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uarantee, Pre PoLiores Insuring all ofisses of insor- 20 cqBIvabio Fates A oN eien wih RA Pins payable antl death, or (0F a [mired " r Of § GAYS. - yal dhte, or on previous oath, Acciden 08 covering death by ucol- dent, and ey: indemnity In case of non- fatal Injury. = ni #&- Marriage Ticeuses Insued, "BR i and Tickets for passage to and from Great ios, |Britalnsold at lowest rates, 5 3 Port Perry, April , 1881. BER YARD. NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION, ont i 7 ol Bo can call Fasten i PO RT PE RR RY. poserver" Office, Port Perry, andarrange for | I . days of Sales. ort Perry, Jan 10, 1879. i WM. GORDO! A ed A Valuator, &e. ¥ YOR the by ie ' Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Marip: and Eldon, 5 R@F™ Parties entrnsting their Sales to may olyan Shoutmont sisgption being Good duanty abd = ¥ aoe ld WM. GORDON, oh DERATE PRIC undersigued keeps constantly on bund and for Sale at his Yard large quantities of UMBER, PINE AND CEDAR SCANTLING, \ ICENSED Auctioneer for the L of Brock, Thorah, Mara & | North Ontario; Mariposa, etc. int of Victoria." Residence--Carinin| /| Orders left at this office or at h "| will be punctually attended to. Bt lected in Cannington," or othuiWis R made; 0 "Ir svms--The dormant ot N EMPIRE'S DUST LIES; -t Works. The liberal patronage recefved in the past has had the effect of cansing every Ceme- tery throughout this and adjuining Counties To Bristle with Stones and Monuments, T PERRY "WORKS | ow 'takes 'the business BHINGLES, POSTS; &U., &C, Zoresa cleanses the system of all impurities.-- Try a 10 cent sample. : ee me I] no one on earth can tell.-- was all the more exasperat- ase John bad just generous ly put" into her little shaply hand | I's the matter 7* be said, hin falling at the faint sound, and pouth-olapping together in what ho knew him but little called te pucker.' 'No wife!' wud in & ni Peabody out getting upon a chair he took her opin bis great arms and beld ber just like a ohild, that she might fix it to- suit herself, And" the 'bite'}, that bo suid in his tender way, they | up Straight she fad gone down tothe depths of her | more firmly. xt begun to change ofigh little heart, sending ber | ¢And now you hve leariiod all you [the sigh into a merry little Inugh 3 | rippling all over the corners of the gladness of spirit. And now / red lips, stopped suddenly, tossed her bead, and, with a small jerk DQ. \ 4s A557 FHo shut out the birds chirp-| The hai jaslv. | way conciliatory, sent out thee ' =u 8 ohirp=t The chairwas. vacant. A dissolv. words: "You needn't insinuate; John that I am always troublesome." "[ didn't insinuate--who's talk. ; ing of insinvaing ?'* oried he thor: oughly incensed at the very idea, and backing away afew steps, be glared down from a tremendous height in.extreme irritation. "It's you yourself who are always insinu- 'ating and all that, and theo for you to put it on.me--it's abominable." < «The voice was liarsh, ind the eyes 'that looked down into bers were not % 'plensant' to beholl. 1" Andiif you think, John Peabody that I'll Stand and have such things suid to me. you miss your gtiess--- that's all," eried Betty, with two big red spots coming in her cheeks as she tried 10 draw ber little erect figure up to its utmost dimensions. "Forever insinuating, I guess yoo would wot have said that before married yon." " Didn't you say it first, I'd like to know?" cried John, in great ex- citement; drawing nearer the small creature he ealled 'wife,' who was glan¢ing at bim with blazing eyes of indigations; Lean' endure every J Po 0 i 'you endnre wore than I ried, Heu'y, Wholly beyond cou. bys thipn tivo up" Lier ligt lsbgh fhod 0 | love: ing Johnsage siolently, and vow, of olp each Other it," said Betty dismay ut the Whi ad} sure forehoad with re. S808 about ber work singing for very |ean,' said John, turning round to her 10 ng Betty, twhy: Butty staffed her fingers-bavd-into | me 15 ng. 4% ing view through the door was all that "Ifthe nly knew why I sighed,'|was io be seen of the gossip, who she moaned. 'Oh my husband !-- |gtarted up the road hurridly, leaving Birthdays--nothing will make any | peace behind. difference now. Oh, why can't I| «Batty, said John, some half hour die 7" 3 wards, 'what was the sigh for ?-- How long she stayed thore;|I don't care now, but I did think, and crouchei down on the old sofa, she |it cut me to the heart, how you might never knew. Over and over the |have married richer. I longed to put dreadful scene she went realizing its | ten times ten into your hand, Betty, worst featares each time in dispair, and it galled me because I couldn't,' until a voice oat in the kitchen said: Betty smiled and twisted away from 'Betty I' and 'heavy footfalls pro=|hig grasp. - Bunning intothe bedroom claimed that someone was on the |ghe presently returned, still smiling, point of breaking in on ber uninvit-| with a bundle rolled upina clean ed. towel. ~ This she put on herhusband's ¢ Belly sprang up, chooked back mee, who stared:asher wonderingly. her sobs and tried with all her| «I didn' mean,' she said, unpinning might to compose herself and re-|¢he bundle, "to get it out now, but I move all-traces of her trouble, shall have to. * Why John, day after The visitor was the worst possible} to-morrow is your birthday' one she could have bad under the | So 'tis, said John. 'Gracious circumstances. Crowding berself .y.. it some round so soon? on terms of closest intimacy with| And you, dear boy, said Betty the pretty bride, who with' ber bua: |p yinp out, before his eyes a pretty, band had moved into the village a brown affair, all edged with silk of the twelve-month previnus, Misa Elvira | on of the bluest shade, that presently Simmons bad made the very MOAL| coun ag the proportions of a dressing of ber opportunities, and by dint of gown, 'thisis to be your present. But making great parade over helping you must be dreadfully surprised, her in sare domestio: work such 08 |.) y}\on you get. it, for oh, I didn't house cleaning, dress making, and want you to know it the like, the maidey lady hed man- Joh made an answer:ashe thought aged to ply ber other vocation, that Jost. 'When he spoke again he' said, of news gatherer, at one and 'the Aoxod, With a sfaall pucker 6f be: same (ime, pretty effectually. Pe : ok sobiled ote Kisotes She always called her by her first | *° wT dois Bett n ae o it te, "UBD EH Belly resented "iv; ii Jas 2o0. Redo. Watt 4 is 'land she made a great handle of her shia fie a on th a. ti {riondehip on every occasion, mak | gown, gw Sigh. brake ifito & merry laugh, that got.so ; mixed up with tlic dimples end danc: 'Bit sto never had--and, 'now, do § beat Ch 3 gi aT Be sgonting dimly, like ® carrion after | Cob 00 Tl those. Bubtons 1 itd. 8wn prey, that trouble might They 8 tga d but: Shey were the come {a thie:pretty little white bouse |r onl i Sh an: dnd Xa oly the winks mischief bad come to de ; 7 Shiol ork, if devastation bud pot als [55 WO: Whois times the 'old maid' shouid" didn't lime ly know Lib adppose 172i giverone tile bis ofa 1 was 50 provoked that I buying them. till to- "hat, said- Petty, and then she], On one occasion when grandfather, Mr. Hutcheon, w catechisiR, he saw an old man who seemed to be solely occupied with his own thoughts, and to be taking do interest imwhat was gone on. When the minister, however, in the course of his exercise, began to of Noah's Ark and of the beasis that were in-it, he was all attention. At lust, unable to -eontain himselt any longer, be spid, in the hearing of all present, "Was there a' kin' o' beasts there, sir?" "0, yes" said the minister, "An' was the tod (ihe fox) there?" "There can be na doubt o that," said the minister, "Wae worth him," said: the carl, "that ever he wan cot ot, for bonny's the twa wedders that he worried to me this mornin'." : Among lawyers as among other people, other days have brought other manners. Even up to the early days of this century lawyers used to meet their clients in coffee-houses or taverns and do their business over a bottle of claret or a bowel punch. The Aberdeen advodaies were in the habitof going on market days to the public louse," whither their clients came to consul i®bem. A bowel of punch was placed on the table, and every one with their legal advice got a glass of punch, und on taking leave laid half a erown onabhe table as a fee. Dr. Paul tells the story of one of these legnl Wworihies who: in belping others to punch Kad not forgotten bimaelf," wis Herd rattling bis fees in his pecker way home, and saying 10. mse v Fine time this, Tammy Mas makin' siller, an' gettin' fo Dy, P.ul's reminiscences of in + quiet roral deal 'litile with hin locul celeb rity, batibe ff ing mtroduce to bs Wwirld-kno personages, and are valuable shown ehuraetoristics of ther mini Dr. Grogory, the . wellsknof" Bedinbtiegh physician. of lara wean son of DProtessor of Mi ays s futher uluos Profesdoy tem, follbing Rocka, of. tbe a buy choi ' prognosticated bis fiedue wn HORRY "Hund vigor 'of, charycter,, Gir ono 1Ouly folks do say that.you d all, I dou't think your, husbaed ~ don'vlive happy guarreled sinée-«at par] wouldn't mind. I koaw.'tainy | West fit. ; Salt." Some Droll Stories: iid Sa ; There prabably was never a example ' of" aelf~ possess circomatinées than ion, when. tho boy was setting ont 168 wo evening enferial: cent, dress bogs' who makings duor To the father's sats, The and @s th boys eoyid: enotyvhof mod 1a about to svertop ha vay@pt 1hish