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-Mi , ^ * v-I* --*. WS&r #F" 'f"S-d^S;S >-s- SITS * J rree -40 cvots. krd. [e goods, iSu nle We*t fiai |AM, ^rtsbashiae,,,. ca of their the j * ES |q .'ecured INS Is can not & CO. >CK =4. &08IXESS CARDS. y rtr 8. WWEl, M. ~B^ M. ,Vf *. P. a. Graduate <tf Trinity "collet*! MwalMr ot Collate of Physician* ^arjon*>^-Iiij. Stbkst arrow. D%? MOBBOW. Physl- Sorreon, e, at BaUe-rue Col- lMi,y<v Tark.,kUK>Urw(UAe Ot Vlotorte CWls**. Canada, Consultation, days Ttseaars "* Frldara. from 9 a. m, VII4 p. a. K*i4o W Bower street. A CIw*| Cheap. BAKERY. ACT0X- | anseV," a*., aIe~Aiant Canada r ------- -- Ts Asn nwh i _ _ roBvrSiy.eorrectly " wer to Offloe Vs. prepared neatly, proavpl aoe 09 reasonable twmi. Utu on slortcare security. Glasgow Hw*e Aetoo. J 9. MkTUKfX. Attaney- e>vJat-L*w, Sottellor in Ofcaaeery, Ac Offlee Corner of Malm and Caureh atreeU,aeorcetown. APPLEBE & SIMPSON, Barristers, Attqracya-ai-Law, 80- lleHor* In Chancery, Conveyancers, *c. Alain Street, Qxosottovx. TTTM. AAIBIAW. Barrister. T A*6roeT-4t-l*w SolkMIor In CtULoeery, *e- Oljlo: Hamilton. 10 C Dt (tree*; Xlltoo. Hmta ctreei. The HUtotl OtDcm- will tut ander the ntAaage- (meat. oT U. W Csjaptwll. and Mr Laid- l irl" attend ax uh "Milton Uflte" on Friday of each wees:. ,._ H lMY L. DRlkE, Bread. GALLOWAY BROS. ARE STILL AHEAD, And we intend to koep ko with our Superior Bread, Bunsi and Calces, Delivered fresh arotrod the Tillage and vicmrty every day, A good itock of BREAD. BUNS AND CAKES Ala-ayi on hand at our bakery, good, fresh and cheap for cash. No Credit Gil en, Except to prompt-paying monthly cus tomers. All kinds of Produce taken in ex- change for goods. ' FANCY OAKES in the shortest possible ivarKJtxc-x ASKvr. crsufx, Aseai for tbe Mercantile and Wau-rfoo. AM bwuaentrustedtoMtars vlllt>e fsttnroltjr attended to. Orders by mall solicited. H.I~ DRAKE WEDDINQ & Made to order notice, and satisfaction oaranteed^ X. BT AU goods are warranted purs as nothing but the best of niitenal is used- The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. Acton, Aug GALLOWAY 9, 1876. BROS. PJLTEXTS for I.WENTIOXS -,-_' -,--,. - ip*Jiauly aod properly *eeared ^ilHEAP BKEAD In Canada, the United States and Europe. PatsQt zTXr*nt&e<i or 00 charge. Send fat nrtnied instruetloos. Agvoey In opep. Allan ta yaars HEKRY GKIST. Otuwa, Canada, Uae^anleai Enflceer, SotlcUor of Fa asnuand Draughtsman. X1MLLIAM WATKENft, lisaar BUrrtase Uetswa Jk CertiaVcases B RojsJ Appointment.} &islneas pilTale ai>d confidential ,s *STsat thr Coat Ufflcs, (MenwUUam, Crs-ty Ualtonfe M Bit. 8- CABTEK. Tsaaster trStile. Srswlax a* rreads, Cbt>reb *Lreet, Acton. OLIFEK LOZIEK. Plasterer. Aewa, Ont. Every deseripilon of cPlsstMinjf iocs Boosn-easllnc done un *h as as; resaonahle terms, ana satis fsc- * t'TOS FL9TK MItXS. B. * E. IfieBUX*. Proprietor*. simrays oo hsrwl, wliole- JSrfsUns and Cboppin allA^nda<tfriln. flsor and sals and re JJail' .Bfj swi BocsEi jut**. Close to the U. X. Bal uray aUatioii. ._____l'r-li~fH"ntH<"T Jnr th e txasael 03EPublic Xb%. CAU.t'ffEL.U. Profir. rjSI-MO-V H0TEJL. ^etoa. ,JL/ Bolrert Asmev, 3ro|(rleMirJ&U Hotel iM. It-eJ tP >B ABst-tass tyle eth w 6>rnHnre. fnnwwrtnl TrsTellers aril Ocd cood aceooamoviaUao and onarllnn Sample rtooma. bpeelal ABsilllon paid to th tuu of the Craret- KstFai>Ue, Barsapplle>' sfltbtb* beat 1/iQBorsaod Cltaa. Good BiAfeUnc and attaatrre HoaUers. w HEMSTBEETs. liceased AjactioBs^sr For (he Counties of Welilnctqn and Hal- *B- urdera la at the Vstsx Pnsas sUSoe, Aetoo. or at sit residency in Baeksrond. will tw^prpoyjtiy at teuton Vft. farms reasonable. I . ^/TILTOH PLANING MILLS. c- _______ J. R. MITCHELL, Manufacturer of stack, Boon, BLiBais. Mould. lags. Poor and Window Wrasse*, Pickets, etc* FOR THE MILLION B. ft E. NICKLIN Beg to announce that they have secured the services-of a First-Glass Baker, and that their Baking business is now in fall operation, in the premises o ned by .tfra. Hanna. Bread will be deli\ered daily nt the houses in the village* and vicinity. "Weddinsr Cakes, Tea Cakes, Pastry. Buoa, &c., made in the very best manner, and kept als-ays on hand, good and fresh. Also all kinds of Confectionery, Biscuits, Cheee\ ic The patronage of the public is res pectfully solicited. Aeioa. Feb. 29, B. & E. 1876. NICKLIN. T-kOMiaiO,HARNESS SHOP. B. K. COOK Plammg, 'Stroll Work- and HalcSunf Do%e io Ordtri gr Blinds 30 cents j>e> {oet. ~X* AU work delivered m Acton free. Orders left at Secord Bros, will be promptly attended to. Jfilton, June 6, ^76._ 50-ly TCT TBOLLOPE CHAPMAN, Practical Booktiadsr. All Descriptions of Blndins Seatly Executed. JHaving purchased t5ie stock and good irill.of the business lately earned on 'by MrJ- . JPensf ey, begsta assounce to the iskafattaats of Acton and ricinit) that he will continue tha harnfffls bas- isess SBfabeasunejtEemisec, id P#*t >ffiee BHildUe, Mill Street. Acton, ts?te*eihe is j:re^ared to turn cut work second to none in the Bcaniaian, being a practical workman -of -considerable ex penence: tAJI sioifc^one promptly and As^sheA> as 4su etieapest On hasd a. *srge sad well selected stock of suraess, karse BUakets, Trasiks, WIUps, Brashes, Combs, Ac. Repairingjiroaiptly Attended to. %. K. COOK. A-cton, 8ept, 36. 187U______________ UNDERTAKING. I WILL CO TO HT FATHti. (Concluded from last week. J CHAPTER H. The dainty shadow ro)ld smooth ly along the level lawii at Green- lands as tho littlo fleecy clouds chased each other coylj over rtie broad face of tho white August sun ; and in these shadows hurried on they ran uj^Nettie's white dress and touched for a msment the little thoughful face. But thoy passed quickly And softly, as shadows should pass from a young and guile less face, though some oiie strolling towards her thinks that these flit ting shadows stay too long in tho big, radiant-eyes. AT young man this soma one was, in a summer suit, and an old felt hat on the very back of his hand some head ; and as Nettie sits on the grass thinking how sweetly and sadly the chime from the distant steeple breaks the Sunday hush upon tho valley, lie stands and looks down upon her with a very tender light in his laughing gray eyes. I wonder you did not hide in my absence, as you geuerally do. I was gathering this," he said, hold ing out a delicate, half-opened tea rose. " How beautiful, Graham," she said, her whole face showing the passionate love that had grown up within her for these lieauties that had been so unattainable when at home. " It is for me t" " Ne," he answered, slowly draw ing back his hand and beginning to fasten the rose in his coat, " not unless you ask me prettily." " Then we may aa well go to tea ; the bell has rung." She blushed a little in her effort to look dignified, but Graham read the childish nature, he thought, \ery easily. He. knew whether his random, tender speeches hurt or pleased her. " Look straight into my eyes," he said, laughing, and say " Dear Graham, give me the flower, please.' You know exactly how to plead when you like, little lady." "I have ne\er anything to plead for now." she said, -quaintly. " I have a great deal more than I want, in every way. "What should jl plead fer T " Is it so new to you to have anything you want I" asked Graham, tenderly. I " You know it is," she said, with i a little gulp. " Come, let us^go." " Stop, Nettie," he said, slipping down beside her on the grass. " I will not go on asking you about your past life as I have been 'fond of doing. It was quite nati Nettie," he said huskily. "Mr. O'Noil has never been as a father to you. How oan you set him ba fore us whom you love bo dearly 1 It is cruel to us, if it be not cruel tovfjurselt"^ --*, hush," she cried, covering^ hor fttoe suddenly, " I thought you would help mo to see what right" - , j " Do yon trust me to show yotlff "Ves." r n "Then it is _____, dearjlittle helpful daughter to your mother's sister, and to be Q, it would take a long time to say whsi to some one else, whose claim I hope to make stronger than a father's stronger, a hundred times, than such a father's as yours." " I seem to know ojnly three peo ple In the world," said Nettie with a piteous sadness in her great inno cent yn, " and you make me cast off one of thero.or two." " Not I," said Graham eagerly, " it was he who did it first, this loving father of yours. Let us talk no more of him. Here is your rose ; it will soon brighten up the aad little face." "Those words we sang have haunted me ever since, Graham," she said, walking slowly beside him, looking up into his face with eyes he could not fathom. " I will rise, and go to1- my. father." Do you re member f' ~* "That father was a generous, loving one," he answered, gently, " else his son would not have gone back to him, you may be sure. Here is mother coming to the door to look for us. How she will smile at your latest notion, Nettie dear!" Nettie ran up to her room when they reached the house, and Mrs. Lyttleton tamed to her son. "What's the matter with the child, Graham t" " 1 expect she will tell you her self," he said fretfully as he stood opposite her, leaning against the doorway : " I think she is hanker ing after that miserable life you rescued her from." " Nonsense, -it is impossible." " I faar it is so, mother. Some ridiculous notion of duty seems to have been always in her head. You know how happy she has been ; yon know how changed she is. Surelv you will be able to convince her that it would be sinful to de generate again into the poor little ill-used-------" " Hush, dear; all that will not be necessary. She cannot, really ral- for my mother to insist on youl dropping all connection witht ani if possible, all remembrance of your father; but I can perfectly under stand how you do not like to speak .slightingly of him or show him to us in the character of a beast, (Graham chose the mildest term he Theundarjig the people-of A wQl furnish all led begs leave to inform ;ton sod vicinity that be Boots of all Kindt Order, Made to r * _f~ LfcTb-ers, t ^plirjc; promptly Attended to. jfesDZET St. George's'Square, Onel4 a-Orders left at the Fasx PKWS *)* will receive prompt attention. OC9TD Me. to O. P. HOWELL, A CO. ** Hew Tore, tor Pamphlet of NO pajfce, ' eontalnint, lists of SOOS newspapeTS,And - ffssatsatbowlDCs)oatas'swlreTUslo(. Sttl O aday at home. Agents wanted. Z1* OatntamtteraM fee*. TUCK A ^O.Aarust, Malum. Beqnisitee |* Undertak toe n short notice and reasonable terms as '* can he had Uetu-te Supplied when Desired. Also that he will Pit up Stores & Offices in the beat style. Shew Cases, B**k Case* sad Beaks atade to -order, FURNITURE REPAIRED. Shop on Willow street, near Maiaai. P. M. MeOAmS. ^cton. March 20. 1876. j 39-6m OTEAM Carriage & Wagon could think of) as you must do you tell ns of your old privations fc tbes^aao I will never speak of it again if I ao trip it, but wi^l trv the harder to reader your home bright and happy enough to make up to you. for these past years, and make you forget all the shadows that lie behind. Only, Nettie, you will never talk of leaving usj as you have lately frightened me by doing sometimes. IPromisfl, me,'j Sbe was looking off iej^ond tie earnest, handsome face, and the little parted lips were quivering painfully. " You are happy with me with us, Nettio '<" he whispered. " Too happy, Graham," she said bringing her eyes slowly back to his face, " too happy in one way. Ob, you don't know what-it is to be petted and valued and loved after-------". " I can fancy it," he Bald very low, "and the petting, and the valuing and the loving are delicious to us to me, especially, Nettie."" ' She did not blush at her heart felt words, ready aa her bluehei were at other times : nor had hei <ej es quite lost her distant look- "<xrabam, I have put off speak ing day after day," she said in hurried, trembling, tones " becanso I have teen so cowardly, so afrait: of goiog back to hardships and cold- 1 r Actoa., dASS- SOK. B6 tg 320 BaWSf wor ** HsMOst * C<>., Portland, Maine. JOB PBISTIS of aU kinds eatly an* prftsspOy e-j*en4ed*t the f ?BEE PREBS 0FF1CS, **** ** ** JIv, Mil UUotl. Ktis. Striet, MICHAEL SPEICHT, General Blacksmith, Carriage and Wagon-miker. But Horte^Shoert in the >Couvty. Ferlfct satisfaction guaranteed or no price charged. pirsPClass Plows sad-Cellard's Patent _ area arrwws always en stand. A good stack of Carriages and Wagons. Repairing promptly and jproperly at > tended to. AcfceBs July 18, 187& _ , to take refuge in_ tlrose means. Now let us go to bed," she added, 'kissing the ybung face again In sudden jity, " and I am quite fBfre you wiL have forgotten these argu ments by to-morrow." |' 4 But - there were a few words Nettie oonld . not forget ib, ifew w|words mng that mornln|f In the church i^tho hill; and so it was that neit^day when Graham came in Iron 1 ilia ride round the farm, to stay and bi aad .sought his little love, he could 1 Ll_ . Qot g^ j^^ 1 Nettii And her shabby dresses were gone. They only found in the sunny oharaber the pretty clothes in which they had delighted to see her, and a little penitent letter that breathed a quaint, resolute bravery through all its pathos, and had only one line blotted I with tears. ' " I wi 1 arise and go to my father.' Graham alone in the bright empty room covered his eyes with his shaking hands, and tried1 to imagine for what those tears had been shel. And bis sad, dry eyes could ret d, in tbe few tear-stained words, it little of the agony the lonely eiild had suffered on that Sunday light. CHAPTER ni. "Whure shall you be to-night, O'Neill" The p irson addressed, a tall elder ly genth man with a haggard face and listl a step, stopped, and turn ed indolently. "Nowhere, Grey. Nowhere in particular, I suppose; or rather in any spot to which (he spirit takes me." " Why didn't you honestly put it plural at once ! I'm glad to hear it, though. We have a little party at Harris'; I'll call for you on my way. We shall be able make a capital night of it," Mr. O'Neill's face had flushed oddly. The time was not very far behind him when this man dared not have spoken to him so; dared not to have taken it for granted that he would go to this place, which he had shunned and avoided through these latet more reckless years. " I am sure that I can come,n he began, but stopped, seeing his com panion's broad gaze of curiosity fixed upon this flame that would rise hot ly in his face against his will. He shook the hesitation away with the pride which was meaner and falser far than the shame that had caused it. " I do not know that I have an other appointment." " I'm sure you haven't," said the other, roughly. " You owned that to begin with, and I rather suppose you don't intend to sit at home in single blessedness, and sb'ed a tear for the departed daughter. Oh, what a melancholy Sbylock, and yet no ducats gone, only a daugh ter 1 You look very like a mourn ing parent. But let me recommend you to mourn no longer, j Cast away vour weeds. She has Forgot ten ail about her old life by this time. You should have forgotten all about her, too." I _ " T have forgotten," said, Mr.' O'Neill, in sudden heat, *' though it is no business of yours. I have no doubt I shall be at liberty. You will call in then, Grey, will jjou 1 Good, evening." I Why should he not go there? Why should he not go anywhere, now ? Who was there to contami nate except him'self 1 and was there anything to keep him at home 1 But had anything ever been there that could ! keep him at home ? whispered conscienoe. Conscience had not been a soothing companion to him lately, while tbe one evil spirit of old stood with seven other spirits more wicked than himself within tho very threshold of the mean it, she is so happy with us." " I have thought so, but I sup pose we do not understand her," he said, speaking wearily. " She will be sure to speak of it again to night, and we must try what our united persuasions will do." 1 The Sunday twilight crept down the distant hills, and the quiet valley rested under its drooping wings; but the shadow of those soothing wings fell heavily and sadly upon the little group around that optn window, through which the summer evening fragrance crept in wooingly. The mother, hart and disappoint ed, as her gentle arguments failed to convince the girl whose voice was so firm whilo her soft, childlike face paled and quivered, watched her son as he stood over Nettie, pleading with sad earnestness, or paced the room with hot and angry words, that pierced the little breaking heart which the love of his bad stirred into a new life, and brought! hot sharp tears into the eyes that\ookedout'among the deepening shadows with their J old gate, searching for something beyond their ken. They pictured her two homes in all their titter eontrast. They re minded her of 'the change in herself which these few months had affected. I They recalled bar as Alia had come to them with ibar itwo shabby dresses and her wowi face. They fancied her going back to hor stag nant, comfortless life after these months of perfect sympathy and companionship, going back to the hard' scraping economy which Iter father enfotfo&l upon her after he easeful, careful abundnnce of this new home. But the answer was| all one. Then these two friends pleaded their own love for her, their lonliness if she left them, their disappointment in her., The little Augers knit tightly herself, in her old familiar brown dress and short, blaok apron, shin ing with age and wear, but having a wonderfully .pleasant, home-like look, with tbe keys sticking out of one of the little pockets, and handkerchief out of the other, Hit atood looking t her as if he feared to more and break the dream. And tbe lil tie face, in its child-like puri ty, Had in its brave, unselfish t*[n- derqees, seemed to come towards nim across the tainted current of his backward life, showing bim Something that might lie beyond. He felt an odd, childish longing to stretch out his arms to her, and let her guide him out of reach and heat ing of its mad rush. Perhaps un consciously he did so, for his arms were round her, and the quiet little head lay at rest against his beating heart. " Father," she whispered, " will you take me back though I have sinned V He drew hei closer, closer, but no words could pass his close, tight lips. " Are you glad, father %" (There were such sobbing tears in the low voice). " Kiss me if you are. There ii no need to tell me so in words, we shall understand each other always now." Little Nellie, in all her twenty- one years, had never remembered such a kiss aa that, and it brought the tears that struggled in her voice straight up to her eyes. But she did not hide them now; "Father," she said, looking at bim with great, glad eyes shining through them, " it is far, far better to come home." j And then the father remember ing the life his child had led in this [home of his bowed his head on hers, and let the childish tears flow as they would from his own tired ejea; knowing, perhaps, they would add nothing to the stained current. Such a tea it was! Perhaps no stronger than usual, but so differ ent. With the dainty little figure at the end^ of the table, and the flowers, and the care and tenderness, and the gay loving talk. But how |rudely it was broken into by that feharp ring at the front door bell. I "Shall you be away longT asked Nettie; wistfully, as her father rose hurriedly to leave the room. " Only a few minutes. I do no want that person to be brought in here." And in those same few minutes he returned, and, with a sigh of wonderful relief, sat down at the open window. " Now we are _ Nettie, softly, as sbe took her place beside' him, " father, shall I sing f ou what we sang at church yester day morning =the words God sent to .bring me home again f The -sunshine had left the narrow street There were no smiling scented meadows round here. No jweet chime floated from the distant hills. No earnest, pleading voice was there, falling with untold ten derness- upon her heart. No brave eyes read her unspoken wishes. No gentle motherly kiss fell softly on her lips. Yet the wide, happy eyes looked out, at, last, without their searching gaze. And she bad her reward, beside the greatest of all in the perform ances of her duty. The/parent whom only a few months before nothing could hive changed, and whose [habits seemed fixed for life, at one effort, without the utterance of la word to his most intimate cronies, or even to the child that ing. Her happiness weis. so great that when she took her cousin's hand she burst into tears and sob- Wd Qtit her gratitude to God for all He had done for ber. Neveithe- .lesa, womanlike, sbe could not rej- |jft.Graham's persistent loye, an :t|th the full consent of her fcttlie She promised to become his w>ff hot only on condition tbitt he woul eotne to her arid abide there., Sh would never be wpafated from ber- father again. To this he aouettfctl after a while, audLUien his mothe - iZJw l^L l JiD ll>6ml Th! "' ywi'upulous 'to fact, when tie l0U.B!lBl\?00n * ,.t^r cban^d / fatl against their fehent*. ~ Ijilmtliful Pernors. The 'follovi^g contribution ^ e cofruifnd to tile caitfuf notic* rf teat hei b .' | Jl'oatbein hdjye tliftir pd thw teniptauona to Its. Eaah Imsm^ -1 in life Law its Lhav(U.nbti^ lvi i_- Mont men m tijade fiifd it ahttle cult to telj the simple ^iiitj witli-ieference.ootlie quality or *be Viics of1 an ailiele . it least, fciio'i 18 tt b gf nei aLinipi ession concerinng trudeainetf Ia^-ydrt, as 'a cL&b, are not geneiajly supposed to bp as everything else, and was tmlyitois tbe abode of contentment. It was the attraction of the neighborhood. All tbe hest people found a welcome there; and if anybody ever referred to Mr. O'Neill's previous life, it'was in whispers and as a forbidden subject. What Shall the Harvest be? Coming from a paper which does not advertise piety as a stock in trade, the following is note-worthy. We quote the Chicago Daily News of the 15th inat ; Under the uords heading this article it says: " Now that Messrs. Moody and Sankey have closed their mission in Chicago, it would be well enough, perhaps, to inquire, "What good have they done V No matter bow we may view ,the work of the Great Evangelists, no matter whether We be unbelievers or believers, whether we be of one creed or another, we can make but one answer to this inquiry : Messrs. Moody and Sank ey have done great good in Chicagq; they have, brought joy into hun dreds of households; they have dried the eyes ef many a weeping mother, and comforted many a sorrowing father. They have made many a way ware! sonv and daughter change their course, they have united many that were separati through wickedness, viciousni and sinfulness, and their influence has been feh equally in the brothel and in the palace, from the time they opened the campaign until iis close last evening. These who have heard Mr. Moody's simple pleadings at the Tabernacle can be numbered by tens of thousands. Out of the vast-multitude who beard him there are many on "whom I is words were wasted, buti how ftw there" are in comparison,' with tlie number that have heard the truth and accepted it. It is not for us to say that his doctrines are sound, that his conception of Holy writ is good, or that his manner of preach- ong the Gospel is perfect. It is together," said not for us to say tnat his ideas of heaven or hell or paradise'or per dition are good or bad the simple question " did the Evangelists do any good, and will their work result is Dop- flnd its_flonietime>8 .inexpedient all at once seemed to be inexpreesi bly precioiiB in his sight, marked out and pursued a new life. He abandoned his old haunts, and all connected with them; spent bis I evenings at home in reading and house that was being swept and games, with his daughter; kitfd garnished by weak, irresolute hands; neighbors and friends visited them and, as be knew, stepped boldly J now. ^r.' O'Neill gave his daily nass; but I mast speak now, I fee; in each other, and tbe young lips as if Iconld at lost. You^ knpv what we aaag this morning when we went into bunoh, that qui to decided me, Graham, if aunty wil I let me, if you don't mind, Z sponlrj be bap bitter to go home, "Are you hot out here! Do you really wish to go home V asked Graham, attempting to rise arr lessly, "but pulling his hat a littl over his face. "I mean home to my father." " Snob whims little girls some times take," he answered, atrokinu her hair softly, " Come, it is ts* time, yi "Oral it. O, listen, please." j u x will not believe you mean roaknow. raham, I really, really, meai i / 1 ^.-SSl Were puckered 'with' pain. Then they tried to show her that it was wrong, selfish and ungrateful to leave her mother's friends, and go back of her own accord to a in- shadowed life. 1 Tbe Utile tired head drooped against the window, and the eyes grew bewildered in -their search among the shadows. ' " You will have thought better of these silly fancies in the morning, Nettie -dear," Mrs. Lyttleton said at last, kissing her as sbe rose. forward when the consent was giv. en. He put his key in the door, almost unconsciously picturing the little figure that used to open it for him 80 readily, and his steps Black ened involuntarily in the new pas sage. He enteied the sitting-room (so fhanged, he knew, since the " old-aoaidiah" little fingers had been baey there) with his head bent a little,as it generally was now; and sometaisg in tbe very atmos phere of the tsoom. even before his eyes were raised breathed ' >a ohange. His breata quickened a little, as he slat set expected or en before he had time ta think of it that a light step would eome to wards him. But thane eaae|aQnq, and he looked up, Was it really the dU, ekaaged room ? This, with its window open " If not, I shall hare recourse1 io a little wholesome authority, and re fuse yoa permisaios* or power to ? , , leave me t but yon wiU. ohey me 11 the table. And beside know, though, Srithoat my having land tunny above all his ^ to the aummer evening breeze that had some lingering freshness in it still, and brought old menoriea of far-away scented hedge towb out of reach of the city smoke. The table bright and neat,, a bunch of honey- uckles at his plate, and a< large glass Of wild rodea in the ceatea of care to bis farms, and in every way strove j to redeem both his estate and his reputation; and in a little while he could be seen regularly every Sunday attending worship with his daughter, and becoming all that the devoted'child could expect in a father, and an esteemed citizen, taking an active part in the affairs of the country calculated to promote the publio weal. If there ever was a happier daughter than Nettie O'Neill, she was unknown at the time this was Sritten. Her aunt arid cousin raham soon heard of tho miracu lous transposition of things, and tbe latter was not long in finding his way to "tJncle O'NeiU's," as he now called ,him. If he had been Burprised and an unbeliever when Nettie's letter apprised them of the in any permanent good 1" question at issue. -, " If we throw aside all that the Evangelists have done towards spreading flie gospel and stirring up the lukewarm Christianity of the city, if we throw aside the great' work of conversion which they have accomplished, wo will still see irr their mission here one of the grand- est triumphs ever recorded. Moody and Sanky, in a very short time, have raised from the gutters hun dreds of poor besotted drunkards and made men out of them. The grand work of temperance which has been going on for the last few months, hR3 done more good in Chicago than have all the higli- steepled, silk upholstered, and vel vet-carpeted churches of this city in fifty'years. If Moody and Sanky have done nothing else, if they could show no other work accom plished than the reformation 1 of- those drunkards, they would be1 en titled to the heartfelt thanks of hu inanity everywhere. Not sihcei theJ days of that noble temperance apos tle, Fatfc\Mathew, has there heen such a work accomplished in this direction. We are sorry/ that every city "in, the Union isjwt provided witi a Moody *d a Sanky." life Toil ' ' I5Se of women Toilet. A popnlar serial Wheat. , A bad judge The man who tries his friends. " 1 * " Poverty," says a Russian proverli, " is no sin, but twice as bad." "Didn't'she return yonr lo\e?" " Yes she did; she said she didn't want it." , i The man over-board was an editor. to till the patient exuetly w'fiat is the natter with him, or just what is gi vemis the rfmedf. T lere are at leastl two cases in. whid) it takes no-httie moial cour age for s teacher to stute things precisely as they are : 1st, when the nfluential fatht-r or mother of a go 3<1 for nothings lazy boy, or a rattleheaded', simpering gii), in- quir ts for the standing and progress of tt e darling ; and 2ud", when said teacher Las thrust plump in his face,"by some brigjht pupil, a per- fectl r legitimate question upon the lesson in hand, and he does not happien to know tile answer to it. In) suoh cases the temptation-^o deal in JrrelevkarJ generalities, if not to downright} lying, is quite too strong, We fjear, for many of- our kumber. Cowardice in the first instance, and a disingenious pride in the second, are tTie roots of the evil. -" But, -what-! would youhjave me tell the parent that his cRiJd is a,doltf' Perhaps not, .certainly not in stich terms. But we would not have you tell a he, painful ns the truth may be to the paren:, or unpleasant as it may bo to you ,to tell it. It may be enough to say (if it is true) that, " Your .boy really seems anxious to learn, but does not appear,to be able to _ get his lessons;" or, if tbe truth requires-it, " Youi boy might learn, I thiik, if he would try, but he seems to have, no ambition to do so." Ana there are esses of conceit, arrogance, and stupidity, on the jiart of patents, 'which deuand severer forms 'of speech. We have found it necessary sometimes to say with the utmost plainness, 'i Your boy ct.nnot receive iny benefit from atteadihg school; lie either -$vill not, or can not, learn; and it is doing him absolutely an .injuiy to bHpr tending to be vrha^helB not accomplishing" ~ Bi\jfwhat us to saying^ " I don't know," to an entuely opposite qnestjon, when asked by u,-pupil in a perfectly proper mmner? Simply this; if you don't lrnow, say so, " though the heavers fall." Nor the] need you be ^d-aid that this will bring then down. If they have not some better prop than this ^ miserable, lyirrtf pretence of know<- ing what you do not know, tl hj_ had better come-down, You miist_ - secure tbe confidence1 of your pupils _ on b< me more .stable foundation " than 1 his. Far better say, " "Rejlly,. I am ashamedJJmt I cannot answer your jnestion; it does seein that I - ongbt to know, but t don't. I will try andhbe piepaied to tell you to- *-- morrow." This will at least save your self-respect, and if you are really fit for the^pluce you occupy", it will increase the respect^of your pirpils for you. ' But don't lie. Your salvation from, the wrath of parents,-or from the contempt of pupils, does not depend on lying. Misnomers. Cleopatra's Needle was not erect ed by Cleopatra, nor" in honor of that Queen, but by; Rameses tile ,-'Great, e 'Prussian blue doe: Prussia, but it is the the salt of protoxide tbe prussiate of poteisia: The best band to accompany a lady vocalist A hua-band. Brazilian .graBS toes naif coiie- from Brazil, or even) grow in BrazilJ nor I is it grass at all. It consists of strips jof palm leaf, and is chiefly importesJ from <3ubaj Whalebone is no lone at all, nov does it possess any; propeities of bone. It IB a stitiita 100 attached to the lower' jaw of tie whale, and seems to strain the' watei which the creature takes) up *>a laijie mouthfuls. Scaling wax is net wax at all, nor does it contain a,single . p 11 ticlo;' of wax. Ic is nvqile of shellac, ~ not come from precipitate of of it on with A contemporary suggests a proper Venice tuipentine, Sind cinnabai. name for a lawyer's wife'Sue. W) Cinnabar ghes it the. dee.) red color, would consider You-fee-ma-s* as morej and the turpentine uejidei" theshellac 1 -1' '^"-i changed agkirs at home, he was still more ao when was met at tbe door by his uncle, a grand, handsome man, still ia the prime of life, cheer ful, ot fine conversational powers, and proud, if ever a father was, and aa he might well be, of bis only child and daughter. As to Nettie,"her father's reforma- aad made) her a different be- expressive. " Mr. Jones, you said yon were pon- neotad with the fine arts; do you mean that yon are A sculptor 1" " No,_au-5 f don't scupt myself, bat I furnish the stone to the man that does." 1, The builder of a church now in course of construction, when the toast ofj his heilth wasi given, rather enigmatically replied that he was " more fitted for the scaffold than public speaking." l " Aunt Julia," saidji blooming gijrl of -seventeen, !' whnt is necessary m order to write a good love-letter V' "Will," replied the aunt, "you[must bWn without knowing what you mean tossy, and finish without knowing what you have written." soft and less bi lftie. Burgundy pitch" is in it manufactured or Burjrundy. Thptesiisa resinous, substance, prepaied fiom common frankincense, and 11 ought from Hamburg, but by fir the ld't^jest quantity is a mixture) of resin .and palm oil. A married m$n, whd - s/as reiently at proposed to go not pitch, nor expoi ted from a whist ji&rty, when be home, was aijkod to staj "a* tittle longer. probably already as 1 - - ! J- Well," he replied, " jjerfcapa I may-M well; my wife is mad as she can be prop a" hi -fetfrJs

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