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nmrniHTK SEPTEMBER Vol Noi il Slit IS Thursday BY OFFICE NEWMARKET ONTARIO CANADA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER Whole No ldd will insetted till foil Mi charged b J US NESS CARDS THOMAS PHYSICIAN AND SUTTON JAMES J HUNTER MD RESPECTFULLY friends public ft A lit March 180 CARD rpHK Undetsigvad entered into SOLICITORS IN CHAXCERY and for general of the law A Marc EDWARD CAMPBELL of CnpUn I- BARRISTER AT JOHN COOK Cleric of the Division Court Commissioner In PEARSON REMOVED HIS OFFICE To the Building OPPOSITE FORSYTHS HOTEL bo may bo dally from nine GEORGE DRY GOODS BOOTS SHOES Ac AUCTIONEER for tlic Comity of York Solos Attended to on Blurt MARRIAGE LICENSES in DRY GOODS ORGANS THE OLD ESTABLISHED a Shop SAMUEL Cabinet Maker A IP 1ST I XT on READYMADE mill Jjuinoi t The Dead potter not timt I turned fit there hi the de licit office ng tlie time stained in my bint word into my contents if I had been born for that business was a rapid worker quiet and well thought of by my associates who deemed mo a little cold and skeptical a trifle reserved steady for young a I I if It J ly earned my Hilary That was all they of Richard days I did not know mi months hud And i of a village I yet felt that those vague hints had reference to the sinful tragedy which had occurred October re was placed in my hands duo to that mystery which had to unravel clue which might after all into ill pro founder labyrinths of doubt and perplexity As I pondered it teemed to break nod vanish in my fingers Yet I felt spito of this an inward sense thai held the key which to unlock the awful can never rightly express the feelings which for the first few momenta overpowered me My body was icy cold but my and stirred me with fire and teemed to rise on budding wings of lime with the convic tion of a speedy triumph which was to come after long suffering I arose clutch ed my bat and went forth from the De partment to return to it no more for ho present Half the night I sat in my room my boardingpi the table brief eh worn away one In throng in the winter J picked my way fid fro from my lodgings to the office build tint was about all the change which the sevens brought to mo whom smell of sprig violets filled with pungent delight odor of happy as a God on Half the night I sat brood so precious loathsome longer I pondered its words the less vivid grew my hope of mak ing any triumphant use of it for the detec tion of the two guilty parties I who wrote it and the one to when addressed I might lay the letter before Mr Argyll but be might not as I did think that it had any connection with the murder there any thing to prove but that the missive might have been di rected to me Indeed Mr Argyll might well inquire how I could pretend that it should reached me through the rout ine of the deadletter department after all this stretch of time very nearly two years This was a matter which puzzled tho mark tbo hasty direc tion and tho contents of letter his own almost before ho icad it For momenta pondered the then drew forth the letter perused it with a glance and sot holding it gazing it lost in thought evidently my presence A pallor settled over usually placid face at t bo looked up nd seeing me recalled to bis recollection It is sad to be to feel that each Jive and flourish he said oh moot but pa face brightened I cannot say I to get hold of this It partially explain things which I have already and had been on point of for me once or twice Ho refrained waiting for light to colt minate and now he was glad enough to get hold of that letter mo that Sullivan quietly in the city subsisting frequently to that for a while he had teemed dispirited gambled sperately but that lately ho was looking id behaving better I shall always regard it Providential said my will to tbe writ specimen of the their effects this I am glad I have hand writing would if not claimed have been to three months reception at and have and tbe flames The band of an over ruling Providence seemed to he game At tha Before I proceed furth tory I will give in a few words tho brief monotonous record of my life I driven driven is the word must hour recognized jt and felt a solemn Richard haughty and fcciiMlivo though coin ictim thai or later the maybe from ip derer would be tck mated It was this of the and from my pros- assurance more thin any evidence con- pects of a liiif in ill letter which gave me hope lit to my mother ihht it would tniinliy shocked at tic chat grieved that my confidence from her But I did not feel in a con fiding mood gsijtleness of my na ture had been hardened I was bitter sneering skeptical nor from own mother would I accept sympathy which my chilled heart to Marys ace as she had In those sweet eyes were trust and love the tears which streamed down and fell upon her bosom the quiver of her lips the sobs and fod words attested to the sorrow with which she had beheld my ban ishment Of course my mother was surprised to hear that I had left with no ml of punishment to the guilty I lilt which had been d also attached those interested bad to selflove which had me in the eyes of for wteN lale interposed in ray behalf and in that of Truth I took fresh courage I was fully startled from my apathy That night I resignation to the Department gathered up my few effects again and the nex morning found me on my way to But she did She know the writer when him IIowso Mr Burton Because I have a very good pictui now in my minds eye He is rty years of age broad- has dark the third finger of his injured so as f fjUll- sid ht hand tract the muscles education which he hard study he grc- in the midst and his own tterly depraved lie ha iiiiftilMice blessed Redeemer himself hardly find good enough in him to hope of ultimate salvation I fie should ever have better added he that of bis of knowledge which he lias He must jave been led into it by some powerful passion If I could decide what that pas sion was I might have a key to unlock the gate into some other matters I stared at the speaker in astonishment he rapidly pronounced tho above anal- of the personal appearance and Do you know him I asked I do not know bis name and I have never met him All the acquaintance I have with him I have made through the medium of his It is is about probably the your- bad habits caused indirectly tint if they were not reformed he should be convicted of them before his uncle This I did after I became con vinced that be would the young ladies out of compassion to My bead drooped on my hand It was Ions since I had any tidingsof the Argylts death could hardly have created a morn barren space between us Yet now that I heard the names of the girls mentioned a flood of old emotions broke over me be neath whmh I slruggled halfsuffocated Keen pain shot through my heart at the idea of Mary that innocent most sweet and lovable girl becoming the wife of a man like James I felt as if it ought to be prevented yet how could I interfere Why should I wish to I recalled tbe hour when she had flown to mo had aid believe in you Richard J love you 1 and I knew that I had put a construction upon the tearful passionate words of that last avowal which was after cot war I had feared that she did really me and that in tbe last moment of row and trouble her feelings had be trayed themselves to her own and I had felt a hope that it waa so My own unanswered passion my lonely unmated life had taught me sym pathy I was not to utterly selfish as my personal vanity tickled with for r he then my puzzled and incredulous loo- he added By the way tbe art of reading 1 for to LOAIST DUDLEY barristers attorneys Opposite Forsyths Hotel Slain St Newmarket May 12Gtf Stationery Goods MALL LINE Or anything in the shape of FIRSTCLASS JOB PRINTING HOUSE PAINTING THE SUBSCRIBERS beg to announce to iiLtry tllal Lave opened a gace of business near the whore in any of their trade House Painting Graining WHITEWASHING Orders promptly in the best style find at the lowest living prices Country work will receive strict attention July ALEX BUDGE LOT STREET OPPOSITE MECHANICS HALL SHOEING and kinds of gel AND DESPATCH On Terms J JOHNSONS Blind and Planing Factory CALL FROM BUILDERS SOLICITED M L JO I on hand Custom Planing at any time SHOP Corner Mill Itaglansfs NEWMARKET Honey to Lend J COLLINS all to 1th Mid comfort a- a red mother will minister to an only with a less tlrm that is nr I had been at home a unnatural tension of my mind a produced its sure result I took place and I fell sick softer mood which over me as I was from this illness that I finally told my mother all tie dreadful story of the influences which had broken up my with the Her grief her indignation against my ight id restrain her for for to stand be fore her old friend the friend of my fa ther and accuse him face to face for the wrong he had done her hoy But out of this I persuaded her I asked her if she did Dot see that the wrong was irreprra- I could not forget it It did not admit of being talked about let the cur tain drop and us our paths were henceforth apart To this she Anal ly yielded and if there could have been balm to my wounded pride end still more deeply wounded affections I should have found it in the enhanced touching almost too perfect tenderness with which my parent sought to make up to me that Which I had lost For a few weeks I abandoned myself to her healing attentions Then I my self to find work both for and mind My mother was not without influential friends As I have said my fortunes were somewhat nipped by my fa- him I applied fur a and i in answer the situation I was El the time when that dead letter so strangely into ray hands It may be thought improbable that I should abandon the profession for which I c had studied with so much zeal But the on the I which I v ill pursuits Tho blow dealt my heart had stunned my ambition als To one of my temperament aspiration the hillside lovo Bits heaven And I under the eye of the deadletter office and women by their greUcst i in the which I have devoted The suits I obtain my friends But I as to consult Mr marvellous him since that j and unwearied observation with naturally I only quick percept dent still a beard with a I c which had brought some detectives only a ftw weeks previous that I had never or under the part he had played in that hist interview j I do th the I remembered the as- ton- ranee he had given of friendship but j singular I did not believe that he had shown any friendship for me in that consultation with no found not know about that Mr Bur it would take a mind of of your own to of an art with no rules ant tbe relatives or the results would not have j It has its rules for me But as proof I is better than argument show me any let- felt a confidence in him he was the man j or scraps of writing you may have for the emergency and to him I would about you I would like to satisfy you take the letter thought it quite before we proceed further for I do able that in the multiplicity of tances which bad once much together bad faded from his mind and that I should have to reawaken his recollection of the details On the morning after my arrival in York I consulted the directory that Mr Burton still resided in Twentythird street I called at the house t the earliet tdmi ible hour While was banding my card to the his roaster came out of the library wish jou to feel that you are working a crackbrained individual who is ridii a hobby at your expense I emptied my inside coat pocket of i uncle in an old the end of the ball arid hastening ward shook me heartily the hand His joyous tones his pic better i to attend his or three epis tles from casual acquaintances member an entreaty from a younj get something to do that centre of all unemployed particles- Of these I the superscription perhaps some unimportant sentence which word which were I would in no way of itseli betray the I heard your voice Richard he said acters or pursuits of the writers I need and did not wait for you to be ushered cot describe my surprise when in each in the formalities Welcome my instance he a careful and accurate friend his expression was as if he had description of the age appearance habits said Welcome my son profession and mental qualities of the er He led me into the library and placing son whose handwriting he bad examined me in an rat down opposite I could credit my own senses at me with the wellremembered there must bo some about it shafts of those steel blue eyes as in the tricks which play with about my health etc be cards But my respect for ddenly I Mr Br have been here re that I have been a the deadletter office for the last of I never intended to let you slip out of the numbered rosary of ray friends and lose yon so entirely as not even to know your whereabouts this letter of my companions pursuits and indubitable nature of his proof did no 1 allow me to doubt any length of time ppoee became a believer in A is facts and I these facta to my readers at risk of seeing the pi turned mortifying tons character is a real I chanced to the over his that I had remarket on some previous important occasions His practical intelligence seized upon the lerfu achievements become The terrible interest of the subject which had brought together did no permit that he had not been idle during all this long period but that ho had ready gathered up a fact or two of some of pity a wish that she might rather loved me than him whose cold shelter With ihU 1 felt a triumph that El had remained unassailable on the sublime and solitary height of her sorrow It was what I expected of her I gloried in her constancy to the dead I had loved her for this noble beauty of her nature and should have been disappointed had the test found her wanting in any of the attributes with which my worship bad in rather still that she should wrong me than herself Lastly Mr Burton told me that he had tidings of the fivehundreddollar bill which bad been stolen from Mr Argylls desk This was indeed important and I showed by my looks bow deeply I was ab sorbed in the particulars That bill had come into the hands of Wells Fargo Co about months after the robbery having been sold for specie to their agent in California and forwarded to them along with the other sums which they were con- stantly receiving At least he had taken it for granted that it was the same bill it one of tbe two which left the city of New York the week of tbe robbery the J lie A I Harsh jndgm are every earthly con fort health money and occupation cause each think the other arbit rary and inconsiderate sometimes marry with their eyes and thus instead of being mated with as they foolishly imagine they might be they out afterwards that they are only Take any of tho relationships of life and we should find that far the greater part of our sorrow comes from the same cause Get anyone to tell you honestly what gives him the most annoyance and disquietude and he will tell you they come from want of kindness sympathy and fellow feeling He could tell you that he would bear other tfrom the things if ho only met with tion support people with whom ho has to do it is worth a great deal to cultivate that excellent thing in woman a low sweet voice If you ever so much tried by the mischievous or willut speak loi try