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The East Huron Gazette, 1893-02-23, Page 3ppes telnplat{on- Iave too living cue >fty mountain are of virtue, which -ch. hack—the spoked :he past life; the the ,tamp on our good Ind evil we ii to have a man'® Aston Providence, >t truth. :noughts are bless -sweet smell if laid ontrary winds °c- if, after all, it is g as we sail the tiie world giveth. and when all is they have the t faults is to he- efore pull up in dragged by your but such as 'drou berly, distribute 1 be able to leave iu. ood reason to be- tlourishes himself people, in order im. ith a great mind pie impression of leave him with himself. — f Cole- ommunion. The lwarfs and loses e is cultivating. e communication ! with as large a rs excepting, of ys lamenting she ie did not know nploy her time. he poet, Rogers, and do a little ;ed in that busi- to complain of t cure-all to lazi- n range strange. a rest, show, .r lar, Y. •ay. Lnd tall, is all. llv are, ze, Ting FoZe —After a surli- ly healthy, the uddeniy almost ow above thir'l almost entireI ' piratory organ& arly every one the past three ;cur to London- ,nd the presence nosphere of the istitute a posi- so-called foggy s have brought, than ever be- rcharged with acid gas and little real fog. s dark as mid- lity has been as comer. People eyes, coughing iplaining hope - e fog. A Lon- ,nished by law, has been sup- ther American hich dissipates another great 't will give it i winter. The of bituminous d nothing else. iidly suggests id in stoves and iisance, but an he impractibili- goes with it. ed that there in Wales to .1 generations, I will have to .int before the soft -coal fires. again report - country, but ;al organ, to assurance that cluing the visi e disease like ttensive egad, er hand small- rming manner oici has assum- i London. Its en among the tropolis at any iditions which 1. But for all )arough, Lord eers have been disease, and typhoid rages id houses un- lic. Various ✓ this state of most popular t afford pheas- 0 t of thing, is fever through !era epidemic o its practical total number 3,510. Nine - raker were in g, where the ,611, 1.22 pear . The statis- pread up the nd Hamburg tein published she request of tone, the sea- t was born in 848, and was s Stockton to skip Bertin appa*r 1* res ler hes aif s.t offal jl 47- f i f eee YOUNG FOLKS. Playing Mob Ding Dong ! Dolly, school is in, Hark! the Lessons now begin ; Keep all the pupils there— Dollies nice ani' neat and fair, Fat and lean short and tall, In a mvs against the wall, Lots of little teachers, too, ' Corse to show them what to do. " Now, Miss Wax, turn out your toes ; Tellme how you spoiled your nose. Mist, Rag, pray tor once sit straight ; How came you to be so late Do, Miss China, sit down, dear ; Papa dolls, don't act so queer." Mabel's doll could say "Mamma." Smartest in the elms by far, Some will graduate next fail; Others are almost too small. Does your dolly ever go ? Terms are very cheap, you know. Better take her there at once. Who would want a doll a dunce? " Time is up !" the Leachers shout. Ding, dong ! Dolly, school is out. A LITTLE RUNAWA! BEAR. Now, Bruin," said Papa White Bear, " your mamma and I are going to look out for some dinner, and you must not leave this iceberg until we get hack." All right," answered Bruin. " Good -by," growled Mamma White Bear, andthen they walked off together toward the north pole. Bruin sat on a ledge of the great iceberg watching his parents until they were lost to sight in the great snow -field. Then he looked in another direction, and noticed a black speck afar off. Bruin had very good eyes, but he could not quite make out what the speck was. "I wonder if that is a seal?" he thought. " Its right near the edge of the water—it must be a seal." Helooked again but could not make up his mind about it. " Wouldn't it be nice," he said to him- self, "if I could go out and capture a real nice seal for dinner ? Wouldn't papa be surprised ?" All this time Bruin was trying to forget what his father had told him about staying on the iceberg, but the more he tried to forget, the more he remembered. " I don't believe papa will care if I catch a nice fat seal," remarked Bruin at last. " When he told me to stay here he didn't know there were to be any seals about." So trying to find comfort in the thought that his father would not care, while all the they could not see ten yards ahead of time he felt that Papa White Bear would 'them. The snow kept falling until on the care, Bruin climbed down from his perch on level it was 12 inches deep, and in the draws the iceberg. piled up in some places to 12 feet in depth. He set off on a run across the ice, and as This blizzard continued for two days and he drew near to the speck he saw that it nights, and when it ceased all trails were really was a seal. obliterated, and the sun was obscured by This made him excited, for Bruin was a heavy clouds, so that they lost their way young bear, and had neve! caught a seal. on the prairie, They travelled about for In fact, he did not know exactly how his four days, having a fire only for a short father went about it. But, like all young time. 'On the evening of the fifth the party ones (both bears and children), he thought reached the "blackoak" country, and for the that he knew nearly everything. So, start- ing on a quick run, Bruin dashed towards the seal. But wise old Mr. Seal both heard and saw the little polar -bear, and before .Bruin got nearrhim Mr. Seal just gave one flop and tumbled over into the water. Dear me ! how disappointed Bruin was !! He was sure that the -seal was going to lie still and let himself be caught. By this time Bruin had no remembrance of his father's orders ; bis one idea was to be sure and catch a seal. So he tore along the ice after every black speck he saw, and each one that happened to be a seal got away with the greatest ease. "Oh, my ! Oh, my !" sighed Bruin, stop- ping a moment to rest. "I wonder where Papa and Mamma White Bear are ?" and then all that his father had said came back to him. He looked around him, and gave .a bor. rible howl of despair. He didn't know where he was, and bad not the slightest idea in what direction his home lay; for it's the easiest thing in the world to lose your way on a great field of ice and snow. " Ough ! " howled Bruin in despair. Just then he saw something moving across the ice, and he again thought of seals. " There isn't any water there," said Bruin, " and I'll be sure to catch him this time." He started in that direction, and was sur- prised to see the supposed seal advancing toward him. And then it turned out to be a man—a man with a gun ! But Bruin had never seen a man—in fact, knew nothing of such a thing, and supposed it was a new kind of seal that he saw. So he ran ahead. Bruingot very near to this strange ob- ject, when suddenly there was a roar louder than any that the White Bear family ever made, and a flash, and a bullet hit Bruin in the leg. Down he tumbled in the snow, and, as he ]ay there, the man came up and threw a cloak over his head, tied his feet, and put bim on a sled. Then Bruin was dragged over the snow and taken to a boat. A horrid wire mask was pat over his mouth so that he couldn't bite, his three well legs were securely tied, and the one that had been shot was doctored. It was not much of a hurt that Bruin re- cieved, and his leg healed rapidly. But by the time that he was well he was far out on and feet were frozen stiff. He was taken the sea. to the hospital, where. 'the doctors and He was carried far, far away from his nurses have tried unsuccessfully so far to home, and was sold to a circus man, who restore him to consciousness. The doctors put him in a cage. Oh, how he did mourn his loss of home ! But it was all his own fault. Bruin is a fnll-grown bear now, and is quite used to his cage and to curious crowds of people. But once in a while he stops in his walk to and fro and thinks of the beautiful iceberg of the North, and of Papa and Mamma White Bear, and then he growls softly when he remembers that his troubles are all the results of disobedience. People. • day ei ting. stili more necessary if we Would have good health, than the reg- ular winding of +he- clock. If there is a Piano playing by electricity whs at one thirst strike, it convinces ns that -water is time a great novelty. the electrical pianist, needed that the internal machinery may however, will have to. take a second place still do its duty, this water being one of the :among novelty designers, far stringed in= most important articles to - keep the ma- atrumeuts-that is instruments for which are ehinsry in running order—an absolute picked—can nowhat is; electrically. A necessity, as nothing man fully supply its Boston man has just been gleamed a patent place. If there is a false alarm,a whisky for'an electrical device designed to automate harps. or tobacco strike, you may know that an ieally play banjos, mandolins, guitars and enemy has stolen in and wound the human harps. - clock down, instead of up, injuring or de- Double•deeked storage battery tramway stroying some of its most valuable machin. cars Nerve been operating in Paris from La cry. We may know this from the fact 'Madeleine to Saint-Denis for a period of a that no,individnaever relishes these until month, and are said to be giving general. false and unnatural habits have. been formed, there being no possible use --true satisfaction. They run much better than the conduit system used in other parts of the use—for these in the body so "fearfully and city, and are preferable to any of the lines wonderfully made." Ib may be right and using overhead, wire construction. useefulful to the insignificant worm and a low order of the goat—the only two creatures In about every new undertaking electric - which naturally use it, so far as I know— ity comes in somewhere. The plan for rapid mail delivery between the . central post - responsible human beings, inhuman in while it is a disgrace that intelligent and offices of New York and Brooklyn proposes light and strong carriages driven by elec- any such respect, should ape the example of tricity, to be run inside rectangular tubes. low creatures. At about nine in the even- Branches may be run in any direction. The ing, by the family-clock—if natural it would system will be operated like a miniature be before, .earlier—the fatigue -strike is trolley road. heard, asking that the machinery may stop for a time, the wheels to be oiled by sleep and rest that this clock may nct " run down " too soon. It is well, therefore, to be regular in all respects, doing all things when they should be done, not only having " a place for everything and everything in place," but having a time for all duties, doing every duties -in its time. Such a course will not only be labor-sav- ing, but profitable to all concerned, accom- modating the whole community. Have a time for eating—none for whiskey drinking or smoking and chewing the " vile weed "— for work, for play, for reading, studying, for helping your mother and doing as your father desires, for every good thing. mention -Nom YANKEE OOLD WEATHER STORIES. Travelling in a Kansas Blizzard. A letter just received from • Columbus, Ind., relates a thrilling experience which Albert La Rue passed through in a Kansas blizzard. On the 5th with four men, a woman and a little girl, he started from Okeen, O. T., and travelled northwest. The point to be reached was a hundred miles distant. The second day it began to rain, and after ten hours snow set in, and for twelve hours An electrical acidmeter, or instrument for measuring the amount of aeid substance in liquids, has recently been perfected and is expected to come into extended use in refin- eries, breweries and similar places. A submarine electrical lamp recently tested at a depth of thirty feet under water proved a great attraction for fish. It caus- ed the water to be illuminated within a radius of 100 feet and gathered -together all the inhabitants of that district. The last paper read before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers treated of micanite and its qualities as an insulator. It was stated that this substance, which is made of thin sheets of mica, pressed. and secured together by means of cement, pos- sesses very valuable insulating and refractive properties, and can be made to retain its form in any shape required. Not over a quarter of the houses in Paris are lighted by gas, but there are over 175,- 000 incandescentelectriclamps in use there. Some curious effects of the intense heat and 'light given out by electrical welding machines are reported from Russia. In a large plant recently installed there the workmen began to notice burning sensations on their hands and faces, which later de- veloped into swelling and finally peeling of the skin. They, of course, wore darkly colored glasses to protect their eyes, but it seems that the exposure and results were exactly the same as those which are induc• ed under scorching,by the sun. The mana- ger of the works has advised his employees to procure red and green veils. There seems to be ground for belief that electricity wiU come considerably into use as an anaesthetic. A paper was read and considerable discussion indulged in on the subject at a recent meeting of the American Electro -Therapeutical Association. A New Hampshire inventor has been first time went into camp. On the follow- granted a patent for a process of uniting ing morning two of the men started en broken pieces of arc -light carbons. He con - horseback to find a trail, and after ridwg, verts the fragments into a homogeneous eight hours were successful.. It was nob' carbon of -any desired length by uniting the over four miles from the cainp, and revealed pieces by nfeans of a paste composed of pul- the fact that they had crossed their own verized carbon and ,coal tar, mixed in about tracks three times. At the end of the thi equal parts and applied hot, after which the teenth day the party reached a settlement, carbons are baked until the paste hardens. just in time to avoid starvation. They were Another new process of electrical disin- out of provisions and feed for the horses, fecting has been brought out. Electrically and with their hands and feet badly frozen. ozonizcd air was proposed sometime ago as --- a proper means of preventing cholera epide- His Hand From to a Limb and Saved Him. mics+ but the practical success of another electrical disinfecting system is already James Matthews and Dr. John Williams assured where it has been tried in France. of Missouri are the heroes of a remarkable This process consists in passing a current of, adventure from which they barely escaped electricity through sea water or any solu- with their lives. Wolf other morning they tion containing chlorides and by this means set out to cross River in an old bateau developing hypochlorides, which are power - at a point where the stream is half a mile Jul disinfecting agents and can be menu wide, and when about sixty yards from the bank, where the water was very deep; "with a swift current, their boat sank and both were left struggling in the icy torrent. Mat- thews managed to reach a tree and pulled himself up to a seat on a stout Limb. Dr. - Williams was swept past this refuge, and could do no better than clutch the pendent• branch of another tree. He was too much the lamps being connected to a battery benumbed to reach the trunk, and was placed in the body of the carriage. The afraid. to let go : so there he stayed half novelty of the arrangement attracted much submerged in freezing water, while hiscom- attention. panion shivered on a limb near at hand, but A new electric switch has been designed' unable to render biro any assistance. There for use in connection with the lock of a door, they remained for several hours, when at so that when a key is turned in the lock length their cries were heard and a rescue lights inside are turned on. undertaken. It was necessary first, how- The danger from shocks caused by current ever, to build a boat, and this took six from a live wire traveling down the stream hours more, and it was not until they had of water to the firemen holding the nozzle passed nearly ten hours in their perilous of a hose has led to the devising of an in - situation that they were finally taken off. sulated support for the nozzle, which Dr. Williams' hand had frozen to the limb grounds the current and at the same time he grasped, and it was necessary to bring is of. great help in holding the stream the limb away with him. But for freezing steady. to it he wood have been swept away and The electrolytic effect of Boston's trolley drowned. road upon her water -pipes has become apret- -- ty serious question. It has been found that Frozen Almost Solid on a Car Platform. the return current running through the Jan. 5.—When the Chicago and Alton ground and the pipes has in many places "hummer" drew up to the depot at Joliet, caused considerable damage by eating away ILL, the other afternoon the passengers wait the metal of the pipes by electrolysis. ing to take the train saw a man drop off Lead-arniored telephone cables buried in the the bumpers on the front end of the bag- ground have been destroyed, lead pipes of gage car. Help -was given him when' it was all kinds punctured and a gradual wasting found that he was dying. His ears, face away of all ground connections effected. The telephone companies have made vigor-: ous protests and the Water Board has re- cently employed an expert to look after the city's interest in the matter. The trouble seems to be that the earth cannot be looked l. —BOBERTSON' ABROAD. The Dalry Commissioner` Talks About Canada. "The Food Producing .. Resources of Canada" is the subject- upon: which Pro- fessor Robertson, Dairy Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada, addressed a large assembly interested -in the provision trade at the HomeandForeignProduce Exchange London, England, recently. The lecturer dealt with the work of the Dominion experimental dairy farms, found- ed with a view to increasing the output of bacon, and improving the quality= of butter cheese, etc., also with packages, shipping and other matters. Mr. J. D. Copeman, chairman of the Exchange, presided. Mr. Robertson was warmly received. His mis sion-to England, he said, was perhaps more to learn than to teach ; still, he was willing and desirous to communicate to them in- formation concerning the vast resources of Canada, and to show how they could be de- veloped to furnish food for the millions of their -industrial centres. ' The object of all farming was to create wealth in food and clothing. Wheat, cheese, bacon, butt-er, fruits, tea, cotton, wool, and even silk, were all products of some farmer's toil and skill. If these could be multiplied in 'quant- ity and increased in value, every hand- ler of the same, every business man, wyuld have a better chance to enlarge his transac- tionsand to increase his profits. Canada was large,- and it had vast areas of arable and pasture land, which were not yet occupied. 13y -and -by, when England sent more of her good men to -them, they will fill up the great expanse of fertile soil, anti send food over in vastly greater quantities, receiving cloth- ing and other goods in return. He spoke of the experimental farms. The primary object of these farms was to investigate the varieties of grain which were best adapted to different sols, climatic conditions, and methods of cultivation.. When information had been obtained from these experiments, bulletins and exports were distributed widely for the guidance of the individual tarmers in their own practice. The work of these experi- men tal farms was also intended to stimulate farmers to.a more careful study of the prin- ciples which underlie successful manage- ment of their own business. Iii brief, their object was to help in the edification of grown men and women who lived on farms and upon whom all the cares and responsibilities of mature life had come. Last year over 15.000 sample bags of new and promising varieties of grain weredistrib- uted free. From the sowing of the contents of these sample bags upon well-prepared soil, many farmers were able to obtain from the first crop as much as two bushels of a new and valuable variety .of grain, at no cast to themselves. An immediate result of this experimental work was to induce the farmers to be much more economical. Then the different varie- ties of fruits and vegetables where tested and reported upon. Besides the work on the experimental farms proper, experimental dairy stations had been established in each of the provinces • which lie east of Manitoba. These were becoming centres of exact and authoritative information on the best meth- ods of manufacturing cheese and butter. The products from them were shipped to thesemarkets, mainly through Liverpool, to gain information from close market con- tact how to meet the preferences and prejudices of British merchants and con- sumers. Through these they were trying to help farmers by showing them how to seek the, market, how to suit it, and how to keep it for their own goods. The British farmers had least cause to fear the com- petition of Canadian food products, A fancy Canadian cheese, which, pound for pound, was equal to the finest English Ched- dar, tended to create a more general- and factored cheaply in this way upon a large active demand for good cheese. It was the scale. inferior qualities of perishable food products which tended to glut and depress the mar - Incandescent electric lamps ha ve been adopted in Madras as an ornament to the, ket, as well as to bring prices to a ruinously head of the horses driven in harness bythe low point. Jaghirdar of Arni. Two lamps, proided Canada was the natural home of cattle. with powerful reflectors, are attached to With its fertile soil and bracing climate it the harness, between the ears of the horses gave vigorous health tie domestic animals and freedom from all serious diseases of an infectious or contagious nature. British consumers miebt depend upon the health- ful, wholesome and nutritious character of all food products which were sent from Canada. Of the £13,000,000 worth of cattle and beef which were imported into England from outside countries, Canada expected to send a much larger share in coming years ; and when consumers acquired the habit of asking for Canadian beef and seeing that they got it, trade might be more profitable to producers, importers and butchers alike. He spoke of their experiment in feeding swine, and how they could obtain a quality of lean and nutritious flesh, much superior to the lardy bacons which conte from those foreign countries where Indian corn was the staple and almost only food. On the ex- perimental farm at Ottawa they had an exi tensive poultry department.- their trade with England in the exportation of eggs and poultry was a growing one, and it should be capable of great extension, as he found that they imported these two items to the value of £3,962,501 last year. In conclus- ion, Professor Robertson dwelt in detail upon the food -producing resources of Can- ada by provinces,and resumed his seat amidst prolonged cheers. Professor Robertson also delivered an ad- dress on the same subject before the mem- bers of the Liverpool Produce Exchange. At the close of the lecture, in proposing a vote of thanks, Mr. S. G. Sinclair, one of the members, said the professor seemed -to think ,that the rich merchants of Liverpool had been making a tremendous profit out of the poor Canadian farmer.- They had in reality been working hard to make the Can- adian fanner, and in some years had got nothing for themseves in doing it. He hop- ed that in the future they would be able to do better both for- the Canadian farmer and for themselves than they had done in the past. Mr. W. Markles in supporting the -resolu- tion remarked that the Canadian cheese did -not very much commend itself in the dis- tricts that Liverpool immediately supplied. Although they did a large trade now in Canadian cheese, they might do more if Canada would adopt a class of soft cheese more suitable totheir requitement. He also made suggestions in regard to the pack- ing of Canadian butter imported into Eng- land. —[Harper's Young Boys, Attention. 3'e regular in all good habits rather than in cad ones, unless you regularly avoid all of these. The importance of regularity in all matters promotive of humane welfare may be inferred from the fact, as stated, that a clock will keep better time by being wound up at a particular hour of the day, conforming to the habit of regularity. The human body, a combination of exceedingly intricate machinery, 'i fearfully and won- derfully made," as we are informed in the scriptures, demands and deserves regularity in being " wound up," which, like a clock, " strikes " to let us know certain things which we need to know. In the morning, for example, it strikes to let us know that we have slept long enough, opening oar eyes wide and giving us adesire to be active again. Soon after, the hunger -strike tells us that we need food to give strength for the day's labors. At noon and night it strikes again, and naturally at no other times, teaching us that we do not need luncheons, which, if taken, will prevent tins regular striking at the only proper times. It: is a fact which should be re- membered, that it is very important to encourage the body to strike regularly The cat has nine lives, which shows that at these natural - times ; regularity in nature had a pretty. fair idea of what the takinet Wt Monk et the Fame hour- each cat would have to go through; say he is frozen almost solid. His name is John Bussey, and he is 39 years old. He got upon as of uniform potential over the Bis- on the train at Pontiac to go to Dwight, trict covered by the trolley system, and getting on the front end of the baggage car, that therefore a ground return is not but the "hummer" does not stop until prectieabl-e. A current flow of many volts Joliet, fifty-five miles away, is reached. has been made in several places between gas and water pipe systems in buildings. Even the owners of the road are becoming alarmed at --the devastation they have been carrying on during the past four years, and are putting up additional overhead lines for the return current in -an endeavor to stop the trouble. s Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fernan- dez, is inhabited by about sixty nelsons who attend to the herds of cattle that graze there. In certain parts of India cocoanut trees, once almost lifeless in appearance, have been made to yield abundantly by placing salt at he roots. Just before "Chinese" Gordon started on his fatal mission to the -Soudan he was in- terviewed by M r. William T. Stead, at that time editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. Some- Mr Be-Granahan remarked that if the of the details of this interview as related Canadian -Government ' would only allow recently to an interviewer, give an interest- 'English -manufactured articles to go into ing glimpse of General Gordon's simplicity Canada free, then they might, as English - and lack of ostentation. When the editor men, guarantee to form a league to sell rang the bell. at Gordon's house, the door nothing bnt.Canadian produce. opened, and a little fellow whom the visitor • Professor Robertson, in reply, said that mistook for the butler ushered him in,helped he thought that they in Canada would be. him off with his overcoat, and hung tip his able to meet the demands of the English hat. " I_ asked him if General Gordon was consumers; retailers- and wholesale im- in," says Mr. Stead, "and he replied that porters inthe kind of cheese they _wanted. he .was, and he motioned -me to go into the Tom" would also try to meet their views in next room. I went in and the little, man followed me. I took a seat, and asked the little man to tell General Gordon: that Mr. Stead was there and would -like to see bilis, whereupon the little` man said,: ' I am Gen era1Gor on sndreachin coeurs h - d g and, tool;: a -chair and eat down beside me." There is no door in the front -end of the baggage car, and he had to stay outside. He met a terrible fate, the worst blizzard of the season catching him in full force. Electrical Fences. An invention is claimed for Australia which has for some time been in vogue in the States to -wit The idea of transmitting telephonic messages over the wire of fences. It appears that the manager of two of the Iargest stations in. Australia bethought him- self to make a telephone conductor of the wire fences running around the station. By utilizing the top wire of -the fence, and car- rying the wire across the roads on poles, he has succeeded in connecting each station at the moderate charge of s65 per mile. He carries an instrument in his buggy, and by connecting it with the wire at any point he is able to communicate with either home- stead. This is means of communication of no ordinary value when the immense distance at which homesteads are often situated is taken into consideration, and the difficulty of procuring messengers in a sparsely pop- ulated country, and the wide-awake Aus- tralian doubtless finds himself as well re- warded for his enterprise as have been the owners of many Western ranches who have for many years adopted the same practice. All the chap -pies are now trying to learn Baccarat, and hope they will be summoned into court like the Prince of Wales: hest- How Its a1s to k juried Alive. I am jus arty -lour years old. I was born in 185$, `Lgrew old in a day. - I have peeled -thrall -kb the most terrible ordeal to which a mortal was ever subjected, for I was oisee buried alive and"iay in the grave, with six feet of earth on top of me, for nearly three hours. That was in Edin- burgh, nearly nine years ago. At the age of twenty-four I "married a girl who had been my playmate in child- hood. A year later I was taken sick, and, after an illness of but two days, was pro- nounced dead, and preparations were made for my burial. I was as conscious as at this moment but unable to speak or move a muscle. A great weight seemed to lie on my chest and eye- lids. Al] that, night and until ten o'clock next day I lay with a cloth over my face, listening to the preparations for my inter- ment. At that t was placed in a coffin. Three days later the funeral services were read, and I was consigned to the grave. There was no stifling sensation, fort had ceased to breathe, but the black loneliness of those hours haunts me day and night. I felt that I would come out of the trance before death ensued, would slowly smother to death, and the thought added horror to my situation. I had read of graves being opened where people had been buried alive, and Low they had torn their flesh with their nails and turned ever in their coffins in a mad strug- gle for air. I wondered if there was any way by which I could quickly destroy my- self when nature asserted its sway. _-Every hour seemed to me as days. It was Tuesday when I was buried, and I fancied I could hear the Sunday chimes of the church which stood a few yards dis- tant. I wondered who my neighbour was on the right and who on the left, and if they, too, were buried alive. I wondered if there really was such a thing as death, or if -I was doomed to lie conscious in that prison for ever. Suddenly I felt a muscle twitch. It is coming now, I thought. A minute more and I will be struggling for breath. I felt a faint flutter at the heart. 1 gave a little gasp, and the air seemed freighted with lead. I tried to breathe, but it was like drawing fetid water into my lungs I had resolved not to move a muscle, to die with my hands folded on my breast, so that if my body was ever taken up my friends would not suspect the awful truth, but I could not lie still. The struggle began, and I fought in my narrow prison home as a man only fights for life. Horrible as it was, I seemed to hear my wife's voice ringing in my ears. It was a cry of agony, I tried to answer it, but could not. A succession of thunder peals shook my prison house. It was the heavy blow of axes breaking open the box which contain- ed the coffin. A moment later I was lying on the churchyard sward in my wife's arms. After my interment she conceited the notion that I had been buriedalibe, and, to quiet her fears, the grave was opened. I went into the grave a young man and came out aged. • Police Surveillance in Russia. Between St. Petersburg and Kovno I stopped for a chat with a friend who knows the devious methods of Russian government pretty well. 1 told him my tale, and asked bim what he made of it. " Nothing is simpler," said he. " You are politely requested to disappear from Russia at the shortest possible notice. You have been watched from begining to end, and you may be watched at -this mo- ment. 1 ou might have waited a month in St. Petersburg, but you would never have got an answer to your request." " But," said I , " what if I had gone on without permission ?" " You would never know what had inter- fered with you. You would have been an, 26,000 INDIANl3 In Ontario and Quebec—An Interesting Paper Read by J. C. Ramitten. "The Algonquins of the Georgian Bay, Asaikinack, a Warrior of the Odabwas," is the title of a most interesting paper read the other night before the Canadian Institute, Toronto, by Mr. J. C. Hamilton, C. C. B. _ Mr. Hamilton showed from statistics fur- nished by the Indian Department that the number of Indians in Oistario and Quebec was in 1891 about 26,000, and shat they have increased by 25 per cent. in the pre- ceding 25 years. The Aborigines of the Georgian Bay district are of Algonquin tribes, Ojibewas, Ottawas, Messissagas and Pottawatamies. The population of the northein Ontario sapermtendery was in 1846 3,343. They held 3,120 acres under cultivation. Their crops were 4,269 bushels of grain and 1,300 tons of hay. The fish taken by them were valued at $18,500 and furs at $5,205, and their revenue from other sources was $5,850. The charter under which the Canadian Indians claim their rights is the royal proclamation of King George III. in 1843, after the treaty of Paris. Their lands were only to be alienat- ed at public meetings presided over by the governor or his deputy. Care and control over them is exercised by the Dominion Government. The Algongnins of the Huron and Georgian bay are divided into 15 bands„ settled on as many reserves on the shore of lake and bay. Most of them are now Christians, but a remnant of the old super- stition is often found among them. They meet yearly on a chosen place to dance and soot Matei Manito the evil spirit. THEY LIVE IF TRIBES, the regulation of their affairs being in the hands of councils chosen by themselves ; the oldest system of government on the con- tinent is in operation in their council houses. Their code of rules, when adopte•L and approved by the Governor General, forms an excellent quasi -municipal system, including the management of roads, fences, schools and pounds. They exhibit laudable interest in education and have many public schools, and also send many of the children to the Roman Catholic schools and convent at Wikmeinikong, on Manitoulin Island, and to the Protestant Shingwald and Wa- monash Homes at the Sault Ste Marie. Mr. Hamilton then gave an interesting account of several -famous Indians of this region ; of Chingalacose, the Small Pine, the noted Chippewa chief who aided Capt. Roberts in taking Fort Macinac in 1812, and was after- wards for many years a leader of the tribe in their wars with the Sioux, bat was con- verted to Christianity under the ministra- tion of Rev. Dr. McMurray when mission- ary at Sault Ste Marie. His son, August- ine Sungwauk, gave his name and aid to the home there established for the education of Indian Children. Agikinale was a noted Ottawa chief, and under the name of "Black Bird, " figured at the taking of Fort Dearborn in 1812 and in the defence of Macinac from American attack in 1814. His -son Francis was, in 1840, when a lad. brought to Upper Canada College, where he developed good scholarly powers, and at- tained high places in his classes. He be- came Indian interpreter to the department, and in 1858 and 1859 read several learned papers before the Canadian Institute as to Indian history and costumes. He unfor- tunately died in 1863. The essayist thea discussed the " Manaboyh's " legends and showed that these, as found in various forms among our Algonquins, are the substance of the "Song of Hiawatha," which latter name is the Onondaga or Iroquois name for the same demigod or national herd. Sever- al places along our north shore still retain the naive of Manaboyho or Naviboybee, among these an island in Nichipicoten bay, which is his FABLED BURIAL PLACE. Mr. Longfellow lays the plot of his song on the south shore of lake Superior, when the rested at the first convenient- place, and 1 Chippewas, Ottawas and manyothers of the kept a week or so pending examination. !nations named, and the customs and la:. s What is most likely, however," said he, 1 ascribed, relate quite as much to the Algon- "some dark night your boats would have I gums ofour north shore. The essayist ...ou- chided by giving abstracts of a few interest- ing myths, or legends, related by young Assikinack when in Toronto, and which he had learned from his father and other learn- ed men of his nation on the Great Mani- toulin island, where the brave old warrior and his talented son lie now side by side in their last resting place at Wickmemikoug. been smashed to kindling -wood ; your stores, papers, and valuables would have been taken away, and yourselves turned adrift in a swamp. "But," said I," you don't mean to say that a great government would permit such a thing :'" " Oh, of course not ! Our great govern- ment would express the most profound re- gret at the accident ; it would only insist that the damage was done -not by police agents, but by common thieves. In any event, you would be stopped before you got a hundred miles away from St. Petersburg, and, what is more, you would never be able to prove that the government had stopped you. - " In Russia we are far ahead of western Europe. We have copied lynch -law from America, only here the government does the lynching. When a man is obnoxious, reads or writes or talks too much, we do not bother about courts and sheriffs. He disappears -that is all. When his frienls come to inquire after him, the govern- ment shrugs its shoulders, and knows nothing • about it. • He has been killed by robbers, perhaps, or he has committed sui- cide ! The government cannot be held re- sponsible for every traveller in Russia, of course. " When a military attache is suspected of knowing too much about Russian affairs, his rooms are always broken into and ran- sacked. Not by the government—oh dear no 1 That would be shocking ! It is always done by burglars. But odd to say, these Russian burglars always care particularly for papers and letters. "The German military attache has had his rooms broken into to ice in this manner, and to prevent a third invasion he assured the chief -of police that there was no use doing it any more, that he really never kept any important papers there. Since then be has not been troubled by official burglars." —[Poultney Bigelow, in Harper's Jfa;ja �in.e. Sunset. After a day of tempest, A battle of wind and rain, Just when the gloom was thickest, The sun shone forth again; Lit with ac blaze"of glory The track of f he seething waves; Fell like an angel's blessing On the desolate churchyard graves; Gare heart of hope to the fisher - Wearily faring home; Brightened the brow of the good wife Watching till he should come. And the words of the Holy Scripture Were borne to my soul again As I thought of the wonderful gladness Of sunshine after rain; And thought that ever the Master, Asoncein Galilee, Is ready to calm the tumulb Of storm on land or sea. the way of packing' butter. And yet when the gloom is thickest, And the day is almost_done, He sends ns cheer rend courage Be still, sad heart, and cease repining +., l In the gleam ofthe.setting sun: Behind the :clouds; is the sun: still shining- ! —[ice per's Bazar, Thy fate is the common fate of all '; , Intooach life°aove rain-- must` Justice is *ogle' embraced aro ed bshin d the Sanihdays be dark and dreary. - shutter—blind-folded. .111111. The Beatitude of the Unsuccessful. There may be no Bible beatitude saying expressly, "Blessed are the unsuccessful", but there are beatitudes which are equiva- lent to this. We take from our Lord's own lips, " Blessed are they that mourn". ;` Blessed be ye poor", "Blessed are they which are persecuted", " Blessed are ye when men shall revile you", " Blessed are - - ye when men shall hate you." Then many other Scripture passages have like teaching. Evidently not all blessings lie in the sun- shine ; many of them hide in the shadows. We do not read far in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, without finding that earthly prosperity is not the highest good'that God has for men. Our Lord speaks very plainly about the perils of worldly success. The Bible is indeed a book for the unsuc- cessful. Its sweetest messages are to those who have fallen. - It is a book of love and sympathy. It is like a mother's bosom to lay one's head upon in time of distress or pain. Its pages teem with cheer for those who are discouraged. It sets its lames of hope to shine in darkened cham- bers. It reaches out its hands of help to the fainting and to those who have fallen. It is full of comfort for those who are in sorrow. It has its special promises for the needy, the poor, the bereft. It is a book for those- who have failed, for the disap- pointed, the defeated, the discouraged. It is this quality in the Bible that makes it so dear to the heart of humanity. If it were a book only for the strong, the suc- cessful, the victorious, the unfallen, those who have no sorrow, who never fail—the whole, the happy—it would not find such a welcome wherever it goes in this world. So long as there are tears and sorrows and broken heartae and crushed hopes and human failurea and lives burdened and bowed down and spirits sad and despairing. so long will the Bible be a book believed in as of God—an inspired book, and full of in- spiration, light, help and strength for earth's weary ones.—[J. R. Miller, D. D. Love maybe blind, but he knows where the parlor lamp is too . JF•r.t IED Culex,—highCold boiled chicken es a good supper dish if prepared as jellied chicken. Put a spoonful of gelatine _into a pint of warm water and let it dis- solve. Add a -pint of chicken brott to it, and season highly with salt and pepper, then strain it. While the gelatine is being dissolved, cut - all the chle ren from the bones ; !;save the akin unless it is dhelikea. Put. the chicken intoes mould, pre it down and -pour the dissolved- gelatine over it, taking care to completely te ly wherein :h e chicken. When it is told tales f -'na tho mould and serve is -thy sires.