The canadian gleaner, 20 février 1879, jeudi 20 février 1879

[" Nobias, ke, at DaLaLissu's, Men and Boys\u2019 For and Cloth Caps, Gloves, Mitts, z., at DarCLrsens.Buffalo Robes, No.1 Whole Skins, Linings, Trimmings, &o., cheap, at DALGLIEsH's.A good assortment of Tweeds, Beaver and Broad Ciotha, Presidenta, &o., at DaroLIssn's.Tapestry, Wool, Hemp and Stair Carpets, at GLIBSH'S, Boots and Shoes, Rubbers and Overshoes, at DaLGLIESR'S.Trunks, Valiees, Carpet Bags, &o., at DALGLIEsE\u2019s.A general assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, &c., at DALGLIKSH's.s@\u201d Over-due accounts must be settled with CasH or Norzs.W.W.DALGLIESH.Huntingdon, Nov.17.RELIANCE I?HOUSE AHEAD ALL THE TIMB, SE LA Caps, Mink and Sable Mufls, Choicest Teas and (General Groceries.HE very best fresh Goods direct from T the Importers, at far less than the usual cost.Quality guaranteed.GEORGE Q.O'NEILL.Huntingdon, Nov.26.DENTISTRY.H.W.MERRICK, DENTIST, FORT COVINGTON, N.Y., T home the first 20 days of each month, until further notice, Artificial teeth inserted, on the new celluloid base, which is far superior to rubbor in every respect, at greatly reduced rates.All operations warranted, Fort Covington, Feb.12th, 1879, VILLAGE PROPERTY FOR SALE.HIS property is situated in the village T of Athelstan, opposite Boyd & Co's factory, on the Chateaugay road.lt contains about half an acro of land on which is a small grove of trees, a good house with 7 rooms, together with a kitchen, shed, good well and oxcellent cellar, all of which are in good condition, having been refitted about ono yoar ago.For particulars apply to Joshua Breadner, Esq., or to the undersigned at his place of business.A.Loupon.Valleyfield, Feb.10.NOTICE.Ta undersignod takes this opportunity of thanking his numerous customers for past favors, and of solicitingtheir patron- ago, as he is still running his Marble Shop with a full supply of Marble and Granite, which will be sold to suit the times.Good horses taken in exchange.COFFINS AND CASKETS.In addition to the above, 1 have oponed a Wareroom in the Dominion Block, opposite the Post-office, where will be found a varied assortment of Coffins, trimmed and ready for use.Orders by letter or telegraph promptly filled on short notice by the underaigned, or by D.Shanks, on tho premises.G.W.DREW.Huntingdon, Nov.27.FURNITURE! FURNITURE ! TT subscriber has on hand alarge Stock of Furniture, consisting of Bureaus, Bed- stends, Washstands, Cano and Wood Seat Chairs, Tables, and all other articles found in a first-class assortment.Parties requir ing Furniture will find it to their advantage to call and examine our Stock as it will be sold Cheap.A.HENDERSON.UNDERTAKERS SUPPLIES.HE undersigned has now on hand a full assortment of Caskets and Coffins of the latest styles, with patent moveable glass frame attached, from largest to the smallest size.Also, all kinds of Trimmings.Burial Robes & Linings a speciality.sarAll orders promptly attended to.Joun Heu.Burke Lines, N.Y.MECHANIOS' BANK, Beauharnois, Huntingdon and Valleyfield.President : C.J.Brydges.Vice-President: Walter Shanly.Head-office, Montreal.FFICE AT HUNTINGDON next the Methodist church.Best rato of interest allowed on deposits.Drafts issued on alt parts of the Dominion and United States.| Notes discounted daily.American Bills and Silver purchased on tho most reasonable terms, thus affording lacilities nover before enjoyed in this coonty Office-hours, 10 a.m.to 3 p.m.; Saturdays 10 a.m.to 1 p.m.J.H.MENZIES, Cashier, Montreal.N.ROY, HENRY HARMAN, C.T.IRIEH, Manager, Agent, Agent, Beauharnois, Huntingdon, Valleyfield MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS, Insuring only Farm and Isolatedproperty |PRESIDENT\u2014Archibald Henderson, Esq.Directorse=Joshua Breadner, George Cross, John Ferns, Daniel M\u2019farlane, Donald McNaughton, Andrew Oliver, John Symons, and John White.Secretary and Tteasurcr\u2014Androw Somerville, Hun:ingdon.Agente-\u2014William Edwards, Franklin ; Bobert Niddlemies, Hinchinbrooke ; Thomas Clarke, Ste Philomène ; Robert Smaill, Elgin; P.Clancy, N.P andJ 4.V., Amirault N.P., Hemmingford; Wm.Gebbi,, Howick; John Davidson, Dr McMillan, \u2018Dundee ; I.I, Crevier, N.P., St Anicet; Arthur Herdman, Herdman\u2019s Corners ; Dr Meclaren, David Bryson, Ormatown; and J.©.Bruce and E.8.Ells worth, Huntingdon.MF Partios wishing to insure their property are requested to apply to the agents or Secretary.THE price for Auction, Soiree, and other Bills, at the Gleaner Office, is $1.75 for 25, and $2 for 50.Parties at a distance by thet oung the price with order, will have their Bills sent py retarn of mail, postage HUNTINGDON, Q., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1879.eer e+ WINTER FERRY, 1878-79, BETWEEN VALLEYPIRLD AND ST.DOMINIQUE d Lake St Francis Tow-Boat (om.| pany'e steamer, C.ANDERSON, runs daily, making close connection with Grand Trank Railway trains.Through passenger tiokots issuod to and from Montreal, and freight of all kinds carried at reasonable rates.Time of departure.\u2014~Leaves Valleyfield at 6 A.M.and 2:30 P.M.Leaves St Dominique at 11 A.M, and 7 P.M.J.HALLY, Secretary.Valleyfield, Dec.20.RCHIBALD & M'CORMICK, Advocates No.112 St.Francois Xavior Street, Montreal.J.8.Archibald, M.A.,B.C.L.D.M'Cormick, B.C.L Mr M'Cormick will attend the Courts in Beauharnois, Huntingdon, and Ste.Martine.Accounts for colleotion may be addressed to the firm, Montreal, or M.S.M\u2019Coy, Hun- tingdon.NEW MARBLE SHOP.OTWITHSTANDING reports to the contrary, by parties who are intorested, 1 beg leave to inform tbe public that I have opened a MARBLE SHOP on the province line, south of Franklin, Que., known as Clinton Lines, where I will be able to supply anything in the way of cemetery work, such as Monuments, Headstones, Posts, (in marble, granite, or other stone), Fencing, &e., &c., at regsonable rates, and\u201d will guar- be had anywhere.All obligations will be filled as quickly as possible.Address Franklin Centre, P.Q., or Frontier, Clinton Co., N.Y.RoBERT G.HALL.TO LET.Te STORE and other property at Dundee, formerly occupied by Mr David Baker, and latterly by Messrs Vipond Bros.The premises will be rented low to a good tenant.Apply to G£o.CriLps & Co., Montreal.IN WOOD IN CANE Windsor Grecians Double back Turned front post Florence Astor Bow Back Kitchen Spindle Back Bell DINERS Franklin Round Scat DINERS Shaped Seat Turned Arm Bent Back Bent Arm York Brace Arm ROCKERS ROCKERS Nurse, full and half cane Nurse [back Large, with arms Franklin, sewing with Miss Boston [arms Large, with arms OFFICE St James Cottage Round Back CHILDREN Double bent arm iron Round Back, Table [rods Round Back, Rocker Double bent arm re- Round Back, Low [volving Fancy Men and Ladies\u2019 Camp Chairs.FURNITURE.CHAMBER SUITES Jenny Lind, double ash « \u201c single ash BEDSTEADS French round, ash Dominion, ash Cottage, ash Alcxaundrin, ash Serpentine Top, with Cottage, ash, with walnut [walnut trimming [trimming Victoria, do CRIBS Prince Arthur Common, ash - Fancy French, ash BUREAUS TABLES Plain Centre Fancy Extension Diners Walnut trimmings Common ai Particular attention paid to House Furnishings, Blinds, Doors, Double Windows, Sashes, Turning, and all kinds of Wood Work.NF ALL CHEAP FOR CASI.BOYD & CO.Huntingdon, Nov.13.NOTICE.Al application will be made to tho Legislature of the Dominion of Canada, at the next sitting thereof, for an act to amend the Act of last session of said Parliament 41 Victoria, Chapter 20, relating to the Montreal and Champlain Junction Railway Company, by authorizing said Company, on agreeing therefor with tho Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, to tako up the existing track botween the point of junction of the Montreal and Champlain Junction Railway Company, with the line formerly known as the Montreal and Champlain Railroad, now owned by the Grand Trunk Railway Company aforesaid, and Caughnawaga, and to authorize the said company owning said piece of line to abandon that portion thereof, and to relieve them from the maintenance of a Ferry at Caughnawaga, aforesaid, and for other purposes.Dated 201th December, 1878.Jonn BLL, Solicitor G.T.R.Co.AE plication sera faite à la légis- latare de Puissance du Canada, à la prochaine Session pour un acte amendant \u2018acte passé à la dernière session du dit parlement, 41 Victoria, chap 20, concernant la Compagnie de chemin de fer de jonction de Montréal et Chambly, de mainière à autoriser la dite compagnie à s'entendre avec la compagnie du chemin de fer du Grand-Tronc du anada, pour enlever Ia voie ferrée existante entre le point de jonction du chemin de for de la jonction de Montréal et de Champlain avec la ligne auparavant connue sous le nom de chemin de fer de Montréai et Champlain et maintenant la propriété de la compaignie du Grand Tronc susdite, et Caughnawaga, pour autoriser la dite compagnie proprietaire e ia dite partie de chemin de l\u2019abandonner, pou les reiever de l'obligation de maintenir une traverse à Caugbnawaga et pour autres fins.Jouw BELL, Soliciteur Cie G.T, paid.No abatement made from these prices.Montréal, 21 déc.1878, antee my work and material as gond as can] THE WITNESS AGRICULTURAL LECTURES, As is well-known, the proprietors of the Montreal Witness, desirous of making some return for the generosity of those who contributed to its testimonial, engaged the Rev W.F.Clarke, of Guelph, Ont., to deliver a series of lectures upon agriculture, which he has been doing since last Fall.In the course of the duty thus imposed upon him, Mr Clarke visited our District last week, delivering his first lecture at Durham on the 10th, at Howick on the 11th, in this village on the 13th, and at Athelstan (when Dr Cameron, M.P.P, presided) on the 14th.Unfortunately the attendance in each case was greatly marred by the weather and roads, and had these been favorable the audiences would have been overflowing.It was gratifying to see, as it was, how many farmers came through bitter storm and cumbered roads, proving that the enterprise of the Witness and Mr Clarke's merit as the foremost writer on Agricultural subjects in Canada, were appreciated.At the lecture in this village, the Rev J.B.Muir presided, and introduced Mr Clarke as an old friend, of whose ability he could vouch.Mr Clarke, after some introductory remarks, proceeded to dilate upon the evil that was threatening the farming interest of Canada\u2014the exhaustion of its soil Farms, originally rich, now yielded a miserly return, it being estimated that the average for the Dominion was not now over 12 bushels of wheat to the acre.The causes of this impoverishment of the soil were clearly traced and shown to be the neglect of the farmer to return to it any compensation for what he took from it.On first clearing the land, farmers believed it to be inexhaustibly fertile, and cropped it year after year without the slightest return.Manure was looked upon us a nuisance, and was carted on to the ice of the rivers to be carried away by the spring freshets or barns moved when the piles became formidably large.Nature gave the Canadian farmer a soil rich in plant food to start with, but he, prodigal like, spent it all without a thought as to restoring it.He compared a farm to storekeep- ing.Let a merchant keep selling until his shelves are bare, his drawers and barrels empty, and his stock-in-trade exhausted, and what is the result?\u201d He must either replenish, or put up the shutters.What sort of enterprise would it be to sell out a shopful of goods, and make no provision for renewal ?The business would come to a dead stop.A merchant keeps up his stock of goods, and lives by the profit on sales over and above cost.Even so the farmer must keep up a stock of fertility in the soil, and live by the profit upon replenishment.Nature starts the farmer with virgin soil, rich in the elements of plant-growth, and it is for him to maintain the supply.How is this to be done ?First, by manure.Agricultural writers are incessantly berating farmers for not manuring enough.They are advised to put well-rotted manure on their meadows ; to top-dress their pastures, and to give a coating of dung as a preparation for almost every crop that is raised.But, \u201cwhere, oh where\u201d is all this manure to come from ?It cannot be made on an ordinary farm, and even though it would pay to do so, very few farmers have capital enough to buy the requisite quantity.Mr Clarke went on to show that farmers did not make the best use of what manure they bad, dwelling emphatically upon the shameful condition of the majority of barn yards, where the manure was piled here and there to bleach in the sun and have its strength carried away by the air and the soakage of rain, some farmers actually cutting a ditch to carry away the ric black stream that flowed from it.Manure kept under cover was worth at least double that which was exposed, and if we are oing to do the best we can with the slender resources we have at command, we must house our manure.To do this, it is not necessary to go to a lavish expense in the way of stone cellars and costly buildings.A hollow receptacle scooped in the ground and a rough shed over it will answer every practical purpose.If the bottom of the place hollowed out be well covered with coarse hitter of some kind, or any material that will absorb the liquid drainage, it will be \u2018all there\u2019 when wanted to put on the land, Beside the gain in the strength of the manure, it is no small argument in favor of such a plan of manure-saving that it enables a farmer to keep his barnyard neat and tidy, and romotes the comfort of himself, his amily, his work-people and his stock.A mucky, miry barnyard is a constant source of annoyançe 5 itose who have to go back and fdeth in it, while it is both un- leasant arfl unwholesome for animals to up to ths hocks and even deeper in liquid filthé Still further, careful collection of all P>rtilizing material with which to augment the manure supply, is a matter of no small importance.On almost every farm there are low, moist places from which swamp muck may be got.This, thrown up in heaps at odd times during the summer, will become dry and comparatively light.In this state, it is well adapted to absorb liquid manure.There is no better substance than this for the bottom of a dung heap, or even for spreading on stable floors and shed bottoms.If there is a large quantity of muck on the farm it will pay to compost it with manure.Three loads of it mixed with one load of stable dung will make a fertilizer equal to well-rotted barn-yard manure.Still with all care and assiduity in ool- lecting manure, the Canadian farmer could not get enough to keep his Land in good heart, and the problem was, What can he get to supplement his manure and keep the soil up to its original fertility.The answer he was convinced was Clover, which had this distinguishing feature from all other plants that it gave more to the soil than it took away from it.How this should be was not yet fully understood, but they were not without indications of an answer.First, no plant sent such lon tap roots into the sub-soil.The roots o clover had been traced 13 feet straight down, with light fibrous rootlets branching out.Owing to the great depth to which its roots penetrated, clever, unlike other plants, drew its sustenance from the sub-soil, and brought up to the surface the richness that lay beneath.Second, no other plant absorbed more from the air through its leaves, so that they thus could sec the clover subsisted upon two inex- baustible sources\u2014the sub-soil and the atmosphere, and thereby enriched the surface, for every farmer knew the rich, black coating of the ground formed by dead clover in the late Fall, creating the very food upon which other crops lived.Clover was at once a crop and a manure.To derive the full benefit from clovering, the following points must be carefully noted.1.That it must be sown without admixture of timothy or other seed, the object being to get the soil thickly stocked with clover, 2.That clover is a biennial (lives two years only) plant, and benefits the land most at the stage of complete maturity.3.That ripening its sced does not, as in the case of other plants, exhaust the oil ; on the contrary, by some strange and well-nigh miraculous provision in nature, tho deposit of nitrogenous matter goes on most quickly and largely in the very act of ripening the seed.Many farmers abstain from sowing clover alone, from the idea that it makes inferior hay.As usually treated, it certainly does; but rightly made it is the most nutritious of all forage plants.It is usually eut too late, and after being mown it is dried to powder.Cut when the first head is seen to turn brown, put at once into cock, and cured instead of dried, it is the most delicious and the richest herbage we ean preserve for the winter food of stock of all kinds, not excepting horses.In curing clover our farmers needed to adopt an implement that no British farmer did without, namely a hay-tedder.The common belief that clover hay gives horses the heaves, or aggravates that complaint where it already exists, is the result of the unwise treatment by which it is converted into brittle stalks and dusty heads by not cutting it until the timothy, with which it is generally sown, was ready.Clover ripened long before timothy, and when left till the timothy was fit to cut, was almost valueless as feed.He could testify that his cattle and horses preferred clover hay, saved as he had described, to timothy, and the trouble was wanted to eat more than they needed.Another obstacle to the extensive growth of clover is the difficulty of getting a \u2018catch,\u2019 as it is called.How many farmers had poured into his ear the sad tale of money wasted in the purchase of clover seed that failed to grow! An old farmer with whom he was walking to one of his lectures, and conversing on the subject of clover, exclaimed that he would willingly give five dollars for a receipt that would secure the seed taking every time.He replied, Here it is for nothing in three words : \u201cSow it alone,\u201d If, as the result of this course of lectures, that brief prescription for securing a catch of clover, can only be published through all the country wide, and a trial of it secured, it will add immensely to our national wealth.He did not wish to be understood as condemning seeding down clover with a grain crop, what he meant was, that if there was any difficulty in getting a catch, it could Le secured by sowing the clover alone as early in the spring as pus- sible, When land was poor and exhausted clover would fail to catch when grown under the green umbrellas of barley or wheat.Sow the clover, the common red clover, thickly ; give it full jon of the soil ; sow it at the earliest pomsible moment ; let it have the whole sermon to grow in, and there is little danger of its proving a disappointment.If it be said that by adopting this plan a season is lost, heanswered, that clover will usually yield a light crop of hay or some fall pasturage the same season it is sown ; but even if the first season be lost, three returns can be had the next :\u2014I, & crop of hay ; 2, à crop of clover seed ; and 3, a good dressing of manure.Surely such a three-fold return ought to satisfy the most exacting tiller of the soil who ever sought to rich at farming! Here thon is a starting int for an improving course of culture.Between manure and clover, the cro will rotate on an upgrade of constantly increasing yield, and there will be steady improvement in the quality of the soil.On a farm of 100 acres, 10 should be seeded down to clover each year, and that with the area that could be manured, would give a five-years\u2019 rotation.Mr Clarke here went very fully into his own experience in renovating worn-out land AE with clover.He beaght .saving manure snd seeding to clover\u2014 was surely and rapidly bringing: the land back to its original fertility.clearing the land nothing was as the clover was cut early and thereby pre- of unproductive arops had certain, means of relief in the course he had described.Let the owner of an exhaustad farm, husband his manure, sew clover, purswe a rotation of crops, sell no Frain, roots, hay, or straw, and depend for his living the dairy and the sale of live stock ntil his Lan becomes restored, and he wobld find imself on the hi to prospéeity.At the conclusion of his Ve Clarke exhibited (amid much series of cartoons, drawn by Mr Bengough of Grip, contrasting the fields, fences, barns, and stock of Shiftleas with those of Mr Thrifty, the series ending with a rtrait of the former \u201cpractising at the ' with a tumbler in his hand, and the latter speaking from his placo in Parliament.In answor to several questions, Mr Clarke stated that it was not material whether the clover was plowed under in the Fall or Spring, but, on heavy land, the first was pi ble.Clover could be followed with wheat to advantage.Alsike would not do inatead of red clover, for ita roots were much shorter and its foliage was less.It would not do to kee the land in clover too long, for some soils would become clover sick ; others would not, and would raise large crops year after year.He recommended sowing clover in the Spring, mowing or pasturi ight! that season, and in the Fall of \u201cthe pA wed by a grain crop.He could not recommend phosphates to restore land, for they wero stimulating rather than enriching in their nature.If a farmer was afraid of the fly and wanted to hasten the ripening of his wheat, a dressing of phosphates would be useful.He could not recommend the naked summer fallow as a means of restoring land.Moved by Daniel M'farlane, ., and seconded by Wm Walker, Eq, ta vote of thanks is due Mr Clarke for his valuable and most suggestive lecture and to the proprietors of the Witness in securing his services.Carried amid great applause.Mr Clarke briefly responded, and Mr Hamilton acknowledged the compliment on behalf of the Witness in a neat speech, in which he recommended farmers to endeavor to elevate their calling aud to choose from among themselves represcnta- tives to Parliament.A vote of thanks to the Chairman and to Mr Somerville for the gratuitous use of the hall, concluded the proceedings.Mr Clarke is an unaffected speaker, making his ideas perfectly plain to all his hearers, and leaving the impression that he thoroughly understands what he is speaking about and has the interest of the farmer at heart.He left & most favorable impression at Huntingdon, and the feeling among tho farmers was that it would be to their benefit to listen to as solid and Sell informed a enéloman oftener.Me Clarke, altho\u2019 ori a cle es for many years devoted _his sols attention to Agriculture.PLANT-CULTURE.(Continned.) To the Rditor of the Gleaner.Tne rigid severity of our Canadfan winters debars us from the onjoyment otf the ples sures and labors of the outdoor garden, but a delighttul recreation may still be found in rearing in-door lant, from which no mean amount of gratification raay be derived.In cultivating plants in windows there Is à great diversity of results.Here and there, we find plantes rowing in sitsing- rooms, thriving, ourishing, and forming the greatest of ornaments, while in other windows and places, no less favorably site- ated, we see exactly ite results.Each cultivator has a place of his, or ber own, with perhaps tho same variety of plants, bat tho great difference, which resulta In success or failure, is, that one person's care and at tention is systematic and regular, while the other is fitful and hap-bagard.They may have an equal taste and desire for the boau- ties of nature as seen in the variety of subjocts, in their foliage or flower, but do not exercise that constaney of attention so absolutely necessary for the cultare of them.lt is a noteworthy fact, that where verdant plants and brilliant bloom oscapy the window space, we may be sure of many inestimable qualities that tend to make home so attractive and bappy.Beauty of cultare, iste, refinement, perseverance, tience, and simplicity, are some of the characteristics acqu.'red from the love of nature ; and flowers have a language that impresses us very forcibly, < leading us to ise and vonerate the Aill-wise and bese cent Author.But to soune ignoble souls, nature, with all its charms, fas to elicit the faintest appreciation ; and art, \u2018vith its delineations of these varied beauties, sWakens no feelings of admiration.The symphédies of a Mosart or Mendelsohn, the paintings Of 8 Vandyke or Reubens excite nothing bat indifference, and sometimes even contempt, and such people must always enlist oar surprise and pity.In tho culture of flowers the peculiarities of nature are Infinite, and it is to the variety of ways and numbettess little differences that we owe much of the pleasure derived from their man ont\u2014 à new interest is constant! ng up in the mind ; and the love A y THE 22005 Hd 1067 ture, = .farm near (Lindenbank), and by pursuing the policy he was advocating\u2014 tb ter) a |of car plowing the clover down to be fol-|P RENNES entwines around the soul, until it becomes a part of our nature.Uhe Canañimm Glenn p= In the selection of pleats for windew-eal- be exevcised in choosing are ghould moat favorable for the aftuation, = which will be of permanent beanty.Ucças, aloes, centaureas, and ofher ts remarkable for their besuty of foliage, are admirably adapted for the vitiated atmosphere of a sitting-room, and do not re- uire exposure to the sun,\u2014so long as they c ave a light situation.In fact, rich varie.Eated plants, although requiring a very light $1.50 A-YEAR.place are often injured by ure to sun.An old, bat now much neglected favorite, = is the cactus, Of this plant there are many varieties, some being more remarkable for their groterqueness \u2018than beauty : amon, them, however, there are some kinds exceedingly handsome, \u2018 bearing long pendant blooms of beautiful color, or pretty star-like blossoms of brilliant hoe.o old scarlet.flowored variety ia perhaps the mosi handsome of all for window-cultivation, it growing very rapidly, and boaring an Abunda nce vented the w ys, > ou Le ero of fomers The treatment 1s alo vary sim- reason 8 un-|ple, uiring a light, rich soil, nty of profitable, and the farmer who à ined sand, t orough drain o, and titulo or no wator during winter.ater should, however, be supplied in the time of growth, which is generally after flowering.The Fieus Elastica, or India ragber plant, is\u2014and doservedly\u2014a great favorite, the smooth glossy toxture of the leaves rendering it especially suitable fbr growing in rooms, as any dust or impurity is easily re- mov by, mashing with a sponge and clean water.Unlike the onctus.this plant is ot n thrifty natare, amd requires copious supplies water., , So The Amarylfis, a boautiful bulbous plant, being a native of the tropics, requires to be treated as such.In thoir native habitats they are iuured to a period of drynoss.The heat is most intonse whon the plants nre ripening their bulbs, and least whon making their growth.Thus, in cultivation thoy ro- quire abundant moisture when growing ; and when the folinge has attained full sige, only giving suflicient to keep the leaves from Bagging or wilting.Strong yellow loam and sand has been found to fo the best soil, with good drainage.Too mnch heat whon wing is injurious, as it creates drawn oliage, and likewise injures the bulb.When at rest, keop in a high tempernture, though this may seem at variance with good cultivation, it is only what they roceive in their natural habitat.They should not bo dis.turbod when at reat, for the ronts remain on the bulb throughout the yoar : taking them out of the pots, therefore, robs the bulba of that which nature has supplied to colloet food for the support of the flower-scape.This applies to all the amaryllia tribe of lants.The Cyclamon, anothor balbous plant, is a beautiful ornament for window-cnlture, It grows readily and flowers freely; (he foliage is noat, flowors handsome and peculiar, and of long duration, yot with nll these merits it has no fanite.Pot in August, draining well, in good lowm,\u2014place \u2018tho bulb on the top of the soil, so that it will bo lovel with the top of the pot : water slightly to nettle the soil, and oe shaded from the aun, When growth begins give moro water, plenty of light and air, and on approach of cold weather place in window, when bloom will soon appear.When the foliage begins to decay withhold water gradually.In summer place in a cool, dry and shady situation.The soil should nover be allowed to become dust dry or the bolb will shrivel\u2014a good plan is to bury the pots in the opon ground, and when uncovered in fail the bulb in plump and fresh, Smilax makes a beautiful window plant, and ie easily grown.It isa lovely twining lant, beautiful alike in foliage, flower, or Perr .Tho root, which is an aggregate of small tubes, should be potted in strong lonm in October, and well watered, tho shoots soon begin to entwine, whon strings must be given thom.(iive a light, warn mitus- tion.Tho flowers are greenish white and fragrant, tho fruit, a scarlet berry.The roots should bo allowed to rest after the folinge dies away.The Oxalis is a desirable acquisition for the window, as thoy flower frooly and are remarkably free from insects; and as thoy have a low drooping habit, they are effective in hanging pots or baskets.Pot tho balbs in October for wintor blooming, and in April for summer flowering; water sparingly until the foliage dovolops, and when tho flower stems appear keep well supplied.When the blossoms expand remove to a shady place, 80 that tho flowers may remain longer in perfection.Thus, at the present timo, though flower- lens without, there noed be no lack of benu.tifal foliage or bloom within.Hyacinth, tulips, narcisus, aro 8 hest in thomnelves, and a tastefal combination of these flowers, with ferns, small palms, and similar grace- fui foliage, will constantly rondor a sitting- room window a very bower of boauty and delight.Lowell, Mass.A singular illustration of returning good for evil is to bo found iB the fact that about the same timo when the English papers, misled by an inaccurate 1 '0gram, were ebarging the Maories with mardei and cannibalism, they were really performiny® 9° of kindness of a nature for which all civii.™ ed nations recognize that gratitude is due.In October last, the City of Auckland, with a large number of emigrants on board, was wrecked on the west const of North Island of New Zealand.The passengers and crow were all saved, and were landed on a part of the coast mainly frequented by Maories.Nothing couid exceed the kindness which the Maories showed to the emigrapts.Under similar circumstances, attompts to make gain out of the wreckage are not unknown among civilized races.The Maories how- Écwin NsWMAN.PA over have not attained vo this degree of civilization.The kindness they showed was of a purely unselfish, disinterestod character.They added another proof to the many proofs they have already given of their natural inclination to noble and generous deeds.Prof.Low, of Cornell University, who, by direction of Governor Robinson, is inspect ing the cow stables in Brooklyn and elsewhere, reports several cases of pleuro-pneu wmonia in distillery stables in different parts of the city, and on Long Island.The Russian Novoie Venga admits, in an article on the Afghan war, that the Russian ress bas deceived itself as regards the mili- P resources of Britain, and that England at her command weapons quite as of fective to injure Russia in Central Asia as Rassia bas to attack England on the side of Afghanistan.Ave Bons, entres SURO amy ret RE aE rps a pert + en ro a M Na Cerin or [Ep = (EE SO i.Ac \u2014__ aa A THE CANADIAN GLEANER publich- ow British officials and the machinations would break my hart were | Lo know one at noon.Bu on, ve Y ; 0 w me 8 drunkard.ie 8150 a your in advance, postage free.| ingle of the Dutch .TL.With anything life pour ri ht hands to heaven, and swear that ios, four cents each.One dollar pays Wisdom and jusios.on he part of thage wou will never touch a drop of intoxieating for eight months\u2019 subscription, twodollars for\u2019 whgact in the\u2019 Bdtish® name in South Boor\u201d As the little ones, with uplifted a year and four months.Advertisements are Afos, all trouble might.ha beep band, took their mother's pledge, she broke charged seven cents per line for the first eq might, have \u201d the battle.Sho (Mrs Youmans) wished insertion and three cents for each subsequent avoided.y she band a picture of that scene, of the inssrtion.Advertisements of Farms for Sale, ., .children grouped round the sorrow-stricken if not over 10 lines, are inserted three times A PLEASANT ipstance of international mether, that it might bave been hung for 81.No advertisement inserted for lesa goodwill ie repertod from the Pacific const.| on the alla 2 | Jrliament kept .+ rere unt:! our logisialors gran ectinn \"The Indians of Alasks are discontentod, from the liquor traffic to the crushed and and the whites resident in Sitka were in\u2019 wronged women of Canada.the believed 3 , ere Such protection was coming.G id not hourl y I hensions of on attack, Th > do what man can do for himself.lle could being no United States ship on the coast, pond his angels to olose evory Louse where on hearing of their painful situation, the liquor is sold and write above their dours, British admiral on the Vancouver station, \u201cOpen no more forever,\u201d but Ho would not; ordered a gunboat to pr 1 to Sitka and He permitted us to do that great work.When the World's Redoemer stood before protect the threatened inhabitants.tho tomb of Lazarus, he could have caused \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 _ tho stone to remove, but he allowed mor- MRS.YOUMANS' LECTURES.! tality to roll it away, and when he had done Taz visit of Mrs Youmans to this section the work man could not do in calling Luz- bas been s highly gratifying one, and bas: arus to life, be did not take away the band- given a great impetus to the Temperance ages that bound him, but again loft to mor- cause.Her first meeting was a gathering tality the work it could accomplish witli.of the Sunday schoal children of this village out divine aid in unloosing thom.God fixes in the Methodist church on Sunday afternoon.: the.right principle in our heart und The churoh was crowded ; the centre pews, it is our duly to carry it into effect, wero filled by over 200 cLildren.Mr Dalg.The poople of the villago of Huntingdon had lieah introduced Mrs Youmans who, in a, not the cars coming to their door, but she simple yot most offective manner, hold the waa glad to learn that thoy had taken away attention of the littlo ones for about an hour, the charter from the Black Valley railroad ; during which time, by anvcdote, description, | that nobody got license to make drunkards and Hlustration, she impressed upon thom of her boys, and that there wus no blood the evils of intemperance and tho truth that! money in hor corporation treasury.\u2018Tem- their only safo course to avoid them is \u201cNever perance people were called fanatics, and sho to Begin.\u201d Mrs Youmans expressed herself was proud of being one, for tho fanaticism pleased with the appearance of tho children, | of yostorday is the question of to-duy und 1 than fifty cents.ROBERT SELLAR, Proprietor.a 3 ix The Canadian Glesney, HUNTINGDON, THURSDAY, FEBY.20, 1879.IT would have been too much to expect that the Governor's speech would have indicated the changes to be made in the tariff, and what reference is made is not calculated te satisfy the Protectionists.The expenditure exceeds the revenue, says the Governor, and therefore the tariff will be raised to meet the deficiency.If this is really the policy of the Government, it is that of their predecessors\u2014a revenue tariff\u2014which is not what the of to-morrow.Mowover Chris- Protectionists want, for what they seek is à tariff that will exclude all importations, or at least so curtail them that they will have the home market practically to themselves.Few new measures are promised by the Ministry, so that the tariff and their policy with regard to the Pacific railroad will engross the attention of the House.THE opening of Parliament has been made the occasion of much extravagance.Levees and balls follow one another, and from the accounts transmitted by correspondents of the splendor of the entertainments it is hard to realize that we are passing through a business crisis of unparalleled severity.It is a thousand pities the Princess should give countenance to displays so out of proportion to the means of those who attend them.THE discussion in the Montreal Council about the Coteau bridge is a curiosity in its way.Because some trade may be diverted past its door, Montreal is going to strive against the St Lawrence being bridged anywhere else than at Point St Charles.Really, by what Royal Patent does Montreal claim the control of the trade of this section, and presume to say what communications shall be permitted ?Had the Victoria bridge been built by the city of Montreal, there would have been a semblance of reason in its citizens object ing to another bridge until they were reimbursed for their outlay, but on the contrary, the whole country paid for the bridge and Montreal got the benefit of the money spent in constructing it and in the trade it has developed.Mayor Beaudry is a Protectionist of the purest water, one of those who contend that farmers should be made bondslaves to the manufacturers, compelled by Parliament to take only such goods as they make and at whatever prices they please to ask, but when he argues that the country for a hundred miles around should be made subservient to the interests of Montreal, he is carrying the principle of selfishness to an extent that will defeat itself.LATE English papers throw some light upon the causes of the Zulu war.It would appear that the Zulu king has for a long series of years been upon friendly terms with the British Government, and united his forces with ours in subduing the boers of the Transvaal\u2014the Zulus resenting the cruel treatment of the Dutchmen and being glad to have the English as a neighbor.No aconer, however, did the English get settled in the Transvaal, than complaints began to be made of outrages upon the Zulu frontier.It does net appear that the Zulu King was responsible for those robberies and murders, they apparently having been perpetrated by individual members of his people.At any rate the English Governor chose to hold him responsible, and not only demanded satisfaction and restitution, which was right enough, but that the Zulu King should disband his army-\u2014which was as if the United States should demand that Canada should dissolve her volunteer force and give up their rifles.Altho\u2019 a heathen, the King could not see the justice of a neighbor thus dictating to him, an independent sovereign, and refused, whereupon Lord Chelmsford was ordered to advance into the Zulu territory whieh he did with the disastrous result of which we have, as yot, 50 meagre details.Dr Livingstone who lived among the Zulus many years, described them as a most superior nation, as the white men of Africa, and foretold for them a high place when converted and civilised.All along they have been friendly towards the English until their good feeling has been lately turned into enmity by the supercilious eonduct of a their good behaviour, and the brightnoss the triump thoy displayed in answering her questions.On Monday evening, in the same place, she delivered her first locturo.crowded, the aisles and overy vacant space being occupied.- After devotional exercises, mans in a few sympathetic remarks with her upon them, and expressing his belief that she had beon called to it by Providence.;tiaos may bo divided, they ure united in.agrecing that the Bible is the Supreme\u2019 The church was Court, which decides all moral questions.Some people think the Bible says nothing l about lemperance ; lot ns sce.Wo find \u2018tho Kingdom of Heaven.\u201d It would seom \u201cpossibility of misunderstanding their meaon- jing.Catching their full significance, let our a bartender.All great rivers were made up of little tributaries, somo so small that people took no notice of them.Among the smaller tributaries of the great river of Ia- temperance sho would name the use of strong drink in the nursery.A lady acquaintance in dying said to her son, \u201cJohn, do mest me in heaven and cense to be a drunkard.\u201d It would have planted a thorn in her dying pillow bad she known that her son bad acquired his taste for intoxicating drink in the nursery, the mother, in the fond impros- sion that it was good for her child, mixing brandy in his food.Another little tributary wus the use of liquor in the pantry; kept for flavoring puddings and pastry.At a dinner party in the United States a gentleman was observed to rise avd hurriedly leave the room.Fearing something was wrong, the host followed, and found his guest excited and with perspiration standing on his forehead in drops.him, he said ho hud ounce been a drunkard and thought hie hud ovcrcomo hia appetite until the smell of tho Lrandy in the sauce to ' the pudding had aroused it, and tho almost ungovernable impulse had sprang up urging him to rush out and get liquor at the nearest saloon.The iden that liquor was good as a modicine was another tributary that helped to swell tho river of Intemperance.Richardson, Lee, und 8 number of the bust doctors in England, wers now agreed that alcoholic drinks wore not necessary in treating dis- ose.the shelves of thoir surgeries and on those of druggists and label it\u2018Poison.\u201d\u201d Oncother place whore intoxicating drink wus found alone control it.We are selling our boys of Scotland.In answer to what affected \u2019 If the profession was not satisfied on | would have cried oat \u201cIt is just like wo- that point yot, lot them keop the liquor on men's work!\u201d (Laughter.) License luws.pe pre - her boy, and who, altho\u2019 she was not now ever likely to see him, had this comfort that she muy meet him in heaven, Bat the mother whose son is stolen from her by the licensed kidnappers throughout our country, can not expeet to meet ber once bright-eyed and innocent boy before the throne of God.She thanked Goud there was nobody in the village of Huntingdon who bad license to destroy its boys.Some say prohibition is unnecessary, that you can regulate the traffic, and they had undertaken to do so in.Ontario by stringont license laws, You cannot regulate tho traffic any more than you can the toothache ; you must pull out the tooth.(Applause) Parliament had spent moro time and money in dovising liconso laws than on any other subject, and they have all proved futile.No liquor is to be sold on Sunday ; the front doer is closed and traffic goes on by the back door.No liquor is to be fold to Indians, and yot Indians get it.If Parliament considers prohibition good for the red man, why not for the white ?Liquor is not to be sold to minors, yet a friend counted between 30 and | 40 boys who went into one tavern.Liquor is not to bu sold to confirmed inebriates, yet we seo such got it.It seems so strange.Parliament should give mon license to make inebriates, and when they have mude them robibit them from further supplying them.t wo womon had been in Parliament and made such a contradictory law, the mon | | aro everywhere n failure, for every restriction in them is violated, and prohibition can Curran appointed to overses and inspect works ont ould\u2019s bridge and Coopor's bridge STE K@F A Concert was held in the Town Hall, Hemmingford, last week, under the auspices of the Orange Order.The hall was densely packed, and the whole entertainment was a most agreeable one.The chief attraction of the evening, however, was a lecture by Mr David Grant, County Master of Montreal, on the Hackett rour- der.The lecture was attentively listened to and elicited much applause.Mr Alex Fiddes occupied the chair.The proceedings terminated with a dance.#& The annual meeting of the Frontier Railway Company, which was intended to be the final one, had to be adjourned owing to the blocked state of tlie roads preventing a quorum.KT Joseph Bougie of St Louis de Gonzague is gazetted a bankrupt.&@ An inquest was held by deputy coroner, John Davidson, on the body of Benjamin Tyo, who was residing on lot No 11 in the 4th concession of Dundee, He dropped dead on his way and within a short distance of his home.Verdict Death from heart disease.\u20ac&F On the cvening of Tuesday, the 11th inst., Dr Fergusson delivered, in the Presbyterian church, Rockburn, a lecture on the principles, the sufferings, and generally on the history of the Covenanters Notwithstanding the in- where it ought not to be, was the communion | for revenue to the country, und surely we clemency of the evening, a large and in- table, This might shock some, who would exclaim that she wished to abolish the sacra- sho asked that in complying with the command \u201cThis do in rememberance of me,\u201d : the kind of wine be used that He used, lle \"did not take tho drunkawl\u2019s drink, which the Rev Geo.Rogers introduced Mrs You.'the declaration \u201cNo drunkard can inherit! ho had forbidden, but the unfermonted juico ling a life-preserver, was about to jump over- of the grape.She hind asked a Jew us to mission to rolieve tho women of Canada! that in the past peoplo did not reulize the; what kind of wine his brethren used in little girl, \u201cI have nobody to caro for mo; from the woes that intomporanco now brings | moaning of those words, yet there was no celobrating tho l\u2019ussover.\u201cYou may bo \u201care not going to weigh the five millious do.telligent audience assembled and displayei, rivod from the liquor traffic against the loss from the beginning of the lecture to the The returning Californian, when told the | | ship was sinking and that he would have to | swim to shore, buckled tho belt that con- | tained his gold about his waist, and, grasp- | { bourd, when arrested by the appeal of a save mo.\u201d Knowing he could not save both | ment of the Lovd\u2019s Supper.Not at all; of those of our boys who fall victims to it.\" close, à rapt attention to the vivil and eloquent portraiture of sufferings and trials, well calculated to stir men\u2019s minds, and make them thankful that they were born in days, when to worship God according to the dictates of conscience, has ceased to be a crime.It is to be hoped the Doctor may be induced to repeat his sure,\u201d he answored, \u201cwo do not go and get | tho child and the gold, he, without hesitat- lecture in other places.Gentile intoxicating wine.Wo aro so care- ing, pulled out his miner's knife, cut his Mrs Youmans, on coming forward, was loud- | churches arouse themselves, and leaving ly applauded.She is advanced in years, of asido all technical differences, unite in taking medium stature, stout, and with a most part against a foo that does more Let than motherly and sympathetic oxpression of.they all can repair.Those interested in the countenance.Those who had come oxpect- | liquor-trafiic have admitted that 4,000 drunk- ing to bear one of tho Womon's Iights stump , ards yearly dio in our Dominion, a terrible her quiet, unobtrusive manner hrs no-' thousand drunkards yearly pass to the dark ing musculine in its nature.Ifer voice is'unknown.Go to our towns and cities and soft and clear, and when she speaks of any- | they will tell you of instances of tho bright- thing of a pathetic nature, bas a sympathetic! est lawyers and doctors having gone down entirely without notes and her addresses aro | and even the pulpit has not escaped, as wus earnest, sousiblo appenls to the intellect and j evidenced by the recent death in a Wot.conscionce on bebalf of stamping out tho ern city, of a most talented minister, who liquor traffic.Before giving a report of hor had brought his bride from Montreal, yet remarks, à few facts concerning how she perished in a garret from delirium induced camo before the public may Le stated.She by drinking and lay dead several hoars be- was born at Cobourg, Ont, her father being fore he was missed.When she saw how an intelligent Irish Presbyterian, and one\u2019 men of position and intellect foll victims to of the first settiers in that place.Since drink, she was reminded of the line in the her marriage to Mr Youmans she has lived hymn, \u201cMighty mon around us falling.\u201d uninterruptedly in Prince Edward county, Canada was a young country and had bright and chiefly in the town of Picton, About! prospects before it were it rid of this de.four years ago that place was shocked by a stroyer, strong drink, which was like the succession of calamities arising from drink: last plague, for in almost every family in go that the ladies were moved to combine in; the land there was asmitten one.Admitting in an attempt to take away the licenses, at all this, what remedy could be sugested least, from the groceries.The council told |save total abstinence from everything that them they would do so, if a petition, signed will intoxicate ?Tho best pledgo wus to be by a majority of the ratepayers, found in the Bible, \u201cLook not thou upon the was presented to them.The ladies\u2019 wine when itis red, when it giveth its color went to work, but fell short by a few in'!in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.\u201d getting the requisite number of names, On! Mark the words, we were not oven Lo look the council meeting, the ladies went to pre- upon it when it is red, that is when it is in- sent thoir petition, and after it was received oxicuting, core itself aright\u201d describ- and read, the mayor asked if they had any ing the act of fermentation.And then the one to speak in support of it.The gentle- Bivle gives the reason why wo should not man, who actod as secretary to them, was: oven look upon intoxicating drink, saying, to have been there with a written address, | \u201cAt tho last it biteth like a serpent, and prepared for the occasion, but had failed to, stingoth like an adder.\u201d At the tust ; not keop his appointment.The group of ladies at the first, when strong drink looks +o wero nonplussed at tho awkwardness of their tompting and is so fashionable.Gough position, and on tbe mayor repeating his says there are only two points in the drunk- question, Mrs Youmans instinctively stepped ! ard\u2019s career, tho first when he could stop if forward and began to spealc, her as if, at that moment, there passed /could.She remembered, long ago, when tbrough her mind a panorama of all the tra- Gough said that in a lecture, one of tho nu- gedioal scenes sho had witnessed among hor dience exclaimed \u201cThat's so; there was a neighbors caused by strong drink, and these, | time when I could have stopped, now 1 in graphic and moving terms, she depicted , can\u2019t.\u201d That man is now over 20 years in to the council, which, however, was obdu- a suicide s grave.She asked overy young rate, and refused tire prayer of the petition.man and boy present to take the Bible's ad- The discovery of hor PRR of utterance was vice and not 5 leok upon strong drink, if as much a surprise to herself as ler neigh- | thoy had any regard at all for their weltire bors, who had known and respected hor | in time and etornity.If ona of them had only as an active neighbor, who had an | taken his first glass, let it bo his last.She open ear to every talo of suffering and a! could not understand how anybody pleaded ready hand to relieve it.An agitation at\u2019 for moderato drinking, for the command of once began to take away tho liconsos from the Bible was not so much as oven to look the entiro county, and Mrs Youmans was upon it here was no latitude given ; the forced by her neighbors to atlend and ad-| commandment was as distinct and impera- dress thy meetings in support of the bylaw, tive as that of \u201cThou shalt not kill.\u201d Christ which was earried.Hor fume extend- | said, \u201cIf yo love mo, keop my commanding, her aid was sought by tho poople of | ments.\u201d How can those who profoes to love other localitica, ail her reputation becamo Christ, get over the command in his Word as wide as tho Dominion and exten ar \u201cLook not upon the wine when it is red ?\u201d into the United States.Having no family | She had boo, repeatedly provoked in Onta- duties to keep her at home, sho was able to rio by seocing people who used strong drink moet those calls upon her time, and so, by holding high position in the church, and re.degrees, has como to devote the remaining Inted the case of & very old man who, for 60 ears of her life to advocating the cause she years, had continued a church momber yet Las so deeply at heart.In this purpose she boasted he had been all his life a moderate has the sympathy of hor busban , 8 life-long drinker and that no injury bd flowed from teetotaller, and whore charactor and means his habit.e was one of those few who takes away all suspicion of mercenary mo- | are eo constituted in body and mind ns to bo tive, i Able to tamper with strong drink with im- Mrs Youmaxs began her address by say- punity, bat sho afterwards discovered that ing she had not sought the position of a}tho\u2019 no ill effects had resulted to the old public speaker, but that it had been forced man, injury had accrued to his sons, for all upon her.She camo before them simply to six, destitute of his strength, turned out to ead that the women and children of the! be drunkards, and had been led to be such minion be protected by law from the|by their father's examplo.There are many evils arising from intemperance, for, living who cannot be moderate drinkers, and % under the British flag, there was only one source left from which they needed protec.tion\u2014the legalized liquor traffic.Among the causes which led to her coming before the public, was the case of a poor woman, a nei bor, with a drunkard for a husband, and who had to sew late into tho night to keep her children alive.While thus slaving over the n © busband, à well-educat- ed accountant, was in the bar-room, and words \u201cWoo to him that giveth his neighbor would come home, with bitter odsha, to abuse | drink.\u201d The Ford woe ian hort ong, but the wife he had pled imself to keop and it implies much\u2014the loss of tho soul, im- rotect, and to nbarebihe little food she so penotrablo darkness forever.Sho pitied all Bandy earned to foed her children.He had engaged in the liquor-trafic from the depths just enough manhood left not to bring into of heart, and if there was one present, she the house the liquor bo bought, and hid it in could say that every Act in passing tho glass the barn in winter and in the grass in sum-| across the counter, every motion of the hand found the botil, which they carmed Tn ig brewery or disillery Brought down ho © e, c oy c ory or dis 0 own from their mother.Tremblingly she soizod it beavon's court that fearful sentence of woo and prayed God to direct for bow to not.to all eternity.It would be n mistuke to Caneing her children to knoel around her, suppose the denunciation of the Bible ap- she ¢aid : \u201cHero is what is.destroying your plied along to those ongaged in the traffic, father, deprivin was dreadful to think what must be the feelings of that father when he moets his sons at the judgment seat, and who will be swift witnesses against him.More than this, not only was total abstinence to bo found in the Bible, but prohibition also.Lot those who talk of probibition being an infringement upon their liberty look into the Bible and they will find there tho first prohibitory law in the Jour going to school for want of books and the social circle.There was many a par- clothing and my attending church.One lor that was, in effect, à bar, and many a thing only could make me suffer more : it|lovely iady who presented wine to her guest, ful that no germ that would cause leaven belt, and throwing it agide with all bis trea.should remain in our houses at tho Passover, suro, clasped the child to his bosom and ; that we sweep oven the ceilings of our rooms, , swam ashore.This is what Canada has to and when wo do that it is not likely wo ; do, cut away tho revenuo she now derives would place fermented wine upon our tables, | from the liquor traffic to save her boys.lt soemed to | ho would.the second when he would if ho | barrel rolled out of you of food, preventing and not to those who passed tho bottlo in | We propare Lhe wine ourselves, and are care- init\u201d Sach was tho wine Jesus found at [the feust of the Passover, the wine upon | which, in bis Word, he had pronounced a blessing, the pure, unfermented juice of the thrill that moves an audience.She speaks to the grave raving in delirium tremens, grape, and which he chose as the symbol of his blood.There wore mon who had told her that they dared not go to the communion, i because tho smell and tasto of the wine awakened the appetites thoy strove to keep under, Shall we continue to keep on the Liord\u2019s table that which tempts and debases ?Our laws are founded upon tho Bible; the best laws in the world are British laws, but thoy are defective in so far as they authorize the liquor-traflic.The Bible condemns what- evor degrades, it pronounces woe to him who gives bis neighbor drink, but our li- censo law says, Give us seventy dollars ayear and you may make your neighbor drunk.We can never boast that our laws are based, as a whole, upon tho Bible until we have prohibition.\u2018That is the question wo bavo got to settle, and it is the grandest and most important question since the abolition of slavory, and ~he considered it a privilege to bave a part in it.Afler a most touching appeal to the audience on bohalt of probibi- tion, Mrs Youmans took up the revenue as- peet of the liquor traffic, and on this, as on total abstinence and prohibition, she con- sidoredstho Bible explicit.When the pro- pbet exclaims, \u201cWoe to him that baildeth a town with blood, und establishes a city by iniquity,\u201d it scomed to hor ns, if looking down through the centuries, he saw our Government taking five million dollars a yoar fur permission to make and sell the drunkard\u2019s drink.For what is that money received ?l'or permission to fill graves with tho victims of drink, to make homes desolate, to break hearts, to destroy youth and manhood, and, worst ot all, to rob heaven.The millions wrung trom the liquor trafic go to build up the Government walls, but the blessing of heaven cannot rest upon us while wo continue to receive them.Nobler by far was tho Queen of Madagascar, who, when advised to sanction the importation of rum and receive ns her share overy tenth barrel, replied that rum destroyed and degraded ber people and she would have no part of its gains in her revenue, Even the mperor of China, pagan as ho was, acted moro consistently than we do.land wus ondoavoring to force the opium trade upon China, the lmperor was told it was useless to resist and that ho should accept the inevitable and levy a rovonue tax upon the drug, he refused, declaring it would bo a trafficing in tho bodies and souls of his people.Gladstone, whon he proposed a mensure in the direction of prohibition, was waited upon by the brewors of England, who pointed out that the revenue would be impaired, \u201cThe revenue,\u201d Mr Gludstono replied, \u201ccan novor be permitted to come in the way of tho intorests of tho people.\u201d Give us a sober people, and there 18 no fear of tho revenue, Those who spoke othorwiso wero in effoct saying, Canada sober will not pay sufficient for revenue, so we will make Canada drunk, (Laughter.) We love our flag, wo love our country, and wo cannot consent to selling our people to get rovenue.Was it strong language, to speak of the revonue from thie liquor trafic as blood money ?What said the Scriptures?When Judas brought back the 30 picces of silver, the avaricious Jows would not touch thom, they had changed their character since leaving their hands and had become blood money, and so they bought a ficld for burial and called it the field of blood.If our Parliament took the money it derives from the liquor traffic and bought a Potter's field wherein Lo bury its victims and pay for their care betore they died, it would havo little left.Whon Father Mathew hy his labors caused the consumption of whisk in Ireland to fall trom 12 to 4 million gallons à year, thero was a cry about the danger to the revenue, but instead of the revenue decreasing it went straight up, for the money formerly spent on whisky was now being spent on clothing and groceries, tho daties upon which more than made up what was lost.It would be the samo in Canada, where moro of what the people need would | bo bought instead of liquor.Ne the mothers\u2019 hearts or Canada could only be stirred, pro- i stirred as the hoart of the mother of Charlie Ross, whose hair from raven blackness was changed to white in her anxiety to recover When Eng- | hibition would soon be carried into effect ; | ; Supposo every liquor-shop closed, those who must have beon ngroeably disappointed, for numbor, yet we estimato that sovon or oight \u2018fui to sco that thore is no fermenting particle | now worse than idle away their lives in i them would have to keep sober and go to work, and their labor, with the saving of\u2019! the money now spent on drink, would moro than supply the loss of revenue.The re- | sponsibility did not rest allogether with Parliament, tho electors who choose it were also responsible.It was a great partnership of eloctors, government, and liquor-sellers who wero accountable for the traffic, and the women and childron of Canada wero the chief sufferers.When wo found a firm of Smith & Co.or Brown & Co, for what Smith or Brown did the Co.were cqually responsible.And it was so with this legalized liquor traffic, every clector who voted for a councillor or representative who supported | it, was an accessory before the fact.You | say if we do not give license, the tavern.| keepers will sell without one.If they do, the electors have washed their hands of the blood of the slain.Whatever law you electors of lluntingdon allow to be repealed, never allow that law refusing license to be repealed.Woro a mother to be offered five million dollars for her youngest boy, she would feel the offer an insult to her woman- jhood.Yet year after yoar thousands of our bost boys are set up by our Government and knocked down for that sum; yea, even to making out the bill of sale, which is to be found banging on every bar-room wall, declaring, ovor the signature of the head of the department, that So-and-So is licensed to sell tho drunkard\u2019s drink,\u2014that which kills body and soul.The time will come when one of these liconses will be regarded as grout a curiosity as are the thumbscrows of the Inquisition in the British Museum.Muy God help overy ono of us to do our duty.(Prolonged applause.) The pledge was then produced by Mrs Youmans in the following terms : \u201c1 solemnly promise, God boing my -hel- per, not to use any kind of intoxicating liquor as a beverage, and that [ will do all sin my power to help othors to abstain,\u201d 178 signed this pledge, among them a large number of little boys and girls whom Mrs Youmans had addressed tho previous ay.The proceedings were closed by the Benediction.Ay at the preceding temperance meeting, the music was capital, and the bymns wero joined in heartily by the large assomblage.On Tuesday evoning Mrs Youmans lec tured in Durham ; Rev.D.W.Morison in the chair.Tho Sons of Temperance hall was crowded by an audienco that was deeply impressod by hor address, } ust evoning sho delivered, before a groat audience, her second lecture in this village, taking as her subject tho license systom, which she presonted in a vivid and telling manner.A report of it will appear in next weelc\u2019s issue, On the pledgo being presented, 68 names wero added to those obtained on Monday, making 246 in all, A vote of thanks wus moved to Mrs Youmans for her two addresses by Mr Shanks, seconded by Mr McAdam, and carried amid great applause.The singing by tho choir, Mrs Big- gar taking tuo solo part, of \u201cSave the Boy,\u201d was a feature of the evening.ST, ANICET COUNCIL.At an adjourned session of the municipal council of St Anicet, hold on the 17th inst, woro prosent: L, N.Masson, Mayor; Couns LP.W.Higgins, Ii, Dupuis and 8.\" Rankin, On motion of Coun Higgins, seconded by Coun Rankin, the approval of tho sale of the railings on two bridges, near the residonce of the late Thomas Shane, on the 31d range, was deforred until April next.On motion of Coun Dupuis, seconded by Coun lligging, the sale of the repuirs ot Gould's bridge, on tho Dundee road, to Wm 8, Campbell tor $74.00 was approved, tho mayor being authorized to accept a contract with sufficient security, either from the said William S.Campbell, or from any other person for the samo price should the snid Wm S.Campbell fail to come within threo days; the sum of $30 to be advanced for the pur.chaso of material.On motion of Coun\u2019 Dupuis scconded by Coun Rankin, the sale ot Cooper's briago on the cnst branch of LaGuerre Creek, on the Dundee road to Marcel Duheme for 8225 was approved of.The mayor was authorized to accept the contract with J, Sullivan as security.The sum ot 850 to bo advanced for the purchase of material.Martin P.WEATHER RECORD.14th\u2014Coid and drift.15th\u2014Cold and calmer.16th\u2014Fine winter's day.17th\u2014Drifl, and inching to be mild, 18th\u2014Bright and cold.19th\u2014 Dall and a light fall of snow.20th\u2014 Bright and frosty.WEATHER REPORT nv Di Stmmrr.Temperature Rain Snow Highest Lowest in inches ininches 5 Feby.27 20 .000 1 GC #2.2T De 000 7 + \u2026 28 10.000 1 8 « .23 6 .000 a « 29 9.000 5 10 + N \u201418 \u2026\u2026.000 11 « 21 Taser + 000 ) 12 « \u2026 20 \u20140.000 13 « 0 9 \u2014=7 Les © 000 LE « ,.\u20141 \u2014=16 .000 15 « 10 \u201422 .000 16 « .24 15.000 174 2 BB \u20144 LL.000 18 «x 12 \u20144 .000 ! DOMINION PARLIAMENT.Taurspay, Fen, 14, On the Ilouso assembling, it was informed the Govornor would address it after a Speaker had been chosen.Tho Ilon Mr Blunchot was unanimously elected.I'rivay.The Governor came to the Parliament Buildings in great state, and read the fol lowing speech : In meeting the Parliament of Canada for the first time, 1 desire to expross the gratification I feel at having been selected by Her Majesty for the high and important oftice | now fill, and to assure you of tho great sutis- faction with which l now seek your aid and co-operation, In acknowledging with profound gratitude tho reception which has been accorded Lo myself as ler Majesty\u2019s representative, | um also commanded by the Queen to convey, through you to the people of Canada, ler thanks for the loyal, generous and kindly manner in which they have welcomed [ler daughter.Lhe contribution of Canadian products and manufactures to the groat national exhibition at Paris last year attracted much attention, and it is believed will have a beneficial effect on the trude of tho Dominion with Europe.I congratulate you on the success which must in no small degree bo attributable to the kind and unceasing cxer- tious of His Royal Ilighness the l\u2019rinco ot Wales, as President of the British section.\u2018The report of the Canadian Commissioner- will bo luid before you when received.I am pleased to inform you that the amount awarded for the Fishery claims, under the Washington Treaty, has been pail by the United States, and that Her Majesty's Government bas arranged with Canada and Nowfoundland for their respective shares of the award.Lhe papers on the subject shall bo submitted to you.The important and rapidly increasing trade between Canada and England, in live cattie, has been serivusly threatened by the appearance, in various parts of the United States, of plouro-pneumonia.In order to prevent the contagion trom spreading to Canada, and the consequent interruption of the trade, I have caused an Order to be is suod under \u201cIne Animal Contagious Dis casos\u2019 Act, 1869,\u201d prohibiting tho impoita tion or introduction into the Dominion of American cattle, for a short period.lt is hoped that the diseaso will be, eyo long.ex tinguished in the United States, and the nocessity for continuing tho prohibition removed.Your attention will be invited to an amendment of the Act I have justre ferred to.My Government has commenced negolid tions, with Her Majesty's sanction, tor the dovoiopment of the trade of Canada with France and Spain, and with their respective colonies, 1 hope to be able to lay befor you tho result of these negotiations during tho present session, Itis the purpose of my Government w press for the most vigorous prosecution o the Canadian Pacific ilway and to me the reasonable oxpectations of British C0\" umbia.In carrying out this intention, due regard must be had to the financial position ot the country, Communication by rail u been offected between Manitoba wd vue United States system of railways by bis junction, at St Vincegj, of the Len i ; branch of our railway, with tho St Luul ae Pucifio Railroad.That portion of tho mA! line that oxtonds from English River to Le watin is now being placed under contra will ener stically pushed to comple- were slaughtered in Liverpool.They wore possibly attain at the present moment.He bers to vote, when the bill was rejected tree interest in the obje Sor which your 80d wl er to Secure, Ts rapidi ae is ; suffering from pleuro-pneumonia.did not believe the Dominion Cutt] to 16.It is expected that as effort wil Order is instituted.I thank sible, the connection between Lake Superior and the Great North-West.A Bill for the amendment and consolidation of the Acts rolating to Stamps shall be submitted for your consideration, as well as a measure amending the Act relating to Weights and Measures.; Tho decennial census must be taken in 1881.I think it expedient that a measure for tho purpose should be passed during the resent Session in order to give ample time | or the preparation of all the preliminary arrangements, and to ensure the census being taken as accurately and inexpensively as possible.In connection with this sub- jeet it may be well to consider the propriety of providing some means for the collection and collation of vital, criminal and general statistics.A Bill will be laid before you for the rearrangement of some of the Departments of the Government, and also measures relating to survey and management of the Dominion Lands, to the Mounted Police, and to the Post Oftice Department; and also for the amondment, in some particulars, of the laws relating to Indians.A measure will also be submitted to you for the vesting in Her Majesty, for the use of the Dominion, of certain ordnance and admiralty lands in the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.The Estimates for the ensuing year will bo laid before you at an carly day.They have been prepared with as much regard to economy #8 is compatible with tho efficiency of the public service.1 regret that the receipts into the Treasury from ordinary sources continue to be inadequate to meet tho charges against thie Consolidated Revenue.You will, I doubt not, agree with mo in the opinion that it is not desirable that our finances should longer remain in this condition.By the application of the strictest economy to the public expenditure, and by the re-adjustment of the tariff with tho view of increasing the revenue, and, at the same time, of developing and encouraging tho various industries of Canada, you will, I trust, be enabled to restore the equilibrium between revenue and expenditure, and to aid in removing the commercial and financial depression which unhappily continués to exist.I have directed that tho Public Accounts of the past financial year shall be laid before you.Parliament has recognized the importance of providing for the safe deposit of tho surplus earnings of the people by arranging for their being placed with the Government at a fuir rate of interest.lt may be well for you to consider how far it is practicable to give a liko security and encouragement to persons who may desire, by un insurance upon their lives, to make provision for those dependent upon thom.Your best attention will, I doubt not, be given to tho important subjects I have alluded to, and to the general interests of the country.Monvar.Tho Address in reply to the Speech from the Throne was moved by Mr Brecken, seconded by Mr Tasse, and adopted, after some remarks from Mr Mackenzie and a reply by Sir John A.Macdonald.NEWS BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPIL.The military authorities have despatched seventeen more doctors to the infected dis- fricts, General Melikoff is taking very energetic measures there.Finding the local prisons shockingly filthy and overcrowded, ho threatened officials with death if such a condition of things continued.Earl Beaconsfiold, in the Ilouse of Lords, snid : \u201cThe object of the Government's interference -in Afghanistan has been completely accomplished.We now hold three great highways connecting Afghanistan and India, and 1 hope we shall always retain them.We have secured a frontier which I hope and believe will render India invulnerable in a way which will trench as little as possible on the independence of Afghanistan.\u201d An official manifesto has been issued in St Petersburg announcing that the Czar has ratified the definitive treaty of peace with Turkey, and that orders have consequently been given for the troops to return home.The manifesto clgses with thanks to God for Russia\u2019s glorious victories.Tho city was illuminated on Sunday night.The Pope has discontinued payménts to bishops who have not received the Royal excquatur, The newspapers publish a letter from Cardinal Ninn, declaring that the Papacy has not moans to continue these payments, The Pope has proclaimed a universal jubi- leo and indulgenco on the anniversary of his election, Six hundred and ninety-six agricultural Inborers embarked at Plymouth on Saturday for New Zealand.Thirty arrests have been made within the last few days in Spain in connection with tho discovery of papers and arms.London, Fob.15.\u2014 Theo disenso among American cattle was discussed last night in the Louse of Commons.It was stated that the Privy Countil had for some time past received intimation of the disease existing amongst tho cattle in the United States, but did not feel justified in prohibiting the importation till it was shown that thero was actual danger of infection.The order does not apply to Canada, because Canada is free from the disease.The importation of United States cattlo into tho Dominion is forbidden.Every accommodation will be provided at Birkenhead and Liverpool for the slaughter of animals thero at prosent.Tho inconvenient landing stago has beon abandoned.The steamship Sorrento, arrived at Iull, from New York, having lost 81 head of cat.tlo and 163 hoad of sheep on the passage.A crowd which gathered before the Ministry of Finance at Cairo on Tucsday was composed of some 400 disbanded officers, who clamored angrily for their arrcars of pay.Nubar Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mr Rivers-Wilion, Minister of \u2018inance, were insulted by the mob as they wore leaving the Ministry.The latter's coat was torn.Thirty rioters ontered the THE PLAGUE.Bt Petersburg, Fob.13.\u2014 A telegram from \u2018Tzaritzin states that since the thaw set in the number of the plague-stricken has in.croasod.Professor Jucobi, of Charkoff, the head of the Medical Commission, sent into the infected district, has been attacked with , the disease, and was worse at last accounts.The United States Minister at Vienna, Mr Kasson, gives an claborate description of the now Russian plague.One physician says he considers the malady most virulent typbus, or a peculiar human pest, or a new malady existing botwoen typhus and pest.The sanitary condition of the people is very unfavorable, and the provailing weather was equally bad during the greater prevalence of the disease.The physician employed inwardly quinine and all remedies against febrilo diseases without success.Six army surgeons and nearly all who came in contact with the dead died, although disinfectants were frecly used.After full investi gation, the physician now concludes that the only means of suppression is quarantine, In the House of Lords, on Friday, the Duke of Richmond, Lord President of the Council, stated that England had asked the ermission of Russian to send physicians to lavestigate the plague.The brivy Council had, he said, ample powers to enforce quarantine at a minute's notice, but he did not believe England was endangered.A Romo despatch says :\u2014Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, has ar rived here.Ho had a long and cordial in- torview with the Pope, who congratulated the Cardinal on the promise of Catholicism in Great Britain, and discussed measures for its extension, Colonel Colthurst, Home Ruler, has been elected to Parliament for the County of Cork by G,10U majority over his nephew, Sir George Colthurst, a Conservative and influential land-owner.- THE ZULU WAR.London, Feb.13.\u2014ILon Stafford North- cole, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Mouse of Commous, said it was notdesirable to either exaggerate or depreciate unduly the severo blow in South Africa, There ex ists general admiration for the gallantry of tho troops and universal sympathy for the sufferors.The Cabinet is resolved to repair and wipe out the disaster.The first batch of reinforcements leave before Thursday next.He recommended an abstinence of expression of views upon the disaster until further details wero received.Fivo thousand Zulus were killed and wounded out of 20,000.The loss is 500 mon and thirty officers out of the 24th Regiment and 600 natives.London, Feb.12.\u2014The Admiralty announces that it has chartered fiftcen steamers lo carry troops and supplies to the Capo.Madeira, I'eb.15.\u2014 Later advices at Cape Town reported that subsequently tothe Zulu disaster the forces under Dartnell and Lons- dale had a victorious ongagement with the encmy at Roorke's Drift.Pearson's column is safely ostablished at Ekaye.There aro no hostile Zulus in Natal.A dospatch from Maritzburg, January 25, states that shortly after the commencement of hostilities Lord Chelmsford and Col.Pearson successfully engaged the enemy near the placo where Lord Chelmsford had been fighting.Ie left six companies, with which Col, Durnford was taajoin tho natives.Fifteon thousand Zualus attacked the united forces on the 22d.The fire from the British caused immense havoe, but the enemy rushed forward with indomitable pluck, and the great numerical superiority of the Zulus secured them a complete victory.Six companies wore totally destroyed, and Col.Durn.ford\u2019s natives utterly routed.The victorious Zulus attacked a small force in the vicinity of Rorke\u2019s Drift tho same day, but were repelled, a hundred men keeping off four thousand Zalus.They fought from five in the ovening to daylight, the British lost thirteen men, five of whom were massacred in the hospital.Later telegrams roport the Zulus bave been repulsed from the fort on the lower Gugela.The officers who escaped from the disaster speak highly of the conduct of all engaged, and of the courage of the native contingent, thus disposing of the reports of mutiny and massacre of officers by the natives.The Times says it is probable a brigade will bo despatched from India to reinforce Lord Chelmsford.A regiment leaves Columbo, Coylon, to-morrow.Lord Chelms- ford has already been reinforced by a company from St Helona and 300 men from Cape Town, making his infantry force nearly the same strength as it was prior to the disaster.RAILROAD.AT the meoting of the Montreal City Council on Monday, Mayor Beaudry read the following paragraph, which appeared in the Ottawa telegraphic news on Thursday morning last : \u201cThe Ottawa I'rco Press learns that the contractors of the Canada and Atlantic, late Coteau and Ottawa Junction Railway, have comploted their financial arrangements for building a bridge over the St Lawrence, at Cotenu, and connecting with tho American lines of road.\u201d His Worship said this was an important question.On reading over tho item, it had occurred to ITis Worship that the city should enquiro into the matter, and oppose the bill when presented before Parliament, as by the throwing of a brid:c across the St Lawrence, 80 near our city, would sap its commerce.Ald Nelson\u2014[In reference to the bridge at Coteau, I do not say that the city has nothing to do in the matter, but I may say this, that the city was asked to contribute, but did not do so.It was considered to bo in another Province, and not in the Province of Quebec.Ald McCord agreed with the Mayor.Ile thought that the Finance or some other Committee should bo immediately empowered to look into the matter, seo whether the statement is a fact, and, if so, to see that our interests do not suffer.The question was an important ono, especially in viow of the expenditure mado for faciiitating com- building, but wore expelled on the arrival of the Khedive and foreign consuls.Tho, rioters then infested tho Ministry.The Khedive harangued tho crowd, and made threo futile attempts to depart in a carriage, ut was himself insulted.Meanwhile his, body-guard tired on and dispersed the Tiolera, Pasha was shot in the hand, His coachman and tho Khedive's master of coremonies wero also wounded.A telegram from Sanford says 200 Ameri.oan beasts, consigned direct to this market, merce in this Province.Ald Mercer was astonished at previous remarks.The gentlemen should understand that commerce will rule itself, and that any attempt to intorfore with a railway 50 miles from Montreal, and in another Province, would prove futilo, oxcept in eo far as that Several arrests were made.Nubar it should not in any way form an obstruction | ment.to the river traffic, mould pass an Act to the detriment of Montreal.Ald Holland \u2014Not if wp can get the gentlemen at Ottawa to sce through opr spectacles.If the gentlemen of Quebec bad ,reen through our spectacles another matter ; would have been righted.The lumbermen \u2018claimed that they did not get much for their ins, and wanted a nearer road to the tates.son, that the Finance Committee be request ed Lo consider the question of the proposed i bridge at Coteau, with a view to protect the city's interest in the mattor.Ald Donovan said the city was asked to vote $200,000 to the railway, and, having refused it, could not interfere, except to protect the river carrying trade.Ald Nelson suggested that the Finance Committeo bo empowered to draw up a poti- tion, and, if necessary, despatch a deputation with it to Parliament.Ald Donovan suggested that the city members of Parlinment be requested to aid in the matter.Ald Nelson said Ald Donovan had repro- sented the matter very properly.At tho time when tho city was asked to give a million dollars to the N.C.R., a large majority of the minority of the Council proposed to give $500,000 to the N.(.R., so as to leave some of the million for other railways, and the city was asked to contribute to this latter railway, but refused.Ald McCord's motion was put and carried.THE NORTH-WEST.À LECTURE was delivered in the Prosby- terian Church, Russeltown, on Friday oven- ing, 5th Foby., by Profossor Robt Bell, \u201cOn our Great North-West us a home for the Emigrant.\u201d Tho Rev P.8, Livingston, BB.A., occupied the chair, and, after devotional excreises, introduced the Lecturer, who said that so much had been written about Manitoba that it might be thought no moro information necd bo given, but thoro still remained a great deul of ignoranco on many points respecting the North-West.1le do- scribed tho names, geography, and surface characteristics of the country, and said that the roil might bo spoken of as of four grades :\u2014Fourth.The hilly district before spoken of, with little rain and literally buked in summer, but with pounds of good water, not entirely destitute of wood, and with abundance of lignite, or brown coal.Third\u2014The eastorn part of the great plain, a gravelly loam, equal to most of the second class land in the Province of Queboe.Sce- oud\u2014The country on the Little Saskatchewan, Upper Assiniboine, Nelson and Churchill rivers, consisting of sandy gravel tine black mould, equal to the best land in the Province of Quobec and Ontario.The first grade of land was not exceeded by any land in the world for fortility, depth and freedom from stones.It was found along the Red River and in the Peaco liver country.The timber was not equal to that found in Quebec and Ontario, and consistod of pitch pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar, oak, birch and elm.The rivers were generally fringed with belts of trees.The climate was remarkably healthy and resembled that of Quebec, being one of oxtremes.l'ho winter was very pleasant, and spring came on quickly, the furmers sowing in April.Occasionally there had been spring frosts, but very light and doing little damage.The lecturer noticed that during the grain ripon- ing months the temperature was the same from JIulifax to the Mackenzie Rivor.\"The depth of the snow also rathor lessened than increased us tho traveller went nortl-wost.As regarded tho crops, everything growing thoro would thrive except apples and pears, and perhaps some other fruits.Wheat had produced 55 bushels to the acre; oats, 45 bushels; peas, GO bushels; turnips, 660 bushels.Some wheat would weigh 68 lbs to the bushel, and oats 43 lbs.Tho wheat was of a quality far superior to that grown on old land.Last year at least 1,000,000 bushels wero raised in Manitoba.Rye, flax, and buckwheut did well.Onions were magnificent.The root crops could penctrate downwards to any extent.Tho beet-root grew as thick as a man\u2019s thigh, and parsnips could reach a length of four fect.Of all crops, however, potatoes seemed to bear the palm.They came out of the earth as clean as apples, and wero as dry and mealy as possible.I'ine cabbages, cauliflower, melons, water-melons, cucumbers were grown.All kinds of currants wero very prolific, and there was abundance of wild grapes, straw- berrics, &e.The grasses of the swamps grow to the height of four feet, and were cut for winter feeding of cattle.The horses found their own food spring were in better condition than when turned out.The fodder was very cheap, and cattle were ousily kept through the winter.Sheep did well.Hogs had not as yet suffered from any of the diseases which »0 often attacked them in the States.The learned Professor epoko of conveniences of civilization now to be found in Manitoba, of its educational advantages, means of transport, churches, portable conveniences, suffi - ciency of markets, referred to the various drawbacks, which had bcon much exng- gerated ; and without advising any one to go, showed the advantages open to industrious, hard-working people who would bravely face the difficulties incident to all nowly-sottlod countries.Those wlio intended 10 go thero should not delay, as ever year they put off would compel them to go farther West, as the land filled up nearer home.At the close of the Lecture, which occu- ied one hour and a half, on motion of the v J.Fulton, M.A., a vote of thanks was givon to Dr Bell.CANADA.Toronto, Feb, 12.\u2014The Orange bill was discussed by tho Private Bills Committee yesterday morning, there being a fall attendance of members; Hon C, F.Frasor occupied tho chair.Mr Merrick who had introduced the bill, and Messrs Parkhill and Lauder spoke in favor of the bill, and Mr Sinclair and Drs Wilson and Clarke against it.Dr Wilson contended that it was introduced for political purposes, whon Mr Park.hill jumped up and created a tre:nendous ,roar of laughter by denying that thore was \u201cany politics into it.\u201d Mr Sinclair argued that tho present Government's policy with regard to this bill was exactly the same as way that of Sandtield\u2019s Macdonald's Govern- Mr Broder considered that the peti- tionera wero entitled to the act asked for, Ald McCord moved, seconded by Ald Nel.und clay loant, with layers and covering of in winter, and in\u2019 I | be made in the House to get the bill sent back to the Committee with inatrections to | consider the preamble as proven.London® Ont, Feb.18\u2014Tbe first large { fro that has visited this city for upwards of [six yeara occurred this morning, wberoby , the niGcent new brewery building of Messrs Carling & Co., together with about three-fourths of ils contents, were reduced to ruins.There were in stock some 30,000 or 40,000 bushels ot barley and malt, all of which became food for the flames or is 50 damaged by smoke and fire as to be unfit for any purpose whatever.The stock ot Lops was partially saved.Loss $250,000, of which over half is insured.The Governor and Prinosss held a brilliant reception in the Senate chamber at Ottawa on Friday and Saturday, at which several hundreds were presented, and great extravagance was shown in dress and jewellery.A correspondent writes : The music, the glittering Chamber, with its fhiry inbabitants, the lively mural tints, the imposing throne and canopy, the long line of militia officers, tho formal aides-de-camp, the criticising spectators, the presence of royalty, doubt less combined to unnerve many of the debutantes.Moro than one confused gentloman and bashful lady, when reaching the termination of the criticizing gauntlet, bowed to the Marquis of Lorne, but forgot the pre- senco of the Princess Louise.The latter, however, with true good-breeding, affected not to have noticed the omission, and bowed as tho unwitting offender against etiquette passed by her presence.A volume would ; not suffice to describe tho variety of bows givon.A smiling miss, an a lady with elaborately prepared coiffure, to atone for lnck of tho sprightlincss of youth, each showed, by the formal and deliberate manner in which they mado their oboisance, that they were a dancing master's pupils.Gentlemen also afforded scope for amusement.Many advanced and, spreading their hands, gave tho Fastern salaam as nearly porfect as European attire permitted, whilst others bowed the head, and peered from beneath the eyebrows at the face of royalty.Princess Louise wore a black satin, princess train, low-nocked, studded with diamonds, a tiara of diamonds and a diamond necklace.Dr Lemioux, of Quobec, says porsons attacked with small-pox generally live in houses with a northorn exposure.Oliver Burnham, of the township of South Cayuga, died last week at the advanced age of 104 years.lle married the daughter of an Indian chief and sottled among the children of the forest, noar Gifford\u2019s Ferry.Tho latost sonsation is a movement at Parkhill to ostablish an independent Order of Orungomon.Tho reason given is that the present Orange institution is in the | that it has lost its distinctive quality of being either a loyal or religious Society, and is unworthy of the support of independent men.The new Judge will be composed of men of both political stripes, and many prominent citizens are ready to join it.The movement has extended to Ailsa Craig, and leading men there approve of it and are prepared to endorse the action takon at Park- hill, Maxime Grouix, a saddler by trade, aged 33, was yosterday convicted of stealing a months.sheepskins, has boon preferred against him.His case is a sad one.lle is a good tradesman, and war at one time making fair progress towards success in life, but a fondness for drink soon resolved itself into a passion, and proved his downfall.Whon arrested, yesterday, ho was locked up in the High Constabie\u2019s room, where he was heard to repeat several times, \u201cSo sure as there isa God above, I will never come out of jail alive.\u201d It is thought that he will, however, and that compulsory abstinence will cause him to reflect on his condition, and bring Wednesday, Ottawa, Feb.18.\u2014The Governor-General and Princess Louise visited Rideau street Convent to-day, and were prosentod with revoral addresses by the pupils.1Iis Excol- lency made an appropriate reply.\u201cWhy can\u2019t it bo made to pay ?\u201d was the question to discuss which the shareholders of the Canada Cotton Company met at the office of the Montreal Ocean Steamship Com- puny yesterday afternoon.There have been reports circulating concerning the Hudon : Cotton Company, to tbe effect that their learnings havo been unusually great this year, that they would py a good round dividend.Tho stock of this Company is much above par.The Dundas Cotton Company is also earning a dividend.The Canada Cotton Company on tho other hand pays no \u2018dividend, nor has it done so for years.The | meeting yesterday was of course private.1t | wax resolved to ask an adjournment for one | month of the annual meeting to be held on Thursday Feb, 13th, during which time a committeo shall examine into the statements ; and the general condition of the Company and report at the adjourned meeting ; such | committee to consist of Meesrs Kd.Alex.Prentice, H.8.MacDougall, Jean Leclair, (11.8.MacDonald and A, Prevost.\u2014 Montreal Witness, 14th.Belleville, Feb.13.\u2014 Reports from tbe , Marmora gold mining region are favorable., The Feigel mine is being worked by a company which hus 25 men employed, and their operations are found to be profitable.At {the Williams mine the shaft is down 135 feet, and tho vein is reported to incrensé in wealth and richness.The Gatling Company has at last resolved on the nature of the process to bo employed in reaching the ores, and is about to procure the necessary machinery for crushing 20 tons per day.Ottawa, Feb.14.\u2014The Grand Lodge, I.0.G.T., presented His Excellency with an address this noon to which he lied as follows: \u201cG.W.Chief Templar and gentlemen, ~It affords me sincere pleasure to learn , from your address that so large s number in _ tho Province of Ontario aro united together , under the banner of the Independent Order \u2018 of Good Templars, who not only by precept, { bat still better by example, wage à sucosssfal | contest against that great destroyer of the prosperity and happiness of their fellow- aubjects, the vice of intemperance.That your organization is spreading is a proof to me that your labors in such a good cause are successful and that each succeeding year brings its reward in increased numbers added to your band.That your Order and it ; ahject have my heartfelt wishes for its cor.Ald Hood said the citizens of Montreal and that to rofase it any longer would only tinued success I need hardly tell you, snd brid should do all in their power to prevent the keep the Province in a state of turmoil.the fact that on my father's property is from being built, Montreal required After some further discussion of n Losted erected the first Good Templar's Hall is, ! all the commerce and interest that it could character, the chairman called on the mem.| trust, a proof to you that my family tales a hands of political wire-pullors, so much 0j 7 buffalo robe, and was sent to gaol for four C Another charge, that of stealing about his reformation.\u2014Montrenl Herald of \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014 - - - for your kind prayers on behalf of the Princes and m A Lou.A es a si poacher named Hull- wor atom was found dead in a field aot far from London.one morning last week.It is supposed he perished from the combined effects of drink and exposure.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 UNITED STATES.| Probably there bas never boen a time in the bistory of Franklin County whon the farmers suffered mord by the pecuniary obligations which they could not meet, than at present time.Almost every day brings a surprise to us in the abape of « financial failare of some farmer that every one supposed was easy and well-to-do in money matters.Mortgages of real estate ore going on to the County Records at a fearful rate, which is increasing from day to day.Hope are probably at the root of the matter and the real cause of the distress.Agricultoralists cannot yearly exhaust the resources of their farms to maintain a ho yard that yields nothing marketsble or of value, and expect long to cscape the terrible grasp of (he mortgage which is sickness awd death to the farmer.\u2014Cbateaugay Lepore N.Y., Feb.13.\u2014A pal islature last night a ati to stop the spread of die cattle d Long lsland.Washington, Fob.13.\u2014A lotter bas been submitted and referred to the Committee of Ways and Means from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that there will probably be a deficit in the revenue of the next fiscal yosr of twenty-seven million dollars, and asking authority to issue four per cent bonds to cover such doficiency.Cleveland, Feb.13.\u2014Chas.McGill was bung to-day for the murder of Mary Kelly.The only words spoken by the condemned man on tho scaffold woro :\u2014\u201cDon\u2019t make one mistake about that rope.\" Kansas City, Kansas, Feb.13\u2014A negro burglar last night entered Mr Wright's jewellery store, and after a deperato struggle was killed by Albert Marly, a clerk sleeping in tho store.Sixty-seven borses, worth $72,000, were burned to death in tho New York Tatter sall's fire on Sunday.Warrenton Junction, Va., Feb.7.\u2014How- ard Haltzclow, ticket agent hore, was mur.derod and robbed hore last night by unknown persona.New York, Feb, 7.\u2014Matthew Flanagan, a laborer, on returning home yesterday found his drunken wife on the floor with the baby in hor arms, which she bad strangled to death by her embraces.- \u2014 \u2014mm BIRTHS.At Dundee, on the 11th inst., tho wifo of Mr James Timlin of a son.At Dewittville, on the 17th inst., the wife of William Goundrey, of a daughter.At Burke, Franklin Co., N.Y., onthe 17th inst., tho wife of David M.Kelly, of a son, MARRIED.At Playview Cottage, Durham, on the 12th passed the $10,000 on TTY inst, by the Rev.D.W.Morison, B.A., James Cavore, merchant, Durham, to Sarah Jane, nejco and adopted daughter of Robert BEAUHARNOIS MARKET.(By telegraph to the Gleaner.) Peas, Ÿ 70 fbs., 70c.@ 71 cents.Barley % 50 Iba.40c to 65 cents.Oats, # 401b, 28c @ 29c.Boans, 701, 80c 90c.Butter, I, 10c to 14c.Eggs, B doz., 20e to 00c.K.N.MoFrx, Grain Buyer.VALLEYFIELD MARKETS.(By telegraph to the Cleaner.) Poas, 70 Its.700 @ T2c.Oats 40 Iba., 24c @ 28c.i Beans, # 70fbs., 750 @ 00c.Linseed, 90 conta.Pork, # 100 ths, $5.00 @ $5.50.Oatmeal, 3 1001bs, $1.35.Toon & NicoLsoN.MONTREAL HORSE MARKET\u2014Fzs.18, ANOTHER drove of American horse-bayors have come to the city, 1ñ of whom are now staying at the American Mouse.There is an active demand for horses at present, and prices are continuing to advance.A good many horses are being bought up in several other places, both in Ontario and Quebec.Mr J.Allen, of Perth, is buying two carloads of horses in Central Canada to ship to Manitoba.The following shipments of horses were made from this city to the United States during the pastsevendays: Feb.11th, 10 horses, costing an average of $62.60 each, and 22 horses, averaging $66.70.Feb.12th, 1 horse, costing $117.50 ; 2 horses, costing $175 and 19 horses, averaging $74.52.Feb.13th, 18 horses, averaging $68.11; 20 horses, averaging $65.90, and 20, averaging $78.34.Feb, 17th, 20 horses, averaging $79.35 each.City bag flour is from $2.10 @ $2.15, delivered.Batter is dull, and shipments sre inactive ; choice, and oven good medium ualities are gotting scarce ; finest Township solections, when they can be got, bring 20c and Morrisburg 19c; common to medium lots of Butter are being picked up at 9¢ @ 14c.In Cheese there is nothing doing beyond a district trade at 9c @ 10c for fincet late makes.Therc is a very large stock of medium qualities of Buttor and Cheese in Now York and English orders are at present mainly sent to that market, owing to the lower prices at which they can be filled than there.Hogs, $5.60.Egus aro scarce and dear ; the stock of limed is not large, und fresh are coming forward very slowly; limed sell at about 25¢ and fresh at 35¢ 2 400 por dogon.\u2014 Montreal Horald of Wed.n eee tained in the Common Geol of this to be then aad there ae \u2014 \u2014\u2014 bec A session of the Court Distt of Fetabarmois.of Quesn's Bench in criminal juriediction for Lower Canada shall be held in the Court House in tbe Town of Beauharnois, in the said $265.District, on Saturday, the first day of March next, at nine o'clock in the morning.In consequence 1 notify all those who shall have to sue any pren now des., Justices of the Peace, Coroner, Constables, and os, gation, Coteau Landing to persons all their necessary docus NTERTAINMENT.\u2014Tho members of Emancipation Lodge 1.0.G.T.pur ving à Social in the School-bouse, Boyd tlement, (lo-morrow) Friday evening, 21st instant ; entertainment to consist of Music, Readings, Recitations, Bpoeches, Dia logues, &c.Hafreshments to bad during the evening.Admission\u2014Gent's 15 cents ; Ladies\u2019 10 cents.Doors open at 6 o'clock, chair to be (aken preciscly at 7.s@~ Don\u2019t fail to come ; a good time is expected.TEMPERANCE MENTING.TT fourth of the Public Temperance Mostinga will be beld in tho Methodist Churob, Ifuntingdon, on WEDNRSDAY evening, 26th February, when a varied programme of Addresses, Rocitations, Dialogues, and Music will be presented.Door open at 64 : chair taken at 7.A collection will be taken up.Coum anp WuLcomr ! A\u2019 residence of Peter McFarlane, Elgin, on Tussbar, 40 Maron: Hornee, cattle 4, implements, picko in, ke.9 monthe' credit, + pickets, grain, D.Suanks, Auctioneer, RVANT, who th ERVANT, who thoroughly understands general housework, wanted at the latost by the 1st of April.Apply to Jorn Hunrke, illage.N.ROUSSEL, ° Notary Public, 8 's Blook, Hantingdon, P.Q.A PHILPS, Auctioneer, Huntingdon, e is ready to attend all Auction Sales when called upon.Terms moderate, All orders left with A.E.Ilale, or sont by mail, will receive prompt attention, FARM FOR SALE.ONTAINING 100 acres in tho Brd concession ot Ormatown, being lot No.30, about 3 miles from the village of Dutham.The Farm is nearly ail oleared and in à good state of cultivation with a nover failing sup.ly of good water, a good comfortable dwol- inghonso, 2 barne, stables, nnd shed.\u2018I'he buildings are nearly all now and convenient.P.8.\u2014If not eold by tho 19th of March, will be rented for one or more yoars, na he will dispose of his stock and implomenta un that date, Also [24 acres of good bush in the 3rd rango of Jamestown, about 1 mile west of Winter's Sawmill, mostly covered with hardwood.\u2018Terms reasvnable.For further particulars apply to PrTRR CAvERS, on the promises.Dm ROSS, Imploment Maker and General Blacksmith, would take the opportunity of tendering his sincere thanks to his numerous customers and friends, for the very liberal support with which he hus boen favored since ho commenced business, and calls attention to the good supply of Grat-cluss Harrows and Plows on hand now.Those favoring him with their support may depend upon getting first-class workmanship.He would aleo further intimate that he makes and repairs all kinds of implements, charging moderately, to anit tho timea.Inapoc- tion invited.Huntingdon, Feb.20.REAT BARGAIN.\u2014Thosubscribor will sell cheap for Cash a very fine piano box Buggy, almost now, also a fancy Cuter and Robes and an oxcellent harness.Any person in need of either or all of the ahove- mentioned articles will do well to call at once upon J.85.MoCALLUM, of this offico.A WELL KNOWN 'FAOT.T\" in a well known fact that WILLIAM THIRD & CO.aro now disposing of their immense stock of New General Merchandise at unprecedentedly low prices, namely from 50 to 100 per cent, below regular selling prices.Just read carefully the following announcement and bo convinced of the immense reductions made, For example they are now selling Men's Brown Overalls at 500.,.,.former price $1.00 Men's No.1 Long Boots $1.75 § pair \u201c 3.00 \u201c Mon's Tweed Vests $1.50, .2,75 Mcn'e Tweed Pants $2.50.\" 450 Men's Silk-mixed Tweed Coats $4.50 \u201c 00 Men's Fancy Bracos 17c # pair.« Men's Heavy Under Panta, 50c pale Mcu's Hoavy Undershirts, 50c cach \u201c 1.00 Men's Paper Collare 124c # box.\u201c .20 Mon's Overcoats and Ulsters marked down below cost Boys\u2019 Tweed UIndercoats $3.25.former price 5.50 Ladies\u2019 Fancy Dress Goods of evary deacription marked down below cost.Ladies\u2019 Mantios and Mantle cloths of the very latest styles at and under cost.Ladies\u2019 Prunella Qalters 80c @ pair, former price $1 Choice Prints only 7c & yard 36 1,00 Good Heavy Wincey Gc # yard.\u201c 12 Good Heavy Grey Cotton 66 @# yard «\u201c 12 Cotton Yarn $1,10 # bundie of 588.\u201c 1.50 All-wool Scarlet Finnnel 20c § yard \" 40¢ All-wool Canadian & English Tweedn ey yad.ba cccu eur \u2018\u201c 1.25 Great Bargains in Ladies\u2019 Silk Ties, Fancy Biik Handkerchiefs and Clouds, Ladies\u2019 Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats at and under cost Buffalo Robes, Linings, and Trimmings, also Fancy Bleigh Robes very cheap.Great Bargains in Gents Caps§ Gloves, and Fancy Cashmere Mufflers.No.1 Cotton Grain Bags 25c eacli,.former price 35¢ Very fino Black Lustre 26c & yard.\u201c 40\u20ac Best Brown Family Soap 5c # bar ¢ 10c Eddy's No.1 Matches 10c # box.\u201c 20\u20ac Fino Saitin bags 10c & bag.\u201c 20¢ Good Japan Tea 25c B.\u201c B0e Bright Refined Scotch Sugar only 8c # N No.1 Whole Rice 44c W M.ves \u2018 Ge No.I Layer Raisins 10c @ Bh.\" 15e No.1 Currants Tc ¥ b.i.\u201c te Eddy's No.1 painted Pails 16c, former price 25c Lagge-sizo Zinc Trunks $1.75, former price $2.75 No.1 Brooms only 18c, former price 25¢ Crockery, Glassware and Hardware at less than balf-price, and an immense quantity of other goods too numerous to mention at the same rate of discount.WILLIAM THIRD & Co.P#H-\u2014Finnan Haddies, Choice Family Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Oatmenl, Cornmeal, Applcs, Sardines, Lobsters, Cigars, Tobaccos and Brier-root Pipes with amber mouth~pieces kept constantly o0 Bard.& Co.Hnntiugdon, Dec.19.MANITOBA! MANITOBA !! Now All-Rail Route to Manitoba.Rates for Bpring of 1879.PASSENGERS, OTEAU LANDING to8t Boniface, Man.opposite Winnipeg) $30.00; 200 Ibs.personal baggago free on each fall ticket.PREIGHT, Per Car\u2014Live Stock and Household goods included\u2014Coteau Landing to St Boniface, Less than a Car\u2014 Household Goods (own- ors risk) per cwt., $3.75.The usual passongor rate by rail and water ill take effect on oponing of navi.patio, Re Boniface $25.so Information cheerfally given by mail ments to do all whet may be ordered to them in theif op otherwise on application to respective capacities.AULT L.HAIN a Beanharnols, 4th February, 1879.H.PaiLLips, Local Ticket nt G.T.R.Valleyfield, PQ. MIGNONETTE AND JASPER.L oHAPTER December sites gout very DOOD early oven for the work belare Christman It was raining steadily, and it had rained without ceasing all that day, and part of the day before ; and, to judge appearances, it might go on raining for several days to come.The streets of Brighton were very dirty, and very cold, and v uncomfortable ; it was not to be au that any one would be in them on that winter atarnoon who could possibly help it, for everybody who bad any sort of home to go to would cer tainly make the best of his way thither.\"As the twilight deepened into darkness it grow both wetter and wilder ; for with the ing tide came a nipping, searching wind, which rasbed up tbe narrow streets of the old Sussex town, and blustered round cor ners, and howled along the shore, and drove the sleet and rain, and, if any onc was near enough to the water's edge, the salt spray right in the face of all unlucky wights who were compelled to face the storm.Aw bour t its time came in the London coach eavily laden ; for in the winter timo it did not run every day, but only twico or thrice a week according to circumstances; and, being near Christmas, it brought rather more than the average allowance of passengers and ls.It stop before the gateway of the inn, and began with all speed to unload.The street that had been 80 empty before became suddenly quite lively ; ostlers, grooms, and stable-boys jostled each other ; mine host stepped out from the bar, followed by half a dozen folk or more, who had come to meet \u2018the coach ;\u2019 and a fow loiterers as usual made their a pearance\u2014though rather tardily, just as the tired steaming leaders wore being led away to their own quarters.\u2018You have had a nice time of it,\u2019 said the landlord, addressing the burly, red-faced coachman, as he dismounted, and shook himself like a great Newfoundland dog, just fresh from the water.D, \u201cNever had a much worse,\u201d growled Jerry Clay, the first whip on the road.be landlord turned away to attend to one of the inside passengers, who had taken shelter from the cutting.blast and dashing rain inside the porch ot\u201d the homely, hospitable old inn.The person, to whom mine host at once gave a respectful hearing, was a gentleman of about forty years of age, with a grave and rather stern, but not unkindly, face.He was buttoned up to the chin, and his neck was awstbed in many folds of a huge shawl.He bad a velvet cap on his head ; and he held by the hand a little girl of nine or ter, who looked out from her innumerable wraps like a small owl from an ivy bush.She was a rosy, merry little thing, and she jumped about to express ber satisfaction at escaping from the confinement of the coach, though ber poor little feet wero 80 cold that many a child would have begun to cry with sheer fatigue and misery.Little Mignonette\u2014for that was her very fanciful name\u2014was, however, of a braver spirit ; it was her way to make the very best of everything, \u2018Is not my coach waiting?said the gentleman, looking round, rather impatiently.\u2018I ordered it to be hero at three o'clock, and it is now past four.Surely they never went back again, because the coach was not in.\u2019 \u2018I am afraid, sir, there is no private coach here now,\u2019 replied tho landlord ; \u2018and there's not been one in the inn-yard all day.Not a many of the gentry are down, sir.The Prince, he keeps Christmas at St Jameos\u2019s, I'm told.But may 1 make bold to ask whose coach it is that ought to be here and waiting ?\u2018My name is Meredith.\u2019 .\u2018I ask your pardon, sir.The gentleman lately come to the Dyke Hoase ?No, sir; I\u2019m certain that your coach has not-beon here today.Mr Dalrymple\u2019's coach was here yesterday\u2014he posted it all the way from London.And now I recollect, a chaise with two ladies and a waiting-woman was here this morning; but there's nothing from the Dyke house, I'm positive.\u2018How very provo ing! What shall we do, Mignonette \u2018We might wait a bit, and see if the coach does not come, paps.\u2019 \u201cI don't see what else we can do! Mamma cannot have got your letter, Mignonetto ; posts are always a little uncertain at this time of year, l suppose.Yes, landlord, yon may order out your chaise ; only you must give us something to eat first.Ï am too hungry to wait two hours for my dinner.\u2019 \u2018All right, sir; all right\u2014tbis way\u2014 there's a roast fowl ready this minute\u2014a roast fow! with egg sauce.\u2019 Nothing loth, they followed the landlord into a comfortable snug parlor, where, in a few minutes, dinner was served\u2014one of the nicest dinners, Mignonette said, that she had ever eaten in her life.: By the time the chaise was ready it was five o'clock, \u2018dark as pitch,\u2019 everybody declared, blowing great guns from the sea, and raining, or rather sloeting, most pitilessly.The postboy looked sulky ; he had hoped to spend tho evening in the warm fnn-kitchen, where all sorts savoury smells giaddened his olfactory senses.The change from the snug chimpey corner to the facing of the angry elements was not at all agreeable.Nevertheless, he hoped to got a handsome foo, and there was no knowing whetber he might not come in for a good supper at the Dyke House, for the horses would want a rest after a journey which, though net long, was difficult, not to say, perilous, oh Such a night.Away drove chaise, and in afew minutes the travellers were skirting the beach.It certainly was a dark night, and the sea roared like thunder.Once or twice, though they were fer enough from the water, tho spray broke over tbem, and the rain and hail came in great slants, that sadly discomfited the horses.The chaise bad oil lampe, but the glass was dirty and the light dim, and just as they tarned from the shore to take the lonely road which led inland towards the Dyke House, one lamp went out, and the other showed signs of a very spoedy exit.The road, unfortunately, was not a straight road, and a worse one could scarcely be imagined, The lumbering old vehicle jolted, tumbled, and styok in the deep mire ; it was as much asthe horses could do to pull it out of the ruts into which it snk continually.Mv Meredith n to wish he bad slept at the ina, snd Nettie was a little frightened, though she said wehing, be squeezing her papa\u2019s hamid very: At Tost they came to a dead - = the homes plunged, and the \u2018shay\u2019 rolled, but it did not get on an inch.Mr Meredith put down the giaes sad shouted to Bono, Who eoald swreely bene Wim, 80\" was 14 MOSS Jo data wilt Dadri! \u2018We ought to be near Hove, but we ain't, | I Bat the boy shook his head\u2014\u2018No, sir;| \u2018Did you ever read it before, Jasper ¥ » jn-the-on- \u2018mu else.\u2019 | \u2018Is your mother dead ?Where is your said the man, rether anx ceeding darkncss, and, bewildered by the atorm, he bad taken the wrong turn, and he knew it.The road to Dyke House was bad at this season of the year, yet it was passable, and it had lately been mended a little; but this road on which the chaise stuck fast was a narrow lane, leading to some common land, and only traversed by carts, and that in the broad daylight.There had been many a dashing uche, and many an elegant Jasper ; I'm never called aught: mother I | \u2018I never had any father nor mother, sir; | only Dan.\u2018Who is Dan ?+ \u2018The man that found me.\u2019 And then, being further questioned, Jasper told his: | story as far as he know it.Dan, who was.clearly a smu, \u2018I oan't read, Miss Nettie; 1 don't know all my letters \u2018 \u2018You are clovon, turned, and don\u2019t know your letters ?\u2019 said Nottie, with grave reproof in her tone.\u20181 was nine on Christmas day, and I have read ever so many books through and through.And I can write a letter, aud do sums if they are not hard, and find places in a map.\u2019 \u2018Nobody ever taught me; mise.Dan lor, found him, & he said, : could not read.I am sure I could learn if britzka, and many a gallant steed in that | whon ho was a \u2018ittle-un,\u2019'\u2014a long time ago, | somebody would show me how.\u2019 © lane since then\u2014or rather on that ground | which was once the impracticable country | lane-\u2014but I feel sure no carrisge and pair had ever tried those formidable ruts before that nigbt: The postboy stood at the horses\u2019 heads, scolding them and encouraging them by tarns, and the poor beasts pulled, and strained, and did thelr very best; and Mr Mer edith got out to reconmoitre, but he could not sec an inch before him, and the sharp sleet, driving fall in bis face, added to his confusion.He swore, and the postboy swore \u2014for 1 am sorry to say nearly everybody swore in those days.Bwearing, of course, did not help them.The louder their oaths, the deeper sank the wheels, or so little Nettio thought.And [Rrogontly she whispered, \u2018Oh, dear Lord , please get us out of this hobble, and take us home safely to mamma and the boys.Please do hear me, oh, Lord; for if You don\u2019t help us, we must stay hero all night.\u2019 Arid for ail her brave little heart and her simple faith, she folt very muoh inclined to cry.She was not hungry now, but oh! so ood, and so very tired.Presently, almost as soon as Nettie\u2019s little prayer was ended, the storm sluckened and tho clouds parted, 80 a8 to show tho sky and a few stars, which wero intonsely bright.There was just a glimmer of light, and Netlie began to look about her.She saw that thoy were cluso to a ditch with water in it, and Nettie thought she knew tho place, for she had beon there with her brothers a few weeks before.Yes, sho was sure of it ; for there was the low, straggling, quecr-shaped bush under which she had sat and watched tho boys leaping tho little stream, which then was nearly dry.She was going to tell her papa, when she thought sho saw something move under the bush, and, looking more intently, she was eertain of it.There was somebody there, and, straining her eyes through tho gloom, she made out that it was « child crouching in the only shelter the barren lace afforded.J Then she called out, \u2018Oh, papa! there is some one in that thicket, and I do think it is a little boy I' \u2018A boy, Nettie! There is no boy bere ; I wish there were; wo mightsend him down to the fishermen to help us !' \u2018There is a boy, papa! Don\u2019t you see?And now he is getting up.\u2019 And then Mr Meredith did sec a small figure, cowering in the shadow, on the other side the runnel, and he called out, \u2018Who is there ?' A very childish voice answered weakly, It's me.\u2019 \u2018And who is me?\u2019 \u2018Jasper, please.\u2019 \u2018Jasper who ?\u2019 Please, I don\u2019t know.\u2019 \u2018What do you do here, Jasper ?' I'm lost!\u201d And I'm so hungry! And the thin little voice was broken with sobs.«Oh, papa, he is hungry, and I havea whole bun in my reticule,\u2019 said-Mignonette.\u2018Come bere, little boy ; we would take you home, if wo could get there ourselves.\u2019 The child did not stir, but ho tottered as be stood, and his crying became a pitiful, low wail.Mr Meredith could never bear the sound cf childish griof, and though ho felt suro this was some miserable tramp, better out of the world than in it, he strode to the other side ot the ditch, just in time to ick up the small waif of humanity which Bad somchow drifted to his feot as it sunk down upon the bank.It was a light enough burden that he held\u2014a little ragged, thin, limp child, cold ns death, and seemingly insensible.What to do they could not tell.While they talked, however, the clouds rolled further away, a pale light shono from the sen, and they could see the country around them.Thoy wore not far from some cottages whence help could be obtained.Aid came sooner than they could have hoped.The postboy\u2019s shouts weve heard ; men and boys came with lanterns; half a dozen stout fellows put their shoulders to tho wheel ; and in another quarter of an bonr they were once more on tho road to Dyke House.The peasants who gave their help so willingly knew nothing of the little boy ; only one man had seen a desolate- looking child hiding from the rain in a hovel, the day before.No one seemed dis- Posed to charge himself with the responsi.ifity of a sick and perbaps a dying child ; and Nettie said, \u2018We must take him home, pa dear; mustn't we?He wants to be attended to very nicely, | am sure.Poor, dear boy, out in the cold and the rain, and bungry, too! Iwas hungry when I smolt the roast fowl 1.Papa, let me havo him for my birthday present\u2014Christmas is only five daysoff?Do, now, there's a dear old daddy And Mr Meredith, who never could refuse bis one little daughter anything, though he could say \u2018No\u2019 bravely onough to his six big, troublesome lads, was fain to grant Nettie her petition.And so Jasper went that night to the Dyke House.CHAPTER IL Next morning Nettie's portégé was brought into the dining-room for examination.He had been committed to the maids tho night before, and duly fed, and washed, and put to bed.And now, dressed in some cast-off clothes of Jacky, Nettie's younger brother, he was a véry protty, delicate-looking child, but clearly Sather frightened at the situa tion.Thore sat Mr Meredith, in his great chair, with pencil and note-book in hand; thero was Moredith, .plamp, pretty, and good-natored, a little to hisright; And there leaning The room seomad to bim unatterably grs soft carpe o shini bookcases, lk \u2018the ori window-curtains were all daughter.queens.in such a place or in buch a presence.\u2018These a I th Nelly 1 hope q a.mala \u2018Now, lad, come ro dre fering on the sad eyes, tou his heart.\u2018 afraid ; only tell tho tratb.You said Inst Ç 8 gr or 80 it seemed to him ; but he knew Dan was not his father, for he had always enid | \"he found him on the beach.Whether left !there by any vagrant, or washed ashore from a wreck, be did not know.Dan never | said much about it, but he told him, only the other dey, that ho was eleven years old.Where was Dan ?Ie was dead ; shot dead by wicked men who wanted to lako away his casks of brandy and his chests of tea! They had just come from Ilolland\u2014they were often in Holland for weeks together, at a place where there was much water, and sometimes they were in France.Dan and his charge evidently led a very roving life.Could he speak any Dutch ?Yes, he could talk a little Dutch.Any French?Not much ; but he could eay some French words.Once he stayed a very long time at a placo called Nantes; but that was two wintors ago.And Dan was certainly dead ?Yes, certainly.And the poor boy quivered all over, and great tears ran down his wasted cheeks.1ie saw him killed.And the wicked men that shot Dan asked bim many questions.And then Dan was buried, and the man that buried hin said he was a fine old cock as ever ran a cargo, and be \u2018died game, that he did!\u2019 And the men who killed him were called \u2018land-sharks.\u2019 After Dan was put underground, some gentlemen sent for Jasper, and talked to him ; but he did not understand what thoy said ; only old Betty, who sometimes did u band's turn for Dan, told him they meant to shut him up in the \u2018workus,\u2019 where they beat poor children and clammed them to death.Jasper had a horror of being shut up ; he had seen a good deal of the world\u2014that is, of land and water\u2014for his age, and he liked his liberty ; moreover, the prospect of boing beuten and \u2018clammed\u2019 did not allure him workhousewards.He resolved to \u2018cut and run,\u2019 not doubting that ho could \u2018do somehow.\u2019 Ho had a little money which the land-sharks did not get; old Betty knew where Dan hid his treasure, and sho showed him two plocos of gold\u2014he knew they wore gold by tho color ; but she said he'd be suro to be choated\u2014such a little fellow as he was \u2014if he tried tu change them.So she went! to the town, and got the two gold picces turned into a lot of silver ones\u2014over so many.And he wont first to Portland, where he had heard Dan say he had a half- brother living, to try and find him.And a skipper that Dan knew took him there, and charged him nothing for his passage\u2014partly because he was handy on board, and could help in many little ways ; and partly because he was old Dan's boy, and all alone in the world.At Portland be could not find the brother; which was not at all surprising, secing that he only knew Dan by his Christian name, and could only make inquiries for \u2018Dan\u2019s brother.\u201d He lingered, however, at Wey- mouth and at Portland till his money was almost gone ; then ho resolved to go to Do- vor, whore ho bad been once before, and where there was a skipper who had told him that, whenever he wanted a berth, he would give him one as cabin-boy.So he set out for Dover, keeping \u2018in sight of the sea, that he might not lose his way.| was Mignonette, perched upon a stool, and | iog othe table.- o quality,\u2019 thought Jasper to message from her mamma, and she lingered, pe thay won't send me to! as she often did, to havo a chat with \u2018Sam- © \u2019 \u2018and tell us all Nottie and the younger boys.about it,\u2019 said - Mr Meredith, kindly; the sitting by the fire contemplating \u2018Fsop's schooling in dono?thin, childish form, the look of patient suf| Fables.\u2019 - Mrs Sams bad boon explaining the your mind.\u2019 inched little face, and thet wood-cuts to him, to his great delight.n't be) \u2018What are you reading, Jasper?asked Nettie, coming close to him.\u2018Oh! my a ight your was Jasper; what oise ?fable-book ; you may keep it if you li VA niet ve Anbar agar?755 5 | Cpa you, Mite oer HA coe Ce Soni 1 © 49 wpge * 12155 al pf gan y - He had wandered on and on, doing tho best he could, till he camo to Southampton, whore ho changed his last sixpence, and where a man told him if he didn't clear off sharp he'd have him taken to prison.With more dread of the workhouse than ever\u2014for he quito belioved it was a prison for chil dren, and Dan had instilled into him a most righteous horror of any kind of prison\u2014he fled, and got out of Southampton as fast as he could, still keeping to the coast, When his last penny was gone he tried to get jobs of work ; but people only laughed at him and called him \u2018little beggar.\u201d The womon were kind, though, sometimes, and gave him bread, and milk, and apples ; and once ; à lady, seeing him sitting on tho roadside, scolded him for being idle, but sent him out a basin full of nice hot broth, with plenty of crusts in it.But for the lust three days he had had only some cold potatoes; and, worn out, and chilled to the bone, and fumished, he felt as if ho had no strength to push on to , the town which he could seo in the distance.: Ile stayed in a deserted hovel all day ; but at night the sea rose so high, and tho waves roared so, and came so near, ho was frightened, and he went a little inland, hoping to find some cart-hovel, or donkcy-shed, where he might spend the night.But darkness overtook him ; the storm in all its fury set in; and after stumbling about and falling into the ditch\u2014he could scarcely be wetter i than ho was from the drenching rain\u2014he sank down under the bush where Nottie had doscried him.He hoard voices, but he could not speak ; he seemed to be dreaming and yet awake.Then he thought he was dying, and then\u2014he recollected no more till bis wot rags were being taken off before a good fire, and a woman was calling him \u2018poor little dear,\u2019 and putting spoontuls of broth between his lips.CHAPTER 111.The question was, what should be done with Jasper?He spent a very happy Christmas at Dyke House, being cured 7 a dreadful cough, and getting up his strength.\u2018When the new year camo in he was visibly fatter, and much stronger, and there was a tinge of color on his cheeks.The servants, with whom ho lived, were kind, and he made himself vory useful in the kitchen.\u2018Poor follow,\u2019 said Nettie, \u2018how could he learn if he nover was taught ?I did not think of that, Jaspor.I'll teach you; I know where there is à spelling-book\u2019 And Jasper got his first lesson in reading \u2018that night.In two days he knew all his letters, large and small, and was trying to spell out little words, Also Nettie showed him how to make figures on a slate, and add them to- gother ; she was quite proud of bor diligent puptl.ut one day she received a check from an unoxpected quarter.Sho was boasting to hor mother of Jasper's progress, and her father heard hor.\u2018Nettie,\u2019 said ho, \u2018are you teaching Jaspor to read ?* \u2018Yes, papa ; and he learns so fast, and he adds up quicker than 1 do!\u201d \u2018But, Nettio, my pet, I do not think you are doing Jasper a roal kindness, Helis bottor without reading and writing\u2014it does not answor to educate the lower classes, to which Jasper uaturally belongs.\u201d Sixty years ago this was a very common sentiment, the gulf between rich and poor being far wider than it is now ; and very good people thought that any attempt to bridge it over was revolutionary\u2014not to say impious.\u2018Oh, papa!\u2019 said Nettie, sorrowfully.\u2018And ho does so want to learn! Ob! mayn\u2019t I toach him just to read ?and then 1 thought I would buy him a Bible, and a Watte's Hymns.\u2018My darling, you do not know what you are doing.You are lifting this poor little follow out of his station, and good ncver comes of that, as you will understand when you aro a little older.Jasper is pretty well again, and 1 am thinking it is quite time to put him to work.\u2019 \u2018Me does lots of things in the kitchen, papa.Tho maids say he is quite a help, and he never says a saucy word.And ho can\u2019t do hard work, men\u2019s yot, you know, he is so little\u201d \u2018Ho might go to sea with a respectable captain ; bo knows something about seafaring life.ITe is too young to be bound apprentice to any trade.\u2019 \u2018But mayn\u2019t I teach him just a little more, papa?It must be so tiresome not to be able to read even the signs over the shops.\u2019 \u2018And n great drawback, I should say!\u2019 put in placid little Mrs Meredith.She rarely gave an opinion, because opinions were things she did not deal in ; as a rule, she echoed hor husband\u2019sand her daughter's.And she always agreed with Mignonette, ovon when the differed from her father.\u2018Well I\" said Mr Meredith, rising, \u20181 am busy now, and I cannot argue the point with either of you.It is against my judg- mont, bul you may go on teaching Jasper till the end of tho month, and in tho meantime I will sce what I can do for him.\u2019 \u2018And I'll teach him as much as ever I can, mamma,\u2019 said Mignonette.\u2018My own holidays will last till the 16th.I shall have plenty of time.\u2019 .And teacher and pupil wore so wonderfully in earnest that Jasper really learned as much in that one month as boys of his age generally acquire in twelve months.By the end of January he could read tolerably ; not fluently, of course, but he could get through a chapter in the New Testament without much spelling.When corrected in a word, his habit was to spell it over to himself very elowly several times, pronouncing it carefully, and thon to look at it well, that he might, as he said, \u2018know it again when ho met it next time.He was a merry-hearted child, \u2018as bright and swecet- tempered as Miss Mignonette horself!\u2019 the sorvants said.\u2018And he is very truthful,\u2019 echoed Mrs Sams.\u2018I never caught him in the least bit of a fib; when he broke my spectacles and I thought Master Jacky had set his foot on them, he told the truth right out in a moment !* But it was his thoroughness in everything ho did that pleased Mr Meredith, who watched him silently but closely.Whether ho cleaned the knives for tho kitchenmaid, or helped in tho stable, or went on an crrand into the town, or learnt a column of spelling, ho was always in earnest, and did what ho had to do with all his heart, and as well as ho could, as if it wore the only thing in all tho world most worth doing.In after-life Jasper attributed much of his success, and what the world called his good fortune, to this habit of thoroughness, or, as Mrs Sams called it, \u2018downrightness.\u2019 \u201cThis is an extraordinary boy,\u2019 said Mr Meredith to himself, as January drew to an end.\u2018It does soem a shame he should not have a chance ; and à man who can\u2019t read has not much chance of rising, I fancy.There's nothing lawless about the boy ; he obeys his elders, and respects his superiors ; reading does not seem to have done him any harm.I'll talk to Sama.I have mare than half a mind 10 send him to school till ho is fourteen.It would please my Nettie.The end of it was that Jasper was sent to a suitable school in London for three years, on the understanding that he was to be a prenticed to some trade at the end of that timo.The night before he went away, being alone with Mrs Same, who took great ains with tho clothes ho wns to take with im, he said\u2014'Mrs Sams, [ mean to be the best boy in the school.\u2019 \u2018I hope you will, she repliod ; \u2018and tho clevorest, Jasper.\u2019 \u2018I'll be that too, if 1 can; but I will put being good first, 1 shall ask God every morning and every night to make and kee me good.That's tho only way to be reall ! Mrs Sams, who, as cook and housekeeper, had beon Mrs Meredith's head servant for | many years, took a t fancy to him, and | | then if he had lived to grow up.Mrs Sams! mad, an Wb supposed, like she sat of an evening when her duties were He bad never In all his life been over, and she 8 nerally had Jasper with hor.One night Mignonette came in with some my,\u2019 as the good woman was called by Jasper was good, Miss Nettio says.Mrs Same, I've made up my mind to be threo things\u2014first, 1 will be a good man; next, I will bo a rand and splendid ; the} thought be was like a little lad of herown\u2014 | clever man ; and, lastly, I will bo i A \u201cmirror, the talll'her only one\u2014who would bave boon & man | man.\u2019 anh Tey «rie \u20181 am glad you put being rich last, Jasper.tole.Mra Meredith and her! had a little sitting-room of her own, where! Well, 1've heard tell of poor boys who were ood boys, and industrious boys, coming to rich men at last.Will you come and sce me if yon ever ride in your own coach ¥' \u2018That I will! And if you are old then you shall come and live with me, and take care of my hones.\u2019 \u2018And what are you going to be when your ou'll have to make up \u2018I mean to bo n gentleman !\u2019 \u2018Fiol fie! You mustn't talk so.mustn\u2019t try to get out of your station, else you\u2019Il come to trouble.You must take to an honest trade, like a good little chap.\u2019 You \u2018And 80 I will, Mrs Sams ; and I'll learn my trado well, Bat though I work with my bande, I think I can get to be a gentleman.Please don\u2019t tell anybody, Mrs Sams.\u2019 \u2018Not I, child.\u2019 \u2018I'll tell you another secrot if you'll promise never to tell a creature ¥ \u2018I never will, I promise; and you may trust me.\u2019 : \u2018When I am a gentleman, and rich, I shall marry Miss Mignonette ; that is, if she'll agree.\u2019 Mrs Sams burst out laughing, \u2018Blens the boy ! there never was such a queer little chap! Well, Jasper, I'll never tell your secret; but you bad better not count on our Miss Nettie, for she\u2019s sure to ma:ry a lord, and go to court, and wear diamonds ! Next day Jasper wont np by the conch to London ; and for three years be remained at school, learning all that his masters could teach him.I suppose he was naughty sometimes, for I do not believe in those blameless children, who are always superlatively good.They live only in goody-goody books, and they nearly always die early.On the same principle, I suppose, as that which made old novel writers kill off their love- crossed heroines of consumption, in the bloom of youth and loveliness, lest they should live to be old maids, or, worse still, marry for money ! But he had an excellent character, and every Christmas he came to the Dyke House for a few days.There had been a difficulty about his name.It was necessary, at echool, that he should answer to two names, and a second name he bad no protensions to.Mignonette and her mamma between them decided that his surname should be \u2018Hope,\u2019 and Mr Meredith agreed.So ho stood upon the school- roll as Jasper Hope, and they fixed his birthday in September, in accordance, as near as could be guessed, with what Dan had told him about his age.Jasper was not strong; the long exposure bad told on his constitution; and he grow fast, and looked palo and fragile.Mr More- dith scarcely knew what trade to bind him to; but it was clear that it must be a light one.Should he make him a tailor, ora shoemaker ?or should he be appronticed to a haberdasher ?But when it came to be settled, Jasper asked modestly that he might learn the boukbinding, or else printing.Ilis soul ycarned for books, and he wanted to be among them.\u2018IVs but a poor trade, I am afraid,\u2019 roplicd Mr Meredith ; \u2018but so let it be ; only stick to it, and don\u2019t be a rolling-stone to gather no moss.\u2019 \u2018Trust mo, sir,\u2019 said Jasper, respectfully.\u2018I will, God helping mo, gather 1noss, and honestly too.\u2019 And so his indentures wero duly made out to a respectable bookbinder in Brighton, and ho worked at his trade with all diligence till he was almost seventeen ; and then his master failed, amd Jasper was no longer in his apprenticeship.He thought he would work as a journeyman, for ho had learned bookbinding very much as he had learned to read, and he knew his trade thoroughly.Bat a cousin of his master\u2019s offered him a very good and promising situation in a merchant's office in London, and Jasper, after consulting Mr Meredith, concluded at least to try it.IIe could ceme back to bookbinding if he found it convenient.Which be never did! He served his new masters so well, that he became a favorite, especially with young Mr Bloomfield, for the firm, an old and respectable onc, was \u2018Bloomfield, Von & Co.\u201d And so time passed on.Jasper\u2019s ealary increased, and great confidence was reposed in him, and the house sent him abroad on soveral occasions to transact private business of importance.Twice he went to France, and once to Belgium ; for the sad war-time was over, and Already a memory of the past, and England was eager to renew her long-impeded commerce with foreign countries.The last time Jasper went to Franco he was nearly twenty- two years old.He bad quite outgrown the delicacy of his youth.People spoke of him as \u2018Mr Hope,\u2019 and said he was a gentlemanly young fellow, and had a handsome face of ais own.And\u2014folks will gossip, you know \u2014it got to be reported that Mr Hope was to marry the eldest daughter of Mr Bloomfield, junior, pretty Kitty Bloomfield, aged nineteen, with, as it was declared, \u2018£4,000 to her fortune.\u2019 But Jasper never thought of wedding Miss Bloomfield ; for ho was true to his childhood fancy.He still meant, if it might be, to marry Mignonette, who must now be twenty years of age, But where Mignonette was, or whether she lived, or whether she was married or single, Jasper knew no more than the man in the moon, Bat, somehow, he folt certain that she was still living, and still Mignonette Meredith.[TO BE CONTINUED.] Mick oP THE Cow TREE.\u2014Aloxander Humboldt remarks that among tho many wonderful natural phenomena which ho had during his extensive travels witnessed none impressed him in a more remarkable degree than the sight of a tree yielding an abundant supply of milk, the properties of which seemed to be the same as those of tho milk of a cow.The adult Indians would go each morning with their slaves from the village or station on the slope of the mountain chain bordering on Venezuela, where Ham- boldt was stopping, to a forest where tho cow trees grew, and, making somo deep incisions into the trees, in less than two hours their vessels, placed under these incisions, would be full.The tree itself attains a height of from 45ft.to 60tt., has long alternate leaves, and was described by Linden as Brosimum galactodendren.\u2018Lhe milk which flows from any wound made in the trunk is white and somewhat viscid; the flavor is very agreeable.Some timo ago, on the occasion of M.Boussingault going to South America, Humboldt requested him to take every opportunity of investigating this subject.At Maracay the treo was first met with, and for more than a month its excellent qualities wero daily tested in connection with coffee and chocolate ; but there was no opportunity for a chemical analysis, Nor does such appear to have occurred till the other day, when, among the many curious matters exhibited by the Venezuelan Government at the Paris Exhibition, there happenod to be soveral flasks of this milk, and after a long period M.Boussingault has been enabled complete bis analysis of this substance.In a memoir laid before the Academy ot France he states that this vegetable milk most certainly approaches in its composition to the milk of the cow ; it contains not only fatty matter, but also sugar, caseine, and phosphates.But the relative proportion of these substances is greatly in favor of the vegetable milk, and brings it butter in cream being about the same on as the peculiar waxy material fou, n the vegetable milk, a Tach that will readily account for its great nutritive powers,\u2014 Times.A Couraaxous MAIL GuaRD.\u2014The Inde pendant, ot Constantina, in Algeria, contains an account of an extraordinary act of courage and presence of mind by a mail guard, A passenger writes that he was in the coupé of the diligence which runs from Algiers to Setif, and the vebicle bad just passed the bridge over the Quedel-Xir, when the horses stopped suddenly and attomplod to swerve round, but were kept in with great difficulty by the native postillion.A large lion was seen quietly walking along the ridge at the right side of the road, at a distance of lees than fifty feet.The situation was a critical one, for on tho other side was a decp ravine, down which tho diligence would have been precipitated had the horses started off.The guard, Joseph Borje, was inside the vehicle, and seeing the cause of the alarm, he opened the door and descended, and going to the heads of the horses, seized the bridles and patted the animals on the neck to tranquilize them.The lion in the meantimo contented itself with giving a sidelong glance at the carriage, and then entered t o brash, wood and was lost sight of.A Swiss MuRDER.\u2014A murder is reported from Switzerland rivalling in horror any of the frightful dramas with wbich tho Paris papers are at this moment filled.The Court ot Justice at Lucerne bas just condemned to imprisonment for life a man named Rennel.Ho was the lover of a girl named Marguerito Voglia, and they wore ongaged to be married.After a time he transferred his af tections to another person, and determined to get rid of his first love.He arranged for 4 moeting in a solitary spot far off in a wood, and when Marguerite arrived she could sec nothing but a large hole recently dug in the ground.Thon suddenly Rennel sprang from behind a tree, and dealt her a blow on the head with a bar of iron, und threw his victim into the grave which he had prepared, He then heaped earth upon the body, cover- od the place with branches of trees, and went his vay.The girl, however, was not killed\u2014she had only been stunned by tho blow, and in a few hours roguined conscious- pess to find herself buried alive.Working with the energy of despair she managed to force the earth away from her head, and then shrieked for help.Luckily a passerby heard the cry, and carried hor to tho hospital at Lucerne, whore she died the same day from the effects of her wound and fright, but not before she had made a statement.For the first time in Ircland, and the Freeman's Journal believes in the United Kingdom, transfusion of milk into the blood of a patient dying from exhaustion was pei- formed at the Dublin infirmary.Al though apparently having only a few moments to live when the operation was un- dertakon, tho patient has since recovered.About a pint of milk wus taken fresh from a cow and was directly injected into the vein, Omaha, Neb, Feb.9.\u2014The citizens here have shipped a carload of flour to Glasgow, Scotland, for the relief of the unemployed and distressed.Free transportation was furnished.ORANGE ENTERTAINMENT.HE members of Loyal Orange Lodge No.1472, Rockburn, beg to announce that they will hold an open meeting in the Town Hall, Franklin Centre, on Tuesday evening, the 25th February, when a Lecturo will be delivered by tho REV.CHAS.A.DOUDIET of Montreal, upon the prosecution of the Orangemen of ontreal and the incidents connected there: with.The Rev.J.J.Casey of Elgin and other clergymen have been invited and are expected to be present and deliver Addresses.The Franklin Centre and Rockburn Choirs will be in attendance and diversify the proceedings with Musical Selections.0 Chair taken by Dr Fergusson at half-past .m.dtmittance 25 cents ; children under 12 years 10 cents.Oysters and other refreshments will be offered for sale.Proceeds to go towards erecting the new Orange Hall at Rockburn.ENTAL NOTICE.\u2014H.W, Merrick, Dentist, will be at the Hotel ot P.H.Lahey, Trout River, N.Y., Tuesday, Feb.25th, and remain four days.GIVING UP BUSINESS IN HUNT- INGD A\u2019 the undersigned is giving up business in Huntingdon, he offers his stock of Goods, without reserve, AT AND UNDER COST.Remember that a great variety of Goods can bo bought very cheap, as everything is to be clearod out at a sacrifice.Please call and be convinced that this isa genuine clearance sale.TERMS CASH.#@ Accounts must be paid by tho 1st March in ordor to save costs.W.A.DUNSMORE.Feb.6, 1879.AVID BRYSON, licensed auctioneer, Howick, P.Q., sells in the English and French languages.Sales of real ostate, merchandise, and farm stock respectfully solicited and promptly attended to.GILT EDGED BUTTER.HERE is always an active demand for butter that is up to the gilt edged standard in quality and color.Much Lutter that is otherwise good sellsat 8 reduction of from one to five cents per pound, because deficient in color.When the color is not up to the standard Mr C.Turcotte, proprietor of the Star Creamery, which took the first prize at the late International Dairy Fair, the well-known dairyman, recom® mends his friends to use Wells, Richardson & Cu Perfected Butter Color to give a bright June color.This color is by far the brightest, purest and bee made, It is as harmless as salt, and never gives ® dull reddish color, or imparts any taste or smell.al is made in a strictly acientific manner by a skillfel chemist, and can always be relied on.For furt of iculars in regard to its quality and_use inquire © Le.Shanks, Huntingdon, and J.O.Hibbard, Herr mingford.\u2018For sale by druggists and merchan generally.UBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made at the nox sossion of the Quebec Legislature to amon: the Act to incorporate the Town Salaberry of Valleyfield, 37 Victoria, Chapter 48, an to extend tho limits of said town.order, Z.Boran, Sec Treas.up to the richness of cream, the amount of Salaberry of Valleyfield, Jan.25, 1879."]