HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1893-1-27, Page 3fTanuary 27, 1.S93. THE BRUSSELS POST,
A °MING INDUSTRY,
'Or Mem, lImporlenee Bell boli Columbia
but Value to theW hide Dontll n len,
NAXanto Com, Fini.o asn Taxan!, /si,.isto
Ines 1\ 1 t Re --T i B twat.' s os tre
Paetret-Pitosexcistvit Tibi W fig t
Cut:IA-Coo None nonstop To Eterait.
Lisit 1 itoN W outfit -NAs simo's Uri •
ranabbnbao Fainhirss,
NANA imo, 0,, Jam 12. 18113. - a paper
contributed by the writer of this to the
VantletiVer World oil the " 13. 0. Col.
lieries, reference was made to the pas,
ethic prospective menufecturing indus-
tries initoputable from the Nanalmo coal
fields. The present, 0 Wort will endeavour to
furnish the readets with e. few ornde
ideas on that important, point, impor-
tant not only to Nanette° and British Col.
motile in particular, but also to the Dornin.
ion al, large. By dealing exclusively in
authenticeted facts and plain language
the ambition is Mutt the poor ethiliity
at cabman(' will succeed io mak lig
the staple of the argument liner then the
thread of the verbosity, en paseant may
be mentioned, ne a. prelude to secure the
confident:a of the neuter, that Serein ie no
ostensible indivititel end to SM.° no
partiettlav :tau to grind -no limper railways
through impassible wildernome, over insur-
mountable obstructions, no Utopian peper
town Bites to advocate, a state of thinge
'which alas ! for the good of l3ritish Co1001.
bia, ie too prevalent at. present time.
sms eery of' sAfbil ito.
Situated 00 the Eastern shores of V an
nutter island, distant 75 miles by rail from
the capital City, Victoria. and :30 miles di-
reetly opposite front the terminal city of
Vanerniver 'teepee the straits of Coin gia,
rises at first. grandly thee abruptly from
the shores of its lambluelted capacious her-
bor. The streets radiate 111311 Ards, fan•iike,
from the segnient of a oieele formed by
Commercial street, the leading thorough-
fare, adjacent to the waterfront. The ohl
tvooden buildings of early days, in the
businoes portion of the city, are geadually
being superseded by mote modern Wale turea
of brick and steno, the letter material the
product of the noted quarries of Newcastle
leland at I he entrance of the harbor, The
streets, dust ankle deep in dry, and mud
di 110 in wet weather, aro wide, lacking moil-
lari ty in the older portion owing to the rng.
gerl formation of the ground, amply compen.
sating in that respect in the newer portion
of the city. Handsome private eesideneee
with Sem 0 proton Lion to avelliteetural beau.
ty, are plentifully distributed throughout
the residential portion, especially on the
heights above the eity, the prospect in
trent, towerds the sea, affording Lo the eyes
of the beholder tho finest panorama of
scenic beauty, of the subdued kind, obtain-
able in British Cohlmbia, The ittland-ilot-
tea harbor -those distant in tho straits -
encircling ehores and projecting hthallands,
clad, to the water's edge, in sombre forest
green, out, of which, in the more
dietant, rise the snow clad peaks,
those of the Main land forming a, dim beak
ground -the intervening waters disturbed
only by a oonstant tide of eornmeece eve,.
at the full. \Vats the natural seenio et.
traotione of Nam -Limo and vicinity brought
to the notice of the pleasare-seeltiug public,
width throng in herds to Victoria, and
adequate hotel acoommodation available for
tourists, beyond doubt a good. businees m
that line would spring up. Some of the geographical posttaon 0101 providing* in -
finest drives on islaud of Vancouver, exhaustible supplies of raw material all
and that is saying not a little, intraseet
the neighborhood,
vaasumeswoussiesseissoustieressiairoureistarasowaimwasuassmensismssorwstsosissiesaw
.
tnos .11n 011.5.1, Isns or x0 ss 1sni,
ha ving the advantage of a high protective
tariff in the form of freight eharges,
will be enabled -alio time it4 not dietitut -
lineeeesillily to nom polo with distant rivals
fur the iron I retie of the ernin Wive
W0011011 by the wat ore of the Petrillo in
the northern heinisphern, 10 Chien, the
Introduetion of tailwaye no Inuger looked
upon (el seepluious, dangerous innovation
of the weetern larbariam That that int.
mense country wil I anon ho t reversed by linos
of railway in every direction le no 1onger n
doubtful snrmise of the ilia; proepective,
Commie, as a portiou of the groat, commie..
teal Einpire ' on which the nun never hots,'
need mit dread rot allatiou on moment of un.
friendly legisletive enaetinents discritri Met
ing against Chinese subjects, The trade and
comity:me of the Dominion have in the vast
Empire of tho " vary own brother of Ilia
sun,' a market thrown opett which says,
" Come, bring along yeer produoto and
manufactures ; we'll buy of Tou beoause you
are friendly to 0111 inibjtietS.
tiii. Chas, Nike, that fareeeing
ecouomist, tells us that Vancouver Inland,
jutting out into the Northern Pacifies
Liess11, tvith its unexhauetible beds of mud
sea mountains of hematite iron ore,is bound
in time to become the Britain of the New -
Wont. Tho commencement of the construe -
lion of railwaye in Chinn, will loo the signal
to start the fires of the blast furnaces, the
resorinding thud of the steem-bammer, the
crunching cd the rolling mete, the 10,0100 of
ho niaohino shops and the sniolte of innum.
treble hal es tries in the vicinity of Nanaimo-
a locality possessing in inexhanstible gum-
tity and superior quality and in close proxi
mity the three essential. -natural prouucts
required, viz.: coal, iron ore and limo
stone
Tho quality of 1110 coal mined in the re-
cently '101010mi shaft on Protection feland,
situated in the entrance to the harbor and
eonneettni with the mainland by a eubmowine
driftway, has ben proven by twits La be a
perfect cooking cam', producing that aetiele
of a strength and purity necoenary for the
emonomical smelting of iron ore and to en-
sure et quality of pig iron rendering the
subeequent -processes of refining and pud-
dling of no difficulty in turning out a su.
perior artiale of malleable metal, Two
aentris of th18 valuable coal, 7 and 1 0
feet in width reepectively, have been
struck at a depth of 1,000 feet and
it lute been aseartained as the workinge
program; that the seams and quality im•
proves to 0, remarkable degree. 1 is from
Obi shaft the exhibit tor tho coming World's
Fair, at Chicago, was obtained. Thn pro,
prietors, 1 he new Vaueotiver onal company,
entertain the highest possible hopes of the
product of their shaft and it is understood
that the erection of lines of coke ovens will
shortly be commenced.
Twenty miles north, in sight of Nanalmo
harbor, neat. the entrance of the straits of
Georgia, is sttuated
Tits. TAXED0 maxi) inow ntsns.
The ore of hese mines has been prenoune.
magnetie, of an exceptional richness Paul
purity of metal. The supply in sight is
a 'inust unlimited -one mine, bonded by
an American firm some years ago -is
being worked and the ore shipped
to Port Townsend, Wa011., where it is used
for mixing with local ore to giro quality to
theironprodueed. Limestone--theindiepen.
sable to ilex the ore -abounds thx•oughout
the Napalm° district. Thus it will be. seen
Nature could ao eo more in ensuring
VII: 0003
and the wants and requirements of the 2,000
miners, who form nearly one.half the plipu•
lation, at present are the only things which
receive attentinn. Recently a spirit of en-
terprise and progress appears tn pervade
the commtnity, and in 0 marked degree has
supplanted the old time conservative ideas
Yet there exists in high places, conliniOnding
a respectable following, a eonsidentble
leaven of the ancient article of the " lot
woll enough alone," go clay, come day, God
send pay day soon and often sample
which will clie"hard and hold on as long as
possible to its grip on the community, is ad.
verse to change, Inimical to progressive en•
terprise and needlessly indiflerent, or may -
hap ignerant, of the many advantages eon-
fored on the locality by an all wise Provi-
dence. In all charity the hopo is that this
indi Were -nee be attributed to the outcome of
that contempt begotten of familierity will
the talents hidden under the :proverbial
bushel. It is only from the outside the
onminunity have their attention called to
the true 00,100 of their heritage. The article
on the B.C. Collieries, although published
in that eaterprising journal, the Vancouver
Worg almost in sight of Nauaitno on the
1st Nov. last, travelled 2,000 miles, wont
through the Ontari0 Press and retreated
whon, ten tthole weeks after first publica-
tion, it attracted the orespriseulons acumen
of the tteephalous ;mit postng as the expon-
ent of progressive enterprise. Brit enterprise
there ie throughout, needing only tn be
drawn froin its lurking place. But this is
digressing fent the present object. A. great
deal can bo said in praise of local enterprise
and nubile spiritedness, which, along with
other kindred questions, will ftirnish sub-
ject matter for a separate paper some other
time.
The overage school boy is aware that the
increasing use of iron is a prominent oltar-
- acteristic of the present age, that, as 0
material, it is fast imperseding timber, stone
and like substances in ship -building, arold•
teature and va8ti engineering structures.
The menage reader is likewise cognizant
of the well known filet that the introdue
Lion of steam as a motive power for mann.
factoring industries, or the invention of tho
locomotive and the construction ol rail.
ways, iron ship -building, &o., tensed att
dreamed of impetus te
01,04 Inog r10008000
of f Nutt Britain while the invention of the
het air bleat in '1 8110 improved the quality,
oconot111001 by one•fourth tho oast of produc-
tion and lining/sod eaorittously the annual
manufacture of pig iron. At, the oommenee.
niont of the present eentury the emnual out-
put of the British fun:toes WM 1101110 100,
01111 tons, amounting 11011, at 1 is close, to the
gigiuditt quitntitty of ton million tons I 9'he
Iron ind ustry heads, in value ituel importenee,
th Lt; of all others of that great mannfactur-
ing anti commercial supreniuey thoughoat
the world. In the United States, fostered
by a high protective tariff, the iron industry
made grist strides in the past &natio and
at present is only secondary to that Of the
produeo of tinsel', Whitt its growth would
have been endoe the bituner of free trade is
another queetion. The iron end ofial mines
of Ponnervania are only, tto to speak iit
modern sense, a, eltort distance from thoto of
Yorkehire and Lanarkshire, the latttr in
pointof freight 'bargee ne neer the Atlantic
sea board of the union as the former, Iron
is einnborsome and eel ended land carriage
adds othsiderable to its omit, therefore it, is
permissiable to forcest that in the near
feints
ready to hand welting the magic touch of
capital and enterprise to quicken into axis.
tonce industries innemerable, • With the
intreuluotion of tile blast furnace, iron ship.
imilding, steel smelters -rolling milla for
rail plates, &e., and the hundred and ono
manefecturing industries pertaining there-
to Will follew in quick succession. The
objeet here Is to point out the malty advan-
Loges possessed by the Nomadism, district.,
for tbe establishment and economist
werking of large iron industries -and
by drawing impertial eon:perigees with
other loettlitios leave the judgment of the
reader to determine the worth of the cam -
elusions deduced.
11:1100
near Comae, 78 011100 1101111 of Nanalmo,
furnish what is said to bo a good article of
asking coal, and coke of good quality is be-
ing utufaetered in limited quantity, but
wing to the ine Agra thickness of the Hearne
which have been as yet discov,ered the cost
f operation is rather beyonethe average
and the supply of coed erestio, nothing pas.
Hive or assueed. The product of those
mines is used principally for steamships for
which it is eminently nuited. The rpielity of
the uoke for iron smelting purposee hits been
queetioned ; this, however, may be put
down to petty trade jeolousiee and is
unworthy of consideration. Contiguous to
tho Union mines aro those of Taxeda. The
question, therefore, nathrally ttrising in
the mind of the reader is why not establish
the iron smelting and inanufacture
Cotnax 3 As luts been shewu though the ar-
ticle of coal may possess tho desired quali•
ties, the stmply of the oommodity is not are.
need, so far tts at present known the seams
worked have given 001 in grovel, a very bad
eign, incliontiug that 110 coel is to bo found
beneath, However, nothing is known to the
public concerning the matter and the re•
ports corning from millers are sometimes
coated with tho eolor of individual impres-
sion uot always reliable, Mine owners, as
tt role, keep all knowledge pertaining to the
natural supply of the product looked secure.
ly in their own minds, and no 0101 ter what
may bo said to the contrary the Union
minee may prove to be the richest on V1111.
convey island.
A company have given notice of the in.
tention to apply for it charter for the pur.
ease of constructing end working blast fur -
114008, smelters, steel tenths, docks, eta,
and carrying on Bliipbuilding mid kinde
of ieon manufacthring industries in 0011111,0
lion therowith-"to he ereeted at some
point or plasm ie the Province of British
Columbia. •-Various aro the surmises where
the intended phtee or point is to be. Some
say Vieteria, to develop the Seek° Iron
111 Mos, ernno stty Vancouver, ahem that it.
is the Albion Iron worke Co., of Victoria,
which in its slutreholiters is slimly °annealed
with Ole Union Coal Mines,-whtla minajorb
ay positi vely assert thit the prospective com-
pany is tione other than the energetic share.
holclera of the Now Vaneonvoe Coal Co., and
the plath of operation Niundino.
,11 is only by oxporting the tnantifectured
articles of its raw products atiy eonntry
succeeds to commereini wealth and prosper-
ity, Tho etelvent of the peoposed company
will be the eommeneemon1 of a, new ora
the history of the Pacific Provinee. Intern
gene inveatort sobs:ties; a platter for opera.
tines in mannfrtothring industry look far
ahead of Weal in110 On 00# b011t18011 and other
minor inducements and having in view ato-
nes as the main objeot -the primo that of
the raw materialt 01°001100010110e for handl.
10g and proximity to the Week, alweys
ottrefee tho greatest Influence in dotermin.
ing looation.
In rough liguree it takee ithoet thefollow.
Ing oriantitles of raw material to produce
ono toil of pig Iron, via,
Ore, tumaleined fe's tons
Coal for ealeinlittion .1 11
Coal for hot air Idast anti
rimming blast, engine.. „ , "
lame ittone Ile 11110 6 I
i3
By the above if there is auy virtue In the
weight of liguree it, in plain that the imality
eflaring the best. faitilitioe for the economi-
cal handling of bulky raw material 'bud
close pew; i nil. y to the chief primary artielets,
-coal end ora, will be numb likely to rwoure
the proposed. works -and that locali ty above
all others 2)(11. P,,0,14 1110 le Nettainto,
and the probability 18 that the promoters
of the infflortaking tiro none ether than the
Now Vanconver Coal 00. -at least nuell is
the general eurrnitte, if Ode bo corned the
acknowledged energetic enterprieing alter.
Doter of that corporation 18 :sufficient guar.
an tee of speedy einumencement, and ultimate
success,
lf it warn not for the high protection
policy of our neighboure to the South, Nan.
turno would be ueday the center of tho
manufacturing indistry of the Paeitle Coast
of Attune's:, and the forecast herein put
forth be--- !Told on, old fel," cries the
pneumatic creel:or, mimeo liver and diges-
tive organs are out of order with a surfeit of
Xmas cheer. " Whitt about the iron aml
coal of the Ural Mountaine-the emit beds
of theee inateriale known to exist in trans.
Balkino Siberitt-the proved deep Water
nevigution of the Attmor, the 101100.110,ton
of the Siberian railway, the mitnis of the
Oorea and the coal and iron dittoes.
areal by the Yankees on the Alas-
kan Peninsula, and then talk of the
Vancouver Island mines monopolising the
prospeetive Chinese market. What about
the price of labor, eh ?" Phew Ole i8 hot,
but we'll cool off, and in another paper
calmly and dispaseionately 'themes the
bove. JE110311- des xs.
Oaptain Andrews' Adventurous Voyage.
Captain Andrews, the intrepid voyager
whn has four times crossed the Atlantic in
small boats, is in Birmingham, with Sa.
polio, the little boat of canvas in which he
made hie laet trip. On Tuesday the boat
was drawn through the streets on a fon -
horse dreg, and a ttraoted a good deal of
attention, until the pollee ordered tho dis-
oon tin mince of its public exhibition on the
ground that it caused obetruction of the
traftio. will be reinetnbored thet Captaffl
Andrews built the Nautilus, in which the
first of such voyages was made, and that
with another boat, celled the Mermaid, Ite
had a mishap 11111i1111 nearly eose him his life,
far it turned keel upwards in mid-othan
while the hatehes were battened down, and
it wits only by a miracle Hutt he freed Iiim•
self and got picked up by a passing vessel.
He gained greater credit, however, by his
last voyage than by the other three together.
IL was so timed that he reached Palos, the
port from which Columbus sailed on his most,
famous voyage of dieenvery, at the moment
when the population were preparing to
celebrate the centenary of that eventful
trip, They feted him royally, made ti
member of the Columbus Congretts then in
session, and treated Min 111 all other ways
its an hononred guest. Naturally, his boat
and lie are to be one of the features of the
Chmago Exhibition next year. Ho intends
to make a fifth trip in a boat of alumini1.1111,
which he is going to imild in a coils psible
form, sm that when folded together it will
be no thicker than an inch plank, His idea
is that 011011 light entlapeible boats, eo con-
structed that they non be instantly rigged,
should be part of the eqnipment of every
passenger ship. 13011 of canvas, like his
present boat, they would serve as lifebnoys
if the britches wale battened, and would,
ho says, be incapable of capsizing. Immerse,
ballaeted only with it deep keel or lead, they
act very 11111011 " magic bottles " or
" bumblers," which always right themselves
1011011 thrown over, Captain Andrews is
tall, weatherboaten man of 50 years, strong
end lithesome ; but he ia by business neither
a seaman ncr a bratbuilder. He is a piano.
forte.mitker. At present, he has been char.
tared as an advertieoment by a well-known
and enterprising firm of soapmakers.
Smoking by Boys -
That the essential principle of tobacco,
that m.111011 gives it all its value to the
smoker, is vuulent poison, is uttiverselly
admitted. It ts agreed Man that, its primaey
elfeet is upon the brain and epinal uord,
With a paralyzing tendency.
Even Beard, who defends the moderate
1100 of tobacco, admits that its effect are
disastrous on some closet:A of persona It
withers some, he says, while fatteniug
others ; 0011008 111 some dyspepsia and con.
stipittion, while others it has a contrary
11 10 soothing to some, but indueos
in others all tho horrors of extreme itervonl
ness. He adds 1 hat among the brain seeth-
ing class of our population the proportion of
those who ell,11 11110 10110000 with impunity is
yeaely diminishing, as a nervous tendency
more and more prevails among us
Now whatever may be urged in favor of
mederate smoking later in lifo, all intelli-
gent persons who have given the imbjeot at-
tontion unite in condemning the use of
°tobacco by the youtg.
Young persons 110 not know whether or
not they belong to the lass most, liable bo be
injured by tolos000, No one domes the
itemizer oF its 00000830e 1100, and the young
have neither the intelligence nor the self.
control roeist the tendency of smoking to
grow into an uncontrollable habit. Further,
the brain and nervous system of yonth ore
specially sinsooptible to the band i fluonee
of the poisonous principle oF tobacco,
Thnt commanding medical authority, the
London Lanett, ;aye ; "11 10 time that the
attention of all responsible persons should
be zeriously direoted to the prevalence and
immense of toluteno.smolting among boye.
Stetted growth, impaired digostion,
pitatinn and other evidences of nerve ex-
haustion and irritability have regain and
again' impreseed the lesson of itbstineneo,
which has hitherto boon far too little re-
garded."
It eites a, =se which lately came before
the coroner foe leverpool,-death from tv,
fatty change in the hoart duo mainly to
srankieg, cigarettes and cigar ond0,-and
ttd'IsT: hie of coarse is an extreme example.
It is, however, only a etrongly colored
illustration of effects on health widish. are
&By nalie,ed 011011841111s of instances.
1101 mon in 1110,11110mi its the pipo or oigar
invariably safe, Muth loss can it, be $o
regarded when it ministers to the unbound.
eel whiins and cravings of heedless urchins,"
Ton clays per annum is tho average
amount of slot moss in human life.
It in roportod that tho telephone has been
put to a new nse itt San Leendro, sie.
cording to the authority, a man who is
afflicted with leprosy was pieced in a eithin
away front the hospittd. A fieend of his
had a, telephone and, in the cabin end 0011-
110eted with the 'hospital, thus enabling the
gatient o 0011 V1100 with his:Amnia and ari
puttints
3 ',113
11.0"MikalltalaWAIMMY IMV.Ofto.AI,NPIlliriraV.V.E.HIZSMIWrialXfolNSIKI.WIFW4O.g.WVPP.,Kath....MM*AUCOAl•O
POETRY.
Nearer My God to Thee,
"riros in 1 he railway walting. room
'Wit 11 1 wifight slutilows ail ng -
.1.07.1, of no were neighbors
my Ise grrire or common
The emery day was ending
1111 .1111 elicerftit hoines trove 'telling
1111 oarAing ones itround 110
1 lad Trent midi but little heed.
" Miele a penny!" Thorn beeffle me,
Tnt that inoinen1 (mite 0 tinted.
!stood a. fair owed lit 1 le maiden
With exielitied, 11111. brim% hand,
While the other one, 11 tereaeliing,
'Was In troilism/iris devoted
To it frail Wall sightleaq father.
Wham she led by 10001 dolliand,
All Were not unkind end
12 out, eoule 5110110 in our Nees -
the pennies Iti coin 0 o vd,r,
'1'lin dear child got, scare° a ono,
While the trembling lips and lashes
Were the quivering ion -emus traces
(t1 111000m, ben heart within her
When the fruitless (meat was done,
Then info a oil let eorner
1 13 Norno guard Ian angel gabled
slowly wen ttlie tivain together,
Court ing Solittide's release.
1, wonder Ir the slim towo
Are not ly ord provided
For 1 10 lonely burdened ehildron
As a hiding platie cif peace I
Whon t ho light fader at I ho oven
Ilitiven's kingdoms shine out clearer,
Then, alone 8111 1.141011 brootionii
Fi•oni the creature and the clod ;
Somehow In the sheltered silence
the darkness, hettrts ,,,,t00 nearer
To the the loving sympa nob le
Throbbing Fatherhood of Clod.
'flush ! .qual at, gweol, obihilsh treble,
Plitintlye in Ito soutrai pleading --
bike the MT olhi gttrit erushorl heart
Fettered.- l'a I ling from the night
Yet. that from 1.11c hom14 and dark riesS
icooli noword intermitting.
Finds tho ra Li.ne?, benediction
C'Ireling down word from the Ugh',
Paine that old, old 'mug, whose fragrance
..1Ia1eth melody im Inertia -
Winning weary spirits skyward
From the grieving and the etrifo
ThoY who feel its foreeful faitli.clinrds
Find within Itfo'Showelleil portal
la this present and the human,
Joy and pottee and -perfect We.
Then in softened tremulous basso
Joining softly In the (thorns-
th 1114 401110,s nyedialls lifted
Toward the ThroneslIght hi the song,
And Is nil 11111 face re fleet ing
Mimeses of the cdory o'er us.
Did the poor blind, feeble, father
Ali the prayerful praise pretong.
Surety Invos tho lovo of Jesus -
Is the point of pure attraction,
is the eeril rat soul of magnet
Blinding hearts above all ereeds
With one Impulse, all who listened.
Seemed In unity of rustle%
to be lielpfnl to them
'Untrue sweet trust-liee sheeted. their deeds
HMI they sang and stilt we waited.
While etieh soul with theirs in Vi510I1
Saw the " Cross" 1 I Is !1.1):411 and there ono -
Felt tl!o " Haw dowq" in the Kong;
137 the ' Stony griefs' sore tear -way
Reached Wad Mothers fair elyslan-
Hist! That quavering, sudden ending
Must betoken eomething wrong:
One boside him, Snringing
Calight the old man falling forward.
*at ItnadniliTe0s0s1sielri'do°ou idiot en)o. 0: ",
Ile had hoard front out tue shadows,
Loving voirow calling shoreward,
And ho +ling the hymn to ending,
Near the Father, by the Throne.
Ltrownmys A. litnretame.
" Tho Elms," Toronto.
The Ministry of Hassan.
Br ri clear well, beside a lonely road,
Hassan, the humble, had his poor abode.
He could not roam abroad in search of fame
And noble deeds, for Ito was bent and lame.
No eyes smiled bark to Ilia al night or 111011n.
And evermore he moaned, " Why was I balm?
" What good ran I achieve? Why do lire
Who have no etrongth to strive, no trold to
give
"Milers are opnlent.holoved. retwrivned ;
Whitt multiunit& Why cumber the ground
And Hassan raised it as it .eruggling lay,
Dried 11, wet wings, ;ma it on its way.
And, 01111 repining, sought his daily toll,
Digging and watering the mod) soil
About his grime -vine, that, Ito might ono day
Share its 11 oh fruit 111111 111050 Wil0 cattle that
way.
Ho ntznect tho cruel thorns and briers which
The foot. and robes of travellers by his door ;
Ho picked the sharp stones from the trodden
way
Whore barefoot pilgrims plodded, day by day,
And beggar ehilaren, 101111 onsmulalled feet,
Wandered Meng, wcarinoss and heat.
Ile brought 1,110111, in his carven 411011,
Draughts of oWeet Water Prein ,iii; woll.
Ile Pound the lost lamb, wandering from its
And0swo1olthod ShiVering by liis ohlinney-
stone ;
SParad the poor moth that sought his taper's
And rod tho hungry birds in winter days ;
Saved the weak fledgling, fallen from the
nest.
Calmed its wild fear, and, warmed it in his
breast ;
noseued the dewily from the spider's snare,
And. Bent 11 on 110 shining path in Mr -
And wile a helper and a friend indeed
To every suffering mature in its need, -
Vet n.11 the while bewailed hie lank of worth,
And marvelled whet his use could be on earth,
Set when his blameless days 11011101 gram by
And Hassan sought 1118 bad. Elf ballqi1r1 to die
A tall while angel stood beside him there,
And saki, 'Thou hoot had many ills to boar,
" Hassan, and linstartovod in anlitude
Beennee thou couldst not do groat deeds of
good 1
" Atm thott heat vonsoled I he 1111111 blest
things
Which weep, or crawl on earth, or soar on
wings,
" cherishing with thy whin charltri
Behold, beloved, thou dhlst it unto Me I"
Then Hassan saW how blindly he had wen
111s !merely powere. And be toniled, and slept.
It Akers.
•-•
A Silly Remark..
Mrs, Newbride on hat) -011, this
dreadful wind 1 What Win 'Li il ; /
lovoly now quills?
Newbritie (=rem vally)-Toey will
still Human on the gem, my doer,
Just Possible.
A countryman Wee sowing his ground
win two smart follows riding by, one of
1,110111 oalled mit, with an insolent air " Wel,
my good mon ; your business 'to sow,
lath WO reap 4110 fruits of your labour."
The rnetie -replied " "Cie very like y 11
may, for just now I ant sowing hemp.
A GORGE FEARED.
Permit, Armies fee Niagara IMP** anxious
a bout the A 1011 litulatien.4 or 100.
A Buffalo deepateb says -Grave fears of
Itood are fol t by the people who have prop-
erty along the a river near the
TELE GRBAT DU
A i'hot Wien the t-1;st-;ertited Explorer.
Afrist I well, that wile tuy first 1008,,,
but ie an old 1-R,11'y mar," Wa-; the greets
ingthe area tiiiplarergavn the Moil tread
110. 1 epresentati ve, 1. The laud of lie 1113 d
01 MI11 and the tinier, viking. have
water edge from above Lewiston 10 the more interest for nie nuw. '
mouth of the river, A good many Buffalo t It was itard to rraii7,,lookitur tido une
pe9le have imathoumem, boats, Me., in the einvermel looking httle man, with a ethane
vientity of Lewiston R1111 tionimeiown, and ho, 1„, yossa ago on she,
they itrt. among the muddies ones. The world had 01110/1 set agog over the wonderful
river 10 frozen over, 11 1.011,1111On 111Rir 111115 RUMPS of the golve,t .
not existed there for 10 years. Ths ice ex• Hots," iaiil, wit it a way" ol his hand •
tends f vo.n its 1000th el Younget OW11, tO 11 towards a lath, table by his solo, " hero
point away beyond the old Wire liridgr are 1 11R prOilfS of my new nook, ite likt ()rival
eliove Lewieton. There are 111100 1110008 mimeo, of the aim Ye.. ito rant.'
01,0e0 Lewiston where people: aro orosdng 1110,4 ime, a gezoljn, ray or .
on the ice, which eXtrlide almost, as for up , young people from &Them t.,
05 the whirlpool. The supposition is that woo. is„,,, ot,f soaudfoos
if the wind blows north f rota lake Ontario views. 011 that stud iireen ale I others tell
and malcies biockaile of Me at. Y01111geloWn you about. the AtiglirS having thine' .
the water will dee end sweep everything from heloe.• .1 ittlaml, nonsenee mire non.
before it, an it did :30 year.' ago, The ice eenee. No Sevin ever had a Alp. How
bridge in the gerge below Niagara falls con. yhea were they to wit to England,
tinues to grow in size. " How did" 1 tiret, !tappet) to go into this
quention 3' \ when 1 Wes writing mar
Extraordinary Story of a Grand Duke. I o Tim Land 01 Ina mnInight, gun," 1
Letters from Taslikend Veport that Gen. found in the oia tombe all over lingitied
era' Baranolt, 11110 reeetitly died 111 that I the Sallie eolos and relic., lett, I found in
town, and is generidly belies ad to have tlet graven all over S"sualinatia 1 t found
been poisoned by persons hitting 'stele to three Roman coins of )5/11:1 '11,5,15., the Chris-
approlund result's of the administrative re- tian era : I found unt;.indienat silks and
forms which ha Was about to introduco hrocailes, showing 1 ha,. 1 hese people had
Turkestan, had in hand a omit inieeion of es. had ex teletws eounnete. 'with 'hit a. Gotta .
ceptithal &limey mut difficulty. He hail land, t hat great ithisel tl:e nruee •
Mien depottel front a high quarter to invest- ' have is en
igato and repert upon the conilnet. of (1 rand. Tltr, 0:;7111..1 No or 0.1(1? AnE.
Dilhe Nicholas Coustantinoviteh, 1 he I 'zar's The P1,1 anti &tote tele, 110 bothered the
cousin, who 110.5 lived in exile in Cow al Homan, were it ithoot dada. Soandinavien
1311101) the painful drama a !deli y rObbers. The Scoff: of lociay are descend -
years ago brought about. d • sto aor id 1, these very poop], '
Imperial Highttoss. The f It and Du t'*4 " A101111 my books e Well my " Land of
manner of living in the r eine! e 'moral the Nlidniglat Sun' "add fa, tsr than it could.
Asian city is deserilied as scrams. bass,,,,1 he printed. But that •1 ELS pro; iliac book,
measure -se extraordinary, indeed, hat . My " Viking A ise'' has he, it a great soceess
many people suppese him to be eithi:r ile. too, but not 00 many copies bass, been sold,
inented or addicted to Laid 10 of in Winner- for that et a resientifie book, a Leek purely for
once. His tyranny 11000 &limit him is students, I love,1 my teeth that book.
exetiesive, and all his people tromblo at I travelled for seven years getting the mat -
their ineeter's eppreiteh. Lately the Cram) ter. fuel then wrote for two yetrs more.
1/11110 has hail a mood -leant palace built at " Encland Was 1 h. only imnintry in which
Tasekend, but lie liVeS in an old and dilapi- I tumid -print that first. tbily there
dated buiblieg with his wife, a person 1 (meld I iset it-, kept in type until it, was corn -
whom he married in a tit of eccentricity, pleted. Hero they Willitrd to tarn over their
anti whom he censtantly beats. .100111er Money too fast ; couldn't epare thtir type
of the peculiarities of His Imperial hong. 13nt see, I laid to have it. Two years
D008 PI wou, both 1101ne 0101 abroad. e et a ;long time my bo0k tenet he tuatarate. •
native robe or kitalat, which reseinbleS a
;oho do olninibre, and is neither rieli 11. np•
pearance nor free from rents. At his ordere
are some 20 Ural Cossacks, who carry out
his every word with blind obedien Akira
than once it has happened that the prince,
to punish people who have offended him,
has had them buried up to their noel: 011
sand, while their heads were left expneed
to tlie Minting PIM. Not long ago a doctor,
W310 was aubjeuted to this barbarous treat-
ment, suffered so terribly that he writt out
of his mind. It is therefore ne matter for
wonder that complaints of the Grand Duke's
conduct. reeelled St. Petersburg, and that
instructions wets aubsequently mit, to Get: -
oral Beranek to institute an inquiry into
the proceedings of the august exile.
Imperial Britain in Africa.
One of the ;nest remerkable schemes of
the day is the plan of Sir Ceeil Rhodes, tho
Premier of Cape Colony, to build a telegraph
line from. the Cape to Egypt. Sir Cecil, it is
said, is new on Ins way to Cairo to look after
details, and the project, chimerical as it may
seem, lots been indorsed by many publio
men in England.
Sir Cecil's proposition takes the T3ritish
fancy, bemuse, his telegraph is intended
chiefly me the first. thread upon which a
groat British Empire in Africa is to be
strang. It is believed in England that Hi
Ietinans will yet get out of Africa and
leave their miteesive pessessions on the oast
coast to the Union look. Then England
will have the uu broken right of way from
the Gape to Cairo, by the way of Zanzibar
and the district of the Great Lakes.
This is an attractive scheme on paper at
least, end the thanteter of its elliot pro.
nutter lends interest to it. Sir Cepa Rhodes
is the steong man of South Africa. His po-
sition there 15 similar tO that oecupied so
long in Canada by Sir John Macdonald. He
is the dominatiug personality. at the (Jape,
the chief supporter of the Federation of the
131111011 Colonies in South Africa, and an
open advocate of the extension el British
power to the furth• 01 limits in Africa. H
wants a 13ritish empire there which tvill
rival that of India, and believes au oppor-
tunity exists to found it.
There is some baais for Sir Cecil's dreems.
The English eat -minty have ule great ail -
maces in Africa. Their territory iu the
southern part of the orintineut is eteneliug himself when shooting meth stene friends.
rapi 1y, and virtually Egrpt is theirs. Thus
they aro entrenched at both ends of tho There is fate for yen A man who had
continent, whtle they lutv'e vast 10011101m
scattered between.
The Latest from 1.1wan da.
t a few menthe ter I had written a pert
1 .,v,,ntea to matte a thong° bow 1P311111 1 do.
so in the plates s''
I " Now what shall I say about Afrioa
; Well thinge are certainly ohanged. Why
. alinoet every Leidy
ei11,1.aili ME A LiAlt,
for sayiug that diseovered the gorillas and
other apes and the WW1 -lies ; yet they all
beli000d Stanley. Well I was not a
: itewspeper man. I did not know how to
miff. But I was content to wait. I was not.
travelling for fatne. I was travelling for
soienee, and earl laugh at it heartily now.
Why, some did not even give me credit for
; the I MS 1103 0 boy, you know.
; They said . me clever Yankee had invented
; the story for me.
1 " But yes, as you say am fortunate:
; Many men have not lived to see themselves
f righted before the public. No man ean
keep before the world for long. Look at.
Stanley ! Yesterday the world in EL furore.
To -day ! fiat OA a pancake ! 3ome people
even accuse him now of stealing the ae.
counts of some of his adventures from me 1
A wonderful fellow is Stanley. Daring,
; persevering, but be had not the faculty of
• ma king f riends.
" No as you say, one man cannot be-
everyth'ing, but many explorers have been
more thou he. Why, In all hie African
jonrneys he never took meal with his of-
ficers 1 Dignity. you see, stronger command
b1 keeping farther aims. from them, may
be. 1.3ut," and an expressive shrug of the
sheeldera said, " but it's not my nay,
I " There was Stairs, now," Ile continued.
; "Ho was of your OW11 enlintry. Ah, he
Was a noble fellow. I loved Status, and he
ie dead. Alt, well !
I " Uh, yes, some men believed in me. ,
Moro Americans than letaglishmen, At •
least, the English were more brutal in their
expressions of disbelief. They thougl.t
; nothing of calling ma a liar. The "Amerienus,
I at least.,
15XPRESSIM THUM 1111111T14 .11111M5 11 11,111.0.
1 And the young people, all 1 the young
people, they believed in nut always. They -
were nom•er my own age and eympathized •
with me, and young people's inetinets are.
1 true.
I " Did I know Livingetene S ;
never tnet him, but I know I :ran t. He is 0
grand man. He believed in nw. Peer
Spoke ! You know how be died ! Shot ;
braved and passed sokly through all the
dangers of Central Africa, drop at last in a
turnip field.
" Burton ! oh, Burton, he WM the noblest
traveller of all. "He wits 0 very dear friend.
Private letters wore received at the close He believed in me. Ile was 0, gentleman.
of last week by Captain Lugarti from Cap. He was a scholar. No travelltr was educe,
tain Williams, son of General Williams, of , tett as be was in seionees and (Mental Ian.
Pulbrook,Hants, dated Uganda, September gunges. No Western man knew the Mo.
25, rhea') letters reached Zanzibar on De. hammodans as he did."
chamber 3, ott withal date, IL al well to
remember, a sensational report, Baia to be
based on a telegram from Sir Gerald Portal
to the Voriogn Illiee, 1100 eiroulated stating
that Captain Wi Bitting was very ill and was
prometing to the toast, and that inter.
tegninn would therafove oaeur in. Uganda
anti Om rest of Kamen. The proeent lettere
hearing the same date from Uganda there-
fore gi ye the first euthentio detailed news,
"One time after I had lectured in Glee-
, gow, 'overheard as I was leaving on tho
; train, it man spealtiug of Du Choate.
I " Do you believe in Do ?" I ask-
ed, " why be is an arrant Minding 1" 0,
, no,' he said, ' I believe 10 him, 'mania give
! hundred dollars to see him, lett I could:
not go last night." You would give a him,
dred dollars to $00 Clutillu,' I said, ' well
hero he is, you have been talking to him
Captain \ Villiams had been ill with most, 'Nonsense,' ho sttid, limiting, me all over,
vielent attack of fever, but was consoles- ' 'you don't make 1110 believe that, you are
oent. He intended, on tho doctor s advice,
to return to the coast, but WM awaititig
Major Smith's arrive!, Ho speaks in the
most hop, fut way of the oommereial pros.
peels of Uganda, whieh aro developing
under the now era of peace, " Things," he
says, " aro going on very well here," in
sp.ito of e, few minor di Ilienkies with tht
Walfranza and Mohammedan factions, and
this satiefactory news proves that Cie settle-
, too stnall,
I " Curious, isn't it, that so many people
think of a men who has accomplished things
! as a bit; man.
1 " Pettey, ith, Peary is an exceptinn ; pure
, Viking type, tall, fair, yellow heir, and
vory handsome. I met Mtn and Mrs. Peary
at (Heuer the other day, Is she going with
him again ? All, %Yell, she aid um.. stutwor
when I asked her that She is charmingly
mem in Uganda WI1S 11 SO1111d one, and has ; modest is Mrs. Peary ; has a great dread
etoott tho test Of time. All the 13tiropean of getting into tho newspapers. She woe't
ofileins arc well, and the Soudeatese refugees talk inuth about her trip,
wore most loyal and doteg excellently, Ka. I " It would bore her, 100, 110 haVn tO SILy
barega, of Unarm°, N1110 treating for peace, the same thing over 1.0 so many people, It
and dillienItio, in Busoga and Eavirondo is very tiresome to me to have people think
I 1 111.111 ULM 11 othing but Afrieit.
1V01.0 15ntisfactorily set lied.
1 " Th,, other atty, at the Coltunbien ex -
Only Tbat. 1 Whitton in New 'tioelt, I had en nannsing
A barrister en 1 esittg the court with his encounter. I had got so tired hearhig of
Columbus. You know there were more
wig very notch &wry was obliged to endure
I them 400 pictures of hint mid no two alike.
ft, found of remarks on his eppearanee.
he „Ad, 1 When 11 111011 W011111 AIM Me a picture of
At. last, addressims a, gentlenlan,
" Do you see allything ridiceloes in thie Colutni lit I would say, ' Which Columbus'
; But It friend with mo tapped mu on the
wig ?"
" Nothing MIL tl.e bead," replied the 1 shoulder anti sold.
' Well, friend Paul, who knows leit, that
other.
. four hundred years from now they win be
- _....
having just emit ari exhibition and proms.
A Storm Brewing.
sion in honor of you in Central A felon, P
Mamma (to little datightem)-" Wet Pretty Val, WU Runt, he, he, lut 1"
how does my litalo girl like her new gov- 1 Anil the greet explorer 'ley bath in bie s
crimes 3"
Tattle Daughtor-11 Oli, 1 think she's reel ' ehair and laughed 011 the rooms rang end
nine. She says that 1. am a very peaty little another expreseit e shrug soomodtb flay that
tr.'. I, and that pairt is just the nicest and he pitied the bored Afritaits of the future irk
liandelinest Man elle aver knot'," their hero worship as nutolt as he pitied
,
tho Americans of to.day.-