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IIOUS.IBHOLD,
If Mother Would LiebeII.
If 111nlhor wand 11.111 to 1111, daniw,
8110 lv0Old eresi e1, that felled gx11.11,
1 1
She ltuul4 -.ow„t,un's ht, u a )) nu• s rest,
U,
Alle4menu')lorenlrfporl1 1,
Andlt+llouldn'Lh1)'l, lxrlhe1111 i110
1110 f)11, mol this ,•hoer, and Ih1• play ;
1V1t1 the Ind tool drooll,m the hoot mouth,
And lhi, ''‚13,) h' ll:, -111101 her d13.1”
Tru'', mot bur 11146111,1 3)01' 410, dears,
11'hen 3411 tree° Iter habiem throe.
And m110,-401,1.1,1ahem 1 lei farul xud 1.1111011.-0,
As luny 11. 101r 0 bee,
11'hen who rock 0,1 11111 all 10 410011, 111,1•'),
.4 11,1 0e111 you 1111 l0 11110111,
And wurol itoolf xnt,lurl (1111 40111)oltt,
And lived by t,1e 1lohlou lt,le.
And 411, your I. urn hos 0nlne, de
I for 111411.1s Krowing 1.1,111';
All 1 1101. 03'08 11.i 10)4,1(0011m far -away leak
'1111141, pours beyond 1111 111011,
01100111111511,lays hl the h101011133,
Mother will net he hero,
She will fade away 11110 sil0n10.-
T93o 110thorso 1,1910 and duet•.
Then, 'what. will you do 1)l 1111 daylight,
And whet In the glonming 1111111
And father, tile•d110(1 Ixnesento then,
l'rny, whet 10111 you ,l1, for hint 4
If you wan. 1011000 suer mother,
IL:11 roust matte her 11111 to•dnv;
111m,L give her a zha'e in the frolic,
And draw her into the p1111'.
And, if mother 1Vo1dd listen to m0, dears,
shod 111)3' ltol' n, gown of silk,
11111th butten0,d 1111101 velvet,
And 1111105 (14 111110 ns 111111c,
And shod lot you do 110 !:rotting,
1Vitile sir s1)! 01111 11 111 01101r;
Tint:not her 011011111 have it luu'd all thrnllgh,
11 etelle11') urs Isn't fair.
Mugarot E. 191n1stor.
Home Topiee.
11,111 11,4411.
After you have used all of a boiled hon
111;11 will olive nicely there Is 411111 much geed
meat left; chop this lino, fat and lean to-
gether, and add at least throe )lines as
much cold chopped nominee ; boat ono or
two eggs and nix with the 1114111 141111 puta-
teen ; pot the hail in a frying -pan in which
you have melted a little butter and press it
smooth over the tnp, Do not alar or turn
• the hash until it is brownednicely, then
fold ono half over the other liko an omelet,
turn it out on a platter and send to the
brotkfast table steaming hot.
]341111511 SAI:(' ['ottl(,
Now don't laugh at the idea of being told
how to bake salt perk, for 1 lived—well,
I'll not say how many years before I know
this way of baking it.
Take a thick piece of 00111 1111114, largo
enough for your ftnnily, gash the top with a
sharp knife, making incisions an incl) deep
and half an limb. 'port, then soak it over
night in sweet skimmed milk. Two hours
or more before dbtu ormake a 111g11y s0144nn.
ed bread dressing and press it into the inci.
0ion0; ley the pork in a balking( pan and
pout' a cupful 01 [(.ilk over it 10 htlmte with.
Baste It often, 1a11,1 about forty minute; be-
fo • it i done, ort ' 011' part of the re. a
to s pour L t 40
i 1 6
and 314y peeled potatoes around the moot to
hake tied 1,1•041'11 In the drippings. After
the neat and 110tn111e4 are 11114e1 up, dip elf
nearly all the grease, set the pan nu the top
of the stove, stir in a spoonful of (lour, and
when it is smooth, add milk enough) to
make gravy.
SrRlxo 111 mita lfnr0Enorn,--Tho soft
air, the showers and bright sunshine, 1.110
bluebird and violet are tint the only har-
bingers of spring. All Over the 111111 busy
housewives aro beginning the spring house
Meaning. In their 14111111111011 to get this
work over, stoves aro often token down too
early, and discomfort, colds and sometimes
serious illness are the result. Unless there
is at least one open fireplace in the house
the stoves ought not to be removed before
the last of Slay, 111 010 n11111110 and northern
states, and if there arc young children or
aged people in the family, bo thee teat
e,1 least one room, besides the kitchen, a fire
may be built whenever a cold, rainy tiny
comes, as they are apt to do call summer in
our 011001414111 climate.
Of 00)1000, WO cannot waft until warm
weather comes before cleaning hoose, but
we oat leave the family sitting -room until
the last. S01110 recommend beginning at �
the top of the house and working down.1
This is very 10011 if there is no cellar, but if
there is ono it should not be left 11nti1 the
last. Cellar cleaning ought to be the busi-
ness of the mon folks of rho family, but
many of them do not thinl4 of it unless re-
minded, and by and by the hurry of spring
farm work comes on aril they will think
they have no time for anything else.
if for no other reason than this
the cellar is the place to begin
house 0leanmg. 13ut there is )another and
more urgent reason. 1f warm heather
Oom00 on and the vegetables left in the
cellar begin to sprout and decay, invisible
but noxious gases will find their way into
the family living rooms, mixing an element
of disease and death with the air wo
breathe.
To as considerable extent wo have the eon.
dilions of health for ourselves and our fami-
lies in Dur own keeping. If wet permit nox-
ious gases from drams and exe spp0010, p1) tvie5,
pig -pens and decaying vegetable matter to
pou0on the fresh, pure air of heaven, we
have no right to complain when sickness
and death Domes into our households. Even
the chips, if allowed to accumulate and de-
cay, year after year, will exhale disease.
breeding gasses. Ignorance and tare-
lessness fn lust such things as those are no
doubt the causes of many nn opldomio Of
typhoid fever diphtheria or some kindred
disease which 00metim00visits and devasta-
tes country homes that would otherwise be
the abode of health.
A Few Hints.
EARAoltl,—A chop of Jamaica ginger on
oobton batting placed in the ear will be
found very comforting.
To KILL Roomites.—Take lump borax
and pounce ib as lino as you can, 11110 it with
ono pound of sugar ; mix both with one
quart of corn meal, add water enough to
make a batter, then sot hl their haunts in
small vessels, being careful to keep it clamp
a45 they suck the water, and that is what
kills them. The same results will not
001,10 if powdered borax is nsocl.
EASTER EO(i0.—•Sema preparation of this
kind may be made for the little ones, at
very little expense and trouble, w1ilo oven
solnl0 of rho bigger ones would 1403) dospiso
0on10 of the beautiful goose eggs, laic) in
ick with violets or heliotrope and tied
with the same colored ribbons,
Two large shells 00411(1 bo broken ragged
around the top odes, those pointed along
the edge irregularly in gold paint. Pot
them in a tiny basket, which should bo
gilded, fill Uhom with violets or heliotrope
front tho greenhouse, tie a bow of wide vio-
let ribbon on olio aide of t110 handle, and if
your bast girl wants a prettier plaster egg'
than that, lot her buy it herself. If yon
are whore you cannot got flowers, fill them'
with. bonbons.
Eggs decorated with funny faces, caps
and capes aro very am but those aro
semeolicee
only eva1114h1e when ono understands the
paint brush ; hemmer. many 11 the ad ver•
tisol;p,t1IH 111 0(11' IIn11'paperHnulltl4i111110tnri1
that mold easily be traced and tnuo11011 11p
with water eolnr) to be very attractive,
Cover egg110111 111110110411 and roll them
in rile or v01,0atnn, 11,1 they) got perfe,/tly
dry, then teue)3 up with moll point and
Hering 1•1111101)5 through them. Thu eggs
,lllnehl be ldlwai, ([(111141111100') to get per-
ft+otly dry btforn putting the ribbon° 1)1
4110111.
For a child, a string of roil eggs le very
ae011)1able, 'Thome Dan be 11011'0 eggs, P111ut
then) wit 11 glrllnin+n litho oil paint, 1111x111
11'11)1 aermi( glazing, This hardens, and is
quite glossy i» appearance and it lovely
color of rod,
33)141101' fal'or, need not all bo eggs; flowers
boabnns, mhoi1ne•y, anything of this 1(12111
he apprnprlut0,
liy breaking part of tho small old o11;
mining on a top of 01114 with a dt'aw•%trlilg
111 16 and filling it with very 0ma1) aandios,
n pretty favor can 1e made.
For foo, one eau till Lho eggs with corn-
meal, pot plaster of peels over the holo In
the end, heat thorn in the oven, and Reeve
at breakfast with the ether eggs. ''l'lio 0)10
who gets 1,1110 egg will get an ]faster surprise
at (Oast.
Empty shells can bo filled with propllrel
gelatine j1111ie1 with 0)'11 mullesin it, and
1vh011 sot the 611011 Oa11 be 110100Ved,
Loving Words,
Loving words will anal. but 111110,
Journeying up the hill of life,
But they snake the 14.01114 and weary,
Stronger, braver for the strife.
1)o you 0011111 them only trifles?
What to (meth aro eel and rain ?
Never was a kind word wasted ;
Never ono was said in vain.
When the Omreo of life 164.0 many,
And its hardens heavy grow
POI' the 01100 14-1111 walkc beside you,
1f yon love them tett )hon so.
What you count of little video
Has au almost magic power,
And beneath that cheering sunshine
Hearts will blossom like a flower.
So, as )1p life's hill wept—to—ley,
loot us spatter 141) the way
Kindly words, to bo as sunshine
11 1110 Clark and oloudy day.
(Imidge no
loving word, my brother,
As along through life you go,
To rho ones who journey with you ;
If you love then tell them so.
From Tenoysou's "Foresters."
T.
There is no land like England,
1\'hnt° el' the 1101101' clay be 1
'there arc no hearts 1f lee English hearts,
such 101111s or oak es they be ;
There t4 nn 1111111 Will 1411011110,
- 1V'11010'11' 1110 light of 11,4y, be ;
There are nn men like Englishmen,
8,1 tali and bold 1011101' bel
.And these 10111 sI.r)Ice for England,
And mom and maid i,o free
'1'o fol) rut spoil the 1.yrant
Beneath the green weed tree.
11,
There is no 1'md like England,
N'hate or the light of Iin.y he:
There are 110 (011'01 like English 0114'0.4,
Sn Ihtir ana 1.1111810 11,r4 they bo;
There is no land like England,
Whate'cr (110 light of tiny be :
There err no molds 1114e 1'(8331(-i1 m1dds,
3o beautiful am they be ;
And these shall wed with freemen,
And all their sons bo free
To sing rho songs of England
Beneath t10 greenwood tree
Some Odd Ends.
To open an oy%tor the 10100 required ap-
pears to be 1,3101 times the height of the
shell -less ureatnr0.
Three tons of steam coal represent a
man's labor- fora periodof twenty years,
and oto square Huila of a scrawl of coal, hav-
ing a depth of foto. feet only, represents as
much w,i'k :49 1,0011,000 men can perform ill
twenty years.
Twenty-two acres of land aro needed to
sustain a 1111111 on flesh meat; while the
sane amount of land under wheat feeds
forty-two people; ander oats eighty.eight:
under potatoes, Indian corn 00 rice, 170
people; and ander the plantain, ot• bread
fruit tree, over 0,000 rppeople.
Plants grow faster between 4 and 0 a. 111.,
than 111 soy time during the day.
Spiders are seven Limes stronger in pro.
portions than lions.
The Largest Man in Canada,
Leonard Whitton, butcher, of Brighton,
Ont., Is probably the hlrgaet man 1)1 Canada
13{1 measuremont8and weight follows :
Feet, Inches.
Aronuli shoulders 5 0
"chest 5 2 ) hips 6 2
" neck 1 11
" arm at shoulder 2 2
arm below elbow 1 5
" thigh 3 9
11 call 3
:Fiend measure around temples 23 inches
and from roots of flair to and of chin nine
inches. Mr. Whitton weighs 409 pounds
and attends daily to business.
They Are the Same Size.
Hopper Stevens—I think wo'd better
have our alnonnocments Fluted on three
sheet posters.
Canby Wilson—Why don't you use some
of Wanalnalrer'a new postal oords.—(lirook-
OyEagle.
Austrian woolen hod•oarriors got twenty
five oenls a day.
Thousands of people (looked to see tho re.
vivid of the old fanatical religious custom
The hooks woro thrust through the flesh of
the man's back and he wee suspended about
twelve feet in the air. He bore lis suffer-
ings with the utmost fortitude, and his fano
showed scarcely any evidence of the pain he
must have endured. A ulo110a1 meal who
was present and examined tho swinging
elan sunt, at the roquest of the govern-
ment, a report of his condition, His inr
pression was that the bodily suffering the
mon experienced was considerably within
the limits of endurance,
The Emperor of Russia hos boon plunged
into the (00330ot affliction by the sudden
death of his cede() and oonf den1hal 00rv11,1,
1)103601 Va1'kolf, who had never boon absent
from hien for 14 s111g10 day during a period
of more than thirty years. Verkoff always
slept in the room next to the Emperor's,
and, within bliu last ten years, he throe
times saved his Majesty fron n00assination;
but these attempts of the :Emperor's life
worn hushed up, and the oxaot details have
remained a scoot, Varied" trained the
ferocious mma1111s whioh allvay0 guard the
Hinporot' wherever he is, and, when his
Majesty was travelling, or when, there was
reason to fear treachery in the TmporilIl
)(i1ohon,Varkoff cooked all his 111003000 food,
He was a 1111111 of )dauntless 001110ge and t
perfect Hercules,
i Ili
' ti; V3.',3; .f.1) .r u 01:
SPORTS OP OLD DI\GLAND,
Less permit bot 11;01.040,4117.1101 Ill 1114 111114080 el'
Alt.11J11g11 14110044 14)1 111)01 1.H whinl> wore in
vogue in the 0lventelul)l and eighteenth
centuries were praetheel. with MON el•iclnnso
and formalitythan they ere tli•clay, they
were probably
just certain.
1 1 tt h la,lanl
r yi
ly just um 101,1111 1111-14 '1'11ure aro luudfede
of authentic stories of reties and °1111')' goatee
which took plane in 1$ngland long before the
stop watch (('00 dreamed of.
One &tu1'1111e 1'141° wan 1'1111 in Nem 11111111100,
England, in 171 d, for a prize of 5 genuine.
Tho coulpet)tors w'orc two 1)1111'), four 111x•0,
and a calf. The calf WW1 1114111 by a buy,
the bulls and Bowe oaoh by a 1116n1. The
oows all threw 1111.11' rid(14, lin calf foll
down with 1110, and one of the ladle "won
the wager before a vast 00110011r00 of pee.
plc,"
11 used to be a eu01e t for noblemen to
face thole respective footmen and to bot
largo SUMS 011 the result. An instance of
this fe soon in the diary of Sir Erasmus
Phillippo, fifth Baronet of Pioton Castle,
1743, 1 he or.try IS as follows 1 " 1720,
Sopt. 131 —Rode out to New 1Voodetook,
seven miles from Oxford ; dined at the Boar,
20. 0,1„ ordinary. In the evening rode to
Woodstouk York, where new ai race be.
twean (Ir0v00 Wilke Wharton s running
footman) hod Philllpps (lir. Di)ton'eJ. 31y
1104110011.1(0 ran the four mile% 1-011811 tic
0001%0 in 18 minutes, and won the race, and
thereby winning his outstay .l1 1,000, Ilia 011 in
boned (:roves olal'1ell for, On this 060!4)1011
there woo a
1111S'11 IRonr51 )Oce e0scO rR$s
of people, returned to Woodstock, when,
after some refreshments, galloped to Ox -
foal:" If 11130 record were cu1hen6111, 0111132
1000l•y uu(flioly, it 10111 be soon that none of
our modern "cracks" could begin- to keep
p000 with the winning footman.
A eelobrtitod race against 1.11110 was that of
Mr. Osbaldeslone, who made a wager of
01,000 with Colonel Cllarretie that ho could
ride 200 miles i1, ten hours at the ensuing
Houghton meeting, being allowed en unlim-
ited number of horses. The eonrso measur-
ed was what was known as the round course,
beginning and ending at the Duke's staml.
Al the t
All ,o saddles to be used ware covered with
lambskin to prevent chafing, and were
marked with the name of 0 horse, and a
number indicating the order in w111011 he
WW1 to be brought to the post. Provision
was made for refreshment end changes of
olo6hing for the rider, tut the latter was
unnecessary, as Mr. Osbaldestono, who was
47 years of ago, preferred to ride in his wet
clothes rather than lose time in changing
them. Tho distance was divided into fifty
four -mile heats, the rider clanging horses at
every heat.
At I.3112 in the morning Sir. Osbaldm.
stone started. Tho first 100 miles w140
ooverod In 4 hours 10 mimeos and 40 sec -
ends. When he had ridden 123 miles,
which he did in 5 lout's 11 11111111600 foul 30
sore i 1
m s, .11. O0haldesLono stopped T min w•
tea and 30 seconds for lunch. toward the
lotto'. part of the performance a tremendous
stow) of wind and rain arose, which. meet-
ing tho rider in the face, frightened the
horse he 10(10 riding so badly that he turned
right round. The actual time of riding the
3110 utiles 10(10 7 hum's 10 minutes and 4
secmule, though 1 hour 23 minutes and 550
seconds was oeoupied in changing mounts
and taking lunch. The total, S hors and
42 minutes, was just 1 ]our 1S mumte0 in-
side the required time. Twenty-eight
horses were used.
A 011101) raster ride that the preceding
was made over a fourth the distance by
Jenuisen Shaft°, Esq., who 011 Jone 27,
1750, undertook
T1 111 un FIFTY 011.1(01141 Two nOt'RS
on n.1, unlimited number of horses. Ho
covered the distales in 1 hoer 40 minutes
and 17 seconds, thus riding at the rate of
almost twenty-eight miles an lour.
Among fonts at endurance may be cited
that of \Ir, Sinclair, of liirby Lonsdale, in
Cumberland, 1:uglaml, who for a wager rode
is thousand miles in a thousand 010oes0ivo
hones on t110 Swifts at Charlisle.
The following announcement, to be found
in Notes and Queries, is Interesting as an ex-
ample of aurins races : " A short time since
a race between an 010ph0nta11.180nm ponies,
accompanied by 111111000 pedestrians, took
place on the Aintree Course, which excited
some interest.' Unfortunately the result of
the ra0e is not given.
The passion of Charles II. for sports of all
kinds is well known, but in Notes and Quer-
ies
ueries there is a descriptio; Ma day's sport too
interesting to omit : " Now Market, March
15.—This day w110 a race between a horse of
Mr. Brown's, called .Have -at -All, moa the
Snssexped. They rode nine stone each for
£300 a horse, and continued very equal for a
great while, till at the turning of the
hands Have -at -All had the misfortune to
bleak his hind legs short in two,whioh being
thought impossible tobeenroll,they ordered
him to be shot upon the place.
"After the race his Majesty Charles II
went to see a great match of onek fighting
Her Majesty went to take the air as far as
the Coney Warren, and their Royal 1{igh•
nes5os wont to take the air np0n the heath.
"After• which there was a greatbull-bat-
ing in the tom), whither a great lumber of
country people resorted to play their dogs,
whioh gave great satisfaction to all species,.
tors.
"About 3 of the cloak in the afternoon
there was a footrace between two (ripples,
each having wooden leg. They started fair
and hcbblel it good pace, 101110)1 caused great
admirationand laughter among the beholders
but the tallest of the two won by two or
throe yards"
A story is told of his Majesty, William IV,
1031101 doubtless paused considerable fun at
the time, His Slajeety gave a dinner at St,
James' Palnce on June 9, 1530, to the mewl.
hers of tihe Jockey Club, Lord Westmin-
ster, who was present, began to boasbaboub
his wonderful horse, Touchstone, which he
finally offered to beak against any animal
Ott four les. "I'll aouept t110 challenge,"
said the King, " and name to beat him by a
neck," The bet was made, and the King,
being called upon to say the animal, amid
laughter mood tie giraffe.
The House of Oommons.
The Imperial House of Commons hes 670
members of whom 405 represent England
and Wales, 1,03 Ireland and 7'3 Scotland.
The chamber in whiolt it sits is devoted en-
tirely to legislative business and debate, but
has not sufficient seating capacity to ac-
commodate all Its members. 'Clio object of
this is to keep the room small though for
business. If the chambers were larger it
would bo impossible to give public bu011000
such au informal and conversational talking
over as is neeessery to ,a thorough under.
standing of 1.he matter. There aro ,not
with untrained voices, as well as maims,
among tho member», and opinions of the
ole class 0110111(1 be heard AS Noll 1).H t1080 of
t110 otlet ; so tin menthe's aro willing to
mit Mose for the sake of hearing what they
wish 1.0 know anent, 01• to stay away when
the snbjoot under discussion hs of no interest
to thorn
• •-gCWi%:•:1
DOWN TILE OOLUM.BIA'
a1¢lmmtm,oepwawrn
One of (111' Most Iteattiltr 1) Moor's In the
\10111- 1lnJestle wnnnla44s -I'he
('u•lu,s Ind Inn canoe.
All Aumrir0u gentleman wt•itee nr+felinv:
of Lim trip down 010 wonderful I'oiuut
River :- -hie 1 'olullhia is one of the 1,11 1
beentlhtl river) in 1Ito world. perhaps roe
of the thi>Ig) that make, it 1111101 He 1H 1111°
11401 411141. H1111,111 111.1111111 1.11(1141 11 to 1,11 the
case, ll,rfer, many y 1 ire, most likely, 11
waters will be churned by the twit) paddles
of lxmu'81011 sleanlr.l'e, villages and l 4 •cord^.
mud mi110 and etnohors, Will imp into ex:0
Le nee (4111111; its banks, Ila 11114go/tioeIlt (musts
will be 0wept, away and the (',,Bout 01 will
1emlle as well 1011nw11 as the Rhino aid
Hutson. 1 allude to that part of til, river
that Ilowe through British territory, for the
lower reaches of the groom are familiar
enough by this time. Bursting out of the
earth as a fall river, and navigable lei, hid a
few rods of its 0nuree, it takes all impeLnous
luny to the northward, flawing between the
ltuckics and the Solkirks, then, turning
sharply south, between the Selkirk° and
the ! •old range, i t descends into our country,
FOAMS 'oil COMM Tits mums,
turns westward aid rolls In stale to the 011,
The steinne1'0 that ply nn stream from
(Joldon and clown from Revelstoke do not
promise much to the eye, but they are more
comfortable than they lock, and so long as
you have it clean berth with plolty of cover
11 .t night, a lamp to tread by and enough to
eat, even though the cooking 110 11.11110 by
Chinamen, who aro fond of pork and fat 111,11
butter, yon are doing a- well as you must
expect to do out west, While rho 111103)2)1'
sil'o power 10 it Laron, o:d fashioned wheel
et the stern, th'.,t throws a cloud of spr4y
behind it and that is rimmed with rainbows
in 1110 morning, theOpncc is not much behind
'o 'side. en Igo: .
that 41 111 side wheel tt Y.
'1'12°ngll apprised 1y 1110 trembling of the
timbers that the %teenier was under way,
for the captain 03,1118 as no11n its thele Is
light enough, either of (lawn en, m0or, 10 900
the way clear, as no gleam came through
the window I did not turn out until it 10140
manifestly day. Then, going on deck, I
found that the boat was Imam the upper
of the two °spanaiors known as the
Arrow lakes, 111 water as smooth a5 a mill
ponce and that reflected the 10ndseape
like a mirror. Fancy the Hudson, with
the Catskill pressed to the o'ge of.
the water, with glimpses of snow
peaks over rho tops of the nearer 1110011.
tains, with occasional valleys opening a.
magnificent perspective of Alps, with a
huge forest clothing the hills to timber line,
with stony caps and Bags jotting into 11e
flood with little beaches where a boat °mild
he drawn up, but with never a house or but
or telt, and you have the Columbia. The
morning had dawned cold tui crisp and
clear and as the stun peered over the 8c1-
kirks the rosy light
00'01114 or.smi rte
paled to silver, and the russet mists grew
pink, then white, thiel vta111sihed altogether.
11uu0e0siblo wastes of rock and snow loomed
on the western side, and on the east a hale
mountain rose from the river's edge in one
immense slant to a beetling peak higher
than Sloult Washington and splashed with
snow about the top. Two or three sharp
twists iuloug all archipelago of sand spits
and islands were necessary hn keeping to the
channel, and in some places the way wits
so narrow that the need of going through
by daylight was obvious, At the end of one
pebbly bar lies a rustic boiler. It belonged
to a little steamer that lost her way here,
broke up on this island and disappeared,
leaving only this pieo0 of iron to show whore
she struck. Had she gone over that bar in
time of it spring melt or freshet, she would
have had no trouble, for then the river rises
fourteen feet and a Sound steamer could be
urged through. As the river t i,10ns to about
two miles hi 0x011 of the An•oly lakes, there
is no sign of current in ordinary weather,
and the mountains, stanching apart, form a
series of the loveliest scenes that can bo
imagined. Below the lakes the hills come
nearer, shutting Ont the view of t110 higher
peaks, but peeseuting a view of forest grow.
ing with almost tropicranknoss, as wild and
high as before the white man's keel over
fretted these waters and the whole north -
hest 1(0185 vaguely known as
A )1030003117 W11.13102.41E00,
" where rolled the Oregon and heard no
Sound save itis own da0hing0."
About noon interest centres on tho ap.
paihtion of a r aan100 containing a solitary In-
dian who is patching fish for this dinner. He
is only a frowsy Indian, and his boat is
shabby, but, because he 10 the first man to
be encountered on that day, everybody op.
pears ell deck to look at 11111. He returns
the gimme with a careless eye, for he has evi-
dently 60011 the great fife canoe before, and
remotes his fishing, after bringing the head
of his frail bark round to take the swell of
the wheel more 0asily. Odd boats, these
Columbia river Indians have—shaped like
ironclads without turrets, wider and longer
at welter line than at the gunwale, but made
of bark and fragile looking. They are pro.
/felled by dotiblo bladed paddels. The Chi-
nese nook simonises to meals by creating
a din 111 all parts of toe boat with a gong,
and the company that assembles about the
table, though coarsely clothed and brown
faced , is as w011 behaved, as simple man-
nered and as considerate as any that you
would find on an Albany steamer, I'll bo
bound. There are no visible settlements
along shore and few places to plant
them, but 1010 and thea the boat
" runs ler 1100010 ogle the bank," after blow•
ing the whistle to notify somebody of her
intention to do so, and a man 11th0 out of
the woods to take her lines and tie thele to
stumps. 'Then the roust -abouts, Indian,
half-breed, Kannek, Italian and Irish swarm
ashore over the gang planks, that aro drop•
pod into mud, 111110011, 0x113 or gravel Its the
case may be, and presently stock the hold.
ing spew with fragrant logs that are feel to
the avid furnace by the sweating firemen.
Atone 'demo a young 101)01(0 comes down the
river
OUT or 0111) 3OR74ST
std 141ay05 a rag at the boat, 401110)1 immedi-
ately bumps into the bank and waits for
lin) to 1611001/1100 his bns)noss, lie isalvood.
chopper and he says he wants to weit0 to
his best girl down at Little Dalles, and
wants to know if the oaptain will take the
letter. Tho captain soya "Cert.nly," and
tho boat waits there while ho indite0 a more
or lass fervid epistle, seals it, addresses
it, 1nn0 01p to his shook to got t piece of
Money for the stomp, delivers it and thanks
the skipper forh,s courtesy. Nobody shows
the 10(101 impatience. 'The roust -abouts
converse, or from inability to uilor'
stand molt other's language sit and stare at
onell other ; the Chinamen in tho m1,11%1111-
bosoms
abin11n-
bosoms himself to 14 white reamolgot- on the
snb;ject of the laundry business and the
nut -Chinese law in the States, and la n1or0
that 0110pected of an intention to get into
Washington through the leak that oxists
somewhere On the border ; tho captain and
the 1)1)1140r
51,6111 T1ol141,toutte AT TIM mr14Elty
and the pas00ngoes gossip, doze and smoke,
eaviscronancesseanionsioalinertotinenesensinisienowaterawoneopeacconiontwinsierevemewanaestnitanateniewasaawansional
ll is a1l i lyllia and it would not do for fiod'oo fipr'ing-time Voice%,
'‘""`"1"''" w")"'"' 0,,.ri11101(15' 11 104 ,:11111,a'If,:rlhueery.and+1ilin'reaseit
1)141 weeding 11{r, prmssmi the 11,11) (30 ashore 1 will mai'lul; 11,01('1)1) of thu 1111•.11111) 1b,„„ lel
11 ,•rs,.,• 1)l' ihr•Ileld.' Joh„vµ11 by I:z,aci+tt.
Imre ye h1,r.3 Joh/ivab railing;
10 t I„ r' )1rin,1111111•10 1)0' now°; ,
11) the .111111 day, baro 41. 11011,1 111114
11'4 'i 1111 11,.•111) to the eorn1
1 v,'1', I til pearl 11.a nn •,1•r+
To I h,, El.e ow,,,'l sad l I1,' b°w•er4.
Every -pu•I 111141, nrisnytl dewdrop
1, 0 1111,611,e 11) 1.11v 111' 4.11.
In 1111 b • e!•1011.111 l,1) al lied :11r11
Alli 111 duil,r •'t'm.ny' \fill .l1';”
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T1e•11 t 1 . 1 .. dr,•k the, 0+111 re
u 1,-.11i1•1•1111111,
, 11:'11• ,i.:to111011 bdt,w•",
1111111 11,1 -,111.1.%111, kis 1110 1011•.11110
'1911 they 011:•11 to 111,,hhght•
(lea-: 10111 i1.111•111. and 1,1)11 an l hens',41n
Foto, t heir inmnm y for ia- ,,',,boli :
lt' c-, hrolts thrill I he 11111,4113
',1.,°18111,10 °1411'1,,r-,•w.i, 1i01.1.',',,'l,d;
tnr', )111181h 1(11,1 1loath'o laslranl•1n1i,
11/1".t+ Ntllnre �. •' (10unre'tio1 /"
11'rim :inf,•,5,1^',l. full rodonU lfon
1111• the 1'ui,•,rnnd dram of fled,
o'er the 11311111110 1, 1''attory htrrnwo
1•111.1• 11.11.1 111,1,, 111, wwar «1,11100 1-K1'11.'00 110
--
14,,'),one,) u•mg 1101110.11 heralds
Itinrw
hi 1 101 iiivo.ton'ils'ed,—
Nnr'huu-....1 rot nosy lr.4lor
0ttt 'l ,1111, 1'111 1.4. ,•en(. 111:,01011
'1'11011 •11 the ..In-wa'p'd mind daisy it.
llran - by hand) rehear-,, thole creed,
Then t;.e 1,1f, -Berms 11,, and I1.lon.
Willi the warn, 01.1.t.l,•0u4,r4 nnf01d1ng,-•
SW- W111141 11/, nbnu111'd rltan4ers
Il've04111 rut. 110111. dl1111o,y fair, -
1111 I I,,' r Lund ,m•1 Meteor hid', then
lh'nctifl'. no gift with Malin a,--
l,"foes, weaver, breathier perfume
0n the lambent, monde -gait,
Pragrinl light -Hent', woo and win thorn
1tnn beauty alit pnrf.etionI
%lyhyr snug hu:unm 111:,rut and 1)1000 them
:Wm -wager.. n❑-w,ft,.t wings;
411) v'rr u, uuu-hes t i, s ei rend and eiloid them
In 1111'r 1•,•.11'01 iul„ p. Noll
131' Ills 1. 1,•o, in 111 . 110 011,11S then
'fill 1),', hlud1r; 1,41,1-1. -111x4,
1.11iw1l.L0n A. :110111080N
Tho 1411)1), Toronto
10ithgong, 1,a. ee'hoing reports °.'trough Ilse
pool ,t,rk aisle; of the fete 1t'luutmec Ihet
they have fir '+1 at comet hint•, but whatever
they 24lw.i',H 1141ss 11, f ;til„: It 1H a lr,'o
1,r 111): al P10601,1%4
:1s night °omen d0'.vn and the Ili 511311 0•
g1•'11.11 0101 ruddy 10th 11)1,1% gather o ,i' 1111
water and 1lie hills awl Ile• livers take 01)
1411 1-•p,. 1 111 111111 pelt a an, you .1121 iumgita1
that. 1.11 oIi :r1, Ihw 0101,1.1 11,11W, ryto tin ill.
1110'0 1114)1l,•uin;; door,''' of leu, lamas. Fish
dapple the surf 1,-n of lle• ri1)11' x11'1 14111,,
in, ci„-. m,1,. 11H pnliHll, 11111 311111.1111 .1 1011,1,
('°hail 15330011 rho .110'14 11031i of the hills float.
on like rifts. Star 141111', gin:m.01: 1g
Ifppl10, 1.1,1 silver flaming tnrel°,e waved by
0ai,uls down below, then the 10411 int dfus
mid the fiver shores ('cauls,' 11,01110:IvoH 11110
Hllhelml tem of blackness that may represent
f 111115 1130140 113 hand ,,r 154111,11411,', for away,
for all effect of reees5hni stud atnoophere
1110 gone out of the picture, save when m
minty glare ehooto from elle furnace dear
Indvhows the giant forest, ghostly. Half
the passengers disembiuk at Robson, 1115
titles below Revelstoke, to go ave' to 111'
liootellay country, and then loiter abou'
the place for at hoar waiting for the train.
11°14°,, enn0i010 of a wharf, a Walton 0,11:1 a
)oar.liug house, 'l'ho railroad of whil'll
Itis the te1'iltliltls is 14 new one, following
1Cnotemty fiver to Kootenay bike, onwhose shores groat "strikesof silver
have 1.01101itly 11°1,31 imul° and trains
were reunite; twit° a week It is only
twenty-eight miles to the lake, bot the
train took three hones to 401111. for 1it. 1bid-
lasting of 110 tri'k had not been Ihnished,
and part 1,t it lad slid riff isle the woods,
killieg a lhimulgut 1,r two, ,n 111•,611° 1min
prrn,'eded r.ul1(l41l11', g,v.l'3 -.inr.' enough
101.100 1,110riVol% '11,1.4 -111.1111 is of 4xquim•
ire beauty, drop zinueber green in color
shoaling into 1111'111, fretted with rapids and
broken by great water -falls Hod pito)) over
chats in manses of foam. 3hen coiling in deep
pools where filth are fund of 1idin4. 8t1)
mountithes rise front the edge and are thinly
300e1(10 0110t11(V14111111110014,
but 11111110 meta) was found in the neighbor-
hood prunpeci ors have been (ling over the
hills, and in order to bate th1 tock for ob-
servation have Leen rerkleasly burning oti
the -woods. 'Clic crash mei thunder of fall-
ing thither could bo heard as the Bre) ato
their way along ilio mountain %hd"H, the
noise tiling s,, ()nick at (11000 that one would
have de'ltu'wi it to he the report of a gun,
while the smoke 4,0 completely drowned. the
landscape that the scenery of the lake,
10111/11 is said to be e0perfally thio, was 0life! Wnen ib1' frail bark Is nilly tossed,
lost, A. lateral valley with a stream burst- And lr's dark and 1311(0
itlg out xf a en 410, a Village or two in .:,1.1,1::;!'=,04,1%;;;gIsfaittostav theef voythgoroll.
:\1)d fate Is H v e from the goal.
of Chinese -...huddles ,if rag (40,11 (ttnylm bill% ,',tint to to ' 1 o 10 01
Let not t14• courage mink, 4111 hopes be lost;
supported on wicker work—awl three or The lord 01 fortune is a lordly will,
four hunting stool:l molt by the railrrcul'0r soul en,•tunUorld with the cores of cartlil
en111peuy are +leen before tar train 10.1che,t It' °1)1. -,eek ter bl•elest the Intl° i1 till.
the end of the road at 7,,•Inn, t lypicyl 0rerm'101'1111nirwith 11111)1611133 mien,
frontier town of abnn4 two bemire.) people, 1'1rn not aoid,, prl:-crro thy conscience
all of whoa, Itt1- anxie1) I0 tall) oil ver tope] ',.'o ?
y
The pro' rf honer is of 0116 !o lyrth l
nod In remind you that 111°1° prices for col, The lord of of lel'IlI11U is it lordly will.
nee int, am file :UMW as in Batt Francisco,
They neglected to, mention that nobody is.
pay)og the price. Iulagine paying .?5,00111 Love and Wedging Rings.
fora lot where you are liable to fed 14 bear i
ovc'hanling your garbage barrel when your Love amt wed:ling ril148 are tnthmately
get up in the morning 3 lint the N,'lennians. (tss0cia+fd; yet l:uiley Oihbar exclaims, "Oh,
aro quite alive, and they have a aline in the . how' many torments lie in the small circle of
Silver Bing that the owners refused 81,3300,-. a wedding ring.•' Ih, you know why the
000, The owners aro half-breed, however, I gold circlet 18 placed on the left hand?
and as a lawyer and capitalist or two have' Opinions darer, says a writer 111 Cassell's
snccooded in attaching themeolves to the; 3la3a%1(11. 0,1 the ono 01110 it is affirmed
mhos, ft is believed in the tnlvut Lha) if they that a vein proceeding from the heart to
succeed 111 keeping their clothes and over -:that finger is the 0141180; on the other that
shoes they will bo doing as well as could be: it denotes that the wife is subject to her
expected. ' heehaw]. Napoleon I, when he married his
second empress, whispered in Mr, Pradt'o
ear, "The Remi, law ord111,s that all slaves
A DAKOTA. FARMHOUSE. should hear rings, and es the women are•
_•_• oar slaves they ought to hear this badge of
Take Oourage•
1141 W. n. aonxao0.
0 spirit : faint not, if thy wa33. 14 hard,
.1nd oft boset by s11111,0. of Imdfng ill.
Le net. impatletwo ('161140 11100 to dispatr.
And, toil -worn, long- co be released from
0tuw•
1'11r"u,• thy huk, thy lurking fears discard;
The lord offortune Is a lordly will.
0 heart 1 in d:sappciitment, give not o'er;
1'helgb I opo, er4 shattered, there's a promise
ill;
Thy waited gnerdnn haply might compose
A °('01011 of sorrow to augment the' woes;
Then banish grim'. tem hide ,it darkness more:
The lord of fortune is 111e lordly will.
Cold, Cheerless and Reeked by ('owlnn servitude." The lit. tle , n'poria and the great.
Cates. 001P000' was sof. given to weighing his.
words so far as politeness was concerned.
Whoever thinks that days are sometimes It is more grateful to women to knots that
long and dre141' in a North West farmhouse men in 0 thousand grateful ways have do.
may well contrast the darkest days with .mon011atetl the tenderness of t11e10 passion
those described by a writer in the Starch, by "the giving and receiving of a ring."
Atlantic who soya : )1ierrick sings:
And as OAS round
le re oun
To Hawnowheor elsef10 sdever,
So pet our love
As emllese prove
As pure as gold forever,
I1 WAS more the fashion in old days than'
WOW 60 engrave a verse within the ring.
Many such have been hooded 1101011 to us.
" One hears that many woolen become
insane in Dakota, Some say it i0 the lonely
life ; but lives as lonely are borne cheerfully
elsewhere. Sly theory is that insanity is
paused by the hind, which intensifies the
loneliness. The moaning and wailing,, the
lashing and swishing, the rustling 011,1 0001'.
ing, the howling and surging of the wind ggo
on night and day for weeks at a time witih-
out a moment's hill. It becoln68 maddening, Tor example:
One feels as if it were beating on the brain. ; Thus may our lives be one perpetual round,
Ono longs for )von one moment of rest from Nor care, nor sorrow, ever shall be found,
the eternal sound that 0001118 to till the un -1
Morse. It is in vain to put olne'a fingers in I m "
one's ears for the timbers of the little house: B• British. Railroad 1Taok.
are cracking, the louse itself is swaying on There died recently at Lowestoft, Eng.
its foundations," !land, ono who is spoken of by tho leen,. press
And of the cold the Same writer states that as " i4 very popular member of the staff
when the wince is blowing o0 a cold night of the Groat 131101ern Railway." He w'llS a
people who live out on the prairies frequent. black and tan collie dog, and ho was not
ly do not go to lied. They sit all night as appointed to the " position " whioh he held
close ,to they can to a red hot stove. Live, by the officers of rho company, but by him.
then the side that is tnrnod front tie stove self. Although self-appointed, tine and
is cold. habit brought about nus recognition as train -
"Ono day, when the memory was 25° be- starter at the Lowestoft Station, Th rough
low zero and 1110 10104 was high, the tiler- 'cog residence at the station he had a equir-
1nOlneter where I sat by the stove indicated 0d an 6118611101 W11011 1411,1 111111 the exa01
115" above zero and eight fent off the that- time at which each train should start from
monmter on the bureau stood at 200—a the terminus o0 its journey. As the
difference of 9110, It was necessary of moment dr01v n0ar, rho collie beoame'rest-
winter nights to get 11p at least once to put less and exoited. As rho bell utiterad its
hood in the stove : but in what was celled first warning sound, he would seam per down
bad weather this had to be done several the platform, and, planting 1ilnsef close to
tinescluring the night. Of oonroo every- the engine, bark furiously until he saw the
Chung freezes—the eggs within a few feet of
the hot stove, the 1001'0801e oil in the cor-
ner, the cabbages and 100111ps and potatoes
and moat in the hole in the ground sudor
the house. Emory night an iron bucket of
live coals is put down into this six-foot hole
to sa410 part of the winter stores from being
destroyed by freezing.
"Ono hears that people take things to
bed with thong when they want to save .foud-Talking Women,
them, for it will not do to let things run out
in winter. It would be impossible totems -
port many of them across the prairies as
they would bo frozen. • All windows and
unnecessary doors are nailed up and 0111nk-
ed as closely its possible hereto this weather
Dols 611 ; an embankment of earth is thrown
11p ro111111 tho House to keep the wind from
coming up under the floor I four or five fur-
rows are run with a plough round the hoose
at a sufficient distance to 0000 it from militia
fires; and wood fora two weeks' siege, when
going oat -of -don's will bo oven -nigh anon -
(terabit), is piled high against 1110 w0rp
nod stored under rho led and wherever else
space can be 1001111, In this heather if ono
Winks outt-of-doors tho eyelash freezes to the
0110010 and hail to be thawed out before the
eye can bo opened."
wheels begin to move. Having neemplish-
ed the starting of the train, as lie seppposed,
he would 1-11011 to the guard's or conductor's.
van, and hurry the oondnotor to his post.
As the train p1s00i out of the Station he
retired, and was soon no more until the
time leas near for another train to start.
Time to Huu.
Pretty Clir1 Toaoltor—What I Do yon
intend to withdraw frons the Sunday-
scllool?
Wah Loo --Vascor 2430 tilahloo stay
here,
Pretty 0111 Teacher—Afraid? What aro
you afraid of?
Walt Lee .-Thiser leap•year,—narks W.
Toslcr in Now York Weekly,
Persons desirous to be thought ladies
sometimes converse screamingly in public
vehicles, apparently for the purpose of [Its
traoting attention. They succeed, bob the
attention they elicit isnot of a compliment-
ary nature. Their gentler sisters aro sorry
anti as11a1110,) for them, and mol are dis-
gusted at such conduct There is a mag.
letis11) i1, melodien0 sounds which is almost
irresistible, and when they ie00e from fair
lips they aro apt to take the sternest of 110
captive. On the other hand, hnrah, dh8e0r-
dant toles, though they shoot') come from'
the lovlie014 month in Christendom, play the
mischief with sentiment and put tenderness
to flight. It would be an advantage to
every lady if she remembered this, and 50
modnlatad her tones Met
"'Fier veie° was over soft,
Gentle and low, an 0x001100 t tiling iu
woman," �
At Dinner at a foarding•House.
Mother—Edwin, stop that chattering or
i shall have to report you.
Edwin—T ain't chattering, I'ul eating,
" Hold your tongue, 011' 1 111110111 you of
old ; yen eat, witin oho oar and talk with
tho other. I know you,"