The Exeter Times, 1888-12-6, Page 7t,e4f
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"ROUGHING IT IN THE
CHAPTER XV.—Oun LOGGIDTG-110.
There was a man in our town,
In our town, in our town—
There was a man in our town,
He made a logging bee;
,Aod he bought lots of *A' hiokey,
To make the loggers friaky—
To make the loggers frisky.
At his logging bee.
The Devil at on a log heap,
A lug heap, a log heap—
A red hotiVurning log heap --
A -grating at the bee;
And there was lob, of swearing,
Of boasting and of daring,
01 fighting and of tearing,
At that logging -bee,
J. W. D. M.
•A logging.bee followed the burning of t
fallow aa a matter of course. In the bus
when hands are few, and labour eomnaan
an enormoua rate dwages, those gatherin
are coneidered indispensable, and much h
been said in their praise; but to me th
present the moat disgusting picture of
bush life. They are noiey, riotious, drun
en` meetings, often terminating in viole
quarrels, and sometimes even in bloodshe
' Accidents of the meet maims nature of te
. occur, and very little work is done wh
we coasider the slumber of hands employ
and the great coneumption of food a
liquor.
1 am certain, in our case, had we hir
with the money expended in providing f
the bee, two or three industrious, hat
working men, we should have got throu
twice as much work,. and have it done we
and have been the gainers in the end.
People in the wood e have a craze for gi
int! and going to bees, and to run to the
with ammuch eagerness as a peasant runs
a race -course or a fair • plenty of stron
' drink and excitement malting the chief a
traction of the bee..
In raising a house or barn, a bee may b
looked upon as a accessary evil, but the
gatherings are generally conducted in a mo
orderly manner than those for logging. Few
lir hands are required; and they are goner -
ally under the control of the carpenter who
pats up the frame, and if they get drunk
during the raising they, are 'liable to meet
with very serious accidents.
Thirty•two men, gentle and simple were
invited to our bee, and the maid and I' were
engaged for two days preeeding the impor-
tant one, in baking and cooking for the
entertainment ef our mutate. le hen1lociked
at the quaneit of food we had prepared, I
thought the, liti never could be all eaten,
even by thirty-two men. It was a burning
hot day towatele the end of July, when our
loggers began to come sin, and the "gee!"
and "ha !" to encourage the oxen resounded
on every side.
Timer was my brother S---, with his
frank English face a Moat in hinsselft Eieu
tenant ---- in 'his 'blouse, wide white
trousers, and red eashahis bread straw:, hat
shading a /dark manly ,face that would have
been a splendid property for a bandit chief ;
the four gay. recklesc idle sons of -----
famous at any spree, but incapable of the
least mental or physical exertion, who con.
Bidered huntieg and Ifishing as the aele aim
andmisject of life. These young men ren-
derMSvery little assietann themselves, and
their example deterred others who were tn.
clined to work.
There were the two'R 's, Who cam
to work and to make others work; my good
brother -in law, who -had volunteered to be
the Grog Ross, and a heat of other settlers
among whom I reccemized Moodie's old ao
quaintance, Dan IS unpson, with hie lank red
hair, and long freckled face; the 'Youngs,
the hunters, with their round, black, curly
heads and rich Irish brogue: poor C
with his, tong, spare, consumptive figure,
and thin, sickly faze. Poor fellow, he has
long since been gathered to his rest!
There was the ruffian squatter In'
from Clear aka,—the dread of all honest
men ; the brutal M , who treated oxen
as if they had been !logs, by beating them
with handspikes ; andthere was Old-Wittals,
with his low f orehead and long nose, a living
witness of the truth - of phrenology, if his
large organ of acquisitiveness and ,his want
of oonecientiousnessmould be taken in evi.
dence. Yet in spiM of his derelictions from
honesty, he was a hard-working, good-natur-
ed man who, if he .cheated you in a bargain,
or took' away some useful article in mistake
from your homestead, never wronged his
employer in his day % work.
He was a curious cample of cunning and
simplicity—qv/Me a eharacter in his way—
and the largest eater Wever ohanoed to know.
From this ravenous propensity, for he ate
his food like a famished wolf, he had obtain-
ed his singular name of "-Wit-tale."
During the first year•of his settlement in
the bush, with a very large family to iarotride
or, he had been often in want of food. One
day le oame to my brother, with a very long
aoe.
"Mr. 8 I'm ie beggar, but I'd be
obliged to you for a loaf of bread. I declare
o .you on my houour thead•have not had a
it of wittals to dewour for two whole,
aye."
He came to the right pereon with his peti.!
on. Mr. .8 witt a liberal hand re-;
ieved his wants, but he entailed upon him`
he nameof "Old Wittala," as part payd
eatt.
His daughter, who was a ve.ry pretty girl,
ad atolen a traarch upon him into the wood,
ith a lad whom he by no E103008 regarded
th a favorable eye. When she returned,
e old man ,00nfronted her and her lover
ith this threat, which I suppose he consid-
ed "the moatawful " punisluneut that he
ould devise.
" March into the house, Madam 'Rio,
Maria) ; andeif ever I catch you with that
camp again; I'll tie you up to a stump all
y, and. Ova ,you noo wittals."
I was greatly amused by overhearing a
alogue between Old Wittals and one of I
is youngest sons, a sharp Yankeefied-look.
g boy, who had lost one of Ma eyes, but d
e remaining orb looked as if it could nee b
1 ways at once. h
'1 say, Sol, how came you to tell that a
rnation tearing lie to Mr, 8--- yester. e
BUSH."
sons the contraotors for the clearing, to
ectrallpiddite Onsidhonseonmnoovwemosenotevotthye ambitious
eitiwouase
1
man in his way. Though he did not know
A from B, he took it late his head that he
'ha received a call Irma heaven to convert
the heathen he the wilderneaa ; and every
Sunday he held a meeting in our loggers'
shanty, for the purpose of awakening sin-
ners, and bringing over "Indian pagans"
to the true faith. His method of accomp-
lishing this oltj sot was very ingenious. He
got his wife Peggy—or "my F'aggy" as he
called her ---'to read aloud to him a text
from the Bible, until he knew it by heart;
and he had, as he said 'truly, "a good re-
membranoer," and never heard a striking
sermon but he retained the moat important
passages, and retailed them second-hand to
his bush audience. .
he I inuat say that I wait not a little surprised
h at the old man's eloquence when II went on
ati Sunday over to the ehanty to hear him preach.
0 Several wild young fellows had come on pur.
fie pose to make fun of hint; but his discourse,
ee
which was upon the text " We shall all meet
e before the judgment -seat of Chriet " was
a ,
k, rather too serious a serious a subject to turn
nt "
into a jest with even old Thomas for the
d. preacher. All went on very well until the
old man gave out a hymn and led off in such
n
en a loudediscordant voice, that my little Katie,
ed who was standing between her father's
ed knew, looked suddenly up, and said, "Mani -
ma," what a noise old Thomas makes I" This
ed remark led to a much greater noise, and the
or young men, unable to restrain their long -
d. suppressed laughter, ran tumultuously from
ee the shanty.
et I could have whipped the little ell; but
' small blame could be attached to a child of
e. two years old, who had never heard a preach -
m er, especially such a preacher as the old
to backwoodsman, in her life. Poor man I be
was perfectly unconscious of the cause of
t. disturbance, and remarked to Ma after the
service was over,
"Well, ma'am did not we get on famous-
° ly ? Now, wor'n't that anomie/a discounte 1"
se "15 was indeed; much better than I ex-
pected." .
• "Yes yes; I knew it would pleaee you.
; It had ciniM an effect car those wild fallow.
A few more such sermons will teach them
; good behaviour. Ah! the bush is a bad
I place for young men. The farther in the
bush, say I, the farther from God, and the
nearer h-1. 1 told • that wicked Captain
L—, of Dammam so the other Semiday ;
' tee says he, 'if you don't hold your con-
founded jaw, you old fool, Ili kick you,
there.' Now ma'am—now eir, was not that
bedwarmers in a gentleman 'to use each ap-
propriate epitf,phs to a hum' hie servant of
God, like I?'
And thus the old man ran on for ewe hour,
dilating upon his own merits and the sins
of his neighbors.
There was do m --, from Smithtown,
the most notorious swearer in the disuict ;
a men. who osteemed himself lever,nor did
he waut for natural talent, but she'had con
verted his mouth into suchetetaie"amet iniquity
that it corrupted the whole umm and all the
weak and thoughtless of his kwn sex who
admitted him into their company. I had
tried to, ,convince John s ----(for he often
frequented the house ender the pretence of
borrowing books) of the great.ecime that he
was constantly committing, and of the injur-
ioue effect it must produce 4upon his own
family, but the mental -disease had taken too
e deep a root to be so easily cured. -Like a
pereon laboring under some foul disease, he
contaminated all he touched. Stich men
seern to ,eaalte an ambitious display of their
' bad habits in such scenes, eaarleif they afford
a little help, they are mire to -at intosticated
and male a row. There was -my old friend,
Ned Dunn, who had been tm anxious to get
us out of the burning fallow. There was a
whole group of Daremaer Penes ; Levi, the
little wiry, witty poacher ; Cornish Bill, the
honest-hearMd old peaeant, with Ms stal-
wart figure and uncouth dialect; and David
and Wed— all good men and 'true; and Mal.
aciaiChroalt, a queer, withered -up, monkey -
man that seemed like .some mischieyous,elf,
tting from leap to heap to make work and
fun for the reet; and many •others were at
that bee who have slum found a rest in the
wilderness : Adam T—, H---, J.
M , H. Those, at different
times lost their lives in those bright wa.tere
in whlich, on such oceasions as these, they
used to %tort and frolic to refresh themselyee
during the noonday heat. Alas! how
many, who were then young and in their
prime, that river and its blies have swept
away!
Our men worked well ulatill dinner -time,
when, after washing in the lake, they all eat
down to the rude board which I had pre•
pared for them, loaded with the best fare
that could be procured in the Ibush. Pea.
soup, lege -of pork, venison, eel, and rasp-
berry pienewarnished with plenty of pot°,
toes, and whiskey to wash them down, be-
sides a large iron kettle of tea. To pour out
the latter, end dispeuse it round, devolved
upon me. My brother and his friends, who
were all temperance men, and eoesequently
She best workers in the field, kept me and
the timid actively employed in mplenishing
their cups.
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good vra'lopping for the like cf that ? Ly- i
ing may be excusable in a man, but 'tis a m
-terrible bad habit in a boy."
t .4' Lore father, that worn't a lie. I told y
Mr. 8-- cur cows worn% in his peas. f
Nor more she wor ; she was in hie wheat."
" But she was in the peas all night, boy." 0
" Thab wor nothing to me ; she worn in tn
just then. Sur I won't get a lioltirg for d
that ? '
"No, no, you are a good bey but mind b
What ftell you, an don't bring me into A t
Bora e with any of yoar real lime'
werica,tion, the worst of falseheods, was fr
vir tie itt his eyes. So much for the old
roan's morality, th
Monaghati was in his glory, prepared t� b
work or fight, whichever slmuld come upper a
moat; and there was old Thomas and his it
The dinner paMed off tolerably well ; some
of the lower order of Irish settlers were
pretty far gone, lint they committed no out-
rage upon our feelings by either swearing or
bad language, •M ,few, harmless jokes alone
circulating among them.
,Some one was funning Old Wittalla for
having eaten seven large cabbages at Mr.
T--'8 bee, a few days.previous. Hieson,
Sol, thought himself, as in duty bound, to
take up the cudgel for his father.
"ow, I guess that's a lie, anyhow.
Fayther was sick thatelay, and I tell you he
only ate five." vide myself with another servant, at a time i Fraserburgh. All day long the boats kept
This announcement was followed by meth when servants were not to be had, and I wan f coming in, note wore, emptied, fish carted
an ex.plosion of mirth that the boy looked perfectly unable to do the lead thing, my away. The barbor, the streete, the fields
fiercely round him, an if ,he conjel eearae13, little Addie was sick almost to death With beyond where nes were taken to dry, the
believe the fact that the whole party were the su---------------------------------aing-hortme, were alike scenes of industry.
te olive, is it ye are? Ye creaking owld with a sick husband, a sick child, and a Imaginary Dillease,
divil, is that the tune you taught yotar son?' new-born babe. The writer calkd on a number of pro
"Ooh 1 ran °tad granny taught me, but now vieintivtlimanadrnbeloarlyh°1sYliffseeraisnogn: "Tehoofseeevwro rent physioians and asked them if, am
she is dead, their patients, they had many who intagi
That a dhrols of nate whiskey is good for the have drawn such agreeable pieturea of 0,
I
residence tit the backwoods, never dwel
Palo .Alto's Breeding Bystelle.
• Senator .r.,Nua Stanford in a receet inter.
°LI view talked of loreeding trot044 horRoa
they had du/eases winch they did net have,
head ;
Some very intereathig information was oh -
I t wouldtodmhaike e a man spite when j is t ready ePeil othrliosi ivetz.ho ce°,f tInSaictieekt ince:jou, .0wrhf when, far dmf de yr b yfora.a°8d1 101., ode al. verineeayds e. so otToihhemseoediio trt peopleoo rosbsil trouble,
adogoii tntiewttahhsoeftvo found
ov have be
If you doubt It—my boys (—I'd advise you
to thry. verse omoumetauces, you are left tolangutsh, cancer, heart (Amuse and Ttri hes dis
"Ooh 1 m owld granny sleeps with her e con° Pain. In the language of the rofeeeion tl
ne this way: "I had but twoLexliagten mares;
and these were bred to Lay trottina etallious
with the moat gratifying results. Annette,
ea on a stone,—
Now, Malaoh, don't throuble the gals when
I'm gone 1'
thried to obey her ; but, mire I am shure,
There's no sorrow on earth that the amide
' oan't cure.
"Ooh I took her advise—I'm baohelor
still ;
And I dance, and I play, with such exoelknt
skill,
(Vaking up thebehows, and beginnm to dance.)
That the dear little crathers are striving in
vain
Which firat shall my hand or my fortin' ob-
tain.
"Malachi' shouted a laughing group.
" How was it that the old lady taught you
to go a-courtine ?"
" Arrrah, that's a seoret I I don't let owld
granny's secrete," said Malachi, gracefully
waving his head to and fro to the squeaking
of the bellows; then, suddenly tossing back
the long, daegling black elf -looks that curled
down the sides of his lank yellow oheeke,
and winking knowingly with his comical
little deep-seated black eyes, he buret out
again—
" Wid the blarney I'd win the most dainty
proud dame,
No gal can resist the sott sound of the same;
Wid the blarney, my boys—if you doubt it,
go thry—
But hand here the bottle, my whistle is
cihry.''
The men went back to the field, leavine
Malachi to amuse those who remained in
the house; and we certainly did laugh our
fill at his odd capers and conceits. -
Then he would' insist upon marrying our
maid.. There could be no refusal—have her
he would. The *girl, to keep him quiet,
laughingly promised that she would take
him for her husband. This did not satisfy
him. She must take her oath upon the
Bible to that effect. Mary pretended that
there was no Bible in the house, but he
found an old spellingibook upon a shelf in
the kitchen, and upon it he made her swear,.
and celled upoa inc to bear witness "id her
oath, that ahe was new his betrothed, and
he would no next .day with her to tho
"praist." Poor Mary had reason to repent
her frolic for he muck close to her the whole
evening, 'tormenting her to fulfil. her con-
tract. e.
After the sun went. down, the logging -
band camo toaupper, which was all readw
for the/he Those who remained sober ate
the meal peace and quietly returnerd to.
their own homes ; while the vicious and the young as she was, a is more than probable
drunkett stayed to brawl and fight. that neither myself nor my children would
After having placed the supper on the Ever have risen from that bed of sickness.
The day that my husbend was free of the
fit, he did what he ouuld for me and hie
poor sick babee, but, ill as he Wile, he was
obliged to sow the wheat to enable she man
to proceed with the drag, and was there-
fore necessarily absent in the ,d'eld the
greater part of the day.
I was very ill, yet, for houra at a time, I
had no friendly voice to cheer me, to proffer
me a drink ot cold water, or to attend to
the poor babe; and worse, still worse,
there vas no one to help that pale, marble
ohild, who lay Ito cold and still, vsith half-
closed violet eyes, as if death had already
chilled her young heart in his iron grasp.
There was not a breath of air in our close,
burning bed•clotet • and the weather was
sultry oeyond all that I have since expert.
meted. How I wished that I could be
transported to an hospital at home, to enjoy
She common care that in such places is be-
stowed upon the sick! Bitter tears flowed
continually over those young children. I
had asked of Heaven a son, and there he lay
heiplems by the side of his almost equally
helpless mother, who could not lift him up
in her arms, or still his cries; while the
pale, fair angel, with her golden earls, who
had lately been the admiration of all who
saw her, no longered recognized my voice,
or was conscious of my presence. I felt that
I could resign 'the loog and eagerly hoped
for son, to win one more smile from that
sweet suffering creature. Often did I weep
myself to sleep, and wake to weep again
with renewed anguish.
And my poor ,little Katie, herself under
three years of age, how patieetly she bora
the loss of my care, and every comfort!
How earnestly the dear thing strove to ,help
me! She would sit' on my sick -bed, and
hold my hand, and ask nte to look at her
and epeak het t Weluld inquire why .Addie
elept so long, ,and when elle would ,wake
again. ,T'hotie innocent questions went like
arrows to mylhearte
Lieutenant , the husband of my
dearEmilta, at length heard Of my eituation.
His inestimable wife was from home, nursing
het -Mick mother ; but he sent Ms maid ser-
vant up every day fora couple of hours, and
the kind girl despatched a meieenger nine tress was, and upon which his mind was
miles througha the vemaaa to Dammer, to deluded. In his upperlip he said there was a
fetch her younger sister, a child of twelve worm gnawing his flesh and penetrating into
years old. his body, and unlees he could tear it out
Oh, how grateful I felt for these 'Ague' the worm would coon be beyond, his reach
mercies! for my situation for nearly a week and inevaably ,destroy him. This was
was one of the most pitiable that could be the cause of his misery. He was assured
imagined. The sickness was so prevalent of the possibility of relief, and with a
that help could not be obtained for money ; smiling countenanco I patted him on th.
and without the assistance of that listle girl, shoulder and bade him no longer be in
easy, for I would out out the worm. Bit
eyes sparkled, and in an instant he 'co
quick. for God's sake.
He was urged not to despair, or I tit
now ready to remove the insect preying up
on his flesh. Accordingly, we weet to the
cells of the maniacs. When being seatsd he
fixed himself for the operation. I' paraded
six lancets on the table before him. By
making a display of this and other prepar-
ations and sending for assistance he became
composed, waiting with patience the result.
In the meantime I heel sent in search of the
worm. The person sent, being unsuccessful,
stayed too long and I hurried out of the
as well and as cerefully as the beet female door and p:cked from the grcund one of the
servant could have done. As to poor John large W011:03 or caterpillars which infereed
Monaghan, he was down with the fever in the poplar trees at that time and had fallen
the Mammy, where four other men were all from the trees oy the door. One et d of tl e
ill with the same terrible complaint. insect had boon trodden upon, and it was
I was obliged to leave my bed and en. nearly dead. This I got, and on returning
deavour to emend to the wants of my young found my patient's uneeeineee increased.
fmUy Meg before I was reelly able. Mom But upon seeing me take the instruments he
I made tay first iettenaps to reach the parlee fixed himself in the chair and requested my
1 wae so that, at 'every step, I felt sa Assistaitta, the apothecary and the orderly
if should pitch forward to the grearee I Iran, to hold his hands lett he should start
which seemed to undulate beneath my feet, while under pain of the cutting instru•
like the floor of , a cabin in ck storm at sea. went.
My husband continued to suffer for many "With a lancet the operation was begun
plaint is known ae hypcohondrimis.
To was found that the dimaee it of
epidemic). At the time of Gen. Gra
sickness and death from °moor of the tor
and during the Meese of the late Ka
Friedrich, hundreds of people with noth
serious at all the matter with tlaem cal
upon Dr. Shrady, who attended Gen. Gra
and told him they had cancer of the thr
coming on and wished to be treated for it
One celebrated physician, who mad
special atudy of the disease, said that
was worthy of note that in all them oa
the patient reasons correctly—that
draws just references from the error. T
the Prince of Bourbon, when he zuppo
which is out of a daughter of Gray Eagle,
hief Prodliced to Electioneer the bay atallion
itre Aueel, which has a reourti cd 2.20, and also
ge a level head in harness Waxy Mat ran ha
,
a number of races after crossing the plaine
w and, produced the good race mare Alpha,
ten bred to General Benton produced Vihnceina,
o"'s and ebe bred to Electioneer produced Sundt,
r't As I got is feet performer in the first gent
'e'er emotion from AnnetM, and a record.brealler
ing10
e second generation from Waxy, my
lO d expf3riments with Lexington mare e cannot
lit., be classed as failures. The Planet strain is
oet
almost as good as the Lexingtom „Dame
• Winne has two in the list—Palo Alto, 2,20-k
e a and Gertrude Russell, 2 23e. We regardect
it Palo Alto, when 4 years old, as faster than
see
et Manzanaa. Ho trotted BOMB very hard
races, and threw out a aplint, and we had
to let up on him. He will be trained next
season, and I shell be disappointed if we do
not get a recoil of 2 12 on him. By the
way, Palo A.lte would be a good horse to
match with Maud S. If the record of
Maud S. is beaten, except by herself, it will
be by is horse higher bred than she is. A
colt out of her by Palo Alto would be
stronger breed than she is, and it Should
have a higher flight of speed. I wish Mr.
Bonner would come to California. I should
like to entertain him and show him how we
develop colts. I could learn front him
about the feet, and he could study my'
'methods. The miniature track, you remem-
ber, was ridiculed just as my thoroughbred
foundation theory was ridiculed, brit I have
lived to see the scoffers change their tonere
Breeders in all sections of the country have
copied my mirdature track, where the colt
learns to trot without injuring himself, and
the trotter out of the highly bred dam is on
top. Were I to commence over again, 1
ahould select from twenty to thirty thorough-
bred mares, and thus lay the foundation of
the stud. I should, as a matter of course,
study temperament and physical lines. If
get the heads right and secure a proper con-
formation you run lesa risk in getting trot-
ters from thoroughbred mares, than you do
from the low bred mares, which are made
up of unknown quantities. You know what
you are doing when you use pule blood.
The mechanical construction of some tho
roughbrede is just as tee adapted to trot.
ting as at y other gait. Control the actino
through the head and a putera trotting
stallion and the experiment ceases M be-
daub ful. I have met with mecum in man
ting thoroughbred trotting rearm, and stal-
lions, because I have is mechanical m e and
loave paid great attention to outline as well
as brain. The blood hat has tut ined
speed at the running gait will 'instate it at
the trotting gait. It has taken generations
to make the arterial system of the runner
what it is, and arterial capacity is essential
to the trotter when the speed ram is high
said the struggle is protracted."
inmself to be is plant., reasoned justly whe
he insisted upon being watered with th
rest of the plants every day. In like man
ner, the hypochondriac who supposea him
self to be dead remons with the same cor
reotnees when he stretches his body an
limbs on the bed or a board and assume
the stillness and ailence of a dead man.
The following is from the records of one
of the New York hospital's house surgeons
"It was on July 6 that a man of smal
stature, who was found afterwards to be
shoemaker by trade, who was apparently
about 40 years of age, escaped from his home
and was running at large in the streets o
the city, lacerating his flesh and heating
his head against the aides of houses. A
number of citizens managed to capture him
and they brought him to the hospital, follow,
ed by a big orowd. With his arms tied be-
hind him., and in the greatest agony, his
face bruised and swollen, his lips torn to
pieces and streaming with blood, he was
ushered into the hospital by those who had
him iu charge. I met them at the door and
inquired into the case, The man was eager
m tell his own story, but with Mfficulty col-
lected worde to convey it. His languege
was copious, butthis agitation so great that
he could hardly utter a sentence, being in-
terrupted by conatant efforts to tear his lips
to pieces, nose with him knew nothing
except that they had prevented him from
beating out his own brains. .At length he
conveyed the information where his dis-
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table, was sce tired with the noise, and
haat,-and fatigue of, the day, that .1 went to
bed, leaving to Mary and my husband the
care of the guests.
The little bed -chamber was only separated
of cold water and a cup by his bedside, and
from the 'kitchen by a few thin boards; and
then put his honest English face in , at my
unfoitunately for me and the girl, who was
door to know if he could ms,ke a cup of tea,
soon forced to retreat thither, we -could hear
or toast a bit of beced for the mistresa, be-
all the wickedneas and profenityoming on iv
the next room. My husband, disgusted fore he went into the field.
Katie was indebted to hirn for all her
with the scene, soon left it, and retired into
meals, He Inked, end cooked, and churned,
the parlor, with the few of the loggers who,
Milked the cows, and 'made up the butter
at that hour, remained sober. The house
rang with the sound of unhallowed revelry,
profane -songs, and blast:bee/one swearing
It wouidnave been no hard task to have
imagined these miserable, degraded beings,
fiends instad of men. How glad I was when
theynt .last broke up ; and we were once
more left in peace to collect .the broken
glasses and cups, and the scattered frag
menteof that hateful feast
The conduct of our man Jacob, during
thia trying period, was 'marked with the
greatest kindness and consideration. On
the days that his master was confined to his
bed with the fever, he uted to place a vessel
We were obliged ts endure a second and
a third repetition of this odious scene, be-
fore siateen acres of land w -ere, rendered fit
for the reception of our fall wrap of wheat.
My hatred M these tumultuous, disorder-
derly meetings was not in the least decreas-
ed by my husband being twice seriouely
hurt while attending them. After Atm
secondiejury he received, he eeldom wont
to the,m himself, but sent his oxen and sem
vent his place. In these odioue gather-
ings. the sober, moral, and industrious /lean
is moro likely to suffer than the drunken and
profane, as, during the delirium of arink,
these men expose others to clanger as well
as themselves.
The.conduct of many of the settlers, who
considered themselves gentlemeneand would
have been very much affronted to have been
called otherwise, was often more reprehen-
sible than that of the poor Irish emigrants,
to whom they should have set an example
of order and sobriety. The behaviour of
these young men drew upon them the severe
but just censures of the poorer elass, whom
they regarded in every way as their infer -
ion. • ,
Just after the last of these logging•bees,
we had to part with our good aervant, Mary,
and just:at a time when it was the heaviest
loss tome. Her fath 1' who, had been a dairy-
man in the north ot Ireland, an helmet, in-
dustrious man, had brought out upwards of
one hundred pounds to thin country. With
more wisdom than is generally exerbilied by
Irish emigrants, inatead of sinking all his
means in buyinga bush erm, he hired a very
good farm in Cavan, stocked it with cattle,
and returned to his old avocation. The ser-
vioes of his daughter, who was an excellent
dairy -maid, were required ty take the man-
agement of the cowa ; and her brother
brought a waggon and horses all the way
from the front to take her home.
This event was perfectly unexpected, and
left me without a momenea notice to pro -
plied Will you? Do it then Da I:,
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weeks with the ague • and when he was con.
valesoent, all tbe children, even the poor
babe were seized with it ; nor did it leave
us Oil late in the spring of 1835,
(TO BE coNTINITED.)
.At a Fishing Village in Scotia nd.
Many fishermen with their bags were on
their way to the station, for the fishing
reason as almost over. So they said.
But were one thousand boata came in, and
twenty thousand fisher -folk were that day
in Traserburgh, to nil it looked little like
the mad, In all this busy place we heard no
English. Only Gaelic was spoken, as if we
were once more in the Weetens Islands.
It was the same iu the streets. The
day's work in the curing -houses was just
about to begin. Girls and women in groups
of threes and fours were walking toward
them. In the morning light we could see
that the greater laumber were young. All were
neat and clean, weth hair carefully parted
and well brushed, little shawls over their
shoulders, but nothing on their heads.
They carried their working clothes under
their arms, and kept knitting as they
walked. Like the inen, they all talked
When they got re work we found that
those strange stuffs. which had glistened in
the torch light were aprons and bibs smear-
ed with scales and slime that the white
headdresses were worn only for cleanliness,
that the shining masses at their feet were
hut piles of herring. I have never seen
women work so hard or so fast. Their
arms, aS they seized the fish, gutted them,
threw them in the buckets) moved with the
regularity and speed ot machines. Indeed,
there could not be a busier place than
aughiug at him. to take care of herself. If the women put down their knives it was
Malachi Chroak, who was goodnaturedly This was but the beginning of trouble,
mink, had discovered an old pair of cracked Agueand lake fever had attacked our new
ellows in a earner, which he placed under settlement. The men in the shanty were all
is arm, and applying his mouth to the pipe down with i5, and my huaband was man-
nd working his elbows to and fro, pretend- ed to his bed on each alternate day, unable
d that he was playing upon the bagpipes, to raise hand or foot, and raving in the de.
f Didn't yon expect that you'd math a e
n a shrill Emmett from this novel instant. In my Sister and brother's families, soar -
very now and then letting the wind escape lirium of fever.
t
ent, oely a healthy person remained to attend (Harper s Magazine.
" Arrah, ladies and jintlemen, do jiat turn upon the skit ; and at Herrioes Falb, nine 1
our ewate little eyes upon me whilst I play persona were stretched upon the floor of one Mr. Swinburne was lately asked by a
er your icidifloa.tions the last illegant tune log cobin4 unable to helP ' htmteltee or one magazine editor for a contribution not ex.
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I pricked his lip with it, which uaade him
flinch a little. He accordirgly leaned back
his head firmly against the person who
stood behind him, and shut his eyes tightly,
and thus fixed he bore the repeated pricks
of the instrument with ateadiness and forti-
tude. After pinching hia lip with one hand
and wounding it with the other, CUt Oil
portion of the upper lip which he had tole
with his nails and which was pendulous. I
now assured him that the operation was
nearly completed, for the head of the worm
could be seen. The bystanders cried out:
"There it is I there it is I He raised eyes
to see, but was cautioned to be Mill for one
minute longer, at which he again shut his
eyes. I then gave him a severe pinch, drew
the edge of the lancet acmes the lacerated
Hp, and exclaiming, I've got him,' opened
my hand and exposed the great worm.
"The man rose from his seat and gazed.
at the worm with astonishment beyond
utterance. At length he spoke and request-
ed me to preserve it, for, he obeerved with
tranquillity, his friends had mid he was
crazy, but this would be an evidence M the
contrary.
"The result of this deceptive operation
was a perfect core, and this remarkable
change was effected in len than fifteen min-
utes after the patient entered the hospital,"
The best dooters say that the causes of
the disease lie in conditions usually obscure,
whioh lower the tone or the general health
or depress the vitality of the brain, either
by physical wear or mental worry. Dis-
appointment, bad habits, want of proper
mentaltoccupatia,n, often cause the trouble.
The treatment oonaists in measures to im-
prove the general health, especially a full
diet, carefully selected ; hydro -therapeutics,
macisage, gyrianestica, horseback riding,
walking, rowing, abundant and agreeable ex-
erten/ in the open air, and the management
of the palettes surroundings BO as to lighten
the mind and relieve from worry, perhaps by
travel or sea voyage.
Argement commonly worse ;than use -
only to take up their knitting. And yet leas, but there should be a decided impree-
them men and women, working incessant! siert given that the generally morbid state
by day and by night, were almost all West-
ern -Islanders, the people Who, we are told,
are so slovenly and so lazy! No one who
comes with them to the east coast for the
fishing semen will ever again believe in the
oforepeated lies about their idleness.—
is due to ill health. The risk of suicide is
so email that restriction of liberty directed
to its proventien does more harm than
good.
Human Development.
T wo glorious futurea lie before us : the I
progress of the race here, the progress of the ,
mau hereafter. History teaches that the 1
individual man' needs to be transplanted in I
y g mo er taught me. another. After much difficulty, and only 080(1„Ing 8%qtr)en ini, The etaremed poet order to excel the past. He appears to have
oh hone! 'tis a thousand pitiM that such by offering enormous «paten I succemied in ' riildued I '1 °du u math' Ir?,dertiElit° to li.1). reached his perfootion centuries alto. Men
ueical owld orathers should be suffered to procuring a nurse to attend upon me during ply verse to order in point of length or ether. lived there whom we have never been able
e burial& it -top of a bushel, givin' light to by the earn(' fever, In the midst of this con- the fldst Intl° of anYthlug of rum° f°V less inm for that is a material capable of in- 1
irthm dark hole, when their eatables ehud a day in the house before she was attacked
le, at all at all, M be poked away lath a my confinement. The woman had not been twigi arnwoar°,1 weraiti•eltositior aldrneaegritintioldijutuveet i ktonoswurepdagses,harst:rely even to equal, Our
of course, gone on inoreas- I
he holm. An' then it ie she that was the fueiote and With my preciotie little Addie than till deftnite accurnelatiOns. Bat for power, for
ligant dancer, stepping out so lively and lying insensible on it pillow at the foot of I Three memberti of the Chethein Collegiate the highest reaoh end range of mental and
(shy, ilia ir boy bed—, -expected eyery Moment to breathe Instituteteaohing staff will vacate their' res• tapiritital capacity in every line the lapse
And here he minced to and fro, affecting her last --on the night of the 26th of August, peotivepositiotteatChristmau,viat-1TM
Mr. J. , of bwo or three thouehncl years shoten
e eire of a fine lady. The supposititious the boy I had 80 ardently coveted wbo
a rn. Christie, B. A., Who gees hoSimooe, Mr. W. no sign of increase or improvement.
nd he {lung it down, and started back with nurse) away tipen hie baolt, and was ----------, ie for the trahung school, and M
e iss A now Presbyterian Chtuteh is to be erect.
ludicrous expression of alarm, strugglthrough in the hostel r I Id
agpipe gave au uncertain, ominees Itohrl, The next day, old Pine' oartied his wife (tny H, Efovearcl, B. Aei &tonne Master, who ea.
Rune oeu , Minty, Art teaoher, 1 ed at Cedar Grove.
A Wonaen's finnth in bengai
At the last meeting of the Royal Asiatic
Society of Beegal a descriptor/ was give:W.,
of a peculiar custom among the aboriginal
tribes of Ranche a group of hamlets in
Chota Nagpore. It is known as the Era
Sandra, or women's hunt. On the present
occasion the object was to expel the cholera
demon, and it is -utual when any great •
calamity overtakes the land for the women
to drees ttemselves up in meres clothes,
arm themselves, and go out to huut, not in
the j mattes, but in the nearest villeges east
of them. They chase pigs and fovrne and •
everything they kill is theirs. They Placa
levy black mail from the heads of the villages'
for the purchase of liquor. The village/et
cannot preyent the slaughter of their
animals, hut the head men generally com-
promise matters by giving the huntresses
a pig and paying a small sum. Towarde
evening the hunting party retires to a
neighbouring stream, where they cook and
eat the meat and drink the iiquor. They
eat nothing after this meal, but bathe and
return home. Men are not allowed to
acconspany them on such occasions, and.
they conduct themselves for the time beinet
in a very masterful and masculine manner.
They are decked out in coats and all the
finery they can borrow fiom their husbands
and sweethearts, and they fiturish their
spears, axes, and sticks, beat their iron,
drums, ehout, sing hunting songs, and dance
just as the men do. The ceremony begins
in the west, and each village that has been
visited goes out on a similar excursion to ita
neighbours, but always to the east. Dy
this means it is supposed that the evit spirft
is safely conducted out of the district with -
nut offending ite dignity. One village near
Ranchi is an exception. It is called
Mahadaiva, or devoted to Mahadev, and
there the Amazons are not allowed to enter,
as it is suppoiled M be under the special
protection of its patron saint. If cholera
appears there, it is because the Mahadev is
offended, and he must be propitiated before
can disappear.
His Unlucky Birthday.
Moses Iklestein—"Repocca, I yonder vhy
it vas dot mine mane vas porn lucky vile
udder poor tevils like meinselluf vas left to
go py de vorld trough mit out striking a
PuRddebinegM'a—l• Aces, Moses, vat vas you kom-
blaining abondt now? Yon vas alvays kick-
ing against your tusk und already die year
you haf Made quite a poodle."
Moses—" Yah, dat ish so, and I know dot
it vas wrong for me to kick, but I leaf it1
mit you, Repecoa, now, vouldn't it be a big
poodle in atm pocket *leder people vonld ran
me for Mayor 1 Tink uf der advertisement
to our.pisness. I vould run a out of mein- ,
selluf in der baber mid say: 'Moses Ikle-
stein, de beoble's choice,' sells all kinds uf
new und emend -hand °iodate at popular
prices. Come and shake hands minder bee-
ble's choice, vedder you vent some olodin' or
not 7 it yid cost notings to look at him.'
Bud dere vas no such luck in store for me.
I vas porn on Friday. "--(Peck's Sun.
The Fall of the Leaf.
If ever, in autumn, a pensiveness fails upon
us as the leaves drift by in their fading, may
we not wisely look up in hope to their mighty
monuments, Behold how fair, how far pro-
longed in arch and aisle, the avenues of the
venom', the fringes of the hills So stately—
so eternal; the toy of man, the comfort of
all living creatures, the glory of the earth
—they ate but the monuments of those poor
leaves that flit faintly past tie to die. Teat
them not pass without our underatanding
their het counsel and example ; that we
alio careless of monuments by the grave,
may build it in the world—monuments by
which men be taught to remember, not
where we died, but w here we live,
WOtrien and very young Men ate very apt
to tell what Sat t§ they know, frow
vault of holii b en t t