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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-9-2, Page 3SEPT, 2, 1892 THE BRUSSELS POST. 3 YOUNG FOLKS. He Had Hie Way, My (having:brush lo nit:gang, anl my whoa horn earl% be found, My comb and bruith 1011111111 soo, my wino is _ nowhere round, My toll milk hat is ruffled up, 1113' Pons 11:110 gone astray— But all this woo la naught to me, for bul37's had Ma way. What thontsb my shoos are minus el:clogs, my manuscripts awry? 1 know Sea this botokone babe's hem spared a heartfelt. my, 1Vhat though the door Is over strewn wIth toys, by night anti day 1 To there not pleasure in the thought theldiaby'e had his way It hurts to have my mutaolio pulled, and 101111100 01 fmr Are notJust silted to ins, mina; but John le fond of them, And, after all, it seems to ine, no man can well gainsay Theo, toore 11 lots and lots of fun when lialw hoe me way. So, son and hole, eon tine o on thy happy, Wait career; Ne'er shall thy daddy interpose to raise the scalding tom Whatc'er ((lemmata comes to mo, 00000 nut thy Seyous play ; as far as Oni concerned, nlY boy, go on and have thy Wan —Weeper's Young People, My Bret Lion Htint. Major, don't you stir till I come back." Major ivas my elave, devoted and over - watchful. He was a apiond id maetiff, the present of an officer in the British army, t11 whose honor I called hi m .111ojer. lliggiawed tind bigthroaattel, ho was considered the finest dog in South Africa. My fat hor was 11 missionthey, and Ivo lived in a small town on the vory edge of the civilization that had spread out fro111 the ever-growiug diamond fields. There were hardly any whites there, and this probably amounted for the great affection existing between Major and me, Wo were always tot:ether, No wonder 11101 110 looked up end whined piteonoly as I told him to stay behind that day. It was reithy in kindness to 111111 and 1101 111 selfloh- nem that 1 bade hint remain at home, He had a lame paw and 1 Wite going oti 0. loirg, dry tramp thnt would have made him miserable that hot Aeguet day. Our house stood on tbe edge of a forest looking out upon a long stroSch of prairie. On its furthest edge loomed up a long dark line, the fringe of another toreet, so dark and deep and treacherous that the natives spoke ef it with big, elaring eyes. The great lions that prowled there tad tho ter- rible fights of mon end beast those myster- ious depths bad known I Many at time had Teem a hunting party leave our little group of huts for the forest, to come back in the evening with a dead lion or two and a stretcher bearing the dead or wounded body of an over -brave native. For my age I was considered a good hunter, but ms: shooting had been confined to 81111111 game. Since the arrival of my new rifle from England I yearned to show my prowess with larger game. My parents had eautioned me never to venture to the other forest, but all at once the ohance came. Father and mother were called away to a village at some distance to Lie gone several days. They left me alone save for the pres- ence of an old negress. With many a promise of good behavior I saw them off. The first day passed with tantalizing slow - nese. During the night 1 decided to hurry over to tho strange forest, see what was so awful there, and get back before the old folks returned. My dreams were filled with vieions of a hunter's glory. I was up early the next morning. The fat nogress was still sleeping. In the rude stable my pony was stretching himself. Quickly 'threw on him the saddle and made up a package for lunch. Then I got at fresh supply of ammunition and cleaned up the rifle. All these preparations akjor watch- ed with delighted anticipation, which was turned into grief as I went away alone. It W00 the first thne 1 had ever left him be- hind. It was scarcely sunrise when I left. By noon I wall 00 the outakirts of the woods, Very cool and inviting they looked after the blistering hot ride across the prairie. I picketed the pony in the shade by a pool, got my bearings by the sun and then dived into the shadows of the jungles. Soon I moue to a well -trodden peal. Examiniug the tracks I recognized the stamp of alien's pow. Now, I thought, the aream of my life will be realized 1 Behind a tree I took my station, the rifle leauing on a low limb pointing over tho path, and the ammunition ready for instant reloading. In about an hour I heard a roar. I trembled all over with excitement till the rifle barrel fttirly danced ou the limb. But as tho roaring grew nearer the first nervousness passed off, end when the magnificent, tawny forest King came royally down the path my muscles were drawn up by 0110 01111111 till the gunstock seemed gripped by hands of steel. " Aim for the eye," I had heard the old hunters say, and I did. The shot was fol- lowed by a howl of pain. His aharp eyes untouched by the bullob spied me through the smoke and leaves. In ono leap his great yellow body rom into the air and I knew he was tater me. I stepped to the other side of the tree just as he crashed upon the spot where 1 had stood, Away I sped through the trees, ammuni- tion and all foegotten. In my headlong flight I burst into an opening and, before 1 know it, was in plain sight. 11 (100 too late to go hack, Over my shoulder I saw the lion tearing in pursuit. Away went the rifle, and I sped on to make a small tree in the middle. The lion stopped to sniff the gun. Thio stop gave me the chance to reach the tree, Op it I ran with the apoed of a native olimber. It was so smell it bent with my weight. My pursuer came to the foot and sprung upon the tree, but the trunk was omall, attd he gam up after several attempts in whioh he nearly shook me from my porch. The tree was dead and there ine no foliage. The sun beat down on my head till I through I should Mkt, for I had 1001 01)' hat in the race. Below the lion sat and glared at me. Two hours paned, and a third, and then eame the stm touch the horizon. I was nearly dying front thirst, and knew that I meld hot hang there all night. My head Wee (keeping In weerinees and fear, when there came through the still air the yelp of a dog, and a second 18110( 11 well-known forin mane limping Me the open, I gave a cry of joy, "Major, Major, (leak old dog, you didn't forget me," I silent - ad. Ishii always think he underetood, for without a moment's hesitation he come etreighe for the big beast st the tree and sprafig at his throat. He was tired with hya 10113) search for mei and ho had to do his fighting on three lege. But the blood of hfs spooks fired lam. Tielm he got a neck 110111 and twiee he One Shaken mr. 110 woo 110 11(010111 foe hie tawny foe, and so My love got the bettor of my fear nal shout- od 1" Go home, 'Major, go heme." 310 paid no attention, except moo, when ho lost his scowl geip on the throe% 'Then, tungand with blear, 110 1(011011 01 0101110111, As he Walked orotund the lien he looked up at 11104 Wagged his tail and gave Stoll a bark 180 he had often given la ploy with um Then he gave 0 ataggering leap at his big adver. terry. 31100411 a sharp howl of pain, end closed my eye% for 1 expected what came. There was a orneelt as of brekon bones, and when I looked agein Major lay otili la the lion's feet. Teem rained down my oheeks, end I seareely noticed the lion sniff the body once or twice (tad then stalk off into the twilight gloom of the tercet, satisfied with one victim. Ho had no more them gone before I slid down the tree and loaned over Major, I took up his head, but the eyes wore closed and all my boyish coaxingand crying brought book no sign of life to the limp body. I dragged 11 801 into the jungle and covered lam with geese and branches, Then I made my way to the pony, which 3 hudelly found safe and sound, and by midnight was home again. "Mommy" told me how Major had wandered around the house disconsolate for 001 0110010 and had then set off across the prairie, 11 10 11080 to the tracks of tho pony. She tried in vain to make him stay home. When my week camo beek the next day I confessed all with tears. My father so respected my love for my dumb comrade that he sent over a company of natives, who brought; btiok the remains of my rescuer. There was a sal service in the yard the next morning, and there, to this day, is a white stone with this inscription : " Major—Vaithful to the end." MURDER WILL OOT. A. Criminal Convicted on 8881 Testimony 0 'rwo Chaps. Quito a novelty 111 the annals of justice has been the conviction of a murderer by the tacit but effective teatitnony of the re- mains of a couple of pork chops which gnawed to the bone, had been left on the table in the dining mem of the unfortunate lady whom he had just done to death. At the end of last, year, eays a Paris comes- pondent, atadame Loblint, the widow of a doctor in practice at Tilly•surolleuse, and - decay disappeared. She lived quite alone, and her absence was not notima by the neighbors for some days, The dooe of the house watt broken open, ana all the rooms wore (011811(1 111 a state 0( 11(0 uttnoat disorder, the floor of the kitchen being covered with blood, The plate and various other arthiles of value had, however, not boon touched, though several honk notes, a list of which was afterwards 18I000VE11E1) LT 0 ollAwEll, had been removed from the desk in which the money was kept. It Wari 00011 108001' 101,2011 11101 1(10 of these seauribies were in the possession of a peasant named Aubertin, who resided in the neighbourhood, and seas known to be deeply in debt. When Auber. tin was arrested he denied Idea he had had any hand in the crime, but it shortly tran- spired that on the very day when the mur- der wns committed he bad bought a couple of pork chops from a local deeler, and there on the dining -room table lay the tell.tale debris. Aubertin, in feet, had known be- forehand that the sinister task which he had set himself to do 8001111(1 demand a me- th 'n amount of time in its aocomplish- moil He had determined on sawing into pieces the corpse of the poor lady, and several hones were devoted to thia horrible work. A few days afterwards some keg- ments of flesh were found near the pier of one of the river bridges, 01(11 088 the morrow the remains of a body which had been cut into several pieces were discovered in the Meuse. Aubertin has just been tried at the Meuse Assizes,and condemned to hard labor for life. T slue of Manure. The " Americen CnItivettor," in answer to an inquiry from a farmer who proposes to buy village manure, and wants to get at its actual value, says that the real value of a load of manure mut be determined by the farmer, and at this 983090n of the year it is often cheaper than later. Many stables are oleaned out in tho summer, and the contents can be purchased cheaper than in fall or spring, when the demand for manure is more general. In making estimates, it is essen. tial to take into considerotion severel im- portant points. Fresh manure from well- fed horses 01 oows should be taken as the standard, mid this should be worth at cur- rent rates from $2 to $3 per ton. For tho proportiou of plant food which such manure adds to the soil, it is oheap at this rate, compared with Lho atm:flannel fertilizers. Animals that have been forced for fattening purposes always produce the beat manure. 11 10 a concentration of all the essential ele- ments for land improvement, and a ton of this is equal to pearly two of loose straw ceased indifferently with ram ond snow in Olio open barnyard. Animals that are merely " wintered," as the old phrase goes, yield manure only of secondary quality. They aro generally straw and corn -fed ani- mals, and the compost must necessarily be poor. Neverthless, in buying manure very little distinction is made between these dif- ferent qualities of manure. Tho strew -fed anklet brings in as much for its com- post as the forced animals kept in stables, where there 100 concentration of food. One of a good knowledge of menure may thus often purchase 0 good stable manure at cheap rates. In fact, it is often the cheap- est; manure that can be spread upon the lands, and, by all odds, 11 10 the bast for the soil. It will pay one 1) beta such manure at a longer distance if the same prim ia asked for it as the inferior grades, Love Can Bear the Pam. BY 00111(1011. EMMY. HI could glvo to you. And give you alt the gatn. And give to you llfe'e brightest link, l'd gladly boar 1)10 001(1. And give 10 1081 tho fairest prize That life has ever won, I'd wend tny way through clouds and storms That you might have the sun. Give unto you all nature's; sweets, The fairest llower worn, And pluck for you the frograne roso, And take myweif the thorn, Thin would Rave you every tear, And koop from you the frown, Aed boar the burdens, wear the ems, That you 11110181 wear the cro(10n. And if two imps wore filled for Ine, Two cups thatt often moot, I'd drink 1110 1111101' to the deogs That )•oe might havo 11100110001. --- natter Than a Wife W1.10 HOW Wafilling. Hungry Higgins—Please, Mister, kin you gimme tee cents to help buy me a— " Brink 3" " Now. A l000rnotive. 1 ma in the papers that a good locomotive mime $100 a 1VIATING LAUD CAIMACIE the ground is made very Atli a csoneiderable proportion of late otthbago will fail to head, Thie means 1101 only the Lose ef nue of the houl, bob of alt provides laboe plit on it so fer as thee° late beach aro ooneornect Tho bunehoe of boom oabbago letwee Iwo not Worth their oost as toed for etook. 11 wllI pay to apply an Mats dose of ooluble measure to those plants, with Slough Water to Make sure that tile Moto 0038 3)81 11, PHEASANT SHOOTING.. An 'minnow, jennir:ny English CountrY Banality, England, ,July 130..—From any point of oonsideration the English pheasant Is the frost splendid bird that roaches the English market. SmahollY, Perhaps an Irlahnuon, has oall. ed it "Ibis sacred ibis of Great Britain." 31 18 certainly all but worshiped. The idol. atry ia an expensive one ; for it Barely mate England, Ireland and Set:04nd more than (1,000,000 to 1001, 10 shoot and to finally eat moll pheasants as aanitially einne to thegun. If the vest area of valuable inclosed land oomprised in gentlemen's seats and parked demesnes 01 11)0 nobility, whieh are 5110001 solely devoted to ruus and coverts for Pheasants, should be taken into amount, and anything liko a faie rental for these be addod to the actual current sums expend. ed, the outlay upon this one bird alone would mutually reach millions upon millions of dollars, and be found to exceed all other forms of outlay by British sportsmen com- bined. Indeed the pheasant is an interesting bird in all its relations to life upon the great English asietes—in its extraordinary personal Poway ; 00 the immemorial worry of keepers and prey of potiohers ; in its 00. outlying greater attention from titled sports. men than do all other birds of Britain, and, above all, from his superb anti matehles place among the delicacies of the table. Every one has heard hew Sydney Smith, and Ito was no mean epicure, asserted that he knew of no pure earthly joy equal to roast pheasant with rich gravy, ohipped potates and bread sauce. For an Ameri. can's understanding ID May truly be said 11101 the pheasant 19 our turkey, partridge and (1111811 118 one ample and delicious frame. Tho limitetions of shooting in Omar Beit- ain undoubtedly add much from the sports- man standpoint to the deep British interest. at all 18121100 1(1 these eplondid birds. It is tameet inconceivable to an American how universally the " sportman " craze prevails In England, Ireland and Scotland, and how every aorta of land and rod of shore, outside 01 0011 distinet from all other uses to which 11 1003' be put, is sportman's property yield. ing extraordinary returns in rentals for the " shooting" and "fishing " rights alone, On a former occesion I demonstrated that tho exercise of these rights and privileges annually cost British sportsmen the enor- 010119 sum of X6,000,000 or $30,000,000 in American money. This vast expenditure is almost wholly confined to whatever pleesure may be got in poking about moors, other waste though thoroughly gnarded tracts and tenant farm. - era' fields for snipe, quail and grouse, cap- ereailzie and deer. Pheasants, then while they may eventually 00(110 to the Bibles of the %gager tradesmen tied literary folk, are reully the game birds of the British aristoc. racy, and of the landed aristocracy at that. They are found only within the grounds of gentlemen's seats and lordly demesnes, sem where as in pheasant farms, they are exclusively bred to increase the numbers upon the estates. All the conditions of their existence in the first place, their breeding, their inereaSe and retention are necessarily alone found within the walled in parks of the country gentry and nobility. All the sport found in their annual destruc- tion is go absolutely exclusive that they can only reach the common mortal's table, at from a crown to a guinea a brace, by way of the ubiquitous poacher's net or after " coming to the gulls" of the rich, the titled and the great. Every British nobleman's estate and every English, Irish or Scottish gentleman's coun- try seat is in point of fact to a greater 08 loss degree a pheasantry, and the increase and protection of this one game bird are paramount to tal other duties or pleasures. From every accessible means of information, I believe that hilly 1,000,000 pheasants are conlially slaughtered in the United King- dom. Of these over 100,000 reach the Lon- don inatecet stalls alone ; and this number represents only those whieh havelegititnate- ly come from tho battues "or " shoots" in Ootober, November and early December ; and do not take into account the heavy an- nual drafts by poachers upon the rich and well stooked preserves. The Prince of Wales is by no means first amongthe breeders, and yet on his estote of Sandringham and the adjoining property of Oaslie Risinghatn, wlmieh be bas leased for sporting purpooes, as many as from 7,000 to 5,000 pheasants are anntutfly provided by His Royal Highness for his sportsmen friends. In two or three of the dukeries, and on other largo estates as well, immense pains and 0(3)0085 1810 gime to ensure abun- dant supplies of the bird of Colchis. The killing of from 2,000 to 4,000 at ono " bat- tue has often been recorded, and 1110 well known tlint 9,500 Were 01101 during one season at Elveclon, in Norfolk, which has an area of 17,000 acres. There aro other game farm% as they are called, in other parte of England, and there is at least one 010011 Intgo pheasantry iu :Scotland, 011 tile Marquis of Allea's estate in Ayrshire. On all 0011(100 0! average area the heed geonekeeper o ill bo allowed a half dooen !teepees to asaist him in breeding and oaring for the game, and in prat:Sting It from m- eoads of poachers, Often tho number of under keepere will be increased by drawing, 181 0001(11111 00000110, 1111011 1110 111(1101 foresters ; so that where from 2,000 to 4,000 pheasants may be regnired for the autumnal guns of milord's sportsmen guests, with the wives and children of the helpers who may live in cottages within 1110 demesne walls, a score of persons will be employed in the breeding and caring for phoaeants upon ono estate alone. Usually those birds which have cooped both the poacher's nets and the sportsmen's guns are allowed to run wild during the winter ; care principally being taken to keep their runs and coverts clear of too great obstructions by snow, to have their haunt occasionally provided with dry straw or leaves, and to keep their drinking wells or water troughs open and clear of refuse, and that they are well tied with oats and core, On some estates during October and November a certain number are caught, taken to the aviary or plow -sentry, their wings regularly clipped every two or three weeks, end they aro thuskept and fed during the winter to provide the required egg sup. ply during 100 03101113) month, the scarcity of eggg being one 01 1110 most serious draw- backs in plums:At breeding. !Jenny, howeeer the okl birds aro not "taken tip " until, the last of Pelmet tory, num they aro systematioally "starved " by con-feedius for Omit: a week, When large "113)0(0 4" traps aro set near their hounts. Then trails of was ore mattered between the pheasants meetly follow these to the traps, which are sprung by springs in the heeds of the keepers, ttny deeirod number being thus easily Steered, Theso birds oro taken to the aviaries which the keepers, among whom I have ninny good friends, Moist, on calling "areas." Those fire simply largo wooded spaces Ori the demesne greunds, moloaod by fen= of wire nottingt rennetimes 12 feta high. The winge of the birds are Collett/et. ly clipped or thoy Weald escape but breed- ers 11033 110 Weer required less costly than wire netting covering for such necessarily largo traete, These aviaries ere provided with inook coverts of bark and bough, with ileStling pieces and watering trough, while some. are soured against Vet min by ourved iron hoes 1.0 the molosing netting (Merged with electricity, Wadi 01111005 death to all rodents attempting an entrance. The pheasants begin laying by April, arid they lay very much like the ordinary hon. Each out be counted on to furnish from 20 to 30 eggs. Those aro deily carefully gath. ered not only from the neste in the aviaries, but from thee of the unitnpvisoned birds. The latter ie 1101 (0 difficult task for the keepers '• for it is a !Angular fact that not- withstantling the pheasants' will nature they neet moot freely in ehrub clumps along the edges of walks and drives. The keepers tell me they love the sound and sense of companionship, though themselves wonder- fully secretive and sly. And )lore the element of poaching is ridiculonsly observable. From April to june pheasant ego are worth from (11 11(10 per hundred or front 20 to '25 cents each, A regular soramble for thorn Is begun,"and this 8e1(000 provides one of the richest of the poacher's harvests. 11 18 a well-known fact that one-half of the pheasant:a' eggs exposed for stile by the shopkeepers are stolen, lex port peaches know every haunt of the pheasants upon the demesnes as well as the keepers. They aro often ahead of the latter at, the nests of tho unimprisoned birde. Not only thio, but keepers themselves do not scruple to sur- reptitiously dispose of nalord's supply, or help themselves from the nests on neighbor- ing_demesnes. However great may bo the care in the breedieg of pheesuias, not over one-half of the chicks come safely to maturity, Then the preserves .tre ready for depletion by poaching in its various forms. Not only do the birds stiffer in diminution from the pro. fessional poacher, but milord's pheasauts prove an irresistible temptation to every tenant and cotter living round about Lite demesnes as well as many whose iuterests should make them their protectors ; while on many estates 1110011 01 the poaching med. buted to genuine poachers ia done by the employes themselves. On great estates from 20 to 50 men are regularly am ploy ed. There are the " agen t " and hie clerks. The bailiff, who looks after tho home farm and cattle, and his helpers. There are the head forester and perhaps a dozen under foresters, all of whoee bird and wood -craft itt•e quite equal to those of the gamekeeper and his several underkeepers. There aro a master sawyer and three 01 (0(11 men alleged in mating timber and posts from forest trees and repairing gates, walls and fences. The head gerdener has several assistants. There are painters, glaziers, carpenters, ole,, all of whom aro familiar with the castle and the surroundi•g grounds. .A.nd on some demesnes yon will find a half dozen lodge keepers and their families. All of these poorly paid folk love O pheasant after it has come from the oven, pot ot grill as well ae do the aristocracy, and they all know how to get them without bothering the village marketman Professional poaching is a far less danger- ous pnrsuit than it is usually considered. Daring the shooting mason all sorts of vil- lage hangers-on are pressed into service as "beaters" and to carry and fill the game bags. It is au easy thing during the excite- ment to hide a generous portion of the game at convenient points from which it is taken under cover of night. Clamor and fright also break 031 the rucks or coveys into de- tached files of pheasants which retreett as high as possible among the branches of larch and fir, when the poachers can easily take them from their roosts at night by hand. Other methods are smudging or smoking them into half insensibility and knocking them from their peechos with clubs ; corn kernels into which short bristles are insert- ed are greedily devoured and the 1111110 1011 choking to the hedges to be easily taken by lutud ; While an ingeuious and successful deviate is to (110 gamecock with artificial spurs, and stealthily place him alongside at covert, when the pugnacious pheasant cock instantly responds to the gamecock's orow- ing ohallenge, and throe or four brace of the valuable birds are taken. P110001001 511001123) usually begins the lat- ter part of October and doses with the final Christmas " battue." Notwithstanding high walls, gentleness of keepers, and all possible preventatives, many pheasantsleave the demesnes, seeking the outer hedges and bog grasses, where they fall a prey to the snares 01 10001110 and Iguns of the poachers. Therefore a few days before pheasant -shooting begins, all 3115 001. side help at the mistle starts in a. circle miles from the demesneamd concentrating to- ss:tea 1110 05000, shout and, "beat" with a terrific hullabuloo, Erns driving mauy back within the preserves, Then milord and his friends dressed as for snipe -shooting on the moors mid provided each with two doubled - barrelled., breech -loading, center -fire fowls ing pieces of No. 12 bore, a man for reload- ing and another for carrying cartridges, be- girt the slaughter. The sportsmen are sta. tioned in advance at tbe edges of open places. The gamekeeper, who is a sort of master of mementos, brings his sosistants or " beaters "11(10 line behind. Then they move forward, perhaps ten yard - apart, the keeper, who linows every bush, hedge, copse or tree, direc11 ing the " beatersin every movemen1. In an instnait the preserve is a perfect bed- lam of yelle and explosions. The men yell " Hi-yi-i-il" 00 1110)' "beat" the bushes, call. ing, as the startled birds liaah from copse to copse, "Cook to the right!" "Cock abovel" " To the left, cook!" "Iii-yisidl—coak, cook, cockl— right aheed, cook!" while the destladeoling guns answer with such rapid. 10y that they often get too warm to be held in the sportmen's halide. This goes on all day, with on hour for a lunch of stew and beer bt, 2, when the "beaters" are furnished a liberal amount of bread, cheese and beer; and their assistant% who follow the huntere with carts and donkeys, by night have often gathered tip from 2 0 to 1,000 slaughtered birds. These are shipped aired to London to dealers, who provide hampers and tap anti pay for the birds from 4 to 9 shillings per bracte.—[Edgor L. Wakeman. Plantatien Lullaby. see a, gray coon 128 (10 00111; 810011, baby, Seep. 1 hoar do =stab blow his lion; Sloop, baby,sloop, 3058 (11113)3)0.11 at do geav coon shoot, beeli do echo 03 (10 old lurn's toot, An' lonab an owl in do wild Wood hoot; Sloop baby, sloop. 13)181000 grun the de olo bayon— Sloop, baby, Seep— At a tab pig crawnshin' 111 (10 (11101 Sloop, baby, sloop, Me tooth am hig, 011' I10110, 1111' W11110 An' he 0111 01111011n' at de groat big bite He's giodno to hale outon dot pig tomito Sleep, baby, efeepi I heal) do wild scoom flyin by; Sloop, baby. sleep, Do air am lenges' wid doe cry; Sleep, baby, Seep. Ies melee to be sole, but you am snug As do heroin' hard an' dentate .1511118 01(3) So I'll losh you now wid a good•nite ling; Sleep, 1)0.1137 ,110011, IVRECRED 11 1HE RINK Otannesse Further Particulars of the Steamboat Ao- sident on the St, Lawrence. Vbc voi um Man, With Two Ilan d red Amer,. 04111 11 700,1018 014 Board, Stemmas; Ca. manageable Malt Shoot lug Codar ids, and Is itti,ard on a Rocky Island— Passengers Escape on a Bridge orfrecii —1310 1,1403(11 Probably a Total 11,058. The paseengers 01 1110 Rishelien aoul On- tario Narigation Company's new steamer Columbian, which recently ran aground Ou the Cedar Raids, veleta a thrilling etory of their experience). The Columbian, whioh woos on her Nvay from Kingston to Montreal, had about two hundred toarists on board. Everything went well until the steumer struck Cedar Rapids. When about half woy through the smith; the chains connecting with the ateam steering gear soddenly broke. Pilot Ouel- lette at unce connected the hand-etc:eying gear, but to 1110 00110181001,1011 thistle° broke. 1 he boat was darting down the rapids at the rate of between fifteen and twenty miles an hour, but Ouellette ordered all steam on. Thin was (101(0 10 keep the steamer front go• mg broadenle on the current and rolling over, Under the impetne the Columbian made with the rapidity of a railroad train straight toward a little island in the rapitle known as Crone Island. Not a palisenger On hoard knew what had occurred. None realized how closely they were to eternity. Indeed, most of them thought that it Ives part of the progt•atime to take them vo dose to the islaad, and that 'before reaching it the steersman would sheer the 11000 011 and she would continuo on her way down TII I0I1.IN0 RAPIDS. Suddenly a crunching sound was heard as the keel of the steamer grated along the rocks. The Coluinbion had gone ashore in the centre of the dangerou Cedar Rapids. A s soon as the fact become known there wits general Mann on board, but no panic occurred. Perhaps the easiuess with which the Columbian struck had 00100111103) 10 do with this, There was no midden shook ; the steamer was simply forced upon the shelving, though rocky bottom raising the heal several feet out of the water. Invest/. priori showed that the Columbian hati not sprung a leak. The terrific:current, miming like a, mill sluice, caught the stern and swung the vessel broad side to the island. If she had not been hard aground the cur- rent would have carried her off the island and swept her helplessly clown the rapids. When the passengers realized the saline then great anxiety wee expressed to leach the land, as it was feared that the steamer might at any moment be carried down by the current. A rope bridge to the island wns at firat suggested, but finally a tem- porary bridge was made by elating down Iwo trees. Haweers were thrown out to the 811015 01111 the Columbian was held safe in 11211 TERILOrS POSITION. About one-half the passengers went ashore by the bridge. There were three islands to be crossed before they could reach the main land. Between two of the islands the native boatmen transferred the passengers, and the trip was an experience that few of them will ever forget. When the main land was reached the party was made as comfortable (011 1)15 night as possible ender the circumstances, and next day the Navigation Company sent up the steamer Bohemian to take 1110011 10 Mon- treal. Among the loassengers of the Colum- bian wereJames E.. Campion and Thomas R. Myres of New York, &Moe' Cavin and A. Mooney of Philatlelnhia, J. M. Sea - vitt and ovife and A. P. TO Bates of Brooklyn, Mr. Cavin, one of the passengers, told the following story : " We bad all been reading graphic descriptions of how in shooting the rapids the boat would seem to be going ashore as on an island, and then by skilful steering would veer into the channel. When we noticed the steamer bearing directly upon the island moon which we were wreck- ed it seemed as though the printed descrip- tions were perfectly true, but it an instant tho sound of the bottom crunching upon the rocks, the sight of the bowsprit in among the treetops on the shore, and the sudden stoppage of the vessel at once pro - du eed a general alarm among the passengers. Fortunately it was only momentary, as the nearneta of the shore had a reassuring effect. Before the excitement had subsided a French. Canadian, a perfect giant in build, and a companion standing on the shore were waiting to catch the line thrown from the steamer, and make .4 ROPE BRIMIN upon which the gangways were thrown out. The orew immediately 1011 (01 tho shore with their %me and cut a passage through the forest to the shore, where small beets could remits and carry us off in safety. They then felled two large pine trees, about eighty feet long, which were stripped of them branches and thrown across the stream, from the shore to the steamer, upon which a permanent bridge was ereeted, In the midst of all the excitement the big French Canadian, by his strength and activ- ity, elicited many expressions of admire - thin. If our experience had ended there nothing bat praise could be said of him and his companions, who came thronging to the island m their small boats'shooting the turbulent waters with inimitable skill. Bob it became necessary for ue to cross two +Menials, about half a mile wide, before we could reach the mainland. Notwithstand- ing, that the officers 01 1110 boat has assured the boatman that every chug) would be eettled by the company they took us to the most dangerous places, and then, when out of reach of authority, demanded 001113)011811. tion at the rate of $1 per head. They re- fused to land ue until we paid, and threaten- ed even personal violence. On one occasion, when a boat load of thirty people was strug- (sling in the stream, these men jumped from their boat into the swift current, flowing up to their waists, and, holding the boat, de- manded that each paesenger pay $l bofbre they would put them ashore.' W. Dimmer of Now York, another 01 1180 passengers, was loud in his praises of Seam, the leader of the French Canadian rescuers, llo said that this mem proved - himself last night to be a marvel of 'mean - kir strength and practical engineering skill. "Under his leadership," eaid Bessemer, "the other men built the bridge from the boat to the ohore 00 Well as any trained body of military mon could have done it. In fact I think they (1111 11 bettor, for I sup- pose they were all C nnadinn voyageurs ma cuetomed to constructing rafts and binding all kinds of timber together. At all events they served 00 well, and tho story of ex. tortion circulated against them is most un. inst. They asked a dollar apiece from the passengers, and I think it was little enough, for they worked to their waists in water for hours. The Columbian, Which was 0 noW stem,. er, commenced running a few woks ago, She was built, in New Y'ork rma coot $200,. 000, sho wont rrom New York to Istew. !midland with relief for the fire viotims; and then 0(8810 014 to llontreul and was put on the upper St, Latvrence route. 11. 10 feared that she will be a, total loge ae it Will he extremely difficult to get her far the rooks et tbe island owillg to the did -lenity of working in the mat current. Tugs with wreaking apparatus have been sent to the scene and aorta will at (Mee he made to float the steamer, SMALL PEET OP WIMP; WOKEN, Produced by Torturing nandages Platted About Them in Childhood, A similarity of Chinese maidenhood 11* the famous custom of producing smell feet by oompression. The origin of that deform- ity is not known; even the must edueated know nothing of it. It is said that tho Empress Takki of the Shang dynaaty lied club feet and implored ber haslet d to order the court ladies to produce ti similar de. formity of their pedal extremities. According to another authority a favor. lte of the Emperor Tingolittin•Citio (Tang dynasty, 100 .A. raj Imo the idea of mine preesing her toot, whieh was gaickly intl. Itatml. TheS0 versions are both improbable, for the ruling race of the Bogue, the lertars, never diehgure the feet of their deughters, and girls with deformed feet are excluded from the 11511(2 ,ml 0011 aro not even permitted to en ter the palatm. An Unusual. ly small foot is tuuktn1 upon, however, 081 all evidence of refinement, idthongil not alway 108 011 iodic:won of wealth. The diminution of the feet at generally produced. in a, very eimple matinee. The growth of tlaeso ox - 11471(111100 10 ustut'ly cheekel is: the fifth or Seth 3501'. The foot is so firmly bandaged that the eiroulation alinost ceases, and the toes are tightly compressed. After being Lan 'aged 1110 foot is put in a short, narrow. pointed shoe, in which a little blook of wood is orlon ass! to sapp et the heel. This makes it appear as though tho girl walked upon her toes. The aukles always retain their natural size. Thereupon the shoo is again wrapped in bandages, which gives it 041 awkward appearance. Stockings are not worn. A foot ther is so treated assnmes the fashionable form in two or three years by a 3)e0tle81 atrophy. The poor, deluded violinist of comes, endure terrible pains cluing this time. The skin and ports of the flesh often ulcerate, and, in case of neglect, incurable disease not infrequently results. The idea automat in this mem try that iron or wooden alms are employed for this pro. eess is erroneous; only cloth bandages and leather shoes aro used. The soles of the lat. ter are from 3 to 41 inches in length. Girls with these deformed feet cannot walk natur. ;illy, but possess a mincing gait and waddle. The stops are short, No matter how strong, 11, 10 impossible for a girl with such feet to carry any bunion or to perform any work that necessitates locomotioa. The parents of girls with small foes only marry them to men whose mothers and sisters likewise pos. sess diminutive feet, thus forming a sort of caste—the only one in China. Virhere is the Deepest Well in the World. The deepest wells are Artesian ones so named from Artois, one of the old provinces of France, %here they lung were used,: though 11 10 said that eimilar ones existed from remote antiquity in China and Egypt, , and had been introduced into Italy before they were kuown in France. The soil is. bored till a place is reached where water has accumulated, when it is forced up by' that ‘phiall stands at a higher level tban it. self, and it rises to the surface, or even above it, as a fountain. It is wonderful that such 0 depth can be readied in thia way. The deepest boring in the world is ab Speorenberg, twenty miles south of Tierlin, this well being sulk for the purpose of obe taining a supply of rock -salt. A bore -hole of 16 feet in diameter, was carried down to the (depth of 280 feet, vhere the salt bed began. After 0 further descent of 680 feet., the bore was reduced to 13 inches diameter and thou continued till the extraordinnry depth of 4,104 feet was reached, withou11 having pierced through the salt deposito which has thus the enormous thickness of Mr least 3,007 feet. The next in depth is that ' at the insane asylum in the town of St,. Louis, Missouri, in tho Uaited States, 3,8434 feet, which was stopped at that point, as it produced only limo ; then Wat. son's, known as the "deep well," at Titus.. ille, Pennsylvania, 3,11531011, which, how. ever, is dry, and produced melting. Theo there are that at Louisville, in Kentucky, whieh produces at plentiful supply, 2056 feet in depth; Ora at Kissingen, in Bavaria, 1,8784 foot; and the one at Grenelle, neae Par's, celebrated for its diststers and delay which caused it to occupy eight years in. belong, 1833 to 1841 ; bat it gives 700,000 gallaus daily, the water risirg 32 feet above the surface, with a temperature of 81j1 de. grecs Fahrenheit Petroleum or natural gas wells have beer sunk to a depth of 4,700 feet at Pittsburgh, Ponnsylvanie, and . to a depth of 4,100 feet at Wheeling Wesb Virginia, both in the United States, Horrors of Maroon° Prisons, Air. Charles Cook, the prison philaaahrop. ist, lecturing at Plunatead on Tuesday night, said ;—" I managed togetintolie;i. sons of Tengier. I was told we cannot trusb ro'there.I'aY\vilIIutbllL;ln evesotnesoliers,antovetoiolnit is well for you to go." I knew that the pei. goners seldom if over wore allowed to wash themselves, and never had a change of clothes, and that some were (lying of disear e and dirt. The Sultan once said—"It wag easier and cheaper to let prisonore die of diseaae than to pay the blather's bill to kill them." Our own Ambassador spiel to tric—" The prisons inlioroeco are hopeleas and hearb-breaking. Why, sir," he said. " there are as many prisoners in the prisons of one of the capitals of Morocco as there are free men in the city." The Sultan grinds the governors of the provinces who, in their turn, crind and squeeze from the magiatrate under them, until, coming down to the pri. son officials, who rob the prisoners of any possessions oe means they may have. Al Tetean I foiled prisoners in a dreadful con. ditions—in ohains, misery, disease, and I starving, and I had no rest 11 11111 all wore roa, aim fed the 3)115011800 111 Tangier with bread. I did not eo to Morocco to food prisoners, and yot I did bemuse I found them starving." Sweet But Costly, Stolen kieses may be sweet, but they aro rather doer at the present market. prime at Valparaiso, Senor Taloa, of that tom, kissed a lady withoutasking permission while walking, in the Plata. -The lady aps Pealed to the low, and the gay Taloa stiffs,a cal imprisonment foe sixty days. In an ovil moment he also appealed, and uses kept itijail for 200 days,a while his appeal was being considered, The result of that consideration was the addition of thirt days more to the original sentence. hope the lady 18 now satisfied; the least sho eau do is to return a Meg IVIlleh hag eget 11130 &Cr CO M103':314MS,