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snow of the plum— [ shall think how I used to watch, so happy to s€¢ you pass, I could almost kiss the on the dewy grass. I am notashamed of my love! Yel I would not have yours now, Though you Jaid it down at could not sloop so low ; A loveis but half a love that contents with less i love’s utmost faith, and truth, and | unwavering tenderness.

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LITERATURE, PAL WLNR BRAA AAA AAAALA SN” THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH. CHAPTER IIL. — Concluded

lhus conversing, they arrived at the cot- tage. In the meantime it had become | guite dark, and Ulric was obliged to take the doctor's hand, and lead him through the passage and equall dark room.

‘Here I am mother, and the doctor is al- ‘You shall see me directly. I can get a light.” No reply followed these words. ‘ Doctor, she still sleeps,’ said Ulric, addressing the latter. ‘Lam not surprised; for when I left she seemed exhausted. |

ier sir?’

so with me,’ he said, on entering.

Shall | awake |

* First get a light, that we may be able to returned the doctor. ‘Tben I can judge what is best to be done.’

The doctor stepped towards the bed, and let the light fall full upon the face of the | invalid. It was very pale, and the eyes were closed. He took her hand and felt | for the pulse, but the hand was cold and | lifeless

sae? see,

He bent down close to her face, | and listened for her breath, but it was | gone, and the more.

Silently shaking his head, the doctor put the candle upon the table, and gazing sor- rowfally at the boy, he said gently,

weary bosom heaved no|

‘Do not grieve too deeply, poor boy. | am come too late, and can be of no further use here.’

Ulric did not quite understand him.

‘Only wait, dear sir, untilshe awakes,’ he said entreatingly. ‘It will not be very Jong, for my poor mother during the past year has slept very unsoundly. ’

‘It isuseless to deceive you,’ said the

‘From this sleep your mother | will never more awake ; for she has gently and peacefully expired.’ |

Uirie wept aloud, and threw himself sob- bing on the bed, and kissing the pale lips

him, and which were now, alas! silent for ever. In vain the doctor tried to con- sole him. Ulric seemed to listen atten- tively, but answered his questions vaguely. At length, the doctor left him alone with his great sorrow, and with the dead, but not until he had promised to see him again

done forhim. Ulric did not even observe that the doctor went away. He wept, pressed his hands together and lifted up| his heart to God.

Ulric was still on his kness, sobbing and

He started at the sight which presented itself, then drawing nearer, he laid his hand on Ulric’s shoulder. When the boy looked up he recognized the gentleman in the brown coat, who had at first reproved him for his apparent idleness, and afterwards highly commended his zeal and energy.

‘Ah, sir,” he said bitterly ‘my poor mother is dead!’

‘Gracious Providence!’ replied the stranger. ‘This is a distressing loss for you, my poor youth. Has she been long ill?’

‘Yes, indeed, for some years,’ replied Ulric, sobbing. ‘ut [ always hoped that in time she would be well again. I little thought that she would die, or | would

have brought a doctor to her, and worked | for her to my utmost strength. And now, | when | have brought him, alas! it is too | late.’ | Deep emotion was depicted on the pale \face and sharp features of the stranger while he silently observed Ulric; and then | he murmured to himseif, ‘ A bo!d intrepid, ‘and, at'the same time, a kind and aflec- | tionate heart. This boy shall never want as long as old Breitenbach can take care of him. Perhaps God has destined him to | cheer thefevening of my life, and to com- | pensate me for my past loss.’ * Listen to me, Ulric,’ at length he said | aloud ashe took the boy’s hand, ‘ Are you now solitary in the world ?’

i ‘ Yes,’ replied the lad, sighing deeply,

Pisquid, Johnston’s River, &e., Friday, | « quite alone, now my mother is dead.’

‘Well my boy, it is the same with me.

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come and live with me? I will replace | your lost parent ’

| «Ah, dear sir, nothing can ever replace | this loss!’

‘True,’ returned

'*I see that you loved your mother dearly, ‘and, therefore, I am not surprised, but, on | the contrary, pleased that you speak thus.

the old gentleman.

print of your foot |

‘and kind to those who deserved it.

| ance with these principles ;

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row, time will heal them Iam an old man, and I speak from experience, for God has bereaved me of many beloved ones. ButI donot murmur, for it is asin to repine against God’s appointments. Whatever He does is right. We may weep

and lament when a loved being is taken |

away from us but we should not murmur, Weep on, then, my bey, but try to com- pose yourseif snd to overcome your sors row, as you this morning braved danger. I should have brought you the hundred Louis d’ors which I promised to the rescuer of the child, but at present [ have another Now you do not want money— You shall find ome in

Intention.

me. 1 will take care of you; and! will give youa home now that you have lost your own Therefore do not despond or

ferr Now imust go. Will you come with

ime?’

‘Ulric shook his head, and pointed to The gentleman understood him.

‘You wish to say that [must leave you with your mother,’ he said kindly. ‘Well,

stay here; but I will send some one, that |

And now I will come again to-morrow.’ He pressed Ulric’s hand with affectionate sympathy, and left the poor boy.

you may not be quite alone, farewell.

After a short interval, an old man in plain clothes, with a friendly, honest countenance, seated himself silently in a corner, as he observed that Ulric was quite absorbed by without observing the led, who never once observed that he was there, but continued

grief

| to pour forth his sorrow without restraint ; | but the fiercest storm must at last cease. | Ulric’s tears flowed less frequently, and at

lengty, overpowered by exhaustion, he fell

_ asleep upon his mother’s deathbed. Then,

for the first time, the old man rose from his seat, and taking up the light, he re- garded Ulrie’s countenance by its light. Tears still hung on his long dark eyelashes, and his lips were painfully compressed, nevertheless, the old man said—

‘ Yes, yes, it is a good, pleasant coun-

"tenance, and I hope to God that my master

will have comfort in the youth.’

As he said these words. the old man put down the light, and taking the sleeping boy in his arms, he laid him softly on the

hay sack, which had been his usual couch.

He covered him with a blanket which he had brought with him, and listened to his breathing, which at first was continually interrupted by low sobs, but at length be- came quiet, deep and regular,

‘So,’ he said to himself, ‘ here is another troubled and weary heart composed to rest in sleep! Ah, how unspeakably good is God, who for every serrow has sent us the healing balm of sleep! Sleep on, poor boy, and dream of your mother; then in the midst of all your affliction, you will be for a few hours happy !’

Mr. Breitenbach who had promised to adopt the destitute orphan, was in many

respects a very peculiar man, though per-

haps none could possess a better or kinder heart than his; he was, however, only good Indo- lent and false men could nowhere find a

more severe judge than the otherwise ) gentle Mr. Breitenbach.

‘No man can prevent misfortune,’ he was wont to say; ‘ these come from God. But

‘everyone in possession of his five senses

can discern between right and wrong; and if a man is so foolish as to do evil against his own conviction, and against the voice of conscience, he does not the compassion of his neighbors, but on the contrary, their contempi and censure.’

Mr. Breitenbach acted always in accord-

deserve

’

if they were honest and respectable always found a friend !n him; but lazy people,

| who could work and would not, might as

soon have moved and softened a rock as Thus it happened that

/of the many people with whom, in the

course of his long life, he had had inters course, some praised Mr. Breitenbach be-

| yond measure, while others virulently cen-

sured him. Those who disliked him were worthless characters : and those who com, mended him were always men who stood high in general estimation, and of whom no one could with truth speak evil. Now, the former knew only the rough, and the latter the soft side of Mr. Breitenbach’s character, so both were in some degree right. the censurers and complainers forgot the slight circumstance that Mr. Breitenbach did not assist them when they

applied to him for his help, for no other

: . | reason than because they did not deserve , praying by his mother’s bed, when the |

door was opened, and a stranger entered

| that room of poverty and sorrow. the winter |

it; they threw the blame, therefore, upon Mr. Breitenbach alone; and to bave listen- ed to their judgment one might have bes lieved him to be the most parsimonious and unmerciful manonearth. + And when he could so easily have helped us if he would!’ exclaimed the discontented. ‘There is no end to his riches the miser- able miser! But with all his money he would rather cut off his finger than lend a helping hand toa poor man!’

As to his riches, they were perfectly right, although we know what to think of his cove. tousness. A man who not only lends, but gives hundreds to raise an honest artisan from depressed circumstances, and who, wherever he finds misfortune united with integrity, extends a ready hand to its assis~ tance—such a man is no miser; yet there were circumstanees which might eastly lead to the conclusion that he was avaricious, for Mr. Breitenbach, the millionaire, lived as frugally and retired as if he had scarcely enough income for the necessaries of life. ‘ Others, perhaps, in his situation,’ people said, ‘ would have bad a fine house, carri- ages, and horses, and would have given balls and entertainments, and have had «a man- sion in the principal street of Hamburgh.’ But Mr. Breitenbach had none of these. He dwelt outside of the city in» small one< storied house, which was prettily and plea~ santly situated in a large gardem on the banks of the Elbe, but neither within nor without was to be seen the slightest trace of

superfluous or luxurious @Xpense ; on the |

contrary, he let his large four-storied house, which was in the city, and received a con- siderable rent for it. He lived in his small house something like a sail in his shell: and had no one with him ¢xcept his old and faithful Martin, who had been forty years in his service, and the cook who manag ed his houshold, and who had been ten years or more with him.

It was not a very hard service, for Mr. Breitenbach contented himself with the simplest fare, and he never required more than one dish on his table. He did not eat

Here he sat quietly, |

and the poor | who came to him to solicit his assistance, |

‘as cool and fresh as he could have it. If the old cook sometimes complained that he did so little honour to her culinary art, he

| smiled, and praised temperance, to which,

| he said, he owed the vigor and strength of | his old age,

| : : | brought by old Martin, as soon as his foster. | /mother whom they considered his own | py Capital Stock

mother, was buried. Mr. Breitenbach took

him by the hand, and welcomed him to his | home, and made a little speech to him, in which he particularly admonished him al- | Ways to speak the truth.

‘makes us no longer triends ; fora man who so far degrades himself as to violate truth, does not deserve the friendship and confi. dence of an honest man.’ | Ulric listened very attentively to Mr. | Preitenbach, and promised to observe most

exactly all his injunctions. Then followed

learning of the boy had not been much at tended to , nothing was said of writing or | arithmetic, and he read very indifferenily. _ Mr. Breitenbach shook his head, as he | said ‘It is well that you have not fallen in. | to other hands. Your mother was probably | & very worthy woman, but she has undoubt- ' edly neglected you.” | Ulric co'oured | could bear censure cast upon himself, yet | he could not be silent when his foster-mo- | ther was blamed. ‘No, she has not neglected me!’ he cried, | eagerly. *As long as she was well, I went _ regularly, and very willingly, to school ; but . afterwards, when she became il, it was ne- cessary that I should remain remain at /home to spin, and got out to beg for her, | that she might not want; and I have now done this for several years, and I have therefore, forgotten the little which I once | knew. But that does not signify; IT can } now learn it again.’ | ‘Quite right, my boy, and | will give you | an opportunity of doing it!’ exclaimed \r. 3reitenbach, who was not offended with U1. ric for defending his mother so eagerly. lie took him by the hand, and conducted him up-stairs into the attic and showed him a | small but comfortable little room, which commanaed a view over the Elbe. There | Was nothing in it but a bed, a table, a chair |and a book-case, and even these were of ‘the simplest kind. The bed consisted only | of a mattrass and pillow of horse-hair, anda thick Llanket; the rest of the furniture | was equally plain, and made of pieces of | deal joined together. Nevertheless, Ulric’s

| eyes glistened when he heard that this |

| yoom, and all in it, was to be his property. | He had never before been so rich, and he , had not slept in a bed for a long time ?” | ¢ And are all these things indeed mine ” he said, ‘All yours, as long as you are good and | industrious,’ returned Mr. | reitenbach. | Ulric was newly, but simply clothed, and | sent to school. He was obliged as Mr, Breitenbach had forseen, to sit amongst boys of seven or eight yea:s old , but if he had only a little ambition, he would exert himself in order to raise higher. This ex- pectation was fully justitied. Ulric blush- ed deeply when he, ® boy of thirteen years old, was obliged to take his place amongst little boys; but he exerted himself, and worked day and night with unwearied in- dustry. Mr. Breitenbach smiled to him- self, for here were all his anticipations re- leased ; and before a year was passed Ul. ric was in the same class with boys of his wn age, and in three years he had passed through the school, and was in the first | clase.

Tu he continued.

THE DEFARTMENT INTERIOR. Che first annual report of the Depart- ment of the Interior, which is presided over by the Prince Edward Island repre-~ sentative in the Government, Mr. Laird, has just been issued. The subjects eme braced in this department are the affairs of the North West Territories, the lands and the affairs of the Indians of Canada, the ordnance «nd admiralty lands, the Crown Lands in Manitoba and the North West, and the geological survey of Canada. All of these subjects, with the exception of the ordnance Jands, are matters which each year may be expected to increase in interest and importance, and all are very fully treated inthe Report. A very large amount of information with regard to the various Indian tribes and bands in the Dominion has been got together through the various Indian Agents, in answer to circular letters, and the reader is enabled to obtain a tolerably accurate view of the condition of the Indians of Canada. We regret to say that it appears from these reports that the Indians of the Maritime Provir.ces are much behind their brethren in the West in every particular, both as regards wealth and character. Compare, for instance, the position of our aborigines with the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, who are increasing in numbers steadily, are possessed of two very fine stone churches, and have three schoolhouses, one is built of briek, in which the branches of learning are taught the same as in the other public schools of the Province. The Six Nation Indians, too, are possessed of good farms, and use reapers, mowing machines and threshing machines, as freely as the white farmers of the same locality. Some of the British Columbia Indians are also quite weaithy and possessed of large herds of cattle and horses. In that Province, we gather from the report that the refusal of the Provincial Government to set apart sufficiently large tracts of land for Indian reserves has produced some discontent, which it is to be hoped may be allayed shortly. The mumber of Indians in Brit- ish Columbia is about 35,000. ‘They seem to be mere of a pastoral and agricultural people than the aborigines of the eastern parts of Canada. The Report also contains very full in‘ors

OF THE

veyed townships of Manitoba, together with an admirable map of that province, which will be invaluable to the intending settler.

| ants, and the work is to be continued this |year. The Treaties which last year were -made by Lieut. Governor Merris with the | Indians of the North West, by which 52,- | 000 square miles of territory was surren- | dered, is also set out at length in the re~ | port and a full account supplied of the negotiations connected with the affair ; and statements are also given with regard to | the International Boundary Survey which | was brought to a close last year. The whole report is extremely interesting.— St. John Telegraph,

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‘Tue Sixth Annual Meeting of the Stock- holders of the Nerchants Bank of Ilalifax

| was held yesterday at the Halifax Hotel ; |

Mr. Thomas FE. Kenny, President in the ‘ u | tion which we have no doubt that hundreds

chair. The following statement was submitted : Palance Sheet, 31st December 1874,

NO. 14.

WOOD ASHES AS A FERTILIZER.

How can | best utalize that big heap of

ashes out by the wood pile? This is a ques-

of the some adil thousands of farmers who read this paper have suggested to them-

| selves, now that the milder weather renders

Dr.

Ninh dhe denne ier SOG UO0 Gis Mt TE PI gies cercanses, noes 150,030 00 TOA iin cocvivaresmsne aici’ cose 723,739 11 “ Deposits not bearing Interest... 392,804 44 “ Deposits bearing Interest ...........629,219 72 | ED Ci RO AOI a issn sve ences 16,847 47 | “ Dividends unclaimed............... 232 40 ‘ Dividends. No. 10 payable 22d Jan. 32,000 00 ~ Balence of Profit and Loss.. 6.996 8?

“7? 41) 830 9G Cr. By Specie............... $181,908 23 *“ Dominion Notes 177,795 43 Notes of and (Cheques On

Gther Banks... 88,871 54

— ——— B44T 875 3y »evkdy eae O2

6,315 86

By due by other Banks.........

By Notes discd. Current, Bills of Exchange and other assets 2.377,832 83

%2.9] ),239 96

Profit and Less,

Te Diwldeod NG, Bick. ccccnsescoscscesnesseo eee OO - r Bi ince Sensekase ob ccactacae See ee

To Reserve Fund ............0c0-++ . 59,009 00 To Balance to new aceount...............6 6,996 $2

$129,995 82

By balance from last statement.......... $13,587 28 By net Profits for 1874, after providing for bad or donbtful debts.........107,409 54

$120,996.82 The Shareholders present appeared highly gratified at the flourishing position of the Bank, and after a few remarks from the Chair, relative to the past year’s busi ness and the prospects for the present year, the adoption of the Report was moved by Mr. W. J. Stairs and seconded by Mr. John S. Maclean, and passed un- animously. The old Board was aso unanimously res

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drafts on the wood pile less frequent. In nine cases out of ten, we wager that the

| speaker's excellent spouse immediately res

marks that sie is about to sell them to the soap-maker ; andat the money? well that is her perouisite and it would be very un-

gallant on our part tg venture a suspicion as toits outlay. Still, we dishke to sex these ashes go to the soap boiler, and perhaps a word as to their value to

onr farmer friend may cause him to think as we do, so with a word of apology to both madame ard the soapman for our umwar- rantable interference with their little we venture io suggest that those

ashes are very much more valuable asa

' fertilizer than for lye.

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We suppose that every a-days has some general idea of the prin- ciple of restitution; that is to say, the ele- ments necessary to the growth of vege- tables must be replaced; and if they are not, the crop either fails utterly, or at best is deficiert in health and growth. The amount of these elements, phosphorus lime, potash, and several other placed, varies according to the vegetables cultivated. Thus a potato crop from seven and a half aeres of land takes away the seed constituents of four wheat about 6°0 pounds of potash. The + turnip produce of the sime area removes the seed constituents of four wheat crops and about 1°00 pounds ot potash. Simt- larly also grapes, clover, peas, beans, iu- cerne, and neerly all leguminous vegetables

agricuiturist nows

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: > Cro} s, Desities

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remove potash in immense quantities. [t is evident that in such cases potash is the

material which the land most requires to produce a new crop. To buy potash and add it to the soil would be expensive ; true, it may be procured in combination with other substances in various fertilizers, but there is a much simpler source for it, and that source is the ash heap, which otherwi+e the soap man purchases.

Profeszor Store, whose recent paper on

elected as follows: Thomas Abott, James | the fertilizing properties of wood ashes we

Butler, Michael Dwyer, Thomas E. Kenny, Hon. J. Northup, John Tayler, Joseph Weir.— Monelary Times, March 12.

FIRE INSURANCE IN W874.

The New York Spec/a/or gives an interest- ing survey of the result of the Fire Jnsur- ance business in the United States for the past four years. Weextract from the res turns of the principal English compznies

transacting business in the Union, the following :-— ” s = = ia > = an sk £ aes Aha + Ss <sm «28 35 ~ om e's = 2 ci = eS a. 72) Re See Liverpool Lon- — i dow and Globe..$3,771,552 $2,888,834 $1,897,328 scant ei Ge rr 2,138,570 = 1,929,895 1,244,315 North British and Mercaatile........ 1,687,800 1,576,500 POR cheicscsvansccss 1,141,287 Imperial............. 922,625 $22,593 464,355 Commercial Union 750,274 756,353 599,501 CUAPTIAS......, --nr 694,404 = 137,3 60,901 Lavcashire......... 353,444 958,498 301,792

It is evident that the United States business of the year has been largely protit~ able. The largest amount of profit earned was that of the Liverpool and London and Globe, reaching nearly a million dollars, Four companies, the Liverpool and London and Globe, Royal, North British and Mer. chantile, and the Queen-~show assets and premium sheets, within the limits of the Union, ranging into the millions

The lessons of Chicago and Boston have not been lost, so far as the great English companies are concerned. While the credit gained by their prompt and ready payment ofail claims in full has greatly strengthen,

ef their business, the large losses in the | already remarked, to

fires of 1871-72, have taughi the companies

' the necessity of carefully controlling the

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| business centre; and, large as are

| very likely never sheltered. 'and became the mother of a long race of | criminals and paupers, and her progeny is mation with regard to the soil of thesur-| db