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“This is true Liberty, when Freeborn Men, haying to advise the Public, may speak free.”---Euripides.

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Monday, September 15, tsé2.

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"LITERATURE.

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ALBUM RHYMES. with flickering candles,

cenire were grouped four or five men and a beck, Twelve o'clock of the past night was not disobey her ; and all the while the furi- ‘aren't we cousins ?” said Mr. Tom, swinging

A task—s pleasant one indeed Ie mine, with willing hand, to write Some verse, for gentle cyes to read On this fair epotiess page to-night.

What shall it be? some wise old thought— | Some sparkling jest—or flowing rhyme

Whose murmuring melody hath caught The jocund spirit of the Gme?

What can it be, but one fond theme | Of deathleas passion sweet aud strong— My fervemt thought, aud cease leas dream { Aloue, or ia Life's busy throng. |

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Ali day « vision of delight! A fair young face seems amiling near; And through the silent bwurs of night

woman, large and broad-shouldered as any | the anniversary of Mike Barlow's death. | of her companions.

| weather-beaten face. His shirt was unbat- upon my guard chain a dainty little Geneva | has had no change in its regular beat since ‘Your hair never curled eo before; and

‘you might kiss me!

The room was feebly lit! voice, as though some spirit hand had toucb- | again.’ ‘Weil, I couldn’t help it—and besides,

{ followed him. About a bed in the ed its spring. I looked at my memoraudum! He also thought ber mad, and yet dared |

‘ous ticking of the watch was heard by cach himself comfortably into » branch just above A child, too, lay ery-| His words had come true at last. He had/one there. It softened, it stilled when the’ Mary.

ing in its cradle, but no one seemed to no-| said that when it once began to move, it | doors were opened and the dark coffin stood; + Why, Tom, how you have changed !’ tice it. They made way for my approach, wou'd be as my monitor of safety or danger. upon the turf. It grew musical when my ejaculated the young lady, pushing back the and I saw a figure stretched upon a bed. It All else had happened as he had foretold; wife bent over me and caught me to her curls with one hand, that she might the bet- was that of a man with sinewy limbs and| why should not this come to pass? I wore heart—no corpse, but a living man ; and it ter view her playmate of childhood’s days.

I unfastened it, and put the batter- | that moment. | what a nice moustache you've got! J]

toned, and the breast and sleeves were watch. y It is before me now, battered and worn as | should’nt have known you, Tom !’

soaked with blood. ed silver monster in its place. The bud-| " ve k

‘Taint of no use, doctor,” he said, as I ding development of the mystery made it’ it was when it first came into my possession;) = * No!’ said Tom, roguishly. bent over him; ‘ I'm a gone coon. Doctor's more precious to me than if it had been set and you may laugh alike at the watch and| = * And you’ve grown so tall! stuff ain't no account to me, now.’ with jewels, ‘the superstition with which it is connected. Tom, you're splendid !

I did not believe him. His face was not _[t did not stop again. I heard the soft But my wife believes in it firmly, and loves | that of a dying man, aud the wounds scarce- | clear “ tick, tick, tick,” ly seemed dangerous. ‘These bullets are wakened in the night. Once or twice it beat the matter of that, so do I. bad things to have in one’s side,’ I said, more rapidly than usual, and always before | 12 <~2>-

I declare,

| * All gone to weleome that horrid poky

whenever a girl says she “ never, never’ will do a thing, she is pretty sure to go and do it the first chance she gets, and Mary is ho exception to the general rule!

The gentleman laughed. *T could return to make frequent little squibs and satires | all day, and when I it as though it were a living thing, and, for the compliment, if I dared! But where are| about English taxation, but henceforth we |

all the rest of my relations? The house be | live in too fragile a glass house to throw) low is as empty as a haunted hall !’ ‘stones. A walk up Broadway shows that)

aah short, ‘ We're thar, doctor,’ my companion | tick of the old watch upon the wall! Silent, ‘I am come to tell you to open my hus-' catch hold of this branch — there. Now| But, no doubt, it was a very perplexing | sprang from the saddle and entered the door. | for a twelve-month, it had actually found band’s vault,’ she said; ‘ be is come to life shake hands—yon saucy fellow, I didn’t say | thing to have two Cousin Toms; and 60,' TERRIFIC ADVENTURE WITH A aw about six months subsequent!y, Miss Mary |

cotrived to obviate that inconvenience by allowing one of them to assume a nearer re- lationship, and in spite of all her assever- ations to the contrary, she is Mrs, Professor La Place,

For it’s a solemn fact in this world, that

EN Tae Tax Garneren’s Wak In Broap- |

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we can claim the honors of taxation quite |

[From the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman. }

BOA CONSTRICTOR,

One of the most thrilling incidents which has ever come to our knowledge occured a few days since in a * side show” with Van Amburg & Co.’s Menagerie, where two en- Ormous snakes—an anaconda and a boa con- strictor—are on exhibition. Both of the huge reptiles are kept in the case with a glass top, opening at the side, and the keeper was eugaged in the act of feeding them when the event occurred. The longer of the snakes, the boa coustrictor, which is some thirty feet long and as large around the middle as a man’s thigh, had just swallowed two rabbits when the keeper introduced his arm and body into the eage for the purpose of reach- ing a third to the anaconda, at the opposite corner. While in this position the boa, not satished with his share of the rations, made a spring, probably with the intention of se-

}‘but mea have lived throu h more than peril—the first time when a fever threaten- | : io. 1 eee ithat. Cheer up! . ed me; the second when [ stood upon a/ MARY THORNE’S COUSIN,

«I ain't down-bearted, doctor,’ answered broken bridge, which was swept away an| ‘the man. ‘I shan’t leave no children nor, hour afterwards; and at other moments, | wife to fret after me aud suffer for want of which I have forgotten, but which served to |

A sweet voice lingers ou wy ear. ‘old Professor La Place, who has graciously i as much as our down-trodden cousins in . yy . * voles ware . eee a to a ~ weeks! Europe. A tax gatherer’s promenade in iprameth to goncceaee tan — with us! ‘Tom, [ do hate that man!’ Broad is b 4 tive, ; a lle gu - ‘ Hate him! what for?’ ester shettttnnds Qacsees Aude anda vand, with the rapidity of ‘lightning, threw

Leaving Bowling Green, he sees several | ti +06 eoils around the poor fellow, thus ren-

Dreaming or waking, still there floats Around me that rich stream of song, The while the softly blending notes,

* Mary, I am astonished !’ , Of course the grave elder sister was)

'N i . i in fact, she *(Q,I don’t know; I'm sure he is a snuff- d hotels which pay Ji f at leas : : Neath her akilled fingers sweep along my rifle. I never hev been much afeard of keep alive the faney which I have loved to 8tonished ! In truth, aud in Ys ' ; taxed hotels which pay licenses of at least | 9 h : : death. Bat L tell you all you can do's no|cherish, Never was its voice so clear and lived in a chronic state of amazement, for dried, conceited old wretch, and I'll wager!$100, The bonded warehouse a few steps | Gites a sna ey ee

further reminds us that fifty cents duty is! paid for the entry into or withdrawal theze- from of any goods. The sp!endid stores of

There's a sign that can’t be mistcok.’ soft as on that evening when I first met! Mary Thorne was always doing something a box of gloves he wears spectacles ! I loved her from the first mo- © astonish her friends and relatives. Miss| * Nonsense, Mary ! why he is only twenty-

We had Ruth could hardly credit the evidence of her | six !" (own senses, in the hazy glow of the August’ +T[ don't care—I know he's rheumatic the wholesale dealers are each worth fifty 'morniog, when she came out of the clematis and wears spectacles for all that, And Tom dollars a year to Uncle Sam. very clerk ‘shadows of the little south porch, and dis- —now if you'll never, never breathe a word | standing in the doorway of these stores ‘covered that yonder moving object half way of this—’ must pay 2 per cent. of his income ei

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How dear these thoughts and memories are, Blessing and brightenivg all Life's hours! For love is wow the guiding star

Te all my spirit « earnest powers.

assistance, and among them, fortunately, ' was a well krown showman named Townsend | a man of great muscular power, and what was of more importance, one who had been familiar with the habits of these repulsive ; monsters all his life, having owned some of |

} use, | The group about the bed glanced at each Rosa Grey. j other, and the woman shook her head at me | meut, and she loved me in return. |as though she would have suid, ‘ Never mind | neither of us any friends to interefere, for ‘his words.’ | she was an orphan, brotherless and sisterless; I did what I could for him. The bullets, and so, after a brief courtship, we were mar- | were extracted, the wounds bound up. He | ried. was weak, but not desperately so. Llooked| I have no secrets from my wife, ‘at him and smiled. ‘How now? said 1. | little while she learned the story of the huge ©

Through all the years, O were it mine ‘'Tuint no use — the watch is stopping| watch. She had faith in it, and thought or | leaves, reeves : ‘ To guard the pathways of her lite ; | fast,’ he answered. | fancied that she could deteet the very shades cluster of sun-checked pears swingibg in the make a nice wife for the professor, and— cents, That portly stock-broker turning out.

, ; : Pa cn r ; ; ; him, but if j i i i oe should round her richly shine! =| Pheu for the first time I noticed that be- | of difference in its utterance. When I was blue ewpyrean, but—Miss Mary Thorne | and : ; yea | of Wall-street is worth fifty dollars to bis| shgid heoose ay te vr ne a What flower-like joys be ever rife! side him on the bed lay a great, old fashion- | Weary, she said the watch was weury too; | comfortably perched in the crook of the | “ Mary turned away with crimson indigaa- goverument in licenses, while that carriage ihe would, ia « second seekers na ile led silver watch, the case battered, the face When I was glad, it had a joyous echo. I gnarled tree, her curls al] flecked with the tion flashing in ber cheeks. _and horse driving up near the corner repre |. . pha. oo aS ons d sil ; cage , c ; sifted rain of sunshine that came down - with a power sufficient to crush the life out In spite of all my earnest care, | discolored, and that it ticked with a strange | know that ou that night, whena feeble *! rain OF sunsaine

It is too bad of you to laugh, Tom! 1 sents another 84. As he h ‘ a goes past the nest! or. oz. . A'denl J c ; : ‘ wal ahead : p a3) a as ; , single quick convulsion of the © weald I net with yearning heart dull sound, as though it were very old and breath fluttered ina feeble frame, and the | through the shifting canopy of leaves, and a never, never will marry the man! of lawyers at Trinity buildings it is a satis- oo osture d the eae adi:weeld4e te The bitter burthea more than share! | feeble. ‘little ereature to whom our love had given) ao be

book in her lap! | ‘I wouldn’t if I were you!’ consoled Tom. | faction to the tax gatherer to k that | :

a ‘ ' l. ens : & Fr 0 Know wat eternity! This Towns ;

‘Thia watch has been injured with the | existence struggled vainly for its li‘e, there| ‘I don’t care!’ said the little damsel, « But, Cousin Mary, wait and see the man | each of them has to pay a license of $10.) ., shsebes benef oi Race et coe

Ber like a stream increasing ever, | bullets, I suppose,” said 1; * besides, al! was 4 piteous cadence in the voice of that old | He glances into the auctioneers’ stores and |}, 0) upon the estts 4 hand, he managed The Love that prompts thissimple rhyme — | watches stop at times.’ |watch [ hope never to bear again, ;

laughing saucy defiance, ‘It’s the nicest before you decide. He may be quite a|

| place in the world up here ; I feel just like deceut fellow.’ | complaceutly remembers that every one of by powerful yet extremely cautious movo- Shall flow—a deeply swelling river— | ‘Not this one, stranger,’ said the wounded, So we lived on together. It was God’s Along the hidden tracks of Time. ‘man. ‘ They've laughed about that watch a will that we should be childless, but we loved

a bird, with the leaves fluttering agaiustmy) ‘No!’ said Mary, shaking her head and/ them must contribute $10 to the ZVErD- | Dents to uacoil the snake without exciting ~=emne- hundred times ; now they'll ficd my story's each other all the more. | grew rich and

face, and the wind blowing so sottly—and biting her cherry lips frmly ;* 1 bate bim) ment. The druggist, where he stops for soda | THE MYSTERIOUS WATCH. | true, [I reckon. That watch and I will stop prosperous, and our only grief was she miss-

Love for that fair and graceful form Deep in my inmost heart doth lie;

And while Life's pulse is basking warm That feeling shal! not fail or die.

and ina | UP among the umb:ageous branches of the ‘1 won't, upon my honor,’ said Tom. $600. At the express office you observe the largest ones ever brought to this country. HS

ld pear tree was not a spray of * Well, then, papa has actually got the | that for every receipt for goods to be icagen| eneneant. _ ean —

nor yet a russet-plumed robin, nor a idea into his dear old head that I should mitted there is a charge of from one to five ane was to uacoil the snake from around

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l intend to stay bere! Wouldn’t you like before-hand ! |water, has to pay his share, and on the jprzse after which, by the united exertions

to come up here, Ruthy? It’s easily done * Whag a spiteful little pussy you are!’ | eating house where he takes a nibble there of two strong meu the jews were pried open

; ah bt knot dud > aaid he i abs : : : 7 and the man released in a completely ex- of Masui tines” ing of those baby eyes and voices which we | —JU5* put your foot on tha ) . ) s 7 : - said her companion, Jaughing. isa similar claim, If he passes a newspaper | hausted condition. ‘The bite of the boa con-

AN OLD Doctor's STORY. The woman at the bedside shook her | bad hoped to bave about our hearth. | Ruth, who was thirty, and weighed a hun-

head again. ‘It’s an old fancy ’o yourn, It was my fortieth birthday—I never

You have vo faith in the supernatural? Mike Barlow,’ she said ; ‘ you'll live to see ‘hall forget the day—when the watch began |

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‘No indeed, Tom, l’w not!’ and the blue office, he reflects that for every advertise- | z : cf dred and sixty pouuds, bristled up with eyes became misty. * L love papa and Kuth ment the proprietor pays 3 per cent. on ae is not pomanous, end although tho auiszement. ae per. bitten hand was immensely swollen the next

dearly—and I love almost everybody ! ross receipts. Every physician whose little | . ‘Mary Thorne! are you crazy? Come like you, Tom, but I hate Professor Lal oo sign in may see a Lie -scmte measet die: day, no serious results were apprebended.

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I bave. You do not believe in vecromancy, | the folly of it.’ its warning. My wife and I heard it at one d shat tt Place! And fw iae. Tom. | * ' . :

or astrology, or in the power of the evil! ‘So they talk,’ said the mao. ‘Now lise woment. Never befure had the voice of that or aa ees die acentee Mayle oe m1 > aceite 7 ey eee ro gorge $10. The cigars smoked along the | death it would be difficult to imagine,

eye? Ido, The reason for this is you are | ten, doctor. You've come far to see me and Watch beon so loud or so rapid. All day) ‘3 § ‘ ‘ooh ja n Ae men Sa ie z ia Meo Frerthr 4 iat e a ’ OW streets are taxed according to their value. | sit essthtap Uird

Americans, descended from Engiish ances-|done all you could. I'l give you that|long, all the next, and all the next, that rae the silky shower Of cur's away trom) bin to tease me into walks or rides, oF If it rainsand be! pute'dp an umbrella,/he ‘ “o E ser forehead, and glancing down with eyes detes a-tetes of any kind! Will you? ‘need pot pay for the privilege, unless it isa| _ INrenpeo Buockape or Tamrrco,—The

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warning continued. The strong pulse of the watch shook the table on which it rested when I drew it from my pocket, and made the garments on my bosom rise and fall when t replaced it. Were we threatened with lness ? .No! ber ckeck was blooming and my pulse was reguiar, What could it mean ? After four days 1 began to laugh at my own ¢redulity, and even Rosa began to lose ber faith in the monitor. About noon [I left | ‘her, and went alone to a little room where | kept my medical works and some rare drugs und curiosities. It was my purpose to study for a lecture which L had to deliver that evening. 1 seated myself at my desk and

ters, while I have German blood in my/ watch. Its money valley ara't much, but Veins, and inherit a reverence for what you | it'll do you service. It was giv to me by sneer at. Were a disembodied spirit to) an old Frenchman, out o’ Canady, when he arise at my bedside to-night, I should ques-| was layin’ just as [am layin’. [t bad been tion it and own to being frightened, while | his father’s, and his grandfather's, and his you would throw a candle-stick at its imma. | great-grandfather’s before that ; and this is terial bead, and insist to the last upon it) what he told me about it, and this is what being # burglar in disguise. Yet, mark, me you'll find to be truth. That watch will in spite of yourself, your bair would rise and ‘tick slow and steady, regular as the sun, as your blood ecurdie, and you would wot ac- long as whoever it belongs to is well, and knowledge it for the world. Bah! if such safe, and thriving. When there’s danger things have no existence, what do our strange coming, it begins to go fast, faster and fast- shiverings and shudderings mean? Ad er, until it is past, and so loud that you can why do we look abovt us with awe-stricken | hear it across the room as plain as if you eyes when we pss grave yards after dusk? had itin yourhend. When death is coming | You donot, yousay. Are yousureof it? I} that watch begins to stop, it goes slower. | commenced to read; but after a few mo- have vever seen a ghost, and I cannot say | [ts voice grows holiow; aud when the breath | ments I began to eXpericnce a singular) I desire the spectacle. There must be an | leaves the body, there's no more sound to be | faintness and to inhale a disagreeable odor, auneousfortable beating of the heart at such a/ beard, and all you can do won't make it go I recogaized the smell ina moment. In one

Would he? If she had asked him to silk umbrella, in which case he must pay |Halifox Royal Gazette contains a letter precipitate himself out of the pear tree upon) five per cent. of its value — consequently ‘from Admiral Milne, addressed te his Ex. , the stone stens below, with those blue eyes cotton umbrellas will be in active demand. celleney the Lieutenant Governor, convey- fixed on his, he’d have done it! Any man {xe theatres, wholesale and retail stores, and | ing information of the intended blockade of : of taste would. the incomes derived from every building on | the port of Tampico by a Freach naval force.

‘I promise!’ he said; and they shook your Broadway route, are raxed. People’s Anuexed to this letter is @ translation of a hands on it. ‘clothes and what.they eat are taxed, The vote addressed to the commander of H.M.S.

What a cosy place for a chat that gnarled | glass they look through and the gas they see Pheton, by the captain commanding the old tree was! And wheo they had talked! by are taxed. If we wish to slaughter hogs French expeditionary division in the Gulf over every thing they could think of, it was and sheep for our own cousumption, Uncle of Mexico, from which it appears that after the most natural thing in the world that Sam permits us to do so gratis; but he will | the 15th of July, the port of Tampico was culated Mary, ‘I wish I could run away Tou should recover the book which had not permit us to hang ourselves for nothing, | to be blockaded by a French naval force Re somewhere and hide! I hate this paragon slipped down into a network of tiny boughs, | as hemp is taxed 3 per cent. _ If we wish to sufficient to ensure an efficient blockade. i of prim precision! I shan’t marry him if aq read poetry to his pretty cousin in the) leave the city and go to New Jersey, we can | The blockade is to be continued untill the be asks, and I mean to behave so badly that deep musical voice that maidens Jove to’ do so freely ; but if we prefer other climes, |end of hostilities; but the Kuglish packet he won't dream of it! No, Lam mot going jisen to! And Mary sat there, watching | and think of Europe, we must pay $3 for which takes the European correspondence with you—I hate the close barouche, and 4), jetty curls blowing to and fro on his! the passport aud a dollar tax for the privi- | will be permitted to continue her monthly it’s too warm to ride on horseback. J shall pro34 white brow, and the long black lashes lege of buying a passage ticket. — N. Y. voyages to Tampico as heretofore. sight. I doubt if many could retuim both fora year. At the end of that time it will | of the jars upon my shelves was a rare es- stay at home : almost touching his olive cheek. And she Evening Post. nena

life and reason through euch an ordeal. start all of a sudden, and after that you can sence of great use in cases where a suspen- | And Miss Mary settled herself so snugly | tho ught how very, very handsome Cousin —--—0 -00 Unrieasant Occcrrexces.—The Canadian ‘with one tiny slippered foot swinging down, Tom was, and how much he had changed in| pers say that travelling on the Niagara

that shoue and sparkled like two blue jewels !

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‘Yes, | understand—you are all going in triumphal procession to the depot, to render an ovation to the great Profeesor La Place, the wisest, sagest aud grandest of ‘mankind, to whom the Thorne family bave the unutterable honor of being second cousins, aud to escort him solemnly to a month's sojourn at Thorne Hall! Oh, dear’ eja-

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; lam a doctor. Years ago I was very | read your fate by it and know your death | sion of unconsciousness wag necessary, but A i poor and very young. I eta thks my own oo It was mee old Picric died. It} exeessively dangerous save in skilful hands, and her pretty head close to a nest of blue the ten years that had elapsed since she had | er ae Cuora.— 2 a one River, and other places in Canada where Bri- ! will be so now. Keep the watch when I|Some one—a servant, probably, had been speckled bird's eggs, that Ruth gave it up seen kim last, and she wondered whether | Te!#tes the foiiowing story :—* A gen ema tish and American territory is oniy divided

eountry with my diploma, and nothing else.

with & aighvor Ceapair /on entering the reading room of the Kursal | by narrow rivers, is ene very insecure, g spair.

yas iv : tt i | . . : £ ‘Well theo, have it your own way, you. SU wal Sogngee OY ee | found a louis at the foot of a chair, No on account of the spies or looking out parties

meddling with the jar, and removed the ar chow &! ! Now, why couldn’t ; 7 : : : somebow she hoped not! Now, why n ‘one was in the room at the time, and the | being very numerous on the American side,

I found that the great cities of the new world stopper, and the room was full of the power- |

. am gone, doctor.’ were ful! of doctors young and poor as I was.

I could not help looking with some inter- ; i. Ps ; ; me at a ;

I left them und went westward. I settled : ; : ful odor. I must leave the room if ] would incorrigible romp! I wish you wereu’t too ‘Tom have been rich like that horrid Pro-| eee ; Ye rr |and having instructions to § hon est at the battered time piece. A strange live. I staggered ta the door, put my hand big to be shut up ina dark closet, or have fessor La Place, instead of a poor young gcutlemansaid to himself ; ‘This coin belongs io which they believe Kinitigons @acutt fenae

to chanee, and let chance do what it likes) 46 oo concealed. setetad bakin hace og

= a a. pf senel steese aad eae 'story had been woven about it, and the mar- Beta sate 'vellous always had a charm for me.

SS ee aes oe I sat beside my patient until he sank to seemed to me, worst of all. Miles and miles |*!eep. He seemed to be doing well still, and of hard riding through rain and mud, to 1 bad no doubt but that the morning light Visit patients, who could pay nothing ; miles | would see him greatly better. But western beck again o steal a few moments of repose hospitality would not permit of any depart- eee sanouncement of some one Ure at that late hour, and I was lodged in being ‘ very bad!’ I was skin and bones in om upper chamber mene 9 4 - conn os

weme : .| fragrant as it was simple. slept soundly. oon thet ns poem At midaight, ey was awaked by the

The only ine wonder is that I did not have what they,

your eurs well boxed !' medical student, and remained immovable—something bad hap-) ‘it @ a pity, isn’t it!’ said Mary,, And when the large black eyes were sud- pened to the catch. I vet to cai} aloud, eres ~ re . Yom | wn to — aoe as vet - but my voice failed me, I elutched the table) * Of course it is, Mary; if Cousin Tom had read every thougbt of ber mind, an vaalia te nts ; Pe , i ae but lost. my bold, and fell Bradley comes this morning, be sure and ex- blushed sack. * Which in the wenn of an Se ae in therine eC. W., Journal : - heavily to the floor. I could see nothing— | piain to bim why we are absent, and behave! Come, Tom,’ she chattered, to hide her, ' a aepete "y “notes, ite ~~ ae ede Pe Gee cate ae all grew dark about me. Mechanically I |like a young lady, mind !” confusion, ‘we've been up here long enough | t0K them up, an = — * hs a . saa af Be ©. Eifies Pte ane ye Wit” placed my hand upon the watch within my! ‘ All right!’ said Mary, dauntlessly. ‘I) Help me down, and I'll show you the old ing-room saw another genticman looking tor cabs proceeding dgia the titan teens Gonenm. borom. It had stopped !—-and I remembered | always liked Tom! we used to have grand sun dial that we used to heap up with butter |

‘something on the ground. * What have A a : | town (where they had been attending a pic- nothing more. romps together when we were children !’ | cups when we were children !” toes lost ? asked the first. ‘Ob, nothing y P She sat there in the old pear tree, | | eae

honk here etter? 20F piece, which I must have dropped | Cyryied i little nearer tie American than the

Wath gy ies cue eineen Consciousness came back to me as it may | What a tiny, insignificant, little Mary ohasdidkace hae ck abe 1V ie goo] nee See ee pe

ae , Tene isms come to a new-born babe, for aught | know. prettier than any Hamadryad that ever| she felt, leaning on the arm of that tall ’ ; ay os a ios ’ y P y

.< oo. b | ‘awakened in mortal agony. Some inward ; : 5 if. ad th ay‘ela : oa b h other; and without hesitation he handed to/ having a gun loaded with backshot fired at

-— ‘ a goon eee ae: \iafoey, Wipasstble Vo Cissoves, had done its} I felt without understanding; I was con. might have haunted the mossy old veteran cousin. And how nice it was to bave the) yoo) four notes of 1,000f cach and some them. Thinking that the shot might have ree from : However, I prospered, afters certain fashion,

upon the lock when, horror of horrors! it ae : a with it,’ aod so he went into the play-room g¢r.4 into with ball, and much indignation

and threw it on the table, In three minutes js caused by such proceedings. One of these | after the piece of gold had become a rouleau, occurrences is thus detailed by the St. Oa-

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wok “Tenia nothing of hope now, and the | scious of facts for which I cared nuthing; of the garden, her cheek touched with sun- stately head bent down 80 courteously to! old, adding, ‘You say it was a 20f pieee | been fired by @ sportsman at some game on de iderabl the bank they paid no attention to this and in a year or two made a considerable

bau i tei +» | L was in the dark ; I was very cold, aud my shine and ermine, her dimpled Jips apart, catch her soft accents—for somehow Mary | ° ling, it w : |

ying man eked a me with gay ei ee eared Stik lsat igo wo tan te bea ed rgten hase, aol” grona |) ets Ht aoa fat the api sr ot te ab unde the us

local reputation. The place was growing, | . a et pinnae a as is “ee c seem as though that were any affair of mine, her lap, now looking up, wrapt in girlish | wondrously sby ! : pres sould the play-room is open, Peek and in a few Sener a bullet grazed

and my spirits began to revive. }and me; and you will fin git. Hunger at last awoke me; the animal/reverie, into the blue sky as it sparkled) A rumble of wheels—it was the returning | a aan het op forty on? rgeant Conroy's knee, entering the side of

: ee seond andaung eee tek que id i . “as (and will soon retransform it into Jess thaD the boat. This convinced them that there

Pench toch a bare ao a see phone PN ene erent t eae’ down through ever-moving leaves, and now | carriage, and Mary cluogto Tom's ara. | 14, pol piece!” The original owner of the | was something wrong, and lookin toward

ee caeiees eae caididbe = oe ; sled. fi hate b. ‘where I had been and where [ was, I put | breaking into a soft little warble of song that) +The awful professor!’ she whispered. 90 pices did not require aa pressing to | the shore aor vemaiee @ number or armed

relates. A cold night in November had’set ones i _ aati’ oe “ “"~ "|up my band as well as I could. There was ‘made the very robins themselyes put their |+ Now, Cousin Tom, be sure you stand by | ae edge + a wiadlaih ex tnaratct.|*ommy soko hotied themn;"and tafoomed shams

ne | so wore e cae E felt ite beatings | !0W roof over my head, folds of muslin lay heads on one side to listen! The carriage) me through everything !’ that unless they stepped and came ashore ee ed Deen weet T beds in| POH faint, fainter, fainter still.

[ felt its beatings |“ ‘To my life's end! was the whispered | °4/7 offered him. | was‘ out west,’ remember. Of course, there there was no motion. He was dead. |

At last | about me, and something was upon my breast had driven away long since—she had watch- : . = 'which emitted a sickly fragrance—a bunch ed it beyond the curve of the winding road; | answer; and Mary felt herself crimsoning, aod te th Gpen Lent: 1 was Gostied adtic- was & preparation of pork, and a preparation | lifted the waich to wy ear—that bad stopped | Sythierdondll of whiskey ; corn meal, pork and whiskey j BlsO.

of flowers seeming half withered. I knew) the dark mantle of shadow was slowly fol-| much as she strove to repress the tell-tale) Discoveries at Posrett—In Pompeii able to comply with the request, and they > {| There were tears in the eyes of the rough with me? Why could [ not breathe frecly ?| velvet lawn below, and the old church spire! But there was no one in the barouch, save under a new Picdmontese contractor, In 58 examination, the Yankees being con- are the staple articles offered * out west.

they would shoot them. Being unarmed,

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What was the matter lowing the creeping sun-glow across the | blood. (the excavations are zealously carried on at once made for the shore ; and after under- , . 7 : . ; : vinced that it was impossible or dan

7 en about and the woman wept; she Was I blind and deaf that I could neither | among the far-off woods had chimed out Mr, Thorne and Rath, ae it drew up on the | the latest excavations in a house in the im- 45 potain them, were aesed vs ead : was enjoying my supper, as I have said, and sich ¢ me, : . kind ea ad see nor hear? Suddenly the truth flashed ‘eleven! And still Mary Thorne sat there grand sweep, beside the two cousins, : é mo |

» loud knock at my door was not the most | ™!git Sor one o L " nd pt 88 Where is the professor? questioned dell’ Aquila, a beautiful triclinium, with acquainted with the facts, at once addressed

¢ whieh could have broken |"? good now, and £ turned away, leaving lay in my coffin! | Suddenly there floated up into her leafy | Mary. ait (three pictures «was discovered. The first, notes to the American officers, and to his

tbe silence. However, I said * Come in, | en came after me ‘ He was not at the depot,” said Ruth ;| of these pictures represents the building something more will be heard of the matte

: : | en ca a . ! ‘ . rand 6 ” | » J . 1@ matter.

with as good grace as possible, aad a| ©" He giv’ it to you,’ he said, ‘and it’s wife ?--how had she borne the blow which | made her lean curiously forward, shading |‘ and | Troy by Deptune suid Apollo; the-seecmd ©! 7 cy iat Go $0 buts od citizens or soldiers

rept she /mediate vicinity of the Casino of Signor their howe. Major Grange, on being made eee” | aeross me; I bad been buried alive! --I in the foiked branches of the giant pear tree! | selightful sound i acl t f a2 ? . . . . 1] An En RRR SOR APES -Dehonn. oF She, And all this time, you ask, where was my | sanctuary a pungent, aromatic odor which | of own headquarters, and it is quite possible giranger entered. He was 2 tall, broad | He had nobody belonging to him, had fallen so suddenly upon ber? She it | her eyes with one hand, the better to pene- But Mr. Thorne had sprung from the car-| drunken Hercules with numerous Cupids, shot down on the water, merely because they

man, io the dress of a back- ee needn't be afeared of takin’ it, Take | Was who found me senseless upon my study trate the green foliage below. Not the late riage, and clasped both the stranger's hands | who have disarmed him, aud surrounded bY do not choose to pay attention to. the lan- goodsman, and his large features wore a °° 3 ‘floor; and sbe it was who hoped for return-, monthly roses—unot the amethyst borders of | 13 his. several Fauns aud Bacchantes ; and in the | guage of the soldiers who are placed on the

: i \y e watch was mine. éroubled wor f wi ses thats es ee eae and remain-| ing consciousness after all others despaired. something an gee t <a ’ to come | ed a0. I took it toa watchmaker, aud he | At last they told her ] was dead, and

* It's a bad - . 4 Toskis ie from laughed at the idea of its ever going again. shrouded me for Surial. Learned men de-, a9 far, doetor, ys * + a hed . ;.| This was after I had left the West, and cided that the strange preservation of my) er ee ee ee edad nd i idwelt in a large and populous city in the | frame was caused by the manner of my Aeut bappened over at our clearing, and if and at length my body was committ-|

i i 4) astern States, some eight or nine months death, anc poe hie go sazshing fr Se on nly es ‘after poor Mike Barlow's death. The 'ed to the iomb.

be glad to see it gone, more particularly od webeheeiee only confirmed my suspicions.| I had often made my wite promise me.

heliotrope, bor the spicy geraniums—pone | ‘La Place! is it possible ? Why, we! third picture Vulean shows Thetis the arms frontier to preserve Yankee patriotism, oF ‘of these blossoms distilled that peculiar, have just beea looking for you at Mill Sta-| of Apollo, among them a shield, ov which | prevent it from airing itself in Canada. | tion ? } | are represented the Zodiac, Apollo, and the! Litt Liga tS ‘I am sorry to have inconvenienced you, nine Muses. he second picture, with the! ‘The Comet is making an aap ap cigar ?” | sir,’ was the reply; ‘but I came by the way | drunken Hercules, is said to be, as regards | becoming a comet of the first tail, It ma & of Warton, and walked over this morning.’ both drawing and colouring, one of the finest | be distinctly seea every clear night a little to '

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sme}] ! * My patience !” said little Mary, ‘it’s a|