations peculiar to females. In the people' 's Common Sense Medical Adviser, an illustrated work of nearly one thousana pages, the Doctor . has fully d inciples that unde Adapted to old and young, single Address R. V. Pieice, M. ID., Worl sary and Iqvalid's Hotel, Buffalo; N. ¥