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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to morrow
Find us further than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting
And our hearts though stout and brave
Still, like muffled drums are beating,
Fuueral marches to the grave.
the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivounce of life,
s¢ not like dumb, driven catt
Be ahero in the strife!
> z eel pl san
! ead } st | yits de
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I Wi ra God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints onthe sands of Time ;—
» that
ling o’er lif
A forlorn
perhaps another,
main,
and shipwrecked brother,
*s solemn
Seeing shal) take heart again
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any a
} Still achieving, still pur suing
Learn to labor and to wal.
L ITER RATU RE.
SONAR MAA
MARO U" S
|OR, THE
ARL. 1 IND ;
SPRING,
LONG
CHAPTER XI!
| She released her arms and fell
A sudden,
| relieved the tension of her brain.
an infant, He
difficulty in lifting her,and seating her
MOSS
forward,
weeping. violent gush of tears
now passive as
the window-seat by his side, his
| surrounding her. While she lay, weeping
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| sobbing on his bosom, ‘ark and stormy
thoughts swept through it. All his own
dreams of happiness were fled with hers.
Che tlow that severed her from Marcus
must sunder the bond that bound hm to
Katy. This would be the inevitable re.
ult. Then his friendship, his ardent, dis-
interested, trusting friendship; what a
leep, deep, irremediable wound it had re
Never more could he trust in hu-
man Virtue or truth, Never more
ip his heart in the heart of another.
ceived !
garne:
His
ot southern blood boiled at the thought of
passive endurance of the most ungallantin-
Peliam was right. The
was unworthy to
sult. son of a
ferryman
mate with them,or any honourably descend
Then
and overseer
ed individuals
led him.
that letter?
he grasped it as the drowning
He seized hold of this doubt,
man the twig
tbat floats on the stream.
Suddenly, as if ty a simultaneous emo
tion, the expression of Florence’s counten-
ance Changed.
‘Brother!’ she exclaimed. ‘Let me
| think moment. Wariand !
Jan he be the man who has thus cruelly.
ight throught the heart ?
Brother,
one Marcus
pitilessly cut me!
(his cannot be his handwrighting
never did.
he never wrote it. I know he
How could 1 believe him guilty of
such a
I have done him injustice.
| know
| cowardly blow ?
| Oh! I bave greatly wronged him;
{ feel I have.’
tier countenance lighted up gloriously as
she spoke.
I do
incapable of
believe you are right.
this
* Fiorence ;
Wark
Whe
togethe
ighter and purer, | feel with you, the im-
ind is baseness.
r, during which his character grew
found no}
on |
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rms stiii
‘ould be indeed have written |
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wild frolics of writing
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feelings towards
mind the ré inism of thought. By a
public
public act of vengeance, he would only
blazon the affur to the world, and make his
sister's name a byword, to be bandied from
lip to lip with mockery and reproach. Blood
would not effect the impression. It would
only give ita more hideous
‘Yes to himeelf
right.
be avenged
der he looks down
glare.
, muttered he
There are some wrongs that cannot
and this is one
upon us,
| worshipped him as if he were some eastern
It is no wone
another: *! Liberty of
she is
a4 [ent Swe
her tuilette. Though her head throbbed
almost to ed her tires
lation of her
bursting, she allio
womin to twist the wild undu
tre-ses around her finges,
to do, When she looked in the glass and
saw her pallid cheek and altered connten
ance, she blushed, indignant at her own
the life came back to her
Delaval met her at the,
weakness, and
cheek and eye.
| door of the breakfact room with a brotherly |
when we have |
upon her.
;
divinity. Graciaus, Florence !’ he exclaim
ed, walking backwards and forwards, like |
ia caged lion, ‘I wouid pive Wood Liwn
pe all the lawns in creation, if | owned
them, thit i had never abetted you in your
those foolish letters,
and stil more do | mourn your infatuation
in assuming that romantic and unheard,of
| disguise,
| for not proving a better guardian to your | through, which she scarcely
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reckless youth
gant and presumptuous; we have forgot-
ten our own selfrespect.’
‘Do not say we, George,’ said Florence
ina tone of deep and touching humility.
ind mine alone be
Most bitterly have I
‘ Mine alone is the folly:
the punishment. res
pented for my girlish forwardness ;
hild then, a creature of impuls.
and passion. Alas! 1 am still the same
impulsive, impassionate being, untaug
| experience and undisciplined by reason.’
| ness,
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sudden doubt start- |
| imprudent girl that I am.
n I think of the years we have passed |
| not caution y
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possibility of bis having committed an act |
like this,
him. Where are his letters? Let us com-
pare the handwriting, word with word, let
| ter with letter. If it b-
tect it at once.’
With an eager hand, Florence opened
precious rosewood cabinet, and drew
forgery, I can de~
her
forth the packet, bound with a cerulean
ribbon, She shivered as she handed it to
him, and her touch was like contact with
ice,
‘Wait one moment, brother,’
this
in doubt
for the word.
she cried ;
is an awful moment.
Doubt! how I desire mysel!
| waver.’
Delaval, impatiently snatched a letter
; from the parcel, unfolded it by the side of
and carefully compared them word with word |
letter with letter. Florence leaned over |
| his shoulder, bending her head lower and
darker, as the irresiste
growing darker and
ible conviction forced itself upon her, that
they were written by the same hand. De-
laval raised his eyes one moment to hers)
stern, yet burning glance.
‘No, this is no forgery,’ he cried.
circumstances to which this letter refers are
known only to him, Patterson, and myself
Even if the characters did not prove it with
fidelity, the contents would be suf-
such
| ficient.
|on this very subject. Here are the very |
versed with him. I never breathed it to
another human being.
repeat the same to Patterson. these
are my own words, and this is his own hand-
And, look Florence, the self-same
Yes;
writing.
it. He got it at the North. We visited |
the paper mill together where it was made |
and both of us ordered some with our in-
itials pressed on the corner of the sheet.
Florence, he is a villian.
a doubt is swept away.
He is a@ most con-
summate villian.’
recall my own rash words.
ed his naked heart to another not to me.
I, I have done the whole.
his delicacy, alienated his affection, and
with my own hand destroyed his love. And
yet, she added, with a kindling counten-
ance, ‘ how dare he attempt to transfer me
to another? How dure he insult me so
coldly, so deliberately? This I never, nev-
er can forgive.’
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| of what she had previously said came forc-
ibly into the mind of Velaval. This was a
private letter, not intended for their per-
rusal; it was the expression of one man's
words I myself uttered the last time I con- |
I requested him to |
| have outraged |
We have the power to vindicate |
| no one else in the
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Leave me stil] | self in darkness as with a mantle.
| knew not when night came on, for Dela- |
My faith in him shall not |
| Lewis was absent ona visit to a
‘Experience !’ cried Delaval with bit
but I never could dis-
cover his merits. lle warns us of the past
but we know that already; His |
I want
imp throw:
ill its rays backward a guide for
the fut
Cicero!’
ure; and such a
Delaval threw himself on the windowseat
thoug
ind deliberate op the course he must adopt
and ende:voured to compose his hts
Che only way was for Florence to retur
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We have made him arro-
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‘Moralists boast of the great world |
| yore returned to its former
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letters of Marcus with every memorial of his |
false love. with a haughty and po itive re-
jection, without any allusion to the disgr \
ful letter which had providentially reve z
ed his
modest
character.
gentle,
true 3ut moty sweet.
loving Katy!
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tie tear her fron his heart—that warm.noble
generous heart, where she was so sacredly
The sister of that
would
enshrined
ed brother
His !
as that perfumed bluesbound packet was
false, reject-
never consent to be
letters would be returned
wife. just
ibout to be; the rings with which he had
the
had clasped round her snowy arms —they
encircled her fair fingers bracelets he
would all come back, mocking him with the
memory of his past happiness, the thought
of his brightest hopes. Wood Lawn would
| had thought would remain on her finger
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henceforth be a desert to him, the whole |
world a wilderness
‘You are unhappy, brother;
taking his hand in
ge nly
you so,’ said Florence,
beth of hers, and laying her cheek
upon it
me. ]
this on myself. I feel
late.’
Delaval drew her closer to him. She had
been rash and imprudent
that before; but he could not sige he:
now.
lire a love, too intense a compassion,
He felt too deep a tendernes
~at thus in silence—she weary and exhaust-
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ed by her passion and her tears, thankful, | be half of the Opposition,
ia her abandonment and delu-ion, th. ¢ one
friend was left to -ywpathise with and care and accepted with gr
for her, one breast on which she could pil
low her aching head and solace her wound-
ed heart.
‘You had better go to your
ence,’ said he gathering up her dishevelied
hair and smoothing it back from her shou!
‘Some one
ders might come in.
lie down. Your bead must ache. I need
yu not to reveal the cause of
your agitation, You have too much pride
to betray “ay
‘Thank you for the
by it,’ said she, with a sudden flish of spirit
and thank you for your tenderness, your
» warning ; I will profit
sympathy, and your promise too—dear dear
George—oh ! how I love you for it!
world to love but you
now, for I cared but for one besides,’ she
added in a low voice as she
ment,
Alone in
self on the bed, and drawing the fringed
curtains closely around her,
She
val had told Letty not to have her dist
Mrs.
friend —a
as she was ill and wanted nosupper.
| fortunate circumstance for Florence and the
lower, her lately illumined countenanance |
and she read the same conviction in that |
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‘The |
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the crumpled paper he held in in his hand | mystery of her grief.
‘Is that you, Letty ?’ asked she, hearing
| footsteps entering, and perceiving the
glimmer of a light through the curtains.
‘ Yes, Miss F.orence, it’s me, shall [ bring |
your supper?’
‘No; come here Letty.’
down the light, and came softly toward the |
bed, peeping through the curtains.
‘Letty,’ said Florence, ho'ding out her |
hand, ‘I spoke crossly to you, I did not
know what I was saying; you must forget it.’
‘Oh Miss Florence,
| had no business to stick my ugly nose in
| your matters, any way—that I hain’t. |
I knew that he was to address him |
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paper, too, with his cyphers stamped upon | letting them drip over her black
wish I pull out my tongue, I do—saucy old |
| thing. :
‘Undress me Letty, and let me sleep,
You don’t know how sick 1 am.’
Tenderly, as if she was fondling an infant,
night’s repose, which she fe:red would not
visit her pillow
her rich, tangled, tear-moistened Iccks, |
fingers,
in blacker, shining curls.
‘Thank you,’ said Florence, suffering her |
| head to fall languidly on the pillow. ‘That
| is soothing.
Every shadow of | Letty.
| again.
He has reveals |
| distance remained perfectly still.
It has the torrent’s smooths |
|
| she cried out,
You
L will try never to be cross to you
Don’t say anything.’
are a good creature,
Letty placed the lamp in the chimney,
‘ No,’ she replied, with bloodless lips, ‘ 1| where it could not shine on the face of her |
young mistress, and seating herself at a
too was still.
ness after ithas dashed over the rocks--
the lull of the tempest after its fury is
spent. She slept—but it was not rest.
Every now and then she would start up with
a faint scream, look wildly around ker,
close her eyes and fall back again.
that letter !’
Letty sat in herskaded corner, and pon-
dered these things in her heart,’
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She is not to blame ; Lonly am. Rash, |
| have brought
it now when it is too |
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i tere wane} ler task was finished; the few decisive
«| and shuddered
‘You must not give up Katy for | a
He had told ber ance,
| sigh and pine, for an ingrate, unworthy
| her
kiss. He was rejoiced to see her look so |
much like herself, and his own stern. joy,
less countenance brightened as he grzed
But after the first greeting was
over, and she believed heraelf unnoticed,
ie remarked the gradual subsiding of her
spirit. The colour all went away from her |
cheek
and she sat with weeping lashes, |
that threw a deeper pallor on her pensive |
fuce,
‘Come and take a ride on horseback with
me, sister,’ said he when the breakfast was |
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unt to show you what wonders I have done
on the plantation since [ have taken the
reins in my owa hand. ‘That fine jaunt
had with Arnold’s negroes was an excels
nt apprenticesh Pp for re. They thought
[ was a jewel of a master.’
Florence appreciited ber brother’s mo-
She
She would |
tive, and gladly accompanied him.
wanted to get away from herself.
have gone to the world’s end if she could
luuve reached it. It
was astonishing how
ner life came back to her, when she went |
air on a light-footed pony. |
Phe haughty spirit that sustained her of |
dwelling-place
She would not weep, and
{a woman's generous, self.
rgetting love. She
though al
uncalculating,
would rend him from
her heart, \l of the quivering nem-
were torn away with the image it en-
shrined.
She had one task to perform which she
lreaded
mementoes of
but would not defer. To gather
ill the her ill-directed at.~
to return his letters und pledges
to destroy the faded flowers she |}
She took
from her finger a ruby ring, the token of
ot love;
had been treasuring as holy relics.
his plighted faith, and drew through it the
golden chain which he had passed round
The ruby was her favour,
[ts glowing hue heightened the
iark splendour of her beauty,
ippropriate emblem of love.
looked for
and was an
Now, as she }
the last time on a pledge she |
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even under the dark coffin-lid, it seemed to
a bleeding radiance, and she could al- }
most fancy ut t owed its crimson tint to drops
of blood. he letters she would not read. |
lest a nas ir of pages so fraught with
fascination should soften her purpose, and |
untit her for the stern duty before her
words written; the packet sealed directed
ind ready to be sent. Ther she sat down
at the blank before her,
THE PEOPLE'S ANSWER.
Tur victory at North Renfrew c ial
certainly be exaggerated as to its import.
It was probably as straight a fight |
| between the two parties as has ever been |
too en- |
Phey |
| upon the fact that this policy
wrapped her- |
don't say that. 1!
room, Flor- 5
(-o and |
|
fought. The electors had the advantage
at issue discussed
and by Dr. Tupper on
and
bound to say that the issue was presented
of having the questions
by the first Minister
we are |
‘eat frankness :—‘* We |
are here toxni ght,’ ’ said Mr. McKenzie, in
achburg —‘ Dr.
being
his speech at Bre
“ and
Tupper
a distinguished |
of the Conservative party, I the
the Government—to
‘discuss in your presence the great public
be
which
myself—he
leader
“leader of reform
‘‘questions of the day, and it will for
‘you to judge in the coming contest,
‘ of the gr
at political parties has the best
‘right o: is the bes
‘the a And as if |
to localise the issue more directly. the first |
tqu lified to administer
ffiirs of the Dominion,”
Minister entered into an elaborate defence |
'of his railway policy, dwelling especially
| have
through which the railway is to run,
left the apart. |
her own room, she threw her. |
}
|
urbed, | Kenzie would to-day give something
would ma
county of Renfrew,
and
apparently concious of the strength
appeal and the
terially benefit the
then,
of his certainty of its suc-
cess, he said :--‘ I have placed before you
‘fully and fairly the policy of the Governs
ment inregard to the railway, and upon |
‘the merits of this policy I ask the electors
‘‘to pronounce
We
approval by voting for |
no doubt Mr. Mc-
if he |
could but withdraw this bold submission |
of his policy to the arbitrament of the }
‘ Murray.” have
| people of North Renfrew. Taking the
issue as placed before the electors by |
| himself,
| approval.
The negro put |
|
stands condem-
ned as unfit to govern the country, and his |
his Government
is pronounced to be unworthy of |
Two hundred and ten of a ma-
jority for White, is the crushing answer to |}
policy
the Premier's appeal. We await anxiously
to see it accounted for upon some other
| hypothesis than the influence of Ultramon-~
tanism:— Montreal Gazette.
_-_om +
INDIA’S VICEROY.
Loudon Letter in New York Tribune.
Lord Northbrook has shown ability in
but not ability of the highest or}
a very high kind, He is a good |
, India,
even of a
/man of business, laborious, occupying him- |
self far too much with details, and withs |
out ¢
Letty prepared her young mistress for the | away without leaving a mark on the great |
'an entire change from soft, succulent food
She combed and brushed |
}
| lyre in his eal and
/ many and has dwelt everywhere excepting
| in the land of his birth—if indeed England
Florence |
| when his uncie, then Sir Henry Bulwer,
‘rapidly and finishing his subordinate career
Once |
‘the letter—oh! Marcus— |
, matic service, embassador excepted, though
capacity for great things. He will go}
Empire he has ruled for four years.
Lord Lytton, who is to succeed him, has
been pretty much everything in the diplo-
He was born with a. |
mouth, a mimic
some brains in his |
head, Of all Englishmen he is the one of the |
least English. He was educated in Ger- |
he is not yet 45.
silver-gilt spocn in his
be the land of his birth. There may be
people yet living in Washington who re-
member him, for he was attache of the
British Legation there, before he was 18,
was Minister. He has since served in |
most of the capitals of Europe, rising |
as Secretary of Legation in two years in
Paris, whence he went to Lisbon, in com-
pany with our friend Mr. Moran, as En- |
voy. He had been personally popular, his
name had become known in literature, his
Florence rose at the usual hour, and suf- | drawing-room tables; he is a lord having
fered Letty to linger with usual care over! succeeded his father, the first Baron, in
| poems are found upon the most eng
as she was wont)
;at a later
| Turkey is reserved,
| saving the point of honor.
' in fact toa formal renunciation of the old
| them with the sword.
| when he acquiesced in the abrogation by
| fairest
| earth,
| tans advocate annexation to England,
| property might be carried out to the latter
| past year in Great Britain and America,
| shorthorns :
| tfty-seven saies
| remain
' tne number of
| £87 each.
| for the whole lot was £510 19s.
‘remarkable was a sale heid
| thirty-four animals
| whic
FEBRUARY 7, 1876.
1873; he has married the neice of an Earl,
he is uderately rich, he is accomplished,
he knows the routine of official duties, and
he has given as little evidence of fitness
for the great post to which he is now called
as the late Lord Mayo himself; whenee,
probably, Mr. Disraeli’s belief that he will
achieve an equally remarkable success. It
is just possible that the Prime Minister's
love of paradox has led him astray.
two men could be more alike than Lord
Mayo, with his robust, slow-minded, com-
mon sense, and the versatile man of the
world who is known in literature as
Meredith, and in diplomacy as a brilliant
failure. As he has tailed in Europe, which
he knows thoroughly, more
likely than that he should succeed in India,
Owen
nothing is
of which he krows nothing.
> —- - + eo
THE EASTERN QUE STION.
lus latest telegram on the Eastern ques-
tion is to the effect that the British Cabinet
to Count
er the name of reform, dethrones
has assented Andrasey’s note
which, u
the dominant race and dissolves the Otto
A right to consider
stage and in conjunction with
apparently by way of
This
man Empire. details
amounts
| policy of England on the E:stern question
land an abandonment of Turkey to re r fate.
; No doubt it is in that point of view that
the decision of the British Cabinet is con
lemned by a certain portion of the press
including the Morning Post, whieh in for-
mer days was Lord Palmerston’s personal
But it is
organ. easier to find fault with
‘ the action of the Government than to show
that it could have taken any other course
Turkish Province-
and what is more to
The insurrection in the
is evidently spreading,
' the purpose, it is clear enough that Austria
and Russia have made up their minds if
their proposals are resisted to give effect to
fiow can England
with barely troops to garrison her own
shores attempt to throw herself across the
path of two great military powers on the
Continent? It is true that the present
Government and their party held different
language when in Opposition, and that they |
are doing a sort of penance for the cons
|tumely they heaped upon Mr Gladstone
by Russia of the Treaty of Paris, a stroke |
of fate which he was equally powerless to |
So the book ot Turkish history is |
It contains some stirring pages of
arrest.
closed.
| nothing but the annals of a ont
' horde, corrupted but never civilized, and
which has for four centuries cursed with
barrenness, darkness and misery,
and most famous
some of |
regions of the |
the Western Provinces ; a party of the Cre-
and
it seems as though the programme of the
late Czar for the disposal of the Sick Man's
and the inutility of the Crimean war mark. |
ed by the severest irony of fate. — Zoronto
Nation.
| sult.
AGRICULTURAL.
SHORTHORN CATTLE.
Shorthorn sales are becoming almost as
“sensational ’’ as those of thoroughbred
| yearlings were a short time since, and it is
|}no uncommon thing for an animal of the
Jates or Boolk blood, each of which strain
has its respective admirers and even cham-
pions to be sold at a price «qual to thar
which a Derby winner would have realizea
a few years ago. From comparitive tables
of the resuits of these sales during the
which are published in the almanse of the
Agricultural Gazetie, it appears that the
total amounts realized at these sales were
almost the same for both countries. ‘The
returns refer only to the sales of “pedigree
’—that is to say of animals in
seribed = in the Herd Book, which is fo;
cattle, and the Stud Book which is for turf
and from them we learn that while the
sixty-five sales held in Great Britain
yie'ded a total of £228 088 16s. the
} in America amounted to
£204.790 6s. 10d. Each of the American
sales amounted upon an wverage, to £3 593
a8 against £3,509 for each of the Engitsi,
sales; but the advantage does not in reality
with the American breeders, fo:
though eight fewer sales were held there
animals disposed of was
within ten of those sold at home. The
2,529 =horthorns sold in America averaged
£7% each, and the 2.599 sold in Great Britain
The largest total realized at
any one sale was £42019 163., for which
84 animals belonging to the late Mr. Torr,
a Lincolnshire farmer, were disposed of in
September. 'he highest price given at
this sale was 2,168 guineas. and the average
“till more
in Scotland a
week previously, when thirty-nine animals
the property of Lord Dunmore, fetched
£26,223 15 This gives an average of
| £672 83s. for each animal, one of which
|} went for 4500 guineas. At a third sale
fetched more than
£10,000, and several others took place at
h the total was over £7,000 and the
average was over £200) The most success-
ful sale held in America was that at which |
shorthorns fetehed £18,534 154. 5d., with
an average of £402 19s. 9d. forthe whole
number, One of them reaching £3225. At
two other sales in America toials of rather
No,
‘ still larger supply in the lower strata,
' the drum and trumpet kind, but otherwise
Crete is serving herself, as well as | -
TODS CETL. ea
{ ORRENPONDEAC i
CITY WATFR-WORKS
City Pres
:—-It is now abhor it eight
mouths ~ince I addresss d you on the subject
of Water Supply. It was pleasing to observe
the unaui mity of the Press in rousing the
public attention to a sense of our critical
position. The effect of that appeal was
GENTLEMEN
manifest at the August elections when the
advocates of a suitable Water Supply
Were triumphantly returned, reversing the
| decisions of previous elections. It was
generally believed the right men were re-
turned; that a new reyime would be ins
}augurated; and that prompt action
| would be taken in currying out the well
understood wishes of the p ople) in procurs
ing a liberal supply of water tor the domes.
tic and public requirements of our inere
ing population,
Wbetuer the air of the Civ
iss
ic Hall is suf-
ficientiy pure, or the Crvie chairs pOss@ss a
sodorific hh flaence, i t pparent But
|} there can be no doubt t}
flat if the lea ing
questions decided ut t e polls, had been
the extension of the license system, on the
levying of additional taxes, no time would
have been wasted in the d scharge of such
stlOns lt is believed, h wever, that
this Worship t Mayor, and several of the
Councillors are strongly in favor of the
prosecution of this important public work;
yet Ibis patent lo every one that either
their actions as a body betrays no anxiety
on the subject; or that the work is beyond
their c ‘dP pe ion, or that they do not
feel inclined to attend toit. The result of
the wy Six months will prove the correct.
ness of one of these infe) ences,
It is well known that two schemes
before the public, vz: Winter River
were
and
n artesian well, Both head thei: advocates,
Ihe former was Obj-cied to on the vround
ofthe great engineering difficulties im the
n the way of utilizing that vineeethie tre-
menuous Cost as compured with the re-
-Ources Of the city—the heavy taxation
Which wouid surely follow and the insuf-
lickency Of supply to meet requirements,
fhe latter Was opposed becuse our strate
had not been bored to ascertain if water
could be and
uaranlee
gq ialities of
rtained by
obtained in suflicient volume
use if suthecies could g
its good quality. The good
the first scheme
anengipecr from [uifax. His estimates
for construction had been tested by Messrs,
Shanly & Boyd, and proved to be ridicul-
ously low. In favor of the latter, it was
urged that being close at hand it would
save an enormous outlay, in comparison
with the other, for conduit pipes, tunnel,
uqueducts, filters, costly dims, embank-
ments, damage to lands und purchase of
water priviledges that Ss similar stata had
becu it ne One
had been asc
| in Oluer Countries ylelded an abundant sup>
ply of pure water, there Was eVery reason
tv believe ours would not be an exception,
that our abundant springs which found ae-
cess eveyrwhere to the surface, indicated a
and
that to test the question 4 very small out-
lay wouid suffice,
Under these circumstances the path of
duty was plain enough The first scheme
had been experimented on, co ting the ( City
over $900.00. If the second shouid be sue.
cesstul the sre could be no qte-tuion as to
the immense savings. Did they decide on
iMporting a bore: or in advertising fora
practical man to come at once and coms
mence the work ? There was no necessity
toreven this effort. Before Mayor Renkin
left the chair, he received .an otter troma
gentieman in Pictou offering to undertake
the work. This information was laid before
the new Council. Did they acee tit? J
im ashamed to hig ar that they ‘not only
reject: d this offer, but refused to entertain
any propositions funhane 10 the same re-
“onth after month was squandered
1: doing ——— and late in the fall an Ens
rineer was brought from St. John whose
first and chiet work was to go out and sur-
vey Winter River! and sub equently two
or three streams nearer the city. It was
then arranged that it would be necessary to
i a-certain tie iowe-t level of these streams
in the driest season of the summer, (as if
no one could supply that —_ rmation on
} the spot.) which would virt ya Emig the
question a he months’ hoist ! and the farce
was ended i must, however, give them
credit tora bitof Civic Engineering. In
order to get rid of the artesian weli ques«
tion, it was neatly folied red taped,
and handed over to the E iwineer to
repo! t on, in plain words, inciwid
an ‘ f After all this unnecessary
delay what is likely to be his answer? but
something in this style, * Gentlemen, if you
Wish to a-certain the: ut ot boring I ad.
Vise you to
It the City Council had really desired in.
formation of the most reliable kind r garde
ing the p ybable success of an artes an
weil where could they obtain « more trust.
worthy adviser than the celebrated Geolo-
c+. Daweon, L.. L.. D, F. E.G. 8,
G. 8.7 hose
Local Govern-
il Structure
report to Gur
ment, in 187], on the
Geologic
ind Mineral Resources of this Island says,
page 34 ‘ The fissures of the red sand-
stone atiord, in many paces, copious springs
OF exceiient Water ihils
possibiuity of obtaining a
by boring. As
and Suggests the
iditional supplies
the supply of water at
present very deficient,
erving Of con-ideration whether
mizht not be advantageously
Yhe stratigraphical
rene in the vicinity of
ty In favorable to success, and borings
of moderat would be necess
Churiottetown is at
it is des
this means
Nsei to Ine
irrany
the c
crease it
it of the rock-«
e de pth, such as
saiy to test the quantity that could be obs
taned, are executed in Nova Neotia at
about $! to $2 per foot Othat the expense
wouli be -mail, and supplies of water of
great importance to (he com!ortand health
of the citizens might be obtained.’’ The
fact is patent to all, that our City Coungil
has given the very best exempliticatien of
“OW NOT TO DO IT.”
In the meantime the risk
the increase. Our soil is stil! receiving its
quota of stagnant drainage table for
miasmatic exbalations in the hot and damp
weather of next summer and autumn.
Our wells are -upplied with polluted drains
age, and our rate of mortality is alarmi ngly
from fire is on
suit
more than +10), 000 were obtained for thirty. | 0m the increase, cau-ed by fevers and
five and for thirty three lots, the average | other diseases which are clearly traceable
in the two cases being slightly over and | to the want of proper drainage and an
under £300. These figures may be left to
speak for themselves, but it is impossible
to avoid the suspicion that purchasers will |
not, in the long run, get tie bestot the
| bargain.— Pall Mall Gazette.
Seep Feepinc.—Sheep require during
the long winter, some soft, pultaceous food
to take the place of succulent grasses. |
More diseases and losses are occasioned by
to dry bay than from too close herding.
though the latter is often very injurious.
The best English feeders do not suffera |
tithe of the losses of the average of ours.
They feed roots which may be considered |
grass laid up for winter use; they also feed
| much oil cake, which has a very similar
| effect on the system of most herbiverous
animals as grass. American farmers have
hot yet generally adopted root-culture, and
therefore, are not prepared to adopt the
Englisb practice in this respect; but they |
may use 4 small quantity of oil-cake, at a
lesss rate of cost than the English
farmer, for we export many thousand
tons which ought to be used at home.
When large feeds of Indian corn are added {
to dry hay, it only increases the difficuity,
for corn is a very fattening and heating
food, and thus excites a feverish state of
the system. We would pot discard corn as
a sheep food, but would always feed with it
some laxative elements, as roots, bran and
oil meal. One pound to ten sheep per day,
is sufficient to modify the effects of dry
food. This would only require one ton for
100 sheep 200 G.ys, and it will lay on more
value of wool and mutton than it costs, be-
sides improving the heaith of the sheep. _
Live Stock Journa’?
George § Sand and George Elliot are both
writing new novels,
efficient water supply. If our © vic digni-
taries Can Occupy their exalted po-itions
with equanimity, and calmly survey the
risks and de-solations which are too surely
stesling over the community, 1 envy not
their future reflections or responsibilities.
I may shortly give you a statement res-
pecting the sanitary condition of this city
from 4 medical standpoint, and a description
of some of the artesian wells from which
many of our towns and cities of England
derive their daily supply. In the means
time, I trust you will bring yoor mfluence
to bear upon the subject. until the public
are fully enlightened as to their danger
and duty.
I retaain, Gentlemen,
Your obd’t, servant,
Wa. Hiazp,
Ch'town, Jan. 25th, 1876.
Tue Presentation Booxs.—A writer in
the World says: * [ learn that the presen-
tation-books which the Prince of Wales has
taken out with him to India cost between
1500land 1600 Yet at a late moment,
the number of these books has been found
insufficient. Twenty copies more of Cols
onel SBuckles’s translation of L’ Inde des
Raj ths have been ordered of Messrs.
Sotheran & Co., to be sent to Inia at once,
bound, as the previous {fifty copies were, in
,the most sumptuous fashion In cons
nection with the Pvince’s t to Indiaa
new difficulty, 1 hear, has presented itself,
Many of those wLo met the future Em-
peror of Hindustan at Bombay meet him
again at Calcutta. They will present fresh
presents, ‘The Prince will have to do likes
wise. It is thus feared that he will have
| nothing to give away by the time he reaches
the Western borders of the North-West
Provinces:
— nee a Rae,
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Alverton, Sept. 13, 1876.
on
GLADNEY,
Prvuprictor.
PC TORN,
'Prompi
COONSS & WORTH
IVD
a
PORTRY,
ee ee ee
A PSALM OF LIFE.
HEART OF THE YOU
rHE PSALMIsT.
NG MAN SATII
~ * yas . ‘ Fell me not, in mournfal numbers
Sk WATER STREE'L ce ghee a ane ‘
0 * Life is but an empty dream!
~* P . ] ) ' - h ay] abt-nb na, P > @ £5 For the so tr is dead that slumbers,
Waastaewe w VV oa? : Se ade . nX
ar island, phe things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
, & NELSON, And the grave is not its goal;
* Dust thou art, to dust returnest,”
IMPORPION & REPAIRER Was not spoken of the soul.
SEWING | MACHINES.
MacKENZIE & ie saa
AND
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Anctiqnee?s
Se Antes
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on é » 7 a ama
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WILLIAM DODD,
Commission Werehnnt
LUCTIONVEER
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ant
Cae iia
Commission i
GENERAL”
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MUCTLIONEER & BROKEN
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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to morrow
Find us further than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting
And our hearts though stout and brave
Still, like muffled drums are beating,
Fuueral marches to the grave.
the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivounce of life,
s¢ not like dumb, driven catt
Be ahero in the strife!
> z eel pl san
! ead } st | yits de
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I Wi ra God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints onthe sands of Time ;—
» that
ling o’er lif
A forlorn
perhaps another,
main,
and shipwrecked brother,
*s solemn
Seeing shal) take heart again
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any a
} Still achieving, still pur suing
Learn to labor and to wal.
L ITER RATU RE.
SONAR MAA
MARO U" S
|OR, THE
ARL. 1 IND ;
SPRING,
LONG
CHAPTER XI!
| She released her arms and fell
A sudden,
| relieved the tension of her brain.
an infant, He
difficulty in lifting her,and seating her
MOSS
forward,
weeping. violent gush of tears
now passive as
the window-seat by his side, his
| surrounding her. While she lay, weeping
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| sobbing on his bosom, ‘ark and stormy
thoughts swept through it. All his own
dreams of happiness were fled with hers.
Che tlow that severed her from Marcus
must sunder the bond that bound hm to
Katy. This would be the inevitable re.
ult. Then his friendship, his ardent, dis-
interested, trusting friendship; what a
leep, deep, irremediable wound it had re
Never more could he trust in hu-
man Virtue or truth, Never more
ip his heart in the heart of another.
ceived !
garne:
His
ot southern blood boiled at the thought of
passive endurance of the most ungallantin-
Peliam was right. The
was unworthy to
sult. son of a
ferryman
mate with them,or any honourably descend
Then
and overseer
ed individuals
led him.
that letter?
he grasped it as the drowning
He seized hold of this doubt,
man the twig
tbat floats on the stream.
Suddenly, as if ty a simultaneous emo
tion, the expression of Florence’s counten-
ance Changed.
‘Brother!’ she exclaimed. ‘Let me
| think moment. Wariand !
Jan he be the man who has thus cruelly.
ight throught the heart ?
Brother,
one Marcus
pitilessly cut me!
(his cannot be his handwrighting
never did.
he never wrote it. I know he
How could 1 believe him guilty of
such a
I have done him injustice.
| know
| cowardly blow ?
| Oh! I bave greatly wronged him;
{ feel I have.’
tier countenance lighted up gloriously as
she spoke.
I do
incapable of
believe you are right.
this
* Fiorence ;
Wark
Whe
togethe
ighter and purer, | feel with you, the im-
ind is baseness.
r, during which his character grew
found no}
on |
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rms stiii
‘ould be indeed have written |
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wild frolics of writing
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feelings towards
mind the ré inism of thought. By a
public
public act of vengeance, he would only
blazon the affur to the world, and make his
sister's name a byword, to be bandied from
lip to lip with mockery and reproach. Blood
would not effect the impression. It would
only give ita more hideous
‘Yes to himeelf
right.
be avenged
der he looks down
glare.
, muttered he
There are some wrongs that cannot
and this is one
upon us,
| worshipped him as if he were some eastern
It is no wone
another: *! Liberty of
she is
a4 [ent Swe
her tuilette. Though her head throbbed
almost to ed her tires
lation of her
bursting, she allio
womin to twist the wild undu
tre-ses around her finges,
to do, When she looked in the glass and
saw her pallid cheek and altered connten
ance, she blushed, indignant at her own
the life came back to her
Delaval met her at the,
weakness, and
cheek and eye.
| door of the breakfact room with a brotherly |
when we have |
upon her.
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divinity. Graciaus, Florence !’ he exclaim
ed, walking backwards and forwards, like |
ia caged lion, ‘I wouid pive Wood Liwn
pe all the lawns in creation, if | owned
them, thit i had never abetted you in your
those foolish letters,
and stil more do | mourn your infatuation
in assuming that romantic and unheard,of
| disguise,
| for not proving a better guardian to your | through, which she scarcely
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reckless youth
gant and presumptuous; we have forgot-
ten our own selfrespect.’
‘Do not say we, George,’ said Florence
ina tone of deep and touching humility.
ind mine alone be
Most bitterly have I
‘ Mine alone is the folly:
the punishment. res
pented for my girlish forwardness ;
hild then, a creature of impuls.
and passion. Alas! 1 am still the same
impulsive, impassionate being, untaug
| experience and undisciplined by reason.’
| ness,
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sudden doubt start- |
| imprudent girl that I am.
n I think of the years we have passed |
| not caution y
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possibility of bis having committed an act |
like this,
him. Where are his letters? Let us com-
pare the handwriting, word with word, let
| ter with letter. If it b-
tect it at once.’
With an eager hand, Florence opened
precious rosewood cabinet, and drew
forgery, I can de~
her
forth the packet, bound with a cerulean
ribbon, She shivered as she handed it to
him, and her touch was like contact with
ice,
‘Wait one moment, brother,’
this
in doubt
for the word.
she cried ;
is an awful moment.
Doubt! how I desire mysel!
| waver.’
Delaval, impatiently snatched a letter
; from the parcel, unfolded it by the side of
and carefully compared them word with word |
letter with letter. Florence leaned over |
| his shoulder, bending her head lower and
darker, as the irresiste
growing darker and
ible conviction forced itself upon her, that
they were written by the same hand. De-
laval raised his eyes one moment to hers)
stern, yet burning glance.
‘No, this is no forgery,’ he cried.
circumstances to which this letter refers are
known only to him, Patterson, and myself
Even if the characters did not prove it with
fidelity, the contents would be suf-
such
| ficient.
|on this very subject. Here are the very |
versed with him. I never breathed it to
another human being.
repeat the same to Patterson. these
are my own words, and this is his own hand-
And, look Florence, the self-same
Yes;
writing.
it. He got it at the North. We visited |
the paper mill together where it was made |
and both of us ordered some with our in-
itials pressed on the corner of the sheet.
Florence, he is a villian.
a doubt is swept away.
He is a@ most con-
summate villian.’
recall my own rash words.
ed his naked heart to another not to me.
I, I have done the whole.
his delicacy, alienated his affection, and
with my own hand destroyed his love. And
yet, she added, with a kindling counten-
ance, ‘ how dare he attempt to transfer me
to another? How dure he insult me so
coldly, so deliberately? This I never, nev-
er can forgive.’
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| of what she had previously said came forc-
ibly into the mind of Velaval. This was a
private letter, not intended for their per-
rusal; it was the expression of one man's
words I myself uttered the last time I con- |
I requested him to |
| have outraged |
We have the power to vindicate |
| no one else in the
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Leave me stil] | self in darkness as with a mantle.
| knew not when night came on, for Dela- |
My faith in him shall not |
| Lewis was absent ona visit to a
‘Experience !’ cried Delaval with bit
but I never could dis-
cover his merits. lle warns us of the past
but we know that already; His |
I want
imp throw:
ill its rays backward a guide for
the fut
Cicero!’
ure; and such a
Delaval threw himself on the windowseat
thoug
ind deliberate op the course he must adopt
and ende:voured to compose his hts
Che only way was for Florence to retur
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We have made him arro-
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‘Moralists boast of the great world |
| yore returned to its former
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letters of Marcus with every memorial of his |
false love. with a haughty and po itive re-
jection, without any allusion to the disgr \
ful letter which had providentially reve z
ed his
modest
character.
gentle,
true 3ut moty sweet.
loving Katy!
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tie tear her fron his heart—that warm.noble
generous heart, where she was so sacredly
The sister of that
would
enshrined
ed brother
His !
as that perfumed bluesbound packet was
false, reject-
never consent to be
letters would be returned
wife. just
ibout to be; the rings with which he had
the
had clasped round her snowy arms —they
encircled her fair fingers bracelets he
would all come back, mocking him with the
memory of his past happiness, the thought
of his brightest hopes. Wood Lawn would
| had thought would remain on her finger
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henceforth be a desert to him, the whole |
world a wilderness
‘You are unhappy, brother;
taking his hand in
ge nly
you so,’ said Florence,
beth of hers, and laying her cheek
upon it
me. ]
this on myself. I feel
late.’
Delaval drew her closer to him. She had
been rash and imprudent
that before; but he could not sige he:
now.
lire a love, too intense a compassion,
He felt too deep a tendernes
~at thus in silence—she weary and exhaust-
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ed by her passion and her tears, thankful, | be half of the Opposition,
ia her abandonment and delu-ion, th. ¢ one
friend was left to -ywpathise with and care and accepted with gr
for her, one breast on which she could pil
low her aching head and solace her wound-
ed heart.
‘You had better go to your
ence,’ said he gathering up her dishevelied
hair and smoothing it back from her shou!
‘Some one
ders might come in.
lie down. Your bead must ache. I need
yu not to reveal the cause of
your agitation, You have too much pride
to betray “ay
‘Thank you for the
by it,’ said she, with a sudden flish of spirit
and thank you for your tenderness, your
» warning ; I will profit
sympathy, and your promise too—dear dear
George—oh ! how I love you for it!
world to love but you
now, for I cared but for one besides,’ she
added in a low voice as she
ment,
Alone in
self on the bed, and drawing the fringed
curtains closely around her,
She
val had told Letty not to have her dist
Mrs.
friend —a
as she was ill and wanted nosupper.
| fortunate circumstance for Florence and the
lower, her lately illumined countenanance |
and she read the same conviction in that |
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‘The |
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the crumpled paper he held in in his hand | mystery of her grief.
‘Is that you, Letty ?’ asked she, hearing
| footsteps entering, and perceiving the
glimmer of a light through the curtains.
‘ Yes, Miss F.orence, it’s me, shall [ bring |
your supper?’
‘No; come here Letty.’
down the light, and came softly toward the |
bed, peeping through the curtains.
‘Letty,’ said Florence, ho'ding out her |
hand, ‘I spoke crossly to you, I did not
know what I was saying; you must forget it.’
‘Oh Miss Florence,
| had no business to stick my ugly nose in
| your matters, any way—that I hain’t. |
I knew that he was to address him |
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paper, too, with his cyphers stamped upon | letting them drip over her black
wish I pull out my tongue, I do—saucy old |
| thing. :
‘Undress me Letty, and let me sleep,
You don’t know how sick 1 am.’
Tenderly, as if she was fondling an infant,
night’s repose, which she fe:red would not
visit her pillow
her rich, tangled, tear-moistened Iccks, |
fingers,
in blacker, shining curls.
‘Thank you,’ said Florence, suffering her |
| head to fall languidly on the pillow. ‘That
| is soothing.
Every shadow of | Letty.
| again.
He has reveals |
| distance remained perfectly still.
It has the torrent’s smooths |
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| she cried out,
You
L will try never to be cross to you
Don’t say anything.’
are a good creature,
Letty placed the lamp in the chimney,
‘ No,’ she replied, with bloodless lips, ‘ 1| where it could not shine on the face of her |
young mistress, and seating herself at a
too was still.
ness after ithas dashed over the rocks--
the lull of the tempest after its fury is
spent. She slept—but it was not rest.
Every now and then she would start up with
a faint scream, look wildly around ker,
close her eyes and fall back again.
that letter !’
Letty sat in herskaded corner, and pon-
dered these things in her heart,’
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She is not to blame ; Lonly am. Rash, |
| have brought
it now when it is too |
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i tere wane} ler task was finished; the few decisive
«| and shuddered
‘You must not give up Katy for | a
He had told ber ance,
| sigh and pine, for an ingrate, unworthy
| her
kiss. He was rejoiced to see her look so |
much like herself, and his own stern. joy,
less countenance brightened as he grzed
But after the first greeting was
over, and she believed heraelf unnoticed,
ie remarked the gradual subsiding of her
spirit. The colour all went away from her |
cheek
and she sat with weeping lashes, |
that threw a deeper pallor on her pensive |
fuce,
‘Come and take a ride on horseback with
me, sister,’ said he when the breakfast was |
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unt to show you what wonders I have done
on the plantation since [ have taken the
reins in my owa hand. ‘That fine jaunt
had with Arnold’s negroes was an excels
nt apprenticesh Pp for re. They thought
[ was a jewel of a master.’
Florence appreciited ber brother’s mo-
She
She would |
tive, and gladly accompanied him.
wanted to get away from herself.
have gone to the world’s end if she could
luuve reached it. It
was astonishing how
ner life came back to her, when she went |
air on a light-footed pony. |
Phe haughty spirit that sustained her of |
dwelling-place
She would not weep, and
{a woman's generous, self.
rgetting love. She
though al
uncalculating,
would rend him from
her heart, \l of the quivering nem-
were torn away with the image it en-
shrined.
She had one task to perform which she
lreaded
mementoes of
but would not defer. To gather
ill the her ill-directed at.~
to return his letters und pledges
to destroy the faded flowers she |}
She took
from her finger a ruby ring, the token of
ot love;
had been treasuring as holy relics.
his plighted faith, and drew through it the
golden chain which he had passed round
The ruby was her favour,
[ts glowing hue heightened the
iark splendour of her beauty,
ippropriate emblem of love.
looked for
and was an
Now, as she }
the last time on a pledge she |
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even under the dark coffin-lid, it seemed to
a bleeding radiance, and she could al- }
most fancy ut t owed its crimson tint to drops
of blood. he letters she would not read. |
lest a nas ir of pages so fraught with
fascination should soften her purpose, and |
untit her for the stern duty before her
words written; the packet sealed directed
ind ready to be sent. Ther she sat down
at the blank before her,
THE PEOPLE'S ANSWER.
Tur victory at North Renfrew c ial
certainly be exaggerated as to its import.
It was probably as straight a fight |
| between the two parties as has ever been |
too en- |
Phey |
| upon the fact that this policy
wrapped her- |
don't say that. 1!
room, Flor- 5
(-o and |
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fought. The electors had the advantage
at issue discussed
and by Dr. Tupper on
and
bound to say that the issue was presented
of having the questions
by the first Minister
we are |
‘eat frankness :—‘* We |
are here toxni ght,’ ’ said Mr. McKenzie, in
achburg —‘ Dr.
being
his speech at Bre
“ and
Tupper
a distinguished |
of the Conservative party, I the
the Government—to
‘discuss in your presence the great public
be
which
myself—he
leader
“leader of reform
‘‘questions of the day, and it will for
‘you to judge in the coming contest,
‘ of the gr
at political parties has the best
‘right o: is the bes
‘the a And as if |
to localise the issue more directly. the first |
tqu lified to administer
ffiirs of the Dominion,”
Minister entered into an elaborate defence |
'of his railway policy, dwelling especially
| have
through which the railway is to run,
left the apart. |
her own room, she threw her. |
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urbed, | Kenzie would to-day give something
would ma
county of Renfrew,
and
apparently concious of the strength
appeal and the
terially benefit the
then,
of his certainty of its suc-
cess, he said :--‘ I have placed before you
‘fully and fairly the policy of the Governs
ment inregard to the railway, and upon |
‘the merits of this policy I ask the electors
‘‘to pronounce
We
approval by voting for |
no doubt Mr. Mc-
if he |
could but withdraw this bold submission |
of his policy to the arbitrament of the }
‘ Murray.” have
| people of North Renfrew. Taking the
issue as placed before the electors by |
| himself,
| approval.
The negro put |
|
stands condem-
ned as unfit to govern the country, and his |
his Government
is pronounced to be unworthy of |
Two hundred and ten of a ma-
jority for White, is the crushing answer to |}
policy
the Premier's appeal. We await anxiously
to see it accounted for upon some other
| hypothesis than the influence of Ultramon-~
tanism:— Montreal Gazette.
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INDIA’S VICEROY.
Loudon Letter in New York Tribune.
Lord Northbrook has shown ability in
but not ability of the highest or}
a very high kind, He is a good |
, India,
even of a
/man of business, laborious, occupying him- |
self far too much with details, and withs |
out ¢
Letty prepared her young mistress for the | away without leaving a mark on the great |
'an entire change from soft, succulent food
She combed and brushed |
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/ many and has dwelt everywhere excepting
| in the land of his birth—if indeed England
Florence |
| when his uncie, then Sir Henry Bulwer,
‘rapidly and finishing his subordinate career
Once |
‘the letter—oh! Marcus— |
, matic service, embassador excepted, though
capacity for great things. He will go}
Empire he has ruled for four years.
Lord Lytton, who is to succeed him, has
been pretty much everything in the diplo-
He was born with a. |
mouth, a mimic
some brains in his |
head, Of all Englishmen he is the one of the |
least English. He was educated in Ger- |
he is not yet 45.
silver-gilt spocn in his
be the land of his birth. There may be
people yet living in Washington who re-
member him, for he was attache of the
British Legation there, before he was 18,
was Minister. He has since served in |
most of the capitals of Europe, rising |
as Secretary of Legation in two years in
Paris, whence he went to Lisbon, in com-
pany with our friend Mr. Moran, as En- |
voy. He had been personally popular, his
name had become known in literature, his
Florence rose at the usual hour, and suf- | drawing-room tables; he is a lord having
fered Letty to linger with usual care over! succeeded his father, the first Baron, in
| poems are found upon the most eng
as she was wont)
;at a later
| Turkey is reserved,
| saving the point of honor.
' in fact toa formal renunciation of the old
| them with the sword.
| when he acquiesced in the abrogation by
| fairest
| earth,
| tans advocate annexation to England,
| property might be carried out to the latter
| past year in Great Britain and America,
| shorthorns :
| tfty-seven saies
| remain
' tne number of
| £87 each.
| for the whole lot was £510 19s.
‘remarkable was a sale heid
| thirty-four animals
| whic
FEBRUARY 7, 1876.
1873; he has married the neice of an Earl,
he is uderately rich, he is accomplished,
he knows the routine of official duties, and
he has given as little evidence of fitness
for the great post to which he is now called
as the late Lord Mayo himself; whenee,
probably, Mr. Disraeli’s belief that he will
achieve an equally remarkable success. It
is just possible that the Prime Minister's
love of paradox has led him astray.
two men could be more alike than Lord
Mayo, with his robust, slow-minded, com-
mon sense, and the versatile man of the
world who is known in literature as
Meredith, and in diplomacy as a brilliant
failure. As he has tailed in Europe, which
he knows thoroughly, more
likely than that he should succeed in India,
Owen
nothing is
of which he krows nothing.
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THE EASTERN QUE STION.
lus latest telegram on the Eastern ques-
tion is to the effect that the British Cabinet
to Count
er the name of reform, dethrones
has assented Andrasey’s note
which, u
the dominant race and dissolves the Otto
A right to consider
stage and in conjunction with
apparently by way of
This
man Empire. details
amounts
| policy of England on the E:stern question
land an abandonment of Turkey to re r fate.
; No doubt it is in that point of view that
the decision of the British Cabinet is con
lemned by a certain portion of the press
including the Morning Post, whieh in for-
mer days was Lord Palmerston’s personal
But it is
organ. easier to find fault with
‘ the action of the Government than to show
that it could have taken any other course
Turkish Province-
and what is more to
The insurrection in the
is evidently spreading,
' the purpose, it is clear enough that Austria
and Russia have made up their minds if
their proposals are resisted to give effect to
fiow can England
with barely troops to garrison her own
shores attempt to throw herself across the
path of two great military powers on the
Continent? It is true that the present
Government and their party held different
language when in Opposition, and that they |
are doing a sort of penance for the cons
|tumely they heaped upon Mr Gladstone
by Russia of the Treaty of Paris, a stroke |
of fate which he was equally powerless to |
So the book ot Turkish history is |
It contains some stirring pages of
arrest.
closed.
| nothing but the annals of a ont
' horde, corrupted but never civilized, and
which has for four centuries cursed with
barrenness, darkness and misery,
and most famous
some of |
regions of the |
the Western Provinces ; a party of the Cre-
and
it seems as though the programme of the
late Czar for the disposal of the Sick Man's
and the inutility of the Crimean war mark. |
ed by the severest irony of fate. — Zoronto
Nation.
| sult.
AGRICULTURAL.
SHORTHORN CATTLE.
Shorthorn sales are becoming almost as
“sensational ’’ as those of thoroughbred
| yearlings were a short time since, and it is
|}no uncommon thing for an animal of the
Jates or Boolk blood, each of which strain
has its respective admirers and even cham-
pions to be sold at a price «qual to thar
which a Derby winner would have realizea
a few years ago. From comparitive tables
of the resuits of these sales during the
which are published in the almanse of the
Agricultural Gazetie, it appears that the
total amounts realized at these sales were
almost the same for both countries. ‘The
returns refer only to the sales of “pedigree
’—that is to say of animals in
seribed = in the Herd Book, which is fo;
cattle, and the Stud Book which is for turf
and from them we learn that while the
sixty-five sales held in Great Britain
yie'ded a total of £228 088 16s. the
} in America amounted to
£204.790 6s. 10d. Each of the American
sales amounted upon an wverage, to £3 593
a8 against £3,509 for each of the Engitsi,
sales; but the advantage does not in reality
with the American breeders, fo:
though eight fewer sales were held there
animals disposed of was
within ten of those sold at home. The
2,529 =horthorns sold in America averaged
£7% each, and the 2.599 sold in Great Britain
The largest total realized at
any one sale was £42019 163., for which
84 animals belonging to the late Mr. Torr,
a Lincolnshire farmer, were disposed of in
September. 'he highest price given at
this sale was 2,168 guineas. and the average
“till more
in Scotland a
week previously, when thirty-nine animals
the property of Lord Dunmore, fetched
£26,223 15 This gives an average of
| £672 83s. for each animal, one of which
|} went for 4500 guineas. At a third sale
fetched more than
£10,000, and several others took place at
h the total was over £7,000 and the
average was over £200) The most success-
ful sale held in America was that at which |
shorthorns fetehed £18,534 154. 5d., with
an average of £402 19s. 9d. forthe whole
number, One of them reaching £3225. At
two other sales in America toials of rather
No,
‘ still larger supply in the lower strata,
' the drum and trumpet kind, but otherwise
Crete is serving herself, as well as | -
TODS CETL. ea
{ ORRENPONDEAC i
CITY WATFR-WORKS
City Pres
:—-It is now abhor it eight
mouths ~ince I addresss d you on the subject
of Water Supply. It was pleasing to observe
the unaui mity of the Press in rousing the
public attention to a sense of our critical
position. The effect of that appeal was
GENTLEMEN
manifest at the August elections when the
advocates of a suitable Water Supply
Were triumphantly returned, reversing the
| decisions of previous elections. It was
generally believed the right men were re-
turned; that a new reyime would be ins
}augurated; and that prompt action
| would be taken in currying out the well
understood wishes of the p ople) in procurs
ing a liberal supply of water tor the domes.
tic and public requirements of our inere
ing population,
Wbetuer the air of the Civ
iss
ic Hall is suf-
ficientiy pure, or the Crvie chairs pOss@ss a
sodorific hh flaence, i t pparent But
|} there can be no doubt t}
flat if the lea ing
questions decided ut t e polls, had been
the extension of the license system, on the
levying of additional taxes, no time would
have been wasted in the d scharge of such
stlOns lt is believed, h wever, that
this Worship t Mayor, and several of the
Councillors are strongly in favor of the
prosecution of this important public work;
yet Ibis patent lo every one that either
their actions as a body betrays no anxiety
on the subject; or that the work is beyond
their c ‘dP pe ion, or that they do not
feel inclined to attend toit. The result of
the wy Six months will prove the correct.
ness of one of these infe) ences,
It is well known that two schemes
before the public, vz: Winter River
were
and
n artesian well, Both head thei: advocates,
Ihe former was Obj-cied to on the vround
ofthe great engineering difficulties im the
n the way of utilizing that vineeethie tre-
menuous Cost as compured with the re-
-Ources Of the city—the heavy taxation
Which wouid surely follow and the insuf-
lickency Of supply to meet requirements,
fhe latter Was opposed becuse our strate
had not been bored to ascertain if water
could be and
uaranlee
gq ialities of
rtained by
obtained in suflicient volume
use if suthecies could g
its good quality. The good
the first scheme
anengipecr from [uifax. His estimates
for construction had been tested by Messrs,
Shanly & Boyd, and proved to be ridicul-
ously low. In favor of the latter, it was
urged that being close at hand it would
save an enormous outlay, in comparison
with the other, for conduit pipes, tunnel,
uqueducts, filters, costly dims, embank-
ments, damage to lands und purchase of
water priviledges that Ss similar stata had
becu it ne One
had been asc
| in Oluer Countries ylelded an abundant sup>
ply of pure water, there Was eVery reason
tv believe ours would not be an exception,
that our abundant springs which found ae-
cess eveyrwhere to the surface, indicated a
and
that to test the question 4 very small out-
lay wouid suffice,
Under these circumstances the path of
duty was plain enough The first scheme
had been experimented on, co ting the ( City
over $900.00. If the second shouid be sue.
cesstul the sre could be no qte-tuion as to
the immense savings. Did they decide on
iMporting a bore: or in advertising fora
practical man to come at once and coms
mence the work ? There was no necessity
toreven this effort. Before Mayor Renkin
left the chair, he received .an otter troma
gentieman in Pictou offering to undertake
the work. This information was laid before
the new Council. Did they acee tit? J
im ashamed to hig ar that they ‘not only
reject: d this offer, but refused to entertain
any propositions funhane 10 the same re-
“onth after month was squandered
1: doing ——— and late in the fall an Ens
rineer was brought from St. John whose
first and chiet work was to go out and sur-
vey Winter River! and sub equently two
or three streams nearer the city. It was
then arranged that it would be necessary to
i a-certain tie iowe-t level of these streams
in the driest season of the summer, (as if
no one could supply that —_ rmation on
} the spot.) which would virt ya Emig the
question a he months’ hoist ! and the farce
was ended i must, however, give them
credit tora bitof Civic Engineering. In
order to get rid of the artesian weli ques«
tion, it was neatly folied red taped,
and handed over to the E iwineer to
repo! t on, in plain words, inciwid
an ‘ f After all this unnecessary
delay what is likely to be his answer? but
something in this style, * Gentlemen, if you
Wish to a-certain the: ut ot boring I ad.
Vise you to
It the City Council had really desired in.
formation of the most reliable kind r garde
ing the p ybable success of an artes an
weil where could they obtain « more trust.
worthy adviser than the celebrated Geolo-
c+. Daweon, L.. L.. D, F. E.G. 8,
G. 8.7 hose
Local Govern-
il Structure
report to Gur
ment, in 187], on the
Geologic
ind Mineral Resources of this Island says,
page 34 ‘ The fissures of the red sand-
stone atiord, in many paces, copious springs
OF exceiient Water ihils
possibiuity of obtaining a
by boring. As
and Suggests the
iditional supplies
the supply of water at
present very deficient,
erving Of con-ideration whether
mizht not be advantageously
Yhe stratigraphical
rene in the vicinity of
ty In favorable to success, and borings
of moderat would be necess
Churiottetown is at
it is des
this means
Nsei to Ine
irrany
the c
crease it
it of the rock-«
e de pth, such as
saiy to test the quantity that could be obs
taned, are executed in Nova Neotia at
about $! to $2 per foot Othat the expense
wouli be -mail, and supplies of water of
great importance to (he com!ortand health
of the citizens might be obtained.’’ The
fact is patent to all, that our City Coungil
has given the very best exempliticatien of
“OW NOT TO DO IT.”
In the meantime the risk
the increase. Our soil is stil! receiving its
quota of stagnant drainage table for
miasmatic exbalations in the hot and damp
weather of next summer and autumn.
Our wells are -upplied with polluted drains
age, and our rate of mortality is alarmi ngly
from fire is on
suit
more than +10), 000 were obtained for thirty. | 0m the increase, cau-ed by fevers and
five and for thirty three lots, the average | other diseases which are clearly traceable
in the two cases being slightly over and | to the want of proper drainage and an
under £300. These figures may be left to
speak for themselves, but it is impossible
to avoid the suspicion that purchasers will |
not, in the long run, get tie bestot the
| bargain.— Pall Mall Gazette.
Seep Feepinc.—Sheep require during
the long winter, some soft, pultaceous food
to take the place of succulent grasses. |
More diseases and losses are occasioned by
to dry bay than from too close herding.
though the latter is often very injurious.
The best English feeders do not suffera |
tithe of the losses of the average of ours.
They feed roots which may be considered |
grass laid up for winter use; they also feed
| much oil cake, which has a very similar
| effect on the system of most herbiverous
animals as grass. American farmers have
hot yet generally adopted root-culture, and
therefore, are not prepared to adopt the
Englisb practice in this respect; but they |
may use 4 small quantity of oil-cake, at a
lesss rate of cost than the English
farmer, for we export many thousand
tons which ought to be used at home.
When large feeds of Indian corn are added {
to dry hay, it only increases the difficuity,
for corn is a very fattening and heating
food, and thus excites a feverish state of
the system. We would pot discard corn as
a sheep food, but would always feed with it
some laxative elements, as roots, bran and
oil meal. One pound to ten sheep per day,
is sufficient to modify the effects of dry
food. This would only require one ton for
100 sheep 200 G.ys, and it will lay on more
value of wool and mutton than it costs, be-
sides improving the heaith of the sheep. _
Live Stock Journa’?
George § Sand and George Elliot are both
writing new novels,
efficient water supply. If our © vic digni-
taries Can Occupy their exalted po-itions
with equanimity, and calmly survey the
risks and de-solations which are too surely
stesling over the community, 1 envy not
their future reflections or responsibilities.
I may shortly give you a statement res-
pecting the sanitary condition of this city
from 4 medical standpoint, and a description
of some of the artesian wells from which
many of our towns and cities of England
derive their daily supply. In the means
time, I trust you will bring yoor mfluence
to bear upon the subject. until the public
are fully enlightened as to their danger
and duty.
I retaain, Gentlemen,
Your obd’t, servant,
Wa. Hiazp,
Ch'town, Jan. 25th, 1876.
Tue Presentation Booxs.—A writer in
the World says: * [ learn that the presen-
tation-books which the Prince of Wales has
taken out with him to India cost between
1500land 1600 Yet at a late moment,
the number of these books has been found
insufficient. Twenty copies more of Cols
onel SBuckles’s translation of L’ Inde des
Raj ths have been ordered of Messrs.
Sotheran & Co., to be sent to Inia at once,
bound, as the previous {fifty copies were, in
,the most sumptuous fashion In cons
nection with the Pvince’s t to Indiaa
new difficulty, 1 hear, has presented itself,
Many of those wLo met the future Em-
peror of Hindustan at Bombay meet him
again at Calcutta. They will present fresh
presents, ‘The Prince will have to do likes
wise. It is thus feared that he will have
| nothing to give away by the time he reaches
the Western borders of the North-West
Provinces:
