The canadian gleaner, 18 janvier 1877, jeudi 18 janvier 1877

[" A GOOD CHANCE.8 the subscriber intends leaving Huntingdon be his offers : House and Two Building Lots for Sale.The bouse is second to none in the village of Hunt ingdou.Persons wishing Photographs would do well to call at once.Those wishing copies from old negatives will require to order them at once, as all negatives will be destroyed after the first of December.JOHN H.GILMORE, Photographer.Huntingdon.Nov.2.AROBIBALD & McOORMICE, ADVOCATES, No.2 Barron's Duilding, 163 St.James Street, MoxTusaL Du CORMICE, .ARCHIBALD, .Mc eA A, B.GL.B.C.L N.B\u2014Mr McCormick will follow the Courts in the District of Beauharnois.(6 WJ ont cal) / OU ; Corner Notre Dame and Place d\u2019 Armes, Imparts & thoroughly commercial «ducation, and offers superior advantages for preparing young men for Lusiness pursuits, The course Includes Bookkeeping iu all its forms, Commercial and Mental Arithmetic, Correspondence and Penmanship.The progress is rapid, and the results beneficial and practical.Special instruction in French and Shorthand.For full information apply at the College, or address TASKER & DAVIS.Montreal, Oct.17.MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF TIIE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS, Insuiing only Farm and dfflated property.we RESIDENT \u2014Archibald Henderson, Esq.Dircctors=George Cross, Esq., Francis W.Shirrift Esq., M.D., John Symons, Esq., Colonel James Reid Alexander McNaughton, Lsq, and Daniel Macfarlane Esq.YHE undersigned has opened an Oyster Saloon in Secretaryand Ticasurer\u2014Andrew Somerville, Hun- the store of J.Brown, where anyone can have tingdon, Oyster Suppers, or by the gallon.Received twice a Agents\u2014William Edwards, Franklin ; Robert Middlemiss, Hinchinbrooke ; Thomas Clarke, Ste Philomène ; Robert Smaill, Elgin; P.Clancy, N, P,and JA.V.Amirault, N.P., Hemmingford ; Wm.Gebbie, Howick; John Davidson, Dundee ; II, Crevier, N.P,, St Anicet; J.C.Manning, Franklin ; Arthur Herdman, Herdman's Corners; Shanks & Milne, Huntingdon ; J.B.Gibson, Dewittville; and Dr Maclaren, Durham.pa Parties wishing to insure their property, are requested to apply to the agents or Secrc tary.CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.rNHE \u201cMINIMUM?System of Assurances has just been adopted by this Company, where, by a partial application of the profits, rates of premium are charged Lower than have ever before been offered for Life Assurance.The following are the rates for Assurances of each $1,000, with profits upon the system referred lo : Ç ANNCAL n ANNUAL AGE, PREMIUM.AGE.PREMIUM.21 S12 80 39 223 80 22 13 10 40 24 70 23 13 50 41 25 60 24 14 00 43 26 50 25 14 70 43 27 AD 26 15 20 44 28 50 27 15 80 45 29 ¢0 28 16 40 46 30 60 20 16 90 47 31 Go 30 17 50 48 32 70 si 18 10 49 24 10 32 18 60 50 35 70 33 19 20 51 37 60 34 19 80 52 39 60 35 20 40 53 41 70 36 21 10 54 44 00 37 22 00 85 46 40 38 22 90 The above table,and a full explanation of the \u201cMinimum\u201d system are published, and may be had Upon application.A.G.RAMSAY, Managing Director.General Agent for Province of Quebce, R.POWNALL, Agent for Huntingdon, W.W.Connerr; Agent for Athelstan, J.BREADNER Canada Life Building, } R.HILLS, Secretary: 182 St.James street, Montreal.Oct.16, 1876.THE SMITH CANADIAN ORGAN COMPANY, BRONE, P.O OUR FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC.\u2014In commencing the manufacture of Organs in the Province of Quebce, where little has hitherto been done towards the production of & ¥i#8T-CLASS INSTRUMENT, after careful consideration, we have decided that the only course which can lead to permanently successful results is tho production of the very best instrument that can possibly be constructed.To a certain extent the time chogen for inaugurating such an enter- puise is unfavorable, inasmuch as a number of extensive manufacturers in the United States (a good many of whom have gained an unenviable reputation) have turned their attention to the fabrication of a cheap in- stcument for the Canadian market.These they are sending here in large numbers and selling them at low prices in order to realize money upon them under the pretencethat they are sacrificing them on account of the hard times.Their inferiority of workmanship fully warrants this reduction in price.There has been but little reduction in the price of skilled labor, and the value ot first-class materials, instead of de- precinting, has actually increased.Superior instru- nents cannot be made to compete with inferior onea in point of price, therefore the only course for us to pursue is to mako the best instruments possible, and trust to the good judgment and discrimination of the public to decide between good and inferior work, and pass their verdict on our productions.We pledge ourselves to use the best material that can be procured ; that our work shall be executed in the most thorough and substantial manner, and that we will sell our instruments at as low a price as is consistent with a moderate profit.We are determined to give our customers instruments that will defy competition from American manufacturers.And while we do not feel like harping to the public on the old string of patronizing Home Industry we do feel that if they will carefully and impartially exam ine our work they will not hesitate to say that we are producing a first-class instrument, BE FULLY WARRANTED FOR FIVE YEARS\u201c@EEK Inspection solicited.Terms easy.Prices moderate, T.K.MILNE, Agent at Huntingdon for the District of Brauliarnois PIANOS! PIANOS! I HAVE much pleasure in informing the inhabitants of this District that I have been appointed Agent by Mr Joseph Gould of Montreal for the Chickering, Steinway, Emerson & Gabler Pianos.Mr Gould's reputation is so well known, as a man who sells nothing but the beat, that parties wanting Pianos would do well to call at my rooms before purchasing elsewhere, where 1 keep constantly on band a full supply of Pianos and Organs, attics wanting Organ or Piano Stools and Instruction Books can be supplied hy me as cheap as they can in Montreal, T.K.MILNE, Rooms Dominion Block, Huntingdon, Q.P.8.Having socured the services of a first-class Tonia 1 sa pow prepared to receive orders for ga ring Pianos, Organs, or any other musical Instrument.8 i OTERnS y Huntingdon, Sept, 26, 1876.| ! | + The Cana Glenner re NO.580.| COME AND SBE.W UNSMORE rwishes an inspec- | ° À.tion of bis Facu and Wisten stock of | GENERAL MERCHANDISE.Special attention paid to Dress Goods, Blk.Lustres, all Wool Bhirting, Flanncls of all kinds, Canadian Tweeds, Clouds, Men's Undershirts and Drawers, Ladies\u2019 Silk Ties, &c.BOOTS AND SHOES, A full assortment of the very bust Boots and Shoes on hand, cheap.\u2014AL8O\u2014 Teas, and al! kinds of Choice Groceries, at very low prices.No, 1 Salmon on hand.WG The stock throughout has.been carefully selected, bought low, and will be sold accordingly.W.A.DUNSMORE.Dominion Block, Huntingdon, 1 Nov.23d, 1876.j OYSTERS! week from Boston, Huntingdon, Dec.20.I.W.COGGIN.FARM FOR SALE.HE half of lot No, 43, in the 4th range of God- manchester, containing one hundred acres, at present occupied by Jeremiah O'Ready.Apply to A.SOMERVILLE, Registry Office, Huntingdon, Oct.11, 1876.FOR SALE HI west half of Lot No.15, in the 5th Concession of Dundee, Leing part of the estate occupied Ly tue late Duncan McMillan, containing 50 acres of land, more or less, nearly all cleared, and in the highest state of cultivation.Also a Bush Lot containing 60 fcres, more or less, situated in the town of Westville, Franklin County, N.Y.An indisputable title given on each to purchaser.Apply to undersigned on the premises, or by letter, addressing Fort Covington, N.Y., ALLAN D.McMILLAN.\" Huntingdon and Beaudetto Stage Line.HE subscriber will run a daily stage between Huntingdon and Beaudetto Station leaving the Union Hotel, Huntingdon, at 12 o'clock (noon) and returning will leave Beandette on the arrival of the evening train from Montreal, WILLIAM FORTUNE.Huntingdon, Jan, 4th, 1877.NOTICH.HE ruliscriber would inform Lis numerous friends and the public in general, that the Valleyfield Grist and Flouring Mills have been thoroughly repaired and has constantly on hand a large supply of No.1 Flour, Indian Meal, Proviuder, Bran, Shorts, &u, ke, pay Satisfaction given to all who favor him with their custom, JAMES MACDONALD, Victoria Mills, Valleyfield.MOST RELIABLE TEA 1IOUSE! URE, uncolored, unadulterated TEAS, Coffees, Sugmik, Spices, Raising, Currants, Rice, Sago, Sonp, Cigars, Tobacco, Brooms, Candies, Bi-carbonate Soda, Nitre, Sulphur, Lamp Wicks, Magnesia, Epsom Salts, Yellow Ochre, Slates, Candle Wicks, Mop Handles, Concentrated Lye, Chocolate, Cocoa, Ses Trout, Sardines, Canned Salmon, Peaches, Pine Apples, Pickles, English Cherries, Mustard, Essences, Castor Oil, Olive Oil, Pails, Tubs, Corn Starch, Pearl Starch, Lamp Chimneys, \u201cGem\u201d P Jars, Wash Boards, Clothes l\u2019ins, Churns, Senna, Cook's FB Powder, Pot Barley, Rice Flour, Bordeaux Vinegar, Ketchup, Hops, Sugar Candy, Copperas, Indigo, Button Blue, Glenficld Starch, Nuts, Crackers, Pipes, &c., and an ASSORTMENT OF SMALLWARES.Everything sold under value, as the subscriber has sold Lis place of business in Huntingdon.All persons indebted to me by note or book account will be good enough to call and settle without further trouble.Huntingdon, Dec.7.GEO.Q.ONEILL.FURNITURE, FURNITURE.HE undersigned would inform his many friends and the public generally that he keeps constantly on hand a LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT OF FURNITURE, Comprising: Writing Desks, Falling-leaf Tables, Kitchen Tables, Bureaus different sizes, Common Wash Stands, Enclosed Wash Stands, Bedsteads, Lounges, Wooden Chairs, Canc-scated Chairs, Office Chairs, Children's High Chairs, Children\u2019s Low Chairs, Cane-seated and Wooden Rocking Chairs, Round and Oval Centre Tables, Cradles, Sideboards, Sofas, Stands, &ec., &c.Parties will find it to their advantage to call and examine the above stock befor purchasing elsewhere.A.HENDERSON.Huntingdon, Dec.6, EXCHANGE BANK OF CANADA.VALLEYFIELD AGENCY.Interest, Allowed on Deposits.D\" issued on Montreal and New York.United States currency bought and sold.D.B.PEASE, Valleyfield, Aug.18.Agent.N BOYCE, NOTARY PUBLIC, (successor e to the late C.Meunier, Esq.,) has opened an office as Notary at St, Antoine Abbe (Starnesboro), in the building lately occupied by Mr Meunier, N.P, where ho will be ready to perform the duties of his profession in the French and English languages.JAMES MELDRUM, Jr., COAL MERCHANT, No.32 WELLINGTON STREET, MONTREAL, H* constantly on hand all kinds of Smith and Foundry coal of superior quality.\u2014 ee étre DENTISTRY.I.W.MERRICK, ' DENTIST, PORT COVINGTON, N.Y., Br to inform his many friends and patrons in Huntingdon County that he has removed his office to his new residence, situated on the strvet leading to Hoganburgh, opposite to the residence of H.C.Congdon, where he may be found the first twenty- five diye of cach month.Those having operations performed or work done can remain, and will be entertained without extra charge.All operations are warzanted.Gold fillings are warranted for five years.Fort Covington, Aug.7.po re Errs's Cocoa-\u2014GuarertL amp ConpoRTING.\u2014\"\u2018By à thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-select- ed cocon, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with 8 delicately tlavored beverage which may save us many heavy doctors\u2019 bills, Itis Ly the judicious use of such articles of dict that a constitution way be built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease.Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around u ready to attack wherever there is a weak point.We may escape many a fatal shaft by keep- ng ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame \u2014Civil Service Gazette.Sold only in packets labelled\u2014#Jaurs Errs & Co, Homao- pathic Chemi 48, Threadneedle Strect, aud 170, Piccadilly, London.\u201d PAY-UP NOTICE.LL parties indebted to the late firm of Cowan Bros.will please call and settle their accounts on or before the 1st day of February, as after that time they will be handed to W.8, Maclaren for collection.Huntingdon, Jan.4.JAMES 8.COWAN, VETERINARY SURGEON.A McCORMICK will make weekly visita to the + following places, commencing first week of January, 1877: Mondays, Le May's, Beauharnois; Vednesdays, Gale's, Durham ; Fridays, Moir's, Hunt- ingdon.BARGAINS ! BARGAINS ! WEEDS, warranted all wool, at 85 cents per yard, Fine Shirting Flannels at 38 cents per yard, Men's Undershirts and Drawers only 50 cents each.Dress Goods from 20 cents per yard.Misses\u2019 Cloth Juckets only $1.23 each, All Wool Shawls only $2.25 each, Clouds from 30 cents to 75 cents each.Woollen Mufilers from 8 cents to 75 cents cach.Sashes from 50 cents to 90 cents each, American Cottons from 8 cents per yard, or by the piece at reduced figures, Cotton Yarn only 25 cents per hh.Fancy Table-Covers at $1 to $1.50 cach, Horse Blankets, with steaps, only $1.85 cach.Wall-papers from 6 cents per roll.\u2014 ALSO =~ Men's Fine Boots only $3 per pair.German Slippers from 35 cents to 40 cents per pair.Moccasins and Overshoes at cqually low |rices, GROCERIES.Fine Japan Tea only 40 cents per th, A full supply of other Groceries just received: all to be sold at the smallest possible profits, Finnan Haddies throughout the season, PE\" Now is the time Lo secure Bargains, cost, for Cush.Goods at JOHN GIEMORE.Huntingdon, Nov.30.FARM FOR SALE, EING Lot No.1, in the fifth range of Godman- chester, containing 150 acres, more or less | well watered, fenced, and good buildings erected thercon : good sugar-bush and orchard on the premises.Convenient to school, grist mill, saw and carding will, and cheese factory.For further particulars apply on the premises to CHARLES McBRIDE, Dewittville, Jan.11, 1877.PUBLIC NOTICE.PROVINCE uF QUEBEC, Municipality of the County of Huntingdon.} UBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, the fifth day of March next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold by Public Auction, at the place where the sessions of the Council of said County are held, in the County Building, in th Village of Huntingdon, in said County, the lands hercinafter described in default of payment of the Municipal and School taxes, for which they are liable, with the costs incurred, Municipality of the Parish of 8t.Anicet.lo.A parcel of land known as part of Jot number four, in the second range of the Parish of St.Anicet, in the County of Huntingdon, containing one acre and a half in width by thirty-two acres in length, more or less, and such as bounded at the north-west end by lot number four, in the firdt range of the said Parish of St.Anicet, And at the south-cast end by lot numbez four, in the third range of the Township of Godmanchester, on the north-cast side partly by Jean Baptiste Dumont and partly by Gilbert Lepage, and on the south-west side partly by Sanl Filiatrault and partly by Louis David.Owner supposed to be Louis Lepage.Amount duc, $20 73.20.Another parcel of land known as part of lot number eleven, in the second range of the Parish of St.Anicct, in the Conaty of Huntingdon, containing one acre in width by sixteen acres and two-thirds of an acre in length, more or less, and such as bounded at the south-cast end by Dennis Martin, at the northwest end by Honoré Lecompté, on the south-west side by Amable Charlebois, and on the north-east side by Joseph Lalonde.Owner supposed to be Damase Lecompté.Amount due, $22 82, 30.A certain lot or parcel of land known ns the south half of the east half of (ot number fifty-seven, in the third range of the Parish of St.Anicet, in the County of Huntingdon, containing fifty acres of land in superficies, more or lexs, and such as bounded at the north-west (nd by William McIntosh, at the south-east end by the public road, on the north-east side by Widow Samuel Currie, and on the south-west side by Donnid McMaster, with a dwelling-house, barn, and a stable thereon erected.Owner Francois Xavier Gours, alias Young.Amount due, $5 18].40.A certain lot or parcel of land known as part of lot number fifty-two, in the second range of the Parich of St.Apicet, in the County of Huntingdon, containing one acre in width by thirty-three acres and one-third of an acre in length, more or less, and such as bounded at the north-west end by the Dundee road, at the sout/i-enst end by a new front road, on the north-east ride by Eticone Lalonde, and on the southwest side by John Rankin, with a dwelling-house thereon erected.Owter Octavo Drodan, alias Lav.igne.Amount due, §5.Municipality of the Village of Hunting don.50.À part of lot number thirty-nine and a part of lot number forty on Prince s\u2018fwet, in the Village of Huntingdon, bounded on the esst by the lauds of John Neville, on the west by tite lands of Thomas Gamble, on the south by Prince street, and on the north partly by land on whick the County Building is built, and partly by land owned by° the School Commissioners, and containing onc-half acre, more or lesa, and belonging to John Campbell, Amount due, $12.ROBERT HYND MAN, Secreta: y-Treasurer, Municipal Council County\u2019 of Huntipgdon.Huntingdon, Jan.5th, 1877.[rove UNDERTAKING WN.CLYDE & SON, PRINCE STREET, HUNTINGPON \\ ly execute all orders in motto in cheapness, durn work in all its branches.NOTICE.que Annual Meeting of the sharebciders of the Quebec Frontier Raliwey Company, for gene.\"sl business and the election of Directors, will be beld i ?the County Building in the Village of Huntingdon, on Wednesday, 14th Februsry nex, at the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon.JOSHUA BREADNRR, Secretary Q.F.RR.Hantingdye, January 4, 1877.UILDING LOTS for sale in the village of Hummingfond, apply to HENRY ONEILL, Hemmingford, Nov.13.Carringemaker, STAGE TO RIVER BEAUDETTE.HE undersigned will leave the Union Hotel, Huntingdon, every morning in time to catch HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 181.31.50 A-YEAR.sulpburie, or nitric acids, recommended the removal of the whey as fast as it formed, was that in warm weather foreign ferments were developed, producing underirable taints, which were reflected up-| on the curds.! \u201cthe half-part six o'clock train, and remain until the Mr John Stewart of Manchestor, Jowa,! arrival of the eleven o'clock train from Montreal, i described the butter factories of the Western when the stage will return to Huntingdon, Freight ! carried on reasonable terms.SAMUEL PERCY.NUTICE OF DISSOLUTION, grasite work at Huntingdon, under the firm and sens on the ninth day of December last.G.W.DREW, R.i.HALL.Huntingdon, January 5th, 1577.The Lusiness will be carried on by the undersigned by the abuve firm.ti, W.DREW: AMERICAN DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION.INGERSOLL, Jan.{,\u2014The twolfth annual to-day.Mr Chadwick, of Ingersoll, ono of the Vico-l'residents of the Association, touk the chair at 11:30 o'eloek in tho absenco of Hon Horatio Seymour, President.To briefly welcomed the American visitors, and said that ho had no doubt that tho holding of the Convention on the northern sido of the œveut Likes would prove to bo # wisely taken stop, and one that would rosult al.dian duiryinen.He then announced that the Convention was open for the transaction of business.Ho referred to the good which was being accomplished by these Conventions in the dissemination of knowledge upon dairy interests, and in the consequent advantages from a monetary point of view, There had been à complete revolution in dairy matters in Crnada within the past cight or ten years, though ho belioved that this interest us even yet in its infaney.A paper on lleat, prepared by Mr A.Le Fish, of Cedarville, N.Y., wax read, in, tho absence of the writer, by Prof.Arnold.Heat, tho writer remarked, was the moving cause of all tho physical and mechanical agencies of the universe, though as vet it was only known as a condition, and its matariality had not been defined.After re forring to the obvious influences of calorie in the phenomena of animal and vegotable lile, and of the disintegration of the minerals, the writer said that there was n certain point at which heat ceased to be a constructive agent, and became a destructive ono.En the application of heat to mille in cheese-making care should bo taken not to bring it to that point which caused the dis integration of the particles or to apply it anequally.The stomach of the samo species of animal that produced the milk should he used as rennet for coagulation.Tho action of the heat should be made slow or fast, ne.cording us that of the rennet was rapid or the reverse.A sudden or partial exposure thigh heat caused loose, sour.and meaty cheese.With regard to the use of vate, he urged chieese-makers to vemember that tle tendeney of heat in fluids was upwards, and that of curds under manipulation downwards.steam between the outer and inner vat sharper would bo the heat, and the hotter the inner surface of the heating vat.milder and more even would be the heat secured, ve gradual, writer had achieved in thirty years practi cal experienco in cheese-making two vats at blood heat and no tion and favor the eflicient action of the rennet.heating space between the vats, especiali g y I > the bottom of the inner vat.Instead points, rennet «hould be kept steadily on, curd, wo called, should also be Cheese, when suited to a special demand should have a room in which served in order.heat in tho curds.in temperature in the mass, FPVIE partoership heretofore existing between the the \u20ac undersigned «s manufacturers of marble and name of Drew & Hall, was dissolved by mutual con- | Whon it should bo skimmed sooner.who will collect all debts aud pay all amounts due Convention of the American Dairymen\u2019s Association met iu the new Town Hall, here rantageously to both American and Cana.Tho thinner the sheot of water or the ore I'he wider the space between tho two vats, tho All changes of temperature should | firmue-«; not easily getting or heeomin: The most perfect success the Wis wrought by keeping tho space hetwaen the more.By this means the heating surface of the inner leven, rat wns not in contact with a particle of milk or curd at a bighor temperature than that of the space mentioned.Ho set at 50 to these wero tho definitions of negative quali 84 degrees until coagulation was perfectly formed, and then not exposed to more than blood heat afterwards, would retard acidula- To improve the present system «low changing, retention of good qualities, be would recommend the widening of the! Quaiity, 20, mellow, salty, pasty, flaky, at the sides, to ton or twelve inches, so that, Texture, 15, solid, close, the heat might bo equalized before reaching, Color, 10, pleasing, natural, not appearing ot jartiticral.forcing currents of steam from pipes towards | included under other points, as use of ren the inner vat, he would point them outward | net, proper manipulation, ripening curd, and downward near the outer vat at various In cheosing the curd after it was pressed there should be a due restraint of heat, and the continuous action of heat and Tho suppression of the heat after the cooking of the ties the judging of both cheese ar! butter gradual.\u201ccould bo effected with the utmost exactness, ~hoald bo placed in a temperature too low: was required a re-examination wis made, to admit of a continued action of the decomposing agents, heat and rennet.All factories cheese could bo held at a low temperature and thus pre- From first to last tho judges had aimed at Prof.Arnold, in reply to questions, said | referred to some interesting «amples of con.that ono of the greatest difficaltics in cheese- making was that of maintaining an even One reason why American cheese failed when it became old was the inequality with which it was ripened, | ation in the Judges Hall, giving a history owing to the almost unavoidablo differences of the efforts made in past yoars to condense His idea waa!and preservo milk, {to keop up throughout the heat at which the j the paper is worthy of mention, and that is have at their own shop 4.arrangements to pre mpt- rennet was applied, and to remove tho whey \u2018 that «umples of dry, solid milk prepared for groos, applied the rennet at that tempera.sound and sweet, States.Tho pans used woro two foet wide, four teet long, and fourteon inches deep.During warm weather tho puns were sot in | Vwater-vats in a milk room kept ata tempera \"ture of 62 to 65 degrees, which would raise roam in thirty-six hours, except during taunder and lightning or in muggy weather, The writer strongly urged taking off ihe croam at exactly the right moment.The square box rovolving churn, withost paddle {and dasly wore used.Tho cronm when put in the churn should be a little avid, and in warm weather should be at a temperature of 5Be, and in coot weathor from 62° to 63.| From 30 to 45 minutes wore required to \"bring the butter, which was done by horse power.Churning should cease the moment the butter came, and before it formed in a mans, The buttermilk was then drawn off, and cool clonr brine thrown in and drawn ofl until it ran through clear.The churn was kept in slight motion with the hand back and forth until the washing was finish- od.The butter was thon put into the work er and tho salt thoroughly worked into it, in the proportion of about three-quarters ot an ounce per pound.[0 was then set away for twenty-four hours, when il was agnin worked and washed with brine until the brine in the butter was clear.Tho package was souked with steong brine hetore putting in the butter, These creameries were be coming very popular, as all the sour milk wux got buek and used in feeding hogs, fur which purpose western dairymen estimated it ty he worth from 20e to 30e per 190 tha, I'rof.Arnold sald their Western friends were nat only learning from, but improving upon, tho methods pursued in the Fast, They were very careful, for example, in keeping their milk rooms at a low and even temperature.Butter-makers should enden vor to have their eronm ripen evenly In reply to a question, Prof Arnold wid that the quantity of salt that should be used in cheese would vary considerably according to cireumstances, in the curd was dry, two pounds per cont.would perhaps be sufficient, but ordinarily two and three quarter pounds would be require, , 4 Prof, Arnold gave an interesting account of the Dairy at the Centonnial, towards the expenses of which the Canadian Govorn- ment grave $2,000, Togavean explanation of tho method adopted in judging huttor and ehecse.À rcalo of points was prepared, to be rated by numbers, the sum of whose numerical value should be in ench case 100 When tho goods were in ull respects perteet ithe-e®rcales were ench divided into six points, and a numeriesl value given to each according to its relative value ti making up the sum total of a perfect sample.Tounake 1 easy for the judge tho several points were arranged in order, and a definition of the items which were most prominentin making up the positive quadities was placed after each point, and followed by a definition of the chief nezative qualities whieh entered into defective aamples.The followin: in sesde of points for jod;ring batter on a basis of an total of 100 a- pertection: Positive qualities \u2014 flavour, 25, agreeable, clean nutty, aromatic, sweet, pure, distinet, and Volt; keeping quality, 200 etinel to slow change ner, indicative of stability in retaining good qualities; ~ohdity, 10, -lilThe-s of hody, soft; texture, 15, compactnens, \u201closencs- nt grain, breaking with à distinet fracture like east iron, tut globules unbroken and perfect, sticking little to trier: colour, 15, pleasing, natural, not appearing artificial, bright, Make, 15, includes all not included under other points, as cleanliness, porfect separation of buttermilk, &c.Opposite ties.Tho following were the dofinitions of positive qualities for cheese :\u2014Flavor, 25, agreeable, nutty, buttery, fine and full.+i Keeping, 15, preservation, inclination te { ite Charter to insure nothing more hazardous than Farm Property and Residences.It pays all losses caused by fire or damage done by lightning, whether fire ensues or not.It insures Live Btock against death by lightning, either in the building or on the premises où the assured.It refuses Mills, Shops, Tanneries, Store, Hotels, and other extra hazardous property» and makes a speciaity of Farm Property and Dwellings.It is mot subject to heavy losses by great cone whic he will take at 7 o'clock.Admission: Single Alagrationa, and affonls à certain guarantee to those it ticket, 1% cents: double, 25 cents; children 10 cents, insures, Jt ie & purcly Canadian Institution, its The entire procceds of the svening will be devoted to business is confined to the Dominion, and is under the relicf ot John Ha tmomtive in giving the money for certain needy and laudable object: those ho cannot Ty 200k care, 80 pitend, will aid n 8 g wor sending in their contcibutions, however small, to the Gleader.cr and wife, As the sole the management of men who have devoted many rctures is to rise a littl: years to this peculiar brench of Insurance, and unde r- stand thoroughly tho requirements of the Farmers as a class.T, KE.MILNE, Agent at Huntingdo for the District of Beauharnois. ee rte = aq EE oy oe Lr ae ng WC names rr WAT Caan .Croil, looking at a pocket compass, WHEN THE SHIP COMES HOME.'aail and make what running we can.May.CHAPTER III.be by noon wo must got tho sculls out.\u2019 Wx looked about us.The day was upon Our captivity in the boat had been too us, and the sun, just risen, was already hot short for us to feel any of the sufferings or in our faces.The sea was calm, with a disuppointed hopes, which make the story light breeze blowing from the trade quarter.of a shipwreck so often tragic.We had suf- The ship had disappeared.ferod nothing beyond exposure on a summer \u2018No sail in sight, nor any shore,\u2019 said Ben sen for fuur-and-twenty hours.But the \u2018Heart certainty of à speody doliverance paled my up, pretty.That was what he always said.cheek, und brought the tears to Miss El.Pharos water on board, also provisions, woud's eyes.; ; though not what we might wish for the \u2018Let us have morning prayors, sho said ; likes of you.I thought it might come to \u2018and thank God for this deliverance.\u2019 this, and victualled her.There's land on Ben Uroil nodded.At the sume time he the woather-bow, if the Lord let us reachit.cut an inch or so of tobacco for a fresh fill- Land\u2014an island.St Poter's Island, where ing, and winked at me as much as to say we'll bo picked up when we get there.Mr we wore not out of tho wood yet.Warnoford, sir, bolp me hoist thesail.\u201d We Wo wero not, indeed.carried n mast, and one small sail.Ben The lund, as we drew nearer, scomod a managed tho ropes, while 1 steered under long and low islet, without any hills, and his orders.But first we rigged up, by means covered with somo sort of low-lying vegeta.of the spare oar, some rough kind of cover- tion.It was less than thirty milos from us, ing to protect our passenger ; and thon we bacause while it wis soven in the morning sailed on insilence, wrapped in our thoughts, ! when it bocamo visible, by ten wo were while the ULoat danced upon the waves, within a mile, beating about for the best leaving its little track of white foam bohind place of landing.it.A peaceful, quiet, and happy day.\u2018The island of St Peter ?' said Miss El- Helen tells me that she was not afraid all wood.I never hoard of that island ; tell that time, nor was I.We wore in a little me about it, Mr Croil\u201d open bont on the open sen ; We were de- \u2018No ono ever heard about it\u2019 said Bon, pendent for our safety on the continuance \u2018except them ns made the charts, because no of calm weather ; wo wero depondent for one never goes there.But they pass by, do landing anywhere on old Ben's knowledge tho ships, and they will pick us up.It of tho seas, and recollection of the chart.may be to-morrow ; it may bo in a your's lle knew the latitude and longitude of the time.It may be in ten years.The whalers boat, making allowance in dead reckoning have been known to touch there, so there for tho time when wo left the ship, and he must be water; and where there's water knew the latitude and longitude of the, there's birds and fish; and so what [ says nearest land.I drew a rough chart from | ajçain is, Heart up, my pretty.Luff, Mr bis information on the back of a lottor which Warneford.?Uelen had in her pocket.Tt had twoplftes, There was a little creek, up which Ben marked on it\u2014the position of the ship Lucy steered the boat ; it opened into a round Derrick at noon, September 15th, 1851, and | bay or harbor, capable of holding half the the island of St.Peter.ships in the world.On either side was the It was a rough-and-ready way of reckon- land, not in cliffs or hills, but ina low table- ing, but | managed to place the position of land.In one placo a littlo cascade, ton or the ship as near ns possible where we left twenty feet high, fell into the blue waters, her, and began to study the chart.with a rainbow hanging over it, and in an «Now, whether to put her head nor-west other we saw the remains of a rude log by nor\u2019, or give her un extra point in « nor- house, built out of boat-planks, To this therly direction, beats me quite, Andthere\u2019s spot we steered, and landed on a point of currents which, in these little, fair-weather gray sand, up which we two men pulled the crafts, we ain't able to guard \u2018against, and boat high and dry above the tide.There the wind, which beats her on and off like.we disembarked our young lady.The first But St.Peter's lies over there.Ileart up, thing was to visit the log-house.The door pretty.We'll fetch land to-morrow, with hud fallen from its rude hinges, which had the blessing of the Lord.\u2019 \u201cbeen of leather ; there had been a rough It was Ben who served out the rations kind of window-shutter, which now lay on and the water, of which we had a keg, be- the ground 5 and theroof, which could never sides a bottle of rum, and two or three bot- \u2018have been weather-tixht, was built up with tles of wine, which had found their way | plunks, of which halt-a-dozen had been among Ben's stores.\u201cblown off.The sun went over our heads, and began! We looked inside.te roll down into the west, but there was no; On the floor lay « skeleton.Dressed in life upon the waters except ourselves; no rough sailor's clothes, tho hands in gloves, birds, no great or little fish, nothing to break tho feet in great boots\u2014a skeleton.le lay tho solitude.At a littlo after seven the sun with his head upon his arm, as if he had went quite down, and in half an hour we\u2018 given up the ghost painlessly.Beside him were in darkness.The breeze freshoned,!were a chair, a rude sort of table, and a bed.bat Ben kept up the gail, till I told him that, Shelves had beon rigued up in the walls of I was dropping to sleep trom sheer weari- the louse, and on these stood stores.There ness.Then he took in the canvas, and re- were bottles still full of yum, tins of pro- sumed bis place in the stern.Likea thought l visions, cases of biscuits, eases of candles\u2014 less and ungrateful wretch as I was, I threw ball sorts of things.myself into the bottom of the boat, and We atood, looking in horror at this spec.should have been asleep in tive minutes, but tacle of death, which greeted nson one land for our passenger, who called the crew to ing, ax if it were a bad omen.prayers.© \u201cDead, said Ben Croil.\u2018Dead this many She was our chaplain, as well as our a day; and no ships touched here all the guardian angel ; her sweet voice went upto time.Well he's left his house to us, Mr heaven for us all as she sang the evening, Warnetord ; we must bury him romehow.\u2019 hymn.Then came over me\u2014the first time: \u2018And are wo to live here\u2014here\u2014in the down the birds themselves and roasted them.For fireword we had our little coppice to buck at.Our supper was the same as our dinner ; and, as the evenings soon grow cold and clilly, we used, after supper, to sit all three together round the fire of logs, and talk till Ben gave the word to turn in.Then | evening prayers and sleep till dawn, ; Sitting before the fire in thoso long oven- i ings of winter, when we did not care to wuste our little stock of candles, it was natu- | ral that we should get to know ouch other, and it stood to reason that I should be asked | to tell my story over and over again.At tirst I could see that old Ben distrusted me.A convict, ho thought, must neods ben thief.| Elso how should he be a convict?He, trusted mo, however, with the young lady ;.he could depend upon me for my shure of\" duty.But that story of innocence wus, fora long time, too much for him ; and it was a joyful moment for mo whon, one evening, Ben held out his hand to me.\u201cTheer,\u2019 he said, \u2018I cun\u2019t help it; I've tried har | to help it, but I cunt.My lud, you! aro as innocent as [ am.You could not: stoal if you were to try.Show mo the man\u2019 as says you could 1 went through it all from the beginning, picking up a thread hero and a forgotten dotuil there.Miss Elwood, listening, was! putting it together, until she knew ns much as [ know mysolf.| Bon Croil, taking small interest in the details, contonted bimself with the main facts.; It was enough for him that a great crime had been committed, and the wrong-doer uover punished, While wo talked in those long winter evenings, he sat silent in his own corner, with his head againat the wall, until the time arrived when ho could smoke the one half pipe which ho allowed himself tor a daily ration.And the story came to this.| tellit here bocauso it was told so often during our stay un the island.On Friday morning, August 18th, 1846, 1 wont as usual to the otlico in Lower Thames street, being then a clerk in tho firmof Bat.terick & Baldwin, of five years\u2019 standing, getting on for one-and-twonty years of age, in the recoipt of à salary, handsome for my | age und standing, of a hundred and twouty pounds a year.[ lived just south of the Borough, between the church and Kenning- ton-common, having my little sister Ruth with mo in lodgings, Ruth was at school all day, but had tea ready for mo when | reached home, which happened, unless a press of work kept me longer, not later than six.After tea I went through her lessons with the child, and at nine o'clock sho went to bed.In those days it wasreckoned a bad sign for a young city man to be out lato at night, or to smoke, or to frequent taverns; and there were no music-halls or such places.Day after day that was my simple life.A week's holidays in the autuinn gave tno a run with Ruth to Herne Bay or Gravesend, just to smell the sea.Thero wero a few old friends ot my father's whom we visited at regular intervals.I knew nothing of the; dissipations and vices of the great city, and Wily is unsuspicious of them us if they did not oxist.That was my lite.The life of a hard-working city clerk, hoping by long veurs of patient work to riso to the higior levels of good salary and complete confidence.As I havo said above, 1 had already risen above the hends of some, my seniors in point of age.Friday morning, August 18th, 1846, 1.for five years\u2014that old feeling which is al- sume house ?cried Helen.\u201cOh, it will Lo ways new, that whether I lived or whethor like living in a charnel house.\u2019 I died, all would somehow be well; and So it would ; but what were we to do ?with the feeling upon me I laid my tired Finally wo hit on a compromise.We head upon the bourds, and was asleep in a would take down the frame-work, when wo moment.had buried the skeleton, and rebuild the 1t was far advanced in the night when I house farther off.We looked in the dead awoke to relieve Ben.Ile had stripped man's pockets\u2014there was not a scrap of himself of his coat, and laid it over the paper to identify him by, not any morsel of ghoulders of the sleeping girl, and was sit- | w iting anywhere, to show who he was, and ting in his shirt-sleeves.As I stepped what had been lis history.lightly over her form to take the strings Don Croil took the boots, the overcoat, from his hand, he whispered me : and the gloves, as well as a watch and a! \u2018Mate, was that true\u2014them words as Bos- purse, containing some English money.| ton Tom spoke in the boat Then we dug, with the aid of a two-inch \u201c1 have been a convict,\u201d I replied.board, in the sand, and laid tho poor bones \u2018How did he know that ?\u2019 to rest until the Last Day.When we came \u20181 cannot tell you; I wish to leaven I back from our dreary job we found that could.\u2019 , Miss Elwood had been weeping; atleast the \u2018What did he mean by saying he would tears stoud in her eyes; but she brushed tell you who really done it?Done whut?them away.and made herself helpful run.\u2018Done the forgery for which T was con- | ning backwards and forwards to the beat demned.I am innocent, Ben Croil.God, I am.innocent.\u2019 He was silent awhile.Our house was not finished for soveral I can\u2019t sco my way plain.One thing's.days; but we made a tent for her, and slept got to be said.\u201cWe may toss about in these in front of it ourselves, so that no harm sens till our water\u2019s gone; we may get cast might come to lier except over our own away ; we may be wrecked.I ain\u2019t so old bodies.In tho day time we were busy but | can make a fight for life yet; and 1 building.We found a bag of tools, part of ain't so young but what I may look to be tho bequest of poor Robinson Crusoe, which called first.You may be innocent of that.came in handy, nas you may belicve; and on there forgery, or you may be guilty.No the fourth day we had as neat a house, 12 concern of mine.Innocent or guilty don't | feet high, and in the inside 15 by 10, as you matter now ; and whichever way it were, could expect to find, There was but one Mr Warneford, the guilt of puttin\u2019 another room ; but we made two at night, by a cur- man's namo to a bit of paper is like the tain made out of the boat's sail.And when; guilt of a baby crying at the wrong time, the house was finished, wo sal down, and compared to the guilt of ill-treating the asked ourselves, What next.sweet young lady.\u2019 ] Miss Elwood, while we were building, ex- \u2018I pray God,\u2019 T returned, \u2018that Ile will plored the whole island.There was not deal with me in His wrath if I should deal much to explore.It was, as near as wo with her unworthily\u2014that He will punish could make out, a mile long by half-a-mile me afresh for the deed I never committed, broad.There were two springs in it, one (carry.Before and bringing up everything that she could | was at the office door when the city clocks began striking nine.I was at my dosk be.| fore the last stroke of the last clock had ceased.At ten 1 was sent for; Mr Baldwin, the chicf partner, wanted me.lle was busy when I went in, and hardly looked up.| Ilo had a message of somo importance to! rive me, which it would have taken time to write.lle explained tho circumstances at full length, and instructed mo as to the form in which | was to set them forth.Ile was à precise gontleman, and liked to have things put in language as definite as possible.When © anite understood what I was to say, and how | was to say it, I asked him if there was anything else I could do for him.lle looked round, and taking an envelgpe which | tay at his elbow, half opened it and handed it to me.! \u2018You may cash that little cheque for me, Warneford, if you will be so kind,\" he said.\u2019 I will take it in gold) T took the envelope, without looking at the contents, and went away.After executing my first commission, and receiving a satisfactory answer, I returned to tho office, and my foot was on the thresh- hold _whon I suddenly remembered the! cheque.It was lucky, T thought, becauso! Mr Baldwin was in the clerks\u2019 office, and with him a gentleman, who I romembored afterwitrds was one of the partners in the firm of Sylvester, Cayley & Co., our bankers.i 1 ran to the bank as fast as 1 could, threw tho envelope across the counter, and snid, | \u2018Gold, please,\u2019 as 1 pulled out my handkerchief and wiped my forehead, for the day | was hot.The clork opened the cheque, looked at | me with surprise for a momont, and thon | left tho connter, whilo he went firat to the door, and said sometbing to the porter, and | then walked into the inner room.He came back to me after two or three minutes, and to upwards of five hundred pounde\u2014bad been thus fraudulently obtained.To stop the forger, Mr Buldwin had been asked by the bank do udd a private mark to his name.{Un this morning he bad placed in m hands, Le said, an cavelope containing à cheque for twelve pounds, with bis sigusture having the privato mark, and he had asked me to cash that cheque at the bank.He swore positively that be had drawn that cheque, and no other, the day before==the counterfoil proved that\u2014yet the cheque J presented was for eighty pounds, and it had not the private mark.Olwerve, now, how the evidence grew more and more circumstantial.I had one cheque given me; 1 presented another.Doubtless I must have torn up the first on the way, Then an important circumstance, I came back from executing my commission, but did not cash the cheque.I got as iar as the door of the office ; I was sven to look in and retreat hurriedly.Mr Baldwin was in the clerks\u2019 room, with one of the partners of the bank.I walked fast, or rather ran, to the bank.I presented the cheque for eighty pounds in a quick, angious way, and | asked for the whole amount in gold.Naturally it was assumed that 1 was going to abscond with the proceeds of my lust forgery.In fact, no question at ail was raised as to my guilt ; that was concluded from the very beginning.The Lord Mayor refused bail, and I was sent at once to the prison, which I only left in order to be tried and convicted.That was the story.1 told it again and again, while the wood fire crackled on the hearth, Miss Elwood asked me for every detail; she talked the matter over and looked at it in all its lights, but she always came back to onc point.\u2018Mr Baldwin gave you a cheque which he had drawn the day before.How could he swear that the envelope had not been changed by some one else ?And there wus another point.It was assumed, though the charge was not pressed, that I had been the forger in the preceding frauds, Now no clerk could swear that I had presented any other of the forged cheques, Also it was proved in the defence that wy life was quite quiet, innocent, and simple.Every hour of my day was laid open for the jury.No motive was discovered for the circumstance, no secret source of extravagance was ascertained ; and it was found that the frauds had been committed by means of à chique-book-\u2014got Heaven knows where\u2014not that in the possession of Mr Baldwin, No attempt was made to find out how I could have obtained another cheque-book.But these were triftes light as alr in comparison with the weight of the circumstances against me, Always Miss Elwood came back to the same point.\u2018Who could have changed the envelope with Mr Baldwin's cheque I do not «ay that the discussion of my story occupied the whole of our time on the island of St.Peter.We had work to do all day, and were often glad to turn in soon after dark.In the summer we walked and talked outside, and we were always looking fer the ship that was to give our release.At first we looked with certainty, Every morning I climbed up the rock, and looked round on the broad bosom of the sea, Every morning I wade the same gesture of disappointment.In a few months we got to look upon deliverance as a thing possible, indeed, but far off, After two years we no longer dared to hope, In the third year we sometimes looked at one another with eyes which said, what the tongue dared not utter, \u2018We ure prisoners here for life)! Our stores by this time had well nigh vanished, save nn few bottles of wine kept for medicine, the only mudicine we had.Old Ben was fain to smoke n tobacco compounded of herhs which he gathered and dried.We had learned Ly this time the resources ot our island, and knew exactly what variety it afforded, and what was best for us to eat.There was plenty, such as it was, The birds did not desert us, nor the fish ; there were eggs, there was a kind of wild let tuce, there was an abundance ot fresh water, and there was still a tin of biscuits for Miss Elwood in case she miglit take a dislike, as happened once, to the simple food of our island lite.We fell into the way by degrees of arranging our days, as if there was never to be any change, For myself I almost think now that, but for one thing, I did not want any 50 far as I was concerned.The one thing was that I had come toan understanding with Miss Elwood.It grew up by degrees, It wan Jong before T ventured to tell her what I felt, The words were forced from me one night when, old Ben being asleep on his stool, with his head against the fire, my sweet mistress was mon: than usually kind\u2014if it were possible for her to be kinder at one time than at another\u2014and I was more than usually forgetful of my condition.I remember \u2014as if I should ever forget that moment !\u2014that I took her hand as it lay upon her lap, and held it in mine while I looked in her soft, sweet hazel eyes.T saw by the look in those eyes that she knew what 1 wus burning to say, and J waited for the least token, any hint, that I was not to say it.It was a night in our winter, the English July; outside the hut the wind whistled and the rain fell.I told her in three words what T had to say, and 1 wag silent again.She said nothing, and T kissed her hand.Speak to me, darling, spesk I\u201d T whispered ; \u201cif it is only to forbid me ¢ver again to tell you what I feel) George, sho replied, bending low towards me, so that | caught the glow of the fire upon her blushing cheek, \u2018wo have been to- other more thun two years; we have learned to read each other\u2019s souls, My beloved, if you have learned to love mo, who am 1 that I should not learn to love you in return?\u2018Tell me what is right to do.No, not now\u2014not to-night; think it over and tell me to-morrow.\u2019 I passed that night in sleepless thought.I1ad 1 done wrong in speaking my mind?And yet if wo wore to spend our lives in this forlorn and castaway condition! Could Helen marry me, if we were back in Melbourne or in london?With what face could I ask it; how go to her father; how duro even to lift my eyes towards her?But horo it was different ; and in the morning 1 camo to somo sort of conclusion.[I told her what I thought was right for us both to do.I would not uccept the great sacrifico of an engagement from her.I had been wrong, perhaps, in telling her my love, but it was too late to vetract that.If relief came to us speedily she should be free; if nono came within a year we would marry on the isiand; but should wo before that timo be taken from tho place we should only marry should it please (God to make my innocence plain betore all the world.She accepted my conditions.Sho said * that she would marry me whon and where | if [ prove myself unworthy of this charge.\u2019 That will do,\u2019 said Ben ; \u2018and now we understand each other, I think I\u2019ll turn in.Keep her head so.Steady.\u2019 e of which formed the little stream which oured its water into tho bay where wo anded.There wore multitudes of sea- birds running and flying about the place, whose aid, \u2018You must go inside, pleaso : pleused, but for the sake of her father, If quietly.It's all up at Inst.» presses KO we got anfo to England my character should Now I declare that T knew no more what! Pe cleared.if that might be, for my own he meant than a child, but L supposed there | ke.Sho knew mo, she snid, and that was t him sleep till tho day was high.\"eggs wo took for our food.\u2018There was a When tho first cold breeze of the morning ' sort of wood in one place, the trees of which touched our lady's faco, she opened her: were so blown down and beaten about by eyes, and presently sat up beside me, and tho wind that none of them were more than wo talked.10 teet high, while the branches were inter- That is to ray, she talked.Shoe told mo laced and mingled together in inextricable about herself, how her mother was dead in, confusion, The middle part of the islet England, and her father had taken her out .was, in fact, lower than the edgos, and cov-4 to {aetratia five or six years ago.Ho was cred with grass; and at the western point a barrister by profession, Lut he had no\u2019 there stood, all by itself, a rock, about 40 practice, and a very little money.So he or 50 feet high, round which hovered and went to Melbourne, bought a little piece of flew perpetually myriads of birds.land with a log-house on it, and tried to! I found a way to the top of the rock, and practice there ; but no clients came to him, planted there our signal of distress\u2014a long or very few, and it was an uphill battlo he white streamer flying from the mast of the had to fight, then came the gold fever, and, boat, which we managed to stick pretty like the rest of the world, he would bo off to, firmly into a cleft of the rock.the diggings to make his fortune, while his | This rigged up, wo settled down to our child was sent off homo out of the way.| new life.All thin history took a length of time to! The manner of it was as follows : tell, and before it was done old Ben woke' We began with morning prayers, raid by up with a start.He looked round the sea, our chaplain.Then breakfast.Then in as if to make quite sure that we had not fine weather, Ben and I went fishing in the gone to the bottom in his sleep; and then bay\u2014not far from the land, you may bo nodding cheerfully to his charge and to me, sure, because Helen begged us, with tears in began to scan the horizon to the north and her eyes, not to risk being carried ont to north-west.sea, and leaving her alone upon the island, \u2018Land I\u2019 be cried, pointing to whatseemed When we had luck, we would bring home a little bank of cloud, as big as a man\u2019s enough fish for dinner and breakfast too.band, rising out of the circle of which we On such days we were sparing with our were the centre.\u2018Land ahead of us.Land stores, Then for dinner, Bonidos the fish, | thirty miles off.Heart up, my pretty, and we had seabirds\u2019 egus, strong in taste, but a double ration for breakfast.Now, Mr not unmwholesome, boiled or fried; and! Warnetord, the breese is light, but we'll up sometimes, to vary the diet, we knocked | was some message for Mr Baldwin, and I went into the inner room, filled with clerks, where tho real business of tho bank was transacted.Everybody looked at me oddly, as | walked to the end at which the partners and managers were to be found.One of them seemed to be waiting for me ; he pointed to a chair.\u2018Sit down,\u2019 he said, \u2018and wait The tone of his voice was not encouraging, but 1 obeyed and waited.Not a thought crossed my brain that thore was or could be anything wrong.n ten minutes or so a policoman appeared, and I understood I was to go with him.I thought it must be as a witness, and it was not till I was at the Mansion Honse that 1 knew 1 wan arrested on a charge of forgery.7 I' langhed ; laughed.\u2018Send for Mr Baldwin, I said.They put me in the dock for the prolimi- nary examination.Mr Baldwin gave ovi- donco.He was shaken and agitated ; he would not look me in tho face.He broke down once or twice with emotion, but his evidence was clear.It had been discovered a day or two before that a system of embez- zlemeont, by way of forgery, had been in practico for some months.The signature of the firm bad been forged by some one who knew how to imitate the handwriting of Mr Baldwin.A sum\u2014in all amounting it was so absurd that | enough.i We were happier, T think, after that.1 bogan almost to hope even that no ship | might come before the end of the year; but ono day\u2014it wanted but a month of the time \u20141 saw, with a heart full of conflicting emotions, a whaler steering straight for our island.Bon Croil rushed up to the signal- rock, and began waving his stroamers with frantic shouts.llelen and I looked at oach other, and the tears camo into my oyes.\u2018Helen,\u2019 U said, \u2018I am going back again to the world as a returned convict.I have lost You tor ever.\u2019 \u2018No, no!\" she cried, throwing herself into my arms.\u2018Nevor, George.We will work together to solve this mystery; and if it is never solved, my love and my husband, the Lord will find out a way.Only wait and trust ; and if the worst comes to the worst \u2014if wo are never to marry\u2014we shall be brother and sister always.But in all this wide world do not forget that there is only ono man whom I can over love.\u2019 And here 1 lay down the pen, and leave another to tell the story of how the sword of honour was restored to me.CHAPTER IV.So far in the heart of the city of London as to mako one doubt whother it bas not got clean beyond the heart, and gone over to the other side, stands a street of private houses at sight of which the rare and cas stranger wonders what manner of people they be who dwell therein.The citizens who dwell in Yendo street are a peaceful folk, however, mostly poor, and nearly all contented.Half way up the street, on the left hand side, is a house which, exactly like the rest in all othor respects, differs from them in a look of extreme cleanliness, which, with a freshness of green paint, makes it stand out from tho neighbors as a house which claims the attention due to respectability of à high order.On the door is 8 large brags plate, on which is inscribed, \u2018M, Lemire, Professor of Dancing, Calisthenics, and Deportment;' and on a large card in the front window appears the same state ment, followed by the daring assertion that \u2018References ave permitted to the highest Nobility, Gentry, and Proprictors of Schools in the Kingdom.\u201d Side by side with this placard was another of smaller dimensions, with the simple word \u2018Lodgings\u2019 upon it; tor Professor Lemire added to his artistic pursuit the business of letting lodgings.It is proper to explain that hitherto\u2014that is since the hoisting of the placard, which was in a manner a flag of distress\u2014no lodger had yet knociced at the door except one, and he had been, financially speaking, a failure, So the professor, albeit retaining the placard, thought little of his lodgings, and looked to his art for daily bread, muking a precarious livelihood; there wore a few private schools, where the professor's services were required at a very moderate remuneration, und a sprinkling of pupils could bo got to- guther to form a winter class, to which he yearly looked forward with hopes always doomed to disappointment.The dapper little dancing-master made out of all a very slender income indeed, and the fumily table was frugal all the year round.The professor was, in this year 1855, of which we writo, between forty and fifty years of age.lis father and his grandfather had been dancing-masters before him, in the samo neighbourhood, when there were yot wealthy merchants living there, and dancing was a serious accomplishment.Ilis son Rupert, he said, should try other fields; but for him \u2014his lines wero fixed.Professor Lemire vas of Jluguenot descent, and among the family treasures was the old sword which had been drawn at the great siege of La Rochelle; but all the warrior blood must have been exhausted at the period whon the professor saw the light, for a more softhearted, tendor, and symputhetic creature did not exist.Ile was a small, thin, and wiry man; he had a clean-shaven face, bright black eyes, and black hair; he drossed in black too, with clothes fitting tight to his elastic limbs; and he had one pet vanity \u2014he was proud of his irreproachable linen.Madame Lemire was an Englishwoman, who had conquered the youthful professor's heart by an extraordinary dovotion to his own art, in which, however, her success was but moderate.She was taller, and a great deal heavier than her husband, whose genius she worshipped ; sho was also as tender-hearted.And she was prolific; no fewer than twelve children graced the board on which the tamily meals were spread, and often spread in a unsatisfactory manner.The children were all named in accordance with ancient Huguenot custom\u2014either after old leaders of the cause, or after the Bible.The boys were Rupert, Gaspard, Moise, Elie, and so on; the girls were Antoinette, Charlotte, Rebekah, and Marie.They wero carefully instructed in the religion and language ot their ancestors, £0 that they were bilingual, and talked French as well as English.They were also trained to consider that the queen and empress of all arts was the art of dancing; that to dance well was a gift given to few, but to be aimed at by all; and that their mystery.The eldest of them, Rupert, promised to surpass his sire.Much ay he loved the art, he loved the ocean more\u2014 that is, he burned to love it more, because he had never scen it; and it went to his parents\u2019 hearts to sec the boy of so much promise rejoice in putting off the tight pro- tossional pants, and rush to thedocks among the ships and sailors, clad in a suit of blue flannels, trying to look like tho oldest of salts, Tho second in order to Rupert was Antoinette.If it may be spoken of Mademoiselle Lemire with all respect, she was for clas ticity and mastery over her joints almost the equal of Rupert.She was seventeen, and her function was to go to the lady's school with her father, and help in teaching the girls, She was a great favourite, because, when sho could get a clear stage, and no eyes but the girls\u2019 to watch her, she would oxecute all sorts of impossible things in dancing by herself.A clever girl, she had recoived from nature a mobile and sympathetic faco\u2014na faco which oxactly reproduced that of the first Lemire, hanging on the wall, tho banished Huguenot; this old fellow, with the face which tried to be grim and was brimming over with fun.As for the other children, they were like each other, in being one and all passionately fond of dancing.When ordinary children would have played games, the little Lemires played at dancing.When there was no school the professor taught his children; all day long the sound of the kit was heard from the clnss-room, and the beating of the childish feet upon the floor, as one aftor the other practised, and was instructed.There was one other inhabitant of the house, a young lady, a girl of Rupert's age, that is one year older than Nottie Lemire, and threo yoars older than poor little Char- lotte\u2014tho cripple of the fumily\u2014a bright.faced, brown-eyed, brown-haired maiden, of tall and lissom figure, bright of cye, ready with spoech and smile, happy in little things, tho real sister of \u2018tho children, the real daughter of tho professor, the hand of madame, Iler name was Ruth Warneford.Eight ycars beforo this date, when she waa § child of ten years old, she was brought to he houso by a servant, who said ho came from tho houso of Batterick and Baldwin, that this was tho child about whom tho correspondence had taken place, and that the box contained all her things.So she was left.At that timo a dreadful thing had happened to the child, but sho was too young yet quito to realizo how dreadful a thing it was, Sho bad lost her only brother.When she grow older and began to understand things sho comprehended that he had disgraced himself and was sent to prison; but no one told her tho story.It was Mr Baldwin, the man whose name George Warnetord had forged, who took her, friendless and deserted, from tho lodgings in Ken- nington, and sont her to Professor Lemire to be brought up with his children.He left bor there because he found she was well treated and happy; and when she grew older he gave her a caution, which appeared to tho little girl harsh and stern-\u2014never to 8 word of her brother, never to father was tho grontest living master of the, think of him, and never to hope to again.Thc child obeyed, and among him other children only spoke of her brother, ay if she spoke of him at all, as one who had \u2018gone away.She was grown up now, and sho knew, alas! whither he had gone, He had not passed away from her heart, but he was become & name, the mention of which touched some forgoiten chord, and brought a feeling of ineffuble sadness upon her sou] But that was seldom, \u2018 Rath was at work now.She was a governess, earning her own little income, ang paying the good peoplg who were her second parents her own share of the household exponses.Mr Baldwin wished her to be independent.\u2018You will be happier so,\u2019 he #aid ; \u2018work is good for the soul.I hear nothing but good of you, young lady; work hard, and eat the bread of industry,\u201d If you fall into ill-health, if you meet with any bad fortune, if you fail through any misfortaue come at once to me.1 wish to help you, for the sake of your futher, and of one'\u2014herg the old man's voice faltered for a moment\u2014 \u2018one who was dear to me years ago, and who promised great things; but the promise wag not kept.God bless you, Ruth Warnetord Tho girl understood that it was her brother\u2014he who was gono\u2014whom Mr Baldwin had once loved, and she went away ~hamefaced.So that the shadow of this crime rested on many hearts.The wreck ono poor human ship upon the ocean of life sometimes drags down with it so many others; the sudden storm in which George Wurneford went down disabled half-a-dozen gallant craft, So Ruth Warneford became a visiting governess.The neighbourhood of America.square would not at first sight appear to offer the most desirable opening for such a profession.But then, if your ambition is bounded by the sum of cighteen pence an hour at the outside; if you do not mind trudging a mile or two from house to house; if you are ready to begin work at eight, and to leave off at six; if you do not look for pupils more gonteel than the children of respectable tradesmen ; and if you have youth and hope ;\u2014you may find America-square by no means a bad place as a base of operations.Ruth not only toiled all day when clients came, but, when business was slack, filled up her time by teaching the younger membors of the Lemire family; and tho earnings of the girl were useful, and helped out the income of the family.Indeed, had it not been for Ruth, the dinner of soup and vegetables must have been exchanged for the dinner of dry bread; for times were growing very hard with the professor.A dreary life for the girl! hard work from morning till night; and yet she endured it, and was happy.She had no holidays, and nover went anywhere; still she was happy \u2014happy until one day which shattered her little Castle of Delight.It happened through her taking the post which she thought great promotion\u2014of organist to St.Ethelred\u2019s Church.As organist of St.lithelred\u2019s Ruth had the privilege of practising in tho church on such afternoons as were available.She used to secure tho services of ono of the younger Lomires, generally Charlotte, as blower; and it way at such times her rarest pleasure lo sit before the grand old organ for long hours, playing till the evening shadows turned the obscuritios of the old church into deep blackness, and softened the stiff outlines of the knoeling marble figures.The church, old as it was, standing two feet below the street lovel, and four feet be- - low the level of ita little churchyard, piled high with the dust of five-and-twenty articulately spoaking gonorations, was Ruth Warnoford\u2019s private sanctum, when sho could spare an hour.She and little Charlotte, tho lame girl, would sit in the quiet old place by themselves, alone and silent.Stay, there was ono visitor, Ruth Warne- ford kopt her Saturday afternoons for organ practice, when John Wybrow, of St.Ethelred\u2019s choir, never missed looking in at the church at four o'clock on that day, when Ruth was playing over the hymns for the next day's service, and poor little Charlotte sat bebind, plying the pump-handle, and listening while the roll of the mighty music echoed nlong the walls, and high in the rafters of the roof.John Wybrow came overy Saturday for nearly a year.lt was natural that he, being a member of the choir, and their most usoful tenor\u2014in fact their only tenor\u2014 should like to try his part over beforehand ; and who so able to help him as the organist?The visit might therefore be regarded as official, and performed in the discharge of duty.So far it was praiseworthy.Ruth, who was not yet eighteen when she becamo organist, at a salary of twenty pounds a year, at first regarded the appearance of the tenor, who was then about twenty-two, entirely in this light, being in no way put to confusion by tho fact that he was young, good-looking, and of the opposite sex.Ruth had nothing to do with the foolish thoughts which such a fortuitous concurrence of qualities too often engenders.Her life was full of real business.Then, when the exercises were finished, when Ruth had played over two of her pieces, while John Wybrow sat beside her and listened, what could be moro in accordance with the dictates of natural politeness than that he should walk home with her, and help little Charlotte, who had to walk with a crutch, across the streets?It was not far to the professor's, and John Wybrow having succeeded somehow in gotting inside the house, grew to abuse this privilege by staying to ton overy Saturday evening.Tho whole family of the Lomires liked him.On those evenings this simple family got through their bread and buttor and tea with mirth and merriment.And after the ten, of course, they would have a dance, after which John Wybrow would remember that he had taken the liberty of ordering a few oysters for supper, and so on; the party finishing, as it began, in eimple mirth and happiness, for Ruth was yet in that dreamy state of uncalculat- ing happiness\u2014a happy Fool's Paradise of innocence\u2014to walren out of which is to realize one's humanity, with all its complicated forces of past, present, and future, its dangers and its passions.John Wybrew, during all these times, never told the girl that bo loved hor.Yot his hand-pressure grew always warmer, his voice grow always softer, his eyes rested always longor upon Ruth's fair head, and he became every week more and more the brightness and joy of her life.If this does not conatitute love on both sides, what does?Yot the girl never thought of anything being said to alter the sweetness of this innocant pastoral; and the young man, for some reason, refrained from speaking the word which should break the spell.[70 BR CONTINURD.] "]