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' But then he had no suavnty of demeanor,` and--[ blush -to confess this of my only relation --his kindly consideration was chiey for himself. he was not.-altogether _a hard brother; but he had immense faith in hislown convictions, and an immense contempt for everybod_v s `else He was always right, and other folks were always wrong. The reader may have met a character like this in his pilgrimage through life. I have heard- of one being seen as far west of England as Land's End, and. there is a curious specimen, I have been informed on the best authority`, at the Old Fogies Club," 1all Mall. This makes three altogether to my certain knowledge. . But brother William had been successful in life, and thought he had a right to crow, al- though he didnot make any friends.by his crowing. `No one cared particularly for William Ironstone. In our_.part of r the world he was put down as cantanker- ous. No one seemed at all anxious for his society, though society of any kind was scarce enough at Rumney Burn; and he certainly displayedFno anxiety . 1 . _ _ A . . -4... LZ._......II.' ND- _...- nI...;.nl- A uuu uaul run III Probably it was best It was vex- atinus, however, to think some time afterward that my brother was in the right, and that I might have had a bad time with Arthur, had I married him, and thatI was mercifully spared the fate of Arthur s' actual wife-he married a brewer`s widow, who sued for a judical separation some three years after that, and got it easily-and that I might have done worse than be-_ come my brother's housekeeper and general factotum inhis desolate little house at Rumney Burn` in Lancashire. an: EU nub LIIIA-Io William was content with himself and his surroundings-at least he said so -and than was `siicint. for. all` -iimes. and seasons. He had~his-ownwa v, sud? waxed tab and thried, ahd have Il.1__t1t_lQ ` doggedness when the wind 'wss*easteily; 1, and an extra degree of `crabbedness when his liver was askew, he was not albogether an unreasonable being. Why ' he did not like socit-.y--h`e had'nu'B`bd` ` the vicar of the church, and insixhsdg. the solicitor and doctor of the ei` J.___ ` i ......... u--4`! VIVUVUL vb III-IV 5-"_3" town within three months_.of_.ou;r, `semi- ing down at Romney Bari!-'-`-1 never quite able to` ts.thOm._' Certainly instruct me that he had had his dis- appointment at "some `.t.ime_,,_0!' 0$h?,!.', when I;-was a liqtle girl, a _ ' ' 6'" ' 30 bluinjs habitniz- geiig V weaker-mindeq gxgnzwqllld have high to _poetf'yj:6_r IE; ` ALL my Hall`. or .---r <._-2.`!!!-uyyu _ '_`d .L.91d-jgghxasped, and nah and`! vnm.lanA&.`."1.`\ A-.-(gm I.-2323 1%-, _ . . 1 "` `J """' "" " "' " "-' """"" -"""' up, overgrown, knock-kneed puppy ?-- Arthur was six feet. one, and dud give way a little at the knees-and made things so disagreeable all around gt.h_at Arthur told me one summer evening that be thought it was best that we should part. 'D..-`.-L`_ :1. :...n. `anal TL Iupnn I-vA'v LLI DUUL y I JTo begin with, in myearly days I had been crossed in love-not _so' deep- ly crossed that its marks havesunk in- to my face and scored it with as many lines as a railway map; but I had my- love troubles and my disappointments and was not byaany means the better for them. My lover had been no more of a hero than I had been a heroine; w_e V were not at the scu that the heroic comes from , although he had talked a `great deal-an unecessary great deal-A of his family, of his family connections, and of his great uncle, who was knight- ed for doing something intenselylahabby to lug a gentleman into a Parliament whose seat was slipping unpleasanlly from under him during _a great political contest for an especially rottendivision But Arthur always talked like a hero even when t he was young and wore turned down collars, and my girl's heart took his speech for silver, and went out to meet his father more than half way._ What a waste of time and years and pretty compliments it was, after all! My brother, my senior by twelve `years, stepped between us, took a dislike to Arthur, snapped him up and told him plainly that he was a conceited, stuck _ _ . _ . _ . _ .._._ 1-....}.I- I........l ............H Cam a woman be c wnsidered so very, very old at three and thirty? ls'it, after all, so great an age? ' Is it such .a long, long distance from the days, of youth and bu-;m:_v? Are the hills so tremendously high between thirty-three and the maid. u charms of sweet seven- teen, that the fuuner is shut irremedi-- ably iuitn shadow-land? I don't be lieve it. `I 1u`ay.have been talked into this theory at one time--' my worst time--read into it by silly, sentimental novels, sung into it by sillier senti- mental ballads; bnt I know better now. At the present hour I am a little older in years and a great deal younger in thought and feeling than I was, and the reason for all this is the theme of . my story. '1'`. L-..:.. ...:t`y. :-a .~.. AnIn`It Janna ` Cautain Gray Makes a. Discovery-Whil- m,_-,', Tobacco and Lova-B1g Weed'und Priscilla. Made One. arm. 11:o::;;:-.>N1c was cn.ANxY_ mom AN EARLY JILT. T ~ I jj manna mm THE umuns! January 5, 77 e hair and andrui in` nd in cases; heat signs of of hair. It `Air on!` In I-UUUIJ VLIIJVVVI 5:13! I don't remember a w9.rmer.Sep- tember than this has been, or a ner evening than this. ' There really_ is not anything toshiver at, Priscilla, he said _reproachfully. N I. wish to goodnee you wouldleave off. tliut ratt|'in`gZ"- Perhaps if 1 walk about a bit,- Ah! go and walk. Do something! he said. % . . . _ `I wa1k9d.,th`Whol extent .of.:the -garden grounds`, and then. returned` to: the sdnninep-hoixe. _ My'L-tbyother.` ,-Awg' half dozing, and gave quite a littleletart when I came back to his side. I havediaturbed your-nap, William." I haven't been asleep, he answered Ihortly. _ I` never sleep in the open air; y.oti_-ltnow I`on t. D9 yam H -_I want 6! _ I 141 L"... `.. .`_.. ....._.I.".;. it akenp stonef`hl_ind`l" ` V . 2|. ....":'.LL` `.."..\.~V ` -I &\6'."!|n. `_'I"'I.\n`I.:uQg:_~g g` ivre nodding, William. You wete mistaken, Priscilla, h said .Ypn are always _mitaken, for \ ~t.lie;- mu`.ts"1`-of tha;.".: I "gnu ugvvulu vuv V. u-vv-we There s old. Bill l_ronstone upside ' down again!' I. heard an irreverent postman say to the coachman one morn- ing. as he caught sightoi` my brother weeding his garden path; and certainly. in the garden, it was difficult to discover my brother in anything like a dignied posture. Dahlias werehis chief delight. .He spent a great deal of money upon dahlias, and people could atter him on that point `when they could not draw avsumile or a sympathetic glance from him on any other topic under thesun. . In the evening in the autumn- time, when the weather was notalways of the warmest, he would sit before his grandest bed of dahlias, smoke his ipe, -and pose as the monarch of a he surveyed. He was at his bestthen; he had dined well, he. had got over .~the little vexations of the day, and it was his pleasure to takevhis ease in garden ground and admirehis `owers, and endeavorto listen to my house-, keeping` experiences of the last six hours. He .was not `a sociable man, , but he strongly objected to sitting in his garden alone. He preferred me near him, knitting or netting, in the gleaming. There were times. when I used to `fancy he was getting nervous- as he was getting old, but that was all 'fancy,*I dare say. ll...` A.-nu-nu.-nu nn..`- :- Q-um`:-anntugua CID!` Ill-I\IJ .-. \u`-Uh`: v-J- V One evening, earlyin September, we were in the summer-house after dinner -always an hour after dinner by -the chronometer he carried, and which never varied a minute in a month-and I remember it was extra cold and black, even for Septemberin Lancashire. V It was growing dusk. e " What are you shivering at,` Priscilla? he asked, suddenly. You know _I -strongly object. toeeeanybody shiver. , "It's rather cold this evening. I don t feel it 9., bit. You must have something the matter with you, if you call thiscold. ` - 11.1` ...-.....v .:. :. ....4.`L.... ....1.J I-.. LI... on Juno `tuna- vnnnu \l\rn\n| I mean in is rather cold for the time of year. I have known September such swarm month, I added, with my teeth chattering. ` 1.1 11-..}- _.-..__.__L-.. - ._.'........... Q-.. ;"Ia'm so theie a anfy n `e-Tame is no .pqrhs`psT .,about., itggoh are. ' " `V9?! M,w611. 3 .I 8iI;.Ii9P" 2 '4 ":*"\.~."~. V '.* . , ".lIllI.I BU uuuru B an `uuu ,. He with extra. i`-5't!li:`a:nh(; bi1i|eh?'.' tkgt eggpipgg {and go was 1. 7H6 _ha.d Mnche`al: er A Vas_ itgngk` (Sr 5 sopbha - .ua=.~nma: ur.man-:__ `nan .._.n_.--_g........ 1 vv lluvll IJLVIIUILI \II. I.IO\l nu.n.:u-8.-an-vnsan.-U I` wonder what 'William Ironstone would have done without his`, big garden and his cedars, of which he was inordin- ately vain, as though he had planted them and seen them grow up to their big, broad-spreading, funereal pro- portions, instead of buying them ready made along with" the rest of the xings? He was fonder of his garden than of me; it was his solace and distraction, his one study. He did more Work than his three gardeners put together. He ` was always out of doors. M'I"L.....J... -1) Dill l.........L.~....n ...M-.3.Jn W-(.)Jf ' I began to 1,901: oldv-a `pale reflection of my brother without his drab suit and gaitera-and to think in my heart of heart that it was a neutral~tinted world` in which `I was playing my small part out. Brother. William had no such ideas of self- disparagement; and that I should imagine for one Instant thathis company was not suicient solace for my declin ing years had never entered into the wildest dream of his imagination. '1'. _-__.L__ _L... "Irr:n:..... 'r._.......a....... hind time with the breakfast in the morhing, or went to bed two minutes later than usual in the even'mg.. ;Woe' to the cook who did not the dinner to the exact nour appointed: to the coacliman who was not ready with the carriage at the precise second which had been mentioned for an airing; to the gardener who did not set his plants and shrubs and prune his trees accord- ing to the time for planting and prun- ing as regulated by. William Ironstone, whose -manner. in life was to regulate everything within his own domain. Was it to be we nrlered at that I should fall in with his regulations and get methodical a little bit myself, and feel weighed down by those` three and thirty years I have already mentioned, despite my inner consciousness, which should ` have assured me that, under more favorable surroundings, there were life and enjoyment of life, and an autumn of youth left to me before pert folk could say that_I was getting "so dread- tully old? i ' - ' f\l __-___- Y 1.----. L- I-..I'- -I.I - . .';.:. A l3.5s>`iw_.?_}v;- want. WAEKO-lvlp DL!nO'f " _ "I beg..vohr..P-r.d.9h`;-..!5h0uEh.'? " `.__ _ -.u:.... 1rr:n:......"' Vail . " V. Ilkg CU~ -,%V-." " rvhins. 9r9ss1i9sv h;!: 999` ?- `` Y ` j us as; "..Thaf` igai:`dedern :greh%-`.:`tim1 4. AL. _-__-_- -13.`... -.--aI-- nu`-s:nnn1unOI\I-in 31?; T3:T13T};;:s-3 '"I.:.?:':2s*;:3?~f'?n-v<'.23;v:7sA- I ,:hg.nl_ <}7 ' "h ty3-tb rli`,x`overfy,. ` mug`; ~ ` P ; J I urn: twuwu _ :ha.t1`1'; :7v'rii:i'1-3i':\;1ty3t>'ti3hrt;1i;v;;:. ` gbbqy. umbli_ng"_ pve);r.,,*\e%y.vgz;y',p}q;1. : .6180.` hind " the `gas: camping . `t I' nu -' . ._ I- _.___A. .`I-..L-_-L_---. borne off `with their garish heads up- !) U IIEII 9 Xnfdfiaway the balloon a, shot us the inmates,` of `the `car bawling incomprehensible instructions to Mr. Ironstone-4-who had" become purple with rage, and was -shaking his stick at them--and;then out came all. the dahlias by their roots, which `became entangled in the claws of the grappling- irons trailing below the car, and were side down in onevclean -swobp. "Well, of all the - i But there was no time to listen to my brother's comments on the exciting events which were passing beneath our notice . , 51`-he..Abal_lo_on was.sti_l_l_ slgidding 'along`~some' eight `feet. from the.gro'uhd, til1:iv..w1iwbrught.uP again8_W?39isr6n- hnnun ma? this `ems at which the ple aaant maunotneas. - `t . _,. . .-.. (_.l; , .. V ".'if5$i' out-9-T-catch hold- hold hard o-let go that Aoonfonndedn rope-oh! blazes. Now then No-not now, .Oh!-whoop. Let go now! 7 No-hold hard, you jackass, you! Hold hard", I tell you! `_J LL-.. _:mL 4.. :V-\\Imt\I\l\ `rsnnnrl `VIII JYIIO And then, with an immense bound and more blobbing and opping and apping, a monster bailon, disheveled and short of breath, or 8.5!`: and knock- ed out of ' all shape by `contact with rough earth--an most, disreputable look ing, ,out_all-night, allyof-one__ side balloon .-.-came skiddingand _bobbing and roll- ing and swaying like a drunken giant into -the garden, and scurried at a rapid rate across the grass-plot and the ower- beds. A, malformed, untidy, and drunken balloon it surely was. g;a1a"g""i;SZ 5523193` 531} {.33 expeditiously; than away it went with a bound like__ an indjra_ruVl.)_bver ball to earth ` - --2 )- I.-.) puuuu INS?` lI.lI.l{uV'IuUU!:'I`. uull >vv was In.- again, and A.sha'vqd toLm at La_id_e `bed s.-bo_ub~-thi1jty , er-3t"of scarlet get.-aniuma, r. `.,._ .| K n....I- o-`. '.Il...:"..":n".`- `bin-`mu-A ."f.h: |` E".`.,l3lIg macEe2""' " " "M '" Then the voices in the distance went on again. . (IT _A`- Aa-L - --L-L Rn!!!` l`H_ere, lend a hand.` some of you fellows, and don t stand gaping there Catch hold Voftha robes, will ya? called -_ some one frblii the car. ` Mind the ul1l._l0,.W8l%_Dl'uuglgu_ u_y gsuguny vgn |nouse roof, the .glb. ss of` whjh' _,,-1:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ,__|,_,.,1 __,.___-..1,, _s.-oo_11I:~-pnlrny Jean OI vacauuu guguuxumo, trad `..nal*1,y _aRi`?,Adri&in 1 tbqrd ;'t[I_e` summer-huuse, into which my brdther and I and the three gardeners, all tore for our liye.. It; Hat'.rInqk~ .the_.au_mmer-_ house,-was agaih.'.yihi:1ed:Bdoki&oLtd.'andj s@-JIm a+:n9.n.'gt. thee. `!.1`9:F`1?.? 7!` " dare...` hrd ' ib-'%`loqk_6d7,iik`ej.*_liye - I_--__ -.__..I..... u.L..`) My first impression was that our gar deners had been {seized withtemporary derangement, and were ghting amongat themselves, and with all available mieailee within reach; but that delusion was dispelled by their sudden rush into the open air and from the outhouae where they had been pack- ing up their implements. V t`Oh`!__lor a-mussy, sir--what's the` _u up. ygugn an-oiolllnvnp gqnn-[qr-_' -----r-'.`t.J= to the rescue afoot sundry objurgafiona hurled at them by the senior person m ll, _ ,, -'_.-.I _4:-n.u__nI..AuI.-1L-I`An-u cu-van. V tiunav ~ ,.. . , We both sprang to our feet, looked wildly round, edged a little closer to each other for mutual protection, stared into each -other s face, and gasped for breath in our` complete bewilderment. Suddenly there were branches of trees and hedges ominously cracking. There was a strange rushing and hissing noise. `There was a strange opping as at gigantic wings,ga distant crackling of wood. and the voices of men in high altercation, and making use of bad words -indubitablyA bad words. And. what the diokenslwas it, I could lhavevaaid myself the instant afterward, without consideringfthat I'was actually profane. TIT- L-AL .._.._.__. L- A--- f..-A I--L..,J - .. ...,, .....,. . 7-{Thirty miles away from 9. big town `-pe1-feet. peace and rest and seclusion -'-_not harsssed "by a crowd of busy- bodies of neighbors, people who drop down upon you at all hours and sea- sons, and always at the time and sea.- son- when you would give anything rather than `see their ugly faces. Absolute rest there `is, -Priscilla,` and yet you arenot cont ent." ' l.T __. _-L -1` _ jS_.__1S.I`_I "-1 7 f8`!n--1'10-l;v)f'aT'('ii--8'ati88d' nature, William, but- V ` ` D-_.-L ..-..L -...1 ._L-L AL- .12-`...-...... v -gonna:-no vigil j 'Perfe;ct neat a.nd--wh9.t the dickgns is that_'l" _ A j_ nun`:-u Inna`. vsuvUUU|alvIJ`I No; nothing at. all of thaf kind.N T t'a very true." `Thirty away a. big fuse and excitement." Here's everything the heart can wish for." he continued. No noise and bustle, and smoke and smother, and vv`-u-u saw JVII vvu-any ' I hardly know;I answered, with` a sigh. ' V ' 1 ltU-_-'_ -___._ .. ;.L2_ _. LL. L ___.; --__ I .. -- _- vcn-Va vo vqgv Jvvonu ` ' lusee nothing dull in. it, he answer- ed, "I don t think any well-balanced mind would see anything dull in itat any. time,` more especially at this time. What do you want? u!` L,__.II_ I_..____ H I ______ _, .1 _:.1, w-V--' -v-B, -`u-J I/pr`, _ I '. ` What;-I admire about. this placn, \ Priscilla, is its perfect state of repose. 1 `I t s a lxttlejdul", William; esyeciallv I at $h_is t.ime of the year." ` an ....... .....L:.... .a--n :.. :. n 1... -_...'_.._ of the great change app:-oachintglg indeed as it to mark the contrast, my brother said suddenly, and with .3 ourish of his long clay pipe; " `IWL..5 I ... -.... A`-..-.--A ALI... __I_--_ THE NORgT-BERN ADVANCE.` nun-I tlauuavlul VUJ V cf; f.-?..Ez~.?8 % 8pec1a_'mes_'1'11!1'w_rE AND cmovnn. nrrry our High Grade P`ntentAFVo.m1ly Flour. !l1-I-_I..-_- --_---LI-_ I1-II-on..- " Precri tlonvot. amphyaiclanjvlio. , hm: ha a. life lnmt exnerience in 4 :E-N_NY~R6YAL- :W:AF;ERS. |% =1 sasrov ' -.1 I.-novv fsaausnaijenn-Kigiaiiiv nlfl-`Al Patent Flour did Rolled ats Depot. JOHN <=T.f:a.!w.TH \ A vuyuvu u--:-v--wuuuuu (Successor to J. J. Brown.) Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Field and Garden seeds. Graln, Flour and'Feed, Qatlneuln; Hams, Bucon, Potatoes, salt, band Pinter, Only one pearl of anylnnd is found in a hundred shells, and usually` one in a thousand of any value`, so that it is not a very protable pursuit. I The indisc_riminate killing off of the mussels in shing and bv poisonous sewage will eventually lead to their extermination. The greatest destroyers, however," are the hogs. which kill o whole banks in a single low tide.` Pearls are also secreted by the common hardshell clam (Venus mercenmia); these are usually white, tinged with purple, or almost black. The latter colors are perferred, although they have littlevalue. They sell at from $1 to $101) each, and are found as large as a {hazel-nut. The common conch(Strombus gigas), shed extensively _on -the Florida coast for bait, often contains the so called pink p -iarls. Although they are not true pearls, they have sold at $1000 each. Our oyster pearls have neither value nor beauty, ' v vr.-'nnrmpnExLq3EnraAn'.cc?.. nzabm1E.. . o1d;inB.osrte.~brG._oo.- and J-W909-, lSLANDjOME STOCK FARM in Jersey This was purchased by .'_. Messrs. Tiffany 8: Co. for $1500 in F 1856, and led to the great pearl excite- ment. lllilliors of unios were collecud , and many thousands of pearls found, and some of tbeufvery ne ones. I One however, which weighed nearly four hundred grains, and would perhaps - have been the finest pearl of modern . times, was destroyed by cooking the mussel. They have since then been shed out as far west as Ohio. At ` Wayuesville and other places on the Little -Miami River many -negpearls have been found, and. more recently Tennessee, and Texas One single rm has purchased over $100,000 worth of pearls found east of Texav. The the back, and imitating every con- ceivable form, such as beetles, sh, bird wings, and often have had this feature assisted in the mounting of enamel and gold, after the manner of Dinglinger pearls at the famous Dresden Green .V'aults. The color is rarely a true white, usually pink or bluish, of- ten irridescent. ..The nacre is smoother, if anything, than in the Oriental pearls, and they` are often more beautiful; $2000. A I I a 1: Q ne ones have been found in Kentucky, pearls are rarely entirely round, usually ~ alittle oblong, button shaped, at on single pearls have been sold for over , a nun. TOM Q1, ' I HE sxuc; 1` con. 3. 01-0. 100 acres. Tbout 40 cleared balance Hardwood Bush. about 11 miles tror ma soil rs:-clas. ogzod trams house and & 'od water. 83. `will bu this farm it cold winter. Emil! to W . 3`I8g8I?N. n.djoix_ning~tl_1e promises. ARM rm SALE-A T in--W} 1m 1 - u..1.32E'r ..9.1r1?Im-.l:`1)on:2{..:'hnnt t tlggeagol MDUEN N S B A KI N G 1-: AA A III-it'll I-In II In Tdjj coomssr FRIENB BELL C0.,GI1elp11, Ont. " 71'3a'1e';H{of'73x{e'L?1'on. Dolive;y. JOHN GALBRLITH. 3052 J. J. Brown's Old Stand. nunlon St. . uvv-u a `noun.- WEI Y""VvUfUU"`j>VT5:vu:.`-fvr. . 0l'l'!0I"A'l'+lI -1- Posr Oman Bunnnm. Buuun. Unapproached for - " __.. Tone and Quality. cA'rA_Logus* FREE. I LL23 Ti;Z.I.i;."