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"ROUGHING
iT IN THE BUSH."
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A VISIT To trBOSRli ISLE
A10431 clot mown stere apirlt ear Avner ulna
A ream) eo jlura-so teem i1e na tete
The dreadful cholera was depopulating
(pelmet mrd hloutreat, when our bilis) cast
anchor oil Crosse Isle, on the 30.11 of August,
1882, and we worn bonrdud u it w ;fumes
after by the bother,11)wre. Ohm of those
gentlemen -a little, shrivelled•up French
man-froin his solonu aspect and attenuated
figure, would hsvo mado no Gad represent e.
the of him who sae upon rho pule horns,
Ido was the only grave Frenchman I had
ever aeon, and I naturally enough regarded
him us a phonomouon. Itis oonpauion-a
fine-looking fele haired Sootohnm.u-though
4 little oonecquentiul in his manners, looked
like one wbo to his own person 'could eon),
bat and vanquish all the evils which it oh is
heir to, Suuh wan the °entrant between
these dootore, that they would have formed
very good emblems, ono, of vigorous health ;
the other, of hopeless decry,
Our captain, a rude, blunt onrth•conptry
Bailor, pommelling certainly not more polite-
ness then might bo expected in a boar, par.
carred hie spruaely droned vieitars on the
doolc, and with very littlo courtesy, sbrupt-
ly hada them follow him down to the cabin.
Tha otfloial was u0 sooner seated than,
glancing hnstily round the place, they tom.
menthe the following dialogue ;
"From what port, captain?"
Now, the captain had a peculiar language
of his own, from whioh h) commonly ex-
punged all the connecting 'like. Small
words, such as "and" and "the," he con-
trived to dispense with altogether.
"Suotlund-,.ailed from port o'Loith,
bound for Quebec, Montreal -general cargo
-seventy-two ateorage, four cabin mimeo.
gore -brig Anne, one hundred and ninety
two tons burden, orew eight hand," Hero
he produced his credentials, and handed
them to the strangers. Tho Sootohman just
glanced over the doeumente, and laid them
onithe table.
• Hud you a good passage out?"
" Tedious, battling wintla, heavy fogs, de-
tained three weeks on Banks -foul weather
making Gulf -short of water, people out of
pt•ovisons, steerage passengers starving.
" Any case of sickness or death on board 1"
"All sound as oriekets,"
"Any births?" lisped the little French-
man.
The captain screwed up his mouth, and
after a momenta rcfleotion he replied,
"Births? Why, yes; now I think on't,
gentlemen, we had one female on beard,
who produced three at a birth."
"That's uncommon," said the Sooteb doe.
tor, with an air of lively euriority. "Are
the children alive and well ? I should like.
much to see them" He started up, and
knocked hie head for he was very tall
against the ceiling."Confound your low
miler b 1 I have nearly 'lathed out my brains,"
"A hard task, that," locked the captain
to mo. He did not speak, but 1 know by
Itis siereaitie grin what was npptrmoot ill Ilia
thoughts. "The yrung core alt melee --
fine thriving fellows. Step upon check, Sum
Fraser," tut•nieg to hie steward ; "bring
teem down for doctors to sec." Sant van
iahad, with a knowing wink to his almoner,
and quickly returned, bearing in his arms
three fat, chuckle•hewled bttll terriers; rho
sagacious mother following cloth et his Insole,
and looked ready to give and take offence on
the slightest provocation,
"Here, gentlemen, are the babies," said
Frazer, depositing his burden on the floor.
"They do credit to the nursing of the
brindled snub."
The old tar laughed, chuckled, and rub
bed his hands in an ocotacy of deligbtat the
indignation and disappointment visible in
the countenance of the Scotch Esoulapius,
who, angry as he was, wisely held his
tongue. Not so bho Frenchman ; bis rage
scarcely knew bounds -he danced in a stats
of most ludicrous excitement, -ho shook his
fist at our rough captain, and •soreanted at
the top of his velem-
" Sucre, tyou bete I You tink ns dog,
when you try to pass your puppies on us
for babiea?"
" Mut, man, don't bo angry," said the
Scotohmnn, stifling a laugh; you see 'tie
only a joke I"
' Jeko 1 mo no understand such joke.
Bete I' returned the angry Frenchman, bo -
stowing a savage kick on ono of the mot.
fending pups which was frisking about his
feet, The pup yelped; the slut barked end
leaped furiously at ilio offender, and was
only kept from biting him by Sam, who
could scarcely hold hor back for loughing;
the captain was uproarious; the offended
Frenchman alone maintained a severe and
dignified aspect. Tho dogs were at length
dismissed, and peace restored.
Alter some nuttier questioning from the
officials. a bible was required for the cspearn
to take an oath. Mine was mislaid, and
there was none at hand.
" Confound ib 1" muttered the old sailor,
tossing over the papers in his desk ; " that
sooundrel Sam,.always MOM my traps outt
of the way." Then taking up from tho
table a bookwhich had been road'
I reading,
t,
s
which happened to bo Voltaire's History of
Charles 1IL, ho presented it, with as grave
anair as he could assume, to the Premix.
man. Taking for grouted that it was the
volume required, tho little doctor was too
polite to open the book, the captain was
duly sworn, and the party returned to the
deck.
Here a now difficulty occurred, which
nearly ended in a serious quarrel, The
gentlemen requested the old sailor to give
them o few feet of old plonking, to repair
some damage which their boat had snobained
the clay before, This the captain could nob
do. They seemed to think his refund in.
tensional, and took it as a personal affronb.
In no very gentle tones, they ordered him
instantly to ;prepare his boats, and pub his
passengers on shore.
"Stiff breeze-ohort sea," returned the
bluff old seaman ; "great risk in making
land -boots heavily laden with women and
children will bo swemped. Not a soul goes
on shoro this night,"
"If you refuse to comply with our orders,
we will report you to the authorities."
"I know my duty -you stick to yours,
When rho wind falls off, I'll soo to it. Not
a life shall be risked to ploaso you or your
authorities."
Ile turned upon nit tool, and the medical
men loft the vossel in great disdain. We
had every reason to be thankful for the
ftrmnoes,displayed by our rough oommander.
That tame evening we saw eleven poraons
drowned, from another venal close beside
us, while attempting to make the oboro.
By daybroak all was hurry and con'
Lennon on board the Anne, I watohed boat
after boat depart for the island, full of poo.
plo and grinds, and envied them the glorious
privilege r f moo more standing firmly on the
earth, aft,:.' two long menthe of looking and
rolling at sea, How ardently we antiaipote
plonauto, which often ends in emblem pain 1
Suoh was my ease When at last indulged in
the gratification so eagerly &mired. Ao
ertbin panaongorv, we were not inolitdsd in
the gemmed order of purification, but were
only obliged to Bond our servant, with the
clothes and bedding we had used during the
voyage, op shore, to be washed.
The ship was noon emptied of all her live
cargo, My hnebend wont off with rho heath,
to reeonneitro the ]gland, and I was loft
alone with my baby, in the otherwioe empty
vestal, Even Omar the Captain's Saotoh
terrier, who had formed a devoted attach -
went to mo during the voyage, forgot his
allegiance, because poeooesed of the land
mania, and woo away with the net. With
the most intense (loins to go onshore, I was
doomed to look and Tong and envy every
boatfull of emigrants that glided pa it. Nor
was this ell ; the ship was out of provisions,
and I was condemned to undergo a rigid fast
until the return of the boat, when the them
twin had prontieod a eupply of fresh butter
and broad. Tho venal had beer nine wooks
as BOA; the pone eteerago pncsen;lrrs for the
two hart weeks had been out of foo 1, and the
captain had been obliged to feed them from
the sh ip'o stores. Tee promised bread waa
to be obtained from a small steam boat
which plied deity between Quebec and the
ielaud, trienportiug oonveleaeont eorigranta,
snd their goods in her upward brip, and pro.
visions for the sick on her return,
How I reckoned on °nee more tasting
bread and butter. Tho vory thought of the
treat in store served to sharpon my appetite,
and render the long fast more irksome. I
could now frilly retilizo all Mrs. Bowdieh's
longings for English bread and butter, after
her throe yearstravel through the burning
African deserts, with her talented husband.
" 11 hon wo arrived at the hotel at Ply.
mouth," said she, "and wore asked what
refreshment we chose-' Tea, and home-
made bread and butter,'tvao my,instant reply.
' Brown bread, if you please, and plenty of
it.' mover enjoyed any luxury like it. I
was positively ashamed of asking the waiter
to refill the plate. Atter the execrable
messes, and the hard ship biscuit, imagine
the luxury of a good slice of English bread
and butter I"
At home, I laughed heartily at the lively
energy with which that charming womou of
genius related this little incident in her
eventful history, -but off Grosse Isle, 1
realised it all.
As the sun rose ab,va the horizon, all
these mietterof-fact circumstances wore
gradually forgotten, and merged in the our -
posing grandeur of the scene that roan
majestically before me. The previous day
had been dark and stormy ; teed a heavy fog
had concealed the mountain chain, which
forms the stupendous background to this
sublime viol,', ontiraly from our sight. As
the donde rolled away from their grey,
bald brows, into and oust is • denser shadow the
vast forest belt that girdled 1'
td them round,
they loomed out like mighty giants -Titans
of the earth, in all their rugged uses awful
beauty -a thrill of wonder and delight per-
vaded my mind. The spectacle floated dim-
ly on my eight -my oyes were blindest with
tears -blinded with the excess of beauty. f
turned to tho right anal to the left, I looked
up and Clown the glorious river; never had
I beheld so many striking objects blended
into onemighty whole I Nature hod lavish-
ed all her noblest features in producing that
enchanting thence
Tito rocky We to front, with its neat farm-
houses at the easter(' point, and its high
bluff at the western extremity, crowned
with the telegraph -the middle space them
pied by tents and sheds for the cholera pa-
tients, and its wooded shores dotted over
with motloy groups -added greatly to the
piotureequo &IOot of the land soon°. Then
the broad glittering river, covered with
boats darting to and fro, conveying passes•
gers from twontySve vessels, of various size
and tonnage, which rode at anchor, with
their flags flying from the mast head, gave
au air of life and interest to the whole. Turn-
ing to the south side of the St. Lawrence, 1
was not leas struck with its low fertile
shores, white houses, and neat churches,
whose Blender spires and bright tie roofs
shone like silver as theyoaughb the first rays
of the sun. As for as the eye could reach, a
lino of white buildings extended along the
bank, their bactground formed by a purple
hue of the dense interminable forest. It
was a scene unlike any I had over beheld,
and to which Britain oontaine no parallel.
Mackenzie, an old Scotch dragoon, who was
one of our passengers, when he rose in the
morning and saw the ,parish of St. Thomas
for the first time exclaimed Weel, it
heath a' 1 Can than white °louts be a' houses ?
Thee look like ohms huug%oub todrie 1" There
was some truth in this odd eompariaion, and
for some ntinuteo I could warmly convince
myself that the white patches soattered so
thickly over the opposite shore could be the
dwellings of n buoy, lively population.
" What sublime views of the north side
of the river those halter= of St, Thomas
must enjoy," thought I. Perhaps familiar-
ity with the some hos rendered them in-
different to its astonishing beauty,
Eastward, the view down the St. Law-
rene towards bhou
G if is the finest of all,
seemly surpassed by anything in the world.
Your eye follows the long rouge of lofty
mountains until tltoir blue summits ere
blended and loot in .ho blue of the sky. Some
of these, partially cleared round the baso,
are sprinkled over with neat cottages ; and
the green slopes around them aro cover-
ed with flocks and horde. Tho surfaoe of
the splendid river is diversified with islands
of every size and situps, some in wood, others
partially cleared, and adorned with orchards
and white farm.houoes. As the early sun
streamed upon the most prominent of these,
leaving rho others in deep shade, the effeot
was strangely novel and imposing. In more
remote regions, where the forest has never
yet echoed to the woodman's axe, or reoeived
the impreesof civilization, the firstappr000h
to the shore inspires a melancholy awe,
which becomes painful in ors intensity.
And eilonoe-•awtttl ailonoo broods
Profoundly o'er then solitudes ;
Noeght hot the lapsing of the floods
Breaks the deep stillness of the woods ;
A sense of desolation reigns
O'or those unpeopled forest pinine,
Where Bounds of isle ne'er wake a tono
Of cheerful praise round Nature's throne,
Man finds himself with (sod -alone.
My daydreams were dispollod by the re.
turn of bho boat, which brought my husband
and the captain from the island.
" No broad," said the latter, shaking his
head; "you must be content to starve a
little longer. Provision-ahip not in till four
o'olook." My husband smiled at the look
of blank disappointment with whioh I re-
ceived thee° unwoloome tidings, " Wooer
mind, I have news which will comfort you.
The officer who commando the otnbion sent
a note to mo by an orderly, invibing us to
epond rho afternoon with him. He promises
to show us everything Worthy of notice on
the island Captain -dame acquaintance with
mo; but I heed not bho toast reoolltobion
of him. Would you like to go ?"
"Oh by all means. I long to the the love-
ly exiled. It looks a perfoot wadies) at
this distance,"
rho rough eollor•oaptein mowed
mouth r e
on one side ' vo in , u
and a ns of
comical loan, but Ile said nethi'rg unbll ho
flassiateoat,d in piquing me and the laity in the
"Don't bo too sanguine, Mrs, Moodie;
many things book well at a diobunos wbiuh
aro bad enough when neer,"
d aoarocly regarded the old ,oilor's warn
fug. elo pager was I to go on shore -to put
my foob upon the now world for the first
rhos -I wee in no humour to listen to any
depreciation of what seemed 00 beautiful,
It w'as four o'clock when we lauded on the
rooks which the rays of an intonee'y scorch
ing oun had ronderod so hot that I could
oaorcely place my foot upon them, flow the
people without oboes born ib, I cannot imag-
ine, Never Shull 1 forgot the extroordinary
opootoele that mot our eight the moment we
passed the low range of buehea which forrn-
od a screen in front of rho river, A crowd
of many hundred Ir'ioh emigrants had been
landed during the preoontand former day;
and all this motley orew-men, women, and
children, who were not confined by dioknoas
to the ohede (which greatly resembled oat.
Go pens) -wore employed in washingelobhes,
or spreading thorn on tho rooks and bushes
to dry.
The men and boys were in the water,
while the women, with their wants, garineutu
tucked above' their know, wore tramping
their bedding in tubs, or in holes in the
rooks, which the retiring tide had left half
full of water. Those who did nob possess
washing tube, pails, or iron pots, or could
not obtain access to a hole in the rooks, were
running too and fro, soreamiog and scolding
iu no measured terms. The aonfuaion of
Babel was among them, All talkers and no
hearers• -each shouting and yelling in iris or
her uncouth dialect, and all acoompenyiog
their %melferations with violent and extra•
ordinary gestures, quite inoemprehonaible to
the uninitiated, 1e a wore literally stunned
by the Strife of tongues. I shrank with
feelings almost akin to fear, from the hard.
featured, [sunburnt women, as they elbowed
rudely nest me.
I had hoard and read much of sevog es,
and have ninon seen, during my long resi•
donee in the bush, somewhat of uncivilized
life; but the Indian is onsofNaturo's gentle -
mon -he never says or dons a rude or vulgar
tiring. The vicious, uneducated barbarians,
who form the surplus of over -populous Euro-
pean countries, are far behind the wild man
in delicacy of fooling or natural courteoy.
The people who covered the island appoorotl
perfectly destitute of shame, or even a sense
of oommon deoenoy. Many ware almnob
naked, abill more but partially clothed. Ws
turned fu disgust from tho revolting scene,
but were unable to love the spot until the
captoin ,had satisfied o noisy group of his
own people, who were demanding a supply
of stores.
his 1 want of them, leaped upon the rocks, and
tiflourishing
l do( his sl' I nl
Kieft 1 i t ugh, hounded and
capered like a wild gout from his native
mountains. " 11 'hurrah 1 my boya 1' lot
cried '!Shure well all be jiutlemen I"
" full away, my lade 1" said the captain.
Then turning to mo, " Well, Mra. Moodie,
I hope that you have bad enough of tlroise
Isle. fiat eoald you have witnessu'l the
scenes that 1010 this morning-"
Here he woo interrupted by the wife of the
old Scotch Dragoon, rMaokenz s, running
down to the boot, and laying her hand
familiarly upon his shoulder, " Captain,
dinna forgot,,'
" Forget what?"
She whispered nomothing oontidentially
in hie ear.
" Oh, bo 1 the brondy 1" he responded
aloud. "I should have thought, Mrs.
Mackenzie, that you had had enough of that
same, on yon island?"
" Aye, ale a pine° for decent folk," re.
turned the drunken body, shaking her head,
Ono node a deep o' comfort, captain, to
keep up one's heart ova,"
The captain ea up ono of his boisterous
laughs, Its he pushed the bow from the
Aare. "10olio I Sam Frazer I other iu, we
have forgotten the stores,"
" I bops nob, oaptain," said I ; " I have
boon starving since dayoroak."
"The broadi the butter, the beef, the
onions end potatoes are here, sir," said
honest, Sam particularising each article.
" All right, pull for the ship, Mrs,
Moodie, wo will have a glorious supper,
and mind you don't dream of Graeae Islo."
In a few minutes we ware again on board.
Thus ended my first day's experience of the
land of all our hopes.
(TC BE COtlTlx0BI )
"Don't Forget Peter."
Awl here 1 must observe that our parson.
gers, who were chiefly honest Scotch labor-
ers and =ebonies front the vicinity Min.
of
burgh, anis who while on board ship had
conducted bhontealvea with theneatest
propriety, and appeared the most quiet,
orderly sat of people in the world, no sooner
set foot upon the island, than they became
infected by the sante spirit of insubordina-
tion end misrule, and were just as insolent
and noisy as the rest,
The rooky banks of the island were
adorned with beautiful evergreens, which
sprang up spontane000ly in every nook and
crevice, I remarked many of our favourite
gorden shrubs among theeo windings of
nature. Tho f,llagree, with its narrow, dark
glossy.groon leaves; the privet, with its
modest white blossoms and purple berries ;
the lignum-vitt:, with its strong resinous
odor; the burnt ram, and a great variety
of elegant unknowns.
While our captain nos vainly endeavor-
ing to satisfy the unreasonable demando of
hie rebellious people, Moodie had discovered
a woodland path that led to the back of the
island. Sheltered by some hazel•bu0hes
from the intense heat of the sun, we eat
down by bho cool, pushing river, out of sight
bub, alas l nob out of hearing of the noisy,
riotous crowd. Could we have ohnt out the
profane sounds which came to us on every
breeze, how deeply should wo have enjoyed
an hour amid rho tranquil beauties of that
retired and lovely spot 1
Hare, the shores of the island and main-
land, receding from each other, formed a
small cove, overhung with lofty trees, sloth•
ed from the base to the summit with wild
vines, that hung in graceful festoons from
the topmost brandies to rho water's edge.
The Clark shadows of the mountains, thrown
upou the water, as their towered to the
height of some thousand toot above ns, gave
to the surface of the river an don hue. The
sunbeams, dancing through the thick, rluiv-
oring foliage, fall in stars of gold, or long
linos of denting brightnsas, upon the deep
block waters, producing the most novel and
beautiful effects. It was a Beene over which
bho spirit of peace might brood in silent
adoration ; bub how spoiled by the discord -
out yells of the filthy beings who were sully-
ing the purity of tbeair end water with con
taminelaug sights and sounds 1
We were now joined by the sergeant, who
very kindly brought us his capful of,„ripe
Tums on h
d anal -nuts the growth o
p g
w f tho fa -
land • a joyful
uregetnt but marred
da note
from �Ca rade --
by
who had found >
f d that ho
had been misbakon in his supposed know.
ledge of us, mil politely apologised for not
herr,g aliened by tho health-offieora to re-
ceive any emigrant beyond the bounds ap-
pointed for the performance of quarantine.
I was deeply disappointed, but my hus-
band laughingly told mo that I Been enough
of the island ; and turning to the good-na-
tured soldier, remarked, that " it oould be
no easy task to keep such wild savages in
order."
"You may well Bay that, sir -but our
night sconoo far exceed those of the day.
You would think they were incarnate devils
singing, drinking, dancing, shouting and
cutting antios Hutt would surprise the lead-
er of a °irons. They have no shame -are
under norestroint-nobodyknows them here,
and they think they can speak and act as
they please ; and they are ouch thetves that
they roboneanother of the'ittle they possess.
The healthy aotuolly run the risk of taking
the cholera by robbing the sick. If you
have not hired one or two stout, honest fd.
lows from among your follow•passengeno to
guard your clothes+ while they aro drying,
you will never see half of them again. They
aro n sad set, Bir, a fled sot. 140 could, per -
hope, manage the mon; but the women, Bir 1
-the women! Oh, sir I"
Anxious es we Moro to return to the ship,
we wore obliged to remain until sundown in
our retired nook. Wo wore hungry, tired,
and cub of spirits ; the mosquitoes swarmed
in myriads around us, tormenting the poor
baby, who, not at all ploonod with her visit
to tho bow world, filled the air with ones ;
when tho captain came to bolt no that the
boot was ready. It was a welcome sound,
Forcing out,way moo more through the still
squabbling crowd, we gained bho landing
Flane. Here wo onaoaoberod a boob, just
lauding a fresh cargo of emigrants teem the
Emerald Island. Ono follow, of gigantic
proparbione, whose long totborod greet•ooab
just) remelted below the middle of bit baro
red logs, and, like oltarity, hid the dfoeota of
his other garments, or perhaps eonoealod his
BY A 110001300.
The angel cold: -Ye seek J. sue. he It not here, ho
is rues, go your way, 101 hie diaaiplca and Peter, he
go h he re you isle (labla", titre ye dual sea hire,
1n the dawning and flush of the Bret Barer morning
The angel who watched w,th the nos -darn Lord,
Sent forth sweet nweaage of comfort and warning ;-
" (!o hear Ilii di alp ed and Petr" the word.
1300 don't forget Peter I
No, don't forget Peter 1
But boar him thio message of mercy and then
Twill cheer end relieve him
To know Hell receive him,
And woleome him unto His Service again.
Though Peter forgetting allegiance -denied flim
With ratite and with musings, yet freely restored-
ltlo Master, In kindness, would win and trot chide
him :-
For Peter runer„bersd the word of the Lord."
so don't forget Peter I
No, don't target Peter 1
But bear him this message of mercy and then
'Twill cheer and relieve hire
To know 111 receive him,
And ,welcome him unto my service again.
" lily !¢Atha" nest he ted, and there's none who
may feed them
Like ono who hath euttered-astray on the w•old-
"bfy sheep" must be led but no amigo ran lead
sheat
Like him, who- hhnelf-hath
been out of the fold,
So don't format Peter
c
No, don's forget
1
But bear him this dge of mercy,
c
y, and then
'Twill cheer and relievehim
To know, I'll .caive him
And welcome hint into My service again.
My brother l The heart o1 thy Ltri is as tender
As when lie sent Peter that mer+ago of love --
And still Bia sweet word for arch conacloui (::ander
Is,—" For him my hernia cotnpaaotan doth ..re"
S,) don't forgot Peter 1
Na, cirri's forget Peter I
But bear him this rneaeage 01 stere , aid then
'Twill cheer and relieve him
To know, I'll reocive him,
And weloome him into my service again,
TOMATO, June 10, 100S.
Shadows.
DV 1lA0•Ita t. RADFORD, ACM 10.
Closing quickie o'er the landscape,
Nulling thlekty everything.
Twilight shadows now aro fulling,
Like a bud with sable wing.
All the birds have ceased their warbles,
Save the mournful whtp•pnor-sill,
Ten his notes ore graw•htg fainter,
All the world is calm and still.
Ard I sit amid the shadows,
Musing on my future lot,
Wnti'ring if the year)] before me
Will be flied with joy, or not.
will they teem with deepest sorrow,
Melting life a rte+ort ',Irak,
With no mane to light the petits sty,
With no gratae of hope ro tuck 3
All 1 my past has be n iso Joyous,
Full of hope, acrd lova, and light
Will the future like these twilight
Shadows, be as dark as night ?
Would that one might live forever,
In the scenes of long ago,
Would that tomo bright day, loog vanished,
Sunshine o'er our hearts might throw.
Idle hopes. For time unchanging,
Speedsawny on lightning wing .
While behind him, closely treadm;,
Death his awful e3 de swinge.
Mystery Impenetrable
Doth surround each mortal's fate,
And the duty of the watchers
Is to labor, hope and -wait.
Nature's Child.
,IA800 K, KRx0Ot.
To thy great heart, 0 Nature, take thy child ;
Close fold him in
thy large, a, acr ono embrace
131dfrom the garish light his tired Moe ; '
Safe shelter him front
ary routs
loud cud and wild.
Around him let thy henry rooks bo piled,
And sentinel trees guard well the quiet plane
Whore o'er him sunny ehadowa interlace,
Atul gentle violets breathe their perfume mild.
There let the birds as morn and evening sing
There let the small stream chime its silver i,ells ;
There let the wind its viewless veneer, erring,
And monk-hke oriolceta ohnnt in grassy cella,
0 Nature, thy cool mantle o'er hint fling,
And weave Into his sloop thy sweetoer epolta•
A Cannon to Shoot TWelye Miles.
" We aro now," said the director of the
Pittsburg works, "making a cannon for the
American Emonsito Company. Ib will be
used to demonstrate the value of that new
exploelve. Ib is a smooth bore, three in.
hes in diameter and 100 inches long, and
will throw a six-inch shell with emeneite
from tau to twelve miles, In ordinary rifled
cannon the shell turns one and one•gnartor
timoa in the length of the gun. This gives
it a terrific torttonal Wrath and r.' •.'eooitates 00
a corresponding thickness and sength of bi
rho shell and a proportionate induction of w
ewe for the explosives. In other words, iso
the internal space for the explosive is re- to
ducted ono•half to secure the necessary
strength. Now, the Emensite Company o'
proposes to avoid this trouble by returning Bo
to the old smooth born cannon, and at the m
same limo to secure the neoeeeary range by no
the increased power of their exploonee. This w
new gun they expoobbo throw a dynamite n
shall as far as a rifled oonn,a,"-[efbtsbur of
Dospntail. le
Fl
VENTURES IN ,LITTLE BOATS. Lord Woloeloy ell Thrift,
Lord Wolseley is need in the arta of peace
1
l'roaaing file musette In Cockle emend
Sine° time imtnemorinl MOB have be
toed of Ot.ads of el wing and bravery, but
It is a question if any aneiont athlete nr
warrior re hese proem have beau sung
in sang or iroso would hate Cm( ti to
perforin some of the croak feats of the
methane, much as tumbling througb the
Niagora rapids in a barrel, jumping aft tilt
Brooklyn hrldgo or venturing aoroso bit,
wide expanoe of the Atlantio Ina 000kle•sheb
craft wane big enough to hold subsistenoy
for its lonesome crew of one, Thoth modern
tests o1 ondureuee are mere cranky auto of
foolhardiness, done only for the sake of
bringing the performer into notoriety, ur.
to put little filthy Inure into his pockets,
Although one or two attempts to navit/e we
the ocean iu craft as small ah ten tons bar
don were made a century ago, people have
boon generally content to erose the wide
ferry ill regulation boa boats. Latae recent
,IR 1802 a brigentine•rlyeed boat pained the
" Vision," about fifteen fent in letrgttr, Icft
New York for Loudon, with a crew of two
men and a dog. A keg markers "Vision,"
was pinked upolf'the 1VesternI.lauds about
nix months lifter the di pee tune of the Wipe.
tine brigantine, and sport from thio nothing
has since been teen or heard of the Vision,
her crew er the dog.
The Red, White and Bina made a sue
aessful trip le 1806 She was twenty eight
feet long, riggedss a ship, and carried
three men eatoly from New York to London
in the Summer of 1860. This boat with
the patriotic name was afterward on cxhibi•
tion at the Paris Exposition,
In 18(18 u twenty-five foot boat called the
John J. Forrl left Beltimoro with a " crew"
of two moo, bound for London. Afteroross•
ing the Atl:oatio and while off the Irish
comet, it in recorded that horhallast braids
wore used as fuel, and a storm arose imme-
diatoly thereafter, The Ford capsized, her
Captain was drowned, the other man was
saved and the derelict was washed ashore
near Waterford, Ireland, where it ii said to
bo Will in the possession of a gentleman
named Andrews.
It was several years after this suggestive
ending of the transatlantic may of the John
J. Ford that the next attempt was made.
Early in the '70'a the little 19 foot City of
Ragusa sailed in ninety days from Liverpool
to Boston with a Austrian, an Englishman
and a dog iso her living freight. She after•
ward succeash,lly eaeoyed the return voyage
having another Englishman for mate in
place of the first von of Albion, who, un-
dcubtodly, heti enough of it. Tho City of
Raguso's performance, viewed in the light
of what has since transpired, is noteworthy
principally on account of the length of time
consumed in gettiog over the 3,0(0 or leas
miles of water.
The gallant dory Centennial and her
indomitable commander
t
m ander
Ga ., Johnson
J iso
P
achieved a feat a in 70that throw all
previous endeavors far in the shade. The
Centennial was twenty feet long and sloop
rigged. She eailodfrotn Gloucester in Juno,
1875, and after aixiyseven Boys of suffering
for the cap'n and hard knooks for the dory,
both arrived in Liverpool.
One lady only enjoys thouniquedietinctitn
of having sat °ramped in a dory for the
length of time necessary to run aoross, in
Iter ease just fifty days. Mrs. Crape is the
lady referred to. In company with her hus-
band, Themes Crape, she started from New
];allele?,
Mesa„ in the two =meet leK•of-
ntutton-saileddnry, New Bedford, on the2Sth
of May, 1877. Tbey reaohed Penzarca, Eng.,
on the 22od day of July, The New Bedford
was twenty feet in length and about two
tons burden.
Before the interest associated with th
Now Bedford's trip had abated, the Andrews
brothers Dame upon the scene with their
d try Nautilus. Tho Nautilus was 19 feet
in length and only 2 feet 5 inches in depth.
The Andrews sailed from City Point, South
Seaton, ten years ago and arrived off
the Lizard, Eng., after a forbyfivs
days' trip. After the Nautilus had
returned from Paris, where she had
been on exhibition, another dory trip was
in order, ;:nd Ce pt. GOldemith and wife
were anuoaneci as the voyage's. They
took things very easy, arid ((rifted along the
coast, nonchalantly dropping in here and
there to show themselves. They finally left
St. John, N. B., about the 12th of July, and
were next heard from nu the 10th, when the
British strip Queen of Nations picked them
off their dory, which had become water.
logged, and carried them to LivsrpooL
, Aa well 145 those of war, Presiding at the
annual meeting el the depositors of the
ek
Sewage' bank, founded by Sir I'ldwnrd Wet -
kin 1' re the uervaubs of the South Heathen
end Metropolitan railway companies, he
delivered a practical address ou thrift.
Looking bank on frim own experience he said
be aauld not remember any man who had
togun life by making ibo habit to live welt
.within bis inoomo who had not become a
iuooessful man ; and when he remembered
the men who had failed as life he thought
he might Bay that their failure had resulted
from the two groat besotting eine to whielr
our raw: are most promo-reekleaa expendi-
ture and the horrible crime of drunkenness.
Lord N'olscloy's hearers included not a few
member,, of the gentler sex, and he took oo-
oasiou to drop a word in season. Admit-
ting that it was a dangerous thing to lecture
a lady he could not refrain, ho said,.
from observing that while woman could
and did exercise touch good in their
homes, they meta bad example by extrays.
gamut and ridiculous extravagance fav
iu dress. This was a fault that teas not pe-
culiar to one elate of society, In Iho matter
of thrift man wire a little bellied some
humbler creatures. There were many ani
toO.'s with which thrift was an instinct, but
that wise not the rase with men. Thrift
with him was the citric me of civilization
and education, As a rule when once man.
put money by he continued to do so, but the
diihuttlty was the beginning to save', which
often fur( lvedself-denial, Thriftymen had.
dietinguiahod themselves in the worlds his-
tory, from his own °beetvation he would.
say, as a rule, that the thrifty man woe.
a moral man and he might say almost invari•
ably a rucoessful man. Now all this is very
true. There is nothing very original about
such remarks, but i 1 s well to have them
repeated and emphasized by such a man-
es Lord Wolseley. Count up all the buccosa-
ful mon, whether in Toronto or 0 -,ratio, and
it will be found that all but universally
they were tb irfty men who in Lord Wolreley'e
words "lived well within their incomes,"
and did not to almost an appreciable extent
meddle with intoxicating 'ignore. The men.
whose motto is to a sod as they earn are as
a rale, hewers of wood and drawers of
water, to the end of the chapter. They can
never take advantage cf good opportunities
when they present themselves. Their dol.
Mrs are generally pledged before they are
earned, or soon after. They have all about
them some silly besetting extravagance and
it keeps them down all their deys.
The McKenzie River Country.
From all accounts the country watered by
the Meeker me River is among the most
magnitfaent and most valuable on this Con-
tinent. Canada is as a et quite uoawars of
the mighty treasure house it holds in this
distrint alone. The recent report of the
P
S:nato committee on the tel+jcaG cannot be
too widely read or too carefully pondered.
Let the following extract seine°. That its
statements aro not exaggerated is acknow-
ledged by all really competent to form an.
enlightened judgment ou the subject :-
The territoryembtaoed in the enquiry of
the committee covers ",'s nearly as possible
one million mad a quarter miles, an area six
times larger than France or Germany, and
twelve times larger than Great 11-itain 1 it
has a moat lino of 5,000 miles, pert of it ac.
erosible to whaling and seal craft; the nav-
igab'o coast lines of the great lakes equal,
:4,000 mike : the Mackenzie and its tribu-
t-iries hue 1„,60 miles deep enough for seas
going steamers, and 2,7110 miles suitable for
stern wheel steamers of lighter draft. Thera
e are 6,500 utiles of continuous lake and *river
navigation, broken only in tea places, one
a distance of twenty and the other fifty
miles, down which barges oan pass and
which could be easily overcome. This
entire valley is therefore accessible
from Vancouver for seagoing steamers
passing through Behring's Straits. Of
hose million and a quarter square miles
there are probably a million (the report
gives it 800,000) posture land, or 540,000,-
000 million ocres; 202,240,000 aures (316,000'
square minor), suitable for wheat, and
(mole that far barley and root crops. Sir
John Richardson, more than sixty years ago
found wheat ripening north of latitudes
sixty, and barley at sixty-five, more than
one thousand miles nerd) of London, Eng-
land, the summer temperatures in that sats.
Ludo being as high as theme of London. The
temperature at Fort Yukot, latitude 67',
within the Arctic Circle, is 50" 7' that of
London (England, latitude 51°), being 61°,
only one degree and one third higher ; but
July at Bort Stem'. it 6,i° 7'; teat of London
62` 4`, three dogrstd ad a third higher than
thnt of L melon.
Let any one try to realize what all this
IMAM. It means that in this locality alone
I there are all the raw materials for a mighty
lempire and that nothing but the influx of
mon and women is necessary to make this
solitary region glad, and the wide lone land
to rejoice and to bleosom like the rose.
Rriblr such a large uninhabited territory are
Canadians afraid that their wide fair tr lant3
will be filled up too soon?
The acme in dory deeds was attained in
1880 by Capt. Traynor and leis mate, who
orossed from Beth, Me., to a French port
in the seventeen -foot dory City of Bath.
Tiro sixteen and a•Italf foot boat of Capt.
Norman and mato George Thomas beat tl: e
City of Becher recons to 1S80 bywooing
from Gloueastor to the Isle of Wight, and
subsequently making the return trip, Thus
far the Little Western, which was the name
of their boat, is the smallest vessel that hat
crossed the ocean on its own keel, and it
is also the only one of the many that has
done the trick and repeat, starting from
this side.
Several oars
mesad byoro another at-
tempt
tam t " to dory" Atlantic d At a rte ams made.
Chios) time it proved to be a decidedly
total attempt, but alas for the crack -
rained "hero" who tried it. His thole.
ton has probably adorned for many a
monbh ono of the million anatomical
"museums" of the deep, deep ," drink."
Capt. Traynor, of the City of Both
wanted a chance to retrieve his dimmed
laurels, and he therefore proposed bo row
across, 13o proolred a dory, which he
christened the Harold J, Bibbor, after a
Bath (Me ) doctor, and ho started out for
his pull. He reached St. John's, N. F., by
some moans, and remained there a few days
before eetbiog out on his laetvoyege. Noth-
ing has ever turned tp to furnioh the least
olew as to his probable Otto.
Traynor's fate did not deter one Richard
8, Chandler, of Truro, Math., from trying
to make a similar attempt. Chandler row -
rout Truro to Bath, but ho fatlod to en•
at the sympathy of Dr. Xlibbor, and being
ibhoub the nocoaeary moans at his own
mmond to fib out for bho long row,he, for
irately for himself, stayed at home,
The lamb victim of the unexplainable fns.
enation beat has mastered the anbibiono of
maty mortals wee a Capt. F. A, Cloud -
an, who set out frotn Jaoksonvillo, lila.,
t very long ago, to dory it around the
odd. The Outing, as Cloudman's boat was
aped, put into So. Au estine on isoment
lass of weother. The day after she
fb she woe wrecked on a bar off the
orido coast, and Capt. Cloudman was
�we—
n Important Distinction. e
"',Villie," raid his mother, with store re
proof in her tone, " I shall certainly have
to punioh yea this time. You promised Inc
faithfully you would never play again with
that bad boy, SammyShaoklefo•d and
Bore yo,t'vo been playinball with him for
an hour."
"No, I hain't, mamma 7" protested
Willie, rod faded, breathless and Vehement,
" I've boon pinyin' against him. He was no
ou the other tido," se
forced to wade ashore.
Somewhat Ambiguous,
Doan Burgon, of Chichester, Was reemitly
speaking on the voter° of man 01 distinguish.
od from the lower orders of oreation, "Man,"
ho remarked, " is a progressive being; the
others are stationary. Think, for example,
of the ago I Always dud everywhere it Is
the oamo oreoturo, and you sower saw and
vol will zoo a more perfect ass than you
a at the present element 1"
Making a Nose to Order.
A feat quite unprecedented in what has
been called " decorative surgery" was ex-
ecuted recently by a surgeon in one of
Boston's pity hospitals. The operation in
quostiou involved the construction of a
new nose -no novelty itself in medical
'Acme for a woman who had been offlioted
from birth by the want of one. The remark-
able part of the achievement lay in the
building up of a bridge for the organ, none
whatever having been supplied by nature.
Hitherto it had been customary, for such
purposes, to take pieces of flesh from the
forehead or arm of the subject and graft
them about the nostrils in as good shape
ae might be -thus producing, in the case of
a person whose nasal bone and cartilage
are lacking a putty -like exeresoenoe far
from beautiful. The ease in point, how-
ever, was pro0eederl with fn a very different
manner, First t1.o woman's moo -what
there was of it -was slimed in two and the
flaps turned bank on the cheeks, 'Then a
!young thicken was killed, and a piece of
Ithe breath bone, of proper shape united to
the root of the natal member on the skull
by silver wires, Then the flesh of the old
'moo was carefully stretched over it by
ligatures. Plugs of cotton wore intro0uced
temporarily, to give the nostrils their ()er-
red shape, and the physloian's took was
complete. The new bone promptly breams
united with its attachment, the wound heal.
ed, and the operation has now been dealer•
od a portent suoceas. The patient atpretent
a handsome woman she io, too -bat a fine
Roman prebends, and the only hoar is a
scarcely preeeptibie lino down rho middle
of the freshly made feature, Formerly the
deformity was so disfiguring that the poor
oreaburo did not stir out of the house far
years, save when the night's friendly dark.
nese laid her misfortune from view,
Truth has many rongii flavours if We bite
It throne),