The Brussels Post, 1892-1-8, Page 66
YOUNG FOLKS.
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The First Snow Tall,
The snow lint merlin io dm gloaming.
And buoy an dm etglit.
Rae I) eels heaping the thetts and highway
'Mill a ei tenet) ticep mei white.
Ievery vine and !le eta hemlock -
Wore erudite ten dear for an 01101,
And the poorest wig 011 I ill, All /NO
WW1 ringed Inch -deep with ward
Prom simile new maid with Carrara,
From eltatitlekter's totalled erne,
The st or is) i were A 'apnea to sWan0 ti011/114
.And still anti erod down the enow,
stood and watelled by the window
The noiselese ivork of the sky,
And the sudden 0 tirriee of snowbirds,
Like hymen 1,stv,, whirling
thought ef ti mound in AW110I .‘111)111111
Wi1011.1 El 01110 11 •.,1.1.ine 4(01.11i
now, B. est), ero ,ne: 0 gently.
As did rolans 121i:babes 1111.
V spoke imr 0W11 1/01101,
SaS1114, rEllh,,r, who make.- it snow r
And 1 tett of till/ good All Fether
Who eines for us here below,
Again I look NI at the snowfall
And 1 thought of the 10:100), eks
That arelies one first groat sorrow,
When that mound WAS 110114/011 HO high.
I rmnembored the gentled pat knee
Thal fon from that chnut like snow,
Flake by flake, healing and hiding
The qear of our deep -plunged woe.
And again to the 1111111 I will -Teed,
s The snow tiler h usheth
the merciful Father
Ahem e in make it MIL"
Then wit eyes that. saw not I kissed. her .
And SI10,kiseing hack, could. not know
That ivy kis, was given to her sister,
Folded close under deepening snow.
(hones Russel Lowell.
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CHRISTMAS MTS. THE CHILDREN.
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Christingles are not much known in this
country. They are made by pieroing a hole
in an orange, puttiug piece of quill three
or four inches long, set upright in the hole,
and usually a second piece inside this. Each
quill is divided into several slips, each one
of which is loaded with a raisin. The weight
of the raisins bends clown the little boughs,
giving two circles of pendants. A colored
taper is placed ill the upper 00111 and light.
ed on Christmas Eve. The custom is a Ger.
man one.
The harbinger of Christmas in Holland is
a Star of Bethlehem carried along through
the edies by the young men Who pick up
alms for the poor, and they gather much
front those who at Christmas crane to web
come this symbol of peace. They then be-
take themselves to the head burgomaster ef
the town, who is hound to give these youths
g I 1 I
The little Russian amid the snows looks
for the red candle and the Christmas tree ;
the ice is all alight with gay illuntinatiotee
The little Roman boy watches with delight -
the preparation or the Befana in the pub.
lio square of Rome. For the Helena is the
witch who rides on a broomstick. film is a
ternale Santa Claus who brings presents to
good child 01111 EL kl111011 of rods to a bad
one. IT r worship is celebrated on Christ.
mas Eve to the noisy stetted of trumpets and
all manner of unearthly noises. Then the
boy goes to the Church of the Augustine
to see the little tiOAUS lying on the
lap of His Holy 'Mother. He hears the
most charming music and singing choristers
swingiva the censer before the Host, whilst,
above los head, Miami fights with the
Dragon. He sees the splendid procession
of the cardinals, in Ureic gorgeous red and
white robes, as he goes down the broad
marble aims, on each side of which hued.
ful marble statues stand in niches. His
mother, poor Dominica, peasant of the Cam-
pagna, kneels and makes the sign of the
oross, and tells her bey that this is Christ.
MOS, the day 011 which the JOH110 Wail
born tn take his sins away. Aside, lie wan-
ders with her throngh the market -pine,
Everyone glees hint p'avtitinos, fruits elei.
cakes, a mil foreigner tesses him a, 1(1,,
The little Antonio melts her why, and his
mother tells him it is Cheistma.s, hut not so
say as when she wits a little girl, for thee
the "piffereri," the shepherds fi om the
•mountains, cante in their short eloaks, with
ribbon round their pointed hats, to play on
their bagpipes before every image of the
Virgin. Then they go again to the church,
the beautiful ehurch of Ave Coeli, to hear
the " angel girls " make Christnias speeches
to welcome the litt/e Christ.child, and as
he looks at the image cf the Madonna, all
hung with jewels, he wishes it were Christ.
Inae all the year round.
In most fainillett it 18 pnrely domestic
festival, although as the tree was enjoyed
the night before when Santa Claus -noble,
generous, German spirit -hns held his revels,
there is no reason why a grand. dinner to
one10 friends should riot be given.
The beet Christmas present to a boy is a
box of tools, the best to a girl any number
of della, and after dresein t and undressing
them, giving them a bat 1, taking them
through a fit of siekneas, punishing there,
and giving them an airing in the park (for
little maidens begin to imitate mamma at a
very early age,) the next best drusement
is to manufautere a doll's house, and here
the Iwo of tools oomes in, He must plane
the box, the brother most, an old box will
do, and tit in it four compartments, each of
whiell must be elaborately papered. Then a
" real carpet " mut be nailed down, and
then pictures hung on the wall. These bits,
framed with gold pastor, usually require
mamma's help, The Id 01100 mut be fitted
up with tins which, perhaps, had better
be bought, but after the " Batterio de
Cuisine " is finished, then the chairs and
beds shonla be made at home. Cardboard
boxes can he mit into excellent chilly beds.
Pillows, !misters, r ress, sheets, pillow
cases, will tctnuse I ttle ingert many days.
When they get older and GS r write lel,
ters, a postotlice is a delightful been, Those
are to he bonght, but they aro far more
amusing if made at 110Me, Any good sized
card box will do for this purpose. The licl
should be fastened to 11: AO that whon it
stands up it) will open like a door, A slit
must be cut out about 011 10011 Wili0 and
from five to six inelies long, •tio as to ellow
of the poffing of small pareele, yet not large
enough to admit evert the smallest hand.
Children should learn to roved tho in vie -
late oharacter of the post from the earliest
age,
On t,he door should be written the time of
the post, Most children are fond of writing
lettere to ono another, end this will of course
give rise to a grand manufacture of note
paper., envelopes and poet male, and lent
stall forth ingenuity ie designing and color-
ittg mom/grants and creels for their note
paper En) II euvoloperi tout beteken garefillly
to pieces to 101'01 Et nab pattern, Those out
from Mayo to be folded, gummea together,
arid a touell'of gttm put 011'1M hap, tho
monogram made to oerrespend. lo
Wonderful whet occupation Otis gives
for weeks. A paint box . alumicl be
also amongst the Chriatmati WO.
Capittd scraprbooks can lie made. by All
then, and old railway gmbles-thay be tho
foundation, every ilinstrated paper the
magn.zine of art a /mete pot, MIX t to a paint
box, is moat serviceable toy.
11,1,...,11 111'01 1,13111, “I 0.413, (VA
MIA) Vit• 1110111, 1t) 1111.1,1101 MIN 0111011111 of
pseee. But ineelittnical toys are undo 11.1111111
ieg to 0110 H than lilt' Chita
wishes to do hot t»oll ineelittniem. A boy
can be amused by turning him out of tile
houtie, giving him a ball tie a kite, or lot
him dig in the [vowel for the unhappy mole
Little girls, tvho mut be kept in ot a rainy
day, or invalid ehildren aro very hard to
amuse, and recourse must be hail to story
tolling, to the clear del igh t fel Ointment] and
one books, 1108V written for ohildren,
lIappt• is the Mold who has lulierited
garret full of old trunks, old furnitere, old
pictures, all old things. It is it previous in-
heritance. Given the dranietio instinct and
a :larva, awl a family of qujek.witted boys
end girls will have tonusement long after
litostmas holidays are passed,
It would be a great amuse:meet for weeks
before Christmas if children were taught to
make the ornaments for the tree, MI ill (10110
iu econondeal Germany. Hero the filet of
secrecy tout mystioisin is too incarnate WIWI
Sants,01 sue and such an idea, would be re.
jeoted. But it is twieo as interesting if WO
put ourselves into a thine,
At Christmas time let ns invoke the
fairies, They, the gentry, the WOO people,
the "good people," are very dear to the
real little, wee people who see the fon end
do not believe in them any too much. Those
who malso their homes under old trees and
resort to toadstools for shelter, who make
excursione into farmhouses, have
afforded the Irish nurse whit no end of
legends. An old nurse will hold a magnifi-
cent position in the mumery because she heal
seen a Lyproohaun, the little red man, be-
loved of the Irish.
The meaning of the Christmas green 113
that it was once the home of the peace -
loving wood spirit. Christmas evergreens
and red berries make the most effectual of
internal decorations ; their delightful Ira.
grance, their splendid color, random the
palace more beautiful alla the humble house
attractive. Before Twelfth Night (January
11) they mnst all be taken down.
If it will bring the dell to the poor, if it
will not forget a single legend or grace, if
the holly and evergreen shall beeathe the
sweetest and highest significance, if we um'
remember that every simple festival at
Christmas which makes the hearthstone
brighter, is R tribute to the Highest wisdom,
if NVO, connect, Christmas and humanity,
then shall WO keep well. Foe the world
nnloeks its heart on every Christmas Day tts
it has done for eighteee Christmas centuries.
The cairn of Christmas tummies rises hisch.
er and higher as the dear precession of
children, that constantly arriving precious
pilgrimage froni the unknown werld, belts
by the majestic mountain to receive gifts,
giving, more than they take.
For yhat would Chid:items be without the
children
Tom's New Year'S Gift,
/11111 110POLD (arenas
Twits only a 111 tle kitchen with it clieerfullamp
and tire
it7 1T1t t,11 a
man could neve, tie -
Only a simple picture ; yet how pleasant to
the eye.
1311011 a trim anti tidy woman and a home ito
clean and
Should surely tempt 11 man at home t stay ;
Tot she waited for 11011 husband, whose un-
steady. halting feet
woniggenat,,,t.ictiyi.ets veining wit 11 Me senses
Teemed Nellie Lane were happy onee, for Tom
was like a Inver,
And the Mallets, love and concord, lit their
herison of life ; •
But. the dark eclipse came swiftly, 00/100.0 threa
Impoy years flew over,
whon to No1/10 0111»0 the knowledge thatshe
AVIVA drunkard's wife.
With the drunkard went tho linshand-wIth
ho Imehandi went telite man :
A 11 1 hole " house odd go s ' went a fter
Nell I o's little store,
Yet she bore it, hoping. trusting, ns 01111. WO.
men van,
Tel no eltange mime for the bettor ; TO111
worked lees awl drank the mere.
And to•night WWI iclaiiethiu king, "New Toile's
Der Is drawing near,.
Row happy, once we used to be upon the
New ear's briek
When WO 111101110a a brighter future, which
belds nothing now but fear.
There was uaught. on certh I wished for be-
fore Toni took to drink."
But was dint her husband coming -that foot-
step that she heard
A step she had not hoard for years -the 001110
old manly tread,
She shined up to meet him, but conld not
speak a word
When he mune in oohs but Kober, anti In his
old voice said :
" 1 fere's a New Tear's present, Nellie" 011 his
eyes a now tight dawninel-
'Twee small square paper poreel-" You'll
like It, wife I know :
But you must not open it, not until Now Tear's
mornigg,
Then 311 open it -yon should have had this
present long ago.
" Poe been thinking deeply, Nellie, for Poo
heard a few words spoken
At a, meeting Which have tolcl rne how tro
fallen before men
"‘nd TOig111ot'i
ana
13nt wait till Now eanes morning, you'll
know what I mean then."
Nellie roso upon that morning, did her work
anti sang the while
"rwas like thenappy time gone by when Tom
and she Wero lovers.
And she took the paper package, with a initial-
. od tmar and smile
To Tom --they stood together whIloho took efr
112,300(01%
xvitme a bright glit risme she read theJoyous
words,
" 111 'never touch intoxicAting drink again t"
Antt in her heart there came a sound like sing -
Ing birds, . •
For it bore 0011 husband's signature, " Tom
Lane."
Re bed signed the pledge. They hung it high
111) upon. the ;
" begin the bright NOW Toms" he Held,
. *with a better, purer 1ifes'
Anil in after clays he'd eay tbat the deepest
one emit
Amon.gst thoir " household gods" was his
• Now YearSt gift to his wifo,
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The Mayo' Trade in. Moroe00,
Letters received from Morecoo say there
its.' been a greatly increased traffic. in
sla tho majority of whom were recently
captured by the Sultan sohliers during the
rattle into the rebel (linnets. White 111011
leez deeeribe the painful !scenes reaently
witnessed in the Slave market there, Two
girls, altnost in childhood and noarly white,
wore gold. for$40 and $110 apieee. A WO/11811
and her 19-montha-ohl boy ware claimed by
different buyers, the mother COP $00 and the
infant for $35, Tho poor mother cried an
bitterly when she was being separated from
bor ehild that the Europeans present on-
denvoured to buy them both, but the orowd
in the market assmned a =matting attitude,
end the humane foreigners wore nompolled
to look out for their own safety. Them are
the sad and revolting phases of slavery in
Moronen, Dr, r./010/Ey W110 travelled ex-
toneively in that conntry, dram another
pietnre. Ire 80y0 that tho Slaves of Morocco
are treated better, than .white labor. fa in
Europe, and he t tanks the people, whom he
calls "the white slaVen Of Europe," Would
muth better off If they hurl HO many of
the comforts of life and suett 00/101110rittion
ea the common Waves in Morocco enjoy.
TILE BRUSSELS POST.
IYIAN.EATIO INDIANS.
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svatM,I, 11,0,0 11.1Wayi lint119,1.0011 1 US
Wilki 010 1,1)0t 111,S0 1111110m saorilletes
. Welt place,"
1 The old etenimmil ; We wore
not Med by 0 reinter the day before to be at,
1 the plate, of saeritice early the following
al tornoon. We reached the opened, tame
norm time, '1110 faeee of all the family WOVO
F1.1'1E101 111/10k 111'011 the pappoose till its
, mot her'e leek. A erowil of eovosti hundred
:11ellans had all emit' useembled, Anxiously
awaiting for Ilia ceremonies to bogie, The
I prisoner, a, Sauk 11011111, who was perfeetly
naked, fanteneil te stelre, WaH
Itarbarous Customs Practiced by -
a l'Orth-western Tribe.
ittlitimittic
UM I. PON EV111 01., MUMS, '
Statements of Gen. Lewis OM and Clotho.
lie Missionaries,
Theis) 0 as one spot on the li.ort 11 Amide/tit
Continent, and only 0110, of which we bare
authentic twconnt, where man-eating people
dwelt, ned that dark spot was found within
the geographical limits of what is how the
Statett of Indiana and Illinois. Here, prior
to the beeinning of the proem', century, WU
10111111 0. society of SIRVIII4C0 belonging to tho
:11bineways (Mianie), kiloten as the men.
010.0111-thase W110 devoured the bodies of
prieouers of war that WC1'0 burned by the
e•take.
The writer, while. a resident of Vert
11 ttyne, hel„over fifty yearn ago, where the
M1121111 t11111 Pottawattemie Indians then re -
shied, had often seen a very old, shriveled -
up squaw, repulsive lonking oreatuve,
who, it was said, was a (10000101am of
3110 fnmil 01 wameaters belon sin s to tile
Miami%
I remember one Sabbath afternoon, in
September, 1 836, while taking it stroll with
my aged friend, dome Battiste Bruno an
old French engoir and Indian trader then
at least SO years old, a very intelligent mau,
bertha beets educated for the priesthood,
possessing an extraordinarily good memory,
we hod reauhed a beautiful spot, a small
grove that skirted the banks of the St.
Joseph River a mile above the towu. Seat-
ed on a' log on the elevated bank of the
stream, 118 gave me a thrilling description
of the terrible defeat of Gen. Harmer at
this very spot in 1791. He was aspectator
of this engagement, so sanguinary and dis-
astrous in its results. While talking., a
canoe with several Indians in it was passing
down the stream. On discovering Bruno
the oanoe was headed for the shore, landing
at our feet, I at once recOgnised that 0111110
old bag of a squaw as one of the party,
After a short talk with Bruno they turned
into the stream again and passed on to the
town
I then told my companion the oft -repeated
story that I had heard regarding this wo-
man, He said that it was true ; that he had
known her for over forty years ; that she
WW1 the only daughter of "•31/tite Skin,"
the last head of the family of man-aatere. I
knew her father when I fiest came to this
part of the conn try to trade with the
dians, in 1770. White Skin at that time
1101S Sala to be about 90 years old, alai 110
doubt it 11018 true ; yet Ito was an active,
industrious maii, possessed of a very reten-
tive inemoey. The family, during tile time
I knew them, consisted of the old man, an
aged son and this datigliter. They resided
on Eel River, several miles north of the
" Turtle Village," the home of the great
war chief of the Miamia, Little Tete le, and
about thirty-five miles northwest from Fort
Wayne (Ki•ski-on-ged. They were known
far and none as the man-eating family ; they
hadn't any friends that I knew of, with one
exception, and that was F1..13;011011,11 1Prench
nit -smeary for many years in this section of
the country. He frequently visited them,
and helped them when they were in want.
They lived very secluded lives, The Indians
seemed to shun them.
The old man and his family manofactured
buckskins, were tanners or dressers of deer-
skins ; they excelled in that) business. For
a number of yours I traded With them, pur-
chasing their skins for the Detroit market,
where I found ready sttle for them. It
was in this way that I became so intimately
acquainted with them. generally went to
their camp to make my pereltases, and often
had to stay over night at their hut. But
seldom partook of my meals with them, for
they were too filthy in their way of living,
and were too fond of dog !neat co snit 1110,
011110001 I had from ems& ty often eaten
dog meat, ha it, was prepared in a different,
11111111101' from the way they served it,
I found the old fellow hod no reluctance
to talk about the man-eating charges made
against him, particularly with me. I had
gained his entire confidence. .
Having heard so much about this dreadful
organization when I was 0 small boy, I re-
member I dreaded to have my father leave
home to go among the Miands. HO WaS a
trader at M11050101 before I was born ; when
he died 1 took his place and ootitinued right
along until 0 fee/ years ago.
Wit1001 swtn's nom..
My good trieud Pierre Beaublen, of De -
brio% had rectitested mo, at the first oppor-
tunity I wohld have, that I should get front
White Skin a history of the man-eating
order (he tvanted it for the Historical So-
Chity), which did, as follows :
• • Oue beautiful moonlight night, while
seated upon the grass in front df the bark
hut, smoking our kinnikinnie, the old man
gave me the entire history of that portion
of his life connected with the Order of Man.
eaters. And this story have written and
told so often that I know it by heart, as the
schoolboys say. I hove had co repeat 11) to
meaty of the great men of the land. Among
tlie limber were Gen. Lewis Coss, Gov.
Harrison and also the French savant, aud
ts•aveler,'Count Volney,• whom I met at
Vinoennes. •
White Skin said that to eat human flesh
was a religious right conferred upon hie
fore fathers.me,ny, snany. generations before,
when the Minnoways included moat all of
the Indians livIng on this side of the big
river, the .Mississimit, and, by hereditary
descent pawed from. family, to fatnily. On
the death of We grandfather, his father and.
his brother became the sole representatives
of this order,. eaelt having the right to per-
itioetrs, the cerertiOnies at these human
I asked liim how often he had eaten
human flash mid did he Assist) in killing
those tobe d'evoured?
" No," said he, " they Were always pris-
onere of 'war, and generally lticliens from
hostile tril.ios, and now and then a pale.fatee.
In my younger days, participated in a
groat many of thou feasts, We all liked the
tasto of human flesh : was much sweeter
than the flesh of wild animals. Wo never
ate it solely for the 'purposes of food, to
eatisfy htinger wo' partook of it as a re-
ligiotte rite, although some of the Inditom,
when invited to partake with 00, would eat
more than othere; my heather mid mister
liked it so well that they would eat until
they wore fuil. timo pa:mod the modem
gradually 115011nort The Catholic nilsaion-
sties diff much to Atop these saorifices. it
has 1.1,1,11 08,12r twon,ty years since last
tasted 11 u man flesh,'
White Skin prided himself upon the foot
that ho represented a family that boll such
greet dietinction tionforeod 115011 16 " When
I was about '20 years old," ffaid he, " at-
tended a grand feast of Gila kind,. held on
the oat bank of the .foseph Ittvor, near,
Ka. ki.on.ge," Art Wayno).
" IL was over there," said Mr. Bruno, I
pointing to lb rise of ground, a pfitte041 of
about ton acrum but east of whore we were
011ANTtNil 11 10 DAVIT H011at
110 W00 VOry brave, When the Bun was
yet about two hours high a squaw approach-
eil with a Hamlet:1u in her hand ts.)
the fagots, when the dotanod entwine.
snatelnel the flambeau from her hand and
set to to his own fumed pile. At this
act of bravery the groat orowd mem up
shoots of admiontien. )nen dead the hotly
was laid npon the Minutia coals n2121111 was
0 000 i01 too onged lel oniony,
my father cut, oll tem) of the flesh for mob
member of the family, prcsenting it to us
upon a sharpened stiolt while we sat ill ft
torch) attalud, the smoldering embers. After
the family were all helped, my father, in It
11111(1. V0100, asked if there NVE19 1111y mimeo
present who wished to participate in the
feast, when meveral mon and soitaws came
forward and sealed the111801VeB ill UV' eirole.
They were thou tow to help theniselvee.
While tho feasting wits going on deep
silence prevailed. And just as the HUD W0111
liOIVI/ hehtral the tree -tops it was announc-
ed that the ceremenies were ended, when a,
yell went up that shook the earth and the
0114.01688 was left for the dogs to eat."
" Mon Dieu Mon Dien 1" I exclaimed,
filled with horror aud disgust at thin ter.
Able recital. 031 again filling our pipes he
stated that his father and brother wore
both murdered while asleep in their clamp
on their return from. one of their human
sacrifices, held neer the mouth of Wabash
River. Then he became the head of the
orcilppr.14
you twee cenduct any of these cere-
monies?"
" Yes, once only, mud that was over twee.
ty yeare ago, and then WIL0 010 hut time
I tested human flesh. My fathoe's brother
veey old man, who W09 a head of the
order, liviug on the Calumet River, near
Calumet Lake, whom my father had often
gone over there to, assist in. conducting
these feasts, died the sumo summer my
father was killed. His blanket, foil upon
the shoulders of hie only ehild, 0 daughter,
au old decreed woman. Soon after his
death prisoner . was to be sac-
rificed ; she slept a messenger to invite
me and ley family to eome and. assist her
with the ceremonies. We got: ready and
returned with the messenger. On reaching
the village I found the Old woman very sick
in her tingwam, unable to take part in the
exercises, and I had to do it all myself. 'rile
prisoner Wail IL young white man, and I WILS
glad of it, for I did not like to eat the flesh
of my oleo rape, but, had no object fon to eat
our then greatest enemy, the whin] man.
There were not many Indians 111 attet I dance,
they ‘1,131.0 011 their big hunt, Everything
passed olf with much satisfaction. .A.bout
the useal inunber of invited gliests partici.
puled in the feast with us, At the request
ot Le old woman I took her 0 piece of the
liesh, which oho ate with ao apparent relish.
She died the next day this lot t ino eele, sots
totem and reprosentatwe of title, meat order,
But never slue that day hos thore been a
sacrifice of life, at whielt human flesh was
eaten, centime utl by the society of man eat-
ers."
."2he point whore these Calumet. festi-
vals where liebl," said ells Brume, " WAS
where uow toontoil the town of Chicago,
and pot. 0, gre .1 way from there the bloody
measure of Fort Duet:bore occurred in
1St% where my friend and neighbor, the
brave Capt. William Wells, Was killed by
the treacherous Pottawattomies, the meati-
est and most detestable telbe of Indians in
the n weat. "
sTATS,31-ENTS 011 t1p3L/ros.ign.:$,
Louis Hennepin, a French missionar y
one of the first to visit the region of the
Illinois and Wabash RiVers, io a 1 et ter
written to a friend, a Catholic priest resol.
ing Quebec, tinted November, 1 fiSsr, says
" When on toy way in the month of .1one
kat to the °Imbecile (Wabash) Itiver
cute upon a line assemblage of savages,
Twightwees, engaged in burning it priso-
ner of Wall at the stake, an Indian belonging
to a tribe with whom they MO at war. W heti
I arrived on the scene the fierce flames were
already wrapped about: the victim, then in the
throes ofcleath. Tho savages danced around
the firm and in a state of frenzy brandished
their War &sibs, accoinparded with deinon-
inced eltouts and contortions. In sorrow
and disgust) I witlideew a short distance to
wait until the excitement' would subside,
Hutt I might vet:scintillate with the sttVages
againat this horrid custom.' ' On returning
to the place of execution, tny 5811009 were
appalled on beholding a numbest of savages,
mom wontim and children,, Seated in a circle
aronnd the smolderina enilters, engaged
111 devouring the remains of the dead savage.
WItile this terrible feast was going on a per-
fect silence prevailed : the ceoWd seemed
awo.stricsken. I turned from the sickeding
sight, and upon my knees besought our
Heavenly Father to assist lne to open the
oyes of those pools benighted creaturea to
the 0110111111y of this horrible crime, that it
might never be repeated."
'2110 missionary Brobeottf, belonging to a
mission on the shores of Lake Huron, wag
sent to the Otnee villages, lit tho head of the
Miami (Maumee) River, and by the poem:-
tnanco of kindly offices secured the confidence
and atfectlon of the Indians of that locality,
From a report of his missionary work per-
formed in this section, filed in (thumb aro-
hives of Montreal, Canada, the following
statements two taken :
" The Twigh Woes are very cruel in their
treatment of their prisoners of 11010% 71107
gonevally barn them at the stake, awl fre-
quently feast on the flesh of the unfortunete
viethns. Those who engage in eating human
flesh belong to a select member in the tribe,
who 0:00 it1101411 as the man-eaters. So fond
do they beeome of the taste of hutnan flesh
tluit no doubt, they secretly 001011111 murder
in order to gaily the dreadful desire,
Th0 foregoing statements (in tho year 1837)
were furnished the writer by Father :Haddon,
an aged missionary at :Poet Wayne,
and were taken from a small volume
in the 11101111h language, " A Histoey of the
Early Catholic Si/851011H Among the Indiana
of the Lake Regions,"
Mal, Thomas Forsyth, who lived for a
fluarIzr of a century among the 80,11100 and.
Fox Indians, in P•20, 0, written ;Mount
of theee Iwo White, published for tile first
time " Deake's Life of Block Hawk,"
said " Those Imllans. Minnewaya, are
said to have boon vory cruet tO their prison-
ers, often burning tiltetn, I have hoard of a
certain family among the Mends who were
called man-eaters, as they were accustomed
to make a &MEG 00 1111111011 flesh when a pri-
tenver Waft killed. For these enormities 1110
Statics and Poen, when they took any of
the Alittnewaytt prier:nem, gave thorn to
their woman to bo buffeted to death."
121111,111.11401311.C1112r0HAHAIDWAllattltErEft
CROW'S NEST PAK
.
Tito 0 11.121. flgt Wields 0 901 IIILY "What
t"IIII'001 Any (icemen,
The 1seioek 1'01,101140 Southern Railway
i.inipany, has Mot it:iv:lee mit surveying the
Crow's Neil, k luring the 1404 /011111111111
1 110X0 if1001101001 1101.1
WI/ ECM. 110V0r than the suppoeed
summit, in lied part of the Bookies, C e al.
titanic: beitig4,275 fect, From Pinelics seek,
in Alberta, to Hits newly di:am-ere ' • ,11 tin i 1,
the /smile nowhere 03 000110 0»0 .11 0011/,
and oven that is only for a 10.01,11 short dm.
Motu -- neither is there Ally roek t4 ieg
worthy of men ion, eseept Mem la intleon the
Crow e Neel, Laka, As H01/11 MI British Col -
militia 10 entered, at the summit, the gVIL1111
11 still more favorable. Erten the summit
to the Forks of Michel Creek, 1 0 miles, tile
gentle is 87 feet to the mile ; from tile Forks
to Elk I aver bridge, 5 1 miles, the grade does
not CH 001111 '25 feet to the mite. The whole of
, this distance of (1 1 reilem, the valley is at 110
place leas than a quarter of a mile wide, and
has an aver/Igo width of n mile of level
ground, am! there hi uot culdo yard of
rook ou t t ing neevesary. The ennun it of the
Selltirlt tango is near Cranbrook, 01 110 Alti-
tude of only 3,100 feel, und the whole !Us-
, tenon from the summit of the lioeltics i» the
2 Cretv's Nest rue to the Lower Kootenay
River, 170 miles, the grade miser exeeeds
one per cent. at any point. There le no pox-
eibility of either mnd or snow elides, with
their attendant costly expend Bettye. An ex.
perienced export has also visited the coal
fields in the Urow'e Nest Pass, and he is of the
opinion lb:111)0th tho quint Distend thermality
of the noel is quite equal, if not superior, to
any known coal fields in the whole world.
There aro no less than foux kinds of coal,
ant itracite, 801111-011 thracite,bi tuminous coal,
podeessing very high (looking q eel ttes,and
1 peculiar kind of cannel coal, which, from
assays whioh had been made of it, is su-
perior, both in fp:entity of gm .2vhich it pro-
duces and its high illumipating powers, to
the groat majority of cannel coals knotyn.
Over fifty neams of mad have been found,
many of which show 30 foot of clear coal,
and the outcrop of the seams can be walked
upon for over tou miles on the side of the
mountains. Kootenay is buleed etch in
mineral wealth, Considering the demand
for high guilty coal for smelting purposee
in the Kootenay Lake district, at, Helena,
Hutto City and Croat Palls, and also the
market foe cannel coal end anthracite on the
Pacific uoast, East liootenay should have a
great future before it, as soon as it can get
tuilway eommunieation with the markets.
110 Use.
An old negro, muttering and slinking his
head, WAS seen sits ing on a leg. A white
Wk0 appeared to bo looking fee some
one, rode up, dismounted, approa :hod the
old fellow, and said :
" You Aeon to he wended abont HOMO -
thing 1"
"Dat's me, ; me ever' Gine."
" What's the matter'!"
"Oh, eveithing don went wrong."
" Have you lost anything'!"
"Oh, it ain't dat, for e.in't liad nuffin
11.1e1ienlads,e, ; but l'so awful bothered in my
" How so?"
" 0h, well, I kain't keep from cousin', an'
dean' I knows my soul gwine ter tornieffis
Pse ffes-.0.1 an' I 110:1 'llned obureh
ytt eusses heft) I knows it. Not long
er go I 'jilted de 11 Italie (March, an' den I
thought wits safeelio,' I got or long .01
right till putty nigh dinner time de imaxt
day ttn"g1111 ter 'gratulate mersol dist I
wee liner aee, Bak, wile), et. ole hose
ruched nut ober de lot fence an bit el.
chnult outen me, au' nth oll' my hat right
der am' rns,eil him. All' right, dar mem.
weea fack dot 1 dun lost iny 'ligion,
Wall, I fooled. round or w•hile, I did, an'
'fused 'ligion evgia an' jinucal de Pewter-
terium comp -cell -Gam 1 knowod 1 Arne ad,
den f tirdatlidemeda I mon I:stumble t igh
1y , lmt couldn't fall frum gram Shortly
afterwards I wont old it) de field, an' de
lust thing I knowil yere emit er 1110001 'UN
blattk snake. I tuck ter my heels, but he
catch me, au' ho mopped round mo an'
'gnoter whim me wid lus tail. Ile whupped
me an' whitened me, sah, till I jest had ter
onsti him, an' den, atter it Wt10 all ober, I
knowod. dat my 'neon Shut gone.
" wont er long den fur quite ce while
widen!, 0113, 'llgion till yistedy, when I les -
sed er gin an' tined de Meferdis' church. Da
tole me too look ont, dat I moot fall frum
geacc, an' 1 tole 'um dm; I wez gwille hole
my mouf an' not cuss, att' I thought I had
de thing foul an' kap, 011 00 Wallkill' so
at 1.11‘ejlrli ant0hwa. p"p en ed then?" the white man
" Well, sah, I come down yere ter pray
fur de good e my soul, an' bout the titne I
got through yere come or big nigger an'
lowed dat he gwirte whop me. Sligo on,
Mail, I ain't done you no harm," but ho
hauled off an' Wok me ker-bif in de mouf,
an' don I jestnechully had ter cuss him, mu'
right dar I lost my Merferdis %eon, so now
I don't know what ter do."
"Perhaps loan help you," aaid the white
man,
" what ter de Lewd you could, flab, but
how you arsine do it is er puzzle tor me."
" Your name is Sam Potter, ain't ?"
" Dat's my name; salt. Cater blong ter
ole Liao Potter dab owned do race homes,
an' / has somethnes thought dist I must er
beriberi cussin frum him. Bob how you
awn'? 12015 me, Cap'n
" Why, I was thinking Mutt if you were
placed. somewhere -in a sort of institution,
where no one would be allowed to bother
you, you'd have no muse to swear."
" mout be so, salt, but I ain't got
time ter go tor no 'stution. It, meet save
my soul, but you know er man sortorhaster
talon kero a' 1110 body ee he goes or long."
"'Yes, but I think you can spare the tine
-or rather think you'll have to, The fact
is, Sam, I have here tt warrant for your ar-
rest, charging you witlt stealing a hog."
"Now, Jest limn at dab, Oh, it atn't no
eso for or posson ter try tee be ligious in
dis yoro weld' o' sin. I tookon hatter go
wid you, sah, Ab, Lewd," ha added, get-
ting up, " ain't satisfied Wid me oussini
Ind, is 1111W gwine tor prate dab I been steal -
in', Dia settles tne,-.A.ricansew Traveller,
Dull Thnee,
There's weeping now and wailing Leo
Among those genial powers,
Which eretwhile used to laugh and sing
Throughout the happy howl,
" Alas Alas I" Consumption twins,
"Oh I am quite undone V'
And " Woo " wails gay Pneumonia,
"I've lose my plaint] huh"
La, Grippe and Laryngitis,
AndMvial Carictrrh,
And myriads of °Qualm and Colds
Ai2o mourning 11001/ and far,
And in a wretched elierns
They sing Lida dismal song-
" 01i, Wes° aro dull, bard innee foe us,
Tho open Oar is gone I"
Pluton Cottriet•
,TAN, 8, 181)2,
RECOVBRING AN EXPLORER'S 1,d1/4
lune Mona 1110 Or 0111112, 1111111 611111.11
Ittesiorett 10 101s Feleittis,
The leely ef the unfortmetto French OX.
51111111., C1411111 10 1)(1111H, 1111,1 !Mt been
t front 1 lie Sahara I >est-t•t. to Algeria,
hot' thrro 3:1 ars lia,8 0 elapsed sinee 1/onla
loet his life. the ties' d,sert air his body
was remarkably W011 preserved, covered
partly omit wits Ity i WM be remem-
bered that Duels lost his life while attempt.
iins, to (moss Lite desert eolith of Algeria to
l'imbiletoo. 110 wan dreetied as a 1(0st/a
and passed himeelf oil all Mum:111mm He
had all VH1:0110.111i 11.01(111111a00110 With 010
Ambit: language, and about live yeare ago
succeed it 11 y imposed. himeel r upon the nomad
wanderere in the western pert of the desert
as a ISItuottilinan from tin lodis cerement
mut. Upon the 0010a1011 of his last daring
journey, however, his disg Mee WHEII penetrat-
ed, and the Dative who found his hotly end
restored it to friende in. Algeria gives 00010
111010 0011evrtling his tragic fate.
gide native says that Mule met at Seli a
earavan that 111111 001110 from further south
in tho Sahara to sueure a supply, of dates.
ltottls paid to the members of Hue caravan
100 francs foe the privilege of tcoeompanying
tIle party en its return to the south. 10
WAS 1011111 a am tnaking this journey that
he was assassinated by the mon whom he
bad paid to guide iced proteet 111/11. There
pi still to lie 00131) 011 his neck tho marks of
the coed tvith which he was strangled.
Retribution speedily ,,vertoolt lue murder-
s, for soon after they hail killed Doubt
ey tvere assailed by the Haggai, tribe, who
killed nearly all of them and captured the
suppliee with which the cainels wore lesion.
1)oe Is' body will probably be buried in.
Preece.
The Roof of the Worldi
A report has arrived from India of a skir-
mish at Gilgit, between an English garrison
anti 001118 tribesmen, in which the slaughter
on both sides was relatively heavy, As in
all affairs of this kwa Russian agents are
supposed to have urged the nations to the
attack, but as no offieial reports of the affair
have yot been received, it is impossible to
exactly understand what has happened.
It will be intotmsting, however, to mite the
place at which the engagement is reported
to have happened. Gilgit or 0 11 11g11)1 is the
mono applied not only to the fort nod toms
whieh make up a stronghold under tho noin-
11101 oontrol of the rajahs Kaeln»ir, and
aetuaIly bold by the Imit. to the
entire extent of a wild mountainous region
beyond the 115por ludos octet pied by several
iodises Slat lid, 10 1110 river that,
joins Die Indite whero the latter
sharply bonds its course, in its way
seaward, Irmo the northwestward to south-
westward. The lilgi River [lows into the
Indus between high mountain walls. 'The
tewn of Gilgit is about thirty -live miles
above the junetion of the rivere. The
( Inuit Valley is from ono to three miles wide,
a. rift in the mountain chains. The toven is
-Dam feet above sea level and Is but a col -
!action of miserable huts dominated by a
fort. Northward from Gilgit the ground
elimlis steeply up to the knot of mountain
Peaks and gin:tiers that parses under the
IMMO of the Pamir or " Roof of the World."
The valley is estimated to be about 1 35
ntilee in length, from the junction of the
rival% to the Shundar Lake in which the
I tilgit rises. The Russians or the tribesmen
under their influence have boon knewn to
he in the valley for some time. Captain
Youngitusbandran upon them several weeks
ago and they were then no so far otr front
Gilgit as in prevent him from alarmilig the
British garrison by 11. little. hard riding.
Small as the Gilgit territory is, it is large
enough ill Ita0W for the play of loeal
anti jeAlousies. Several of the little
llaiiV0 81111I0S tkat UN/MI its tereltery MVO
tO 0110 allOtker, and potty
wars afibrd plenty of opportunities for
Russia to intervene either openly or covert-
ly snppert of whet appears tn her to be
tiles t ro n ger party. The Dards,Who occupy the
Gilgit region, are 0 peen liar rare of people,
and in many respects reeemble Eueopoans,
so much so that one of the few travellers who
have got into their valleys end got out again
says they might easily be mistaken at hest
glance for Russians. In the Indus basin,
between the river and the moontains, are a
number of little States that are 11101(11 118
the Deed Republic. Those are the only
States in India which are not utonarehies.
The Gilgtt region is but little known,
even now, though the British have had a
garrison in its chief town for two years
past. Its greatest importance to England.
is that, narrow es the valley is in places, it
leads clowe directly bite the Indus basin,
and so aftords route of invasion of India
which might be found pros:Meal by a &tail-
ing R119E111811 OE 01 Skobelell stamp. Eng-
land appreciated this danger when by adroit-
ly taking advantege of her opportunities
she obtalued control of Kashmir, of which
the %dual rulee to -day is the British red -
dent. Anyone Wil0 Will glance at the map
of Asia will see that the Pamir eau easily be
made the base of operations agaiust Afghan-
istan, India or Chita, at the will of the
power holdiug it. Some foreign military
critics have scud that the value of tho Pamir
as a base of operations is exaggerated, as it
is a, snarl or knot of mountain ridges 11111a
glaciers, and thatat best 11 can Serve bnb as
a mask to Russian eoncentration. Evident-
ly from their ank•My over tbe presence of
the Russians in the Pantie, both China and
England decline to accept this view.
The Path Through The Olover,
We strayed together whore the oth
Goes winding through the clover,
And 'cross the soft, sweet orohard gras;
Where apple boughs lmng over,
We watohecl the waving of the hay
All reedy for tho mowing,
We saw the blueness of the sky,
And felt the fresh winds bloveing.,
And to our light, free haute the day
Was ghtd glad could he ;
-And nothing lacked of fair or bright:
For 'Margaret nor me.
But the brook our ways diverged,
Mine up the hillside loading,
Ana her's across tin:gentle slopes,
Whore peaoeful flocks wore feeding,
In slight uncertainty we stood,
We thought not of dividing,
While each the other's doubting stops
Robulted with playful chiding.
In mood hal 1 vexed, half laughing, we '
Could never quite agree
If / should arose the fields with her,
Or she ite hille with mo.
At last we took our separate ways,
Our hearts 'with tomer burni»g ;
Each longed to call the other back,
Ihtlisoorted to think of turning.
All, nut; hod we bat react right
The omen clear before ns,
We had less lightly hold the faith
No future:tan restore na
Nor sighed to think how better far
For both of us %would bo
If had crossed the fickle with her,
Or sho its hills with me,
--Mae Teeker Geme,