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MONCTON Sash and Door Fagtory.

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Wylie the log and the papers.

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'- *That would be discovered at once. You have committed an irremediable = error. What broad strokes this Hudson makes.

He must have written with the stump of a quil',’ Wylie receivcd this last observation with

a look of contempt for the mind that could; put so trivial a qnestion in so great $n

‘emergency.

' ‘Are you guite sure poor Hudson is dead ?’ asked Wardlaw, in a low voice.

| ‘Dead! Don’t I tell you I saw him die ! said Wylie, trembling all of a sudden.

| He took a glass of brandy and sent it flying down his throat.

| ‘Leave the paper with me,’ said Arthur, languidly, ‘and tell Penfold Til craw! to the office to morrow. You can meet me there. I shall see nobody else.’

Wylie called next day at the office, and was received by Penfold, who had now learned the cause of Attvur'’s grief, and ushered the visitor in to him with looks of ' benevolent ce ncern. Arthur was seated! like a lunatic, pale and motionless. On the table before him was aroast fowl and a! salad, which he had forgotten to eat. His’ mind appeared to alternate between love! and fraud; for, as soon ashesaw Wylie, he gave himself a sort of shake, and hande

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‘Examins them, they agree better with each other now.’

Wylie examined the log, an/ started with surpr's? and su;erstitions terror.

‘Why Hiram’s ghost has been here at work!’ said he. ‘It is his very hand- writing.’

‘Hush!’ said Wardlaw, ‘not so leud., Will it do!’

‘The writing will do first rate, but any- one can see this log has never been to sea,’ Inspired by the other’s ingenuity, he then, aftera moment’s reflection, emptied the salt-cellar into a plate, and poured a little water over it. He wetted the leaves of the log with this salt water, and dog’s- eared the whole book.

Wardlaw sighed. ‘See what expedients we are driven to,’ said he. He then took a little soot from the chimney and mixed it with salad oj. He applied some of this mixture to the parchment cover, rubbed it off, and by such manipulation gave it a certain mellow look, as if it had been used by working hands.

Wylie was armed with these materials, and furnished with money, to keep his sailors to their tale, in case of their being examined.

Arthur begged, in his present afiliction, to be excused fpom going personally into the maiter of the ‘‘Proserpine;” and said, that Penfold had the ship’s log, and the decla- ration of the survivors, which the insurers could inspect, previously to their being deposited at Lloyd’s.

The whole thing wore an excellent face, and nobody found a peg to hang suspicion on so far.

After this preliminary, and the deposit of the papers, nothing was hurried; the merchant, absorbed in his grief, seemed to be forgetting to ask for his maney. Wylie remongtrated; but Arthur convinced him they were still on too ticklish ground to show any hurry without exciting suspicion, And so passed two weary months, during which Wylie fell out of Nancy Rouse’s good graces, for idling about doing nothing.

‘Be you a-waiting for the plum to fall into your mouth, young man?’ said she.

The demand was made on the under- writers, and Arthur contrived that it ghould come from his father. The firm was of excellent repute, and paid hundreds of in- surances, without a loss to the underwriters The ‘Broserpine’ had foundered at sea; several lives had been lost, and of the sur- vivors, one had since died, owing to the hardships he had endured, All this be- tokened a genuine calamity. Nevertheless, one ray of suspicion rested on the case, at first. The captain of the ‘Proserpine’ had lost a great many ships; and, gn the first announcement, one or two were resolved to sift the matter on that ground alone. But when five eye-witnesses, suppressing all mention of the word ‘drink,’ declared that Captain Hudson, had refused to leave the vessel, and described his going down with the ship, from an obstinate and too exalted sense of duty, every chink was closed, and, to cut the matter short, the in- surance money was paid to the last shilling, and Benson, one of the sma)! underwriters, ruined. Nancy Rouse, who worked for Mrs. Benson, lost eighteen shillings and sixpence, and was dreadfully put out about it.

Wylie heard her lamentations, and grinned; for now his £3,000 was as good as in his pocket, he thought, Great was his consternation when Arthur told him that every shilling of the money was forestalled, and that the entire profit of the transaction was yet to come, viz., by the sale of the gold-dust.

‘ Then sell it,’ said Wylie.

‘I dare not. The affair must cool down before I can appear as a seller of gold, and even then [ must dribble it out with great caution. Thank Heaven, it is no lopger in those cellars.’

‘ Where is it, then ?’

‘That is my secret. You will get your three thousand all in good time, and, if it makes you one-tenth part as wretched as it has made me, you will thank me for all these dla s,’

At last Wylie lost all patience, and began to show his teeth; and then Arthur Ward- law paid him his three thousand pounds in forty crisp notes. He crammed them in a side-pocket, and went down triumphant to Nancy Rouse. Through her parlor window he saw the benign countenance of Michael Penfold. He then remembered that Pen- fold had told him some time before that he was going to lodge with ber as soon as the

The Patriotic Sentiment cai:

of Canada,

were set on foot, and out world streamed into jthe newer many immigrants; out of it

‘flowed many adepartment of progress which ‘found not only its development in the new ‘world, but brought back that width of imovement, that breadth of idea, that ‘strong spirit of liberty, which, returring

A Bond of Communication epon the wother and fatheriand, have done

Wanted.

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Part of the Speech of Mr. Foster, M. P., on y } ’

the Debate on the Railay Resolutions)

a people. That is very true; but J think a people never amounts to much without a country. I believe, Sir, that the material is not by any means the most important factor in the deveiopment of national great- ‘ness, anc the upbuilding of national per- mancy. I believe, Sir, that there is a sent- iment, indefinable, but very strong, and very creative, which is sometimes kypwn by the name of patriotism, which is written as one of the broadest facta upon the history of the past, which is no less a fact in the development of the present, and which no statesman, and no deliberative assembly can atford to ignore. It is that feeling, Sir, which makes us prond and confident of our own country, which creates within us a desire, an overmastering desire, to make it rival,and if possible excel, any other, which calls forth the best energies of a people to embody and real'zs that desire, which joins together dismembered parts and diversities of opinion and of interest. In order to attain the object desired, which throws its halo, Sir, of hope and confidence over the darkest period of a nation’s de- velopement, and which crowns seeming im- possibilities with triumphant success. This feeling, Siy, I believe to be a factor which is INDISPENSIBLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT

of any people, dowried even with the rich- est material resources, and a factor which has been proved over and over again in the history of the world, to have bronght forth wonderful transformations, to have built up splendid and enduring nationalities out of elements which have been disjointed, dis- united and surrounded with difficulties. If you, Sir, and the House will pardon me for a moment, I may be allowed to remark that years ago, when seated, asa school- oy, on the school form, and making my first explorations into that wonderful field of geography and history, following out, with all a boy's eager enthusiasm, the birth, the progress, the growth and the splendid outflowering of national greatness, | was interested in every step, I participated in every struggle, I felt sad at every reverse, and | rejoiced at every victory ; and I remember perfectly well the feeling that often and often came foremost in my mind, that I wished that I, too, were a citizen of a country which was large and great— which either had in its storied past a gran- deur to fall back upon, or which had a future out of which it could carve that grandeur for itself. I felt the lack of that, I felt a spirit stirring within me, a desire that that void might be filled. As I have grown, | have felt more and more the yearning for a country of which I might be proud, of which the future pos- sibilities were grand, and might be said to be almost illimitable. There were many other boys in similar forms, in similar schools, all over this Dominion, that were feeling the very same lack and had the very same desire stirring within them. There had been boys of generations pre- vious who had felt the same lack, and had been stirred with a similar desire. These boys, of generations past, have grown up to be men, but they have not lost their desire. Those of my own generation have grown tp to be men, but they have lost none of the ardor and strength of that desire, and out of that desire, born genera- tions back and nu-:tured through the generations that intervened, there sprang the idea of Confederation, which, in 1867, became a fixed fact. | welcomed the idea of Confederation. I welcomed it at the outset, outside of all the difficulties and conditions which surrounded it. I left the arrangement of these ditticulties to older heads, It was sufficient to me that the ides which had been born within me, which had been nutured and was strong within me, had at last come to its embodiment and had been engrafted in the country. Our four Provinces became a country. The provincial life which had been bounded by narrow limits flowed out afresh in a wider sweep and came back again to the different parts of the confederated Froyinces,

FRAUGHT WITH A NEW LIFE AND A NEW IMPULSE.

Hut that was not all that was needed. These four Provinces of Canada that became merged in one Dominion were old; their names were familiar; they had been known from the seventeeth century. The names of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, were old familiar names, the mention of which excited no fresh enthusiasm, awakened no new interest, had no new attractive power. Outside of the impulse which the confeder- ation of those four Provinces gave to the life of the people of those Provinces, the Confederation of 1867, stopped short of that which was needed. There was needed after that the electric shock of a new idea, and the new idea sprung up that there was a background of illimitable resources, that there was a country witha great prospect | and @ wonderful fertility which stood as the | background of the old picture to attract to) us the attention, not only of people nearly | related to us in blood and friendship, | but the attention and the gaze of the) civilized world, The very same thing occurred here that was necessary | when the life of Europe had become) stagnant in its views. Its people, looking) out across the Atlantic Ocean, descried the, far distant shores of a new country, opened | up to themselves a new world and were| filled with an impulse to which they had|

Inspector of Agencies, Ch'town, August 3, 1883,

On Short Notice, in Good Style, at Cheap Prices.

) present lodger should go. (To be continwei.)

been strangers for centuries past, New

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more to bring about liberty of Government ‘and liberty of social development than any one influence with which we are acquinted. The very same that was necessary when \the New England States had grown to be old sprung into life. Ali at once the great west was opened, and a

We often hear the remark, Sir, that @/ wonpERFUL BACKGROUND OF WIDEST PROMISE ‘country does not amount to much without ¢,

r the development of the richest resources jand attracted the gaze of Europe and brought its stream of emigrauts and made its enterprise and spirit and impulse of life, wide and broad and deep. That same thing was necessary for our Confederation vf 1867, and it came in 1870-71 and 1872. The new Northwest was cpened to the goze of the world, was annexed to the older Provinces, and we possessed a Dominion which extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific and which had its wide resources, great fertility, and wonderful power, first opened to the gaze and attracting the attgn- tion of the world. In 1867 we gained a country. In 1870 and 1872 we extend- ed that country to wide bounds and made it more a country to be proud of, with greater resources and greater possibilites than we had hoped for at the period of the

first amalgamation of the Provinces. But something was necessary besides this. The

elements that made up this new country of 1871-72, were widely diversified and widely scattered. Britash Columbians had hardly heard of Nova Seotians and New Bruns- wickers. The Province of (Juebec with a different . language, different. blood, and a different mode of expressing its religions aspirations lay very largely unknown to people of the Maritime Provinces and the people of even the Western and newer Provinces. lt was necessary, in order that we should have a great country of which we could be proud, that we should have a united country. The very same spirit which drove us into Confederation in 1867, which drove us to the extension of our ter- ritory in 1870, stopped not, would not stop, will never stop until the country is amalga- mated and united in the best possible way.

(Concluded in our next.)

ST, LAWRENCE CANALS

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

VEALED TENDERS, addressed to ihe undersignea and endcrsed ‘ Tender for St. Lawrence Canals,’ will be received at this office until the arrival of the easterm and western mails, on TUESDAY the 12th day of February next, for the construction of a lock and regulating weir and the deepening and enlargement of the upper entrance of the Cornwal! Canal. Also for the constraction of a lock, to- gether with the enlargement and deepening of the upper entrance of the Rapid Place Canal, or middie division of the Williams- burg Canals, and the deepening, etc., of the channel al the upper entrance ot the Galops Canal, A map of the head or upper entrance of the Cornwall Canal and the upper entrance of the Rapide Plat Cancel, together with plens and specifi ations of the respective works, can be seen at the Resident Engineer’s citice, Dick- enson’s Landing; and lor the works at the head of the Galops Canal, at the Lock Keeper’s house near the place, and in each case plans, etc , can be seen at this cflice on and after Tuesday, the 29th day of January inst., where printed forms of Tender can be obtained,

Contractors are hereby informed that trial pits have been sunk on the CORNWALL aad RAPIDE PLAT sections of the werks, and they are requested to bear in mind that ten. ders will not be considered unless made strictly in accordanee with the printed forms, and be accompanied by a letter stating that the person or persons tendering have care- fully examined the locality and the nature of the material found in the trial pits, etc,

In the case of firms there must be attached the actual signatures, the nature of the occu- pation and residence of each member of the same; and jurtber, a bank deposst reeespt for the sum of $4,000 must accompany the tender forthe Cornwall Caual Works. The tender forthe Rapide Plat Works must be accompanied by @ bank deposit receipt for th» sum of $3,000, The tenders for the deepen- ipg, etc, at the head of the Galops Canal must be also accompanied by a bank deposit receipt for the sum of $3,000, The respective deposit receipts (checks will not be accepted) must be endorsed over to the Hon. the Mivister of Railways and Canalis, and will be torfeited if the porty tendering declines enter- iag into contract forthe works at the rates and on the terms stated ia the offer submitt- ed, The deposit receipts thus sent in will be returned to the respective parties whose tenders are not accepted,

This Department dors not, however, bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By order, A. P. BRADLEY, Secretary.

Dept. of Railways and Canals, | Ottawa, 21st Jan, 1854. Jang0—\aw 3in.

P. Island Pottery.

I. land Pottery. Orders sent to us will re- prompt atiention. Jars, Jugs, Bean Mugs, Flower Pots, Spitoons, Stove in stock.

ceive Pots, Stones, etc., etc.,

BEER & GOFF AGENTS

Ch’town, Ovt, 26, 83.