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CHAPTER XVI— (Connemara )
if, then, we went, with the onlcl dime
on " skipping and bounding on before us,
ver fallen trees and mossy rocks; now
licking under the low, taegled branches of
het white cedar, then oarettilly piloting us
along rotten logs, covered n ith green moss,
to reeve us from the discomfort of wet feet.
All this time he kept one of his feeb enema.
oed in the boot, while the other ;seemed to
luxuriate in the water, as if there was some-
thing amphibious in his nature.
We own reached the beavenmeadow,
watch extended two or three miles; some•
nines contracting into a narrow gorge, be-
ttWeen thetoded height I, then *reading
out again he ,an ample fund otveeclure, and
presenting evert/who e the same unvarying
level surf ace, aureola need ith rising grounds,
covered with the ti.L1130 unbroken forest, as
if its surface had formerly been covered by
the waters of a lake, which in all probability
had been the case at eome not very remote
period. In manyplaces the meadow was
SO wet that it required a very large share of
faith to eupport us in easing over its aur -
face; but our friend, the dragoon, soon
brought us through all dengue to a deep
ditch, which he had dug to carry off the
superfluous water from the part of the
meadow whioh he owned, When we had
obtained firm footing on the opposite side,
we sat down to rest oureelvee before cora.
menoing the operation of "blazing,' or
marking the trees with our axes, along the
side -line of my lot. Here the mystery of
the boot was explained. Simpson very
coolly took it off from the hitherto favoured
foot, and drew it on the other.
He was not a bit ashamed of his poverty,
and candidly owned that this was the only
boot ho possessed, and he was desirous of
giving each of his feet fair play.
Nearly the whole ally was 000upied in
completing our job, in which the "dhragoon"
assisted us, with the most hearty good -will,
enlivening us with his inexnaustible fund of
good -humor and drolery. It was nearly
dark when we got back to his "shanty,"
where the kind-hearted Judy was preparing
a huge pot of potatoes and other combust-
ibles, ' as Simpson called the other eatables,
for our entertainment.
Previous to starting on our surveying ex-
pedition, we had observed Judy very earn-
estly giving some important instructions to
one of her little boys,. on whom she seemed
to be most seriously Impressing the necessity
of using the utmost diligence. The happy
contentment which now beamed in poor
Judy's still comely countenance beepoke the
success of the messenger. She could not
"call up spirits from the vasty deep" of
the cellar'but she had procured some whis-
keyfromher next-door neiglanor—some five
or six miles(off ; and there it stood some-
what ostentatiously on he table in a "grey-
beard," with a "corn -cob," or ear of Indian
corn striped of its gran, for a cork, smiling
most benevolently on the family circle, and
looking a hundred welcomes to the strang-
ers.
An indescribable enlivening influence
seemed to exude from every pore of that
homely earthen vessel, diffusing mirth and
good.huinor in all directions. The old man
sumped and danced about on the rough floor
of the " shanty ;" and the children sat gig-
gling and nudging each other in a corner,
o ing a timid look, from time to time, at
mother, for fear she might check them
' gate-oveedbould."
Is it crazy are intirely, ye ould omen
-wn 1" said Judrannese notiens of pr tpriety
ware Eiomewhet awoke& enanth the undigni-
fied levity of her partner; -'d- The likes of you
I never Beed; ye are too foolidge irtirely.
Done now wid your diviltries, and set the
stools for the gintlemens, while I get the
supper for yees."
Our plentiful though homely meal was
aeon discussed, for hunger like a good cons
science, can laugh at luxury; and the
"greybeard" made its appearance, with the
tonal accompaniments of hot water and
maple sugar, which Judy had scraped from
the cake, and placed in a saucer on the table
before us.
The " ould dhragoon," despising his wife's
admonitions, gave way freely to his feeling,
and knew no bounds to his hilarity. He
laughed and joked, and sang snatches of old
songs picked up in the course of his service
at home and abroad. At length Judy, who
looked on him as a n real j anima " begged him to
"sing the eintlemens the song he had made
when he first came to the counthry." Of
course we ardently seconded the motion,
and nothing loth, the cld man throwing
himself back on his stool, and Etretohing out
hie long neck, poured forth the following
ditty, with which I shall conclude my hasty
aketeh of the" ould dhraeoon."
Gehl it's here I m intirely continted,
In the wild woods of awate 'Merierty ;
God's blessing on him that invinted
Big ships for our crossing the say 1
Here pestles grow bigger nor turnips ;
And though cruel and hard is our work,
In ould Ireland we'd nothing but praties,
Bat here we have praties and poik.
I live on 'ehe banks of a meadow,
Now see that my matting you take;
It bates all the bogs of ould Ireland—
Six months in the year its a fake.
Bad luck to the beavers that darnmed it,
I wish them all kilt for their pains ;
For allure though the (raters are clever,
'Tis sartin they've droven'd my domains.
I've built a log hut of the timber
That grows on my oharmin' estate;
And an illegant root -house erected,
Just facing the front of my gate. .
And I've made me an illegant pig -sty,
Well litter'd with straw and wid hay;
And it's there, free from riolse of the
I sleep he heat of the day.
neseeseneseles innoseenoiljoilitlessenetetteentineseeatisninnetentearnenennweinnesuatenewitnieseneneweeeent
coffee. The time of gathering in the pota, POLITICAL PROSPECT'S OE' OANALA. for countries poorer than we (support ouch MISOEItitANEOTTS,
to orop is the best (suited for collecting the estebliehineetten One point is often forgot.
ten, nautely, that very many families have
some idle frsllow dependent on them, who,
roots of the dandelion; and as they always
• BY Kn. w. mann nomenno One of the very best sources from which
abound in the same lulls, both may be ea. the farmer may get aound preetical ideas
•
complished at the Th
i
same time. eta° who
. . Tbe following article Eketohes three Or tiniest+ at home, would yet make a good sol- about his business, and lunch interesting and
wash end cut up the reOte, and drY thern on here our renders wiu be gied to eni what A tUally support such forces now. Undoubt. " Atnerieen Agriculterist" winch is publedn
The Bummer of '35 ntas very wet ; a air• boarda in the sun. They will keep for weneenown writer line ai n Phipps has to' edly, if possible, Indtpeudence would be a ed in new Yel*.
eumetance so unusual in Canada that I have years, and can be roasted when required. say on a eubjeot so important. I Wendel/3n course, steered, say, by a Pea"' The Grey Nuns were founded as a rein
seat no season like it during a y sojourn in Few of our colonists are acquainted with To remain as we are, and trent to our , tul separation from Beitain and a Vert"- tee gious order in Cenede ebout a Mulched and
the country. Our wheat orop promised to the many 116°S to 'which this neglected but gradual advance in national position. This . from the Stake, both of whioh countriers iiity years ago, the mother house being in
be both excellent and abundant ; and the most valuable plentnnty be applied. I will would sound fairly, were it not then onr '' would find the plan greatly to their advan- Montreal. "La Minerve " ot Thursday
clearing and Seeding eixteen pores, one way point out a few which have come under ra
pounds; still we hoped to realize something time will come w hen this hardy weed, with inches and each tight fell down sixteen.
the oxtail in I thee—Britain, that it would improve our
eight power of trading with her several fold and contains an interestinit aceount of the pro -
Y advance seems of the nature of
or another, had cost us rhore than filter own observation, convinced as I am that the the pit—which every day climbed, up
handsome by the sale of the produce ; oanl, its golden flowers and curious seed -vessels,, our indefeneible feontier ; the Sterns, that gess of thie order, from which it appears
I remove from her care that continual menace,
The rain commenced about a week bolero children rolling about and luxuriating
,
persons, namely, 1,080 professed nuns, 141
that it now nutnbers in the Dominion 1,301
as far as appearances Went, all looked fair. which fotm a constant plaything to the little Por inetnim° w° have annexed °lir fishery-
irovinoes, and have manifested i all North America would be better with two
the orop was fib for the sickle, and from among the grass, in the sunny month a novices, awl 88 postulants. They have a
that time until nearly the end of September 1VIey, will be transplanted into our gardens, hundred and two establishments in various
was a mere suocession of thunder oloude ; and tended +with due care. ' parts of the country, spread over twenty.
three Roraan Calton° dioceses.
Y four possible futures of Canada. We ere clier or sailor, SO that we may be stid to ao- useful information of a general kind is the
That hems him in--ahcl only yields in death. want to keep a quantity for winter use ma
such remarkable powers of diplomacy in
Imperial and American affairs that it le
extremely doubtful whether we will long
have any fisheries at all. We have , , of coursedisinter. built—
nations than one, both aa encouraging emu-
lation and affording comparison. Britain
and America would be wise to propose mit
a course; not that either will. But if by
days of intense heat, Auooseded by floods of The dandelion planted in trenches, and amid tumultuous
and, of has reached us that it is not
ram. Our fine orop shared the fate of , all blanched to a beautiful cream colour with necessary to go so far as London, England,
other fine crops in the country, it was straw, makes an excellent eaten, quite equal to find an instance of cheap gas. It appear&
totally spoiled, the wheat prew in the sheaf, to endive, and is more hardy and requires that at Jackson, Michi
. the price of gas was
and we could scarcely save enough to supply less care. reduced on the lst of inotober to 30 oents per
us with bad sickly bread; the reet was ex- en many parts ot the United States, par- 1,000 feet, The gas in a water gas, but is
changed at the distillery for whiskey, which tioularly in new districts where vegetables manufactured on what is known as the
was the only produce which could. be obtainare wane, it is used early in the spring, and Swedish system. Ib is stated that Cornwall,
ed for it The storekeepers would not look boiled with pork as a substitute for cabbage, Ont., is soon to be supplied with illuminating
at it, or give either money or goods for such Daring our reaidenoe in the bush we founsl gas on the same terms as in the case of Jack
-
a damaged article.
any lucky chance they will, and it were fol.
lowed, Canada could for many years have
eeted applause—a railway to the Pacifio,
and have contrived in connection so to play great opportunities of advancement. In that
into the hands of speculators as to knock position we would make commercial tt eaties
now impossible, and open many markets now
on the head any ohanoe of rapid settlement
of the country the mein object of the rail- closed ; espeolelly, in all probability, that of
. the States. Much would depend on the at -
way was rapidly to settle. We have adopt
ed a policy warranted' to keep our yellon titude that this power mistimed towards us.
THE FOURTH IS ANNEXATION,
men at home; but unless they can be, like
Sir Boyle's bird, in two places at the
same time, how are all these aseociations
of British Americans flourishing in the
States ? Then, we are immediately about
—and have been immediately about, any
time these twenty years—to reap some ex-
traordinary benefit from some treeties
which are immediately about to be eonclud-
ed with foreign nations, and they may ar-
rive A. D. 2,000. Friendly relations with
the States are certainly desirable ; con-
cede the point ; and therefore we endeavor
to produce cordiality by a system of scold-
ing, knowing that fire and gunpowder form
en excellent combination. Oar gigantic
neighbor perpetually mutters about invasion,
and considering that she has in her day
captured, either by force or money, from
half -a -dozen nationalitiee, all her territory,
perhaps it may not be so impossible as
some wise people think (who are morally,
legally, clerically,. physically and most de -
certain that what has happen-
ed half a -dozen times cannot happen at all),
that the operation may be repeated in our
direction. Our excellent Mother Country,
no doubte informs us that in such contin-
to his poor dependent children from its geney she will
well -stored depths. Moodie and I used to PROTEOT 178 WITH MEE WHOLE POWER
rise by daybreak, and fish for an hour after
suntise, when we returned, he to the field, which may mean much or little, as she has
and I to drees the little ones, olean up the
house, aasist with the milk, and prepare the
breakfast.
Oh, how I enjoyed these excursions on the
lake; the very idea of our dinner depend.
ing upon our success added double zest to
our sport 1
One morning we started as usual before But, sanguine milltarians tells us, enorm-
sunriee ; a thick mist still hung like a fine ous tomes from our immense Empire—East
veil upon the water when we pushed off, India Sepoye, that is, who 1 trust would
and anchored at our accustomed place. survive one January—would cross the
Just as the sun rose, and the haze parted and multitudinous seas (probably in shoals) to
drew up like a golden sheet of transparent our defence. Well, euppoee they did, and
gauze, through which the dark woods loomed two vast armies marceuvred and fought,
out like giant% a noble buck dashed into say two or three years, along our lengthy,
the water, followed by four Indian hounds. narrow territory, how many villages, barna,
We then discovered a canoe, full of In- farm houses would be left unburned, how
diens just below the rapids, and another not many towns not a wilderness of blackened
many yards homes, that had beea concealed rafters, how many Canadians nucleated,
by the fog; it was a noble sight, that pliant how many women and children unstarved
deer exerting all his energy, and stemming and unfrozen ? It is a glimpse of a darken -
the water with such matchless grace, his ed vista, but the picture is not one-half as
branching horns held proudly aloft, his dark as the reality. Military Canadians,
broad nostrils distended, and his tine eye who should know, sey it may come; the
fixed intently upon the opposite shore, Bev- States, they have long foreseen, are planning
eral rifleballs whizzed pest him, the dogs it ; then they sniff the battle from a distance
followed hard upon his track, but my very and cry, "Hal ha I" and we hear the
heart leaped for joy when, in spite of all thunder ef the captains and the shouting at
his foes, his glassy.hoofs spurned the oppos. I the dinner partks—but they propose no way
ite bank and he plunged headlong into the ' of avoiding it These gentlemen possess
forest. I much loyalty; but it appears to me that he
Me beloved partner was most skillful in who sees and advocates any honourable
trolling for bass and maskinonge. His line way of avoiding such a future for Canada
he g.enerally fastened to the paddle, and the ` possess more, and of a more genuine
motion of the oar gave a life -like vibration ' and more valuable kind. As to the pre
to the queer looking mice and dragon-131es I sent statue, too, granting that we caa re-
used to manafacture from Equirrel fur, or main so, shall we always be satiefied with
scarlet and white cloth, to tempt the finny our connection with the Empire ? No Ca.
wanderers of the wave. l nadian has any vote in that Empire ; no
When too busy himself to fish for our i Canadian Parliament hes a right, as we
meals, little Katie and I ventured out alone ; were lately informed, to venture to trans.
in the canoe, which we anchored in any , mit an opinion on its affairs, even when they
promising fishing spot, by fastening a har- directly concern Canadians. People talk
row tooth to a piece of rope, and letting it of the Enipire and our honourable position
drop froni the side ot the little vessel. By , therein. Are they in their senses ? Our
nag little position is, in Imperial matters, to acquiesce
the time she was five years old,
mermaid could both steer and paddle the m silence—a condition hardly permanent.
light veseel, and catoh small fish, which ' What is the next course ?
were useful for soup.
it, in the early part of May, A great addition on. If gas oan he profitably supplied to
. .
Ah, poverty 1 thou art a hard taskmaster, to the dinner -table. In the township of consumers in a small place like Cornwall
but in thy soul -ennobling school I have re- Demmer, the settlers boil the tops, and add for 30 oenta per 1,000 feet, the citizens of
oeived more godlike lessons, have kernt naps to the liquor, which they ferment, and Toronto would like to know why they are
more oublinae untie, than ever I acquired in from which they obtain excellent beer. I charged $1.25.
the smoctb, bighways of the world I have tie ver tasted thin simple beverage, but Some of the Democratic papers in the
The independent in soul can rise above I have been told by those who use it that it United States have been claiming that, al -
the seeming disgrace of poverty, and hold is equal to the table -beer used at home. though President Cleveland was defeated in
fast their integrity, in defiance of the world Necessity has truly been termed the not aecuring a majority of the Electoral
and its selfish and unwiee maxims. To them, mother of inveation, for I contrived to College, he did get a metority of the popu-
no labour is too great, no trial too severe ; manufacture a variety of dishes almost out lar vote. In Texas there was a gain in the
they will unflinchingly exert every faculty of nothing, while living in her school. When Democratic figures of 30,000, in Michigan
of mind and body, before they will submit entirely.destitute of animal food, the differ. 20,000, and so forth,- apparently greater
to hethme a ourden to others. ent varieties of squirrels (supplied us with than the total gains of the Republicans.
Toe misfortunes that now crowded upon pies, stews, and resets. Our barn stood at The latter, however, refuse to allow that
us were the result of no minconduct or ex- the top of the hill near the bush, and in a the figures from the Southern States can be
travagance on our part, but arose out of trap set for such 46 small deer," we often fairly included in making up the popular
oireamstermes which we could not avert' nor caught from ten to twelve a day. vote, for Republioans contend that their
control. Finding too late the error into The flesh of the black squirrel is equal to voters are not allowed to cast their ballots
which we had fallen, in suffering ourselves that of the rabbit, and the red, and even the in the eolid South.
to be cajoled and plundered out of our pro- little chipmunk, is palatable when nieely A Mr. Tuke, of Rotheringham, who -died
perty .by interested speculators, we braced cooked. But from the lake, during the in.1812, by his last will and testament left
mw minds to bear the worst, and determined summer, we derived the larger porzion of a penny to every child who should attend
te meet our difficulties calmly and firmly, our food. The children called this piece of his funeral? with the result that over 700
nor baler our spirits to sink under calamities water " Mamma's pantry ;" and many a youngsters, who didn't care whether sohool
which energy and industry might eventually good meal has the munificent Father given kept, were in attendeeace. All the poor wo-
repair. Having onoe come to this resolution,men of the parish were made happier by the
we cheerfully shared together the labours of bequest of one shilling.to each; the balking -
the field. One in heart and purpose, we ere were left a half-guensa "to strike off one
dared remain true to ourselves, true to our peal of grand bobs ' at the exact moment the
high destiny as immortal creatures, in our body was inearthed; and seven of the oldest
conflict with temporal and physical wants. Ilexvies were to have a guinea for "puddling
We found that manual toil, however dire him tip" in his grave. An old woman, "who
tasteful to those unaccustomed to it, was had for eleven years tucked him up in his
not after all such a dreadful hardship ; thatbed, "was made richer by the sum of one
the wilderness was not without its rose, the guinea. His crowning act was to make one
hard face of poverty without its smila. If endowmenb by whit& forty dezen penny
we occasionally suffered severe pain, we as leavers were to be thrown down from. the par -
often experienced great pleasure, and I have ish claurch steeple at noon on every Christ -
contemplated a well -hoed ridge of potatoes mas Dy forever.
on that bush farm, with as much delight as
in years long past I had experienced in ex- There are many tendencies in the civilize -
&raining a fine painting in some well -appoint- tion of the United States; like the rage for
ed drawing -room. divorces for example, which do not promise
I can now look back with calm thankful- well for the f Metre of the republic. The
nese on that long period ot trial and exertion tendency th seize other people s property
—with thankfulness that the dark clouds and bolt for a foreign country. is another.
that hung over us threatening to blot us It does not COT1fine itself to beak cashiers
front exietence, when they did burst upon and civic officiahs, but has spread into the
ne, were full of blessings. When our aims -
a course which offers many monetary mcl.
vantages end some others. We should loth
the hope of acme day ruling the half of North
America, but we should have the certainty
of an influential and immediate voice in the
management of the whole. We should gain
(what we have not now) the possession of a
free.voice in the national assentbly on mat-
ters affecting our own destinies. We should
find many produotions of Canada much more
valuable when assisted ey the free inter-
ohangenn those of the States. As for their
factories crushing ours, those who think so
are not aware of certain advantages our land
possesses. 14 some most important articles
American capital would far more likely start
factories here which would more then hold
their own. On the other hand, we must
admit an overpowering American influence
in the management of our common affairs,
and we must put up as best we may with
what we are apt to consider their national
weaknesses in such matters as divorces laws,
sharp bargaining and so on. Who can tell
the excent of our influence ? Oar association
might reform our friend. We are moral,
are we not? Any one who reads our papers
knows that very nearly half of us are very
nearly angels, though they slightly disagree
as to which half it is. The chief American
deviation, cause of many leerier ones, is her
negleot by a proper copyright law to estab-
lish a national literature. Different here, of
course. We never steal books, do we ? Let
us glance at the possibility of
any power to spare at the time. Not along
our frontier, however, (that her military)
commissions practically abandon the idea of),
but at sea, whence she will damage the
American coasts—a pleasant prospect for
us, since, praotioally, every shell fired into
New York would explode again in Canada.
THESE DIFFERENT FUTURES.
Oar present position is not over -respect
able, is fruitful of menace and insult to Brit-
ain and is in constant !anger of a violent
t,ormination. As for Imperial Federation, it
is now too late. America has grown beyond
the point at which she would have peaceably
permitted a great European power to grow
to strength on her northern border and Fed-
eral discriminatory taxi& would add com-
mercial to political causes of quarrel. As for
Independence, it is now impossible without
the aid of the States, which will hardly as-
sist another community to prevent them.
selves gaining half a continent. Individuals
among them say they do not want more ter-
ritory, but what they say differs from what
their nation has done, and men will be as
men have been.
As for Annexation, there seems little
prospect of ultimately averting it Different
ineasures I have attempted to advocate --
the Nationl aPolicy (not ia its preheat shape),
the canal improvements, the rapid settle-
ment of the Northwest and others—all were
inbended to do their share in averting this,
and all have been so mismanaged or delayed
as to be ineffective. It is unfair to blame in-
dividuala ; our institutions, apparently, plots. During the progress of ono of these
either fail in bringing men of sufficient cape, cases an informer nemed Chleboun was
city to the front, or surround them with giving testimony inplioating Anarchist
impassable obstacles Of diptonactoy, either H4, ronek, one of the men under arrest.
in Britain or the States, we manifest none Hronek told me." he said, "that he had
Of what use to suggest further expedients, if a bomb ready to throw at President Cleve -
they must travel in the same sinister laannadw's ocualraribegewthhernowtteitPhraesdidneor swchnasehidereer
stronger, and soon likely to break all bar -
and and Nekolenda dissuaded him." This will
grooves' Meanwhile, ever higher
riers? the great waves of the Republic dash give rise to the irapression that the number
age.inst our weak formation, and this even of Presidents assassinated in that land of free -
in spite of the pains some of us take to scold dom may not be so large as those who have
them in editorial articles worthy of a third- narrowly escaped a violent end.
ekes Thersites ; nor is there anything in There is renewed agitation in Greet Bei -
one than these utterances, sickly with pre. to members of the Imperial House of Cern-
...1..1
ha favour of the payment of salaries
the whole state of the country more omin
tended belief ill a state of affairs long since mons, but the prejudice against the trans-
action is so strong that many years may
elapse before it is adopted. Great Britain,
Spam and Italy are now the only European
countries which do not pay their parliamen-
tary representatives. France pays $1,800 a
year and Prussia $5 a day. Oa this contin-
°tat Mexico, the Argentine Republic, the
Ur ited States and Canada all pay the mem-
bers of their legislatures. The present sys-
tem in Great Britain, which prevents poor
men from entering Parliament, unless, like
the Irish tslationalist members, they can in-
duce their constituents to subsidize them,
has done sufficient harm to more than coun
terbalance its advantages.
ranks of society, afflicting young and old,
tion appeared perfectly desperate, then were even young girls falling victims to the pre.
we on the threshold of a new state of things, vailiuo rage. A girl of fourteen has jusb
which was born out of that very distress. been taken back to New York by her
In order more fully to illustrate the neces-mother, having been caught in a Canadian
sity of a perfect and childlike reliance upon city. She got hold of a large sum of money
the mercies of God—who, I most firmly be- and fled with it. The nursery door needs to
neve, never deserts thine who have placed theirbe double -locked in view of such cases as
trust in Him—I will give a brief sketch of these.
our lives during the years 1836 and 1837. The crop of anaralusts in Chietegenehtows
Still confidently expecting to realize an in- no 'signs of giving cut, and the qaality"
come however small, from the steamboatalso first-rate. Evidence is being taken
stook, we involved ourselves considerably in against certain prisoners believed to have
debt, in order to pity our servants and obtain had some connection with recent dynamite
the comtnon necessaries of life ; and we
owed a large sum to two Engliahmen in
Drummer for clearing ten aores upon the
farm. Our inability to meet these demands
weighed very heavily upon my husband'a
mind. All superfluities in the way of gro-
ceries were now given up, and we were com-
pelled to rest eatiefied upon the produce of
the farm. Milk, bread, and potatoes during
the summer became our chief, and often, for
months, our only fare. As to tea and sugar,
they were luxuries we would not think of,
although I missed the tea very. much ; we
rang the changes upon peppermint and sage,
taking the one herb am our breakfast, the
other at our tea, until I found an excellent
substitute for both in the.root of the dande-
lion.
The first year we came to this country, I
met with an account of dandelion coffee,
published in the New York Albion, given by
a Dr. Harrison of Edinburgh, who earnest-
ly recomraended it as an article of general
use.
" It posseesses," he says, "all the fine
flavour and exhilarating properties of coffee,
without any of its deleterious effects. The
plant being of a soporific nature the coffee.
made trom it when drunk at night produces
a tendency to sleep, instead of exciting
wakefulness, and may be safely used as a
cheap and wholesome substitute for the
Arabian berry, being equal in substance and
flevour to the best Mocha coffee."
I was much struck with this paragraph at
the time, and for several years felt a great
inclination to try the Dector's coffee; but
something or other always came in the way,
and it was put off till another opportunity.
During the fall of '35, I was assisting my
husband in taking up.a crop of potatoes in
the field, and observing a vast number of
flee dandelion roots among the potatoes,. it
brought the dandelion coffee back to my
memory, and I determined to try some for
our supper. Without saying anything to my
husband, I threw aside some of the roots,
and when we lef t work, collecting a sufficient
quantity for the experiment, I carefully
washed the roots quite clean, without de.
priving them of the fine brown skin whioh
covers them, and which contains the aro-
matic flavour, which so nearly resembles
coffee that it is difficult to distinguish it
from it while roasting.
I outany roots into small pieces, the size of
a kidney -bean, and roasted them on an iron
baking -pan in the stove -oven, until they
were as brown and crisp as coffee. I then
ground and transferred a stroll cupful of the
powder to the coffeepot, pouring upon it
scalding water and theu boiling it briskly
over the fire, The result was beyond my
expectations. The coffee proved excellent
—far superior to the common coffee we pro-
cured at the stores.
To persons residing in the Meth, and to
whom tem and wife° are Yen' expensive
articles of luxury, the knewledge of this
valuable property in a plant scattered so
abundantly through their Acid% would
prove highly beneficial, For yeare we used
no other article and tny Indian friends who
frequented the 'home gladly adopted the
root, end Made me show theni the whole
promos of manufdeturibg it into coffee.
Experience taught me that the root of
the dandelion is not so good when applied to
this purport° in the spring ao it is in the fell.
I tried it In the spring, but the jelee of the
plant, having contributed to the preelection
It's there PM intirely at aise, Sir,
And enjoy all the comforts of home; '
stretch out my lege as I plea% sir,
And dhrame of the pleasures to come.
Shure, it's pleasant to hear the frog croak
-
in',
When the MI'S going down in the sky,
And my Judy sits quietly sinokin'
While the entice are board till they're
dhry.
Colt 1 thin, if you love indepindence,
And have money your peeing° to pay,
Yon must quit the mild counthry intir ely,
And start in the Middle of May.
J. W. D. M.
CHAPTER XVIL—DISAPOINTED Hors
Stern Diaappointment, in thy iron grasp
thy soul Iles (stricken, So the timid deer,
Who feels the foul helve of the felon Wolf
,Clench'd in his throat; grown desperate for
life,
Turtle on kis bee and battier( with the fate
(TO BE OONTINDED.)
A Model Young Man.
"Young man, do you use tobacco 1"
The speaker was a hetchet-faced female,
with her arms full of tracts, and the youth
communities and the amount contribute
happened to be waiting at the corner for a by each towards defence and maintenance.
street oar. I No such federation would be possible on the
"No, mum, I don't," gad the young maw! present vague system of unreliable generali-
'with a questioning glance, as she did not ties ;matters would require to be made plain.
look like a person who would want to borrow , Britain and the Colonies, in the first place,
a little fire I must certainly discriminate in favor of each
LET' US CONSIDER IMPERIAL PEDERATION.
Granting that the Colonies were allowed To secure the continuenoe of
several hundred members in a London Par- I Passed her.
two distinct nationalities and Governments
lianaent (for lees would be but a nominal in North America, the only course now re.
representation), the whole framework of the maiming is a treaty by which each shall
federation would depend on the advantages have the opportunity of using the material
and privileges enjoyed by the federatin5 resources of the other's territory, such for
.1
instance, as unrestricted traffic and recipro-
cal right to fisheries, waterways, and so 011,
would give. Having all which commercial
relations could give, oloser political relations
-eight perhaps be avoided, and it would be
better for North America that they were.
But this is only attainable, of course, by the
oo operations of the States, which may re-
fuse all union exeept a political one.
" Do you drink?"
" No mum."
"Play card ?"
No, mum,
"1 am delighted to meet you, sir. In price of food to Bedew is here involved/tor
these degenerate days young men of yciur her Colonies could easily send her twenty
correct habits are scarce very scarce If I loaves weere now they send her one As
send you an invitation 'to my next party, tor expenses, Canada could not expect to
will you come ?
"Yes, mum."
"Thank you. I hould like you to meet
my friends and family.' Where shall 1 send
it r
" To Plugugly's saloon, I'm bartender
there,"—[Puck.
other's trade. Canadian produce must en-
ter British ports free as now, but that from
the States and all other foreign nations
must not. No question of enhancing the
Why He Hated Kissing.
Young Wife (poutingly to her hurtband)
—"Von don't seetn to be very fond of kiss -
Ing."
Husband—" What makes you think so,
love?'
Wife—" We've been mart ied almost two
weeks and you've only kilned me once in all
that time."
Husband —" Well, the fact is, lovey—I
may as well tell you—I was once professor
ID a admen that taught antresses how to kiss
on the stage, and you see my stomiteh has
sorb o' turned spinet kissing ever since."
te ife (eoldly)—" You're excusable."
Easy Payments.
An Irishman entered a store Where furni-
ture was sold on the "easy payment plan.".
"And how much is thine ohars and that
bedstead ?" he asked, designeting the arti-
cles he desired,
" Thirty dollars,"
"How vela it be on the sky rayment
plan ?"
Ten dollars down and ten dollars a week
till the amount is paid up."
" The divil and all 1 Da you call ten dol.
las down and tin dollars a wake and 'Rise?
payment plead when I haVeint but seventy-
five ants in me pooket 13edeel,natid I dennb
get but aie dellare a week for wurruk,
ennyhow."
contribute less towards Imperial purposes
than thirty millions of dollars per annum --
more, obsarve, than our whole present in-
come, emelt of which would be in some
manner returned to her by expenditure
within her borders. As to how we would
procure doable our resent income; why, if
we go into European methods and combine, -
dons we must pay for them, and be taxed
for them, and live cheaper, as other folks
do. What we could nob get so, we must
get as we no much of our present income,
borrow it, aid leave it as a charge to our
greangrandsm, who, judging by the
OBLIGATIONS WE MEAN TO BEQUEATH
him will feel, I think, very much obliged
indeed. The onkel Government would prob-
ably aseurne the whole Colonial debt; the
Colonies ill future paying their share of that
of Britain, while future debts Would rank as
general or local and be paid acetirdingly.
With (inch a union, ib must be remembered,
the Colonies must look to be largely' eget,-
cultiaral, the central country, as at present,
largely .manufaeturing. Many of our city
industries must be abandoned. On the
other hand, it all farm products which
bean trrtvel we shodld have a monopoly of
the chid market of the world, modified,
however, ,b the competition of the other
Two Fools.
In point of folly there is little to choose
between the fool, who in his fatuous sense of
the humourous, points a gun in playful
demonstration of terrible intentions, only to
find out when too late that the thing was
loaded, and the fool who, burdened with an
equally fatuous sense of hurry, jumps from
te railroad oar before it has stopped. Not a
week passes, hardly indeed a single day,
without news of death or terrible deformity
caused by these two sorts of idiocy. The
only advantage which the jumping fool pos.
theses over the pointing fool is that he en-
dangers or loses his own life only, while the
other endangers or destroys the life of some
one else. But both are very obnoxious and
should be dealt with much more severely
than tie the case There is no playfulnese
10 pointing a gun at a friend and pulling the
trigger. It is the poorest sort of comedy,
even were there not experience in terrible
abundance to prove that ib is only
too likely to issue in terrible tragedy. And
it does not demonstrate that the person who
can't wait for a few seconds longer until the
train actually stops, has mettere of greater
importance on his mind, or is in any sense
a busier man than his more leisurely neigh-
bor Who is not so ready to risk his neck or
limbo for the (sake of .gaining e. few eeconde
of time It is astonishing how many peo-
ple are guilin of thiel homicidal Mama for
Colonies. t offers appareetly a glorious 3"11:411f4 ' off trains before they !It"'
prospect. But such a confecieration of dia. i One would say that such persons are
tent and incongruous Materials haft never 1 urged by s°m° indwelling demon wile will
yet proved possible, nor can its chrome be not allow them to rest. It is not the boy
foreseen. At preisent, in nindfers of kin. tierly, full of importance, and anxious to
show off" his gymnastio dexterity?, nor
pie°, nine -tenths of it speaks not, acts not
Who can prophesy the uttetancee end tht, " dremmet " who has his reputation for
being a " riteher " to keep up, who are guilty
movements Which may succeed the release
of these bound and voiceless pante e
TO Titian connst Is inntmennenee,
and heti) again vse meet the csueselon. an ex -
innate, i1e0a, ermiesnforeigh emends and Cm Though If they could only see how stupidly
Of leaves and flonennewe as weak, snd dean. And the disgusted man abandoned the forth. As in federation :the expense simpty mitwaid they look they would never
tete of the fine bittee flavour so peculiar to easy payment plan and went hie Way. must be mob. Nor Is it impossible for us, attempt it
of the pratitice but; ,rnidclle aged and even.
eiderli Mon, Who cal hive no good reaeoup tor
Ruch inipetienee of .even =Mesentery &they,
Yea,
and even women do it oecteeionallee
it is said that the workingmen of the
Western States will make a big effort to
obtain a reduction of the hours of labour.
A great convention of labourers is planned
to be held at St Louis in December, which
will consider the advisability of a general
strike in the interest of the eight-hour
movement The strike is intended to take
place a year. from June next, and the long
preceding interval is to be employed in or-
ganizing and in making other preparations.
An eight-hour law is in force in Illinois
but itbasnot worked to the satisfaction of
everybody. The effete, of substituting eight
hours for ten has there been to oause a loss
to married men and slow men. The former
suffer by having their wages reduced, the
latter because they cannot earn as much in
eight hours as they did ID ten hours. No
doubt the shortening of the hours of 1 sbour
will give work to many now unemployed,
but would the condition of the present
wage-earners be benefited by the change?
This is a question which has not yet been
satisfactorily anewered.
The habibual oougher in church is being
tapped over -the knuckles by the London
Lancet. His existence not being confided to
any one part of the world, the Views of the
great medical journal may be noted. It ie
held that too of ten the oougher disturbs the
audience through thoughtlessness, and &tittle
restraint would remedy the matter, and
even "when basis of disease underlies the
explosion, a little self-control could uanally
ao something to lessen its force dr its fee-
queney," The admission is made that honest
ooughers do really exist, and theme are re-
commendea o refrain from using the voice
during the t•ervice, and to /Inert to medici-
nal aide. The puhlio eye ire therefore, upon
the coughor at present in England. How
molt of the complaint it chie to the bad
ventilation of churches the tendon critic
does not seem to consider, nor is any -light
thrown upon the curious fact that the corus
of coughs COMO just when the preacher Is
making some interesting announcement, or
winding up a brilliant sermoh with an olo.
quoit peroration. '
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