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Tuesday, Friday, 9 a. m. sday. 8 a. m, p.m. Friday, 10 a. m. y 8-30, p. m., both postage and Registratio"™ ou lette.s for City delivery must be pre- Letters may be posted in the Letter Boxes on mail Steamers up to the time of their departure. A. A. MACDONALD, Postmaster. Post Office, Ch’town, P. E. I., 9th May, 1874. 4LMANAC FOR DECEMB MOON S CHASGES. New Moon, 8th Day, 7h. 54m., p.m., N. W., » below horizon. First Quar., 16th Day, telow horizon. Fail Moon, 23d Day, 2h. 44m., a.m., S W. Last Quar., 30th Day, 10h., 23m., a.m., W. ER, 1874. »? © ily i2m., a.m., N. E., p.| . : SUN MOON | HIGN DAY'S of — e sets (water len’th ict Te ih™MAMA A HM LTuesday 728410 136 449 8 42 9Wedn'sd’'y 30 10 150 5 53 40 3 Thursday 31 o 2 & 65s 338 4 Friday 32 3 26a T& 27 § Saturday 33 o 2438: 8 30 36 6 Suncar 34 i ee 34 7; Monday 35 s 340; 9 48 33 § Tuesday 36 8 4 22) 10 26 32 9Wedn'sid’y 37, 8 45411 4 31 10 Thursday 38 s 6 16) 11 44 oe 1] Friday 39 Ss T12ie 29 12 Saturday 49 8s 84 0 24 28 18 Sunday 41 se 88 1 & 27 14 Mouday $2 SB ih i & 2¢ lp Tuesday 43 sM 2 33 26 WWedn'sd'y 42 9-037) 3 2 25 17, Thursday 44 9 145 4 33 25 18 Friday 44 9 $ 6 5 4&5 25 la, Saturday oe 8 £m 7 CY 24 MSunday én) -t0 OO): @7 24 Monday ae: 16) 7911 9 3 24 92 Tuesday 47; 11) 8 3) 9 3 24 @Wedn'sd’y 47; 11), 9 32) 10 43 24 % Thursday 47} 12| 10 15) 11 30 25 38 Friday 48} 13 10 42;A 14 2: 2¢ Saturday 48; 18} 11 8} O 588 2: 37 Sunday 48; 134) 11 27; 1 35 26 28 Mondsy 49; 15, 11 42; 214 26 29 Tuesday 49} 16) 11 56; 2 587 27 SM Wedu'sd’y 49 17 All) 3 46 28 SiThursday 7 49417, 120: 443 8 25 j A. SHIRREFF, Aetioneer, Commission Merchant, BROKEN AND GENERAL AGENT. CHATHAM. —- NEW BRUNSWICK. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Aug. 3, 1874.—4m CARVELL BROTHERS, AUCTIONLERS, Commission Merchanis, AND GENERAL AGENTS. BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREEPT ____ Charlottetown, P. E. Island JAMES BRENNAN, House, Sign, and Carriage Painter, Paper Hanger & Glazier SOURIS WEST. Orders will receive prompt attention. July .. 1873. hy H. R. MUHLICS' Kitchen & Galley, Furnishing Depot. 4LSO, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Ship Work, er eens and Water Closet, Pipes, Lead, Figures, Deep-sea and Hand- Leads, Lead Cisterns made, and Water Closets fitted up at the shortest rotice. CREIGHTON STREST, OPPOSITE UNION IOUS E, PICTOU, N. 8. Ch'town, June 1, 1874.—1y VULCAN FOUNDRY, GHRORGETOWN. STOVES, wholesale and retail. ted MACHINERY CASTINGS in genere! ai- Ways oo hand, or es at the shortest notice Cas P : aid YOR ALL EINDS of OLis & SCRAP IRON. J. A. RUTHERFORD & Co, done 2, 1873.—ly Georgetowa HERMANS & SON. bal-Haugers, Gan aud Tin-swiths QUEEN sTREET, OPPOSITE WATSON’S DRUG STORE, to return their thanks to the general od patie for the liberal patronage extend- bust them sinee their eommencement in tame » and ask for a continuance of the * They keep constantly on haud:— TINWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS ke, &e é&c. “Vordery in the above business will be itary , Punctually attended to. B lately made large purchases in the 4pest Markets, intended for House Builders, such as bas Fitting, Water Closets, Bell Fitting, &e., &e., are prepared to sell them at Rates as wr can be had in the city, ana will fit Sp ina good workmanlike style. * generous public we would say, that ji occers inthis branch of our business will Alc to with d:spateb. t of First-class WATER COOLERS WINDLASS | __ BUSINESS CARDS. WILLIAM DODD, ‘Cemmission Werchanit and AVUCTIOWEER QUEEN SQUARE, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. EB, ISLAND BANGOR HOUSE, PLEASANTLY SITUATED ON North Side Hing’s Square, St. John, - - - New Brunswick, | And | J H. RUSSEL, PROPRIETOR. WILLIAM JAMES HENEY, AUGTIONEER, GENERAL BROKER, | AND COMMISSION AGENT, FAMILY GROCERIES, TOBACCO & FANCY GOODS, PRINCE ST., OF DORCHESTER, Charlottetown, - - - P. &. Island. F. MW. CANIPBE™L. General Merchant COMMISSION AGENT, MUCTIONE FRE BROKER TRINITY CORNER, GEORGETOWN, P, E. 1. AGENT FOR THE Standard Life Insurance (Co. Sept. 1, 1873. ly COR. St. Lawrence Marine Insur- ance Co, of P. E, Island. Boarp or Drrecrors: ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, Esq., President. Joun F. Ropertsox, Esq. Arremas Lorp, Esq. RaLtru B. Prake, Esq. P W. HynxpMAn, Esq. THomMas Morris, Esq. W. D. Stewart, Esq. Nisks taken daily at theiroflice, Exchange Building. FREDERICK W. HYNDMAN, Ch’'town, March 16, 1874.—ly Secretary 2 CARRIAGE FACTORY, E Subscribers, having taken the Factory 4 formerly eccupied by Provup & Mac- CouBRay, are prepared to conduct the busi- ness of CARRIAGE BUILDING in ali its departments. Carriages and Sleighs made to order. Repairs done with neatness and despatch. Allorders filled when promised. YOUNKER, OFFER & CO ein we THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON : AND CLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY Fire anp LIFE. | } } | Invested Funds, 1st Jan’y., 1874, $21,628,556 | Deposited with Receiver Gener- al of Canada, 162,800 Other Investments in Dominion of Canada, 367,091 mies: | | FAIR RATES | Prompt & Liberal Settlements. | Insurance against Fire effected upon Pri- } vate Residences, Household Furniture and ' Farm Properties, for Oue, Three or more years, At Reduced Rates, Street, Charlotte Otlice—Great George town, FP. Ef. R. R. FITZGERALD, Agent Wa. DUNLOP, Special Agent | Ch'town, July 27, 1874.—6m FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE. IMPERIAL Fire Lasurance Company OF LONDON. Subscribed and Invested Capital £1,965,000 Sterling. MONTREAL Marine Assurance Commpary. Capital and Cash Assets over $1,000,000 The above OFFICES being of UNDOUBT- ED STANDING, guarantee perfect security and prompt payment of losses. FENTON T. NEWBERY, Agent for Prince Edward Island Ch’town, Jan. 20, 1874. aa WO At home, male and female; $35 per week, day orevening. No Capital. We send valuable package of goods return stamp, M. Young, 173 Grecnwhei Sayers etal Blue Cheaper than ever. (Nov. 11, 1*71,] by mail free. Address with ten cent st., NY. octs 6m TTOWN, -RINCE “ft ou PRIN ED PorTR'. A PRICELESS GIFT. { Written for the Examiner.) When man from Paradise was sent, His primal home; And on the blasted world beneath Condemned to roam; A priceless gift to him was given, To his sad sou! by sorrew riven, A guide to point the path to heaven, O’er life’s wild foam.— A coal from ceaseless altar fires In heaven above, Was hidden in his secret heart : The sacred dove, With wings of mercy fanned the flame; All nature kindled where it came, And angels whispering, breathed its name, They called it Love. *—-e CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS. A Virgin unspotted, the Prophet foretold, Should bring forth a Saviour which now we behold, Tobe our Redeemer from Death, Hell and Sin, Which Adam's transgression had wrapped us In, Aye, and therefore be merry, set sor- row aside, ‘ Christ Jesus our Saviour was born on this tide, At Bethlehem City, in Jewry, it was That Joseph and Mary together did pass, All for to be taxed, with many one moe, Great Cesar commanded the same to be so. Aye, and therefore, &c. But when they had entered the City so fair, A number of people so mighty was there, That Joseph and Mary, whose substance was small, Could find in the ian there no lodging ai all. Aye, and therefore, &c. Then were they constrained in a stable to lie, Where horses and asses, they used for to tie; Their lodging so simple they took it no scorn, ~———— the next morning our Saviour yas born. Aye, and therefere, &c. The King of all kings to this world being brought, Small store of fine linen, to wrap him was sought, But when she had swaddled her young Son so sweet, | | i | } ! i i | | Within an ox manger, she laid him to sleep. Aye, and therefore, dc. Then God sent an Angel from Heaven so high, To certain poor Shepherds in fields where tbey lie, bade them no longer in sorrow to stay, Because that our Saviour was born on this day. Aye, and therefore, «ec, Then presently after, the Shepherds did spy, Vast numbers of Angels to stand in the sky, They joyfully talked, and sweetly did sing, | To God, be all glory, our heavenly King. Aye, and therefore, «&c. To teach us humility, all this was done, And learn we, from thence haughty pride for to shun. A manger, His cradle. who came from above, The great God of mercy, of peace and of love. Aye, and therefore be merry, set sor- row aside, Christ Jesus, our Saviour, was born on this Tide. CHRISTMAS. Sin WaLrTer Scorr. Heap on more wood! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry stil] ! Each age has deem’d the new born year The fittest time fer festal cheer ; E’en heathen yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did drain, High on the beach his galleys drew, And feasted all his pirate crew; Then in his low and pine-builtehall, Where shields and axes deck'd the wall, They gorged upon the half-dressed steer, Caroused in seas of sable beer, While round, in brutal] jests, were thrown Tke halfsgnawed rib, and marrow- bone: Or Jistened all with grim delight, . While Scalds yell’d out the joys of tight. Then forth in frenzy would they hie, While wildly loose their red locks fly, And dancing round the blazing pile They make such barbarous noise the while, As best might to the mind recall The boisterous joys of Odin’s hall. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year it’s course had rolled And brought blithe Christmas back again With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious rite Gave honor to the holy night ; On Christmas-eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas-eve the mass was sung ; ‘That only night in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsal donn’d her kertie sheen ; The hall was dress’d with holly green ; Forth to the wood merry-men go To gather in the mistie’oe. Then open’d wide the Baron's hal! To vassal, tenant, serf, and all; Power laid his rod of rule aside, And Ceremony doff’d her pride. The heir with roses on his shoes, That night might village partner choose ; The lord underogating share The vulgar game of “ post and pair.” All hail’d with uncontroll’d delight And general voice the happy night That to the cottage, as the orown, Brought tidings of salvation down. The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide, The huge hall table’s oaken face, Scrubb’d till it shone, theday to grace, Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire and lord. Then was broughtin the lusty brawn By old blue-coated serving man; Then the grim boar’s-head frowned on high, Crested with bays and rosemary. Well can the green-garb’d ranger tell, How, when, and where the monster fell, What dogs before his death he tore. And all the baiting of the boar. The wassel round, in good brown bowls, Garnish’d with ribands, blithely trowls. There the huge sirloin reek’d; hard by Plum porridge stood, and christmas pie ; Nor fail'd old Scotland to produce, At such high tide, her savoury goose, Then came the merry maskers in, And carols roar’d with blithesome din , If unmelodious was the seng, It was a hearty note and strong, Who lists may in their mumming see Traces of ancient mystery ; White shirts supplied the masquerade, And smutted cheeks the visors made; But oh! what masquers, richly dight, Can boast of bosoms half to light! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports agen! "Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale; ’Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year - A Devaware Jury Triat.— From Dela- ware we have a singular story about a jury. A murder case was tried last week in New- castle, the accused being acquitted. One of the jurors confessed that a verdict was reached only by exhausting the powers of endurance of the jurymen. He says that they were kept without food for fifty eight hours, and that at the end of that time four men who would have refused to concur in verdict of acquittal consented to keep still while the foreman reported that the jury were agreed, ‘That is to say, these four jurymen who had sworn to give a verdict in accordance with the law and evidence, fins ally consented to silently agree to a verdict exactly contrary to what they believed to be lawand evidence. Delaware occasion. ally sends us some curious items in criminal jurisprudence ; but it has been long time since we had from any part of the United States so pointed an ill tion of the so~ called ‘farce of jury trials’ as this curious narrative from Newcastle.— New York Times, WARD ISLAND, LITERATURE, PAELLA DLS Os ee a er er ee KATHARINE. A TALE OF WOMAN'S TRIALS. CHAPTER IX —Continued. Katharine sat silont, and apparen'ly pass sive as death; her fair white hands lay olasped upon hor kave, and there was some- thing s> sad an! desolate in her att.t ide, and the d-ep mouruing of her drees, that any beait but her aunt's would have relented. Bat she had observed with jeali.ey tha beauty of the young giri brightening every day, acd fearing its efect upon her sor, which would bo placing Kate in th po-ition which she bers*!fnow occupied as mis'rcss of the establishment at Birminshum, she steeled her heart resolutely, saying— ‘Dd off:r to speak to the tandlad, for you, only she might hold me responsible, ani now, of course, I must look to every shilling—not but that you'll beve envvg'! to keep you a goed whi's, if your's saving, out of the money those fine things will bring. And now, as it’s come to thir, if it’s any accommodation to you, | would stretch a point and buy them of you myse!f; they weu'd just suitdane when sha marries, and I should like to do you a good turs teo—l wouldn’t like to give yon tena pounds for them!’ Cunning Mrs. Grove! her extempore pict was admirably laid. ‘The things,’ as ske called them, were well worth fifty pounds, and if Kate wes ignerant ofthis, and, shrinks ing from the task of seeking s purchaser in the u known world of London, took ber offer, she would secure atich priz2; if not, and the poor girl declincd, she bad a ready exeuss for no longer interfering between her and dest tution. ‘ She nid done a'l she couli, and could not ba expected to run the risk of having her kindness refused again. Either way she thought she did wieely. But the craft and th: pht were wholly thrown away upon Kate. She suspected neither, and therefore answered simply, ‘You are very good, aunt, but I hopel shall vot be ebliged to sell eveiything. A very little will suffice for me, enti! Ll can do somethin, for myself.’ ‘Very well, I ain’t going to force my offer on you. I ehou'do’t have thought of making it, I can tell you, if it hado’t been for (ld kindness’ enke, but you know your ows affaiis beet I dont doubt.#1 might have thought as you’d never soil such smart things as them cow, whatever you may be gixd todo by and by.’ ‘Tadeced, auct, I have n> other meins of living but by their sa‘e, uctil I can get some situato.,’ replied Kate, earnestly, puzzled | by her aun.’s words an! emphes'e. less, indeed She wes going to say, ‘Unless Euward refunds core of the movey which my uncie regretted to have taken from me,’ butthe words would bave seemd like a reproach to the memory of one she had heartily for- given, ard she checked them, even upon her lips. Her silence was, as usual, misin- terpreted by Mra Grove, who, with a vulgar sneer, replie¢— ‘ Unlees what?’ * Nothing.’ ‘Ob, secoid thoughts are best! Well, Katharine Nugent,’ and sbe ros: to lave the room, * I cau’t countenance such goings on. I’ve dons a mother’s part by you, and you've seen no bad example in my house, I can answer, but what's bred in the boue ain't easy got rid of, and you were bad brought up before you ever entered wy doors. [am glad to my heart for Edward’s eseape, and | cow I wash my bands cf you a'together.’ And as she west out, rej icieg in her own | ec everness at having thus gotril «f Kath. | arine, and heeding nothing that she let: her | moneyless, friend: s*, ! eautiful and iunccect, | to ths me:cy of a world of wiich she kiew | | nothing. And thie, stiange, asd uplkely, and hi re | | rible as it seems to read, is not—Gol for? | give the wor.d that it should not be .c—a! solitary c s*, for their are hundreds, aye | thousands, ho'ding fair places in their inh | lows’ eyes, who do, avd ever wil’, treat their | dependents sc. No matter how simple and | | helpless the claimant, they turn from bim | like the whole man fiom the leper, leaving | him to perish by the wayside, if, icdeed, | some utter sbranger dees not, God-sen', pity | aad rescue him. ‘Uns | } Ub, dear reader ! shuddering, us you well may do, at the hateful portrait, pause bes fore youc ndemn it for its want of truth or | prebability, and ‘ooking well into your own | heart, see if there be none to whom you | have acted thus. Is there no bro:he’, uncle, sister, cousin, niece, whom you havo cas: | out—fiom whore prayers for help, or home, or coun‘enares, you have turned away, and whose petitions, though slighted on earth, are rezistered againat you in heaven? If there he none; if, like a faithful steward, you have so far done the best wits your Master’s amp'’e trust, denying sone who asked in His name, thank God humbly, and go on; but if there be—if, on the earth, there lives cn» human beirg, who, having the holy tie of kindred or friendship io plead» has ever cal'ed to you for aid or sympathy in vain, scek him out quickly, repair tbe wrong speedily, while life’s daylight laste, lest the night coms suddenly down, staying a!l work, and you stand together before ths Eternal bar, the positions only being re~ versed, and you bear the words, ‘ Depart from me, for I never knew you!’ and sad- der stil, * Inasmuch as you did it »nto the least of these, ye did it unto Me.’ ‘Carefully, as if it had been plegue- haunted, Mrs. Grove aud her daaghter avoided, during the rewander of the day the room in which Katharine rt:!] sat. Cowardly and cruel, they dreaded to tee the poor girl they were hoartlessly deserting, and recorciling. themselves to ther conduct by raying to each other that she would be glad,of a litt'e time to Lerseif, (o sett'e what spead ‘the last mournful evening w.th a dear friend,’ knowing very well tlat Ecw.rd would be en:aged in the city until late, and that Katharine would there‘ore be a'one, as they bad t» their belief eare fully provided against tha po-eidility of Ler seeing Mr. Du Val, by instructing the se:vani to say that she was gone away. havo te n ill-pail and w ree treated, are MONDAY, | happy if 1 saw you but fora monent? Ob! s:e meant to do, they) left the house to) Sut maids-of.aliswork, especially if they | DECEMB kindnesses to make their bard lives easier to bear. Such was the case with Kate and the poor girl who played the dificult part of eervant at the lodging-house, and to whom at vari- ous times she had been much indebted. The gitl disliked Jane and Mrs. Grove, from whom she had never received the most trifls ing acknowledgment for ber contiaual and ready services, avd even the costiess civility of kind words; and she would at any time have siven up half her scanty rest to vex them. Ard to do this, she knew there was no more effectual way than admitting the visitor whom, abeye ail others, she bad been forbidden to introdace, and who wouid not, as sie knew fom experience, be ungrateful for the dsobedience chown his favor. According). therefore, when Mr. Du Va.'s wellykuown rap and ring, for whizh se Lad been loeg listen'’ng, sum noned the gir’, ins stead of replyiny to his ingu’ry a8 sh» had been told to de, she suid k: owingly— ‘Oh, ys, er, Miss Nagent’s at home, end down stuirs to-day for the first time. You can see her, I dare sar, only her aunt told me to te sure to say, if you come, ae she was gone away. Shall I tell ber you're here, sir, or will you g> up into the sitting-room yourself ? ’ ‘Ob, Vil go up. I suppose I shali find tha Ind es in the drawisg-room ?’ ‘Only Miss Nugent, sir; the others are gone uvt for for the evening.’ Although more than three hours had elapss ed, Kathar.us was sittiag nearly is tho same piace and attitude xs when her aunt left her She had thought, until the power to do so rat onslly was gone, and she eat uncorsc ous of the fl ght of time, her own abstiaction,ond even of her own misery. Thus it was that she neither head the docr of the room in whick she sat open, nor knew that any one had entered,unt:] a shadow fal ing between her and the light made her | look up, and there, all pradence and dixyuise cast off, b's parsiovate love blazing io his eyes, siood Maurice Dua Val. Quickly, far more quickly than it had beea raised, Kate’e giauce sa k agaiu; Lut rapid and cu sc ry as it had been, it had changed her ‘ate (or life. In that one instant come to the jyo.ng gici’seoul the bright acd beautiful knowledge that ehe was beloved by cre whom th. sirange ibri!l in her owa heart suddenly de clased fur dearer to her than ‘life. Fora miaute or two, Le who had wrought this change stvod giz'ug upon her flushed coun- tenance with a mingled expression of joy and irreaclution, which ‘: would be very hard ‘o astrangerto read, Thea he drew closer, and, taking her hand, wa:mared,— ‘Kate ?’ There was no answer; the haud he kad tremble eaw the d o-pieg eyelids sink lower, «nd was content. So they remained, until Kote, becowing nervous in the eloquent silenee, strove timid- ly to withdraw. But fast, fast as if they | grew to his, Maurice claspel tha tiny finzers, in but Masuiice felt saying, in his low desp, voice tremulous with passion — ' * May L not keep it, Kate? You will net No, let me hod it while I tell you whatl came here to say. But fi st, why is it tat I find you here so lovely and sad, and why have you so ofien lately refused to sce we %’ take it trom me now. ‘1 cever refused,’ replied Kate, blushing , ‘I never knew that you wished to seo me ’ *But if all the world had been silent, did pot your own heart whisjer the trath, Kate? | that he may not attract the attention of | gubernatorial tact ; still, such assistance as | of course, asa Crown Colony, and very much | questions which demand skilful manipulay yt 8 & ) = HR i874. 28, % PES tPA YY DW pe i CORRESPOADUNCE, To tie Editor of the Icraminer. Sir -—I noticed ina Summerside paper, last week, an advertisement, desiring a | for one of our Western District The advertisement says, ‘“‘a male teacher Schools. teacher preferred ; one a little ordinary, so ’ That must be a genial | Of course no a female scholars.’ clime for ‘‘ Ye pedagogues.” Adonis need apply. No doubt, when teacher makes application for the situation, he will have to undergo a rigid «xamina- | tion, physiological, and otherwise ; and if, the bump of philoprogenitiveness pre- dominates, or if he parts his hair in the middle, or wears frills on his shirt, or pre- sumes to sport lavender kids, or if he is behind a twany moustache, or quotes poetry, why he'll stand a slim chatice of being ac, cepted—those being a few of the attractions: It might be interesting to know the why and the wherefore, of this preference for | ‘‘one a little ordinary.’’ Some mischevous persons, hint that one of the Aryus staff could enlighten the world as to the true cause, he, they say, being one of the Adonis. es thatled the good people of that dis- trict to make the preference, and probab'y in that he could make a better display of his incapacity, than criticising Catholic scheol books. Will he do so, | wonder? It would be an interesting chapter, no doubt; almost so much so, as «n essay on his “jolification’ in St. John. Let him give both, and then all will know what an “ arrant knave”’ he is, that sets himself up as the champion of common schools. — hey may also know, why the people of that western district are driven to make such a choice in their teacher. Yours, Jas. GUBERNATORIAL, ‘There are a few Colonial appointments re- cently made which may interest some of | our readers. Mr. Robinson, iate Lieuten- ant-~Governor of Prince Edward Island, is gazetted Governor of Western Austrrlia. Sir Arthur Gordon, guondam Lieutenant- Governor of New Brunswick, since then Governor of Trinidad and of the Mauritius, is to organize the new Government of the Fiji Islands ; and Lord Normanby becomes Governor of New Zealand. Mr. Robinson has the credit at the Colonial office of hav- ing sucessfully managed ‘the admission of his Island Government to the Confederation, Circumstances had more to do with it than could be given from government House was given. Mr. Robinson, it may be safely pre« dicted, will work his way gradually toa high rung on the Colonial ladder, Fiji will rank, work and responsibility will devolve on the | Governor personally. It is not Sir Arthur Gordon’s nature to shun either one or the other, and his energy, which astonished the Trinidadians, and which languished in the Mauritius where he complained that the only work open to him was the draining of Port St. Louis, will find ample scope in Fiji. But in Fiji there are conflicting claims, there are diverse races, there are intricate tion and conciliatory treatment. We shall be glad to learn in two years’ time read neither the foreign settlers nor the abo- | rigino} inhabitants have “ made their teeth Did it never tell jou thst your presence | meet ’’—the one figuratively, the other was deaier t? me than the eirthat I brea‘ he + » al . fw : and that for your sake, and yours only, i soniihie. cs Merah Salben care here, day softer day, ccntant to endure << essociatiin with poople whom 1 di:jlibe’, Kate, was your heart silent whi'e mone +28 sofull? Caa it be,that while l counted th hours I did not se: you, ser3 happy in for- | 9» ‘I bave not! e20 bappy,’ mura.uced Kate. ‘Then you did mies me ! Uh, Cearest Ka e ‘ell me that I wae not m’staken, that I hare | wot deceived myself, and that you dd think of me? Oh, speak, Katc—drarest Kate, Speak But Kate could net—she could only re- place in his the little band she had just with- drawn anil bend her drooping heed lowe:,so thot the rich fair singleis might close round it. This simple ec!,.eo childlike in its inno-~ cent trust and faith, ecemed to havea strange effect a; on Mauiice, who rep!ie?— ‘ Well, if I muet not csk that, surely I may inquire, and you may answir, why is it that I find you here, ia a4:0.m from which Ib. gan to think you had exiled yourself for evers for tbe purpese of punishirg me, and wiy you lock so ‘wretched wien | found you? Has sour aunt been tormentmg you again?” ‘No, she has erly Leen repoativg what 1 knew before,’ * And whet is that ? me Kate?’ Yes; bat do pot sk me,’ *I must, dearest, and you must apswr me, else how eha!il know what! ought to do? Dou you accompany them to-morrow 7 + Ne.’ ‘Then where are yoa going ? you had no friends in London ‘ Nor have I.’ * Then what——Surely, bad as she is. thet wretched woman dces not intend to leave yOu here alone—it is impossible.’ ‘No, not alone; 1 will try t» obtain a gitvation,’ ‘ What, as governess? No, Kate, that you must not Co. You could not bear ita week.’ ‘ [think I could ; at any rate I must try.’ + Hase you no other reletions ?’ ‘None. Ido not keow that I have a fris end or relative upon earth, except Mrs. Grove and my cousins.’ And as she uttered these desolate words Maurice, vho, leaniag his head up his head upon Lis hand, watched her anxiously, saw her lips qu ver, and the eyelids drop an> ti! the dar’ ‘ashes lay like frinse ep n her Will sou rot tr LR! I thought i attract much attention ; GERMANY AND ENGLAND. After-dinner speeches, even when Mr. Disraeli is the speaker and the dinner is at | the Mansion House, do not now-a-days | but that which | the Prime Minister lately delivered will not be soon forgotten. It cannot but be remembered that, in speaking of the ad- vantages to which Englishmen are heirs, he contrasted the English artizan’s freedom from arbitrary arrest and domiciliary visits with the liability of foreign noblemen to that treatment, No one doubted that Mr. Disraeli referred to the case of Count Von Arnim. The reference was, as a matter of taste, questionable but certainly permissi» ble. Such a comparison, however, could not be drawn without wounding the sus» ceptibilities of Germans, Ofcourse we are not obliged to connect the two things toy gether, but it is at least a remarkable co- incidence that the denunciations of Mr, Disraeli by the Berlin press were immedi-~ ately followed by a ‘ communicated’ para» graph in the Tunes, averring that the pur, port of the words used at the Lord Mayor's banquet had been certainly mistaken, and that Count Arnim’s case could not have suggested the allusion, because Count Ar- nim’s arrest had been strictly in accordance with the laws of Germany. In this the French press naturally sees the submission of England to the dictation of Bismarck. M. Lemoinne in the Deha/s avers that the Prime Minister in the Guildhall, with Gog and Magog, to back him was very plucky and independent, butthat as is oftep the case with diners ou!, things looked very differently afterwards. The occurrence, though small, is altogether unfortunate, and most people will think that Mr. Dis- raeli had better not have said that which he might be obliged to retract; and some will think that he should not have retracts ed that which he had said; butit may be doubted whether a regard for Mr, Disraeli’s reputation is equal in proportion to the preservation of good feeling between Eng- land and Germany.— Toroulo Nation literally in the person of their first Govs _~em - Friendship, like fron, is fragile if hams mered too thin. chek, To be continued. How vo Fatren Horses.— Many good | horses devour large quautities of grain and | hay, and still continue thin and poor—if | the food eaten is not properly assimilated. | If the usual feed has been unground grain | and hay, nothing buta change will effect | any desirable alteration in the appearance | of theanimal. In case vil meal cannot be | obtained readily, mingle a bushel of flax with a bushelof barley, one ofoats, and anoth- er of Indian corn, and let it ke ground intoa | fine meal.Or meal of the barley,oats and corn | in equal quantities may first be procured | and onesfourth of oil cake mingled with it when the meal is sprinkled on cut feed. | Feed two or three quarts of the mixture two or three times daily, mingled with a peck of cut hay or straw, if the horse will | not more truthful shan their instructors, and have, muieover, 10: un Tequently a disposis | tion to thwart those under whose tyranny) they have writhe]. Som times too, but not «ften, they have a sympathy #ith those who, nominally a little higher in the social scale than themselves, are, being dependenis, but very little better used, and do sach eat that greedly, let the quantity be gradus ally increased until he will eat four or six quarts at every feeding, three times a day, But avoid the practice of letting the horses stand at arack well filled with hay. In order to fatten a horse that has run down in flesh, the groom should be particular to feed the horse ne more than he will eat up clean, and then lick his manger for more, | during last year ) and petrolem springs. ' season he surveye:l the basin of the Gander Recent Explorations in Newfoundiand, says the Academy, have brought to light the existance of new sources of wealth hitherto confined toa narrow belt of country ad- joining the coast, where the inhubitants plied their fishing. Mr. Murray, the en- gineer in charge of the Geo'ogical Survey, examined the region around St. treorge’s Bay, and discovered fertile wooden yalleys, coal and gypsum des posits (the latter of considerable extent), During the current River to the eastward of the island, which is inhabited by about one hundred poor people, who live by salmon ishing in summer and hunting in winter. The river winds considerably in its course, and forms four vast marshes, the largest of which is six miles long and studded with islands ; the scenery is of rare beauty, though the banks have a uniformely gentle slope and are rather unvarying in their aspect) On August 13 last Mr. Murray reached Gander Lake, about thirty miles up the river He considers that the land there surpasses any portion of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick in its suitability for colonization, and that it would afford plenty of room for 100,000 FASE ELSE ONL OPS SOE RE ee STE be Vers NO az = Se Oe ae ees te te ee | y = wre * T 7 WESCELLANEOUS. Time may beredeemed as it is passing, but never when it is gone by It is estimated that a railway tunnel can be put under Niagara for $1,000,000. London bestows over $15,000,000, an- ually upon public charities, the hospitals receiving the largest sums. Charities for children are well supported and are rapidly increasing. What a severe critic is time! With what a ruthless hand he blots out the praises of morals! How quietly he shuts down the extinguisher upon lights that the world said would never go out ! Life is like a roll of costly material pass- ing swiftly through our hands, and we murt embroider our pattern as it goes. Wecan- not wait to pick up a false stitch, or pause toe long before we set another. The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we to pas- sionately and eagerly defend it. Nothing more powerfully argues a lite beyond this than the failure of ideals here. Each gives us only fragments of humanity, fragments of heart, fragments of mind frag. ments of charity, love and virtue. When a person feels disposed to over es-~ timate his own importance, let bim remem- ber that mankind got along very well be- fore his birth, and that in all probability they will get along very wel) after his death. In the height of prosperity expect adver- sity, but fear it not; if it come not you are more sweet y possessed of the happiness you have, and more strongly contirmed. if it come, you are more strongly disposed, and more firmly prepared. 't is estimated from the new Paris tables of morality; that the two seiges of Paris killed of the inhabitants, 46,000 males and 26,000 females. By killing of the aged and the young, the seiges have slightly diminished the death-rate of 1872, 1875 and 1874. Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetua! friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched who pays to beauty, riches, o: | politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim. Catholic priests in Chicago are engaged in circulating among the workmen of their congregation pledges not merely to refrain from the use of liquor but from the temp- tation also. The pledge binds the signer to avoid going into asaloon or place where liquor is sold on any pretence. The largest trip hammer in the United States has recently been completed at Nashua, N. H., atam expense of $75,000, The weight of iron used in it is about two hundred tons. “he ram weighs twelve tons, and four large boilers are brought into use to furnish steam te run the six hundred horse power engine required to successfully operate it. Think before you speak, why you shali speak, what you shall speak, to whom you shall speak about whom you are to speak, what will come from what you may speak, | what may be the benefit from what you may speak, and lastly, who may be listen- ing to what you may speak, Turn your speech seven ways, and there wili never come any harm from what you have spoken, The oldest tailor in the world has just died in Paris. Hewas 109 years of age They called him Father Fipps. He began his trade at nine years of age, and continu, ed at it till his hundredeth year. He worked for ninety-one years. Three months ago he madea pair of pantaloons for his youngest great~great-grandchild. lt took him a fort-night. ‘ And to think,” he said, “that once upon a time | could make a pair ina halfa day.” Should we not be tender toward each other's feelings ? Sensitiveness is inherent. We have yet to find a man who has wholly lost all feeling. Hemay hideit; he may be a good actor in concealing what he feels, and he may seem perfectly callous; yet at a certain touch he may break down utterly, and shows to the surprised beholders what a great, longing, loving heart he has. The key to unlock any heart is love. Try it; but be very careful how the key is insert~- ed, Porato Diskase,—The report of the Pota-~ toe Disease Committee of the Royal Agri- cultural Society has been recently publish- ed. Prof. De Bary has worked out the scientific questions as to the origin of the disease. It is owing toa fungus (Peron osphora infestans) which attacks the leaves first, and after absorbing the nutriment of them, utilizes the petiole and thus reaches the tubers. A further report of the Coms mittee, based on a large number of statis- tics collected, is shortly to be expected. Tur Wronc Enp or a Joxu.—It is not well to try experiments upon persons of dull imagination. A story is told of an old French shoemaker, who being deficient in that respect, was able to boast that no- thing could frighten him. Strange none sense did not alarm him, strange sights did not terrify him, for he had not sufficient imaginative power to suppose that they were out. of the ordinary course, or in any way uncanny. But two friends of his vow- ed that they could and would give him a scare. So oneofthem pretended to die, the other persuaded the shoemaker to watch the body on the following niglit The son of Crispin, being a very industrious man, took his work in the chamber of the dead, and as the hours wore on and he took an occasional sip of some beverage by his side, he grew slightly hilarious and began to sing, whereupon the corpse rose slowly from his coffin and said, in a sepulchral voice, ‘‘ When a man is in the presence of Death he should not sing.” The cobbler was not in the least degree surprised, stil! less alarmed. That a corpse should speak conveyed no terror to his dull fancy, he only knew that it was contrary to regulas tions, and replying, “ When a man is dead he should not speak,’’ he gave the pretend- ed corpse such a smart blow on the head with his cobbler’s hammer that the un- fortunate practical joker had no opportunity of telling his confederate of the failure of their experiment. Dr. Workman, the medical superintend- ant of the Toronto Asylura for the Insane, would seer to have no fear of the Govern- ment before his eyes,and to have, besides, a sarcastic vein of humor about him which mustappear startling ina civil servant. In his report, as published in the seventh annual report of the Inspector of Asylums, just issued, we find the following choice morceau, illustrating the loose way in which the public accounts are made up: “In last year’s Public Accounts, | by chance saw, (for | was not honored witha copy, nor with one of the Annual Estimates,) that the years expenditure was augmented by add- ing thereto the receipts from paying patients and articles sold, thus making our drawings on the Provincial Exchequer figure up some forty thousand dollars more than the realamount. Not beingan accredited ac- countant, |! am unable to say whether this system of book-keeping is correct or other- wise ; but it looks very much like that of my countryman who balanced a calf on his lean horse’s back, by flinging a stone on the other side to keep things square. The horse, of course, was not consulted. Asses cannot lower their dignity by deferring to the opinion of horses, yet it seems to me a strange way of putting facts, and certainly not very encouraging towards the cultiva- tion of Asylum revenue. [ar better would it be, under this novel sytem of dowbl: entry. to admit all patients free, and to bestow to butchers our fat hogs, than to have the figures resulting paraded in the Public Accounts as disbursements from the public chest.’ Tlere is another touch of the same brush: -*The Li Publishers of Canada merit the continued gratitude of our people. 1 wish | could include the Globe and Mail in the list, but these jours nals have lunatics enough outside this Asylum to find food for, without adding to u settlers. the number.’