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SEE Tn - - - Veterinary Surgery and Drug Store, JJ ENRY'S BLOCK, KING STREET, Oshawa. Horse and Cattle Medicines of a superior quality; All drugs warranted pure. A carefulDispenser always on' the premises. Pro- JElator W. G. FITZMAU RICE, late of Her ajesty 8 7th Dragoon Guards and Horse Artil- ey. 1-1y FAREWELL am "1¥ ARRISTERS, ATTu: "-..% SO- LICITORS, Conveyancers auc wies " Public, Oshawa, South-East Corner of hi ygsand Simcoe Streets. ~ < i7 MONEY to Lend. Mortgages bought and | sold. J. E. FAREWELL, @ R. McGEE. SH. COCHRANE, L.L. B., ARRISTER, ATTORNEY-at-LAW, Solicitor in Chancery, Notary Public, &e.- Office - In: Bigelow's New Building, Dundas st., | Whitby, ' 2 | JOMN McGILL, / ICENCED AUCTIONEER, OSHA- wa. All orders left at.this Office will be promptly attended to. 1-2 P. R. HOOVER, Issuer of Marriage Licenses WHITEVALE. OSHAWA LIVERY STABLE, : y T .H. 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The Greatést Public Benefit of the Age | ND FOR WHICH, NOTICE THE | Testimonials, (a few of them enclosed in | Wrapper around each bottle,) with a numer of respectable persor €' names, who te fy to the superior qualities of his various Compounds, viz: - « Lung Syrup, \_ Constipation Bitters, N Liver Compound, } ™ : . Cough Drops, Worm Specific, Pain Reliever, Golden Ointment, &ec. The above Medicines can be obtained at all Stores. 22-3m SPRING STYLES [n great profusion at the . '. - Dominion Outfitting ~~ STORE. Latest Styles in Hats and Caps. Latest Styles in Neckties & Collars. Latest Styles in Whiteol'C&d Shirts A LARGE STOCK OF Men's Under-Clothing VERY CHEAP. A large and attragtive stock of -y 3 = Wen'sé; Boys' Readly-made CLOTHING. CARPET-BAGS, LRICKET aud LACROSSE BELTS, CHEAP at HODDER'S. G. HODDER, a &F One door North of Me leans Cheap Grocery Blore, Simcoe Street, Oshawa. Avril, 1871. Tho W. R. Climig, I UER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES. By author A or of His Excellency the e Sonera! Offes ot the nl roid 2tf ~ 1 3 \l | Pe | | Fancy Flannel Shirts and Drawers, all Colors. Collars, Ties, | awhal 1 To sce it all, and te go on 28 if-- | as if --. t Onfavio Reformer. o "VOL. I OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1871. NO. 35. | MARKUS MAYER, BOWMANVILLE, . > Invites the attention of his friends in Oshawa and vicinity to his enlarged place of Business and his Superior Stock of Goods. His long experience as a PRACTICAL HATTER AND FURRIER! And his strict attention to Business, has guaranteed him in Enlarging his Stock, and he is now offering GREAT INDUCEMENTS to buyers. His fall purchases have been heavy, and his assortment of Hats, Caps, Fure and Buffalo Robes! PAPER COLLARS, NECK TIES, GENTS FURNISHINGS, &c., ' Aré well Worthy of Inspection. ------ Whoa You Want a Nico Set of Furs for Tour Wife or Daughters, CALL AT M. MAYERS. Furs Altered and Repaired. Highest Price Paid for Raw! Furs. - Bowmanville, Oct. 5, 1871. (26) 187. NEW FALL COODS. 187l . --AT THE-- TEMPLE OF FASHION LARGE SUPPLES| BEAUTIFUL STYLES! "--AND-- VERY CHUEADP! A Most Comprehensive Stock of Staple Dry Goods, Flannels, Blankets, Winceys, Dress Goods, Linens, Damasks, Carpetings, 'Curtains, Towelings, Hosiery, Gloves, &ec., &ec. i JUST TO HAND! Two Cases of Beautiful MANTLES, made expressly for our Fall Trade, | in Silks, Velvets, Plain and Satire Cloths, Velveteens, together . with an assortment of very Elegant Waterproof Suits. MILLINERY. MILLINERY. The patrons of the Temple of Fashion (who are legion) will be pleased to learn that MRS. REDMAN (late Miss M. J. Thomas) continues to superintend the Millinery Department, and that great pains have been displayed in the selection of our Fancy Goods, Ribbons, web Feathers, Trimmings, &er, 80 as to render this Eestablishment the Great Fashionable Emporium for all who desire Stylish Goods. Templo of Fashion, Corner Ring and Simcoe Streets, Oshawa. S. TREWIN, SEPTEMBER 14, 1871. WM. DICKIES FALL AND WINTER STOCK IS NOW COMPLETE IN Dress Goods of the Very Latest Patterns, Irish Poplins in all Shades and Prices, from 85 to $9. Shawls of Choicest Styles, in Stripes and Clan Tartans. Blankets of the Wrmest Make, and Woolen Kuiticd Goods of Fyery Description? MILLINERY/! In great variety, very cheap. Dress and [Mourning Caps, Furs, Etc. Ladies' Bayard | > Kid Gloves, Two Butfons, in Black and Colors. TAILORING! Clothing made to ORDER by First-class Workmen, and a Good Fit Guaranteed. Overcoats and Pea Jackets, Pants and Vests, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND PRICE. Umbrellas, Carpet Bags, Valises, and Trunks, from $1.50 to $16. Hats and Caps Cheaper than Ever. BOOTS AND SHOES A large assortment of every description for Fall and Winter. Overshoes, Rubbers, Ete., Good and Cheap. Buy the Lockman Sewing Machine and the Self-Baser from W. DICKIE. "AUCTION |6 B stocks Celebrated AND : 2 Extra Machine 0il Commission" Business. ys now USED/IN ALL THE PRIN. CIPAL Manufactories and Mills in Ontario . S-- and is giving entire satisfuction, and ali unite i v TRNIN saying there is from ree hun per cent. HE SUBSCRIBER I¥ RETURNING pod over all other Gils, and as the Saaity o stowed on him since he commenced the Auction this d A well pont, ta oo edes other OIL, Business, begs leave to state that he hs still pre as it is a well known fact that it will neither gum h d , 804 | nor get thick in the coldest weather. TESTIMONIALS: f Taz Joserr HaLl MAcmiNE WORKS, i Oshawa, Ont., April 14, 1570 MACHINERY [oxo stock, Esa. Broighas. DEAR hase have been using Jom Lubri- ting Oil forthe past four months, and can say AND Without 'hesitation, that it is the best oil we have IMPLEMENTS ever used. Itis also cheap, and lasts longer than AGRICULTURAL . 7 | any other oil ; we have run our large 14 foot Iron Planer 7 days with one oiling. It keeps the tools SUCH AS THE clean snd bright. We do not want anything CLIMAX DOUBLE GYLINDER iwi ws {00 _r'w. ata. pr THRESHING MACHINE, I will rin Stoek's Ol again any other ofl in Manufactured by Macpherson, Glasgow & Co. | the Dominion, and I prefer it to either Sperm or | up to the breakfast. which is the best Machine ever introduced into Ontario, also the i " ; LITTLE GIANT THRESHER AND SEPARATOR, for a Farmer's own use, made by Joseph Shar- man, Stratford, also the JOHNSTON SELF-RAKE REAPER, THE BUCKEYE COMBINED, THE OHIO COMBINED WOOD'S SELF-RAKE, THE CAUGA CHIEF JUNIOR MOWER, THE FAR FAMED PARIS GRAIN DRILL, CULTIVATORS, GANG. PLOWS, AND ALL OTHER PLOWS. = ALSO CLIFTS PATENT LOOM L) RATCHELS+MANGLES THAT TOOK THE FIRST PRIZE AY TORONTO, AND FANNING MILLS, bu leas he pone gent fof the sale of JOHN McDONALD'S TOMB STONES AND MARBLE, MADE AT NEW- CASTLE. Stock at Harmoney as Samples. Al Tt Plow Points and Land Sides kept on hand, and all other kind of repairs, A share of public patronage solicited. DAVID BISHOP. stiones nandmm ission A gent, Harm Harmony, Apr ©3100, F7h hz Olive oil, or any other used on mac! A. HENDERSON, Foreman Joseph Hall Works. 1 find Stock's Oil to = Fhe beet oil 3 have ever had in my Flouring Mill for lubricating pu fo I had 0 olive previous to Stock's, and I find k's to be the best. Sick to Mosks Smite, Duffins Creek, Ont. 1 wi rather have Stock's Oil than any ever u in my experience of 20 years. GEORGE BLAKE, Foreman for Brown & Paterson, Whitby, Ont, 1 have used Stock's Oil and I find it to excel all oil I have ever used in 40 years manufacturin experience, and have used ( stor and 8 ive Oil, cipally previous to using Stock's Oil. prisgijuly p JACOB STALTER, Greenwood. We profes Stock's Oil to either Sperm, Olive, gr i ver used, for experience shows any whet lly 'SearGHr & Sox, Markham, Ont. Stock's Oil on my machinery, which re- a about 4,000 times Jor minute, and find it il that gives satisfaction. Hie onty birth oy CnurcHeLL, Bangor, Ont. Oshawa, Feb. 7, 1871. , STOCK, Esq., Gro. PSH extn machine oil comes Souter 6 py icating purposes te on y oad orp fo me, it will neither gum nor corode, and wares satisfactory. Very truly yours, A. FAREWELL : SOLE PROPRIETOR : GEO. B. STOCK, BrouvaHaM, Oxr. AGENT FOR THE DOMINION 'INANS, BUTLER & Co.{No. 77, Front St. WINaX Toronto. 7.GTEBS, Ohawa, Ont STICK TOGETHER. When midst the wreck of fire and smoke, When cannons rend the skies asunder, And flerce dragoons with quickening stroke, Upon the reeling regiment thunder ; & The ranks close up to sharp command, The helmet's feather touches feather ; Compact the furious shock they stand, And conquer! for they stick together! When now 'mid clouds of woe and want, Bour comrades wails rise fast and faster, And charging madly on our front Come the black legion of disaster, Shall we present a wavering band, And fly like leaves before wild weather? No! side by side, and hand and hand, We'll stand our ground and stick togesher! God gave us hands--one left, one right ; The first to help ourselves, the other To stretch abroad in kindly might, And help along our faithft' brother. Then if you see a brother fal, And bow his head before the weather ; If you be not a dastard all, You'll help him up and stick together! Selections. A DEAD LOCK AND ITS KEY. " A note for you, ma'am. No answer." I was resting in my own room after rid- ing it was six o'clock, too early to dress for dinner, too late to dress twice after taking off my habit--sleeping over a book, and comfortable in my white dressing- gown. I was bored by the interruption. The note was nothing more than this: "DEAR SALEEN--I must stay where 1 am; and you must go by yourself to the Lesters--you won't mind. I saw Jack, and he. said there 'was no party, as it would be troublesome with the wedding to-morrow; and the dining-room is given I've sent back the brougham. 2 "Thine, o Fred." Fred is my brother, and was invited, like myself, to dine quietly with these | Lesters, whose pretty daughter was to be married next day to a friend of ours-- especially Fred's. and mine--Sir John March, commonly called "" Jack." ' What keeps Fred 1" was my passing thought; then Iread a little longer, dres- sed, and drove to Portman Square. As I turned the corner I saw visible prepar- ations and signs of the morrow's wedding at the Lesters' door. A cart with flowers was unloading; an awning was being put up over the balcony and hall door; men in white aprons came and went. As the brougham drew up I could see through the open door the bustle and stir within. At homie in the house, I opened the dining- room door to see what progress was being made with tables. Several maid-servants and some of the confectioner's men were arranging the ornaments and flowers; the cake, with its conventional erection, stood conspicuous. My friends' maid was put- ting moss into the flower-baskets, and decorating the high dishes containing the more durable part of the feast. ¢' Well, Barker," 1 was beginning, when I caught | the woman's eyes. "She was doing her | work with a strange gravity, and her face was full of horror and pain. When she saw me she let fall the flowers in her hand. "O ma'am! O Miss Sarah! you've | come." "Of course I've come," I answered.-- ' What isthe matter." "You haven't seen them, ma'am, have you Pr A " Seen who|i--the ladies? No; I came straight in here to look at the tables. Is there anything wrong? I suppose we're to dine in the library for to-day. How nice it looks !" '" Nice ! O ma'am, it's a mockery, it's O Lord!" and the woman sat down, and rocked herself to and fro, with the tears running down her face. I was thoroughly alarmed now. *'Bar- ker, is there anything wrong? Is any one ill, or dead? Don't frighten me like this. -- I'll go and see them, if you won't speak out," and I went to the door. I just saw that Barker had descended to the floor, and that her head was on the chair, which she clutched, sobbing aloud. I met the butler and another man cros- sing the hall, both with scared, solemn faces, and went on to the morning room, on the same floor. There all looked much as usual. The pride of the house and of my friends' rather valuable collection of antiquities stood facing the door--a huge cabinet, with massive clamped doors, and richly cut brass work--cisele as only genu- ine brasswork of old time can be; curiouse ly inlaid woodwork; marvellous locks, which no one but its owner. understood, and no one €lse dare meddle with. It was a very old friend, the great armoire; playing with the children of the house in my own childhood, I knew it, inside and outside, by heart. A mystery and won- der then--an interest later-- always a thing to admire and wonder at even now. It had three doors. The center one, about four feet wide, and certainly six inches thick, rhut in another, and again enclosed, with a space of about eight inches of waste room, a set of six drawers, of different sizes, and a sort of cupboard abovegthem. We used to stand as little childrén between the drawers and in the inner door, and wonder, supposing we were shut in, whether we could breathe long in that narrow enclosure, or be heard by any ome! without, supposing--awful thought--we were forgotten or the outer doer were shut. I remember thinking of it 'in bed at night, as nervous children will think.of such things, till all was cold with horror. Both these doors shut with a oaboh whigh was to a lock; but we child- ren Svere forbidden even to open or shut them, except when Mr. Lester was present. It was doubtful if any one else knew how to open them, for no one ever tried.-- The two side doors opened with curious keys, which stood in the locks chained to the "armoire. They were valuables n themselves. The great key of the centre door, worth a hundred pounds or more, was considered too sacred for common eyes, and lay in a velvet lined case in Mr. Lester's own keeping--brought out only occasionally to show to those who could appreciate them. It stood there in the summer twilight looming darkly in the quiet room, darker than the rest. of the house, as back rooms in London often are. Chilly, it d locked and fast, within a few inches of our light and air and living life, done to death by a bit of clever machinery, the work of a dead hand. I'would not think of beau- tiful Mary Lester as shp might be, must be, if another hour went by. All this time, no questions were asked. I never knew till afterwards how it had all hap- pened ; how her father, only an hour qr 80 earlier, exhibiting his wonderful cabin- et to a cc r in such matters, had to me, in my thin, white dress, coming from the hall full of suhset light. Turn- ing to leave the room, I saw a man lying prone on his face upon the sofa; so still and so straight, and so strange in his atti- tutley that I could only stare for a minute, and wonder whether he was asleep or dead. His hands were over his ears, grasping his hair, as if in pain; and I noticed the soles of his boots turned quite up, as one no- tices trifles in the midst of alarm or be- wilderment. The nails in his boots show- hat was lying on the floor on its side.-- was Jack March, and I touched his arm in wonder. 'Jack, are you awake! Are you asleep! What is it 7 I asked with growing alarm, Was I to find something strange in every room I entered in this house? '" Jack!" I said again. He turned, and I saw his darker gnd chillier for his silent figure; and more oppressive. I ran out of the room in a sort of a panic. drawing-room door stood open. The glow of the sunset was ofer the room, open windows showed the {balconies lined with red cloth, and ready | next day. Silence here, two of them--one crouchedjupon the floor, with arms outstretched u a sofa; an- | other lying half across am ottoman--the | bride's mother and sister. As I came in and spoke, now fairly bewildered and frightened, Mrs. Lester rose up with a de- spairing wail. 'Saleen, Saleen!" She stood shaking and erying out my name. '" Dear Mrs. Lester," I said, taking the poer woman's cold hands, *' come and sit down and tell me what has happened-- Kate!" 1 called to the girl on the floor, " come and give me that cushion." She came mechanically, and helped her mother to the arm chair. " Now, tell me, if you can . But Mrs. Lester's head had fallen back upon the cushion, and she had fainted. The girl roused herself. for the guests silent figures, " No wonder," she said; '"she has eat- L shall go mad if I think; and papa has never come back!" " Where is your father?" "I don't know. We sent down to the | club and to the house; they can't find him And we've searched, his room, and it's not | there. It's nowherf. And Jack is nearly wild, and we darext break it open." 'It? What, chill? Can't you say what you are talking about? I shall go mad next. What can't you find! And what ails you:all?" '" Saleen, it's Mary. Mary is in there; and the key"is gone, and papa is away; and she dying therp--suffocating;" and the girl flung herself on they floor with wild sobs and tears, Mrs. Lester lay for- gotten in her swoon; Kate rolled in un: availing misery on the carpet. I flew down stairs. The servants were as busy as ever. I knew it all now. " Good God!" 1 said to the butler, who | was carrying in a tray of grass, 'are you: going on with all this useless folly, and | that girl dying in the next one going to try to save her!' David' stood still, and lodked at me pityingly; he shook his head sadly, and went on, yom! Is no I rushed into the street; a policeman was standing near the carts. 'Come here," I said. 'You"--to another man --*%go and get a blacksmith. Tell them to bring tools to open locks and unscrew everything. Run! and you get a hatchet; get anything; come and break open the meat cabinet." I gasped to the servants who came out to see what it all meant.-- "Don't'loose a moment. Great heaven! the time that has been lost already!" -- They obeyed me, dispersing hither and thither. It seemed hours before the men came back with the tools. "Try the- hinges first. Are there screws!" There was that chance; and they worked at them, removing several heavy curious nails and the door was fast and firm. "Oh, break it down!" I screamed at last; *' break it with the hatchet. What does anything matter, but. her life--her life!™ 'Her life!" said some strange voice close to me, and there stood Jack March: swaying like a drunken man, with scared eyes and wild hair. Was his reason gone or going 1" was lifting the hatchet to break in the door. "Not up there. Her head." And then he stooped his ear to the key-hole, listened intently a minute, raised his hand, as if to demand silence, and the intelli gence fading out of his face, he rose with a discordant laugh, and walked away.-- "" Bah!" he said, "her life against Lester's cabinet--her life his key." We did not even look round to see where he went stumbling through the hall, where he fell in a fit upon the floor. seemed no weak point, ed he was not dressed for dinner. His | His face I could not see; but I knew it | bright with flowers and yo and. the | screws, but seeming no nearer the object ; | gone up stairs with his friend to show the key he prized so much, leaving the cabinet door open, intending to returh ; how Mary and the children, a younger brother and sister had come in--and how the! unusual sight of the open door had attracted them --how she looked in and told the little ones she had not stood inside it "so" since she 'was as little as they were ; and laugh- ing, tried to stand in the eld place. "4 am not too big, even now, am I'1" she said, and the children ran to see, and pushing the doors against her, the spring | caught and shut her in with death and suffocation ; while they went shouting to the others that sister Mary was " in there shut up and! they couldn't let her out." No, they could not let her out. Mr. Lester and his friend had gone off with the key, toshow it to some one who had doubt- ed its date--so it appeared from one of the | boys whornow came in; he had heard wild haggard face, that looked at me with | them talking on the stairs as they went vague eyes that seemed not to see; and | out. then he put his head down with a moan, | and covered his ears once more, as if to | it ; he has never seen it," said the boy, shut out sight and sound: The room felt | sobbing. I heard him. I know he said " He said, ' Jarvis knows nothing about { . | Jarvis." and the gaunt old armoife seemed bigger " That will be Cdlonel Jarvis, in Charles street, ma'am," said Davis. * Maybe, if Up stairs 'the | we gent there--" | . There were voices outside, and Barker | | looked in with a white face of horror. " It's master coming in," she said, in a sort of whisper. We all stood back. Who would tel} [him? Who was to say, your.girl is be« hind that immovable doog ? But the boy, frightefied enough at his father at other times, went up to him, try- ing to speak quietly. "The key, sir, quick, for God's sake!" "Key! WHat--what's all this? Good God, sir!--seizing a servant by the collar and flinging him to one side like a cat--do you know what you're doing meddling with that cabinet ? God bless me! what does all this mean ?" He was purple with anger. *' Don't stand staring. Sarah Heriot," he thundered, 'you are not a fool ; be good enough to explain this--this' . Iwent up to him sick with horror.-- 'The key is wanted," I managed to say. | "There is some one inside--dying." " Some ono--dying--in there! Wao! | What? Whois it girl? He shook me by en nothing all day; and then all this. Its | the shoulder till I winced with pain. | too awful, Saleen. i' Oh, the key, the key! Never mind aything else, sir, afd lose no more time." The looked sharply round--Mrs. Lester and Kate were standing at the door, with their terrified miserable faces. He took in the rest of us with a glance. '" Where's Mary 1" he said suddenly. -- No one spoke. ' Why the devil don't you answer me! Who is shut in there?! How came any one to be there ? Trash!" But his face was growing ashy gray, 'and his lips whitened as he spoke. Ah, my God ! I never shut tha door! "It is not May, not my girl that's ----. He pointed with a'shaking hand to the heavy door. '$And I haven't the--key!" : He made one rush into the street ; the servants standing about were swept right and left as he tore past them, down Orch- ard street into Oxford street. see the hatless, flecing figure disappearing in the distance. Mrs. Lester came into the hall. The Jack March, who lay on the dining room sofa with closed eyes, happily uncon- scious. The timid mistress of the house stood by the staircase, her face, her voice, her whole appearance changed and aged in the last hour. ~ a dream, " not for half an hour." She looked around stupidly and smiled. "He will kill me, you know ; | but. the cabinet shall be broken open--broken to pieces. -- Never mind. Fancy waiting for the key!" she laughed. " Break it down, I tell you! I give the order. Do you hear me 1" Two workmen came from the side door where a fresh and usoless attempt had been made to remove the panel without injury to the front or to the imprisoned girl. '" We might loosen the. wood work and strike it out, mum: and go on taking out the screws at same time." "Do it." Sharp blows upon chisels now, and sev- Why, it's worth thousands! | : sag Only open it quick | They could "" He has gone for the kéy; he can't be | back," she said, speaking like a woman in | rain and hail--all strange and incongru- ous on this fine evening. The room was nearly dark. One of the men spoke: *' Is there a step-ladder in the house 1" It was brought. "I'll try the top, with yeur leave, ma'am, Ah! if I had a light now." He was given a taper from the library table. *" Bill" --to his companion--*"look here ; hold the light, and keep a hand on the side. = He lifted the hatchet, and gave a swinging blow--another--an awful clap of thunder, and the next flash showed every white face to the other. Quick steps in the hall, and the door flung wide ; a wild, wet figure threw the key amongst ys, and fell in a heap upon the floor. With a wrench the man on the ladder tore off the upper moulding, and half the roof of the armoire. Mrs. Lester took up the key, fumbled with the lock, let it fall with a shriek. Barker caught it from her, put it in, and turned it. "Open it," she whis- pered te one of the men; 'I can't." She turned away, sick with 'dread. It was | opened, showing nothing but- the terrible { inner door, whose spring was only known to the master, lying senseless on the floor, " Take off more here," one of 'the men shouted ; it will give air ti" the doors got open. Good thought. They worked savagely. Mrs. Lester was on her kneesby herhus: band. 'Oh, get brandy! Get him to speak! He could tell us how !" They did what they could. ' William! Oh, speak tome! How can I opén it, the spring-- the inner door I" The white lips moved, and the heads with its dripping hair rolled to one side, but no sound came. The men worked wildly now. All thought of sparing the beautiful front and brass-work was forgot- ten. They tore and hammered at the in: ner door, whose smooth polished surface | presented no crevice or joint where to | strike first--where to insert a chisel or di- { rect a blow. As they worked, conscioys- | ness returned to Mr. Lester ; he half sat { up, supporting himself against the door | bnt no words came, though hislips moved, | and his eyes looked with intense eagerness at the destruction of hjs precious armoire. He had lifted his hand sod looked mutely | at his wife. She put her head dowa to | them to do 1" floor. | He beat his hand upon the Kate sprang forward: 'I know! I know! Strike on the floor at the foot of the inner- door! Ob, I remember, it was there! | Davis felt with his hand all along the | polished surface of the lowest shelf. " Here, press here ; give me a hammer." | He felt a slight rise, and struck gradually | all about the spot Kate showed him, A deafening clap of thunder and a flash, | blinding us for the- moment, and we all | crowded close, and then came a creak | drowned tn the awful thunder. | "" It's open," said one of the men. Kate slid to the door, twisting her dress | about her head. pr Davis turned from the door. * "1 dar- | en't look," he said. "Do you," to the ! carpenter's man. " Open it gently." Barker stretched forward, turned round, | tried to say something, and burst out cry- ing. | ¢ | "Ieaht seo," said the man with'a | strange voice. - " Bring the light, some | one." 8 i For ten awful seconds there was a sil- | ence in the dim room, then a cry, and a heavy fall. '" Saleen," said a voice close to me, "do you know it's a quarter past seven, and { you are due at the Lesters' at half past-- | and aot even dressed. Here's your book | fallen down." I had been asleep over an hour. |" If I felt like a conspirator at the Lester's | pleasant dinner, itis not surprising--but | dovtor and others "were: busy bout poof i did not mention my dream.-- Chamber's Journal, Sees -- | CHANGE YOUR NAME, OR MEND YOUR LIFE. An ill-mannered youth once boasted in the hearing of Alexander the Great that he bore the same name as his sovereign. " Then change your name," was the just reply of the indignant monarch. * Change your nar ¢, or mend your manners. Do not disgrace the name of your sovereign by coupling with it the conduct of a knave." - How many of those called Christians, upon whom is conferred a worthier name than that of any earthly potentate, need such a rebuke 'as that of the Grecian mon- arch. Better not to bear the Christian name, than to disgrace it, and bring upon it the reproach of being coupled with a | life of | worldliness'and sin. ~ The bare name, without the spirit of vital godliness, | can be of no profit to its possessor ; and this holding out of false colors may be of irreparable injury to some of. those for | his lips. "What is it}. What shall I tell | eral screws were removed from. lock and | " Don't!" he shouted to 4 workman who |' hinges. : " Strike at the hinges with ihe hatchet," came Mrs. Lester's altered voice, hard and wiry, usually so low and hesitating. 'Cut them through ; it can be done--it shall." They struck with: a will ; the hatchet edge was pressed to the weakest part, and heavy blows from a mallé} upon that.-- The hatchet edge was turnpd, and a dint made; some of the work igjured and brok- en but no more. "Cut through the panel," suggested | Kate. "Surely the wood work can be broken." > "It's all lined with iron, mum," said Davis ; "it's as good as a safe. might try." l .Three telling blows, The room became Fearing to injure that imprisoned figure § suddenly darker, a chill sough of wind -- living or dead, who could tell--we left | from the window, and the door swung to | travelled on a joursiey, are. all important the door, and proceeded to break into the with a bang. Every one looked around, | things. How many a poor outcast is now middle compartment from the wings. The | A growl of distant thunder and a faint | creeping and crawling his way through the grand old 'workmanship resisted ; there flash of lightning accounted for it next | world, who might have held up his head crevices, no jimoment. More blows, and a long omin- | and prospered if, instead of putting off possibility of breaking into the huge thing ous roll, and the lightning playing across | his resolutions of amendment, he hed without fear of harm to that which it held | the great armoire ; then an avalanche of | only. made a begining, > - = But we' whom the Redeemer shed his precious | blood. : God's holy word calls upon every believ- er to. "be careful to maintain good works:" constantly, persistently, always and everywhere to maintain them, not as | hus own title to heaven, but as the surest | way of holding forth the light of life, and | winning to the obedipnce of the Gospel | those who, knowing the name they bear, | will judge of the religion of Jesus by the reflection they see of it, in the spirit man- | ifested by his professed disciples, the | language of their lips, and the daily tenor of their lives. -- Anierican Messenger, -- ---- Make A Goon Brers¥ine,--The first weed pulled up, in the garden, the first | seed set in the ground, the first crown put | in the savings bank, and the first mile "ws © A STRANGE STORY. Information; has been received from Palataka, Fla., to the effect that a large portion of the Orange country has been changed into a lake and that houses and man who furnishes this information states that while on his way from Orlando to his horse commenced bogging, and ashe proceeded, from the sounds heard in the grew worse as he progressed, until he had to dismount. The sounds in the rear in- creased more and more and became more and more alarming and the route in front more boggy. : At last, with great exertions, both he and his horse reached solid ground? Turning to examine into the cause of these fearful sounds in his rear he saw the most terrific and appalling sights. The first thing that attracted attention was the trees moving first a giratory out of sight, the tops revolving more and more rapidly as they sank and disappeared, others following, and so they fell revolv- ing and describing arcs of a circle agsinst the sky.. Then the whole earth, as far as the eye could reach, sinking and its place supplied by a sea of waters, rushing, seeth- ing, boiling, with a noise of mighty catar- acts, casting to the surface the roots, tops or bodies of pines and oak. It is well known that a large portion of Florida is of comparatively : recent formation; that if has a basis coral and rotten rock; that many of the rivers and lakes have subter- ranean. channels and outlets, and that there are many what are called * lime. sinks." The late heavy and long continu-; ed rains, by which the earth has Been' thoroughly saturated . and the subterran- ean channels swollen, are calculated to produce subterranean changes. ~ It lis not impossible or improbable tht there is truth in the story. - : -- + -- LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION. -- A gentleman advertised for a boy to as ist him in his office, and nearly fifty appli- cants presented themselves to him. Out of the whole number he in a short time selected one, and dismissed the rest," I should like to knoy," said a friend, &' on what ground you selected that bon} who had not a single recommendation I" {* You are mistaken," sail the gentleman *'he had a great 'many. He wiped his feet when he came in and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful; he gave up his seat instantly to that lame old man, showing that he was kind and thoughtful. He took off his cap when he came in, and answered my questions promptly and re- spectfully, showing that he was polite and gentlemanly. He picked up -the |book which I had purposely laid upon the floor rest stepped over it or shoved it aside; and waited quietly for his turn, instead of pushing and crowding, showing that he was honest and orderly. When I talked with him, I noticed that his, clothes were carefully brushed, his haif fn nice order, and his teeth as white as milk, and when he wrote his name, I noticed that his fin- ger-nails were clean, instead of being tip- low's in the blue jacket. would give more for whatI can seeabout a boy by using my eyes ten minutes, | than all the fine letters he' can bring me." FAMILY GOVERNMENT. Family government involves duties and responsibilities of the gravest kind. This remark holds good the world over, irres. pective of latitude or 'longitude. The phase of the subject particularly trying to the emigrant parent is the republican ten- dencies of youth, so different from what obtained when he was a child and at home. Probably even there things are much changed from what they used to be. Change is the order of the age; yet doubt- less our proximity to the great Republic has its influence in forming the notions of liberty and rights somewhat prematurely developed in, our children. Wisdom is situation, and adopt an administration to meet the case. It cannot be denied the tendency with us is laxity in authority; on the other hand, the old regime cannot be defended. Like the criminal code in the puishment of men, the administration of justice to children required amendment. Paréntal authority should be nicely adjust- ed to the individual cases of the family. -- One rule for all, and, that a stringent one, was too much the custom in days gone by. Our fathers believed strongly in the virtue dut, Jfrequently proceded by reading a portion of Scripture. The frequency and severity of these whippings oftfimes had a bad rather than a good effect. No less severe was the discipline of the school,and here the hardening process went on. How irrational to beat a child for slip of mem- ory. Think of a teacher about to hear a class spell taking a heavy ruler or thick strap of leather, and for every word mis- spelled striking with all his force the ten- der hand of a child. While the tendency of the age may be to err the other way, we must meet this otherwise than by reviving the practice of the past, which would bé as sensible-as re-gnicting the law that for- nierly hung a man for stealing a sheep. -- Another error common in parents, was in the matter of choosing professions for their children; this was too of'en done to please the parent rather than the child, and how many children have learned trades for which they felt no inclination, and as soon as they could, ceased to follow ! How rea- sonable that the taste and capacity of children should be consulted first ! It is much better to excel as a mechanic or far- mer than to take a low position in a pro- fession. It would have been a great loss to the world if Scott the commentator, had, continued farming; Cook, the discoverer, translator, to mend shoes. (It may be ta- ken as a safe maxim that proficiency in wrong to force a child to follow an uncon- genial occupation, when 'this can be avoid- ed.--From 'Rustic Jottings from the Bush," in New Dominion Monthly for December. A coLorep preacher, in discoursing to his people on the eflicacy of earnest pray- er, delivered himself in this manner: "I tell yott bredren, 'tis prayer what gibs de debil de lockjaw." people have been engulfed. The gentle- Miltonville, on horseback, he noticed that rear, he became alarmed. The bogging motion of the top, then sinking gradually and replaced it on the table while all the ped with jet, like that handsome little fel- Don't you call ~ those letters of recommendation? I do, 1° profitable to! direct; we must accept the - of the rod, and whipping was a religious to serve behind the counter, or Carey, the any calling depends very much on the love. which one has for it, and therefore it is" pC nn