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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-2-23, Page 7it nun AND :DIJSEHOLD. Lore ON THE FARM. At the foot of the hill the milk house stands, Where the B$1m of Gilead spreads his bands, And the willow netts atwelt peede it tip, The lazy lash of a golden whip. • And ex ice-cold spring with a tinkliagsonnd, Makes a bright green edge for the dark green ground. Cool as a gave fs the air within, Brave as the shelves with the burnished tin Of the curring ahoree, and the seas of white That two to gold in a single night, Ats if the disc of a single BIOOO Should take the Mut of a new doubloon I Burned to a coal is the amber day, Noon's apleadid fire has failed away, Aird, lodged on the edge of a world grass grown, bike a great live amber glows the sun ; When $i falls behind the erimaon bars Lao; out for the sparks of the early stars. With the clang of her bell a motherly brma— No trace of ker Mune handed down-- Ies leading the long deliberate line Qf the Devon lr�e�d and the Teethe= flan ii Otade ss : "� Co-bose 1" and the caravan With a dowager swung carnes rlowa thelane And lowing along freest the sloler bed Teeogs over the bass with a lumbering tread. U edea tate aeee$ the patient beasts, Oa their tripod steels 1c1;.elAythian priests, Tito tote -clad hop rand the limey girls Mho tlae caws'"&ivnn down" !wl apI T Swirls. There's einem, ;Imola the drilled Pelle, Theta's to aeafeatn meth is the driv ling gales, Theta baa mad girin with whistle and sotrg, Two pelts apiece, nameedar along The windiegpetle in the gnldcet glom, Aird **SW* the milk he the twilight roti. F.rr.at LAIS. often'seem letters ;.sling questio4V ifn relation to furiu law. Adapted to various lca4litic3.Ina cace4 when beat questions intervene, refeteaeo m%H, reuses of OD bohad to Stats fewa operative thereto. .as cover, leg 'tome point relative to Highway law„ of a ,geiweral character, Auatin% Ferrolaw says : A deed of a farm toweled ou a highway e he center of the title to t glace tae r't_ to fa r a i bee exclusive r tut t the rand and: he bwa the g the apil, subject to the right of pose la the public. fie can 1410,114tain. rem eaCtion' against any pere"on who dige up the eoi'1 or carte chart arty trete g rowlug ou the aide of the road, or etepesit;s toned, venae; Qr other Mega ther+eeu, I•fe ir'►y crrry the water la pikes imicr rho bigtawey etas use the grate, two, stones, sand, or anything of value to laic which area in tale h,'x:,f of the reed, subjezt too true right of the pulstie to travel over the highway. The termer eel maintain on action ogzirret euy Freon who cute his treve en the hi ;Hinny to order to move buildings. The fact that the i,W.tr has obtained percniseionfrom thetownrrould not exempt Min froth iiebility. And no ptrsoa lies a right to hitch hie horao to e tree which ateuds vn the roedeide, or Erick up fruit which hair fat.eu :port the ground front the came. ERiploy only trustworthy help to caro for your live stack, Increase the feed of fetteuieg animals and protect them from the cold. The latest competition threatening Tritiah femora is the importing of bailed lay from the I7nited States, The dairy bugitreas le not suffering from lack of geed cows, but from lack et good men who will Mika care of them properly. Mora than ten million eta artivo in New ow York each week. The chief supply is from Canada and Miehi;an. :1. dingle C.'anade train had thirty outs ears, with X200,000 eggs in each. " A dollar goes farther now than le used to," nays an exchange. We guess that le true, Weed. We need to be able to get within night of our., but now wo seldom do. They ninet go farther away, It le said that the elovernrnent crop re- port, just published, eatirnatee that the area sawn to winter wheat in the United States for the crop of next rummer re 22 per cent. lees than the area of a year ago. There are 14,000 acres of vineyard along the Hudson river valley, and the average yield is four tone to the acre. At three cents per pound this means $24.0 per acre to the grower. Some grow Larger crops than this average, and realize $300 per acro in theaales. The wool -growers of Sonoma and Mende - eine counties, California, have adopted res. elutions unanimously demanding that the duties on wool be untouched, in order to keep up the present rate of good wages, and to protect the country from the product of the pauper labor of Europe. dies unless relief is quickly given. If the temperature of the body is lowered ten de - grecs death is sure to follow quickly. The raising or lowering of the temperature by two or three degrees indicates fever in the one case or chill in the other. The water taken into the stomach mutt be warmed there to correspond to the heat of the body. Wet lir taken into the atoxnaeh at 32 ° ehonka the aysrem to such a degrco that often serl- ousresulte follow. This is meet easily Bees fa the shrinking of the milk, It is, however, felly as detrimental with feeding animals. Hence dairyman, especially who have once treated the drinking water for Bowe in win- ter, never discontinue the preetiee, It really coats less to beet the drinking water artificially then in the fat-produeing food fed the Animal, for it is by the combustion of food eontaining atereh, sugar,, gum or oil, that the animal heat ,is kept up. Some dx:ryneen new when they use chopped feed give it warm. When we reflect that much the larger proportion of the deily food of farms animals is consumed iia keeping up the daily waste, in winter, the value of givieg the embroils water so modified that it will not chill the system wilt be fully appreciated. Much has been said about feeding skim - milk to pigs, and its value for that purpose. And now a writer/ in the London (Eng.) Provisioner atates that, according to his own experience, skim -milk is worth, for pig rearing and feeding, from 1e to 2 cents per gallon, ;providing that caro is taken to give the ;pigs other food which contains a good proportion of . fat, of which skim milk is deficient. This is a higher :estimate of its value than we remember to have seen made by any American authority. In relation to preventing young apple trees from bark bursting from sun scald, Mr. E. B. Brown, Calhoun Co., I1,, writes; Have them marked before being taken from the nursery, and set them in the orchard with the same side to the sun, that was ex- posed thereto in the nursery. Do not ant any of the lower limbs in trimming, leaving them to shade the body of the young tree. This has been anoeessfully tried in Calhoun Co., Ill. In after years the lower limbs oan be gradually removed without injury to the trees. Three eights in succession.. It is 111. years since our heroic grandfathers and great-grandfathers wrote the three succes- sive sevens, in the year succeeding that of American independence. It will be 111 years before our grandchildren and great- grandchildren—good luck to them 1—write the three suoceasive nines. Then, 223 years later, if the world still lives and the moon has not yet tumbled, time will deal a hand with four of a kind—four twos, 2222,—some- thing that has not happened since the days of Peter the hermit. The animal heat is 96 ° Fahrenheit, win- ter and summer, when the animal is in health. If it rise ten degrees the animal. Oil on Troubled Waters, The hereditlary Prim.. e u Monaca, owner of the achoewer yeent kiirrrnclelle, tells gad- mmir.ai Clone, oft the Dench navy, of tomo la - retreating experiments made with oil at ken. The Hirondelle f3 104 feet long, Ilifeet draft,. and 'TOO torts di�,plscetntirt. es. re- torn voyage frern Newfoendland to France tans minden iii twelve days, The ri'ie c i says ; "Autleipetiag za tr:o 1ph sea: on the Benito of Newfoundland, 1 had housed iter topmast and two yards. I prep red in ad- vance, for the perm:taw of this experfrrremt two daCk e, made of sail cloth, each Bolding about three galona, with vote ueada of cord to held the suckle and protest them freta chafing; ileo two lt iizediron receivers which to keep the eaeks ready for use, I used the oil for the first time en the mora• jig of July 29. in latitude 43 deg. 35 nits. N., lextent o 46 deg, 25 min, ?I'., heading for Nowfoundlard. The wind was atroue froua the S. W., with a we that forced ns to tato the port tack. The we WAS runeitig high, threatening to eweep oar decks, and we put out to the windward a hemp AAA filled with porpoi'o oil. Inruedietel • the oil began to spread the Been demandper- ceptibly. About three gallons of ell rasa out in en hour and. a half axed running so freely because the new welt bad not bene previous. ty wet. Au at 19, iu latitude 5.9 deg. fee araiR. and beteet de 43 do . 34 :Dim W., wind W. N. W., we tau into a violent ternpeat, shipped greet seen, rind the gaulore were data 'eroasly knotted about. From 3, p_ sea, feature for our safety, I taut the oil in plette, and from a that time no AA, =yin ll.:ckdent eseenrrei. In a a'!ort time our deck ryas dry, Although we were Agin at te speed of twelve knots, leaving behind' ns a mouth wake of tiny a l:ect. In the'. eveningthe sea stove in our starboard but - smirks a leuettlx of aixtcen feet arae wetted' over ue amain. At thie time the aaeke which we had neglected were empty. We filled thein agent, and at oueo euro ed a new per- iod of calm, which continued until the di. miuutfon of the tempus. Wu used butabout three gallcwi of oil to three hours. Oa the morning of Augnet'mg. in latlted° aJ deg. 10 min. N., !engine's 23 deg. 1 i min. W., wind W., our little schooner ran into a cy. done. From noon until it p.m. the wind blew a gale. Two hours later, the sea being very heavy, we placed a sack to wbudwerd, and when the oil ran the vessel seemed pro- te:etedl by an iuvieiblcs harrier against the furious waves which erashed ono over the other uutil near her, but at the worst of the hurricane, from .t to 3 p.m., the sea broke over her decks many times. A tingle sack did not neako, Audi hesitated to double tho consumption, as our supply was low, and wo had still 900 miles to run in a very uncer- tain season, At daybreak rho wind still blew fresh frsut W. S. W., and our vessel was laboringheavily. I determined to run before tho wind, but that manu'uvro being a very dangerous one, I put out a tack sov- oral minutes before letting go, and while wo hoisted the atondfnu pith quantity of oil was 'ant overboard. The Hirondello came out of this last, but not leaet dkflieulty hand- somely. 7a two of theeo o.casions it seams possible to affirm that oil, though sparingly employed calmed tho violence of the sea." Italiano Military B.rloond. Captive balloons for the Italian army in Abyssinia have been made in Paris under the supervision of Count Pecos Gerardi, Director of the Italian Aeronautic Service. They are lighter than thoao hitherto used. for purposes of military reconnaissance, being only 331 cubic metres in volume in- stead of 500, and having a diameter of eight metres. This reduction oz size renders it unnecessary to have a steam engine to work the windlass on which the rope holding the balloon captive is wound, Six .hundred men are sufficient for the purpose, and in case of need even the windlass may be . dis- pensed with. Count Pecori Gerardi has also ob taineda balloon in En gland whioh, with a volume of 180 cubic metres, can raise an observer 500 metres high. Itis made of gold - beater's skin of great strength, the net and rope being of silk, and the car weighing only two to three kilogrammes. The use of the telephone to speak from the car' to the ground, or even to the quarters of the commanding officer, by producing the num- ber of observers, has tended to diminish the size and weight of captive military balloons. Count Pecori Gerardi has, in addition, adop- ted a small balloon of 50 cubic metres for signalling at night, by means of electric in- candescent lamps, placed outside the bal- loon and in front of a reflector. (Chia mode of fixing the lamps has been preferred, be- cause the ahell of the balloon, though' trans- lucent, is not very clear, and would out off a great part of the light were the lamps en- closed within it, as is sometimes done. A Morse key to "make" and "break" the current is part of the outfit ; so is an aspirator to transfer the gas from one bal. loon to another. The gas is made at Naples and sent to Massowah in light steel tubes, each containing 4,000 litres in a volume of 32 cubic metres, and at a pressure of 220 atmospheres. These tubes will be carried on camels in the desert tracks and on • mules among the mountains. The weight of tubes necessary is less than the weight of zinc, acid and water requisite to supply the gas by chemical means on the spot. It is ex- pected that the balloonwill not only be useful in Abyssinia for purposes of strategy but also in disconcerting the enemy.—(London. Times. OLD TIME CANADIAN cauzzLiE . of the great brute that would crush him to death at the next blow of hie terrible paw, I knew that his life depended on my course. In the following lively article ;from The Mechanically I sprang forward, and, placing New York Sun, the wirer seems to be un- the muzzle of my rifle almost in the bear's der the impression, that the Province of right or, as be stood glaring at and gloating Menitobe extends to the Reeky Moult- aver his victim, fafns PULLED sOxit Tufnor .s. ".d enormous and formidelde ti beast es No more effective shot ems ever fired. is the grizzly bear that has its range iu The heavy bullets ploughed through the News in the United States it is far ex- grizzly's brain and forced the top of his seeded in size and ferocity by the bear of great bead off like the lid of a kettle. The the lanae family that makes be home in the huge brute, although he must have died el- bleak and wild hills of Manitoba," said Cdr, most instantly, actually remained standing J. 11. Inman, formerly, m fur coutzaeting for at least aminate, as he stood when agent of the Hudson Bey Company an that fired, ono immense paw raised to give the territory. "I do we ;mow any reaeon why fatal blow to hie prostrate victim, and at the grizzly bear ed the Manitoba -Rockies last fell over by the side of Ja cques, with should grow to much larger than thegrizzly one fore leg thrown wrests the hunter's of the lime nnountaise in the States, but a breast. The eigantie Helfbreed was =eon - long experience in hunting these bears in scions, and remained so for several minutes. their respective localities has proved to ins His left side had beem crushed by the bear's. that such is the fact. I never killed or second charge, and he poor ellew was trapped a grizzly south of Manitoba that bruised and tarn shockingly in other places, measured mote than seven and w hail from I got hint safely to our quarters, and it way nozzle to tail, with probably the same a month before he got around again. fie girth, or one that weighed mora than was terribly disfigured, the one side of his 1,200 pounds, It was no rare thing, at face being a ghastly scar, but he recovered least ten years ago, to be confronted ire the his former strength, and the leap I ever solitudes of Dianiroba by one of these mons heard of him he wan; still bunting grizzlies, tere nice feet in length, nine in girth and and many had falle, under his deadly aim with a bulk of 1,6911 pounds or more. V ilea since his close call le the poplar woods, the a Manitoba grizzly throws itself on its great time mytimely Ghat saved bis life. hauracbea and rises up before a hunter, it 4' While I believe that a grizzly bear will towers often five or six feet above horn, eland IR a majority of cases wait for a fight with a it takes a brava roan to stand in that most man, and take pains to get in the way of fo.midabia pre:ence, with eteedy nervesand one, there are times when it will seem to a ceci head. I Iwo more than once din third: better of it and bash out. A reanark- cnvered the rneasttring mar .e of a erinlg'a able instance of *Ida hied I heard of once, fronte1 i rt ea the huh of a tree trunk. where. A famous Munftoba guide courage - SUMMON MON Hagg: rival illi r:s*or;:n, ouely advt heed upou three grizzlies, au Itna; e>±e corning a ttdil my upsaa beast lol"v elrl she cue and two half -t rows young beam, airs by n serisn et ridiculous that in softie weep ravine yr some .belated shot elrtiout levee/able with down thither, andsnrrnuuded lay melts and thick uuder- bruelli. Tlie eight of his great jewu, vpe?a and red, and his eyes fleshing In fury at you from the enormane head that towers so far above you, is sottfothiaag (sRly to be lip. predated when mace teen. "Fifteen, years oga the grizzly bear was so numerous among the Manitoba Reddest that the Hudson Bey, Company annually 0L) esti shits . i. and aerabatm manu'uvrees ou the ground Within, a rod or two of the bears filled them wins fetch astonishment and apparent fear that the three retreated lute the woods 'with all rapidity. The guide's gen had snapped in heth burets, he havWg &ewe ou the tad bear before the your one ap- peared, Ile afterward said that le was in a lit of desperation that he tried the turning secured Mang hundreds of their el;,ina from of a hauu. og, and jumping up and down, he hunters anow d trappers, but they are R { tloppiag itis pribands, and resortfwg to other quite a rarity,aiel i doubt i one can be e uuhuntertko measures, Ito had been told of aeast,Once that ahuntsr had. ar4un- seeR without a edoujourney 500 =ilea into the liter tor of the territory. tafu lion away by siunilar absurd movomeute, They have met aimed us herd a fate ac the bufiale, although from the u.tttu a of their benne and the diftkeultiee etteutllttg; the huutieg and treppieg cif theta, they, like the idanitabe mottle, will neva l eeuuie ex fleet. I believe the moose, ulthough it ro- i,uirea the thrh of :it levet •tI,W1 to supply the military etatione aloud is tho Territory with freak meat every Sear, ie as plenty iu hie wild retreats us he line been lit any time duce the great fur anti pelt, humbug meads ort the Bane auiwtude et the Territory Vele begun. Once, in cotnpetty with a lfalf breed earned Jacque, c:•me in cue of my tramps eud'ienly* into an opening. in a piece of poplar forme, which ameaF the molt abundant of timber about the brae of the Manitoba Baclics, and the opening Bad previously been taken possession of by rnitout rs bit; a grizzly bear as I hod ever neem.tIy connpaaiox wee d TYPICAL sPi?%XMEi ofiia I;mt1 toll, why gaunt, a bundle Ai 'nuzzles and einewp. I dau't believe he ever know what fear wan, and was as calm and unmoved in the pre:cuce of an infuriated griedy as ha would have, bean with a dying coyote. At the same time be had the caution and hesitation of all good half-breed hunters in attael:iuc a grizzly, and at Duce looked for every point of vantage in the surroundings, in ease wo should Le com- pelled to onto to eloso rluartcrs with the bear. Our appearance in rho opening had been a surprise to tho beer, which was engaged in tearing with itsgreat front elates it decayed log to pimain smelt of grubs—a curious paradox in nature, au en. ormous; fierce, formidable bent, with power to• tear to piccca the largest buffalo bull with a few blows of its claws, digging in rotten timber for thn smallest insect life and feeding upon it. After recovering from its first surprise the bear towered aloft on its hind feet, and relieved itself by soveral roars that were not reassuring for our comfort. Itthrew its forepaws straight up above its head, and for an instant stood as if about to charge fiercely upon us, It probably had such intention, but as it stood erect, a vulnerable and vital part exposed —of which parts there are few on a grizzly bear-Jaoqucs took cool and quiet aim, and sent a hall into the vitals of the huge bear, which gave two or three powerful blows with its forepaws on the wounded part, ac- companying them with its well-known roar or howl, and fell dead without moving out of its troche. The bear had hardly touched the ground, Jacques' rifle being still raised in readiness to pour a second charge into the animal's body if the firat had not proved sufficient, when there came a loud crash off to our right in the brush, and be- fore either of us was prepared for what fol lowed it, I naw my half-breed guide raised clear from hie feet. HURLED THROUGH TIIE AIR for three or four yards, and fall in a heap on the ground near the bearhe had killed. A second grizzly had heard the cries' of the one Jacques had shot, and, notwithstanding the allegations made by moat writers on the habits of the grizzly bear that one of them will not voluntarily attack a man, came dashing to the spot, and had not waited to look into the cause of the trouble, but had taken a hand in at once by an attack ou Jacques that bad been, most effective. The bear paid no attention whatever to me, but followed up his attack on my companion. Jacques did not need any further intimation to know what he had on hand, and he was on his feet again with amazing quickness. The blow from the bear's paw had torn the flesh from his left cheek and side of his head, and it hung in strips down on his neck. Jacques' gun had been forced from his hand. The blood poured from his head and face in streams. He quickly drew his short - handled hunting axe, which was in his belt, and awaited the charge of the bear, which was felly as large as the one that lay dead on the ground. The charge of the bear was so terrible that it, must have borne down half a dozen stalwart men, and consequent- ly Jacques was ho more than a reed in a gale before it. Be went. down and the grizzly stood over him and glared and growled, as if enjoying the hunter's peril and rejoicing over the fate that awaited him. These in- cidents had all occurred with snob rapidity that I bad not time to think, let alone act, but when I saw Jacques lying at the mercy and be found that it worked to perfection i t the cue of the hears, although he did not encourage any one to go hunting grizzle,* armed with uothbee Mora than a capacity to turn ' or'ereeelte. "When there wero buffalo on the plaiue the DJauitoba grizzlies were great hnuters of them. When a bnffedo and a grizzly met there was always euro to be .t con - teat, but it seldom lasted long, end tho builialo was usually the victim. The builds - lo would charge upon the bear, which awaited the oven of his fee erect on his haunches. As the buffalo dashed upon him the bear threw himself aside, and with a blow as quick lie lightning with out of his forepaws icldote failed to break his aRtag- eniat's neck. A grizzly bear hes been known to engage in quick succession four and oven five big buffalo bulla, and to hill every eon of there. It frequently happen- ed, however, that rouse younger and morn active bull than his compeniocs succeeded in evading the fatal blow of the grizzly's terrible torepaw long enough to give an turn a fatal threat with hie horn to the bear's side, puncturing the titala, and mak- ing of rho contest a mutual slaughter." PERU tPS'I'UE LAND OF "S3 E,`' Wonttcrful Air;rain Land inner° Tlwrr. 1, Constitutional 1tule. Ainatougalend is so natural au extension of Zululand, that in many reaps it is colored as belonging to it. .toughly, it measures neatly 100 miles bug by fifty broad, and hen a population of 200,000. Its form of government is a Iimited tnonarchy.The country is divided into seventeen provinces, tome of which are governed by princeerca. The three branches of the Legislature aro represented by the sovereign, bis Indumts, who live at the royal kraal, aced may be said to correspond to the British House of Lords, and a grand, council or parliament of the nation. This parliament holds the real power of the state and passes all the Iaws.. It ie called up whenever important questiore arise, and deliberates in the open air at the king's kraal. It differsfromtbe.Englishfouse of Commons only in the members comprising it being nominated by the crown instead of being elected by the people. Most of them exorcise administrative functions in the dis- tricts to which they belong. During the minority of the son of the late Sing, who died in 1875, the sovereign power is vested In the Queen Regent Zambela, his bat wife (his first having no issue), who is described as a young and extremely pretty woman, with fine and delicate lips, an oval face, and a small, well -formed head, set on a beautiful throat. She has a charming sympathetic manner, and is extremely popular with the people. Her chief councilor, Taigiah, long a trusty friend of the old Ring, is a very capable administrator, while her"white ad- viser," Mr. Grantham, son of the late Ctip- tain Grantham, of the English army, and a native belle, possesses au influence which has all ialong been exercised in favor of a rapprochement between the Amatongas and England. Hitherto they have prudently excluded whites from their country to pre- vent the .Boers from •overrunning it ; but their attitude towards England has always been friendly. A Tiny Horse. There is on exhibition in New York what is claimed to be probably the smallest horse is the world, for it weighs only 73 pounds and stands only about 33 inches high. He is a recent arrival, is a native of Yokohama, Japan, and belongs to the family of hardy and diminutive ponies com- mon in Japan, but he is the lilliput of his race. Yen Hoc, as he is called, is very thin just at preset owing to hardships which he was obliged to endure during his voyage across the ocean He came over on the ship Ariel, which was 158 days in mak- ing the trip from Hong Kong. The ship rim short of provisions .and for days Yen Hoc lived on nothing but a few handfuls of rice. On his arrival here he was so weak and thin that he could not stand np. . For several dayshe was quartered in a saloon on Monroe street under an oyster counter, but is now one of the attractions of a dime museum on tite Bowery. His ageis four years and he is the property of Policeman Benjamin, a present from a sea captain, to whom Benjamin was of some assistance in ROlilt.OR,'3 OF A DAKOTA. WINTER. The Deadly Blizzard—How it Works De *traction to loth Man and Beast—Where Is its Hume I. A correspondent who has recently visited the scene of the late blizzards writes as fol. Iowa :—The day I loft Chicago, Judge J. F. Kimsey, Indian Agent, Yankton, Dakota, arrived in Nebraska after nine days' travel by rail in these blizzards, the last five days averaging only six miles a day, and tele- graphed TO An acquaintance of mine in Chi- oego that in only one county of Dakota 160 lives were known to be loan and that over 1,0).0 had perished he Dakota alone. lipp to this time only 235 (bathe had been reported to the Chicago papers from the whole bliz- zard region, which includes Minnesota, Da- kota, Xebraska, Kama, and the whole western plains beyond. From what I know of this region and the severity of the storm I am setiefied that not less than 3,COOhurmn beings and over a million dollars' worth of live stock were is those ten days of blizzard aacrifieed to the ice king—au insatiable mon- ster, much more to be dreaded than the erl- king of Teutonic legend. During this fear- ful trip, Nudge Kinney says, aa the coal ran low and other fuel became exhausted, the passengers crowded into one car, and the Hien gave to the women axed children their enter garments, and even wrapped children in the mail sacks, In spite of all, two children in their ear froze to. death. Bat We was nothing as compered to the mortal- ity .of thea: caught in the open Air by the blitzird bluets. ,e'. dr, Lltrk; alas hie wife were goiug itt a sleigh to Y auktou when the biazzerd struck them. 'reek borne refused to fico the atom. They turned loose the horses, fastened then eelves together with a leather strap, and went before the wind— anything to keep in motion --till they carte to ahayetaok. into this they burrowed and stayed all night.. In the morning, discover. itag a house near he, :wtr. Clark crawled to it on his bands mad knees the was too badly frax n to walls) aui3cent asai.statwco tv his wife, 'When it arrived the was dead. A Mr. Chambers and his boy lost their way within hall a mile of home. lie saved the boy's We by buryfug hila in the snow, but perished himstlt, The hey says his father kept ca ll.w for help ell eight, andaal die d outs hour before a rezoning party reached them. The boy was not badly frozen. A farmer started to water his bock -only a few rode from the khouwae--became blinded by the fine frozen particles that filled the air, lost his way, eteters,i'ed to keep in oto- tiou, and walked spat} the open prairie all the next night and the fallowing day to find his !mute, nits wag rescued twenty ratite from hie hem, others, in similar cir- cumstances, walked itt a circle all tri itt and caved their lives by violeut.oxerelae, know- ing that it lists death to etop. The Indians iu that rogioe seem to understand title bet- ter than tno whites, for of all caught in the lata blizzard, whirr out hunting, not one was known to be teat. One mass etarteel on horseback to ride home age iast the blizzard. It was only a mile away, but when the horse carne up to the fronttioor, tllewife opened it auly to find her husband sitting upright in the saddle, frozen etiIf—au ttiueatrtau statue more ghastly than the one that frightens Lepor- e1.'a in "Don Juan.', In a new hamlet upon the open prairie a Belted niistreasabout HOOD EMT sigma of the coning blizzard, and dismissed her flock and warned thorn to hurry home. The unpity. ing blizzard met them at the door as they acarted. borne fit different dtreetior s. Some reached home in eafety but at 3 o'clock, when they should have reached the loving arirs of their patents, the majority came not. Then began tee agonizing search. Some were found singly, some in groups of two or three, others is larger groups, and with the hugest group tho teacher herself —All dead. The eneeks so lately rosy with health were now marble white; upon some were frozen tear drop •, the lips of others were wreathed fit armies, as if the sleep of death was may a blissful dream. At lest accouute some were not found at all, and the lives of adult villagers were sacri- ficed in the fruitless search. 1 do not seek to bathe this scene in pathos. I leave it with its bold line out of facts. Bat you ask: How are suchthings possi- bio? 1Yercad of one man found dead within seven feet of his house. 01 men who have to tie ropes about their waists to go to their barn 3(0 feet away, and all this in the laytime. Why do they lose their way? Wily cannot they tree such ashort distance?' WIIAT IS A BLIZZARD? Imagine, if you can, a frozen fog driven with the velocity of a hurricane. The air so fall of frczsn particles which strike your face like pin heads fired from a musket that you cannot, sec twenty feet ahead, all this in an atmosphere from twenty to fifty de- grees below zero, and you can then form as clear an idea of a blizzard as you'll ever care to get. Its blinding, bewildering effect is first felt. The intense cold brings at first the pain of freezing, then numbness, then stupor, then a sense of blissful sleep and close upon its heels—death. WHERE DOES THE BLIZZARD COME. FROM? Where is its cradle, its home ? The arctic regions. The papers talk about a blizzard having started from Manitoba, but that is not its home—its starting point. Manitoba is only its half -way house. "Why do blizzards come by way of Man. itoba, and make themselves most felt upon the westside of the,Mississippi River?dWhy do we never hear of blizzards in Canada, New England, and the Middle States 1" Because the Laurentian range of mount- ains stretches westward tram Labrador along the southern line of British America 3000 miles, skirting the north shore of Lake Superior, and tapering out in northeastern Minnesota, furnishing a protecting wall of solid rook 4,000 feet high against blizzards for all the region south of it. Geologists tell us that this range is formed of the old- est silurian or sedimentary rock to be found upon the globe, and that it extends 30,000 feet below the surface. From northeastern Minnesota to the Rocky;Mountains is an open treeless plateau --a greatdoorway 1,000 miles wide, through which the ice king rushes, From that line southward is, ie the main, the same tree - lest prairie all the way to the gulf of Mexi- co , forming west of the Mississippi River the, royal toboggan slide, 3,000 miles long, upon which hie ice -crowned majesty, the blizzard, sweeps in all his jeweled robes to swoon in the arms of the tropical sun. The Texas norther is only the frayed fringes of recovering stolen money enteral years ago. the blizzard king's mantle as he whirls past.