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CHAPTER II,
intense that I longed to die, that death a sadden leap from the torrid to the
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and the girls, vsho were old enough to
A dark and stariese •night closed in, work, procured eituatioes as eervants in the
aocoMpenied by *old Winds and driz• ety. Je!ore nigh
greatly reduced, The old dragoon and bis
badly, two Seotelt fildlere of the name of
Damen, a Highlander called Tam Grant,.
and his we and little On, and our own
party, were all that rerneined of the seventy.
Ju an ineffiment tweet: from the Inclemency two passengers that left the rot of Leith
of the wether. After Wittehing for some , iu the brig Anne
time the angular effect the weather re- ' In spite of •the earliest eareatiee ot
young wife, the said Tam Grant, who was
ehe most mercurial fellow in the world,
would insist upon going on short3 to tee all
the lions of the place. Ant Tam I Tam I
Fe will db o' the cholera," cried the weep,
nig Maggie. "My heart will braly if ye
dinna bide wa me an' the bairnie.' Tam
Was deaf ae Ansa Praig. Regardless of
tears and entreaties, he jumped into the
boat, like a wilful man as he was, and my
husband went with him. Fortunately for
me, thaaatter returned safe to the vessel in
time to proceed with her to Montreal, in
tow of the noble steamer British America ;
but Tam, the volatile Tam, was missing,
During the reign of the cholera, what at
another time would have appeared but a
trifling incident was now Invested with
doubt and terror. The distrese of the poor
wife knew no bounds, I think I see her
now, as I paw her then, sitting upon the
floor of the deck,her head buriedbetween her
knees, rocking herself two and fro, and
weeping in the utter abandonment of her
grief. "Ke is dead 1 he is dead 1 My
dear, dear Tam 1 The pestilence has seized
upon him ; and I and the puir bairn are i
left alone n the strange land." .4.I1 at.
tempts at consolation were useless ; she
obstinately refused to listen to probabilities
or to be comforted. All through the night
I heard her deep and bitter sobs, and the
oft -repeated name of him that she had lost.
The sun was sinking over the plague -
stricken city, gilding the changing woods
and mountain peaks with ruddy light.; the
river mirrored back the gorgeous sky and
moved in billows of liquid gold ; the very
air seemed lighted up with heavenly fires,
and sparkled with myriads of luminous
particles, as I gazed my last upon the beau-
tiful scene.
The tow -line was now attached from
our ship to the British America, and
in company with two other vessels we
followed fast in her foaming wake. Day
lingered on the horizon just long enough
to enable me to examine with deep interest,
the rooky heights of Abraham, the scene of
our immortal Wolfe's victory and death;
and when the twilight faded into night, the
moon rose in solemn beauty, and oast mys-
terious gleams upon the strange landscape.
The wide river, flowing rapidly between its
rugged banks, rolled in inky blackness be
neath the overshadowing crags; while the
waves in inid-ohannel flashed along in dee
zling light, rendered more intense by the
surrounding darkness. In this luminous
track the huge steamer glided Majestically
forward, flinging showers of red earth -stars
from the funnel into the clear air, and look-
ing like some fiery demon of the night en-
veloped in smoke and three.
The lofty groves of pine frowned down in
hearse -like gloom upon the mighty river,
and the deep stillness of the night, broken
alone by its hoarse wailings, filled my mind
with sad forebodings ,--alas 1 too prophetic
of the future. Keenly, for the first time,
I felt that 1 was a stranger in a strange
land; my heart yearned Intensely for my
absent home. Home 1 the word had ceased
to belong to thepresent—it was doomed to
live forever in the past.; for what enugrant
ever regarded the country of his exile as hie
home ? To the land he has left, that name
belongs forever, and in no instance does he
bestow it upon another. "1 have got a
letter from home!" "1 have seen a friend
from home!" "1 dreamt last night that I
was at home 1» are expressions of every
day occurrence, to prove that the heart
acknowledges no other home than the land
of its birth.
From these sad reveries I was roused by
the hoarse notes of the bagpipe. That well-
knawn sound brought every Scotchman on
the decks of the other vessels. Datermived
not to be outdone, our fiddlers took up the
strain, and a lively cohtest ensued be-
tween the rival musicians, which con-
tinued during the greater part of the night,
The shouts of noisy revelry were in no way
congenial to my feelings. Nothing tends so
much to increase our melancholy as merry
music when the heart is sad; and I left
the scene with eyes brimful of tears, and
my mind painfully agitated by sorrowful
recollections and vain regrets.
(To BE CONTINUED.)
Queen of the West 1—Upon thy rocky throne, But oh ! beware eif &awing disparaging
In solitary grandeur sternly placed;
In awful maiesty thou wet st alone,
By Nature's mestenhand supremely
graced.
The world has not thy counterpart—thy
dower,
Eternal- beauty, etrength, and matohles
power.
The clouds enfold thee in their misty vest,
The lightning glances harmless round thy
„ brow;
The fiend -voiced thunder cannot shake thy
( nest,
Ornvarring waves that idly chafe below
The storm ebove—the waters at thy feet --
May rage and foam, they but secure thy
Beat.
The mighty river, as it onward rushes
To pour its floods in ocean's dread +thrift,
Cheeks at thy feet its fierce impetuous
gushes,
And gently fawns thy rooky base to kiss.
Stern eagle of the crag! thy hold should be
The mountain home of heaven -born liberty!
True to themselves, thy children may defy
The power and inalice of a world combined;
While Britain' e flag, beneath thy deep blue
Spreads its rieh fetes and wantons in the
wind;•
The offsprings of her glorious race of old
May rest securely in their mountain hold.
On the 51h of September, the anchor was
weighed, and we bade a long farewell to
Grosse Isle, As our vessel struck into mid -
channel, I east a last lingering look at the
beautiful shores we were leaving. Cradled
in the arms of the St. Lawrence, and bask-
ing in the bright rays of the morning sun,
the island and its sister groundaooked like a
second Eden just emerged from the waters
of chaos. With whatjoy could I have spent
the rest of the fall in exploring the romantic
features of that enchanting scene 1 But our
bark spread her white wings to the favoring
breeze, and the fairy vision gradually reced-
ed from my sight, totremain forever on the
tablets of ray memory.
The day WWI warm, and the cloudiest
heavens of that peculiar azure tint which
gives to the Canadian skies and waters a
brilliancy unknown in more favored lati-
tudes. The air was pure and elastic the
sun shone out in uncommon splendor, light-
ing up the changing woods with a rich mel-
low coloring, competed of a thousand bril-
liant and vivid dyes. The mighty river
rolled flashing and sparkling onward, im-
pealed by a. strong breeze, that tipped its
short rolling -surges with a crest of snowy
foam.
Had there been no other object of interest
in the landscape than this majestic river,
its vast magnitude, and the depth and clear-
ness of ite waters, and its great importance
to the colony, would have been sufficient to
have rivited the attention and claimed the
{admiration of every thinking mind.
Never shall I forget that short voyage
from Grosse Isle to Quebec. I love to re-
call, after the lapse of so many years, every
object that awoke in my breast emo-
tions of astonishment and delight. What
wonderful combinations of beauty, and
the precipitous ban upon which the
city lies piled, refiectedir ite the still deep
waters at its base, greatly enhances the
romantic beauty of the eituation. The
mellow and serene glow of the autumnal
day harmonized so perfectly, with the
solemn grandeur of the scene around me,
and sank so silently and deeply into my
soul, that my spirit fell prostrare before it,
and I melted involuntarily lute tears. Yea,
regardless of the eager crowds around me, I
leant upon the aide of the vessel and cried
like a child—not tears of sorrow, but a gush
from the heart of pure and halloweddelight.
I heard not the many voices murmuring in
my ears—I saw not the anxious beings that
thronged our narrow deck—my soul at that
moment was alone with God. The shadow
of His glory rested visibly on the stupendous
objects that composed that magnificent
scene; words axe perfectly inadequate to
describe the impression it made upon my
mind—the emotions it produced. The only
homage I was capable of offering at such a
shrine was tears—tears the most heartfelt
and einem e that ever flowed from human
eyes. I never before felt so overpowering
my own insignificance, and the boundless
might and majesty of the Eternal.
• Canadians, rejoice in your beautiful city !
Rejoice and be worthy of her --for few, very
few, of the sons of men clan point to such a
spot as Quebec—and exclaim, "She is ours!
—God gave her to us in her beauty and
strength 1—We will live for her glory—we
will die to defend her liberty and rights --
to raise her majestic brow high above the
nations 1
Look at the situation of Quebec !—the
city founded on the rock thaseproudly holds
the height of the hill. The queen sitting
enthroned above the waters, that curb their
swiftness and their strength to kiss her
lovely feet.
Canadians 1—as long as you remain true
to yourselves and her, what foreign invader
could ever dare to plant a hostile flag
upon that rock.defended height, or set his
foot upon a fortress rendered impregnable
by the hand of Nature? United in triend-
ship, loyalty, and love, Whit wonder': may
you not achieve)? to what an enormous alti-
tude of wealth and importance may you nob
arrive? Look at the St. Lawrence, that
king of streams, that great artery flowing
from the heart of the world, through the
land, carrying wealth and fertility in its
course, and transporting from town to town
along its beautiful shores the riches and
produce of a thousand distant climes. What
•.elements of future greatness and prosperity
( encircle you on every side I Never yield up
theth soled advantages to become an humbie
dependent on the great republic—wait
• patiently, loyally, lovingly, upon the inure
trious parent from whom you sprang, and
• by whom you have been fostered in life and
• political importance ; in the fulness of time
She will proclaimyour childhood past, and
bid you i
stand up n your own strerigth, a
free Canadian people 1
Britith mothers of Canadian sons 1—learn
to feel for their country the same enthusiasm
which fills your hearte when thinking of the
glory of your own. Teach them to love
Canada—to look upan her as the firet, the
happiest, the most independent country be
the world 1 Exhort them to be Worthy of
her—to have faith in her present prosperity,
in her future greathese, and to devote all
their talents, when theyithemsellies are men
to accomplish this noble object. IVIalte your
children proud of the land of their birth, the)
land Whieh hes given them bread—the land
in Whieli you lialre [found an altar and a
bottle ;do thie, and you will then teeth te
latheilt your :Separation froin the mother
country, and the 1000 a those hituriee whath
you mild not, in home to yourself, erijOy ;
you Will soon learn to love Canada ae I new
contrasts between the colony and its illue
tTIOUB parent. An Boob comparisons are
cruel and unjust ; yon cannot exalt the one
at:the expense of the other without commit
ting An act of treason againet both.
But I have wandered away from my sub-
ject int* the regions ot thought, and must
again descend to common work -a -day mall -
ties.
The pleasure we experienced upon tour
first glance at Quebec was greatly damped
by the sad conviction that the cholera -
plague raged within its walls, while the
almost ceaseless tolling of bells prooleimed
a mournful tale of woe and death.
Scarcely a person visited the -vessel
who was not in black, or who spoke
not in tones of subdued grief. They
advised us not to go on shore if we val-
ued our lives, as strangers most common-
ly fell the first victims to this fatal malady.
This was to me a severe disappointment,
who felt an intense desire to climb to the
crown of the xock, and survey the noble
landscape at my feet. I yielded at last to
the wish of my husband, who did not him.
self resist the temptation in his own person,
and endeavored to content myself with the
means of enjoymentplaced within my reach.
My eyes were never tired of wandering over
the scene before me.
It is curious to observe how differently
the objects which call forth intense admira-
tion in some rain& will :affect others. The
Scotch dragoon, Mackenzie, seeing nse look
long and intently at the distant Falb o
Montmorency, dryly observed,
"It may. be a' vera Atte ; but it looks me
butter to my thinken than hanks o' white
woo' hung out o'er the bushes.'"
" Weel," oried another, "thee fa's are
just bonnie; 'tie a brew land, nae doubt;
but no' just so braw as anid Scotland."
" Hout, man 1 hauld your °lavers, we
shall a' be lairds here," said a third, "and
ye mann wait a muckle time before they
wad think aucht of you at hame."
I was not a little amused at the extrava-
gant expectations entertamed by some of
our steerage passengers. The sight of the
Canadian shores had changed them into per-
sons of greet consequence. The poorest and
the worst dressed, the least deserving and
the most repulsive in mind and morals, ex-
hibited most disgusting traits of self-
importance. Vanity and presumption
seemed to possess them altogether. They
talked loudly of the rank and wealth of
their connections at home, and lamented
the great sacrifices they had made in order to
join brothers and imusins who had foolishly
settled in this beggarly wooded country.
aammer clothing was almost insupportable,
" and now a heavy and well -lined plaid formed
Girls, who were scarcely able to wash a
floor decently, talked of service with con-
tempt, unless tempted to change their reso-
lution by the offer of twelve dollars a month.
To endeavor to undeceive them was a use-
less and ungracious task. After having
tried it with several without success, I left
it to time and bitter experience to restore
them to their, sober senses. In spite of the
remonstrances' of the captain, and the dread
of the °lidera, they all rushed on shore to
inspect the land of Goschen, and to endeavor
to realize their absurd anticipations.
We were favored, a few minutes after our
arrival, with another visit from the health
officers ; but in this instance both the gentle-
men were Canadians. Grave, melancholy
looking men, who talked much and ominous-
ly of the prevailing disorder, and the :im-
possibility of strangers escaping from its
fearful ravages. This was not very consol-
ing, and served to depress the cheerful tone
of mind which, after all, is one of the best
antidotes against this awful scourge. The
cabin eeemed to lighten, and the air to oir-
culate more freely, after the departure of
these professional ravens. The captain, as
if by instinct, took an additional glass of
grog, to shake off the sepulchral gloom their
presence had inspired.
The visit of the doctors Wag "followed by
that of two of the officials of Customs ;—
vulgar, illiterate men, who, seating then'.
selves at the cebin table, with a familiar
nod to the captain and a blatik stare at us,
commenced the following dialogue:
taustomehouse. officer (after making in-
quiries as to the general cargo of the vessel)—
" Any good brandy on board, captain ?"
Captain (gruffly): "Yes."
Officer "Beat remedy for the cholera
known. The only one the doctors can de-
pend upon."
Captain (taking the hint): "Gentlemen,
I'll send you up a dozen bottles this after-
noon."
Officer: "Oh,thank you. We are sure
to get it genuine from you. Any Edinburgh
ale in yaut freight ?"
Captain (with a slight skr-ug): "A few
hundreds in cases. rn send you a dozen
with the brandy."
Both: " Capital! '
First officer :• "Any short, large -bowled,
Scotch pipes, with metallic lids?"
• Captain(quite impatiently): "Yes, yes;
I'll send you some to smoke, with your
brandy.—What else ?
Officer: "We will now proceed to bud.
My readers would have laughed, as I did,
could they have seen how doggedly the old
man shook his fist after these worthies as
they left the vessel "Scoundrels 1" he
Muttered to himself; and then turning to
me, "They rob us in this barefaced manner,
and we dare not resist or complain, for fear
of the trouble they put us to. If 1 had
those villains at sea, I'd give them a taste of
brandy and ale they would not relish."
The day wore away, and the lengthened
shadows of the mountains fell upon the
waters, when the Horsley BA a large
three -masted vessel from Waterford, that
we had left at the quarantine station,oast
anchor s little above us. She was quickly
boarded by the health -officers, and ordered
round to take up her station below the
castle. To accomplish this ooject she had
toeietwe her anchor; when lo 1 a great pine
tree, which had been sunk in the river, be,
came entangled in the chains. Uproarious
was the mirth to which the incident gave
rise among the orowds that thronged the
deeks of the many vessels then at anchor in
thetriver. Speaking -trumpets resounded on
everyaside ; and my readers triay be assured
that the sea -serpent was not forgotten in
the multitude of jokes which followed.
Laughter resounded on all sides ; and in
the wield of the noise and confusion the
captain of the Horsley Hill hoisted his col -
ore downwards, as if making signals of ale.
trete, a mistake which ',revoked renewed
and long continued Mirth.
I laughed until my sides ached ; littbe
thinking how the Horsley Hill would pay
us oft fee our mistimed hilartty,
Towards eight, most of the steerage pits-.
sengere reterned, greatly dissatiefied 'with
theit first visit to the city, *Molt they • de
elered to be a filthy hole, that looked a great
deal better from the ship's side than it did '
on shore. This, I have often been told, is
duced'by the lights in the town reflected in
the water, and weary with a long day of an-
ticipation and excitement, I made up my
mind to leave the deck and retiresto resa
nad just settled down my baby in her berth,
when the vessel struck with a sudden crash
that sent a shiver through her whole frame.
Alarmed, but not aware of the real danger
that hung over Us, I groped mY Way to the
•cabin, and thence aecen.ded to the deok.
•Here a scene of confusion prevailed that
Whet deeeription. By some strange fatal-
ity, the Horsley Hill had chaegeci her posi-
tion, and run foul of ue in the dark. The
Anne was a small brig, and her unlucky
neighbor 56 heavy three -masted vessel, with
three hundred Irish emigrants on board;
and as her bowsprit was directly across the
bowe of the Anne and she anchored, and un-
able to free heraelf from the deadly embrace,
there was no small danger of the poor brig
going down in the unequal struggle.
Unable to comprehend what was going
on, I raised my head above the companion
ladder, just at the critical moment when
the vessels were grappled together. The
Shrieks of the women,' the :Mouth and oaths
of the men, and the Lathing of the dogs in
either, ship, aidedthe dense darkness ot the
night in producing a most awful and stun-
ning effect. ,
"What is the matter ? " I gasped out.
uio
f"Whatsn7s the reason of this dreadful con -
The captain was raging like a, chafed bull,
in the grasp of several frantic women, who
were clinging, shrieking, to his knees.
With great difficulty I persuaded the
women to accompany me below. The mate
hurried off with the cabin light upon the
deck, and we were left in total darkness to
await the result.
A deep, strange silence 'fell upon my ears.
It was not exactly fear, but a sort of nerving
of my spirit to meet the worst. The cow-
ardly behavior of my companions inspired
nee with courage. I was ashamed of their
pusillanimity and want of faith in the
Divine Providence. I sat down and cahnly
begged them to follow my example.
An old women called Williamson, a sad
reprobate, in attempting to do so, set her
feet within the fender, which the captain
had converted into a repository for empty
glass bottles; the smash that ensued was
echoed by a shriek from the whole party.
"God guide us," said the ancient dame ;
" but we are going into eternity. I shall
be lost; my sins are more in number than
the hairs of my head." This confession was
followed by oaths and inaprecations too
blasphemous to repeat,
faiShocked and disgusted at her profanity,
I bade her •pray, and not waste the few
moments that might be hers in using oaths
and bad language.
"Did you hear the orash ?" said she.
"1 did; it was of your own making.
Sit down and be quiet."
Here followed another shook, that made
the -vessel heave and tremble;and the drag-
ging of the anchor increasethe uneasy
motion which began to fill the boldest of
us with alarm.
"Mrs. Moodie, we are lost," said Mar -
[sera Williamson, the youngest grand-
daughter of the old woman, a pretty girl,
who had been the belle of the ship, flinging
herself an her knees before me, and (grasp-
ing both my hands in hers. " Oh, pray for
me ! pray for me 1 I cannot, I dare not
pray for myself ; I never was taught a
prayer." Her voice was choked with con-
vulsive sobs, and scalding team fell in tor.
rents from her eyes over my hands. I
never witnessed such an agony of despair.
Before I cotild say one word to comfort her,
another shook seemed to lift the vessel up.
wards. I fhlt my.own blood run cold, ex
peoting instantly to go down; and the
thoughts of death, and the unknown eter-
nity at our feet, flitted vaguely through my
mind.
"11 we stay here, we shall perish," cried
the girl, springing to her feet. "Let us go
on deck, mother, and take our chance with
the rest."
"Stay," I said; ",yon are safer here.
British sailors never leave women to perish.
You have fathers,husbands, brothers on
board, who will ret forget you. I beseech
you to remain patiently here until the
danger is• past." X might as well have
preached to the winds. The headstrong
creatures would no longer be controlled.
They rushedsimultaneously on deck, just
as the Horsley Hill swung off, carrying
with her part of the outer frame of our
deck and the larger portion of our stern.
When tranquility was restored, fatigued
ooth in mind and body, I sunk in a pro-
found sleep, and did not wake until the sun
had risen high above the wave -encircled for-
tress of Quebec. '
• The stormy clouds had all dispersed dur-
ing the night; the air was clear and balmy;
the giant hills were robed in a blue, soft
mist, which roiled around them in fleecy
volumes. As the beams of the sun pene-
trated their shadowy folds, they gradually
drew bp like a curtain, and dissolved like
Wreaths of smoke into the clear air.
The moment I came on deck, my old
friend Oscar greeted me with his usual joy-
ous bark, and, with the sagacity peculiar to
his species, proceeded to skew rae all the
damage done to the vessel during the night.
It was laughable to watch the motions of
the poor brute, as he ran from place to
place, stopping before, Or jumping upon,
every fractured portion of the deck, and
barking out his indignation at the ruinous
condition in which he found his marine
home. Oscar had made eleven voyages in
the Anne, and had twice saved the life of
the captain. He was an ugly specimen of
the Sootoh terrier, and greatly resembled a
imindle of rope -yarn ; but a more faithful or
attached creature I never BMW. The captain
was not a little jealous of Oscar's friendship
for me. 1 was tho only person the dog had
ever cleigned,to notice, and his master regard.
ed it es an act of treason Oe the part of his four -
tooted favorite, When my arms were tired
with nursing, I had only to lay my baby on
my cloak oto deck, and tell OBOBT to wateh
her, and the good dog would He down by
her, and suffer her to tangle his long curls
in her little hands, and pull hie tail and
Evicted Crow.
Crow.
It is a truly logical mind which succeeds
in rightly apportioning praise and blame.
Evenaheaingine of the law isnot alwrys able to
crush the real oluprit, when there is another
person who can be put forward to shield
the actual offender. The crow of India is
•both knowing and impudent, and of him
the author of "Turbans and Tails" tells the
following story:
I once incurred a crow's displeasure, and
I do not wish to do it again. There was a
pandanus tree near my veranda, and in
this o pair of crows determined to build.
At first I offered no objectiona, but when
the task was finished, the cock -bird found
his energies--aroueed by the task of build-
ing—suddenly deprived of direction. He
therefore occupied his leisure moments by
digging.
intsg with his strong beak at the pandanus
hooNow this was a piece of the most wanton
rniethief, and one which threatened the
tree's life. I expostulated with the bird;
he would desist from his work and listen,
with mock gravity, and the moment I had
finished would dig mit a fresh piece of the
plant and throw it down to me.
, Then I gave my servant orders to remcvs
the nest from the tree altogether. This
was done, and the servant remained in favor,
while I was visited by the most serious
displeasure.
Whenever I ventured into ta • garden,
that crow would signal to his f, .ends, and,
in an instant, from twenty to fifty others
would floc& About me, making the most
unpleasant remarks.
1.f I even showed myself on the upper
veranda, that offended bird would tit once
fly to its balustrade, and, stretching out
his neck, would &donee me of every conceiv-
able enormity, in such deep and sepulchral
tones an wont far toward making life miser-
able.
This rancorous hatred was maintained
for a long time, till, finding that his nest
without offerieg the least opposition ; bu
eine in the 111086 approved baby Mahlon; wee not again molested, his Wroth beguile
appeaSed, a.nci I was once more et liberty
if any one tiered to approach his oharge, he
was alive on the instant, placing his paved to walk in the earden.
over the child and growling furiously. He
Good Ad
Goo
Svioe
would have been a bola man who had ap- ome •
proeched the child to do her an injury. Mr. Ham (the tat edian)—X think that
Other was the best plaything, aid as sure a the advice Which Ham et gives the player is
protector as Katie had. I miegnalled, Thoth is nothing the theatrical
During the day, many of our passengers professiot Should give more heed to,
took Mole depertere ; tired of the close Priend—Any better, Iain, than the ea.
confinement of the Ship, and the longvoy. vice, " Vithea the Whistle bloWslook out for
age; they were too impatient to remain on , the leen:waver
IMISCILLABNODO UBttrO,‘ AN OGEAN-GOING BALLOON.
To think we are able is almoet to be so:
to determine linen attainment is frequently
attainment ',teen,
"Billg, old boy, you look like a summer
moretog. What's happened to glorify yon 7"
<4 TOMMYp eld fel, eopgratuhte me. 1 pro-
posed to Mtes Flyway last night and she
accepted me." "Shake, old men. S3 she
did nee 1"
Poor -Goring 'Thomas, the ,Britisitacom-
poser, is likely to he begootted in Germany.
The Berlin papers, in referring be the an-
nouncement that hie opera Nadjesda had,
been aceepted for performance at the Berlin
Opera house, maliciously stated that the
conipoaer we the brother of Sir Morell
Mackenzie. The mistake, of course, could
not have been made through ignorance.
Beerstee—Sift flour, into which put a tea.
spoonful of salt, half a cup ot white sugar
and a teaspoonful of lard; boil Ave or six
potatoes, mash and mix in ; pour over the
boiling water in which they were cooked,
let cool and pour in a teacup of yeast
knead thoroughly and let rise; work down
again; when light, make into loaves and
put in tine to rise ; then bake.
Recent trials in England have given
rise to a protest against oases that are
sub ndice being commented on by the
• public press. The system is entirely
wrong and cannot fail to beprejudicial to
i
to one aide or the other, bat n no countries
on the face of the earth b it so common as
in the United States and Canada, where an
impartial, unprejudicial and fair trial is
really in danger of becoming a hard matter
to secure. ,
The annual resolution providing for the
payment of members was introduced into
the Imperial Parliament last week. In a
house of 327 members 135 voted for and 192
against the motion, proving that the idea is
growing. That the system of paying the
people's representatives will be adopted
some day is almost certain and that day
will be hastened by members being asked to
sit nine months in the year. Four or nye
months were found way wearying by some,
but when it comes to twice that period
the duties are apt to be thought by
the majority rather more irksome than
glorious. They may stand it in 1888, when
an adjournment is only to be made from
• August to October, but such a protracted
terra of gratuitous labor must become tire-
some ay repetition and then will follow a re
duotion in the number and renumeration of
The late Emperor Frederick appears to
have been an apt illustration of the saying
that when doctors fall out the patients die.
The whole host of German physicians have
been using all their spare time to prove that
Sir Morell Mackenzie's treatment of his illus-
trious patient was entirely wrong. Sir
Morell announces that he, too, will make a
report, probably when his critics get through,
and states, what is more important, that all
the published interviews with him are
fabricatione. In support of this we
lookedin vain in the English pa-
pers for the report that Sir Morell
had said that he concealed the can-
cerous nature of the late Emperor's ailment
for fear that a regency would be created.
None could be found. At last the state-
ment was copied frotn a Yankee paper into
B. Tont0h journal and then was promptly
contradicted.
Schemes for the building of bridges on a
colossal scale are at present rife. The Ger-
man Government has expressed an interest
in the plan for building a bridge across the
English Channel, and has been examining
into its practicability, although it is not
likely that the bridge scheme wonld meet
with any more encouragement from the
English people than has the tunnel .project.
A bill has lately been introduced into the
United States House of Representatives for
the construction of a, bridge across the Hud-
son River to connect New York city with
New Jersey. A structure with a single
spen 1,210 feet longer than that of the
Brooklyn bridge is something which almost
i
bewilders the marination by its mitgnifi-
°eine. Still, as the obstructions presented
are engineering and not political difficulties,
the possibilities of the scheme are not so
very remote. American inventive genius
has often accomplished what has seemed to
be utterly impracticable.
The New York Herald has published a
list of the defalcations which occurred in the
United States during 1878, and, although
there were 34 of them, aggregating a loss of
$2,784,805 92, our contemporary declares it
was not a good year for defalcations, by
which it means to say that they were
rather fewer than usual. Nearly three
millions of dollars is a rather tidyish sum
for honest men to lose through the crimes
of dishonest ones in a single twelvemonth,
but it is one which has been exceeded in re-
spective similar periods and is likely again
to be, unless lets and hindrances are put up
against the temptations to which trusted
employees are constantly subjected. So long
as there are bank and other corporation di-
rectors who do not direct their officials in
high places of responsibility, and so long as
the extradition treaty gives immunity to
big thieves, the list of the offences of these
latter is not likely to grow shorter. Temp-
tation Is possible to all men ; and if contin-
uous, and if there go with it immunity from
legal punishment, it is pretty apt to prove
too strong for some men to resist. If it
were as clear as the sun at noonday that the
heavy hand of the law would bees certainly
laid upon the defaulter in Canada, or in
any other country, defalcations would be
fewer and the lossea from them by honest
men be less.
lef. Surrel, the French consul at Chi-
cago, has recently sent a report to his gov-
ernment concerning the cattle industry of
America which is deserving of notice aa an
outside and disinterested opinion, and, par-
ticularly, as if the statements contained in
it are true, they have not received the atten-
tion with us that their intrinsic merits de-
serve. Having asserted that the losses sus-
tained by cattle raisers during the winter of
1886 and the summer of 1887 Were equal to
1,500,000 heed, arid that there was during
1887 a falling off in the annual production
�f calve e equal to 60 per ent., he goes on
to say that tho effect of thisenormous change
las dot yet been experienced in the price of
meat in America for the reason that raisers
C
apt .1 ovI TC F o roes rem Anierlue tee
leugepe in the atr
The French Aeronautic Soeiety, under
• the direction of Capt. Jovis, one of the
most daring aeronauts will soon undertake
an expedition detainee to cact in the ailed°
all those previously attempted—an expedi-
tion to cost 640,000, The higher AMOS-
pherie ourrento (trade winds) are to be util-
bed for the people of a balloon from
America to Europe. 4 few days ago
heard Monsieur H. Faye, a member of the
Insitute, give his opinion with reference to,
the result of the proposed voyage. Said
the eminent scientist "rue there are
higher atmospheric currents, whose direc-
tion is from .A.tnerice to Europe, but it is also
true that m then currents are found the
tempests. Starting, fer,htattot", fr°"1 Car-
acas, Venezuela, 10 degrees north latitude,
and ascending very high, a balleon has
always B. chance of encountering one of
these currents, but in this latitude they tra-
vel very slowly—slow enough to make a.
voyage last from ten to twelve days. Be -
ides, these currents do not immediately
take a course that will lead them to the
NORTHERN PORTION OP EDROPE
their first direction is west and north until 30
degrees or 35 degrees, then north, then east;
and finally northeast. A current above Car -
aces will travel first towards the Gulf of Mex-
ico then enter the United Stater: by Texas,
then leave the continent by some point be-
tweenPhiladelphia and Newfoundland, cross
the Atlantic in an oblique direction and at
last reach the coast of Ireland, Sweden, or
Norway. It must not be forgotten that in
these higher currents ot the atmosphere are
found the cyclones and I beg those who
contemplate making the voyage to think of
the terrible risks to which • they expose.
themselves. Certainly, it would be grand*,
describe the course of these winds that year
an irnporant role in sciences and navigation ;...„
but if, as has been toad, the fate of Bulgaria:
is not worth:the bones of a Pomeranian.gmen-
adier, a hundred times more true is the
fact that the lives of three enterprising,,
Frenohtnen are worth more than a scientie
fio conquest." •
• "Yes. Here is the model of L'Atlantiegue, ,
the largest balloon ever constructed. It wino
contain 25,000 cubic metres (a metre is 39"
inches), be 36 metres in iiameter and 112
metres in circumference. The balloon will
be made of a stuff manufactured especially
for the purpose. This stuff will be coated.
with a varnish, my invention. This varnish,
will render the stuff absolutely impermeable,,
at the, same tittle augmenting its dynamo -
metric force. So light is the varnish the bal-
loon will not weigh more than two tons and
will be furnished with a valve superior to
any ever before used."
It will be remembered that Capt. Jovis
was illustrating hie explanations and an
last he showed me the car. " said,
be "18 constructed and managed in a spe-
cial manner. Naturally 'I could not under-
take such a voyage with an ordinary car,
and my sole object in the construction of
this one was to prepare something for our
safety in case the balloon itself, from one
cause or another, should fall into the ocean.
The car is of osier and measures only four
raeters by three xneters ano a half. On
each side are two cork bladders covered
with imperraeable cloth to keep it afloat,
as we
MIGHT DE DROWNED IN THE WATER
that would fill tn.e car. 1 have raade
double bridge, 10 that only our feet would
be under water. The space between the
bottom cf the car and the bridge will serve
as &storage room for the ballast; this b to.
be small shot instead of sand. On one side
are two cabins provided with anattresses
that may serve for life preservers. Suspend.
ed beside these cabins is a life -boat, thoro-
ughly equipped. Besides there • will be
cordage, scientific instruments, and, as the
voyage will last for more than three days,
some thought must be expended upon food.
A stove surrounded by metallic -plates like
the Davy lamp, will be of service in our
gastronomical arrangements."
"How will the balloon be inflated?"
• "By hydrogen, because this gas has an
aseensional force of 1,150 grammes a cubic
metre. Thus we could ascend with 54,000
pounds weight, but las our balloon -car,
travellers, etc, will weigh altogether not
more than 20,000 pounds, we are aisle to
carry 34,000 pounds, of 'ballad."
"How much ballast will be needed?"
"That we have carefully calculated. The
balloon will lose daily 1,000 metres, a loss
produced by the dilation of gas. We are to
travel sixty miles an hour, and shall in all
probability be eighty-five hours en route,
consequently abou, 8,000 pounds of ballast
will be utilized."
" What do you think of the clangers to
which you and your two aides, Lieut. Mal-
let and Paul Arene, expose your lives ?"
"1 have made no mistake in my cal-
culations. In the past ten years I have made
220 ascensions and fallen in the water
twenty-nine times, twice against my will,
but twenty -even times for the purpose of
perfecting my experiments. Once I remained
seven hours before aid reached me, and then
my car was an ordinary one, not like that
of '12 Atlantique.' We have been asked by
the managers of the Exposition of 1889 to
postpone our crossing until next spring,
and make a sensation at the Champ de Mars
by appealing in the midst of the spectators
gathered theredor the inauguration of the
'World's Fair,' but our preparations will
be convicted, I hope, for the coming au-
tumn. In October our material will be trans-
ported to New York. At some point chosen
we shall inflate the balloon and wait for a
favourable atmospherical disturbance, then
start for Europe and land—I know not on
what coast."
The Stomaohs of Horses,
Horses have small stomachs; remember
this. A good plan is to divide corn rations
into three daily portions—the !hay, bo.
Many object to giving hay just previous to
work, as it distends the stomach and causes
the animal inconvenience. Delicate feeders
must be tempted to take their rations, and
should never be fed too strongly at one time.
A " Scotch plate" is a rule very generally
observed in England— everything , cleaned
up before placing other food in the racks or
mangers. A little linseed boiled to a jelly
arid mixed with the corn is seductive. Hay
dampened end mated will tempt others,
nide= sell their anima before they reach
the age of three years and this diminution 13eana, a double It endful, are a Midi in
ID stook would only be apparent in the sea- weakly subjeets ; peb male for the convalle
son of 1889 and esee. more thae the,, sthe scent or indispottecl ; damp bran and oats
are enga,ging for others. Some grooms give
difficulty oi providing food for their cattle
has induced many of the raisers to place carroth and tares in small ghat:titles, Car-
rots stiperiuduce diabetea if given in estmein
them on the market, thus forcing down the
sive qualatitie:s. The peciular bagel of home
recent price of beef at the expense of its
future price. M. de Surrel is of the opinion, dehland the ettehtlen af alI litrse-eathere
and gthones. A suffielency rof flesh is all
and he states that he is supported in this by
that is required, and not " hog fat" or
tome of the best informed buttiness mon of
With end of " beestly fat" as some phrase it.
the continent, that, beginning
3888, the price of beef in America will be •
higher by quite 30 per cent. than it ie at the It le in the school of maternal tentiernese
present time. U this ohange is to take that the Iiind affections must be Ant armee
plitee in the price of a otaninodity Of general ed and made habitual—the early tentithent
use, It is well thet Our people ehould be in- of piety aweltened and direoted— the senie
formed of the bat in advance, told inake of duty and Moral responsibility 'unfolded
such preparatiofte to Meet it as they tan. and enlightened,