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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1890-1-23, Page 3LOVE AND PERIL A Story of the %Ufa;lieu North • West, RY TUE 1114111QVIS 14010114, OH/11'DM III. "Dear Ine, what ari aogel Elooehlea 1.1," I ueed toeity to myself to I stretched myself on the &twig matron' before the fie she had kindled, and helped myeelf to the nice rose steak of venison or the emaking fish the had prepared. And thus time passen, and I felt no thelination to regrets thae I (lid not heripCbristmair that year at home lathe far off east The bleze of the pine loge it up for me Ohrietmes Trees in the wild forest whichseemed to me fairer then Any I had helped to delight tbe children with et home. Our candlee amid the branches were only the spoke weeding fitfully and dYluri in the green bought', through which every here and shoe toward the outer fripitee peeped the stare of the oleo treaty lemmas, hay lodge of ceder and aoruce berk, hong around a stitch of eturely young tree plea, we M3 tame and good a9. any in the centre I had A store of awoken deli an:1. venison stripe for all contingenolee. 1 had deerakine, and fare from the bodiee of riome bears we had elaughtered, beautifutly cured by Eiceoehke: and OU thee 1 04 ma mow the pip ot contentment, Then CAM eateoglemente of a yet mode formideble character. I had gene with two Indians on a huntiug expeditlen. Oae of these moo was a neoliled ed.:Wirer of Memel,. ha, aua although she aeon:mato give bine no etwouragenteut he bed Item looked upon as her effigieed hue:bend, Tide worthy perm bravo naturally dielikal Me. end I law him snlleny eoetempletiug me often euough. ile and the other had been no Photo of =leo me compote= that den, but 1 bed Muted with a ride, and they heel followed the eaMe peth I had tattoo. After a while, In a thiekee of cedar, we came upon Waco of mom Bo tide limo the illellepoted heltetese, Eieoehtettifelend, only watt with me. The ether man had diverged from- um and we had not teen him for time hours or more. I had not expected to Iowa much apart and had only taken three outrldgee with me loom in my pocket. In following the game I stumblen more than oncee mad it meet baVe beim theo theta 1 lot them spree eer- tridgen But nay ride was leaded, and look. ing valet the boughs heavily laden with seow, I head a reale and sew * dark object Inc a moment I raised roy ride and fired, end struggling through the denim and anew - laden boughs of everareen I CUM On blood market and eagerly traoked them. In about bait An hour I came up to a dee butt moose, whom borne were stone at drat vielble, for the animd was lying down in A little gully. I Mopped for a moment to reetnerge my mile, and found to my cointeruation thet my few ewe cartridges were gone. I pulled out my ladle and embed on, aud as 1 did eo end when near the 1,0004e he regained his lege, lowered his head and obarged like a Speedo buli. I lesped on ouit aide, tui te0 li4te to avoid e sweep of hie breed anttere, which wounded me in the leg mei threw nut oLt ono cao. Bae it was tale ime tff wt. He reeled and fell, and I found that my bullet had been well planten behind the shoulder. I shouted to the Indian, but he was not where to be seen I now felt my leg very rebid, and 1 dragged.myself with de:tufty 'ots of the gully, shouted sole thromth the %dos of the woods. There Vitae no answer. gni:thee the Indiaidwas watching me or not, never knew. I felt the greatst distrust Mistime. I don't think I ahould bawl inded itioshkide merging some Indian at s period, but I eartionly did dislike very auch the Hee of her marriage with Mistusu. ow, however, 1 thought intle of Kloothka I I duetted again Inc Ntistuau. I certain - nisi not carry eff any meat from the se without him, and I doubted, ao great the pin in mo leg, which was now, ehollen end bluce if could gat home without n intro. It was no 33ke to bo benighted in this lams monition ana I shouted and ahou'el again. There was no reply. Fortunately I had matches with me. I felt in my pockets for them, and they were there, all right. This relieved me of any vary serious appre- hension, for I thought that I. could eurely make my way back slowly, and I should not perish with the cold. A fire could always be made, and Kionlika or the old man would end men on our track. But time was Blipping an and 1 determin- ed to make the most of whet daylight re- mained. But my progress was pitiful slow, and the pain was eo greet that I found Iwas sweating as if in the tropics with the exertion of hobbling brook on the track I had so swiftly made in the morning. At lasb I could bear ib no longer. I exerted my re- maining powers of locomotion to get material for a fire, which I accomplished with much trouble, and lay down before my little pile of wood and husbanding it cartoully,ocraped away the saow and lib a eneall fire, keeping the remainder to prevenb its dying out. My sleep was very broken, my wounded leg hutting me gooier. Ais soon as ib wee dawn I °rept on and when nearly exhaneted saw t,c! my joy Kite:shim, with some of her people coming toward me. They lifted me and bore me back to camp, where Eloostika became my ministering angel. My hurt wae much in- flamed, and she came to me with a white decoction of some epodes of bark, and made signet to me to bathei it. Never was there a more effective lotion. But movement was evidently impossible for some time. The horns of the powerful animal had torn bhe mueolee and piney's, and some time must elapse before the limb could get whole. r:e white medicine had alleviated the nein, and nature would do the rest in time. Igroaned in biterneas of spirit at this. the end of my sparUng expedition. But Ktooshita seemed no means unhappy. I asked after Alin •en, but my nurse only shook her head. One morning the back doorway was darkened by an uncouth figure, the form of an Indian medicine man, "got up," as we would say, "in full canonloale." He had memo to heal me, I supposed, but I was weak and nervous, and this hideous figure stemmed to me a nightmare. On ite head were two horns and a string of feathers depended from them around his head and breast. His face was concealed by a mask of some kind of white fur, leaving little visible. A white equirrel or some small animal had been usee for thin purpose ; and there were odd tage of all eorto of Moth and beads and feathers all about the figure, which came danoleg and gibbering up to where I was lying, bending over me and =klieg Orange. moantatIone. He taloa my head and put something to my month, and, although I had no doubt; the motion was well meanb, I had ebrength enough to dash away the ill smelling duff which had been held nailer my nostrils—and then I looked at the bedizzened face, and I thought • ,T reengnized Mistime I I called aloud and $fooslika entered. As eon as she saw the figure she rata to us and uttering cries, and what eeemed to me to be energetio but still ladylike imprecations she pushed the figure aside and followed 14 with meledictiere as it dls appeared again through the doorway. ger anxiety about me was evident,. She ploked op the birch cup that had been pre. seated to me, single ite and turned it round and then -went to the door aid threw ib and with signs audit great overflow of words mole me unelerstend that I was to have nothing to do with in I mid "Ististesur and she nodded and jabbered. With a volubility that astonlemi me, for I haa never seen her yield to exeitemene before. Whether I WAS right or wrong I know not, but I imagined she had wed my life. and I took her hand and drew her tonead me and Mood her, feeble as I was. " And thereafter she rimmed to be incessantly watchteg over me. She Allowed noon:" but heron' to see me, and tended me with the jialoney of a evemut and the devotion of a friend 1 conteee that I found myself long- ing for her preseece and fretful at her abeenee, My limb became lem eerielble of Re injury, euil I walked a little, audeet try- ing to uteke litkeiehke uoderetatid my mix lore of Oro eed Euglieh. I been to think thet life with her in the woo& would be very tolerable, but thence= the recolleotiou of merrlegee which bad been made by white member of one of the Toronto militie regl, eezorose roaTritob. zahi, liagot 144 moo. ; Shat roleohiet wax meant. Already 40nle et enleaintagos with poor Kiemeake or having She Ietliane bad joined their hedf-breen king. b ea "In et the deeth' of fdietunt --thT Y. Herald. 1 bad been for some ORM en enthUsies'ic MOUtD. We were ordered up to "the front,' ' Banucas 1 ' - as we already called the Beene of the im, ptbelesdrougrutreyouirbolme. 1Baubti bitsodwiadstiffuenraoeurttawkea: on men name, evaiewzo. to the Northween Now we were regularly Glo a Seot.thrriasa a guid Dog et' Orates "aUtraine" in the splendid cars of the Cana, WV intik jean eeve drama free the coo' eee mune mole toe guy et wino/peg. mow -But tale them, med. then emech hie moot! growo into a dee town, and very diffsrene cnonoh from the tumbied down village I remember. ed. Tb" greateet heartiness was 4hown by Bream perritch, keit, haggis, se' batmooks, the trope. At theb time there were scene -KT 4r: 41114%44 abn44 eurnP4re I brealte en the due worth of Tetke Superior, 4''Vlsb*""ileh'7411keeaar Q444444°' and, we had to relarth a bit through dieagree Coulee reek' Kith a gran' bill o' fere! algel 8104 /34057 and ioo, fOr tho oPriog. iv" Guid ponitch for weans itt sae bealtbY. coming. Notbiog could diecourage tor a to ozekie them m.o.', atter/. fee. AU' Wear unnnent the high !spirits of mar men Tien was hater p lets ar4 aye 'Mang the Weilthy, male very apparent when we left the ran Tetley eel: what wed sicken an cell and began a very tedione and toileoree moot: over the trail I had years before peeved over 011oatis —" Broom psaritcb, kali," eto. in midwinter with ray dog team. The food A • was often Iwamoto:It, and the hothehipe ret ts_see Dice sie Someh, keit, from veld and wet great. But oewerd we ee..-"e4.14"4244' °°* "traP3' 411'. leek8; went, ell longing to be doing what we could -adt4ran m84 T't! ta',"7 an' hala— et gum * tee year withotie ba crake tojeetify the proud name of the Cute:Han 131134thite the Pate haat', after erriviore in Cuohne:—" Bream prieriteh, hail," etc, the neigltherizeoh of the south branch a !he Bet the haggis is king o' the table, nultetchewan were turned toward weteetew A Seatehmenh netiet tootbful delight, O name scoo to become only too famoue for By dining on thet ia able the desperete tight which took piece then, To rewtch eny ewe iP fielet hiett New° Rmiway, and we teethed with, Ferh yetilho coo hen tura tree hie noon between Our Men and the COOmy, who were crews hew wroth hethineet aethe ete. la numbere not inferher and had all the an- ventegee of 'mitten. I wee one of A emelt, Wien Relying for mune in Glen Sanuox, or forge which wale directed further to the Aide& a whoa steam on my knee*, weet to pr.i.venf, a numbee et Crew: end others Whene weeter than compile' oat henpeck from jetoug the rebels, An' eatiag a wimps ed geld obeete men Isiah tecliee demonellee, mad hove I iArittinFOrp Wan again reecho:I, tut we chews eeeei Breen, Ekt rrita, heti etc. bed 41W4ye eeeP, thet the mee eeemed to denterel to the wornann level rather then feea4 it in vitae. It 114 been burned by the women be elevated to the manti, To bo the enemy. How !twinge 10 seemed to ton Bre , anitch, hail, leagele, au' banneolue to be bore again, with a aturther of rod tune, there orere exeeptione, aed was it not only beouse the nom had not given the WeruSti A fair chum) that abe had net proved? Why ehould am and. how could elm improve tioleeli the livea with white emeeple. In the came I had Ituowo the man had lived Mmoet entirely with, the Indiene, or at letost by himself with hie Indien wife. Yet I had known men happy eueugh, although they were men as well educe-M(14e I ware "remember seeing A white beby in A lodge, and rondos whose, It was, and had found it belonged to a young ermineer from Gaol° who had loaded a dee looking eque.w. "Thee babta bell Nun awl halt engineer," was the obearvatiou, and Mr*. Ere *timer munch a happy enough wife. "fleeter fit ty yearn of Europe than a cycle of Cathay," demoted to zee eel?, but Coedit might be better than old Europa and Cathay put to - gather. Oh, Kioothke, how weekly luau, even though he be A Toronto %weer 1 Mean while, the ouiy deehled aropeeltion I merle to her VOW that she ghoul(' come to put A Vantillork line (10Arx3 the poling of her heir, for this she was apt to do when she &aired to pleat* me mow, As well as 4 little red love rouge on her cheeke. Ast 1 id not like Oil rather hert her, I for, but I thouebe her appearanee decidehly improved without the vermilion, She rumor wore it after I had shown her I liked her bulb with au e ite Thcro was nothing elm that WU artifithil about her. She never wore a birene cage le tho amell of her back, as do the Toronto belies, our did she over comb her fine Meek hair over in old meanie to make a glossy bunch ot the back as her head. All round the was netural and well shaped, and, as I thought, a very deo little girl. Her teeth were positively beettiful. This nobody could deny, Her voice was pleases*. Her expression attuning. Her helpful:test moat laudable. Her dependence on my approbation was most fiettering, and as 1 thought also, most natural. She could quickly be intughe anything—of this I WAD positive. One den. I made her put up her flair in our fanhion, and certainty elle loeked very wail, 1 told her 80 10 nay beet Gres, and the WAS Onehantod. Oh, those pleasson days, how eon to be masa 1 ()ogre, awl with. A intermit) greet mough, as we bellowed, airry ell before it. But want ef reg -alar euppliee inked told to aeme extent en the Men. aed we =oohed en. Cuonos t -t" Bowe, parritch, keilt" eto. grerablieg hut reeolutmentil another stook- aded fort on the r:ver, owed Thee gio us nor daiety Sooteh was molted Here we teems coreferreble Well honour the mild muckle pat! enough. The long, ewedilog lino of the Far ilotry pies wort) 00 c4114., bare prairle looked cheerleee eitoegh, but Satteb, celleum are no built wi Omni] there was the greet eliellew 'trot= sail Toll. . Wee leek' le3u conmannivee grow fat, Theogh they'd eleep oe at aloha in Wa- rnecke, They'd nehe be A hit want o' that 1 She told me one evening that the had sea a deer clone to the camp, 'Would 1 like to come and kill 01" Yes, 1 was quite well and willing enough, and we were eft wend- ing our way cautiouely and slowly aud as noiselessly as possible. We had gob deep into the woods when the deer was shown to me by her. I fired, and she and I ran for- ward 50 550 dying deer. As we were stand ing :dose together over the body she took my hand in hers and mid, eiruply, "Sake in the bluthwood. Mem" "I love you." What could I do 11 While I was watching a severe contest) ou kissed her. The =xi, moment—"Sm-e-s-t— my left I heard some one about "Leek out thud," an arrow shot just over roy eltoulder there—look at those fellows!" and I saw a and struck her 5011 10 the chest. She gave party of many Indians in the busk close to one long cry and fell. waa frentic. Tarn- us. They came quiekly, making a rusk for ing sharp round I fired desperately into the the Getting. In an instant Short, with his bob, where I imagined the enemy to be, revolver and sword drawn, had meted us to pollThen I fieng myself down by her side. To him, and following hire we ruehed at the one the arrow seemed imporesible and enemy, remember seeing Shorns light neelese. There it was inibedded in her forage cep lifted on his heed by a shot that heart. The next, moment she had drawee passed through it, and then I sem him hand her last breath. to hand with the Indiana 'heating one and I rushed back to camp and loudly, furl- running for another, who fixed at him, but onely seemed Inatome, for 1 felt sure it 'was aliened. The Indian fele a war whoop on he who had allot at me and had killed her his lipe. We fired and fired, and the enemy All was consternation, but the old zhief and headmen were oalm and silent. I led them to the body. Where was Mistime ? I demanded him -1 swore bo kill him. I know not what I said, for I raved. We bore her back to camp. I felt heartbroken. Medusa had disappeared. Woo betide him if I met him again. I min.(' nob stay in that plaoe anymore. I journeyed hurriedly to Cerlton Fort, and there bidding goodby with tears to the two lathing who accompanied me, and to whom I fell; as to dear brothers, I took a dog team. Travelling as fasb as these could take me by. the known route to Porbage la Prairie and Fort Garry,I arrived, worn era and harassed in mind and body, at that place. wag nob bill the spring had again clothed the plains around with grass and the lakes were again alive wibh wild fowl thab I thought of proceeding eastward. But at lash I made up my mind to plunge again into my old life, and found my Toren - bo friends greeting me as if I had only just left them. Yet co me years seemed to have passed. Many years did pass before fate again called me from my busy avocations in Our Queen City. ' Bat there mune again a time that recalled to me all the bitterness of the days whose dory 1 have narrated. leg pest na iti the awe; bellow had mop- °times perritch, eta. ed for Rolf deriag the ROMA of ogee in the gruel end alluvial made of the pleine. A zvec altreya reekee lendseepo more inter- The Wile Of the mi .i entlom Here, tom on the Bette River, I would not imam to the wind to deer with* jolne at this pleoe the Seaketchewen, If I cituld abut my eau natant ite num, wee a village among poplar groves. Title munnurouti monotone; had beat looted by the Iodinate who, we It is uot winter in my hurt, I say, were sesered, bad Mimi* the weepth. Why liette then to January's ley! Well, they sheuld Woe a taste of our lead and steel 1 Wo bad with us men of the But 0, Its throody velli importuote Mouuted reliee—a salient nape -- well dull &Amor to be hood. Sing haw I w 1 MOUnied And am:Monied to Whin mention, „ Ite voice will net be Mille whether hostile or friendly. De had the aiat weirdlY war with kw highleritua bravo Short, the boa ideal, of Au Willem' croon, offinr, who would have been an ornentent tke the ehadewe the aiiiereeee. and credit to any service, and was the pride aud doling of our ewe. It is the wind, only the which 1 know, We heard thee Fouudrusker, a Crece, who And In my heat; tee June of love worm had but lately rutted Mt a gnide to the Geyer- o Safe from all leer of moo nor-Geueral where he trevelled helm to the V: detail of Any temple that CAA blow Blackreeta at tho foe of the distant Rocky Ah, then, why does the wiruln voice haunt Mountains, had Nara the rebele. This me sot mewed to show tilAt the hostile movement No won et L1236 the wind term se enthrall ; must be pretty general, for title man was An intelligent bitten, who bed been much I mhld m° anahar daY when It Eme with melody, mom{ the Blackfoot Wives es well as a flora its wild notes biome tweet interval ; leader among the Crow. Oar leader deter- " And now its valeta rewtholng though the mined to prevent there men under Pound- hell maker frorojohaing Riot to the westward ; and owe had good information from our ri but a vehicle that brine to me, scouts wo lefb Battleford with a Gatlin AM as the eicylark's sweat, impasstoned gum two 7 pound gum, forty-five wagons Ay= &Ad about ono hundred and fifty mine :Celle of the enema time, We halted at night until the moon rcee A bit of lifins unwritten history; and. then marched southwerd all night. Ane hearts and harp are tuned to the same log a little rau, which was bought at one woe long, awaiting with here and key. dollar a busbeh Whim a few petetoot there a higher bill and many clump of could be procured for plenting the eyee only poplar, growing eepeolelly In the little For life hes many a burial house and crypt, warn out out Inc seed, the mat being to, ravines, At daybreak we were near the And malty a ditty theta we gladly sung valuable to decay la the ground. Aud oven Indian camp. Oar mina eponen with entrap- In memory, is erelong nel as Boon as the enemy was fait. Their The blitsful things that all too then the starving ohildren would dig up thi "Op have seeds and eat them raw, without salt to fire WAD brith, end our men sufftred a good tripped deal, *ahead canting them to expose there OblivIonwercl, and from our keeping other condiment. &stew pitmen who pit ied the destitution of hie family, but ream - ohms too freely. I was near Shorn who. Opus& with Rutherford, was direeting the fire of &Ltd the necessity of making aome provider, for the future, one day discovered his the gun,. Shorn as our leader (Colonel I oannob shill; my ears against the rhyme Obter) afterward said, seemed to have a Whiepered at keyholes and lattices, youog daughter digging rho potato leech charmed life, ash° coolly stood in the front Unwritten harmonies; from the ground to relieve her hunger. He can& hor by the arm, determined to lefleat lines working his guns. The action Wee other heart but mine may witch their such paniehmene as the gravity of the ow very sharp. and was difficult to see the chime, enemy's sharpshooteree hidden as they were The echoing melodies of thab old time. demanded, but when he felt how emendated the child was, his heart; melted towards her; And so the wind voice haunts my soul and instead of words cd anger she hoard to -day sobs of contritiov,and eaw teen course down Mingling its melancholy melody his bearded cheeks. With my thoughts' symphony. When the spring came, and buds began to It ie nob winter m my honk I say ; swell, the &lobbing settlers anetained life Yet I bear 'Tannery's roundelay. by gathering these digestible products ot Boum.); E, &ems, the forest and boiling them with a little bran or corn meal. Boots were taken from the ground, and the bark of trees was strip ped off for food. Dz. Canuiff had good authority for %eying that one family lived two weeks lea beach leaves. Beef bones were cerriee from °Wan to oabin, and bolted many times, to give a little relish to the bran that formed the only nutriment. Oaly a few years ago there passed away in She tow:reship of ndolphustown, at the ripe ago cf 93, a woman who could relate mace that 8130 witnessed during "the scarce year." Her father had a field of early corn that grew on the sunny eide of a hill, and when the grain began bo fill in the ear scores of hungry people came from all quarters to gather and eat. They were given free ac- cess to the field, and even the ancoutent stalks were am and boiled for food. In the mIdim of their privatioes the unfortunate settlers offered everything they poasessed for something to eat. neveral families, unable to find suet:mance at home, jeurneyed meny mites through biting frost and cutbing winds to reach soma place where help could be procured. They did not eeek in vain. Those who had to spare freely gave to the destitute ones. A family named Reed, liv. big in Thurlow, near the present: city of Belleville, were rednoed to the last extrem- ity, and a horse three rears old was offered in vain for fifty pounds of flour. Their es- cape from starvation was something miracu- lous, according to the testimony of reliable witnesses. A deer came near the cabin one day and was easily shot, though previous efforts to approach near enough to kill the antlered denizens of the forest had been in vain. Other ineidents of a similar nature could be related. The destitution extended over a considerable area. and " from Lower Canada to the outskirts of the settlement westward was Feud the ory for bread, bread, bread 1" The summer of 1789 brought relief to most of the settlers, but for several years those who pea/tested the bare necessities of life were considered prosperous and happy. TILE NABOB YEAR. A (MUT EitiG,a4TION OF %grin= An Annulax Inneesslon. ad the ittienne 87.e. .4temey, SeUevelle, trantotte. Oeeteda and especially Wm grand prove The imuirrel imasort of 1889, which by ince of Oet'teriot ie literedly " teed dowloh State law oPened onSept. 1 and closed, with with milk toed bQnnY.' A reasonable in^ the year, Win !Ong berm:0.01140mila Centrek anatrv, governed by prunence and UMW.- Clinton. Clearfield end Bedford count:10M &nee, euro to beteg coopetence. The 1,4„ 04 ;mount of what gemmed to be almost" A mireolotet visitation et equirrels, extend - log over at bele thirty miles wide arid len rellea long, and oontionieg between five &net six weeks. In (act, 40 plentiful was We apology( game that, instead et being hunted. and cheered by locel gunnere, the tentirrele became rether a pot and a scourge, freak which the COUatry people had ece denied themselves as beet they might with Iambi. mono: ready at hand. oeturrele ever - ran thia region deems and marten mti, orator', coming seenalugly from the north* and pluming a route, as by leatinote wine. Approximate emouracy towards the awake and outhwesti, A paragraph appeared ha 40Me of the paper' about thee ead, of Auguste to the effect: lime a greet mfgrateon ui Equiereis watt going on fore the westernper ot New York State, sonthweetward three* reeneylvatda, toward the proverblid, veered feeding monody of eastern Tennessee. That, prombler, wee whet it was, for the ake, of it wee never seen hereabouts before, ina olL hentera fell to explain the phericimenanwith, any other niew, As neer ell the writer ovoid iesiertain efie viiitetiou Ole gotten was tirst nohlreal tre the fain wok of September, le the Walther+ hood of Iteneva, a thrivluo lumeer towe oa the WOO breach ot the Seemmeanne, in the narthera end of 011etem caunty. 040 often noon WithenD atm preliminary SIGN OE wAnNINCit soil productive, the yield milts abundant and tire Neil:wee for cultiveting _the tend Move:ging the Limps, and diepoemg of the enrolees are ample for ad requirementa Date amounts for the general prosperity en the fannere and the may Bonet of rural felictcy chat' make up rs lanclospe vfew. But there wee 4 thee when greet hunger stalked through the land, and people %wildly died of etarvatimel This emotion may aerprise those who have been aceuetomed to indulge their gastronomIcal desire* without stint, and witose recollections of the past do 001 meth beck tvoiny deoaden It is an histori• cal fon however, and moo that the drat ostler* disclosed with much interest'. The rifemiee" sees of short duration, extending OVvr 4 year or fifteen mouths only, hut ED we meters enoregh while it honed, and ehed * gloom over the isolated aettlement on the Shores of thb Bey of Q Unto ono hundred YAW'S Ago. The thittA Empire Loyalists were dea- l:Unto refugere from an unmerciful, oppree- :doe. Tiny brought little with them when they voluoterily exilei themsetvo Wee the bend, thee hen rejoted the authority ef Britain, ann. Wei:oohed republigen tom of government It le well kuovin thee the property of vaoet ef the Leyaliets wee <mat. eeted by the coleuiem after the suosese of the raltellieu was enured. Bot even bed they bein perreitmd to take any pertable ertiche ee their pleamre, the limited 0102111 Of ea/Weyer-lea At their a *ate ot rquirrtio, gray, red, and bloke detpeeel precleeed the potability of their entered the pliaCe and scattered thermielvea gretifeleg mica deeive, nto home eoverte everywhere through the atreeta They Iran met ediePtthidtd with. them lethal role. vaned the honees, §:tempered all ever She Ultimo, and liberally provided for their eluide trees teat berderea thit principet neede. additiou to the ueceseary thoroughfare', and disported theauelves ia meets for beginniug iu the wildereees, the yerde awe gardenv. Where: they came eechfentity recetved a eimply of seed grate, from no Otte knew, but the Foe...when they and were guereeteed suffieleut provitione tad reetwereel from their amazement at the re eupply defecte Inc three yews. It wee maven eighr, proceeded to execute work of ve3thaebly iseppeteel that, with each areist• extermiuniou. ilerutekeepere AeTvanh is the herdy pieneere could so fer over- reehlts seized brooms, patters, atieke of stove come exleilog elattactes as to ba Able to live wood, and auytbieg that nate* handle and trim orefortehly withont amietence, After dreve thefriehy anion!' from geode teree years' determined labor. A large bedroom', kitchene cello, The homier ether at the refogeee were din:urged the towo Armed theratelvee with glebe sail eoldiers, whom Free:eel experieuce teed repeat and carried QU en:halvah, eleughteM ADDootatieui dia be,eet habits cf locluarry Good markemen wouln take down their and /regality, .R.peolally was this the CAL ehotguas mad choose o under the with tee Mathes, of wham A e4r4idelable ivies let the beck yod, tent tu the canner of mher tattled in the Pulb towneoip." or e few intent.* brlog down tau or a dome tneryaturgh. Toey ergo ult dime:wen to equirrele from the bau,elm overheed. Titre make much effore to repro the virgin toil wieirrels were la paor condition, however* for cultivation. GA230 was plentiful la the end Mews were found to be the meet saline footle and the weal* that laved two aides 'eatery OA* of dtellieg them up. Thle of tto narrow towethip teemed with whole- -Patel four der, anti then the equirrele, aomo doh. They enceureged the belief, too coated °omit% and began diseppear iteee Shat "Old George,' se they familiarly Italica :he town. the Kin, woute coutioao to feta theca after It was Nunn that they lied crossed the the wane yew* of bounty They had lough Went Breech lase zouth of Inenove. Soule Inc lane and they thoeght he wag daerebt :icebox:mu out in the river in e 1Wit centre uoder auffielent ebligaMou to previa* foi .eros' eenttere 1 army of them swiMmitig their recede during tho remainder of t .ee straight, serves the streern. Tbeia then were avert, WAeu, therefore, the eupplien were st sight of in the ridge, of the Butane ditoentituted In 1787, end tee teerrow cunt heltegluinlea, esonding from tht books at vegan yieldesi a hated cr. p deatnutio: ea:quote:num there. Sportsmen now and and Ismael miltriug tonn b.ougho sorroe hen report a good day's shoodug in the and rennin° to may treble henna in th =mutable but it was evident thee the wilderneee that berdered the beautiful bee drove* bed dlepereen themselves over odder west of Kingaton. territoey, and were no the onward much. The wrier ha% *traversed with grey. hair e. week later they appeared at the McAbee:t- ea Men and womou who heti dintinct rem eon Creek, at *paint fifteen entice te the ot thet Eeatiea Of enmity. D . southwest. The bank* of the creek there Cenniff, ire his valuable Watery of the Loyel- ire thickly wooded with heavy timber, and ham retrace how fart:hies ccutrived to "keep for a dietauee of half & mile the trete skirt: - the wolf from the doer by bailing the the benhe were leaves of Wheats and ground nuts, eannitiater outdo more aletable and nurritioue "by mix. Black silk can be made to look fresh by sponging with cold ceffee mixed with am- monia. In picking cucumbers for putting down in brine 15 15 best to leave a smell portion of the stem adhering, to prevent withering and ran. I stopped for a moment at the body insure perfect) keeping. Out glass, the crevices of which will readily secrete duet, needs to be washed with hot suds, and the outbings scrubbed with at moderately stiff brush. Then rinse in warm water and wipe dry with thistle paper. No matter how large the spot of oil, any carpet or woolen stuff can be cleaned by applying buckwheab plentifully and care- fully brushing it into a dustpan after ashore time, and putting on fresh until lite oil has all disappeared. When deoanters and carafes become so diecolored inside that shot or fine coals will not cleanse them fill the bottle with finely chopped potato skins'cork tightly and let She botble stand for three days, when the skins will ferment. Turn oub and rinse, The bottle will be as bright and clean as when new. Young Morgan, the colored Harvard stu- dent wense choice as class orator has caused something of a sensation, was born at Peters- burg, Virginia, and ie twenty-eight years old. When his father was freed by the war he moved to Washington, where the eon began his education. Young Morgan hae support ed himself in college by following his trade as a barber, by serving as a hall -boy in a Bantego hotel during the summer, and by eller devices. He hos already accumulated quite as library, and hopes to study law as soon as his college course is finished. Mor- gan has negro features, but: bright eyes and an intelligent forehead. of the Indian who had fired last ab Short. Whet face was that, now pale and gasping forth blood from the lips/ It was Mistusu 1 Here wo had met again. I had but time to tear away his headgear. In the exoltement should like to have looted all Ms savage friprery, but we had to rush back to the Getting. Then occurred more fighting, and ib WAS nob until some time later thee we Sound we had done what we could in break - big the enemy's march wesbward and in giving them a lesson, and that out small force was nob able to do more. We limber- ed up the mine with great difficulty and retired dewier, the gun trails having been broken and diffionit to move. Short, ever at the post of danger, was the last to go, ever giving a return fire to the sharp ping- ing of the enemy's bullets. They did not pursue no, and we molted Battleford in good order, carrying all our dead but one. I need not pursue the story of our brief campaign and victory. I do not desire more Indian experiences either in love or war. Our successes were dearly aohieved, and a goo l lemon was afforded by the Whoosh to the Canadian Government, that lesson being that the role of the soldier is one that roust be played even among the most peaceful and peameloving people, and that lb is folly not to have at all times a foroe well organized for defence, or the necermary offence, whioh is the safeguard of defence. If Canada had had more troops regularly enrolled, the outbreak would have been im- possible. If she had recognized earlier the neeeesity thab poem must be guarded by armed men in good array she would not have had to deplore the doubtful beitle of Mite knife or the heavy losses at liateehe. . My tale is told, and although 1 say that my Indian eXperienee has been quite enough for me, I am still in Canada's militia, although Ido carry about in the law courts the blue bag which is the badge of the en- terprising barrister. 1 began with some moral reflections on the regret that does nob CHAPTER IV. The half-breed insurrection in the .North• west broke out. Riel, who had :nada mis- chief in 1871, was again in the field and was again hatching rebellion, not tide time in his old quarters, but far away in them! regions I knew too well. There hie countrennennhe " Melee," had taken it into their heads that "Les Anglais" would interfere with their posseseions, which were tumidly, as in French Canada, elongated slips of lend, having a frontage on the Saskatchewan, and obretoh- ing back bato the country behind. The English, they said, would "square " these lends and interfere with their tenure. It was a false idea and could easily have been removed. But they were not reassured in time. They had arms and got more with some ammunition. Riel came at thetr invite melon from the States, and it was evident Miss Amy Levy, whom pitiful death at the early age of twentyheven has already been mentioned, had published not only two novels of unusual promise—The Romance of a Shop and Reuben Sachs—but two vol - nines of verse and as large number of short stories of marked merit, while a third val- uate of verse is about to appear. Thle pro- ductiveness implies an energy,an industry and perseverance which seeni irreconcilable with the morbid impulses that must have always accompany silly actions. I hope overcome her strong spirit at the last, A Canada, as a whole, will be witer than 1, an photograph lately published thews a very humble Canadian individual. Although dark, well medalled, clearly Scan t1 face, long niece merried, I do not regtet either my full of aensibility and power. LITER:MIX ALIVE WiTil SgErnREL9, ohotteriog, jumping *bone, runnirg hither awl thither, And mekiag e. great tido goer., Ally. Wileewake putters in that locality Found the tryating plum, aril shot, then iown by hundreds, reer0 thereorlth a searatity perceptiblelorie -1 nunthere the tquirrels betook themselves again to the wild mountain ranges lying oath by watt arming nuniberleas minor streams in their path, end solo emerged into the open country ab the fan nf thee Mum hienutains, forty miles below Hen - eve, And five miles woe of Bellefonte. ths. county oat of Centre. The .hinney Mows- mios, under varying names, run west by south from the town of Menu down into Cenxbria °nutty. At the poi= mentioned, they are called the Bela. Emile Mottritaker. Here the squirrels owned to find another agreeable tryating piece. The equirrels lingered for a week and then resutued their .narch again, passing norlc TIM VEUTILE 'wax of Buffalo Run, south of Bald Engle, where they laid waste rioh aoree of corn in the, field, and rendered themselves disliked by their famillarty in the farrayarde and farm- houses. In this open country the hordes, were so numerous that frequently 'gatemen. could stand out in a field and shoot six and. eight off a single tree, and sometimes more than ono at a single shot. Forty or fifty Itivrritle la One dayn bunt were considered uothing out of the way among the tool sportsmen that week. It was estimsted by - people in Bodo Run valley that fully 3 500 of the squirrels were killed within a radius of three miles. By, this time it was the second week of October. After leaving Buffalo Run Valley the squirrels again disappeared in the mown tains, and were next heard of in the settled district twenty miles to the aouth, along the upper and western border of Huntingdon Md. Blair menace. Later on, in gradually les- sening munchers, they were heard of In thee western end of Bedford. Ate that point the writer's information comes. It is likely, however that if inquiries were made along am Approximate line ete the southwest the route travelled subsequently by the squirrel army could be traced with tolerable clearness. Taking as the guiding element the portion of the journey and the direction eketehed above, from Renova to Bedford, the distance trav- ersed from the lower border of New York State to the upper border of Wen Virginia could not have been lees than 200 miles, med she total distance to the east Tennessee feeding grounds something like 2,000 milem as overland travelling would measure. His interesting to conjecture what the original number of squirrels mnet have been that set out o..t the strange pilgrimage to east Ten- nessee, and to fancy what proportion of that number fell or were killed by the wayside without reaching their land of promise. Hadn't Heard °fit. Merchant Traveller : 4, Did you ever read the 'MB on the Floss ' " asked a young woman of Cherley Otilepoht. "No: I'm pretty well posted on matters of that kind, but Inever heard of that mill. Was lb a good fight 1 1 don't reckon the men amounted to much in the 'profession, or 1 second have hood of them, tot A small niece of paper or linen moistened with turpentine, and put inM the wardrobe or drawers for a single day two or three times a year, is a preventive against. moths. The Queen of Italy, who is an accomplish. ed musician lately found in the celebrated library of Stint Mare, at Venice, a number of manuseripts by Clari, Monteverde, Siva - della, and other composers of rank. At her Majesty's eomixtennd, these are now to be priblietted for the first time, and there eppearanee is awaibed with mob interest - by She haw public, to whom so read and ertitie music at least 00100 by nature.