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.AGRICULTURAL,
Watering a .Horan,
Ahorse eon 11 v twenty•1100days without
solid food, merely rink nig (011(01', 8(1111111111
days %Vitined eluting ordrillIt1rig, end only lily
days when eating solid food without (11.11110
in ,, An 11e3 pine/311H a1111e1g Idol selllell that
a horse 011111tld never be watered often,,''
than three times a day, or in twotlly•tuur
!lours, '1'(3s Is not duly a mistaltcl idea,
says the horseman, lin a brutal prao(1.
A horse's sto1hm11 le extremely semi' ire,
and will seer under the least in[011teolten,
causing a fevevinh oondi1Ion. Heeding a
horse prize ipally on grain and driving it Live
hours without water 10 like giving a m011
salt mackerel for dinner and u131allowi1111 hint
t0 drink before supper time —very nll:<Itlix-
facto'y for the man. if yon know anytblilt;
a10nt the care 111 11018e) and have any sym-
pathy for theta water thein as often as they
want to drink—once an hour if possible.
By doh% this you will not only be 0 ((rutin
to year aniniale hut you will be a beuol'autor
to yourself, 118 they will do mere work, they
will loolc hotter and lave longe', 1f you are
a 8kep1i0 and know more abet 111(80,) than
anyone else, you nee positive that the fore-
going is wrong, because you have had h0r000
die with 111)10111,33 then too ouch, and bull.
ly say that, the agitators of frequ0utwatering
are fools in your estimation, and you would
not do such u thing. J1)01 reason for moment
and figure out whether the animal wool('
have ever -drunk endover-chilled 11isstomneh
if it had not been allowed to become over -
thirsty.
A 1•.mrso is a great deal like a man. Let
him get overworked,nver0(1rved or abused,
particularly for the want of sufficient drink
in waren weather, and the consequences will
always be injurious. Sensible Itoallnr3 in
large (ales are awakening to the advantage
of ftequon1 watering. Streetcar horses are
watered every hour, Ind sometimes oftener,
while they are at work, It is plenty of
water that 0uplplie8 evaporation or perspir-
ation and keeps down the temperature.
What old fogy methods amount to may be
seen by the change in the medical practice
to man. Twenty years ago a Person having
fever of any kind of pneumonia wits allowed
but little water to drink, and thea 3t had to
be tepid. '10.1l0y practitioners prescribe all
the iced watol' tho patient can possibly
drink, and in addition cold bandages are
applied to reduce and control the tempera•
turn of the blood. What 'is applicable to
111011 will never injure a horse. Use e0h1-
111011 sense mid 11LLlllall feelitlg. Don't think
it is a horse, and capeble of enduring any
and all Clings. .A driver who sats in 11s
wagon and lashes his worn•nu1, half -curried,
half -fed and half -watered team should never
complain of any abuse he may receive from
his master or omplryer, for he is lower in
character, harder in sympathy and less
noble than the brutes he is driving, and de-
serves, in the nanlo of all that is human, the
same putaslunent as a criminal.
Relative Profit of Sheep and Cows.
Dr. (hien Wilson makes a oompari0on
between sheep and ,.OW0 as to profit. Moro
is the way lie puts the comparison : " \Pith
ordinary care and judgement the flocks in.
crease 1.15 per cant, in number, the lambs
bring four da11111) 0,31111, and the wool two
dollars a head. This dives all Meanie of
Seven dollars at sheep. What will 81)06133,,
a cow will keep eight sheep. To equal this
each row of a dairy should produce fifty-six
dollar's. The very best herds scarcely do
this; the majority run far below it, But
supp00e all equalled this, the labor account
aga11181 the cows tells in fiver of the sheep."
As proof that lie does not ovllr.08tilnate the
1,111110 (31 011001), he quotes the experiments
of a farmer where ho recently stopped :
"Tho wool ''08 sold for fifteen dolltro and
twelve lambs were raised, which are worth
at lost five each now, Imd could bo sold for
that. This gives an income of seven dollars
.and a half a sheep, or sixty dollars for the
equivalent of a cow." Itis not difficult to
grow heavier -wooled sheep and thereby in-
crease
mcrease rho profit on then. Iu Galindo, where
wool brings nn average of nineteen cents it
pound, the annual profit on a sheep is esti.
mated by Farm Journal to be $0 20. Not
only do these figures show more money and
indicate a good investment from the sato
of the poet COWS, but their substitution for
these cows would bring so mueli relief to
the much -talked -of overworked dairyman's
wife!. —_
THE BRUSSELS POST, 3
Only a Hog.
The prevailing opinion among the farm-
ers in some sections seems to be that any
thing will (lo for a hog. They stay 1 " Oh,
he's only a hog Anything is good enough
for hint." I think that to the toed given
and care, or, more properly speaking, lack
of care, can be traced the primary causes of
so noel mortality among swine from
cholera and other diseases. There must be
a defect somewhere in the management of
hogs. What is that defect ? 10 it in the
foed? You say, no, I feed. sparingly
on corn, plenty of milk, shorts,
brtan,round. 01)15 611(1 110111, 0(0.
Then where is the trout lo? First, let inc ask,
what kind of shelter have your !logs? Sea.
on(1, what kind of a yard 110(00 they to run
111? Nov, I do not intend answering the
130081ions for you but leave you to do that
for yourself. I will only make a few sug-
gesttous. First as regards shelter. What-
ever is more convenient and the cheapest
Will answer as long as it will keep out the
cold wilds of winter. Then your hogs
Will not pile one on top of another for
warmth. But at, the sane time the hog -
house nest not be too close. That is nob
heelth101, and ft meet be clean. Clea111).
ness can not be maintained hero unless the
bedding Is changed at least once each week.
For bedding purposes we always use
good, demi straw. It is butter than wheat
straw. I have hotted of rot•,, for fodder
being used, but can not say anything for it,
as we Have never tried 16. And as regards
your tial for hogs, let it be 0 good side hill
corral 3f possible. If that location can 11011
be had lot it bo on as high ground as eon
be found—anywhere to keep the hogs out
of a mud halo. !'here is uo animal on the
farni that will pay better for a little oars
than the hog. Neither is thorn any animal
so shamefully ahle00d. I believe, 0S a vet-
eran hog brooder, once said : " The hog hoe
paid more mortgages for the farmer 1111311
anything else produced on the farm,"
Therefore he is we'thy of a little attention
if he is only a 110g.
Gardening for Children,
There is no better way to get an interest
in horticultural societies than to encourage
the o1111m/en in gardening. Have a depart-
ment In which premiums are espooially
awarded to plants and flnwors grown =Mt.
steely h, children. Lot t1001 have their
own gar(1008 in 11(1)310 spot tvhoto they can
play harden to their heart's contort. Let
t,he111 sow seeds, sat Ont en flings, and ovary
a ,y attend to their geow1h. Much of the
els of the Springfield Amatolr Tiorti-
nral 8oeiety depends upon this home
gardening in which ohildreal and their moth-
ers take all 101)iv3 part, A paytu+mt of 1(1
01,1)111111110411133)1 Incitiler'alllp, ned l0 11(110
adinita to their flower 81,,18, aril yet they
have blare money in 1hu•„)sane 011111 many
mare pr •torriinus 0ncietil,n tint) charge Prow
ti;^ 0134., yearly eill)9.'69p1a0e, 14tH ;Al cent0
ndwi s;uu, The way i, to In die 1110111 purl)•
lar and get. the 111 10(011 i3)l0tent0,1 in 11113:'
3)l 'e,di)1gs, This e.sy nal. meet (lone of
the requirluwul0 fin a num, ndvaneed IioI,1
of horticulture, 10)'nl almost. all lo,011tiesit
would l8. 1011101 not a 1'111• of su11h ax had
great,,' experience in the gardening art
would lend a laud 311 leeuuros and mike.
\\'le, over 1111e11 as t'lrhe1 in any cannel ly
who did not himself learn while fu 1101 ala
of teaching adhere? The very net of pripnr-
11110111'at' the tali( enlightens the 1111101 and
c.nn000 researebcs that alight not otherwise
have Leen entered into. The field has Leen
dna much neglected. Begin again, trot 11111
yo lief interested. It might Have emelt to
do hi (t'eating a love fur the country 101
ngain01 the city, that appears now so ann-
epignotls a feature, A comfortable, plea-
sant home, svlioli surely 111014118 8on10t171133
beyond the Neer() walls of the builclin g
would soot demand mid proem o other plc a
sant surtmtbulhlgs; these would include
trees for 81113,11, shrills 1(11,1 Gowers for hene-
ty. Oood roads would follow and pleasant
social intercourse. Thu attempt is at least
worthy 1101 effort. livery little village, be.
Bides 0ubdivinion8 of larger01610sa1)1 (00108,
might have their societies for mutual im-
provement in this blue, but he sure the chil-
dren are taken into consideration. Prizes
fur 1110 best gardens, fruits, vegetables, and
house plants night bo in the peogramine.'
[1'rtairie Farmer,
A City Full of Idols.
Canton is a heathen 11ty. Like Athens
of old, ” it is full of idols," '1'emp1es abound,
0)1011 with its gilded images and shrines, but
these 1111) only 1110 more taenial and expensive
expressions of the idolatrous spirit which
pervades the city. Shrines are met with at
every turn, scene redo and iuxepensive,
others elaborate and costly, but 01(31 with
the 111ue11 0 sticks burning before the idol 110
to61et. Many of the shops and most of the
private dwellings have their shrines, with
oe without an image. As with all heathen
peoples, the element of fear 80e11a t.) pre-
dominate and to give complexion to limit
religious forms or !lies. The first night or
twc' 1110 ar)eat fu Lho city we 11'0(0 not (a little
dIstarbe(l by to ineeesaut beataug0 of gongs.
On inquiry WO learned that it was the par-
ticular 11010 in the Chinese noon 111 1V11011
vigorous efforts are made to drive away evil
iniiuences. If hideous noises are olleotivo
in this clirectum Carlton has nothing to fear.
The streets also via with each other fu
elaborate scenic displays, acemnpaui011 with
rude music, to propitiate the god of lire,
high) bamboo structures being erected for
the purpose, and professional performers
being eneaged to conduct the exhibition.
Under the 00(n•oy of Dr. Henry, wo
walked a few stone from his door ono even.
ing to witness such a display, but the fire
god was not propitiated, fee on the very
next day a destruolvo fire broke out but a
few yards from the spot where the perform-
ance had been held, and which for IL time
threatened the destruction of the mission
premises. Passing through the girls' school
building under the guidance of Aries Lewis,
WO noticed n singular device on the roof of
11,11 adjoining house. On the comb of the
roof was perched a clay ('0ostee in gorgeous
colors ; nnnediately in front of him, anti on
the next lower row of tiles, was a hideous -
looking image, while lower still were three
miniature cannon made of enrthrware and
painted directly at the school, all, WO ware
assured, to ward off the evil influence of a
Christian school 1 This is idolatry in its least
offensive garb es seen in the temple, on the
street and in the home. Beyond this the
veil need net be lifted. Paul has done it
for all time and for all heathen lands in the
first cha:p1er of his epistle to the Romans.
Sion may sing the praises of Buddhism,
Cocfuoianism and 'laoism, and all three
seem to Le mingled in Southern (11111, but
the appalling fact remains that the people
are sunk in the grossest superstition, with-
out Clod and without hope.—[ lurch at
Home and Abroad.
Gone With The Pins.
Where is the thrill of last night's fear?
Whereto the stain of last week's tear?
Whore is the tooth that aeledlnatyear?
Gone whore the lost pins go to
For last night's riddle is all made (Main,
The 0unshlno laughs at the long past rain.
And the tooth that ached hater lost its pain—
That's what our troubles grow to.
Whore aro the methcs that wo -used to wear
\Vitae are the burdens we used to bear?
Whom is the bold -load's curling hair?
Gone whore the pins disappear to
For the style has changed and the clothes aro
11e10,
The skins aro wearing abeignhtor blue,
'('Ile hal' deuen't snarl eel used to do,
And the parting has grown more cleat', too.
Where aro the Lille that 001' 1)0n00 dlotreeeed?
\\'hero 14 Lho 11111 that 1110 baby "blessed "1
Whore are the doves in MAL year's nest?
W1101.0 11111.0 Lho pins a0 gone to?
On the old bills panirdare the now once thrown,
The baby's at school with her pins outgrown,
And the squabs are running a 1(086 of their
01vn—
You 0113 t bring 'cm back if you want to.
We can stand the smart of yesterday ;
1'o.day 8 worse 1110 w0 can d rive away;
Who t s was and is brings 1111 dismay
)for past and present sorrow;
B06 1110 Burdens that shako us groan and
sweat,
The tronblos that make us fume and fret,
Aro the !.hinge tha�', bev0n't happened yet—
Tho pins that well find t0•n10r00 W,
—[ltobort J. Bordello in Ladles Bone Journal.
The Latest Dodge,
" Lot me tell you of a ,,lean mal," said
Fogs to Bogs.
It isn't that ono who, whoa his wife
(lied, sent her to her parents and marked
box" 0. 0. D.?"
" No,"
" Nor 'ti0n'6 the follow who invited his
01011100 to come and visit him, and 1011011
she loft, presented her with a board bill for
1110111110 she h14(1 remained?"
" No it's another one,"
" Chou go ahead."
f. Well, fb'0 a follow 80110 owns a second-
hand clothing store clown on Clark street.
tie hunts out all rho beggars in town, and
anybody likely to bo hard tip, and gives
'cul a I1i00 net' dollar bill."
" Can't atm anything moan 'bout that, I
mast say."
" No ; but there ore two sides to it—the
111(311111000 10011 tho other side. When the
begger poor fellow, or whoovot' it 0111111006
to be, folds the generous dirt, with his heart
1111 of gratlmdo,110 finds on I,ilo back of 11
in big real Totters : " This bill is 00unter-
foit. Put a good one wilii6 and buy a ,,Mee
pair of pants of Solomon Ohe061u0,"—[Tho
Arknnsaw Traveler,
Tff11 DEIVL 8 BB,IDGE/
,( swiss Legend,
Wo were in Sw!t/e land, at (l0,.'henen, a l
nhaflllllla 111114 ' 11,):81 feet Mee.,• Elie invel
of the ,u't, a6 ale lnllraucu of 1111 01111101 of
3,11111 (10)361 ,1.
lu the m,r11w:t 111. S ,,01,033 wo tou:1 a
carriage W go to ilie (11,1 )' of the phone.
Nothing ro111d he mule pie'' il.ainr and
wore
l a(11'e beautif11I thh11, t11ie I; laei l' I'n"l, 11
wn!ur'1 almub, ascending son st,tnlly, until
a1 the end of five hot'''s and a 171111 11'1 110"
rived at till) pas -A of the lrurice, et the 111,3,1
or of t.10) Menlo, at a height of 7,110) feet, '
\\'n had 11rn following thelmhtse nl' 111 •
1011140, a mighty foaming tot rent Wirl'liug
about 1110 Iuass00 of reek as if it 1,111,1
11116' them alma; on its will and terrible ,
way to thio ('i11Icy.
')'hen w0 pa0,10d over the De: id's Bridge, I
n wonderful single arch thrown over the,
torrent, and therc we heard the curious
legend which agave it its name.
This is the legend as 11 W110 t1/111
Thu two CAD 10110 of 1'r3 and 1'nterwatd
were formerly separated, ly the lleme; and
no 01hnntulieatian could bu nett .1shed La•
twe811 Mem, beeaus0 the torrent tarried
away Ill the bridges whish could be eon-
8tlhetnd over its bed,
One day the people cone and told the
bn113tf of the canton of Uri that. 1111 new08t
and the best bridge over built lied leen car,
Ned away the night before, '1'o describe
the bail311"s fury would be impassible.
" None but the devil," said he, " 01111 ever
ac0empli011 this work."
Upon these words the bailiff's servant a1/.
p011re 1 wit11 convulsed features, announcing
111 a trending ('0)00, " His Satanic Majes-
ty. ' Thu devil entered with a tow bow.
He WIaa 111'000011 like a Swiss peasant, anti
Ids long tail lung below his trousers 1,e -
hied. He seated himself at case in an arm -
(Maly, and reeling has (dove)) feet on the
glowing brands in the lire -place : " You
called nm!, I believe 3"
" No --yes," repli0.1 the bailiff.
" For the consti'001inn of a beidge 3" con-
tinued the devil,
" The service you speak of would be of
inestimable value to us."
"'Por nothing you get nothing,' say's the
proverb," continued Satan.
" NV() expended ten ounces of goldfor rho
last bridge, and I would willing pay you
double 1ha10an1 for the bridge yon would
engage to build tar us."
" 13111, 1 if you have nothing but money to
oiler 010, you msy keep it. I have all the
money I care for." And picking up aglow.
Mg cord from the lir(: with his Gngors ho
pat it into the bai111Ps money -bag, when,
or a marvel, the coal became an ingot of
gold as cold as a morsel of ice.
" Very well, then ; what will you have'?'
"Mee:, rend and sign this paper; that
is what I wish," mud drawing a paper from
his pooket .Ale devil laid it before the bailiff.
The letter read NS follows : " Satan stall
have for his own the first soul which shall
pass 01.01' the bridge which he, Satan, en.
gages to build in a single night."
The bailiff, rafter a moment's reflection
wrote his name below the agreement; the
devil did the same, put the paper into his
pocket, and disappeared, leaving a strong
odor of sulphur behind him.
The next day a superb bridge spanned
the Reuss, and the builder sat on a stone in
the road, waiting for his promised reward.
Suddenly in the distance ho saw the bail•
ifi coming, carrying ft stack on his back:
IIow is this 3" cried the devil; "are
you coining to cross the bridge first, my
clear fiend—to sacrifice yourself for your
compatriots?"
"Not precisely," replied the other, in a
mocking tone. .(hen he stooped and let
down his sank at the end of the bridge, un-
tied the fiord that bound it, and let out of it
a great bleak cat, which crossed the bridge
with rapid bounds.
" Wretch 1" screamed the devil, "you
thought you would trick ale, but it shall (lo
you no good ;" and taking up an immense
mass of rock, he was about to annihilate his
work, when a procession 01' priests appear-
ed, with the Dross borne before them, and
banners flying, to bless the bridge. At this
sijht, Satan quickly dropped rho rook and
disappeared, howling in disappointment and
ra o.
When the bailiff put his hand into his
money bag for the ingot of gold, he burned
11s fingers on a red hot coal.
flo Was Stout,
Vat Man—Whose costume shall I wear to
the ine.sq 1Orad0 ba11?
03010131 l+'rioml•—D0n't wear any costume.
'l io a string t0 your ankle and go as a toy
balloon.
A Useful Bag.
A smart, but serviceable bag in which to
pot stockings while they aro waiting to
undergo repairs, is very inexpensively ,,lade
in clash. Take a yard and a quarter of
gray Russian crash ; the coarser the quality
the prettier the bag will be. Divide it into
two pieces, one of half a yard, the other
three•quartors of it yard. Fringe one end
of tho shorter piece, and both ends of the
longer, to the deptlh of 11100 niches. Basta
the hag together, with the fringed ends at
one end, making a finish for the bottom of
the bag, while the top of the shorter piece
is turned ovee lilto a flap an tho front of the
bag, \\'ith a small too cup, or any other
round ding of equal size, draw a circle in
the middle of the lower half of the bag whieh
is not covered with the turned•ot'ur portion.
Draw three smaller ebreles on the 'infringed
part of the 11,11/, at equal distances apart.
With black and yellow zephyr or crewel 111
in chase circles by darning or some filling
institoh, Brier -stitch Lho 0001110 with yellow
zephyr, and beneath the Gap fasten a
slender strip of hood, to hold the bag in
shape. Matte the handle of the bag of Leo
strips of crash, four inches wide and half a
yard in length, Seam moll strip together
and turn it inside out, so rho seam will bo
on the inside, Put at row of brier -stitching
down the centre of each strip, and fasten
one handle to the bag at each end, one end
of too strip being fastened to the back, tho
other to the front. A needle book, and a
small pocket for holding darning cotton into
also be fastened under the flap. A bag of
this description i0 also very 0100 for holding
soiled handkerchiefs or waste paper, or any
little odds and olds for which it is desirable
to haves an especial place,
ThatE lained I�'
Grateful Guest—"I 0,111 obliged to you,
Mrs. bla(ilulis, Forgiving me madly the
'half -imp of coffee I asked foe. You are the
first woman I ever easy whose 'half•oup
didn't overflow into the saucier"
Amiable Hostess—"I used to keep a
boarding house, 141r. Bylos."
ohaVocal Note.
" Now, there is a story I don't bol io e,'
solei Colonel Y3rgor, as he laid aside an ex-
.
'uga\Yhat 01ory (10 that, Colonel?" aekoel
Gus no Smith,
"Why, that paper says that Cotopaxi
eat sometimes bo heard five hundred inflos,"
" Von don't believe it.'
" Of course I dolt believe 11, I'll bot
there isn't, (, singer in the world that can bo
heard half that far."
" But Cotopaxi is a volcano, Colonel,"
"Is 314 I thought it was one of t.11oso
Italian fellows that go about with Patti,"
0UI NORTHWEST. DISCOVERY OF OARIBuo, iLATE BRITISH NEWS.
Some Iirrimeoue I mprrsslen( Corrected
'Sot at Cued el'Perpetual MOW, but Uu'
3r1udl'st4'1-7utnle on Ilse Globe for?br'
lt,vitnptrn'nl of the Utter.
'l'i:,'follolve;",xt•actalro,, a letter by 31r.
31>N„i1, in /ti tips' .If Il,o 1,3161 013111',) 111. ('an-
m:n'e and .\1111111"•310 111 1111 An,111'11'1M puller
will prove inlrl'111iny, 11 r. 31.•3ei10'di ort,
in writ Mg tvs to 11+pel same of 113 w rneg
imprr.,,ions held by .\,i1,11,0 is regarding
\Western lwads, and /1.100 le 1h1.1, .1 110111.
Halt of Iowa farmer.; w111 1,0111 uniplat, mai
331 111hg to to1.0(' 311030/1 iuda,,'11m01' 33,
1.1'011Icy the 11011 11.14,1•M to ilio agri„ldlnral-
isl
' 1 hare it Wall street friend, somewhat
!mind bre his pithy way ofpetting thing-;,
who uad0 life tolling rtee ar10: " Better go
west for a !start. 1 ham 1)111y lucre. There are
nude, ae"la,s ill 11111 floods 1611 lint se many
begl1:flet, thein.,,
The troubl,l ix with the United Stet es
nolo that there sclu'rcly remains a west
tvitlin its borders to go it, Thu oreem 161
mast of its government agricultural land is
gime. There 1-A no material within toe know-
lelge with which) 111 make another Minium
sola or Iowa. 1111116(1 the 000(1:1 thinker
knows well that starting Olde (Meade with
(18,000,1100 people the overflow will elbow
each other a little in every state in the
union in the early years of the next century.
if every emigrant that reaches our stores
could be diverted to Ua 06110 or elsewhere
thm'o would bo no mourners anhung our pen.
ple, unless the patriots of the new south
who have planted is town site on every avail•
able piece of round should hear same crape,
"I reached Iowa in 1811!1 and for (100)1y
four years, eouuected with railway construe.
tion, travelled the ten itory from Marshall-
town north and northwest into 3finnesola
and the Dakotas, Nina northern Iowa, and
western Minnesota and the best wheat belt
of the Dakotas leas then, Manitoba and 1.110
North-west Territories of Canada now are
to the pioneer farmer, mool,au1c and Ener.
chant.
•' Last fall drove over this country frons
Brandon southeast !wham; 2110 miles, prin-
cipally on the line of now railway 1nnstrue•
Mon, and so had a chance to make the 0011T.
p0rison given. Here and there, long clue
tames apart, stood the log houses of the
pioneer, located many years In advance of
the railroad. The people told me over and
over again where wenvunhl stop to fend or
pass the night, 1,0 same old story of long
hauls from home to market, and the empty-
handed return because the cost of the mut,
nes. had eaten 1111 the value of the load of
grain. It require(. no effort for me to go
bac)( twenty years to the American dugouts
during the recital. Tho same enthusiasm(
was manifested over the near approach of
that great civilizes, the locomotive. It
meant to all these people the very wile dif-
ference between a baro living gotten by the
hardest labor and conlperativo wealth. It
always does mean this to every new coun-
try.
' Undoubtedly the further parallel will
be remarked later on that the same gratifled
sovereigns well reach out after the railroad
company with the distance and cheerfully
smoke their well earned cigars while the
ahal eholdet' of the railway does the spitting.
1borrowed this 8)(11)))0 from the story of
the two newsboys who eombm0d their capi-
tal, and with the result bought' t4 penny
grab cigar. The largest boy Lighted the
wend and smoked nnti1 the junior demand-
ed n whiff, which he denied him with great
sangfroid, saying, 'You ought to be satis-
fied, you are it joint stockholder; I will do
the smoking and you can spit.' Charles
Dickens would have said that this must
have boon an American newsboy. ,
" My drive over this wheat belt was (3 re-
velation, Nowhere else in any country on.
earth is the such all unbroken expanse of
soil adapter) to wheat raising as this tern -
tory from Winnipeg to the foothills of the
Rooky Mountable. Tho crops uniformly
grade No, l hard. The yield 30 to 50 per
acre, The price of land from 32 to $1i per acre,
The Dost of produotion, liberally figured, 20
cents per bushel. The value this year at
the station is 75 to 30 Dents. Young men
pay for a quarter section of gronud and im-
provements in one season w16h the crop
they raise. Single owners with little or 110
starting capital Propped last year 110 high as
60,000 bushels of No. 1 hard wheat, and
own the property they raised it on. Thirty
million bushels of grain went out of this
stretch of country to the market last year,
and I would exaggerate it if I stated that
there was one farm house for evety ten mil-
es square. Canada, which has more area
than all Europe, could beyond any doubt
absorb the entire population of Europe and
feed Rout of this granary.
";Cho prevailing idea about Canada is
that lying between us and the north pole it
is inclement, ice bound and sterile. We
associate it with bear skin overcoats, to-
boggan sleds, snow shoes and ice palaces,
All writers and artists have seemed to con-
spire to put a frosting on this institutes,. As
early as 1815, De Quincy, in his illoonlpnr-
able summing np of a winter's delight says;
" No, a Canadian winter for my money, or
a 11(100ian one, whore every 111x113 but IL 00-
proprietee with the north wind in the feu
simple of his ova ears."
"Charlotte Brenta, in 1847, hurl Jane
Eyre give her readers a dully idea of man's
stern 0luu 1,am. by comparing his frozen
nature to a Jan11(13an winter.
"No artist has ever thought it worth
while to slake a se [inner picture of anything
Canadian until rho Canadian Ptwtfte railway
people very wisely combated this foolishness
while eerier; of magnilieent engravings, and
even they give prominence to the glacier on
the Selkirk mountains,
" You can as easily imagine nn Eegml-
7na11x lolling in a lawn hammock ligh113'
clad 111 o.'o'suolcermid a cigarette as to get
up a mo"taal picture of 0.11ything Canadian
without something in it.
" 1 in testify to 128 degrees Fahrenheit
in the sola for 031011gh1 days last summer in
the 'Rocky &fountains to male ale wonder
at all Leis. The facts are that no finer
climate favors any por1011 of the inhabit'
ablo globe. Canada has mom 1urriloty 1.1)1111
Iva have thatlies on the lines of t he latitude
along which have been, and are being 31)0'
(limed that moo of people which denomin-
ates 010,, and things everywhere, Lenders
of nen aro not bled in the tropics 111 this
century. Vigor, strength, mental and
physical, and the courage to do and dare,
grows best, if not almost entirely where the
winter is long and hard enough to make leo,
and I prefer many winters without and ie
then, Geographically I should say tat
1, Hale GO was the dividing litre of the bust
breeding ground for the human lace, and it
is practically the boundary line bet mom the
United! States and Canada."
2 Now Fad.
Miss Smilax "\\'hat a Gee nolloction of
g01d fish 111011 have, \ers, Tanglotolgne,'
\'ll'a, Pangloten goo---" Yes, .I gl'Otty
prize hay herb.lrinmi,"
Alias Smilax (hose where the gold
ahadns oil' into rod, aro especial y bealti•
fttl,''
SL's, Tanglete1gnc---" Yes, I think a
goo.l deal of 11104o 1ltint01 ones."
now the (:real Gate ('ntntlly' Wm, 9/18101•• •
tired by Srul'ebers Atter (Veath,
Thos, Seward, of Lytton, is ane of the
pioneers of 111311sh Columbia, awl 0:111 toll
vett' interesting tales of the groat rush and
111) 140)01nt of ter gold in the early'd11yi. 11,,
Sow ('dc,1)1 ela1nl tiro honor of Lein;, Otto of
the lint dlseuvel•ere of the Cariboo gold des.
tiet,and his story ofits 131'vn')ryIx1-e17in-
forest. nig.
m1 1001Jlg. 110 ram" to 310)1)81
the gold li'..1,1e of 1.',tlifol'u1,t in 1`8;14, his .1ea•'
theft ten being Big liar, w11011 1111s then ('1!•
pori ''l 111 be labuiously ri,al diggin41, \3'11.1'
a number of other lnrners, he l'urnled it part•
1111',111 1/, UPI 1011'('i0l ilia in Jun, 1,ay, in
1oad''') with ,atllicieut provisions
fm. a long way in t he uu111seuvered ,anuli 1 y.
They pnv00 1 up the Fraser to Vale, ehron311.
the great o,ulyree, and 011 to the Lilloted,
taping the canoe all the way to the head of
navigation an 11m latter river. Horn. it 11"a4
necessary to paulc flee provisions forty tiles
to Big liar, and the Owners of the little
pack train working between the two points
charvod 15 cents a pound for packing the
goo,ls (11rongh. flee pltuk00s preferred pro-
visions 111 gold dust for their trouble, and a
bargain was easily stlhtek, Mr. Seward and
hie oolnp,nions handed over 1151hs of beaus,
50 l be of flour and 5 Its of salt --value $80,
The party ll'opeeted Big Bar thorough-
ly and made bare pay. l 7 to this time (10
ono hall penetrated the region now culled
Cariboo, and its hidden millions were not
even dreamed of. The party left Big liar,
and, packing their pr,3visione on their
lacks, prospected the country rental about,
but the best pay foetid was $8 10 14)3 Per
day per elan. Po men who were exp01ttng1
to turn up thousands with the next s1ove-
ful of gravel, this W1101101 worth bothering
with. The party was now divided, one
half being son, to Port Alexander, a Had.
son's 13ty' post, then in charge of \le. Ve•
Reezie. now 11. P. P. for Nanaieo district,
111 pr1epect the streams in that (1011111y.
The ''ten rottli'nod shortly havin5 found
bothiug, and so greatly disr.1uraged that
they broke up the partnership and left for
Victoria. \1.', Seward and a elan teamed J.
S. Cunningham still had confidence in the
country, formed a partnership and struck
pay dirt which returned. from $0 to 1110 per
day to each.
While they were working one day, a
canoe pas: -Acid up stream with three men in
(Marge, one 10)30 dl'a\Vieg 11,o canoe by a
rope attached to it, the second was feeling
it o11' the rocks, and the third leas steering.
They passed oe the opposite side of the
stream to which lar. Seward and has »a t -
mer were working, and did not stop. 1 hese
three men were the original discoverers
of Cariboo, but who they were, where they
came hem, and what was their fate, 1108
neer been a8ocetaiuod. Mr. Seward after-
wards blamed that these 111Cn went to fort
Alexander. While there an Indian came
in and reported that gold was 10 be found
in quantity in the river new 311(0(0(1 118
Qnesnolle. They proceeded up the folks of
Qnesneilo, left their canoe and penetrated
the oariboo country. Since theft no trace of
them has ever Leen found. They may have
been killed by the Indians, of starved to
death. In those days the Indians were far
from being friendly, and more than one
venturesome miner lost his life at their
hands. The theory tilos these men =ever
returned to civilization, and must have !net
with an untimely death, is well sustained
by the feet that none of them have ever
turned up to lay claim to the honor
of discovering the country out of which
001311y $00,000,400 in gold dust end nuggets
have been taken.
A few days after those men passed up the
river, 31r. Seward left the diggings and ro-
turnecl to Victoria, which 01160 then little
Letter than a Hudson's Bay post, with a
population of only a few hundred. Cun-
ningham returnee to Big Bat' allyl mined
there for a tinge. Six weeks after Seward
left Big Bar, word reached Victoria of a
great strike of gold in the upper 001101ry.
Shortly afterwards Cumiugh8.m abandoned
work at Big Bar and returned to Victoria
for the winter.
In the spring of 1850, Mr. Seward again
crossed Lho gulf in the same canoe in which
he had made the first trip up the Fraser,
and proceeded to Port Douglas, at the Head
of Harrison Lake. From there the party
packed everything to Lill000t, and then to
Fort Alexander. Here they met prospec-
tors who said they had prospeeted the whole
eount'y of the Fort and had found nothing,
and were returning disappointed.
Mr. Seward paid no attention to these
reports, but, with his eomrade8, proceeded
to the looks of Quesnelle. Hauled upon the
bank of the river was the identical canoe
which had been taken up by the three ,nen
the previous 001180(1, and over whose fate a
strange mystery still hangs. Ilere the
party put down their rockers, and made 30
per day to the man. They were without
fresh meat, and ono day a couple of the
men said they would go out and kill some-
thing. 01n crossing the divide, they enter-
o) a stretch of country in which the cart -
boo abounded, aul which fact has since
gives the name to the whole oe1utry. lhoy
killed one of these animals and furnished
the camp with fresh neat. A few days
afterwards Mr, Seward crossed the divine
and was the first white man to visit what is
now known as Goouoo Creek. lie, with
Messrs. Koichly and Harvey, may. be cal-
led the (discoverers of Cariboo, though the
honor 3)reperhy belongs to the men who
110(003' rem r'llel,
Mr. Seward continued to work with his
partners in 0130110e till November, 4th,
whom ho strafed back to Victoria to spend
the winter, and never returned to the coun-
try leaving t0 the Miners who followed the
text and following years tnn1ohd Millions of
gold w111011 were soots extracted) from their
hidden depths, and the discovery of w111011
spread a gold fever that drew fully 30,000
uninere and fortune seekers to the great
Cariboo country. 111). Seward purchased a
picot, of land Hoar Lytton, in 18011, and here
he has resided constantly ever since—a per-
iod of 30 yea's. Ho is a halo, leeety, and
genial " old timer," well-to-do, and tampon-
ed by all who know him, -0. C. Ex,'hanpc,
An engine driver, named ,tames
met with a horrible death at a etit dry
works at Sheffield, on Monday. As he woe
leaning over his engine his shirt was 1au311
by 3lie ''0.11110 pin, and his head Was drugged
lulu the machinery aid (Washed t1') pieces
beyond rm./eget/ 1011.
1i.11'1y on Sunday morning lire broke out
in the premises nt Join) 1,160 8, of Llauully,
and resulted in I he doalit of three c•hildron,
'levo ot11014 11)1'''10) 'ly burned and taken
t o the hospi 1 al. The 01'1'1(l of the lire is 1(11,-
knowi.
On Stnel3y 1I, body of Arthur/ Matthews.
a clerk, aged 317, was found undo' a cliff'
near It msgale with his neck hrokel, hav-
ing
aving apparently thrown himself from the top,
He lived ie l:atnsgeto, and in his pocket
was a long and pathetic letter to his wife.
The 14eoretary of -nate for war has now
o1(610 arrangements for admitting, men of
ten yeare'service to the benefit of the 030110
for granting speetal pe:shuns to a limited
number of /11011 (0310 served in campaigns
before 1530, and it has also been decided
that the receipt of a deferred pension for
more than ten years shall not be a dioquali-
fixation fora epeeial 3)01)010(1,
Tho LOnd011 1/181)0 : are investigating a loss
of jewellery and diamonds valued ata largo
011111 which occurred at the laid bol masque
at Coventilarden Theatre. It is believed
that the thieves cat the ornaments off ladies'
dresses whilst their attention was obtained
by en11f0,le'at0s. In one, instance the scene
of Operations was in the stepper room. Three
men aro suspootell.
Experiments are to be made during the
summer at ..pezzro with anew model for a
submarine boat that is being constructed
for the Malian Admiralty. Pim principal
qualities claiuod for this boat are that it
rapidly and easily 031331,, and rises in the
water, that it preserves a perfect equili-
brium, is easy to steer at whatever depth,.
and attains a speed greater than any boat
hitherto 1114110.
A shocking accident000nrred on Wednes-
day morning at Nottingham Union \Vork-
house. Jahn 33ur1(will, an minute, aged 06,
had been told obi' to 1188)81 the engineer lin
certain work. He seas seen to enter the en-
gino.house with a piece of rag in his hand,
as if to do some cleaning. Shortly after,
groaning leas heard, and the old man was
found naught in the shafting. The machin-
ery' was stopped, but .Bnekwill was dead
when liberated, a leg and arm being torn
off.
An Australian lady, Raving advertised for
Leo housemaids, was called upon by two
stylishly -dressed young lades, who were
shown into the drawing -room and were
treated as callers, until they remarked that
they had come in 0ousequence of the adver-
tisement. They explained that " Par had
been droppin' it lately," and that conse-
quently they found it necessary to take
situations. When asked if they could wait
on table, the reply was, " Well, yea, we
can wait, but we'd rather not, as w0 might
meat a lot of our friends."
An inquest was held on Tuesday at the
City Prison, Holloway, on Daniel Bryant
Creme, lobo hung himself in his cell. The
deceased was on remand thele for stealing a
cheque, value :3.2. On Friday evening he
was seen asleep, but at six next morning
was found hanging from his plank bed. He
had committed suicide with his own neck-
tie, and before doing so had written on hie
hat ho soap " I am not guilty of the charge."
The deceased had formerly been avalet. A
verdict of suicide during temporary in-
sanity was returned.
Twenty firemen belonging to the Royal
Mail Steen Packet Company's ship Atrato
were charged before the Southampton mag-
istrates on Monday with refusing to proceed
to sea after having signed articles. It ap-
peared that a white man was taken ill at
the last moment, and a negro was engaged
in his place, whereupon the defendants left
the ship, and returned only on a promise
that the blaok man should be discharged.
The defendants, through their solicitor,
pleaded guilty, saying a white man had
been promised the berth. They were fined
20s and costs each or 14 days.
ASt, Petersburg correspondent telegraph
—Crimes of a " passionate" character haven
again become alarmingly frequent in Russia.
In Odessa a day or two ago a young couple
committed suicide by shooting themselves
with a revolver, in consequence of some
misunderstanding with their relations. In
Dietf a young count, who was pprevented
from marrying a merchant's daughter, Brat
shot her and then himself with a revolver ;
and in Kazan another infatuated young man
of good family has shot a well-known actress
in a fit of jealousy.
An exciting scene took place in Stockton
Theatre last Saturday evening As the dar-
ing young athlete ",Tupiter ' le115 gofug
through one of the most critical parts of his
entertainment a young fellow named Thom-
as A'I'Naughlton leaped from the gallery in-
to 1101101, brooking one of the supporting
wires and pouncing off into the pit. The
fellow, who was tine worse for 1112001 at the
time, fortunately escaped uninjured, and
caused now save the breaking of the wire,
but the incident created quite a sensation,
and Ml'Nlughton was taken into oustod
for his misoonduot.
One Omitted.
Mrs, Snaggs—li'on's something 10 the
paper that ought to interest you since you
caught year end.
Snagga.—Noll?
" 1 doeter says there are 21 different
hinds of sore threat."
"Does that Moloch the prima denua's7"
1"1'le prima donna's °"
"Yes; she has a sore throat, you knee."
--[Pittsburg Chronicle.
.Raugorous.
Master _ Sae holo, Nora, if yelr 111011(1
Sandy 1b0n1oitd cones hero again he netts
leave it.; ,pipe at lenge,
Sllstiess--A pipe 1 In our house 1 'Phial
of the curtains !
1 Master pll!nk of the windows and ceil-
ings and neighbors. It i8 a bagpipe,— The 00eefy of good 1)0033l010 alw030 goo
[Brooklyn ,Nagle. society.
No Sentiment There.
In a barn, Christmas eve.
First Tramp—" Say, 13111."
Second Tramp—" \\"at'+"
First Tramp—" Bo hyo 50111' ter Hang up
yet' 810010111' tonight ?
Seoond Tramp—" Naw ; 't ain't wet.
Was ho Her Ghost.
lthol—" Father is afraid he will not be
able toot rid of this place if you come
her so often."
George 9++ What Inas my oomiug got tee
do 1(0(331116 .
l+33111—" Ile thinks it may gob to be
known as 0haunted home."
What Next.
Once there Was a hired Ulan who was
00110tn1111y astonishing his 0111plOyer, a far.
Whet, by (loins strange and nnexpeeted
things. One day the farmer wont into the
barn and f0nnd that this man had hanged
himself. Looking at the dangling body a
few minutes, 110 exel0inlad, "Wha6 o,
earth will that fellow do next?"
Blather Queer,
I6 scowls a li1tlo singular that girls wh
go to 0 public masg10611110 ball and alio'
men they have nto'Or seen before to got that
amts around thein, in the presence of fort
t o• live hnudred nen and women, will scree
like wild ratt.s if sono fellow they do kno
c should attempt 011011 la 1101ug whoa anon
with hot.