The canadian gleaner, 21 octobre 1875, jeudi 21 octobre 1875

[" PE LATEST ARRIVALS or : NEW AND BEASONABLE GOODS Ar THE WEST END HOUSB!! \u2014 paume ADIES' Fur and Cloth Jackets, Shawls, Felt Skirts, Clouds, Promenade Scarfs, Nubias, Breakfast Shawls, Woolen Cuffs, Gloves, Mitts, Hosiery, kc.Children's Woolen Hoods, Caps, Jackets, Gaiters, &c.Gent's Cashmere and Woolen Mufflers, also Bilk - Bearfs and Bows, NEV DRESS GOODS IN THE FASHIONABLE COLORS > Black and colored Lustres, Coburgs, Merinos, Velve- teens, plaid and plain Winceys from 124 cents upwards, plain and fancy colored Flaunels, Canton Flannels, Twecds, President Cloth, Gent's all wool shirts and Drawers from 70 cts.upwards, Knitting Yarn, Berlin and Fingering Wools all colors, Ladies\u2019 Fur Sets and Caps, Children\u2019s Fur Sets and Caps, Gent's Fur Caps, Felt Hats, Buckskin Gloves, &c.Waterloo Handmade Boots and Shoes, all sizes, Also, the American Gaiter Overshou (best kind made), Canadian Overshoes, Moccasins, &c.Our stock of Groccries will always be found fresh and of the best quality ; including Ground Hominy, Desiceated Cocoanut and Lemons.BG\u201d Al! of the above will be sold Cuzar ror Casn or Propuce.JOHN GILMORE.WG Thosc indebted to aubscriber will please take notice, that all accounts du: must be settled befure the 16th November, JOHN GILMORE.October 14th, 1875, GEORGE ®.O'NEILL, DEALER IN CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES & MEDICINES, \"Teas, Coffees, Spices, Fruit, Flour, Salt, Fish, Tobacco, Notions, Garden Seeds, &c.Customers will find an extensive assortment of the finest New Cror Tras and, also, owing to the large increase of his Tea Business he is now enabled to sell finer Tras at the old prices and in original packages.Produce taken in exchange for Goods.WG\" Best House in Huntingdon for Tea !\u2014Public opinion, GEO.Q.O'NEILL.JUST ARRIVED per Steamer 8%.Francis, New Dress Goods, New Winceys, plain and checked, New Prints, New Cottons, Now Tweeds, Nuw Flannels, New Gingham, BLAOK LUSTRES A SPECIALITY.== ALSO == Hand-made BOOTS & SHOES, CHOICE GROCERIES.Something Nice in China Tea Sets.= ALSO == A large variety of Fancy Goods, such as Ribbons Ladies\u2019 and Men's White, Black and colored Kid Gloves, Ladies\u2019 and Men\u2019s Silk Ties, Ladies\u2019 und Men's Linen Collars, Muslin Embroidery, &c., &c.RG Prices Low.\u201cBa W.A.DUNSMORE.Huntingdon, Aug.26, 1875.OAMPBELL'S improved curtain fixture for sale.Simplest and most durable in use.W.A.DUNSMORE.FSR SALE CHEAP two Building Lots, the bert and finest, situated in the centre of the vile lage of Huntingdon.For terms apply to the proprietor on the premises, JOHN H.GILMORE.H.F, & À.8.F.PROCLAMATION.AY parties who are indebted to us cither by Note or Book account are requested to call and settle on or before the 1st November next.After that date legal proceedings will be instituted against all in arrears.BOYD & CO.CANADA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.Established 1849.Assets, including Capital Stock, 2} million dollars, Cash income about $10,000 per veek.Sums assured over $11,000,000.Over $900,000 bave been paid to tho representatives of deceased policy-holders since the formation of the Company.The following arc among the advantages offered : Low Rates of Premium.Canadian management and Canadian investments.Undoubted security.Policies non-forfeitable.Policies indisputable after 5 years in force.Policies issued on tbe Profit System receive threc-fourths of the profits of the Company Policies purchased or lonns granted thercon.Pre miums may be paid yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, and 30 days of grace allowed for payments of all premiums, Tables of rates for the various systems of Assurance may bo obtained at any of the Company's offices or agencies.A.G.RAMSAY, Managing Director & Sccretary.R.HILLS, Assistant Secretary.Office in Montreal\u2014196 St James-st.R.POWNALL, General Agent, ; JAMES TULLY, Agent, Hunfingdon.J.BREADNER, Agent, Athelstan.> ; © % & 3 2 = = = g ma = = = a [5] NEVILLE.FRONTIER J.Biderly Mon go to Nevill\u2019s for a comfortable suit MY WORK will be donc wo that I won't be afraid of seeing you again.Fashions always on haud.Reasonable rates.J.NEVILL, foreman to W Walsh.FURNITURE! FURNITURE! Fo SALE by the undersigned, at his warcrooms in this village, 1,000 chairs, inclnding cane scated chairs, and rocking chairs of different styles, lounger, bureaus in maple and black ash, stands, c., &c.i A large number of theme chairs ate made at his own Factory, of good, seasoned timber, and are warranted first clase.The wholo will be sold at greatly reduced prices.A.HENDERSON, fMimtinad@n, Aug.16.SIGISMUND TEMPLE.CHAPTER II.Marton TrmpLe had returned with the fall of tho year to Devonshire, and again taken up her abode at the Rev.Mr Banton's, distant about oleven miles from Vale Farm.Her brother, Mr Arthur Temple, socompa- nied her; and about a weok previous to the day named for Lucy Gaston's union with Mr Smythe Mr Sigismund Temple arrived on a flying visit to his relatives.After a sojourn of two days only the new-comer an- foanced his intention of returning at once to London.He was, Marion Temple saw, deeply offended with his brothor Arthur, who, for some reason studiously concealed The Canada Olranez, NO.522.HUNTINGDON, Q.THURSDAY.OCTOBER 21, 1875.$1.50 A-YEAR.from ber, had peremptorily rofused Sigismund\u2019s earnest request that he would accompany him back to town.\u2018Idiot?mentally soliloquised Sigismund Templo, whilst wailing on the morning of his departure fur his brother's appearance in the breakfust-room of the rectory\u2014¢ldiot! And yet his headstrong folly concerns me but in a remote, improbable contingency.I would, however, ho did not murry just yet.\u2018The fatal taint which Sir Edward has, it is thougbt, inherited from their mother\u2014 Marion, too, [ fear is duumod\u2014lurks very robably in his veins; but should he have issue by this marringo, my hopes\u2014hopes did I say ?\u2019 continued the young man, with an audible outburst of remorsetul griot, as he rose from his chair, and paced agitatodly to and fro the apartment\u2014\u2018hopes ! Is Naturo's milk so turned to gall within mo tint I hope for the deaths of brothers whom I loved so well, till 1 know that the unjust and cruel laws of entail and primogeniture had beggared me to enrich them\u2014for Edward, 1 think, already stands on the verge of the grave! Alas! itis but too truce.I should lie to my own heart if I denied it; but is the blame mine?After all,\u2019 he presently added in a calmer mood, \u2018they are but my halt: brothers: they have no share in the vigor ous maternal life which'\u2014\u2014 : À distant step arrested the current of his thoughts, and whon Arthur Temple entered ho had resumed the listless, surdonic attitude and oxpression which he usually exhibited.Aftor a few words on indifferent subjects Sigismund Temple again endeav ned to dissuado his brother from the ra-h step ho was contemplating.[t was labor thrown away : ho could not make the slightest im pression with all his subtlety aud sarcasm.\u201cWell\u201d ho said, \u201cit Wilful must to water, Wiltul must drench; but | again repeat.that if I were Arthur Temple, with only one frail lifo between me and an ancient and wealthy baronotey, it should be something more than a pretty fuce that would tempt mo into the noose of matrimony.\u2019 \u2018Pretty face! I tell you, Sigismund, that Lucy Gaston is one of the gentlest, purest.most charming and beautiful of women, and no more ambitious of wealth or station than of a convent.She wouid have accepted my offer had I been poor and dependent as joyfully as now.\u2019 \u2018Arthur, you are a\u2014\u2014 But | forbear; it is, 1 know, useless arguing with a man laboring under the insanity of passion, You are preparing a future of misery not ouly for yourself but this poor girl.Before twelve months are past the refined elexance and courtly grace of such women as Lady Alice Merivale will return upon your imagination with a brilliancy and power infinitely hoightened by contrast with the mindless rustic who has temporarily caught your fancy; and you will bitterly as vainly repent your present mad infataativn.\u2019 \u2018That woman, Sigismund, is an incuarna- tion of mere worldliness.She lias ueither heart nor soul.\u2019 \u2018As you please; but she has at least a charming person, and a sparkling, cultivar ed wit; and to me it appears rather a proof of good =ense than necessarily of heartless ness that she some two years since looked coldly upon the advances of a young gentle man who, unless his elder brother dios with: out male issue, is condemned to vegetate upon a poor fifteen hundred a ycar.Per haps,\u2019 added the speaker, looking leenly in his brother's face, and speaking in a low and meaning tone\u2014\u2018perhaps had Sir Edwards health been at the time in the fragilo state in which it is now foared to bo the lady would have been less reserved and cruel.\u2018It in useless, Sigismund, to reeall such memories ; they have died within me, and 80 have the pulses of ambition.With the beautiful and ductile creature with whom my fate will shortly be united I shall calmly glide down the stream of lite, undisturbed by and beedless of the jostling, the puerile distinctions of a world for which 1 feel neither sympathy nor respect.\u2019 \u2018A dream, Arther\u2014a silly, womanish dream, to be fullowcd, bo sure of it, by a very bitter awakening.But enongh: we part friends, L hope ?' ° \u2018You perzist in not remaining then?\u2019 \u2018Certainly.[I should only involve myself, without in tho slightest degree serving you, were I prosont at the ceremony.\u2019 \u2018I do not comprehend your meaning.\u2019 \u201cIt is novertheless plain enough, if not to you, whose load is amongst the stars, or rather clouds, to me, whose attention is necessarily fixed on mundane things.You.at least, aro independont of Sir Edward Temple to the extent of fifteen hundred » year; and if the eldor obstacle were to pre- cedo you to tho world of shadows'\u2014\u2014 \u2018Shame on you, Sigismund !\u2019 \u2018Be it so: I'am at ali events no hypocrite; and this system of beggaring overy child but one in crder to maintain what ix called family dignity is scarcely one adapted to cultivate fraternal affection.You, I repeat, have a revenue, though perbaps an insuffi.ciont ono, whilst 1 uufortunate'y have no dependence save on tho parliamentary and rocial influence of the present head of the House of Temple to quarter mo in an eligible manner upon the public revenues, You know Sir Edward's pride of birth and ancestry, and .cannot therefore be blind to the folly I should commit by in any manner ap- ring to forward or countenance a mé-al- ianre, the discovery of which will 0 torri- bly enrage him; and he may, apite of n pe rances.live many years yet.Berides,' added Sigismund Templo, after a few moments\u2019 silence, and witn an exaggeration of bis usual sardonic sneer, \u2018the fawer the witnesses to the ceremony the better, perhaps; and it may be «0 esteemed by you some of these days.The retention of the name of Smythe, too, will bo well.\u2019 \u2018Tho assumption of the namo of Smythe! was an acoident\u2014a caprice without motive; and [ shall probably resume my own'\u2014\u2014 | \u2018You had better not.this, at least.\u2019 s | \u2018Sigismund, envy and discontent have not | only roured your once frank and joy: \\ \u2018Say rather, brother mine, that they have in a slight degree sharpened my wits.Younger brothers are necessarily somowhat precocious.It is only your elder born who can afford to remuin fools en permanence! Good-by ; L shall at all events keep your secret.\u201d The brothers shook hands, and Sigismund Temple was soon on his way back to London.Arthur Temple remained for a considerable time after his brother had left the apartment where the foregoing colloquy took pluce in a state of profound meditation, \u2018Smythe !\u2014Temple!\u2019 Lo at last audibly mur.mured\u2014\"\\What is there, after all, in a name ?The one will do to conjure with as well as the other; and after all, as Sigismund rays At all events, I um very slightly indebted, and owe but scant allegiance to the proud family name.\u2018The fifteen hundred a year which I inherit descends from my mother; and yet I have often thought how delightful it would be to witness Lucy's sweel, artless expression of grateful wonderment when informed that she was about to marry into the distinguished fumily of the Templos\u2014to Lo sister-in-law to the mugniti- cent Sir Edward Temple, whose grand têtes and splendid outertsinments sometimes afford a paragraph to the county paper! Yet that would not be prudent! iv must, as we value place of mind, contentment of heart, shun comparisons of our state with his, Botter to draw a veil before the grandeur, be it even that of a brother, that would but mock our own comparatively poor means of life.Yes! 1 will certainly take Siis- mund\u2019s advice in this one instance: the name of Smythe, which | carelessly, capriciously assumed, shall bo retained, unless, indeed\u2019 \u2014\u2014 \u2018I'he young man's face flushed crimson; he hurriedly rose and walked 10 and fro the room, as 1f the quick pulsation of his veins forbade for the moment repose or immobility of body\u2014tun css, indeed.Sigismund\u2019 insinuation, that Sir Edward's health is fatally undermined should prove \u2018oll founded: then, inteed, to sulute my beautiful Lucy as Lady Temple\u2014as the mistress of Temple House\u2014of the mansion in Grosvenor Square\u2014as the wile ol a baronet of aneient descent and princely wealth\u2014that indeed were a proud moment in both our lives\u2014that would be\u2014\u2014 God of Heaven!\" added the conscienco-struck young man, his voice suddenly falling to a trembling wbisper\u2014\u2018am, I too, an eager speculator in the chances of a dear brother's death 7\u2014do I count grudgingly the sands of life allotted to a son born of the same mother as myself?\u2014have the words of Sigismund but wakened an echo slumbering in my own heart\u2014but s'vept away the illusive coloring from the mirror in which § before lussed myself, and shewn me my true self ?Terrible questions, which T know not how to answer!\u201d He ceased to speak, and vhud derinsly covered his fuce with his hands, as if he wonld shut out the appalling, seif-re- vealing spectre which diggly flitted past, It was some t'me before he perfectiy recovered his usual calmness: when he had done so his thoughts appeared to gradually fall into the channel they bad first taken on bis brother Sigistund's departure; and by the slight interjectional comments which escaped him he wus evidently again pondering the expediency of revealing his true name and condition to his promised bride.The decision arrived ut wan that suggested by lis brother; for, as he left the apartment to rejoin his sister Marion, he muttered : \u2018Yes, Smythe lot it Lo- for the pre-e t at all ovents.I can, should occasion arise, ensily veassume my proper designation; whereas But au jour le jour.On the appointed day Arthur Temple was accordingly married to Lucy Gaston in the name of Smythe.Immediately afior tho ceremony the newly-wedded pair net ofl for Holly Lodge, three or four miles out ot Bath, accompanied by Mary Crawford and John Robson, Mr Temple's groom, who, with Mr and Mrs Whiston, had witnessed the ceremony.CHAPTES IIL Sigismund Temple arrived in Grosvenor Square in barely sufficient time for dinner.to which à small but distinzuished party had been invited.The Honourable Caroline Fanshawe, young, amiable, and of dazzling beauty and imperial presence, was there, accompanied by her father Lord Fanshawe.The queenly head, sot magnificently upon brilliant shoulders from which the Roman purple might be fitly draped, the exquisitely chiselled nose and mouth, the lustrous purity of her complexion, the splendor of her he did not anticipate, the tendency which had been feared towards consumption was effectually arrested.Agitation must, however, ho declared, be strictly avoided, or futal and immediate consequences would in all probability result.The charactor of Sir Edward's illness was known only to his medical aviser, and partially by his brothers.The outer world only knew that ho had been ailing somewhat, and was now essontinlly recovered.Sir Edward, who, ns much as possible, closed his own eyes to the danger in which he stood, would havo resented ax an unpardonable offence, any report that he inherited hin mothor\u2019s fatal malady.and the pulsation of Siginmund Temple's heart was momontly arrested, as he observ- od the smiles which he had for tho last half hour monopolised, bestowed with even yot more playfully caressing charm upon his elder brother.Sir Edward telt their influence, and his countenance lightened with unusual gaiety and joy.1 do not know,\u2019 he said, \u2018when | have felt so light of heart.One\u2014certainly not the ospecial reuson which lifts mo above the onrth\u2019\u2014the brief glance of mutual intelli- genco did not escape Sigismund Temple\u2014 \u2018but one cause of tho exultation [ feel is the health, It is a foolish fancy, or superstition, cortainly,\u201d added the baronet in n slightly disturbed tone, \u2018but the belief clings to me \u2014partly perhaps because wo are thought to #0 much resemble cach other, or because wo have been till lately xo constantly together ~that our lives are bound up with each other, and will end together.\u2019 Surely a very absurd fancy,\u201d remarked Miss Fanshawe, .\u2018Yes; one cannot reason upon it.Yon remember tho German astrologer, Sigismund ?\u2018The German cheat mean,\u2019 \u2018dt may bo ~o.And yet for all that roa- son or philosophy may urge | cannot help and swindler, you that of aarion, that she is recovo.ing.\u2019 The lady glanced towards Sigismund, and he thought a faintly ironical smile curled her benutitul lip, an xhe said: «And pray, what may have been the preciso text of the astrologer or cheats predietion ?he usual jargon repied Sigismund Temple, rising ax he spoke.Phe ines of life in Marion and Sir Edward resembled cach other, ending I think in the same house, or ~ame sueh gibberi-h That is a prophecy which, nnder certain circum tances, mig of reilise itself,\u201d obecry- cd Miss Fanshawe; and a shado of anxiety or concern passed over her brilliant countenance, botrnst not anid Bin Bdward Temple, with a proud and grateful smile; \u2018but this is not a time for such themes, Shull we have a little mas +?Perhaps you, Caroline, will again favor us with the charmivg