HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-1-24, Page 2"ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH,"
CHAPTER XIX.—(Cengaitran)
"Ton must go for helm." I said, "Run as
nast as you can to my mitten's, and fetch
Our maaten"
"And lave you, ma'am, and the ohildher
e lone wid the burnin' house?"
"Yes, yea I Don't stay one moment.
'4 I have no shoo, main, and the snow
so deep."
Put on your master's boots; make haste
Jr we shall be lost before help coulee."
The girl put on the boots and started,
shrieking, " Fire the whole way, Debi
was utterly useless, and only impeded her
progress by exhausting her strength. After
ehe had venished from the head of tne clear-
ing into the wood, and I was left quite alone,
with the holm burning over my head, I
paused one moment to reflect what had beau
be done.
The house was built of cedar logs; in ail
probability it would be consumed before any
laelp could arrive. There was a brine breeze
blowing up from the trozen lake, and the
thermometer stood at eighteen degrees be-
low zero. We were plaoed between the two
extremes of heat and cold, and thee was as
much danger to be apprehended from the
one as the other. In the bewilderment of
tbe moment, the direfol extent of the calann
ity never struck me; we wanted but this to
put the finishing stroke to our misfortunes,
• to be thrown naked, houseless and penniless,
upon the world. " Inca shall I 8ave first!"
was the thought just then uppermost in my
• mind. Bedding and (nothing appeared the
most essentially necessary*, and, without
another moment's pause, .E set to work with
a right good will to drag all that I could
from my burning home.
While little Agnes, Dunbar, and baby
• Donald filled the air with their cries, Katie,
as ff fully conscious of the importance of ex
ertion, assisted me in carrying out sheets
and blankets, and dragging trunk e and
boxes some way up the lull, to be out of the
way of the burning brands when the roof
• should fall in.
How many anxious looks I gave to the
head of the clearing as the fire increased,
• and large pieces of burning pine beaan to
fall through the boarded ceiling, about the
lower rooms where we were at work. The
children I had kept under a large dresser in
• the kitchen, but it now appeared absolutely
necessary to remove them to a place of
safety. To expose the young, tender things
to the direful cold, was almost as bad as
leaving them to the mercy of the fire. At
last E hit upon a plento keep them from
freezing. I emptied all the clothes out of a
large, deep chest of drawers, and dragged
the empty drawera up the hill; them) I
•lined with blankets, and placed* a child in
each drawer, covering it well over with the
bedding, giving to Rene Agnes the 'charge of
a the baby tohold between her knees, and keep
well covered until help should arrive. Ah,
0 how long it seemed coming
•ir The roof was now burning like a brush.
heap, and, unconsciously, the child and I
were working uoder a shelf, upon whion
• were deposited several pounds of gunpowder,
which had beenprocured for blasting awell,
• as all our water had to be brought up hill
trom the lake. This gunpowder was in a
stone jar, secured by a paper stopper; the
shelf upon which t stood was on fire, bub it
• was utterly forgotten by me at the time;
and even afterwards,. when my husband was
working on the burning loft over it.
I found that I should not be able to take
neatly more Wipe for goods. As I passed
• out of the parlour for the last' dime, Katie
looked up at her father's flute, which was
• suspended upon two brackets, and said,
Oh, dear mamma ! do save papa's flute;
he will be so sorry to lose it."
God bless the dear child for the thousdit
0
the flute was saved; and, as I succeeded in
dragging out a heavy chest of clothes, and
looked up onoe more despairingly to the
road, I saw a man running at full speed. It
was my husband. Help was at hand, and
my heart uttered a deep thanksgiving as°
• another and another figure came upon the
scene. e
I had not felt the intense cold, although
without cap, or bonnet or eleawl ; with my
hands bare•and exposed to the bitter biting
air. The intense excitement, the anxiety to
save all I could, had so otally diverted my
thoughts frorn myself, that I had feltuothing
of the danger to which I had been exposed;
but now tnat help was near, my knees trem-
bled under me, I felt giddy and faint, and
dark shadows seemed ;dancing before my
• eyes. •*
The moment my husband and brother-in-
law entered the house, the latter exclaimed:
"Moodie, the house is gone; save what
yea Oal2 of your winter stores and furniture,'
Moodie thought differently. Prompt and
energetic in danger, and possessing admit*.
• able presence of mind and coolness when
• others yield to agitation and despair, he
sprang upon the burning lofb and called for
water. Alas, there west none 1
• "Snow, snow; hand me up pailfuls of
snow 1"
Oh!• it was bitter work filling those pails
with frozen snow; bat Mr. It— and I
worked at it as fast as we were able.
The violence of the fire was greatly check-
• ed by covering the boards of tho loft with
this snow. More help had now arrived.
Young B— and S—, had brought
the ladder down with them from the barn,
and were already cutting away the burning
roof, and flinging the flaming brands into
the deep snow.
"Mrs. Moodie, have, you any pickled
meat 7"
" We have just killed one of our cows,
. and salted it for winter stores."
"Well, then, fling the beef into the snow,
and let us nave the brine."
This Was an admirable plan. Wherever
the brine wetted the sleingles, the fire turned
* from ib and concentrated into one open
But I bad tot time to watch the brave
• workers on the roof. ',wee fast yielditen to
the effects of over excitetnent and fatigue,
when rder brothers team dashed down the
clearing, bringing my excellent old friend,
Miss B—, and the servant-girI.
My brother eprang out, monied me back
into the house, and wrapped me up in one
of the large blankets ecatterod shoat. In a
fete minutes I was sleeted with the dear
obildreia in the aleigh, and on the way to a
• place of warmth and eafety.
Hanle alone suffered from the interne:I
cold. The dear little creaturehe feet were
severely frozen, but were fortunately rester-.
ed by her unole diecovering the fact before
lie approaohen the nre, aid rubbing them
well with snow.
rn the meatwhile the friends, we had
left tie actively employed at the house, suc-
ceeded in getting the fite under control be-
fore it had destroyed the walla. The only
actident that decorted was to a poor dog,
that Moolie had called Sticirleyowe, He
Wes struck by a burning brand thrown from
the hetse,. e.nd crept under the barna and
,died.
• Beyond the damage done to the building,
the loss of our potatoes and two retake a
floury we had egoaped in a manner almost
• Mitwettleue, This fact ehoWe how 1:tenth
can be done by persons working in union,
without bustle and confluston, or running in
eaoh other's way. Here were inn ment who,
without the idd, et water, au/weeded in say.
ing a building, which, at first eight, almost
all of them had deemed past hepe, In after,
yeam when entirely burnt out hi a disas-
trous Are that (mammon ahnost ad we were
worth in the world, senile four hunched per-
sons were present, with, a flee -engine to se-
cond thetr endeavours,yet all was kilt.
li
ivery pereon seemed n the way : and
though the fire was discovered immediately
after tt took piece, nothing was done beyond
saving some of the furniture.
Our party was too large to be billetted
upon one family, 'Mrs. T— took corn -
passion on Moodie, myself, and the baby,
while their unale received the three children
to his hoepitable home.
It was some weeks before Moodie suct-
weeded in repairing the roof, the intense
cold preventing any one from working in
usoh, an exposed situation,
Tee news of our fire travelled fast and
Wide. I was reported to have done prodigies
• and to have saved the greater .part of our
household geode. before help armed, Re-
duced to plain prose, these prodigies shrink
into the simple, and by no means marvellous
fact, that during the excitement I dragged
out- chests that under ordinary eircumstan-
ces, I could not have n -loved; and that I
was unconscious both of the cold and the
danger to which I was exposed vhile work,
ing under a burning roof, which, had it
fallen, would bean buried both the children
wed myself under its ruins.
These circumstances appeared far more
alarming, as all real danger does, after they
were past. The fright and overexertion
gave ,my health a shock from which I did
not recover for several months, and made
me so fearful of fire, that from that hour it
haune likta me a nightmare. Let the night
be ever so serene, ail stoves must be shut
up, and the hob embers covered with ashes,
beide I dare retire to rest; and the sight
of a burning edifice so common a spectacle
in large towns in Ahis country, makes me
really ill. This feeling was greatly increas-
ed after a second fire when, foresome tor-
turing minutes, a lovely boy, since drowned,
was supposed to have perished in the burn-
ing house.
Our present fire led to a new train of cir-
cumstances, for it was the means of intro-
ducing to Moodie a young Irish gentleman,
who was staying at my brother's house.
John E— was one of the best and gen-
tlest of human beings. His father, a cap.
tain in the army, had died while his family
were quite young, and had left his widow
with scarcely any means beyond the pension
she received at her husband's death, to bring
up and educate a family of five children. A
handsome, showy woman, Mrs. E
soon married again; and the poor lads were
thrown upon the world. The eldest, who
had been educated for the Church, first came
to Canada in the hope of getting some pro-
fessorship in the College, or of opening a
classical school. He was a handsome, gen-
tlemanly, well-educated young man, but
constitute( nally indolent—a natural defect
which seemed common to all the males of
the family, and which was sufficiently in-
dicated by their soft, silky, fair hair and
niulky coinplexions. bad the good
sense to perceive that Canada was not the
country for him. He spent a week under
our roof, and we were much pleased with
his elegant tastes and pursuits; but my
husbancl stoongly advised him to try and
get a situation as a tutor in some family at
home. This he afterwards obtained. •
11e
became tutor and travelling companion to
the young Lord M—, and has since got
an excellent living. 1.
John, who had followed his brother to
Canada without the means of transporting
himself back again, was forced to, remain,
and was workbag with Mr. S -- for his
board He proposed to Moodie working his
farm upon shares ; and, as we were unable
to hire a man, Moodie gladly closed with his
offer; and, during the time he renaained
with us, we had every reason to be pleased
with the arrangement.
It was always a humiliating feeling to our
proud minds, that hirelings should witness
our dreadful struggles with poverty, and
the strange Shifts we wereforced to make in
order to obtain even food. But John E—
had known and experienced all that we had
suffered, in his own person, and was willing
tc share our home, with all its privabions,
Warm-hearted, sincere, and truly affection-
ate—a gentleman in word, thought, and
deed—we found his society and cheerful
help a great comfort. Our odd meals be.
came a subject of merriment, and the pep.
peril -lint and sage tea drank with a better
flavor whan we had one who sympathized
in all our trials, and dined all our tpilanto
partake of it with us.
The whole family stain became attached
to our young friend; and after the work of
the day was over, r. &frently we enjoyed an
hour's fishing on the lake. John E
said that we had no right to murmur, as
long as we had health, a happy home'and
plenty of fresh • fish, milk and potatoes.
Early in May, we received an old Irishwo-
man into our service, who for four years
proved a most faithful and industrious
creature. And what with John E — to
assist my husband on the farm, and old
Jenny to help me to nurse the children, and
manage then house, our affairs, if they were
no better in a pee:apiary point of view, at
least presented a more pleasing aspect at
home. We were alwaya cheerful, and some-
times contented and even happy.
How great was the contrast between the
character of our new inmate and that of Mr.
Malcolm The sufferings of the past year
had bean greatly increased by the intoler.
able nuisance of his company, while many
aditional debts had been contracted in order
to obtain luxuries for him which we never
dreamed of purchasing for ourselves. In.
stead of increasing my domestic toile, John
did all in his power to lessen them; and it
always grieved him to see me iron a shirt,
or wash the least article of (nothing for
him, "You have too nuich to de already;
cannot bear to give yen the least addition.
al work," he would say. And he generally
expreseed the greatest satisfaction at my
method of managina the house, and prepar;
ing our simple fare. The little enters he
Weated with the most affectionate kindle:ism
and gathered the whole flook about his
knees the moment he mine in to his Moab.
On a wet day, wheo no work could be
done abroad, Moodie took up hia flute, or
read aloud to us, while John and I sat down
to work, The young emigrant, early oast
*Upon the world and his own resources, was
an excellent hand at the needle, He would
make or mend a shitt with the greatest pre -
cation and neatness, and out out and inanu-
facture hi rt minima trousere and loobe summer
ooate with as much adroitness as the twat
experienced tailor darn hie •socks, and
mend his boots and ahooe, and often velem,
temect to assist me in knitting the coarse
yarn of the country into soelts for the °bib
dren, while he made them moocasine frorn
the dressed deerskibe that we °inclined from
the Indiatin
Sorepuloursly neat wed clean in his person,
the only thing whith seemed to veins his
melee temper was the dirty work of legging ;
he hated to come in hone the field with his
person read clothes begrimined with charcoal
(mat smoke. Old Jenny used to laugh at
him for not being able to eat hie means with-
out first washing his hande and Moo.
O"oh 1 my dear heert,. yer too pertioular
intirely ; we've ao time In the woods to be
oilmen' She would itsay to him in answer to
his request for soapand a towel, An' is ie
soap yer a wantin, 2 I tell yer that that
same is not to the fere; baring the throuble
of makin', it's little soap that the miethrees
can get to wash the clothes for US and the
°Whiner, widout yer wastid ib in akin'
yer putty skin as white as a leddy's'Do,
darimt, go demi to the lake and washthere;
that basin is big enough, anyhow." And
John would laugh, and go down to the lo,ke
Go wash, in order to appease the wrath of
the old women. John had a great clialike
to cabs, toed even regarded with an evil eye
our old pet cat, Peppermint, who had taken
a great fancy to share his bed and board,
"11 I tolerate our own oat," he would
say, "1 will not put up with such a =b-
anes as your friend Emilie sends use in the
shape ;A her ugly Tom, Vt hy, where in the
world do you think I found thaii beast sleep.
ing last night ?"
1 expressed my ignoranoe.
In our potato -pot. Now, you will agree
with me that potato dreasedwith oat's hair
is not a very nice din:.—The next time
ceteh Master Tom in the potato -pot, I will
kill him."
"John, you are not in earnest. Mrs.
would never forgive any injury done
to Tom, who is a greab favorite,"
"Let her keep him at home, then. Think
of the brute corning a mile through- the
woods to steal from us all he can find, and
then sleeping off the effects of his depreda-
tions in the potato -pot."
I could not help laughing, but 1 begged
John by no meene to ar noy Emilia by hurt-
ing her cat.
The next day while sitting in the parlor
at work, I heard A dreadful squall, and
rushed to the rescue. John was standing,
with a flushed cheek, graeping a large stick
in his hand, and Tom was lying dead at his
feet.
"Oh, the poor cat 1"
"Yea, I have killed him; but I am sorry
for it now. What will Mrs. ----- say 2"
"She Mild not know it. I have told you
the story of the pig that Jacob killed. You
had better bury it with the pig."
John was really sorry for hewing yielded,
in a fit of passion, to do so cruel a thing;
yet a few days after he got into a fresh
zorape with Mrs. —'s autunite.
• The hens were laying up at the barn.
John was very fond of fresh eggs, but settle
strange dog came daily and sucked the eggs.
John had vowed to killed the first dog he
found in the aob. Mr. had a very fine
bull -dog, which he valued very highly;
but with Emilia, Chowder was an especial
favourite. Bitterly had she bemoaned the
few of Torn, and naany were the inquiries
seheemade of us as to his sudden disappear.
ee.
One afternoon John ran into the room.
"My dear Mrs. Moodie, what is Mrs. —'s
dog like 1"
A large ball dog, brindled black and
white." .
"Then, by Jove, I've shot him 1';
" John, John! you mean me to quarrel in
earnest with my friend. How could you do
it?'
"-Why, how the deuce should 1 know her
dog from ano,ther 7. I caught the big thief
in the very act of devouring the eggs from
under your sitting hen, and I shot -him dead
without another thought. But I will bury
him, and shenvIll never find it out a bit more
than she did who killed the cat."
Some time after this, Emilia returned
from a visit at P---. The first thing she
told me was the loss of the dog. She was
so vexed at it, she had had him advertised
offering a reward for his recovery.
I, of couree, was called upon to sympa-
thize with her, whioh Ialid with a very bad
grace. "1• did not like the beast," I said;
"he was cross and fierce, and I was afraid to
go up to her house while he was there."
" Yes; but to lose it so. • It is so prove k
ing; and him such a valuable animal.
could not tell how deeply she felt the loss.
She would give four dollars to find out who
had stolen him'
How near she came to making the grand
discovery the sequel will show.
Instead of burying him with the mur-
dered pig and eat, John had scratched a
shallow grave in the garden, and concealed
the dead brute.
After tea, Braille, requested to look at the'
garden; and I, perfeoblee unconscious thab it
contained the remains of the murdered Chow-
der, led the way. Mrs. —, whilst gather-
ing ahandful of fine green -peas, suddenly
stooped, and looking earnestly at the ground,
called to me.
(to BE CONTINUED.)
• Bill of Particulars -
Good Minister (a married -man)—" Do you
wish to marry this woman?"
Man—" I do."
ltefigster—n Do you wish to marry thi
mas
Woman—"I do."
Minister—" Do you like the city as a place
of residence
Man—" No, I prefer the suburbs:2"
Woman—" No indeed, I prefer the city."
• Minister—" No,
you a vegetarian in
diet 2"
Man—" No ; I hate vegetablee. I live on
beef."
Woman—" I can't bear meat. I am a
vegetarian."
Minister--" Do you like a snooping room
well ventilated."
Man—."Yes; I want the window way
down, Bummer and winter."
Minister--" Do you like so much fresh
air?"
Woman—" No; it would kill me. I want
all windowclosed."
Minister—" 13o yen like a light in the
room?"
Mau—No; can't sleep with a light; want
the room dark."
Minister—" Aro you afraid in the dark 2"
Woman—" Indeed I an. I have always
had a bright light in my room."
Itfinister—"Doyonlikeenany bed -clothes?"
. Man—," All I oan pile on."
Minister—" Do you?"
Woman—." 1o; they suffocate me."
Minister—" I hereby pronounce you man
and wife, and may the Lord have mercy on
your seals,"
A well-known lawyer of San Diego, Cal.,
while in A barber's chair turned stun:100y
to speak to hie friend ; and a piece of his
wee ware sliced off.
A big -horned owl attacked a rooster near
Hawkinsville. Ga,, and was preparing to
make off with it when a farina, appeared
with his dog. The owl thereupon turned
Ins sole attention to the dog. A. desperate,
streggle ensued, but the dog dame out vie.
torunia, killing the owland then eating Wart
of it.
YOUITC+ FOLKS.
My Unele Peter.
My old Uncle Peter's a famous relater
O merveloue etories ; but my Chine Peter
le a vigorous foe and a rigorous hater
Of wile and of, guile; he deepiees a
cheater
hank and sincere on a eery largo
scale,
And this is his manner of telling a tale :
"Oh, once in the chivalric: days of old,
In the wonderful long ago,
There dwelt a Giant full bad and bold
(But this is not fact, you know)— '
in whose darksome dungeon a maiden fair,
Viihom etrociously he had stole;
She languished and wept (to be candid,
there
Was no such a girl, nor hole).
"But, lo! on a rapturous morn there rode
A valorous Knight that way;
Hie allOViry palfrey he brave bestrode
(Don't credit this fiotion, pray),
And straight he sprang front the noble aced;
His sword it gleamed in the sun,
And the dragon that guarded the gate (a
deed
Whiten he could by no means have done)
"He felled at a blow, and with mighty force
He battered the dungeon wall,
And he seized the sorrowing maid ! (of
course
11 never transpired at an)—
And he slew the Giant, the dauntless youth,
And the beauteous maid he wed
(But you mustn't imagine a grain of truth
In a single word that I've said)."
Oh, ray old Uncle Peter's a famous relabel*!
But I 'Wish, goodness me! that • my old
Uncle Peter
Could be rather more of a prevaricator—
Ilis stories would be more absorbing and
neaten;•
wieh his integrity didn't prevail
In so stern a degree—when he's telling a
tale.
Sr.• NICHOtAS.
Nettie'e Visit to a Cheese Faotorn-
" What shall we do tomorrow ?" asked
Nettie.
"Perhaps we'd better say in the house
and get reeted," suggested papa, wickedly.
"You might make a square for your quilt,
Nettie," added mamma, a tremor of laughter
in her voice.
Nettie dropped her knife and fork with a
wail of diemay and looked in astonishment
and distreris Trona her father to her mother
and back again. Her father's hearty laugh
reaasured her, and with a great sigh of re.
liefehe picked up her fork and resumed her
neglected supper. •
• Six-yestr,old Nettie, with her father and,
mother, had come to the country for two
weeks' outdoor pleasure. They were not
stopping at a hotel in town, but at a farm-
house about two and a half miles oub, and
Nettie was wild with delight. She was up
with the birds in the morning, caressing the
kittens, playing tagwith the dog, watching
the milking and flying like a butterfly all
over the place. After breakfast she would
go with her father back of the wood -wile,
where, eoratching vigorously in the black
earth, she imagined that she helped him dig
bait. The truth was, however, that she al-
wayswereamediand rein away as soon as his
spade brought up the angle-we/ins. Then
she would wait at the gate till papa and
mamma were ready and brudge after them
to beautiful Silver Lake, where, anehored
in a row -boat, they would spend the morn-
ing fishing. If Nettie was BO tortunate as to
catch a tiny perch you may be sure that
she thought nothing ever had tasted half so
good as thab same little fish, when It was
brought to her fried brown and crisp for
her breakfast.
Then oame the long delightful drives in
the afternoons down the winding roads,
past the lovely lakes, myna seeming more
beautiful than the one just left behind;
back again in time for Nettie to :hunt the
eggs before tea. Then, after almost nod-
ding at the tea table, she would go away
to pleasant dreams and an early awaken-
ing the next morning. She wished that it.
could last forever, and papa and mamma
almost wished so too.
"'You mustn't eat any more cheese to-
night, Nettie. " Nettie regretfully drew
back her hand from the large piece she was
going to take. She liked few things better,
"flow would you like to see cheese made,
Nettie ?" asked Mrs. Brown, with whom they
boarded.
"0, how nice that would be!" cried Net-
tie, and papa and mamma both asked,
" Where? ' '
"Haven't you noticed that large barn.
like building with BQ many windows, that
you pass in going to Silver 'eke 2 That's
the cheese factory. AU the farmers amend
here send their milk there and ib is made
into cheese every day."
"We'll go to -morrow," said papa.
So the nexb morning, instead of digging
bait, • Nettie popped her inquisitive little
head into the open door of the cheese fac-
tory. They were surprised to find only one
man at work and that he made five cheeses
in a day. He told them that .during the
busy season another man worked there, too,
and together they made ten a day. He was
very hospitable— nide lonely cheese-man—
and seemecnglad to tell them all e.bout hie
interesting work. After cerefullw wiping
their shoes they stepped on his shining floor'
which was even cleaner than Bridget's n the
i
kitchen at home. Mamma said it was clean
enoweih to eat off of. He was a wonderfully
neat housekeeper and always washed each
utensil as soon as he finished using it. On a
high platform at the end, with doorsepening
into the cheese factory and othersopening
out to the road, stood the wanes, for all the
milk is bought by the pound, not by the
quart or gallon. In front of this platform
stood a large tank two thixde full of 'milk
and cream, mixed with a little coloring mat-
ter te give the eheeee its rich, attractive
yellow. Steam pipes were under the tank
and kept the tenmerattere up to ninety-eight
4g HOT much milk is in the tank 2" asked
palta-
•
" Three theusand, pounds," answered the
cheese -man.
"Three thousand pounds 1" exclaimed
papa. " Nettie, do you know that the milk
weighs as much as a ton and a half of coal ?"
Nettie opened her ego very wide and be-
gan to VI7otaer how ltieg it would take her
to drink that meth milk, and if ehe would
Weigh throe thousand pounda wlten she got
through. ,
"It's ready to out now,» said the cheese-
tnan, and he got his lenife,iwhich didn't look
the least like a knife, but like a beefeteak
broiler, or one of the skeleton ahelves in a
refrigerator. Thin he drew slowly through
the milk, Which the heat had made, as thick
as custard. Back Mad forth he Walked till
it had been mit one way. Then he cut it
across like go many white caramels. Then
up and down, then across again till Nettie
thought it was altnoet as much out up as
hags.
kr?istmtrauFwalaitetT04:1,t_e___.5000,02w1_,,i,nalrrimmatoataven._
"The cheese will not be ready to preas
until about one o'clock," ;said the cheese.
man, "Tlie curet has to be subjected to the
heat awhile longer and I dreg the knife
• through fregnently, SO that it won't atiok to
the bottom,'
"411 right," papa replied, "We'll go
fitObsiouegtahwe loiht0No ;It4:1Z then "me 15"k
Hud in hand they went down the shady
road, Nettie prattling eagerly about the
cheeme making, and telliog her father about
the pretty litble etriped gopher bleat had
Walked in the witalew and then darted off
like a flash when she turned her head.
"1 do wieh no; could catch a nice etring
of fish this morning," she exclaimed, ocitteez.
ing her man fiegers, " and give them an;
every one, to the °tweet -man.'
"Quite a good idea, little daughter," said
papa,*srailing,,
;Toy for Nettie, sorrow for the Wien. The
little swimmers greedily caught at the bait
and when noon came Nettie's string was
heavy that papa had to carry it to the &dory
fer her. Nettie wan so allICIOUS tokeep her
1 o'clock engagement that papa could hardly
persuade her to eat her dinner, and she same
tumbling into the factory, (mite breathless,
five minutes ahead of time.
, The mill- was now very much curdled
and a light yellow: The man adjusted a
trough so that one end WAS by tbe tank, the
other over a emall sink. This slink had is
pipe throtigh which the whey flowed into a
eiatern.' The farmers pumped it out for
their hogs, these animate being especially
fond of it. The cheese man now drew the
whey off by means of a bent tube, with one
end in the tank, the other in the trough.
When es much as possible bad been drained
in this way, he, using a large tin peril emp-
tied the curd and remainieg whey Into a
tank which had down the middle a little
gully covered with finely pereorated tin,
also connecting with a trough. The whey
could drain thrcugh this without wasting
any curd. With sleeves rolled up he then
kneaded and worked it much herder, Nettie
thought, than Bridget ever kneaded dough.
He worked it this way until the curd was
•almost dry. Then sprinkling salt over
until it looked as if it had been out in a
snowstorm, he kneaded it again until the
salt was :nixed all through and the curd
was as dry as poesible. He then put it
into the molds. • These were large tin
cylinders novered with cheese -cloth and
placed within large iron oelinders standing
in a now on thick, strong boards. When
full the tin cylinders were gently drawn out,
leaving the cheese -cloth next to the curd.
The top of the mold was put on and the
press screwed down as tight as the cheese.
wain could make it.
"Now he said "1 shall leave them that
way sixteen or eighteen hours. You see,
little girl, tbe 3.000 pounds of milk made
five eixtenpound cheeses ten pounds of milk
making one pound of clieeite."
Nettie sighed ; the figurer, puzzled her.
"How long do you keep them before mar-
keting 2" asked papa.
"Well, that depends somewbat upon the
demand. They aro fit for shipment, how-
ever, in fifteen days. • Woteln you like to see
those up stairs that are finished ?" he asked,
turning again to Nettie."
" Oh, yes, indeed 1"
So they mounted the steep, narrow steps
and saw 200 like huge lumps of gold ar-
ranged in orderly rows along the shelves.
"Oh, my 1 Oh, my 1 was all that Nettie
could say. ,
She was very quiet as she walked away
holding papa's hand, but presently he Bald,
," What is my little cheese -eater thinking
about 2"
"Why," said Nettie, deliberately, as if
weighing every word, " manuna thinks I
eat too much cheese, I guess if she saw all
those she wouldn't think I eat so very much.
Why I never ate all of even one Beside,
she said I wouldn't want %ley more if 1 saw
it made, but I do. 1 shall like it better
than ever now that I have seen it all and
know how nice and clean ib is.'
Be Ootartemig, Boys,
"1 treat him as well as he treats me,"
said Hal.
kits mother had just reproached him be-
cause he did not attempt to amuse or enter-
tain a boy friend who had gone home.
"1 often go there and he doesn't notice
me," said Hal again.
"Do you enjoy that?"
"Oh, I don't mind 1 don't stay long.'
• " I should call myeelf a very selfish person
if persons ceme to see me and I should pay
no attention to them." .
Well, that's different; you're grown
"Then you really think that politenesr
and courtesy are not needed among boys ?"
Hal, thus pressed, said he didn't exaetly
mean that ; but hie father, who had listened,
now spoke :
" A boy or a man who measures his treat-
ment of others by their treatment of him
has no character of his own. He will never
be kind, or generous, or Christian. If he is
to be noble, no other boy's meanness witl
change his nature." And very earnestly the
father added: "Remember this, my boy,
you lower your own self every titn'e you are
guilty of an unworthy action because some
one else is. Be true to your best self, and
no boy can drag you down."
Georgia is to have an immigration bu-
reau to encourage immigration tothe State
of induetrious and intelligent farmers and
mechanics.
The October mortality statistics make a
very good showing for Toronto. The deaths
were 177 against 409111 Montreal, being, per
e,000, 13,93 and 25,95 on population's cal-
culated at 120.000 and 186000 Tespecbively.
The zymotic rate in Toronto was but 2.36
against 5 58 in Montreal, 8.48 in Brantford,
13.00 in Hull, 8 67 in St. Sohn, 9.07 in Win-
nipeg, 3 62 in Buffalo, 8.9 in Cleveland, 3.00
in Detroit. Only one large American city
made as good a showing as Toronto, and that
waehteN.Y.i
enieville;
TMorning Post" hare come to
the conelusion that the Sackville incident
will bring about a good thing for the tame
of the American people in foreign countries
if It should in any Way lead to a total aboli-
tion of the foreign diplomatic, service of the
United States. It seye that as a rule Amer,
can diploma° repreeentatinme btieg dire
oredib on the Obuntry, foreignera who
,being
able to understand that those who receive
the hppointmente do not represent the
American social life in its best events. The
"Pot ft may perhaps go too far in its evveep-
ing condemnation, but •there has been, it
will be admitted, good ground in the paat
for the statement that disgrace has often
been brought upon American civilization by
the conduct of U. S. diplomats at foreign
capitals, All this disousemm of the subject
has been caused by Lord Saliaburyne delay
m appointing a successor to Lord Sackville,
but as the latter was so discourteously die -
mined from Waehington, it might be told
In Gilbertian tangling° that the "punishment
fita the crimei" or, in other wordm that the
item:Am:I of the Britihh Government ie a fit.
ring telnike fot the offence against inter
national etiqUette committed by the preseht
X.T. 5, Adminiettationn
ThetUalladlina
We have On much genuine admiretion fon
the " Canadlan Girr as anybody min have,
and we yield nothing to man or Woman in
or readiness to acknowledge the mony and
endearing qualities by whieh the "Cenecliten
Girl" is penmen. But this does not hinder
us from seeing when well meaning, vieltoree
in all sinoerity nouletleae, but not with per-
fect judgment neverthelees, indulge them-
sehree with romaucing on that interesting
eubjetit. The "Inverneete Courter" for ex-
ample has been saying, or rether Annie
Swan, the authoress, has been eeyieg some
things in the "Invernese Courier' about the
"Canadian a irl ' which are flatteriug eneugh
to make her look blunted; ridiculous.
aim is "bright, quick, clever, selfweliant and
wholly womanly," is as tine as it is delight-,
fully expressed ; but that "ho can dilemma
the latest phase of philoseitywand ecienop,
or write a pungent critiathe on "Robert
Eimer° " just as easily as she can bake her
bread, or rase her pia crust," is hensenee,
pure and sinnple, and the average level-
headed Canadian girl will be as ready asany
one teneknowtedge it. Here and theft), you
may find a ram avis who would fit the des-
oription, just as in America or Great Bri-
tain; you pan do so ; bub to assert that the
vaerage girl or yomig VVOMati in tbis Domin-
ion, and that, of course, is what must be
meant tit, the "Canadian girl coneidered
as a typo, is such a paragoa of literary and
scientific onumen as well as skilled, house-
wivery, is plein and shuple naceteshine and
nothing clan Annie Swan" Was staying
in Toronto for a time, it ;mem% aud formed a.
bigh opinion as to the excellennies and abun-
deuce of the " sweat girl graduate" in our
midst, her grourdwork of fact from which
sho drew her conclusiens haviug been that
• there were three representatives of the
" sweet" aforesaid stoppirg in the same
boarding house with her. That the beat
specimen of tlae Canadian girl has "eli her
facultiess developed; her intelleot and heart
in the right plane and not antagoniseit
to each other," is readily acknowledged, be -
amuse it is the truth. We are also per.
featly ready to accept "Annie ,Swan's"
dictum when she Bays that "tbe converse, -
tion of educated women" in Canada is "on
a higher plane than in Scotland ;" buts we
must firmly though politely refuse to follow
her, to such traineendental heights as to
artsert that "Gossip is tabooed, and the ser-
vant question never comes up." That is
"taffy ore a stick" with a -vengeance, and we
can readily imagine what eyes of astonish-
ment the, "sweet girl greduates " would '
make on reading such a statement. Our
girls are good, sweet, healthy, eensible
daughters ef mother Eve, but that they neve',
gossip or bring up the touvant gub qua.
'hien, must be told to the matinee.
Gen. Itarrison's Capture.
Ex•Congressman H. Ge Burleigh, of
Whitehall, tells a good tater , of Harrison,
which goes to sliow that thed resident -erect
is not so much oi an iceberg as he has been
painted. -Several years ago a dinner party
was given at Washington, at which Senators
Harrtson, • Palmer, of Michigan, Warner.
Miller, Congressman Burleigb, andneveralt
other public men were present, nearly all
of whom wer e accompanied ley. tJieir evivea.
Mr. Churchill, of Gloveravilli, and his
daughter — a young woman Ai, engaging
mannere, inental brightness, and rare per --
tonal beauty—were also among tbe guests.
11 80 happened that Miss Churchill was the,
only unmarried person present, and to
wards the close ot the repast shebecame
the subject of animated conversation, each
statesman humorously claiming her as- hie
own, while she dettly declined to manifest
any choice. Gon. Harrison expreesed hit
determination to have a hand in thematter
and said he felt sure of his precedence in
Miss Churchill's affections. In the centre
Jf the table there was a very rich, large,
toed elaborate fruit cake, quartered, and in
each quarter a peacock feather Was insert-
ed. Suddenly Gen. Harrison jumped up,
pulled the feathers from the cake, ran
around" the table to Mies Churehill's seat,
and, sticking the featherstin her hair, threw
his arms around her and cried out, "I've
got the girl, anyway; she's mine." There
was an outburst of laughter and the whole
company good.humoredly aaknowledgd that
the General had fairly won the prize.—[Troy
Press.
• The Empress'Eugenie at Windsor,
The Empress Eugenie is about to 'leave
England for Amsterdam, where sheiis t
undergo her usual annual course of treatmen
by Dr. Metzger, of that city, nreaphysicia
are vainly trying to persuade her to take up
her residence in some climate lees perniciou
to her health than that of England. But
the poor lady 'Clings to the land that holds
the tombs of her husband and her son, and
refusal to hearken to their injuuctionai
Neither will she obey their behests eo far as
to try to distract her mind by any form of
a,musement. She, once the brilliant leader
of the gayest society in the world, now leads
a life of the stiotest seclusion never going
even to an opera or a concert, and shrink- '
ing from the simplest forme of tiociae
enjoynaent. • During a recent visit that
she paid to the Queen at Windsor, the Prin-
cess Beatrice arranged a little surprise for her
guest, and after dinner one eVening the com-
edy of "Lolette" was given in French on an
improvised stage. The Empress sat out the
performance, lout the next thine she wan in-
vited to Windlier she said imploringly to the
Princess: "No more private theatricals, dear
friend, I beg of. you." It is hard to realize
such a chnnge in her whose life used to
one unceasing round of toilettes and festivals
and gaye by of all kinds, and who set the fash-
ion for the most extravagant styles ef drese-
ing and entertaining that the world' has
known for a century.
"Back George's" Family.
There died in Russia the other day Prince
Inarageorgevitoh, brother of the pretender to
the Servian throne to whoni he left a for-
tune. no family is an inetirico of rapid
rise in the world. " Black.Goorge," a Ser
vian swineherd, led the rebellion again
Turkey in 1804, and establiehed the in-
dependence ot the country, after three and
half centuriee of subjugation. He became
diotater, and ruled wisely entil 1813, when
the Turks overthrew his government, and
for two years after leterbarously oppreseed
the Servio,ns. Then Milosch Obrenovitcha
of an old princely family, arose and led his.
people to victory, eatablishing the t'dynanty
now represented by Milan, who was made
king instead of prince by the Berlin treatP
of 1878, For sixteen years, however, be-
tween 1842 and 1858, Alexander aarageorge.
vitch, son of Kara, or Black George, *ate the
reigning prince, and was cleitdsed because
•he won too subservient to Turkey. Ale -
ander lived until 1886, and was 79 years olt
at hie death. Peter, his eldest
been plotting to overthrow Milan since -18
and Was in alliance with Turkey during
&WM-Turkish war.—[Springfield Repel:11i
can,
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evening wear, (extremely beeoneing t� resp
blondea.
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