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(succnssons T0 w. w‘. oox,) [)UTCHERSI RIQI«_IM_OND EILLLflAVE FFIrEâ€"Yoxam S12, RICHMOND HILL PETER S. GIBSON, )R/QVJIECSIAL L431 D ‘ SURVEYOR, Richmond Hill, Oct. 24, ’72 Toronto, Decv3: 1867’ January 15, 1873. Horses examined as to splmdness, and also ‘UBI-ISHER AND PROPBIETOR OF ALEX. V SCOTT, TERMS: $1 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE VOL. XVII. NO 49. ADAM H. MEYERS, JR., \V‘ A. ROBINSON’S, L. D. S ADV ERTISING RATES H. SANDERSON & SON, (Late qf Duygan é‘ Meyers,) April 28, 1870 THOMAS CARR, Oxide Gas always “I‘m: YORK HERALD.” H. & R. PUGSLEY, PBOPRIETORS 01“ THE DRUGGISTS. DENTIS’l‘ltY. [S PUBLISHED gf Letter-Press Print- on hand at PER INCH 615-“ 745-ly 756-ly $4 00 3 50 3 00 50 An incident in the early life of the Grand Duchess Marie, who died the other day, is narrated in the German papers in illustration of the great simplicity of manners which used to characterize the Russian and Prus- sian courts. Her parents, Czar Nicholas and the Empress Alexandra, used annually to visit the Prussian king, taking their children with them. So regularly was this visit paid that, in Berlin and Potsdam, it used to ex- cite no further remark than “ the Russians are here again.” On one occasion, while they were at Potsdam, the autumn manoew vres were going on in the neighborhood, and the whole party went out to see the soldiers. The latter were at the time preparing dinner. The cry, “ The King and the Russians are coming,” did not, however disturb them, for the King had long before given orders that his informal ap earance in their midst was to be attended) by no ceremony. “ Keep your places,” he had said ; “ you are hungry, enjoy rest, take no notice, I do not like fuss. ” The two young Grand Duchesses. Marie and Olga, went up to a group‘ (L'ou‘utdfl ' were peeling potatoes, and admired the skill with which they performed the operation. “Can you do that, children Y” asked the‘ King. “ Noâ€"they had never tried it." ‘ “ How? Not yet tried? The sooner the better. No one can be a. clever housewife, without learnin to peel potatoes. Let us see how you could o it.” The two Princesses at once knelt before the fire, receiving acou- . ple of knives, and began their task, the King, the Czar and Empress, Prince William ofi Prussia (the present German Emperor), and ‘ Prince Alexander (the present Czar) all ‘ standing around. A Pomeranian who had given up his knife soon interrupted. “ But, young ladies, you mustn’t cut so deep. You cut away most of the potato, and we shall have nothing left to eat. Do all Russians cut man, and never forgot a. soldier’s name- “ teach them to do it in the Prussian way." Ahlmann, accordingly, showed them how to hold the potato, and how to hold the knife, and exactly how much ought to be taken 01f ; “and soon,” the story goes, “the potato- skins really fell more delicately from the delicate hands of the Princesses.” \Ve are not told what use was afterwards made of this humble but laudable accomplishment. ’â€"â€"P~.04 Alphabet of Proverbs. A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft. Boosters are cousins to liars. Confession of afault makes half amends. Denying a fault doubles it. Envy shooteth at others and woundeth herself. Foolish fear doubles danger. God reaches us good things by our own hand. He has hard. work who has nothing to do. It costs more to revenge wrongs than to bear them. Knavery is the worst trade. Learning makes a man fit company for him- potatoes in {hat wa 1’” “ Right, Ahlmann,” said the Kingâ€"he_ ad before_s_}_)ok_en to the U ver W'atches, Jewelry, &c., 113 Yonge Street, Toronto. \VM. MALLO Y, BAIUUSTER, Attonley, Solicitor-i114 'han cery, Conveyancer, kc. OFFICEâ€"~No. 6 Royal Insurance Buildings, Toronto street. Toronto. Dec. 2, 1859. 59% No one has yet been able to analyze or de- monstrate the essential action of perfume. Gas can be weighed, but not scents. The smallest known creatures‘the very monatls of lifencan be caught by a. microscope lens and made to deliver up the secrets of their organizations, but what it is that emanates from the pouch of the musk deer that fills a whole space for years and years with its penetrating odorâ€"an odor that an inimitable number of extraneous substances can carry on without diminishin its size and weightâ€"â€" and what is it that t 1e warm summer air brings to us from the flowers, no ‘man has yet been able to determine: so one, 39 subtle, so self. One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow. Proud looks make foul work in fair faces. Quiet conscience gives quiet sleep. Richest is he that wants least. Small faults indulged are little thieves. The boughs that bear most hang lowest. Upright walking is sure wulkin . Virtue and happiness are near a in. True men make more opportunities than they find. You never lose by doing a good turn. Zeal without knowledge 18 fire without light. How a Grand Duchess Peeled Pota- toes. hold by Druggists generally. The Dominion \Vorm Handy is the medicine 0 expel worms. Try it. TOO-y Stands permanently above every other Rem dy now in use. It is invahiable. , LSO, the Pain Victor is Infallible for 1 Diarrhoea, stentery, Flox, Colic, Cholera MOI-bus, Pain and Cramp in the Stomach and Bowels, &c. Directions with each bottle and box. Manufactured by H. .MUS'EARD, im nderable, it has eluded both our most de icate weights and measures and our strongest senses. If we come to the essence of each odor, we would have made an enor- mous stride forward, both in hygiene and in chemistry, and none would profit more than the medical profession if it could be as con- clusively demonstrated that such an odor proceeded from such and such a cause, as we alread y know of sulphur, sulphurate hydro- gen, ammonia, and the like. DURING the last seven years the Bank of England has paid 94,000,000 notes, valued at 3,000,000,000 pounds sterling, which would weigh 112 tons, and joined together reach 15,000 miles. Two thousand ei ht hundred and six fail- ures in the United tates for the first quar- ter of 1876. In Canada there Were 477 in the same period. 1‘ USTARD’S Pills are the beat pills you can get for Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Billiousness, Liver, Kidney Complaints, kc. AVE you Rheumatism, Wounds, Bruises, Old Sores, Cuts, Burns, Frost Bites, Piles, Painful Swelllngs, “'hite Swellings, and every conceivable wound upon man or beast ? 7‘ USTARD’S Catarrh Specific Cures Acute and Chronic cases of Catarrh, Neural- gia,Headache,Colds,Uoughs, Urou , Asthma, Bronchitis, 61-0., it is also a gem Soothing Syrup. Modesty is a guard to virtue. Not to hear conscience is the way to silence Mysterious Qualities of Perfume. J. SEGSWORTH, EALER IN FINE GOLD AND SIL- PATENT M EIDICIN l’S. l’liOCLAMA'L‘ION- THE KING OF OILS Proprietor, Ingersbll, In short, Mirk was a pet hamlet, and exhib- ited a. hundred tokens of its patron’s favor. It was surely only right and proper, there- fore, that all the votes in the village at elec- tion time, except the doctor’s, went the ame way with the squires, and that even in social matters he exercised unquestioned sway. Mirk was as respectable as the brotherhood of Quakers, and was rendered so by the simple machinery ; any one in the place who showed a disposition to be otherwise was im- mediately turned out. Did a man drink, so as to cause public disturbance, or pick up sticks (to save himself trouble) out of the park‘fencesâ€"or, worse than all, did he poach â€"-were it but a pheasant’s eggâ€"he received the most peremptory notice to quit the mo- del village. The issuing of these ukases of banishment had been, now and then, a. severe trial to the po ularity of the Lisgards ; but it had outlive all such actsâ€"nay, more, even its favoritism, that seemingly indis ensable element of the feudal system, had een for- given it. Nobody now complained that George Steve, who notoriously never went to bed quite sober, still continued tenant of the Lisgard Arms ; while Jacob Flail and Joseph Dibble had been condemned, with their fami~ lies, to banishment for life for a less habitual commission of the same offence. The day after Christmas Day was friendly to the fox ; in other words, ahard frost ; and since Miss Rose Aynton and Letty had de- clined to play billiards with \Valter until the afternoonâ€"for it is vicious (in the country) to indul e in that pastime in the morning, as it is to p ay at cards before candlelightâ€"that young gentleman, being no reader, felt the time rather heavy on his hands, and strolled into the village to get rid of it. The snow had ceased to fall, but not before, like a good housekeeper when the family has left town, it had covered up everything very carefully, except the tops of the chimneys, through which the tidings of good-cheer rolled forth in dusky columns from ever cottage; for there were no abject poor in l\ irk, thanks to my Lady, or any that lacked vietuals at that joyous season. The Lisgards had ever been a free-handed race, as generous out of doors as hospitable within ; and their influence for good had been felt for generations throughout the village. I do not say that they expected no repayment ; their rule was paternal, and they looked for something like filial obe- dience in return. If a. villager had passed any member of that august family without, pulling his hair, as though it were a bell- andle, in token of respect, it would have been considered a sign of revolution, and they would have congratulated themselves that the yeomanry were in a state of efficienâ€" cy. The feudal system was still in vogue at Mirk, but tempered not only by excellent beef-tea, in sickness, and port wine from the ‘.bbey cellar during convalescence, but by the best Gothic architecture, as applied to cottages. If eleven human beings did some- times sleep in a single room, and the domes- tic arrangements were inferior to those which Mr. Chifney of the Farm provided for his race-horses, the tenement looked outside very picturesque, as seen from the Abbey win- dows. Nay, it must be owned that even the inconvenience of over-crowding was rare in the home-village, in comparison with other places on the Lisgard estate, not so near the family seat, about which everything was in externals, at least, becomingly spick and span. . Dr. Haldane, indeed, who had property of his own, and could afford to entertain politi- cal opinions at variance with those in favor at the Abbey, had been of old accustomed irreverently to adapt a certain popular nur~ sery ballad to the state of things at Mirk. Who built the infant school so red ? Whoget that. oyriklkng 9109!; o'erhead‘ Much less did it strike the villagers that it was inconsistent in a landlord, so careful for the morality of his people, to let so large a portion of the Abbey Farm to a trainer of race-horses, of which there were at present upwards of thirty in Mirk ; and in summer, when the Downland above was fit for their exercise, there was often twice as many. But then Mr. Chifney was not like an ordinary trainer; nor did his jockey-boys, thanks to his strict supervision, behave like ordinary jockey-boys. They attended divine service on alternate Sundays, and half a dozen of them were in the choir. Mr. Moser (who was Anglican) had even taken into consider- ation the advisability of putting these last into surplices, but Mr Chifney had dissuaded him from that experiment. They had al- ways been accustomed to the most tight- fittin of garments, straight-waistcoats, buck- skin fireeches, and gaitersâ€"and perhaps he thought the transition would be too abrupt. Their habits, in some other respects, were loose, and et they were suffered to breathe the Lisga air. Mr. Chifney’s boys were like the servants of ambassadors at foreign ecurts, who enjoy a separate jurisdiction from that to which the native inhabitants submit. The law itselfâ€"at least in the case of petty offencesâ€"was not called in to punish these young gentlemen; but I believe they were ‘ colted ’â€"â€"for the whole discipline was ‘horsey’â€"-by Mr. Chifney’s head-groom. I do not know the exact manner in which this chastisement was inflicted, but it must have differed from the ordinary method, since they never failed to pursue their daily equestrian duties as usual. Mr. Chifney looked after F t himself, and exceedingly sharp. Noth- iu" went amiss through oversight in his cs- ta lishment, and' his employers had every reason to put confidence in him. He left no means untried to insure the success of the costly animals it was his mission to groom and guard. His acceptance of the post of I ehurehwarden had been described by his ene- (-yos. “Cortes,” 5110 said, “ a juypus place 30 dwell, Where exeu HA'gl‘HSFCB prawn.“ T1115 was hm hell The pain-win ed cry fled up to where she stood, And nil-re the meadows to faint symphonies. (Ha watchrd it, silent, through hell‘s breumless mood.) She stooped to listen ; a pure, sweet surprise Flushed .nmugh her face, her son. and s timly ~Allamic [Monthly Then suddenly he bowed his giant forxn,_ Made mn~sive by fierce fighting with his fate, And, voicing in one cry his tense heart-storm. Hurhd it against the inward-opening gate. Deep 1hell stood till afi'righted ; loud-mouthed lute To silence tumed; the flame-flung shadows Hung motionless upon the iron wall. From out the horror and the flame wrought maze" Dread I:Karlrcnem swiftly swined through lurid a 105â€" He lined up his scared and slmscan-cd face; The hell-begotten burden of his eyes. And snw, mldmost of Christ-lit Paradiw, Unclonded now by any touch of shade, The holy face of her he had betrayed. Who made, and at such great expense, Around our pond that iron fence, T6 keep the pigs and boys from thence '8 The Lisgards, &c. 0 tell us the time (0? bed? MIRK ABBEY. Then speak no ill, but lenient be To othcr's failings as your own ; If you‘re the first u fault to see, Be not the first to make it known Fry: lift- is but z}_pnssingfizp; Nd h!) marten-how incf'iiu span 'l'hrunioh‘ thy liitlg fi'nq we stay va's éfiéak of all the heat \rv’cm SPEAK NO ILL. MASTER WA LTER CHAPTER \' DOOM. The Lisgnrds RICHMOND HALL, ONTARIO, CANADA, FRIDAY, MAY'5, 1876. That she was doing no wrong in this was certain, for not only her mother, but every- body in Mirk agreed that there was no sort of harm in Master \Valter, let him do what he mi ht. He had a way of doing things so very ifl‘erent from others. How the very dogs fawned upon him as he sauntered on, and the old hold horse in the straw-yard stretched its gray head over the gate in ho es of a caress as he went by ! How the boys the roadside left their Snow-man an unfinish- ed torso, and ran to make their bows before the good-natured captain, with an eye to largease, in the form of a copper scramble; and how the school-girls courtesied with ad- miring awe, as they pictured to themselves how fine a figure handsome Master Walter must needs cut in gold and scarlet 1 He had a nod or a word for almost everybody, young and old; but if his look but lit upon his mother’s face, it left a pleasure there, as the Sun leaves when it has shone upon one. De- layed by these reciprocal manifestations of good-will, like a youn prince makin a royal pro ress among a we] affected peop e, Wal- ter isgard at length got free of the village, and climbing a steep hill (never used by the racehorses even in much less slip ery weater), arrived at his destination, the bbey Farm. This was a long, low, ancient building, be~ longing to one could scarce tell what date, so pieced, and restored, and added to, had been the original structure ; but when the Abbey was an Abbey, the Abbey Farm had been a sort of branch-establishment, in the occupa- tion of the monks ; there were traces of their sojourn even now; over the pointed porch yet stood a cross of stone, though broken ; and in the garden, now all white and hear, that lay between the house and road, there was a mighty sun-dial, carved like a font with noseless saints in niches, and round the rim 8. scripture, of which alone the words noz ve- m't could be deciphered. The night had come, not only on those who built and blessed such things, but on the faith they professed. The very memory of themselves and it had faded from men’s minds. Not one in ten at Mirkawhere all had owned the abbot as liege lord, and bowed their heads before his meanest monk, in token of their soul’s humil- ity but a few centuries back~not one in ten, I say, could tell even what that niche on the south side of the communion-table meant, which the learned called Piscz'ua. The mighty bowor that had once been the gran- ary of the Abbey, and to which the poor had looked with thankful eyes in times of scar- city, still stood beside the homestead, but the remembrance of its very use was gone ; the only legend clingin to its moss- rown walls was that a Long arliament ha once held its sittings there. Save the farmhouse and the barn, all relics of the sat had been swept away. Immediately be iind them was quite a town of stables and loose-boxes, all of the most modern construction, and fur- nished with the latest inventions for equine comfort. The enormous farmyard, strewn with a carpet of clean straw, was now the exercising-ground for the horses ; but in the summer, a gate at the back of the premises 0 ened immediately upon the grassy upland, t e proximity of which had tempted Mr. Tite Chifney to pitch his tent and enlarge his boundaries at the Abbey Farm. So high had been the rent he offered for this eligible situation. that the late Sir Robert had moved his own agricultural headquarters elsewhere, and suffered Mr. Chifney and his race-horses to occupy the whole place, which was now the capital of the Houwhyhimsâ€"the largest establishment in Great Britain, wherein man held the secondary position, the Horse the principal. “Come, gi’e it to him, and ha’ done wi' it,” cried the old lady, exasperated by her torments. Thereupon the r1 stepped for- ward, head aside. Master alter met her, touched her soft cheek with his lips, and as his silken moustache brushed}? 8}!) Whis- pered and airy something which turned her crimson. There was nothing in the words themselves save the merest compliment; their magic lay in the tone of hi them, so tender, yet so frank, familiar; and yet so racious. Then, with a smile, he bade them 0th ‘ good-bye,’ and strollin through the gate, resumed his interrupte ditty, as though kissing were the most inno- cent as well as the most natural of all pas- times ; but Polly pressed her throbbing brow against the pane for its very coolness, and watched him saunter down the village street with quite a flutter at her heart, and promis- ed to herself that she would not forget the captain’s kiss~â€"no, not though Joe, the under gardner, should speak his mind next ‘ feast ’ (as it was rumored in well-informed circles that he intended to do), and ‘ keep her com- pany ’ in earnest. Polly, a very pretty Iassie, about sixteen, stood pink and hesitating while the ca. tain removed his cigar, and waitedwsmiling emi- godmfor the Promised favor. H “Anna "4 A :4 &,\ LL“ n...) 1.." Ann" "n" “ Oh yes, she’ll kiss you, Master \Valter,” answered the old dame; “there’s no harm in kissing o‘you ; although I wouldn’t say that to my daughter of ne’er another young man in the county. Come, lass, you need not blush so, for I’ve had many a one from the same young gentleman.” And the old (lame laughed and chuckled, until that dread ene- my of honest-hearted mirth, the lumbago, twitched her into her chair. It was to the Abbey Farm that Mr. \Valter Lisgard was now bound ; for to the young gentlemen of England, what is a more inter- esting spectacle than a racing-sfibIeâ€"what is a more charming subject of conversation than the next Great Event? And who more fitted to afford every information upon that impor- tant topicâ€"if he chosewthan Mr. Tite Chif- ney? If he chose. Therein l the whole matter ; for Mr. Chifney was reticent, as be- came one entrusted With a hundred thousand pounds’ worth of horseflesh, upon Whose per- formance depended perhaps, in the aggregate, millions of money. He had put ‘ Master \Valter ’ up to a ‘ good thing,’ however, more than once, and the captain had no doubt but that he would do it again. He never (lid doubt of his own success either with man or woman. Confidence, but without swagger, ‘ self-content, but without vanity, were cvi- ‘ (lent enough in those handsome features, illu- minated almost at all times with the desire 1 to please. He lit his cigar at the hall-door, smoothed away a fallen spark from his seal- skin waistcoat, and took his way down the leafless avenue, humming the latest lively air as he crunched the snow beneath his dainty boots. How different from Sir Richard’s measured step and haughty silence, thought the gatekeeper’s wife, as she hastened out of the lodge, from the side-window of which she had marked her favorite approach. ‘ Never mind me, Martha,’ cried he laughing ; ‘ I‘m tall enough now to reach lthe latch for my- self. My boots are thicker than yours areâ€" lookâ€"and I have no rheumatism, which, I am afraid, you have not quite got rid of yet. Therer~I won’t speak a word with you till you go inside. How’s the guidman? Ah, out is he ‘3 How’s little Polly ? Hullo, Pol- ly, how you’re grown I \Vhy, I daresay she gon’t kiss me now, as she always used to e.’ mies as an attempt to ‘hedge ’wto make friends of those poweus of good which are generally supposed to be antagonistic, if they have anything to do with it at all, to the profession of horse-racing. It is certain that Mr. Chifney, whose occupations seldom per- mitted his own attendance at public worship, never failed to come to church'upon those Sundays which immediately preceded the Derby and the St. Leger, and indeed it is very likely that he treated them (without knowing it) as the eves of his patron saints’ days. “ “Well, the fact is we do sit a good deal in the kitchen,” returned M r. Chifney redden- ing. “ It’s warm, you see, although it’s large, and my wife likes to see how things are going on. She’s engaged there just at {resenh andsâ€"you’re a great favorite of her; ut I would recommend you to step in as you go out, instead of now. A queer thing is woman, Master ‘Valter, and no man can tell how queer till he comes to be married ! Young girls is all sweetness and easily cajol- ed ; but wivesHO lor ! Now, it’s exactly dif- ferent with horseflesh, for the brood-mares one can manage with a little care, and it’s only the fillies that give us trouble, andhave such tempers of their own. There ; that’s :1 Derby nag, Blue Ruin, in the clothes yon- der, and I believe the duke would not sell him for three thousand pounds; but I have told His Grace, as I tell you, thatl wouldn’t back the horse even for a place." “ \Vell, Master “’altei',” grinned the trainer, “I can’t say that I much credit the honesty of anybody myself ; but I don’t see Why you should not have a look at his maj~ esty, particularly as there is one coming here this morning already upon the same errand, and I’m sure I’d as soon o'blige you as himâ€" or, indeed, as any man, let it be who it will.” “You are very kind to say so, Mr. Chif- ney, and still more to mean it, as I am sure you do ; but I feel that I have no right with my bagatelle of a. stake depending upon the matter to take up your timeâ€"nay, I must in- sist upon throwing my cioar away before en~ tering your house ; it is all very well for Mrs. Chifney to give you the privilege of smoking within doors, but I could not venture to take such a liberty myself. What a jolly place this is of yours ; I always think it is so much snugger than the Abbey. I should never sit anywhere but in your grand old kitchen, if I were you.” “ That’s true,” rejoined Mr. Chifney drily, “ but we don’t want steppers, but goers ; there’s a. vest of steppers in this world, both men and horses. Now, in that box yonder, there is an animal who, in my opinion, could give Blue Ruin ten pounds; but you shall judge for yourself: The King’s palace is this next; one.” “ A splendid stepper, too,” exclaimed \Val- tcr admiringly, as the beautiful creature paced slowly mund the staw-yard, with arch- lng neck and distended nostrils, as though he were aware of the trainer’s depreciating rc- marks, and could affogd to kespise them. And truly, scarce could horse be better housed than was his equine majesty. No light-house could be more exquisitely clean ; no drawing-room in Mayfair more neat, or better suited to the requirements of its in- habitant, although of ornament, save the plaited straw that fringed the royal couch, there was nothing. A dim religious light per- vaded this sanctuary, which was kept at a moderate temperaturefiry artificial means, while admirable ventilation prevented the slightest ‘smell of the stable’ from being percepible. The object of all this considera- tion was a ma. ificent bay horse, by rule of Liliput, very tly named The King, since, if “No, indeed, you did not, Mr. Chifney ” (Walter never addressed this friend of his without the Mister), “ and a very great bless- ing it was to yours thankfully at a time when he was even more hard up than usual. Is your Derby ‘ crack ’ visible to day ‘2 I am poor, but honest. I have no motive but that of curiosity, and if suspected of a. concealed weapon, will submit to be searched.” this genial young fellow, with his handsoome face and pleasant speech, and who, more- over, rode across the country like a ceutaur ; he was one of his own landlord’s family, too, and the heir-presumptive of the property, whose favor it was just as well to win and keep; and lastly, the lad had been so un- feignedly grateful to him for the little hints he had occasionally afforded him, as well as so wisely reticent about his informant, that he was not unwilling to help him again to a few ‘fivers,’ if he could do so without the betrayal of professional confidence. “ Come for another ‘ tip,’ eh, Master VVal- ter ‘2” Whispered he good- neturedly as he led the way into the house. “ You see I did not deceive you the last time you were here about C’ambpsu.” Captain Lisgard shook the trainer’s hand with his usual hearty warmth, and Mr. Chifney returned his pressure with unwanted cordiality. He was accustomed to meet men of much higher social rank than his present visitor on something like equal terms ; many of them shook hands with him ; all of them treated him with familiarity. The Turf, like the Grave levels all distinctions. Be- tween the Lord and the Blackleg to make an antithetical use of terms that are not sel- dom synonymous), there is but slight parti- tion on that connnon ground ; the widest gulf of social difference is bridged over, pro mm, by the prospect of an advantageous bet. How much more, then, was this went to be the case in View of the trustworthy ‘ infor- mation ’ which Mr. Tite (,‘hifnoy had it so often in his power to bestow? Marquises had taken his arm in a confidential manner before now in the most public places, and dukes had called him ‘ Tite ;" even ladies of the highest fashion had treated him to pretty ; speeches, and to what they hoped might turn out literally ‘ winning ways.’ But the great trainer estimated all these eondeseensions at 1their true value. He never concealed from ‘ himself the Jnotives that caused these people to-be so civil with him ; and perhaps he had seen too much of the turfite aristocracy to be flattered by their attentions, even had they been disinterested. But \Valter Lisgard’s greeting was different from those which he was wont to receive from his great patrons ; \here was not only a cordial frankness about it, but a something of sympathy, conveyed with marvellous tact, in his air and manner ; which seemed to say : “ Iunfeignedly regret that any like friendship should be impossible between us, for I am your social superior; and yet, how ridiculous a thing it is that this should be so ! I, but the younger bro- ther of a man himself of no great position, and you, at the head of that profesion in which the noblest in the land take so great and personal an interest.’ If Mr. Chifney did not read all this, it is certain that so acute an observer could not fail to read some of it. He was as far from being moved by any consideration not strictly practical as any man connected with horseflesh ; his call- ing, too, rendered him as suspicious of his fem," creatures as a. dice-detective ; but Master affix?" Earl: of flattery was too sub- tiewfor He had I CHAPTER VI. THE RACING STABLE. It was M r. Chiiney in person who admit- ted VValter Lisgard, after a precautionary glance at him through a little grating, which oubtless the monks had used for a similar purpose, although Without the same excuse, for they had never possessed and Derby ‘ cracks ’ to be poisoned. Mr. Chifney might have been himself a monk but for his appa- rel, which, although scrupulously neat and plain, fitted him almost like war-paint, so that there was not a crease to be seenJ ex- cept at the knees, of which he made as much use as the holy fathers themselves did, though not precisely in the same way. His dark hair was closely cropped, and a little bald spot on the top of the crown might well have been taken for a tonsure. Moreover, he had a grave and secretive look, which would have well enough become one in whom were reposed the secrets of the Confessional ; and when he smiled, he looked sorry for it immediately after, as though he had given way to a carnal pleasure. “Is itvso ?”unoth Mr. Derrick warmly; “then let him come with us and. see the Black. Only mind, Mr. Walter Lisgard, I will not have that brother. of yours battered by a fourpenny-piece by anything you may see or hear to-day.” “That, then, must have been the reason why this good-for-nothing rufliain left that country,” thought the captain ; but he ans- wered with humility : “Then, I fear, I should be giving up my best: chance if I went there.” ‘7\Vel‘i,"‘auswered the stranger, somewhat mollified, “ you don’t speak like one of them beastly aristocrats, that. I will say, as though it were too much trouble to open their darn- edJEPS-i’ . . _. Mi". Derrick himself did. not speak like an aristocrat either; his voice, though rich in song, had in speech a. strong northern burr, which rescued it from any such imputation; “ Why if a. man in my country, ” Eontinued he, “ should venture to warn another off his landvunless, of course, it was a. mining claimâ€"as Sir Richard Lisgard ”-~ The look of blank astonishment upon that gallant ofiicer’s face would have set at rest the £101;th of a P_oll_a._ky. “N ow, look you, true as fate, I would tell no other man but you. What I said about The King’s feet was on the square ; but that ain’t all. There’s a horse here as nobody ever heard of, and yet who’s a real good 1111. He’s the one that I said could give Blue Ruin ten pounds. You may et two hundred to one against him at this b eased moment, and he’ll be at twenty to one before April Fool Day. It’s the best thing we’ve had at Mirk yet, andsâ€"Ah, the devil ! here comes the man I was ex ecting; remember we were talking about he King.” “ Morning, Mr. Chifney," said the new- comer. “ And. morning to you, sir, if you ain’t to proud to accept it.” He was a largeâ€"built middle-aged man, with with a, sunburnt countenance, generally good humored enough, notwithstanding the pres- ence of a truculent red beard, but upon this occasion, somewhat sullen, and even defiant. \Valter recognised in him the stranger stop- ping at the Liagard Arms, at once, and was at no loss to account for his displeasure. He had doubtless received some hint that his presence at the Abbey would not be wel. come. “Good-morning, Mr, Derrick,” returned the captain cheerfully. ” There is no pride about me, since, unfortuately, I have noth- ing to be proud of, but if there was, why should I not return a civil reply to a civil speech ‘3’: t “ Oh, because I ain’t good enough to speak to,” answered the other scornfully. “Be- cause I ain’t a. gentleman, forsooth, like your high and mighty family. But the fact is, sir, although I have got decent blood in my veins myself, I come from a. country where we don’t care thatfiand he snapped his fingers with a noise equal to the crack of a. whipAfor who is a man’s father, unless the man himself is worth his salt.” “ Mr. Derrick,” interrupted the captain, “ I am sure it is not the custom in any coun- try in the worldtto abuse a man's brother to his face. Having said that much, I will add that, if you have received any rudeness from any one at the Abbey, I am sincerely sorry for it. It did not emanate from me. Mr. Chifney here will give me a character so far.” “ It is not my habit'to disclose my custom- ers’ secrets,” observed the trainer tartly; “ although I may say that, with Master \Vul- ter, evgrythigg is as safe aiming? “ Master \Valter is as civil~spoken and well-behaved a. young gentleman as any in the county,” exclaimed the trainer warmly ; “ And I will go bail has never given you or any man offence. He has just stepped in, like you, to see ‘ the crack,’ on which he has a. little money ; and since I am one of those who say : ‘ It is no use now a days to at- tempt to take in your enemies, and therefore your friends must sufl'er,’ I have been giving him some advice.” “ About Mam/lam ?” inquired the stranger suspiciously, turning sharp round upon the cap’gain. fiifiséa: Valxi‘d sfiehkihggldfidflfof the ‘fii‘st time; observed in a. solemn tone : “ \Vhat a. fellow you are to read a. chap !” returned the trainer admiringly. “ Burst my buttons, but you are a cunning one, Master Walter ! It is true that I was thinking of let- ting you into a. little secretâ€"though after all it mayn’t be worth much. Let us come on the tan-gallop for five minutes, for nowhere else can we get outof earshot of these boyé.” With that, passing through a paddock, itself rovided with a straw-ride, so that the race- fiorses need not set foot upon the frost-bound turf as they issued forth to exercise, Mr. Chiftey led the wily to the upland, where a Chine led the way to the broad rown road of tan u “You {veré going to tell me something, Mr. Clifney, only you thought better of it,” said Captain Lisgard, laying his finger upon the other’s coat-fluff, as the emerged from the royal presence. “ Am yet you trusted me when Iwas but a. boy at school, and I never abused your confidence." “ If you take my advice, you will hold on, ” said Mr. Chifney confidentially. “ TWenty pound is little to lose, and what I have shewn you by no means destroys his chance ; more- over, The King will not be deposed in the betting. I shall be surprised if, in the pad- dock, they lay more than three to one.” “It is of small consequence tAo me,” said \Valtcr; “ but I shall be sorry if the winner does not come out of your stable. 1 took a thousand to twenty in October, which I can now heng to_ great aflv'antage.” It was so, or at least it seemed to be so to the captain, as the trainer returned the faul- ty member to its proprietor, with the air of a. banker declinihg a forged cheque. “ Just what my lord says," observed the trainer in the same low tones; “nor can I make him see that there is any degree of con- traction. But he is not your horse, so tell me ; look nowâ€"is_it not? so 'i” It was a. great temptation to Captain \Val- ter Lisgard, of the 104th Light Dragoons, to show himself horse-wise, but he put it from him manfully, or rather with strength of mind far beyond that of most men of his class. “ The pasterns seem to be long and strong enough,” answered he, “ and the feet neither too large nor too small." Most men who ride think a. disgi‘acc not to know all about a horse. Every man who keeps a pony thinks himself qualified to ‘ pick ’ out the winner from any number of thoroughbreds before ‘ the start ;‘ and when the race is over, protests that he had picked him out in his own mind, only something (not quite satisfactorily explained) made him distrust his own judgment, and back a loser. “ Well, sir,” whispered the trainer, look- ing up toward a square hole in the ceiling, “ it is not for me to depreciate ‘ the crack ;” and there's a boy up yonderâ€"for the horse is never left for a moment night or dayrwwho is getting too sharp to live, at least in my sm- bles. But look at what he stands on." “ This gives the world assurance of a horse indeed,” muttered “falter to himself as he contemplated this wonder. “ Show me his faulgs, Mr. Chifney, for his excellences dazzle not a head taller than his fellows, he was fully ‘a hand.’ His coat quite shown amid the gloom, and as the key turned in the door, he pricked his long fine ears, and turned his full eyes upon his two visitors inquiringly, with far more expression in his lean-jawed face‘than is possessed by many almman crea- 'ture. “ My brother never bets on any race,” an- REAL fidelity may be rare, but it existsâ€" in the heart. They only deny its worth and power who never loved a friend, or labored to make a friend happy. it must have been very sore, and I woi'zld have been nervous about it if it had happen- ed to Polly. All seem to be very happy. “70 had a great deal of pleasant talk in the garden. Dear, good General Grey drove me home. ” THREE car loads of Centennial goods have been thrown off the track three miles from Port Henry, between Burlington and VVhite- hall. They rolled down a twenty foot em- bankmcnt. THE QI'EEN AT HER SPINNING WHEEL. “ Damiouiui, 15th October, 1866.â€"~The Queen is pleased to command me to remain here till Tuesday. I found Mr. Cardwell had been in the Barony, and, to the great amuse- ment of the Queen, he repeated my scold about the singing. [Scripture commands us to ‘ sing ’â€"not gruntâ€"but if you are so con- stituted physically that it is impossible for you to sing, but only to gruntâ€"then it is best to be silent.] After dinner the Queen invit- ed me to her room, where I found the Prin- cess Helena and Marchioness of Ely. The Queen sat down to spin at a nice Scotch wheel, while I read Robert Burns to her :â€" ‘ Tam O’Shanter,’ and ‘ A man’s a man for a’ that,’ her favorite. The Prince and Princess of Hesse sent for me to see their children. The eldest, Victoria, whom I saw at Derm- stadt, is a most sweet child; the youngest, Elizabeth, 2» round, fat ball of loving good- naturc. I gave her a real hobble, such as I give Polly. I suppose the little thing never got anything like it, for she screamed and kicked with a pcrfectjurore of delight, would go from me to neither father nor mother or nurse, but buried her chubby face in my cheek, until I gave her another right good hobble. They are such dear children. The Prince of \Vales sent a message asking me to go and see him. * * * * When I was there the young Prince of Wales fell on the wax-cloth, after lunch, with such a thump as left a. swollen blue mark on his forehead. He cried for a minute and then laughed most bravely. There was no fuss whatever made about him by mother, father or any one ; yet “ You have hit it,” responded the bearded man with the air of a. proprietor. “ This here child is the Co. in question.” Norman Macleod and the Queen. FIRST SERMON AT CRA'mIEf “ I preached without a note the same ser- mon l preached at Morven, and I never looked once at the royal seat, but solely at the congregation. I tried to forget the reat ones 1 saw, and to remember the great ne 1 saw not, and so I preached from my heart, and with as much freedom, really, as at a mis- sion station. * * * In the evening, after daundering in a green field with a path through it which led to the high road, and while sitting on a block of granite, full of quiet thoughts, mentally reposing in the midst of the beautiful scenery, I was roused from my reverie by some one askin me if I was the clergyman who had preac ed that day. I was soon in the presence of the Queen and Prince ; when Her Majesty came forward and said with a sweet, kind, and smiling face, ‘ \Ve wish to thank you for your ser- mon.’ She then asked me how my father wasâ€"what was the name of my parish, etc., and so, after bowing and smiling, they both continued their eveningzwalk alone. And thus God blessed me, and I thanked His name. I posted home by Glensheeâ€"not well â€"and was in bed all the week. So ends my story. I read its‘commencement and ending to remind me how God is always faithful. “0 ye of little faith, wherefore did ye doubt?’ ” A “ And who is this Monsieur Blanquette ‘3” inquired Walter carelessly as they walked down the village street. “He was a. mate of mine at the gold-dig- gings in British Columbia, and the only Frenchman as ever I saw there. We did a pretty good stroke of Work to ether; and when we came home, he investe his money in horseflestx, and tyat therg Manylawa was .1 one oihiaflégp st_ bargains.” Blanquette 1S ohly piit'bwner of t1;e hoggg‘g” gbserY‘ed yhle cggtzain inquiring]! _' au' “ That’s so,” rejoined‘the othér. “ t be longs to him and a company.” _ ‘ And you are the company, eh, Mr. Der- rick “ At all events, I will wall; with you, my good air,” answered the captain laughin ; and so, forgetting to repeat his request to i0. permitted to pay his respects to the trainer’s wife, he took his departure with his new ac- quaixitax‘ice; “No, Mr. Derrick; but I shmfld like to thank you very much for letting me into this secret, which, I assure you, shall never pass my lips ;” and he held out his hand to the stranger. “ Gur way lies together as far as the inn," returned the other warmly ; “ We’ll liquor WW”. But there ; I forgot I was no longer in Cariboo. I dare say a. gentleman like you don’t liquor so earl): ill'Ehe day.” L “ That’s the present quotation,” answered Mr. Derrick with a chuckle, and rattling a quantity of loose silver and gold in his breeches’ pockets. “ Perhaps you would like to lay it in poiiies'ufith Mr. ghifney and me. ” “ Two hundred to one against Mr. JBlan- quette‘s Memelaus,” murmured \Valter pathet- ically, as thmgh it were a line from some poem of film}; actions. “We hope not,” returned the trainer, winking facctiously at his bearded friend ; “but-mm. Shall we tell him what we do hope, Mr. Dex-Tick ‘2” 2‘ I’ll tell him myself," quoth the other im- pulsively, “ for you say the young gentleman is safe, and I have taken a sort of unaccoun- table fancy to him. We hope, and more than that, believe, Captain Lisgard, that that same ragged-hippml ho‘rsc will win .the Qerby I” “ So far as that goes, although he is a Frenchman,” answered the trainer, “ he has Godolphin blood in his veins. But only look at his ragggd hips _!” “11agéc7l cnoixgh, Mr. Chifncy, And do you mean to say that this animal will be a public. fayoritc 2’” ' “An ounce of blood is worth a pound of bone, says the proverb,” remarked the cap- tain. you “ It is my opinion that he will be at Very short odds indeed,” returned the trainer : “ and many more people will be desire of paying him a call than do him that honor just at present. This is his stable. He does not look quite such a likely horse as The King, Master \Valter, does he? There’s bone for “Ay, than him. But it’s called Many. laws,” explained Mr. Derrick; “for you wouldn’t think of calling the Oaks' mare Antigown, I suppose, Antigone. Well, the Black ain’t fancied much, I reckon; but he will be, Mr. Chifney, eh? He will be ‘2” “ Not unless you mean the French horse, about which there were a few lines in Bell some tune ago Mmelaus.’ “ Thwefi' come alnng with me and Mr. Chif< ney," said the stranger, holdin out his hairy hand in token of amity. “ ’ou’ve read a deal about that crack as I’ve just been look- ing at ; but I dare say, now, you have never so much as heard of this same Mung/laws.” swered the captain quietly ; “ so that promise is gaffin given.” _ THE YORK HERALD Terms:â€"One Dollar per Ammm in Advance 9n rUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE M. Teefv“ Em, Isued \Veekly on Friday Morning YONGE Sn, RICHMOND HILL ALEX. SCOTT, Pnornmron. [TO BE CONTINUED] WHOLE N0 928.