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itt some of the burden fron her shoulders.’

I laughed bitterly. I knew wel! what such sharing would be when Ruth had a husband,

| anc perhaps children, to take her time and | her love from me. But | was not hars?| 1 did notturn this suitor from my and bit him never speak to Ruth again, | much as I longed to do it. I worked more

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(WRITTEN FOR THE EXAMINER. } DAVID LIVPINGSTONE—AN ACROST!

BY A. CURRIXZ. Deep in her woe—dejected science weeps A mournful dirge, where low her son doth sleep. V isions of captives in thelr dark abode

house, \

cautiously, I let him go from me to Ruth aud when he left ber, and she came to me, |

Ip Afrie’s heart. shall urge him on no more— all rosy blushes, to tell me, with drooping | bd ‘> by Suuswexe. where the Leva! jids and moist eyes, of her new happiness, | | jows—

| worked upon her love and ber sense of duty till she beliewed herselfa mouster of ungrate-

| ful wickedness to think of leaving nie or | taking eny divided duty upon her hands 1 wept, asking her if she could face her

L one Alderts’ ripples shal! survey no more ; fn that dread spot, where mortal never

trod, V arying scenes allured the wanderer on— i unured to woe—and weary wi'h his sighs, N eath Afric’s rays, he faded and expired. | G reat Britain's scholars, have, uncovered, | wept,

dead mother after deserting her helpless father. I pointed out :o her the unceasing S$ tood at his grave,to pay the mournful debt | pound of wifely duty that would keep her T he breast that yearned to break the eap-_ fi side. and proved te her the duties tive’s chains, | from my side, and | r e e duties | © g@ science’ altar prostrate, low, it lays! of child and wife must clash, if undertaken | N ow rest thy last-—with scientist and sage, | under such circumstances as were proposed E ndeared to song while love of song re- | mains.

The loving tender heart yielded to me, | and John was tearfully dismissed. Through |

SE OE © = GOD BLESS THR FARM. | the warm autumn months, when the corn | ee | ripened and was garnered—when our crops

. i a r i a8 ‘ ai ; : Ged bless the farm—the dear old farm | were Dlessed by the price of the farm produce | God bless its every rood, ae ‘ —Ruth grew very quiet and subdued. She |

Where willing hearts, and sturdy arms Can eara an honest livelihood

Can from the coarse and fertile soi!

Win back a recompense for toi!

was not sad, having always a cheery word | and pleasant smile for me; but the pretty | | rose time left her round cheeks, and I no} od bless each meadow, field and nook, longer heard her singing at her work. When |

Begemmed with fairest flowers | | { read the best passages in my books k Ts ceannhiiees ot craeiag howe ‘ ; I would see her eyes fixed dreamily - oe Ged biess them al); each leafs a gem far away thought, ber work lying idle, till ta Neture’s gorgeous diadem, | she woke with a start at my fretful questions The orchards that, in early Spring | For I grew fretful and trying in those days

Blush rich in fragrant towers, | | wanted her to give up woman's dearest Aad with each Autuain surely bring | hopes and sweet affections, and be the same

Boole wealth of fruits and goldenshowers | sunshiny Ruth she was before my hand tore

Like rante on Agron’, rod, | A miracle from Nature's God | away her love dreams. I wanted her to put | away all the loving, tender ties of wifehood, | and motherhood, and pass her life in devo- tion at the arm-chair of a paralyzed old man. | And when she complied, with geatle, touch- | ing submission, then I wanted her to be the | bright, happy girl who had resigned nothing, | and who could nurse sweet, girlish fancies. with John fora hero. An unreasonable old | tyrant, wasn't I? The winter came in early thats

her, |

And may be biess the farmer's home, peace and plenty reign : Wo happier spot’ neath heaven's high dome Doth ibis d beauteous earth coatain Than where, secure from pain and strife, fhe farmer leads a peaceful life

Unvexed by toil andtricks fer gaia He turns the fertile mould , Then scatters on the golden grain. And reaps reward a hundred fold : He dwells where grace and beauty charm For God has blessed his home and farm. ——

LITERATURE. LITTLE RUTH.

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ear, and | before Christmas everything was frozen | tight, andthe cold was intense. We piled up coal in the stoves, listed doors and win | dows—that is Ruth did the work and I en joyed the result ; but there came one day—

: ; |} one Friday—when it seemed no coals, n 1 know I was @ selfish old idiot, now, | °° Brides 4 | listing, could conquer the cold.

whea i look around me and see the mercies | . ' froze on their way to school that day, and} given me in my helpiess old, age feel th: : ; ' sa a : found stiffand stark, leaning against warm love around me on al! sides, and re ; . i |

Food froze on the tables. Ask] elize the desolation my own hand reached

: , Maine if they remember that | forth to grasp; but I was blind in thos ; days when I so nearly wrecked al! its hayp-| piness.

This was how ii happened. After Martha died—my wife, | mean, with whom forty beppy years of my life were spent—and al of my children were dead or married, except- ing Ruth, there fell upon me heavy misfortune that has chained me to ebair, or bed, for fifteen weary years.

I had been a hard-working man all m) life—a wheelwright by trade—with a larg: family to rear, to clothe, to be feed, to edu cate, and, ah, me! one by one to bury in thi chu rd, ti y ry James, and Ruth, : i |

rer eeery Mery Somes, ent Rath When all was done in-doors, I saw from } our baby, were left to me. Mary married : a 4

: ; my chair, Ruth, with a scarlet cieak and and went with her husbani to the far West re : ’ | . “+ he : hood thrown over her, going to the well with | James took his smal! fortune of a few hari ; | : an empty bucket. She stepped along quick- | earned dollars and left us fur the golden’, ‘ i oa tulll’ af attenten, Califoruic. and ently little ly over the hard, frozen ground, and | was} Ruth : Sal coe The : see He oa admiring the trim little feet and the dainty jas le : en the az eath ; :

se >t ag é ae : ae . a 1 tgure, when I saw her slide to the two meri

S y six 1 t . » © 7 - a oa “ jon eae ry ns sater'" | that were above the well walls and fail. She Was stricken ! elpless with paralysis. had slipped, and she lay doubled up between |

1 am reconciled now to my hard fate, 4nd | the two wooden steps and the rough sides of be wmilw + 7 e . . can sit here happily, glad that my qqenigns | the well, as if she could not rise. Two o,| is good, my right hand free, aud that | have three times her hands clutched the lower | Sennans te my old age t love ee mor step and she raised herself half way up only oY reading, ant even ne - a to fall back again, as if her limbs would not | did in the hard-working a . youth. support her. ee oe NED Se eee of Helprenenens, And I could only look on; powerless o when even to toss and turn in my nervous

gpa : muve to aid her. ©, the agony of it! To torture was denied me, my sufferings were , oy that she was hurt, unable to rise, and | simply herrible. No agony of pain, no tert-

helpless as a log. I screamed and called for ure of flesh or bone, could ecua! the dread- _ s : hte

: help. Silas was somewhere, [ could not tell | fal pressure upon my strong limbs, that held them motionless, dead in spite of my efforts te move them one little inch. I have fainted with the frightful efforts { have made just to lift ence the feet that had carried me miles in a day with unwearied ease.

But even in that time of rebellions mur- muring of bitterest repining, there was some consolation. First, there was the house and five acres of Jand, my very own, free of debt or mortgage, and a small sum in the bank, the interest of which lifted us above actual want. Then | had Ruth.

She was just twenty when her mother died, and others beside her father thought her face the fairest one for miles around. She had the bluest eyes, like little patches of summer sky, and hair that was the color of cora silk, and nestled in little baby curls all over her head—rebellious hair, that would never lie straight under any coaxing, but kinked up in tangles that were full of sunlight. Her skin wes while as milk, with ebeeks like the heart of a blush rose, and her smile showed the prettiest rows of pearly teeth | ever saw.

She coaxed me from my wicked repinings by coming to me for directions, making ine feel that my head was still needed to direct the work, though my feet would never carry me over the doorssill. Then she fitted up for me a large back room that over-looked wost of the farm, and had Silas, our hired man, lift me up every morning, and put me in @ deepycushioned chair by the window, where I could see the barn, the poultry yerd, the wel!, and the fields of waving corn and wheat. She made me feel myself of importance by giving me thu, the master-eye ever my own little domain ; and she brought up her own meals to eat with me in the room where my infirmity heid me a prisoner,

You must understand what Ruth was to me, or you will not understand the simple stery Iheve set myself to telling you. She taught me to use my right hand without my left; and, if you want to appreciate the diffi- eulty, tie your left arm down for one single hour, and try how often it will unconsciously strain at the cords. She brought me books from the village liabrary, and) opened to my old eyes and brain, a field of pleasure never before explored. { had read my Bible and the newspaper ail my life, but I never knew even the name of books, now my greatest treasures, till Ruth thought reading weuld be company for we. Little Kuth, even she does not knuw the world she peopled for me

in her loving care for my loneliness.

When she was busy about her house work, her baking, her washing and ironing she left ali the doors standing open that I wight hear her voice as she sang or talked to me. Then, when aii her work was done| she would put on a clean while apron over | ber bleck dress, aud sit close beside me, | Stitching busily on the household linen, | while I read aloud whatever had most | pleased in my morning studies.

She devised little dainty dishes to tempt} mete eat; she put saucers of flowers on my table, that! might cheat myself into fancy- iog | was out doors, as there perfume crept @ut on the air; ste nursed ie, pitied me, loved me, til] even my misfortunes, seemed blessings, drawing us so near together.

Andwhen she was all the world to me, all that saved me from misery, John Hayes asked me to give him my Ruth for his wife. & could have struck him dead when he stood belore mea giantin strength, with his hand- some sunburnt face glowing with health, and Wanted to take away my one blessing my ealy homechild.

‘Twill be a true son to you, Mr. Martin,’ he said earnestly‘ 1 will never take Kuth from, And happiness has shed its true light upon

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were | the fence. anybody in that black Friday, and sae if some mother’s | eyes won't fill, as they think oi the little | scarlet-hooded figures brouglit to their doors | white and rigid, that had lifted a rosy, round cheek for a kiss only a few short hou fore, |

On this cold Friday, Ruth burried through | | hor work in the morning, making my room |

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the warmest place in the house, covering my | arm-chair with soft woolens and moving it} near the stove. I would have it face the wi dow, for my glimpses of out- life was too | precious to resign; but I was not, usual near it,for Ruth said there might bea draugth

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where, and I called joudly for him. 1 could se after a time, that Ruth after her frantic | Struggles was growing drowsy wth the leath sleep of cold. The scarlet hood droop. | ed more and more, till it rested against the | well side, and the blue-veined lids closed over jher eyes. The sight called from me such a cry of agony as [ thought must be heard for miles.

It was heard. A moment later John Hayes, panting and eager-eyed, burst open my door.

“What is it? hecried. T heard you cal- ling on the road.”’

“Ruth! Ruth!’ [ screamed freezing to death by the well.’ | He stopped to hear no more. (Out upon the hard, slippery ground, down the steps with swift, rapid strides, and then | saw him stoop and lift the little searlet-cloaked figure in his strong arms, and come swiftly back, bending his face down over the senseless one in his arm, while hot tears rained down his | brown cheeks. He put her on a lounge near

ny chair, and then dashed out for snow.

“ Rub her, rub her!’ hesaid. ‘I am go- ing for a doctor and for my mother.’

Before it seemed possible that he could have crossed the lots to his home, his mother was with me, and lifted Ruth away from the fireto the bed. The doctor came, and tho, two worked till my heart sunk with utter | hopelessness before the blue eyes opened again, or the breath fluttered though the pale lips.

But it did at last, and Joln joined me in a | fervent ‘ thank God.’

‘But Ruth had broken her leg, and we| -knew she must lie helpless for many weeks before she could be our uwn active, bright girl again. It was an appalling truth for me | to face, but she was not dead, not lying | frozen against the rough well-curb, and I could not but feel thankful for, far above the pain of knowing her suffering. I was trying to settle it all in my mind ; to understand the | doctor's words, while Mrs Hayes and the doctor lifted Ruth to her own room, that opened into mine. They were away a long time, and John sat beside me, holding my | hand in his, and comforting me as if I had | not taken the very hope of his life from him.

‘Don't grieve so,’ he said. ‘, John, if she gets well, sne is yours. Give her your strong arin for life, John, instead of my helplessness. [ see to-day where my selfish love has nearly cost her her life

‘Do you mean that?’ John asked, little tremble in his voice ; do you really mean that ?’

‘Edo, indeed. Let her stay here, John, I will not be a burden on your purse, for the house and farm and all that I bave are Ruth's, but let her give me what time and love she can spare for you.’

“She is |

with a

‘Gladly,’ he answered ; ‘but we will not wait till she is well, Mr. Martin. Lot mo have Ruth for my wife, now to-day.

‘With a broken leg, sick, helpless 7

‘Does she not need me the more. to me now.’

Give her

But he had to wait till the banns were called in church three times, though he came to us that day, caring for me with the ten- derness of a son, while his mother nursed Ruth. They were alone together, as we were, and they had shut up their house and come to live with us, never to leave again.

For one morning. propped up with pillows, Ruth was dressed in white by Mrs. Hayes,

| and we hada wedding in the little room. My chair was moved in, and the neighbours came from far and near to hear the solemn words that made John and Ruth man and wife.

| two societies you represent, gentlemen, are, |

| are perfectly compatible with one another, |

| eyes, Wants to know

| Teo | your home,

| in taking the-life ofa fool.

pene agape EN RN so | THE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND | THE NATIONAL SOCIETIES.

The Governor General, when in Chicago, was addres-ed, in succession, by the repre- sentatives of the St. George’s and St, An- drew’s societies. He was greatly puzzled to know how to reply to both, in the same

| speech, but he succeeded pretty well, as

the following report will show:— Gentlemen, —A!lthough [am an Irishman (* good, good,’’ applause and laughter), it

| is beyond my powers, even as an Irishman,

to make%wo speeches at once. (Laughter.) At the same I trust to be able to express myself in such a form as will be considered by the two gentlemen, representatives of the two societies from whom | have had the

pleasure of receiving addresses, as 4 com- mon answer to both. it is, indeed, a very great pride and pleasure to me to think that countrymen of my own--for though an [rishman, I claim, as | dare say the Pre- sident of the Scottish society will know, to be of Scotch descent as well—that these bodies should exist and flourish under such favourable auspices, and heartily should entertain such feelings of gratitude for those in whose midst they reside, and to whose kindness they are indebted for their social well-being and the generally favor. able circumstances of their position. If the

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as I imagine them to be, kindred to those societies which exist in Canada, all I can say is that they possess my hearty sympathy, | because from my own observation. [am fully convinced that wherever they are in- stituted, such societies produce very con- siderable benefit, not only to their neighs bors but to all who come within their influence. In a new country like this, where there is a constant stream of im- migration from the United Kingdom and Europe, nothing is of more importance than that the new arrivals on its shores should receive timely aid; and such aid is furnished by these societies. [am glad to think that your friendly feelings toward the city which you have made your home does | not exclude a fond native land. I believe such

retrospect otf

sentiments

your

and while I trust that the one will perpetu-

ally increase. I also venture to hope it

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| will never suffocate or overwhelm the other.

(Applause. ) | tas-- : New Corns.—In the year 1873 there was coined at the Mint 3,382,832 sovereigns and 2,003,464 half-sovereigns, 5,965,740 florins, 6,486,480 shillings, 1,395 600 sixpences, | 4,158 fourpences, 4,059,223 threepences, | 4,752 twopences, 7,920 silver pence ; and of | bronze, 8,494,080 penee, 3,584,000 half. | pence, and 3,225,600 farthings. The pieces of money coined, therefore, exceeded 40),- 000,960 in number, and would pass for sums amounting to £4,500,000 sterling The demand upon the Mint for gold coin, which had been excessive for the two pre- vious years, was sufficiently supplied. and ceased in 1873. The demand for silver continued unabated, and the demand for bronze coin continued to be excessive. In the course of the year the Mint received from the Bank of England light gold amounting to £950,075 for recoinage, and a large amount of worn silver coin was withdrawn from circulation. The Sydney branch of the Mint coined and issued, 1,478,000 sovereigns, in 1873, and the Mel- bourne branch, 752,000 sovereigns and 165,000 half-~sovereigns.

RAVDOM READIGNS.

rere ee ee ee eee ee

Courting danger—weiting anotl nan’s wife.

The yvoung-man-who-parts—his-hair—in-the middle and his money is soon parted

How can he hope to take rank as a wise- acre who prefers to endure the toothache rather than the dentist

Vindictiveness.—No reasonable man would be eager to possess himself of the invidious power of inflicting punishment, if he were not precetermined to make use of it.

to

We often hear of people who are too poor to marry, but a California couple, who had been engaged for some time, married because

they could not afford to keep two seperate rooms in a boarding house | The difference in natures was well illns-|

| trated at the Boston depot. Two sisters met |

|“, my dear sister!” said one exhaustedly, |

‘You've been eating calmly and fearless!y

as they embraced.

onions,’’ said the other, 5 A darkey left in charge of a telegraph

office while the operator west to dinner, |

| |

heard some one “call” over .ne wires, and | began shouting at the instrument: * De} operator isn't yer ! The noise ceased i R Papa, do you think Beech— ‘Hush Johnnie ‘But, papa, don’t you think | Beech—’ ‘Didn't you hear me tell you to} | stop your noise. J won't have you talking | | about these things. Go in and get your face | washed. And Johnnie. with

tears in his|

apa wont tel ,

him whether beechnuts are 1

ipe Qne of the rising generation of \ ermont, rising four years old, went to a back th to ~ee his father’s horse shod, and was watch-

ntil the blacksmith s hoofs, when think- ing this was wrong the little boy said earnest- | ly My pa don,t want this horse made any smailer’”’

ing the work of shoeing u began pairing the horse’

This was found in Thomas Carivli

writing:

hand

“ There was a piper had a cow And he had nocht to give her, He took his pipe, and played a And bade the cow consider.

Spring,

‘ The cow considered wi’ hersel’, That mirth wad never fijl her Give me a pickle ait strae,

And sell your wind for siller,’

Don’t vo 1t.—Don't kill the fatted calf io often. Well fed prodigals seldom reform.

Don’t poke fun at your wife’s relations much levily will disturb the quiet of

Don't chase an idea. To many ofthemare caught by another man’s ammunition.

Don’t commit suicide. There is no honor it

is a saving of

Don’t study devilment

time to learn it Dy intuition Don’t ask the Lord to forgive your enemies, |

Practice charity a little while on your own | account. :

Don’t spend another man’s money too freely. Self constituted almoners are rarely

appreciated.

Having suffered for several years from Dyspepsia resulting in great nervous prostra- tion and general debility, impoverished blood Eruption of the Skin, Rheumatic and Neus ralgic Pains, Restlessness, want of sleep and extreme lassitade, I was recommended to take Dr. Wheeler's Compound Elixir of Phos- phates and Calisaya, Having persisted in its use for several weeks I recovered perfect health. My wife, and children also, have taken il, for general Tonic purposes to ins vigorate and strengthen the system and pros | mote the formation of pure blood, with per manent benelit. It energizes an sustains the the vital forces in a remarkable manner

Samve. J. Burt, Agent of Toronto Globe, Montreal

CERTIFICATE OF CURE.

Mrs. Elisa Rhynard, of Aunapolis County in the Province of Nova Scotia, maketh oath and saith that a year ago last September her husband boughta bottle of Dr. Caleb Gates’ Eye Relief, for the purpose of applying it tor the cure of sore eyes ; and seeing on the label of the bottle that it was recommended for the cure of piles also, with which she had been for a long time most painfully afflicted, and had applied to different doctors in her own neighbourhood, and tried various other res medies, but found no permanent relief, tried it for the piles also, and ina very short time wascured of both complaints by the use of one small bottle. She had also been used to very frequent turns of fainting, some~ times as often as three times a day, and having thistime moved into the more im« mediate neighbourhood of Dr. Gates, she commenced taking his Life of Man Bitters and Syrup about the lirst of May last, and is most thankful and happy to say, that through a kind Providence and the skill of

| whom are seriously injured, and the fourth

| Large quantities of arms have been ordered

| States troop are utterly inadequate to pro.

| distance of 10,300 yards.

| period the rate of taxation has increased

| and one-half mills. | State taxes, andthe municipal and parochs

| per cent.

| pers,we find that Paris possesses 99 medical;

Dr. Gates, she has not had one of her former fainting turns since the month of June | last past, and she has frequently taken the Bitters and Syrups for colds, Ac., and has in- variably found unfailing relief in the use of | the above medicines. Sworn to at Middleton, February, 1872, before me,

this third day of

here; but let me come and share her life, and | our home ever since,

James Wueeroc > Aug. 24.~1mo set ©

WISCELLNEOUS. | etna ER De

Count Jarnac has been appointed Minister | to England from France.

Holland, Belgium and Italy have also res cognized the Republic of Spain.

Jamaica has been visited with small~pox, | which has spread to several other West India ports. } The existence of fully organized revolu- | tionary societies in -Bologna has come to | light.

M. Deforeade Loroquette, an eminent | French statesman, died on Sunday the ]6th instant.

Marshal Bazaine has arrived at Cologne. He declares that only his wife and brother- in-law assisted him to escape.

1) Epoca announces that Spsin has no longer reason to fear the interference of other European powers in her atfairs,

On Saturday, 15th inst., a house in Mon- treal fell, burying four workmen, three of

fatally.

On Saturday 13th instant, 50,000 miners assembled on Durham race couse, and were addressed by Bradlaugh, Macdonald and Loyd Jones.

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs is reported at Vienna to have cotaplained to the British Government that Germany is seek- ing a quarrel with France.

The Government anvertise for tenders for the Pembina branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, giving s fortnight s notice or the reception of the tenders.

The Japanese still hold Formosa, China has demanded possession of the Island. Both Japan and China are preparing for war.

from the United States and Eurepe.

News from Sioux City confirms the report of the discovery of gold at Black Hills, and though ‘ Spotted Tail’’ considers the Cuss lar expedition a violation of the Indian Treaty, he doesn't care to fight about it.

The Irish Judges continue in their charges to the Grand Juries to refer to the state of the country. Baron Dowse, in Waterford, declared with emphasis that the country is prosperous, and only requires to be “let alone,.”’

The Governor of Texas complains that Mexican Indians are constantly raiding up, on the people of Texas, murdering and plundering wholesale; that the United

tect the Texans, and that they are obliged in selfsdefence to protect themselves

The lion “‘Julius,’’ one of the oldest ani- mals of its kind in the United States, is dead, and has had its obituary written in the New York Herald's best style. “Julius” was thirty-one years. He had killed a couple of keepers in his time, and cut up many other pranks. In fact he hada single virtue linked to a thousand crimes.

A red monster, crossed with black, 40 feet in length, has been seen near Placer- ville, Cal. It was lying in a hollow on the side of a hill, its jaws distended and its bifurcated tongue protruding. Its motion was slow and undulating, and crushing | everything beneath it, it left a track in the grass similar to the swathe of a mower.

Monday's Rochester Liou has the follows ing: “ A young man named Robert Me- Lean, who formerly worked in the press» room ot this paper, but who lately fojlowed the occupation of drayman, will, it is report ed,soon through his mother inherit a magni- ficent fortune. A relative of Mrs.McLean lately died in England, leaving an estate valued at a million pounds, to be divided between herself and either her sister or brother. Mrs. McLean sailed a week ago for England to claim her inheritance.”

Tue GrassHorrer.—The Manitoba Firee Press of the 27th ult., says :—We heard that up to yesterday St. Peter’s had escap- ed the grasshoppers. Springfield was visit- ed on Thursday. The early wheat and bar- ley have pretty well escaped. Late crops are suffering badly. Weare told that the new settlement near Point du Chene has sustained much injury, A gentleman from Poplar point on Saturday reports that the grasshoppers had mostly left. The barley is all destroyed; wheat and oats will yield half a crop ; and go will potatoes.

The new eigbty-ton gun is progressing at Woolwich. When finished, this monster piece of ordnance will be greater than twice the size of the largest gun in existence, and its destructive powers at fighting range propartionate. With a sixteen inch pro- Jecile, weighing 1,650 pounds, and a maximum charge of 300 pounds of powder, it will pierce the best iron plates, twenty inches thick, at 500 yards, sixteen-inch plates at 5,300 yards, and will pitch a six- teen-inch shell into a ship or fortress at a The steel block forming the inner tube was the largest ever | cast, weighing over twelve tons; while the trunnion piece, about eighteen tons, was the largest forging ever produced at the arsenal. The actual cost of this fearful en~ gine of war will not fall far short of $42,- 500.

The New York World publishes a sfates ment of facts connected with the financial condition of Louisiana which in any other than one of the ~“ re-constructed ” Southern States would cause a speedy change of ad. ministration. The total debt of the State is at present more than $41,000,000 against $9,000,009 six years ago. In the same

from five and one-half mills to twenty-one This rate is only for

ial taxes swell the total rate to nearly five In 186@ the debt of the State was about $4,500.000, and all that the peo- ple have to show for the vast increase of over $35,000,000 is their worthless levees. The constitutional limit of the debt is $25, 000.000, and the constant nightmare of re~ pudiation and ruin stares the people in the face.

If Paris is not what its people firtaly believe it te be, the most enlightened and civilized city in the world, it is not for the lack of means of public instruction in the shape of newspapers. In an article by M, Maxime du Camp, in the Rerue de Fraee, it is stated that the total number of publica. tions of all sorts in Paris amounts to 741, of which 113 papers respond to every possible nuance of politics and religion. “There is no opinion,” says the writer, “however wise or foolish, that has not its organ. Every party, every fraction, every sub-fraction, which divides our poor country, speaks in the name of the country itself, and lays claim to the future as its special property.’’ Setting aside what are called political pay 58 fashionable, 78 religious (of which 22 are Protestant), 42 law, 39 financial, 14 army, 9 navy, and 8 architectual papers. The spiritualists and ragspickers, as well as the grocers and bootmakers, have their official journals. There is also a paper devoted to the mania for postage-stamp collecting. Some of the religiohs prints appear under the special patronage of saints, such as the St. Joseph Chronicle. And yet, will all this army of public instructors, the Parisians make a noise whenever the Government refuses to allow fresh ones to appear.

‘‘Moral courage’ was printed in large letters as the caption of the following items, and placed ina conspicious place on the door of a systematic merchant in New York, for constant references, and furnished by him for publication :

Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket.

Uave the courage to do without that which you do not need, however much your eyes may covet it.

_ Have the courage to speak to a friend in a seedy coat, even though you are in company with a rich one, richly attired.

Have the courage to speak your mind when it is necessary that you should do so, and hold your tongue when it is prudent that you should do so.

Have the courage to own that ycu are poor, and thus disarm poverty all its sting.

Have the courage to tell a man why you refuse to credit him.

Have the courage to tella man why you will not lend him your money.

Have the courage to cut the most agree- able acquaintance you have when you are convinced that he lacks principle—a friend should bear with a friend’s infirmities but not with his vices,

Have courage to show your respect for honesty, in whatever guise it appears, and your contempt for dishonesty and duplicity, by whomsoever exhibited-

Have the courage to wear your own clothes until you can pay for new ones.

Have the courage to prefer comfort and propriety to fashion in all things.

_ Have the courage to acknowledge your ignorance rather than to seek for knowledge under false pretences. ‘

Have the courage, in providing an enters tainment for your friends, not to exceed

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PRIZE List

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FARM IMPLF MENTS.

Best iron Plough, 5 00 FOR THE Best set iron ee adel =

“Ac7Tr _ > « + | Best Horse Hoe and Moulding Piough, o ANNOAL S2NTRIEION ee [a OF Best Potatoe Digger, 10 00

AGRICULTURE LOCAL

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Queen's County, 187-4, T0 BE HELD at CHARLOTTETOWN,

INDUSTRY,

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY.

SEPT. 29TH AND 30rn.

HORSES. Best Carriage Stallion, imported or

otherwise, $38 2d best do do 4 3d_ best do do 2 Best Draft Stallion, imported or other- wise, 8 2d best do do 4 3d best do do 2 Best Entire Draft Colt, under 3 years old, 2d best do do 3d best do do

Best Filly, under 3 years old (draft) 2d best do do 3d best do do Best Biood Colt, under 3 yeara old,

2d best do do

3d best do do

Best Carriage Colt, under 3 years old, 2” best do do

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Best Carriage Filly, under 3 years old, 2d best do do

3d best do ao

Best Mare with her Foal,

2d best do do

3d best do do

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Best pair Matched Carriage horses, not less than 15 hands high (geldings or

mares) to be the

be giving Milk at the time of Exhibition, |

or be evidently well gone in calf. SHEEP (Owned in the Royalty.

Best Rum, any age, 2d best do Best Yearling Ram, 2d best do Best Ram Lamb, 2d best do Best pen of 4 Ewes having rearec

Lambs this season, 2d best do

PIGS,

Best Boar Pig, any age, 24 best do do 3d best do do Best breeding Sow, do 2d best do Best pen Pigs under 6 mos, old

(Barrows excluded) 2d best do do Best Fat Pig

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say-The exact age of young animals mus be stated on the Secretary’s Book, and will | be taken into consideration by the Judges | in making their awards ; also, a statement | showing the breeding of the animals , cal any person understating the age of an ani- |

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Ifcalculated to collect Potatoes in rows $20 extra will be added.

TEXTILE FABRICS IN WOOL. (Manufactured by the Exhibitor.)

fect 10 yards black full dressed Cloth, 2

test 10 yards Grey do dyed ‘

Jest Gentleman's Plaid (new),

3est Woman’s Shawl (new),

Jest Pair of Horse rugs (new),

Best pair of | lankets new),

Best Fancy Shirting,

Jest Hearth Rug,

Best Door Mat,

Best 10 yards White Flannel,

Best 10 yards Woolen Tweed,

KNIT GOODS,

59 50 50 5U 5D 50 OO Ov 5U wv) 50

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06 | Best three pair Socks, 1 00 2d best do 0 50

00 | Best three pair Stockings, 1 00

00 | Best pair Mitts, 1 00

00 | Best collection of Knit Work, 2 Ww

MEASURES.

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0g | Best one bushel and half bushel Po-

50 tate Baskets of Indian Manu-

00 facture, 1 00

09 | Best do do of Ozier or other Mas

50 terial, 1 00

Qo | Best collection of Basket~work, 1 25

00 | Best collection of Indian Baskets, 1 25

50 FLAX MANUFACTURE,

00 mn

Qo | Best half-dozen Towels (new) 1 2

5) | Best Table Cloth, do 1 2