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Herring per bb! 4.87 to 6.49

tkerel per doz. 0.48 to 0.72 BOARDS.

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PLENTY FOR ALL.

There’s plenty for all, but we thwart one another,

And the weak gather weeds, while the strong cull the flowers.

Let man aye treat man as a friend and a brother,

And there’s plenty for all in this rich world of ours.

Had the Godhead been selfish, no frail flower blooming, Would, dying, bequeathe its perfume to the air;

And the life-giving streams, through our wide valleys roaming, Would have ne’er spread their circles, or mirrored a star.

Dark deeds and rare virtues, self-love and negation,

In the wisest of nature have strugsling met;

And the page that records the good deeds of the nation

Is po'luted with crimes that we fain would forget.

Did men love ene another as firm as they hated,

The world were a spot wherein no man could grieve;

Will the palate of Woe with man’s tears ne'er be sated?

W ee never practice to live and let ive!

Shall the shadows of darkness grow saorter or longer? Have martyrs unbowed trod the scaffold in vain? Will brother'ty Stronger? The crimes of the past be enacted again? Fair Plenty shall enter the cottager's dwelling, Laughter shall shake his fat side at his board, Pans to joy fill the breeze proudly swelling» And the wand of od time change the serf to a lerd!

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love become weaker or

CHAPTER XII.—Continued. It may be a matter of satisfaction to those, who sympathise with children to know that the young Prigleys were not disap- pointed after all in respect to the snap- dragon ; for when little Jacob was asked what amusement he would prefer for the entertainment of his guests, he at onee demanded a snapdragon; and Mrs. Ogden, always generous so far as her grandson was concerned, and this evening in a state of excitement unfavorable to parsimony, made a far larger and a much better snapdragon than the little Prigleys ever had Caan at the parsonage. Besides, it is emphatically true of snapdragons, whatever it may be of other social pleasures, that the more people share them the merrier they are. Mrs. Ogden’s tranquil courage, worthy of a member of the fire brigade, met with re- peated applause; her mind was certainly cool if ber fingers were not. Indeed, the fact is that in her desire to set an example of bravery to the children she burnt herself most painfully: yet such was her stoicism, her pride that she suffered no signs of pain to pass over her countenance, but contrived to extinguish the flaming spirit with a dig- nified wave of the hand, which betrayed not the martyrdom she endured. The true history of our hero’s absence was confined to Mr. and Mrs. Prigley, but a slightly fictitious account was circulated for the benefit of the general public in Shayton. According to this latter version, little Jacob had crossed the moor into York~ shire, and after having lost himself, been taken ill, and tended during his illness by some good Samaratin in those parts. It is the peculiarity of all highly populous districts that small distances are a great separation ; and in the populous valleys of Lancashire people are more separated from each other by eight or ten miles than they are by sixty in the Highlands. Jonse~ quently when the Shayton people heard that little Jacob had crossed the border to Yorkshire, it seemed to them that he had taken something like a leap into the infinite unknowable, and they asked no further questions. He made his appearance at Church on Christmas Day, and to the astonishment of the people, his father was also seen in the Milend pew. If aman is well todo, and not too flagrantly drunken or immoral, he has only to show himself in a pew to com~ plete his respectability. It was known in Shayton that Mr. Ogden was wonderfully changed since the disappearance of his son, but this last virtue of being seen at Church had hitherto been wanting to the circle of his perfections. Now that he sat there at last, so perfectly neat in his dress, so well brushed and shaven, with a pair of kid gloves on the hands that held the prayer book—his fine little boy on one side of him and his old mother on the other—he ex- cited on all sides feelings of the heartiest goodwill. There was nothing wanting in him now—he had attained the ideal. Per- haps, if the truth be known, he did not follow the service very closely, having, in lact, forgotten the somewhat intricate se~ quence of the various portions of it; but when he saw other people turn over the leaves of their Prayer Books he turned over the leaves of his book, and when they stood up and sat down he was careful to do the same. And although he may not al- ways have precisely hit upon the right prayer at the right time, it may be doubted whether his services were not as acceptable before God as that of the most practiced and accurate ritualist in the whole congre- gation. For his heart was full of joy and thanksgiving and of longing for a better a ] mon had been simply 8

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nailed to begin with, but he had added a passage to it which bore evident reference to the return of little Jacob ; and when to his great surprise he saw Mr. Ogden in the pew with him, he Nee farther addition extemporaneously, whic’ was understood by many present, ond which was full of good feeling. Indeed, to make allusions of this personal kind in a pulpit, in a quite unexceptionable ee : may be considered a proof of unus ant and taste. Mr. Prigley’s words were simpy

: welcome, and he was caré~ words of joy and hich might resemble

ful to avoid anything W a reference to Mr. Ogden’s past Hes. si passage about little Jacob was really ® fecting, and many women in the ere tion could not restrain their tears. ~ most demonstrative OF least ae ir these was Susy Tattersall, W os a audibly in her accustomed ait ” \ - though see sold atheistic tracts *. ae sugar plums for those who nyt ee she was a regular attendant 4 qr Pi Little Jacob’s pony had been sent for,

gether up to Twistle Farm. Until the man came for the pony, old Sarah had not the faintest idea that little Jacob was in exis- tence, and the shock had nearly been too much for ier. The messenger had simply said, ‘I’m comed for little Jacob tit.’ ‘ And who wants it?’ Sarah said; for it seemed to her a desecration for anyone else to mount that almost sacred animal. ‘* Why little Jacob wants it hissel, to be sure. And this (with some subsequent explana- tions of the most 'aconic description) was his way of breaking the matier delicately to old Sarah,

The old woman had never spent an af- ternoon of a Christmas Day so pleasant as she spent that. How she did toil and bustle about! ‘The one drawback to her happi- néss Was that she did not possess a Christ« mas cake; but she set to work and made tea cakes, and put such a quantity of cur. rants in them that they were almost as good as a Christmas cake. She lighted a fire in the parlour, and another in little Jacob’s room; and she took out his little nightgown that she cried over many a time, and, strange to say, she cried over it this time too. And she arranged the small bed so nicely that it looked quite inviting,with its white counterpane, and clean sheets, and bright brass knobs, and pretty light iron- work painted blue. When all was ready it occurred to her that since it was “hrist- mas time she would even attempt a little decoration; and as there was some ever~ greens at Twistle Farm, and some red bere ries, she went and gathered thereof, and attempted the adornment of the house— somewhat clumsily and inartistically, it must be confessed, yet not without giving it an air of festivity and rejoicing. She had proceeded thus fur, and could not ‘ bethink her’ of anything else that needed to be done, when, suddenly casting her eye on her own costume, she perceived that it was of the deepest black; for, being persuaded that the dear child was dead, she had so clothed herself out of respect for his mem, ory. She held her sombre skirt out with both her hands as if to push it away from her, and exclaimed aloud, ‘ I'll be shut o’ thee, onyhow, and sharply too;’ and she hurried upstairs to change it for the bright - est garment in her possession, which was of sky~blue, spotted all over with yellow primroses. She also put on a cap of strik- ing and elaborate magnificence, which the present writer does not attempt to describe, only because such an attempt would incur the certainty of failure. That cap had hardly been assumed and adjusted when it was utterly crushed and destroyed in a most inconsiderate manner, A sound of hoofs had teached old Sarah’s ears, and in a minute afterwards the cap was ruined in Master Jacob’s passionate embraces. You may do almost anything you like to a good-tempered old woman, so long as you do not touch her cap; and it ir an undeniable proof of.the strength of old Sarah's affection, and of the earnestness of her rejoicing, that she not only made no res monstrances in defence vf ber head-dress, but was actually unaware of the irreparable injury which had been inflicted upon it. Jim was as ignorant as his tellow-servant of the existence of his young master; and he was destined to experience the shock cf s still more startling surprise. He had been out all day in an outlandish little vils lage by the moorside, where he had friends and acquaintances; and after a festive af- ternoon, he returned to Twistie Farm ; hav~ ing drunk about as much as was good for him. If was perhaps a fortunate circum~- stance for Jim that his nervous system had been stimulated by strong ale to the point of fearing no evil, though perhaps he may not have been precisely prepared to face the devil. On opening the kitchen door he was greeted with a loud bark from Fes orach, and beheld Master Jacob warming himself before the kitchen fire, Jim did not drop from fright, but he quaked from head to foot, and felt exceedingly queer. Beads of chilly prespiration broke out upon his forehead, and he felt at the same time the strongest desire and the most utter in- capacity for flight. His uncertainty as to little Jacob’s corporeal existence was speed« ily put an end to by the ghost himself, who ran at his old friend and seized him by both sides of his coat, and fairly climbed up him, thereby giving satisfactory proof of bodily and ponderable substance. If farther evi- dence had been required, it would have been supplied—at least, to the extent of associative suggestion—by the demonstra~ tive demeanour of Feorach; for though Jim may have been in a state of philosophic doubt or suspension of judgement as to the possibility of human ghosts, he was a de- cided unbeliever in canine ones.

CHAPTER XIII.

The next time the doctor met Colonel Stanburne at Sootyhorn, he gave such a good account of Mr. Isaac Ogden, that the Colonel who took a strong interest in little Jacob, expressed the hope that Mr. Ogden would still join the regiment; though in ‘the time of his grief and tribulation he had resigned his commission, or to speak more accurately—for the commission had not yet been formally made out and given to him,—he had withdrawn his name as a can< didate forone. The Colonel in his friend~ ly way, declared the doctor was not & hos» pitable character. ‘I ask you to Wender- holme every time I see you, and you come sometimes, though not half often enough ; but you never ask me to your house; and by George! if I want to be invited at all I must invite myself.’ The doctor, who liked John Stanburne better and better the more he knew him,still entertained the very erroneous notion that a certain state and style were essential to John Stanbure’s happiness; and, notwithstanding many broad hints that he had dropped at differ- ent times on the subject, still hung back from asking him to a house where, though comfort reigned supreme, there was little luxury and no pretentions to gentility. The old middle-class manner of living still lingered in well-toxda houses in Shayton, and the doctor faithfully adhered to it. Everything was neat and comfortable about him, but he had, not marched with the times ; and whilst th e attorneys and cotton- spinners at Sootyhe rn and elsewhere had the chairs of therr dining room covered with morocco leat her, and their drawing room filled with all manner of glittering fragilities, and Bre issels carpets with pretty little tasteful patt 2rns, and silver forks and napkins, and @ hu ndred other proofs of the advancement of refinement, the worthy doctor had not k ept up with them at all, but lagged beba id by the space of about thirty years. Hc» had no drawing room ;

in the afternoon his father and he rode to-

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ISLAND, MONDAY,

awkward pattern, and their seats were cov- ered with horse-hair; the carpet was cheap and coarse, with a monstrous pattern that no artistic persen would have tolerated for asingle day; and though the doctor poss sessed a silver punch-ladle and teapot, and plenty of silver spoons of every description, all the forks in the house were of steel ! Indeed, the doctor’s knives and forks,which had helonged to his mother, or perhaps even tojhis grandmother, were quite a curi. osity in their way. They had horn handles of an odd, indescribable conformation, sup- posed to adopt itself to the hollow of the hand, but which, from some misconception of human anatomy on the part of the too in- genious artificer, seemed always intended for the hand of somebody else. These handles were stained such a brilliant green, that, in the slang of artists, they ‘killed’ every green herb on the plate of him who made use of them, The forks had spring guards, to prevent the practitioner from cutting his left hand with the knife that he held in his right; and the knife had a strange round projection at what should have been the point, about the size of a shilling, which (horrible to relate!) had been originally designed to convey gravey and small fragments of viands, not prehen- sible by means of the two pronged fork, into the human mouth! In addition to these strange relics of a bygone civilization (if, indeed, it had been a civilisation) the doctor possessed two large rocking -chairs, of the same colour as the handles of his knives. The doctor loved» rockingschair, in which he did but share a taste univer- sally prevalent in Shayton, and defensible on the profoundest philosophical grounds. The human creature loves repose, but a thousand causes may hincer the perfect enjoyment of it, and torment him into rest- lessness at the very time when he most longs for rest. He may sit down after the business of the day, and some mental or bodily uneasiness may make the quiet of the massive easy-chair intolerable to him. The easy-chair does not sympathise with him, does not respond to the fidgety cons dition of his nervous system; and yet he tries to sit down in it and enjoy it, for, though fidgety, he is always weary, and needs the comfort of repose. Now, the rockingschair—that admirable old Laneca- shire institution —and the rocking.chair alone responds to both these needs. If you are fidgety, you rock; if not, you don’t. If highly excited you rock boldly back, even to the extremity of danger: if pleas santly and moderately stimulated, you lull yourseif with a gentie motion, like the mo- tion that littls waves give to a pleasures boat. It is true that the bolder and more emphatic manner of rocking has become impossible in these latter days, for the few uphbolsterers who preserve the history of the rocking-chair at all make it in such a high~ ly genteel manner, that the rockers are diminished to the smallest possible arc; but the doctor troubled himself little about these achievements of foshionabie uphoistry aud regarded his vld rucKing-chair with perfect satisfaction and complacency—in which, without desiring to offend against the decision of the fashionable world, we cannot help thinking that he was right.

A large green rockingschair, with bold high rockers and a soft cushion like a small feather bed, a long clay pipe clean and new, a bright copper spitoon, and a jug of strong ale, these things, with the necessary concomitants of a briskly burning fire and an unlimited supply of tobacco, formed the ideal of human luxury and beatitude to a generation now nearly extinct, but of which the doctor still preserved the antique tra- ditions. In substance often identical, but in outwardly visible means and appliances differing in every detail, the pleasures of one generation seem quaint and even ridi- culous in comparison with the same pleas sures as pursued by its suceessors. Colonel Staaburne smoked a pipe,but it was a short meerschaum, mounted insilver; and he also used a knife and fork, and used them skillfully and energetically, but they were not like the doctor’s grandmother's forks.

And yet, when the Colonel came to Shayton, he managed to eat a very hearty dinner at one p. m. with the above named antiquated instruments ; and'the only thing that embarrassed him was the want of a napkin—a real want in his case, for his moustache was long and thick ; and though by constant practice he had attained the art of passing beneath it whatever could be held upon a fork, this was not so easy when it was necessary to use @ spoon, at which times a napkin, or a substitute fora napkin, became a thing of absolute neces: sity. The doctor, who submitted every day to have his nose held between the finger and thumb of a neighboring barber, was thereby delivered from this inconveni- ence, and removed all visible traces of soups and cream by simply licking his lips, opinion were elegant superfluities, and the use of them one of the strange forms and ceremonies of high life. After the celery and cheese, Dr. Bardly took one of the rocking~chairs, and made the Colonel sit down in the chair, and Martha brought a bottle of uncommonly fine old port, which she decanted on a table in the coraer that did duty as a sideboard. When they had done justice to this, the doctor ordered hot water ; and the servant, accustomed to this laconic command, brought also certain other fluids which were hot in quite a dif- ferent sense. She also brought a sheaf ot clay ‘obacco pipes, about two feet six inches long, and in a state of the whitest virginity —emblems of purity! emblems, alas! at the same time of all that is fragile and most ephemeral.

‘Nay, Martha,’ said the doctor,‘ we want none of your clay pipes to-day. Colonel

OCTOBER 9, 1876.

Stanburne ain't used to them I reckon. Bring that box of cigars that I bought in Manchester the other day.’

The Colonel, however, would smoke 4 clay pipe, and he tried to rock as the doctor did, and soon, by the effect of that curious sympathy which exists between rocking-chairs, or their occupants, the two kept time together like musicians in a duet, and clouds of the densest smoke arose from the two long tobacco pipes.

The regiment is getting pretty well filled up by this time,’ saidi the Colonel, ‘I've got two majors, It don’t much signify, though, what sort of fellows majors mean, they don’t need to know very much about military business, and that sort of thing. Eureton’s a capital fellow; and when one’s got a first-rate adjutant, as 1’m sure Erus ton will be, things are safe to goon well. Eureton is such an uncommonly quiet man that some people seem to take him for a

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but that. ton—a very fine fellow indeed; and the more I see of him the more I see reason to congratulate myself on such an acquisition. He’s one of those men, doctor, that have got thorough business habits. I wish I'd business habits. I never had, but I can res cognise them and admire them in others. Our list of captains is full—every body likes to be a captain, and there were plenty of aspirants, There's a small property quali- fication—two hundred a year from real es~ tate; but everybody’s got two hundred a year, and if he hasn’t, he gets some uncle or aunt to make him nominally a proprie~ tor to that amount. As to lieutenants, we've got some young fellows that I don’t know much about, and there’s rather a strong Irish element, and I don’t exactly know how all these fellows will get on to- gother; but we must try and make ’em work together as well as we possibly can. Amongst the captains there are two or three men that visit a good deal with my wife's father; There’s a son of a man named Brabazon—he’s an earl, you know; and we have the son of a dook, too, a young fellow called Henry Ughtred—Lord Henry Ugh- tred ; he’s the son of the Dook of Ingle. borough.’

To be Continued.

He’s a very fine fellow, is Eure-

ANOTHER SAD DROWNING ACCI- DENT. ‘

A SAIL BOAT RUN DOWN AND TWO LIVES LOST— ONE OF THE CHAMPION CREW DROWNED, Xe.

{Halifax Chronicle, Oct, 3.]

But a short time ago the Nova Scotian Fishermen Crew returned from the contest in Philadelphia, after winning the cham- pionship of the world, and were given a re~ ception acknowledged to be one of the greatest affairs of the kind ever seen in the city. Who wild have thought on the night of their return,as they'passed through the streets in their carriage, holding aloft the oars with which they bad won glory and honor for themselves and their country, the very picture of health and vigor, that one of them would never live to receive the handsome testimonial of his countrymen ? Yet such, unfortunately, has proved to be the case.

On Saturday morning Obed. Smith, the bow oar of the Fisherman crew, and - his brother Mark Smith came to town from Sambro in their boat—a large forecastle whaler—accompanied by two smaller boats, in one of which was Jas. Tough and his wife, and in the other John Tough and William Quirk. They made some purchases in town and prepared to return home in the even- ing, but as there was no wind they were obliged to wait until obout three o’clock yesterday morning, when a slight breeze from the Westward sprang up, which, with the tide which was going out, enabled them to make astart. James Tough’s boat being very fall Mrs. Tough went with the Smiths, inthe boat which was larger and had a cabin under the forecastle deck, The large boat felt the wind more than the smaller ones and kept some little distance ahead, Mark Smith was at the helm and Obed. standing at the door of the cabin talking to Mrs, Tough. When about off Steel’s pond Mark called to Obed. Smith to come on deck and he climbed on to the forecastle deck and saw a large steamer bearing down on them. He saw that it would be impossible to get his boat out of the way in time, as the wind was so slight, and he shouted out ‘stop that steamer,’ and rushed to the cabin and seized a brand of fire from a stove there and went on deck with it; waving it over his head to attract the attention of those on board the steamer ; then, seeing the steamer was right on them,

he ran forward to try to fend off from or with his hands, but was too late, as the steamer struck the boat on the quarter, breaking her into three pieces. The masts fell and the mainsail covered Mark Smith near the helm, so that he was unable to do anything to save himself ere the boat sunk. Obed. Smith got clear of the wreck and was heard to call out—

“ save ME! I CANNOT SWIM.”

Life buoys were thrown from the steamer, but he must have gone to the bottom als most instantly.

Mrs. Tough was thrown overboard by the force of the collision, and with great pre- sence of mind seized some floating boards and managed to keep herself afloat until rescued by John Tough and Wm. Quirk who came up in their whaler. A boat was low- ered from the steamer—the Nova Scotian, Capt. Richardson, from Baltimore, — and Mrs. Tough taken on board and brought to the city, when she was taken to Keating’s Hotel on Cornwallis Street. Her breast was slightly injured in dragging her into the boat, and she is in a very weak state from the effects of the shock, but is expec- ted to recover. Every effort was made by Capt. Richardson and the officers of the steamer to avert the accident, and every exertion used to save the lives of the people in the boat. The steamer was in charge of Thomas Holland, the pilot, a brother of Jerry Holland, the trainer of the Centennial

Fishermen Crew.

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A KISS.

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EDY N BOO.4’S ADVENTURE IN A PA™"OR C 2,

The following amusing st ry -ncerng

the tragedian, Edwin Booth, is published in

an exchange :—E1win Booth is proverbial-

y opposed to having his private trumpet

blowa, but a little incident of b'« overland

trip is too good to be lost. It seems that in the same parlor car with the tragedian

and his family was a lady more remarkable

for the loudness of her style and the op-

presive gorgeousness of her jewelry than for her refinement. This « water-fly ” not only

conceived the most intense passion for the pet of the stage, but took especial pains to make it manifest—an, interest that seemed to be only the more inflamed

by the apparent profound indifference of Mr. Booth to her presence. She repeatedly stated among other things, that she ‘ would give $100 to kiss that divine B th, just once.’ At Omsha,a poor emigrant at- tracted the attention of the travellers as they returned to the car after dinner. He had started for Ca'*fornia, but had been robbed while asleep, and was without funds to go on or even to procure food. ur American Hamlet’s generosity in the days of his golden fortune is proverbial. Mr.

Booth put his hand in h’s pocket through sheer force of fbit, and without a word handed the poor devil a hundred dollar note. As he did this, bis eye fell upon his gorgeous admirer, who was standing near by. With the sweeping stride of the melancholy Dame he went up abruptly to her and ask~ ed, ‘ Did you say you would give a $100 to kiss me?’ The lady was staggered fora moment, but with true western determi-~ nation not to be bluffed, replied, ‘ | did,’ and opened a plethoric purse defia»tly. The star deliberately placed bis arms around her neck and giving her a smack, held out his hahd for the fee. Thi’ was given him. Booth wheeled around, forced it into the emigrant’s hand, saying simply, ‘ There’s another,’ and, without changing

notice of the lady, passed into the car, Even Mrs. B. forebore to ‘ wool him’ under :¢

muff ; but he isn’t a muft—he’s anything

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NO, 41.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pee ree

Snow fell at Buidenel, Ontario, on Wea- nesday last.

Grasshoppers are busy in the northern districts of Texas.

Ontario merchants intend to send 125 tons merchandise to Australia,

large shipments of cattle to England still continue to be made from Ontario.

Quebec Legislature is summoned to meet for the despatch of business on the 10th November.