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[The following beautiful poem was written by | a daughter of General Lindsay, who is only six- een years of age, and sold in aid of the Society for the ald of the sick and wounded in war,} *" What is Glory 1 What is Glory ? "Is it Honor? Is it fame ? ** Is it something real, enduring ? " Or existing but in name." Thus I sat profoundly rani, Til at last 1 slept wid dreamed, 'orl the answer Lo my guestion Through my sleeping vis' ns gleamed ; I, methought, was standing, gazing On a long and bloody fight, Waged between two mighty nations Well nigh matched in power and might, Coon 1 heard the Victory shouting, And the Conqueror's trumpets sound, And their cannon's deafening volley, Thundering Victory all around. Followed by a ghastly silence I descended to the plain; With a heavy heart I wandered "Mid the heaps of mangled slain, "Mid the heaps of wounded soldiers Groaning in their agony, Whom the engines of destraction Thus'had doomed to misery, Courage, Firmness, Heroism, Wove indeed a 'fearful wreath ; And fhe end of all that wore it, Dreadful 'wounds, or speedy death. Then upon that ficld of slaughter Saw I how with zealous care, Kindly forms were gently bending Over cach poor sufferer there, Tender women were among them, Never shrinking from their task, Bringing aid unto the wounded Ere the parched lips could ask, Looking closer, as I watched them With unfaltering footsteps thread. I perceived that all 0 working Wore a White Badge crossed with Red. Then I saw the sufferers carried All along the blood-streaked road, Where the heavy ambulances Waited for their weary load. Over each ne waving sadly By the wind its soft folds spread, Saw I float the sign of mercy, Saw the White Flag Crossed with Red. Then I left that place of horror, Passed to thé scenes away, Stood where sick and wounded soldiers On their beds of suffering lay. All that human skill could offer Soothed and eased each shattered frame, Tender hands the flercé wounds bandaged, Treating friends and foes the same. And those noble-hearted women, Of all stations, high and low, Never shrinking, never tiring, Glided softly to and fro, Seemed to vie with one another In their work of Christian love, Tho le looked well and hearty, svemingly not | far advanced in years since the spring of | 1867. Well, to quote the fine old song which we all know, and which 'is sung so beau- | wag that never would wed." Only Drys- | dale, unlike the hero of the lay, had | courted no lass. Tell the 'truth he was shy, excessively bashful. Had he lived in an earlier age, and Bulhyvie at any time beey the birthplace of a poet, I should have set Johnny down for the hero of the celebrated deuk dub. escapade. He had f perpetrated feats quite as absurd. It was { he who once, in escorting .a lively damsel t from Bulhyvie to Micklestrath (a distance of three miles,) only ventured on two ob- | servations. fine nicht," and when approachingthedad- dy's door, he whispered: "They say oat- meal's fa'en a bawbee the peck." Now, though «doubtless in their way remarkable enough, neither of these observations can boast of much originality or beauty. So |i it is not to be wondered at that the lively | damsel used ever afterwards to speak of | poor Johnny with the most ineffable con- tempt. But we know who said, 'There is a tide "in the affairs of men, which, taker at the | i flood, leads on to fortune," and it is the duty of the present chronicler to show that there came a tide in the affairs of * Johnny Drysdale which he took at the | flood, and by which he was led to mony, a synonym of fortune, and poets speak truth, One sunny Saturday, in the year I have .mentioned, Johnny had occasion to cross the hills of Nethy. between Bulhyvie and Nethy, three of which matri- if novelists overtook a young woman. she was weel faured, and that she kept on her way'in a decided "energetic manner, looking neither to the right nor the left. She was barefooted, and carried her shoes and stockings in her right hand--a good you if T fin' it out." Very | sign in the estimation of Johnny. soon he began to feel a strong desire to en- ter into conversation, but for the world he As for the lady, having cast one glance at the Bulhyvie weaver she took no further no- tice of him; so our friend fell behind and pondered. could not'think how to commence. How it happened I know not--no one | ever did know for certain unless, as John- | ny says, it was a Providence--but some- thinggaught the damsel's foot, causing her i In a moment | to slip. and fall heavily. | tifully by Mdile Liebhart, "Jocky_ wns al At starting he said, "It is a | There are five miles | our friend had walked when he' He saw that | I | there's nae saying what micht happen." { Then without further parley he fetched | one long strong breath, took the prostrate maiden in his arms and' strode towards Nethy, which hé soon reached. By this time he and his fair burden were close friends, and what is more surprising, he had discovered in himself 'a power of con- versation hitherto undreamt of. Bless your heart, he waxed eloquent at times-- 80 eloquent that the damsel smiled on him in a way which sent the blood careering | through Johnny's veins at a speed -it had been little accustomed to. '" Here we are at the door," the damsel. "I'm sorry to hear it --[ wish it were | anither mile," said Johnny, "But bless | ¥e, no," he continued, "I forgot you are | sufferin', and that IT maun be addin' to ye're pain every step I tak." His com- | panion shook her head pleasantly and said, *"No! no! ye're verra guid and verrakind." At which remark there arose a commotion at last said in Johuny's brain, and he made an unsuc- cessful attempt to ascertain what .he 'was thinking abont, * The door was opened by a middle-aged, rather stern looking woman, who stared | with open mouth at the couple before her. She admitted them nevertheless, demand- ing rather ill naturedly, 'What's wrong i noo!" "Hech," she went on, after listen- {ing to the story, "ye'll be aff wark for a week or twa; I warrant, and ye're faither t and me'll hea to keep ye. you never will tak' tent mair bother to us.' This speech struck Drysdale dumb his old diffidence returned to him in fullforce. So he turned to go saying he must be about his business. The old woman mere- ly said ""Verra richt." Jean looked to- wards him but said nothing. Neverthe- | less, Johnny shook hands with her, ve- { marking at the same time, 'I'm, thinking aboot something, but I canna mak' oot what it is. Aibins I'll come back and tell Jean laughed, and { whispered to him, " She's my stepmither." 'I thocht sae," said Drysdale. But he breathed a sigh of relief notwithstanding. Now after the business that had brought | Johnny Drysdale to Nethy had been trans- acted and he was slowly returning up. the | street, the mystery of his thoughts sud- | denly became clear. In this way the solu- tion came. As he walked along he chanced to espy through a half-epened window a | happy looking husband and a happy look- ling wife playing with a laughing baby. "" Ah," muttered our friend, and he quick- I tell ye, Jean, I am sure ye're | pockets inside out, looked in his hat, and after he could find no satisfactory reply, "I suppose it doesna matter i' the noo; I can tell ye next week," he said at last. "It matters this much, John," said the school- master, "that unless you tell me thelady's ndme and surname you cannot be cried to- morrow, But you must know yoursweet- heart's name; you're only joking." How- ever Johnny persisted that he did not know the name, and finally he related how and where he had met her, winding up with "" An I maun be cried the mom, for I'm determined to be married . next week." > " Well John, I sce no other way foryou but to go back to Nethy. It's not: eight o'clock yet, you can be here again in three hours, T'll sit up for you. Rush away." After all Johnny's was a brave heart, and merely remarking. "I'll be back by that time," he left the schoolmaster's house,and set off at a rattling pace for Nethy. Even his lady-love could not refrain from laugh- ing when she heard Johnny's errand. Her father, who had by this time put in an ap-- | pearance, and had greéted Drysdale right | cheerfully, laughed long and londly. "Old man, said he, " this is the droliest thing I ever heard tell 0'; a man to want to marry a woman who's name he didna ken. John- ny acknowledged that his behavior in that one line had been foolish. ** Not a bit, my man, a' things considered it's nae wonder --Yye had sac mony things ta think of it's nae surpree in that you forgot ane." Drys- dale's story was brief, for he remembered the time to which ghe registrar had limit ed him. Ere he departed, however he found the time to partake of a frugal sup- perand drank one glass the old man: de- nominated, "Man, thé rale thing." Said Jean, as he bade her good night for a second time: "" Ye'll no forget my name noo, will ye?" "- No my bonnie Jean Thompson, but ye can forget it as soon as ye like, and try to get used to a new ane, ¢'en Drysdale." (I may here remark pa- renthically that love isa most extraordina- ry brightener of a'man's faculties, as. our hero proved.) "I wish for your sake it were a bonnie name." "I begin to think it is , bonnie," said Jean; at which Johnny looked unutterable things, and departed in glory and in joy. Jean's father accompanied him some dis- tance. The burden of Mr. Thompson's conversation was, "'Ye'll be guid to my bairn moo! She's a bonnie lassie . and a guid, and will make ye a graun wife.-- Heigho! I wish I had ane like her," From which remark Johnny inferred thas. Mrs. I ------------ NOVEL THEORIES IN FRUIT CUL- : TURE ; ture recommends: -- Ist. A careful selection of the and plampest seeds from the finest fruit of the most thrifty kind of apples. 2nd. To make a hole by driving a point- ed stake a foot or two into well prepared ground where the future tre® is to stand. 3rd. Fill this hole with fich. co and drop into it a seed--or, is to make sure of one growing. . two old graft it carefully with the kind. of fruit you desire. In this way the most" thrifty, fast-grow- ing, and long-lived trees may be seccured; one of which, the author thinks, will be better worth five dollars thgh an ordinary nurse tree is worth a quarter. - His theory is that a tree whose tap-root is cut can never do so well afterward ; and the cut- ting of the other roots, necessary in mov- ing, renders the gase still worse. He thinks more especially that root-grafted trees prove abortions, as they never have a natural root at all.--The roots of a young tree as it grows are much larger than its "head, but when transplanted the propor- tion.is. reversed; which gives it a shock, from which, he thinks, it never completely recovers. The above Aheory holds good i in peaches, and, we believe, in most kind of nuts, which do not stand tkanslation well ; but apples are so thrifty that they sometimes need root-prunipg to make them bear. The sante writer has an elaBorate treat- ise on pruning, illustrated with pictwres: The common way. of pruning an apple' tree into the form of a bowl is emphatically con- deiined as quite unsuitable to a climate where the sun's rays aré so powerful as that of America ; and equally does he con- demn the way of trimming limbs so as to leave only the branches and, foliage at the ends. This makes a tree all green around its gircumfurence, but all bare poles within. Hjs plan is to train the tree from the beginning to one upright stem, with side branches above one another, hanging 'out on all sides, a shape not natural" to most. kinds of our apples. A still more profound writer says that pruning of alinost any kind is tree murder, and that nearly all our orchards die of the saw and the knife. Except in very rare cases, or to take off dead branches, "he leaves the tree to grow just as it likes, and has the most healthy and productive trees imaginable. This plan sets entirely at rest the vexed question respecting the proper scason for pruning, and we cannot help thinking that it is just about right, There must be, this writer says, an equilib- rium between roots and branches, and be- tween leaves and fruit ; and this equilibriy um nature establishes if man do not de- range it. STRICKEN DOWN IN THE PULPIT. The Rev. Benjamin Eaton, - first and only rector of Trinity Episcopal Chureh, Galveston, was stricken with death while 4th. When the young plant is a year or A book recently published ¢ on ip wal : Such as all the Saints in Heaven AUCTION CLOTHING MADE to ORDER A. fuk es lemedy and Certs FIFTY : DOLLARS 'OR WB. BSCRIBERS ) ha 6 not seed thl Magazine end 3 cent AND Commission Business. 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HE HAS sto] oN WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF Books, Stationery, FANCY 6000S, And Tops! Having been appointed sole agent for the Little Wanzer Sewing Machine, supply them on better terms than any other dealer in the county. aR member the, stand, directly opposite Hindes' Hotel | hawa. vi "April 13th, 1871. HAND X he can | JAMES FW 1L1I0X | | TO THE PUBLIC. WALTER WIGG & Son, 141. I RETURNING THANKS TO THEIR NUMEROUS CUSTOMERS AND the public generally, for past favors, would respectfully invite attention to their present stock of | FURNITURH, bly thereto, that they may thereby be enabled to supply all partics Having ately added considera them with a call. Great inducements held out to those purchasing at their establishment. LOOKING GLASSES, FRAM Samples of the different kinds of moldings can be seen at the warerooms. PICTURES, and in every style. They would also beg to announce that having purchased a . # A y oy SPLENDID NEW HE They will be ready at all thes to attend to Funerals, on short notice and reasonable terms, COFFINS KEPT ON HAND AND MADE TO ORDER AT New Dominion O88 H AWA. ? Opposite J. W.-Fowke's Store. 16-4 The KING STREET EAST, + August 24, 1870. INSURE "YOUR LIFE, AND YOUR PROPERTY, IN THE ED TO ORDER, | ARSE, Retail Furniture Wareroom, ~~~" Smile to look on from above, -- And I---as I watched them moving, Noiselessly from bed to bed-- Saw that cach upon the left wrist Wore a White Badge Crossed with Red. Whersoever lay the wounded, Hospital, or Church, or Shed, Waved therefrom the glorious symbol, Waved the White Flag Crossed with Red. Then I heard a voice that whispered, Come and see what England does, England ever is the foremost In assnaging others' woes, Then I saw how men whose spirits, By a generous impulse stirred, Met together for one object In one mighty aim concerned ; Aid to furnish and to proffer To the earnest little band, Who to nurse the sick and wounded, Lend a firm and helping hand. I beheld how hearts responded To the calls that bade them send | From their store'of wealth and offering, War's poor victims to befriend. And I smiled to sce how England Could not linger idly by-- Could not see her fellow creatures rYnassisted fall and die. Wit h a true and deep rejoicing, Saw I, when in council grave Sat those noble men together There once more the banner wave, Still the banner T had witnessed Floats o'er many a foreign shed, Mercy's true and fitting emblem, "T'was the White Flag crossed with Red. Then I woke and pondered deeply O'er my dream, until at last, Passed away the mystic shadows That upon my soul were cast. And 1 cried there is no glory In a war however brave, Spoiling all the face of nature, Sending thousands to the grave. Desolating happy houscholds, Filling hearts with bitter woe, Is there glory in such warfare } Millions answer sadly, No. Yet thr light of glory shineth} Like an ever-brightening star, | Over those who give their succor To the sufferers of war. But the true immortal glory ! rthly eyes behold not yet 'Not until the Saviour comet, In the clouds of Glory se. And my spirit looketh onward To the time when wars shall case, To the home of Life Eternal To the Land where peace. Selections, a THE COURTSHIP oF JOHNNY DRYSDALE. SN There are various ways of wooing-- | There' s the old chivalric way, so rampant Lin days of yore, while yet "gentle passa- ges of arms" were in repute; there's the | modern spoony Claribel fashion, very milk { and watery; there's the rongh and ready | Border fashion; there's the stern money '| considering style, | these civilized days; this is not an essay, not mmknown- even in Drysdale was by her side, but he rendered | ened his pace in the direction of "the first | assistance after a very clumsy fashion, for | house bit ane." Reaching it, he tapped he himself managed to fall. There must | gently at the door, and was answered by a have been something exquisitely ludicrous | "Come in." Obeying this call he found | in this part of the scene.' Just poor John | Jean looked tired and sorrowful. But she ny struggling to be gallant and useful, yet | brightened at the sight of her visitor; for | only sueecey ag in making matters worse, 4 laughingly she asked him 5 Down the hill for some yards he relled. | *" Well, hae yefand oot noo what ye were Ultimately he did get on his: feet again, | thickin' about?" looking as silly as mortal possibly could | * "Yes," said Johnny, * look. The young woman'sat on the grass | what it was." regarding him, and screaming with laugh- "Weel, it was this, 1 was thinkin' how ter. Her merry laugh did Drysdale good, | happy I would be if you were my wife--! for he scratched his head and #aid -- will ye de sae!" ""0'd lass, bit ye're merry." "Bit we ken naething about each ither." Then she spoke up-- "I see you're guid, and bonnie, and 0'd lad, but ye're clever." said Johnny. "For me [| ken I * Clever, say ye!" said Johnny; * ye're | dinna deserve ye, I'm a pure simple wea- the first that ever said sac." \ | ver." . "1 mean. ye're stupid." | Now therefell a silence lasting for mi- 'Ye, mean that, doye! Ah! then ye're | nutes, during which Jean meditated and no' the first that ever said sae," said our | Johnny regarded her earnestly. ' At length i poor hero rather sadly. | the maiden smiled and returned, and I'll tell ye brave," our I verily believe that Johnny, from sheer | friend's glance saying, * You see how I | bashfulness, having thus spoken, would | am placed. My étep mither doesna like have passed on his way had not the dam. | me and makes my life wretched. My | sel called to him--- faither loves me, I know, but he just does | "Bit are ye no gan to help me up?" aye a8 his wife directs. If you, like you He was more careful this time, and | can hae me. [I believe in faces and I'm | therefore was also successful. But now | sure ye will do. On the shoulder of the | occurred a difficulty, for the young lady | man who carried me so far to-day 1 think | { on gaicing an upright position' found that | I can trust mysel' all through life." | her uncle was sprained. Nevertheless, as, '0, thank ye, thank]ye!" said Johnny, { she possessed indomitable pluck, she dared who felt half inclined to cry, "I'm a doit- { say she-could get along tolerably if John- | ed, sillybody I ken; but I'll loe ye, and be [ny would give her the support of his | true to ye, and kind to ye till the day 1 | arm. 1 dee." [oe Div ye no' think," said Drysdale in- | "I'm sire o' that," said Jear; and so | nocently, * I'd better pit my arm roon | this queer courtship was ended. | Lye! Then Drysdale asked when Jean would | "No," said his companion, and they | be ready to marry him, and shegeplied at | trudged slowly on their way. As they did | such time as he should desife. so Johnny could not help wondering at the | { "Next week! (meried Johnny." | brave manner the damsel bore up under | "If you like," Except that she was pale, | sooner the better." | the acute pain. | she showed no signs of suffering. ' Indeed | It's sax o'clock, said Drysdale, I'll gae clerk to hea the | She seemed only to fear that she was a | off hame and® tell the | burden, for she asked our hero several | banns proclaimed the morn," and he | seized his hat and rose to go. "I'll come | { times if she was not tiring him.' 1 " " - Deed yo," was alwys the answe; back the morn when I 'can speak, to your | | faither," he continued. Then he took | | ""ye're licht as a feather. | I wish ye wad | | let me carry you." Jean's hand, held it for a few minutes, bit | {And to-that it very soon came; for when | pig, lip," whistled, reddened, and finally | | they wére yet a mile from Nethy the mai- | bent down and stole a kiss. - The damsel | den fainted. Poor Drysdale wasin a sad | ofered no resistance, nor did she speak till | He placed his burden by the | jolnny had reached the door, when she | | roadside on the soft grass and ran to a | neq pin back. | neighboring brook whence he fetched as much water as he could carry in his hat. by Loi side. With this he bathed the poor girl's fore- | for Jean put her arms gnd Drysdale's head. neck, and while a tear stood in her bonnie | ver bending over and tending this young | y.0 cyes she whispered * Yell be guid to | woman. His hand was very horny; yet | 6 will ye!" Poor Johnny could only pat | he laid it tenderly on her brow as he whis- | 0 oe ore 0d say **my bonnie Guo, pered to himself, * Puir lassie, my bonnie | 10 core o' that." * Jean seemed satisfied, lassie, deed a good, brave lassie; and even for she said, ** Thank ye, I'll try to be a | before she reine consciousness he kept guid wife--noo rin awa, and conio. hack repeating, "Are ye better Doo! NEYEY | the morn and see my faither." What pen mind, yell be a' richt i' noon.' 1 civil describe Johnny Drysdale's feeli -- answered Jean, "the | { fix now, ** Weel, my--my dear, The answer was rather odd; I fancy I sec the poor clumsy wea- what. is it!" said he, when again he knelt | Thompson was by no means perfect. ** Yet the guid wife and her never agree," 'con- tinued Mr. Thompson. *' I kenna' hoo it is, for they're baith good workers, and baith hea willy o' their ain. Of ceorse my wife will no be guided by me--it's no to be thocht she wad. You see she'sa Kinn- mont, and they you may hea heard, were aye a clever thorough gaun race. An' somehow, ye see, Jean didna like # see anither woman hea her will ower me. So théy dinna gree; and losh, I canna blame them, ye ken, for they're baith richt, 1 dinna doot. It's a queer warld. Man, I'm gl#fl we hae the mune and the stars and the trees. But dirina forget; be guid to Jean, and the Lord will be guid to. ye; she's a guid lassie." Johnny could only reply, "May the Lord treat me as I treat your dochter. I love her dearly, yowmay gie her safely to me.' | . "Guid nicht, and the Lord bide wi'ye," said the elder man. ¢ Guid nicht, and a' gaid to ye,' "replied the younger, and che two parted. : Johnny Drysdale stood in the school- master's study before the schoolmaster's | clock struck eleven. Next morning the | precentor astonished the good folk of Bul- | hyvie by anmouncing a purpose of mar- riage between John Drysdale, of 'this Is parish, and Jean Thompson of the parish | of Nethy. On the Friday following there was a quiet wedding in the house of James Thompson, of Nethy. Saturday morning John brought his wife to Bulhyvie, where in a few days he had prepared for her a pleasant little home. [It was a strangeand -| sudden marriage. Not at least did it prove an unhappy one. I am sure there is notin all Bulhyvie a comelier wife than Jean Drysdale, nor a more handsome | family than her bairns, so there is 'not a happier man than John Drysdale. co 4p | EARLY travellers to the Yosamite Val- 1 ley, in California, this spring, found forty feet-of beautiful snow on the level. As [they did not take shovels with them, they | were phiiged to return with their curiosity | unsati Ax tense number of fish of the | smaller varietie 5, estimated at not less | than 50,000, were lately found dead on the {whores of a small island in the Genesee | Rivér, at Rochester, below the Lower Falls. The malady that caused this singu- | lar mortality is unknown. Tur. Princess of Wales is described as { looking very sad and worn, with a lovely face full of sadness as to be pathetic. She is said to have lost in a few days all the freshness and bloom of youth, which at the { time of her nuptials was the theme of | praise throughout England. has coumnenced an action against the pub. | isher of the Napanee Erpress, for the sum | of £10,000, in consequence of certain state | ment publish 4 In a short while, which to Johnny scem- | ag he crossed the hills that evening? Cer- ; . "| the chain lifts the Ir is stated that ex-Speaker Stevenson 1 in that paper during the | in his pulpit last Sunday. News thus describes the affecting scene : ' He ascended the pulpit: Annowne- ing his text," "" there is yet. room," all message, he referred to one another of the friends of his youth and the cominunicants of his church that had gone before. Then, as if the thin veil that hides the spiritual + from mortal vision had been rent, and his eyes could see such scenes as none can - see and live, his fine descriptive powers bent themselves to .their task. He painted death entering the church door, passing up the broad aisle, laying his bouy hand to the right and to the left ; breathing his cold clammy breath on the cheek of beauty, and wafting the silver hairs of age. here the mother, there the daughter; as the spectre so plain to his entranced, vision, advanced to the chancel rail, and, as he" saw that his time had come, his word struggled for utterance. He faltered. -- His weakening limbs staggered: , A gen- tleman who advanced to his assistance was wafted back. For ten minutes more he, spoke, his words only audible to "those near him. The excitement of the andi- ence was fearful, The silence of death was only broken by the words he strove to speak. Three times he struggled to. must say." Again he staggered. He. fell into the arms of Mz. C. B. Hughes, as he raised his hand to pronounce the, benediction. Like Moses, that oldservant of God, he was too weak to hald up his hands, which was done by Mr, "Hughes, as hio said his last pulpit words, "To God the Father." . The hand of death that lay on his shoulder was too heavy for himself, for his friends. His tongue refused to speak ; his hands dropped. He was cary ried to his rectory, where he died." kia FENCE POSTS. Having to take down a lot of old fence' this spring, and pull up the posts, which were set decp into the ground, I made use of an old device for taking out the posts without the tedious labor of digging them out, which seemed so entirely new to my. workman and my neighbors that I will de- scribe it here, hoping it will save hard la- bor for some of my readers; enough to pay them for their trouble of reading this arti- cle: I took a bit of plank about as "long. as. the posts were higli, or a little less, and setting it so that the top inclimed toward up the train and t straight up and out of the ground. No digging sround is needed, and a man and a boy with a yoke ! of oxen, or a good horse, ean take 'them | out faster than twenty men ean dig them the ox yoke ; then | out. late clection contest. The writ has been | ".- trembling beneath the weight of his last Now touching the father, then the som; - continue, saying, " [ am very sick, but I - the post, I passed a chain around'the post, .| at the ground, then up over the plank to - The Galveston % | . other Fob K's ol and I find it to excel { only a story. 7] Ih all off 11 bave ever used in 40 years manufacturin | dn needa. ie ato coliulon g Wen pat presi M. M | = Johnny yedale, my ! yrinct "pally a i to ig SO of Le Oo E R C I A IL U N I O N his father, Dauvit, fancy an heroic Drys- AcoB 'B STALTER, Greenwood ath . : dale!) was born and bred in the town ol "We refer Stock v xX any of Br ore en erm. ive, or] Bulhyv jo---not the Broseshire Bulhy vie in an oe Maxxis, On. Fifeshire, away there behind the Steeple | Hills. Johnny was a weaver, an honest, canny man. He was of the average height, round shouldered, dark-haired, and--but | if you will go into any of the weaving vil- lages in Fifeshire you will sée a dozen hing peed. ro lubricating purposes than any | nor eorode, | counterparts of him any day. His sort - ie 2 y COMPANY OFFERS PERIOR ADVAN ps I CART QUERY OPER PRON ADAX, | i SOLE PROPRIETOR ; ' H a Tout of he Ror EO, B. 2 A and North STOCK, Buscunrs, Or | ui ORLAND, WATSON & CO0., Montreal, Duff and Fifeshire branch | / i ---- 1 Tug first threshing-machine ever pat tp | in Illinois is running near Peoria yet. "A ed an age, the pleasant round face looked | tain it is that mine is not able. Nor ean served, and the trial will come off at the up, and the red lips rather fecbly asked: I depict the look én his honest counte- | next fall assizes. "Did 1 faint!" Towhich Johnny replied | nance when he informed the registrar of | ArrEx Susan Anthony legturod #4 Riper, | man thought that becanso it was & poor "Deed did ye." 'But when the same lips | his intention of marrying during the fol- | Wis., she' wanted some recreation old machine he could fool around' expressed their owner's desire to resume | lowing week, and his desire to be *'cried" amusement, so she took a walk on { tunabling rod, but it mado hash of him pl her journey, he shook his head and said, ' next day. - "Rather sudden," said the | around the graveyard there. While she | ! two winutes, as effective' A any Hoot, havers, yc mauna think o' ony | | clerk, who was also parish schoolmastcy. that ever wax. sic thing; yc walked ower muckle a'ready." | "Oh, not at all, replied Johnny, I've Then she proposed that he should' leave | been thinkin' about it for a long time." " ADMINISTERING lead through a her and hasten to Nethy for assistance. | "Ah, well, John, I hope you'll find happi- 2h hopper cll ie cig "My father lives i' the first house bit ane; | ness where so many have found misery; one person' shoots another. The ¢ ee the Horse the | what's the lady's name! { od by an urchin who said, *" Say, aint you are very careful not to hurta pemons o cart and come 'for me." Neither would | 4 Jean," said Drysdale. abl wa hk alin li ve ings by alluding .to MARGE 9% ABER Johnny listeri to this. He felt he was So VE Quantic ti. elon | the to-morrow I" Susan jump- Shing of that kind. fuk Sout hk sngy strong before. So he said, *' Na, na, lass! | | od the and gob out of that graves lend administered through a Tuo ens 30 by yom = mite Jogny nrviched fis bead, turned his | yard on: wo ;back sumbers" wr 40 cents. -Four back mhers for 75 cents ASSURANCE (%o,, of LONDON, ENGLAND. Nr Yorks CAPITAL FULLY SUBSCRIBED. £25000 STERLING. 14:4 Klock's Gil. on mys hich te volves about y machin thé only liar es r minute, 'and find J it | fon. J. CivRcRELL, Bangor, Ont. "Oshawa, Feb. 7, 1571. | was enjoying. the literature of a tomb-stone she heard a lot of boys Saying "That's her," and she thought, * "such is fame." | Congratulating herself that even the child- | ren of the land knew her, she was: accost- lin instalments 10 Tit © t e such pay: = % 1 1 Ne X ly va re y Saving te EE & RUTLEDGE. FF, Bowmanyille. I La . GEO. B. $TOCK, Esa. pone Your for topnaachine oi comes nearer to | British Railway) you can behold Johnny ued Ae up Camain rors 1 cow him ast summer, and | LI