‘Sumnecside ec aurnal. AND WESTERN PIONEER. : DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, TEMPERANCE AND NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 17. Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Thursday, January iN 1869. THE | Summerside Journa', 18 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVENING, BY JOSEPH BERTRAM, ‘AT HIS OFFICE, CENTRAL STREET, TERMS: 1 copy for ome year, in advance, 6s. 3d. Af oy) half advance, 7s. 6d. t atthe end of year 9s. Persons getting up c.uns of ren Subscribers will be entitled to the Journat for oneyear. “ ADVERTISEMENTS. inserted at moderate rates and in good style. Specrar AcreEMENTS may be made on reasonable terms for a whole, a half, or quar- ter column, or by the year. Job Printing’ of avery description, performed with neatness and despatch, and at moderate rates, 1869. Almanac for January, : MOON'S PHASES. Tast Qtr., 5th day, 4h. 10m. mornin, S. FE. New Nee 12th day, 2h. 40m,, evening,S.W. First Qtr. 20th day, 8h. 14m., evening, 8.W. Full Moon,27th day, 9h. 17m, evening, N. 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Jan. 21, 1869. Oats per bush - ---------- 28 dda 28 Ga Potatoes per bush - - - 1s 8da Is 6d Turnips per bush - ---- 10dals Butter per lb by ‘Tub -- 18da 14d ------ 9%dal0d Lard per lb ------- Tallow per lb. ------- Eggs per doz ------ Beef perlb ------ Mutton per lb - - Hides per lb - - - Mackerel per doz Codfish per qt------ Pork per lb by carcass 9d a 10d 1ld als Bda 4d 2d a 3d 44d 28a 3s 16s a 17s 8d a 5d Flour per bbl -------- ----- 458 a 508 Island Flour per cwt ----+-- 198 to 20s Oatmeal per ewt. --- 1680178 Hay per Ton - - --- ----- 50sa 60s Pine Boards - - -- 10s cose wees 4s a 5s Spruce Boards - - Business Garads. BANK OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Corner of Great George § King Streets, Charlottetown. President—Hon. Daniev Brenan. Cashier—Wittiam Cunpaur, Esquire. Discount Days—Mondays & ‘Thursdays. Hours of Business—Fom 10 a.m. tol p.m. from 2 p.m to 4 p.m, UNION BANK. Grofion St., Queen's Square, Charlottetown President—Cnaries Patmen, Esquire. Cashier—James AnveRson, Esquire. Discount Days—Wednesdays & Saturdays. atours of Business—From 10 a.m to 1p m., from 2 p.m to 4pm. SUMMERSIDE BANK. ventral Street, Summerside, P. E. Island Wresident—Hon. Joun R. Garpiner. Cashier—L. L. LyptAkn, Wsquire Discount Days—Tuesdays and Fridays. Notes for Discount must bein before 11 o'clock on Discount days. sfours of Business—10 a. m.. to 1p.m. from 2 p, m., to 4 pm, Dk. J. N. FULLER, Graduate ol Bellevue Hospital, Medion Gollige, BH. y. re ¢ in the residence of Rey. . DesBrisny, on Water Sireat—diecetly opposite the Establishment of J. L. Holman, Eaq., *," All calls promptly attended to. Summerside, October 15, 1868, DR. J. I, JAMIESON, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUSHEUR OFFICE at the residence of the Rev. W.W. Colpitts, Margate. December 8, 1868. DR. J. PRIOR, Physician & Surgeon, Orrice—At the Summersrpz Drug Store, next door to Bank, Central Street SUMMERSIDE, DP. B, ISLAND. October 12, 1868, DR. JARVIS — Hos Removed His Residence to the House (lately occupied by Mr McKinlay) next to Thomas Hunt's, Esq. , St Eleanor’s. Ho may be consulted every forenoon at the Drog Store of W.'T. HUNT & Co. , Summer side. St. Eleanor’s, May 18, 1868. Business Guards. North British and Mercantile tNSURANCE COMPANY. FIRE AND LIFE. CAPITAL: TWO MILLIONS, Sterling. CHIEF OFFICES: 64 Princes Street, Edinburgh. 61 Threadneedle Street, London. Risks taken daily, in‘Townand Conntry, at the office of the Agent, Reading room Building, Dorciester street. G. W. DeBLOIS, General Agent for P B Island. Charlottetown, June 20, 1868.—ly* THOMAS KELLY, Barrister - at - Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC, &o. SUMMERSIDE, - - P, BE, ISLAND, J. H. ALLEN, Commission !erchant, And Dealer in Provisions, &c, MARKET STREET, St. John, N, B. dar" Gives personal attention to the Sale and Purchase of every description of Goods. May 9, 1868. WILLIAM BEAIRSTO, Commission Merchant, Auctioneer & General Agent, WATER STREET, Summerside, P. FE. Island WILLIAM DODD, Commission Merchant, And Auctioneer, QUEEN SQUARE, JHARLOTTETOWN--- P.E.ISLAND JOWN McKAY, Gommission Aerchant And Auctioneer, COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SUMMERSIDE.......... P. EB. ISLAND. REFERENCES : J. Berrram, Printer, Summerside, P. E. J. 1. McLreop, Merchant, Char'town, J. ML. Auten, St. John, N, B. Nov 19, ’68& Re WwW. D. HUNT, Gomnission 3tlerchants, GENERAL AGENTS AND AUCTIONEERS. SALESROOM AND OFFICK Head of Queen’s Wharf. (opposite the Store of Wm, T. Hunt & Co.) Summerside, P. E. Island. _ April 2 1868 ly : L CARVELL BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS, Commission Merchants, And Generali Agents, BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET. Charlottetown, - - - + - P. Be Island HANFORD BROTHERS, Successors to Thomas Hanford, Commission Merchants, And General Agents. 11 NORTH MARKET WHARE: SAINT JOHN, N. B. Chas. U. Hanford Fred, §, Hanford A. W. ANDRES, Marble Worker, Point Du Chene, Shediac N. B, MONUMENTS, TOMBS, GRAVE- STONES, &e., &c. AMERICAN AND ItaALIAN MARBLE con- stantly on hand. Can furnish Gravestones and Monuments ata less price than any other establishment in the Provinces, and pay a duty besides, \ da ORT ew can be left at Berrram's Book Store and at D, Enman’s, Esq., Summerside, or sent to A. W. ANDRES, Point Du Chene, June 11th, 1868. 1G; (next to Park Hotel) ST: JOHN, N. B. JAMES W. THOMPSON, -- - - PROPRIETOR FW\IULE Proprietor of the above HOTEL takes this opportunity to return thanks for the liberal patrouage hitherto received, and most respectfully solicits a continuance of the s me, This HOTEL is very pleasantly situated, and commands a view of King Square, and other parts of the City. In connection with the Hotel, is GOOD STABLING, and a careful Hostler in attend- ance. Parties coming from Prince Edward Island with horses will find this establishment the most comfortable in the City, and a per- son always at the Cars on their arrival. St. John, Sept. 10, 1868, ly CRAWFORD'S HOTEL, No, 9, King Square, sT. JOFIN, N. B. NHE subscriber having thoroughly refitted and enlarged his HOTEL and STORE, is now prepared to accommodate Permanent and Transient Boarders on the most reasonable terms, be ALSO, in connection,a GROCERY STORE, where every article required for house use may be had. J. CRAWFORD & BON, Sept. 10,1868, ly NEW YORK , COMPANY, Assets, ganna Ist, 1868, Over Ten Million Dollars PRESIDENT: MORRIS FRANKLIN, ESQ., Vice President and Actuary: WILLIAM H. BEERS, Jr. WALTER BURKE, Esa., Herald Buildings, Montreal, The New. York IS ONE OF THE OLDEST INSTITUTIONS the year 1841,und commenced businessin Muy,1845, . During the twenty-three years of its existence. it has issued policies upon the lives of more than Fifty Thousand Persons, and has paid in losses $5,000,000 to the families and representatives of those who have deceased while members of the Company. Annual Income EXCEEDS Four Million Dollars. A SAFE INVESTMENT. every lusnrance Company, in which the pro- ceeds of a Poiicy has Revell from poverty the sur- Vivors of those who have thus made provision for their wants in times ot prosperity and health. A wife may insure the lite of her husband for her own benetit, und should she survive him, the amount of the insurance will be payable to her free from any clititus against his estate} and in case of the death of the wife before that of the husband, the amount of the surance may be made payable to her children, THE COMPANY DECLARES ANNUAL CASH DIVIDENDS, which are available in payment of each Annual Premium, All the insured in this Company receive dividends which can be used in part of the second and each subsequent Annual Premium thereafter; or the dividend may be allowed to accumulate, and subsequently whole or in part ia the pay- ment of Pr uns. ‘The business of the Company being PURELY MUTUAL, euch member pays only the average cost of isuranee, all surplus annually returned to the Policy holders. vinies having a Stock Cupital usually retain we portion for the Stockholders.) Tlie Diyi- dends paid to Policy holders exceed $3,000,000, Endowiment Assurance Policies. These Policies are coming into general request Asa sure and profitable investment for one's de- clining years, they deserve the attention of all. The sum secured by an ordinary life polley becomes avuiluble upon the death of the assured; on the Endowment plav the amount is received by the assured himself upen his attaining a specified age, while full provision is made for death occurring prior thereto, THE NON-FORFEITURE PLAN, This company originated and introduced the val nuble feature known as the Non-Forfeiture Plan which is rapidly superseding the old system of life lony ments, and bus revolutionized the system of Life Insurance in the United States, and whieh has been adopted (yenerally in a less favorable form) by all Lite Companies, A party, by this table, after the second year, cannot forfeit any part of what has een paid ine [3 Tables of Rates, Clreulars, Examples of Divdiends, Forms, &c., can be had by applying to the Ayent, at Charlottetown, MEDICAL EXAMIMERS: Dr. MACKIESON, Dr. R. JONNSON. Agent for P. E, Island: MENRY A. HARVIE, Ch'town Noy 19, 1868, The Canada Life Assurance Company Established 18-47. Incorporated under Special Act of Parliament. Manager--A. G. Ramsay, F. 1, A. HEAD OFFIGE: HAMILTON, ONTARIO. fapital-One Million Dollars! TALIFAX, N, 8, Honorary Directors : The Ion Ed vard Kenny, ‘The Hon 8S. L. Shannon, The Hon John W. Ritchie, William Hare, Esq. Medical Adviser—W.J. Almon, Esq. M D Agent—M B Almon, Junr. £AINT JOHN. N. B, Honorary Directors. John V. Thurgar, Esq-Rev Wm Scovil, A M Alex. Jardine, Esq-Joln Boyd, Esq Charles Merritt, sq. Medical Advisers—Drs. Harding & McLaren Agent—James G Forbes, The Terms and conditions of Assurance of this old established Company, are as liberal and unrestricted as those of other good com- panies, and the rates which are founded on the higher interest obtainable in Canada than in Great Britain, are lower than those of British and Ameriean Offices. Endowment Policies payable during life- time of assured Policies payable during a LIMITED NUMBER Of years, Liberal regulations as to foreign residence, travel and occupation, Agents ron P. E. Istann . Charlottetown—W. D. Stewart, Summerside—J. Berrram, Medical Adviser—F. D. Bexn, M.D. Tables of Rates for the more general forms of Life Assurance, and every information may be obtained at any of the Agencies, which are established on the Island. J. W. MARLING, General Agent, October 29, '68 $n Established 1845. LIFE INUSRANGE HEAD OFFICE 112 & 114 Broadway, N.Y. General Agent for the Dominion of Canada: Life Insurance Company Of the kind in America, having been chartered in The instances are many within the experience of POETRY. THE PRINTER'S HOHENLINDEN, In seasons when our funds are low, Subscribers are provoking slow, A few supplies keep up the flow Of dimes departing rapidly, But we shall see a sadder sight, When duns pour in from morn till night, Commanding every sixpence bright To be forked over speedily. Our bonds and due bills are arrayed, Each seal and signature displayed ; The owners vow they must be paid, With threats of law and chancery: Then to despair we're almost driven, There's precious little use of livin’ When our last copper’s rudely riven From hands that held it lovingly. But larger yet those duns shall grow, When interest’s added on below, Length’ ning our chin a foot or so, When gazing at them hopelessly. "Lis so, that scarce have we begun ‘To plead for tine upon a dun, Before there comes another one, Demanding pay ferociously. The prospect durkens—on, ye brave! Who would our very bacon save ; Waive, putrons, all your pretexts wai And piy the printer cheerfully ve, Ah! it wonld yield us pleasure sweet, A few delinquents now to meet, Asking of as a clear receipt For papers taken reg’ larly, Shot through the Heart. “Where is Ardent?” ** What is the matter, mother?” “Stephen, her father is dead.” Stephen Allen rose hastily and took the open Jetter from his mother's hands. While he was reading the door opened and a girl entered the room. No human being was ever handsomer, I have seen people stand transfixed before Ardent Al- liston, seeming unable to believe their eyes. She was perfectly beautiful, utterly graceful, And as she crossed the room, her wine-colored dress trailing benind her, the two watched her with a dumb pity, She went to the window, and stood there, lightly tapping on the pane with her white fingers. Mother and son exchanged glan- ces of pain, “LIus the mail carrier come, Stephen? It's time I had a letter from papa.” As the girl spoke, she whirled lightly, and dropped down upon an ottoman at Stephen Allen's feet. He had erushed the letter in his hand, but her quick glanee detected it, «Stephie, Stephie, that’s a love-letter, I know. Let me see it—let me see it! Tam just in the humor for reading a love-letter, Ive thought you was in love, this long time.” She was trying to wrest the letter from his hand, when he clasped both her slender wrists, dropping the sheet. + Ardeat. you shall read it, but it is not a love-letter.” ‘The merriment died out of her beautiful face at his tone. “Is it my letter, Stephie?” * It concerns you, Ardent.” The color began to die out of her lovely cheek. “*Stephie, what do you me: n?” *IU’s not a letter of good tidings dear,” he said, gently; and then, seeing that she was somewhat preparee, gave her the sheet. : She grasped it with a trembling hand and read, IIe saw the swiltly blanching cheek, the dilating eyes, the terror and fear com- ing out in tense lines in the delicate face, and his own face was almost agonized. She rose, at last—was going mutely from the room, but her sight failed; she staggered, and would haye fallen to the floor, but that he sprang and caught ber in his arms, ‘Father, father!” she sobbed, writhing upon his breast. Through all her grief he tended her as if she were a stricken child, and it was weeks before she rallied from the first dreadful shock of her life. The others missed her bloom and brightness about the house; he thought only of the girl's aching heart, and forgot himself utterly— forgot that, with his more than human compassion, that he was only human, and that he was laying up tor himself immep- surable pain, All his tenderness and car failed iv do what one litle fewapaper paragraph did in a moment, bring the color to her cheek, arrest the flow of her texrs. He picked the paper up after she had gone, and re-read what he had seen her read with absorbing interest, ' Arrived in the baryue Woldvon, Junius Lemoine, ete.” lie remembered the man, recollected his beauty and giace, his gilt to Ardent ot flowers and rare foreign relies. He had been absent a year in Europe. Stephen had wondered sometimes it she wrote to him. Once, when he saw a letter which was mailed London, he turned tick and faint with the certainty; but then this grief came and he forgot everything but her, that she suffered, And now when he saw the girl forget the sorrow he had toiled so earnestly to assuage at the mere sight of that man’s name,an unspeakable bitterness rose in his heart, If she marries him, I think it will kill me,” he said, walking the floor, ** 1 should have been more cautious,” he broke out again. ‘I have been a fool, to forget myself so utterly for her, But, then, I could not resist her desolate moans, her fright at her orphanage, her little clinging hands and trusting embrace. L did not realize how sweet [ found it to attend her ; that all the tine a hope was growing in my heart. Now—now—” He struck his clenched hand against his brow. Just then the bell rang, and a boy de- livered a note from one of the hotels. Ile called Ardent down, that he might deliver it into her own hand, A little startled blush came to her pale chee , her lids fell before his inquiring guzv, “Tt is from Mr. Lemoine,” she said, quietly. ‘I saw his name in the list of arrivals this morning.” She smiled and blushed again, not even seeing his pallor, as she turned away, Ie was certain now that she loved him. There was nothing now for him to do but to keep his pain out of sight. He worked busily, but he could not help thinking, Ardent was an orphan now; She had no longer a father to preyide for uer, and it was probable she would soon go to the home she loved, Lemoine was of respectuble connections; weaitny, it wassaid. Mrs. Allen inquired about these things anxiously, and reported to Stephen, who heard silently. She had taken a mother’s interest in the motherless girl, and was anxious respe:ting her welfare, And Ardent—she was lost in a rose- colored dream, She was eighteen, impul- sive, imaginative, and Lemoine was won- derfully attractive, It was plain to others besides Stephen, to see that she was happy with him, as with no one else—that her very heart was bound up in him. Iteame to light that they had been close corres- pondents during the year of absence, Love is keen-sighted, and it was no or- (inary affection that Stephen Allen bore this girl, If he hud believed Junius Le- moine to be an honest and virtuous man, he would have kept his secret and made no sign of his loss; for, as I have said, he loved her; her happiness was dearer than his, But he looked at Lemoine through no rose-colored mist of youth and romance At the onset, he knew the man to be given to indulgences which argued no good toa devoted woman. And so, one day, when Ardent came sweeping into the parlor in a new dress of snowy éulle, turning around in merry exhibition, and then laughing in his face, with her white hands on his shoul- ders, he clasped her suddenly, and said: **O Ardent, Ardent, how IL love you!” She shrank « little, the color dying from her smiling lips. It she had suspected Stephen’s love, she expected no revelation of itnow. But he could not restrain him- seltin this unlooked for moment of tempta- tion, when the fiyst words of confession had leaped from his lips, She tried to dis- engage herselt gently, but he held her close. ‘I did not mean to tell you, Ardent—I cannot tell you; God only knows my heart. Will you leave me ?” She tried to speak, trembling very much, At last she faltered, ** Stephen, don’t talk so. You know—” **I know you mean to marry Lemoine. Ardent, L would work for you to my dying day, aud never toueh your hand, mean- while, rather than see you that man’s wite.” ** What do you mean ?” Her color came back, and she looked up into his face with a cold surprise. ‘IT should talk idly to you it I tried to point out his faults. You love him.” * Yes, I love him!” she cried, her beau- titul cheeks aflame. ‘* Ido not claim that he is perfect. He has been wild, they say ; perhaps it is true; but if there is any strength in a womun’s devotion, he will hencctorth have a safeguard. 1 can live for him, die for him! You need say no more to me of his faults, Stephen,” «{ will say no more,” he answered, sadly. In a week they were married and went South; the o/d Scuth, prosperous to the owners of men, vieh and beautiful, with their toil, to gladden the eyes of the enthu- siastic young bride, And now that her loss was a dead cer- tainty to Stephen Allen, he went his way bravely. He had loved too purely to make anything but duty a substitute for his love; but he was changed, even to the most indifferent eye. Men said that he bad grown cold, Well, endurance dead- ens the impulses, Ile was never called cold by his mother, or by any suffering being that came in his way, During the first twelvemonth of her miarriage, there had come several letters from Ardent, innocent, happy, yet earnest letters, assuring Mrs, Allen of her happi- ness. «Junius was not rich, after all,” she wrote, ‘but they lad everything she want- ed. ‘To be sure, she was a little lonely sometiines, Junius was away so much, but that could not be helped." Stephen never touched these letters. His mother, suspecting nothing, gaye her reports and made her comments with no demonstration from him, She never dreamed that her grave, manly elder son had more than a brotherly interest in the beautilul, absent girl. Make Home Happy. To mako your home happy, see that you make your wife feel that your affee- tions and tenderness for her are in no de- gree diminished from the day when you first sought her. Do notlether have, when you can help it, to sit alone and go out alone. You would not haye done so once upon atime. Do not reserve all your blandness and fragrance for strang- ers and casual acquaintances. ‘There are some men judging from whose out of door Manners it would seem that nothing was left to be desired, who are, nevertheless, of the ursa-major tribe at home; men who keep their pleasant ways and genial smiles and cheerful works for company, and who can only be silent, or peevish and exacting with their wives. Have such men any reason to complain that their homes aae not happy? ‘There is a. good deal of undeserved censure passed: on wome. on account of their not making home more attractive. Much of this blame is chargeable tomen. With whas heart can a woman strive to make a fire+ side cheerful, when she knows from bitter experience that the companion of her life will come home to criticise her cookery, to disregard her personal appearance, and to let off her wounded but patient ear fretful language on account of everything that hus gone wrong out of doors! See to it that you do your part to make home happy by cheerlul encouragement to your wile, A Pithy Sermon to Young Men. You are the architects of your own for- tunes. Rely upon your own str ngth of body and soul. ‘Take for your motto, Sell-rglianee, Honesty and Industry. For your star, Faith, Perseverance and Pluck, and inseribe on your banner, ** Be just and fear not.” Don't take too much ad- ice; keep the helm, and steer your own ship. ‘Think well of yourselves.—Strike out, Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Assume your position. Do not prac- tice excessive humility; you can’t get above your level. = Water don’t rau up hill; put potatoes in a cart over a rough road, und small potatoes will go to the bottom. Energy, invincivle determination, with a right motive, are the levers that move the world, Civility costs nothing, but buys everything. Don’t drink, Don’t < smoke, Don't chew. Don’t swear, Don’t gamble. Don’t lie. Don’t steal, Don't deceive. Don’t tattle. Be polite. Be judicious. Be generous. Be kind. Study hard. Be in earnest. Be self-reliant. Read good books. Love your fellow men as well as God.—Love your country and obey the laws. Love virtue. Always do what your conscience tells you to be a ay and leaye the consequences with ou, Srncutar Case or IaLtucinarion.— Husbavd Visited in Dreams by his Dead wife.-—Vrom the Monongahela (Penn.) Lepublican we copy the following : —‘ Not very long ago the young and beautiful wile of one of our citizens was called to her final acconnt, leaving her husband sad, disconsolate and berett. She was buried in the adjacent cemetery, and the husband returned to his desolate home, but not to forget hisloyed one, She was present with him by day, in spirit. and in his dreams by night, One peculiarity of his dreams, and one that haunted him— being repeated night after night—was this: that the spirit of his wile came to his bedside aad told him that the under- taker had not removed from her face the square piece of muslin or napkin which had been used to cover her ace after death, but had screwed down her collin lid with it upon her, and that she could not breathe in her grave,but was wrestless on account of the napkin. He tried to drive his dream away, but it abided with him by night and troubled him by day, Ile sought the con- solution of religion, and his pastor prayed with him, and assured him that it was wicked to indulge such morbid fancy, It was the subject of his own petition before the Throne of Grace; but still the Spirig came ond told anew the story of her suftox cation, In despair he sought the unders taker, Mr, Dickey, who told him that the napkin had not beeh removed, but urged him to forget the circumstance, as it could not be any possible annoyance to inani- mate clay. While the gentleman frankly acknowledged this he could not avoid tha apparition, and continual stress upon his mind began to tell upon his health, At But one winter night, about two years | after Ardents marriage, there came a} cramped, scrawled letter, the production of which was evidently toilsome labor to! some unaccustomed hand. The meaning | was as follows: “Tam dirceied by my dear mi: tress to write to you. She is very sick, and is leegth he determined to have the body disinterred, and visited the undertaker tor | that purpose, “Tere he was met with the same ad- yieo aud , ersuasion, and convicted once more of his folly, the haunted man return- edto his home. That night more vivid than ever, more terribly real than before, she came to his bedside and upbraided afraid that she will die and leave her li tle child with no one to care for it. She} begs you to come to her right away, 1) am obly a poor servant and cannot write well, but L hope you will make out my, meaning.” I * Why, where can her husband be ?” ex- | claimed Mrs, Allen. “Tthe has dared neglect her, woe be | unto him!” cried Stephen, springing to his feet, In an hour he had gone, Readipg his secret in his impetuosity, the startled mo- ther gaye him her trembling good-bye kiss, and then fell to packing stores of} comtorts for Ardent, to be sent asStephen | should advise by telegraph, (Concluded next wesk.) Sians.—It is » good sign to see a man doan act of charity, Itis a bad sign to hear bim boasting of it. It is a good sign to see an honest man wearing his old clothes, It is a bad sign to see them fill- ing the hol:s in the window, It isa good sign to see a man wiping the perspiration trom his brow, It is a bad sign to sce # man wipe his chops as he comes out of him for his want of affection, and would not leave him until he promised to re- move the cause ofall her suffering. The next night with a friend, he repaired to the sexton, who was prevailed upon to accompany them, and there, by the light ot the cold, round moon, the body was was lifted from its narrow bed, the coflin lid unscrewed, and the napkin removed (rom the face of the corpse, That night she caine to his bedside once more but forthe lasttime. Thanking him for his kindness, she pressed her cold lips to his cheek and came again no more, Reader, this isa true story; can you explain the mystery of dreams ?” People who do business advertise. In other words they make themselves known. Kvery advertiser lives on a front street; every person doing business that don't ad- vertise, simply vegetates on a back, nars row, uninviling street, One class is re- presented in the numerals as a figure, the other as a cipher. One is alive, the other is not much better than dead, One is in sunshine, the other in shade. Intellect can be cultivated the same as flowers. It contains within itself all the cellar, It is a good sign to see » wo- man dressing with taste and peatnes. It is a bad sign to sev her hasbaud sued for finery. It is a good sign to see aman ad- vertise in the papers, It isa bad sign to sve the sheriff adyertise for him. It is a good sign to seen man sending his chil- dren to school, them educated at the eveving-school in the street, itis a bad sign to see the principles of growth, A conscious- uess ol iguoranceis the planting of the sved. ‘Fhe desire to be wiser, its germi- uation. Study, its leat and flowering, and knowledge its trait, Actions are immortal, and our. deeds Laie and their deservings hereafter must be the twin companions that shall walk in eternity band in hand,