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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-7-19, Page 7lay!!!!?rottN.N0F,P44.N:PA1=09entwoonorzwastuarnzwrai • "ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH, • CHA P rER A VISIT WO GROSSE MB, Alas I that mania stern eplrit e'er should mar A Scene so pure—so exqui ite as tree. The dreadful cholera was depopuleting gnebec eee4 Montreal, oaten Our ship cast anchor off Grosse Isle, on the 30uh of August, 1882, and we were boarded a few minutes after by the health-effiaers. One of these gentlemen --a little, shrivelled -up French- man—from his solemn aepect and attenuated figure, would have made no bad representat tive of him who sat upon the pale horse. • He was the only grave Frenchman I had ever seen, and I natnrally enough regerded him as a phenomenon. His companion—a .fine.lookThg fainhaired Sootohman—though a little col equential in his manners, looked like one who in his own person 'could com- bat ana vanquish all the evils which -flesh is heir to. Such was the contraet between then dootors, that they would have formed very good emblems,' one, of vigorous health ; the other, of hopeless deoay. • Oar captain, a rude, • blunt north-coentry *sailor, possessing certainly not more polite- ness than Wight be expected in a bear, per- ceived his sprucely dreseed visitors on the cleok, and with very little courtesy, abrupt- ly,bade them follow him dawn to the °abbe. The official was no sooner seated than, glancing hastily round the place, they com- menced the following dialogue: "Prom what port, captain?" Now, the captain had a peniler language of his own, from which he commonly ex- punged all the connecting links. . Snaall worwe'such as "and" and "the,", he con- trived to dispense with altogether. " Scotland—sailed from port o'Leithe bound for 'Quebec, Montreal—general dargo —seventy-two steerage, four cabin passen- gers—brig Anne, one hundred and ninety- two tons burden, crew eight hand." Here be produced his credentials, and handed them to the straugers. The Sootohroan just glanced eventhe documents, and laid them wattle table. ' "Had you a good passage out ?" "Tedious, baffling winds, heavy fogs, de- tained three weeks on Banks --foul weather making Gulf --short of water, people out of provisions, steerage passengers starving. ".Any case of sickness or death on board I" "Alt sound as crickets." . • " Any births ?" lisped the little French- man, The captain serewed up his mouth, and after a moment's reflection he replied, " Births ? Why, yes; now I think on', • gentlemen, we had one female on board, who produced three at a birth." "That's uncommon," said the Scotch doc- tor, with an air of lively curiosity. "Are the children alive and well? I should like much to see them." He started up, and knockeff-hie head, for he was very tall, againsti"the ceiling. "Confound your low cribs I Is have nearly dashed oub my bra.ins." "A• hard task, that," looked the captain to me. He did not speak, but I knew by his sarcastic) grin what was uppermost in his • thoughts. "The young ones all males -- fine thriving fellows. Step upon deck, Sam Frazer,' turning to his steward; "bring bees/flown for doctors to see." Sam van islutd, with a knowing wink to his superior, and quickly returned, bearing in his arms three fan cbuckle-headed bull terriers; the sagacious mother following close at his heels, andlooked reedy to give and take offence on the slightest provocation. "Beare, gentlemen, are the babies," said 'Frazer, depoiiting his burden on the floor. "They do credit; to the nursing of the brindled slut." • The old tar laughed, chuckled, and rub bed his hands in an ecstacy of delight at the indignation and disappointment visible in the countenance of the Scotch Esoulapius, who, angry as he was, wisely held his tongue. Not so the Frenchman; his rage scarcely knew bounds,—he danced in a state of most ludicrous excitement,—he shook his fiat at our rough captain, and screamed at the top of hie voice,— " Sacre, iyou betel You tink us dog, when you try to pass your puppies on us for babies ?" " Houte man, don't be angry," said the Scotohman, stifling a loath ; 'you see 'tis only a joke 1" • "Joke 1 me no understand such joke. Bete 1" returned the angry Frenchman, be. stowing a savage kick on one of the unon fending pups which was friaking about his feet. The pup yelped; the slut barked and leaped furiously at the offender, and was only kept from biting him by Sam, who could scarcely hold her back for laughing; the daptain was uproarious; the offended Frenchman 'alone maintained a severe and dignified aspect. The clogs were at length dissmisaed, and peace restored. After some *after questioning from the officials; s bible was required for the °sprain to take an oath. Mine was mislaid, and there was none at hand. "Confound it 1" muttered the old sailor, tossing over the papers in his desk; "that scoundrel, Sam, always stows my traps out of the way." Then taking up front the table a 'book which I had been reeding, which happened to be Voltaire's History of Charles XII., he presented it, with as grave an air as he could temente, to the French- man. Taking for granted that it was the volume required, the little doctor was too polite to open the book, the captain was duly sworn, and the party returned to the deck. . , • Here a new difficulty occurred, which nearly ended in a serious queue]. The gentlemen requested the old sailor to give them a few feet of old planking, to repair sem damage which their boat had sustained the day before. This the captain could not do. They seemed to think his refusal in- tentional, and took it as a personal affront, In no very gentle tones, they ordered him instantly to i prepare his boats, and put his passengers on shore. • tiff breeze --short sem" returned the 131u old Beaman ; "great risk in making land --boats heavily laden with women and children will be swamped. Not a foul goes on shore this night." "If you refuse to comply with our order's, we will report you to the authorities." "I know my day—you 'stick to yam's, When the wind fills off, Ill see to it, Not a life shall be risked to plettee yeti or your authorities." • He turned upon his heel, and the medical men left the vessel in greet disdain. We had every reason to be thankful for the Arninesitdispiayen by our rough coinmander. That same evening we 'saw eleven periofie drowned, facim another vessel clone beside tub while attempting to make the shote; By daybretk all , wats hurry. and eon - fusion on hoard the Anne, 1 watched boat after bcast depart for the island, full of peo- ple and geode, and envied these the glorioua privilege f once nlore Istanning firmly on the earth, After two long months of rocking ahd rollitig at Beta How ardehtly we aniddipate pleastire, which often wide itt poeitiVii Vein I Stich was my ease when at lest indulged in the gratidoation eo eagerly doeired, „Le canin pessengers, we were not included in the geperal order of purifieation, but were only obliged to send our servant, with the clothe's and bedding we had used during the Yams, on shore, to be washed. The ehip was soon emptied of all her live cargo. My hinband went off with the boats, to reconnoitre the island, and I was left alone with ray baby, in the otherwise empty vessel. Evert Oacar, the Captain's Sootoh terrier, who had formed a devoted attach- / men t to um during the voyage, forgot hie allegiance, became possetsed of the land manta, and was away with the twat. With the most intense desire to go onshore, I was doomed to look and long aid envy every boatfull of emigrants that glided Past Nor was this all ; the ship was out of previsions and I was condemned to undergo a rigid fast until the return of the boat, when the cap - tam had promised a, eupply of fresh butter and bread. The vessel had beer nine weeks as sea; the poor steerage passengers for the two last vreegs had been out of food, and the captain had been obliged to feed them from the shIp's stores. The promieed bread was to be obtained from a email steam -boat which plied daily between Quebec and the island, tranporting convalescent emigrants, and their goons in her upward trip, and pro- visions for the sick on her return. • How I reckoned on once more tasting bread and butter.,• The very thought of the treat in store served to Sharpen my appetite, and render the long faet.more irksome. I could now fully realize all Mrs. •Bowdich's longings for English bread ard butter, after her three years' travel through the burning Africian deserts, ;with her talented husband. •" W ben we arrived at the hotel at Ply- mouth," said she, "and were asked what refreshment we chose—' Tea, and home- enadebread and butter,' wag meeinstant reply. 'Brown bread, if you please, and plenty of • it, I never enjoyed any luxury like it. I was positively ashamed of asking the waiter to refill the plate. After the execrable meesesa and the hard shipbisouit, imagine the luxury of a good slice of English bread and butter 1" ' At home, I laughed heartily ab the lively energy witl . which that charming woman of genius related tbis little incident in her eventful nistory,—but off Grosse Isle, I realised it all. • As the sun rose above the horizon, all these matter- of -fact circumstances were gradually forgotten, and merged in the sur- passing grandeur of the scene that rose majestically before me. The previous day had been dark and stormy; and a heavy fog had concealed the mountain chitin' which forme the stupendous • backgroundto this sublime view, entirely from our signt. As the clouds rolled away from thew grey, bald brown, and cast into denser fladow the vest forest belt that girdled them round, they loomed out like nrighty giaets—Titans of the earth, in all their rugged and awful beauty—a thrill of wonder aud delight per- vaded my mind. The speetacle floated dim. ly on my sight—my eyes were blinded with tears—blinded with the excess of beauty. I turned to -the right and to the left, I looked up and down the glorious river; never had I beheld so many striking obtects blended into one mighty wholernNature had lavish- ed all ber noblest features in produoing that enchanting scene. • The rooky isle in front, el, ith its neat farm- houses at the eastern point, and its high bluff at the western extremity, crowned with the telegraph—the middle space occu- pied by tents and sheds for the cholera pa- tients, and its wooded shores dotted over with motley croups—added greatly to the picturesque effect of the land scene. Then the broad glittering river, covered with boats darting to and fro, conveying passen- gers from twenty-five vessels, of various size and tonnage, which rode at anchor, with their flags flying from the mast head, gave an air of life and interest to the whole. Turn- ing to the south side of the St. Lawrence, 1 was not less struck with its low fertile shores'white houses, and fleet churches, whoseslender spires and bright tin roofs shone like silver as they caught the first rays of the sun. As far as the eye could reaoh, a line of white buildings extended along the bank, their background formed by a purple hue of the douse interminable forest. It was a scene unlike any I had ever beheld, and to which Britain contains no parallel. Mackenzie,an old Soot* dragoon, who waa one of our passengers, when he rose in the morning and saw the ,parish of St. Thomas for the first time exclaimed I " Weel, it beats a'l Can thee white clouts be a' henna ? Thee look like ekes hung'put to drie 1",There was some truth in this odd coroparision, and for some minutes I could scarcely convince myself that the white patches scattered so thickly over the opposite shore could be the dwellings of a busy, lively population. "What istinlime views of the north side of the river those habitane of S. Thomas must enjoy," thought I. Perhaps familiar- ity with the scene hes rendered them in- different to its astonishing beauty. Eastward, the view down the St. law: rence towards the Gulf, is the finest of all, scarcely surpassed by anything in the world. Your eye follows the long range of lofty mountains until • their blue summits are blended and lost in the blue of the sky. Some of these teartially cleared round the base, are sprinkled over with neat cottages; and the green slopes around them are cover- ed with flocks and herds. The surface of the splendid river is diversified with islands of every raze and shape, some in wood, others partially entered, and adorned with orchards and white farm -houses. As the early sun streamed upon the most prominent of these, leaving the others in deep shade, the effect was strangely novel and =peeing. In more remote regions, where the forest has never yet echoed to the woodman's axe, or received the irnprees of civilization, the first approach to the shore inspires a melancholy awe, whioh becomes painful in its intensity. And silence—awful silence broods Profoundly O'er these solitildes ; Nought but the lapsing of the floods Bunke the deep Stillness of the ivobcis ; A sense of desolation relent O'er these unpeoplect forest plains, Where sounds of life neer Wake alone Of cheerful praise round Nature's throne, Man finds himself With God—alone. MY day.dreame were dispelled by the re- turn of the boat, whioh brought my husband and the captain from the bland. " bread," said the letter, shaking his , head; you must be tontent to starve a little longer. Provision -ship not in till four o'elock." ty hustend smiled at the look of blank dinappointment with which I re- cetved these Unwelcome tidings, "Never mind, I have news velnoli will comfort you. The rough sailor -captain screwed h is flouriehing aloft his shilelagh, bounded and mouth on one side, and gave me one of h ' capered like a witd goat from hie native mountains. " Whurrab 1 my boys V he is went of them, leaped upon tile rook, awl comical looke, but he said nothing until 1 assisted in piecing me and the baby in ti boat. " Don't be too sanguine, Mra. Moodie many thinge look well at a distance whio are bad enough when near," I 'scarcely regarded tile old seilorn war ing. So eager wee 1 to go on shore—to pu my foot upon the new world for the firs time -1 was in no humour to listen to an depreciation of what aeeined so beautiful. It was four o'clock when we landed on th rooks which the rays of an intensely scorch ing sun had rendered ao hot that 1 ooul scarcely place my foot Upon them. How th people without shoes bore it, I cannot imag ine. Never shall I forget the eatraoreliner espectaele that met our sight the moment w passed the low range of bushes whioh form ed a screen in iron; of the river. A crow of many hundred Irish emigrants had bee landed during the present and former day and all this motley orew—men, women, an ohildren, who were not confined by sioknes to the *eels (whioh greatly resembled oat tle -pens)—were employed in washing clothes or spreading them on the rocks and bushe to Ory. The men and boys were in the water while the women, with their scanty garment tucked aloft; their knees, were ttramping their bedding in tubs, or in holly in the rocks, which the retiring tide had left hal full of water. Those who did nob possess woeshingtubs, pails, or iron pots, , or oould nos obtain access to a hole iri the rooks, were running too and fro, aoreaming and scolding In no ineesured tome The confuelon of Babel was among them. All talkers and no hearers—each shouting and yelling in hie or her uncouth dialect, and all. accompanying their voofferations with violent and extra- ordinary gestures, quite incomprehensible to the uninitiated. W e were literally stunned by the strife of tongues. I shrank with feeliegs almost akin to fear, from the hard- freuadteuiryipt ed,assu11113e. uriit women, as they elbowed I had' heard and read much of savo,g es, and have since seen, during my long resi- dence in the bush, somewhat of uncivilized life; but the Indian is oneofNature's gentle- men—he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated batbarians, who form the surplus of over -populous Euro- pean countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtersy. The people who covered the island appeared perfectly destitute of shame, or even a sense of common decency. Many were almost naked, still more but partially clothed. We turned in disgust from the revolting scene, but were unable to leave the spot until the captain ,had satisfied a noisy group of his own people), who were demanding a supply of stores. And here I must observe that our pitmen - gars, who were chiefly honest Sootoh labor - ere and mechanics from the vicinity of Edin- burgh, and who while on board ship had conducted themselves with the greatest propriety, and appeared the most quiet, orderly set of people in the world, no sooner set foot npon the island, than they became infected by the same spirit of inanbordina- tion and misrule, and were just as insoleut and noisy as the rest. The rocky banks of the island vaere adorned with beautiful evergreens, which, sprang up spontaneously in every nook and crevice. I remarked many of our favourite garden shrubs among these wildiugs of nature, The fille,gree, with ite narrow, dark glossy -green leaves; the privet, with its modest white blossoms and purple berries; the lignum-viice, with its strong mamma odor ; the burnet-rose, and a &eat variety of elegant unknowns. While our captain was vainly encleavor- lug to satisfy the unreasonable demands of his rebellious people, Moodie had discovered a woodland path that led to the back of the island. Sheltered by some hazenbushea from the intense heat of the sun, we sat down by the cool, gushing river, out of sight but, alas 1 not out of hearing of the noisy, riotous crowd. Could:we have shut out the profane sounds which came to us on every breeze, how deeply should we have enjoyed an hour amid the tranquil beauties of that retinal -and lovely spot 1 Etere, the shores of the island and main- land, receding from each other, formed a small cove, overhung with lofty trees, cloth. ese from the base to the summit witk wild vines, that hung in graceful festoons from the topmost branches to the water's edge. The dark shadows of the mountains, thrown upon the water, as they towered to the height of some thousand feet above us, gave to the surface of the river an ebon hue. The sunbeams, dancing through the thiek, quiv- ering foliage, fell in stars of gold, or long lines of dazzling brightness, npon the deep black waters, producing the most novel and beautiful effects. It was a scene over which the epirit of peace might brood in silent adoration; but how spoiled by the discord- ant yells of the filthy beings who were sully. ing the purity of thelair and water with con tarninating sights and sounds 1 We were now joined by the sergeant, who very kindly brought us his capful oftripe plums and hazel -nuts, the growth of the is- land; a joyful present, but marred by a note from Captain --, who had found that he had been mistaken in his supposed know- ledge of res, and politely apologised for not tieing allowed by the health -officers to re- ceive any emigrant beyond the bounds ap- pointed for the performance of quarantine. I was deeply disappointed, but my hus- band laughingly told me that I seen enough of the island; and turning to the good-na- tured soldier, remarked, that "it could be 110 easy task to keep such wild savages in order." "You may well say that, sir—but out night scenes far exceed those of the day. You would think they were incarnate devils sinaing, chinking, dancing, shouting and cutting antios that would surprise the lead- er of a circuit. They have no Shan/se—are under no restraint—nobody knows them here, and they think they can speak and act as they please; and they are such *elves that they roboneetnother of the 'Ude they possess. The healthy eottally run the risk of taking Ithe cholera by robbing the sick, If you have not hired one or two stout, honest fel- toms from among your fellowpaasengers to guard your clothes while they are drying, you will never see half of them again. They are a sad get, sir, a and set. -We could, per - hove menage the men ; but the women, eir 1 —the women! Oh, sir 1" Anxious as tee 'a ere to return to the ship, we were obliged to remain until sundown in our retired nook, We were hungry, tired, and out of spirits; the morsquitees swarmed in snyriade arouhd us, tormenting the poor baby, whom not at all visaged With her 'visit to the new veorld, filled the air with cries ; W cried "Share Well all be jintlernen 1" Pull away, my 1481" eaid the captain. h Thee turning to me, " Well, ldre. Moodie, I hope that you have had enough of Gree n Isle. But could you have witnessed the t scenes thet I did this morning--" t lere he was interrupted by the wife ofthe y old fiooton Dragoon, rlVfacleuzie, running down to the boat, and laying her hand e tomiliarly upon bis shoulder, "Captain, dinna forget." d "Forgot whatV' e She whispered isornebbing confidentially - in his ear, y "Oh, ho 1 the brandy 1" ho responded e aloud. "I should have thought, Mrs. t Mackenzie, that you bad had enough of that d same, on yon island ?" e "Aye, eio a place for decent folk," re- turned the drunken body, shaking her head. d " One needs a drap o' comfort, captain, to s keep up one's heart ava." - The captain set up one of his boisterona , laughs, as he pushed the boon from the s *ore, " Hello 1 Sam Frazer 1 steer ha, we have forgotten the stores." I hope not, captain," said I ; "1 have s J • been starving since daybreak." "The breeell the butter, the beef, the onions and potatoes are ere, air," said f honest Sam particularising each article. "Alt right, pull for the ship. Mrs. Moodie, we will have a glorious 'supper, and mind you don't dream of Grosse Isle," In a few minutes we were again on board. Thus ended my first day's experience of the land of all our hopes. , (TO BE CONTINUED ) ens. to— The officer who commands the station sent ri note to me by an orderly, invitiog us to ; 'spend the afternoon with him. He promisee III to show tie everything worthy of notice on ' p theioland Capteln—olaimsaequaintanoe with; I tie; but X have not the least recollection E of hide' Would you like t�go ?"• I p "Oh by ell meanie I long te SCO the love- hen the captaie came to tell urs that th b e oat was ready. It was a welcome eound, oroing ouitWay ono inotd throtigh the atill quabbling crowd, we gained the landing lace, Bete we encoutitered tt boat, just eliding fresh cargo of emigrants freed the inereld Island, One fellow, of gigantic roportions, whoee long tatteted great-eoat test reaohed below the middle ofhiebare ed lege, and, like clarity, hid the dieeeta of is other gatnotete, ot perhaps concealed his ly Wand, It• loolta a perfect peradise at r this dlistancia" h fi I von t Forget Peter." sr L A. MORRISON. The angel eaid :—Ye seek Jesus. he is not here, he is risen, go your way, tea Ms disciples and Peter, he geeth Iniare tee Into GaZzlet, there pesh.a41 ass hint, as nit totnyou. In the dawning and flush of the first,Easter morning The angel who watched with the nOvr-risen Lord, Sent forth a sweet message of comfort and warning "Go bear Ms di cip'es and .Peter" the word. • But don't forget Peter l No don't forget Peter 1 But bear hinAbis message of mercy and 'then 'Twill cheer and relieve him To know }Tell reoeive him, And welcome him unto His Service again. Though Pater forgetting allegiance—denied Him With oaths and with musings, yet freely restored— His Master, in kindness, would win and not chide • him 1— For Peter remembered the word of ths Lord." So don't forget Pater! No, don't forget Peter 1 But bear him this message of mercy and then 'Twill cheer and relieve him To know I'll receive him, And welcome him unto my servIcs again. "11I/ iambs" must be fed, and there's none who may feed them Like one who hath suffered—astray on the wold— "My sheep" must be led hut no stranger can lead them Like him, who—himself—hath been out of the fold. , So don't forget Peter On't forget Peter! But bear him this message of mercy, and then 'Twill cheer and relieve him • To know, 1,11 receive him And welcome him into My service again. My brother 1 The heart of thy Lord is as tender As when Ho seat Peter that message of love — And still His sweet word for each conscious offender Is,—"Por AIM MY heart in compassion doth move." • So don't forget Pater 1 No. dcn't forget Peter 1 But bear him this message of mem-, aid then 'Twill oheer and relieve him To know, VII receive him, • And welcome him into my service again. Toacecro, June 14, MS. • ' Twilight Shadows. ST MANDE L. RADFORD, AGED 15. Closing quickly o'er the landscape, -Yelling thickly everything. Twilight shadows now are falling, Like a bud with sable wing. All the birds have ceased their warbles, Save the mournful whip.poor.will, E'en his notes are growing fainter, All the world is calm and still. And I sit amid the shadows, Musing on my future lot, Wond'zing if the years before me Will be filled with joy, or not. Will they teeni with deepest sorrow, Making life e, desert Weak, With -no peace to light the psthway, With no grains of hope to seek? • Ah 1 my past has betn to joyous. • Full of hope, and love, and light, Will the future like these twilight Shadows, be as dark as night? Would that one might live forever, In the scenes of long ago, • Would that some bright day, long vanished, Sunshine o'er our hearts might throw. Idle hopes. For time unchanging. Speeds away on lightning wing. While behind him, closely treading, Death his awful cycle swings. Mystery impenetrable Doth surround each mortal's fate, And the duty of•the watchers Is to labor, hope and—wait. — JAMES D. KENYON. To thy great heart, 0 Nature, take thy child; Close fold him in thy large, serene embrace ; Hide from the garish light his tired face; Safe shelter him from steirrn.winds loud and wild. Around him let thy hoary rooks be piled, And sentinel trees guard well the quiet place Where o'er him sunny shadows interlace, And gentle violets breathe their perfume mild. There let the birds at morn and evening sing; There let the email stream c.hime its silver bells; There let the wind its viewless censers swing. Nature's Child, atr:1" 1k :Itetga820tu;, y eo elMiAIr: And weave into bis sleep thy sweetest spells. A Oannon to Shoot Twelve Mee. " We are now," said the director of the Pittsburg works, "making a cannon for the merican lamensito Company. It will be used to demonstrate the value of that new explosive, It is a smooth bore, three lat- hes in. diameter and 100 itches long, and will throw a, six-inch shell with emensite from ten to twelve miles. In ordinary rifled cannon the shell turns one and one.quarter times in the length of the gun. This gives it a terrific tortional strain and n- .;essitatee correeponding thickness and ) Leong* of the shell and a proportionate reduction of apace for tho explosives. In other words, the internal space for the explosive is re- duced one-half to eecure the necessary %strength. Now, the Emonaite Ccenpany proposes to avoid this trouble by returning to the old 'smooth bore cannon, and at the same time to ;secure the necessary range by the increased power of their explosive. This new gun they expect to throw a dynamite ghell ad far as a rifled cennee."—(Pattsbur Despatch. Vroesing The Atlantic In cookie 1 VENTITRE IN LITTLE BOATS. I Lora Ilirelseley on Thrift. Lth ord Wolseley is used in e ate of Peace shells. as well as those of war, •Preaiding at the •annual meeting of the depofsitora of the Since time immemorial Men have fond of deeds of dering and bravery, but been Savings' bank, founded by Sir EdWard Virat- kin for the servanta of the Soutil Eastern it is a question if any ancient athlete or an warrior whose imams bave been :mug deldiveivireeatroapoplirtaacatiozilwaadydresoolimpae ounitsh,hrifte. in song or prose would have oared to Lcinidug back on ids eddd expedience be said perform, *me of the crank feats of the moderns, au he ceula not remember any man who had °11 tumblinP t4eagh the begun life by making itaa, habit to live well Niagara rapids in a barrel, tunping °ti the within his income who had not become a Brooklyn yridge or venturing acre* the , successful man; ancj when he remembered wide expanse of theAtiantia ina eaehle'eheli the men who had failed xn life he thought cr,sft scarce big epough to hold snbsistenee lie might 'my that their failure bad moulted for its lonesome crew of one. These modern fteaoorsh:rtdeinnde4uar,ance are mere creaky n done only for the sake of ue and the horrible crime of drunkenness, from the two great besetting sins to which Acts of our race are moat prone—reckless expendi- bringing the performer into notoriety, or Lord Wolseley's hearers included not a few to put a little filthy lucre into his Peeheta members of the gentler flex, and he took 00 - Although one or two attempts to navigate 'Aston to drop a word in season. Admit - the ocean in craft as small as ten tons bur- iting that it was a dangerous thing to lecture den were made a century ago, people have n lady he could not refrain, he said, been generally content to cross the wide lemon 013serving that while wonaen could ferry in regulation awe boats. But as recent add did aw1862 a brigantine -rigged boat name4 the exercise much good in their homes, they set a bad example by extrava- " Vision," about fifteen feet in. length, left 000100 and ridiculous extravagance it New York for London, with a orew of two in dress. This was a fault that was not pe - men and a deg. A keg marked " Vitsion,"1 culler to one class of society. In the matter was picked up off the Western Ubaldo about six months after the departure ef the Wipe- of thrift man was a little behind some humbler creatures. There were many mi- nims brigantine, and apart from this nothing mals with which thrift was an instinct:, but has since been seen or heard of the Vision, that was not the case with man. Thrift her crew or the dog. i with him was the °lucerne of civilization The Red,. White and Bine made a eue' and education. As a rule when once man oessful trip in 1866, She was twentyeight feet long, riggedas a ship, and carried three men safely from New York to London in the Summer of 1866. This boat with the patriotic name was afterward on exhibi- tion at the Paris Exposition, In 1868 a twenty.five-foot boat called the John J. Ford left Beltimore with a " crew " of two men, bound for London. After cross- ing the Atlantic and while off the Iriatt coast, it is recorded that herballast boards were used as fuel, and a storm arose imme- diately thereafter. The Ford capsized, her Captain was drowned, the other man was saved and the derelict was washed ashore near Waterford, Ireland, where it is said to be still in the possession of a gentleman named Andrews. It was several years after this suggestive ending of the tran.satlantie essay of the John J. Ford that the next attempt was made. Early in the '70's the little 19 foot City of Ragusa, sailed in ninety days from Liverpool to Boston with a Austrian,an Englishman and a dog as her living freight. She after- ward successfully essayed the return voyage having another Englishman for mate in place of the first son of Albion, who, un- doubtedly, had enough of it. The City of Ragtime's performance, viewed in the light of what has since transpired, is noteworthy principally on account of the length of time consumed in getting over the 3,000 or less miles of water. The gallant dory Centennial and her indomitable commander' Capt. Johnson achieved a feat in 76that threw all previous endeavors far in the shade. The Centennial was twenby feet long and sloop rigged. She sailed from Gloucester in June, 1875, and after sixty-seven days of suffering for the cap'n and hard knocks for the dory, both arrived in Liverpool. One lady only enjoys theunique distinction of having eat cramped in a dory for the length of time necessary to run across, in her case just fifty days. Mrs. Crapo is the lady referred to. In company with her bus - band, Thomas Crapo, she started from New Belford, Mass„ in the two -masted leg-of- mutton -sailed dory, New Bedford, on the28th of May, 1877. They reaohed Penzance, Eng., on the 22nd day of July. The New Bedford was twenty feet in length and about two tons burden. Before the interest associated with the New Bedford's trip had abated, the Andrews brothers ca.me upon the scene with their dory Nautilus. Tbe Nautilus was 19 feet in length and only 2 feet 5 inches in depth. The Andrews sailed from City Point, South Boston, ten 'years ago and arrived off the Lizard, .Eng., after a forty-five days' trip. After the Nautilus had returned from Paris, where she had been on exhibition, another dory trip was in order, and Capt. Goldsmith and wife were announced as the voyagers. They rook things very easy, and drifted along the coast, nonchalantly dropping in here and there to show themselves. They finally left St. John, N. B., about the 122h of July, and were next heard from on the 19th, when the British ship Queen of Nations' picked them off their dory, which had become water- logged, and oarried them to Liverpool. The acme in dory deeds was attained in 1880 by Capt. Traynor and his mate' who croesed from Bath, Me., to a Frenchport in the seventeen -foot dory City of Bath. The sixteen and aehalf foot boat of Capt. Norman and mate George Thomas beat the City of Bath's record in 1880 by crossing from Gloucester to the Isle of Wight, and subsequently making the return trip. Thus far the Little Western, which was the name of their boat, is the smallest vessel that has crossed the ocean on its own keel, and it is also the only one of the many that has done the trick and repeat, starting from this side. Several years passed by ere another at- tempt "to dory"the Atlantic was made. rhis time it proved to be a decidedly novel attempt, hut alas for the crack - brained "hero" who tried it. His skele- ton has probably adorned for many. a month one of the million anatomical "museums" of the deep, deep "drink." Capt. Traynor, of the City of Bath wanted a chance to retrieve his tlimmed laurels, and be therefore proposed to row put money by he continued to do so, but the difficulty was the beginning to save, which often involved self-denial. Thrifty men had distinguished themaelves in the world's his- tory. From his own observation he would say, as a, rule, that the thrifty man was a moral man and he might say almost invari- ably a successful man, Now all this is very true. There is nothing very original about eucli remarks, but i j s well to have them repeated and emphasized by such a man as Lord Wolseley. Count up all the success.. fel men, whether in Toronto or Ontario, and it will be found that all but universally they were thirfty men who in LordWolseleyne words "lived well within their Incomes," and did not to almost an appreciable extentt meddle with intoxicating liquors. The men whose motto is to spend as they earn are as a rale, hewers of wood and drawers of water, to the end of the ohapter. Tlaey can never take advantage of good opportunities when they present themselves. Their dol- lars ere generally pledged before they are e earned, or soon after. They have all about ` them some silly besetting extravagance and it keeps them down all their days. The McKenzie River Country. From all accounts the country watered by the Meolcenzie River is among the most magnificent and most valuable on this Con- tinent. Canada is as yet quite unaware of the mighty treasure house it holds in this distriot alone. The recent report of the Senate committee on the eubjeet cannot be too widely read or too carefully pondered. Let the following extract suffice. That its statements are not exaggerated is acknow- ledged by all really competent to form an, enlightened judgment on the subject :— The territory embraced in the enquiry of the committee covers on nearly as possible one million and a quarter miles, an area six times larger than Franca or Germany, and twelve times larger than Great Britain; ib has a coast line of 5,000 miles, part of it ac- cessible to whaling and seal craft; the nav- igable coast lines of the great lakes equal 4,000 miles : the Mackenzie and its tribu- taries has 1,360 miles deep enough for sea- going steamers, and 2,750 miles suitable for stern wheel steamers of tighter draft, There are 6,500 miles of continuous lake and river navigation, broken only in two places, one a distance of twenty and the other fifty miles, down which barges can pass and which could be easily overcome. This entire valley is therefore accessible from Vancouver for sea -going steamers passing through Beluing's Straits., Of hese million and a quarter square miles there are probably a million (the report gives it 860,000) pasture land, or 640,000,- 000 million acres; 202,240,000 acres (816,000 square miles), suitable for wheat, and. douele that fur barley and mem crops. Sir John Richardson, more than sixty years ago found wheat ripening north of latitudes sixty, and barley at sixty-five, more than one Thousand miles Der* of London, Eng- land, the summer temperatures in that hien tude being as high as those of Loadon. The temperature at Fort Yukan, latitude 67a, within the Arctic Circle, is 59° 7' that of London (England, latitude 51t), being 61°, only one degree and one third higher ; but July at Fort YUC0.1t it 65° 7'; that of London 62° 4`, three dowsed at d e third higher than that of Lendon, Let any one try to realize what all this means. It means that itt this locality alone there are all the raw materials for a mighty empire and that nothing but the influx of men and women is necessary to make this solitary region glad, and the wide lone land to rejoice and to bloosom like the rose. With such a large uninbabited territory are Canadians afraid that their wide fair land will be filled up too soon Making a Nose to Order. A feat q,uite unprecedented in what has been called "decorative surgery" was ex- ecuted recently by a surgeon in one of Boston's city hospitals. The operation in question involved the construction of a new nose—no novelty itself in medical science for a, woman who had been afflicted from birth by the want of one, The remark - across. He procured a dory, which he able part of the achievement lay in the christened the Harold J. Bibber, after ds building up of a bridge for the organ, none Bath ) doctor, and be started out lea whatever having been supplied by nature. his Pill- lie reached Si. John's, N. F., by Hitherto it had been oustonnary, for such some means, and remained there a few days purposes, to take pieces st flesh from the before setting ou t on his last voya e. Nate mg has ever turned up to fumnish the least clew as to his probable fate. forehead or arm ol the subject and graft them about the nostrils in as good shape as might be—thus producing, in the case of Traynor's fate did not deter one Richard a person whose nasal bone and cartilage S. Chandler, of Truro, Mass., from trying are lacking a putty -like excrescence far to make a similar attempt. Chandler row- from beautiful. The case in point, hew- ed from Truro to Bath, but he failed to en- ever, was proceeded with in a very different list the sympathy of Dr. Bibber, and being manner, First the wornann nose—what without the neceasary means at -his own there was of it—was sliced in two and the oommand to fit out for the long row,he, for- fiaps turted baok on the cheeks. Then a tunately for himself, stayed at home. I young chicken was killed, and it piece of The last victim of the unexplainable foe- I the breast bone, of proper shape united to cination that has mastered the aanbitioos of the root of the meet member on the skull SO many mortals was a Capt. la. A. Cloud- , by giver wires. Then the fteeh of the old mate who set out from Jacksonville, Pia., ' wee was carefully Stretched ovet it by hot very long ago, to dory it around the ligatures, Plugs of cotton were introauced world. The (letting, as Clotelman's boat was temporarily, to give the noetrile their dor- named, put into St. .A.ligustine on account refit shape and the phyteician'e task was of stress of weather. The day aftee she complete. The new bone promptly bewome left She was wreaked on a bar off the milted with its attachment, the wound heal- lorida combo and Capt, Cloudman was ed, and the operation has now been deolar °reed to wade aShore, ed a perfeet success. The patient atpreamal —a handsome woman she is, too—has 8. fine Roman proboscis, and the only seer is a Dean BitilleZelitflat hAnllehebetirrilwal recently the freshly reede feature. Formerly the scarcely preoeptible line down the middle .peaking on the nature of man as distinguish- deformity was so disfiguring thab the poor el from the lower orders of creation, "Man," cteeture dM not Stir out of the hews fet remarked, "01 a Pl`(S.Ve,Oti,ive, being; yEatS, moo when the night's friendly dark - %era are stationary. Think, ter example, ness hid her misfortune from view, the ass I Always and everywhere 12 is he same oroatures, and you never sato wad APO Will see a more perfect ftee than yeti Truth har3 many rough flavours We bite 00 at the present zuomeat1". It through *,,. 1,10/M1111.93WW, .....•••••••••• .^ • Important Distinotion. " Willie," said hie rrtother, with :stern re proof io her tone, "1 shall certainty have to punish you this time. You ptomesecl tee faithfully you would never play again With 0 that bad boy, Sammy Shaolileford, and e here yoe've been playing hall With hitt for h en hour." "No, liain't, inmaints 1" protested 1) Win d f b thl d , t "I've been p1yii against hitn, Ile was 011 the other eide."