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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-7-20, Page 31 JULY 20, 1888, THE BRUSSELS POST. 3 p,'hififNJlout4t.egm tla:zwykratt'ry:4.ir71afai4lAYa+e'aui:J/fNSr74YiAGfdf•Y.'.Kyv ,fitl7G7'•,atE. YJ "tF dltal,rLO°fi�,YiG13IG"L•;•lPdr.'tY44rarS Lh;aSlti! 'xNlSrtS'fW9af6ditMtt'Rtraw@.to .............. "ROUGHING iT IN THE BUSH." Cliehl'rlat L 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),