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The Exeter Times, 1886-3-18, Page 7HOUSEHOLD. Table Linen.. There ls a Meet of feseinetion among meet women for fine Wale linen, and its eatiny lustre and graoeful patterns are like pictures to the howiewifely eyes. it it ie bend the houeekeepersmoans to possess fine, heaver clameek, he can commie her- eelf by thinking ef the havoo which the laundry -men would make in it with his chemicale, soda and lime, If nice table linen can he earefully laundered 0,t home, the possession of it is an eejoyment, and it may even peas through eeveral daps of usefu'nese, bete re beivg put away tor bamdagee, lint, eto. Small patterned table linen weere best and elbows doming lees than that heving Showy designs, therefore it is more ocon omioal foe erg dey use. When well worn such 0 tri may be out up for child- ren's natik , nd portion* too much worn for napkins may be made into cloths for wrapping round bread and cake; but be sure to hem theta nicely or they will aeon be spirited away among the rags, especially if within reach of " help," Do not bay cheap thin tabie linen; it will wrinkle and soil madly [ and it would be wiser to economize in something Moe. An under cover for the dining Wile of canton flannel or an old blanket will make table cloths last longer and appear of a better quality. Hand made hems should fieieh all table linen because they look more neat an' d iron Mibet' r. Select pure t white nute& and seven hts napkins for dinner use ; color is ea. ible in break- fast and tea cloths with five -eights ramekins. Lunch clothe and napkin.' are rileged, In repairing linen uae ravellings of tho _same or a linen thread end here is an op- portunity to display your *ill at a needle - woman, for it is coneiclered qaiee a foshion- able aocompliament to be able to do such work well. When rearranging the linen closet, waah the shelves and drawerre with soap and water, then wieh alum water and laatly blow a little ineect powder into all the crevices. Among the reserve stock of linen place little bags of dried rose leaves or sweet geranium leaves as your grand- mothers need to place bunches of lavender and sweet clover among the home-made linen they stored away in the great chests with ponderous lids which served them in place of the modern linen closet. Good Recipere, POVERTY DOUGHNUTS.— One cup of sour milk, one egg, two tesapoonfuls of sugar, ono teaspoonful of soda, a little, salt. Do not mix hard, roll thin and cut in tquares. To be eaten while warm. GOLD CARL—One cup of sugar, one- half cup of butter, the yolks of three egg, ono -half cup of milk, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of cream -tartar, one-half teee- spoonful of soda. Fruit may be added if liked. et SILVER Cajiltlit-t,--One oup of sugar, one - 'half cup of butt r, the whites of three eggs, one-half cup of milk, two aupte of flour, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, one-half tea- spoonful a soda. Flavor with extract of lemon, COORIES.—One egg, two-thirds oup of sugar, one-third cup of butter, two thirda cup of eweet ; use flour in which baking powder has been eifted (In the pro- portion of three teaspoonfuls to a quart of flour) until stiff enough to roll out. •ciara- way seed may be added if liked. EMILY'S;I. CL AR—Two egg', one - ii., half cup of,' dered sugar, two-thirds cup of flout iet which a teaspoonful of baking powder has been sifted. Watch closely while baking. Turn out on to a cloth spread will jelly what was the under side of the caketwhen in the pan and roll up at once. Iieniew Toats-Make a toast gravy of rat one quart of thieltened with a spoon- ful ef flour or corn starch, adding a small lump of butter, a table epeenful of eugar a and a little salt. Have ready in a deep dieh several slices of light corn broad or brown bread toasted, -Pour the gravy over them and serve hot. Household Hinio. The best way to buy lamp -wicks le cut at 3 cents per yard. To ventilate and dry a demp cellar run a four -inch tin pipe from near the cellar floor into the pipe of the kitchen stove through a hole out in the floor. Whole cloves are now twed to extermi- nate the merciless and industrious moth. It is said they are more effectual as a de- stroying agent than either tobacco, Or4M. phor, or cedar shavings. Rub your black.walnut sewing machine, your tables, your cabinet organ, or any other piece of solid furniture you may have with a cloth moistened with kormeno oil, and you will quickly Flee an improve- ment ; but keep it :maw from varnish, To ute stocking feet after they are past mending cut off within an idch or two of ankle and slip over your ehoes when the walks about the yard are ioy or the floor is cold. Saves putting on and fastening overshoes a great many times, Sleeping with the head to the north, and physical and mental advantagee to be derived therefrom, is a eubjeat in which Interest is being revived. A German physi- cian of note wee quoted many mien ago as "saying that he , believed he had added at gitfre least a decade his life, beredee keepirg his health oct, by this practice. Best wav prOpare clothes for washing easily is to put Mpailful of warm soft water into your tub, Set in your washboard and soap olothee, ono garment at a time, all over, giving extra ;soaping to extra dirty places; roll up each piece as fact as soap ed, like damp clothes for ironing, and put into the warm water behind your board; let lie an hour, if done on 1:vomiting-day morning,'otherwise clo it the evening be. fore. Saves two -third o the rubbing. Imprint the boantioe of anthers upon /wept imagination, and their morals upon your heart. ford Fife has cleaerted Clewiston°, but it doesn't matter. The g. o. no doeon't need a tooter. "Braes bandeiare on the Inc:resale throtrgh- out the oountry." Even the dogs wear them on their nooks, , . Sam Small, the converted Chicago jour- nalist, who hi stiring up Chicago prepara- tory to Sant Jones's advent, is cleactibed as a plainly-dremsed, tall, Mender young Man. Behind his gold -bowed eyeglatisee are email °yea, and above lea heavy needy mouotaohe is a rather long thim nom, His forehead, high and narrow, la surmounted by very mrefully emoothed dark hair, Tie looks rather tmeamoitplace, but when ho Opeaks he at 6E100 thoWs strength. The He'dd nays: "His voice toorisessea that retitle, traii. ileus quality N9111011 makers men , listen. It is a voice which invests the Merest cornmen- plum With interolitiii ' LIE -KILN OLUB. There was a paitifid silence as the regular weekly meeting was called o order and it mented we if something was ebout to hap pee, It Watt noticed that EldertTooka had frightened look, while Senmel Seim Whale. bone Ilowker and Old Man Devis moved ebut on their cheire an if to avoid °repot. Motto By and by Brother Garda r "Aecotdin' to de cematitushun of die club, wile:ether any member Melo so inelined he kin demand a woto of de club on de quethim : Hey we or hire we not loot can. fidence in our President 1' I has now to in- form you that Major Exclamation Harrieon, an motive member of mg clutarbao demanded In writin' dat such a WOIe3 be taken. Dia am de fine tirne in de history of die organ - least un doe suph a won has been demand- ed. Da Seckretary will eall de roll." Andami the deepest salience the Secretary proceeded with hie monotonona call, and of 188 members prcoent 187 voted that they haeW not lost confidence ha the President. The exception wan the Major. When ,the result had been announced Brother Gardner said : "My irons, some "explanashun norm to be demanded by den tpurceedins, Three y'ara ago do Major begun borrovvin' my hoe aa' spade an' ax anttwheelberrer. Its time wore on his fam'ly berrered sugar an' butter an' flour. As confidence hacreseed, I was axed to lend de Majormy Sunday burnt an' plug hat, and my wife was axed to hand ever her thaw' au' bread-pin'vvheueber a fuueral was to ocme off, De odder entvnin' de Major come ober to borrow my pink un- dershirt fur hieself and Mra. Gardner's zebra horse fur hie wife, (ley havin) bin invited to O 'lame candy levee. 1 felt it a solemn dooty to draw a line somewher's, an' I drawed it dat night on undershirt an' stockings -1 He went away in a huff, and de eat fur, Ma wote which has pet bin token am de result. I observe dee de Major am heah in pusson and p'raps he would like to state his side of do (lace.' "1 hasn't got nuffin to say, 'inapt fiat I wish I hadn't done it," erepled the Msjor from his corner. " Wery well. Die chair has no feelinti toward you. Da meetin' will permed void de reg'lar rowtine ef bizneas." THE HAIIPAX BRANCH. The Secretary announced the:following report from the Halifax branch club: BROTHER GARDNER—The annual meeting of the Amalgamated Whitowath Society took place in -Ono Hall last night. The fin. ance committee reported a deficit of eight cents, owing to dullness La the whitewash business. Lime had gone up two cents per bushel, while labor was paid chiefly iu old clothes and serape thus causing the above void in the exchequer. It was unanimous- ly resolved to ask permission to affiliate with your club and I would respectfully ask you to bring the matter up at your next meeting. The following officers were elect- ed for the present year: President, Spinach Deminaa ; Tice -Presi- dent, Polyarchus Ramo; Secretary and Treamurer, Johannee Thomas Bummereaux ; Orator, Cicero Climax; Guard, Amazing Puff A letter was read from Brother Kellum expressing regret that, we ing to a prier en- gagement at Rockhead, he would be ab- sent from the meeting. The:museum com- mittee reported having secured during the past month several valuable acquisitions, among them two anthropoide, a chip taken from the Southern Ceose, a copy of a right - (lone judgement given in the Huckleberry Court (rare) and several other curiosities equally valuable. After considerable discussion it was de- oided that "the dude must go," Brothers England and John:fon dissenting. The chimney being reported on fire, the meet- ing adjourned. Yours in the bonds of color, JOHANNES T. BITIVIMEREAUX. On motion of Col. Obadiah Smith the rei pi:ire was accepted and filed, PASSED AWAY. A oommunioation from Memphis announce ed the fact that Sir Arthur Beacon, an hon. °retry member of the club, had passed frem earth away. His death was produced by load point Mg, and the said lead was fired into him by a gentleman ia the subtitles, who found Sir Arthur trying to unlock hie smoke -house door. Samuel Shin moved that the usual resolu- tion of sympathy for the family of the Me reamed be paved and forwarded. Shindig Watkins objected. If a member of the olnb fooled with other people's smoke- houses, he must not only take ithe quantum but any resolution of sympathy was a hollow mockery. " De oha'r decides dat .Brudder Watkins' pint ana well taken," mid the Prolident. "While it might be possible, chat do late de. ceased was welkin' in his sleep, or dat he mistook dat smoke-honae for an orfan asyi lum, do °Imam am dat he had got tired of chicken an' wanted to change fur batten. We will hang an enablem of mournin' on de doah•knob' fur ten days an' let de case rest right dar'.' • REJECTED. The chairman of the Comtnittee on Appli- cations reported that the following °midi. dates had been rejected for the causes named. Prof. J. B. Cantorbaok, of Sacramento; did net state in his appication ithat he had served two years in State Preen ; probably forgot to. Elder IvIeses Standforth, of Indianapolis; concealing the Mot that he had a wooden leg; might have overlooked the trifle, but a,ppearencess are against him. January Outcome, of Findlay, 0., did not mention hie cenneotion with a open of heroes which re:miter:1 in withdrawing him from public life for five years ; considerably troubled with lone of memory. e0IINCID. The Chairman of the Committee on Mo. tive Power announced that his committee had wrestled with the following charges, preferred againat Crat berry White, en hon- orary member residing at Greenville, S. C. 1 Denying the fact that Christopher Col. umbuti die covered Atneriem 2, Pre:tieing ve a doctor without having received a diploerme 3. Denying that there was a city named Chime° in the United Stetes, 4. Encouraging the sale of bogus hair - dyes, , The committee had given the seamed eery opportunity to disprove the truth at the Moat -gee but he had failed to dO a9. He therefore steed convicted, and the ooremit• tee would recommend that his Mune be eerie ed from the rolls, • On motion of Lord John Wainwright, the recommendation of the committee was adopted. DISCHARGED. Some flint) eine° the Committee on Evolu- tion were handed the query: "How long befote the colored race Will be on top ?" and Wore &tired to investigate anti teport, The Chairman now announced that the query had beestruggled with in the most dement° manor) bet that this ootrunittee had failed to arrive at a satisfaotory con elusion, They reeiged all the way up ihoni fifty to a Million years, and one member omenumaramerwisiteitiamarattammaximpowsismoweammosixagammagismistarm,emmomminnwimmomms__ ON A SOVTOMOT STEADIES" HE TOSSED THE MATE OVEREOARD ANP THEY HUNTED Hem TO THE DEATH. There was a heavy wind bloating as the eteenter loft Vicksburg, and all signs Wt. oated a dark and stormy ight. Daring the afternoon I heel seen the rnate cuff the wars of one Mae deck tweeds—a tall, power- ful, and morosellooking chap—and frern the watt the victimie eyees snapped and his boaom heaved 1 knew that he felt degadt ed and sighed for revenge. We had not been out over twenty min- utes, and the decks had nob yet been cleared up, when the mate ordered some bags of cottonmeed meal moved to trilet the boat. The man he had. cuffed was One of four or five who seniebout the work. They went at the task In the leisurely, half-hearted manner characteristic of the negro ronetaboub, and pretty soon the im- patient mate brought the stick he carried 10 his hand down across one of their backs. Perhaps he meant to hib the eame man again; perhaps he did not distinguish one from the other. However, the blow reached the beck of the Berne prouchopirit- ed negro. I woe standing on the etairs to watch proceedings and therefore witneeeed what ooeurred when the blow fell. The man hod a cotton hook in his hand. Instead of using it for a weepon of attack, he flung it down, sprang and seized the mate around tbe middle, and with aeemingly no raore effert than the average man would put forth to tom a ten -pound package from him, he sent the mate flyiug down the deck clear of everything. The cfficer alighted on his head, and was, no doubt, atunned to insenelbility, even if hia neck we not broken. Not a shout was uttered by the amazed rousbabouta, nor was a hand stretched forth to prevent furehee action. Wa wild, hoarse scream of rage the man who had been degraded by the blows realist forward at the helpleea mate. At , fine he thought to stamp the leTicly with hie feet. The he glared around him ini eearoh of some weapon. Again he Chang- ed his mind, and, lifting up the body ar if it had been a sack of flour, he carried it to the gangway and threvr it overboard. The whole transaction might have occu- pied three minutes. It was only after the body went overboard that any of us moved. Then, as a &wen dockhands shouted "Murder!" I ran up stairs and reported to the Captain, and the boat was stopped. But only for a moment. The wind was drifting her on the bank, and she was half a mile below the apot before her engines were checked. "It's no use," said the Captain, eta I gaye him all the particulars. "Poor Jim went straight to the...bottom as soon as he struck, and the only thing we can do is to make the nigger swing for his death." There was great excitement on the lower deck as we went down. A dozen passen- gers were ready to cffer their assistance in capturing the man, but he had picked up an Iran bar and retired behind a pile of freieht so arranged that to get at him one had to enter a gangway ten feet long by two wide'aad make a turn. Only one could get at him at once, and everybody saw at a glance that it was a dangerous undertaking. After /locating the man the Captain advanced, his cocked revolver in his hand, but as he reaohed the turn the negro knocked the weapon out of his hand with the bar. The Captain kicked ie down the gangway, but had his shoulder almost clushed by a second blow. The man celled out that he would sell his life dearly, and dared the whole force of the boat to oome on. eantended that tbe period had already gr- ayed, He would ask that they be dis- charged from further confederation of the eubject. "Da request an: granted," replied the President, "un' none of de rest et you need worry yeroelves to olye de conundrum. Wiaen der' ern aoy prospeot of our race hold - in' tie white man down call a speohal uleothe to enaenuee de feek," LOST. Elder John Efarrieon offered the followleg resolution : "Reeolved, Dat it ern de mentiments of clie club dee de contbaued coinage of silver mutt depreoiate our fineushul ottindieg as a nasinun" " &udder Harrison," aeked the Presi- dent, "do you know de amount of silver in ciroulathun ?" ia No, flaw" "De you know what depredate' Maane ?" No, sah." "Has you had any too much silver die winter ?" "No, oat." "Now you drap down on your cheer, an' dean' let me ham from you agin far six' weeka ! De meetia' standa adjourned fur ono week." " Mounds and Mound -Builders. A recent despatch from Montreal says that the scientific men of Oanwila intend to ask the Government to defray the cost of making a thorough exploration of the mounds in the Cenadiatt Northwest - Over fifty of these interesting remains of an ancient race have thus far been dis- covered, chiefly along the alley, Red, and Pembina Rivers, in Manitoba and the North west Territory. It was though until last year that Winnipeg was the northern limit of the mound builders. Later discoveries, however, brought to light a new mores of mounde along the Pembina River far west and 150 miles north of 'Winnipeg, and it is very proba- ble that other work of the mound build- ers will be found still finisher north along the streanas that have their rise in the foot hills of the Rooky Mountains. Situated in the midst of these eameter- les, fortifications, and lookouta cf the ancient aboriginers, the Historical Society of Winnipeg inaugurated the work of ex- plorations a little over two years ago. It has opened several mounds along the Red and Rainy Rivers, and has obtained quite a number of specimens of human bones, stone eorapere and axes, charred wood and bark, copper needles, dello, and knivea, and pottery, meetly in frag- ments. In the largest mound yet dis- covered Prof. Bryce found three speci- mens of sea shells perforated so that they could be etrung togetlaor for necklaces. These spechasuens, like the copper and other objects found in the Ohio mounds, show that some commodities were tran- sported very long distances by the early inhabitants of this continent. The Canadian Pacific Hotel of Winni- peg stands on the sight of one of theca mounds. The Manitoba mounds, which are from flix to fifty feet in height, differ little from the Ohio structures. They have not added muck as yet to our know- ledge of the mound builders, except to show that the area within which they reared these monuments is far greater than was formerly supposed. We now know thab the mound builders lived and toiled, not only in Central America, Mexico'and the Mississippi valley to the great lekeit. but also along the waterways of the far Northwest almoat to the north- ern limits of fertility. Many mounds in the Misaissippi valley, 11 1. believed, do not antedate the dieoovery of America by Columbus. Prof. Bryce, however, thinks he has considerable evidenoe going to show that the big mound on the Rainy River was built upward of eight centuries ago. 1)A17GHT IN SNOW SLIDES. Who Wild lexperieneee of letaer Carriers en Wester* Mouataius. Mali eurying In the montane ie an 00- onpation which men are no etrnggling very hard to obtain thee daya, and the postal authoritin oare Mae what politics it mati is 90 king 94 he manifests a willingnen to ereve the terrore of th. %%aeon, The awa- inches of Met fow days n bre been more de- structive than any known ice recent years, and mail oarriero as well as heighten, min - ere, and proopeceors, hey° become ao them oughleialarmeol that it is with difficulty that they on bo Induced to take the deka of travel alMail, Alerted all of the nail me- tiers arriving here within the pet week have had slides down the mountain rides that might rejoice the heart of atobogganer, but which will answer for a life time so far as the actual victims are cencerned. A new man named Cherry was pat on one , of the routes lately in tilece of it eerier who had been iujurecl by falling about 3,000 feet, with 240 or 404 tons of mow and Me, and as nothing was seen or heard of him It waro ',apposed he had gone through. The other day it party of mon who went out in searoh of some miners who were eupposed to be in danger, ?nye an object up the mountain rade, and after deciding that it was a man they undertook to get near him. As they came within hailing diatance they saw thee it wail the mail carrier., He had secured a lodg- ment ia the branches of a tree and was banging on for dear life, although at that time he wow nearly eximusted. Oae of the party asked: "Are you hurt?" was the response. "Then whets the metre- ?" "Nothing, only I've got an almighty big soare on," "What for "Because I oan't move without starting an avalanche. I've tried. it forty elutes, and she Meeks to slip every time I move." The men laughed a little at the comical features of the rellow's situation, but know- ing too well the danger! of the snow, they trod to coax him down from the tree. "It's no um," he said; "the ,moment move I start a tlide. More'n twenty them have gone whooping by here in t laet forty-eight houre. I never saw thin hung on it hair trigger like this befo Don't you go to shaking anything now, we'll all go down." In reference to a question as to what intended to do the carrier said he did know, but he knew that he was not goi to try to crawl out of that. "I ain't cat," he continued, "and I tell you that butterfly oould do more miechief here n than atrain of oars could anywhere else.' After a short consultation the men det mined to get him, and one of them voluntee ed to creep down to him and give him a ro which was to be held by the others. Picki kis way slowly over the thew, all the a warned by thereat carrier that he was bon to get the whole party murdered, the rese erifinrilly reached the trees, and after a go deal of persuaeion induoed the man to no down and make an effort to escape. I journey back was safely aricomplIshed, an the postman, everjoved at his igood fortnn set out for Silverton with the aeterminati of throwing up his job. The mail carrier ,between Silverton an Oaray, Lum Patterson, arrived the oth reght, looking aa though he had been um eke a snow plough on it locomotive, lie ha been out in the whole of the last storm during which more than five feet of sno fell in three days, He lost one of his shoe in a elide whioh came very near being h last, and would have been unable to procee at all if he had not found a board from wrecked shanty, with which he had impr vieed a very respectable snow shoe. "I never law the snow so touchy," h ;aid, after he had been thawed out and ha realizeditthat the assembled crowd were anx ions to hear some particular: of hie trip "I darted half it dozen slidea myself, an hat's something that I don't often do. Bs des there I saw and,heeed plenty of others 11 bet & man who could yell loud OMI ve brought down half the snow on th ountains. It seemed to hang jut right nd the least movement would set it going got ont of the way of a slide one afternoo a pretty sliok way, I heard it coming nd my first thought was that I was a goner ut just then it occurred to me that if I skip d straight ahead at right angles with th ming sweep I'd have a ohence of getting t of its reaoh. It was all done in a min e. I gave a jump mid another and another, d almost before I could breathe she oame ashing by me. I believe it took the bue- na off my coat Mile but if it didn't it was great oversight. Nething of that kind had or happened tb me before and al soon as could get my nerves settled I jumped up take my bearings, when blamect if I didn't art einether one which tangled me up in eat shape, but which didn't last lerog or onnt to much, as it soon run into the nese of the other and let me out without ing much damage. It was in that one, ough, that I lost my shoe." Speaking about the miners who are palm- ing the winter in their cebins along his trail Patterson said: "A good many of them are down at the bottom, I'm afraid, but I found one outfit who thought they had themselves insured against slides. They are in a very exposed place and if they ever get ageing they'll think :here's no end to it, When I came along the other day I stopped in awhile to rest and ask the boya if they want afraid of the slides. They just got up and took me up the mountain it way, and pointed out a barricade that they had made. It consieted of logs well anchored, and about six feet high, joined in the shape of a V 'with the point up, and it's a pretzy sharp point, too. 'Now,' my. one of the boys, 'if a elide ever starte up above she's bound to go to pieces the militate she etrikoa this fortification and peas by on both side' of uo.' I asked them if they led ever run foul of a snow slide, and they said no and then I said I thought se, too. I guess worried them a little, but they are setisfied, and I can't help it. Bat let me tell you, if it Slide ever strikes that heap of timber it'll go end for end as quick au it wink, and the miners wolit be a second behind the logs in getting to the bottom." Ono of the mai 094710it in the San Miguel diatrict, George Winders, had a remark. able experience loot week. Ho had boon out in the great Morm, and ma tothing bed been timed of him he was given up as loot, He got to Teltttaide the other n ht in it ettaily dieablod condition, mede his rep"oIrOrteatigdotnaVot:her insill merrier out here," "Oat where ?" Meted the Peatinenter. "Oat in the sleigh that I came in with from Hatketere Cone° and nee Min, Per. haps you Snow hint." Geing out to the sleigh, the mai metier theme eff blenket that covered the ho; and then lay the eltelton of a man With a mail molt streppecl to it, the berme end the monk beitig covered with ice and mote. A large ()rowel atonable& eid in revue° to their inquirioo, Windota mid : b "Suet the other aide of Hestett's I wee it etruck by the edge of eiremodoue avalthette and carried (hewn with iti aeon as I of he go re. Or he n't ng no a ow er- r- pe ng Me nd u- od me he e, on ar 11 8 is a a- • • • si hs. a Facts for Would-be Cowboys. I In a pe 09 00 nt an or to a ev to st gr am 00 do th To any one who contemplates trying a season's riding I woulc/ say this: You will build up your constitution for life, you will meet rough fellows, hear hard swearing, and see some fighting, but you will hear fewer indecent stories on the range than you will hear In the aversgo club smoking room. Your "out fit," or bed, clothing and equipment, will cost you abouthalf your earninga,anclif yen smoke freely and do not try to save money the end of the season will leave you neither richer nor poorer. You will often have a wet bed, and thank Heaven for getting to it wet as Itis ; you will always be up before daylight, and generally two hours out of the night as well; you will eat OCEP013 food, everything fried In lard; you will be in the saddle .twelve to eighteen hours every day ; you will often stiffer for want of food and water- during it long day's work in the hot.sun; you will ex- pose yourself to some perils of life and more of limb ;you will be for much of the bime as absolutelyout offfrom the civilized world as if you were on a vessel in midi ocean ; you will vow three drains a day that when you strike the range again you will quit; you willbe sore and bruis- ed, cold at night and ecorched by clay, wet to the skin one hour and parched with thine the next, and for the rest of your life you will look back to your life on the range with longing thoughts of its charms. Very few men are rich enough to indulge in their berate for riding by keep- ing more than two saddle horses. A " puncher " often rides a dozen, and does much of his work at it full run. Ho breathes the finest air on earth, eats beef as freely as an ordinary workin,gman eats cabbage and potatoes, and fancies the Olafla ISO which he belongs are the &alto. oracy of labor. He is generous, alwaya quick to appreciate phick and kindlinerui In °them chivelrours to the few women he plebe, over ready to help hang a horse thief, and undergoes more hardship and danger than &dozen soldiers. Mre. Olacsonriderof Wella county, Ind., le 91 years old, and her fourteen ohildren are all. alive, the eldest, loping 71, the youngest 46 yearn old,. A A country clorgyinan was one day °abet chizing hie flock In the (thatch. The ilex - ton, being recenewhat badly posted, thought best to keep it modeet place neat the door in the hope of mica/Atm the incettleition, Bub the elergynaan oh- rielved him. "Jelin " Raid he "What is $ beptione 1" "Oa, Pit," artsveered Joh, deratehing his head, "ye ken, it's juat eaxpende to me and fifteen/Joao° to the predentor." could realm what had beppened to found myeelf (severed with tnotv, but, a4 luele would have it, I was able to fight my way out, When I hurl freed myself I gave whet I suppmed was my /nook lying near me, and started to pick it up, when I found that it vras frozett hard, and that something was rite:eked to it, Julie than I 'saw My own seek, and for a moment I was more dumfounded than I had been when the avalanohe rstruok me. I got my own bee, and then I examined the ether. As I pulled it out I found this ateleton, and thatts all I know ebot it. It must have come down from above." Nobody In the vicinity could recall'the diaappearance of a mail carrier, but it was decided that the rernaine were those ef some poor fellow who must have met death in the line of duty daring the great storms of two years ego. The sack, ern intaot, was sent to Denver. —masers.– Manitotdin Island. BY W. L. SMITH. A good deal Imes been written of late in the daily papers conoerning Northern Ontario ; but in all theee writings one very important erection of the northern portion of this Province has been oyerlooked. And yet tho section I refer to—the Island of Manitoulin—is dee:Irving of more than passing notace, alike on a000unt of its ex- tent, present developmeet, and future pos. Thin Ieland is 95 miles losg, with an average breadth of 25. It contains numer- ous Oremu and lakes, one of which, Lake Manitou, le 20 miles in length; and all theme inland waters are plentifully supplied with hoh. Thera are eight organized municipalities on IVIanitoulin, thirtmfive echools, son e twenty churches and about the same num- ber of post offlooa, The population of the Island is in the neighborhood of 8,000 ; there are about '10,000 horned cattle, 4,500 sheep, 5,000 hogs, and the armored value of property is about $1,000,000. During the last season of navigation thsre was shipped from Manitowaning alone nearly 1,000 head of live stook (chiefly cattle), seven and a half tons hides, one ton of sheep -skins, one and three quarter toes mutton, seven and a half tons ureesed beef, ten tons of butter, eleven tons pork, ninety bone of flour and 'feed, 3,000 dozen eggs, it large quantity of fish and other products. Notwithstanding the present , develop- ment which these fact. indicate this Is but a promise of what our Island home is captble of. Wheat has been grown here which oom- pros favorably both in quantity and quality with any ralaed in Ontario. Our soil, how- ever, is more particularly adapted to coarse grains and roots, Manitoulin potatoes being ahead Of anything in this line I have ever Sean. As a field for stook raising, this Wand cannot be excelled. The rook is all lime- stone, and the grist, which groves abundant- ly on this formation, fa unsurpassed for rich- ness. This is shown by the fact that Mani- toulin butter, when properly made and packed, alwaya commands the highest mar- ket prioe ; and by the further fact that grass- fed cattle are ready Inc the butcher a month earlier here than elsewhere. A creamery or cheese factory establiehed at Menitowaning would have the most pro- mising future before it of any similar inatitu- tion in Canada. Young farrcers with a capital of from one to three thousand dollars can start here under more favorable auspices than any- where elee °laterite Improvedfarms, with large °Marano°, and fair buildings, can be had for $10 to $15 per acre. The Mend is within twenty-four hours' run of Toronto by rail and steamer in sum - mac; and on the oompletion of the Algoma Mills branteh of the C. P. R, which it is ex- pected will be an accomplished fact next summer, we will have t qually favorable connection with the outsiae world in win- ter. Manitoulin effere =anent opportun- ity to young ferment of moderate mecum, who wish to establish a home for them- eelves • it afforde excedent openlegs for par= ties wiehing to reestablish creameries or cheese factories ; it guarantees excellent fishing, an unusually bracing atmosphere, and mega. &rent scenery for numerous visitors. Itt conclusion, I have only to add that I will be most happy to furnish all possible information andemoistance to any of these °lessee who wish it. MANITOWANING, ONT. A 'Strange Beast - The Havre aquarium hail just put on ex- eition one of tue moat curious, and espe- cially one of the eared of animals—the pre- hensile tolled cmendcin (Synethere peahen - It as brought from Venezuela by Mr. Equidoze, the commissary of the stea,mer Colombia. Brehm mem that never but two have been oeen—ons of them at Hamburg Zoological Garden and themther a,t London. The one under consideration, then, would be the third specimen that has been brought alive to Europe. Thie animal, which is allied to the porcu- pines ie about three and a half feet long, The tial alone is one and a half feet In length. The entire body, save the belly and paws, is covered up with quills, which absolutely hide the fur. Upon the back, where these quills are longest (about four Inchels), they are strong, cylindrical, shining, sharptroint- ed, white at the tip and hese, and blackish brown in the middle, The animal, in addi- tion, has long and atrorg mustaches, The paves, anterior and posterior, have four fin- gers armed with strong which are curved and nearly cylindrical at the base. Very little is known about the habite of the animal, All that we do know be that it paeses the day in alumber at the top of a tree and that it peewit' about at night, Ito food consisting chiefly of leaves of all kinds. When it withee to deemed from one branch to another, it suspends itiself by the tail and lets go of the first only when it has a firmhold of the other, One peculiarity it that the extremity of the dorsal part of the tell is prehensile, 'Title part Is deprived of gunk] for length of ebout tlx inettes. The coendon does not like to be disturbed, When et does, it ad. vanma toward the intruder and endeavors to frighten him by ratting its (Mills all over its body. The natives of Contrail Amanita eat its flesh and employ ite quille for Vaelous do - emetic purpouee. The animal is quite ex- tenavely distributed theonghont South America. It is Mend in Btazil, Venezuela, Columbia, Guiana, and in some of the Lee, ser Artifice, such as 'Trinidad, 13arbadoesi Setae Lucia, Mee The moot orwatd women look the meets backward on the otreeti Nearly 80,000 tropics of Min Groon'a Leaveeivorth Case' home beee toed, The otal aele of her writinge IN Said te have eon about 200,000 Copien, For the greater amber of thee° oopiee the received °illy wo °rents eaoh. They Were /Inhibited in o etip fOrni, After a resurvey of the situation, the Captain had the fire hose laid along the upper deck, and it was found that the pipe man, by leaning over the guards, could play through an open window upon the man at bay. The water was started, and for twenty minutes it thowered in upon the fellow by the barrel. We were looking upon the planes a failure when he made a tuah. One or two men fired at him in a wild way, but he was not hit. Ite he came out of the gangway he dodged behind some cotton bales, crossed to the other side, and was at the gangway, He stood there screaming andcursing, and the Captain, from a spot nob over twenty feet away, fired five shots at him without making a hit. Them fieveral other revolv- ers began to crack. The man mutt have expected death in some form or other. He was hemmed, in now, and the number of his foes was momentarily increasing. For one long minute he atood there awing. ing the bar and screaming like a mad ani- mal, and then he flung his weapon down and went overboard with a yell of clefi- mom Where Gough first Sig,ned the Pledge. lt was in the old Town Hall, Worces- ter, now the City Hall. It was Monday night, stormy and uninviting oat of doors. As he walked down the centre aisle all eyes were turned upon him. How well many remember that pale, haggard face, the long, flowing, unkempt hair of raven blacknese, which Gough nervously puehed back from his forehead as he entered the meeting. His coat was battened at the top only. A crowd of those who had laughed at his Bacchanalian Pongee his wonderful power: of mimicry, and his grc- tenni° dancing had follovred him into the meeting. As he nervously effixed his eignature to the pledge ai half -suppressed, encoring laugh was heard by those In the tear of the hall. Gough hoard it also, and as he laid down the pen he turned auddenly upon those arseembled with, "Why do you lough? Ain I not a man 7" The meeting wail anent in an instant, and then followed one of those inipaseloned temperance addreseers which in after yeare made hiln foremost among the most effect- ive worker a of the temperance creme. In all hie after life he never moved an an- dience more than in this, hie fleet temper. once addeoss. Team were brought te the eyea of all, and it WOE a eight never to' be fergotten by those Who witneesed 'the 000110. An indignant &tremor eXeursionlet Writes that In lookieg over tile side of hie melee° he espied a snapping turtle oti the bottom of the lake, and ea the back of this attraction was the advertiSeinentt "Getsir? readyeteade clothing marked down low."