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Advertisements must be inkthe olive of publication by 10 é'clock on the Mon- awning Do ding theis first publication rohauts a ers advertising the tideral discount will be Sing hy year « DRINCES W. COBLRN, M.D, PF. E, »HYS{CIAN. SUBGEON, AND 1 ACOOUCHEUR, King Street, Oshawa. Residence and Oilice--Nearly opposite Hobbs Hotel 1-f. | at thespace Divegtory. FRANCIS RAE, M, wy SICIAN, SURGEON, ACCOUCH and Coroner. * King St, Oshawa. 1-2. | HY ¢ P s . M1 PH ARSDERICK MeBRIAN, Mo Do, MR; C. 8 0Y'S HOSPITAL, LONDON, ENG- FH LAND. Re ¢ oppesite W. II. Gibbs' erideuce, Suncoe Street, Oshawa. ICESCED AUCTIONEER, OSHA- || wa. Al orders left at this Office will be 16d to. 12 roniptly attended JON McGILL, CN VARS LDS EETH INSERTED ON ALL THE ps of the art. as cheap as the the best. or. Teeth extracted without local anaesthesia. t Cowan's New Block, ove T 2 "e ---- VOL. 3 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 187s. NO. 9. CERTIFICATE - OF AGENCY. Loretry. "OLD TIMES." There's a beutiful song on the slumbrous air, That drifts through the valley of dreams; It comes from a clime where the roses are, And a tuneful heart and bright brown hair That waves in the morning beams. Soft eyes of azure and eyes of brown, And snow-white foreheads are there ; A glimmering cross and a glittering crown. A thorny bed and a couch of down, Lost hopes and leaflets of prayer. A breath of spring in the breezy woods, Sweet Waifs from the quivering pipes-- Blue violet eyes beneath green hoods, A bubble of brooklets, a scent of buds, Bird warbles and clambering vines. Ve » HIS certifies that Mr. LOUIS PRUDHOM is our duly] authorized Agent, for the sale of Abbot's Patent Lock Stitch and Silent Family Sewing Machines. This further certifies that Mr. L. Prudhom has the exclusive right of selling our Sewing Machines in the village of Oshawa, and that he is also authorized tv appoint Agents for the sale of our Machines, in said -Ferritery, Such agents have 1 the rights and privileges of the tride, as though appoinmed by us. Sigued for the Company, A rosy wealth and a dimpled hand, A ring and a plighted vow-- Three golden links of a broken band, A tiny track on snow ~white sand, A tear and a sinless brow. There's a tincture of grief in the beautifull song, That sobs on the slumberous air; And Jonliness fell in the festive throng, Sinks down on the soul as if trembling along, From the clime where the roses were. J. J. COLLINS, St. Catharines, Ont, The above Machine is one of the best Family Machines in the market, and only | needs to-be seen to be appreciated. Prices, $23 without stand and $30 with stand. Agents | wanted. #4 A second-hand Grover & Baker Manufacturing Machiue for sale cheap. Warranted | {7 And we call it now. Old Times. to do good work. Satisfactory reasons given for selling. F BOOTS -AND Ka OF BOOTS AND SHOES =o, i, We heard it first at the dawn of day, And it mingled with matin chines; | But years have distanced the beautiful lay, And its melody floateth from far away, A LARGE LOT OF BoC Men's Wear of all Classes, Ladies, Misses' and Children's, | MY NIGHT IN A 'BOX' of all Classes and &Sizes, " ¢ And must you really go away, and re- | main all night in that nasty old box of backwards and forwards, they made jo sigh which the wisdom of man could inter. pret. Seeing that my office was likely to be a sinecure, drew my chair to the stove, and taking down a book which Isaw on 8 shelf, 1 tried to interest myself in the story. The veoluwne which I had dis- covered was 'Jane Eyre; and although, since that time, I have read, with tears and laughter, it and other whhkey whith have come from the same true and Jovy pen, yet on that night the spell of hex who is 80 powerful to awaken our interest sud enlist cnr, sympathy ~who has gives us Black Rochester and chropigled with no unkiadly baud the vagaries of the three eccentric curates and won our hearts for Professor Emmanuel Carl Paul--had no power to quiet my wild, wandering thaughts. While I was turning: listlessly over the l8ayps, the stiliness was startled by the sharp, quick clanking of the elec- read a message, With a shiver of alarm, I turned quickly to the instru- ment, but soon perceived that the bell had been rung by no earthly power, for the vibrating needles made no inte)- | ligible sigh, and I knew that the sound | had been produced by a current of atmos- | pheric electricity acting wpon. the wires. Swilling at the nervousness which down by the fire. But suiile as Iwould, | and reason as I might, I felt that I was | fast seccumbing to Jague foundationless | { | | tric bell, the usual signal to prepare to | To be Sold at a Reduction of 20 Per Cent., IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR SPRING STOCK. your's, and leave your Little Rosebud, as | | you call her, all along here, to imagine | re, King St., Oshawa. 2-42 fears. Thinking that the atmosphers of | | | all sorts of horrid things happening to her | the room, which I felt close and hot, | poor old boy 1 Couldn't you stay at home | might hove something to do with my pe. | just for this'one night 7' | culiar condition of mind I flung open the J. FERGUSON, ICENTIATEorDENTAL SURGERY. | J Ofoe 0 he Grocery of Messrs. Simpson Bros, King A share of public patronage solicited. | Could it be that son.e power higher than that of nature thus warned me of impend- ing danger 1 Should Luvey the summons { While I'thus deliberated the bell again sounded with aclangor still more loud, imperitire. and unearthly, sud, after & few uncertain movements, the magnets repeated the words 'Come home---come home Y--the handles moving se before. L could pgmain at my post no ionger. % whet might, I fels thet .I had m0 altelgtive but to---obeye~ Iran to the hose' whére the eles tived," wid on rousing the immstegand: admise- ion, told him that hé Wass lte my place immediately, as I had been suddenly call ed away. The man sdenied Somewhat surprised at my excited and startled man- ner, but whatthe said or "did" J cdot | recollect. On'entering. the'stable where | my forse was stalled J perceived a seddlé | hanging on the wall, and knowing that I could get ever vhe ground more swiftly by riding thon driving, I threw it on his back, and in a minute or two was: dashing slong the road in the direction cf home . Ishall never forget thatride. Although I urged my horse with whip and voice till he flew rather than galloped, the pace was far to slow for my excited mind. Woods, thet awfel night.' "A dred Maggie? [Pell 'me 'what 'it was. " ¢ You remember, she said," drawing closer to mey the evening you'took Mafy and me intq the telegraph ufficé, and told us all abong:the-hatteriesszand magnets, and alecirigity, and a great, many, thing: which wecouldn't undesstand at all, though we pretend to do; 'lest' you should tink om atid « Porfictly.' : ¢ And you remethbor, too, how when J sid shat I would like to WeAd'a message withmy owwnr lands, you made me take hold of the handle, and them you guided it while I sent a messngo $0 your broths Harri, whe was in the'ofice at Lowestol' then § And 'the end of it was, ' evme hom, conse' house 1' 'Then I repegted it over and OF ) u without your help.' " Jtarned quickly round, but she was gazing intently at" the fire, and did not perceive. the startled lank I gave her.' « Well,' she continued, the night before Jast, when you wers away, I could nat sleep for a long time after I went to bd, and:when I did sleep 1 dreamed--such = horrid dream! 1 thought that T'wasin | bridges, with the moonlight = streams wimpling beneath ~them, farm hooss | | caused me to start at s0 ordinary an oc- | where the deep-voiced watch-dugs 'were | thing. 1 didnot know what it was, but currence, I turned from my desk and sat | wakened by the loud beat of hoofs, shot 4 it was close belind me, an@'T thought no by me like things in a dream, and at last, | breathless and pauting, wé clattered np to | the lohg cansewaybd streét of the village | where I lived. All was dark and silent id | the houses, and the 'windows seethéd to stare blank and vacanfly in 'the white moonlight. Suddenly a Forse and rider your office again and T hyd fled there because I was chased by some terrible body could sive me Tut you, But yu were not there, aud so I seized the handle and signed the words, ' come home, come honie I" as you had taught me, thinking that would be sure to bring you. Then, when you did not come, I felt its hot breath on my neck, as if it were just going "over again, "Gintil 1 edhldido irquite wel): "Fra, with Nelle, and help poe Kvthar: Do eight, end Tadve €Bo dso to Godys 3 -herm had comewte-Arthur H Ng and his was'the a eg, remained with friend till noon, and hen left Lim in"charge of physician. It 'wes past' two: @'clock 'when Frafik B---- reached Boston. The 'wed closed, aid he found Mz, ish ov : to Lowell; wheve it wes 'po rs A might disperse of }iy' business to one of their correspondents, of the Merrimntk Corporation. Bat Frank might come in. on Monday and see how matters stood. Frank B---- returned to his home feels ing that he had met a great loss ; but dis wife was cheerful, and veniired to remiark that it might be all for the best as it waa, And with the dawning of the Sabbath noruingy- wher' thé messenger fronf the it ie «Jy word cite treble conflaga. tion which had Jaid low nearly a thoisand- places of ¢ mmerce, and that of all the imposing marts or Franklin street not one' #8 1eft; Fravk lifted up his heart in thankfulness tirat he had been spared. Ia Lis brother whe had fallen by the savil al o he had unconsciously saved: Really," fio said to me, as he told the story, "it ia pleasant to fall jn with the fancy of my wife ; she thinks ahe can' trace' the finger of Providence in the work," : : The Vegetable Garden, Though much bas been said snd wri on: this subj yet Pp ively few people attach to it the importance which, it deserves. No small part of the support of a family can be- found in a well cared « for vegetable garden. We have noticed many gardens, in both eity:#nd country, going wild, but which would, if properly cultivated, vegetables, of yood quality, than their owners could use alk the year round. For the few who, care their gardens well, there are msany who go to work so thogultlessly, and so toni supply more r Certificates . ro or L. PRUDHOM. to clutch me in its dreadful arms, and 1 | screained so loud that I awake. The room formed in a skillal wanner. building. appeared at the other end of the street, and a hoarse voice uttered aloud ery, | 'Couldn't possibly do it my love,' said door, and s'epped outside, in the hope | | I, struggling into my great coat, sland, Ir slovenly, and with so little sense about & proper application of labor, that they may. and | that the cool sirmight scare away the | onarriv Toronto, ANF cs afforded \ LINE cannot be 1. nd every informs lied from Liverpool FROM PORTLAND 3 Dee* 0 veenston and erpool | V OF AMTWERP, ¥ BALTIMORE ¥ BrusroL. ¥ a LIMERICK, v oF DUBLIN, r HaLivax, ¥ DUnnas, « ( { ( ( lays and Saturdays ! Nor Riveg SMITH, Osmawa., TORIA YRUP OF SPHITES! Dr. Churchill's : ally pure. - ure of UMPTION;, ; Loss of Ap y, dc. D EFFICASY. College, Dec. 4th, 157% td the articles cal Works 1 = y of Druggists. NORTA 1D EXTRACTS OF : UVA URSI Diseases of th / i Swelling» 2 and all cither Sex. Disorders, éd of its pre- all Druggist. FO REA MENT! F INTMENTS." '! PROVETT!!! : 5 all Druggists. ORTA © SALVE. HT IN GOLD," fuites, Buris, Sr--and Chrond ! ription, i . 1 by all Drugg ORIA {E JELLY. . DIES FAVORITE." 5, and for re- Pimples, &e.. wins, F ost Bites Druggist#, * ORIA SOAPS. 1 orm Purityn F GAP. % LSU P. EE HONEY, ROSE. @ pr RB. MeGEE, 3 ARRISTER, ATTORNEY, SO- LICITOR, - "Converancer and = Notarie Pahlic, Oshawa, South-East Corner of King and Simgge Strack. oo ONEY to Lend " 1 Mortgages bought and | [+] R. McGee. .s. MH. COCABANE, L. L. B., ARRISTER, ATTORNEY-at-LAW, Solicitor in Chancery, Notary Public, &e.-- Offide--1In Bigelow's New Building, Dundas st., | Whitby, pe 2 < J. EE. FAREWELL, LL. B,, WUNT?T CROWN ATTORNEY, 5a er, Attorney, Solicitor, Notary P and Conveyance Office Ately. ocenpir y S. #. Cochrane dete: sed, Brock Street Whitby. Oniario. by | 2-45 CREENN OOD AND McMILLEN Bi IISTERS AND ATTORNEYS. AT-LAW, Solicitors-in-ChancerygeNotaries | I +, onverance W Loan J Haman Gres hithy. Money to | NWOoon, C. W. RCHITECT, C an e and G ner £MITH, PATENT; INSUR- T Agent Sir 3 | i," Fairbanks, E B. SHERIN & Co. \ THOLESALE MANUFACTYRERS HOOP SKIRT est New York Ma- | crish vised. The de ied on best term Factory -- hing Street, East, Bowmanville. 3s ». HOLLIDAY, Buys ONT. the Isolate #* Cagada, tion, :Alse, for Quees ENT. FOR Company i Lancashire Compan- ir%, capiial. £2,000 050 Also. Agent and | Apprdiser for the Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society, Toronto, for loans of money | atlow rates of interest. 15-1 P. 'B. HOOVER, Issuer of ' Marriage ® WIIITEVALE. Licenses { | i | | DOMINION BANK! O3HAWA AGENCY. = J. J. McCLELLAN, Aent, Money to Lend B --AT-- REDUCED. RATES. / PREPARED TO LEND x , on the security of Good u u Property. at the Lowat Poss Rates of Interest, n stm and roanmer to suit borrowers. Principa cag bae-puid by yearly instalments, or in one | Sum. Mvetinents riade in Debentures, Mortages, ang gher sccurilie | SILER AND GR | | i oe ible "ENBACKS BOUGHT AND tad SOLD. | Boffuriher particulars "te apply to JAMES HOLDEN, - - Oficial Assignee, Money Broker, &c. 0 McMillan's. Block, Brockt.; 8,W hitby A 13th. 1871, Butcher Shop 4GEO. W. GARTH, TURNS THANKS TO HIS NU. FEROUS Customers, for all past favors to remind then that he has opened ou | at Markey door to Mr. Guriey's Tailor Shop, hopes by strict ution to business to | BB. s sme share of patronage gs heretofore -di wa, Dee. 13h, 1574 } | | | | ! { | a h ILE! ' | E UNEERSIGNED HAS MUCH neing to the inhabitan Bo hes fins bought from Messrs. Rus- (iiass all their right and interest in the business, and that he is now engaged in . i delivery of that most indispensible MILK, it its natural purity! He hoyes, | ontinuance of the business and punetual- | delivery, to geril and obtain the patron- all who may be In want of the same. H. TAPLIN, We the undersigned take pleasure in recom- \g tothe inhabitants of Oshawa Mr. 'ap- | our opinion, as being reliable in the above and would recommend tosll who want | milk to buy from him. -- Feresieh Si tomne | S316mpd. 2 OR ~ Pr TTR TE { Millinery ! Miilinery ! | For Style in Millinery, | * Go to Brooks'. | For Cheap. Goods, «Go to Brooks'| Ladies FurnishingStore! pl North of King'Street. & | ¢ WE . we SUMM { Consisting in Part of White and an i De } Hurrek for Old No. 1 on the Cormer ! hums iminis trata vs | absently trying to gt on her own little | hands. | "Not if T very much wished it, Willie ? | 1 | Do yon know I felt so_-strange and lonely + | last night, when you were away, that I | eotild hardly make up my mind to go to | bed at all ; and to night I can scarcely Just arrived, a large and well selected Stock, of ER GOODS COXSISTING OF Tweeds, Broad Cloths, Doeskins, Dennums, Shirtings, Gray Steamlooms, Prints, Ginghams, Table Linens, Table Napkins, Towellings, Tickings, Lace Curtains, Damnsks, Black and Colored Kid Gloves, Ribbons, Velvets, { Hoisery, Corsets, Hoop Skirts -and Bustles. ALSO A LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF PLAIN AND FANCY DRESS COODS! Lustres from 20 cts. to $1 10, Black Silks from 75 cts to 83 50. Coboures, Pavamattas, Crapes, and every description of Mourn S$ ' I y tug Goods. Also the Largest and Best Stock of BOOTS and SHOES ever offered | to the Public. | ial lines in Ladies Prunellas, Glaze Kids and Sedl Gaiters, 300 | Magri pairs of Prunellas at 90 cts. to 81 00. Leather Satchels and jr agRie, Carpet Begs at all Prices. ALSO A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF | ther Bob to keep yom company and stay GENT S FURNISHINGS, in thehouseal night. Will that covtent "i i : | you, little woman I' d Colored Shirts in latest patterns |" «No. dont do and Cuts, Felt; Shaw and Panama Hats, Bows, Neck-ties, Collars, | foolish. Hoisery, Braces, Gloves and Unbrellas. when | e came. He does not understand e services of a First-class Tailor, we are prepared {o | me. I think no one does understand me. get up Suits at the Shortest Notice. | except you, dear Will.' tock of Hardware, Crockery, Groceries, Carpets and Haber | 'Thank you Mag; I think I do under- dashery arc still to be found at But here comes the gig ; so J. W. FOWKTEE, wit don't fret for the short hn ra time 1 am away. I shall be back long be- OLD NO. 1 ON THE CORNER fore you are done dreaming.' | long absent. You know what a foolish | little tigng I am.' Her arm quietly stole aronnd me, and she looked up to my face with a wistful, | anxious look, while a tear stood glistening | ir the corners of her sweet blue eyes. 'Why, you wee goose," sail I, kissing | away the bright token of her earnestness, that wise littie noddle of yours 1 Are you | afraid that the faries will waylay me, and spirit me away to their elfinland 1 If they do TI shall tell them I have left a fairy at home, and not even the blandishments of the queen herself shall tempt me into But there is nothing to be alarmed about. I shall be home by:7 o'clock at the latest ; bit since you are so lonely, I their uncanny country. seriously, Spec | will call at father's and send op my bro- that ; it wo=1l look Having secured th The usual s . stand you. good-bye, So saying, I mounted the gig, and drove rupidly | longer, shall have ito consult a doctor, | But my wife lin- | that's plain.' For I knew that the cause- | less apprehensions which I. experienced {is in safety. The room which we used | the partners in which wished to go to St. were often only the symptoms of an |? 'our bed cEamber led off from a small | Logis; and was snzious te sell out." Mr. ate of bodily health, I filled | Par'or which was situated on this "flat. "8 was the partber, andufifty thosand "Lt it, but the weed had lost | Groping my way through the smoke, I | dollags cash. would . purchase his whole |. As the | found the dobr; Bat to Wy Borfdr it was | 'pterest in the house, Frank was fdwora~ N €W Just arrived at the Goods. along the frozen road. gered by the porch, following me with | her eyes ; angfso long as' the Noude was in sight, I ¢ | on looking tack, see her shimmering ghost-like in the streamed through the open | door. | At the time of 'which I write, I was telegraph superintendent on the Wilton | and Longbank line of railway. | the clerks, who was on night duty, had | been taken suddenly ill, and 'being un- able to find a suitable substitute, I had * | taken his work myself until such time as he shonld recover. I had only been | married a few mdnths, and wasby no | means reconsiled to! the necessity of leav- ling my wife athohieto pass the night in that nasty old box,' as Mag called it | --and she was perfectly correct in her de- | eription, But I knmow that it was a | necessity, | grumbling of mine could mend the mat- | ter. A drive of about eight miles bronght me to' my post. There wos nothing very NEW FIGURED BALERNOS, NEW STRIPED SATEENS, NEW STRIPED POPLINS, NEW LUSTRE SERGES, : NEW BEACK LUSTRES, NEW PRINTS- perience to me ; but on that night my ntind was filled with indefinable fears, for | wig I tried iff vain to account. The r od i ok k and Colored Kid Glove | night w We have a splendid stock of Black JE Ha eg i: at the BEE HIVE. : jr flitting to and froin a thousand strange fantastic 3. B A R N A R D ' | shooting in rapid succession from one | luminious center, and anon spreading and | rolling wave after wave across the starry | heavens, Ibegan to think of the disastious omens of war, plague and famine, which y BEE HIVE, King Street, Oshawa. Osawa, March 27th, 1873, | Somewhat of the same emotion I felt in | sence of uneasiness and gloom which had taken possession of me. On entering the telegraph station, the clerk whom I had come to relieve was ready to depart. ATRINSON'S, DRUG STORE REMOVED TO NEW AND LARGER PREMISES | 'You won't have much to do to- | night, sir,' said he. 'The instruments ~ Next 'Door to COWAN'S. "| are quite unworkable ; no signals have ~ --i---- | been received for the last three hours. | Good night.' | | was as he said. The electrig, curents, |W | during Taost meteorological changes, Pad Scented Soaps, French asd English Perfumery, Hair Brushes, Comb Tooth Brushes, : and : General reo Dye Stuffs. Everything of the best Quality and Strictly Genuine. s, Patent Medicines, though the" Héedlls swayed Coes So | phantoms of my brain. | driving gloves, which my little wifo was | | { | Cottonse| bear the thought that you should be so only . by the peculiar 'sighing of the air what lias put such absurd thoughts iuto | and Bob would only langh at me ! One of | extraordinary in the duty to which I had | | been called away, nor was it any new ex- ! the shifting and quivering gleams, now | my own mind, and reason as 1 would, I| felt it impossible to 'shake of the growing : was_being slowly spelt out, but so bewil- | ing, hich are develloped in' the . atmeaphere | belicying that I was in a dream, rendered the wires quite fiseless'; 'nd al- doaselinaly As { crossed the | threshold, the midnight express crashed past with a speed and force which shook every timber in the building, and wttering a loud shriek d ssappeared in the tunnel | at the end of the steep gradient, on the summit of which my station was placeed. | When it was gone, there was stillness, stillness broken--if I can call it broken-- } 1 | | passing across the wires, which is heard | listened to the strange, maloncholy, | ZEohan-harp-like sound, now so faint as | to be almost inaudable, anon swelling into a wild, low wailing. 1 looked up and saw Orion "and Pleindes, and thought how often on nights, not-long ago, when I had watched for Maggie in the wooed, I had gazed up through the tall sombre pines and watched their trembling firs. From tnat my mind reverted to tho earnestness | with #Lich . my wife had asked me to re- main at home that night, and the unugual | pensiveness of her manner when she bade me good-bye. What could be the mean- ing of it alll As a general rule, I had a most profound disbelief in owens, pre- | sentiments, and all sorts of-snperstition ; | | but inspite of it, I felt that T would have | given a good deal, at that time, to bo | transported just for one momen to my | was built of stone, but the wood work op | Ten thousand he invested in na suburban home, to see whether all was well there. 'T might uave * called upon my assistant, | crackling flames, Before I bud taken three | hid'wife, and fifty 'thousand dollars he who lodged in a farm. house not far dis- | steps, I fell back, 'blinded, fainting and | placed"in' Bank, to await the opeaing of | tant, and gone home ; Lut as I could give t half suffocated with the smoke. | mo good reason for going away, I resolved | who had followed me caught. me in their | | to stay where I was, and get through the | arms, and tried to restrain me by force { night ae best I could. "If this goes on | from endeavoring again. Don't attempt | the first 'day of November, with health | much longer,' said 1 to myself as 1 turned | it they maid' you will lose your own life | restered, Hé went to Boston to lnk around | inside again, and poked up the coals with | and can't save her's. Let go you cowards | for business. A friend tappéd him on the | rather more noise and. vigor than was ab. | I cried, as soon as I could spedk, and with | shoulder with * Frank, I know just the solutely necessary--* if this goes on much | the strength of' madness, dashed them ! funsound st my pipe and its usual tragynilizing power. wreaths curled slowly upwards, I saw my wife's face looking at me tearfully as when I had left her. Again the bell rang sharp- ly ; but as before, no intellible sign was made by the needles. I leaned my elbows | on the desk, and, with my head between ! my hands. watched their upending mo- | tions. | when once more I wes startled by the | clang of the bell. This time it was louder {and more urgent, and it seemed to me, | the | peculiar and | had never heard before. | | | I am utterly | unable to tell in what manner the impress. | cur bed room door. To my great joy I | down his fifty thousand dollars cash, and and T knew likewise that no { jun was produced,but it scemed as if there | found it open, and { mingled with te metallic ring the tone of | a human voice--and it was the voice of | one"l knew. The needles, I now observ- | ed, Legan to make signs which I under- stood ; and slowly, as if some novice were working the instruwent, the letters "C-o-m-e,' were signilled. No sooner had '1 read of the final 'ee,' thay, to my | amazement and terror, I distinctly saw as clear and windless, und away in { the handle of my instrument, although I | ¢ { was not touching it at the time, as if | grasped by some invissible hand more which the receiver of a message transmits at the end of every word. A cold thrill ran through me, and I felt i a8 if every drop of blood were leaving my { heart, Cculd I haye been the subject.of | an optical delusion ? I knew, that such was in olden times men drew from such sights. | not the case, for I had plainly heard the | | quick click of the handle as it turned, an nuw I eould perceive - that another word | dered and terrified was I, that failed to | catch the signs. Again my handle moved, | and this time wade the signal ' Not un- ! derstood." With an overwhelming feeling of awa, I waiched the dials intently while { the letters were again signalled, and this #time I read ' H-o-m-e.' ) { | two, apd once more the needles resumed When 1 was left alone, I found that it their incoherent vibrations. I stood pe- i trified with fear snd amazewent, bali refused to accept the evideneo of sense. "Co gbe a mestage for mel if 5» old, that hens came jt | stretched on the grass in a swoon. Then there was a | e » s cenation of all, motion for second, or | 1 feared that the realify would gever have | ofter having waited in vaiubewo houts, for reason | 'Fire! At the same instant the church | bell was rung veilently, and at once, as if by common impulse, the whole village started into life. Lights appearad in the | houses and 'a hundred windows were { dashed quickly open. I saw white figures | standing at them, and heard voices erying, { | * Where I' Checking my horse with a jerk | which threw him on bis haunches,I listen- | | ed for the reply, 'Craigside House !' Great Heavens! my worst fears were | even in the calmest nights. J stood and | realized. It was my own home. I e¢hoked | down the agony which almgst foreed a cry, | and pressing onward, with redoubled speed soon arrived at the scene of the tire. The, hause was a large one, and when 1 reaced it smoke was issuing in thick, mu~ky val- | umes from the windows of the second flat | A crowd of men were hurrying confusedly with buckets and pails of water. In the centre of a group of women I found our maid Mary «My ! wife I" I exclaimed, as T rushed forward, | God knows sir, said one of the men ; we have twice tried to reach | ¢ where is she?' [ tho second flat, but were each time driven | back by the smoke and fire, Wiitkong utterly a word 1 entered the house aud ran along the lobby. The stair, fortunately, each side was one mass of blazing and | wo men 4 { aside, Trashed np' thé stalfs apd this | timé succeeded In refichidg the first land- | locked. .¥ dashed mysell agdicst it again, | | and again, but it resisted all my efforts, | | To return ae T had come was impossible, | and T knew that the only hope of saving | even my awn life was ta go forward, De." | spair gave me strength, and lifting my | foot T struck it violently against one of An hour might have passed thus, | the lower panels of the door, It yielded | this Friday "afternvoh the papers were a Jittle, Another blow and it, was driven lin.- I crept through the opening, but so | thick was the smake in the parlor that I { | was returned. {Crossing the room 1 gained stretched on the floor | I found the lifeless form of my wife, 1 | | bent over her, and on placing my hand | | on her heart T found that it was still Leat- | ing. 1 lifted her very tenderly and gently | and carried her in thy arms to the window which I broke open, Of what followed I am cnly dimly conscious, I have a cunfused { reniembrance of men bringing a ladder, | and strong arms helping me down, and of he peaple cheering ; but it is all very | vague and indistinct. My next recollec- | tion is that of finding myself in my father's shapes. As I watched | rapidly and wade the signal ' Understood.' | house, all bruised and weak, but with my | wite bending over me and tending me with | with loving hands. "We had been burned | out of house and home. Fortunately, everything was insured, but even had it | not been so, I had been content so long | | as she was spared to me. Qn the evening of tlie next day, when { the short winter twilight was fast closing round, aud the first suow flakes were f.ll- Maggie drew a little stool close to the | epnch oa which I lay, 'thinking over the. | strange events which IT have related." 1 had said nothing to anybody regarding | the warning which T had so mysteriously ! received ; and when questioned as to what | caused me to retarn so opportuncly, had always returned somé evasive answer, for | obtained relief. | ¢ Willie," %aid the soft, low voice of my | wife, *if you had not come home.---- ¢ Hush, my darling," don't talk like that {for Tean't Bear to think of it." ¢ Bug it might have been, And do you i | it to lapse into obeetirity: | while fierce tongues of flame were already | | leaping slang the roof. | and on 'he following day, Baturday, the ugh perhaps I may err here, with a | could distinguish nothing. © Maggie!" I | 9th, they were to nest nt twelve o'clock unearthiy sound, such as I | shrieked, where are youl but no auswer | at noon, at which time the papers were'tv wb was all dark and filled with smoke, so thick that when I jumped up I fainted {row want of air. © And ¢h * Willie if, you had not come just when you did, I might "There, Maggie, don't lei us think of wliat might have been, bot rather let us be thankful thut we are spared to each other still. 4 On the Bright Side. AN INCIDENT OF TRE BOSTON FIRE. My friend requested me not to publish his name as Le didn't care to have his private lasiness dfairs to thaiworld ; but the chief incident of the matter has a phrise so pleasant that we cannot suffer Frank B----, a young man of eight-and- twenty, with a wife and two children, had liy long and persistant labor in the manu- facture of a patented article, accumulated property to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and upward. During the past surnsher, His Yiéslth Tailed to such & degree that he needed the voice of his physician and left an occupation which was slowly but surely wearing him out. Toward the last of August he sold his manufactyry, together with all interest in the patent, for sixty thousand dollars. residence, which he secured by deed to some new path to business, The months of September und October Frank B-- gave to recuperation, #hd on place for yon. * Come with we." Afi lis old friénd took him fo a 'large wiioted¥é Wousd™in Franklin' street, tne of bly impressed, and proposed an: gxemina- tion of the stock aad accounts of the firm, The pending Presidential elpction delayed matters, and it was not until Wednesday, November 6th; that the examination was completed, On Thursday and Friday the tonal arrangements were made, and on prepared. The parties to the proposed contract separated on Friday evening, and be signed, and Fravk B---- was to pag to step into Mr. B----'"s place in the firm, And on the same Friday Frank galled on she cashier of the bank on State street, and inforwed him that he should want to disw out his fifty thousand dollars on the fol- lowing day. al: alld Saturday morning came, bright and beautiful, and Frank preposed 10 take the cars a ten, o'clock for Boston. His. rem dence was ten miles distant from the city." He was ready to set forth~--had put on his overcoat, and taken a parting esuti-m from his wife--when.e. des alempighbor came hurridly in for help, A .dowestic calamity had fallen upon her household-- | her husband mas. in deliviam. This hush- | aud was Fiavk's dear Srigid--a wayward, impu'sive man-rhis own, worst enemy--- and now suffering from the results of an election debauch. . Frank pulled ous lus watch. oe 1 In Heaven's pame," pleaded the i neighbar, ** come to poor Asthwr LL dare not, leave him lounger... You can euntrol him," ' * What, can I do)" grasped. Frank, I looking first at Lis watch, and then at his wife, , *' 11:1 louse this train may business' | Goes to swash," v '* Let it be till Monday," said the: wife, 'But an' Munday morning: Mr. 8--« | | | | L | mift leave: for Montreal.«~Thig is the | anly-chance. Such another will not be | Winger adomg time, if ever" we. -1is ac103, "legal paris, put it ia a well decide that it is cheaper for them.te huy vegetables in market. Even farmersas , a class, are negligent to their vegetable gardens. Bowe seem to think . such gardens unworthy of their attention, sad sthers lok on the little Jabor, which they , call for as distorbing the work of the.farm. ; Now, Jet sny one take the; trouble to | think how small a spot of land, well tilled, will grow moze. vegetables than a family san use, how importaut it is te have a ull and varied supply of choicest kinds each day in the year, and we have already. aid, LOW wach of the kealthfull support of family such & garden will efford ; and the intelligent farmer will not, after, all, wok on it as the unfruitfull portion of Even when the farm is snow... covered and the frost bound, he may find i1 his stored cellar and fruit rooms enought' of all the produces of his garden, many of which may be kept the greater part of the year by simpy protecting thew from frost, while others of the more delicate kinds | ay be canried and kept almost a3 fresh as whan they rijened on their parent plants. Who that lives in the country ought not o feel ashamed to be without a fine garden full of the fruites of the soil 1 The care of such a garden would tend to profit as well as health, and many an hour which might others ise be wasted, or worse employed, can be well aperit in the vegetable garden. Scen him Undressed. A Physician fn Biifdsay vas called early one morug, by a villager from's distance for & troabledonie complaint. | On entering the house he was informed that he woald find the Doctor in his study on 'the first floor. And np he went. Adjoining the study was the Doctor's Dedrosrn;iwhete. he was at 'the moment preferingthis morning toilette v "eee Ina comerof thewtaly was whunian: 'skelgton,> a not uncommon piece of fri tare for a man of the healing art ; bat vie | ws serevnibd $0: the - public gaze by &' Carmine de! : Witen the servent had besnicleaning the study; she Wad left the windew open. / The peasant now kuocked 'at the doer," Faceiving fio reply, as thé Doctor was in his bedroom. A He now softly opened the door, eansing the draft from hs open window to draw 'aside the screening curtain, snd .so: re- seal tor the aswonistied and' hberified gage of the pave -simple fellow the haman skeleton, which he took for the Destor. . Such Doctor would not suit hia. . He bewt & hasty retidat. po After' the physician was - dressedy he nade inquiry, who had opencd:his study, aud thén sam hastily down stairs, snd was informed of hrs country visitor, ¢ The latter some hours later agaist pase. 4 sho Dostor's house, 'while that gentle-. man was standing at the door, lobking on. while his servent was driving a bargain witha peddlar. ' be ier «Phere is the man, wha called this, morning; Doctor," she said. ) © Deo yowmish to ses me friend 1" Doetor asked kindly, "come iw" "Oh, nn," ssid Mike, *I , have nothing to do with you u you 1 have neem Almanaes were first polilished in 1841. The first news calls. Nodli's dove. Tae nz following a early youth, but it still Phenix fells the story that" he 'was one' day leaxing San Fraveisco for Sacraments" * by the stcamer. Every body olas was' | taking leave of friends--but he aid mot! know a oul in 'the ero his Eris ns the b at sheered off ke ealled out tn Toud Voice, "Good bye, colonel © and to his great delight, man on the wharf took off his] shiuted, * colonel, good bye! wi A good cure for felons ig | to | following ; Take common rock alt, ns is need £2 salting down beef or ary it. in an oven, then ;jopnd sudgmix jt with, spirits of | ra. sy | The snfering wile (of. the suffering | peighiborsegwencd her face. with her hands Thepe was a deayful gepth.ol mute. 1. Wiat hand bad et it, kno, Willie, I bad. a strange digs onip her movement. Mrs. B-- laidehenieiuil doe MIBAOITY Vs. oo wong the parte allected, and got-on more, and in twonty-fom "are cured --the felon will be de necdols Tis oullivld tor * wd. Ashamed of" * gpd Ee FE