The Brussels Post, 1892-11-11, Page 31
NOV, 11, 1802.
AGRIO'ULTURAL,
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80mo Pelkti.
Homo fulks le alters mm1)11)11)3'. no matter what
they've feel.
A MOW fault e.lth what they lutve, tio
auntie, whet t hoy'vo not
An' soled OM la to lieu um klek101 lormaeln
of thelr leek.
tbe n hag Investment sue the
hotere a gat s nee.
An' it nt 0 up to hese, artn. amoin plat nin. 1111
the time
1Vith thole inettely ititeconeeptton' of 1110 WOrl:s
o' the Sublime,
An' lt eats; mu in rolleatiO on the mei Its of Um
ease,
.A notrawl n1 or conolu;lonesseportatultO to the
'1111 i've sorter got to I Ideate' that it's sinful to
emnicain ;
U'hat. bore', t int wit of pleasure te4 there
oVo 1004 o 10110 ;
That there ain t no more to ens.; 0)0111 Man What
1 here 1,1 to blin.n "
Au' thing, air preity okany divided ma I
a loss ,
Ivor w hell , on strikes. Inactive 'twlx thnnItighler
tut' the mut
The two will alloys skailse when oil is ',aid on'
done ;
An' the world 1,, Milan/ant even, el' 11 wouldn't
91111 amen"
For the 11111411 1111 i 1,s, liollere when the thing ls
levelled down.
There's !mot her old ,t le iloserlite, me, I' ye found.
iniitto y 31 ne,
. 1,
'mewl ', ;
Tbat. 10.11,r Wa.: a gain without a eurre-
spoudin*
That you'ro 001 aloha' le wear the own ultheei
son 1 IV r 1110 (go...
An' when 3 on -co a plat In 111e the where you'd
tom 1,
Yon male, it soon er later, bet you 11 pay fur It,
1 bet.
Mut may get tho Mein' or the sciences 00'
eke',
An' another deal in futures an' may strike it
sudden rich,
But the first lots lied the peace of oiled that
once he used to feel,
1.11010.4 hu,lo,L the rolish of a hard.earned.
lame.,1 meal.
An' when you svo feller's got 11111144 extra
nice,
Y011 C.111 0:31/11,10 11111 fur rffl Mee get liu'e
t he ton i.ket. pths,.
Au. if your life W114 11411r0d 1,111, 111 1011 you
who t, friond.
YmI'd 11011 it balanced Jmt 11.10 sante as 1.1s'll 111.
1 111. end.
Then quit a elle fool complalittn• an' 11.st 11113 In'
how to,-Iiirk.
l'or he ti tat ,pentl in mi.:M.3-0u eau better
npend in work.
ThIngq rlo 1:11:0 nu a billow. inok 01 1110e4, I
tiluA admit
lint a-Weld:1'1in' comniainni won't help tho
thiog a bit.
All, the elong-, that vonlv a-drif t In' by. '11 vanish
(away intr.
As,' ameerin1 fret it imbitul 'On 1110 glory of thn
sum
Then,' to:01110h Or.t111 :16 every drop
o' dew ;
There'. in, math or day ne darkness 1011011 you
take 1 110 world n11 through ;
aline:vs es mut It of :mil as sinchler in every
human hen rt ,
An of day an' night In every lifo you'll linden
olud par).
Ale sheuld there bo residue sem' In either
way.
alThe fmt!ioil make it oltal on L'other side some
dny,
Hog 'Versus Sheep Raising.
The principles of successful hog raising
aro muoh more generally undet.stoocl and
practiced than aro the means and methods
of raising sheep. Every fanner knows the
value of crowding the pign from birth to
mattwity. Et ery farmer knows that early
maturity in a hog means quick trolley and
less chance of loss by cholera and other
casualties. Every farmer appreciates the
characteristics of breeds, and chooses such
as suit his own circumstances. On some
farms hogs are expected to live on corn
during their entire life with more or less
grazing, and some of diat in tho gleanings
of stribble-fields which offer more in. the
way of exercise then food sepplies. On
other hums hogs are iifferded olover pas-
tures, and aro not fed awn in the summer-
time, but are expected to live, grow and
thrive on grass. Some hog raisers market
the hog crop aa eight or ton months old,
while, °there practice the holding of hogs
until they ate fully groan -eighteen te
twenty mouths old -before feeding to
fatten.
Each of these systems of profitable raising
of hogs depends amok upon elmracteristies
of breeds. Feeding qualities, serly maturi.
ty, herdy rustling qualities, etc., are each
known to belong to certain breeds and typos
raf hogs with reliable uniformity.
But with sheep, such inforituttion is un-
euspected-at least, not a:masked-by the
average farmer. They generally aim to
push the pigs along with all they can eat
and drink until harvest, and put thom in
stubble -fields, to be followed by green oorn,
and as sorra hardens, the feediug lots is re.
sorted to for the finish. iThis is about the
hog -raising fonnula in Illinois.) Now, how
about tho lambs? What are the practices
of sheep raisers? While the problem of
profitable hog raising has been learned, the
problems of Sheep husbandry have not boon
considered, outside of the wool, as they
should.
Hog raising and agrioulturo in the earn
states aro on parallel lines ; sheep raising is
rot now, but will bo 441 110 amity distant, day.
The tendenoies aro in thab dieection. All
along the line of good farmieg cheep have tt
piece that no other domestics animal um
occupy. This is the problem in the ;sheep
induntry of this cottetry and the world that;
is being ;gaffed ancl must be eolved before
the highest results shall be obtained in
agricultero or sheep raising, This is the
reason some men aro sneoeseful hero and
there all over the onuntry. The leek of this
attention to special Belections and prao.
Nees of broods and managements is the cause
of disappointment.
GrOWille, Corn for the Silo.
110131,1111311t1113 SUM.
direetions for building o silo must of
necessity hoof a character pelletal in their
nature. They will conaist more of prineiples
than of precise methods if they are to he of
wide application. It is greatly hnportant
that the eilo be located with an oyo con.
etculotice in feeding. It should he as nearly
as Feasible to the centre of the feeding
operatione, to save unnecoesary etepe in
feeding. 1110 stook. 'there may bo no ilia
fieulty in arranging it thee when new build-
ings itre to bo erected, but its may be tiff.
fount in those already . constructed.
thougli sometimes a silo 10 built outside tho
barns or stables, it is murk more 00111111011
in Canada to build it within those. Omer.
ally a portion of the basement often a part
of the root collar, is paetitioned off, arid tho
silo is oontinued ep through the correspond.
Mg part of the mote ovethenal as high as
the epee will admit of. The weal of the
part of the oellar thus used must bo 1101110
opt{ 10 9111001,11 Isy °eating it with coming or
pillager, and it thould cones! ond ite di.
inensions ea to width and length with the
parts above it, so that the am may 0011.10
evenly in all parts. The size of Nee silo will
depend oil the nuinber of the stook to be
ed, and the duration of the petiod during
whiob tillage 18 to be fed, As a 0111110 foot
driftage weighs aboet 45 pounds, the eapit.
city of any Silo May easily lio computed. It,
ia always a sato plan to build largo ellough
for prospootivo wants, as tho relative cost
of lmildine derreases with the Menem its
the relative dimensions of tho proposed ailo,
Tho simpo of a, tile is a mathee of no little
ihrerlalloo, Seine littild thent entirely
round. Whore this can Ito dono it is oco
mutual of space:, but it ciumig tio °Emily
done when tho materials used are wood, still
tho silo is located in an 01,1 building. t
wend te Mild the tile longer than it in
1100101, hitt Ole 001111100 cost Jo less when the
nquitro shape 10 011 1/1100, eapneity of the
alto being taken into ttecoulit. 14 Moor.
taut that the silo Ito 1100p, , The ;teepee the
silo the more perfeot will ba the preserve.
Lion 01 the dorm and the less tho Amount of
waste on the Lop,
Tito 1000,111110n of the silo ie e, matter ef
touch importance, viewed in the light of
duration the whole foundation should eon -
shit of etone laid mortar. The 01110 may bo
ot the same material tte 1110 mudding, and
kopt, firmly in piaeu 1,0111 coming up
thtougli the stonework ef the foundation
wall,
The floor of the silo may be shriply of
earth-01ml or clay, tint the 11001110p must
110 peel, &Lemma much losa wentIct aceree
1.0 tho tillege through nuperalittielent mois.
lure. 11 has lanai found a real difficulty to
keep out reds, and when they give. trouble
they generally 0011141 in trent below. Te
lei:veto, title mono use a grout floor, alien,
,11101 01 et,1111,111, 111111, 1,1, a lloer the lower
pert .0 which consioli of broken stoma Or
gr Wit 11 waterlinse 111P111 it, and a light
cover' let, of Portlaild cement, upon the top
of tho watelihne.
The Mgt erials used in building eilos 11 the
been wood, brit.k, and stone. if theao, wend
has given the best log10111.011,41. We may
nut may now to givo all the reasons.
11'he mud ruetion of the eilo ie groat ly I in,
portant. It is import aut that eilos be deep,
Intt tho greater the depth the more diffithlt
is it to keep the walls froni spreading. lbe
studding 111 wit therefor° o ()lose, and tho
girte not too far apart The mud Bi0.0 of
the studs is 21 10 inebes, and the length
should not bo 1110r0 than 12 feet ; less
length would be bete or. The (stem° meta
mey vary frein I 2, to 1 0 or 1 8 Mellon, and ,
they el100111 lie carefully bridged when in
position. They should. in most. instances!
bave two tenons at the coda 'rho girta •
should bo strong, and the plates of en equal j
size with them. The sheeting instle should j
eensiet of unplened inch hoerde nailed upon !
the studs 10 a horizontal dire:aloe. It;
ehould mg lie close against the girt% es it !
may rot the andeet. A layer of ts r paper
mulling up end down im then mailed epee ;
these. Another tier of melt Wards should I
then be nailed over the tar paper. This
layer is also tongued and grooved in many !
instances, hut in others Ps is straitly match.
el. Caro 111001, lie taken to break joints !
with the tier of boards first put cm, es the '
inner tier rims in the same direction, that
is, horizontally, The ineide surface of the
second tier is sometimes planed, in other
instances it is lef t emplaned. The two twin -
eine) objects to be effected in putting on the
sheen og aro the axe:lesion of the air told the
presenting of no impeditnents to sinking.
It would therefore seem preferable to plane
the Muer sueface of the second tier of
boards. When a silo is within a building,
no outbid° sheeting is wanted ; but where
it is outside, the outer walls may be sheet-
ed, the same as those of other farm out.
buildings.
Various materials have been applied to
the inner surface of the boards in a silo
with as view to their preservatiou. These
include paint, petroleum pitch, coal tar,
and others might be name'i], but no 0130 ap-
perently is quite thee that any of these sub-
stances repay the outley.
In building a silo it is of meoh impor-
tauee that the walls bo kept f rom spreoding.
In fact, it is all important ; for if the walls
spread so RS to admit air, the value of the
silo is in a greet measure destvoyed. Every
precaution should therefore be taken to
peevent this contingeney.
We omitted to mention that it is now
eastomary to put into the corners of the
silo a half of a scantling say, axe, sawed
up the centre from atigle 'to angle. Seine,
on the other hand, uso a plank 8 or 10
inches wide, and bevelled on tho edges
next the wall. The space behind is filled
with sawdust, The object is to facilitate
the settling of the silage in the corners,
Th8 Hired Man.
What is taint clone witsh tho hired man ?
We must have him ; that is sobtled. But
how to got along with him, how to love
him and respect him as a fellow -man is a
question that troubles 11110lly a fames and
his good wife, who believe OM all men are
oco:ial and entitled to equal rights and
privileges.
How times have °hanged 1 What hired
men we used to have, and what hired girls,
too -the farmers' sons and ditughtees,
sturdy, honest, reliable. lfamilies teem
larger then than now, and usually only one
son and daughter were needed at home.
The rust went oub to WOrk ill the neighbota
hood, in the next town, county or wherev r
they were wonted. The fermers aud their
hired men, the latter often the sons of
neighbors wore equals in Dal respects.
It happened often that the hired man
married the daughter of his employer and
eettled (1011111 011 the farm, or near by, eat ,
the table, in the family circle, in all " cont. 1
patty," the aired man and the hiroal girl had j
a plan: as members of tho family ; and tlio ;
company, in those days helped to eleer the I
table and wash the dishes that the farmer's !
wifo and the hired girl mi"glit, have an equal I
opportunity with the guest in tho events of I
the evening.
ill 001/10 perta of the country the help
still sit at tho table with the family, but in
Mollies where there are ohlltieen wed grown-
deughters, the custom is falling into ;
donne. Aild why should it uot ? The far-
mer's help is now chiefly foreign. Why
sbould the foreign strangest, with scant
knowledge of the lauguage, with slight ma
quaintanoe with knife end fork, and who
did not waut to wash before he ate -why
should he place this man beeitio hie wife,
sous and claughters 1
A farnwe hired a Swede with baud as
largo au 11, stove-gridle mil about the same
color, Tho fariner's wife snweeetet1 that
the Swede eat in tho kitchen, but the far.
mer said that all his help hail altvays, sat at
table with him, and lio saW no reason foe
ohangiog ; the Swede might not be as bad
as he loOlced, On tho table was a !Mee of
beef. The Swede 11,1 hardly in Mir chair at
the table before he reached over, Homed the
beef with his hand, tore off a third of it,
told swathing up a heedful of petatoue,
began to eet, holding the meet in ono Mold
and the imtotont ht the other. When the
fanner remonstrated, the Swede gathered
11p the °entente of a broad.plato, left the
table and wont. to the Lana where, eating
in the door, haste Whet he emeriti(' with 111111
and soon clone hack for Irene, Ing wee 1nel,
at the door and supplied. This man wets tt
good worker and stopped throne) haYillg4
but lie wottld have nothing to with knife
end fork or epee!),
Then might, be worse things about, n, man
than contempt, for knife and fork, but
those uncivilized nets are all repulsive to
the femora of the emintry, Whitt la the
formbr's duty toward such a man Ite this?
According al some, he shoeld " labot, to
reform," admits to family group and. " work
over him," But tho fartnete generally will
not talc° this vieW,
gea
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But there are other men who aro not sn
rnugh ; they are Inert " liko onreelvea."
What is to bo dram with them! Shall theY
bo letnisluel to the kitchen tahle, Reit to
the lc itelten for evening olitertatement
Thia is the tendeney, 1,1111 it. 1 causing intioh
110101108100. But tho farni,,r, wherever be
hi and whatever Ice ideas may be, is Mai.
lled in denying tho otranger adiniosion 10
fulnily senile utdees he has proper me.
doe hale, I be 11 seemingly' good 1111411, 1110
stranger, has alreeily been reveived into
females With results not satiefausory.
„
Wonderful Tone.olty of Oolumbus.
The tenacity displayed by Collimate; in
hie long emelt for 111011 119 011 Mit 1101 1 ly 10
undertake the voyage of 11 iseuve7 n won.
dean] that it stamps Mtn a hero even. had
1101., hid 101,0r0 1/0011 Cro0 11011 W1 11 011,...,004.
1`.1101 11 011 years before. undertaking I ex•
pedition Ito wits expounding lin 1,1100 1,,
roseauelli of Florence mid insisted
that the earth io 0, sphere. ilk '
of a palm to fitrubilt 11101 .
and peeve it begen Immo 1 an., hoer, '
the Sebate ,sf Coma remising his 110 t rv•
11131od and ofnditg it. Then he turned to
1'01.1114AI, and had the mortification oi lied.
My 111 Kiim attempted to steal
jd. 11, 1111,1 10 lrry lit 1114 proiC,!1 W1,1,01.1
hi, aid, Next he applied In two Mr
Delors in succee,don, otte of W11010. fir0:.11,.., 11
ho help Wail cti bet dually re f ueeil 1 4 ae too
vreat a matte,.. nom 1 486 10 41.10 lie 1'01- I
funiad 1110 Spanish Court. from 0110 tow 11 to I
tougher, now pleading with a Canlitsea,
than arguing with a junta of astrottenters,
casniograplie"s, and codosinstio, wile over.
WI:01100d 111111 WI 11 101-10 fretn at Mosaic ;
scriptures and quotations from the estliers !
of the church, and Own 11001,1ed that hie I
peoject wars " veto awl ',unmet leable."
Af ter tine rebuff ho dect, led to lay Ins 00.1003e
haute the French, but, was reendled while
on the journey, le an iteeidental
meeting with a privet who hail In 11 3011-
a:erste 10 010 1it0,01011 QI10011, If is cool it: Me
being rejeeted, he egitiu pet ont for Frame.,
hilt Was /or the second time ore> taken ly
a memtengor requesting his return, end fin•
conelnded all ttereenent with Omit.
Spanish inrijadtes under 1111 avt ear
Aug. a of the 30010 year and landed on 1-lan
Salvador of t lie Wtmt, Indies (Jet. 12 of the
Julien calendar.
From hie argument. with the Marceline
phileenpher 1110 signing el 1 11,, es:Tenn.:et
1111.0 eighteen run., the last feurteen of
which appeur to Imam been spout in plead-
ings and sufferings, of rebuffs and snubs,
with an element of danger Ong, lie weld I be
denomeed by the oh orolt for teaching
het esy, that 1110 moth terse a globe. Surely
fow men hay° ever lived 10110 10001d have
conquered suolt it series of obstacles by dint
of argumen t and sheer novels...epee and won
hie way through such oppesition and sneers
mid disbelief of the supposed "wiso mon "
of his age as well MS cold, chilling neglect
from those in high authority. And his su-
premo tenacity of purpose owl irrepressible
importunity were lewdly less forisibly shown
in his handling of the orew on the voyage.
Ho had their superstitions and fears to
contend with, was himself perplexed by a
strange variation of the compass, which his
men construed as an indication of further
clanger. lie persevered sot only where
nuist other men would have lost hope but
really against hope. Only by means of a
double reckoning did he succeed in indite.
ing his crow to persevere through the then
strange Sargossa Sea and Ole Waste of
waters that lay beyond. His indomitable
resolution was as neoossary to the carrying
out of his project as to the gaining of per.
mission to undertake the work to which he
had committed the largest part of his adult
life op to that point.
A great deal of ignorant abuse has licon
heaped. on the head of Columbus. .Among
other things it is charged that he made
slaves of the people he found, and took some
of them with hun on his return to Spain, but
the truth is that in the time of Columbus the
church ancl the world looked upon slavery
with very different eyes to those nulled on
thot relic of barbarism to -clay. It Was re.
garded as a highly proper and most efficieut
means foe the ehristienizieg of sevages and
heathen, and defendecl as a "diviue Institu-
tion" by the quotation of nurnerous extracts
frem the Bible, from those telling et the
curse on Canaan down through the slave -
holding by Abraham, and to the epistle
which Paul gave to Onesimus in sending
him back to his master, Philemon. Doubt-
less Columbus was a mortal man, not an
angel, While on this earth, whatever he may
be slow. As a mortal he had his failings,
perhaps in move's as well 110 judgmene,
but it nowhere appears that, in any respect,
he NWLE1 WOr50 111/411 the the average of his
follow-Christiaus of his day and generation,
while as a disooyerer, and ono who pos-
sessed in his 01111 breast the essentsiala to
suocoss its Ruch, ho towers far above all the
rest as a monntain compared 101110 a mole-
hill.
Beecher's Only Poem.
Daring 1110 days of Henry Ward Beoelior's
eourtship it is related that he oncie " drop•
peel Mtn poetry," and wrote a few linen of
verse, 10011110g 11,11 11 tilie011011 fOr 1110 sweet-
heart. But the verges were always kept
savred by lIrs, Beecher, ess they are ttt the
preseut clay, tool nothing ean witi them from
hee. One day Mr. and Mrs. 13eoeller were
in the otlicio of Robert Bonner, the Amertean
publisher,
"Why don't you write it poem, Begetter ?"
mid the aetuto publisher,
" Ile did lime," admitted Mrs. Beecher,
awl immediately Mr. llonner'm eyes epark-
led.
" Recite it for mo, won't you 'Mrs. P,ceele.
er?" he asked.
But tbe eyes of the great peoather were
riveted on his wife, aucl Ithow that he
meant silence.
" (Anne, 811111 1110 001.0101011 1 11111a 18/10r,
" 1.1.1 1000 :11,000 if you will reelle. that
p00111 to 1110," addressing Mai. ficeelior.
" Wily, it ra11--," began the preacher's
wIlt1).11111100," Raid MI. 'Beecher.
Aud although Rotten Benner ogur0;1 to
double 1 he sum Mat (awed he never got the
poem from alre. Beecher, and no ono has
since boon a whit more sueoesseful,
0310 the Heart, the Other tit() Lino,
The tell, slender, graceful women will
alwaye went a man to go walking with
her, hut tho women who to tweet y pounds
ton heavy would rather receive lthe in her
drawing room 113, ;aline .1p very stroight
a dumpy 1001111111 C1111 still Mid(0 0, good
shell/lug, especially if sho happens to bo.
long to the short -limbed, long -bodied sort ;
but when elto stande up she loses.
Two young friends of mieo -0110 tall, the
other short -wore chaffing oaell other in my
presence. Said the droopy 1
11 l'm just the stnturo of tho Venue do
Modiede, I reach cottetly up to a man's
Matra"
11 llah," cried the tall ono, "Pin RS tall
as the Venue Vietrix, I, reiteh up high
enough to get to 0 Manta 40,"
.1 1G35 a tulip bele was isold-in Renaud
for X4,300, It weighed 200 gluiest
AN OLD OILIALEAN READ.
Illelor4iergelto I 11,11d0la Ilofralan, of me
4•1 a 11 111 fob Ilia tiers, Toni lila al
laolsvig 110E11111am who reeklee with
1110 lemily at 215 St, alartin street, Mont.
foal, Li a. Ej111.11, 111111,4011111111g, 1.1111 1101.r1011H
num. well known 10101/114 the itrubiteeta 11,1111
huildere ef the city, as acontramor who hoe
performed a tilunber of diffieult and Myer.
taut workii for piddle inqitntions and pri•
vete companies and persons in elontroat
and other parts& Canadta No one meeting
Um burly, praetteel, triatter.of.famtlerinen
tven1.1 imagine that he had been it color.
eergiant in OM 42tel Highlenders, or Blade
Watela had fought /11 0110 of the most 110,1.
1100110 1.11111014 1110 Woad. 11113 01,01. 1:110WIL-
111110r1111111, WW1 00001'01V wounded and al.
'Nether had loll unroar as roman tbt as
ever was 1,101.111,,t1 /11 lite 11.14110 111 110Vel.
Ptobably r. Hoffman would have 41,110
Ilia 11011411 Way f Or y Van, lo 001110, 00 110 11143 1.11.
!natty yew it past, 11111101 10ml 011.1 1111k110W11
10 1 he World, Wac 1101 that, having been
ewardeil the ems, met for the stone and
ilrill..11rY icu of 1 ha 11:114 buildings
of the rreti,sten Hospital for the heseue,
et \ j.,1111iy W11 11 Mr. Fra,,r, 111.
111111.1. W loath, 0,.; I., Who 110 waS. :11111).
1010W him a 0..011140 and. COrre0i.
10.1. 111 1114 1111,1 01. Mad 1.0 ow, w1,,,
11101 aolie wotk for the I.!anadiati 1.401111
1-1131110.1y I 'money, Amadent revealed. g
reporter that be had
sEr: ,,m3v 11•1-. t‘r TIM MU 11.1,
and he svar induced to relate hie 01 Ory,W111011
hc .11,1 0,1010W!lal, 1.0111011m 1y, ./.1.0 he said.
himself, " I'd rt. 13,r not got my name in
the papers. It hes ell passed over long ago,
and I don't want to be bothered with people
talking melee:king questions." On being 140.
sured, however, that the story of his 11,11000-
1.11rCH 1011.0 of hi:tens:al interest., that he
might to tell it, an 113000 who heal fought in
the Crimea fort y yeers ago were getting few,
and people wore always glad to hoar, and
1.0 et tired of list.nting to the stories they
had to toll, 1,c :
" Well, if is ie a., Mime:tent, and will
111c.,1-,0 anyleely, en 1 tlety will not bother
ate, I ran tell yo,1 how it Wag. Wag a
ynkillg 11401 1 11 elet.k to is
shipthroker, inusal Allison, who dhl a 1.o.ge
busimes with s seneolos and Holten:I.
bad st toed sit ,,ati01, and wee doing teed),
Ono evening with two fralele I teem. to the
Strand theatre, Ott our way home we wont
into a pablie lemee to have some beer,
While W0 were there a tine gentleman came
in. lie get bites con vereation with us, was
very friendly and ealled foe 501110 more lseer.
Al told him our names, what our L010111200
WAS foul where we were living. Ho said: •
" You aro line. strapping young folloos.
I have lots of 1110110y. lIcre's a shilling each
for you.
Tun QrnaN's stub-to:W.
" We took his money, though we told
him we didn't, avant it, lmt he pressed it
on us eitying he woeld see us again mid it
was ell right. 111004111 no more GI the
affair, went to my lodgiug and was at work
in my office as usuna next ilay,whee in walk-
ed my friend of the night before along wills
a policeman. I was Leanslating a bill of
lading iuto Dutch, when the gentletnan
1" Your name is Ludwig Hoffman. You
have enlisted as a soldier, and yott must
come along with me.'
" 'NI hat is that enlistment?' I naked on.
other clerk, for I was a stranger in England
and did not know the ways of tho conigry.
" Poor fellow! they've got you, ' he said.
When in walks Mr. Allison. He Wall
very augry when I tolcl him the story of
how the gentleman had given me the shils
Hug.
" You call yourself sal Englichmttua he
said, end ploy that dirty triok one strong.
er. You ought to be ashamed of yourself,'
" Ilut it was ell 110 1100. They told me I
had toga Then I got mad and went for
that fine gentleman and would have given
him a good licking if they had let me alone.
Jae,. they interfered, and Mr. Allison ivent,
with me to the magistrate. That Official
said he 11100 VOLT sorry for the trick that had
heen played on 0110, but he amid do n othing,
1 had taken the facteen's shilling, had be.
come a soldier and tho military authorities
only could demi with my 0000, I had sixty
pounds sterling that I had savecl, in my
trunk at my lodging. I offered to give it
ell to them, if they would only lab mo go,
but they refused. That night; I was in
Dover Castle. Nes ttnorning they made us
take. a batii, get our hair cut and put on the
soldier's uniform, Then wo were stood in
a lino on the limeade ground,when a sergeant
in kilts, of 1110 42nd Ilighlandess, come
along. Ho was the first man I ever 00.1V
dressed in kilts, and I thoughe him an ex.
traordinary person.
A somuna. ta* rtlrricoaTs
was a new thing to roe. He inspected us in
the lino, and picked out myself and a holf.
dozen others, the Liggest men ie the lot.
Sergeants of other regiments took the
others. Tho Highlands:It sergeant took us
to Ilythe that day. There Wu Wore armed
with tho 110W Enfield rifle, just out. We
hed to hill in the forenoon, and in the
afternoon WO 10011 1111.011gh eourse of
musketry instreetion, After a white
passed the examination and 11140 sent to
roast:south, where wo went aboard ship
and sailed for Constantinople. War had
been declared with Bassin. I know I was
in for its T11131.0 WaS 110 use kicking, So I
detertnined to do my best. We went into
camp on the shores of the Bosphorus, op.
poeitoStanibottl. The French Irore NM.
Same titre befoie the Russians had attack-
ed and sunk the Turkish fleet at tiittope,
and the British had sent a governor with
fifty soldiers as a hotly -guard and taken
possession of tho Greek town at that place.
Iiinopo is an islaml in tlie black Seta off the
Asietto coast of Turkey, and lute two towne
Turkinh town and tho Greek town.
The Ttn.kiall then bad a high wall amend
it, with looptholee, and there WAS a battery
of mins sottelde on the sett.shore, Back of
tho towns there is a 111411 mountain, At
Siimpe et that time were gathered abont
fifteen bemired Arabs with nodes and
namels employed in the transport service,
Fer aerie eauee in; other the et Arabs main.
cd, and the Governer mmt to Constantinople
for troops tc. pm down the mutiny. I wise
ono among Rhea three hundred, taken from
the regiments in earnp, who volunteered Mr
this service). When WO got to 8inopo the
Arabs wore entrenched on the monntain.
Wo marohed against them in two divisions,
ono on ertch Ilank nf the mountain.
Vitr.0 or11081) 11111E ON' Mg
from behind the rOCItS, as soon as WO 0111110
within range of their old- fashioned eathines
A, bullet struele ine in the right log ; it was
tt flesh wound, but wo dashed itt on
thorn with the bayonet. There was hot,
but sheet, liand.to.hand fight. Besides
their carbInes, the Arabs were armed with
long cavelry swords. One of our Inen, in
letting drive with his bayonet at an Arell,
over uty shenhiee, ran the point into my
fueehead, just over my right eye, Nvliere
you ROO thiS Roan 31: 010510(1 tny open, leg
tho Arabs quickly surrendered. Wo took
tho ringleaders prisoners,quiot was roatored ,
and We went hack, My wounds were very
solo, so I had to go to hospital e 1 (MP al
When 1 wa. well enough again, WO Haile
for Varna, whore (hove wore oeveral de. "A11! BM this le 11100 1" encelahned Mr.
tooilmootH boiongiov, to regiments s.,rving Bowser as he kicked o11 hiS 41008 and foli
in the Crimea. The battle of 0:0 A 10111 had 11110 tlio big cooking 013010 the other 00011 -
been fought by thin time, and the lanais ing. "You may talk as Inuelt an yog will,
had marelted round tiebastopol and cont. Mrs. Begetter, but there'e no place like home.
metteed the slop from the moon of tits 1 kdty mon who lissom, homos."
eity. From Vanis, we sailed to I:Ilaclava. 'I am glad you like to speed your even,.
Arrived there, 1 at once jOhlvd tot! reel. lugs at. home,. mho replied,
ea
mom, the -Wild Malilandurs, ill i lie 1 ono,.
Mr. Jammer as be spreed out 1118 foot and
-"Yee, this in Wee!' musingly continued
rubbed hie hands. "I feel in tho mood for
'gun BATTLE OF INI:014.11 4 3
took place about 1011 days, or iG may have a:Trailer 01,1-faeltioned 01011 t 0 .1g, itg,(ihwt,, 011julso..
band and wife should never
been a fortnight, after 1 retelted the front,
each other. I think they might to sib down
1 1 hall risen to the rank of celoasergesig 111
110W 0101 tbell 04111 eon of renew their court -
No, 9, Captain Iirowit's company. IL wail
gal. olf./ well advitneml in tbe fall oi t 1,.. year, 51,i1, "
111111. 11111 climate of the Crimea beam pretty "1 thillk BO , too, and I know it tv001,1 Int
, notch the 3.01310 an in Clettesta, the weather better for 1,0th.-
w40 gelling cold and raw. cier 1,104,., 3,„.1.0 ol was reading au article in a newapoper
pitched io a valley laddiel Lite inmates. the the other slay widish said that a honeymoon.
(caplets were fifty yanla 111 front. end' the 10111140d Oil 1.0r0 1111011111 never end, I think.
eavalry horses were picketed. in me! rear. ''''.1.,Agsva3,0"fi?eut!,21‘ileedl Itui3r1 el.°Isi-esAys'ser, "1 thin's it
(1,1 Lg„ 11,10 1,11.,g, 1,1. NU,. r,, iii„,,,k ,,s, ,,, thiek W04, 1./011't you remember how you used to
The Frenell army wits oway on .mr ri,4111,
j,,:,... We ,,u1.1 1101. 1-1”, 1,30ro 13,,,,, ,, low . ease you weithl wirlilineggliyhutisql, ouvueeroNmivangeorliat
Matsome!, 1 end • he enhaly• 1..311 v,, :, got. 01---
11;3111.4,1401,,,,:::::1.1,1.1,:1.1,„,11,13,o11137:11,1:::.1161:1.1:.,1,::,111,14.'111 to1,1:13)f:rstonqot?0,11:11,ito „.0,3, 11.1 r evcr wade
11`40 0f eny steh remised 0!.1preseinn as theal"
wheele, when we were :served with
demanded Mr. howser, suddenly tuamsecl to
Et. AND MRS. ykrsEa.
Jgs
10,111100 nr ii10.1,1 +401.1.01 1y.
Tho 11.1ts01,11 411 q/011?.1 00 31- With a "Certainly, dear, For the last throe
tremenclatet storm of eltet 1,1,11 elsolo l'he menthe of mu erninship you came over to
day previGui, hul been a tine dear 111111 1110 1101110 three times a day, lilld you said
I Mares d itf terwarde that the I again, otlieens -"
heal taken levels train the Mlle oppoes to and oMm Bowser, what aro you talking
during the, night had placed their! guile in ahem ?" he shonted as he rose up with
position. The general Islam sonteled all beautiful on his eheeka "I might
eking our linos. We fell in as last aa we hese called two or three tunes a week in
could, and went, out at the double to stip. anewer sem mount roq neste, but den't
Port the omPosts, for We 00011 11111 1110.1 that tly to make out that I bed :no more sense
the Iturgians WM advancing in feree on out! than .1. pumpkin 31'
knee, Soon in the fog we canie upon it "I remember gue evening in particular,"
eelumn ot troeps.,. v e t know easether god, ite hereelf. " l'here was 11
1 110y W011.1 lills,1rtus or F1.01,41), hal. 1 11,:y 101 tguon, and the sky W.1.4 101/ 1.011 1 a 01UUCt.
118 underetand who they were Loisl what they We : at on pinig.;/ 1/11..1 you inRiated 011
wore after, for 1107 oplangl 110n 00 We lioldit,g my hand."
Wont at 31001, hill the euhann was fro, heavy much, Mrs. Drawl, I It's a heap
for tts. We 10e1 0 slyly is 1. Leis 11,1., the 1113,1e likely that. ynti Ivan mg to 1101.1 ft 1
fennheR, 10;1111 Wv and 010,44,01 010,11 remenibn m pet up a job so
again and a ,,fain ,,,N-111,1 tittles. %Ye I., otlr that I 117,10 oliiiuo,1 to lio1,1 it !"
ground in this W lighting hand to 'meld `'.A0 4011 1001'1. bolding my hand yen !seala-
nt!. ahem 1 1 ealoelc, when the 1a:snail dcr0,1 it Limo were loveri 011 111000, and
culuna19 inn.; ivg v011111y down Upon ;,.; yea: ,,ahl that 1 wkm the silvery nr1; to light
*lowly drivilig IL; Lid: -we Wei ,mly eight yoor pithwity throuell 1110 yllars tO comes
1111,W;a0,1 4:1011131 110.1.r BiNly 11011. t'Ory 11000111Se L01-01.3 111 the moon!
semi --and some of .air w,.‘..0 in foil Are you trying to make out that I didn't
retreat sylum neneral Cathcart rale up. Ile know enough to get 111,1012 It wagon shod
,(111.1;:ynert11refais1-10"1.41 liTtir',;1,1 nig ;miter) me all the way through, aud you ought to
when it rained It W0.0 a pia 110 job on
tl e be glad to keep 04,11 about
11 'Our ammuni ism gone," the 011 “Ar.other eveniug," she went on, never!
re.plied, minding him, " WO were atrolliog in the
1 !But aren't you Englishmen," he cried, ?anion. You had been quiet for a long,
'and Ism ene. you got your bayonets ? Come rong time. I asked you what you were
baulc with me.' thinking of, and you put your arm arounO
"Om soldiera formed up behind him to a mo and said you realized how unworthy you
man and he was leadieg them to the charge were, but you would make every effort. to
render my life happy. I saw tears in your
tvhenna
" 'Mrs: Bowser are you talking to me ?"
00031,00 0-11`11 1111.LETS. oyes."
he demarided us he bobbed up again.
"Certainly, dear."
" And yon 1310a13 to say that I passed any
suell remark as that !"
::N0fevc°eurrlsaN'ever Never Unworthy of
you 1 The idea! Tears in my eyes You'd
better consult a doctor about the top ofyour
head ! Like other young num under similar
circumstances I might IlaV0 been a little
flat, but I never acted the part of an
idiot I"
"Speaking about honeymoons," said
Mrs. Bowser as she looked into vacancy,
11 don't you remetnber the evening mother
came out on the piazza. and found you kneels
ing at my feet ?"
" Never 1 Never 1 I'd have seen you
and all your relations in. Texas before I'd.
have made suet' fool of myself !"
"It Watt tho night thaa old Mr. Prit.
chard's horse booked off the bridge and
kiP ed him."
" I never heard of old Mr. Pritchard or
old Ile. Pritehard's old horse or °hi bridge!"
" It was about an hour before we got word
of the accident," quietly continued Mrs.
Bowser. " We sot on the piazza listening
to tho whippoorwills. You, kept sighing.
By and by you knelt at my, feet, took one of
my hands in both of youre and said that
our honeymoon should last 'forever. When
mother came out and caught yen you pre-
tended to be lookieg all arouud for te lost
nickel. Don't you remember ?"
" Mrs. B-13-Bowsee 1" gasped Mr. Bowser,
"I sat down here to spend a pleasant even-
ing 1"
::IinestildoebeereOln of my fomily 1"
" Yes."
"I felt tt, tenderness for you, but -but-"'
" It 10110 so good af you."
"But you 110.1,0 maligned and insulted.
me, and turned this room into e, regular
barroom ! You have called me a fool, an
idiot, a cabbage head, aud an as ! You have
made out that I didn't kuow witty from
strawberries ! 'now see how it oomos aboue
that hrisbionla are driven rom home., and
how they become; villains and criminals 1
This is my MO evening at, 110100 1 To.
morrow night -"
" Why, Mr. Bowan!, we were talking
about love and calling up old recollections."
" Toonoreow night, Mrs. Bowser, I go to
my club, next night to the lodge, tho night
after to tho prize light, and I finally bring
up in a saloon, It/s not my Melt, I al11
driven from home-malieiously owl design-
edly driven from my own fireside, and, yott
must take the consequences. Good zught,
Mrs, Howse's!! I realize now why honey.
mom coul-why husbands grow cold and
careless -why the divorce courts are over.
witelmed with applications on the parts of
1111thands
And al lie stalked stiffly. off to his den
alld banged the doer after hun Mrs, Bowsee
remembered the evening he had accidental.
ly pinched her linger in the gate and was 00
tvorked up over it that lie talked of suicide; •
also the thsetwien when oho will bitten by a
111001111110 tool lie declared ho would devote
the rsist of hie life to annihilating the pests,
and loving her.
re
A 2ound °flake
An honest old man, ru titer ignorant of the
improved method of abbrevintiom on look.
Mg over his grocer'e neesmionally found
charges hap the following 11 To I ib, tea
-te 1 lb. (litho."
11 Wife," eaid he on ono occasion, " tiffs
'ere is a purtay bueiness. I should likq to
know what you hove dene with 00 much of
11'11 10airt0totlegittsITt"to?" replied the old lady-
" nevev had pound of ditto in the house
ilt.to't high dudgeon that he should
Idstoistgyi:liierfkao
the tradesman went the homed;
have been °barged. with thins he 11040100er
re01?livierir..13.," Raid lio, 11 I shan't stond Nile;
wife raps sho habit had a pouncl of this 'ore
ditto in tho house in her life."
The morchent thereupon explained the
13roWn-11 Here ie seem tolateeca my pone meaning of the terM, and the stpire wont
men. You musts feel the loss of It Smoke 1101110 9111,18110,1. IBS wife inquired if Ito bt,rt
after dinner," Beggar-. Yes, sir. But I found out the meaning of the ditto.
" Yee," said he, " it meaner that 3 am int
fool the loss of niy,,linner bofore the smoke
old fool, and you're att10.
11, good deal more,'
His horse was killed ats the same time. I
waa near him at, the moment. The battle
WM terrific jest then. Still we advanced
till we came right up to the Russians and
dashed. intc, them at tho 'charge bayonets.'
NVe were mixed up pretty thick when I
clubbed my musket and struck at the orowd.
of Blasius. I don't know any niore of
what happened at the battle of Iukerman,
only what I was told some time after, when
I came to my senses in the hospital. I had
been wounded in several places and had my
head all smashed, as you can see where the
doctors sewed it up. With many other
wounded men I was sent bitok to Gullali,
whose for long time I was not expected to
live. Brigade Sergeant...Major Mackenzie,
who had been wounded at Inkorman in
eleven places, was along with me. We were
two sick men, 1 out toll you, but we got the
best eare 111 tho wothl. Dr, Phillips, who
had charge of the tiospitel, did all be could
foo us. We heal everything wss wielad for.
They fecl us on the best of tood and witm,
and the doctor and nurses couldn't do too
much for us. At the end of nine months
wo -were well enough to return to England,
The war WU over, and I was ins/elided. and
discharged with a pension of holf mown a
day.
"So much for mat military adventures. I
am a stoae.teason by trestle, and when I was
Portsea near Portstnouth, after I lof t the
itroly I ine't air. Denny, au engineer who
had been appointed to construct rocas oud
bridges 111 South Africa. He &feral me
good wages to go outs there with him, and I
agreed to go. I wont to Cape Town and
from there to l'ort Natal, Port Elizobeth,
King Williem's Town, East Loudon and
other places, whore we built meny bridges,
culverts, eta Sir Philip Woodhonso was
Governor, and Sir Peroy Douglase command-
ed the troops. I sttayed eleven years in
South Africa. It is a glorious country,
Li 0B ts Now 1.11C0S0 nem)
as is here. Everybody 000111 have all the
land be wanted them. The climate is ono
of the best in the world, There ie abun-
dance of all kinds of fruit, and could go
out with my rifle any time, game OMB so
abundant, and rotrum in an hout; with a tine
door on my bash. In 1 807 I took it into my
head to return to England, 11001110o I
Gould cern met euppose, the elovern.
ment stopped my pension, and I theught it
WW1 11110 for me to settle dOW11. 011 f.11C
VOyag0 batik the steamer broke her shaft,
tool before we eould do anythingat punched
a hole in her bottom, and she began to sink
tio fast that we had to tako to the boots to
save our lives, hewing everything, money,
papers and medals. We pulled away till
NVO 00,010 10 tho Island of Madeira, where WO
landed, and shortly afterwards got,passago
to kiegland aboard the " Anemia' Prom
Lambe' I went to Hull, where for fifteen
pave I W0.0 foreman for Jelin Llalmon,
Thompson & Co, I also carried. on huai.
ness for inpelf. I get married in Halt and
mune to Canada in .1.1S 1. 1 have boon here
ever since, and lhollgh I have 1111,1 00111.0 1100
atel downs, I have done very well. h
of November was an unlucky tlgy for ine.
That W110 1110 day I was neer)/ at
Inks:man, 011,1 thnt was the day, 1..0, that.
our thin breke her shaft end 1 loet, every.
thing Ines -sowed 'I was t kinking ssf s,•11ing
out here and returning to Singh Africa
when I wait nasow.10,1 the enntraet t.he
buildings sit 11,0 laretestan Iioepital for the
Insaum A. good many people Nfontreal
know me, hut they are not aware that I
ever wits a Highlander of the 'Nod in the
Cirimait. I was told lately that 1 cort1,1 get
iny pension restored, for I have never re.
covered rightly from my wounds,. I lutvo
been too inlay to write to the Paynittetor of
Penaioners at Halifax, or commaniesto with
Lilo War 011iou itt London. I may do so
y111, 0,4 1110y hilX0 my record, and I believe
there is a mot warrant that covees my ease
which entitles nte to my pension fret» the
time it was stopped as long as I live. It is
worth looking after. NOW 31011 110,V0 f110
whole story. I never told before to any-
body, but if you think it interesting you
may put in your paper.