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BREADSTUFFS.

Buckwheat Flour, per lb 0.03 to 0.34

Flour, per bbl 5.50 to 7.00

Flour, per 100 lbs 3.00 to 3.25

Oatmeal, per 100 lbs 8.25 to 3.50

FISH.

Codfish per qtl 3.50 to 5.00

Herring per bbl 4.87 to 6.49

Mackerel per doz. 0.48 to 0.72

BOARDS.

Hemlock, 100 feet. 0.81 soaps ine do 1.62 to 2. Spruce do 0.97 to 1.30 Shingles, per M. 1.50 to 1.75 POULTRY.

$0.40 to 0.60 0.25 to 0.30 0.25 to 0.35 0.00 to 0.00 0 80 to 1.75

Chickens, per pair Ducks, (each) Fowls, (each) Partridges, (each) Turkeys, (each)

Geese (each) 0.00 to 0.00 MEAT. Beef, (small pieces) per lb $0.08 to 0.16 Beef, per lb (by the quarter) 0.06 to 0.10 Ham, per Ib 0.10 to 0.12 Lamb, per quarter 0.50 to 1.00 Lamb, per Ib 0.06 to 0.09 Mutton, per Ib 0.06 to 0.12 Pork,(small pieces) per 1b 0.08 to 0.12 Pork, per lb (by the carcass) 0.06 to 0.08 Veal, per Ib 0.02 to 0.08 MISCELLANEOUS. : Apples per bushel 0.00 to 0.00 Barley per bushel 0.00 to 0.75

0.16 to 0.20 0.16 to 0.17

Butter (fresh) per Ib Putter per Ib by the tub

Calfskins, per Ib 0.06 to 0.10 Cheese (new milk) per Ib 0.14 to 0.16 Cheese, per Ib . 0.05 to 0.08 Clover seed, per Ib ‘0.00 to 0.00 Eggs, per doz. 0.01 to 0.14

reen Peas, 0°28 to 0.30 Hay, per ton 10.00 to 12.00 Hides, per Ib. 0.04 to 0.4}

oney, per lo. 0.25 to 0.32

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REFERENCES?!

Messrs. Greenshields, Son & Co., Montreal,

Messrs. W. & R. Brodie, Quebec,

Messrs. J. 8S. Farlow & Co., Boston,

Henry Lawson, Esq., Halifax, N. 8S.

Hon. Daniel Davies, Charlottetown, P. E. I.

May 3, 1875.

REVERE HOUSE,

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Proprietor. Alberton, Sept. 13, 1875.

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Choice Sample Rooms to let.

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INSURANCE. ST. LAWRENCE Marine Insurance Co.

OF

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A. KENNEDY, ESQ., President.

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ARTEMAS LORD,

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GrorGE D. LONGWORTH.

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MARTIN

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

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UTETOWN, PRINCE

MnTew j iti i i hy tn i ee

aa BEFORE THE BATTLE.

ie 43 ‘ — ema

Dv th Within us springing,

Hetaid of to-immorrow’s strife;

ȴ thatsun wi e

light is bringing ( :

1ains oT eedom, death or lif

Oh! remember life can be

No charm for him who lives not free! | Like the day-star in the wave

Sinks a heroto*his grave,

Midst the dew-fall of a nation’s tears! Blessed is he o'er whose decline The smiles of home may soothing shine,

And light him down the steep of years :— Rut, oh, how grand they sink to rest

Who close their eyes on victory’s breast®

O’er his watch-fire’s fading embers

Now the foeman’s cheek turns white While his heart that field remembers Where we dimm’d his glory’s light!

Never let him bind again A chain like that we broke from then. Hark! the horn of combat calls— Oh before the evening falls, May we pledge that horn round!

in triumph

Many a heart that now beats high, In slumber cold at night shall lie,

Nor waken even at victory’s sound :— But, oh, how blest that hero's sleep, O’er whom a wandering world shall

weep!

——

AFTER THE BATTLE.

Night closed around the conqueror’s way, And lightening shew’d the distant hill, Where those who lost tliat dreadful day, Stood few and faint, but fearless stil]! The soldier's hope, the patriot’s zeal, For ever dimm’d, for ever crost— Oh who shall say what heroes teel, When all but life and honor’s lost!

The last sad hour of freedom’s dream And valour’s task moved slowly by, While mute they watch'd till morning's

beam Should rise and give them light to die! There is a world where souls are free; Where tyrants taint not nature’s bliss; If death that world’s bright opening be, Oh! who would live a slave in this?

LITERATURE.

INN NN RN PRN NNR RR Re 8 Re

WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER IV.—Continued. Neither of the brothers had been at the parsonage for years, and it was about the last house in Shayton where they would willingly have presented themselves; but fits of apoplexy and broken arms are seri- ous things under all circumstances, and especially when they happen to one’s oid mother; so of course there could be no hesitation about going to the parsonage now. Isaac galoped thither as fast as his black mare could carry him, and left her to graze at leisureon Mr. Prigley’s lawn, whilst he thundered at the door with the end of his riding whip, for there was no knocker, and he was too excited to find the bell. Just as the door was opened Mr, Jacob came up, so the two brothers enter. ed at the same time,

The scene in the parlour struck both of them with unspeakable astonishment. There was Mrs. Ogden in an easy chair, sitting as if nothing were the matter with her ; whilst Dr Bardley was telling one of his stories, and the parson was standing with his back to the fire, and laughing much more heartily that a man utterly destitute of capital has any right to do. The parson had a professional disapproval of Dr. Bardly because he would not come to church, and especially, perhaps, because on the very rare occasions when he did present himself

there, he always contrived to be called out in time to escape the sermon; but he enjoyed the Doctor's

company more than he would be willing to confess, and had warmly seconded Mrs. Prigley’s proposal that, since Mrs. Ogden,in consequence of her accident, was supposed to need the restoration of ‘ tea and some~ thing to it,’ the doctor should stay to tea also. The arrival of Isaac and Jacob gave a new turn to the matter, and promised an addition to the small tea party already or- ganised. After the first moment of surs prise at seeing their mother in life and health, with whole bones and no traces of her supposed atttack of apoplexy, they told what rumours were abroad in Shayton; and as Betty was sent to buy a crab for tea, Mr. Prigley suggested that she might as well call at Susy Tattersall’s and at the Red Lion and give a true account of the matter, So, what with the false rumours, and the more accurate narrative that was sent after them, Mrs, Ogden became the general subject of conversation in Skayton; and the next Sunday when she went to church all tae people stared at her with uncoramon inter- est and perseverence. Poor Mrs. Prigley was troubled throughout the service by an unpleasant consciousness that the majority of the worshippers must know by this time that there were holes in the carpets at the parsonage.

It was rather stiff and awkward just at first for Isaac and Jacob when they found themselves actually in the parson’s house, and forced to stop there to tea out of filial attention to their mother; but it is wonder; ful how soon Mr. Prigley contrived to get them over these difficulties. He resolved to take advantage of his opportunity, and warm up an acquaintance that might be of eminent service in certain secret projects of his. Shayton Church was a dreary old building of the latest and most debased Tudor architecture. There were pillars to separate the nave from the aisles; but these pillars supported no arches, and flat beams rested upon them the whole length of the | edifice. The windows were just like the others, except that a Shayton glazier had put into it some bits of yellow and blue glass that remained to him after setting up a coloured staircase and passage window in a cotton spinner’s new house. The pulpit stood in the middle of the church in three steps or stages—the lowest for the clerk, the second for reading the service from the Prayer Book, and the third and loftiest for the preaching of those sermons in which Mr. Prigley supposed himself especially to excel. There was but one gas lamp for the clerk, and one for the reading of the eer- vice ; but there was two for the preaching— more, it may be presumed, to throw light upon the orator’s face than upon his manu- script, which, having been learnt by heart, was left in the study at the parsonage, and not generally believed to exist.

Now Mr. Prigley had become inoculated with the passion for Gothic architecture ; and the poor old church of Shayton, though it sheltered the inhabitants well enough in their comfortable old pews, seemed to him a base and degraded sort of edifice, unfit for the celebration of public worship, He therefore nourished schemes of reform ; and

Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—¢m

EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1876.

PI ees a aloe

| when he had nothing particular to do, especially during the singing of the hymns,

| he could

| not help looking up at the flat | ceiling and down along the pew-partitioned

loor, and what might be done

old building—low it would look,

thinking | with the ' for octagon pillars that

longtitudinal

instance, li those supported those hateful | beams were crowded with beautiful Gothic arches supporting a lofty clerestory above ; jand how the organ, instead of standing | just over the communion table, and pre- venting the possibility of a creditable east window, might be removed to the west end, to the inconvenience, itis true, of all the richest people in the township, who held pews in a gallery at that end of the church, but to the general advancement of correct and orthodox principles. Once the organ removed, a magnificent east window might gleam gorgeously over the renovated altar, and Shayton Church might become worthy of its incumbent.

Mr. Prigley was far too wise a man to taJk openly of these daring schemes to the Shay» ton people, who had no more idea, as they were sitting comfortably in the corners of their baize.lined, high-backed pews, what was going on in their parson’s head than had the poor doomed old edifice itself. To announce such plans in all their revolution ary magnitude would have been the most effectual way to hinder them from ever be- ing realised, Mr. Prigley determined to emulate the wisdom of the serpent, and proceed with crafty and deep.laid po.. licy, For at least twelve months he had been anxiously watching his opportunity, and now that opportunity had come. It could be proved, on the authority of a loca) carpenter and a local slater—who, it is to be feared, were scarcely more disinterest. ed than the clergyman himself.—that there were rotten,beams in the old oak roof of the church, and that the slating was gener» ally in such a bad condition that the rain came freely through it. Large patches of damp could be pointed to on the ceiling ; and indeed more than one member of the congregation had amused himself during sermon time in remarking in these patches @ curious resemblance to the map of Europe, There was the great mass of con~ tinental country, there were the Scandina- vian and Iberian peninsula, there was the Italian boot, there were even some neigh- bouring patches which, by a stretch of imagination, might be supposed to stand for the British Islands, From this interes. ting map, to the great delight of Mr. Prigs ley, distilled in wet weather large drops of water, that fell with a blobbing sound au« dible over the whole church, All that Mr, Prigley regretted was that these drops chose to fall on the free seats of the poor rather than into those cosy square parti» tions where sat the wealthy cotton spinners and their wives, One old pauper, for ins stance, sat habitually in a place where the largest drop always habitually fell. The first time that it descended on his poor bald plate he had been much startled, and some little boys in a neighbouring pew had set up an audible titter; but the old man simply took out his pocket-handkerchief— a dark-brown cotton one with white spots— and laid it, all nicely folded as it was, on the summit of his occiput, where, with re~ markable steadiness, he ever afterwards maintained it, lf that large persistent drop would but have fallen on Mrs. Ogden’s gorgeous bonnet, it would have been worth twenty pounds to Mr, Prigley’s meditated subscription.

Now the bare fact, divested of the mer- cantile exaggerations of the carpenter and slater, and of Mr. Prigley’s politic ones,was simply this; The oak timber of the roof was for the most part perfectly sound; and as to those beams which were not quite sound, they were still more than equal to the service required of them, having been made originally about four times as thick as they needed to have been, Supposing however, that it were necessary—which it was not—to take out the partially-~decayed beams and replace them,that was not a very serious matter; and as for the slating, the slates themselves were good, and by simply removing them and putting them on again with new laths, a perfect repair might be effected. Mr. Prigley felt that he hada very difficult part to play; he might work upon the fears of the ladies by representing the roof as positively dangerous, and had indeed already so much alarmed two old maids, the Miss Hewicks, that they sat in church in trembling expectation that the roof would fall in upon them,yet dared not absent themselves, froma dread of public Opinion. In this state the Miss Hewicks might be considered ripe for subscribing,

and were in fact ready to give any amount within their pecuniary means. But it was not so easy to alarm a set of hard-headed cotton spinners, who were only too well ac~ quainted with the repairing of roofs, having whole acres of roofs of their own; and here. in lay Mr. Prigley’s great difficulty. If he had simply desired to put Shayton Church into a state of thorough repair, nothing in the world would have been easier—he would have got together the necessary subscrips tions in the course of a morning, at any time, by simply calling at five or six counts ing houses; but his project,as we know, were much more ambitious, and the diffi- culty was so to arrange matters that out of these repairs to the roof should spring, as it were by a natural and seemingly inevi- table growth, the fair fabric of his dreams,

And now, as he saw, by unhoped for good luck, these three Ogdens in his own parlor, it became Mr. Prigley’s earnest wish to keep them there as long as possible, and cultivate their acquaintance, and see if there was not some vulnerable place in those hard, practical minds of theirs. As for the doctor he scarcely hoped to get any money out of him; he had preached at him over and over again, and though the doctor only laughed and took care to keep out of these sermons, it was scarcely to be expect- ed that he should render good for evil— money for hard language. Nobody in Shayton knew precisely what the doctor’s opinions were; but when Mr. Prigley was writing his most energetic onslaughts on the infidel, it is certain that the type in the parson’s mind had the doctor’s portly body and plain Socratic face.

Mrs. Prigley had rather hesitated about asking the man to stay to tea at the parsons age, for her husband freely expressed his opinion of him in privacy, and when in a theological frame of mind, spoke of him with much the same aversion that Mrs. Prigley herself felt towards toads and rats and spiders. Andas he looked upon the doctor’s face, it seemed to her at first the face of the typical ‘bad man,’ in whose ex-

istence she firmly believed. race at the parsonage was divided into sheep and goats, and Dr. Bardly was amongst the Was he not evidently a goat? Had not aature herself stamped his badness on his visage? His very way of laughing hed something suspicious in it; he always seemed to be thinking more than he choose to express. What was he thinking? There seemed to be something doubtful and wrong even about his very whiskers, but Mrs. Prigley could not define it, neither can we. Onthe contrary, they were re- spectable and very commonsplace grey whiskers, shaped like mutton chops, and no doubt they would have seemed only natural to Mrs, Prigley if they had been seen more frequently in Shayton Church,

It may appear to some critics that in nar, rating the arrival of Isaac and Jacob at the parsonage we passed too rapidly to that digression about the Chureh roof, and, pers haps, even that we had forgotten to des scribe the moving scene which must have taken place when two affectionate sons,who had heard the most terrible accounts of their mother’s condition, found her in health and safety. But the fact is there was hardly anything to tell. Isaac said, ‘Why mother!’ and Jacob muttered, ‘ Her arm is not broken,’ and there was no further display of sentiment of any kind. The writer regrets this, but it is not his fault. If Isaacand Jacob had been French~ men, and their mother leur mere, then there would have been a scene worth dwelling upon, There would have been kisses and tears, huggings and interjections, But Isaac and Jacob had not kissed their raother since they left school, and how were they to begin now, in the presence of the doctor and Mr, and Mrs. Prigley ?

The young woman who did ‘the marvel- lous work of the house’ as a great writer called it (and indeed it was marvellous how one pair of red, rough hands could ever get through it all), had rather exceeded her commission about the crab. She was told to get the crab if she could, and ‘ mind it was a good one;’ so as there did not hap» pen to be one of those gigantic monsters in Shayton that day which Betty had wonder- ingly admired at the fish market at Man- chester, and which had ever since been to her a crab ideal, she purchased three of somewhat inferior bulk, which contained, neverthelesy large quantities of nutriment in their broad bodies and great, terrible nippers. Company at the parsonage was & very rare event, for Mr. Prigley saw little, in a social way, of the neighboring manu- fagturers; and though the Miss Hewicks came to tea from time to time, they were both ladies, and ladies too of small appe- tites, so that Betty had no data for the capacity of large gentlemen like the Ogdens and the dottor, and therefore exaggerated it in her too active imagination. Mrs. Prigley quitted her guests a little before tea*time tosuperintend the arrangements for the feast,and to forward them by her exertions: and when she saw the three great crabs she scolded Betty, and yet felt a secret satisfaction in being able to display such a plentiful supply of provision without having to account for it to her own con- science,

Indeed it was a very pleasant looking tea table altog@ther. Mrs Prigley who was a Miss Stanburne of Byfield, a branch of the Stanburnes of Wenderholme, possessed a little ancestral plate,a remnant, after much subdivision, of the magnificence of her ancesters. She had a teapot and a coffee pot, and a very quaint and curious cream jug; she also possessed a pair of silver candlesticks, of a later date, repre- senting Corinthian columns,and the candles stood in their round holes in their graceful acanthus-leaved capitals. Many clergy~ men can display articles of contemporary manufacture bearing the most flattering inscriptions, but Mr. Prigley had never re~- ceived any testimonials, and, so long as he was in Shayion, was not in the least likely to enrich his table with silver of that kind. Mrs. Prigley, while apparently listening with respectful attention to Mrs. Ogden’s account of a sick cow of hers (in which Mrs. Ogden seemed to consider that she herself and not the suffering animal was the pro-~ per object for sympathy), had in fact been been debating in her own mind whether she ought to display her plate on a mere chance occasion like the present; but the common metal teapot was bulged and shabby, and the thistle in electro-plate, which had once decorated its lid, had long since been lost by one of the children who had fancied it for a plaything. The two brass candlesticks were scarcely more presentable; indeed one of them would no longer stand upright, and Mrs, Prigley had neglected to get it repaired, as one candle sufficed on ordinary occasions ; and when her husband wrote at night, he used a tin bed-candlestick re- sembling a frying-pan, witha tin column, not of the Corinthian order, sticking out in the middle of it, and awkwardly preventing those culinary services to which the utensil seemed naturally destined. As these things were not presentable before com- pany Mrs. Prigley decided to bring forth her silver, but in justice to her it is neces- sary to say that she would have preferred something between the two as ‘more fitted tothe occasion. For similar reasons was displayed a set of old china, of whose value the owner herself was ignorant; and so indeed would have been the present writer, if he had not recognized Mrs. Prigley’s old cups and saucers in Jacque mart’s ‘ Historie de la porclaine.’

The splendor of Mrs. Prigley’s tea table struck Mrs. Ogden with a degree of sure prise which she had not art enough to con- ceal, for the manners and customs of Shays ton had never inculcated any kind of re- ticence as essential to the idea of good breeding. The guests had scarcely taken their places round this brilliant and festive table when Mrs, Ogden said :

‘ You’ve got some very ‘andsome silver Mr. Prigley. I'd no idea you'd got such ’andsome silver. Those candlesticks are taller than any we’ve got at Milend.’

A slight shade of annoyance passed across the countenance of the hostess as she ans swered, ‘It came from Wenderholme ; there’s not much of it except what is on the table; there were six of us to divide it amongst.’

‘Those are the Stanburne armson the teapot,’ said the doctor ; ‘I've hoften no- ticed them at Wendrum ‘ All. They have them all up and down. Young Stanburne’s very fond of his coat of arms, but he’s a right to be proud of it, for it’s a very old one. He’s quite a near relation of yours, Mrs. Prigley ?’

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brothers, but there was a coolness between them on account of a smali estate in York- shire, which each thought he'd a right to,

they never came from Wenderholme to Byfield, my father was not even asked to the funer.

‘Have you ever been at Wenderholme, Mrs. Prigley ?’ said Isaac,

‘ Never, I’ve often thought I should like to see it, just once; it’s said to be a beautiful place, and I should like to see the house my father was born in,’

‘ Why, it’s quite close to Shayton, a great deal nearer than anybady would think. It isn’t much more than twenty or fourteen miles off, and my house at Twistle is with- in nine miles off Wenderholme, if you go across the moor, There is not a single building of any kind between. But it’s thirty miles to Wenderholme by the turns pike. You have to go through Sootyhorn.’

‘It’s a very nice estate,’ said uncle Jacob; and, to do him justice, he was an excellent judge of estates, and possessed a great fund of information concerning all the desirable properties in the neighbourhood, tor he made it his business to acquire that sort of knowledge before hand, in case such pro- perties ehould fall into the market. So that when uncle Jacob said an estate was very nice, you may be sure it was so.

‘There are about two thousand acres of good land at Wendrum,’ he continued, ‘ all in a ring fence, and a very large moor be- hind the house, with the best shootiug anys where in the whole country. Our moors join up to Mr, Stanburne’s, and if the whole were put together it would be a grand shooting.’

‘That is,’ said Mr, Prigley, rather ma- liciously, ‘if Mr. Stanburre were to buy your moor, ! suppose. Perhaps he might feel inclined to do so it you wished to sell,’ Mrs. Ogden could not endure to hear of selling property, even in the most remote and hypocritical manner. Her back was generally as straight as a stone wall, but it became, if possible, straighter and stiffer, as, with a slight toss of the head, she spoke as follows:

‘We don’t use selling property, Mr. Prigley ; we are not sellers, we are buyers.’ These words were uttered slowly, deliber ately and with the utmost distinctness, so that it was not possible for any one present misunderstand the lady’s intention. She evidently considered buying the nobler function of the two, as implying increase; and selling to be a comparatively degrad. ing Operation—a confession of poverty and embarrassment. This feeling was very strong, not only in Shayton but for many miles around it, and instances frequently occurred of owners who clung to certain properties against their pecuniary interest, from the dread of its being said of them that they had sold land. There are coun~ tries where this prejudice has no existence, and where a rich man sells land without hesitation when he sees a more desirable investment for his money; but in Shayton & man was married to his estate or estates, (for in this matter polygamy was allowed), and though the law, after a certain tedious and expensive process, technically called conveyancing, permitted divorce, public opinion did not permit it. —

To be Continued,

Curiosirigs OF THE Harp Times.— The Spectator, in an article upon the prevailing ‘hard times’ in Englend, mentions the curious fact that no retail business suffers from a period of depression so qnickly or severely as that of the hatter. One would imagine that a hatter was as safe as a tailor, that he would sell his hats at all times, though he might, in a time like this, have to wait a little for his money, but we are as- sured it is not ag. The hatter’s is essen tially a ready-money trade, and it is depen. dent not so much upon the consumption of hats as upon people’s ideas as to the shab- biness of their hats, which ideas vary ag spare cash is plentiful or scarce. Nobody wears a hat out as he wears a shoe out, and noboby waits as long as he might to buy a new hat. The con- sequence is, that most well.tosdo people could do very well with half the hats they buy, and whenever they are retrenching, they abstain from that particular purchase, till a batter may find himself leit for six months without any custom atall. Tailors suffer also, but it is rather from postponed payment than want of orders, while shoe- makers only feel the pressure if their prices are 80 high that the customers can resort without trouble to a cheaper shop, to re. turn disgusted when the pressure has pass. ed away. After the hatters come, we be- lieve, the distributing booksellers, whose business is often cut to pieces by a season of pressure upon the classes who usually have money tospare, It is a curious fact when the cultivation of the age is remem-~ bered, that the English are not a book- buying people. They are supposed to read, but they do not buy books. Outside a small class, it is verv rare to find a family with five hundred books in the house, while men making thousands a year would think it gross extravagence to spend a guinea a week on books. It is possible experienced librarians telllus, to keep a library abreast of English literature for £300 a year, but the number of individuals who attempt it is inconceivably small.

} Book~buying is considered a luxury; it is

one of the luxuries first retrenched, and a year of depression means to all but first. class firms a year without profit. There are, of course, numerous other trades—for instance, watchmakers, sellers of fancy goods, and furniture of the expensive kind,

who also suffer severely in times of depress sion.

Tue PuiLosopay or AFiER-MaRRiacE .— ‘You love me no longer,’ said a bride of a few months to her better half in his gown and slippers. ‘ Why do you say that Puss ?’ he asked, quietly removing a cigar from his lips. * You do not caress me, nor cali me pet names! you no longer seek so anxiously for my company, was the tearful answer. ‘My dear,’ continned the aggravating wretch, ‘ did you ever notice a man running after a car? how he does run !—over stones through mud, regardless of everything till be reaches the car, and he siezes hold and swings on. Then he quietly seats himself down and reads his paper’ ‘And what does that mean ?’ ‘ An illustration my dear. The car is as important to the man afler he gets in as when heis chasing it, but the manifestation is no Jonger called for. J would have shot anyone who put himself in my way when in pursuit of you as I would now shoot anyone who would come between us, but as a proof my love you insist on my running after the car’ —Excharge.

It was a little boy in New Jersey who said—‘ Yes, soda water’s good; it’s like your foot’s asleep.’

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