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Pec. 16. 1867 33 tf
VALUABLE H01SE&LOTFOU SALE.
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THE BATTLE OF HVgL
The battle of life?
With its whirl and its strife,
Its thorns and its rosts so rare;
The Geld of the slain?
And the sunshine and rain,
OhI who shall its secrets declare f
'Tis n myst'ry rnre?
With its gloom and its glare,
A race from its morn to its eve ;
The living and dead?
And the hopes that arc fled,
ii,. ? ?i
VU|U1?| VUU ?VU IT IIIUU W C WOllTC.
Thfl glory of youth?
With n semblanco of truth,
Soon dies like a wave of the sea ;
'Tis riches and gold?
In the hearts of the old,
"The parasite sapping the tree.
Th i buttle ol life?
For the widow and wife,
lias many a token of ill;
And hopes of a dayLike
the meteor's play,
Flnol. o...l t:n .
Tlic wino on tho lip?
Yce, the sweetest we sip,
Will leave, like the serpent, a sting ;
For ihe joys and bliss?
Of a world such as this,
Depart like a bird on the wingt
Clio.
HOW I TOLD MY LOVE*
ni. it _i?:? -r - ?- *?. -
vu, liiu ^iunc? ui u Biuigu-nue in lue
sparkling, bracing air of a Canadian winter
I The sky clear and exhilirating?keenly
bright, but with a different deg'ee of lucidity
from that of a bright summer's day.
Broad, expanding plains?the city receding
behind us, as the horses, leaping onward to
the music of the chiming bells, made for
the broad, boundless country. The fir forests
are clasped in a shadowy, ghostly slumber.
Far away on our right nre those pathless
funeral grove# where the wolves aggrerro
n Sn linnri rn/la tlm Infl Iiao m
^|*%W *11 uuiiui uuo? JLV iuo twib I IV^O a i lU^c
of liills sloping down to the river, which is
looked upon in the iron manacles of the
Winter King. Ahead, and right before us
whither we are bound?over waste and plain
and clearing?lies a snugly sheltered, spot
the headquarters of the'lumberer'and the
voyagcur. Our destination is not quite
80 far- .44Tbissaid
deatinationJBra broadly spread,
lowlying farmstead, witB its almost numberless
oatbouses, consisting of cattle sheds
and dairies, corn stores, rooffings for winter
fodder, wood stacks, and other concomitants
surrounding the dwelling, nil palisaded by
zigzag fences, as so many outworks to protect
the comfortable citadel. "Within it,
warm fires blaze and sparkle from the huge
^nd odorous logs crackling on the broad
bounteous hearth.
T- *1. - -
ir iu? great common cnamoer, ratted and
picturesque as an antique gotbic ball, are
warm hearts and flashing eyes. Bearded
men and fair woman are there?laughing
maidens and strapping young bunters, wbc
-t?y|;just shaken the snow^off .their furs a*
tbe portals. Despite the^atern, yet musical
baritone of tbe singing wind, as it goes bj
stinging cheeks, biting noses into^.pprple.
wiu muKing toe uiooa ungip, shouts ot mirtn
and l?ugbter rise Above tho boreal blasts ;
and our leaping sleigh .gliding?lying along
ratber?to1*the music of the soft musical
b^lle, is fant fast, approaching ..its tcnnin
4t* ?
us. **
4In the meantime,' asks the reader, 'wlAi
iwtnni?t flii? ?U!nl> 9' T
.W .Mv.gn I jl uaaicu iv nuowcr
First, there was your bumble servant, the
narrator, Dick Harding by name, but a few
months back from - the banks of the Isis
with the 'bar1 in prospect. I add a few o!
my personal items.?Rather good looking;
a fair shot; can hit with wonderful vigoi
straight out from the shoulder; am five
feet ten and growing, can piny the fiddle, a
g?ipe of pool, and have the temper of an
angel. I have been one of a party of adventurous
sportsnfjfMgoing in* for some
tiling worthy ot Alexander, and, with fishing-tackle,
("pears and shooting-iron* had
done no inconsiderate execution among the
denizens of tbeX&jyjlMiftnjrooda and sounding
'rapids,'and banted ttte bt^otii own
bold and picturesqdct^Btiveasea^
Enough for myself. Now for my' companions.
Place aux JQqnut, therefore-?for' foestlitigby
my sift,trapped up in rugs and
warm furt^-if Lola d'Arvilj^?a bright eyed,
roMflpg. war ny U8imi?D, ?a Jovtlv
a girl-Woma#WfiVenteen as gffttx^of man
ey<a reated <^wj>acently upon. TOe Canadian
mother and tbe TVrenchlHstter were
expression her Q#hj^Jn?r playful, lambent
eye? had oxe: cW?&" tfott sorcery upon,
J^Efctipn ofV>oio?
'OW? /9*6 ,Dew*
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great body fit our feet, and aided to keep <
them warm. I bad known her brother in
ihe Canadian Rifles?had killed a 'bar' at
the'Saltlicks' with liim: had met T>otn nnrl
her family on board 8 Lawrence steamer, i
and was a guest at their bouse, enjoying
their frank, bounteous, hospitality.
'Hurrah!' Through the keen, sonorous
air, sleigh and horses bound along. 'Cling
clang!' go the chiming bells. 'Crick?
crack !' goes the long thonged whip, with
a sharp, cheery, significance. My 'Mada
waska Cariole,' a sleigh which is tbo perfection
of locomotion, is not less perfection
than the fiery steeds, with their sinews of
elastic steel which I drive.
Driving sleigh-tandem is the easiset thing
in the world when you are used to it. I <
was a member of the 'Tandem Club/ an^
reckoned a crack lmnd;of course. -.I ^jMulj r|
ted in my 3kill as--1 bore my rosy compaiv
ion through the air, and the whip ^ent
'crack?crack!' like a double-barrel going
off anrl tlin accoot aonr* and .---iiliimAJ
'Ob! sweet echoeR of a far. distant wedding
bell!' I thoiight^and tho crisp enow
was split and shattereijloto diamonds under
the grindings of thdiftofs?and the attrition
of the 'runners,'and with an exhilaration
I could not repress, I gave a vigorous
'hurrah!' which conveyed itself to Lota
wrapped up in moose and bear-skins, and.
warm as toast. A sweet, girlish laugh echoed
my exulting shout.
x uu ujipuur 10 enjoy iuis, Mr. Harding,'
she said. ?
'If I don't?' 'Crack?crack !' filled up
the hiatus. What a pair of beauties HPhoebus
Apollo ndrejr^drove their like down the
steeps of heaven. The wily Ithacan never
'raised'such cattle when be cleaned the stables
of Rhesus of her horses. >,fCrack?
crack !' and the horses neigh andHws'their
arching neeks, and the bells are chiming
and tinkling, and the mad, exulting rush
uplifts one lika wino.
I remark to myself thnt the slcy lias deepened
into an intense, still, darkning blue?
darkening with a strange, uncarlhly, tene.brous
inkiness, betokening a coming snow
storm."*-No matter?'Windy Gap' is right
ahead, and the welcome lights will blaze
out of^tlritfcaftements soon, for the afternoon
is. wearing.
On we go, but I do not seo them yet; and
yet?but no, it's nil right. *
t? 'Are you warm?quite snuc, dear Lota
said I, half turning to look at the rosy, exquisite
face peeping forth with so much furtive
coquetry from its encamment of white
cosy furs.
'Oh, go comfortable, ah3 answered, with a
nestling movement, and a smile which made
my heart leap joyously upward.
But my attention was called away to the
croepiog, crepuscular inkineas of ibe sky.
1 It wa^ffgbt, yet not daylight, but blue light
to coin a war*!; that wintry blue of livid
darkening steel, always the percursor to a
' fierce change in the weather. This only
mo/^A f 1
unuu iwtci pittms oi.-BDOw gieam witu
1 a lustre the more dazzling and intense. I
remarked this but wjth a momentarily di1
vided and wavering$ense.
1 I had never (familiar as we bad grown,
> and I was 'honest as thoskin between your
' brows1 as she was in fact) I had never said
' dear Lota* before and the words were yet
1 in mine ears like a sweet old burfhen. 1
? ' ---? ? 1 ? * T
? .v? MU? OIUI ail lllf.l can UUU SOUl, Blll l
' bad neveivlold it. I yearned to tell her so
now.; but I thoyght ulicarcely fair?not'up
> to tba>mark of my manhood?to take wbat
seemed an unfair advantage of tbe protect*
, tion I was supposed to?xtend over her. I
f magnanimously resolved'io wait?choking
; down the words?but not'fpr long.
Meantime,'Crack, cracfcl' went the long
I whip, ?nd still, 'cling' went the ch imiog
i vbell?, and the horses beld on with unabated
i pace and splendid vigor, but?where bad
'Windy-gap'gone to all this time? our time
wasup aud we should be tbere by this
time.
goodness!' exolaimed Lota, all at once,
i uow strange.(&e sky looks; we shall have
more snow?jKbeavy fall, too. We are
very long going, ITancy/'fhe continued re
flectively, 'you naye'been driven there quicker
then tfiis O,Heaven! she cried,,
with a Buddennws of revelation, 'can we
have lost the tracft.
The klank question harped with a horrible
jar on my most vivid nerves. Now or
neve^jrM. the trrueto be quite oool. 'No,
I th ink not,' I replied, wttkgpnroed
carelessness,-'we shall jteSie to our frfndmark
. presently. jgf' *
A clump of ?*b ojd mill farther on.;.
, .Yes,' she added* *1 fetoilect; but we should?'
li ^
uave pHweo. um ion|,w una. UD, 1 Tear
w#*re ?. - j '-L" ' *- '
A cold efeUl toistfroe m 1 ?4plit^
came all at or.ce from windward, wailing
like a death-cry?a prolonged howling, and
then it died away.
The horses halted, trembling; only tho
shivering tinkle of- the bells broke the
death silence that fell like an eclipse over
all. ?
What is that!' asked Lota, in a shuddering
whisper, as she clutched my arm.
I listened.
4lt is the wind sighing and dying away
in tho pine forest,' I answered.
t A -.1 ? J ? ? - - -
miu no uu not go near mo forest,' sfie
raid. 'Uark ! there it is again. Ob, what
?tohal can it be f
Again tbe indescribably hideous and
lugubrious sound broge, clearer, nearer. It
increased, it multiplied. The horrible eresCciidoJ
bowling, shrieking, and raving was
not that, of tbo wind this time. |
"'Metcifiii God !' gasped Lota, 'the wolnever
understood till that moment what
the concentrated essence of literal, deadly
borro might mean. I never experienced the
shock before or since; and 1 have, in my
hunting excursions faced ray danger and
played out the game manfully. To have
I A .1-- i * ...
jusi me wny was terrible enough ; but the
wolves! and Lota! An instant I was numb
and dumb.
It was true, however. The severity of
the weather, the migration or scarcity of the
animnls on which these ^unclean creatuies
preyed, had made their hunger a raging
devouring madness. They were encroaching
on ^civilized territory, and losing their
usual characteristic and craven cowardice
where approaching the habitations of men,
haunting village and settlement. Wo to
those in their path. As the infernal howl
rose lirigeringly again, the horses darted
away with a shrill neigh of fear, and I
guiueu luem beginning to recover myself
in an opposite direction, while 'Terror,' my
noble hound, stood up, with every fang
bared, and every'hair on end, waiting for the
enemy he had already scented.
If my good horses bad gone on so admirably
at first, they sped off now like -''Arrows
from the bow, for the madness of fear adAaA
? : - -
utu iu meir ?peea, as mat ot hunger
did our pantling pursuers. I was .growing
cold; Lota was pale, but calm. 1 felt proud
of ber, though it was certain that if we escaped
not speedily, the brutes world run us
down, and then, horror of horrors ! what
a fate for her !
T i. i l ? . -
m. uhu two rines, a revolver, ammunition,
ppear, and a wood hatched in the 'sleigh.'
1 conveyed my intention to Lota. 'Can
you load these weapons with these cartridges!
I asked.
'Yes.' WAS tlie answer? and alia a
Fuller,* and a'Manton'with true hunter's
skill. I took ona^riAe?look back?the
pack was increasing. I fired, and Lota
loaded; and one after another fell, to be
'devoured by tbeir ravenous comrades, and
still tho horses sped on.
The accu'sed things were for nil this gaining
irround. Hnnlrfo f??? L
OO IICIUUling,
were at my heart as I turned to tbe
sweet girl whose life or death were all in
all to me,and 6aid :
'Lota! if we die together, remember that
I loved you?nono but you ! I tell you now
if I may never again.'
'Kill me first,' sho whispered. 'I hear
your words; I echo them. You bave my
L-l-i n? i - i
uuuru mcuara?'
Oil, Lota! best beloved ! what a moment
to confess.'. And I know not if I felt pain
or gladness most. ^.
'There are now no secrets between us,'
v 7
said Lota, smiling; take Luis rifle; give me
the pistol; one kisa?so. Tliev
+, ?-J ~
me from them at any cost.
I thought my ears wquld have split at
their dreadful yells, forthe'y were now upon
us,opening out out to amrpund us; and
though the horses held bwely on, I dreaded
every instant that sheer terror would paralyKft'iem.
It is in ix?sit>lflto winoaif*
unutterable horror tbat was circling us both;
.young lovers wi.h besting hearts forever
from tbat liqur, interchanged with each
other.'
With lolling tongues, eyes of Annie, hoarse
deep growls, they bad ceased to bavjtpd
howl?they wefatigtiVg in npon us.Wibroarked
one hugpP^tfa#^ fci advarfce of
the resi; bis object,' hying t^Jeap
I um sitngo from mmj, 1 Bred?
raiseed Lira! The next ^^ent Lis bnge
bulk cams sorsrabl'mg over itya.
paws were on me; bis fitly btfath on j my
of our friends, and brought them out in hot
haste to aid ns. We were eaved ; and as 1
bore bore ber fainting form into the hospitable
hall, and clasped ber tenderly to my bosom,
yoA may gness, how sincere was the
gratitude I breathed in sitence to Heaven.
It was thVprelude to a wedding, which
occurred soon afterward ; and yon may be
sure I never forgot my battle with the wolves
how pluckily my noble Lota backed me, or
the somewhat original but apropos mode
in which 4I Told my Love.'
NOTES ON NUBSING.-HINTS TO PLANTERS.
P. C. J. W., of Hagley (whose initials
will explain themselves to many of our readers,)
lias contributed to the Pee Times a
j review of Florence Nightingale's 'Notes on
Nun.ing,' and bloses with tho following hint6
to planters.? Courter.%
We have thus gone through Miss Nightin
gale's little book, avoiding everything which
did not seem of immediate importance to
our community, and omitting, perhaps, the
best and most profoundly Btudied part of
her work. We do trust, however, that 'the
Notes on Nursing' will have the sale it deserves,
and will be made tho vade mecurn
and manual of every planter an I overseer
in the South. If so, it will not only be the
British soldery who will have reason to
blew* the name of Nightingale. """ : ' *
A few words to uur brother planters before
we conclude, which shall be drawn from
our. own experience :
Build a good hospital, in which light,
fresh air, freedom from draughts, privacy
Anrl lilfiatilinpRft ran ka Ahoui'o/I
It will be Answered that hospitals cost
money ; so does everything in this world.
The price of one negro will build one suitable
to a large plantation, and wo know ok
a place4&.tthiuh there wa? a daiy addition
of two acre*1 hoeing caused bo the erection
of the hospital.
Put the best woman you can possibly get
as your plantation nurse; you will soon be
repaid. ?.
FitllAr Riinflrinfo/1 " ?
??uh imopuni jruurncii or
get a suitable person to do so; Why should
not the wives of overseers learn nursing as a
profession 1 This would , on well regulated
places, add considerably to thoir pecuniary
means, and be of^Oxtraordinary advantage
to the proprietor.
We may hope, too, that the mistress and
young ladies of tbdbpface will not disdain to
give llieir personal attention to those by
whose labors they are supported*
Charming as beauty is at the ball or ' at
the play; graceful as it is jo the calm -delights
of the family circle,,we think it qowhere
so fascinating as when WHtchjng by
1- -< ?- * ? --
?v wui/u ui tun puor auu uiv wmicued,
soothing the anguish of the* tortured
body, and 'cheering the bid of death ?*itb
the hope of immortality.' ^ ^
Lord Brougham.? The Scotchman
very significant compliment to
Air. UlsUstone'a oratory, and ayefy striking
incident in itself, appears not to have been
marked by our London cotemporaries. . We
mean the presence of Lc? Brougham
within the walls of tbe Ho a' ? Commons
fur tbe first time during very nearly thirty
y&ars? that ic, since he left it rn 1830 to
tftcome Lord Cbancellorfit is - pretjrJgjUl,
Jdah^^ttbatnLofd Brougham left tbe4B?[tf (
^HKraimons, tb preside over lb# 126^6. of
Lords, *'Uh tbe utmostjpain add reluctance
?thRtim own most earp?j^jftlrro was Dot
to XJt?|t any office whic^'neodsitftted the
al*flS?>,|?fc position'j# iriTiemb?r fdr
Yorkshire, and ^at'iid'^fook a portion
nominally ana muiariy btgher only at (be
most urgent entreaty and rirtual-commat)<1
of bis party. Since his removaHtbC' fljS
never once been to enter as auditor*
tho-e walls whjch bod so often echoed *4$
hjs eloquence. On.^PrlnaV fflght for*2?tf
first time be overcame this remarkable reluctance,
aqdtbep tooj,Jbr the first time'it .if
undersUXK^^l^jjljp tbenoan wtf6^*.o<^
cupies the posiUon'he hitDBoIf to lorfg held
abrivalled . JH$ i^jdisputed?the
orator in tbe^itisnjlogite^ddnitDSoy^
AmKRICA, AS B^bTa MSPtCAL JtAN.
?A vigorous and ^certainly!) fCtj plfcin
ipoken *M. ihat ^Ucoar^ t^^
We are ft nation o^jgluWafl*. oarprefloherai
nre ordained g)utftm?, t tailing l'Sjj^lBar*
^WfflyTIH 8J /y^ - "7
o
PEB JUEY AMOHQ THE CHlHXtS.
When a Chinese is examined on oath,
the formula of cutting off the head of a
white cock is performed by the witness,
who is told that, if be do utter the truth
the blood of his family will alike that of
the cock,, be spilt and perdition overtake
them. My long experience of the Chinese
compels me to believe no oath whatever?
nothing but the apprehension of punish*
menl?affords any, the least security against
perjury. In our Courts In China, various
forms have at different time& been used?
cock bnllMiltnrr tlifo ^ **
? ?y ?uw vivaniug VI ? JiiWAJ V*
pottery; tlio witness repeating imprecations
on himself, and inviting the breaking
op of nil his fallacies if he lied ; the burning
of a piecc of paper inscribed with *a
form of oath, and an engagement to be
consumed in hell, as tbat paper on eartb,
if lie spoke not the truth;?these and other
ceremonies hare utterly failed in obtaining
any security for veracity. While I was
Governor of llong KoDg an ordinance was
passed abolishing the oath-taking, as regards
the Chinese, and punishing them severely
as perjurers when they,/gave false
testimony. The experiment has succeeded
in greatly fortifying and encouraging the
i utterance of 'truth and in checking, obscn
rity and mendacity. I inquired once of an
influential person in Canton what were the
ceremonies employed among themselves
where they sought security for . truthful
evidence, lie said there was one ti&mple
in which a promise made would be more
binding than if made in any othferlocality ;
but he acknowledged their tribunals bad no
security for veracity. There is a Chinese
provero wincn say*, ".run tali, pull clmou,"
meaning "Without blows no truth," and.
the torture is constantly applied,to witnesses
in judicial case?. The Chinese religiously
respect their written, and generally., their
ceremonial, engagements?th$y,jUlose face,"
if these are dishonored. But little disgrace
attends lying, especially undetected., and
unpunished, and the art of lying is ondxroi
the best understood arts of government.
Lies to deceive barbarians are even recomi
mended and encouraged in some . of their
classical books.?A Visit to this Phillip'
pine .Islands. By Sir John Bowringt S.
s. d., f. r. s. %;
VLOVE
OF COUimiY, ^
There is a love of country.- wliich Comes
uncalled for, one knows not who. It comes
in the very air, the-bye/lhe^Mkr; tho'^nstinctp,
the first taste of mother's railk,th?
: first beatings of* the heart, the faces of
brothers and sisters, aqc$ the; loved father
and mother?the Iaucrh nf.nl?vm*(?i.c>tKi>
ywni* - . ?;r * ,r > :
old wiRdir tree, and well, and school-house,
the bees at work in the spring, tho note of
the robin evening,' the lujf^ivjfy the cows
-COta^^borne, the siuging* t>oojr, tlio catechism,
the visits of neighbors, tho general
training? all -things which mako childhood
lir.ppy, begin iJ,; and then;-' ao the*ago of
love and the' boom of home and security md
of property ,?nder law^^oihesto life^ j^od
as the stoi^gbearouo&,and a^vtfae book.o*
newepnper relatea-jho less" fa?a|$]LJfi** &
otljer lands, and tUo publio and the privatB
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