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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-7-20, Page 2B TJ : SE L a POST, 4Tac,y 20, 1888, ..,,adm.aueaxwaanuruxummaivaxrxwurm•c,m«mawnwaveaukonawaxa+wa„oe�atY9rsaitorminwormrurszrevzomzuviulvlvouratz smtbYr>e„mcna.sndwt,-avatatnv rgara+,teamwi Ntcur.urilpsrausolmiai alomartimiev NimitvaximYasimma73 wtarammusareaunnsx stn a?ugrus Y'at'er{wrsw OLD JAY'S STORY. Almost any evening feat summer u errant, er walking the streets of one of the larger towns on the Canadian Paoifio Relined, Le Manitoba, would have noticed ee little old elan, with a smooth, shrewd face, still sturdy of hewn, but with a pronounced limp, This wee old Jimmy 0—, former- ly a Hudson Bay Company's scout. "Old Jimmy," es every ono called him, had served through tho Crimean War, and then comingto Canada, had oast in hie lot with the erliest of thpioneers, had spent :most of his life o0 the froutier us a buffalo. hunter and scout on the plains of the North 'West. As may bo supposed, he had many exult. ing adventures before the country was sot- tled. He is never tired of relating these exploits, and I have written one of ahem out, thinking that it would interest a larger oirole than he is able to reach. The party was out after buffalo, with Old Jimmy as a guide. They had been on the trail nearly two weeks, and thus far had the poorest of luok, not having{ seen eo much as a fresh wallow. The mule team was dragging slowly over the sun -baked prairie, ued the driver, too lazy to urge it to a faster gait, reclined on his seat half asleep. Bobind Dame the bell pony, with the group of her mates, and straggling along in the rear were the met of the party, all five of the men sitting their sedates awry to rest their tired limbs. The time wee October, the weather warm and dry, with a soft haze clinging along the horizon. It Was already late in the after. moon, and as they had had ne midday stop, men, mules and ponies were thoroughly tired out. At last, as they climbed the long slope of a divide and reached the top, the brown waters of the Qf'Appslle met their eyes. Then all hands rook heart, the driver un coiled his whip with a °rack, and the little cavalcade rattled down the hill and halted in the valley of the Qa'Appelle, on the south hank of the river. Here the mules were unharnessed and turned out with the ponies to graze, and while the driver hulls a fire and prepared supper, the men sat around talking. Ona or two of them were disposed to grumble at their poor smears in finding buffaloes, but. 01d Jimmy told thorn this was nothing un- cteual at that time of year. " It's no use frettio', boys," said he t "we're bound to strike 'em afore long, 1 dm expect we'd find 'em further aoutl, but they weren't there, and so it atands to rem• sons that they're somewheres north of us yet, for tain't likely they've all gone south a'ready. "It's my opinion that the animals are bunched somewheres atween the north and south forks of the Qi'Appelle. The ground is low there, and a great deal of it wet, so that the grass is the first to get green in the apring, and the last to die out in the fall ; and the buffalo coming up from the drl prairies of Dakota and thereabouts find it to their tete, and bate to leave it. No or e knows this better than the Indiana, and the Qu'Appele Valley has been the hunting -grounds of the Bleckfeet since time begone' " Perhaps," commented one of the mea, '" they won't be over•giad to have us shoot ing their game. It might be serious busi nese if:a band of 'em oame across us some day, with our wagon full o' hides, and others dryin' around the camp." "There's 'enough fur us an' the Indians, too," answered Old Jimmy. "'Taint likely we'll meet any of 'em so far east, anyway ; it's too near the:government barracks to suit 'em ; an' in ease we do, we kin cut an' run fur the fort. At the same time, I Mot the man to lead you into any rink against 'your own judgment. It's fur you to say whether we go on or not." The men talked it over while they ate supper, and later, as they lay on the turfy grass, it was finally decided not to turn bank, but to cross the river in the morning, and push on into the hunting•grounde of the Blaakfeet. With this understanding, they rolled into their blankets, and, with the saddles for pillows, were soon fast asleep. Eerly next clay they were astir, and be- fore sunrise breakfast had been eaten, the mules harnessed and ponies saddled, all ready for the start, Old Jimmy took the lead, and rode along the river until he found a place where the bank shelved. Here they turned in, and as the water was gaits shallow and the bot- om hard and sandy, they had little diffF may in crossing. Once on the other side, they strnok west. a little to the north of the river bottom, where they found the grass, as Jimmy had predicted, still quite green and tender. About midday, when they had covered some thirty miles, their course brought them once more to the river, and bare they stopped, glad of a chance to lie in the shade of the wagon and rest. Dinner had been eaten, and the men were still lying in the shade, loath to rename their saidles, when Jimmy, who had ridden out westward, came into camp on a lope. He drew up and swept his hand along the northern horizon, and the men, springing to their feet, turned their eyes in that direo tion, A black mese, immense in the area of ground it covered, was moving slowly down toward the river, "Buffaloes 1" shouted all bends, Then they sprang to the work of saddling ponies and filling cartridge belts, By Jimmy', advice, they mounted and rode di. redly away from the river to the righb of the herd, which, he said, Was coming down to water. Then, when the animals had reaohed the river bank, they charged upon them from the rear, and shot right and left. By the time the bard was broken up and en the run, they had killed enough to pay the cost of the trip. The rest of the after- noon was spent fn skinning the oaroasees, and when night had come, the hunters lay down, tired out, but well satisfied with the day's work. 01d Jimmy had been quite sure they would find the berd near by on the morrow, but during e thnight a terrific � storm ar oso the wind and rain Doming in violent gusts from the south. The mules and ponies were scoured, and the men stood for an hour in the drenobing rain, watching them, to prevent a stampede. The storm diepelled all hope of finding any game near by nex day.Of course," said Jimmy at breakfast "they've been stampeded by the storm, and ten to ono they looser stopped running till they got olean to the north branch o' the Qu'Appelle; but we kin fol. low 'am up now, fur you see the 'spews' will be full. o' water from the rain, an' we needn't depend on the river any longer," So once more the cavalcade resumed its journey, this time leaving the river behind, and following the trail of the buffalo north. ward. However, after they had done about twonty miles the track suddenly turned to the west, and it was late in the afternoon before they again eame up with the herd, about ten miles distant from thio river, And now they had the hest of luck, Hides mooumulated daily, and before a week was out they had all they could hoof, and i wee decided to break camp lend make fo the nearest settlement. The evenioe of the be day in Damp lea conte, One of the mon had boon out amen the steels to see that the tether pine ever seonro for the night. He Daze in presentl with the news that there was anotheeonm of hunters to the wont of then; he (soul see Lite tmalte of the crone tire, "Smoke?" commented Old 'Emmy, "Por naps in a prairie fire " ' No, there isn't enough of it for that and besideo there is no light in the sky Como out and seo• oftY sus elf „ The sauntered u nta red away from the wagon to gethor, and Jimmy looked in the direction pointed out, The night was very still, and away off in the west he discerned a column of smoke wreathing upward against the sky, shill aglow from the sunset. Jimmy scanned it long and earnestly, and then looked along the horizon to either side, Ah, I thought so 1he Bald, a moment later, pointing out another column farther to the north, "Those are no hunters. In• diens, and no mistake I" They hurried back to Damp, and told bheir comrades of their diroovely. "I know what ib means," said Jimmy. "They have either seen us, or some other ontfit, lend aro making signals fur others to join 'elm Anyway, it won't pay un to waste any time here, 'firing in the horses, boys, and harness up, while I put out the fire." In a short time all was ready for the start, and 01d Jimmy ab once assumed oom- mend. " We'll strike for the river," ho said. " and fellow it down toward the government post. It isn't more'n forby miles east of us, an' in case they attack afore we reach 11, we kfu make a stand on the river bank. That will give us plenty of water for the animals and protootion on one side, any way,,, The little party travelled hastily along until the river ons reached, and then turned sharply to the left, and followed its course eastward. Tito night was very quiet. The only noises were the n uffped fall of the horses' hoofs on the buffalo grass, and now and then the yelping of a coyote in the dis- tance, They pursued their way unmolest- ed, and when the excitement had worn off a little, the men were inolined to regard the affair as a false alarm. But Old Jimmy shook hie head. " Don't begin to crow too soon," he said, solemnly ; " time enough for that when we get to the fort." It was shortly after this that the neigh of a horse naught their °ere, faint, but vary plain. 011 ,Timmy stopped on the instant end listened intently. Presently it came again, nearer this time but out short as though some ono had grasped the animal by the nose. Tney'reafter us1" said Jimmy, "No use to run for it now. Unharness the mules, 'nen, au' tie 'inn, with a shore rope, to the outer aide of the waggon, an' the ponies to the wheels next the river -ave may have to depend on then far a dash by and by." t " We'll watch cur ohanee an' give the ✓ ponies a etaot down along the bault an' I'll follow 'em up on my here's. You free in d the dark the fudians will 1Onk we're ell g together and put after ore read rho ponies ; o and moaawhile you follows care ford the y river and strike fur the fort, The mun were delightedht with ethin auhone a fur it offered at inset a ray of hope. "Only,° timid Due of thorn, "Von afraid 1t'i1 be kind o' risk for you,jimmy-how IY Y about that?'' "Na," wee rho reply, "you needn't be , ufoared about me, 1 kin got a good start on the0 ones, and once the lnd'lans take to ehpeltlnthey'll re Ol 0 1 bre sum to stampede. If the I diava sin u onmolly A n A9 1 Oan as give 'sin the slip, far there mint a pony in tee West that kin hold his own awn my horse." Meanwhile, the Indians made no further detnonatratian but contented themselves with wateleing the wagon and keeping up an incessant smoking from their lie, as a sig- nal, probably, for others to come up. So the day passed, without auy event, the men busying themselves ie preparing for the attempt of the night. At last, when the sun had sob, they seluot• oil four of the ponies, and to each one tied a bundle of Irides in ouch a manner that it looked something like remauleaning forward over the animal's nook. lu the dark it was a pretty good imitation, and they had no doubt that that pert of the auhenoe, et least, w ould be s snares. Then Old Jimmy annuli ed hie norso, the long wagon -whip in WO right hand. ft grew darker rapidly now and the In• diens began to mount. One or two of them were already circling near the wagon as if to see what the men were about. "Now, boys," said Jimmy, "you wait till me an' the ponies gob a good start, en' when the Indians take after us, get your ponies into the water as quietly as you kfu, oroea the river, an' theu run fur it." Her a Jimmy started the ponies out on a lope, that increased to a run before they had gone ten yards. It was at this moment that the Indians first discovered them and, Betting up a wild whoop, dashed after in hot pursuit. Old Jimmy, digging the spurs into his horse, plied the long whip named. fully on the ponies in front and soon had them in a wild stampede, the Indians whooping along in the reer. Meanwhile, the men behind guided their ponies into the river, crossed onobserved, rend vamped down along the opposite bank. From time to time they heard the r i d whooping and yelling of the Iadieus on the other side, and they greatly feared that come mishap had befallen Old Jimmy. Bat Jimmy was all right. When his ponies slackened their speed and the Indians began to gain on them, hs gave his horse the rein and dashed on ahead. foie long he heard the Indians yelling fiercely in the rear- evidently that had come up with the ponies and discovered the trick that had i e,n pl eyed upon them. But he cared little for their howling now, lie pressed on toward the fort and reeohed it firs; : and when the men arrived, some hall hour later, they found Old Jimmy amok ing his pipe and regaling the inmates with a recital of their adventure. This was done rapidly but none too soon, for they could already hear the tramp of horses' hoofs, drawing nearer every mo- ment. Then the men posted themselves be• hind the mules, rifles on hand. " Now," said Jimmy. " don't shoot first -let them begin it ; an' then wait until you get a good sight on a man or pony before you pull trigger." By this time they could make out the shadowy figures of the ponies and their riders careering wildly over the prairie, and as they swept by, the party was mint ed with wild whoops and a volley of arrows and bullets. Two, of the mules fell at the first fire and the men hastily dropped behind them. " When they pass again, let them have it," said Jimmy. The Indians soon returned, Doming a little closer and flrfng an before. But this time they received a volley in return that aoatter- ed them at once. They deployed then like skirmishers and rode up singly, firing one at a time, without, however, hitting anything but the wagon and the two remaining mules. In fact, they were at a disadvantage. They were on slightly rising•ground so that their figures stood out a atnst the sky, while the men were lower down, protected by the bodies of the dead mules. So they fell back shortly and the men had the sada• faction of knowing that the attack was de• ferred for a time. Pretty soon a fire blazed up, some dia tante away and entirely out of range. "That means they are going into Damp," said Jimmy. " They'll wait till daylight, I guess, to see how we're fixed. But there's mnre'n one pair of black eyes watching its from the grass, so look out how you move," They learned the truth of this very short ly, for one of the men, grown careless, ex posed himself for a moment, and, quick as thought, a rifle blazed oub from tiro prairie and a bullet crashed into the wagon behind them, "I told you so," was Jimny's only com- ment ; and then the men resumed their silent watch. It was a weary vigil and the first rays of dawn were a weloorr e eight. In the gray of the morning they could see three or four flg• urea -the night -watch of the Indians - skulking away over the prairie. A little later they male out a column of smoke curt ing up from the edge of a slough, That's their camp," said Jimmy, "and look yonder, to the left -there are their ponies. There mast be at least twenty or thirty of 'em." " If there's that many Indians," said one of the men, " we're done for an' no mis- take." "But there ain't," answered Jimmy. "It's a hunting petty an' they always take an ex• tra mount along, same as we do. But they ain't gob res many as they started with," he continued fndioating with bis hand three shadowy mounds a short distend° away. " Those are dead ponies -we bit something, you see," Ib now began to grow light rapidly. Oo- oasionally the Indians could be seen stand. ing on the rising ground near their Damp, ttartog intently at the little party on the river bank, "I oan'b make out what they're top to," said Jimmy, "bort it's clear they don't intend to move on us at once. Two of you follows get breakfast while he rest of us keep an eye on the Indians, It's just poaoible they are waitin' fur others to join them. Anyway we'll have to get out of this to•nighb or it's likely we won't gee out ab all," Later, 01d Jimmy ate his breakfast and, lighting his pipe, eat behind tho wagon, smoking and thinking, Then he rejoined the men fn front. "Well, boys," said he Ivo got a plan, 'Taint much, but it's the beat we Ido do, I 1 reckon. Darin' bhe day We'll take come habl.dried hides an' bundle Mon together an' tie 'em. Then, when it 0011108 on dark providin', o' 00nrrs0, we kin keep the Indiane off that long-wo'lI deep 'em to the ponies 10 suoh a shape as to look something like men. Thrifty. The strawberry season never comes in a certain village in the West without the citi- zens thereof indulging in some sly jokes at the expense of one of their townsmen, a well•to•do but extremely penurious man, who sometimes does things that soma veri• table misers would scorn to do. A good part of hie income is cleaved from the sue easeful cultivation of an acro or more of strawberries, and he was never known to give a berry away, or to tette less than the highest market price for a single box. Although he lives in a large and handsome house, he was never known to entertain tom• pany, and his friends and neighbors, were, therefore, greatly surpriaed when they one day received re neatly printed card, saying that arr. and Mrs. -well, say Smith, would be at home on a certain evening from eight until ten o'clook. Many of the prominent residents of the town accepted these invitations, and the house was full. Mr. and Mra, Snaith received their guests in the most cordial manner, and a little be- fore ten o'clock the diuiug•r0000 doors were opened, and the guests invited out to par take of strawberries and cream, the straw, berry season having just opened. Tia unparalleled genereeity on the part of there host amazed hie guests, and they sat down fueling some aompuuotious of eon. science for the unhand (hinge they had often said about his stinginess. Before they rose, however, they were ready to reiterate all they had ever said, for the attendants who had served the berries and Dream quietly passed around among the tables and planed at the plate of cath guest a little check, on which was printed : " Twenty five Dents. Please pay at the door." The host himself stood at the door to take the money, and blandly wished hie guests good -night. 'The Story of e111nie A,anrie." A correspondent writes :-" The famous song that re sung by all singers of the r sent day, I am informed, is a mystey „ to the author. I was raised on the n xt farm to James Laurie, Annie Laurie's father. I w's personally acquainted with both her and her father, and also with the author of the song. Knowing these feats, I have been requested by my friends to give the public the benetb of my knowledge, which I have consented to dee Annie Lourie wee born fn1827,and was about seven. teen years old when the incident occurred which gave rise to the song bearing her name. James Laurie, Annie s ether, was a teener, who lived and owned a very largo farm called Thraglestown, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He hired a great deal of help, and amt. g those he employed was a man by the name of Wallace to act as foreman, and while in his employ Mr. Wallace fell in love with Annie Laurie, whioh fact her father soon learned, and forthwith dirs. charged him, Ho wont to iris home in Max. welton, and was taken sink bhe very night be reached there, and the next mornumg,, when Annie Laurie heard of it, she came to his bedside and waited on him until he died, and on Itis deathbed he oomposed the song entitled "Annie Laurie." United ICingdonl's neat Sapply Therewas imported into the United King - doh for the week ended June 2 the follow- ing life animale and dead meat: Oxen bolls, cows and oalves, 13,888 sheep and lambs, 22,380 ; swine, 843 awl„ bacon, 39,845 owt, ; beef, salted and fresh, 12,778 cwt,; hams, 16,225 cwt. ; meat, um enumerated, malted and fresh, 395 owt. ; meat preserved, 2,820 owt, ; mutton fresh f8resh, 4565 wb.,60; pork, malted (not Name) and Eternal Vigilance enables a man to parry the same umbrella far years. Tiltjl% PILONOGIRAlNIL °fel lends an lest Invention 'ream 115 qwl glory in It"oltu"l. A London cablegram say : Colonel G. 1T, Gouraud, writing trans Little Moods', Upper Norm d, 8. 11., says t " At two o'olook titin afternoon at the rebase address, 1 load the honor to receive from Edison his first perfoored phonograph, whioa on the author. Iby of laionu's own sbatemeet, in lois own homelier voi •o ootnmtmieete,l to me by the phonograph itself, is the instrument rf Me latest model that loses Wen seen ofteido his laboratory or tbab hes left his lutrds, and is consequently the first to reach thla coun- try, "At 2.05 o'clock, preafeely, my family and I were uujoying at once the uu. prooedented and astounding experience of listoniug to Edison s own familiar and on. mistakable tones here in l nglaucl-more Elan 3,000 miles from the place whore he had spoiten and exactly ton days after, the voice haviug meanwhile voyaged across the Atlantic 000an. His first phonogram, as E Lison puts ib, tells me, among other things of lubetest, that this instrnnount contains many mndifivations of that whish was shown at rho l.leetrival Club fn New Toric a few weeks ago and so widely reported by the press in several long phoaogramic oemntuni• atione to nee, no single word of which road t, be repeated in order to be ulearly and easily undoretood by every person preeeut, inolud- ing my child, seven years old. Edison soon. tions that he will send me phouograme by every meal leaving Now York, and requests me to correspond exolusively througt bhe medium of the phonograph, humorously re marking in this connection upon the velvet). - Mem he will himself doeive from the sub. attention of phonograms for the style of writing not always too legible. " atalison has sent, for our amusement, numerous nntaioel records of great interest and beauty, pianoforte, cornet and other in- struments, solos, duets, etc., many of whioh, he Mlle me, have been frequently repeated several hundred thews. Altogether oar ex- periences of to -day have been so delightful and unusual, not to say supernatural, that it would be difficult to realize that we have not been dreeruing, and so interesting evithel as to make it seem our duty, as to has a pleasure, to communicate the above to your widely read paper, which I have frequent. ly observed to chronicle the works of the author of this uaparallehed tritunph of mind over matter. An honor t0 Edison." Cul. Gouraud adds the following post- script, which may be interesting: "Add that the above communication was spoken by me into the phonograph end written iron phonograph dictation by a member of my family, who had, of course, no previous experience with the instrument," —ares--v,o Take Care of the Apple Trees. The apple Drop in this part of New Eng• band is large and smell in spots. In a ride ef 30 or 40 miles into New 13antpebire last tali, we found some orchards laden with a bounteous harvest, while others were almost without fruib. Here and there in the pastures or by the roadside were trees load. eel with "natural fruit, or the ground was covered with the apples, which were allow• ad to rot. This is all wrong. To begin with those trees should be grafted with good fruit. They have oomeup by themselves, and their vigorous bearing and thrilb, even in total negleot, show that they have taken root in o good location. Good fall or winter fruit might soon be had from these trees, and at very slight expense. Then the dropping fruit ought to be picked up every few days. If good for nobb• else, it could be fed to the hogs. The ob• ject, however, is not so much to save the fruit, as to destroy the worms end fungi, whiola are bred in the decaying apples. Scattered about the country, in secluded places, eau befoundnaayanapple tree which always bears a large crop of worthless apples -not oven fie to nuke poor eider. The trees would sustain a crop of Baldwins or russets or Hubbardebons equally well, and the fernier or lois boys could perform the operation of grafting. Suppose there were danger of somebody's stealing the apples, or that the cows or squirrels should get many of them, the loss in comparison with the present crop would nob be inoroased, There would be a chance to save soma good fruit, and there would bo an inducement to Dare for the tree, and make io a sightly object, instead of a blemish. The Panama Called. The Engineering News publishes en nett ale on the. "Actual Status of the Panama Canal," giving theresulbs of a recent expert examination of the entire length of the oan- al, and accompanied by a progress profile, showing the amount of work done and un- done to January 1 of the present year, both for the sea level and look oanal, The profile shows that the wont which is anywhere near oomplotion is about eleven miles of dredging on the .4 tlantic end and aboub a mile at the Paetao encl. On the re- mainder of the work the proportion dor a is very small in comparison with that undone. The estimate given in connection with this prefile el•. s a total of 34,081,000 cubit) meters remautug, without allowing for •hangee of river channels, oto„ which raises the aggregate to 51,000,000 cubic meters, The company had admitted 32,000,000 to 40,000,000 meter's. Ab the highest rate yet reached, of 1,000,- 000 oubto metiers per month, 11 is estimate d that at least four years will be necessary to finish the canal, if there is no lack of money. The total anoouut of dash actually expand- ed up to the present date is $177,010,000, represented by $351,150,000 of securities. The amount necessary to be raised to com- plete the oanal is estimated by the Engin- eering News at a minimum of $230,000,0001 which would be represented by at lees, 3500,000,100 of new securities. Spurgeon anti the Baptists. It is nob true, as bas boon stated, that Ivlr. Spurgeon has returned to the Baptist Union. His brother, Mr James Spurgeon, has, but he himself stands sternly 001 ogainet any such idea. In hie Juno "Sword and Tro- wel" Mr, S. says :-" I am nob careful to criticise rho action of a body from whioh I am now finally divided. My course has been made clear by whab has been done. 3 WOO afraid from rho beginning that the reform of the Baptist Union was Impetus, and therefore I resigned, I an far more sure of it now, and should never raider anyro- bable oirconabanoes drown of returning, Those who think ib right to remain in suoh a fellowship will do se, but there are a few others who will judge differently and will t act upon their convlotiois, At any rate, whether any °there do so or not, I have 1 felt the power of tho texb,,'Come out from among therm and be ye separate,' and have Ck quitted both union and association ono for 1 all," MISOIILLAENOD$ IrEktS' A ystttn of Motu Worked out by Farrier is to be be tried in the 6reueh, army, mrd VYolaelayh is presided over'emodin to consider militm y oyoliug and pronounce the bioy ale n utilitery inetrnnsene ef IOW in•0nlee. So far Presume' 's remit b for killleg the Austrulino rubbire wi h oh' risen oholara has failed, Tho rebblta lnruuleeed showed me algae of disease. Welter alter n ' Cooper, Il mmuut English f , pt' ,g gypsy, died recently,and hie bodywee dwto the ohu•yterd by a faorite mare. The mare was then secrihuud. Paul Pechter, a sou of I?eehte', the actor, W74e fencing with his brother-in•law, eel the button of his antagonist's foil chanced to bo fumed into his syn through to the brain, killing hen. A doctor in Algeria stood before a guillo• tine and naught the heed of a 'sideline! ae it fell from the axe end spoke to it. 1t to said float movements of the eyes and mouth showed that he was understood. The lasb Francis rifle, as desoribod, hes a ball so emelt that a soldier can carry 220 rounds, shoots with a new amokolesa powder, and its bullet pier:ea a brick wall eight inohos thick at 100 yards. An observer on Hyde Park corner re- ports that between 12 and 1 in the afternoon nine -tenths of the gide that gess have their faoos painted, their eyebrows and eyelashes darkened, and their lips reddened. Tyro dogs have bees decorated for bravery and fidelity by the Sooiety for the 1 ceven- ttou of Cruelty to Animals in Paris. Ono saved its Mistress from a burglar, and the other it's master's child from drowning. Dr. Flemming, the principal veterinary surgeon in the British army, has dfeoovered that "roaring" oomes from an impediment in the larynx that can bo removed by an operation. Be has cured several horses al- ready. Mr. henry Villard says in the Berlin National Zeitung that the man who planted the proposed voyage to the south pole is Herr Neumayor, the director of the Hant• burg Marine Observatory, a man of science and a praotioal seaman. It is quite painful to see how rascals still take advantage of the defective extradition treaty subsisting between Britain and the Stutes. Why should Canada shelter rogues from the other side? Or why should Cana- dian rascals in the shape of thieves and beak wreakers find the States one great, heppy hunting ground? No one can say. it is another illustration of how foolishly eves sensible men and great nations can sometimes aob in the hour of jealousy and spite. Australasia is filling up very rapidly. Tho latest official returns of population made up to last year give New South Wales 1,042,919 ; Victoria 1,036,118 ; Queensland 366,9(0; South Australia 312,421; and Western Auatralio 42,488. This gives for the Continent 2,800,856, of these 1523,834 are males, and 1,277,152 females. Tasmania has a population of 142,478 and New Zea- land 603,361. Tho whole is thus 4,546,725, as rich and prosperous a people upon the whole as is on the face of the earth, A SUPEISED MINER. Art Alast"tueensntlmr, The discovery of the foo een remains of g I several uuuumoth'a in the mud of the Siherien d `, marshes, a foe• years ,,go,, established the t foot, that at one period of the earth's history many of sheen gigantic mammals roamed on the tentl,oau of theca northern solfhudoe. A ruiner whiub idly be, boo probably its not true, has eines come Prem Alaska, three the lncliene there say that they have eon a living animal liege n I n o nal of tb a n u s ,Dot a i g $ F Mtautimn a fart of gold hunters that, druiug the pustooaseu, las been preepectio in bb oso hitherto unexplored regions of Alas. ka, report the proewtoe of another singular animal, One of the verily writes : "Front our Damp in the hollow on the west side of the big peak, Wo now wont out every day to wash the drift of bits ormolu and brooks, for their was oortaiuly gold in the gamete veins ; and on the morning of the Obb of July, Parsons 'started off to examine a run, in a ravine, about) six miles distant, round the eoucherly spur of the mountain. "Edo went alone, and in order to save Smeared got on inure easily, he climbed the shoulder of the spur for a few hundred foob, and walked along a great bank of bard snow that lay at the foot of a long al.iff that ex- tended round the spur on thab side. For Elie groat drift had ornshod down the thiok evergreen and still lay twenty foot deep over ib, and as it was quite hard, ono could travel on ib much more easily than through tho tangle of Muth below. He did nob take a gun, for he heel his pan, shovel and piok to carry, and we had seen no larger gnmo. "The big moo,rdrlft extended a mile or more along the foot of the precipice, and was from u hundred to three hundred feet in width, eloping down at a coneiderable angle into the fir mode below it, while on the upper side, the perpendicular and often overhanging orag roto fifty to a hundred faeb in height. It was u rugged wall of graoitio rooks, disolosiag nurerous huge tiasures in- to its sombre maps. A good deal of thought and calculation has been expended on the question whether it be really possible for a human adult to maintain himself in life, health, strength aha comfort on a York ahilling a day, and the discussion is not yet over. Twelve and a half, or, for the sake of evenness, say thir- teen cents, for a day's food. Can the thing be managed ? Those who profess to say that they have tried are thoroughly of opinion that it can. If so, ib iso great mercy. One might somotimee long for a little more, but it is encouraging to be assured that life, health and independence, as far as food ie concerned, can be secured for one dollar per week, with a little over for other purposes. The bicycle has a future, and it may be a remarkable one unleea the milleninm comp too soon, Lord Wolseley believes that while military authorities aro very slow to adopt novelties yet that the day is not far die tent when. a cycling corps will be an in- tegral part of every army, and a very impor• taut one at that. For home defenoe the General thinks that it will take the place of cavalry and will be ab once much cheaper and more efficient. Tbis is all very sensible and likely to be all merle good before those who aro young men now have many grey hairs. Cyclers, to be sure,;woold not do well for a cross country ride, but there would be found some way of effectually getting ever such difftonities. Slavery is abolished in Brazil and now it can be said that human bondage nowhere legally exists on the continent. Thought movers rapidly in these days. Th agitation for the Brazilians abolitionism began only in 1800. In 1871 a law was plumed giving freedom to all who should afterwards be born of slave mothers. Then emancipation societies sprang up all over the Empire, In 1885, all slaves over 60 years of age were declared free. Then camp a law giving free - dem by classes, the owners being comport sated, These laws would have completed em- ancipation in 1892, but the people oould not wait, and now the work is completed with- out bloodshed, and with scarcely ony heart burning, Tho rascally omigratiou agenb in Beltran must be worse than the mosquito, the sand fly, the chain dropper, or Lha terror that walkehh in darkness, Surely the creature ought to be obliterated every time he pubs in an appearance. How ha cheats poor emigrants by cook and bull stories about Canada is notorious to any one, It seems he doers the same when he booms South America. Some poor Scotch fisherman long- ing to better their condition listened to the tempter as he told of whab they would get if they started for Buenos Ayres, They started, the rascal, of °curse, getting his fee for souring them, and this is how things wont when they got to their journey's end: - r Arr[vin mrd rooeedhn to the agent to g,n g g p Whom they nal been direotod, he would have nothing to do with them, denied alI know. ledge of the enterprise, and naked them ltcw they exported to get fishing at Buenos Ayres, where there was nothing but fresh water, The fishermen realized the foot that they had been deoeived, and even thought they could have found a passage home in the ehip that bore them thither. They had little or nothing Fofb Wherewith to pay their fere, At the waterside they found no boats and no fisher.• mon except an old cobble and two very old mon, who Went up the river daily andcaught what they term a sort of sea oat. They vied to find labouring work, and after a time Craig got a weeks work at a sawmill, or which he roomed a national paper dollar value 25. 9d.) and 20 Dents -altogether, less ban 8s. 91. British money -per day. At eat they got a Amoco to work their pasongo omo and arrived at the old village, sadder, beer, and poorer men, Every man aobing as an emigration agent without a lioene° Mould be fined and every ono giving false, bleeding information ought to he hanged,, Too great refinement is fated delicacy, and true debioay ho solid retinoment.- [Roohofow s could, ret Parsons Iced gone about four mike from Damp and was well around the spur, toward the brink of the tranevereo ravine or melon on the other aide, when be came upon a bloody trail that led across bio drift from the fir wood's below to a monstrous cleft or charge, in tate crag above the drift, "There ware the tracks of many broad feet on the snow, and traces of a heavy body having been dragged along. The blood on thesnow looked fresh, as did also the tracks, as if made not many hours before. "With so -no curiosity Parsons glanosi at the o'eft in the rooks toward which the trail had led, and then cautiously went up to it, for a closer inspection. It was evidently a den. He listened a moment, but could hoar nothing, then he threw in a snowball and after it a stone. But as soon as the stone rattled down behind rho rocks, he hoard a soufillog noise, followed by a sound as of some animal sneezing I " 'rhea appeared in the dark hole the round head and broad, low oars of a largo, angrylooking beast which seemed to stare at the intruder in astonishment. Parsons retreated a few steps, as the animal gazed at him; but a moment later, two more animals burst suddenly forth from behind the first, and canoe out in plain sight at a bound. 'They were -so Parsons deolares-as large as the largest of St. Bernard dogs, or, indeed, as largo as bears, and blank and white in color. Whether they had tails, short or long, leo did not notice, but he is ours of their round bends with broad, low Bare, Feeling ours from their threatening move- ments that the animals would soon attack him, Parsons walked backward some die. hence, then turned and hurried away. So long as he was in sight, the animals stood there looking onriouely after him, and the moment he had passed out of sight around a projection of the orag, he began to run. A minute later he heard, and, turning, he saw all three of them coming after him rap• idly. Ho redoubled his exertions and made for the brink of the run, as fast as he could go. Perseus is no onward, but he had no weapons except his mining tools, and the size and ferocious appearance of the orea• three led him to think a hurried retreat bee best polioy. ' The distance that he had to go to the brink of the ravine or gorge, was twenty or thirty rods further. He ran for dear life's sake, but the animate rapidly gained on him, aha by the time he reached the ' fall- off,' were so close that in another hundred feet, he thinks, they must have overtaken hila, "Tire side of the ravine at thio point is very steep and ledgy with a little scrub evergreen brush growing among the rooks. Parsons Haug his tools over the brink of it, then took a slide down over rho snow and Me, catching at the heath to broak the force of his fall. He gob going with danger- ous speed, however, and went over a sheer, perpendicular descent of twenty fent, at least, and streak heavily among a mass of little etones and loose stuff, whence bevelled down into Immo brush thirty on forty feat lower. "Half stunned, he lay still and listened, Ho could hear the animals moving above him. Several tinter, earth and stones came rattling down. Re Was sure they were searching around for him. Bub they did not venture over the crag down whioh he had tumbled ; nor did he at any time hoar a sound 01 any kind from bheir throats - which may indicate that curiosity rather than hostility, led the creatures to pursue him, "Parsons lay where he fell, about an hour, until long after ho had ceased to hear any sounds above ; then he very quietly pot down into the bed of the gorge, sad making a long °hraute to the eoubhward, canoe around hone to Damp about noon -with hie story of a new kind of carnivorous animal. " We loaded up our Winchesters and, four of he, went bads with him, along the snow bank. The bloody trail and every thing about the olefb or den, hn the Drag, was just as he had desoribod it to us. There worn his o a wutrake too, as he had run to the brink of the gore beyond, and the distance los had cleared at each jump Auto. dantly toobffiod to the fright los was in. There, too, wore footprints on the snow, as large as a man's hand. We found the tools strewn down the aide of the ravine, and saw the place where Paroons slid down -a dangerous plaoe, indeed I But we could dis- cover nothing of the new carnivore, Afterwards we wont to the ash and col- lecting a quantiby of brush'wood, kindled a fire in the cisib, with the expectation of roti ting the animals out, if they had retreat. 01 thither, in fact, w0 spent four or five hours ocarohing about the plans and reconnoitering the vicinity. There was abundance of time for all this before night; for the sun doesn't satin this latitude, end at this time of year, till 0000' ten o'clock in the evening, But we wore tonable to got any further trace or bid• hogs of Parson's opookled heart, Their is lit- tle doubt, however, that he did actually fall in with oom° rather queer animals." The mouth is the window of the intelloob, If so, is 'toothaoho the wiudow•pano f