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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-8-9, Page 6WHAT SMALL FARMERS DID, The Creat 'Mistake of Engagtag In Farming on an Extensive Scale, • �eanta ConSfitiefeen: Man naturally wants the earth, :or, at least, thae part of it which adjoins his particular estate; bat he makes a great mistake when he engages in farthing • ori an extensive scale. Prince Rrapotkine, who has made a care ful etudy of tete subject in France, gives % number of instances to the gauntry districts argnnd Paris, where comparatively ignor ant farmers bale Puede small market ger- 'dente enorneowaly productive, One farm is mentioned by hilt of two and seven-tenthe acres which produces annually 125 tons of market vegetables of all kinds. The owner el this farm by building walls to protect his lands from eold wind$, by whitening the wails tee secure all possible radiated heat, and by the conatmet and iudietous use of far• *lfzere, has hie little farm, in *productive t'ondition from •the first of January to the last of Deeemb r. • Ey ein:plc end ieexpee• sive means he baa practically legatee his farm in the tropics, A crencb gardener does not ease what kind of soil be •starts with. He would be eatiafied with are aaphelc pavement, because he makea bin soil, and se ranch, of it that he has to sell it to keep his place from being gradually raised above the level of the aur= eendersta ode ading the awn of user* atryehe has to diihenity, in making soil thatcentaine all the materials needed far plant We. .fringe I%repotkieespee,as of one gardener who baa covered halt alt tete with a blase roof, and ton steam pipes supplied by a suet boiler under the ground sheltered by this! covering. Ttie Ma k ha* been that:lie hew cat every der€ for tett menthe from 1,090 Pct 1.2e0. large bunehea of aspera.exua, a pre, duct which under. erdtuery eamditione mead, require eisty acres of lent*. Ilut thin result haat been surpassed by au Entitle farmer, who baa made a etre acre nushrorut farm yield him anaannel ineoute nfe$5.O0O. lander the French teethed of cniture it would be. possible to teethe one Square 'mile support 1,00 human beings, elm auch a scale et productive capacity tbia country would *Terpet t ai pepulstistu of 3,01;0.000,t104 Even when we kuo.k off 4 fair percentage for Pnistakes, exam ;eretioua and nnievere able conditions, -it will be seen that we are in no danger of having an overcrowded population for celaturiee to come. There ie no reason why our eastern farmers should go west for more elbow teem. Their great drawback iS not the want r.f •more land, it is the pGaa;eet:Iom of tee teach. laud. Ira Same 144411dt-I in Switzerland the era - yeller ua the plain or in the valley* look* up to as towering precipice 2.CO0 feet above itis head,. Whereto luberieuely clicelts to the sttmtnit, expecting to find mething but a bare rock, he tete before lei ri the antihagex• pante of productive Beide, with pretty cottaaeedoetipgthelancieeepe Thegeaeaus preen -asters started with only the naked reel: under them. They carried• the rich Neil of the valley in baskets on their butte up the uteuutetu aide, and went to work with at will until they trensfermed their sterile paeehete into Wonting garden . The *Riege :5 of European farmers with all the foreea of nature again*t them should be au inspiritsg lesson to our tillers of the soil. The Arnerienn email farmer has only to unite brain work with hand werk to make himself iudependent and comfortable, if not rich. Bat without this union of the brain and hand there can be no great and pone - nate Buccal/. Cattle Imported Into Great Britain. The number of cattle imported into the United Kingdom et Great Britain and Ireland during the Near 18S7 ia 2 99s,439, a clecreaco of 250,e74 compared with the recop:a of Wei. The report shows— Prom Canada there were imported in. 1 S7 to the r.orta of Aberdeen, Bristol, (:dasgow. Liverpool and London, 187 caryoea, and part of one cargo wrecked near the Scilly islands was landed there. 'Iheso cargoes copaiated of 65,154 cattle, 35,479 cheep, and three swine; 840 cattle and 847 sheep were thrown overboard during the voyage; twenty-four cattle and eighteen sheep ;vero landed dead, and forty-one cattle and seventy-one were so much injured that i was necessary to slaughter them at tht place of landing. e These figures show a very considerable increase in the number of cattle from Canada lost and injured during transit last year as compared with the looses in 1886; this is partly accounted for by' the loss of 203 cattle from one vessel, which as stated above, was wrecked, and the cattle saved from the wreck, 250, were landed on the island of Annet, the nearest available place. The losses of sheep were very small last year, being less than one-fourth of what they were in I886. From the United States of America there were imported into the ports of Bristol, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, and London 350 cargoes, consisting of 96,812 cattle and 1,027 ;heap; 2,256 cattle and 162 sheep were thrown overboard during the voyage; 281 cattle and two sheep were landed dead; and five cattle were so much injured that it was necessary to kill them as soon as they were landed. Thus it appears that 4,105 animals were thrown overboard, 325 were landed dead, and 117 were so much injured or exhausted that they were killed immediately after landing, making a total of 4,547 which were lost on the passage or so much injured that it was necessary to slaughter them at the place of landing. [Arctic and Antarctic Icebergs. It is not generally known that a marked difference exists in the form of the icebergs of the two hemispheres. Those of the Arctic Ocean are irregular in shape, with lofty pinnacles, cloud -capped towers and glitter- ingdomes, whereas the Southern icebergs are flat-topped and solid looking. The former reach the thereby narrow fords, but the for- mation of the latter is more regular. The Northern are neither so large nor eo numer- ous as those met with in the S luthern Ocean. In 1855 an immense berg waa sighted in 42 ° south latitude, which drifted about for several months and was sighted by many ships. It was 300 feet high, sixty miles long and forty miles wide., and was in shape like a horseshoe. Its two aides in. closed a sheltered bay measuring forty miles across. A large emigrant ship ran into this bay and was lost with all on board. Only about one -ninth of an iceberg is visible above water. There are several well auth- enticated accounts of icebergs 1,000 feet high having been sighted in the Southern Ocean. This would make their total height 9,000 feet, or nearly two miles. SOME ASTRONOMICAL QIJER- IES. D',d you everanywheythat es not see w Didyou ever have thegood fortune milky? Did to see Venus horizon from the sea? Did you ever go behind the hills to see if anything had been hatched out by the set. tinge eau? Because your baby wants to get up at o'clock be the morning ia be any brighter than the atm that rises at Did you ever get a splinter in your hand through too great familiarity with a anooa• beton? \Vbat'a the difference between the star- light and the theodolite ? Does the nioen get fall at the great b'ar? How did 0 Bion`lose theB out of,his name, and is his name really O'Brien ? How much does Leo and who are his creditors ? In what battle did Ursa Major win his title 4 Do you suppose :Sagittarius is on g .od terms with Taurus ? And if he is does this prove that Sagit- terus never bit the bulls eye? Da the Twins ever say " by Gemini;?" £le$ Sirius ever smile, and when he does ia it because of the comet'a funny tale ? Dees the man in the Amen ray " I swan" when Cygnus aotnea round? When the sore begins to sink do they ever use the dipper to bate him oat? When Jupiter Rete thirsty deee be eail for leis , Tia you rhyme Terpsichore with tiler or hickory 4 Dees the wind ever blow through the whiskers of Capricorn? Da you know any ruore abqut aatrottehiy uow then you did two rainutes ago? .GAT.WYERS AND THEIR WATS, Peter the Great waa apposed to litigation:. Ile issued an edict that no trial should last to exceed eleven days. A lawyer making- bin will bequeathed his R estate to fools and madmen, for, said he, "from each I bad it and to mach t give it." Salon compered the people to the ceaand the Weave* to the wield, " The eve," he aaid, "will be calm and quiet if the wind lees not trouble it," in the reign of Henry Vl,cou.rtawere held at [larking every three weeks, wed there are instances of malts lasting six teentha, and re - tubing in damages et four pence and east* of twelve pence. European civilieetion may kava wrought changes, but up to * few year* ago the CMneae code wee so simple that the services of attorueye were not necessary, and thele was not a lawyer in the whale empire. Dr. Garth, alluding to the practice of lawyers, wrote : "For fees, to any term they mould a rause. The worst has merits and the beat has :laws: rive guineas make a criminal today, And ten to•arers= wipes the'taua away." In the rolls of the Rritieh Parliament, 1145, is a petition from two counties eettlag forth that the number of attorneys had lately iuereased from six to twenty-four, whereby the peace of theeo counties had been greatly interrupted by law suite. They asked that the number be reduced to fourteen. Addison tells a gory about the Neapoli• tans, who were much given to litigation. One of the Yapese made a requisition upon the Viceroy ref Naples for 81,00 head of etvine. The Viceroy replied that the swine could not be spared, bttt if his Holiness had any use for 30,000 Lawyers they were much at his service. lienat'kint, From the earliest time the kings of Eng- land have taken a delight in hawking and spent largely upon it. Alfred the Great is reported to be the author of a treatise on the sport, and Edward the Confessor devoted to hawking whatever time he could spare from religious exercise. It was at first un- doubtedly a Northern amazement, and spread sou:hwarda—whore it was quickly appro. elated—when the ancestors of William the Conqueror settled on the northern ahores of France. Tho Norman Conqueat gave fresh life and vigour to the pastime in England, and from that time it became more a •" class " sport than before. It was costly to a degree; to obtain a thoroughly efficient bird often necessitated a special journey to Norway All through the reign of Henry II. the Exchequer accounts show heavy pay- ments for "Norweyan" hawks, The taste for the sport was fully shared by the aristo- cracy of the Middle Ages. To train and skilfully manage a hawk was part of the gentlemen's education. The famous " Boke of Saint Albans "(A D. 1486) assigns to every rank its particular kind—for the king a " gerfalcome ," for an earl a "peregrine," or a lady a "merlin," for a "young man" a "bobby," for a priest a "sparrow; "while a " holiwater clerke " had to be content with a "musket." Which Was the More to be En- vied? When Lafayette was last in America, re- ceiving ovations wherever he went, he was entertained nowhere with more ardent de- votion than in New Orleans. He was for- mally received in the old Spanish building situated on the Place d' Armes, no A Jackson Square, north of the cathedral. He was very affable, and particularly agreeable to young men. Illustrative of his happy faculty of making himself popular by being, in a social way, " all things to all men, " the fol- lowing may be pertinent. Two young Creole gentlemen were successively introduced to him. " Are you married ?" asked the mar- quis of the first. " I am, General, " was the reply. " happy man -happy man !" said Lafayette, warmly pressing the youth- ful Benedict's hand. The second made a negative answer to the same question, " Lucky dog—lucky dog !" said Lafayette. patting the bachelor on the back. Georgia produces vigorous old men, and 75 -year-old Mace Newman of Wilkes county is a sample. The old man was sitting in his shop the other evening, reading, when a fox ran in and lay down by the side of his ohair. Mr. Newman struck the animal with a square, and, when it jumped out of the win- dow, followed in hot pursuit, and after a short phase caught and killed it. ltI:TJRDEROT;`S NATIVES. They Attack a nrlttiteecbeoner one the Yam "schema Coast. Advices received by the steamer Belgic give an account of a murderous attack by nativea upon the crew of the British otter hunting schooner Nemo, off Copper Island, on the •coast of Kamtschatka.. The Nemo sailed from Yokohama last April ou the ns - nal hunting voyage, and on May 2$.h while Copper Island Capt. Sao* had three oats lowered to pull around in the vicinity of the vessel and look for otter; The boats weremanned by Japanese, Capt, Snow being the only white than on board. While the beats were. approaching alarge reek Are was suddenly opened by a concealed party Open the eaptain'e Twat which was then but a short distance from the •rocks, One bullet struck Capt, Snow in the hand, and he int - mediately ordered the men to pull away, Bnlleta then began to fall like hail, and see- eral men rolled or the treats. When the boats reached the vessel it was found that three rued were mortally wounded, add they died,after *few hours; ,An enquiry was afterwards held before the British con sul a; Kanagana and the testimony showed that the attack was uuprevoked, Captain Arrow believed that the assailants nnmbered a dczen at least. An .investigation brought •out the feet that it was the general belief that the rifles had been furnished the na- tives by the Alaska Commercial Company to guard the coast against the depredationa of seal huuters, bat it is stated that the na- tivee who mate the attaek could not have meed this as as excuse, as it is a. well-known fact that there are no seals in these waters till a month, later. Euealyptus.TrceS.. The eueel ptusbelousetothemyrtletribe, It; is said that there are as teeny as cue hue• dred and fifty varieties of the tree. They arenative to Australia, but leave already been introduced into most of the tropical and tenperatecountries of the world, Two kinds have been chiefly,eultivated, the redgtsui,reehlifrn,andtheblue guru 3Foludue, Which ie tltebetterkuown, It is UM/014W its rapid growth, as it often makes au increase in height of f1:4tn siie to nine feet a year. The tree centime growing at this rate nail it bas reached an CM/SOUS size, In 1862, itis said, an Auetralian merchant desired to fend to the London Exhibition a specie -met of the large -growth eucalyptus, but no ship could be found bug enough to carry the giaut: heproduets of this tree are numerous and varied. Tbeweod is said to be valuable Inc the cecpenter's and builder's uses. The guzu, or resin, to employed in the manufactures of "aovs,court.p.a*ter,haiments, syrup, pom- ade*, toilet viuegere, a; well as many prepar- atime need for artistic purposes, such as varitfabing oils, veueer and iraeiug-paper,•' There has been for some years catabtished in Paris a store for the sale of eucalyptus per- rnery. Eat by far the meet valuable end impudent property of this tree is ita power of eerrect- ing malaria. °Tie quality le, perhaps, due to the aromatic oil which the tree contains, or more probably to the drainage effected by its room. It has hem proved in many coun• tries In which the tree has planted. In Al. geriethe cultivation of the tree hasrenderea many low•lyiag or marshy districts inhabit- able, where, to the early years of French. occupation foreigners could not live on ac. count of deadly fevers. Tho cucslyptus was firat planted in Algeria in 1i62, and now there are reckoned to be not leas than two millions of these trees in that country, each from fifty to sixty festin height. From what tho tree has already done for eolonieWtfon, it is evident that it must play 'an important part in future schemu for making settlements, particularly in tropical regions. Another Zulu War Imminent. Telegrams Iron Durban, bring news of yet another Waiver. Intelligence has bean received of the return to INr'Konjeni of the police and soldiers, and the native levies forming a support to the former, from Hlopekulu Hill. The Miura were found in a strong position among dense, bushy kloofa. Atter six hours' resistance they were dispersed with heavy loss, 1,000 of their cattle being captured. The casualties on the British side include—killed, Lieu- tenant Briscoe, of the Inniskilling Fusiliers; Mr. Trent, leader of a native levy, and three natives ; wounded, one Bente auto (danger- ously), and seven others. Tho extent of the losses among the native levies is as yet unknown. Iahingnna's fate is uncertain, but it is said that he escaped on horseback. A later telegram says a force comprising a detachment of British troops and police and native levies attaeked the rebel chief Iehin- guna, and utterly rooted him after nix hours' severe fighting. Intelligence re- ceived from Zululand states that four chiefs of the Inkandhla District attacked the loyal chief Sokotyata and looted hie cattle. They afterwards attacked the residence of the district magistrate, who, with the help of a few native police and Sokotyata's men, repulsed the enemy with heavy loss after several hours' fighting. The loss on the British side was trifling. More encounters will have to follow if, as some suspect, Dinizulu and his following ars acting with the connivance of the Boera, Dinizulu re- presents the power of Cetewayo, or what is left of it, and he is at deadly feud with a chief under British protection, whom he has just overthrown. Usibepu, his enemy, was only saved by timely flight to a British police station. The engagements have probably been brought about by a punitive expedition against Dinizulu. If he has the Boers at his back it will be easy to err by trying to punish him too much. Sir Robert Peel's Honor.i A private letter, it is said, should never be produced, and as proof of this the conduct of Sir Rebert Peel toward Mr. Disraeli is cited, Mr. Disraeli had commenced a series of venomous personal attacks against Sir Robert in the House of Cemmons. Sir Rob. ert hinted that their cause was to be found in his having refused to give him office. Mr. Disraeli indignantly replied that he had never asked for office, and challenged Sir Robert to produce ono single proof that he had. Sir Robert had at the time a letter from Mr. Disraeli asking him for office, but neither produced it nor alluded to it, because his high sense of honor would not allow him to make use of a private letter, the pro- duction of which would have crushed his opponent. Had he not taken this view there would, in all probability, have been no Lord Beaconsfield, no Primrose League, no "Peace with honor." Angel Josie 4 Snowy Spirit. sr imam Bromism. Angel Josie 1 enmity spirit, Far above the milky way : Brightest star that blese'd our heavens, sweetest song teat cheer'd our day. 0-meback, darling,—mor tal hearts say— But a higher voice replies— " Rather wait and join her anthems ; Where thy songster never dies." Angel Josie 1 snowy spirit, Byes must weep and tombs must fill, Ere life's gloomy tempest enters 'leavens rad aat ' }'.ace be stein" There amid unfadingblossoms, Where dark sorrow never blights ; Rand in hand, we'll Jove and loiter. Basking in the Light of Lights.. Not Strangers There. ar 1.rxDA MASA LanawAn To whom would }leaven's door so freely }'pen As to a little child, who Mande with timid feet upon its threshold, Lavey and nndell'ed? And such a one, of Jate, was lowly Jyirg, With fast receding breath ; Over her face the first, last shadow falling— She was afraid of death Her loved one Paid, "" Ob, do not fear to enter That land, so wide and fair." To all their words .cf cheersbe could but acswer, "I do uot know them ,hexa i" But, even as she spoke, her bands were lifted In sudden, s. set surprise. And the reelection et some dawniog splendour Illumined ber wondering eyes. \o tenger clinging to her tender watchers, Arad darkened by their woe, And was in bane to go. beckcn, She !coked as if she saw same loved one what aha beheld we saw not, and her rapture Our hearts not Tet aught share, Out with a tact bright smile sae whispered gladly, "They are not serener u there t" Willi Flowers. . sr s n. ettass:or. Alone; the pleasant country road, Beneath a cloudless eke We strolled, thetgolden summertime MY pet and 1; The deep, deep oyes were drinking In The beauty, where it spread, Aad tie' thought* were busier still Within her head. She'd never known the eauatry thus. Dressed in its colors etre. \rhea nature strews ber wild flowers, bright Besoodco upare, The houses, as we passed, revealed Their lawns and *lowers beds, Rut here, unkept, the need Rowers shock. Saucy heads. "Rotuma, who owns these pretty Rowers, Dees thtaheuae er that one?' 1 stopped a minute where nay girl titAd in the wan ; "Maher. lay dear. Rod planted theca Fes Moulds lake, on, Hell let:yea take on you c ua p;tlt, If }tau ehocse te." liar hands were full --env bear* wens too. Aewith amotherS ple.n-are, I watched her gather in ber arms Her t•rasure Then. on her knees the darling drogped,-- Wathan; a minute's tcarnir g- ' l thank you, Gad, fcr sending thee,-- Gesd morning!" nreaebles of Etiquitte. It is a breach of etiquette to stare round the roam when you are making a call. To remove the gloves when making a formal call. To open the piano or to touch it if found open when waiting for your hoateee to enter.. To go to the room of an invalid without an invitation. To walk about the room examining its appointments when waiting for your hoatess, To upon or shut a door, raise or lower a curtain, or in anyway alter the arrangement of a room in the house at which you are a caller, To turn your ohair so as to bring your back to some ane seated near you. To remain after you have discovered that your host or boatels is dreaeed to go out. To fidget with hat, cane or parasol during a call. To preface your departure by remarking " Now I must go," or to insinuate that your hostess may be weary of you. To resume your aeat after having once risen to say adieu, For a lady recieving several callers to en- gage in a tete-%•tete conversation with one. To call upon a friend in reduced circum- stances with any parade of wealth in equipage or dress. Coins of Great Price. Coin collectors have got another treasure to look after; for, a few weeks ago, a small issue of the ]ate German Emperor's coinage was made from the royal Mint at Berlin, and a limited number of gold Fredericks have got into circulation, but they are already so exceedingly scarce that they command fancy prices. The mint offt:iala are now busy with the coivage of the new Emperor, which is to be issued at once. At a sale of coins a few days ago a five guinea piece, dated 1820, fetched £100, and £13 was raid for a Queen Anne farthing. Quicksand. Quicksand is composed chiefly of small particles of mics mixed largely with water. The mica is so smooth that the fragments slip upon each other with the greatest facil- ity, so that any heavy body which displaces them will sink and continue to sink until a solid bottom is reached. When particles of sand are jagged and angular, any weight pressing on them will crowd them together until they are compacted into a solid mass. A sand composed of mica or soapstone, when sufficiently mixed with water, seems incapa- ble of auch consolidation. Herr Tisza. Herr Tisza, the Austrian prime minister, is a Hungarian, and was born in 1830. He is a very wealthy land owner, having in- herited a large estate from his father. Ordinarily Tisza is not a striking -looking man. He dressses in such poor taste that tailor recently put an article in the news- papers saying that he was not responsible for the premier's lack of style. Tisza is a tall, lean man, with strong features, bright eyes, and a long, white. beard. Ile is said to look like "an aged Mephistopheles." Tisza is not a great orator, but he is an un- tiring worker and of wonderful versatility. THE SITEENA EXPEDITION. For the Rescue of 'White People Besieged by Indians. Oa Sunday of last week the steamer r` Caribou Fly" arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, from the Skeena River with re- ports to the effect that a band of Indians had besieged the Hudson'a Bay officers and their families, together with the law ofieera sent up to arreat an Indisf l murderer. According to thcse reports, vehicle were unconfirmed, the Hudson's Bay Company's factor at Hazel- ton, en the Skeente River, and one of the law officers had been murdered and unless quick- ly rescued all the whites would be massacred, ee, atoall force of provincial police was got ready :and this body, together with 0 Bat. tery of regulars stationed at Victoria marched to Esquimau, lt, where they em- barked on H.ld,A., "Carolina,",which will convey the whole expedition to Skeena, a village at the mouth of the Skeen% river. The Skeena river flows int) Hecate Strait about fifty miles south of Fort Simpson, the weft -known Hudson's Bay Company's post and about five hundred miles north of Vie- toria, B C. Hazleton. the scene of the troubles, is abont ninety or one hundred Miles up the river at the junction of the 1 ilumaa river, known as "The Forks." of the coast of British Columbia, tamers the relative positions of Victoria, Vancouver, the Skeen':, River, Skeena village and Hazel- ton, as well aa of Alaska and Washington Territory. Tiles °Bleu. Ola' ran TAW= is neew-thuspiper relat:ed in a recent Victoria (ll. C.} Mr. 1iorland, a well known packer, arrive ed born Hazelton on the gentler " Bos o. wits" to eaufer with the AttorneyGekerel regarding the state cf affaira at lifaz:itou on the Skeane, River. Leat year an Indian named liitwon Cool JIm murdered au Indian. doctor at the thrice of the<Skeena. A flues of ,specials wader blit. Waahburne was aeuc frem tbie city to arreat the murderer, When they arrived. et Hazelton it was die, covered *bat Jim had gone to the mountains to elude the elft era. The party consisted of Washbnrne, Loring, Green, Holmes end Per. neer. They encamped et Ii'atzalron and await• ed the return of the murderer. Early in June they received information that Jim was at a place called Kitangar, about fifteen miles below the Forks. On the morning of the 19th of June an Indian brought news that Jim, was in house at I'itangar. .Early in the morning three of the party-welked down to the louse, whlcb was accepted by twenty Indiana. Jim was among the number, and was called upon to surrender. He made a break far the door and ran towards the both. Holmve fired a revolver over his head Alter calling him to eurreuder but ho still kept on. Green then lraieed, a 1 incheeter rifle and fired striking him in the heel:, the bullet going clear throur'h hie body. Jun fell mut expired ins a abort dew. Wash - bum and Loring onto to the scene of the tragedy an hour after the abooting, and handed the body over to an Wien, who is acting as miesiouary. The) latter told Washburno to take Ids apeclale to a place of safety on account of rho Umtata made specialsa thenndes turnedQtocreH'ez Ilton where they are atresent hemmed in by the hostile Indians. They have erected bastions of tim- ber and bags of sand, and can hold out for it mouth if the Indians can be prevented from burning the place. Borland is engaged in packing goode for the Hudson% Illy Ca, be- tween Hazelton and llabine'a Lake, or Fort llabine. His freight train a ith five men aro above Hazelton, and no freight can be carri- ed up. He had great ctiflioulty in coming down. Ilia come was stopped by one party of Indiana, and the occupants were ordered to return. Borland was determined to got through, and at last convinced the an. tives that he was not connected with the specials. At every encampment Itis four Indians went ashore and held a conference with theirbrethron. Among the whites in the locality where the shooting took place are— Mr. Ctiffert and wife (in charge of the Had. son's Bay store), the Rov. Mfr, Fields and wife, and Mrs. Hankin and family. They are very much troubled over the state of affairs. The Indiana demand Green to bo handed over to them, and ono thousand dollars paid them. If the specials refuse to accept their demands they threaten to burn down the houses and murder every white parson in the locality. An Indian trapper is still out on the mountains and a number of their mon at work in the canneries. Indian women aro calling on their warriors to avenge the death of Jim. Mr. Borland says prompt steps should be taken by the. Government. Should an upris- ingtakeplace thelliveaof allwill be sacrificed. The Indians will not allow another white person to come down the river, and unless a large party proceeds to Hazelbon without a moment's delay the result will be the massacre of the specials. The river is not navigable for a man of -war, and the Gov- ernment will probably send a small stern wheel steamer and a large force of specials np. The Empress Victoria's,Devo- on. If an example is wanted of devotion en the part of a woman the story of the Ern - press Victoria at her dying husband's bed- side will be quoted for all time. Germany little knows the amount of self-abnegation and devotion that the widowed Empress has displayed during many months. In her husband s critical state it was absolutely necessary for her always to wear a cheerful and hopeful face, and her country people reproached her for her hopefulness. But without this the late monarch would doubt- less have succumbed long since. It was of the highest importance to him to feel and imagine that there was always a chance of a better turn in his malady. Those in her Majesty's immediate vicinity know well how she always checked them when they tried to use words of sympathy, for she said :—" If you begin to talk of pity I shall break down, and I dare not shed a tear in the Kaiser's presence." Precaution. Fenderson is always equal to an emergen- cy. He had but one burglar alarm and three doors. It could be attached to but one door, but Fenderson did not long hesi- tate. He put it on the front door and placed this notice on the outside of the other doors : "Burglars will pleeae operate upon the front door, otherwise their presence may not be known. N. B.—The front door is the only one furnished with an automatic burglar alarm."