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AN INCIDENT OF TUE INDIAN MUTINY..
Many ea, were tne " bairbreadtlx weeper)" fell into their Wade tiering their aevege
Yrom peammre dueltm the Iedien Mutiny of built, end was ruthlessly murdered in cold
X857-It'S, there are few whieh surpeo the flood. The Mutters reterued elhensi ;
loam:ens tize eliev:e 1 thalami for ray life. Mat many were ettli alma peteolling the
hael been a sergeant in the Bengal, He conntry.eitle, to pton up any straggling
.etztitiery, than whieh, I believe, a betto European wending his way from aome scene
•nortes never minted. Irma them an over:leer of naessacre towerde the few stetione where
Fablie Work m at Jamul, in Q4ntrat Inain. European life. was still safe,
roc like 4 oentaur ; and if there wait 4 The brieltlayere nest gem* a 'neon bee
tithing I loved, ie was, riding a horea that was and there with clam to imy home" and hie
* good jetliner. Saeh re ene I luckily had waddle, trailed inie bridle in the greund, and
them or .4 should nee be alive to tell tleb turning his face howeward, geve him a good
One. eat of ;he whip, He went off ;ani 1 Aever
Though tbe firat outhreek of the eft:tiny ow hint again. They left me alone in the
nie.eret came like a elep of thunder pot hot and weet altout their own affairst as if
a OteAF Sky, SO Utterly UneXpeOtea WAS it DOtilitig UUUSUal had occurred. Unleavened
by the Enropeenv, yet, after the Arata explo. eakee (dee welnknown env:wanes, or wheat.
take, alt who heel eye* to ene perceived thee cake) and milk dem all that they could get
other beel outbreaks were enlY A reenter pf for me—their own feed t becetute to have
-time end elereilt Se it NI as at amain whieh omelet for better fare would have excited
li.rv-p a-wisp:Jug(' by a regimeet ef native in- suspicion. Oa the evenieg a the fif th day
fautry. Ain except the trnfattieMd effieere they old me I bad better Mart, as the sepoys
.of then eemetente knew that the soldiera had returned from their hunt They got
'were only eweitieg news of some further mime berrio, and wt h their idea they rub
saceme to their cease to j tin emir brotnera• heel tny face and by an hair, and cheuged
in mew. The eel mtle peeenaded themeelvee ray rather dorici eomplexien kto one of gen.
-then thek eegiment at haat was, loyal, and ulne dusky Innien hue. A. suit a rough
lived In mieplacedecofiderece. I wen 4 yereog workmanet Mothee—trenteara and ellort shire
banneler, and therefem lees anxiens then I were put OA ; A turban was tied on ray
alKUU Ware(' been if 1 had a family to leak ed;na ettudtier (shot; or mantle) a o3tto,n
amt. 47.11 ave, 1 efg4d p.ot, o cure, ge was throwu over my amid oro ; and my
Aw4y1 becatiso my dutyregeiren y Preeeeen etoehings and Iseets were repleeed by apair
JnanVi ; end +tiny hy dem a emoure et of yid native ghee& They eefeeed effer
=ore end mere enteeewo deteetletee reeehed ei tne few reptee 1 bed Atoneue; lett; teieg
saW mere cleerly then when nem them in r43, they teeked there luto
tiny be Pet Jhauel. it weeid. he diffi weiethentl. After auk, they eondueted rem
men taleo for the few Heropeens to ocape 4 eouPte of miles on tho l mellor rota Aoa
o4,7 or th400r,tongug:44, tow end kr bee lode me fuewell.
tweet:, where the weseuce of 1 haVe IALVA heArd Earopeans Ray ext,
etc
os give Berepi.AnS a chance of present there no word in the Iladien language kr
'safety, o bele for future etregglea ter goes:, "gratitudo.." 14Q wit knew. TnoSit or
remeey with the =MI:WAS 14Ailve4. JUArlat hrtel4lAyera a mayrete thawed me thwerthe
'WAS orreneded with 431aaffectiou an ter thing itself b net altogether abbe = from
bere help. Indian be-mt.
wo4 bagbt 111Orplua Lu Jnae. Etter Oral re xpreee the leore of titter itneell.
After fielehiug u few egga mad ean wb1?1 1fells when they bad lett ow
whith with ceifee melees the Indian About eeventy tulles of a good et:eight reed
mentos hnzree (smell break-) I Martley between me and the friendly haven of
od on home teek crt my daily tour of Sinibitne eeem at Gwellor, for which I
imepeceieg the buildinge Under C*AStrnetiell hOUACI. Itnt I knew thee not e. friendly
• repeir. I had ineatingtwhip le my el lived between. I could tenet o cue on
bend, 40 A few reprete in my pecked It
&FA vcri caxlyljnbArly pcdoed tht
way Awrvtxuta (in Benin they ere ell meentrere
grim -nod
tether AA I left the at izstt
beiniz et work an feet unusual einem:
"detente edened in the hem= er lies o
out thretegn wientla r mot The begite
meuttienfor ummaleg 'mode betere I
'meta. Ire= nome; and the netive itakatry
regiment; wee are -4y at its drill m1 pamed
the puede mune. I teen men my toper-
fer tete the PX4Z4tive coed:teem reeeived
Telsordersfer the day, and went lehent ley
week. Very few el the werinnen had pue
in an Appearance. aul even thole were noz at
work* bee leetued evidently to be expectiug
3231e Virent. On ney ening, them to work,
they grinned in ailetee, imel then begen
heutg thole:mole, but very listiouly. eiy
deny had taken me far A14,4 from the par
"Ade GrOl3l4au ludkily for myosin into
emite tile Gppoilto part of the Station, es we
Midi the gerriou towns in.
E hoard, a ran of nuakety frig;
thet was no unusual Round In a rallitary eta -
Oen, uor alennieg to a minters men ; It ant not
at all attraetiny ettentiota. Bet *Waren, was
follevred up by a succession of solitety shots
it Irregular latervala; end, these I knew.
fanned no posaible part a the eve -imbue a
• mo meat at drill. My heart stood still tor
,4% mornene. The long anticipated time bad
cane: the met) had mutinied, and were
ahootieg, their Berme= effizere. Just then,
a =muted tinter reahed by mm urging his
Ileac to raciug srited ; and ashopeneed, 122
called ma me to eta for my life. Away we
went ; and he told me nearly every tinter
bad been killea, 5Pnlo by the Bret volley,
end others by the dropping fire, We gal.
loped on long the :can, not rocking whith.
or. Suddenly, -come mention appeared at a
distance; an pointed their moltet5 at us.
to pun them was impoesible. We turnea
the* to one eide, and put our hence to the
tow wall ana fence that edged the road.
My horse rose and cleared it in spieedie
tyle ; but the cffieer's heavier charger fell
with him. I dtamounted to belp him ; but
be by atunnecl and =come:ions, The
bulleto of the coldiera were falling around
us. I could do him zo good, and to Heger
WaS but to lose my own lite too. I mount-
ed again, and continued my flight, clearing
every hedge, fence, and ditch on my way
mums country. Many a shot was fired at
me; but luckily neither I nor my horse was
hit. In a fe a minute:a I was one of sight of
pursuera, and eato for the moment.
I (sneaked my horse, to gain him time b
breathe and myself to tkink what Ishould do.
E found.' that I was near the road that led to
eGwaiior, and not far from Lome brick fields
--twinich were under my supervision. Of course
I -knew the men engaged there. It was a
question whethet they would or would not
• tarn against me. ButI trusted to my poem.
laxity with them for one thing ; and for an-
other, to the swiftness of my horse; lb was
need necessary for me to Beek some shelter
for the day; for a summer sun in India very
apidly becomes too hot for European corn.
'fort or eatety. My only chance was to con.
lime my flight at night ; I therefore rode In.
ao the brick -field& 1 found but five man at
work; they had all heard the firing, had
guessed what it meant, and the others had
t -gone to hear and see what had resulted.
My -men expressed their joy to see me un•
hurt and urged me to take refuge with
..shem for a while and to continue my flight
aIterwards. I dismounted, therefore, and
wits taken into one of their huts. Then we
Al sat down and disowned the situation.
'a*Io one," they said, "will come to took
Mfor Europeans in our huts, for we are too
poor and miserable to be thought of, or
eteepected of harbouringyou. Bat your
Morse will betray us if he is seen about here,
they will of courae, search the huts."
"Besides," said another, "you cannot
sexpect to escepe on horseback, for, under
.existing circumstances, that would be too
-conspicuous a mode of travelling, especially
with English saddle and bridle.'
"Your only chance, sir," said a third,"ie
no travel by night and on font, in order to
met to Gwalior unobserved,"
I told there I was entirely hi their hands,
end that I trusted to their goodness for my
<Mance of escape. Even .with the sense
of the imminent danger in which I was plac-
ed, I bad time to observe with intisfactior
.their simple gratitude for the little—indeed
amothing more than jastice and some kind -
mess of manner and word—that I had done
for them.
teM Yon have been kind to us,' they said;
you have been our father and our
another (mai bapl; and we will do all we can
.or gone'
And they did a great deal. :For five days
et lay hid in their huts ; for the native
soldiers or sepoya had scattered themselves
over the country, pursuing the few Europ-
eans who had escaped the massacre at
ellensi. Every one of them exceret myself
Les wey. mine. *veld conteet wsets the
netivee, 17,e hid by dent and travel by nightt
seek food and water by eteeltle, and eatry
my Ilk fe my hand—the 440 Berepeall
eudeeing ever, polite of hatile ;mod.
'Under erdiesees cireureetanzres, 1 ceuiel
=ay have done the jeorney in km deye,
But men-es:domed to the vocalic Mode*.
ettLgt5 whieh I new were, gpnti not do
my beet. Whet creetoree of tebit we or
te auto 1 1 !cued that my progreee wa
repid, and bliztore very Scnn began t
ruydeet for went ef etockelege.
no tee miler, where the damn stp-
begins to dole out for abiding.
1a . it cif the reed wale:limbed into
a large wu ad tree. end was well hidden
in its icily bream:he& From this lofty perch
I seemed the contry roma; and, to my
great delightt 1 ow a email pool or water not
ler eff. I wall kellug very thirety ; but still
I Was obliged to emit petlently in my friend.
17 trufer ;luny along hour, browse, with
lee dewn, trevellers oeme up who hed began
heir journey early, taking adventage of the
cool of that:uniting to reaole their fine halt.
Ing piece, for their =Mohr meal, Toefore tbo
ease become too hot.
It was nearly noon, when ming the road
quite clear of artemfee—tor such to mes were
sit who pawned—I-dipped frora my tree end
hutened to the pool. Under other cirmun
*Mame; would not have toached
tuck water with my finger!) for it Vtat
a p ma frequented by cettle, and mum
quently none of the puree t cr cioneate But
now 1 1 WM aganieto with thirst, • and It'
was a pleoure not easilyunderetood by those
who have nener undergone such An. ordeal to
find the all neceemary -teeter near at band, no
wetter in what abase The forethought of
my friendly bricklayers bed provided me
with several whoteakts, enangh to eatilly
the wants of nature for A few deo. At the
edge of that pool, under the blezing son, 1
ate a Rove/ my calm, and drank of the filthy
water, lehieb yet seemed neotar to my parola
ed. mouth. Tun 1 hastened back to my
tree.
Leto in the evening, when the shore
tropical twilight had been extingeisbed in
the darkness of night, I descended, and went
forward again on my solitary way. My
feet were all the, worse for my firet day's
jemmy, and I had had no slop in that
time. My progre.ss was proportionately
elower. The dawn saw me hardly eight
miles from ray starting place. A. ruined
edffiee some distance cfCf the road was my
shelter on this day; and in the area en.
closed by its dilapidated garden wall I
found a well, and luckily an old bucket and
half-rottee rope lay near it. Again I ate of
my cakes and I drank of the well water,
end was able to have a good sound sleep in
the friendly shelter of the ruin. Tired in
body and wearied in mind, I slept long in-
deed, and night; had already fallen when I
ae 'cake. Atter more food and drink, I start-
ed' again much refreshed with my rest. 1
travelled arain all night; and in spite of my
sore feet, I -forced myself on, and made good
progress. But the next morning found me
in a sad predicament. I could see no over
or shelter of any kind, except a small clump
of tall trees in the far distance ahead. I
made for it, but with a heavy heart, for I
knew that it indicated the roadside well
where travellers rest for their mid-day
meal. Such I found it to be. Still I could
do nothing else; there was no other
place to rob in. Perhaps also my
use so far had emboldened me to a
little negligence. I went up to the well
had another feed ort the last of my
Wheat -cakes and a hearty drink from
the well. filen retired to the furthest of
the treemand lay down at full length on the
ground, covering myself all over with my
chtadur ". Teis was rehearsing what I
intended to do when travellers came 'up, for
thus the natives are aocustomed to take their
short mid-day rest. At first the coast was
clear, and I could lie at ease, with my head
uncovered I dared nob trust myself to sleep.
Very soon, however, travellers began to pass
along the road, and many looked =Homely
at the lazy man who had either overstep
himself till too late in the morning, or we
beginning to eleep too long before noon,
They were, however, too intent on their own
journey to mind me much, and they went on
it was not from them I expected trouble.
The crucial time came as noon approached
The blazing sun shone it full glory and heat
Travellers began to drop in at the well.
covered myself-- head and all—nith my
mantle, pretending to be asleep, but carefully
notieing every arrival. Among them, to.nay
horror, I saw ewe sepoys armed with swords
They in due course began their meal, chat
ting freely; and I lay quite still, hopin
that, after food and rest, they would proem
60 their way, leaving me once more a
liberty to resume my journey. Unluckily
the sun had laegun to beat upon me; yet
dared not move. The mere foot of my lyin
gime and fine drat of the road. ln ail, I lead 1
I was A corpse. —
"Perhere he has been poisoned," tend one. done alaoat one hundred atad thirty miles, I Gramm). Extinction or the ' Greet trorist-
--t Or died of a euene.bite during the night ; say barefoot, fon the netive shoes I had got
I
theme celmas are so deadly," odd another.— front my bricklayers proved almoab worse ual Races "r the N°1111^
thus atilt and iretaovable made the suspect iefiamed end nearly blind irern the oontinual OIVILIZ&TION
"Re may have money on bim euggetted tau twelve, to met
thirdmeeme evidentiy deo not no'a hear eu" AS I %Olt ewer to Agra, late ise the after'
said del
k 4 jourth ; "let llego and lee heir mattere noonne leder ving in her oerriage saw me,
Mend. al very iaciy too me tp and conveyed
Siowly two of thetn annreechen rae, me to the fort, still ageed distenee off. The
shook my shoulder, and at length geetly neigitheurieg Europeana had found sheleer I
raised the hudder from ray feet). At the and esefety it Aklear'e o4 fortress,,:whLok
first glance, they epreng bnck, allot:tit% the was gummed by a lenge Erepean feree.,1
word ‘inewaught (European) I jumped to
wy feeb ; end in a moment) I was surrounelen
by the euthe group. including the two
sepoys, with their words now draw,
At firt I Mit melte dame, for .1 mem
not Comprehend what had *o et:detente.
leetoyed me. Bee en their pointing to my
fase, and one of them prOdueing A small
pocket mirror (inch m native deediee often
cerry ebont), I looked in the glees anti saw
• etreoge eight. Wh. ile my blue a 5!es
allowed that I could petite a native, I MO
else, while drinking, washed off the berry
teice from my Ups And pert of my face, Me.
dean 'Petit= of a white skin, which eon-
vioted me of b.eing a European indeed. It
wm useless to etzuggle or rest; the band
was too =memo, and two had sword's,
They eeized me at mice, end dragged me
nearer the well, and my tmmia were tied
bellied my butt with the bucleet rope.,
SOMA were for killing me at once. Bat the
ewo sepone, greatly extolling tieeir owe
preweee lo teeing rode me a. primmer, eetd
lira I belonged to them, and that they
=Id take me= to J emelt where a reward
wati offered. for every Ewer= broegbt
Ars they were arMed, Pe One disputed their
ergemeufs And 1 WAS left to them,
After 4 while, ern told by them to
walk on bottom) them. 1 +lid ee, for re-
eietenee under the *mental:leo would
heveheeo MtednesSe ; nor wes 1 witheut hope
that some mires -veto eltersee mighe yet 1 -
• se to =env,. They were now, After
• oely two to one, became, toevold other -
ice' their expeeted neverd, they wonld
eot allow the °there to travel with them.
Atter Willa waked iseverel beelc
t oarde dherest withoet eiferleo any leo
twee or Peeking any remetk, I am with
ie1ig12t that they bereame leers supicloue and
mut of me and my (loins. gredeelly
and tottieusly tried the rope that homed my
Leekily it had, not been knotted
with, the skill of a Jeb -tar; and fettled
efter a little workket that 10:214 oily fres
ray himde. weal far too ,eantiowe to do 40
at eine. Ilowever wee dettembeed to wale
for a fevoureble dunes%
Tbat chzene came owele owner theta
expeebeel. The day wen very hot; end It
ores not bog before we were all reey thirsty.
A. little otter four in the afternoon, u we
.1 a kelt 041 et athemrule tt: ,well, let usre II
Wthoehoultheber. tier burry On 'toId Jitanel,"
ill volt Mike loom" *Aid flret
ust talte eare Met our prisene
not de of thirst or cf UM inmate, to
Mitch hese =rod Enropouns are
object otherevise good-bye tom reaverd."
" Very well," meld the other. "I have
heard it odd that braudy cam= entestroke,
and &lain water keeps ctt"
"Jiro has aeorompuled ye Tay tatooly,i,
ita one.
"He mime be a coward," wallas other ;
they ell are, exempt when they aro to.
gather.°
liatened, but ma nothing, Ing we went
to the well, some &Manta off buo lima. No
or them ongirded. lain sword and. plat itegglen
an the ground while- he drew meter from the
well. Near lb eat the other sem hls sword
at
his bolt„ vaitheg for his think, while 1
stood neer hina with my hand* behind roy
back. Now or never, 1 said to remit 1
quietly !dipped my right hand from the loop
that held It. To eeize the sword ors the
ground and drew wan the work of an In.
Mont ; tho next, the aItting Midler fell
=rpm to the gunmen with his bead almost
Levered front the neck with one blow of the
sharply ground sword. At the =Ise of the
attn.*, the soldier who Was drawing
water turned round,. and for a moment
was petrified at ening his late prisoner
free, brandithing a naked sword, and slay.
bag his comrade. Recovering himself, he
rushed at me with a shout ; but; him ;do I
slew with hie own ewer&
Was once more free, and tenet Is more, I
Was now armed. From my dead enemies I
took their Chapatties. In India, travellers
generally carry torn° food with them, to
meet tbe not =frequent eases of fiadiug
aeanty supplies. Not a soul was in sight. 1
ate and drank, and tbanked Godfor my de
liverance, Then I started once more id the
Gwalior direction, but I kept clear of the
road. I led the life of a nocturnal animal,
resting during the day, and hiding as I beat
might, but during the night mulling forward
at my beat speed towards Gwalior. When
the eoldiere? Chapctillea were done, I Satisfied
the cravings of hunger by eating meat
goes from the trees or the melons In the
fields. or did I disdain the raw coba of
Indian corn, or in fact anything edible I
could find. Never could I have believed in
my old soldier days, when we used to grum-
ble at our beer and beef and bread as suppli-
ed by the commiesariat, that I could ever
have managed to get down my throat what
I ate with such relish during those four days.
We never know what we ORM do till we try
On the eightn day after leaving Jhansi—
the fourth after =ming the aoldiers—I
reached Gwalioretwearied, fagged, footsore,
and almost tired of life. Another couple
of days of such mieery, and I should either
have lain down to die, or have recklessly
thrust myself into the midst of my enemies.
But the distant sight of the great rock fort-
ress of Gwalior revived my spirit& I was
soon concluded to a house, and tended and
oared for, by order of Malimrajah Sindhia.
Oh, the unary of a bath, after all that
time and travel and suffering! A few days
of rest and good food had almost set me up
again, when I WriS once more started on my
flight. The Maharejah continuing loyal to
to the government, incurred the animosity
of his own people ; and after a time of seeth-
ing discontent and ill -suppressed murmurs,
his troops broke out into open mutiny
spinet him crying to be led to joln their
brothers in arms. Attended by only a
handful of faithful servants, Sindhia was
obliged to flee to Agra for his life. Gwalior
was of course now become too hot for any
t European; and I followed Sindhia's etr-
e ample. ,
Again I started on my wandering; but
this time I had fewer adventures, for the dis-
; tames was shorter. On the second day,
swam acroee the river Chumbell, at the im-
• minent risk of being eeizad and devoured by
one of the numerous alligators that swarm in
1 its waters. But en the other hand there
was the certainty of being re'z3C1 and slain
If I sought the ferry: bridge there then was
none. I paned. Dholpore ; and soon found
. comparative safety untler the influence of the
• vioiniey of the European forces at Agra.
g There in due °SUM), arrived, safe inde,ed
1 as to fife and limb, but I was not a very pre •
t mutable object. My feet were blistered,
, swollen, and torn ; .my clothes WeI43 ifithy
and ragged; my skin was tanned and raw
g with the heat of the sun; and my eyes were
was taken to the tommenclezet, vim beerd
my statement of whet han =cured at 4h4M-
ei. ; end I .wee. then =Molted to the battery
of ereillery in Oregon., .1/0 I.. did tittle
dotY. Aleut** of breltekvee aesentellowe
; and •Cintleg It I. was Aetna. WOO the et -
most =reaped tenderomes by the wife and
daughter ef our eergezent-major. Wore a
year WAS out, I. Inertia that strl, When.
India toed been repanquered and pema res'
tweed., I wean= back he the Public gforU
Department, 1 kayo T404. ; end 1 now beer
the COMM14.494 Of a lieutenant 14Tjfat tfe,*
je,sty's service, As owe this else to the
:Steady hablea haeleted ou by my .wife, and as
I could not hive* got heroin alt huznan pre*
bebility„bet for the mutiny at dieenet,
don't grudge the niferisege, greet as they
then seemed, which 1 endured le my ge-
eepe.
SWBBT raAoB IN LIVR.
floar Yfaehnapri.iaess cap. Be Wade toon.re
Moue Manners,
13eat4y bath its ellarreep but the chum
et greescne pzuseeres far outweigh them.
The enenteera that expreois a kinelliye .ayrope.
thetio lecerte (men to the iedueueo 'of on,
ether eeeressuelity as the, delver to the eure
;ma
as uneammonaly givieg /eagle ite OWA
fragrAnce, are 4 gift thet ler ootebineepleye-
teal 'greceza.
Wile 4 ste laeve not 'forgotten eoplein Noel
er seen It grow beentifel Under the witehery
f bout -Wel Mannerer the exprOtaiou of a.,
well poked mind 1 Leanning nen be A
quired, peliteneee may be cultivated, but
meozwe
to the oxpftNii3.4 of' the pAttae,. eaut •
brine the etjeet to fti OWA leVel, at lout for
the romuout. We go out from the presence
of geutle'ennoere at poet with the world.
Ssmes of VA carry the ideal of vedette vane
with van aiming but never reachiem sey-
leg 'Mete Petrereti, "I have ooce beheld on
• th an 1 P. MAU ore and eel t 1 oho I
The following article, taken from, the
New York " San," though not quite aocurate
la Lome of ite references to oar coaetry, is yet
intemely Meresting, and will furnish
food, for tbeeght to the milmtive reader :—
For two winters pasb there heve now and
then been, ramors that the Indiene be the
vests region north of the Seskatehewan River
were dyreg of at wvation, and that the utter
failure of food, suppitea had remelted in cent
Thee reports have sueeequently
been cotaflrmed by miseionaries and traders.
Several well-antheutioeted etories of fright -
fel suffering have been Mid, like ease Mai=
Bishop Olut narrated Lest year of the font,
bee among the Creee on the Athabasce River
during tlae winter of 1887 83 The =ow
came unusually early and lay deep on the
ground before tne hunters. had secured =rah
meat. Being without secwetoee, they could
not hunt, and many periabed of hanger, the
survivors at last eetieg the bodies of thcee
who had perished, In one camp of thirty
persons only three were alive in tlae eyeing.
Last wieteee reperts indicate the same
dteettFlibtel! Privations, but as yet we have no
In the testimony given A year ago before
a committee et the CanttataxA SerOte upon
the me -names of the great Mackenele Bain,
ample eviden.:e woe esecluced to allow thee
the Indians and ESItilDOS of that region
awe RIPTDLT relemmarem.
The opinion WAS frequently expressed that
the evils which are decimating these four or
five Indian and B.:14,mo eribee, who number
eheut f20,000 people, are the direet result of
the zelvent of the evhitee. Since gum have
taken the pia= of the hew and arrow and
leuce, the *laughter of reindeer, Mile56, and
word buffet° has been far in exceee of the
native needs', and tide game, on WhiCh they
are chiefly dependent for food, is falling
therm There are now believed to be °Pio 4
few hoodred beffele in the Peeee Hiner
isometry, where s few yeeve ago theee wild
animals, Bereaving tenger than sur prairie
bison, roamed lc theneandi. Meaty of the
native') lieu the mimic= atetione now live
in brully ventilated huts, and theee sorry
aubetientes for tiro buffale 'shin tents el
earlier dap heve inereased, the (-teeth rate,
We are Old that Ile epideneice were ever
keowes to prevail auweg theee nMives uptil
,e4 la A irrnt L't =cellos' and ensellosex wore intredoced by
4.611hdQ"Allve7141CTtleirer 4T1101404" 14+4 maks' '444e"titl Wenbier 1.%11)Itin114traltmfAn't114Airltt4c;':Qtriliie:
wltli
thlegs eltu •I'lltur but dx,„0.1413 444_41: white Men ate profaning (verbal ravages,
Teuulitou Julie ...Atria 015.0k -v Is equellin in extent the mortality which,
beat," for ho knew that, effense COtdd never item th„ „me cum, agneentus no nut
Mo-
cums where the bort fele the brotherbood of bneiminz, oft th, eeiire native veva,
• WIIaD l Tudeut" but a dirdeg" "Mime of Britith Oelumble,
Lugo game *lona the tzteeker eta and
efileenee is becoming ro ezzerce that if th
reindeer, kr fugue°, happen to chug
their rout= Utile orosensg of etreems where
the Indies= are wither for them, etervatieu
le Ukoly to remit. Serolule, sue el tio mot
petent
1,617.NCIES or 3.101rraTATr
le believed to be bagel? induced by the diet,
another% eights! Whet le d14011rtasy brit
dieregard of feelings t Who Met
loves hie neigill,*r ever gives af.
fosse° 1 We think of culture es the highest
form ofelle intelleetuel, hat it Ie perfect only
as the teeth kept pace with the heed,
d sees in Di own devaio out a new res.
neibtlity, Anew debt to the world. fleza are ?Attlee ; plitemase, veneering; and
14 Its dulleed true is not able to dintlue
Ulu
elmest exclusively of doh. upon whieh many
Let rie low the phrase, Learn to he polite, of the natives, depend. "The Indian's," love
and say, Tether, oiCaltivete the heave and Mr. Cueeorre, a former mernhee of the
head thet the steture of 0 perfeet man mey Northwest Colwell, "are not se well eft' as
Ise method." True manner sseele the limit- they Were before the whites oar= among
Atione of Another's temptirament and oppor. thee," trigeor has Also been letrodeoed by
tufty arol heves them untrammeled, know- white tredere among the ludieua of the
ing every mart has his own code of morels Peace Biver oountry, end 'Bishop q.ut lee
and poiltenese erisloh onlylinclividerel develop. appesled for protection against It,
mane ems change, feellegwith Goethe ; "Wee While -the rapidly dirniniebIngzumbere of
?rive beet at true toleration when We let the Indian tribes le attracting attentiou,
pass individual peonlieritles, whether of lamest equal fatality ie observed among the
persons or peoples, without (laureling with Eskimon who live altug the Angie cosh
them; holding feet, neverthelese, to tbo Consumption le very prevalent ;mom them,
oonvlotiop then genuine exoelbuce is Odin. and they are not holding their own in the
guielten by Ode rank, that it belonga to all bitter struggle for exietence. It is
ranultind." Could Wp only bold fait to 7.24210E2TIN0 race
the thought of the divine, in every man I thatthe Merle:lees, extending as they do from
Could. we only see that in acknowl
ledging Lsbriedor along the northern comae of Amer -
bis right to hie neture scarred or Po- ice to Bebring Strait, 100 degrees of lone-
.Aammagasame. ausammiamaimasamem
Li& LIME -KILN OLITB.
"Ay' &adder J. X. Quiff in de nen to -
i' bla,mily inquired the Peesident as
the meetipg opened, with the mercury in the
tlaermometer towthing the figures 99.
"Yea, sal" was the prompt reply of Bro-
ther cmife as he rose up.
"Step die way, please. I want to hey a
few words of coeversashen wid you. How
long elece you jined to die Plub
"Twe y'are, iah."
°Exactly., 'Boo three week e arter you
jined I called at your house au' warned you
to quit loafiu' around saloons."
"Yeyea, oh."
"A leetle later I had to warn ye (let ye
mus' pay, yer debts."
"Still furder on I was fo'ced to tell ye dat
you didn't Own alrth, an you Seerned to
helMve, an' dat if you dieirne ,get down to
work you'd h'areoanthin
"'Bout every two months rze bad to talk
wid you on dis reatMr or on dat, an' rze
filially got tired of it. Two weeks ago you
went home drunk an' broke de etove wid an
ax. 1 tole ye nex' day dee de clintex wasn't
fur off, an' now ehe huh. You were
drunk agin las' nine
"Jae eorry, sah."
"It ar' tee late. I reckon, CAM was sorry
arter he killed Abel, hut behn slor.ry (114M
help do PASO any. 13totbor c.oifr, your
mane ho been eroed from eur hooka as a
member, an' you kin take your hat an de,
parb. You ar no louver a member of dia
club."
Brother Crania +Mood like one etenned for
a moment, end then e'er* elewn in heap on
the it ;or. The (=Mitten CM COICI aterage
were qteittly ordered to remove the reausine,
and svuen Ceuiff recovered hie ezereze he wee
lying on 4 pile of tinoiereps in tbo alley,
with a cold nave from Joke Reran. sterdiog
up hie epiael colemrs,
Hailed, Meet in every eot at conemelon not tide; have a range over the continent, east
involving principle it le "Jove nodding. to and wed, greater then that of any ether
Jove," bow much eacial friction would be 1 race, Brat thin thin line of Arctic nommis
lost; 1
Is becoming thinner, and them= =Manley
that haa been observed among them at Point
Barrow, is evident wherever the white!) have
recently had at chance to obeerre them, The
Innuits In Immo parte of northero Abdul,
have been enabled by whalers and Madera to
acquire a teeth tor liquor, and they have in
consequence become lens provide= than
formerly. Hunting in entirely neglected so
long as the natives have a drop of whiskey
in their huts. It is said that the terrible
disaster at St. Lewrence Island a few years
ago, when 1.000 people
DIED OF STARVATIOX,
would have been greatly mitigated, if not
wholly averted, if the hunters had not been
abundantly &wiled with means to keep
themselves intoxicated, and therefore idle in
the fall, when they should have been sour-
ing the winter's provision of meat. Hardly
anything is now done, and perhaps little
can be done, to meliorate their condition.
Canada has not yet attempted to exercise
any control or confer any benefits upon her
northern Indiana, and doubts were expressed
before the Senate committee last year whe-
ther even the self•sacrificing mismonaries had
been able en any way to improve the condi-
tion of Me natives.
The same rapid decimation of the natives
is seen on the opposite coasts of Asia. Came
Hooper of the Corwin, who regards the
Tehuktalcies of Siberia as in every way su.
parlor to the Alaskan Innuits, says that
starvation and disease are causing them
rapidly to disappear. Their settlements,
which a few years aro could be found every
few :ones along the coasts from Cepa Serdze
to Cape North, are 1 ecoming fewer and
fewer.
Things a Boy Should Leara.
To rim,
To swim.
To carve.
To bu not,
To be boneet.
To make a fire.
To be penctual
To do an errand.
To cut kindling&
To Meg if he cm.
To sew on a button.
To hang up his hate
To hold him head erect.
To respect hie teacher.
To help hie mother or sister.
To buttonhis mother's boots,
To wipe his boots on the mat.
To read aloud when -requested.
To help the boy smaller th himself.
To speak pleasantly to an old woman.
To put every garment in its proper place.
To remove Ida hat upon entering a house.
To keep his finger nails from wearing
mourning.
To lift the baby out of the cradle and hold
it for half an hour.
To treat the girls so well thab they will
wish he Was their brother.
To close the door quietly, especially when
there is a sick person in the house.
jOKBLE TS.
Reflected lights. — Second -nand witti-
cisms. N.B. —The fruits of some joke -hatch.
ere turn out to be veritable " cheatnuta."
A genuine " lusus natarte—A spelling -
bee.
A "canard " we opine is so called because
ID " oan-ard " ly be believed.
The thing to be put down With a stern
hand,—The rudder, of course.
'A settler for tight lacing.—No propea
young lady would care to be seen in a corn
set (cormet.)
Teumpa for unemployed labourers. —
Spades.
When may a house be said to be out of
the perpendicular ?—When it has gob a
" stoop" to it. N. B. This is a stup-end.
home joke, not to be gummed by every
stup id fellow.
LEWELLIN, M. A.
The Woman who Sokotbs.
A woman who scrubs
Over lathery tube,
Tho' not of a bibulousmind,
Has no oause to faint
If folks make a complaint
Of her having "three aheets in the wind."
—Yonkers Gazette
do.
WIRELETS.
OWNgn iv.v.TrgD.
IC has been a year and a hall ;lino the
leat attempt Weil made to destroy Paradise
end the jeniter had peeeed trorn Mete
teezttel etretety :moue remove, when he
was rudely evrekened, Friday ;Memnon by
the ellecovery that human byeu al Were again
on the trail. Sometime between Wedueeday
and Friday non was gained to tlae hall by
means of the Ay -light in tbe roof, and
robabiy by two or more fiencle in hunaan
rm. Their great °Wept woe to deitroy
the zocerde and the nuoteum ; but ea they
eed demo the hallway and turned to the
they encountered beertrep No. 1. Its
were wide open and httnBr7. The
in the lead meet heves fatly stepped
and be tad the clout' =114 hielife.
jewe started to elm he made A
priug, mad 4* 01010 was bin memo than he
eft one of bis bootleels between the jagged
teeth, Tee isseident no doubt frightened
the valises* away at one, as nothieg was
dieturbed.
"Din club will offer A reward et fur de
=tat of de pusepowho iefb dist heel behind,"
*aid Brother Gerdeer, "an' if he al' Caught
we will do our heat to make him feel wows.
ful but de um' ten y'erl of hla life. I into
ornered mo' War-trape, an' by tomorrow
noon dar will be fo'then of 'mu guerelln* die
hell. Fur do :safety of ;loll =raters As de -
aka to visit de library, a map will he tithed,
wid de bonbon ab ebery trap indicated by
a bleak and blue spot."
0W.&00 00' 0Z8.
Giveeidam Janet arose to A point of order,
lEfe had received a cirauler front Prof. Alms -
hem asoterbrook, colored, of Ohio, who
oletmei to have invented a preperetion 14
tem any ware of hair h ta I
go....la
en col-
or with three applicatious. Giveeclam didn't
want any golden look; in ids, but his wife
bad got sort (Aired of her heed eoyering
and thought 'he'd rneke A cheep. lie there-
fore 'sent for a bottle, and when it Arrived he
gime it a triel to please his wife. The ro.
ault was before the meeting—one of the re -
suite,
The meeting oarefally scrutinized brother
Jono and thou gave vent to 111'1.1)40am
laughter. 1114 wool WAS of four or five
different colors, among whioh there was no
golden to apeak of, He old biz wife was
sick in bed and almost bald.headed from
two applications. Ho felt humilleted and
=bemused in giving himself away, but he
would do it in a apirit of probono
On motion of Waydown Babel; the
sympatbiee of the club were extended audit
WW1 decided to warn all members by circular
to howare of the haee professor.
CaND171011S.
The secretary then gave the following
verbatim:
Aeneensot; S. 0. May 20, 1889, A. D.
' to Bro gardner : deer Sir we haa Re Org-
unized the Seciety of Joy & R joice & our
tex is united to Oen Pervided we dente Fall
—our Roe is comin too the front mister
le.wrence Jones is now Mello agent & We
hopes to git more;
We Wood like to no If we on git Reeket-
sition from the lithe Kill Club We aims to
get the Han cuff offen The Braine as mr jaff
Webb says.
Yore orietian Brother.
JAMES GREENLEEF
Section master of Joy & Rejoice.
"Ize seen wues," ob:erved Brother Gard I
ner as he scanned the letter, "but de man
who writ it died de nes' day. Da first thing
dat club wants to do, if it hopes fur recogni-
tion, ar' to purvide :itself wid a jogerfy
an Tarn how to spell. De seckertary will
answer to dat effeck."
HE DHOHTTGT IT BACK.
Brother Giveadam Jones was than requeat-
ed to report on his lPnz
ate trip' to e, Ind.,
where he went to dissolve a bran= club and
bring back its charter. He reported that he
arrived in Peru to find that all charges made
against the branch wore true. It had thirty-
eight marabou, who met to smoke, drink,
gamble and fight dogs, and tlaeir aotione had
oast great discredit on tbe parent club. n
When he went up to the hall to dissolve the \
club seven or eight of the members attempt-
ed to dissolve him, and it was only by the
most liberal the of a bench -leg that he put
down the rebellion and got hold of the chart-
er. lb was his opinion that no branch should
be allowed at Peru, as the colored element
there was past reform.
Reports were then received from the com-
mittees on agriculture, geology, astronomy
and lighthouses, and the meeting adjourn.
ed. '
Tlte -Dominion Labour Congress will be
held in Montreal on September 3,
Mr. G. W. Monk, M. P. P. for Carleton,
is lying ill ab his home at S tutli March.
LleutoCol. Lamontagne, D. A. G., died
at his residence in Montreal the other night.
Ah Hueng, the murderet of the Chinese
girl at Victoria, B. C., hanged himself in his
cell. t-
,
The annual report on canal statistics
plows that the revenue of 1E88 was $11,000
greater than that of the previous year.
There is talk in St. Thomas of the pare
chase"of the Erie and Huron railway by the
Canada Southern.
The Montreal grand jary brought in true
bills against Andy Maloney and Elarry Phil-
lips in connection with she Elis j mvel rob-
bery 09.6C.
A number of settlers have reached Mani-
toba from Dakota. After staying five years
in Ur.ols Sam's territory without reaping a
single crop they became disgusted.
A pretty Toronto girl, giving her name aa
Angeline Ribenau, aud her age as nineteen,
was found wandering about the streets of
Detroit. It is supposed her mind is affedt.
The firet female on record. Eve? Oh, no,
Gene els (Jenny site) ,
The truest help we can render to an (lot -
man is, not to takeaway hie burden from
him, but to call out his best strength that
he may be able to bears the burden,-- [F. M.
Smite.
Znio, the little dog of Dr. Watson, of
1V1e.con, Ga., was aceuetomed to accompany
the Doctor everywhere. When the Doctor
died and was put in the ceffin Zollo was
held up to take a last look at him. He went
to the cemetery with the coffin, refused for a
long while to edme away, and now goes to
the grave every morning and night and re•
ed mainS sitting' upon it for some time,