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A Bovp 4 | no dnsno) JETABLE. MEDICINE i. THE CU RE oF LIVER COMPLAINT ITE, GENERAL DAB SEASES of THE BLOOD of Toning and Strength iting ; the Torpid Liver 10 : of Pi "urging out all Deprav- wretion from the thelr origin in, or are gread- t from 1 the sole cause igned th Porn the em, hence 5 od from the food, and ed of that nourishment it re ed and Des \outh Tastes effects Perfect (no8 ned and Healthy Ex ver, Loss of Appe sd for th 1¢ above com 7, M. E. Minister. - * Lyn, May Mth, 1870. CELE other rei aT ein satisfied a person of ve efi 1 4 trial, ana Ichee whose condifion de rof Lyn Woolen Factqry. \ wholesale by all-druggists RTHROP & LYMAN, Newcastle, Ont. BH. MITCHEL; Hamilton P¥ to Loan. FROM ONE PO TWEN. in instalments 0 suit Aa the J... MCGEE & RUTLEDGE. Solicitors; Bowmanville. 16 lou. it s! Bricks! ACHINE. MADE PRES: Bricks, at vid A oa 7 'THE OSBORN The Ontario Reformer' PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY » WM. R:. CLLEM IE, AT. 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PRICES AS USUAL, ONE DOLLAR PER PAIR / ALTHOUGH ON ACCOUNT OF THE WAR: THE PRICE IN : EUROPE HAS ADVANCED CONSIDERABLY, - OSHAWA May 11, 1871 WILLIAM DICKIE Begs to announce to his Herons customers that hi€'stock of | Spring & Summer Goods! IS NOW COMPLETE. IN Wag b-tf JAMES MUIR, | ARRISTER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, | Solicitor in Chancery, &ec. nd over | 's gfore, Hyland's Block, Street | wa. oriey to lend on good pony ecurit at lowest rates of interest. ry | Jom McGILL, | ICENCED AUCTIONEER, OSHA- wa. All ordersleft atthis Office will be promptly attended to. 12 Pr. BR HOOVER, Issuer of Marriage Licenses | WHITEVALE. OSHAWA LIVERY STABLE, WwW H. THOMAS, PROPRIETOR. -- ® First Class Horsesand Carriages always on hand ; also, Daily Lineors s from Oshawa to Beaverton, connecting with Steamer at Lind, ny. « 1-2 C. W. sMITH, RCHITECT, PATENT, INSUR- ance. and General Agent, Simcoe Street, wa. Age ent for the Inman of Steamers to and from New York and ERG REFER- Gle EXCE--Messrs. 'Gibbs Bros., F n, eds 8. B. Fairbanks, Es. DOMINION _BANKI 5 WHITBY GENCY. J.H. M CLELLAN;Aent B. SHERIN & Co, XT HOLESALE MANUFACTURERS of HOOP SKIRTs. Best New York Ma- terial used. The trade supplied on best terms. FPactory--King Street, East, Wiiasville, 3 PD. MOLLIDAY, © ROOKLIN, ONT., AGENT -FOR the Isolated Risk Fire Insurance Company of Canada, Toronto, a and La Inu tion. Also, for Queen's and Lancashire Com, les, capital £2000,000 each Also. pan, Appraiser for the Canada Permalient Building and Savings Society, Toronto, for loans of money) | at low rates of interest. 18-1 f { | | | Guelph Sewing Machine. Co. Lock-Stitch Sewing Machine! KING OF CANADIAN SEWING MACHINES. KING OF AMERICAN | SEWING MACHINES. | HOUSANDS THROUGHOUT CA-| NADA are now using these Machines" They | have been tested beyond al question, make the | " like Jac x-stit eh gh othe Taal abl. 'or wide range beauty rr pL bie of mechanism, adaptability, | trength and durability, | The Osborn Sewing Machine has no rival. && Improvements have lately been made, en- ihe manufacturers to claim it as the ne | ue wit Machines, ra of of Sewing phil perp well 0 ew Es ate its wonderful ] on the fs Baga the coarsest SEA Or upper { Guaranteed to be as represented, or no ale. | | Warranted for three years: | OssoRy OvTKIT i8 mpletae and readily prehended. ™ Is sold at one. half the price hitherto charged for for ahi ke Jats ng he reach of every family in the i The Guelph Reversible | roms a olthred Tp nentiy ul the best Single Thread Machine wires the public--hence its marvellous success. Will do a ail variets ties of domestic sewing. PRICES ongatLY REDUCED. nd Machine, with full outfit. $12; Treadle do, 17. g& Each Machine Splendia in Yar Wanted every SURLEH Fn INE 00'Y, | THE OH10. COMBINED WOOD'S STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS : OF THE LATEST STYLES. ») Grey Cottons very cheap--21 y'ds heavy family $2.50. MILLINERY. Bonnets, Hats, Trimmings, Flowers, Ribbons, Dress and Mourning Caps; Parasols-all styles and shades; White, Black and Cplofed Kid Gloves. T A 1.I.ORTIT NG. Special attention to this departinent and Ready-made Clothing. A large stock of the best and most Fashionable Cloths in market. Orders solicited. HATS AND CAPS. Panama, Straw and Felt, in great variety; Collars, Ties, Gloves, Shirts, Suspenders, Umbrellas Carpet-bags, Valises, Trunks, &c. BOOTS AND SHOES, This department is receiving more than usual attention, and is complete in every description o Men's, Women's and Children's Boots, Shoes and Slippers. 1,000 pairs Women's Prunella, Congress and Lace Boots, at 80c. worth $1.25. SEWING MACHINES. Sole agent for the Lockman, for Oshawa, East and West Whitby. Dress Goods, Prints, Mauslins, Hollands, &e. WILLIAM DICKIE. Oshawa, April 13, 1871. 1tf ROOM PAPER ROOM PAPER, ROOM PAPER. HE SUBSCRIBER - BEGS MOST RE RESPECTFULLY TO INFORM HIS Patrons and the Public generally, that he has reéeived, direct from England, the First Instal- ment of Spring Stock of Paper Hanging, To which he would call special attention. ip supeficeity of The Srtlliangy Paper over that of Canadian manufacture is nine al acknowledged. and firmness of the colors and the extra width « of the rolls combine to Hille lish their preminence over: 'all others. The subscriber being the only : lmpartet of this class of Goods in Oshawa, is confident that no other House can offer Greater Inducements, either as yegards QUALITY OR PRICE. ASSORTED STOCK OF HE HAS ALSO ON HAND A WELL tu, Stationery, FANCY GOODS, And Tos! ted sole agent for the Little Wanzer Sewing Machine, he can Dai apy on Detter vers than any other dealer in the county. Remember the stand, directly opposite Hindes' Hotel Oshawa. Oshawa, April 13th, 1871. Having - JAMES F. WILLOX | 6. MB. Stock's Celebrated | Extra Machine Oil S NOW USED IN ALL THE PRIN- aud Mills in Ontario eS as fhroe hu ls uf a AUC T ION Commission' Business. E SUBSCRIBER IN RETURN ING favors be- AGRIOULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Planer SUCH As THE CLIMAX DOUBLE CYLINDER THRESHING MACHINE, Manufactured herson, erson, Glasgow & o, also LITTLE GIANT 'THRESHER AND * SEPARATOR, for a Farmer's OWhuSS, 1828 by Joseph Shar- Stratford, JOHNSTON SELF-RAKE REAPER, THE BUCKEYE COMBINED, wl 1 run I run Stockle sole | Give oor Say tn ed Foreman n Joseph Hall Works. Sa Stock's Oil tg be the {ho by ofl I have ever J a Tu Mosse Sir, Duffins Creek, Ont. I would rather have ve Stocks Oil than any ever used in my af 2 Yeats . Foreman for Brown & Pa Paterson, Whitby, Ont. Oil and I find it to, I have used Stock's all oll 1 have aver id rn rr hid neibaly previops to wang JACOB STALTER, wood. it Stock's Off ie-elther 5 live. 3 * 0 ever Saout & Sov, Markham, my machinery, me OK Ol or minute. And S04' vg A J. CHURCHELL, Bangor, Ont. Oshawa, Feb, 7, 1871. & Co. SELF- THE CAUGA CHIEF JUNIOR MOWER, THE PAR FAMED PARIS GRAIN DRILL, JLTIVATORS, GANG PLOWS, COND ALL OTHER PLOWS. CLIFTS PATENT LOOM MANOLES THAT TOOK THE FIRST PRIZE AT TORONTO, AND FANNING MILLS, We any ot! McDONALD'S TOMB STONES gg MARBLE, MADE AT NEW GEO. B. STOCK, Brovenax, Onr. AGENT FOR THE DOMINION : WINANS, BUTLER & Co., No. 7, Froat St, Seid by T. Ohaw, Ont yr a ission a Agem, Barmy " Boretry. ~~ THE GERMAN DEFEAT. London Socie'y comes to thie rescue of Biitish honor with a po "tical sqrib, in which it thus disposes of the Battle of Dorking : - I served as gunner's mate When | was twenty-eight, That's fifty anno dominis ago, And our ship, which was the Spanker, Were a riding at her anchor, One Sunday night in August, you must know; 1 were chewin' of a quid-- Which I ordinary did Q' Sundays, for I think it's sort o' right-- When our gunner--Ben's his name-- Did quite suddenly exclaim, And his exclamation were : *" Blow me tight I* Says he, * My jolly mates, This here Lloyd's paper states . As we're goin' to fight them G farri id ------ OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1871. ---- xo. 24. w---- -- information that his prosence in the noigh- | borhood of the Ainsley farm would not meet with favor. : The reader of coutge syrmises the result; for such a proceeding could and can have but one result." there was an elopement. The father loaded his double shot-gun and swore vengeance ; but, failing to find the fugitives, he took to bottle. wife told him not to degpair, but he drank In less than a-month | | His good | Recoghize i in me your wretched father, and I need.not tell you !" he ialtered. " My poor father ! " she cried, throwing her aims around - his neck--"all is for- given," All was forgiven, and the h d; when he returned home, was scarcély less re- joiced than the good wife at the discovery. Whether Mary succeeded in changing the double eagle, I never learned ; but this ;I do know --it took the honest female all of | two months to unravel the knot into g the young couple m Connecticut, where they ascertained that the old man, after the death of his wife, had sold his farm, squandered the proceeds, 'and was Whereupon wo tars, in spite Of its bein' Sunday night, Stood up and gave three hearty. British cheers. Well, we sailed away to meet This famous German fleet, Consarnin' which there'd been no end of jaw ; For in six weeks they had planned, And hull, and launched, and manned The finest fleet a nation ever saw. 'We had cruised about a Sunday, But about six bells on Monday, 'When as smooth as any mirror was the water, Right out on the horizon Rose a cloud as black as pizon : 'Twas the foe a-steamin' down upon our quarter, "T'was all as still as death, There was not a 8'ngle breath, But our Adm'ral wore a smile upon his cheek ; The foe was on our larboard, But right away out starboard Was a werry little tiny narrer streak. A chucklin' werry sly, 'And a-winkin' of his eye, Our Admiral gave orders for to run; And the enemy gave chase, For the Germans, as a race, Have a preference for fighting ten to one. At seven we felt a whiff; At eight it blowed right stiff ; And st nine it was blowing haif a gale ; But at ten the waves ran higher Than St. 1'aul's cathedral spire, And my language to describe the same do fail. We kept a 'lectric light \ - A-bt ning all the night ; But on Tuesday in the morning about three Our gunner up and spoke, * " Blow me if any smoke Is comin' from their chimney-pots," says he. Just then we heard a shout, And our Admiral sang out, "Send the signal up to wear about, and close I" Then fore and aft wo ran; To his post stood covery man; And louder than the storm our cheors arose, 'We neared them, and took alm, And the word to fire came, And our volley down the line of battle roared ; But the German answered not-- Not a solitary shot-- But her ensign fluttered down by the board. We was speechless pretty nigh, And we couldn't make out for why The sponge they should so quickly up'ards chuek Till Bismarck we espled fit ; Hangin' pallid o'er the side, | And Moltke sitting down beside a bucket. All their gunners, all their stokers, Lay as flat as kitchen pokers, All'a-groanin' from the bottom of their soul ; For all their precious crew, Unaccustomed to the Blue, L Invalided when the ships began to roll. And then the battle ended, _And the broken peace was mended ; And William, when at last he ceased to be, Died a sadder and a wiser, A more circumspect old Kaiser, And a member of the Peace Societee. elections. AAAS AA THE OLD CARTMAN. John Ainsley--or 'Pap Ainsley," as he was familiarly called--was the owner of a hand-cart, and earned a living by convey- ing miscellaneous parcels from one section to another, and receiving therefor the reasonable remuneration of fifty cents per load. To designate his occupation in the pro- list language possible, he wasa handcart- wan, and, when net employed, could always be found during working hours at the corner of Montgomery and California streets. ' His hair and long beard were quite gray, and his limbs feeble ; and if he could not shove as heavy a load threugh the deep sand, or up the steep grade above him, as the stalwart Teuton on the opposite cor- ner, thereby losing many a dollar, all the lighit loads in the neighborhood fell to his lot, and kind hearted men not unfrequently travelled a square or two out of their way to give an easy job to Pap Ainsley. Four years ago last September, having two or threedosen books to transfer to my lodgings, I gave him the task of transpor- tation. H Arriving at my room just as he deposit- ed the last armful on the table, and ob- serving the old man looked considerably a7 | fatigued, I invited him to take s glass of brandy; a bottle of which I generally kept for medicinal and soporific purposes. Although grateful for the invitation, he in | Sexi. Twas I urged, but he was in- flexible. I was greatly astonished: " Do you never drink !" 'Very seldom," he replied, dropping into a chair at my request, and wiping the perspiration from off his forehead. " Well, if you drink at all, you will not find, in the next month so fair an excuse for indulging, for you seem fatigued and scarcely able to stand." "To be frank," said the 'old man; "I do not drink any now. 1 have not tasted Mintoxicating liquor for fifteen years--since --since--" "Since when 1" I asked, observing his The old man told me that sixteen years ago he was a well-to-do farmer near Syra- cuse, N. Y. He had but one child, » daughtet. While attending a boarding and | gohool in that city, the girl, then but six- teen years of age, formed an attachment fused to consent to her union with a man whom he had never seen, and removing 'her from school, dispatched a note to the 'young gallant, with the somewhat pointed Imost destitute. On 'learning of ' their arrival, Ainsley drank himself into a state of frenzy, and proceeded to the 'hotel where they were - stopping, attacked the husband, wounded him in the arm with a pistol shot, and then attempted the life | of his daughter, who happily escaped unin- | jured through the interposition of persons brought to the rescue by the report of the pistol. Ainsley was arrested, tried and acquitted, on the plea of insanity. The daughter and her husband returned to Connecticut, since which time he had i | heard of them. He was sent to a lunatif asylum, from which he was dismi after remaining four months, In 1851 h | came to California. He had followed mining for two years, but finding his strength°unequil to the pursuit, he re- turned to this city, purchased a hand-cart and--the rest is known. *' Since then," concluded the old man, bowing his heid in agony, "1 have not | tasted liquor, nor have I seen my only | child." I regretted that I had been 86 inquisi- tive, and expressed to the sufferer the sympathy which I really felt for him. After. that I 'seldom 'passed the corner without looking for Pap Ainsléy, and never saw him but to think of his story. One chilly, drizzling day in the Decem- | ber following, a gentléman who had pur- chased a small marble topped table at the | auction room opposite, proffered old Pap | comes, to their net. the job of conveying it to his residence on | than 8 conjuror. Stocton street. Not wishipg to accompany the carrier, he had selected the face giving the best assurance of the delivery of his purchase. Furnished with the number of the | house, the old cartman, after a pretty try- | which the domestic affairs of the family had tied themselves during her absence. --Pap Ainsley pill keeps his cart, for money would not induce him to part with it. Tpeeped into the back yard of Dr. Eastman one day last week, and discover- ed the old man dragging. his favorite vehicle round the enclosure, with his four grandchildren piled promiscuously into it. EXPEDIENCY AND PRINCIPLE. fe It would be out of place for us here to | discuss their nature and relations; yet we may say it would seem as if expedients ought to be employed only to carry -out principles. It is better to hold wrong pr ientiously, than to abandon right 'principles immorally. Men may prove " impracticables;" but there is a place for them--thoughall that expediency- mongers understand by "place" is, to taste the sweets of office and daub their | hands in "* filthy lucre." "| It would be uncharitable for us to say { that even such have no: principle. = They | do have principle. They manage to have enough fo sell out. It serves as the stock- in-trade with which they set up. They | soon, however, " lay it aside" as an in- cumbrance, when they run their political race. They "cannot afford to keep it." -- Their mofo is to "" get into office--honest- ly, if they can; but by all means to get into office." This is why whole shoals of them trim, and tack,and temporize. Theyshow grand and lofty tumbling. They follow in the | fashion--they swim with thé current-- | they figiifin the stream. They spread | their for" every breeze of favor.-- | They, promise everything." All is fish that They have more tricks They can pass through more' changes than Protens. They look | one way, and row another. They can blow | hot or cold. Their .speech is Jacob's, whilst their hands are Esau's; and yet double too often. They refine too mueh; | they protest foo Strongly. They come to ing struggle with -the steep ascent of | be their own dupes, and, after attempting California street, reached his destinati ». | to outwit others, succeed at length only in and deposited the table in the hall. | imposing on themselves. Lingering a moment, the lady did not | scem to surmise the reason, until he polite- ly informed her that K her husband had, We must associate principle, not only with the moral qualities, but with a com- probably by accident, neglected to settle | for the cartaye. "" Very well, I will pay you," said the | lady, stepping into an 'adjoining. room. She returned, and stating that she had no smaller coin in the house, handed the old | man a twenty dollar gold piece. He could | not make the change. " Never mind, I. will call to-morrow for, the money." " No, no !" replied the lady, glancing pityingly at-his white locks and trembling | ding 'intellectual character. Thehigh- | er attributes of a man would scorn' to be | the slaves of expediency. Such men as | the Pitts, father and son, or as Bismarck, { Garibaldi, or Lincoln, could never sacri- fice principle to be guided by expediency. | Bismarck has never sought popularity. | He has defied modern ideas. His charac- | ter has about itthe hardihood of antiquity. The late President Lincoln was long in a hopeless minority in his district, in his State, and the country. He did not, like Mahomet, go to the mountafp; he waited limbs ; I will not permit you to put your- for the mountain to come to him.-- self to so much trouble," and she handed the coin to Mary, with instructions to see | if she could get it changed at one of the markets in the neighborhood. ' Step in the parlour until the girl re- turns ; the air is chilly, and you must be cold," continued the lady very kindly. " Come, there is a good fire in the grate, | and y there but two children." " It {s somewhat chilly," replied the old man, following her into the 'parlour, and taking a seat near the grate. "" Perhaps I may find some silver in the | house," said the lady, leaving the room, | "for I fear Mary may be some time in getting the piece changed." | "Come here, little one," said the eld man coaxingly of the younger of the two children, a girl about six years of age-- "come, I love children ;" and the child, who had been watching him with curiosity from behind the large arm-chair, hesita- tingly approached. "What is your name!" inquired the cartman. " Maria." / "Maria 1" he repeated, with great' tears gathering in his eyes--"I once had a little girl named Maria, and she looked very much like you." "Did you!" inquired the child, with interest ; "and was her name Maria East- man too?" ¢ Merciful God !" exclaimed the old man, starting from his chair and again dropping into it, with his head bowed upon his breast. 'This cannot be! and yet why not?" He caught the child- up in his arms with an eagerness that frightened her, and gazed into her face until he saw con- viction. 'I cannot meet her without be- traying myself, and I dare not tell her that I am that drunken father who once attempted to take her life, and perhaps left her husband a cripple," he groaned, as he hurried toward the door. The little ones looked after him in surprise. *' You are not going ! " said the mother, reappearing just at the moment, and dis- covered the old man in the act of passing into the hall, He stopped and partly turned his face, but seemed to lack resolution to do aught else. "He aqid he had a little Maria once, that looked just like me, mother !" shout- ed the child, her eyes sparkling with de- light. The knees of the old cartman trem and he leaned against the door for support. The lady sprang towards him, and, taking him by the arm, attempted to conduct him to a chair, "No, no," he exclaimed, "not until you tell me that I am forgiven." " Forgiven -- for what!" replied be land > He earned the affectionate enconi- | nm of " Honest Old Abe." He convert- ed defeats into victories, until, mainly | through his personal character, he attained | the highest place in his country; and the | backwoodsman and country lawyer made | a niche for himself in|the temple of fame. | Yet he was hardly id in his grave ere | his associates were offering themselves as | leaders to the opposite party. We do not | kniow that the present age'is worse than | preceding ages, but it would seem as if it -1 I) P less princip Men who go into a community to set up | business, manage too often not to keep anything that won't pay; and their prinei- ples are for sale like their goods. Some politicians are understood usually to be in the market. - Their constituencies are for sale. They enter into any unholy alliance. They destroy confidence if pop- ular.government; they debauch the Re sentiment; and they are " enough to cor- rupt a whole country side." Young men entering on life, whatever their circumstances or aspirations; - onght to bear in mind that nothing is #0 import- ant as right principles. In the long run they ensure success. It is the only way ""to make the best of both worlds." The plausible sophistry of those who shamelessly sell themsglves for gain, is but. the wisdom of the Old Serpent, that will leave a sting behind.' The fair show that they make is but a whited sepulchre.-- Their seeming temporary prosperity isa mockery, a delusion, and a snare. . Re' member, then, that it is the highest expe- diency to act from right principle in every relation of life. -- Wiiness. MAXIMS FOR FARMERS. 1. Only good farming pays, He who sows or plants without reasonable assur- ance of good crops, annually, might better | earn wages of some capable neighbor than work for so poor a paymaster as he is cer- tain to prove "himself. the steady appreciation of hiscrops. Any one may reap an ample harvest from a fer- tile virgin soil ; the good 'farmer . alone better ever afterward. 2. The good farmer is proved such by| grows good crops at first, and 'better and || 3. It is far easier to retain the produc- : A bank account lly drawn 1 upon, while nothing is deposited 40 his credit, must soon respond " No funds." So with\a 5. Rotation is at least negative fert™i- zation. It may not positively enrich a farm; it will at least retard and postpone its impoverishment. He who grows wheat after wheat, corn after corn, for twenty years, need to emigrate before that term is ; The same farm cannot support (or @ndure) him longer than that, All our great. wheat-growing sections of fifty years ago are wheat-growing no long- er; while England grows larger crops thereof on the very fields that fed the ar- mies of Saxon Harold and William the Conqueror, Rotation has preserved these, as the lack of it has ruined those! 6. The best investment a farmer can make for his children is that which sur- rounds their youth with tho rational de- lights of a beautoous, attractive home.-- The dwelling may be small and rude, yet a few flowers will embelish, as choice fruit trees will enrich and gladden i; while grass and o are within the reach of Be higliont, Hardly any labor done on a farm is so profitable as that which makes the wife and children fond and proud of their home. 7. Wisdom is never dear, provide the article genuine. I have known farmers who toiled constantly from daybreak to dark, yet died poor, because, through ignorance, they wrought to disadvantage, if every farmer would devote two hours of each day to reading and reflection, there would be fewer failures in farming than there are at present. 8. A good, practical education, includ- ing'a good trade, is a better outfit for a youth than a grand estate with the draw- back of an empty mind. Many parents have slaved and pinched to leave their children rich, when half the sum lavished would have profited them far more had it been devoted to the cultivation of their minds, the enlargement of their capacity to think, observe, and work. . The one structure that no neighborhood can afford to do without is the school-house. 9. A small library of well-selected books in his home has saved many a youth from wandering into the baneful ways of the prodigal son. Where paternal strictness and severity would breed nothing but dis- like and a fixed resolve to abscond at the first opportunity, govd and pleasant sur- ve d manyayouth from the first wild impulse to go to sea or cross the continent, and made him a docile, con- tented, obedient, happy lingerer by ' the parental fireside. In 4 family, however rich or poor, no other good is so cheap or 80 precious as thoughtful, watchful love. 18. Most men are born poor, but no man, who has average capacities and tol- erable luck may remain so. "And the far. mer's calling, though offering no sudden leaps, no ready short-cuts to opulence, is the surest of all ways from poverty and want to comfort and independence. Other men must climb; the temperate, frugal, diligent," provident farmer may grow into competénce and every accessory to external happiness. Each year of his devotion to his homestead may find it valuable, more attractive than the last, and leave it better still. -- Horace Greeley. CROSSING THE ALPS. After another ten minutes, we re-enter- ed the diligence, to which fifteen horses, with bells, had been attached, attended by a score of drivers, and off we went for the ascent. ° Notwithstanding all our horse-power, this ascent was, after all, most tedious, and seemingly very hard work for the poor animals drawing us. 1 judged so, at least, by the holloaing, swearing, and whacking which seemed to proceed all through the night. The road was very good all the way up, and when we had nearly. reached the summit of Mount Cenis, the scenery from being pretty, became grand, and this increased at eleven or twelve o'clock, when the moon shone out in great brillianey ; huge oun- tains all around covered with snow, spark- ling like diamonds ; and I think the sight of the awful precipices seen in daylight, instead of in the night, must be terrific in the extreme. The walls or parapets of the road are so low, and the carriage sways so much, that nothing could save one from instantly being dashed to pieces should any accident happen to the diligence. Lofty poles mark out the road, and we were told that in winter time these poles, lofty as they ave,frequently get half buried in the snow. "Houses of Refuge". for lost travellers appear all about--the roofs covered with blocks of stone to pre- the Alpine storms blowing them off. The splendid cataracts on every side of us, and passing under our feet in places, were much swollen with melting snow -- this being summer-time -- and whole larches and spruce firs came floating down in them. The stiow lay in patches.on the road and ladies now, and our discomfort was great. We managed, however, to .doze i little during the night: th umm, woke up a4 8 ole, just tive capacity of a farm than to restore it. Toexhaust its fecundity, and then attempt its restoration by buying costly commer- bled, | cial fertilizers, is wasteful'and irrational. 4. The good farmer sells mainly such products as are least exhaustive. Neces- sity may constrain him, for the first year or two, to sell grain, or even hay; but he will soon send off his surplus, mainly in the form of mother, in alarm. b and cheese, or vom elve that returns to the soil nearly all t}{st is taken from it. wool, meat. 27 butler &8 ie bet ov seh the concern, and so heavy, and to'this | » I wonder how. was we did not topple over bodily during this descent. We ladies shut our eyes snd dared hardly breathe, every minute ex- pecting a catastrophe ; while the men kept on repeating to themselves, " Ca! mais voila que c'est dangerewe." de., &o.~From ¢ Leaves from My Diary," in the New Dominion Monthly for September. PEPPER FOR POULTRY. Some keepers say that cayenne pepper 'should be mixed with the food of fowls to promote laying, while others assert that it i in as bad a condition as " medicine- though nutritious. Audubon, the habits of the wild turkey, tells the mother-bird plucks the buds of spice-bush'and gives them to We have for a number of years i oH fifi cities? it. haying. Is yours 2 diment; but ground mustard and ginger may be occasionally substituted, for, variety and part of the time no seasoning should be used. Boiling water should be turned upon pepper before using, so as to make it less concentrated; the pepper tea, sedi- by eating a great deal of it. But a con- siderable quantity of salt exists in the bones of all animals. It is agreed that it promotes the thrift of cattle, sheep, and swine ; and as for birds, it is proved to be especially necessary for pigeons, a tribe living on very similar food to that needed by fowls. But we would give it sparingly, salting the dough rather less than most persona do their own food. Charcoal is sometiméy eaten by fowls- with great avidity. It should always be kept by them, pounded to the size of ker- nels of grain, for the varying needs of ani- what they crave will be good for thewm.-- As all birds that live principally upon the 3 swallow much earth with their food, be thrown upon the ground. If upon a» fresh spot of earth, we have no objection; but filthy, tainted soil cannot improve it. There is a common tradition expressed in they can get the ground;" and we know that cattle, after being stabled all winter, sometimes eat fresh earth greedily, and » "sod is given each fattening calf to lick for the improvement of his appetite. When the ground is frosen, it is our custom to add a trifle of clean loam or subsoil to the soft feed of fowls. They will pick out much earthly matter from a pile of coal- ashes. -- Hearth and Home. A VIRGINIA SNAKE STORY. The partiality of rattlesnakes for the com- pany of children has been frequently ng the mountaineers, one in. stance of which is familiar to some of ous Bedford readers. A few years agoa far: mer whose cabin stood in oneof the wild- est localities about the mountains, on com- ing into the house one day, discovered his daughter, two years her mother. The child was laughing im- moderately and showing by its every ac- tion and expression of that it ed, when to his horror he discovéred that an enormousirattlesnake, the largest he had ever seen, was in bed with the child, and actually coiled around her body. His presence instantly wrought a change in the conduct of the snake, which assumed an attitude of battle. The mount. sineer's rifle hung upon a rack over the door ; he grapsed it in his hand with feel. ings which 'cannot be described, and await- sooner done so than the snake commenced caressing the child by rubbing his head. against her cheek and darting his. forked tongue almost in her eyes. Then he would raise his- tail and rattle so rapidly as to is too artificial a stimulant, and keeps the . 1B it aids digestion; and some re- - the saying, ' Hens won't do well unless sitting up in bed, where she had been placed When asleep by - unooiled itself from around the child and ed an opportunity to-shoot.. He had no ER aE, SE SR tpi AIRE Yr Saas, JO