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rr v < '/ BEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICUL- & FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 'AT PORT PERRY, ONT., 3ANTESDAY MORNING, IRD i % pa RSQNS. TERMS, vance ; Hg $1.50 will be a g dressed to this Office, pre-paid and regester- ed, will be at our risk. Advertisements measured by Nonpareil, and charged according to the space they oc- cupy. Advertisements received 'for publication. without specific instructions, willbe jmseried o until forbid and charged accordingly. advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberas discount allowed to Merchants and o hers who advertise by the year or half-year, B@™ Thes» terms will in all cases be strietly adhered to Job Department. Pamphluts, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Chucks, Books, Circulars, "Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and solor, executed promptly and at lower rates shan any other establishment in the Connty. 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The increased experi- ence and extensive practice which I have bad will be toraed to advantage of patrons, and partis favoring me with their Sales may rely on their interests being fully pro- tected, = No effort will be spared to make it. profitable for parties to place their Sales in my hands, My Sale Register will bo found at Laing & Meharry's Hardware Store and at my, own residence, Union A venue, Port Perry. at three per cent per annum. Uxbridge, Sept. 7, 1881. BRANCH OF THE DOMINION BANK. UXBRIDGE. Deen taken of $1 and upwards. No notice of withdrawal required. Tnterest was SB ANT ' WALTER DARLING, Aamir. H. GORDON, Notary Public, Commissioner in #: 3B. Rey , Loan and Insurance Agent, Representing the following first-class Accident and Guarantee INSURANCE COMPANIES : The Citizens; The Canada Fire and Marine, The Sovereign, ° The Union, and The Travelers. 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ORT PERRY HOUSE, The undersigned having leased for aterm of years this comfortable, pleasantly located Hotel will endeavor by strict attention to the convenience and comfort of guests to make the Port Perry Ho ge a desirable place of entertainment for the general public. Choice supplies for the table and bar, The stable and yard carefully attended to. RUDDY. Port Perry, Dec. 9,1879. OMMERCIAL HOTEL, / The subscriber having = succeeded Mr Dewart in the Commercial Hotel, Williams- burg, Cartwright, intends fitting it up witha view to the comfort and convenience of guests. The supplies for the table and bar car fully selected. PETER HOL' Cartwright, March 4, 1879. AERA I. . PRINCE ALBE ¥ H. PARK, Having purchased the above pleasantly situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired and renovated the entire os 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 wt guests, The tab.e and bar well supplied, ~ W. H. PARK Pringe Albert, June 12,1875. A RusTHOSG. House, , . --- 'PROPRIETOR. ¥,) WHITBY, ONTARIO. aise, PROPRIETOR. WHITBY, wo MooANY & TAYLOR, Prorsaors, Every: iccommodation for the: gd bli ¢ L 2 an YERTISPR i THE WEDDING MARCH. AN ArTIST'S STORY. 829--A Wedding March. Such he number and name of a picture the Academy of a certain = | year, which shall for politic and per- {sonal reasons; be lett undesignated. 0 pictuce was one of my paint- ings; and I, Regineld Treacy, had "been fortunate "bnough 10 attain three very important ends by its pro luction. Firstly, it . was deemed excellent enough by the Hagia de m mittee to bo placed on nd it taced you in avery: ar manner as you ¥ntered room No, V. Secondly, this prom- _inent position secured forimy picture a large 'share of attention which re. salted in finding a purchaser almost almost as soon as the exhibition doors opened. ' But thirdly, it serv- ed;the actual purpose for which I had printed it, and which led me to 00086" my subject. That purpose involved just the least bit of a ro. No. Jono mance; and although the clever Srities praised the picture, and even hinted that "Mr. Treacy bad been singularly {fortunate in his treat- ment of a somewhat unusual and difficult theme," ete., not one of them 80 much as guessed that it was a picture with a purpose. As the sequel miny cerve to show that purpose sprung from and ended in what IT am pleased to cull my little romance. It was a charming day, that on which I went to Rockhampton to sketch the water medows, and to see my old friend Dr. James Brooke-- Jim, I generally called him--who had settled us a practitioner in that town. The whole place was steeped in sunlight; and the deep shadows cast by 'the old houses in the narrow = 3 2 = = < c 2 = = zc 4 = & eo é 2) 5 a e one of nothing so much as the black- ness of shades of some old Duteh town, whore Rembraudt must have learned the special art that bears the impress of his genius to-day. -- The old ehurch at Rockhampton is "a fine bit of Norman arcithecture.-- 'Rising architects declare that there are no purer pillers of that style or better preserved arches, with their queer faces squeezed into the corners thereof, and which seem to impress the Rockhampton juveniles (on Sanday quite as much as the service. Passing through the churchyard, 1 found myself at last at the church. With little hopes of finding the door open I lifted the latch, when at gnee ityiclded to my touch, As I passed within the green buize doors within the porch, I heard the sound of the organ ; so stealing quietly into the grateful shade and coolness of the church, 1 ensconsed myself in the biggest pew | could find and listened. How soothing wus the effect of the music and surroundings on that glorious day! I conld not see the player who was concealed by the curtains in front of the organ loft, bat intuitively I guessed it wasa lady who played. I imagined it was only a woman's delicate touch could have made "Ky rie" speak in these tones; and there was more gentleness than power in the"Stabat Mater" into which the player glided. Then I remember the "Wedding March" succeeded ; and after an hour's private bearing of the mas- ters, | quietly slipped out of the church, once again into the glad sunlight that played around the gravestones and made the world so fair to see. : ~~ After lunching at my hotel, the Red Lion, I went to see Dr. Jim.-- It appeared that" the fair player of church was 8 Miss Spalding,and only daughter of a well-to-do and retired merchant who had settled in Rock- hampton some eighteen months be- fore, #nd Jim, I found, bad been paying his addrésses tothe young lady.. Her father had married for the second time and had thus given old fontlemans as Jim called him, was 8p easy-going man, kind hearted and looked kindly enough on Dr. opinion. Shelwas an ambitions and, somewhat higher than means! OF lencd. ~~ Without SIE ur | notually discouraging Jim's atten-| Jim's state of mind, from the tion, Mrs Spalding made things de- | moment h x * Miss Spalding a step-mother. The in every Way, generous to a fault, Jim's suit. But as to Mrs Spalding Jim pronounced "a most unfavorable as ho expressed it, scheming woman ht that Nelly shonld look . Brooke ot Rockhampton--and that she "Jghould at least marry money--with which Jattor commodity Jim, a8 a , was of course by no |i cided! , for the lovers.-- Mr. Spald easy man, was complet tely under the dominion of his wile... Hones, Jim confessed ho was in a somewhat anastiled sla state of mind. "You see, Regy," said Jim, Nelly will not disobey ber-parents in any way. "That she cares for me she has confessed to me'mo¥® thun once. But when I press fier to consent to be married at onco, and make me happy, she won't hear of it." "My dear, Jim," I'responded, dn my new-found capacity of guide and counseller, and friend, "she is mot the first girl who had to struggle between Jove and duty; or at least {hat she conceives to be her duty." " Bho is soithoroughly' conseien- tious," replied Jim, "that T fear even {o press her to take the step which would make me a happy man for life. When I ask her in my dispair if she will over choose be- tween her step-mother's wishes and my love, she implores me not to tempt her; and so," added Jim, "here [ am; miserable as need be." All thisinterested me exceedingly. She was evidently a girl of stirling worth and and with a high sense of the duty she believed she owed to her parent's wishes. I thought over Master Jim's love affair, As lay in bed that night, and cam the con- clusion that the case was a difficult one. You cannot always mould hu- man minds to your own bent by simply speaking. IIence I came to the conclusion that Miss Spald- ings love for my old friend ought to be tried and tested in eome other way. As my exper- ience of human nature goes thero seems nothing like putting love, of ull human emotions, to some rigid test. But how the test could be ap- applied to the ease in which, [ had thus beon led to feel a special in- terest | knew not. I confessed as I rolled over to sleep that I did not see any way clear to help them. Little did I think that the morrow was to bring the means und the man. The man wamJosiah Blagden, iron founder,' of the firm of Bladgen, Bilge & Co. of Birming- ham and olsewhere; the means was my humble self. The day after my arrival at Rock- hampton Jim proposed that I should drive with him on his morning round, and added he: " We'll call at Mount Grove on our way home.""-- Mount Grove was the residence of Mr. Spalding; and two o'clock found us at the gate ofa very nice villa residonce, overlookifig the river and standing within its own nicely kept grounds. We were ushered into thedrawing- foom, where we found sassembled certain persons whom Jim bad not expected to see. Mr. Spalding re- ceived me courteonsly, as also did Mrs. Spalding. Miss Nelly greeted me most cordially ; adding that sha was much pleased to make the ac- quaintance of Dr. Brook's old friend ot whom he so often spoke. In ad- dition to the family cirele of three, it was clear there were strangers present. The latter were Mr. Josiah Blagden and his sister. Mr. Blagden did not impress me favorably He was a stout, fiorid complexioned man, re- markable for the extreme breadth of his white wustecoat and for: the profusion of jowelry displayed there- on. "A safe man my dear sir; avery safe man," said Mr, Spalding to me at Juke. "Why Isuppose his turn- over is about half u million a year =the iron trade. you know, ? added the old gentleman by way of ox- plaining that Mr. Blagden -vas one of the metal kings of England. "Self made man, too, said Mr. Spalding ; " began lite as a foandry boy," From what I saw of Baglden with- in the next few weeks, bis origin could have been protly accurately guesxed from the manner in which he imported. the "foundry boy's" manner into the sphere in which bis industry and success had led Aim. Heo was essentially a "vulgar mar, who bullied his sister a meek, silent woman with a good heart and a kindly nature as I discovered later on. ml ' As we drove Lome from lanch that day Jim was strangely depress- ed, 1 guessed his thoughts pretty acear for he burst out into: a tirade again Mrs. Spalding on our arrival home. «1 shoulden't wonder, Rogy" sai he, "if that | low Blagden has been invited down. here as a suiter' for Nolly. He's a friond of Mre. Spald- doctors foes. Nelly's attitude towards Jim appeared to have undergone no and while keeping on the most duty, into self-sacrifice of the most only entail misery in the end. half afraid Be was going to inflect personal chastisement upon Mr. Blagden; a feat I should'have much rejoiced to bave seen sk formed, after the iron-m invectives against the | pro. fession, which had been called forth during some argument' concerning preceptible change. She was lov- ing and gentle as before; but ¥fanci- od that Mrs. Sp ing contrived dexterously to 'keep. M Biagden apd Nelly as possible ; and thus Ji wero reduced to a miserable mini- mum, Worst of all, as Jim remarked to me one day. Nellie had confessed that her stepmother had on more than one occasion' hinted that Mr, Blagden's visits and stay were not solely prompted by friendship to her parents. Mrs. Spalding wae, in other words, a clever woman, play- ing a nice little game of deplomacy friendly terms with Jim, was to my mind furthering her own aims and ideas of a matrimonial alliance for Nelly with the elderly iron founder, 1 know that most ot my readers will say thatMiss Spalding should have sottled the mater for herself, and bave given Mr. Blagden to under- stand that his attentions were un- welcomed and hopeless. Butas 1 remarked before, we are mot all cast in the one mould ; and the mogt loving natures may sometimes be corrected by what seems to be there unreasonable kind, and which can So things went on at Rockhamp- ton, with diplomacy at Mount Grove and dispairt at No 14 High street, where Dr. James Brooke announced bis willingless to relieve the afflicted daily from ten to eleven a, m., and from six to eight p. m. I had beeu sitting cogitating over matters one evening at tho Red Lion--Jim hav- ing been called to u distant part ot iis parish--when an idea, founded I believe, on a quotation from an old Frog thor, occurred to me.-- The ion was to the effect, that when fhoral suasion fails from any |® cause to change an opinion, it is lawful to appeal to the most. trival ot our "emotions." Happy ideal thought I. I will see whether or not I ean work it out to the advant- age of Dr.James Brooke and--shall I add it ?-- to the confusion of Josiah Bagden, Esq. My pions were then rapidly matured. Morning noon and night find me busy in the old church. I am hard to work on a canvasin which the interior of the edifice grows under my brush day by day. There are now sounds of the "Kyrie' now ; nor are the jubilant stains of Mendelstohn heard, as on a bright sunny day not so far gone by. Nelly does not come to practice her old favorites as of yore. Bludgen, T know hates music ; and painters as bo once. expressed it--in shocking bad taste--are unusuall"a seedy lot," I remember Mr. Josinh's white vest and cable chain, with enough ap- pendages attached thereto to have se! a small jeweler in a thriving way of business. The aisle and gallery of the'church are now complete in my picture. T paint it"as I sit in the sisle; in the distance you can see tho altar and chancel ; and the vicar who looks upon me occasionally says it is aslike can bo. He is curious to know the nature ofthe figure that I bave sketched roughly in. There ie a group passing down the aisle from the altar-rails where the vicar can still be seen at his post, and there is a figure standing alone and solitary in_a pew, as if facing the advancing party. The vicar cannot quite fathom the design. The church he can understand ; but meaning of the picture puzzles him. I bid him wait patiently for the solution of the mystery. When my study of the church was competed, I went home to the Red Lion, and then I painted in my now progressing rapid); are heads, of two elder! day at dinner at a fully por-| & 2 figures. There was little need for models, for my sketch-book was fall] | of studies. Turning to my picture, |! Nelly Spalding to & private vie all anxiety to see a pretend that by great seo it before any onddleos od ane 'a nice, oi vel some dry Pommery, when great Josiah--as I had been ac tomed 10 call him, possibly fr magnitude of his wai he dotes upon. I mak and unkind bot perfettly | mental suggestion that in early 1 "the great Josiah," was better ac-" quainted with the merit of *alf-and- ult" than dry champagne. Mine host bas done bis best; and now I wait my guests Ifeel nervouss and excited; why I can hardly tell'; but I confess to myself that T shall be glad when my little sympo- sium is over. Here at last. They troop upstairs into the large room where my luncheon is spread Mr. Josiah is looking very large to-day, There is an air of jubilant triumph about: about him as he bustles about Nelly, assist ing her in taking off her wraps and saying "nothings" which were anything but -'goft," as the great man expresses them, To me, his air is simply patronizing, Mr Spalding appears to regard the near prospect of lunch with more evident satisfaction than he does the prospect of an artistic treat Mr Blagden the picture--lunch bas evidently its attrac. tions for "the great Josiah," But I tell him to wait Dr. Brooke, at which snnounecment be subsides. Then I suggest to Miss Nelly that, with her mother's permission, she may now have the picture all to herself for a momentary peep. Mrs Spalding, who was deep with Miss Rlagden jn the mysteries of manufactnie of rhubarb jam, readily cons sents, Nelly follows me intothe room 'where my picture stands covered with a crimson cloth on my easel. I close the door and un- veilit. Nelly glances at fora moment ; then growing deadly pale sinks half fainting, not into my arms but into those of Dr Brogke who has most opportunately come upon the scene. Io speechless astonishment he gages i but he, too seems as if he going to repeat Nelly's procedure ashe glances at the picture, "For heaven's sake, Regy," says Jim, in a hoarse voice, "cover that picture up 1" Nelly opened her eyes in sa moment or two which seemed to me like an age. Jim had employed the interval ina fashion not unfamiliar to lovers I believe. And when she did open her eyes. it wis to clasp Jim around the neck, and ber, words were few and decided: " Jim | I can never. marry that man! I will do whatever you wish me to. But oh | they have tried me so!" What is it in my picture that has so pre- trubed the lovers and brought Nelly Spald- ing to her senses? Simply the [interior of the old church once again. strange and memorable event, before Nelly and Jim stood at Hymen's altar and there were united in the holy bonds of matrimony; My purposes was served and to advantage, The picture motlelled ons life scene was without difficulty found ; and lastly it served the actual purpose which caused me to enter upon the peculiar venture, viz ; the uniting of two loving heprts into one, A Little Great. We find from a report of the proceedings of the council of the ccuaty of York at its late session that amongother communications presented was one from the press reporters protesting against t the action of the County Clerk in refusing them permission to copy motions, reports, ect, paving to' the Council. After consilerable dincomion "it was re- from the cle k to tho reporters, It appears that the maguanimous clerk hes asked one or more of the reporters for And because torsooth the reporters. was i 3 mendurabi. One's = x nx suggests that we bad better step in and see A very short time elapsed after that considered a master-piece ; a purchaser was commended that a messenger bo employed to carry the* papers backwards and forwards. 1s copies of the paper which they 'represented,